To be able to apply my design experience, program knowledge, and problem solving skills to any type of organization I am part of.
Masters: Arch
University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras
GPA: 3.60
Bachelor: Enviromental Design
University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras
GPA: 3.42
February 2022 - Present
Expected Graduation: May - 2024
Graduated
December - 2021
• Initiated client relationships by participating in initial meetings, gathering project requirements, and assisting in conceptual design discussions.
• Successfully managed communication with manufacturers to source materials and products, ensuring project specifications and deadlines were met.
• Acted as a liaison between the firm and clients, conducting on-site visits to create as-built drawings.
• Assisted in the permitting process, ensuring that all necessary approvals and documentation were obtained.
• Participated in client-architect meetings, actively contributing to design discussions and presenting project updates and concepts.
• Developed the design documents, from schematic phase to the production of construction documents.
February 2021 - February 2022
• Created comprehensive reports detailing project conditions and measurements.
• Contributed to the design process by providing conceptual designs for steel gates and bridges.
• Conducted measurements of classrooms to determine their maximum student capacity to prepare for the safe reopening of campuses post-COVID.
August 2019 - December 2019
• Directly collaborated with members of the Rio Piedras community on non-profit projects.
• Tasked to take measurements of the client’s property to build them schematics for their future projects.
• Used the schematics to design the client’s concept while also proposing a better alternative.
• Presented the project and handed over the schematics to the client.
The project is located in Puerto Rico, the town of Fajardo. Inside the Reserva Natural Cabezas de San Juan it is the station for a scientist. It is desgined to work as a house and office for a scientist and his family. It is inside the reserve, close to an open pond with direct access to the boardwalk. The house, with 5 floors, tries to connect as little as possible to the ground in order to minimize the impact to nature. The scientist has his own lab and direct access to the ground in order to take test samples. It tries to overcome its sorroundings by being raised over the foliage to take in the views the reserve has to offer.
The project is located in Puerto Rico, the town of San Juan, in the norhtern coast of the island, nest to El Viejo San Juan. It is desgined to work as a comunity center for the people of Puerta de Tierra while also providing spaces for families to live in. It’s areas include a below ground housing area with a direct access tunnel to the beach, and apartment complext with livable rooftop and spaces for the community enjoyment.
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The project, located in Santurce, is a community center for a trapeze artist group with the means of providing housing for guests, stores to generate profit, classrooms, a theater, and a workshop. It’s most notable feature, the facade, is made out of Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete which responds to the layout of the building by providing three different levels of privacy. It ranges from private, semi-private, to public and it does so by adjusting the sizes of the perforations. The design of these perforations is inspired by the building’s floor plan. The design of the building itself is meant to provoke intrigue by controlling the entrances and them all leading to the center courtyard which can be a place of presentation, secondary to the theater.
The project is located in Puerto Rico, the town of San Juan, the district of Miramar. It is designed with the intent of providing the client with spacious rentable office spaces. It’s spaces include a food court in the level below entrance, spacious office spaces, conference rooms in all the floors with offices, and a bar area with terrazes in the top floor. It’s structure is made of concrete and it consists of a grid of columns thick enough to double as sunbreakers to provide the inside spaces with shade.
The project “El Invento” aims to redesign the 2nd story of an already existing building in Río Piedras. As part of a community outreach design class, the client reached out so that we could provide them with an as-built of the space and conceptualize with it. The idea behind the design was to maximize space inside so that the floor could be converted into affordable student housing. With that in mind, I set out to design an apartment with as many comfortable rooms as posible. Considering the characteristics of the project and the setting, my goal was to intervene with the existing walls as little as posible while also trying to maximize airflow inside the building.
The project is located in Salt Lake City Utah. It is designed with the intent of providing the client with spacious rentable office spaces. The facade is inspired by the rock formations found in Utah’s mountain region. Combining the use of smart material and the growth of vegetation, it looks to reach gold on LEED.
Disrupted load path near midsection due to buildable area limitations
Undesired flexural stresses due to cantilevered beams at uppermost section
Increased inter-story drift due to drastic change in structural geometry
Integration of structural configuration that interconnects columns at “transitioning” floors
Establishment of centrally-located braced core and additional bracings that attract most of the loads from overhanging sections
Deliberate placement of shear walls that ensure the structure behaves as a whole
Due to our limited access to laser-cutting equipment, we focused our resources in the process of manually cutting the balsa wood with precision knives and reducing any excess wood with sandpaper. We modeled and 3d printed guides to prevent any significant human error. Two types of balsa-specific cyanoacrylate adhesives were utilized throughout the process with one being made of a thick, gap-filling formula and the other of a thin, penetrating formula. This year's design limitations demanded for a more personalized sequence of assembly in which we completed most of the construction process in two sections that were ultimately conjoined near the end of the entire process. The base plate was accurately cut with a laser-cutting machine and inserted at the end construction process, along with the roof plate.
DISPLACEMENT = 0.2667 in ACCELERATION = 0.8778 g
DISPLACEMENT = 1.478 in ACCELERATION = 3.5921 g
