Yadiel Gonzalez Torres - UIC Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio

Portfolio Yadiel González Torres

Statement

The way that I look at architecture is as a field that is limitless. Architecture impacts people’s lives by creating environments that work. My portfolio reflects my passion to create spaces that stimulate creativity, productivity, and comfort. From this, I hope to continue developing my skills around sustainable design and explore ideas around environmentally friendly solutions.

Throughout my designs, I play with the idea of circulation in order to create workflows that stimulate optimum occupant experience as well as the differentiation between solid and void to generate unique perspectives to what architecture can be and to what it can achieve. These perspectives impact how occupants perceive space and how such space is utilized.

In the future, I look forward to integrating my love for creativity and rational thinking in the field of architecture. Architecture is about solving problems and I strive to be a contributor to the field in any way I can and with the highest ethical standards. There is no limit to my imagination and creative process. My initiative is to never stop learning and adapting to an ever-changing field.

My goal is to become the best at what I do and leave my mark as a highly thoughtful and wellrounded architect.

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PG 3

Integration

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Horizontal Conditions

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Limitless Stair

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Flexible Frame

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Linear Monestary

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Voided Casino

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(im)Perfection

Table of Contents

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Integration

This project explores the idea of integrating buildings within a dense grid of trees by incorporating ideologies such as buildings within trees, buildings surrounded by trees, buildings surrounding trees and buildings without trees.

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Bird’s Eye View

Integration B

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LEGEND

Plan View

PRIVATE DIRT

PUBLIC DIRT

PUBLIC GRASS

PRIVATE GRASS

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Integration

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Bird’s Eye View Zoom In

Integration

NTS

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Integration

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Model Image

Integration

Model Image

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8’-3/1000”

0’-0”

Horizontal Conditions

Section AA

Section BB

1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

This project explores the concept of vertical circulation by looking at how horizontal conditions like floor slabs affect the movement through a given space.

North 1’ = 1/4”

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Oblique Elevation

Horizontal Conditions A

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UP D

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Plan @ 8’-0”

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1’ = 3/16”

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Plan @ 13’-0”

1’ = 3/16”

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28’-0”

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17’-163/500”

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8’-3/1000”

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Section AA 1’ = 3/16”

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Section BB 1’ = 3/16”

Plan @ 13’-0”

Plan @ 25’-0”

Plan @ 30’-0”

1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

Plans

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UP D

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Horizontal Conditions

UP UP UP

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Plan @ 8’-0”

Plan @ 13’-0”

1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

Section AA

Section BB

1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

28’-0”

17’-163/500”

8’-3/1000”

0’-0”

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DN

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Sections

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Horizontal Conditions DN

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Plan @ 13’-0”

Plan @ 25’-0”

Plan @ 30’-0”

1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

Section BB

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1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

1’ = 3/16”

Sections

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Horizontal Conditions

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Model Image

Horizontal Conditions

Model Image

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Limitless Stair

This project encompasses the malleability of stairs creating elements such as walls, floors, ceilings, seatings, and eventually a room. As one makes his or her way up the project, the staircase transforms itself through rotations, translations, extrusions and slippage to show how a staircase can be used as the foundation of design. The building is frozen through different pfases of its manipulation process.

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Limitless Stair

Rendered Image

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DN

DN UP

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UP

Limitless Stair UP

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Plan at 5’-0”

Plan at 40’-0”

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DN B

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UP

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Plan at 20’-0”

Plan at 50’-0”

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Plan at 30’-0”

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Plan at 60’-0”

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Plans

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Plan at 5’-0”

Plan at 40’-0”

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Limitless Stair

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UP

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Plan at 50’-0”

Plan at 20’-0” UP

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Plan at 40’-0”

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Plan at 60’-0”

Plan at 30’-0”

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Sections A

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Flexible Frame This project explores the bending of structural framing to achieve continuity through curves from floor to floor.

Frame Isometric: 1/8”=1’-0”

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Section Perspective: 1/8”=1’-0”

Frame Isometric

Program Isometric: 1/32”=1’-0”

Event Space Plan: 1/16”=1

Flexible Frame

Event Space Plan: 1/16”=1’-0”

Elevations: 1/16”=1’-0”

Elevations: 1/16”=1’-0”

Elevations

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Site Plan/ Ground Level: 1/16”=1’-0”

Flexible Frame

Yadiel González Torres Critic: Newmeyer ARCH 205 BOARD 2

Event Space Plan: 1/16”=1’-0”

Typical Plan: 1/16”=1’-0”

Typical Plan: 1/16”=1’-0”

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Plans

Yadiel González Torres Critic: Newmeyer ARCH 205 BOARD 1

Program Isometric: 1/32”=1’-0”

Frame Isometric: 1/8”=1’-0”

Section

Flexible Frame

Section Perspective: 1/8”=1’-0”

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Flexible Frame

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Model Image

Flexible Frame

Model Image

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Linear Monestary

The concept behind this project is linearity and arrangment of spaces based on how uniform rooms and modules can create spaces where different actions take place. This project was done in collaboration with Shraddha Shetty.

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Linear Monestary

Plan NTS

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Linear Monestary

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Section

Linear Monestary

NTS

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Linear Monestary

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Model Image

Linear Monestary

Model Image

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Voided Casino

This project is comprised of two buildings that touch: the casino and a hotel that sits atop the parking with an indoor pool. The Casino is a six-story building that is voided in the center and the void is an offset of the outer shape. The outer shape of the casino is meant to catch people’s attention as well as is pushes the floors inside towards each other which further emphasises the inner void of the casino.

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Aerial View Oblique

Voided Casino

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Plan

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Voided Casino

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Section

Voided Casino

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(im)Perfection

This project is influenced by the massive walls found on the site, US Steel in Chicago. By duplicating new massive walls perpendicular to the existing walls, it creates individual spaces that can be replicated easily. Each perpendicular wall is then staggered to give each wall its own identity.

A simple flat roof is then hung over three spaces created by the walls. Every main program is then carved out inside the massive walls to give the same feeling as if you were inside the exhisting walls.

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(im)Perfection

Construction Diagram

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(im)Perfection

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Plan View NTS

(im)Perfection

Plan View NTS

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(im)Perfection

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Section View NTS

(im)Perfection

Section View NTS

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(im)Perfection

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Elevation View NTS

(im)Perfection

Elevation View NTS

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