Yessenia Gracia Portfolio 2023

YESSENIA GRACIA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PARTAGAS

Residential Software: AutoCad 2D, Revit Architecture, Lumion, Photoshop, Illustrator.

EQUILATERAL SPORTS VENUE

Recreational Software: SketchUp, Lumion, Photoshop, Illustrator.

VISUM INNOVATION HUB

Mixed Use Software: Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, Robot SAP, Enscape, Photoshop, Illustrator

Mixed Use Software: Revit Architecture, Enscape, Photoshop, Illustrator.

CHI-CO

Mixed Use Software: Revit Architecture, Photoshop.

FRUIT CULTURAL CENTER

Mixed Use Software: Revit Architecture, Lumion, Photoshop, Illustrator.

ATYPICAL

Mixed Use Software: AutoCad 2D, Revit Architecture, Illustrator.

“LOS NARANJOS” ECOLOGICAL CENTER

PARTAGAS

Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Date: 2019

Typology: Residential

Collaboration: Patricio Martinez (Orden Arquitectonico)

Located

The selection of materials is to be endemic, low maintenance and with a high thermal mass to respond it the extreme climate of the city.

With the opening of windows, ventilation is induced due to the project’s orientation and the integration of a central atrium that facilitates the ventilation of the spaces.

Its distribution is designed to be a journey to discover while you go over the house and its different spaces; each as a new experience by its lighting, materials, sun radiation and amazing views

in a fast-growing residential zone in Monterrey, Mexico, Partagas house is meant to allocate a family of four

First floor

Residents and visitors access through the first floor and are welcomed by the atrium and main stairs which distribute to the kitchen -the heart of the house- dissolving into the main living room.

Second floor

The upper floor holds the main bedroom, two secondary bedrooms and a family room for a total of six residents.

Each room is connected to a complete bathroom and walk-in closet which are ventilated, each, with a garden.

“Underground”

The lowest floor holds the social area and an additional room.

Families in the north of Mexico tend to host barbecues with family and friends. Therefore, a built-in grill is provided, with an eating space and a TV and entertainment room.

EQUILATERAL SPORTS VENUE

Location: Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Date: 2020

Size: 18.5 acres

Type: Recreational Collaboration: Liliana Luna

Located in a dry semiarid industrial zone in Mexico, with strong prevailing winds coming from the southeast on summer and from the north in winter, the site lacks vitality.

Analyze the surrounding streets-their flow and conditions-, to determine crucial zones .

Crucial zones are located to buffer winds, noise and pollution, and to predict the buildings’ footprints.

Previous considerations establish the final masterplan.

The concept of an accessible sports venue for the different demographic groups of the inmediate zone.

Exterior- interior flow

Service zones

Indoor circulation

Main entrance

Access to services

The project considers the extreme climate of the zone and proposes shading elements in its buildings and urban design for visitors to enjoy comfortably.

Indoor activities include a gymnastics academy, a basketball court, an olympic pool, yoga rooms, dance rooms, a ninja warrior gym, a climbing wall and a cafeteria.

Activities are connected with service zones which include areas to eat, rest, sit or transit.

ServiceActivitiesServiceActivities

To ensure broad open plans for sporting events to take place, a reinforced concrete bracket system is proposed.

Outdoor activities include an open area available for a colinding military school occassionally, as well as a shaded rollerskating zone, a running track, a soccer field, volleyball and tennis courts, and a flexible shaded space for stretching.

Sporting spaces are designed to include needed services such as administrative offices, restrooms and lockers rooms. As well as enough resting and siting for players and visitors.

Sunlight is filtered with a concrete lattericework on its main facade, while structural brackets serve as vertical fins and added overhangs on alternative facades.

VISUM INNOVATION HUB

Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Date: 2020

Size: 1.5 acres

Type: Mixed Use

Collaboration: Mariangela García, Sofía Neira, Antonio Vivas, Alejandro Berrón

Masterplan

Visum is positioned in one of four major polygons that make up Monterrey Tech’s campus. Meant to articulate residencies with the main polygon where classes take place, the Innovation Hub is surrounded by power houses and administration buildings which work together to exploit the students’, professors’ and investigators’ potential.

The proposal prioritizes open flexible spaces and the connection of indoor and outdoor spaces, all which encourage coexistance among its visitors, it enables proactive conversations and the possibility to scale your ideas and projects in hand with the building. This means, each level withholds areas that potentiates a project in a different level or scale.

Type Floor

Parking

Level -01

Storage Office Electrical substation

Unloading area Employees´ lockers

Level -02

Storage Water cistern

Parking section

Level 01

Lobby Commerce Venture Cafe Laboratories

Level -03

Storage

Level 02

Learning commons Offices

Level 03

Learning commons Offices Start-ups Respite room

Level 04

Restaurant Bar

Engineering systems

Visum was designed from its core and structure, to its interiors and engineering systems. Interference between all building systems was checked regularly.

Water and waste management

Restrooms and their hydrosanitary system centralized in the building for efficiency. Pipes, valves and fixtures are calculated for a specific capacity anf flow.

Heating, ventilation and cooling system

Powered by chillers set in the underground parking, every space was designed with specific air terminals, air return alternatives, and duct capacities and sizes.

Power supply and illumination

An electrical substation is set on the underground parking to regulate the building´s power supply.

LOS NARANJOS ECOLOGICAL CENTER

Montemorelos is mainly characterized by being a rural municipality with a large extension of green area. Its municipal government is centralized and due to the existing transport connection from the metropolitan area to the center, it is where the flow of people, both locals and tourists, is concentrated.

The further away from the center, the higher rates of abandonment, informal housing and lack of services and infrastructure.

Likewise, there is a lack of cultural spaces and despite having a considerable number of schools, the educational level is low compared to the state, which presents an area of opportunity for the cultural development of the area.

Deficiency is most prominent to the south of the municipality, the area closest to the Pilón River. This may represent an area of opportunity for Montemorelos, taking advantage of the natural resource to promote the development of the zone.

Evolution of the form

Location: Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Date: 2022

Typology: Mixed Use

Collaboration: Rebeca Morales, Gerardo Garza

Context

River design

Locals have lost their homes due to the overflowing of the river. This fear has eventually pushed people away from the river, moving north.

With an orthogonal premise, we started segmenting the program into 4 main spaces; it is intended to receive visitors from the guiding axes of the commercial corridor and the historic center. The fresulting form was ordered and adjusted for the optimization of the spaces, as well as for the harmony with nature and the immediate context, guaranteeing sustainability in its economic, social, spatial and environmental aspects.

Purpose

The purpose of the project is to turn Montemorelos into an example in its integral sustainability practices, channeling the flow of people already existing in the historic center through a commercial corridor to a new center with a sustainability focus, becoming a green lung that promotes the development of the southern area of the municipality and in turn is a magnet for tourism, investment and development.

The protection of the river is made up of a rockfill on the perimeter with geotextile material below and fine material between these two. It has anchoring trenches at the ends of the slopes, retaining walls and natural filtration through vegetation, fertile soil and filter grids.

Program

Buildings are meant to withhold or “hug” the central plaza, which is planned to host various public events year-round. Therefore, the installed landscape furniture is minimal to avoid conflicts with incoming temporary infrastructure.

Objectives and Methodology

Environmental

- Balance between society and its environment.

- Meet the needs of the population equitably and make appropriate use of resources taking care of them and allowing their regeneration.

- Not compromising the life of future generations, of the rest of living beings

Social

- Encourage the well-being and happiness of disadvantaged groups.

- Based on coexistence, reaching agreements for the development of the group and its space.

Spatial

- For a controlled growth of the city with a vision of the future.

Economic

- Supports the responsible and intelligent consumption of resources, as well as the increase in the quality of life of generations to come, generating prosperity

Administrative building

Recycling center

Plaza

Arquitectural plans

- Laboratories (1,740 sq.ft.)

- Offices (705 sq.ft.)

- Learning commons (705 sq.ft.)

- Crops (1,673 sq.ft)

- Processing center for recyclable inorganics (3,248 sq.ft.)

The potential of the project lies in its ability to carry out ecological treatments and processes, and the generation of resources in the area, while educating users in these processes and teaching them how to replicate them on a residential scale.

Arquitectural plans

Indoor spaces

The administrative building includes a semi-public central space as a common area por locals to wait for an advisor from any of the dependencies to assist them.

This space is well illuminated for the comfort of its visitors with a central atrium that hosts a 40 ft. tall tree. Ideal for working while you wait.

Public

- Lobby (476 sq.ft.)

- Customer reception (164 sq.ft.)

- Payment areas (525 sq.ft.)

- Customer service (197 sq.ft.)

- Customer service with advisor (328 sq.ft.)

- Market (787 sq.ft.)

Administrative

- Lobby (1,772 sq.ft.)

- 4 areas for municipal dependencies (3,150 and 1,968 sq.ft.)

Administrative building

The children´s interactive museum is designed to be a discovery journey for its visitors. Whilst each showroom is different from the last, the value of the building lies in its three terraces and greenroof designed with biophilia criteria.

- Lobby (3,544 sq.ft.)

- Commerce (2,477 sq.ft.)

- Exposition (2,493 sq.ft.)

- Terraces (13,550 sq.ft)

- Workshops (885 sq.ft.)

- Multipurpose room (6,595 sq.ft.)

Although the central plaza is meant to host events throughout the year, visitors from all ages and capabilities can rest and mingle beneath the buildings in inclusive landscape furniture.

CHI-CO

Location: Seongsu-dong, Seoul.

Date: 2021

Typology: Mixed Use

A resilient city is prepared. As a proposal design to attack Seongsu-dong's gentrification problem, CHI-CO comes as impermanent urbanism, with the use of shipping containers,

Structural system

To stay (im) permanent, shipping containers are the main structure of the complex. Those on-site could be reused.

Polymer louvers (10 x 15 x 2.80) with wood-simulating finish supported by hss-profile steel framing

Structural slab supported by structural containers and steel framing in large spans

Framing laminated steel over metal-stud wall with rigid insulation and gypsum wall board

Concept Analysis

Started by dividing the site in two based on the pedestrians´ circulation from the main street, to the residential backside area. This main axis divides both childcare and cowork programs

The secondary axis of circulation divides each of the programs in specific areas. It promotes the circulation from lateral streets.

Connecting tunnel

Double clear glazing roof and storefronts

The volumes are then connected by a common building and a bridge with the purpose of promoting communication between parents and their children.

Structural I-shaped steel columns.

Shipping containers are the main structure of the building. However, colorful vertical fins protect crucial facades from sunlight, enabling still wind flow through selected walkways..

Level 3 Childcare Cowork Common building

1. Gym

2. Tech.-n- studio room

1. Nursery / lobby

2. Learning commons

3. Terrace

4. Teachers’ lounge

1. Lobby / offices

2. Bubble rooms

3. Coffee / lunch

Children’s studio room and its connection with other spaces.

Highlighted shipping containers make up most of the complex’s materials.

FRUITS’ CULTURAL CENTER

Located over a highly transited highway, in a very extreme-climate city in Mexico, this sustainable center aims to serve as a groundbreaking landmark for families to learn about local industrial processes regarding endemic fruits.

Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Size: 12.3 acres

Type: Mixed Use

Collaboration: Diego Cabrera, David Aguirre

Investigation Center

Serving as a noise and pollution-mitigating buffer that separates the highway and the rest of the project, the investigation center contains labs, meeting, class and respite rooms, administrative offices and a cafeteria. Spaces to ensure efficient pre-operational processes.

Respecting all surrounding trees, the museum is located at the center of the site, connecting to adjecent buildings and ensuring, as well, communication with the

First

The museum serves as a magnet for the youngest demographic groups to interactively learn about the history and processes involved in local fruit production chains.

The main production building is where all industrial processes take place. Although a factory, visitors are allowed to attend scheduled tours through an independent alley.

Productive House

This steel and glass structure withholds and cares for much of the city’s herbology reserves, including plants, seeds and fruits.

Greenhouse

First Floor

Second Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

ATYPICAL

Typology A

Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Date: 2018

Size: 1.1 acres

Type: Mixed Use

Area: 430 ft2

Occupancy: 2 people

Typology B

Area: 731 ft2

Occupancy: 4 people

Typology C

Area: 927 ft2

Occupancy: 6 people

Typology D

Area: 979.5 ft2

Occupancy: 8 people

One Module

This mixed-use project exemplifies the potential of minimal-space living with special prioritization in adequate natural ventilation, illumination and the connection with outdoor spaces.

One Set

Residential spaces share a common central commercial patio, which connects with adjacent shops on the first floor and to the underground parking.