ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO
ADRIAN SALINAS | TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | B.S. ARCH’19| APPLICATION TO TTU
BRIDGE WITH NO BORDERS
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DUST INSTITUTE
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WATER TOWER (Group Member: Londie Delgado)
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OPTIMIZED SLAB
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CARBON FIBER (Group Member: Londie Delgado)
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INDEX 1. Two Borders, One Community 2. Site Plan 3. Floorplans/ Section in Elevation 4. Model with Sun Shadow 5. Circulation 6. Render 7. Project Introduction 8. Design Process/ Wind Analysis 9. Floorplans 10. Wind Analysis with Model 11. Section in Elevation 12. Section in Elevation 13. Project Introduction 14. Map/ Design Process 15. Platform Levels/ Section in Elevation 16. Render
17. Project Introduction 18. Optimized Slab Diagrams
19. Project Introduction 20. Carbon Fiber Diagrams
01 BRIDGE WITH NO BORDERS TWO BORDERS, ONE COMMUNITY In a border city that is known for breaking families apart due to its tough immigration system, wouldn’t it be great to have free access to each side of the border by just walking through a bridge? Besides providing direct access to each country, this bridge will also be used as an interactive field for its users.
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The main inspiration for this project was the tunnel design. Throughout times tunnels symbolize the passage from one phase of life to the other. Therefore, this bridge is designed both as a pathway and as a tunnel. The pathway will work as an easy access from one side to the other, while the tunnel will provide its users an alternative path to go underneath the bridge and interact with each other no matter what their ethnicity or culturalbackgrounds are.
Model with Sun Shadow
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02 DUST INSTITUTE
The project requires to create a reagional Dust Institute, with the idea of designing areas of study, observation, and dissemination of knowledge related to the transitional dust flow. The design focused heavily on the articulation of a performative building tissue which will be approached through the management and observation of dust through an architectural technology and spatial experience.
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Design Process The design of this building was inspired mainly by the direction of wind specificaly in the region of Samalayuca based on a series of wind flow studies. Also, during the design process, the idea was to create an institute that would be able to have a ‘twist’ that would provide different views to different directions. That twist would help the users to collect dust from different parts of the building and have a better functional system.
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Wind Analysis
Ground Level
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Wind Analysis with Model
Dust Collector Panels
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Section in Elevation
Glazing Wall Facade
Dust Collector Panels
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03 WATER TOWER AND RICE FIELDS SEVILLE, SPAIN
The map was divided into 8 different zones based on the plant’s rice cycle. According to farmers and workers of this region, the plantation fields get filled with water from north to south, which means that northern zones harvest first than the southern fields. This process was translated directly into the map, so that means that the map will work as a timeline of the plantation process.
This water tower design is based on the life cycle of the rice plant, which is considered the most important infrastructural element of this region. The cultivation, commerzialization and distribution of rice supports the region economically. The idea of this water tower was to translate these rice fields into an architectural element. The tower purpose is that visitors will be able to understand how the plantation fields work by simply walking through each level of the tower. Each platform is designed specifically to have a perfect view to each zone of the fields, which means that this tower will work as a time lapse representation of the rice plant. Visitors and workers will be able to understand what zones of the region are being filled with water, and what zones have already harvested just by taking a quick look.
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Design Process/ Brainstorm
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The water tower design is based on a series of words which are related to the mapping process and the rice growth. The main inspiration of the form of the tower was the spiral which represents the plant’s rice cycle. The words that were the most effective during the design process were: clock, time lapse, spiral, zone, order, transition, movement, openess, lightness, dematerialization, among many others.
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Section in Elevation
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04 OPTIMIZED SLAB This project is an optimized slab system that is assigned with different loads conditions as well as different support columns. The reinforcement pattens will follow the principal stress directions of tension and compression lines of the slab. Optimal ilerations of material distribution are created by reinforcing and thickening the slab in areas undergoing a high load; reducing and thining the amount of material in areas undergoing minimal to no load.
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Optimized Slab Plan with Pattern
Optimized Slab with Columns Optimied Slab with Columns and Louds
Tension and Compression Lines
Optimized Slab
Optimied Slab
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CARBON FIBER AND WAFFLE STRUCTURE
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This project required to design a shell structure with varying peaks and valleys. With the use of Rhino and Grasshopper helped to provide boundaries and height limitations. Then the idea was to visualize the tension and compression principle stress curves on the shell. The next step was to create a carbon fiber lines that would be able to perfectly mold into the stress and compression lines into the shell structure.
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Compression
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Compression and Tension
Carbon Fiber Shell Structure
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Compression and Tension in Shell Structure
Compression Carbon Fiber
Tension Carbon Fiber
Compression and Tension Carbon Fiber
Compression and Tension in Waffle Structure