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Alejandro

Gonzalez

Portfolio Work of Alejandro Gonzalez, copyright Š 2012. All rights reserved.


Mini-Bio

A short bio of my scholastic and professional achievments


Born in Brownsville Texas. Graduated Preparatoria #7 in Monterrey Nuevo Leon MX. in 1995. Studied ESL and basic courses at Cuyahoga Community College. Studied Graphic Design at Cleveland State University. Enlisted in the U.S. ARMY in 2001. Awards: Army Commendation Medal. Joint Service Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal. Global War on Terrorism, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal. Certificate, CAD Technician, Hopkinsville Community College, May 2005. Associates, Applied Science, Print Graphics, San Antonio College, Aug. 2007. Recognitions: 8 projects chosen for VATC (visual arts & technology center) student art show. Project chosen as official Elderly Domestic Violence Campaign. Created official logo for Elderly Domestic Violence Task Force. Work Experience: CAD draftsman, Egan Martinez Design, Oct. — ­ ­Dec. 2005. Construction Supervisor, Costilla Construction Mgmt., Jan. — Mar. 2008. Ad Designer, The Daily Cougar, Jan. — Oct. 2010. Developer/Designer, Mexican Institute of Greater Houston, Oct. 2011 — Present Freelance Graphic Designer and Photographer. The Gonzalez Studio. TILDE Photography. Horwath Productions. Video Services International. Forum Coordinator, AIAS (American Institute of Architecture Students) San Antonio College Chapter.


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Market Linearity

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Electro-shade

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Solar Twist

ASCC

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Read-art

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SAMMTS

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Photography

Graphic Design



Researcher

Public

Public Relationship

Reshape to accomodate public program Reshapes to to accomodate public program

Site access and parking

Student & Researcher parking

Public Parking

Student

Campus Relationship


Bayou Fish Lab Clear Lake Marine Biology Laboratory The Bayou Fish Lab is a research laboratory dedicated to the regional issues of Houston - Galveston watershed ecology. The complex bayou to bay and Gulf water systems that make up the Greater Houston Area are being maped and studied in detail and added to greater regional information bases. The new facility will be shared by teams of professional and student researchers that undertake granted studies in aspects of estuarial systems.


Program Needed for Labs & Theatre + Half of that for admin lobby and common areas

Building Circulation

Tank Chase + Mechanical Chase with centralized distribution

Rotate

Vertical Circulation Flip Public Entry Artifact Display Area

Service Entry Void


Spacial diagrams

Reception, Lobby + Research Display Area

GIS Theater + GIS Service Area

Common Service Areas

ETFE plastic w/photovoltaic elements, help diffuse light and collect solar energy.

Administrative Offices

Laboratory Spaces

Mechanical + Electrical Chase Space


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1 Lobby 2 Reception Area 3 Administrative Offices 4 GIS Theater 5 Research Sample Display Area 6 Water Retention 7 Mechanical + Electrical Chase 8 Quarantine Lab

9 Dissection Lab 10 Cold Storage 11 Dry Storage 12 Identification Lab 13 Common Lab Chase 14 M+E Room 15 Staging Area 16 Loading Dock

Ground Floor Plan 01 5 10

Cross Section Looking West 01 5 10

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17 Small Research Laboratories 18 Large Research Laboratories 19 GIS Server Room 20 Server Room HVAC 21 Server Room Electrical 22 Exterior Green Spaces

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Study models


Building sequence

Ground Work + Foundation

Ground Gets prepared for foundations. Trenches for for grade beams are dug, and holes are drilled for casons. Foundation is poured. Raising the bulding level 6ft. of the ground

Column Erection

Continuos Columns are erected @ 30’x30’and 30’x20’ bays.

Corrugated Metal Deck

Corrugated Metal deck is placed to pour concrete slab.

Trusses

40” deep Jois Girders are used for primary spaning strcture and open web josts are used as cross members, placed @ 10’o.c.

Beams

Beams are welded, secondary beams are places 10’ o.c.

Slab

Concrete slab is poured.

Interior Partitions

Interior walls and glass is installed.

Cross Section Looking East 01

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Chase

Chase

Vertical Members for exterior chase are installed.

Horizontal members are installed.

Exterior Glass

Systems

Exterior glass and furnishings are installed.

Mechanical, Electrical and Tank systems are installed in chase.

Detail Laboratory Section 01

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Cross Section Looking East 0 1 5 10 20

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Market linearity Market + office complex The Market linearity project is a market development and office complex on the site of a major node within the houston metro rail system. The project unfolds it self into a linear concept (literally). The project guides the person in a single line as it loops through the site to create outdoor spaces in order to accommodate a weekly farmers market. The project ends at a mid rise tower adjacent to a major Houston freeway containing the office complex, giving the working space the metropolitan feel that is Houston.



Site analysis + research

Investigation of the flows of the site, environmental site analysis, demographics and distances.

Freeway to site Main Road Whites African Americans Hispanics Asians

Site Rail lines Buses Cars Hwy above Right of way New rail station Pedestrian


Structural + shading studies

Diagrid tightens where bigger stresses are found

Big masses are needed underground to recieve tranfered loads

Solar screen follows diagrid patterns and tightens where more shade is needed

Horizontal + vertical circulation diagram

Study models

Initial study model showing circulation

Study model showing new office tower piece

Study model showing structure


1 Main entry + lobby to market 2 Rail line electrical room 3 Access from rail platform to market 4 Blue rail line platform 5 Permanent market stalls 6 Park area for farmers market 7 Performance area lawn 8 Sitting area lawn 9 Red rail line platforms 10 Entry + reception area for office complex 11 Lounge area 12 wine bar

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1 Main entry + lobby to market 2 Permanent market stalls 3 Coffee bar and sitting area 4 2nd floor office lobby area 5 Offices

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West Elevation 01

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West Elevation 01

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Site plan


Electroshade Relational art using parametric design “The role of artwork is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actually be ways of living, and models of action within existing realities, whatever scale chosen by the artist�. The Electro-shade is a relational art piece at the site of a major rail and bus transportation node, that acts as a waiting station for rail and bus passengers providing shade for those waiting. At the same time the Electro-shade is composed of photo voltaic cells at the top that provide electricity to the shapes allowing people to charge their electronic devices. The design is arranged by a series of tangent circles which create a grid. The circles create a triangle which is also repeated throughout the structure. This project was done in collaboration with Ivan Lopez .


Parti diagram (tangential circles derived from one initial point)

Initial study sketches


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Specific pieces attach at a specific sequence in order to create the form.


Site plan

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South elevation Parametric definition

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Solartwist Gulf-bayou Urban Ecology lab The design of the Ecology Lab demands thought into the interrelationship, traditionally separate disciplines and public space. The project serves as a public outreach program of a multidisciplinary institute studying human and natural effects on changes in the Gulf/Bayou ecosystem. Urban ecology informs the study of architecture at the scales of study linking urbanism, building, and envelope. The building twists at each floor allowing the water holding tanks to be exposed to the sun, where different organisms are being tested.

Vertical circulation Public spaces Laboratories + offices Water holding tanks Artificial fields Theater Mechanical

Structural diagram

Vertical circulation

Programmatic Diagram


Concept model


Site plan

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1 Entry + lobby area 2 Reception desk 3 Reception office 4 Gallery area 5 Mechanical/electrical room 6 Lecture Hall 7 Public access 8 Water holding tanks 9 Public access 10 Lab area 11 Lounge area + bathrooms 12 Artificial field 13 Climate controlled area 14 Public Access 15 Offices 16 Small conference room 17 Big conference room 18 External water holding tanks

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First floor plan 01 5

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Study models 17

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Seventh floor plan

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Fifth floor plan 14

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Third floor plan (similar for 6th & 8th levels)



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ASCC Architecture student community center The Architecture Student Community Center, is a place for architecture students to escape the stresses of the architecture studio for a moment, to clear up and rest up physically and mentally. The Idea of the ASCC is to move the student to a different setting away from that of the architecture studio. The main element of the building encases the sleeping areas. Taking into consideration the symmetrical composition of the architecture building the design takes over a different axis of circulation, relating to the central axis of the architecture building in the same North-South direction. Although asymmetrical in composition the design relates directly to the major circulation paths leading away and into the architecture building.


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Parti diagram (circulation and separation of public vs. private)

Sketch of central axis between Architecture and Fine Arts building

Sketch of room partition


Site plan

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1 Main entry 2 Lobby/Sign-in 3 Counselor’s Office 4 Outdoor Courtyard 5 Counselor’s Quarters 6 Counselor’s Laundry Area 7 Living Area 8 Dining Area 9 Kitchen 10 Student Org. Offices 11 Custodial Area 12 Mechanical Room

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Study sketches

13 Sleeping Areas 14 Men’s Restroom + Showers 15 Women’s Restroom + Showers

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Study models

Section looking north 01

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Readart Menil bookstore + sculpture garden A Houston couple prominent in literary and architectural circles has commissioned a new bookstore design featuring books on art, architecture and landscape architecture. In addition they would like to have a coffee bar with interior and exterior seating. The garden will also be used to display their collection of Jesus Moroles sculptures. The clients have obtained a site near the Menil Collection, as they are interested in the urban and pedestrian qualities of the area. The bookstore and coffee bar should facilitate anticipated literary events and other entertainment functions.


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public Parti diagram (circulation through the building)

Indoor + outdoor circulation

public vs. private


Site plan

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1 Main entry 2 Reception Desk 3 Book stacks + reading areas 4 Bathrooms 5 Book storage

Parti model studies

6 Mechanic + electrical 7 Rare book area 8 Conference room 9 Office 10 Back porch

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11 Café 12 Café bar 13 Storage 14 Outdoor sitting for café 15 Sculpture garden

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Study models

South elevation 0 1

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Conceptual diagram

Circulation diagram

Parti diagram


SAMMTS San Antonio multmodal transit station Continuing the semester’s long investigation of the relationship between architecture and movement. The San Antonio multi-modal transit station would serve as a hub for Amtrak, VIA, BRT and Greyhound, integrating it with a historical building that originally served as a train station. By adding T.O.D. and a new program this historical building can be once again what it was originally intended to be.

Sectional model

Study model


Site analysis

Sketch of rail canopy


Second floor plan

Ground floor plan w/proposed Transit Oriented Development

Underground floor plan


Sectional model

Cross section


Cross Section

Longitudinal section


Graphic design Task force against elderly domestic violence

Through the Service Learning program students work with non-profit organizations and produce projects such as this campaign for the Art Direction class. Representatives of such organizations come to the class and introduce the project needed, when the work is complete they return and select the one of their liking.

Ad campaign Logo

Brochure

Poster

Poster Unveiling at Capital One Bank. In this picture (l - r): Representatives of the Task Force, my self, Brook Rosser (Art Direction teacher) and Audrey Grams (Service Learning Director at SAC).


DOMESTIC

VIOLENCE GETS “OLD”

Report Elder Domestic Violence.

800-252-5400


H.E.B. Ad campaign

Scarpa shoe ad

Two sided type poster


Logo

AIAS casino night mailer

UH AIAS invites you to:

September 14, 2011 6 pm - 9pm at the ARCH Center $50 - Non-AIA Member $25 - AIA Member/Non-AIAS Member $15 - AIAS Member

CASINO NIGHT

Patterns book cover w/spine

S.A.C. studen art show poster

Harley anniversary poster

Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture

AIAS

CASINO NIGHT 2011


Student symposium poster

Rock + roll hall of fame mail-in invitation w/fold out poster


Angry landscape poster

Logo design for Heritage place winning horse

Wedding invitations


Other media

Pastels + charcoal

Pencil

Acrylics


Ink

Charcoal


Photography

Rome



Madrid


Pisa


Nimes



Contact Info

Telephone NËš


(210) 259-3027

E-mail

alex@thegonzalezstudio.com

Website

www.thegonzalezstudio.com


Work of Alejandro Gonzalez, copyright Š 2012. All rights reserved.


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