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
Second Floor Plan 01 5 10
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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.
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Vertical Members for exterior chase are installed.
Horizontal members are installed.
Exterior Glass
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Exterior glass and furnishings are installed.
Mechanical, Electrical and Tank systems are installed in chase.
Detail Laboratory Section 01
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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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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
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Study models
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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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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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Study models
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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
alex@thegonzalezstudio.com
Website
www.thegonzalezstudio.com
Work of Alejandro Gonzalez, copyright Š 2012. All rights reserved.