ALEJANDRO
GONZALEZ
MINI-BIO
A short bio of my scholastic and professional achievements
Born in Brownsville Texas. Graduated Preparatoria #7 in Monterrey Nuevo Leon MX. 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. Forum Coordinator, AIAS (American Institute of Architecture Students) San Antonio College Chapter. Work Experience: Ad Designer, The Daily Cougar, Jan. — Oct. 2010. Developer/Designer, Mexican Institute of Greater Houston, Oct. 2011 — Jun. 2013 Freelance Graphic Designer and Photographer. The Gonzalez Studio. TILDE Photography. Horwath Productions. Video Services International. Bachelor of Architecture, University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, May 2013 Recognitions: Recipient of the Hines Internship Scholarship for Barcelona. Work Experience: Intern Architect, EMBT Miralles Tagliabue, Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2 013 — Nov. 2013
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MUSEUM PARK
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ELECTRO-SHADE
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READ-ART GRAPHIC DESIGN
The Museum Park is a competition project done by EMBT for the city of Shenzhen in China. The project consisted in over 100 thousand square meters of museums, retail, an opera house and outdoor theater. Located on an old quarry, the museum buildings take form from the continuity of the lines of the already cut levels of the mountain, and thus reshaping the face of the mountain. This project was done in conjunction with a landscape Architecture Firm out of China, responsible for the park trails systems of the project.
General Scheme
Buildings
Circulation
shenzhen antuoshan
Green Spaces
MUSEUM PARK
Initial study model showing the reshaping of the mountain
Study model with the addition of the masses
Final Study model
Diagrammatic Floor Plans
Entrance Building Cafe/Food Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces Additional Functions Hall Of Fame Social Donation Sotheby’s Christie’s
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces Cultural Center Calligraphy And Painting I Calligraphy And Painting II Porcelain Ancient Pottery Religious Statues Of Gold And Copper
Floor 1
Floor 4
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces Additional Functions
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces Additional Functions Hong Kong And Macao Collections Taiwan Collections Heritage Overseas
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces Library Ancient Costume Hakka Folk Brocade Purple Sand Art
Floor 5
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces Core Building Functions
Floor 7
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Aux Core Building Functions
Floor 2
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces Cultural Center National Instrument Coin Industry Bronze Ware Science And Technology Cinema Jade Sculpture Art Stone Ancient
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces Library Comprehensive I Comprehensive II Ming And Qing Dynasties Furniture
Floor 6
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Aux Core Building Functions
Floor 8
Floor 9
Circulation Core Lobby/Circulation/Aux Core Building Functions
Floor 10
Floor 3
Floor 11
Schematic Sections
1. Additional Functions 2. Lobby/Circulation/Auxiliary Spaces
3. Porcelain
4. Comprehensive I
5. Core Building Functions
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
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 mapped 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.
clear lake marine biology laboratory
BAYOU FISH LAB
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
Spatial 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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Study models
Building sequence
Ground Work + Foundation
Ground Gets prepared for foundations. Trenches for grade beams are dug, and holes are drilled for caissons. Foundation is poured. Raising the building 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 Joist Girders are used for primary spanning structure and open web joists 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
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Exterior glass and furnishings are installed.
Mechanical, Electrical and Tank systems are installed in chase.
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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.
MARKET LINEARITY
market + office complex
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 receive transferred 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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Model showing diagrid
Cross Section looking Northeast 01
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Site plan
A re-configurable pattern
Space Wall is a structural facade system that can be applied to a certain type of buildings. Using engineered wood and recycled wood, the design is a simple diagrid system that also works on the Z plane, creating a space between the structure. The simplicity of the pattern allows for any system (glass, wood, louvers, metal screens, etc.) to be inserted to the facade. This project was done in collaboration with Ignacio Perezanta .
structural building facade
SPACE WALL
Design + joint studies
Elevation study
Section studies
Anchor joint studies
Other joint studies
Idea + construction studies
Passive shading + cooling
Plan
Elevation
Cross Section
Construction process
Final section model at 6”=1’
Student space Faculty offices
Faculty office
1st Year Architecture studios
Industrial Design studios
Community Design Research Center
2nd Floor Restrooms Elevators Main stairs Fire Exit
Circulation diagram
STUDENT SPACE college of architecture student gathering space.
This project was a collaboration between the 5th year Architecture Design Studio and the 2nd year Industrial Design Studio. After many design iterations, the studios decided on the construction of a simple, yet usable space, that can be taken advantage of. The space consists of a bench that wraps two of its sides, containing cubes that can be separated into two seats allowing more seating space. The walls have dryErase boards on one side and pin-up boards on the other for small presentations.
Design studies
Construction process
ELECTRO-SHADE relational art using grasshopper “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 artistâ€?. 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 LĂłpez .
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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SOLAR TWIST 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 (same as levels 6 & 8)
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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.
READ-ART menil bookstore + sculpture garden
Parti diagram (circulation through the building)
Indoor + outdoor circulation
public vs. private
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Parti Model Studies
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1 Main entry 2 Reception Desk 3 Book stacks + reading areas 4 Bathrooms 5 Book storage
6 Mechanic + electrical 7 Rare book area 8 Conference room 9 Office 10 Back porch
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South elevation 0 1
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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: Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
AIAS
CASINO NIGHT 2011 September 14, 2011 6 pm - 9pm at the ARCH Center
CASINO NIGHT
$50 - Non-AIA Member $25 - AIA Member/Non-AIAS Member $15 - AIAS Member
Patterns book cover w/spine
S.A.C. student art show poster
Harley anniversary poster
Gerald D. H
Casi
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rome
Paris
Bilbao
Patagonia, Chile (Parque Nacional Torres del Paine)
CONTACT INFO
Telephone N˚
(210) 259-3027
alex@thegonzalezstudio.com
Website
www.thegonzalezstudio.com
Work of Alejandro Gonzalez, copyright Š 2012. All rights reserved.