Alexis Luna Undergrad Architecture Portfolio by Alexis Luna

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BIOGRAPHY I a m c u rre n t l y a f o u rt h y e a r a r c h i t e c t u r e s t u d e n t wi t h e x p e r i e n c e i n s m a l l of f ic e s a n d s t u d i o s f o c u s i n g o n p r o j e c t s f r o m u r b a n s c a l e c o m m u n i t y g a r d ens t o in f ra s t ru c t u re p l a n n i n g a t a c i t y s c a l e . M y i n t e r e s t s a r e i n i n t i m a t e s ca l ed in t e r v e n t i o n s t h a t d e s i g n c a n o f f e r , a n d h o w t h e s e i n t e r v e n t i o n s b e c o m e us er d e f ine d b y a s i n g l e p e rs o n o r l a r g e c o m m u n i t i e s o v e r t i m e . I e n j o y wo r k i ng i n g r ou p s a s I f e e l I l e a rn m o s t f r o m m y c o l l e a u g e s .

EDUCATION

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REGOGNITION

MASTERS IN INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING

Schindler Global Award Competiton

New Jersey Institute of Technology |

Nominee | April 2017

Expected Dec 18

A c t i v e h o t w i r e f o a m cu t t e r a n d l a s e r cu t t e r u s e r .

Eugene Messina Newark Design Scholarship Architecture | Sep 2016

BACHELOR OF A R C H I T E C T U R E New Jersey Institute of Technology |

Expected May 18

V o l u n t e e r i n A I A S Pr i n t R o o m & 3 D L A B f o r A IA S .

2nd Year Undergrad Excellence in Design Architecture | Sep 2015

NJIT Masonry Design/ Build Competition Best Overall, Best Presenation Architecture | May 2015

GRADUATE Thomas Jefferson Arts Academny |

Sep 09 - June 13

N J School of Architecture Scholarship

G r a d u a t e d V a l e d i c t o r i a n . In t e r e s t i n s a x o p h o n e a n d u k u l e l e .

Architecture | Sep 2014

Albert Dorman Honors College Scholarship Academic | Dec 2014 - Present

LANGUAGE SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

B o rn in Pe r u . A s p i r i n g l e a r n e r o f It a l i a n a n d P o r t u g u e s . ENGLISH 100%

SPANISH 80%

SKILL SET Illustrator

ITALIAN 50%

PORTUGUES 50%

Siena Study Abroad Program Architecture | Summer 2016 Six week design studio exploring and documenting Rome, Florence and Siena

OOAA Architecture Intern | Summer 2015 & 2016

Photoshop

Applicant worked on various projects through AutoCAD, Adobe suite and 3D Modeling.

Indesign

Newark Beautification Initiative

Premiere

Designer, Peer Mentor | Summer 2015

AutoCad

Applicant worked in a design group, along side 15 Newark High school students to create a public garden.

Rhino

PIN! City of Newark Planning Office

Revit

Architecture Intern | Summer 2014

Model Making

Applicant took part in representing the city of Newark by a 1:10000 scale model displayed in Newark City Hall.

Armature Urbanismo Year Type Critic Awards

Fall 2016 Group Project Jesse Lecavalier 2016 Schindler Award Nominee

The departure of the CEAGESP market is treated as an opportunity to critically examine its assets and their impact, influence, and relationship with the site. The revitalization of the site begins by identifying existing resources, distinctive activities and convergences of energy. A framework of linked strategies induces growth and development during and after the marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transition, and envisions a more dynamic site capable of openly involving its users as active participants in the production of the city. Operating at the infrastructural, architectural, and tactical scale, Armature Urbanismo generates an interdependent system of physical, social, and cultural resources. An incrementally evolving infrastructural element, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Armatureâ&#x20AC;?, becomes the driver of this new form of urbanism. The Armature is introduced as a conceptual tool, emerging through the connection of vacant lots and decaying properties selected for redevelopment and renovation to stitch together the remaining communities, activities, and assets on the site. At the infrastructural scale, the Armature provides utilities and services throughout the site. At the architectural scale, the Armature incentivizes growth and development of new hybrid programs while strengthening existing activities, and at the tactical scale operates as a framework for development of non-permanent human scaled interventions. 6

STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO GENERATE AN ARMATURE URBANISM

CULTIVATE ADAPTABILITY Anticipate varying density scenarios that encourage flexible programming.

INTENSIFY EXISTING RESOURCES Evaluate and prioritize existing resources on the site, strengthen current activity. Designate vacant lots for development.

Armature

STABILITY

Promote mixed-use and hybrid typologies to generate resilient urban activity. Facilitate new modes of work, live, and play through diverse, interdependent exchange and interaction.

CATALYZE ARMATURE GROWTH

EXPAND MULTIMODAL MOBILITY

Foster connections between renovated and repurposed structures; incorporate developing areas into evolving infrastructural network.

Connect to existing transit networks, enable newly emerging forms of mobility and establish efficient transportation hubs linked to the armature.

CULTIVATE ADAPTIBILITY

DIFFUSE SITE EDGES

Anticipate varying density scenarios and encourage flexible programming.

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SPONSOR HYBRIDITY

The Urban Armature provides varying types of public space for users and acts as a conduit for site transit. Visitors, or urban contributors, utilize the three levels of Armature and foster growth of the local economy through their interactions with program. Clustered living spaces spread throughout the site make it possible for inhabitants to interact with visitors on a regular basis. Population density is high with multiple areas of intensity in and around the Armature with live, work, and play all blending together within a hybridized urban enivronment.

URBAN AMPLIFICATION The Armature proves itself as an economic driver as the site experiences a greater number of visitors therefore accumulating higher income. This rise in economic well-being creates a larger workforce and work areas intensitfy in density and productivity. Inhabitants maintain their locations on site and also experience a rise in population.

Increase accessibility from Vila Leopoldina by activating street edge program.

BOOM! ECONOMIC UPSURGE The intensity of program is lost as densities and functions saturate the site. The armature is still defined by its high level of visitor activity and new dynamics are produced as hybrids blend even further. Population density is well beyond that of SĂŁo Paulo but the area still functions smoothly due to the flexibility of program and expandability of structures.

FROM INSIDE OUT Local businesses build strength and housing expands. The Armature, once filled with open space and site transit, is filled with active shops and offices as resident living quarters take up the surrounding spaces. The site welcomes the return of urban contributors and the rise of socioeconomic prosperity.

Urban Contributor (Visitor) Urban Inhabitant (Local Resident) Urban Producer (Worker)

CRISIS! POTENTIAL DOWNTURN The natural flux in local and global economy coupled with any number of socio-political frictions puts Armature Urbanism to the test as unemployment rates rise and site tourism evaporates. Small clusters of work and living spaces maintain some of their integrity but as the environment deteriorates, conditions become unstable.

REGENERATION From economic driver to residential provider, the Armature makes a shift in function and program just before an economic recession. The structure and resources built into this urban anchor allows for the restructuring of communities within the site. The depletion of site visitors and the major decline in business activity leaves residents with very little. The infrastructure and connectivity of the Armature pulls locals together and breeds new housing typologies along with small, locally supported businesses within its periphery.

Local Worker (1/2 mile radius) Outer Worker

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INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT OPPORTUNISTIC GROWTH DEMOLISH UNDERUSED FACILITIES

RENOVATE EXISTING RESOURCES

ABSORB AND CREATE URBAN ACTIVITY

ESTABLISH ARM

Redevelopment of the site begins with acquisition of existing vacant lots, which become drivers of all successive site strategies. This initial step targets inactive spaces and proposes new functions and program in order for this fragment of the city to attain greater potential through reintegration of an Armature-based urban fabric. Phases are used to indicate the sequence of development not driven by a strict timelime or fixed-end product.

Vacant areas throughout the site are reclaimed and developed; simultaneous demolition of underused and deteriorating facilities clears the way for future Armature growth and new hybrid typologies, which will serve a multitude of site users.

Certain structures embedded with local knowledge and tradition are integral to the fundamental steps of site redevelopment and are targeted for upgrades. The concrete plant at the south end of the site is a key resource and will be tapped to contribute its materials to the large scale development of upcoming phases.

The intitial phase continues with the deployment of Urban Absorbers, new facilities that will function initially as large parking structures for expected increase in use. The absorbers are designed to flexibly accommodate changes in site use and to adapt gradually to the anticipated decline of vehicles, shifting from car sheds to multifunctional public spaces.

With vacancies repurposed, old constructed, the Armatures beg provide connectivity between si During the early stages of const south ends of the site, linking to

HYBRID CONDITIONS TO CULTIVATE COEXISTENCE ELEVATED HOTEL

URBAN PAVILION

The elevated hotel allows for circulation to weave through the site from the opposite side of Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal. The covered plazaNODES under the porous building creates ESTABLISH ARMATURE market opportunities for tourists and locals to interact. The elevated hotel features With vacancies repurposed, older structures demolished or renovated, andattraction Absorbers balconies that overlook the Armature and roadway, and serves as an iconic the Armatures beginthe to emerge. forconstructed, the site, distinctly visible above overpass.These bundled systems of infrastructure will provide connectivity between site components and resources, and support a hybrid urbanism. During the early stages of construction, two nodes of the Armature develop at the north and south ends of the site, linking to the Absorbers.

CTIVITY

orbers, new facilities that will se in use. The absorbers to adapt gradually to the functional public spaces.

The next phase extends the Armatures toward the core of the site, stitching together renovated structures along the Armature’s route. Buildings are “reskinned” or combined, fusing them with site infrastructure and creating a series of interconnected public spaces throughout the network.

EDUCATIONAL P

“O” Court Offices

Along Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal, collaborative working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs are GROWTH instituted, along with the O-Court retail shops and pavilions. The ACTIVATE Armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in Armature network progresses theamenity; extensionafter of the MLP building overarea the the river, theThe vacant land and provide a public with square investing in a dense allowing residents of nearby Jaguarewith more convenient access to the site’s expanding developers then supply the Armature a public park for the community. resources, while residents within the site’s favelas are relocated to newly built housing in a Umbrella Dates Pavillion participatory process. The Armature along the river, coupled with new purification basins within the existing waterway, becomes a crucial element in the preservation and restoration of the riparian landscape.

AMPLIFY NETWORK

An educational and recreational primary school kids to universit encourages activity and interact scales of interventions provide surrounding community.

DEPLOY MULTI-SCALE ELEMENTS The final phase of redevelopment introduces large scale hybrid facilities including new housing, schools, civic center extensions, and mixed-use commercial spaces, as well as tactical scale interventions and infrastructural support. The construction and completion of these elements is facilitated by the Armature’s established physical and social infrastructure. Upon culmination of this phase, full site mobility and utilization is expected.

Indoor-Outdoor Educational Pavilion

Lina Bo Mall

Pedestrial Bike Slope Water Management

Sloped Park Social Bike Parking

Electrical Bundle Data Box Water Management

Porous Pavement

Water Management

Electrical Bundle

Electrical Bundle Data Box

Data Box Water Management

WAREHOUSE GYM EDUCATIONAL PAVILION

RIVER FEIRACONNECTION LEOPOLDINA + WATER TREATMENT

An existing warehouse employs the skinning strategy and is stripped down and recreational hub lighting, for the neighbourhood’s students, to An its educational framework, capable of providing sound, temporary cover, ranging from primary school kidsAntooutdoor university with itsameandering path, and other functions. fieldstudents. occupiesThe thecomplex, space, creating public encourages activity and interaction while generating a place capacities for gathering. athletic complex supported by the framework’s infrastructural and Different scales of provide amenities for both residents on site as well as the supplied byinterventions the Armature’s pedestrian population. surrounding community.

Through thethe useexisting of an elevated the the Armature extends the river To retain spirit of system, the market, integration andacross renovation of and connects to a water treatmenttofacility, engagement existing buildings is proposed becomeencouraging absorbed bycommunity the Armature. The throughout the dispersed pockets overlooking the river adjacent space is envisioned as aplatforms nexus of and cultural and social interaction withand mixed neighbourhoods. programs including retail, leisure, restaurants, and transit services.

VILA BOÊMIA Vines Attack

Warehouses are converted into and eateries serving the native a Armature encounter public insta between galleries and exhibition interspersed plazas and perform bursts of activity.

Water Basins

Lookout Pocket

Basketball Arena

Outdoor Game Pavilion

Treatment Platform

Indoor-Outdoor Educational Pavilion Playground

Bike Share

Lina Bo Mall

Elevated Pathway Ecological Embankment

Green Lounge

Pinheiros River

Food Truck Paradise

Sediment

Skatepark Bedrock

Electrical Bundle

Data Box

Water Management Water Management Social Interaction Corner

MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS AS ACTIVE CONTRIBUTORS

Rooftop Terrace

VILA BOÊMIA

WHITE COLLAR WORKER AGE RANGE

REQUIRED SPACE

23-50 YEARS OLD

10m

PUBLIC SPACE USAGE

BLUE COLLAR WORKER AGE RANGE

REQUIRED SPACE

18-40 YEARS OLD

10m

PUBLIC SPACE USAGE

DAILY PATTERNS TRANSPORTATION USAGE $$$

Most used

OFFICE

The importance of the blue collar worker cannot be underestimated; this is an essential character for the construction and development of the phases of the site, responsible for maintenance and customer service. To facilitate his daily commute and navigate easily around the site new connections to the adjacent neighbourhoods were created.

ENTREPRENEUR AGE RANGE

REQUIRED SPACE

22-30 YEARS OLD

10m

PUBLIC SPACE USAGE

TRANSPORTATION USAGE $

$$$

To promote economic growth the site needed to become a resource for raising entrepreneurs, that become a catalyst for São Paulo’s economy. To host these activities incubator spaces were designed as individual or collaborative spaces to launch small companies and support warehouses for prototype production.

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OFFICE WORK

Less used

Most used

Less used

LUNCH MEETING Scenic Overlook

OFFICE

22-30 YEARS OLD

10m

STUDENT AGE RANGE

REQUIRED SPACE

14-24 YEARS OLD

10m

PUBLIC SPACE USAGE DAILY PATTERNS

TRANSPORTATION USAGE

Most used

$$$

VISITOR AGE RANGE 22-30 YEARS OLD

REQUIRED SPACE 2

10m

PUBLIC SPACE USAGE

STUDIO SPACE

TRANSPORTATION USAGE

Most used

MEETING

$$$

COLLEGE/SCHOOL

TRANSPORTATION USAGE

PRODUCTION

Less used

Most used

$$$

Bike Charging Station

Food Plaza

Spring Festival

Cultural Plaza

The site aims to become an attraction for people from different locations of São Paulo. Visitors will enjoy the amenities of the site and be part of the new economy that will boost the status of Vila Leopoldina and adjacent areas, promoting new jobs and opportunities for informal pop shops and local businesses.

DAILY PATTERNS

Less used

MEETING

WORK

VISIT ICONS

RV Rest stop

Drone Port Canopy

Food Truck

Solar Energy Collector

Pixacao Art Scape

Bike Share Service

Multimoda

6 1 Bridge Catwalk

Less used

Badminton Playground

2 Silo Festival

3 Sculpture Park

LUNCH

BREAK

HOME

ENTERTAINMENT

HOME

SHOPPING

CLASS

OFFICE WORK

GROCERY STOP HOME

REQUIRED SPACE

PUBLIC SPACE USAGE

The proximity to the University of São Paulo ensures that students will no longer need to travel to hostels on the outskirts of the city; instead student, professor and senior housing is provided only four minutes away from the university. This ensures the safety of the students and brings life to the site.

LUNCH

Art Roofscape Bike Sharing

CREATIVE DESIGNER AGE RANGE

The site currently hosts several creative studios. This activity is enhanced by creating more spaces for design and collaboration between different disciplines. Open spaces in Outdoor Seating and out of the Armature become support for gathering and interaction.

Public Performance Space

WORK Most used

Elevated Plaza

DAILY PATTERNS

DAILY PATTERNS TRANSPORTATION USAGE $

$ Less used

Located between Armatures, this mixed-use space combines recreation and retail with mid-rise residential. Retail on the ground with services lifted encourages passage through the open public space beneath, inviting a variety of uses.

Food Kiosk The site had a strong business presence that needed to be preserved. Villa Lobos office park remained with its existing program. To enhance the commuting experience for the workers, new streets were introduced and transportation was modified to reduce traffic during rush hours.

TACTICAL URBAN INTERVENTIONS

URBAN JUNGLE

Warehouses are converted into mixed use clusters of locally-owned shops, cafés, and eateries serving the native artist and designer community. Visitors on the Armature encounter public installations and large artworks on display dotted between galleries and exhibition halls inserted into converted structures, while interspersed plazas and performance spaces create opportunity for spontaneous bursts of activity.

VISIT MUSEUMS

Pocket Park

HOTEL

HOME

Pardon me, can I ask you to take a picture of me? This is such a beautiful place, I wonder when it was built?

Rooftop Oasis Data Box

I can’t wait for the carnival party to start.

Do you know what the purpose of this structure is? It’s a little strange...

Electrical Bundle Water Management

The neighborhood has become so joyful and safe.

Pinheiros River Sediment

There is going to be a samba perrformance at the end.

Pocket Parks

It’s a sculptural park, the lo artists have temporary displays of their work and people attend the exhibits

Bedrock

RV Rest stop

My daughther will be performing, I’m so excited.

Sure, I love to come here for lunch. It took many years to build this, you won’t believe how polluted this river was 15 years ago.

Porous Pavement

RVENTIONS

ground

RECLAIM UNDERUTILIZED LOTS

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Drone Port Canopy

Food Truck Paradise

Farmer’s Market

Artist Exchange

Sculpture Park

Ecological Playground

Food Trucks

Bus Library

Bridge Overlook

Water Treatment Overlook Bridge Catwalk

Water Purification Basin

Multimodal Stop

Parking Absorber

Algae Skin Office

Food Cart

The site currently hosts several creative studios. This activity is enhanced by creating more spaces for design and collaboration between different disciplines. Open spaces in and out of the Armature become support for gathering and interaction.

Excuse me Sir, do you know if this bus stops at São Paulo University?

I can’t wait for the carnival party to start.

The neighborhood has become so joyful and safe. There is going to be a samba perrformance at the end.

My daughther will be performing, I’m so excited. reg# 1792-974-3823

Yes, the route has been upgraded to serve more people, also there is a shuttle service that can bring you back.

Come at me bro! I know Capoeira!

Do you know what the purpose of this structure is? It’s a little strange...

Where’s the bike charging station? It’s a sculptural park, the local artists have temporary displays of their work and people attend the exhibits.

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ATMOSPHERIC SKETCHES The daily life of the city’s people informs and is supported by the infrastructural, architectural, and tactile responses of an Armature Urbanism. ELEVATED HOTEL The elevated hotel allows for circulation to weave through the site from the opposite side of Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal. The covered plaza under the porous building creates market opportunities for tourists and locals to interact. The elevated hotel features balconies that overlook the Armature and roadway, and serves as an iconic attraction for the site, distinctly visible above the overpass.

WAREHOUSE GYM An existing warehouse employs the skinning strategy and is stripped down to its framework, capable of providing lighting, sound, temporary cover, and other functions. An outdoor field occupies the space, creating a public athletic complex supported by the framework’s infrastructural capacities and supplied by the Armature’s pedestrian population.

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EDUCATIONAL PAVILION An educational and recreational hub for the neighbourhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students, ranging from primary school kids to university students. The complex, with its meandering path, encourages activity and interaction while generating a place for gathering. Different scales of interventions provide amenities for both residents on site as well as the surrounding community.

NESTED INCUBATORS By introducing new housing, this lot is transformed from retail only to a hybrid catalyst that keeps the essence of the location. Incubator spaces for startup companies are nested in the courtyards to create different levels of workspaces that range from individual office modules to small production warehouses.

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VILA BOĂ&#x160;MIA Warehouses are converted into mixed use clusters of locally-owned shops, cafĂŠs, and eateries serving the native artist and designer community. Visitors on the Armature encounter public installations and large artworks on display dotted between galleries and exhibition halls inserted into converted structures, while interspersed plazas and performance spaces create opportunity for spontaneous bursts of activity.

FEIRA LEOPOLDINA To retain the existing spirit of the market, the integration and renovation of existing buildings is proposed to become absorbed by the Armature. The space is envisioned as a nexus of cultural and social interaction with mixed programs including retail, leisure, restaurants, and transit services.

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RIVER CONNECTION + WATER TREATMENT Through the use of an elevated system, the Armature extends across the river and connects to a water treatment facility, encouraging community engagement throughout the dispersed platforms and pockets overlooking the river and adjacent neighbourhoods.

URBAN PAVILION Along Av. Dr. GastĂŁo Vidigal, collaborative working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs are instituted, along with the O-Court retail shops and pavilions. The Armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in the vacant land and provide a public square amenity; after investing in a dense area the developers then supply the Armature with a public park for the community.

Artworks by Stephan Doitschinoff, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, and HĂŠlio Oiticica.

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Amplified Environments: Siena Bottinis Year Type Critic Location

Summer 2016 Group Project Ersela Kripa, Stephen Muller Siena, Italy

Throughout history of Siena, the city has invested heavily in its water infrastructure,creating a large underground system of streams and fountains. While the hills of the city have made the water transportation hard, they also form a landscape of wide variety of environmental conditions among the vegetation,wet and dry, and sparsely vegetated hills. Through the intention of analysis of soil quality, topography, anatomy of trees, and shadows on our site, you can measure the saturation of the soil. To emphasize and amplify these environmental conditions, moisture in the landscape, a series of measures has been placed down the hill. An underground pipe system supplies water to each of the caves, and able to create environments that responds to the water levels in the soil. The interventions are designed to prevent the disturbance of the natural landscape by manipulating the topography to create underground spaces.These spaces provide different intensity of privacy for people to immerse themselves in the experience of water

TOPOGRAPHICAL INTEREST

SOIL

IDEAL

DRY AREA

IDEAL DRY AREA

TOPOGRAPHICAL INTEREST

SOIL

IDEAL

DRY AREA

IDEAL DRY AREA

TOPOGRAPHICAL INTEREST

SOIL

IDEAL

DRY AREA

IDEAL DRY AREA

Siena Summer Studio 2016 | Instructor - Ersela Kripa | Christopher Gornall, Alexis Luna, Joshua Mason, Chityee Ng

Shadow

7 Layers of Water Satuation on Soil Surface:

Slope of topography (and proximity to sloped land) Density of flora on slope (less - more saturation) Tree height (higher - more saturation) Tree canopy size (larger - more saturation) Coniferous vs. deciduous trees (deciduous - more saturation) Soil quality (influences infiltration and runoff) Shadows (shadowed areas maintain water in top layer of soil)

Siena Summer Studio 2016 | Instructor - Ersela Kripa | Christopher Alexis Luna, Joshua Mason, Chityee Ng CanopyGornall, Width:

< 0.5m 0.5m - 3m 3m +

Tree Height: <1.5m 1.5m - 4m 4m + Min Water Infiltration: Fine Soil (Sand, Clay) Med Water Infiltration: Medium Soil (Loamy)

Max Water Infiltration: Coarse Soil

Max Water Absorbtion

Med Water Absorbtion

Water Runoff

Slope Intensity and Direction Grid point - Aligned at max elevation Distance to ground elevation High ledge of a discontinuity in landscape

Siena Summer Studio 2016 | Instructor - Ersela Kripa | Christopher Gornall, Alexis Luna, Joshua Mason, Chityee Ng

Siena Summer Studio 2016 | Instructor Siena- Summer Ersela Kripa Studio | Christopher 2016 | Instructor Gornall, - Ersela Alexis Kripa Luna,|Joshua Christopher Mason, Gornall, Chityee Alexis Ng Luna, Joshua Mason, Chityee Ng

Siena Summer Studio 2016 | Instructor - Ersela Kripa | Christopher Gornall, Alexis Luna, Joshua Mason, Chityee Ng

yee Ng

Chityee Ng

Site - Former Year Type Critic Location Awards

Spring 2014 Group Project Jae Shin Secaucus, NJ NJIT First Year Best in Show

This project proposes a prototipical collection of housing units that transition from ones individual private housing unit into a transparant center space that connects its inhabitants to each otherand to their sourroundings. Inhabitants live in split level private pods that are shaped by the implied geometry of the split levels. These pods intersect at a common level and are connected to another set of inhabitants through L shaped pathways. These pathways are connected by a structure that splits each level allowing visual connectivity at every level and transitions the central area from an internal space to an external space. Secaucus, the site on which it sits, is fragmented in its various program use and inhabitants, this is in part due to its vast commuter culture, highways and factories. This prototype is set to mediate through the fragmented secrions of Secaucus.

Enfilar Anaranjado Year Type Critic Location

Spring 2016 Group Project Maria Hurtado De Mendoza Bloomfield, NJ

This project focuses on the idea of perception in the context of a health care clinic, where what is precieved by the attendants are courtyards and areas to scoialize such as the waiting room. In this strategy the patients cone of vision is never exposed to exam rooms and observation rooms, rather along the main axis of circulation all “clinic” related program are embedded in the “walls”. The progression of ones experience through the clinic is aided by light wells, glazing perpendicular to the main circulation and warm toned “Orange” colored walls to provide a sense of spatial expansion to capture the participants view, while the spacing of the walls provide a feeling of continous progression or “Enfilar”. The brightly colored walls extend beyond their use of hiding program by providing in the foreground program to accomodate different patients. These include specific activities towards the pediatric care, obstetric care, mental health and the neighboring pedestrians. Perception is continued in section by strategic carvings in the ceiling and roof to create a visual connection of the exterior to the patient or doctor.

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Work 2040 Year Type Critic Awards

Fall 2015 Group Project Marcelo Lopez - Dinardi NJIT Super Jury 2015

This project focuses on the idea of work as the center of life in the year of 2040 and combines that ideal into a living community where each unit has a private work space and a public community space. In 2040, there will be an increase in the amount of hours that people will work and also how people work in the year 2040 will change. Work will be more in the home environment instead of the office environment. Given these parameters, different studies were made into work time and environment. Within this micro living environment there are two seperate working conditions; connected and disconnected from work, with the top floor being more connected to work while the bottom floor is more of a disconnected location. Each unit also has its own garden space in order to create an interior and exterior zonewhile working.

SOLID VOID DIAGRAM

UNIT PLAN SCALE: 1/4”=1’-0”

UNIT SECTION SCALE: 1/4”=1’-0”

OPEN TO BELOW

DN DN

OPEN TO BELOW

DN OPEN TO BELOW

SECOND FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1/16”=1’-0”

B UP “DISCONNECT” SPACE: MORNING

“DISCONNECT” SPACE: NIGHT

“DISCONNECT” SPACE: AFTERNOON

FIRST FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1/16”=1’-0”

SECTION B SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”

Structura de Etiam Lux Year Type Critic Location Awards

Spring 2016 Group Project Maria Hurtado De Mendoza Newark, NJ Displayed: 2016 Design Showcase

The concept of the project is to use a light well structure system to define our approach to designing a health clinic. By using light wells as the basis for a conceptual grid, and integrating them into the role of structure, we sought to create a project that naturally gave birth to pleasant, luminous, comfortable spaces that provided immense opportunity for refinement as the project progressed. In our methodol- ogy, light wells can serve as focal points, sources of exterior views, sources of daylight, habitable space, circulation, vertical circulation, mechanical shafts. ventilation, and exterior space. This is brought about by rigorous application of a versatile logic that remains legible in the design. The current results are a series of day-lit spaces that make structure experiential, and a design that provides transformative and expansionary space for future growth.

Program/ Circulation Diagrams Administrative Commons Treatment

Around

Through

Miander

Solid vs Void

LightWell Grid

Program Distribution

Perception + Lightwells

Physical Site Model Scale: 1' = 1/64" 0'

10'

25'

45'

Shifting

Circulation 1st Floor

Circulation 2nd Floor

Rooms + Lightwells

Circulation Roof Level

Solid vs Void Diagram

Light Well vs Program

The Oblique Function Year Spring 2016 Type Individual Critic Maria Hurtado De Mendoza Location Journal Square, NJ Awards Displayed: 2016 Super Jury

This project focuses on the idea of programatic hybridity through oblique planes of various use in the setting of a cultural hub. Through the use of a stair module, of varing tred dimensions and spacings, these “oblique planes” have the capacity to foster several programs, including art galleries, seatings and performances. By shifting the notion of horizontal plane and vertical partition to a continues horizontal structure, the act of program overlap is encouraged. This is to create spaces for spontaneous performances and informal audiences. Perceptually the “obliques” create a continues view from one floor and accending to the next, creating a view that encaplusates multiple activities. Alternatively the “oblique” works as a lightwell when looking down from one level to the previous. Through perception and physical alteration this project investigates how varying arts can conglomerate and hybridize.

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Reception

Lmit of Human adhesion without Latching Action Limit adherence special vehicles (relief materials ect.)

Limit of Normal Car Tacking Pentes Pour Vehicules Automobiles Usuels Slope for Church Not Visible Space

Circulation Oblique

Zero Sensitivity

Vertical: Means of Going up

Area of the Overhang

Field of artificial human adhesion

Functions of the oblique plane:

Horizontal: Continuous Plane

Oblique Plane: Perceptual/ Spatial Continuity

Stair: Circulation

Section Concept

Section 1

Section 2

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 10

Section 11

Section 12

Seating

Library Stacks

Section 3

Section 8

Gallery

Perfromance/ Lectures

Mural

Section 4

Section 9

Circulation Ground Level

Cores

Circulation Second Level

Circulation Third Level

Sectin Blow Up

Circulation Basement Level

Claude Perettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oblique investigation was a starting point in the project. Where Perett investigates the different functions varing slope angles can create, my interest is how one slope can accomodate various programs and interactions. 56

This investigation uses a stair as a module with varying spaces and width in its treads to allow activities that accomidate circulation, seating, library stacks, gallery display, and small performances.

Oblique planes create punctures in floor planes, allowing portal views into the ground below and above each level. These portals are a field condition in itself and foster the culmination of different programs through a continues view. 58

Horizontal Planes vs Oblique

Guggnhiem Museum Year Summer 2015 Type Competition Office OOAA Location Heisinki, Finland

Along the coast of Heisinki lies an unused essential part of the cities infastructure and history. This project focuses on the idea of re-discovery, by re shaping the coast with a series of surfaces, volumes and Ice Berg spectacles taking on various programatic usages and diffuses the seperation of public and private space. The ground acts as a carpet of varing materials that evoke different programmatic usages and activities. Allowing space for the locals to relax and participate in public festivals. The volumes act as an open framework that can adapt to resturants, day cares, small galleries and theaters. These volumes are designated for meandering and surprise findings. The Ice Berg spectacles are the main galleries and moments of spatial expansion.

PIN! (Plan It Newark) Year Type Office Location

Summer 2014 City Hall Installation Newark Planning Office Newark, NJ

An exhibition and video for Newark residents curious about how development happens in their neighborhood and city, featuring a scale model showing every block in Newark! In a place whose planning history is marked by sweeping state violence and tenacious grassroots organizing, these projects aim to illuminate the true story of development in Newark and support the ongoing energy of its community-planning traditions. Dedicated to every block in Newark!

2009 The project is a collaboration between the Newark Planning Office and the NJIT College of Architecture and Design with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Project Directors: Damon Rich, Tony Schuman and Jae Shin

Newark City

City Hall Pavilion Instal-

Thank You!