Alexis M. Luna Undergraduate Portfolio 1
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Alexis
El i zabeth, 0 7 2 0 8 New Jer sey 908 - 956 - 1310
Luna A rc hit ec t ure
S t udent
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De si g n e r
BIOGRAPHY I a m c u r r e n tly a fou r t h y e a r a r c h i t e c t u r e s t u d e n t w i t h e xp erience in small o ffic e s a n d s tu dios 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 community g ard ens t o in fr a s tr u c tu r e plan 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 in intimate scaled i n te r ve n tion s th a t de 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 ntions b ecome user d e fin e d by a s in gle p e r s 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 enjoy w orking in g r ou ps a s I fe e l I le a r n 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
Acti v e h o t w i re f o a m c u t t e r a n d l a s e r c u 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 te e r i n AI A S P r i n t R o o m & 3 D L A B f o r A I A 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 ra d u a te d V a l ed i c t o r i a n . I n t e r e s t i n s a xo p h o n e a n d u k ul el e.
Architecture | Sep 2014
Albert Dorman Honors College Scholarship Academic | Dec 2014 - Present
LANGUAGE SKILLS
EXPERIENCE
B o rn i n Pe ru . A s p i r i n g l e a r n e r o f I t 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.
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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 market’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, “Armature�, 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.
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Amplified Environments: Siena Bottinis Year Type Critic Location
Summer 2016 Group Project Ersela Kripa, Stephen Muller Siena, Italy
To emphasize and amplify these 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. These spaces provide different intensity of privacy for people to immerse themselves in the experience of water. 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)
Canopy 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
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Siena Summer Studio 2016 | Instructor - Ersela Kripa | Christopher Gornall, Alexis Luna, Joshua Mason, Chityee Ng
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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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Horizontal Planes vs Oblique
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Area of the Overhang
Field of artificial human adhesion
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
Zero Sensitivity
Vertical: Means of Going up
Reception
Functions of the oblique plane:
Horizontal: Continuous Plane
Oblique Plane: Perceptual/ Spatial Continuity
Stair: Circulation
Section Concept
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Seating
Library Stacks
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Gallery
Perfromance/ Lectures
Mural
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Sectin Blow Up
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Structura 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.
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Physical Site Model Scale: 1' = 1/64" 0'
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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
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Newark City Model
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Thank You!
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