Architecture Portfolio - Alexandra Matute

POR TFO L I O 2018-2020

ALEXANDRA MATUTE BLANCO B.F.A ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

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“MAKE IT SIMPLE, BUT SIGNIFICANT.”

-DON DRAPER

CONTENT ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO WORK STUDIO IV

Spring 2020 Abandonment.

STUDIO III Fall 2019

The Urban Ecology Center.

•Maps •”Mechanical Tree” Building •Idea Grams •Plan/Section Drawings •Concrete Site Model

STUDIO MIRO

Spring 2019 Overlayer.

Tschumi Renderings.

Poker Cards.

Miro House.

Vineyard Experimentation.

STUDIO ARETHA Fall 2018

Ink Hatching axonometric.

Cubical Axon.

Pina Baush Dance Space.

MATERIAL STUDY MATERIALS & METHODS Spring 2020 Connect-a-Balance

MAKING & MEANING Fall 2019

Hormanic Pouring.

Flotational Egg Cartons.

STUDIO ART DRAWINGS

Spring 2018 Nudity.

Illusion.

METALS & JEWELRY

Spring 2019 Skyscraper Piercing.

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ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO WORK

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STUDIO IV

Spring 2020 Fourth Semester Instructor: Nick Wickersham

Abandonment In the Shannandoah area, houses are abandoned and left to decay. Due to significant amount of weathering and deterioration.

The designation of the project was to emphasize on entropy, and how well we were matching the decaying home, to the surrounding enviroment.

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STUDIO III

Fall 2019 Third Semester Instructor: Evelyn Tickle

The Urban Ecology Center The development and increase of population in the DC area has lead enviroment problems, especially affecting the Potomac River.

The location was set on NRG Potomac River Generating Station, an abandoned electrical plant right across the potomac river.

This project was focused on the rehabilitaton of the river, but also to connect people to nature permantly. I came to desgin a buidlng that will house bald eagles and regenerate sea grass.

Map demostrating different species of sea grass and location of bald eagles across the Potomac and Chesapeake bay river.

Map demostrating decreace of sea grass in the potomac river and location of one bald eagles nest.

Program Maps

Zoomed In Map

Zoomed Out Map

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Map demostration from lack of sea grass and direction of bald eagles flight route.

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“Mechanical Tree� Buildings By focusing with both the rehabilitation of the specias and integration of humans. This structure will serve as the breaking ground to bring together two different worlds.

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Idea Grams These little toys were a developement of the problem based species that I had chosen. By creating playful diagramtic objects, came to develop the “Mechanical Tree� Building.

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Plan Drawings

Section Drawings

Site Model Drawing

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Concrete Site Model

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STUDIO MIRO Spring 2019 Second Semester

Instructor: William Tate

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Overlayer

Tschumi Renderings

Poker Cards These poker cards were an exploration of my own formulation.

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The development of the cards had to include your own creation of suits which came from my “Overlay�. The face cards had to include 3 designers that you were inspired by, and what they had designed or built. Mine included Gerrit Rietveld (King) and his famous Red and Blue chair, Marianne Brandt (Queen) and emphasisd on her Teapot, and lastly Antoni Gaudi (Jack) known for buiding La Sagrada Familia.

All of this also included designing joker cards and a design on the back of the card.

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Miro House This project fabricates a home for an artist by the name of Joan Miro, a painter. The house size had to be 30x105, such as the Eileen Grey house E1027.

With strict instructions, the house had to include cooking, sleep, bathe turkish, tea space, and reading room on the groud floor. The second floor included painting studio, water closet (bathroom), a roof garden, second reading room, and 2 balconies. Also including courtyards and trees (1 lemos and 3 bonsai). Aswell as being accesible for an incapacitated person.

Natural light and irregualr shaped rooms were my motivite of the house, but as well a tranquility to freely roam. As well as to try and step away from the common family home.

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Floor Plans

Section Drawing

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Sketch- Up Renderings

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Miro Overlay

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Miro House Model

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Vineyard Sketches

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Vineyard Expirementation Group: Vanessa Rodriguez, Alexandra Matute Blanco

Vineyard Axonometric

This project was set at a Vineyard by the name of Barren Ridge. The couple that had grown and developed this small and intimate destination and was looking to expland and create a comfortable and inclusive space, which included natural light and greenery. The spaces would include a wine tasting area and a event hall to hold grand events.

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STUDIO ARETHA Fall 2018 First Semester

Instructor: William Tate

Ink Hatching Axonometric A small hatching sketch that we had to create for the Embassy of Finland in Washignton DC.

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Cubical Axon Practice of model developemnt and axonometric sketcing.

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Pina Baush Dance Spaces The semester brought a exploration of dancing and movement, which lead us to learn about Pina Bausch territory. These little wooden models are suppose to give different feels of dance spaces and how they connect to one another .

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MATERIALS STUDIES

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Connect-A-Balance Instructor: Evelyn Tickle

Group: Vanessa Rodriguez, Jessica Derrow, Kristin Shifflett, Madison Goff, Melinda Anselmo and Alexandra Matute Balnco This game provides people from all ages to challange themselves by how well their strategy, planning, building and balance skills are.

The goal of the game is to create the tallest structures that can stand on its own for at least 5 seconds. The pieces that are provided are differentiated by different sizes and weight.

Materials: Concrete, Wood, Acrylic, Metal Bars, Wooden sticks (3 diffrent sizes and thickness), and Bamboo Sticks.

Harmonic Pouring Instructor: Evelyn Tickle

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Concrete pouring with insertions and skin development.

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Flotational Egg Cartons Carboard egg crate are continuously wasted and has become a problem for the enviroment. The creation of a shape that will distort the materails, and create a work of art, hunged by a indented 3x12 inch concrete piece.

Nudity Fall 2016

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STUDIO ART

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Illusion

Spring 2018

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Skyscraper Piercings Instructor: Mark Rooker

Innovational way to use a piercing, by involving an architectural aspect to the human body.

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Thank you.