ALICIA GOMEZ ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2020
1 Front page sketch of Green Street, Champaign IL
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 x 4..........................................................3-10 Sacred.......................................................11-16 Gradient Below........................................17-22 Market Hall................................................23-26 Structure - Here Apartments.............27-28 Graphics.....................................................29 Personal Work..........................................30
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3x4 Plaça del Carme Residential Buildings Arch 475 - Architectural Design and Exploration Collaboration with Jessica Duschean Fall 2019 The location for this project is Plaça del Carme, in les Corts neighbourhood in Barcelona. The site consisted two irregular shaped plots on opposite corners of Plaça del Carme. The purpose was to design a mix-used building for living and working with each housing unit having an associated working space. 3 X 4 meters is a unit of living. Throughout the project, a 3 x 4-meter grid is utilized to serve the different functions of working and living in the modern age. The way everyone wants to work is just as varied as the way everyone wants to live. This building allows for flexibility in usage. Each of these 3 x 4 units can be anything from an execu-tive’s office to a child’s playroom. The ground floors focus on activating the existing center square and providing varied workspaces. The ground floor is set back to enlarge the square as well as encourage outside traffic. With this proj-ect, we hope to re-animate la Placa del Carme and offer a solution to the growing dichotomy between working and living.
Ground Floor Plan of A & B
Greatest P ossib le Area & View s We focused on estab lishing th e areas that h ad good views and sunlight
S u n , Win d, an d Crossventilation
Subtracting the areas with limi ted sunlight increases natural lighting as well as allow for cross ventilation
En g ag ing the Sq u are Lifting the buildings on the fi rst level enlarged the square
Balc o n y S pa ce & Views
Angeling the baconies and adding movable sh ades maxi mizes views and fl exability
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Typical Floor Plan B
Typical Floor Plan A
A Nor th Eleva�on 1 :100
South Elevation B
nd B West Eleva�on 1:100
West Elevation A & B
South Elevation A
Low DenistyUnit Plan
High Density Unit Plan
SACRED Cultural Center Printers Row Chicago Arch 374 - Architecture Design in the City Spring 2019 “Sacred” is a design for a cultural center that revolves around religious aspects of South American culture. The design is located in the Printers Row neighborhood in Chicago IL. The design’s purpose is to create experiences in certain spaces through the use of skylights and a perforated brick facade to form a sense of security throughout the building. Each floor demonstrates a different feeling of security. These senses include Guidance, Safe and Secluded, Connection, and Knowledge.
maintenance
loading/service
UP
leasable space
North
Ground Floor Plan 5’
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20’
60’
10’
40’
DN
UP
Small Assembly space
DN
DN
Storage
Large Assembly Space
Second Floor Plan Second Floor 1/8” = 1’
Third Floor Plan Third Floor 1/8” = 1’
UP DN
DN
Gallery Space
Outdoor/garden
Fourth Floor Plan
Fourth Floor 1/8” = 1’
GRADIENT BELOW Allerton Park Artist’s Village and Art Center Arch 373 - Architecture Design in the Landscape Fall 2018 My goal for this project was to create a practical and accessible space while incorporating existing works of inspiration in Allerton Park, Monticello IL. After analyzing high and low activity areas throughout the park in my cartography, I was able to identify different landmarks tourist spent the majority of their time observing. For this reason, I chose to locate my design underneath the statue of the Centaur. My design maximizes the existing topography of the land and creates a new form of activty below ground level. Building below the statue allows the park to keep its original flow of activity.
High Activity Medium Activity Low Activity
Site Analysis
Concept Sketches
B
A
Floor Plan
Section A
Exterior Perspective
Section B
MARKET HALL Market Hall, Champaign, IL Arch 274 - Strategies of Architecure Design Spring 2017 The purpose of this design process was to create a permanent market hall for the Champaign Farmer’s Market in downtown Champaign, IL. The process consisted of an exploration of a public market space, finding a connection between the producer, con-sumer, and the community. The building design consist of abstract polygonal shapes and angles throughout the whole space. The private spaces form different configura-tions for each room, where each angle lines up with one another. Furthermore, the el-evated roof also correlates with the shapes of the private rooms. The polygons of the roof connect with each room and creates an abstract shape based off the angles. The market stalls also mimic the way the private rooms are structured. The overall principle of this design was to generate a structure consisting of abstract quadrilateral spaces that also created an abstract movement throughout the space.
Axonmetric
private
public
Site
structure
Concept Diagrams
Fracture between public vs private spaces
Roof as polygon
Shift public vs private spaces
Transparency in facade
Exterior Perspective
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North
20’ 0’
Floor Plan
160’ 40’
80’
HERE APARTMENTS Precedent Study of Here Apartments Champaign, IL Arch 232 - Structural Fundamentals Spring 2018 HERE Apartments are currently located at 308 E. Green St in Champaign Illinois. The purpose of this project was to understand the structural aspects of the large high rise steel structure. The task was to recreate drawings of this building. The building featured many key elements that were used as a learning tool. Detailing everything from the caissons to the parapet was extremely intregal to seeing a complete building system. For this assignment we made sense of partially completely plans for the structure. This self guided project taught detailing to a professional level. Completed in Revit, it also helped to make one experienced with a sometimes complex program.
North Elevation
East Elevation
Fifth Floor Plan
Wall Section
GRAPHIC DESIGN
PAINTINGS
16 by 24 on Canvas, Acrylic, 2019
6 by 8 Canvas, Acrylic, 2020
18 by 24 on Canvas Acrylic, 2017
6.5 by 6.5 on Wood, Acrylic, 2017
18 by 24 on Canvas, Acrylic, 2015
THANK YOU Alicia Gomez aliciag2@illinois.edu 708-212-1563