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1515 Roosevelt Avenue Designed December 2017 Notable Achievements Student Showcase 2018 Featured in San Diego Tribune 2017
NSAD Student Housing Complex Designed May 2017
SDSU Blackbox Theater Designed May 2018
Arrival An Explortaiton of City Portals Designed January 2019 Notable Achievements Student Showcase 2019
1515 Roosevelt Avenue
National City has lost its sense of self, as of right now the city does not have an identifier that brings people into the city. Our site is located near Kimball Park - The Jewel of National City. Our goal is to incorporate the sense of nature and comfort that Kimball Park brings to the residents in National City within our 250’x250’ block. Our proposal is to take the void in National City and fill it with purpose, pride, and a natural sense of home by targeting families living in National City such as navy families and up and coming families. We proceeded to create a comfortable urban environment that addresses our surroundings and the families living within National City. On Roosevelt Avenue we are addressing the family oriented neighborhood by creating townhomes in hopes of addressing the surrounding family neighborhood instead of overshadowing the homes with an oversized building. On National City Boulevard we proceeded to create a mixed use building that would be interactive with families, commercial activities and have a connection to the Kimball Park. Our design’s pixelation relates to human scale and rerouting spaces to maximize on views and efficiency.
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Site Plan
Circulation
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Commercial
Residential
Public Space
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Ground Floor Plan
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Townhouse
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Perspective Section
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NSAD Student Housing Complex The Newschool of Architecture and Design had a budget to create a student housing complex and community center as an addition of the school. During this project the challenge was to design a building around the structural compenents of the building which were steel and glass reinforced cones. While these structural cones supported the building they also doubled as small nodes that served as study rooms, light wells, storage and seating. In the end, the solution to the architectural problem of this project is to create a healthy enviroment for the rather unhealthy architecture student using natural lighting systems, cooling systems, and an adventurous look on the education system.
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Ground Floor Plan
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WOMEN’S RESTROOM
STORAGE
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LECTURE HALL HANDICAP
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ASPHALT MECHANICAL ROOM
MAILBOXES
PARKMATICS CONTAIN 24 SPOTS
COFFEE SHOP
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PARK BLVD (12TH AVENUE)
MEN’S RESTROOM
Residential Floor Plan
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SDSU Blackbox Theater
The Art District in SDSU is in need of a small performing arts center that supports a range of dance, theater and music programs. The new Black Box Theater will serve as a key component to enhancing the Arts Districts identity within the campus community. The concept that was driving this design was the idea of transformative spaces. The director of the dance, music or theater show should have full control of every aspect of the performance and this can be achieved through this design. The SDSU Black Box Theater is a flexible, multi-function space for various uses including performance, rehearsal and classroom functions. The flexibility of the theater supports multiple seating for the amount of 170 guests with additional outdoor overflow seating for larger events. The design aims to break the boundaries between the indoor and outdoor spaces creating a multitude of uses for the building.
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Site Plan
SDSU SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Circulation
UNDERGROUND -15’ - 0” Storage/Mechanical
GROUND 0’ - 0” Bathrooms
Lobby
Multipurpose Room
TENSION GRID 38’ - 0”
Tension Grid
Back of House
Theater
ROOF 60’ - 0”
2ND FLR 45’ - 0”
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Underground Floor Plan
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Arrival || An Exploration of City Portals How do we revitalize the experience of arriving to new cities?
Imagine your plane just landed You’re walking through a long monotonous hallway Past rows and rows of cold grey seating And into a transportation center that is scaleless, industrial, and isolating. You are surrounded by hundreds of people, but you feel alone. Where did the romanticism and excitement go? Around the world, portals today feel the same lacking culture, identity, and entertainment. Arriving to a destination is just another grey room to pass through. Thesis Statement Imagine a world where a transportation hub could be a destination in itself, not just a means to an end destination. By redefining the architecture of transportation hubs as portals, we have the opportunity to create welcoming gates to a city. Today, portals lack scale which makes them numbing, isolating, and uninviting. Choked by mundane hallways, monotonous interiors and haphazard clusters of chairs, these spaces make locals and newcomers feel like prisoners. Transportation hubs today have devolved into pseudo cities. This thesis aims to redefine arrival, challenge the scaleless and impersonal status quo of city gates and provide spaces for culture, art, and life to thrive not just transact. Imagine that you enter a city and there are hundreds of people around you, but instead of feeling alone, you are surrounded by community, culture, and art. Instead of feeling like a stranger in a new destination you feel that you have arrived.
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Masterplan
Concept: Fluidity
The design and concept of fluidity began with the idea of nearby tributaries. Tributary: A river or stream flowing into a larger river, lake or bay. This idea stemmed from the surrounding context of Oakland and how it is filled with tributaries that lead back into the Bay from the mainland. Within nature, nothing is perfect. There are cracks, nodules, and bioclimatic interaction between the land and the constant flow of the water. The idea that the water is constantly flowing into the bay resembles the efficiency present in transportation hubs. However, in nature there are nodules that slow down that constant movement and start to create a fluid rhythm and regulate the flow of water. This portal will point newcomers to destinations across Oakland.This new typology is not intended to keep people trapped in the building, but instead, the buildings natural directionality will send visitors to parts of the city they might not think to go.
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Typology Analysis Co
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SqFt | 2,900 Occupancy Type | Assembly The Market embodies the culture of Oakland with a hustle and bustle lifestyle. This space will be filled with local food vendors and shops for an experience of the many food types Oaklander’s have to offer.
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SqFt | 2,770 Occupancy Type | Assembly This space will support lectures, cultural, art, and dance classes, civic events, celebrations and and other community events. This space also features a flexible conference room when needed.
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SqFt | 4,650 Occupancy Type | Assembly The exhibition space highlights the street art of Oakland with natural indirect lighting that fills the space. Normally light within a gallery space is unheard of, however, with Oakland featuring sculptures and street art which does not require protection from light, the natural light amplifies the art as well as the the space.
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Form Generation Diagrams
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Draw connectections to surrounding context of the site from the greater Bay Area region, to main sites in Oakland, CA and the actual transportation hub around the airport and BART station
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The next step was to arrange the chosen program along the site in a fluid arrangement to stay with the concept of tributaries. The program should be arranged to send people out to different parts of Oakland, rather than keep them within the building.
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After framing out building forms around the program arrangement, the next step was to push and pull the shapes based on the core directions within the masterplan.
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Finally, the last detai of edging the build integrating sustaina the final form, for t project.
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After the second quarter critique it was evident that the interior spaces of the forms had to be reworked, therefore the spoken of spaces were removed.
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After reworking the forms, interior storage and bathroom spaces were consolidated into one singular building inbetween the market and exhibition space. The community center was notched out to provide a sense of entry from the airport.
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The final proposal consisted of a form that followed the concept of fluidity and provided spaces that could be manipulated by the user for any event necessary.
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S-Lam Wall Detail Metal Cap
Bifold Door Wall Section
Expansion Joint
T.O. PARAPET
1/2” Translucent Material Bolt w/ Mtl Plate
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LED Light Strip
4”x12” HSS Tubing Header Bolt to Metal Backer Plate
4’ Custom Glulaminated Beam
Bolts to Metal Track
1’ Concrete Wall
4”x4”HSS Tubing Bifold Door with Precast Concrete Panel
#4 (1/2”) Rebar Double Glass Door
T.O. BIFOLD DOOR 10’ - 0”
FINISH FLOOR 0’ - 0”
SUPPLY AIR PLENUM -3’ - 0”
T.O. FOOTING -5’ - 0”
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Alicia Madriago aliciamadriago@gmail.com (916)-956-2835