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Alisa_G_Hernandez_ M. Arch______________ Selected Works______ 2017_Present________
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Selected Work_
Ecologic Institute_ Warehouse District______________________________ Fall 2019_
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ASU_Camp Tontozona_ Tall Pines Lodge________________________________ Spring 2019_
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San Luis Port of Entry____________________________ Fall 2018_
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Collaborative + Personal Work_
ASU_Shade Structure Design School Installation________________________ Fall 2018_Present
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Kids at Hope Installation_Hope Academy_______________________ Spring 2017_
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LASOGRAM___________________________________ Spring 2017_
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Architectural Hand Drawings______________________ Spring 2018_
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Ecologic Institute_ Warehouse District_ Fall 2019_ As the city of Phoenix, AZ, continues to grow and develop, the warehouse district has begun to catch on. New office spaces, restaurants, galleries, and venues for music and events have now begun migrating to the area. The warehouses are now being reappointed new life. Similary, it was important for the site to be reappointed new life. A new sense of life that would happen within the walls of the structure and have a growth that will extend through generations into the future. The project aims to restructure and repurpose both Jackson Street Garage and Union Station, into a public institute for the neighboring community. The challenge to reprogram the site is heavily influenced by the educational institutes neighboring the site as the primary shape of the Union Station. This will also inform the program of the project which includes but is not limited to, a greenhouse, Ecologic Institute, research facility, student exhibition, organic restaurant concept, and scenic landscape park. However, the program is used to heavily influence the purpose of the studio which is the external skin of both Jackson Street Garage and the Union Station. Resulting in the implementation of ETFE plastic in both the Union Station and Jackson Street Garage fascades.
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Jackson Street Garage Fascade
Winter Solstice
Summer Solstice
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ETFE Greenhouse
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The use of the ETFE material has been implemented in both the language of the Jackson Street Garage and the Union Station fascade. This allows for the relation of a common language through the site in both a conceptual and intentional sense.
ASU_Camp Tontozona_ Tall Pines Lodge_ Spring 2019_ The Tall Pines Lodge, building No. 11, is located directly behind the water tank, and adjacent to the football field. This lodge is currently utilized to provide additional vacancy to guest residing at Tontozona Camp. When implementing the three contraints of the studio narrative, environment, and structure, to the extisting structure, caution and full awareness of the existing structural elements, topography, and accesibility from the main road had to be aknowledged. This way advantage was taken of the complete view Tall Pines Lodge has of the football field, creek, and overall scenery. Design-wise, I decided to contribute to the history of the site and have it respond to the football field’s view, therefore creating a closer linkage to the reason why Tontozona Camp came to be in the first place. As a way to connect the building to the environment, I decided to take the silhohuette of the creek, and have it “flow” through the building. This way creating an inner/outer hallway that blurs the boundaries between what is inside and outside. 10
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As a way to maintain a common language between the other buildings in the branch master plan, additional “branching� structural shading and balcony members were added to the existing building.
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doing this, extra square footage was added he program, flexibility to watch the football es, scenery and the creek were enhanced.
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San Luis Port of Entry_ San Luis, AZ / Mexico_ Fall 2018_ San Luis Port of Entry project is located in San Luis, Arizona and San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. This San Luis Port of Entry Project, challenged my precoinceived thoughts of what a “border wall” is and instead thought of what it could be. This project is intended to “blur” the socio-political threshold that is not only physically dividing two nations, but also the natural flow of the area, in this case, San Luis, Az, and San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. This project aims to target various aspects of the negative effects a border port of entry can have on the communities of both sides of the border. As a first hand witness, who is native to the area, wait times, field workers, and congestion, (in chronological order) would be the most hierachical problems now affecting both cities. By aiming to incorporate a more organic language to the very linear and divisionary character of the border, the project became a functional system of giving and recieving. As a result, delivering a flowing border, that is reflective of why San Luis first came to be, The Colorado River. 18
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Kids at Hope_ Installation_Hope Academy Spring 2017_ Installation at Hope Academy located in South Phoenix, AZ, served as an inspirational art installation composed of PVC tubes lined along the halls of Hope Academy as a way to inspired positive messages to the alumini of the academy. A prototype was produced by LASO board members + project volunteers, as a way to visualize the materiality, engineering and future assembly.
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Material List
21’5” 24’2”
Total Length of Cable: 302 ft. Total Area of Cloth: 391 ft.sq. 26’2”
37’11” 39’10”
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ASU_Shade Structure Design School Installation_ Fall 2018_Present
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Design proposals for ASU Design School, brought by LASO board members, requesting for a shaded structure between design north and design south. Project is a permanent future installation, a gift from the founding board members of LASO, Class of 2019. Proposals have been presented to university architect, the Herberger design school’s director, and the clients funding this future built project.
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Architectural Hand Drawings_ Spring 2018_ The following collection of selected field sketches were illustrated while roaming the different spaces of Arizona State University and Phoenix, AZ. These sketches were inspired and drawn according to books: “Hand Drawing & Discovery” by James Richards and “Keys to Drawing” by Bert Dodson. Both these books helped orchestrate a language for the creation of these different spaces found at Arizona State University, while some were sketches of different spaces in the city of Phoenix, AZ and even Europe. These following sketches allowed for the study of perspectives, shade, dimensions, and materiality expression through the language of lines. 30
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