POR T F O L I O
Alisa_G_Hernandez_ Undergraduate BSD 2017_Present
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” -Winston Churchill
Contents__________________________ Latest Work_ ASU_Camp Tontozona_ Tall Pines Lodge________________________________ Spring 2019_
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San Luis Port of Entry____________________________ Fall 2018_
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Commemorating Curves__________________________ Spring 2017_
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ASU_Stadium_ Cluster_Competition_____________________________ Spring 2018_
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Extracurricular_ 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_2018
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Architectural Hand Drawings______________________ Spring 2018_
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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 my building to the environment, I decided to take the silhohuette of the creek, and have it “flow” through my building. This way creating an inner/outer hallway that blurs the boundaries between what is inside and outside.W 1
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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 my existing building. By doing this, extra square footage was added to the program, flexibility to watch the football games, enjoy the scenery and the creek were enhanced.
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San Luis Port of Entry_ 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. 11
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Commemorating Curves_ Spring 2017_ The Pioneer Military and Memorial Park is a cementery was established in 1884 and is located in the midst of Phoenix, Arizona’s downtown industrial zone. The cementery is now a permanent home to early Phoenitians who were pioneers, military, or “just plain folks.” The intent of the studio was to produce a memorial space that would be composed of reflection spaces, a site for additional burrial space, and office/archives. The design had to be inspired and guided by the people buried in the site, it could be determined by social status, age groups, military precense, etc. For the focus of my design, I decided to enhance the youth’s precence througout the site. Their precense is something that stoodout from the rest of the people burried in the site, which were for the most part pioneers or military. The design is intended to be flexible and organic, allowing for smaller intimate spaces of reflection, and open spaces for future burials intended for the youth.
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ASU_Stadium_ Cluster_Competition_ Spring 2018_ As a way to redesign and repurpose the ASU football stadium, it was important to think of the stadium as something that not only belongs to ASU but also its community, the residents of Tempe, AZ and surrounding cities, who during the season come and enjoy the Sun Devil culture. As a way of giving back to its community, it was important to make the ASU football staduim a facility which could be used not only during football season but year round. This is why we created ASU Connect, an innitiative to redesign spaces to accomodate civic needs and recreational activities as a way to provide life and purpose to the stadium. Some of the program includes: inviting outdoor spaces, community swap meets, career fairs, DMV services and community gardens.
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[In collaboration with: Cheyenne Knippelberg, Kristel Sanchez, Calvin Henderson, and Griffin Wiebel] 24
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
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Total Length of Cable: 302 ft. Total Area of Cloth: 391 ft.sq. 26’2”
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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. 29
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Alisa_G_Hernandez_Llamas________________
Education_____
Arizona State University_Tempe, Az Bachelor of Science in Design_May 2019 Architecture [major] Sustainability [minor] San Luis High School High School Diploma_ San Luis, AZ_
Experience____
Graphics | “Lasogram” [LASO] ASU Design School_Tempe, AZ [08/17-02/18] Collaboration with design professor Elena Rocchi, and LASO board members to deliver an Archigram/Archizoom inspired magazine to the design school. Design Proposal | Shade Structure Proposal, [LASO], Tempe, AZ [07/17-present] Design proposals for design faculty, brought by LASO board members, requesting for a shaded structure between design north and design south. Proposals have been presented to university architect, the Herberger design school’s director, and the clients funding this future built project. Project approved, and funded, currently LASO is fundraising remaining funds. AutoCAD Drafter | Kids at Hope [LASO], South Phoenix, AZ [02/17-05/17] Installation at Hope Academy located in South Phoenix, AZ. Created AutoCAD drawings for the completion of the LASO group project in collaboration with ASU design students and professors. Internship | Southwestern Advantage, Nashville, TN [05/17- 08/17] Served over 1,000 families as an educational professional consultant for Southwestern Advantage in Charleston, WV. Learned the intricacies of sales and learning to sell, by selling educational systems to families.
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Extracurricular_
Graphic Director_Board Member Latino Architecture Student Organization [LASO] Club dedicated becoming a stronger community and a distinctive design culture
Language_____
English
[Read_Write_Speak]
Spanish
[Native Language]
Skills________
AutoCAD Sketchup Rhino Photoshop Indesign Revit
Publications__
May_2019 Discipline: the Architecture Journal for Arizona State University Issue_05 Project: San Luis Port of Entry [p. 77]
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