Portfolio 2023

Andrew Portugal

2019-2022

Education

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Bachelors of Architecture, c/o 2023

2018-Preset

3.54 GPA

Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS)

Architectural Studies

Copenhagen, Denmark

2021-2022

Valencia High School (Placentia, CA)

2014-2018

Skill Sets

Design and Visualization

Experience

Swift Lee Office | Architectural Intern

Pasadena, CA

Employed: November 2022-Present

Jacobs Engineering Group | Architecture/Sustainability Intern

Irvine, CA

Employed: June 2022-August 2022

Rhinocerous 3D, V-Ray/Enscape, AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere Pro)

Fabrication

Lasercutting, 3D printing, woodworking, hand drafting & sketching, watercolor & acrylic painting

Languages

English and Spanish

Awards & Acknowledgements

AIA Inland California Design Awards

Student Honor Award Recipient, Fall 2022

Cal Poly Pomona President’s Honor List / CPP ARC Dean’s List

Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022

CPP ARC Interim Exhibition

Fall 2019, Fall 2021

Collections and Curations: A Repository- Sans Serif Chronicles at Cal Poly Pomona

Archinect publication by Kirill Volchinskiy, Spring 2020

Organizations

CPP NOMAS Board Member

Vice-President of CPP’s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students

Fall 2022-Present

CPP AIAS Board Member

ENV College Representative in CPP’s chapter of American Institute of Architecture Students

Fall 2020-Spring 2021

Selected Works

Fall 2019 - Spring 2022

Skovshoved Sailing Roof

Located at the tip of Skovshoved Harbor -- a former fishing village 5 miles north of Copenhagen, Denmark -- the project aims at creating a beacon of Danish seafood culture that pays homage to the maritime history of the site. Underneath its sweeping roof form inspired by the flowing sails and masts scattered across the harbor landscape, a transparent flow of cooking, learning, and teaching is facilitated through a glass curtain wall construction supported by flying steel beams and gridded columns.

Visitors are invited in to the building by the pathways that sprawl out of it and across the site, facilitating circulation between the indoor teaching kitchens and outdoor learning spaces. The pathways change in size to accommodate space requirements for exterior cooking spaces and mimic the form of the undulating roof. The expansions and contractions of the roof on the exterior of the building help denote these exterior learning spaces, further engaging the public in both traditional and newer, more sustainable methods of seafood preparation emerging within the community and country at large.

Spring 2022 / AD Studio (DIS)

Instructor: Marie-Louise Holst

From top to bottom: Site Plan, Southern Elevation

Programmatic Layout

As the building flows across the site, the program flows across in a private to public manner. Through this, more public green space and lounging areas are focused towards the waterfront and the cooking/learning engagement areas.

Working/Teaching

Main Kitchen/Teaching Space

Outdoor Cooking/Learning

Living/Relaxing

3. Kitchen/Learning Lab

4. Outdoor Cooking/Learning

5. Production Kitchen

6. Cafe

7. Patio Seating

8. WC

9. Storage

Vetter Mountain Scientist Retreat

Students were tasked with designing a research facility situated atop Vetter Mountain, a summit sitting amongst the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest. The facility would act as a retreat for 2 scientists to conduct astronomical research for one month at a time and as an education center for the general public, visitors, and recreational guests such as hikers and bikers.

The proposed design exentuates the idea of a building acting as a vehicle of circulation. A bridge structure connected to a tower form spans across the site and touches down on the upper and lower summit pads. A circulatory attachment is then added to the southern facade, which allows for movement across the site and in to the facility’s main program space which exists in the bridge. A sprawling ramp works in tandem with the building to provide for a continuous flow of circulation between the public summit pads and private scientist quarters.

Fall 2020 / ARC 3011L

Instructor: Marta Perlas

Los Feliz Mixed-Use Housing

The market-rate, mixed-use housing proposal in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles focuses on the use of a terraced structure and splaying mass pattern. These concepts respond to sunlight, wind patterns, views, and harbor an interactive tenant community connecting to the surrounding neighborhood.

Ample bridges extrude from terraces at each residential level of two towers, connecting circulation paths as well as activating generous common open spaces for residents. The bridges foster a highly interactive community connected through community gardens, lounging areas, and stairwells. By stepping downwards, the terraced masses also allow for views in both directions for residents while allowing for lighting and shade at different times of day.

A stripe-painted pattern with a raised crosswalk connects the project to a public plaza visually and physically. This enhanced connection with the public realm creates a gateway to the neighborhood of Los Feliz, establishing a shared public gathering space for residents, pedestrians, and tourists.

Spring 2021 / ARC 3021L

Instructor: Roberto Sheinberg

From left to right: 1st floor plan, 4th floor plan

Organization/Stacking Methodology

The studio unit acts as a base module onto which the 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom units add on square footage. This, in combination with the unit balconies, allows for a flowing facade that continuously fluctuates in depth.

Western Elevation

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Additional Work

Sans Serif Chronicles

In this intermediate digital design studio, students explored and created a 3-dimensional structure from a 2-dimensional fields of letters from the Sans Serif font family. A heirarchy of spaces was created and a stair was inserted to connect these spaces within the object. Students then spliced the object through the creation of a ‘drawdel’: a hybrid drawing-model creation.

The resulting drawdel attempts to highlight the verticallity of spaces and the circulation between them within the object. This is acheived through the use of an axonometric section projection mixed with 3-D printed printed model pieces that coincide with the section cut.

Fall 2019 / ARC 2500A

Instructor: Richard Molina

Røde Stole

As part of a furniture design studio during my time studying abroad in Copenhagen, I crafted a chair out of a wood veener base. Using bandsaws, sanders, and hand planers in a woodshop, students in the studio carved in to the base chairs and attached them to metal bases to realize their designs.

My chair’s final design utilizes a simple yet effective response to the prompt--to create a more comfortable and intriguing design out of the basic shell. This was done by crafting a softer and more pleasing form with a central split that introduces added flexibility for the user.

Spring 2022

Instructor: Judyta Wojciechowska

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