ANA CORREAL Architecture Portfolio 2015-2017
ANA CORREAL San Diego, CA (443) 926 6787 anacorrealp@gmail.com
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The Lost Archive 2017 Location: San Diego, CA.
Vitrinas 2016 Location: Mexico City, Mexico.
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Welcome Center 2015 Location: San Diego, CA.
Tuna Museum 2015 Location: San Diego, CA.
THE LOST ARCHIVE
Public libraries are now being designed to simply store books, but these new designs pay little to no consideration to how people will use the space. The results of these libraries are rows and rows of bookcases stacked to the ceiling, space assigned to computer labs that are loaded with the newest technology, and occasionally you will find a room with some wooden tables and chairs. This oft-forgotten area is called the reading room. Because of this shift in the library design, the reading room user has abandoned the library and found his and her new haven in coffee shops and bookstores. This Thesis empahasizes in bringing the reading room atmosphere back into the library by proposing an open space where readers will be able to lose themselves in a sea of knowledge.
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FLOOR PLANS Basement 1
Basement 2 Ground Floor Plan
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VITRINAS “The buildings stand alongside each other with no reference to any differentiated, overall system. They are unrelated because of the autonomous and free choice of site and their material independence”. The way Ungers talks about the urban disorder of modern day industrial estates represents the disorder of the social classes in Mexico city. These classes are harshly divided by basis of monetary power & control, status and authority. “Eac hperiod has chosen the building blocks that suited it from the basic pattern box and adapted them to its needs and ends”. (Ungers) This harsh divide is also detected from one neighborhood to another, not only by the residents but by the way the streets and buildings are maintained. Mexico City cultural divide is seen almost immediately. However, there is something that brings all these classes together, and this is street performance. You will notice a large group of people gathered together watching the artist dance, sing or tell jokes and as everyone is gathered the social divide is blurred. Once, the performance is over like soldiers each class marches back to their tribe. “Vitrinas” will be a space where these classes would mix in a permanent street performance area. This building consists of three floors that work as practice spaces for music, dance and theater, and at the bottom is an extension of the street where these artist will put on the big show. The practice spaces will be translucent, so when the public is passing through San Rafael either by car or foot can experience these artist practicing in their enclosed spaces. The extension of the street is completely open to the public where everyone can come watch performances or it can be used as a plaza for gathering.
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WELCOME CENTER
The welcome center’s main purpose is for it to be a place of cultural coexistence, where different aspirations and Inspirations come into contact with each other. The strategy is to create a better interaction between east village, Newschool of Architecture students and the space the students will be inhabiting. The way the connections and interactions were created by designing an urban space that enables these students and residents of downtown to escape the bustle of the metropolis and indulge in peace and a small patch of greenery near their homes. While the Architecture student focused on the welcome center and the spaces, she was paired up with an Interior designer student who designed the dormitories that connect both welcome center towers.
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TUNA MUSEUM
The main purpose of the Tuna Museum is to connect human experience to nature. People are disconnected with what surrounds them, because technology grasps their attention. They walk around in nature searching for signal, taking the perfect picture and looking at their experiences through a small lens, instead of experiencing it themselves. Because, this issue the Tuna Museum focuses on bring back the peaceful feeling that nature has gifted us with no distraction. This will be achieved by adding a detached pathway on the water where users can walk on to experience the waves crashing and look at the views. Once, the users walk past the Fish Market Restaurant they will enter the Tune Museum, a tunnel with a structure that will open and close to let different kind of light through out the day, as well as light for the peninsula during the night. The tunnel consist of a “honey comb” strucutre that support the glass, these “honey-combs” work as lenses that open and close like a cameras shutter.
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