Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio by Angie Espinoza Vaquerano

ANGIE ESPINOZA VAQUERANO

UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

TABLE OF CONTENTS RESUME

LAX PLAYGROUND

TINY HOUSE

STREET FOR THE PEOPLE

NATURE IS AN ARCHITECT

ANGIE ESPINOZA VAQUERANO Des Moines, Iowa (515) 318-0549 angierespinozav@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/angierespinozav

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

Bachelor of Architecture, Professional Degree Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Graduation May 2022

ISU Dining, West Side Market, Student Supervisor Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa February 2019 - Present Ensures communication and customer service skills Coordinates foodservice activity by ensuring proper policies and procedures

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Graduation May 2022

SKILLS Bilingual: Spanish & English Softwares: AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros, SketchUp, Lumion, Grasshopper, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office

ISU Dining, Food Stores, Student Assistant Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa July 2021 - August 2021 Ensured communication and customer service skills Assisted in issuing and receiving products for ISU dining Organized warehouse projects

AWARDS

West Des Moines Parks & Recreation, Program Director West Des Moines, Iowa June 2019 - August 2019 || June 2020 - July 2020 Organized and directed activities in the recreation program Coached children in a variety of recreational activities Communicated with parents and children

Iowa State University’s Dean’s List Spring 2020 - Present

INTERESTS

AIA Iowa / AIA National Diversity Scholarship Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

Professional Interests: Community Engagement

Cyclone Strong Grant Spring 2021

Architecture After Natural Disasters

Foutch Family Scholarship Spring 2021 DACA / Latinx Student Leadership Council Scholarship Fall 2018 Jack Trice Character Award Fall 2017 - Spring 2018

New Building Technologies and Materials Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Architecture Personal Interests: Exercising Reading Traveling Investing Outdoors activities

EXTRACURRICULAR

REFERENCES

NOMAS - Member, Treasurer Spring 2020 - Present

Julie Wilson, Manager West Side Market || wilson1@iastate.edu

DesignClass - Tiny House Design Competition Spring 2021

Flor Romero-Slowing, Academic Advisor Iowa State University || fslowing@iastate.edu

Intramural - Ice Hockey, Broomball Spring 2019 || Spring 2020

Mikesch Muecke, Associate Professor of Architecture Iowa State University || mikesch@iastate.edu

Buchanan Hall - Treasurer Fall 2017 - Spring 2018

Ann Sobiech Munson, AIA, CSI, CDT, CCS, City Architect City of Des Moines || ASMunson@dmgov.org

Fall 2020 || Integrated Design Studio

LAX Playground Los Angeles International Airport

Airports are not essentially healthy with the noise, fumes, stress, and overcrowding. Travelers spend enough time tirelessly navigating the built environment, yet there is no place to take time away from it. Open-air leisure and natural greenspace are strikingly scarce, especially at the Los Angeles International Airport. As the Theme Building, a historic site, lies in LAX’s heart, there is an opportunity to revive the airport’s natural landscape starting at its core. The site is surrounded by parking lots and parking garages that are losing their purpose at airports due to ride-share services like Uber and Lyft and the plans of the people mover that will connect people from the city to the airport. The LAX Playground consists of two buildings offering an extensive greenspace (approximately 150,000 square feet) to reconnect passengers with the natural world before or after spending hours in a sealed jet. The west building is the Architcture Learning Center which allows passengers to explore a collection of drawings and models of famous architecture. At the same time, the east building offers spaces for entertainment and food. Both the green space and the building’s programs become a relief from the chaos of the airport.

Professor: Mikesch Muecke Team: Cameron Nayman Tools: Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Vray, Illustrator & Photoshop

Massing Diagram

Original Site

Building is two halves under one roof

Building Extruded

Egress

Building extruded to 30’

Building Footprint

Parking lots with buildings

Building’s roof becomes accessible to visitors. It becomes an outdoor space for rest.

Fall 2020 || Integrated Design Studio

Green Roof Assembly

Scale: 3” = 1’ - 0”

Floor to Mullion to Facade

Scale: 3” = 1’ - 0”

Fall 2020 || Integrated Design Studio

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Spring 2021 || Tiny House Competition

Tiny House Ames, Iowa

As students at Iowa State University, we live in several different housing types on-campus or off-campus; however, we run into the same problems everywhere. The housing properties in Ames have year-long leasing contracts, which is inconvenient for students who are only here for a short time. Also, the move-in dates on the leasing contracts do not line up with one another, so there are situations where students are houseless for a certain amount of time until they can move into their new place. Many housing properties near campus are expensive, leading students to live far with no bus routes. Living near campus also limits food access to students who cannot afford the school meal plans. And finally, after the lockdown in 2020 and the pandemic that is still happening, we have learned that our homes have to be flexible in case we have to work or learn from home. The Tiny House is designed to address these problems. It has a flexible and affordable leasing contract. It is located on an empty lot of land between campus and downtown Ames. The site is within walking distance from campus, with two bus routes accessible to campus and downtown Ames. Downtown Ames provides students access to food banks and groceries stores. The 300 squared foot tiny house contains all virtual spaces like any other home with multiple flexible workspaces throughout the house. The Tiny Hous becomes a living space at a smaller scale with spaces for all daily activities for a student. The site allows multiple tiny homes to create a small village for students at Iowa State University who need a temporary home.

AXP Mentor: Ann Sobiech Munson Team: Samantha Rohlfsen Tools: Rhino 3D, Illustrator & Photoshop

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Students who live far do not have access to multiple bus routes

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Spring 2021 || Tiny House Competition

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Meal Plans School meal plans and groceries can be expensive for students

Roof Plan

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Second Floor Plan B

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Spring 2021 || Tiny House Competition

Program Diagram

North Elevation

East Elevation

Spring 2021 || Tiny House Competition

South Elevation

West Elevation

Spring 2021 || Tiny House Competition

Spring 2021 || Urban Design Studio

Street for the People Anywhere

What If... The self-driving capabilities of cars have significantly improved to where vehicle accident death rates have gone down over 1000% since 2000. Now in 2100, non-self-driving cars have been made illegal on public roads. Fleets of publicly-owned electric vehicles can autonomously pick up and drop off people anywhere, free of charge, because nobody will own a personal car, leading to a car infrastructure change. Parking lots can be removed or repurposed, and roads can be smaller and safer. The technology within autonomous vehicles allows them to coexist with pedestrians on the street. Streets can be defined less by a space for passing through and more about becoming a destination in themselves, optimized for pedestrians. The main planning goal is to design the city’s streets with pedestrians as the focus. The communication between each autonomous vehicle and the onboard sensors allows them to safely integrate into the pedestrian streets. Car infrastructure is minimized while pedestrian infrastructure is emphasized. Self-driving cars will not need turning lanes, permanent parking spaces, or multi-lane roads. The depreciation of the vehicles could also free up more areas for green space within the city to create a more pleasant pedestrian experience. This leads us to the title of our project, Street for the People. The ward system starts as a base of 16 blocks within a 1000’ x 10000’ area as a guide and lets the streets become programmed. Each ward can develop its individuality and support various focuses and spaces. For expansive space to be made within this dense ward, it’s imagined an area being removed from the blocks and given back to the street. As seen by several examples in the figure grounds, any configuration can be done. It’s not imagined that these spaces are arbitrary. Each indentation and road expansion is arranged to fit any specific need, like widening a road in front of a business to allow more foot traffic to the area or even more direct, like building a public park or plaza when these unique wards of different configurations are combined.

Professors: Andrew Gleeson & Kimberly Zarecor Team: Samantha Rohlfsen & Nathan Nall Tools: Rhino 3D, Illustrator & Photoshop

1000’ x 1000’ BASE WARD

CONFIGURATION 1

CONFIGURATION 2

Spring 2021 || Urban Design Studio

CONFIGURATION 3

CONFIGURATION 4

COMBINED URBAN FABRIC

16’ STREET

32’ STREET

40’ STREET

Thin roads can be completely occupied by people and bikes on a shared path. No self-driving cars use these spaces.

Self-driving car roads can be single lane and parking spaces can double as sidewalks.

Larger, busier roads allow for more movement and promote busier programs.

Spring 2021 || Urban Design Studio

INTEGRATED Streets combine with each other within the ward to form a dynamic and integrated street system.

INTEGRATED

The selected path demonstrates the different programs that can be encountered on different road types.

Spring 2021 || Urban Design Studio

INTERMODAL

You feel the warm summer sun on your skin as you walk, observing this area’s signature trendy shops and restaurants.

INTERMEDIATE

You are attracted to a part of the city you’ve never been to before following the sounds of music and the people.

INTIMATE

After emerging from a small street, you enter a hidden plaza and are greeted with the delicious smells of a small coffee shop.

Fall 2021 || Survivance Studio

Nature is an Architect Anywhere

A narration of the past, present, and future conditions of the world we live in through the lens of humans’ relationship with nature. Nature encompasses everything untouched by humans. Yet, this statement, in itself, is ambiguous. What else can nature entail? What position do we have within nature? We like to think that we know all the answers, but that is not the case. Nature has revealed what it wants to reveal, yet we, in our preferred state of negligence, tend to believe in our assumptions of what nature is and what nature can be. And, this state of mind only restricts us from escaping survival mode. It prevents us from diving deep into a mode of survivance. Our interpretation of survivance revolves around the idea of immersion. Humans have been living on earth intending to escape ambiguity, yet it turned out to be a vicious cycle of knowing and not knowing. The act of immersion allows one’s whole being to be fully integrated into a particular situation or condition. The result of an act of immersion is discovering new perceptions and knowledge about the matter in which they are immersed. Allowing the body to be immersed in a vulnerable position of ambiguity brings it to a humbling position towards accepting the truth. The current discipline of architecture is centralized around human architects and clientele. Suppose the problem revolving around the built environment is the progressive depletion of nature caused by human actions, then why is nature not a part of the equation towards finding the answer? Understanding this, the agency of our imaginary, fictive architecture should accept a wider scope of participatory elements, including human and nonhuman actors, where nature performs the role of an architect and human performs the role of a client. An act of survivance is immersing one’s whole being into the state of ambiguity to make way for future clarities; it is about losing the freedom to gain freedom. Complete Version Professor: Mitchell Squire Team: Ruth Kuswara, Megan Van Dalen & Ruodi Zhang Tools: Rhino 3D, Illustrator, Photoshop

ANGIE ESPINOZA VAQUERANO angierespinozav@gmail.com (515) 318-0549