Paul A. Zamorano
Architecture|Portfolio The Tulane School of Architecture Selected Works
Paul A. Zamorano
The Tulane School of Architecture Master of Architecture Candidate | 2013-2016
Content Museum Of The City
New Orleans, Louisiana | 2013
Mardi Gras Indians Institute New Orleans, Louisiana | 2014
Material Presence
New Orleans, Louisiana | 2014
Urban_Stratification
New Orleans, Louisiana | 2014
Art of Representation United States | 2014
Museum of The City
An Intersection of the walls and the city Collaboration: Jonathan Taube
The project consisted of designing a museum of the city of New Orleans. The program consisted of a Wall of Books, Lights, Surveyor, and the City. Each wall contained an aspect of the program, including circulation, storage, and exhibition. The concept of the design is based on regulating lines found through research of Marigny. Studio Critic: Tom Hollomon
Mardi Gras Indians Institute
An Institute for the Preservation of the Indians of New Orleans This new institute for the Mardi Gras Indians will be a cultural node within the urban density of Central City, New Orleans. The new institute will promote cultural production and convergence of the community with a street and institution relationship. The new institute for the Mardi Gras Indians will promote the preservation of history and traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians through the focus of Exhibition as the leading factor of the design. Exhibition is important because it is the most efficient way to promote the traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians and teach the community about the importance of them. This dialogue of exhibition and education will promote the community’s history, through a design that constantly communicates with the neighborhood through a ground plan that allows for gathering. The institute itself will be a jewel within in the community that houses one of the most important traditions within this neighborhood. The jewel of history and tradition is going to be promoted through the use of light and glass walls and windows. That creates a transparency and emergence between community and Institute. Studio Critic: Andrew Liles
Material Presence
The Sexton Cottage at Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 The challenge of the design was to negotiate a design that would live in unison with the rich historic context of Lafayette Cemetery No.1. By capitalizing on the perceived differences in materiality and scale between the existing and the proposed. The design of the Sexton Cottage is based on the idea of visual friction caused by the juxtaposition of tomb with each other. This condition is apparent as one transverse through the different tombs. The design replicates visual friction through the offset walls and interruption of the cemetery path. Studio Critic: Kentaro Tsubaki
Urban_Stratification
An Institute for New Orleans Building Arts Institute Through rigorous analysis of the site I discovered a set of sedimentary information that revealed certain qualities of the site that informed the design of the New Orleans building arts Institute. This urban stratification revealed three different layers, which include scale, edge typology, and block geometry. The design addresses edge typology by positioning the shops and the program of making adjacent to the cemetery creating a correlation between the art of building and practice. Another condition that was prominent on site was scale; on site there is an allee of trees that disrupts the human scale. The design resolves this problem of scale through double height shops with moments of repose in the second floor that allows the individual see above the tree canopy. Finally, the design addresses block geometry by locating two programmatic bars, one adjacent to the cemetery accommodating the loud program and the other parallel on site housing the supportive and quite program.
Studio Critic: Kentaro Tsubaki & Lauren Hickman
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Art of Representation
A series of analytical, detail, and conceptual sketches Through the art of sketching I facilitate my designs from my head to paper. This method of representation helps me solve problems and think critically. Invoking my design curiosity to its limits, using a range of medium including water colors, pen, pencil, which allow me to highlight key components of my ideas. My background in drawing has influenced my views on process and scale. I keep a series of sketchbooks which I use to keep notations and work out my design projects.
Phone
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pzamoran@tulane.edu