architecture portfolio by Bryan Chavac

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LIFESTYLE // LIBRARY

FALL // SPRING

The work featured on this portfolio illustrates projects that I enjoyed working on while enrolled as an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California.

DRAWINGS // INSTITUTION

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CONTENTS

YEAR

STUDIO SHIFT

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BORDER PORT // CASINO

ENDOTERRA // ..........

HOUSING // CIVIC CENTER

Bchavac [ 1 ]

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LOS ANGELES

LIFESTYLE

LOCATION The site for this project is a dense urban corner lot located on the southeast corner of S. Figueroa Street and W Olympic Ave. The lot size is approximately 11,500 SF and it is in the epicenter of a downtown renaissance. ABOUT With the major car brands vying for a share of the lifestyle market, both competing and complimenting other lifestyle products and lifestyle brands, there is a need to rethink the automotive company’s message to the market, how cars will be sold and ultimately the typology of automobile showrooms. We believe that architecture is an inevitable agent and can be a catalyst for change not only in the automotive marketplace but also within the urban realm and architectural experience. Due largely in part to the economic equation, car showrooms and dealerships traditionally are located on the outskirts of urban areas where land values are generally lower and open land is more generally available. To the marketplace, car showrooms and dealers are destinations rather than an integral part of the urban fabric and lifestyle experience. The site for this project will subvert this traditional model by integrating the car showroom and sales programs into dense city centers therefore transforming the activity of the sterile “industry” perception to that of high fashion, “lifestyle” retailers.

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2 AUDI CENTER

2008

ARCH_DRAWINGS USC_INSTITUTION AUDI CENTER_LIFESTYLE EAMES HOUSE_LIBRARY PASADENA_HOUSING VENICE BEACH_CIVIC KENYIR LAKE_ABROAD SANTA MONICA_ENDOTERRA TIJUANA_BORDER PORT LOS ANGELES_CASINO STUDIO SHIFT_WSC

Instructor: Andrew Liang

Bchavac [ 3 ]

HOUSE ADDITION

LIBRARY

LOCATION 203 Chautauqua Boulevard Los Angeles, CA REQUIREMENTS Design a Library addition to the Eames Case Study House #8 site. The Library is to be built utilizing concrete as its primary material. ABOUT The Eames Case Study Program focused on designs that can be manufactured at a large scale. As a result, simplicity, efficiency, and elegance were the by product of all their work which span from architecture to household necessities.

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2 EAMES HOUSE

2009

Instructor: Rennie Tang

Bchavac [ 5 ]

C O M M U N I T Y

CIVIC CENTER

LOCATION This site is located in the wide median between north and south roadways of Venice Boulevard a few blocks from the Ocean, across Venice Way/Ocean Avenue from the Venice branch library. REQUIREMENTS Design a project that represents the Neighborhood Council District of Venice Beach, California. ABOUT This site is almost dead flat; topography was not be a very big issue. There is good public transportation (bus only) from LA Metro (lines 33 and 333) and Santa Monica systems. Parking will be provided in a new structure (not designed by you) immediately west of the site. This will be a city owned structure whose principal purpose is to provide beach parking. New apartment buildings designed by Fred Fisher are east of the site in the same median. Urban fabric to the north and south of the site is residential of mixed scale; relatively dense. The northwest corner of the Venice canal grid is one block south of this site.

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3 VENICE BEACH

2010

Instructor: John Enright

Bchavac [ 7 ]

INSTITUTION/RECREATION

ENDOTERRA

LOCATION Nestled between the Rand Corporation headquarters, Santa Monica City Hall, the termination (or commencement) of the 10 interstate freeway and the Pacific Ocean, lies a stretch of land that is proposed as an urban park. The area is a confluence of diverse urban conditions. Unique in contextual complexity the site offers opportunities to explore convergence of various typologies and the possible impact they impose on the program. REQUIREMENTS Maintaining the proposed parks open space while infusing the site with a building program and necessary circulation routes. The successful integration of landscape and structure will be the paramount challenge. Defining experiences through transitional spatial conditions is the principal examination of the studio. Optimizing the use of volumetric variation while integrating natural light into a semisubterranean condition must be explored. The studio must employ and compose parametric programming to elevate textural surface articulation in support of their design criteria. Program A mid size, 20,000-30,000 sq ft institutional building or series of buildings, partially submerged or subterranean which aims to weave itself into the parks open space.

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4 SANTA MONICA

2010

Instructor: Hagy Belzberg

Bchavac [ 9 ]

Endoterra was designed as a fusion of both institution and recreational activities provided by a park. The ground and 1st floor levels (top of page) and the depict the classrooms and open halls provided for the institution. The underground level (btm of page) depict the library, gallery space, and outdoor hall provided for the park. The site plan however brings both park and institution together by creating public spaces throughout the entire structure.

4 SANTA MONICA

Bchavac [ 11 ]

DEEP SEA WATER PORT

GATEWAY

LOCATION Tijuana, Mexico REQUIREMENTS BORDERSTUDIO is positioned as a critique of the international policies brought to bear on the region by the governments of both the US and Mexico. The studio required careful consideration of the political,social, economic and environmental issues affecting the border in an effort to propose a construction program of radical connection rather than separation. Recognizing that simply introducing built structures into an environment has the ability to solve little, the studio requires the formulation of hybrid programs, strategies and policies that speak to root causes. ABOUT The International Gateway Project was conceived and based on the social, political, and economic hardships that plague Mexico along the Northern Region. The project focused on these three subjects and explores the idea of a shipping/tourist port located miles off shore from the city of Tijuana, Mexico. In doing so, such large scale project, funded by various countries and entrepreneurs who would benefit from the location, can ship containers directly to the maquiladora industries located along Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northern border. Also, by proposing such a project, the people of Mexico would benefit by having jobs in their own country while the 49 billion dollar fence proposed by the US can be eliminated.

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5 TIJUANA 2011

Instructor: Mario Cipresso

Bchavac [ 13 ]

30 SM

Major Trade Ports

altitude:20000FT

altitude:20M

altitude:20M altitude:20M

Veracruz

Manzanillo

Ensenada

Oakland

San Diego

LA + Long Beach

05 SM Other Known Ports

altitude:20000FT

5 LB + LA Port (2010)

Container Count Total = 14.1 Million TEU’s China alone accounts for 7.1 Million TEU’s (2009)

Current Flow of Trade

TIJUANA

Redirecting World Trade Routes

Tijuana (2011) World Shipping Council PortofLosAngeles.org POlB.com

Employment of 800,00 People Access to direct shipping routes Mexico becomes independent

Tijuana’s Port Introduction

Bchavac [ 15 ]

Commercial/Entertainment Sector

Housing Sector

Cruise Ship Sector

Public Sector

Corporate Sector

Storage Spaces

Public Vehicle Route

Truck Route

Green Space

Light Rail

Freight Line

Islands

Program

5 Tijuana (2011)

California

Truck Route: Beach to Otay Distance: 24.4mi Travel Time: 40min Propose 20SM Port Funded by Mexico and Int Investors Cost: ~$15 billion

TIJUANA

Tijuana’s Gateway Project

Arizona

Otay Mesa CA Tijuana Beach Baja CA

Stage One Baja California Norte

Sonora

Future Rail Extention 10mi

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Bchavac [ 17 ]

[THESIS]

CASINO

LOCATION Commerce, CA Aprox. 6.5Miles South East of Downtown Los Angeles.

CRIMINAL TYPE

REQUIREMENTS Design an Indian Gaming Casino that allows Gambling within the city boundaries of Los Angeles. ABOUT The Basic Premise for my thesis is based on graffiti and its symbiotic relationship with Architecture. In doing so, I proposed the construction of an Indian Gaming casino designed under the principles that graffiti artists use to create works of graffiti. The thesis then begins to research the ideas of local culture, timed sequences, the notion of territoriality and boundaries, as well as fusion of programs, and the creation of a phenomenon.

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5 LOS ANGELES

2012

Instructor: Marcos Sanchez

Bchavac [ 19 ]

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Along the South-west portion of the site, represented with an orange dashed line, rests one of Los Angelesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; many freeways. The interstate 5 freeway running along the site not only represents an opportunity for any project to be developed, but it also represents an idea that can be explored given Los Angelesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; car culture, freeway grids, and city lifestyle.

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The project which I explored for my thesis takes the 1.5 mile stretch of freeway and begins to inform the visual connection that can be made from the freeway to the site while traveling through the freeway at 5 miles per hour or 70 miles per hour. The project then begins to make a more in depth connection between both traveling vehicle and the site by directly linking a ramp and the site together. The marriage between the two is carefully composed in such a way that the vehicle continuously goes through a series of systems that take it to a stand still inside the casino space itself.

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ARCH_DRAWINGS USC_INSTITUTION AUDI CENTER_LIFESTYLE EAMES HOUSE_LIBRARY PASADENA_HOUSING VENICE BEACH_CIVIC KENYIR LAKE_ABROAD 20 SANTA MONICA_ENDOTERRA 5. 00 205.00 TIJUANA_BORDER PORT LOS ANGELES_CASINO STUDIO SHIFT_WSC

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70 MPH _ 102.66 FPS - 10 S Increments _ 1026.6 F/10S 05 MPH _ 007.33 FPS - 20 S Increments _ 0146.6 F/20S

Bchavac [ 21 ]

Elevation [South West From I5] Scale 1:100 500ft 1000ft

5 LOS ANGELES

Bchavac [ 23 ]

R27=5MPH

R100=25MPH R100=20MPH

R60=15MPH

R70=20MPH

R50=10MPH

R50=10MPH R120=25MPH

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Road Length= 4537FT

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System 1 [Road Detail]

100ft R60=15MPH

R50=10MPH

5 LOS ANGELES

System 2 [Car Elevator] Bchavac [ 25 ]

System 3 [Conveyor Detail] Scale 1/8â&#x20AC;?:1

5 LOS ANGELES

Section Detail:1

Bchavac [ 27 ]

WORLD SUSTAINABILITY

CENTER

LOCATION Afsluitdijk, Netherlands REQUIREMENTS The center is envisioned as a mixing-pot for educational, corporate and institutional interests where common goals can be achieved through collaboration and mutual investment. ABOUT The World Sustainability Center competition was by far one of the best experiences I have had as an Intern. Although I was part of the team during the late stages of design, I learned how to collaborated with other individuals and be part of an efficient workflow environment. In addition to that, I learned various techniques in terms of desinging, modeling in both 3d and physical form, diagraming and all other forms of presentation deliverables. For a complete overview of this project please visit:

WWW.StudioShift.Com

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X STUDIO SHIFT

2009

Employer: Mario Cipresso

Bchavac [ 29 ]

CONTACT

[ E ] Bchavac@gmail.com [ P ] 323-351-7286 [ W ] Bchavac.com

INFORMATION

Skills Adobe Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Lightroom MS Suite Google Sketchup Auto CAD Revit Architecture Ecotect Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper V-ray Render Education 2007-2012 Bachelor of Architecture 2004-2007 Transfer_Santa Monica College 2000-2004 Huntington Park High School Languages English Spanish

Work Experience Studio Shift Culver City, CA May-Aug 2009 USC Facilities Management Services Los Angeles, CA Aug 2011-Jun 2011

[Name]

Bryan Chavac [DOB]

January 21, 1986 [Hometown]

Huntington Park, CA [School]

USC School of Arch.

Born and raised in Southern California, Bryan Chavac grew up in Huntington Park and attended Huntington Park High School where he graduated with honors. Soon after high school, he decided to attend Santa Monica College for 3 years. While taking an architecture history course at Santa Monica, Bryan was inspired and attracted to the limitless possibilities that the field of Architecture had to offer as a career. Pursuing his dream, he transferred to the University of Southern California where he is currently in his 5th year of study. Working towards his Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of Architecture at USC has given him the opportunity to explore his creativity and to learn and perfect the various architecture skills he has gained throughout the years. Studying at USC, as well as experience in architect firms, has taught him patience and hard work ethic during many charettes and allowed him to use his various skills while studying and traveling abroad.