ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO BISHRELT SOLONGO
BISHRELT SOLONGO bishrelt.solongo@yale.edu +976.99192939 EDUCATION Yale School of Architecture M.Arch II Post-Professional Degree
May, 2025
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL Bachelor of Architecture GPA: 3.62/4
December, 2016
Study Abroad, Delft, Netherlands The Why Factory and TU Delft Winy Maas Collaborative Studio
Fall, 2016
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA Associate of Applied Science GPA: 3.89/4
May, 2012
Mongolia Turkish High School of Ulaanbaatar Secondary Education GPA: 96:100
May, 2009
WORK EXPERIENCE ARCHETYPE GROUP, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Architect Level 3
March, 2019 - August, 2021
Render LLC, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Architect
February - April, 2018
MCS Property, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Architecture Internship
Summer, 2015
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY Student Government, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA Advertising/Publication Committee Chair Tsetsee Gung Rotaract Club, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Board Member, International Comittee (Rotary Registration ID: 14039)
2023
August, 2011 - May, 2012
October, 2017 - October, 2019
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO CONTENTS
01 ORGANIC COFFEE TABLE
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Laminated Timber Coffee Table Spring 2016 / Academic Work
02 BRONZVILLE DREAM CENTER
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Urban Community Services Center Spring 2016 / Academic Work
03 IDEAHAUS BICYCLE STATION
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Community Park / Bicycle Station Spring 2015 / Academic Work
04 MASS TIMBER
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The Twin Timber Tower / Mixed Use Building Fall 2015 / Academic Work
07 BRICK OVEN
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Naive Intention Spring 2023 / Academic Work
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ORGANIC SIDE COFFEE TABLE LAMINATED TIMBER COFFEE TABLE Project Type Date Instructor Location
Academic Spring, 2016 Paul Pettigrew Chicago
The initial investigation was to evaluate functional objects and suggest possibilities for improvement. Throughout the investigation, a coffee table that satisfied strength and utility requirements, but lacked grace was chosen. The focus was to implement policies that recognize the benefits of greater use of wood. It further encourages renewable biomass to meet society’s broader energy needs. The sincerity of the approach, bypassing flashy design, was to show the quality of the work. This ethos was intended to be beautifully demonstrated in wood construction. Instead of using solid wood pieces, the table’s construction aimed to make the most of the wood while keeping the aesthetic quality of the furniture and resolving structural stability.
POTENTIAL TREE LOSS FROM FIVE MOST INVASIVE INSECTS
8.2m
compensatory value
9m
17.4 b 18.5 b 4.2 b 16 b 1.6 b
OVERALL CITY OF CHICAGO MUNICIPAL WASTE COMPOSITION
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29.4% 12% 29% 12.5% 6.2% 3.9% 4.9% 1.1% 0.8% 0.2%
Potential loss of trees from Ceratocystis fagacearum / Oak wilt
12.7m 6m
Potential loss of trees from Agrilus planipennis / Emerald ash borer
17.7m
Potential loss of trees from Lymantria dispar / Gypsy moth
41.6m
Urban Trees and Forests of the Chicago Region, 2013
Paper C&D Organics Plastic Textile Metal Glass Inorganics Beverage Containers HHW
Potential loss of trees from Ophiostoma novo-ulmi / Dutch elm disease
Ash trees were felled by the Emerald ash borer by 2010
Potential loss of trees from Anoplophora glabripennis / Asian longhorned beetle
43%
of total construction and demolition waste is fines & dirt, clean dimensional lumber, and clean unpainted gypsum board material categories, scrap wood account for 770,000 ton.
Waste Characterization Study - City of Chicago, 2010.
ORGANIC SIDE COFFEE TABLE “Haec autem ita fieri debent ut habeature ratio firmitas, utilitas, venustatis.” An initial investigation was into the validity of utulizing Vitruvius’ 3 requirements of strength, utility & grace to create a functional object.
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INDUSTRIAL
FOLDABLE
STACKED
It evokes the purposeful look and feel of factory tools, utilizing metal and wood in a more rough-hewn, sturdy construction.
With the help of steel and hinge, a minimum amount of ash wood can be utilized to produce a portable table.
With a steel tube inside the stacked recycled wood, the form can be manipulated.
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TWISTED
UPSIDE DOWN
PARAMETRIC
By twisting the form, it creates a hollow core with an unusual aesthetic but wastes too much wood.
With two platforms of ash wood creating a stable surface and a steel core, it was an opportunity to use architectural models that would be wasted after the final reviews.
Parametric design is another way to use the ash wood that was provided. Considering the wood’s strength and stiffness, the parametric form was possible to achieve.
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CONTOUR LINES
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FINAL FORM
A particular approach was considered, featuring stark interiors with bold, bright accents. Glass top/Resin fill and a wood base with landscape form was feasible, yet it wasted too much wood.
Utilizing the soft wood from the shop scrap box at Architecture College, ash wood was mixed to create a more stable form.
The final form was simple and sturdy. The corners are made of ash wood, and the rest were created from the scrap box. It creates a form that is functional, structural and beautiful without tne waste of wood or steel
FINAL FORM Laminating the ash wood and other salvaged wood from the scrap box with wood adhesive gives the final form.
Soft and hard wood from the scrap box at IIT shop Ash wood that has been salvaged from trees that were cut down after dying from emerald ash borer beetle infestation
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BRONZVILLE DREAM CENTER URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER Project Type Date Instructor Group Members Location
Academic Spring, 2016 Eva Kultermann Sheree Emmanuel, Haiyeon Lee Chicago
The Bronzeville Dream Center (BDC) aspires to enhance the Bright Star Community Outreach vision of helping an underserved area of Chicago to become a self-sufficient livable community for individuals, families, and organizations. Located in Bronzeville, this adaptive reuse project aims to create community and offer a place that fosters growth. The studio engaged in the development of an urban community services center. The BDC, inspired by NATAL in Israel, is dedicated to serving Chicago with counseling and other social services aimed at minimizing negative factors that cause violence while increasing protective influences that foster community. The BDC endeavors to focus on four core services: counseling, mentorship, parenting, and workforce development.
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME
CRIME RATES (NUMBER)
Less than 28,125
Less than 98
28,126 - 38,429
99 - 202
38,420 - 48,250
203 - 392
48,251 - 66,042
393 - 683
More than 66,043
684 -1724
Bus Stops Bus Route
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME
City of Chicago Data Portal, GIS
Pickpocketing Spot
CHICAGO CRIME DATA
THE DESIGN CONCEPT
The design concept for the Bronzeville Dream Center is grounded in eliciting diverse experiences of comfort for its inhabitants. The use of additional concepts including façade extrusions and intrusions, concealed circulation, and “spaces within a space,” introduce different layers of spatial experience. These are done through interior plantings, ceiling height changes, material changes, and floating spaces.
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BRONZVILLE DREAM CENTER ““...a distinctive and legible environment not only offers security but also heightens the potential depth and intensity of human experience.” Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City (1960)
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S Evans Ave
S Cottage Grove Ave
VEHICLE CIRCULATION
PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
E 45th St
E 46th St
Main Road
Bus Stop
Minor Road
Building
Back Alley Road
Site Location
GREEN AREA / TREE STUDY
Pedestrian Route
Building Site Location
BUILDING HEIGHT / PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Green Area
Building
1-2 Floors
Restaurant
Paved Open Space
Site Location
3-4 Floors
Elementary School
Surrounding Tree
4+ Floors Site Location
Barber Shop Fire Department Post Office
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4522-326 SOUTH COTTAGE GROVE The Bronzeville Dream Center was launched in September 2014 and included partners Bright Star Community Outreach, Northwestern Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, and the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago. Supported by the leadership of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and two dozen faith leaders, the partners began two years of data gathering, implementation, oversight and evaluation. Organizers have surveyed Bronzeville residents to identify health and behavioral issues that may contribute to violence. The design of the project involved the adaptive reuse of an existing building. Regeneration and repurposing of an existing building is one of the most effective strategies for minimizing embodied energy consumption, carbon emissions, resource use, habitat disturbance , and construction waste disposal. The reuse of existing structures also emphasizes the historical continuity of a place and can reinforce and sustain the fabric of the community.
GENERAL CONCEPT
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SUBDIVISION
EXTRUSION
SPACE IN SPACE
Analyzing the existing space, it was too open for counseling. Yet it could be used for transitional space.
Creating layers of space inside was solely for creating secure and comfortable zones for visitors.
An envolope of the building was another opportunity to create visual barriers and privacy.
By making a separate entrance and private space inside the space for students and those who seek counseling, it offered them shelter with privacy.
CEILING HEIGHT 10’ - 12’ space in space SECURITY CONCENTRATION SHELTER PRIVACY MEDITATION CONFINEMENT COMFORT
Counseling Room Office Limited Space Meditation Space Reading Nook Personal Space
14’ - 15’ high ceiling on the first floor. 12’ - 13’ high ceiling on the second and third floors. RELEASE EXPANSION INSPIRATION CONFINEMENT SHELTER CONCENTRATION POTENTIAL EXHILARATION
Restaurant Classroom Public Space Cafe Corridor/Hallway
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FIRST FLOOR LAYOUT
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1. Incubator Kitchen / Rentable Space 2. Lobby / Security 3. Exhibition Space 4. Cafe 5. Storage 6. Main Reception / Waiting Area
7. Parking Lot 8. Outdoor Garden 9. Adjacent Buildings
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SECOND FLOOR LAYOUT 7. Storage 8. Executive Office 9. Office
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THIRD FLOOR LAYOUT 7. Storage 8. Conference Room
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ROOF FLOOR LAYOUT 1. Event Space / Recreational Space 2. Indoor Growing Area 3. Garden 4. Rooftop Restaurant / Lounge 5. Outdoor Space 6. Mechanical Room 7. Storage
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SIDE ELEVATION
SECTION B-B
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4’6” Width Second Floor Block Visual Connection
4’6” Width First Floor Visually Transparent
12’ Width First Floor Visually Transparent
1’6” Width Second Floor Semi Transparent
4’6” Width Secon Block Visual Con
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FRONT ELEVATION
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12’ Width Second Floor Visually Transparent
1’6” Width Third Floor Block Visual Connection
4’6” Width Third Floor Block Visual Connection
12’ Width Third Floor Visually Transparent
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Steel Frame and Clad
Triple Glazing
Existing Brick
Gypsum Board Light Metal Frame Soy Spray Insulation
Wood Clad Steel U-channel Frame Soy Spray Insulation Drainage Pavers Steel Plate with Fastener
Triple Glazing Wood Clad Metal Frame
Polished Concrete Floor Concrete with Reinforcing Mesh Pex Tubing Radiant Water System Existing Concrete Slab with WWR
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BRONZVILLE DREAM CENTER SECTION MODEL The physical model explored “space in space,” extrusions and intrusions. It helped to visualize in three dimensions the scope of spatial interrelationships. An entrance and outside garden was developed through multiple models.
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IDEAHAUS BICYCLE STATION COMMUNITY PARK / BICYCLE STATION Project Type Date Instructor Location
Academic Spring, 2015 Thaddeus Zarse Chicago
An assignment was to choose a site location for our project in a mile radius of a given coordinate point in Logan Square. Identifying ideal proximities through the QGIS study, I was able to find a vacant industrial building along the 606 bike trail. Intersecting green pathways was crucial for my site selection as it draws the cyclist traffic. The concept was to create a weaving path from the elevated Bloomingdale trail to the ground level by intersecting it with the programs. The path itself is wide enough to accommodate the programs while offering experience along the path rather than a direct exit. Retaining transparency from the ground level, the path is elevated above the bike park and it remains responsive to the pasing street life. A concrete semi-opaque structure houses the bike exhibitions; it also provides visual privacy to the adjacent dwellings. The transparent interior walls are exposed to the sunlight. A project has the potential to bring the community together and create a successful stationary facility for cyclists.
CHICAGO
LOGAN SQUARE
CLOSE TO
AWAY FROM
LEGEND
LEGEND
Ideal Proximity
Divvy Station
Ideal Proximity
Bloomingdale Trail
Density
Bloomingdale Trail
Age Diversity + Racial Diversity
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Commercial Density + Bike Shops +Divvy Stations +Bike Racks
IDEAHAUS BICYCLE STATION “The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. ” Jane Jacobs
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CONCEPT 1
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CONCEPT 2
Bike Museum
Bike Park
Bike Workshop
Bike
Open Plaza
Observation Deck
Observation Deck
Coff
Bike Circulation
Bike Circulation
Pedestrian Circulation
Pedestrian Circulation
CONCEPT 3
e Park
Bike Racks
Bike Workshop
Coffee Shop
fee Shop
Bike Museum
Bike Museum
Skate Park
Bike Circulation Pedestrian Circulation
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BLOOMINGDALE TRAIL VIEW
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PATH
Single story brick building is right next to the 606 Trail. It was a storage before.
Path connects the 606 Bike Trail to the ground level.
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Path contains the programs. Path is the program.
Enclosure of the path is solid concrete in order to offer privacy to the adjacent residential buildings.
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SECTION A-A
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FIRST LEVEL LAYOUT 1. Bike Park Perform 2. Office 3. Courtyard 4. Bike Racks / Parking
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SECOND LEVEL LAYOUT 1. Bike Workshop Make 2. Coffee Shop Meet 3. Bike Exhibition Path 4. Seating Area
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SECTION B-B
ITERATION 1 PATH
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ITERATION 2 PATH + PROGRAM
PROGRAM
M STUDY
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FINAL MODEL
SECTION CUT MODEL / CONCEPT The project’s objective was to design and develop an architectural idea that explores a framework for community involvement and engagement. My building concept was to develop an IDEAhaus on Humboldt Blvd and Bloomingdale trail, where two different levels of bicycle traffic intersect. A challenge was to create a facility for the community and cyclists to Meet, Make, and Perform, fostering public programs and potentials. My programs include Bike-thru Coffee Shop, Community Bike Work Shop, Bike Park, and Bike Museum. A series of models explored different spatial relations, material textures, program development, facade iterations, and path connectivity. The sectional relationship was explored through a plaster section model, as it is a fundamental aspect of designing level changes of IDEAhaus bicycle station. We experience the Path through sectional space, as opposed to the plan which is how we organize space. The constant circulation of cyclists and pedestrians flows through a concrete path while giving a tactile concrete feel.
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MASS TIMBER THE TWIN TIMBER TOWER / MIXED USE BUILDING Project Type Date Instructor Group Members Location
Academic Fall, 2015 Andrew Tinucci Oscar Hernández Chicago
Wood is one of the world’s oldest building materials. It is elemental and renewable. Over time, we have seen building technologies turn away from wood to materials like steel and concrete in order to build larger and taller, but as we slowly learn to consider the true realities of sustainibility, wood may offer new potentials to the architecture and construction industry. The studio sought a small urban site to construct a tall Mass Timber building. Potential typologies included residential or retail/office space, and while the site and use were negotiable, the material and constructian technology remained the primary driver of criteria and design decisions. WOOD BASE BUILDING SYTEM CARBON FOOTPRINT DIGRAM
Carbon dynamics on forest
Change of carbon stock in products
Energy supply system
Material substituion
Change of the energy systems
Not CO2 emission
Module D
Cement reaction Increase/Decrease of Forest Operation system
Module A
Module B
Second life
Module C
Material recovery
Raw material extraction
Sustainable forest
Products
Operation
Used Products Energy recovery
Co-Products
Module D
World Sb14 Barcelona, Oct28th/30th 2014
Energy source substitution
Change of CO2 emission
Concrete Steel Timber Other
2,485 t
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Timber Post, Beam & Plate; Concrete Cores
2,355 t
2,325 t
Timber Floors; Timber Floors & LGM Framing; Shear Walls; Steel Frame Podium Steel Frame Podium
1,820 t
2,110 t
2% 14% NET
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26% NET
600,000
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Interior Fit-Out Glazing Exterior Walls Floor Slabs Beams Columns Podium Foundations Structure Walls
Timber Floors; Steel Frame; Concrete Cores
3,135 t
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1,200,000
Global Warming Potential (kgCO2 e)
Concrete Slabs on Concrete Flat Slab; Steel Deck Concrete Cores Steel Frame; Concrete Cores
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Building Mass
MASS TIMBER SOLUTIONS FOR 8 STORY FOR MIXED-USE BUILDING: A comparative study of GHG emissions
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379 kgCO2 e/m²
333 kgCO2 e/m²
287 kgCO2 e/m²
244 kgCO2 e/m²
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MASS TIMBER “Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.” Jamais Cascio
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SUMMER SOLSCTICE 9am, 12pm, 3pm
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JAN 1 - DEC 31 Whole Day > Calm 0 m/s -21 -34 °C 0% - 100% Humidity Total 8760 hrs Medium Speed 6.7 m/s
1. TWIST
2. CURVE
3. SHIFT
4. POST & BEAM
5. SCREEN
6. FACADE
7. TWIN TOWER
8. FINAL DESIGN
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FLOOR PLANS 1. Residential Tower 2. Office Tower 3. Plaza Level 2 4. Plaza Level 1
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PLAZA LEVEL 2 1. Fitness Center 2. Restrooms/ Changing Room 3. Cafe
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PLAZA LEVEL 1 1. Mechanical/ Service Room 2. Restaurant 3. Elevator Shaft
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VIEW FROM WALKWAY ALONG THE RIVER Triangular extrusions on the facade create different views from inside and outside. The wood screen plays its role to provide security, privacy, or aesthetics.
VIEW FROM DUSABLE BRIDGE & MICHIGAN AVENUE “it is possible to go beyond the utilisation of the material as a mere technical product or a simple building system, and by this achieve a pragmatic yet poetic and sensuous future timber architecture by engaging into the deeper layers of a material, and by clarifying and articulating its qualities that are related to the perception of the material, i.e. its materiality.”
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8” CLT Floor Panel Steel Hanger Window Wall Concrete Core Sprinklers and Services Insulation Steel Connection Exterior Wood Blind System 24”x24” CLT Column Services in Floor 22”x8” CLT Beam HVAC Accoustic Support Underlayment
SECTION A-A
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OFFICE INTERIOR “Actually, it is within its materiality, i.e. the perception of the qualities describing its character that one first and foremost recognizes the ‘wood-spirit’ in this material.”
CAFE ON THE PLAZA LEVEL “The wooden interior speaks the language of the technological ‘state’ of which it is a part, i.e. a (high-technological) timber architecture characterised by continuity, simplicity, and precision.”
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Timber Post, Beam & Plate; Concrete Cores
CLT Column, Beam Wall system Floor Plates
Facade system with wooden screen
Concrete Core
Concrete Post & Beam on the first floor for weather protection
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BRICK OVEN NAIVE INTENTION Project Type Date Instructor Group Members Location
Academic Spring, 2023 Mauricio Pezo, Sofia Von Ellrichshausen, Jose Araguez Oscar Hope Chao Ñuble Region, Chile
Together with the cave, the bullring, the foundational grid and many other figures, the brick oven can also be understood as a perfect machine. Since its purpose does not only lie in how it is meant to work but in everything else that it evokes, its function becomes diffuse, elusive, sometimes abstract, sometimes symbolic. According to Argentinian writer Ezequiel Martinez Estrada , the brick oven can still summarize our remote technology (at the so-called “newworld”): it is a device that produces raw material with raw material, in other words, “nothing new”. Indeed, the brick oven is not architecture (i.e. an artifact to live in a place) and yet, it is a fertile metaphor for an attitude towards the production of architecture: the architectural project as a conceptual tool to anticipate the future, to foresee the invisible, to build up the inexorable opacity that intensifies human existence. Rather than a material artifact, the brick oven becomes an imaginary detour, a poetic image, in so far as it has a familiar presence yet unusually conventional (perhaps ruled by a normative size that incarnates the human body in every single block). The project explored the environmental possibilities of traditional load bearing massive construction on a rectangular site 50x50m. Since projects were limited by weight and gravity, the spatial sequences extended at a ground level, thus, articulating the reciprocity with gardens, courtyards and the landscape beyond.
72°05’18”W
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Acrylic on matboard, 1200x1200mm
BRICK OVEN “The field describes a space of propagation, of effects. It contains no matter or material points, rather functions, vectors, speeds. It describes local relations of difference withing fields of celerity, transmission or careering points, in a word, what Minkowski called the world.” Sanford Kwinter 1986 Field Conditions by Stan Allen in Points + Lines, 1985
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Acrylic on matboard, 300x300mm
Acrylic on matboard, 300x300mm
Acrylic on matboard, 300x300mm
Acrylic on matboard, 300x300mm
Acrylic on matboard, 400x400mm
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Acrylic on matboard, 600x600mm
Acrylic on matboard, 600x600mm
This inventory is meant to be a personal repository of architectonic ideas taken from obscure sources. In opposition to a reference (or a direct “precedent”), a source is no other than a remote, blurry triggering pedagogical device to both delay and accelerate the creative process; to delay, since it works as an initial obstruction that conflicts with your personal prejudices and desires; to accelerate, since your immediate reaction unveils an intuitive position towards a concrete architectonic problem. The very notion of inventory has a double meaning. An inventory can be read as a systematic organization of items, a quasi-scientific taxonomy, but it can also be read as an invention (from Latin invenire, “to find”), which is the original discovery for a possible building. Throughout the inventories, our concept was consistent with exploring spatial sequence, an idea of wholeness, totality in the given parameter, procession to the same room through either large or small open spaces, and a labyrinth. In the last 4 paintings of the inventory, certain spatial experience was further explored. A sense of totality through a room division, or disorientation after entering the same room through either expansion or compression. A poetic image was pursued through compositions and spatial divisions. A central cylinder space with columns persisted from the beginning as it would evoke the idea of disorientation by mystifying reflection on the water and the shadow from the columns. A labyrinth was explored through a series of gradient wall colors. The objects were elongated, and colors were manipulated to create uniform experience in the labyrinth that frames the nature in the background. The final stage consisted in the production of 12 color painted plates. Each plate should be interpreted as a “meaning device”, borrowing visual and conceptual techniques from the symbolist, surreal or metaphysical paintings.
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Acrylic on matboard, 600x600mm
Acrylic on matboard, 600x600mm
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Acrylic on matboard, 600x600mm
Acrylic on matboard, 600x600mm
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PHYSICAL MODEL 1:100
PHYSICAL MODEL Chip Board Model 1:100 Scale
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PORTRAITS “How you draw is a reflection of how you feel about the world. You’re not capturing it, you’re intrepreting it.” Juliette Aristides
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HAND SKETCHES “It was the drawing that led to me architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.” Oscar Niemeyer
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