i wish to think about architecture freely; to expand my perspective on architecture as flexibly, broadly, and subtly as possible, beyond the stereotypes of what architecture is.
-junya ishigami
september 2021 - july 2022
The pandemic had far-reaching impacts on Tempe’s development, causing many existing businesses to close. However, as the pandemic began to recede, there was a clear pent-up demand for growth. Projects that were put on hold found financing again, shuttered restaurants sought new opportunities, and even office spaces showed signs of recovery as working from home proved to be an unsustainable fulltime solution for most firms.
The Smith Innovation Hub and Maker District were well-positioned to benefit from post-pandemic development investments. Interest in mixed-use, walkable communities reached an all-time high. The proposed guidelines will help the city leverage existing visionary work and guide growth to allow these unique districts to reach their full potential.
work contributed:
Final documents suitable for sharing with developers and owners planning projects in the districts and to guide City of Tempe Staff & Council during the review of those proposed projects.
responsibilities:
- Review existing information, assess transformational opportunities, identify catalytic strategies.
- Prepare material for weekly or biweekly meetings with Staff during the duration of the project.
- Conduct field research including photographing existing conditions, meeting with local business owners, developers, and community stakeholders.
The guidelines can be found as adopted on june 2022 at:
Innovation hub
july 2022 - august 2023
The program was solidified through extensive community polling and numerous meetings with stakeholders. The 61,000-square-foot facility features a teen room, three courts for basketball, pickleball, and volleyball that can quickly be converted to event space, a community room accommodating 200 people, a child watch room, and an indoor walking track. Additionally, it includes a competition pool and a second pool with zero-depth entry and a resistance channel for walking, designed as a therapeutic resource for patients at the health center across the street.
The conceptual framework for the project is rooted in the name of the town, Marana, meaning thicket, and is inspired from the town’s deep agricultural history including Indigenous and Mexican peoples and the current ranching culture.
work contributed:
- general design duties from program and concept development to construction documentation. responsibilities:
- Public outreach to focus groups including fitness, aquatics, youth/ teens, and seniors and public outreach covering geographical areas.
- Research into the history of the Town of Marana that led to the building concept.
- Prepare presentation materials for meetings with town staff during the duration of the project.
- General design for internal design charettes.
- revit work primarily designing and modeling site elements and detailing.
drawings by: architekton
august 2023
This rescue oasis is a joint aquatics center and firestation. Collaborating with another architectural firm in charge of the fire station, our team was responsilbe for the park and pool segment of the project. The pool complex is essentially a mini-water park complimented with locker rooms and a lifeguard station.
work contributed:
- I was on-boarded to aid the existing project team reach the 100% cd deadline.
responsibilities:
- revit work primarily resolving and detailing the shade structures and pool equipment building.
- collaborating to model and resolve reflected ceiling plans
What might we find in the shadow of her folds? This studio was an intensive dive into metaphor and, for me, the predecessor of my current thesis work developing an object-oriented cultural design practice towards an ethno-inclusive public architecture. Entra la manta investigates the mestizaje of mexican culture and the connection between la virgen de guadalupe and the aztec coatlicue.
My explorations throughout the semester focused on metaphor as a series of operations under strict conditions as a means to transform la iglesia de la virgen de la medalla milagrosa by felix candela into a new but not essentially different architecture. While the end result was not as articulated as I had hoped, the process itself was fruitful in revealing the dual nature of an object-oriented ontology in architecture.
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson was extremely familiar with the peace nature could bestow on those whom could connect with it. Similarly, my site visit to the base of the southern side on South Mountain was pleasantly filled with encountered moments of stilling serenity. While many other aspects like programming, response time, privacy, and community outreach were also key design-drivers, because firefighters deal with life-threatening situations and often times witness traumatic scenes throughout their careers, I felt the responsibility to integrate moments of repose within my design for Fire Station 62. the hope is that they too will be able to carry with them an enduring tranquility.
quick response process
second floor view from north
axonometric view
ground floor east elevation
This project repurposes the jackson street garage in downtown phoenix, az and proposes that the future of architecture rests on professionals and students being bridges for their communities. Thus, architectural education institutes themselves must become a place with which to interact with the community.
The table is the place where some of the most quintessentially human moments are had. By itself it is nothing short of blank slate held erect by a couple of legs, yet it is imbued with power and brought to life when people, its actuators, bring something it. It is a place where everyone gathers, a place of memory, a place where people grow and mature... all while this simple structure, silently watches.
bracket assembly
sliding louvre facade
spring 2019
resourcing local shipyard skills, the limitless potential of mass timber for construction can be showcased. Unlike a multitude of similar projects seem boxed into rectilinear architecture, the freedom in form that wood and timber can achieve is expressed. Ultimately, I seek to celebrate Queens as a port city and to present this building as a gift to the community. this competition project required the use of mass timber construction for a new mixed-use high rise building that included a school, a community center, and housing for residents.
FAR:7 Sq.Ft:743,400
FAR:7 Sq.Ft:743,400
FAR:7 Sq.Ft:743,400
FAR:7 Sq.Ft:743,400
single part building concept
fall 2018
the mission of this design was inspired by the values behind borrowing a cup of sugar to create a F.A.B.R.I.C. facility in barrio, tucson which promotes urban regeneration through adaptive reuse and encouraging social integration and investment within the local communities. the result was a program that could be just as flexible as the events it would host.
“there was a constant exchange of goods and services across the yard or by crossing the streets. Knocking on a door and asking for that extra cup of sugar or dolling out surplus tomatoes from an abundant yard garden were part of the rhythms of life. however, with the design of today’s sprawling cities and a reliance on modern technologies and industry, most of us no longer need to interact with our neighbors to source ‘ingredients’.”
“a diagrammatic practice, on the other hand, locates itself between the actual and the virtual, and foregrounds architecture’s transactional character.”
Inspired by the writings of Stan Allen, I explored the space in between the incorpeal and the material using the diagram as a medium, as well as exploring 3d printing as a contruction method.
indeterminant:
Indeterminate:
| 1d | 2d | 3d | 4d |
“thirty spokes meet in the hub, though the space between them is the essence of the wheel. pots are formed of clay, though the space inside them is the essence of the pot.
walls with windows and doors form the house, though the space within them is the essence of the house.”
-old japanese poem similarly, i further explored an ethereal bridge, a nothing-ness that holds everything, ma. i wanted to investigate the idea of our modern pen and paperthe mouse and the screen- shaping the way we interact and see the world. thus i pixelated an “existing building”, deconstructed it and reconstructed it so that its essence could only be rediscovered through a reflection on the ground or from a single point in the entire universe.
“nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result... the wind sows the seed; the sun evaporates the sea: the wind blows vapor to the field; the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this; the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal, and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.”
-ralph waldo emerson
fall 2019 under the guidance of professor michelle fehler at asu, the biomimicry in design cohort conducted research with the use of nature’s technology summaries to identify strategies and imagine possible applications of biological strategies within our respective fields. i found the chameleon and the saharan silver ant to have extremely powerful strategies for passive cooling.
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building bonds | the transgression of meaning
“... imagine the importance of a language or system of expressive signs whose function was not to tell us about things but to present them to us in the act of executing themselves.
art is such a language, this is what art does. the aesthetic object is inwardness as such...”
-excerpt from ensayo, jose ortega y gasset
the aesthetics of empathy
within this body of work, aesthetics is regarded as an expressive form of communication between objects and empathy as the degree of affinity for one object to “listen” to and “embody” another object.
at its core, this is an investigation into the mechanisms of the powerful connections that allow people to experience their environment in a deeply meaningful way and how to build those spaces through the concept of an aesthetics of empathy.
for more (video and full pdf of work): https://bryan-esparza.myportfolio.com/thesis
chiconahuapan -dividing line
teptl monamictia -alignment of intention with action
itztepetl shadows/ leaving the known
itzehecayan -place where it hails obsidian/ where darkness falls
paniecatacoyan -removal of status/ blown like a banner
temiminaloyan -place of shot arrows/ failed attempts/ regrets
teocoyohuehualoyan -absolute stripping of past experiences/ life
Izmictlan apochcalolca -entry into the waters of the great tree
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FOR FULFILLMENT DOES NOT COME FROM THE
END, BUT THE JOURNEY EMBODIED.
CHASE, CHASE, YOU CAN NEVER RUN AWAY FROM WHO YOU ARE.
BRYAN IS A HANDS-ON DESIGNER WITH A DIVERSE BACKGROUND AND PASSION FOR TACKLING COMPLEXITY. HE USES HIS INTERESTS IN TECHNOLOGY, CONSTRUCTION, AND FABRICATION AS WELL AS KNOWLEDGE IN CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY TO CONTRIBUTE A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE TO THE DESIGN PROCESS. BRYAN’S SKILLS AND INQUISITIVENESS ALLOW HIM TO QUICKLY BECOME A STRONG MEMBER OF ANY TEAM
GRADUATE | MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE | ASU SUMMER 2018 - SPRING 2021 | GPA: 3.87
UNDERGRADUATE | BACHELOR OF ARTS IN DESIGN STUDIES (DESIGN MANAGEMENT) | ASU FALL 2013 - FALL 2016 | GPA: 3.19
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS | ARCHITEKTON AUGUST 2023 - AUGUST 2024
MARANA COMMUNITY AND AQUATICS CENTER | ARCHITEKTON JULY 2022 - AUGUST 2023
TEMPE DESIGN GUIDELINES | ARCHITEKTON
SEPTEMBER 2021- JULY 2022
DESIGNER | ARCHITEKTON | TEMPE, AZ
SEPTEMBER 2021 - AUGUST 2024
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | ARC 201 | ASU FALL 2022
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