Graduate Architecture Portfolio Carlos A. Miranda
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Information:
Carlos A. Miranda
E-mail:
carlos.miranda@cca.edu carlosmd@ymail.com
Cell Number: 915.316.4023
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CONTENTS 1. FOSTER HOMES
Housing Studio at CCA - M.ARCH
2. CULTURAL EXTENSION
Buoyant Ecologies Lab Studio, CCA - M. ARCH
3. BORDERLINE ENVIRONMENT
Urban Landscape Studio, TTU - B.S. ARCH
4. DUST INSTITUTE
Envelope Studio, TTU - B.S. ARCH
5. HIGHER GROUND
Thesis Studio, CCA - M. ARCH
6. UNDERWORLDS
Digital Craft Lab Studio - M. ARCH
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FOSTER HOMES Academic Fall 2018 Antje Steinmuller CCA
This residential project focused in bringing more living spaces and unify families. Addressing
foster families, the purpose of this design is to provide spaces to foster children and give them the opportunity to be part of a family setting. Through different spaces where they will collide with other spaces, at moments in the unit where they will be forced to interact with others as well in the exterior spaces that connects each unit.
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CULTURAL EXTENSION Academic / Group Project Fall 2019 Margaret Ikeda & Evan Jones CCA
This project will translate the behavior of Maldivians on land, such as sharing and having
more community spaces. Creating an extension line on the south-west of the island, this line will represent the future continuous grow straight towards a Harbor which will be their primary economy for their culture. This project is designed with the anticipation of future sea level rise, the project creates a new economic model of the island of Dhangethi in Maldives. Which works to foster underwater ecology while also recognizing the importance to the land which is the foundation of the culture and traditions. A new harbor is integrated with floating housing to foster new connections to neighboring islands and put forth a new model for how to create new economies and sustainable networks. With the help of new integrated systems such as solar energy, water collection and anaerobic systems, this project will become less dependent on inputs and projected to last and adapt for the future.
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Site Plan
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Floor Plan
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Interior sharing space
View from the shore
Rooftops views looking at the proposal harbor
View from the island
Shore walking space looking at project from the side
Physical model showing one cluster
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BORDERLINE ENVIRONMENT Academic Fall 2016 Ersela Kripa TTU
The project consists in developing a walkable route that connects the main trans-border traffic
to promote tourism and economic development for the local community. Using new technologies, real time collection and Geo-mapping had to be considered as part of the general strategy. The collection of water was the main objective in this project, creating polymer water balls that will be distributed throughout the proposed design.
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The site analysis shows a recorded measurement of different categories such as; porosity, directionality and velocity of water. As well as the amount of water that can be collected at specifics points of the site.
Using the information of the site analysis, the master plan shows the connections of existing urban spaces and buildings. The propose design shows the most relevant points from the site that will cause a beneficial result.
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DUST INSTITUTE Academic Spring 2016 Carlos Lievanos TTU
This project consist in developing a building system technology that will manage the impact
of environmental sand and sand storms on the building envelope. Implementing gutters or using other building technologies to evacuate the not desire particles.
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Study of parabolic curves, looking for skin structure.
Collecting sand particles from the environment to use them as energy. Finalizing with a Zero Net Energy building.
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Parabolic Building Envelope
Iterations of parabolic designs for concept building envelope
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HIGHER GROUND Academic Spring 2020 Nataly Gattegno CCA
This project shows my thesis exploration, extracting the ground upwards. A new ground created
above the existing ground, in a city where vehicles dominate the road and buildings act independently with no connectivity. This new ground will be extracted upwards creating new levels becoming the arteries and membranes of the city. Reconnecting the city in a new way with a higher ground, bringing elements of the horizontal city such as open markets, public spaces, exterior dining restaurants, etc. The organic and curvilinear design proposes a contrast of the current verticality and linear shape of Dubai. This type of architecture would reconnect and build a new system allowing a better connectivity in the city.
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First iteration of the Higher Ground
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First iteration of the interior space
Entrance moment inside the Higher Ground
Market place inside the Higher Ground
Market place inside the Higher Ground
Moment when intersecting with an existing building
Abstract form exploration
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Overall project
Zoom in, showing the different aperture sizes of the Higher Ground
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Interior space in one of the spheres
Interior space in the Higher Ground
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UNDERWORLDS Academic / Group Project Spring 2019 Jason Kelly Johnson CCA
A collaboration project worked with SF Planning exploring a creative strategy to activate Dogpatch’s
underpasses. Using lightweight structures, this installation functioned as an exploration on how we can rethink and reuse the underpasses by activating these spaces. Using digital projection mapping and other technologies, this small installation allowed us to understand the complexity of a project and the organization required to achieve its completion. Thinking of materiality and developing our own custom joints for specific connections our project needed.
Photograph by: James Bueti
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PVC pipes used for the project
One corner connection
Working on first prototype
1:1 scale physical study model
Full physical model on site - No panels
Full physical model with panels installed
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