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MISTIC VITAL SPACE
Location: Nowhere but imagination. Date: 2003. Course: Design Workshop I
ACID WORM
Location: UCR Campus / San José / CRC. Date: 2004. Course: Design Workshop III
The mistic space is not visible or accesible to anyone, only for those who believe in it or who ever creates him (understood as a being inside you). The mistic space is covered by energy that guides you towards it, it calls us, but it remains our decision to find him. If we decide not to seek him, we’ll remain the same... lost inside...but if we do accept him THEN we wil realize that such a place is created by ourselves, a place filled with magic, hidden emotions, the mistic space”. chalk drawing
Upper view
Worm section
Isometric sketch
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CEREMONIAL RITUAL SPACE
Location: UCR Campus / San José / CRC Date: 2003. Course: Design Workshop VI
This was a group project with the goal to explore, design and build a urban intervention with light as the main experience. The materials used to build the “Acid Worm” were: 1inch PVC pipes, metal surface for press printing, red stretch fabric, screws, and thin metal wire. It was positioned on a green area for color and material contrast, and located in one of the highest hill of the university campus. The reactions from the people were highly positive, in one hour, 50 students, professors, visitants were engaged by the experience. It was important to offer it as an alternative route rather than invading the main sidewalk.
An excerpt from my first logbook and first academic project:
pen drawing
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building process
assembly detail
moving to campus
inner experience
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This spiritual project was intented to provide a space for the employees and students to practice meditation, prayer or reflection. The challenge was to translate mental and mistical sensations into spatial symbolic sensations. The conceptualization of the proposal was a reinterpretation of the ancient mayan temples, the mandala symbol and the void of Tao. The void was used as the central articulator of three main introspectic spaces sorrounding the void and representing the main types of spiritual mentioned above, so that the volumetric proposal resembles purity out of the earth (gabions) and a spiral layout of the cubes. inspiration
light exploration
model
front view
MARCELA VARGAS ROJAS University of Costa Rica Degree in Architecture San José, CRC, 2010
The most beautiful aspect of being an architect is the infinite possibilities of inspiration for designing a particular space.
Beach store project model
Dynamism
Neoplastic Cube
Each project with its own process is a lifelong learning, it´s an evolution, and for that reason the design process becomes more important than the design product itself, because the product will always be in a continuous process of change, either by the designer, by the inhabitant or by the context.
Inside experience Acid Worm
first Cube extraction
Library main idea sketch
buildings :: edges
city :: surface
analysis
Light-space exploration model
Main entrance for housing project
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links proposal
Graphic concept
PLAYFUL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Location: UCR Campus San José / CRC. Date: 2007. Course: Design Workshop VII
This was a project based on collaboration, planning and delegation of tasks among its twelve members. The project was conducted in three stages. In the first stage we studied the patterns of development (residential, educational, economic) of the university and analized the social, physical and functional links. In the second we formulated and selected the desired scenarios. In the third stage the strategic vision was developed conceiving the city as a surface rather than and made proposed nine projects, some of them were the “Green Heart”, “Transportal”, “Flex”, etc.
current scenarios
third Outside experience Acid Worm
Space exploration from cube
Location: UCR Campus. San José / CRC. Date: 2007. Course: Design Workshop VII *Project leader
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relationship sketch
site plan
Main view of Migration Control project
UNIVERSITY’S ADMNISTRATIVE SITE
Location: UCR Campus San José / CRC. Date: 2007.Course: Design Workshop VIII
This project was based on the previous research (top of page) and it was designed as a pedagogical experimental, dynamic and mutable space in response to the lack of study and group work space at the university campus, and also multipurpose spaces for community outreach activities within the university´s campus Rodrigo Facio. The project consists of modular flexible spaces in a peripheral configuration, where the center is opened as a stage for outdoor active interaction.
flex detail sketch
Site analysis: passive-active areas
Facade exploration
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LINKS AND UNLINKS: UNIVERSITY AND CONTEXT
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Site analysis: illumination
Triangle housing project model
The goal was to design an administrative site that articulates and brings caracter to the field composed by three existing administrative buildings. The project will include the design of the a new building that includes two new administrative departments and a new auditorium. The architectural intentions were to be an iconic and visualy dinamic building (facedes, access, visuals, space relations vertically and horizontally). “Generation, not repetition” was the main conceptual guideline, in the search for multiplicity of relations. site analysis
volumetric exploration
underground site plan
MARCELA VARGAS ROJAS University of Costa Rica Degree in Architecture San José, CRC, 2010
strategic vision
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transportal
floor plan
section
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site plan
second level plan
trasversal section
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UNIVERSAL CAMPUS OF PRAYER
Location: San José / CRC. Date: 2008. Course: Design Workshop IX
Location: Moravia / CRC. Date: 2008. Course: Design Workshop IX
An urban and architectural project formulated to foster curiosity, exploration, and imagination of people, mainly aimed for children. The project was conceptualized in three sub-projects: the Worlds (dance, film, science, music, health), a theater and a footbridge inspired in the board game Snakes and Ladders. The park was designed for the display of arts and science, and projected as an experience of sensory explosion, with interactive, non-traditional and heterogeneous surfaces, where path is game.
An universal project of education, practice and the coexistence of philosophies, religions and different beliefs. “The unit has two projection modes: the move from itself and return to its center. Wherever you see a curved line, know that it´s a symbol of passivity, receptivity, trying to find unity”. The central space has multiple entrances proposing a meeting of roads...of belief. The use of reflection of the sky in the water means “heaven and earth (spirit and flesh) there at the same time through me.”
WORLDS` ENCOUNTER
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Location: San José / CRC. Date: 2008. Course: Design Workshop X
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OTNEIMINETNAM ED RELLAT LAUSIVOIDUA OPIUQE AGEDOB OESA SOIRATINAS SOICIVRES
SOIRATINAS SOICIVRES
.V.T.C.C ED OTRAUC NOICPECER
AREPSE ED ALAS
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RODARTSINIMDA ANICIFO RODANIDROOC ANICIFO
NOICAMROFNI APORRADRAUG/AIRETELOB
OIBMACRETNI ED SONROTNE
APORRADRAUG/AIRETELOB
"ECNAMROFREP" ED AERA
ACIRTCELE ATNALP SOTCUD
LATIGID OVIHCRA
AJAC Y NOICARAPERP
NOICCEYORP Y NOICISOPXE AERA
OSECCA LORTNOC
SENOINUER ED ALAS
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NOICCEYORP ED ANIBAC
SASEM ED AERA
LAUSIVOIDUA EJAZIDNERPA ED SONROTNE NOICAMROFNI
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The conceptualization of this project was based on the juxtaposition and simultaneity of visual experience: unilateral, bilateral and multilateral, in a contextualized and global technological reality. For this projected two types of experiences were projected: focal experience (exhibition / gallery, audiovisual environments, “performance” management meeting room, projections towards the public space) and environmental experience (cafeteria interactive exchange environments, lobby, tangent pedestrian waiting room administration). floor plan
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site plan
analysis museum-library section
exploration skecth
TEENAGER AUDIOVISUAL-EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
floor plan
conceptualization
site plan
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PLAYGROUND OF CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION
music space plan
percusion space sketch
section
front view
side view
MARCELA VARGAS ROJAS University of Costa Rica Degree in Architecture San José, CRC, 2010
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Space is the concretization of the existential and emotional history of human beings cause civilization finds its existance within the space-time relationship.
Section sketch
Urban model overlapping with site
3D Render Forest housing project
Inner space watercolor drawing
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My responsibility as an architect is to aware the general public about the importance of living space, building and share learning situations that lead to reflection, exploration of human emotion, surprise and the continuous discovery of the qualities of urban space and architecture.
Main access watercolor drawing
CR
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Night/day university analysis
3d volume and context exploration
Inner space sketch
Natural forces study (runoff) model
Location: Curridabat / CRC. Date: 2008. Course: Design Workshop X
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Child using space exploration skecth
ARTIST COLONY
Location: Parrita / CRC. Date: 2008. Course: Design Workshop X
This housing project was developed in one week. The design was based on a fictitious client, the Duvier Ruiz family, composed of five members. The project proposes a conceptualization of path by means of ramps, where the main ramp functions as the backbone of the project, coordinating and organizing the spaces that make up the architectural program and at the same time achieving independence and integration of individual family members, also taking advantage of the slope for spatial richness. floor plan
final degree project
Process model of the Worlds
Simple volumetric model
RUIZ DUVIER FAMILY HOUSE
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Fast project: space representation of myself
Inner space watercolor drawing
Final model top view
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PARTICIPATORY URBAN INTERVENTIONS [I.U.P.] Location: Aalborg, DK / Moravia, CRC
This project is a global art village in conjunction with a Cultural Embassy open to provoke a dialogue among cultures and artistic expressions. The complex serves as a base for the ARTS OLYMPUS ship. It´s a space for brotherhood and union symbol in harmony between the different cultures of the world. The spatial concept was defined as an interconnection of open and closed scenarios throught the path where artist and visitors (national and international) can exchange ideas, music, theater, painting, etc. 3D exploration
site plan
watercolor sketch
Date: november 2009-may 2010
This degree research project was intended to begin a process of exploration, experimentation and evaluation of participatory methodology in the Costa Rican context applied to urban renewal neighborhood public space integrated with the active participation of adolescent. In order to improve the current urban social relations among adolescents and neighborhood public spaces, on terms of identification, participation and positive appropriation of the urban environment. Future workshop
Design workshop
Building workshoip
MARCELA VARGAS ROJAS University of Costa Rica Degree in Architecture San José, CRC, 2010
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Teenager vision of Los Robles park
Teenager vision of Las Américas park