Carolina M. Valladares
M. ARC, M. BCN, University of Florida Graduate and Undergraduate Architectural Portfolio 3
Selected Works 2008-2012 Carolina M. Valladares ( PDLO YDOODGDU#XÀ HGX
Osceola Parkway Station Grad.1, Orlando, FL Pg. 06
Orlando Aquarium Grad. 1, Orlando, FL Pg.08
Exhibiting Orlando, Community Center Grad. 2, Orlando, FL Pg. 14
Gardenscape Hotel and Apartments Grad. 3, College Park, Gainesville, FL Pg.20
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Feather Chair Design 8 Pg.26
Transformed Materials, Chair Co-op Design 8, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Pg. 28
Shadow Lamp
Environmental Technology 2 Pg. 38
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Design 8, Environmental Technology 2 Pg. 38
Reformulating Public Domain Design 7, Manhattan, New York Pg. 42 5
Osceola Parkway Station
Carolina M. Valladares, Grad.1, Orlando, FL Prof. William Tilson The Osceola Parkway Station is an aquatic experience. It is a place where travelers are able to take a glimpse into another world. For those just passing through, the station serves as a marker of remembrance and measure of distance. The station entices one to linger and explore. Integration of water and station starts with the ground plain morphing in relation to the water. In reaction to this aquatic world, the ground sinks to cradle it. From this shift, the roof emerges. The roof extends, creating a cool shade that encompasses the station, and serves as a rain water harvesting system. The collected rain water travels down a water wall and folds into the ground. Ripples are projected into the station, seeming to envelope the train as it enters. The train’s concentration of passengers is defused into a space where two worlds combine.
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Orlando Aquarium
Carolina M. Valladares, Grad. 1, Orlando, FL Prof. William Tilson The Orlando aquarium is a volume that holds vessels. The vessels are occupied with sea life, people, light rails station, and garden. As one progresses through the different levels of the aquarium, one seems to be fully engulfed in an aquatic life. One has to continue XSZDUG WR EUHDN WKDW DWPRVSKHUH DQG ¿QG RQHVHOI LQ a tropical garden. The building roof serves as a rain water harvesting system. The collected rain water travels down a water wall, folds into the ground and reappears at the splash park. The Orlando aquarium serves as destination where people can come and learn about freshwater and sea life, the cycle of water or just spend a day with the family at the park or park.
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Ground Floor Plan Legend 1. Information Desk 2. Exhibit 3. Aquarium 4. Rail Station, Ticket Booth 5. Splash Park 6. Hologram Tank 7. Fish Bowl Room 8. Computer Searching 9. Hearing Room 10. Shop 2I¿FH 12. Storage 13. Rest Rooms
3rd Floor Plan Legend 1. Exhibit 2. Aquarium 3. Interactive Pool 4. Tank Maintenance 5. Storage 6. Rest Rooms
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Exhibiting  Orlando,  Community  Center Carolina  M.  Valladares,  Grad.  2,  Orlando,  FL Prof.  Frank  Bosworth Orlando  is  proposing  a  Creative  Village  to  attract,  retain,  and  inspire  the  creative  class.  The  Exhibiting  Orlando  Community  Building  is  located  on  the  corner  of  Livingston  Street  and  Terry  Ave.  One  site  negative  is  the  nonexistent  dialog  between  the  buildings  the  public  realm.  The  buildings  are  separated  from  the  public.    I  propose  to  push  the  educational  building  back  and  way  from  the  site  and  insert  /create  a  public,  interactive  community  building.    This  was  done  by  blurring  the  line  between  the  exterior  and  the  interior.  The  building  circulation  moves  linearly  DORQJ ZLWK WKH SXEOLF UHDOP 3HRSOH FDQ ÂżOWHU LQWR the  building  by  slipping  thought  the  glass  entry  wall.  Interior  spaces  continue  to  the  exterior  by  the  creation  of  small,  green,  shaded,  garden  areas.  In  some  moments  these  areas  extend  beyond  the  road  making  imprints  on  the  surrounding  buildings  as  well  as,  forming  and  linking  the  garden  areas.  Â
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Gardenscape  Hotel  and  Apartments
Carolina  M.  Valladares,  Grad.  3,  College  Park,  Gainesville,  FL Prof.  Tom  Smith     Partner:  Casey  Nash The  main  drivers  for  this  project  are  natural  light,  garden  space,  and  shifting  volumes.   Every  unit  has  natural  light  penetrating  into  the  master  bed  rooms;Íž  green  space  interacts  with  the  buildings  on  many  different  scales,  on  both  the  private  and  public  level.   The  shifting  volumes  of  the  buildings  allow  both  the  gardens  and  natural  light  to  interplay  with  daily  living.    7KH ODUJHU VFDOH JUHHQ VSDFH RQ WKH JURXQG Ă€RRU serves  as  a  multi-Âuse  space.  It  is  a  public  space  where  one  may  relax  to  read  a  book  during  the  week  and  it  is  also  a  space  where  the  local  farmers,  or  craft  markets  can  set  up  for  a  weekend.  Visually  connected  to  the  large  public  garden  are  two  smaller  private  gardens  to  the  North  and  South.  These  gardens  are  accessed  only  by  the  apartment  dwellers.   The  gardens  are  raised  up  on  a  different  level  allowing  for  privacy.  Their  visual  connection  to  each  other  allows  for  the  three  gardens  to  read Â
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as  one.  This  illusion  allows  one  the  ownership  of  a  larger  garden  experience.  From  these  horizontal  plains,  the  gardens  move  vertically  onto  the  apartments  and  hotel,  allowing  a  vine  system  to  clothe  it.  This  vine  system  acts  also  as  a  skin,  working  with  the  building  to  minimizing  heat  gain.  At  some  points,  on  the  apartments,  the  vines  pull  away  from  the  building  and  act  as  a  screening  system  for  the  individual  unit  balconies.  This  vertical  vine  system  creates  a  unique  garden  experience.  Allowing  the  natural  light  to  penetrate  deeper  into  the  apartment  units;͞  creates  an  opportunity  for  the  gardens  to  enter  the  living  spaces.  At  this  individual  scale,  the  gardens  become  an  experience  one  lives  with  and  not  just  passes  in  view.
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1 Hotel Room 2 Pool 3 Pool Rest rooms 4 1 Bedroom Apartment 5 2 Bedroom Apartment
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1st Level 2 Bedroom Apartment Approximately 1300 sq. ft. Total
2nd Level 2 Bedroom Apartment Approximately 1300 sq. ft. Total
1 Bedroom Apartment Approximately 800 sq. ft.
View from apartment to central courtyard.
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Feather Chair
Carolina M. Valladares, Design 8 Prof. Donna Cohen
The feather chair plays with the phrase “light as a feather”. The dark heavy frame contrasts the light, airy, netted lace that surrounds it. With simple crochet, the feather chair plays the game of Op Art with the eye. The chair has a PVC structure which is enlaced with turquoise colored cotton thread. The material of the chair allows the structure to appear heavy yet remain light, allowing it to be easily transported. The materials work together in tension and compression to uphold an occupant and give RQH WKH H[SHULHQFH RI ÀRDWLQJ RQ DLU
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Transformed Materials, Chair Co-op
Carolina M. Valladares, Design 8, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Prof. Donna Cohen The Chair Co-op is a sliver of light in the informal urban fabric of Ethiopia’s Marcato. The market entry is largely open to continue with the market language and trade. The rest of the Chair Co-op is more private and interacts with the Marcato through material cleaning and transformation. Plastics and cloths may come in as broken bags but that material is cleaned, braided or woven on to chair frames. A back alley type of road runs along the east side of the building. Here, secondary entrances occur. There is a more private entry for the people who work at the Co-op, and materials are gathered and passed into the Co-op to be altered.
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The Co-op is composed of a series of volumes differentiated by function and grouped around a central courtyard. The courtyard is an extension of both the dying and weaving workshop. The weaving workshop has a wide overhanging roof that provides shade and is open to allow the maximum amount of ventilation. The Dying workshop is a covered open space where fabrics and other crafts are made. It is open to allow poisonous gasses from the dying process to dissipate into the air.
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The Chair Co-op is enclosed by a multi media wall. The wall keeps the language of the informal Marcato and allows privacy for the people working in the Chair Co-op. The wall is a composition of staked stone, brick, bottles and the most readily available materials to make it structural and sound The building is sensitive to site and materials. The construction of the overhead condition is created out of low cost, local materials, mostly recycled and easily obtained. The ventilated roof is a web of recycled steel and reed bar that holds corrugated sheet metal and allow for different light conditions. The line between private and public is clear but ÀH[LEOH
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Hybrid Dwelling
Carolina M. Valladares, Design 7, Manhattan, New York Prof. Albertus Wang Partner: Mylene Anayas The idea of the Hybrid Dwelling Hotel is to address the three temporary urban living quarters in Manhattan, New York: long stay, daily living, and temporary living. These three forms of dwelling DUH ERXQG WRJHWKHU LQWR RQH XQL¿HG OLYLQJ WRZHU It is bound together by the towers skin and the semipublic spaces such as the lobby, restaurant, the gardens and atrium. The gardens are not natural elements of the city. However, with careful placement within the structure, it brings elegant growth skin that fuses to the structure and creates D ¿OWHUHG YLHZ RI WKH FLW\ 7KH +\EULG 'ZHOOLQJ +RWHO is also merged into the urban context of Manhattan, New York. The hotel holds the urban context and intermixes with the neighboring space. On the other hand, the Hybrid Dwelling Hotel invites the urban context within its living quarters and creates a space that forms connections between the sociology of Manhattan, New York and the living quarters.
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The existing rigid grid of Manhattan creates a structural foundation for the Hotel’s skin system. The grid is shifted and broken. Anchors are formed and the grid is translated.
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Shadow Lamp
Carolina M. Valladares, Environmental Technology 2 Prof. Tom Smith, Thomas Paterson
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The halogen lamps let off heat and the feathers form a breathing insulation. The feathers are hollow and cool and prevent the heat of the halogen lamps from transferring into the room. The materials provide layers of shadows that give texture to the walls. 40
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Reformulating Public Domain
Carolina M. Valladares, Design 7, Manhattan, New York Prof. Albertus Wang Partner: Mylene Anayas The proposal is to bring the community together for learning purposes and exchanging of knowledge through several educational facilities and to have artists with diverse traits to educate the community in exchange for lower cost of living. These living quarters are divided into three types of dwellings: daily living, short term dwelling, and long term dwelling. The dwellings are folded and anchored onto a platform that activates the public UHDOP ,W LV WKURXJK D SURFHVVLRQ RI ¿OWHULQJ DQG slipping into a semi public threshold and contain- ments such as restaurants, exhibitions, and public gardens. These gardens form connections to the De Witt Clinton Park and neighboring context such as galleries and educational studios.
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