Daniel Ramirez | California College of the Arts | Graduate Architecture Portfolio

DANIEL RAMIREZ California College of the Arts MArch| 2021

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DANIEL (915)252-0236

RAMIREZ Drami0910@gmail.com

WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE? Architecture is culture and the built environment; Architecture is the space and the relationship it creates among people. It is not influenced by the notions of the past, instead thinking of history critically as we proceed forward while being deeply aware of the current state. Hence, becoming a confusion and provocation as well as tangible and intangible that creates interrelations.

CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DOB: February 18, 1995 Nationality: American Instagram: Draladis Address: 1745 Revere Ave. San Francisco, CA 94124

SKILLS DESIGN SOFTWARE Rhinoceros: Advanced Grasshopper: Intermediate CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE AutoDesk | Revit: Advanced AutoDesk | Dynamo: Intermediate AutoDesk | AutoCAD: Advanced AutoDesk | Inventor: Intermediate AutoDesk | 3ds Max: Intermediate CREATIVE SOFTWARE Adobe | Ai, Ps, Id, Lr: Advanced Adobe | Pr: Intermediate RENDERING SOFTWARE Lumion: Advanced Twinmotion: Advanced Vray: Intermediate

Email: Daniel.ramirez@cca.edu Phone Number : (915)252-0236

EDUCATION California College of the Arts, Master of Architecture (expected) | 08/2019 - 05/2021 | CCA Scholarship and CCA Diversity Scholarship | Cumulative GPA : 3.8

Texas Tech University, CoA El Paso, Bachelor of Science in Architecture | 08/2017 - 05/2019 | Cum Laude | GPA : 3.89 | Dean’s List | 05/2019 Study Abroad Summer Program - Tau Delta Sigma Member Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts Recipient - James M. Langford Endowment Scholarship and Terry & Linda Fuller Scholarship | 2018 - 2019 - TTU Proven Achievers Scholarship/EPC AIA Scholarship/SACS Study Abroad Scholarship | 08/2017 - 05/2019

El Paso Community College, Associates of Science in Architecture / Associates of Arts | 08/2013 - 05/2017 | President’s List | Dean’s List - El Paso Architectural Foundation Scholarship and JOBE Materials Distinguished Scholarship

El Paso Community College, Associates in Accounting/Business/Economics | 08/2013 - 05/2017 | President’s List | Dean’s List

Architectural and Engineering Riverside Trades and Industry Program | 08/2012 - 05/2013 | Advanced Architecture Design & Practicum in Architecture Design

EXPERIENCE Architectural Designer, The Dry Land, Landscape Architecture, El Paso, TX | 05/2018 - 05/2019 | Dealing with firm organization, design concept, business management, and CAD construction drawings

Architectural Department at EPCC, El Paso , TX | 08/2015 - 05 2017 | Dealing with CAD Construction Drawings and design concept

OTHER ArcGIS: Intermediate Microsoft Office: Advanced Hand-Modeling: Advanced Manual Drafting: Intermediate

AIAS, Treasurer | College of Architecture Mentoring Program (CoAMP) |

LANGUAGES English: Primary Spanish: Native Portuguese: Intermediate

RECOGNITIONS Tessellated Timber Ribs Project | SKYHIVE Bee Breeders Skyscrapper Competition

REFERENCES Antje Steinmuller | CCA Email: asteinmuller@cca.edu Margaret Ikeda | CCA Email: mikeda@cca.edu Stephen Mueller | TTU Email: S.Mueller@ttu.edu Ersela Kripa | TTU Email: Ersela.Kripa@ttu.edu

08/2018 - 05/2019 | Administering and managing the financial revenues and expenses of the program

CoA TTU Study Abroad, Studio VI, Urban Design in Seville, Spain 05/2018 - 08/2018 | Coordinated with ETSAM, GIPC, COAM, and ETSA

- Honorable Mention Award Recipient | Summer 2020

Dust Institute: Desert Optics Project | Exhibitions - Published in a book, by Architect Tatiana Bilbao | Two sides of the Border : Redefining a Region | August 2020 - Exhibited at The Yale School of Architecture | Two sides of the Border: Redefining a Region | 11/2018 - 02/2019 - Published in Texas Architect Magazine Snakes and Ladders | magazine.texasarchitects.org

International Bridge Design | Exhibition - Exhibited at The El Paso Museum of Art Transborder Biennial | 08/2018 - 10/ 2018

AutoDesk and OHSA Industry Certification - Practicum Architecture Design and Advanced Architecture Design May 2012- May 2013

TESSELLATED TIMBER RIBS

NESTED STRUCTURE

VARIABLE ORGANISM

RAMPED MOMENT FRAME

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FRAGMENTED AMENITIES

REFRACTING THE ATMOSPHERIC

DESERT OPTICS

SOTOL MICRODISTILLERY

VOLATILE URBANISM

PRECARIOUS TECH-WORKERS

01 TESSELLATED TIMBER RIBS RAMPED MOMENT FRAME SPRING 2020 INTEGRATED DESIGN STUDIO PARTNER: SERGIO ESQUINCA INSTRUCTOR: PETER ANDERSON TYPE: TALL TIMBER/HIGH-RISE BUILDING SITE: 599 HOWARD STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA MODES OF TRANSPORTATION

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01. ABSTRACT Due to previous earthquakes in San Francisco such as the 1906 and the 1989 Loma Prieta in which 67 people perished, 3,000 were injured, and causing more than $5 billion in damages. This disaster was one of the most powerful and destructive earthquakes to ever hit the United States.

The architectural solution is to encounter the problem not by eliminating all earthquake risks, but instead reduce them to an acceptable level by protecting against injury and loss of life. Therefore, by taking into consideration the seismically active characteristics of the Bay Area; a new structural element was implemented called the Pin-Fuse compression joint, it is designed to deal with shear stress forces by emulating the pivotal movements of a human shoulder. These joints would start to move and react to the loads applied during an earthquake by dissipating them and minimizing the damage on the structure.

This project promotes an alternative to reduce global emissions by replacing steel and concrete with wood. This structure is made of prefabricated glue-laminated timber ribs that merges the structure, technical infrastructure, and the practicality into an architecture element.

This structure allows for further expansion in the future, by the act of stacking more ribs. These ribs would define the interior and its spatial articulation, the openings would provide indirect light to penetrate, but also a subtle glow to the interior; the ribs change throughout the structure to define different spaces from large spans to more intimate moments such as the ramp. The ramp would allow for vertical and horizontal circulation from the underground to the roof top while complying with ADA. It would also provide different and unique vantage points of San Francisco. Overall, this project understands a wider vision and mission by acting towards the city needs, creating an opportunity to build environmentally friendly cities; and helping rural economies with new manufacturing jobs.

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SF DOWNTOWN

SITE CONTEXT

RAMP/ELEVATOR/STAIRS

DISTRIBUTION OF LOADS

SPATIAL ORGANIZATION/ PUBLIC & PRIVATE The program of the building will consist of an 18-story tower, and will use SF Planning’s district guidelines documents as the basis for all major restrictions and conditions. The principal program will be office use, production/editing areas, together with restaurant/retail near street level, auditoriums, a publicly accessible rooftop, and a childcare/nursery school facility.

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Public

CHILDCARE/NURSERY

Private

AUDITORIUM

LOBBY Public

UNDERGROUND/CAFE

Rstrnt./Rooftop

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Offices

ROOFTOP

TYPICAL OFFICE #2

Cafe

Lobby Rstrn.

Entertainment

Nursery

TYPICAL OFFICE #3

TYPICAL OFFICE #1

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GLUE-LAMINATED TIMBER/ BENEFITS OF USING WOOD The building is made of Glue-laminated timber, a material made of many sheets of wood glued and compressed together. Therefore, making the wood sturdier than steel. Wood is Environmentally Friendly compare to steel and concrete in which it creates 16% of global emissions. By switching to wood, there can be a reduction in emissions of up to 31%.

Glue-laminated timber requires less fossil fuels to transport due to its lightness compare to steel, further reducing emissions. It’s also cost-effective because its lighter and quicker to assemble on site; and renewable due to its cultivation and haversting properties.

WALL SECTION/ASSEMBLY

1. Self adhesive sealant tape 2. Lok Fasteners 3. Wood panel with weatherproofing coat 4. Thermatile tile support wood panel 5. 2” Concrete Slab

6. Air Seal 7. Trim flashing sealed into glazing pocket 8. Airlight membrane w/ air sealed overlapped joints 9. Curtain wall by others 10. Exterior laminated glass

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JOINT MOVEMENT / PIN FUSE COMPRESSION JOINT Structural grid systems may provide strength and rigidity. But the pin-fuse compression joints are made to have superior strength while also having elasticity to deal with shear forces caused by earthquakes. As the loads increases, the joints start to move. The utilization of the joint provides flexibility, and the earthquake forces can be dissipated and allow for minimal structure damage to the structure.

CONVENTIONAL

STRUCTURE EXPOSED TO

STRUCTURE COMPROMISED

STRUCTURE

EARTHQUAKES

AFTER EARTHQUAKE

PIN-FUSE COMPRESSION

STRUCTURE W/ SHEAR

STRUCTURE INTACT AFTER

JOINT FRAME

LOADS APPLIED

EARTHQUAKE

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OFFICE

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02 VARIABLE ORGANISM N E S T E D

S T R U C T U R E

FALL 2020 ADVANCED STUDIO EMBEDDED INTELLIGENCE INSTRUCTOR: NEGAR KALANTAR + AL BORHANI TYPE: 3D NESTING A TRANSPORTABLE PAVILION SITE: EXPO 2023 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

TRANSITIONAL FORM FINDING PLAN

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02. ABSTRACT This project is a Nested Transportable Pavilion that would be showcased in the World Expo 2023 Buenos Aires, Argentina; The theme is Creative Industries in Digital Convergence which would focus on creative industries.

Hence, understanding the dynamics of digital fabrication became imperative during the process of designing. This freeform shell structure seeks to improve life quality while generating sustainable growth; it answers the question on “how digital convergence is reshaping the creative industries and the everyday life?” This digital revolution has showed us how technology has impacted not only the creative industries but also the production, distribution, and the consumption. This pavilion attempts to understand a range of techniques including 2.5d nesting and 3d nesting to develop a geometry while using the tessellation process.

The freeform shell structure can be turn into stackable components and this allows for a continuous assembly. Therefore, having the top face of each component match with the same shape from the bottom face was the objective. The shell becomes a self-supported structure that serves as a canopy as well as a pavilion for the Expo 2023. The pavilion has appx. 650 components can span up to 60 ft. and the height of up to 20 ft. with <5” of thickness. A critical objective of the curving canopy was to understand the stress factors and apply it to the structure. Hence, the compression and tension forces became a design factor for the self-standing structure.

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EXPO 2023 SITE : BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

SPATIAL ORGANIZATION : CIRCULATION

STRESS FORCES : T/C PLAN

STRESS FORCES : T/C AXON

STACK COMPONENTS/ 2.5 AND 3D NESTED The pavilion is intended to showcase how the stress forces can affect architectural structures; but also, how ambitious structures can be made from 2.5 and 3d nested components and how its construction process becomes more efficient by utilizing sustainable materials instead of steel. The shell structure has concave and convex properties; The fabricated stacks allows an exploration of zero-waste construction, where the pavilion becomes transportable. The stack components will occupy minimal storge space, which reduces both construction and transportation costs. The small components can be erect and taken apart by a few people allowing for fast and efficient construction on site. In addition, the pavilion will be fabricated here in the US and it will be assembled in Buenos Aires where it will be used by the (AIA). The structure can also be moved to new locations in the future without compromising the structural integrity.

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INTERRELATION/ COMPLETE STRUCTURE The program of the pavilion consists of the main exhibit hall where architecture models will be displayed, demonstration walls, video presentation areas, small gathering, and the entrance/ reception area. The relationship between the interior and exterior became crucial while designing; by allowing a smooth transition between the pavilion’s landscape/environment and its structure. The structure becomes the essence on how geometries can be both expressive as well as efficient. The goal was to show a distinct way of designing where the comprehension of multiple constraints such as the relationship between geometry and forces becomes imperative in the development of the freeform shell where it becomes not only the structure but also the geometry; therefore, creating a complete structure.

CONTINUOUS/ FLOOR PLAN

1. Exhibit hall

4. Receptio/entrance

2. Demonstration walls

5. Small gathering area

3. Presentation Areas

6. Patio

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FABRICATION ORGANIZATION/ COMPONENTS NUMBERED & ORDER (650 COMPONENTS)

INTERACTIVE LONGITUDINAL/ SECTION

26 | ORGANIZATION/ EAST ELEVATION

ORGANIZATION/ SOUTH ELEVATION

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28 | TRANSITIONAL/ FORM FINDING PLAN

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30 | EXTERIOR RENDERS/ LANDSCAPE ENVIRONMENT

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03 FRAGMENTED AMENITIES PRECARIOUS TECH-WORKERS FALL 2019 STUDIO 3 HOUSING MARCH-6030-1 INSTRUCTOR: ANTJE STEINMULLER TYPE: HOUSING FOR TRANSPLANT TECH-WORKERS SITE: EAST PALO ALTO, SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA

INTERFACE SHARED/ THRESHOLD

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03. ABSTRACT This housing project will respond to the raising rent prices here in the Bay Area. Therefore, benefiting the Transplant Entry Level Tech Workers, by making the rent affordable by reducing the livable spaces and in exchange each inhabitant and resident would have communal and privacy spaces as an amenity. Where privacy will be divided into Visual, Auditory, and /or both Visual and Auditory Privacy. Shared spaces would encourage the interactions between inhabitants by dispersing the spaces for the residents to socialize and interact with one another.

The communal spaces main goal is to avoid alienation by reducing stress and improving their relationships and their network. Our site is in East Palo Alto, located in the Silicon Valley, in which this community of approximately 30,000 people are experiencing a rapid change due to the growth of the Tech industry, and they believe that East Palo Alto should remain Livable and Affordable for everyone they are seeking solutions for this problem.

Some solutions not only for the Community of East Palo Alto but also for my Sub-group is to have housing that it’s affordable not only for people that live in San Francisco area but also for people that are moving out here and experiencing the financial change. This project rethinks what privacy really is by having privacy not on your room but on a user defined space. By expanding the sharable areas and reducing the livable areas this building is promoting social interactions between the people.

This housing will be influenced by Density, community and Adaptability.

Density will be achieved by having more people inhabit the building, community by having facilities where people can relax and network, and adaptability by having changeable structure where the overall structure is composed of different cells derived from a tessellated grid. And flexibility will be introduced to the interior installations due to the temporal and unpredictability change of the precarious tech-worker.

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ISOLATING SHARING OPPORTUNITIES/ TIME SCHEDULE & PRIVACY

Personal care Eating Physical Health Mental Health Cooking Working Sleeping Entertainment

Privacy

Sq. Ft. Public Semi-Private Private

OVERALL POPULATION/ TECH JOBS - The overall population of San Francisco has increased over time, having an average annual gain of 11,173 persons since 2011. (2011: +10,524, 2012: +14,112, 2013: +10,486, 2014: +11,988, 2015: +13,062, 2016: +9,783, 2017: +8,260) Among those persons are students and employees which many of them are Transplant workers that come here to work for established and/or emerging companies.

-There is a total of half a million empty tech jobs and its only growing. Our country has nearly 9 million available jobs in STEM with 70% being in computers and in IT. -Although there is a vast of jobs available there is not enough skilled people to take over the positions.

California is expecting a shortage of approximately 2.5 million skilled workers by 2025. And Silicon Valley is asking themselves where the new talent will be coming from?

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CIRCULATION

PRIVACY

DENSITY

COMPOSITE AXON

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Visual/ Auditory/ V.A

UNIT PLANS/ AXON

Unit Types

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42 | TYPOLOGIES/ CELLS

1 - VISUAL/ AUDITORY PRIVACY

2 - AUDITORY PRIVACY

3 - VISUAL PRIVACY

4 - UNITS

Amenity moments where love making, meditation, and isolation occur.

Areas without noise disturbance allows for activities such as drawing, reading, yoga, and playing the guitar to occur.

Areas for people who perform religious actions, rituals, etc.

Areas to sleep; encou them to socialize.

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SECTION/ PERSPECTIVE

4

2

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uraging

3

5 - INNER COURTYARDS

6 - OUTER COURTYARDS

7 - COMMUNAL SPACES

Areas for residents to relax and/ or have conversations.

Event areas that improve relationships and network.

Socialize areas that avoids alienation and reduces stress.

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7

6

44 | PEEPHOLE/ INTERACTIVE

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46 | RENDERS

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04 VOLATILE URBANISM SOTOL MICRODISTILLERY SPRING 2019 ARCH 4602 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VII INSTRUCTOR: CATHERINE SODERBERG TYPE: SOTOLERIA/ MICRODISTILLERY SITE: CHIHUAHUITA, EL PASO, TEXAS

TERRITORIAL ANALYSIS/ MAPPING

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04. ABSTRACT This sotol micro distillery initiates a new economic, social, and cultural engine for the Chihuahuita neighborhood in El Paso, Tx. It merges the cultural and industrial architecture, and it exploits the unique territorial resource of sotol while intensifying the public and urban life. The micro distillery will focus on the process such as harvesting, fermenting, distilling, bottling, and storage; it will be composed of a variety of components, including a visitor’s center, showroom, sotoleria, tasting room, cultural center, and retail. The production will be exposed to the neighborhood through the skylights; hence educating the masses of this prehistoric plant that remains modern today in the binational region.

Through the process of fermentation of sotol carbon dioxide is produce.

Since the site is near the international bridge (more than 3.6 million vehicles cross) and the railways, these vehicles and trains emits tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Therefore, having a sotoleria emitting CO2 to the low income Chihuahuita Neighborhood did not help. It became imperative to reduce the emissions through the utilization of interior fans that will capture the CO2 from the sotoleria while simultaneously absorbing the CO2 emissions that are released to the air from cars, trains, and other sources. Lastly it creates a mission and vision to understand the urban environment by combining aspects of education and improving the cultural life of Chihuahuita neighborhood.

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GASEOUS FORM/ SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS

SOTOL/ DELICATE TERRITORIAL RESOURCE Sotol is well known in Durango and Coahuila, indigenous people in the region use the plant not only as food but also to make mats, baskets, and as building materials. The process of making sotol such as harvesting, fermenting, and distilling is not widely known, but has been passed down from generations of sotol producers in in regional landscape. The micro distillery is a volatile typology that combines the production/consumption and the commercial/cultural uses for the urban scale.

54 | MICRODISTILLERY/ PLANS UNDERGROUND PLAN/ PRODUCTION

LEVEL 2 PLAN/ CONSUMPTION

GROUND FLOOR/ ACTIVE

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56 | MICRODISTILLERY/ SECTION AXON & URBAN AXON

| 57 MICRODISTILLERY/ MOODEL & RENDERS

05 DESERT OPTICS R E F R A C T I N G T H E AT M O S P H E R I C SPRING 2018 ARCH 3502 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN V INSTRUCTOR: STEPHEN MUELLER TYPE: DUST INSTITUTE SITE: SAMALAYUCA, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO

2D RECIPROCAL FRAME/ TESSELATIONS

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05. ABSTRACT The project elaborates a structural and spatial mechanism to manage elusive optical effects in a desert landscape. Layered shells constructed from reciprocal frames emulate and reframe the surrounding Samalayuca Dunes. The design leverages the efficiency and adaptability of the structural system to produce multiple programmatic and performative effects from its double curvature – gently spanning the delicate landscape while shaping visual continuities and discontinuities on site.

The design engages the thickened atmosphere of the site, imagined as a field of variable visibility, which registers the effects of airborne particulate at a range of scales. Oriented to provide vistas of the various landforms and landmarks of the borderland, the building provides vantage points from which atmospheric haze and inversions are easily observed.

A series of skylights filter light through dust-filled chambers within the controlled laboratories and public observation areas of the building. As shafts of light pass through these architectural, optical lenses, the building promotes new understandings of the airborne material that connects and divides the borderland.

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PERFORMATIVE MORPHOLOGIES/ ASSEMBLY OF COMPONENTS

OPTIMIZED 3D/ RF-STRUCTURE

PROGRAM/ SPACE(S) DIAGRAMS RULES

64 | ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS/ GROUND FLOOR PLAN

TRANSSOLAR ILLUMINATION/ LONGITUDINAL SECTION

| 65 VISUAL CONTINUITY/ TYPICAL AND ROOF PLAN

66 | DESERT OPTICS/ PERFORMATIVE MORPHOLOGIES

BUILDING SKIN MATERIALS SUBDIVISIONS/ ADAPTED PANELS

FILTER/ SKYLIGHTS

RECIPROCAL FRAME/ PANELS

RECIPROCAL FRAME/ PRIMARY STRUCTURE

ADAPTABLE/ SURFACES CONTOURS

PERFORMATIVE/ FULL AXON

COMPLETE ASSEMBLY/ W/ SITE CONTOURS (5FT.)

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POINT-GRID STYLE MAP

SKYLIGHTS/ SUN DIAGRAMS

ONE YEAR SOLAR STUDY

MODEL ASSEMBLY/ RF LASER CUT FILE

WATERFLOW DIAGRAM/ PLAN VIEW

VIEWSHEDS STUDY

68 | DESERT OPTICS/ PHASE RENDERS

VISUAL EXPERIENCES/ DUSTSTORMS, WEATHER, CONDITIONS

TOPOGRAPHY WATERFLOW DIAGRAM/ SLOPE ELEVATION W/ DIRECTIONS

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