DAVID A. DÁVILA CASTRO ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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CONVERGENCE OBJECT CONVERGENCE SHEARED CONSOLIDATION INTERPOLATION GEOID ANALYSIS SUPER IMPOSITION
CONVERGENCE - OBJECT
WHERE ELEMENTS COINCIDE, CLASH, REACT
DESIGN STUDIO 8 INSTRUCTOR: JOEL SETZER UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
CONVERGENCE - OBJECT Spatial study which began as the intersection of two planes, one horizontal and one vertical, as a base point and then developed to demonstrate convergence of specific repetitive elements with these two directional planes. The spatial object explores connectivity of these elements and the spatial possibilities that can occur when these planes and elements clash or coexist and are manipulated in their respective reaction/contact points, achieving interstitial spaces in the process. The object was designed to appear as a monolithic object and offer multiple readings on all 6 sides in order to fully experience the interaction between elements and space.
CONVERGENCE
WHERE MATERIALITY, NATURE, AND SPACE ARE YOUR GUIDE
DESIGN STUDIO 8 INSTRUCTOR: JOEL SETZER UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
CONVERGENCE One of the strongest elements of the Lake Eola park area is of course, the lake itself. This supported the decision to apply a linear axis (stream) that visually connects with Lake Eola, while at the same time the stream functions as an active wayfinder throughout the project. The stream leads you straight into the nucleus of the project which is the atrium and main exhibition space for the artist housing and collective. The nucleus reacts accordingly to this vector movement and the stream spreads out throughout the site, leading you to the studios, public park, and housing. Referencing the previous project, Convergence explores spatial progression when continuous elements converge either clashing or coexisting, and the spatial moments created when these elements reach contact or proximity.
GROUND PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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6’
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SHEARED
WHERE DEFORMATION BECOMES EXPERIENCE
CORE STUDIO 1: SUBJECTS, TOOLS PROCESSES INSTRUCTOR: NANCY NICHOLS RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
SHEARED Taking into consideration the act of pushing against an implied surface, there was a spatial development of shearing and folding of planes in space. The community library is based on a 45 degree sheared diagram within a linear path. Planes shear solely in this direction, based o of view corridors vs. path of travel. The extended linear ground plane extends toward the limit of the site; while planes begin to shift, voids/atriums begin to take form within this restricted diagram, creating opportunities for vertical circulation and breaking horizontal circulation. The constant shift both horizontal and vertical breaks the notion of a unilateral spatial sequence, allowing the materiality and tectonics of the spaces to offer various paths .
ITERATIONS
SITE PLAN 35’
5’ 15’
GROUND PLAN 35’
5’ 15’
BASEMENT PLAN 35’
5’ 15’
CONSOLIDATION
WHERE COMMUNITY IS CONNECTED
CORE STUDIO 3: CITIES INSTRUCTOR: JESS MYERS RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Site Plan made by project partner
CONSOLIDATION Role: Design collaboration, floor plans, apartment unit drawing
Consolidation attempts to tackle the challenges that Trumbull Park Homes (Chicago) have faced for decades. It is important to acknowledge the consequences of the extremeley segregated urban conditions of the Chicago area and the socioeconomic implications for minorities. The urban condition of Trumbull Park Homes is particular; it is clustered and cornered in the South Chicago area, causing residents to have lack of accesibility to their jobs, and basic needs such as banks, grocery stores, doctors, etecera. The project zooms in at a initial masterplan scheme to intervene through urban acupunture in the existing site. Using the same footprint of two buildings we emphasize connectivity by connecting two volumes with flexible community spaces with an enclosed pathway which both creates spaces that the community lacked while allowing residents to go through freely throughout the urban scheme.
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BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN
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MAKING SPACE AUDITORIUM WORKSPACE
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ADMINISTRATION MULTI-USE SPACE AUDITORIUM
12’ N
GROUND PLAN 84’ 36’
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LABOR UNION LABOR UNION MULTI-USE SPACE
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THIRD FLOOR PLAN 84’ 12’
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MULTI-USE SPACE 84’
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Render made by project partner
Render made by project partner
Render made by project partner
Render made by project partner
INTERPOLATION
WHERE TYPOLOGIES INTERTWINE
CORE STUDIO 2: CONSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTOR: EVAN FARLEY RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Religious
Commercial
Health
Institutional
Educational
Hospitality
Residential
Combined
Ventilation
Sun Path
INTERPOLATION
The proposal approaches the program through maximizing the available floor space and integrating a grid. Referencing modernist ideals, the mixed-use building maintains a rigid grid which office space will adpat to while theater and market space program is interpolated into this grid. The theater program moves within the office grid sharing a nucleus which is the large hall’s fly tower and back stage. This consistent theater core within the building breaks the grid and functions as a structural core. Vertical circulation also wraps around this nucleus, making a spectacle of the events happening in the large performance hall. This also allows both a horizontal and vertical interaction through market, theater, and office space. Visitors encounter market space, the large performance hall and access to the office space lobby. Then there is a transition from the performance hall area to the second level which is continued market space and the opportunity to go to continue to the third level portion of the market. At the third level, the building has a divide between shared market space and office space. From the fourth level onward office space begins to seem around the performance hall core and what becomes the second hall, creating an interaction of two distinct programs. The sixth and last level culminates in a full market space with an enclosed courtyard with the option of opening it up when appropriate. Public space interwines with the other programs activating the building and creating a new dynamic between performance and office typologies.
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GROUND PLAN
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
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FIFTH FLOOR PLAN
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SIXTH FLOOR PLAN
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GEOID ANALYSIS
WHERE THE ANALOG AND DIGITAL OVERLAP
GRADUATE DRAWING STUDIO INSTRUCTOR: AARON TOBEY RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
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UNFOLDED ROCK PLAN
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TRAJECTORY ISOMETRICS
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GEOID ANALYSIS This analysis drawing focuses on the properties of a physical geoid which was provided. The process involved translated its form into a flattened unfolded drawing as a starting point to transition into recreating this recorded object with three dimensional modeling. Once this physical object became a part of the digital realm, the entire physical and drafting process of documenting the geoid became a part of the drawing, such as trajectories and order in which planes and form were observed. To finalize the analysis linework was projected onto the rock strategically to demonstrate hierachy of sections that were analyzed and to imply the order in which it was recorded without referencing previous drawings. The final composition is a compilation of elevation drawings and renders with projected line work, streamlining the analog and digital analysis.
ISOMETRIC 1
ISOMETRIC 2
ELEVATION A
ELEVATION B
COMPILED ELEVATIONS
SUPER IMPOSITION
WHERE DISCIPLINES UNITE
DIGITALLY PRINTED FABRIC STUDIO INSTRUCTOR: REGINA GREGORIO RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
SUPERIMPOSITION
Superimposition tackles the relationship between engineered fabrics, designed silhouette, and the body both in a static and dynamic state. Also, how can interchangeable separates can create various readings both graphically and formally on the body, this creates an alternative way to combine pieces and continue the narrative in various ways of representation. Once the pattern pieces were draped and drafted digitally, line work was created as a means to flow throughout the body in a abstract and informational way, a means of data. The various pattern pieces have their own engineered design, and the materiality of the pieces, in this case silk chiffon and silk charmeuse were taken into consideration for printing. Through layering the pieces function on their own or through a play of solid and transparency which in itself can represent the body statically and most importantly, in movement.