Deysy Cruz Escobar Undergraduate Portfolio| Selected Works
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Table Of Contents Work Experience
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Alcatraz Active Exhibitions
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BE.ing Collective
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Educational Greenbelt
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The Midway Theater
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Garden Grid
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Vertical Suburbia
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NOVA
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“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” -Charles Eames
My name is Deysy Cruz Escobar I grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. I currently attend Iowa State University, where I will be graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish in May 2021. As a person who has an innate desire to help people and give back to the community, I am intrigued to design facilities which foster cultural identity, community, and healing environments. I approach the design process as a way of critically engaging larger ideas and issues about the world. Outside of my academics I enjoy traveling and becoming immersed in different cultures. You can typically find me hammocking while reading a good book! Professionally, I have been an Architectural Intern with Heery Design a SLAM Studio, formerly known as CBRE|Heery. During my time at Heery Design I had the opportunity to work on the schematic design and BIM modeling for a Hybrid Operation Room. I also created an extensive database with research on the latest medical technology to be implemented in future healthcare design. My most recent professional experience is at INVISION Architecture | Planning | Interiors. As an Architectural Intern at INVISION I helped meet deadlines by aiding in the development of DD submittals, created renderings, and floor plans for client meetings. In addition to this I developed awards drawings for multiple projects designed by INVISION including the Waterloo Career Center and Blank Children’s STAR and Development Center, both which were awarded AIA Iowa Excellence in Design Awards. My mission is to apply my skills and knowledge in efforts to elevate the quality of life, and serve as a voice for underrepresented communities. 4
Deysy Cruz Escobar
Ames, Iowa
Deans list 2016-Present
Bachelor of Architecture Expected Graduation: 2021
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Expected Graduation: 2021
Utilized adobe suite to create drawings for various awards submittals Created renderings using Enscape for client presentations Modeled and designed locker room options using Revit Developed elevations and furniture placement for a Senior Living Facility Assisted with design development phase submittals
Architectural Intern (Summer 2019) Heery Design a SLAM Studio(Former CBRE|Heery), Iowa City, IA
Universidad de Valencia
Valencia, Spain Study Abroad Summer 2017
Leadership Activities NOMA Student Chapter| 2016-Present Iowa Women in Architecture| 2018-Present BUILD Mentor Program| 2017-Present ISU WLC Spanish Tutor| 2019-2020 NAACP Freedom Fund College of Design, Student Representative| 2018
Assisted with conceptual layout and Revit model for a Hybrid Operation Room Developed construction details and documentation from sketches Performed product and system research for projects Created graphics to communicate content to clients via 2D & 3D methods
Community Advisor (2017-Present) Iowa State University Department of Residence, Ames,IA
Assisted community leaders in developing their leadership skills Developed educational programs to foster personal growth Enforced policies and procedures to ensure the safety of residents Mediated conflicts within the residence hall
Awards and Achievements
Technical Skills
Revit|Rhino3D|AutoCAD|Sketchup Enscape|Vray|Lumion|Photoshop Illustrator|InDesign| Hand Drawing Microsoft Office|Bluebeam Revu
Languages English|Spanish|Intermediate Italian
Architect INVISION shannonm@invisionarch.com 224.520.4477
deysycruzescobar.com
Architectural Intern (Summer 2020) INVISION Planning|Architecture|Interiors, Des Moines, IA
Iowa State University
Shannon Mcgee
deysycruzescobar1@gmail.com
Work Experience
Education
References
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Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Student Competition National Finalist| 2020 Iowa State University Richard F. Hansen Student Competition First Place| 2019 NOMA Student Chapter Secretary and Interim Vice President | 2016-2018, 2019 Iowa Women in Architecture Student Member of the Month| June 2019 James H. and M. Suanne Stange Scholarship Endowment| 2019 Iowa State University Academic Program of Excellence| 2016 Multicultural Vision Program Scholar￨ 2016 Ace Mentorship Program Scholarship| 2016
Matthew Nelson
Project Architect Heery Design a SLAM Studio MNelson@slamcoll.com 901.371.6549
Andrew Gleeson
Assistant Teaching Professor Iowa State University agleeson@iastate.edu 515.294.8460
Firat Erdim
Assistant Professor Iowa State University firat@iastate.edu +1.312.447.4124
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Alcatraz Active Exhibitions Partners: James Arnold, Samantha Frantik Project Site: San Francisco, California Media Used: Rhino, Illustrator, photoshop, Vray, Hand Drafting Parasitic Exhibition illustrates the sense of social tensions across time, engaging the spectators in memory, physically and viscerally. We see prison as a monument and metaphor of the establishment. We recognize monumentality as offering reverence, memories and aspirations. In statues we display notable figures from history and hold their characteristics and attributes up as exemplary. As we’ve seen through current events, this version of monumentality is not as timeless as people once thought, thus comes the death of it. Through new monumentality adaptable monuments are proposed that reflect the values and culture of a place moving to the future. Monumentality that brings new life as well as commemoration in a manner that can move forward with a community while acknowledging the past Social issues largely have made us question monumentality and old values. We want to bring new systems into the context of a long time oppressor. The city itself is significant as we know their involvement in social movements throughout history. They are boisterous with their voices and demands for justice and fairness for all people. Protests and movements of activism come as a breaking point after a building tension, but also continue the tension. Art as a form of expression and protest, going against system of oppression that is prison. Through the process of researching Alcatraz, social activism, monumentality, and art curation we decided to propose an art installation on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. Throughout the spaces we attempt to mirror the tension of actual events and produce an experience unlike any other. Even though this place once served for isolation and punishment, it now displays new values, and presents the tensions of social movements. It brings us to understand the importance of standing up for our beliefs. This monument is now not only a commemoration of history, but also of new attitudes and will continue to change as culture adapts. 6
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BE.ing Collective
Partners: Dai Le, Mary Le, Tuyen Le, Henry Melendrez. Cameron Nayman Project Site: Oakland, California Media Used: Rhino, Illustrator, Vray Photoshop, Mixed Use Residential facility fosters humanity, justice, and cultural identity. Located in an industrial zone,The BE.ing Collective addresses environmental racism, where underrepresented communities are put at risk for lack of medical attention, fresh food, and blighted living conditions. The BE.ing collective physically imbues the mind, body, and soul of the Oakland community through the architecture’s bold exterior and healing interior. The manifestation of the broken form symbolizes the resiliency of marginalized voices and lives; broken down, but still rising up, actively healing and uplifting from within. Water is the healing element that extends into the interior, as an act of nurturing for the people inhabiting the space. The surrounding surfaces gradually lead to the center courtyard with slow accumulating cracks of light to showcase the illuminated interior space. The openness of the central courtyard illustrates seamless mobility throughout the collective. There are four main programs consisting of residential, commercial, education, and retail. Access to fresh food is extremely important within this context; that is why the promotion of farm-to-table produce must be a priority. The commercial sector enriches the soulful characteristic of the collective, with spaces for social and cultural services, focusing on community oriented activities. The education emphasizes the rejuvenation of the mind, with after-school and vocational school spaces geared towards STEAM , as well as a library that is conveniently placed on the bike path level. Lastly, the residential sector is the body that encapsulates safety and home, including affordable housing for the members of the community who are displaced and unhoused. Moreover, transitional housing for vulnerable at-risk youth are placed above the educational program to encourage learning. The BE.ing Collective is a place that fosters humanity, justice, and cultural identity. 18
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Educational Greenbelt Partner: Cassandra Frazier Project Site: Des Moines, Iowa Media Used: Revit, Illustrator, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Enscape The unrealized potential of local food production can combat food insecurity through the education of the youngest generations. Due to the continent scale food supply chain, chronic stresses from food insecurity undermine community well-being and are becoming more visible. Lower income households are most likely to be susceptible to these stresses and least likely to be able to cope. Our mission is to promote health through educational resources, specifically in lower income communities within an urban environment, who may not have previous exposure to the importance of local agriculture and sustainable practices. Our master plan consists of three distinct districts, each chosen with strategic revitalization in lower income communities. Using the information from the master plan our ideal site is located in Downtown Des Moines as an addition to Central Campus. The site happens to be in the melting pot of three city forces: Central Campus, Downtown, and Waterworks. This site is an ideal location to design a farm to table cafeteria as a way to make a statement to celebrate nutrition by pulling the cafeteria out of the building and the center of the community. The farm to table cafeteria consists of a public café on the first floor and an educational cafeteria on the second floor with outdoor seating, which also serves as a multipurpose space for other events and food nutrition classes to take place. There is a tunnel which cuts through the center of the building and allows a farmer’s market to flow through while creating a welcoming space for the community to be aware of the resource. Ultimately, our goal is to bring this diverse community and its land together. The unrealized potential of local food production can combat food insecurity through the education of the youngest generations.
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The Midway Theater Richard F. Hansen Prize 1st Place Partner: Alice Tosi Project Site: Ames, Iowa Media Used: Rhino, Illustrator, photoshop. Acetone Transfer, Watercolor, Colored Pencils on Wood panels The Midway Theater engages its ISU context: it is an extension of campus, an environment for collaboration and artistry, and its impact reaches beyond its original site.
The premise of our project was to create an institute of choreography next to the Iowa State University College of Design. For our interpretation of choreography, we imagined a class that would take place at Iowa State University, fomenting collaboration between design and theater students. When taking a look at developing this institute of choreography, we decided to interweave our architecture with the surrounding environment. The building is weaving through the landscape, and stitches begin to extend, creating seating and a unified outdoor amphitheater where nomadic pageant wagons continue to weave in and around the side from the production to performance stage. This building houses a studio and learning spaces. Bringing all these elements together creates a choreography which weaves through and around our architecture, thus creating our choros.
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Garden Grid Partner: Brett Snyder Project Site: Waukee, Iowa Media Used: Rhino, Photoshop, Lumion, Illustrator, Garden Grid is a ward that addresses a future disruption in agriculture productivity due changes in rainfall patterns and variable unpredictable weather caused by climate change Climate change is not only causing sea levels to rise, but it is also creating changes in rainfall patterns, leading to overall more variable and unpredictable weather. Average precipitation trends are projected to increase in the Midwest causing record flooding. This watershed will lead to the loss of soil porosity diminishing the overall soil richness ideal for plant growth. Ultimately, these conditions are expected to disrupt agriculture productivity in the United States. We are introducing vertical farming as a solution to yield crops in a controlled environment. Garden Grid is located mostly North of Waukee, as well as Southwest of Grimes and Northwest of Clive. The existing context in this area is mostly farm ground or similar structureless land. We realize how important Iowa farm ground is, and we also predict with rising water levels that Iowa farm ground will become more desired to grow food for a growing population moving inland. Because of this, we wanted to use our wards to expand the urban context over this existing farm ground with the intention of housing a population increase that could reach one million. We are not trying to get rid of the farm ground, but instead relocate it by going vertically, and allowing for native crops as well as a wider variety of crops to be grown year round on less square footage. The figure ground of the Garden Grid is ½ mile by ½ mile which allows us to fit four of our wards within the one square mile of the existing Jeffersonian grid. In the figure ground diagram the black represents standard buildings in the ward while the gray represents the vertical farms and greenhouses. The Garden Grid wards come together to create a master plan extending beyond our intended site, thus weaving patches into the existing urban fabric.
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Vertical Suburbia
Partner: Jacob Gockel Project Site: San Francisco, California Media Used: Rhino, Illustrator, photoshop, AutoCAD, Vray Modular residential complex provides greenspaces, and courtyards enhanced with customizable high tech holograms, mingling the digital world with nature. Vertical Suburbia is an apartment complex located in San Francisco, California adjacent to the Betty Ong Rec Center. This modular design aims to provide green spaces and to preserve views within a dense city from the comfort of each module, thus introducing a vertical suburbia within an urban setting. The green spaces are composed of courtyards, which serve as a method of water conservation to reduce flash flooding, as well as a space for program. The Rec Center serves the community, since we are replacing their current exterior playground, the courtyards will function as community spaces for both the residents and the the Betty Ong Center community. These courtyard spaces are enhanced with customizable high tech holograms. This introduces the mingling of the digital world with nature and the juxtaposition of a suburban setting within an urban environment. The modules are composed of one, two, and three bedroom apartments to allow residents from diverse backgrounds to have a space that meets their needs.
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NOVA:Modular Facade Partner: Dai Le Project Site: Anywhere Media Used: Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, 3D Printing, Rockite This façade consists of a stacking module system inspired by Shuriken The shuriken has a dynamic function for range combat that is intended to hook into the target. We wanted to explore the hook like qualities of the form to become an interconnected modular design. The Mid-Century modern geometric pattern inspired an architectural arch element into our overall modular facade, that works in compression for the structural quality of our module. Inspired by these two precedents we came to our final design the NOVA. Various iterations were created to arrive at the final mold design. The schematic design to construction process enabled us to think critically about the assembly of our physical designs.
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Deysycruzescobar.com deysycruzescobar1@gmail.com (515) 419-7608
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