DIEGO ARIZA BA Architecture, University of Houston 2011 Academic Porfolio
ACADEMIC 1. Studio IV : Spring 2007 - Menil Bookstore 2. Studio V : Fall 2008 - Library 3. Studio VI : Spring 2009 - Restaurant 4. Studio VII : Fall 2009 - Work Center 5. Studio VII : Fall 2009 - Park & Ride 6. Studio VIII: Spring 2010 - Water Skin 7. Studio VIII: Spring 2010 - Swim Retreat 8. Studio VIII : Spring 2010 - Natatorium 9. Studio IX : Summer 2010 - Study Center 10.Studio X : Fall 2010 - Admiral Glass Co.
Menil Bookstore STUDIO IV - SPRING 07 The Menil bookstore project deals with the challenges of circulation thru the site, how it interacts with its surroundings and the Menil Art Museum. The site acts as a buffer zone between a busy avenue and a quiet neighborhood that acts as a gateway into the main entrance of the museum. The project calls for a 1500 square feet of book stack space and a coffee shop for 30 customers. The design concept in this project can be described as a funnel or focal point that gathers the pedestrian circulation from the main parking lot area, where the bookstore and the cafe restrict the pedestrian passage, then opens into the main entrance of the museum across the street. The aim of the design is to act as a filter to promote the sales of books, as well as to create a gathering space while still keeping the neighborhood sealed from the busy avenue.
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Museum Parking
Menil Bookstore/ Coffee Bar
Mulberry Street
Mandell Street
Sul Ross
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Library STUDIO V - FALL 08 The site is located in a historic district on Washington Ave. west of Downtown Houston. This narrow site expands as one moves west, thus allowing for a sense of openness and gives an opportunity for wider floor plan. The idea of inter-connectivity between bays aroused as a direct interpretation of the form of the site and it also allowed for the idea of telescoping of the bays. Sunlight is admitted by a curtain wall system on the south side section of the building at first sight. Programmatically, the spaces flow from the public entrance into a more private space that inhibits an intimate connection with the books.
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reinforce concrete roof one way slab
steel curtain wall system
steel tube louver shading system
one way concrete joist slab
reinforced concrete columns
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Mechanical Section
Tafia Restaurant STUDIO VI - SPRING 09 This site is located on Main St. along the Houston Metro rail line. The project consists of the integration of various programs spaces into one single project. The restaurant calls for a store, a bar, and an outside covered space for a farmers market. The design simply elevates the main restaurant floor, along with the kitchen for privacy and also serves as the cover for the outside farmers market. The bar and the store are located in the first floor for easy access and visibility from Main St. The main restaurant space is covered by a wide wire barrel roof that is supported by a cable tension system that also gives an interior aesthetic value and an outside iconic identity. The restaurant is serviced thru a back corridor with its own separate set of stairs that connects the kitchen and the outside.
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Work Center STUDIO VII - FALL 09 The site is located in the parking lot of a “Box hardware store” along a busy freeway. The Work Center project is aimed to take advantage of a store’s under-used parking lot and to create a new relationship between the giant hardware store and immigrant workers that loiter on its grounds. The Workers Center in part would provide a showroom space and classrooms for customers and workers as well. The design also calls for the direct connection to the Houston Community College across the freeway, thus the design takes on the form of a ribbon that runs from the parking lot to the community college into the main parking lot. The building uses an interior and exterior ramp that connects to the bridge on the second floor where the classrooms are located.
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Park & Ride STUDIO VII - FALL 09 The goal of the project is to enhance the usage of the Metro Park & Ride system throughout Houston by increasing access and visibility and by providing new programs focused on physical fitness that suit the needs of commuters. This proposal also reduces the ecological footprint of the site by alluring new users to the system, systematic parking, and reducing impervious surfaces. The site is located at the South Point Park and Ride station along I-45 south which serves as the main access way to Downtown Houston. The design concept simply uses the common typology and efficiency of a multistory layered parking lot, but infuses an attached fitness center visible from the freeway and overlooks a green recreation park. It also functions as a Metro bus station for convenient drop off of customers.
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This concept aims to reuse water that is collected from the roof of a building and then clarified it from any debris thru a mechanical process derived from that of a water treatment plant. The process is very simple, the collected water is forced to overflow thru a series of fine saw tooth that collects any large debris and let the water flow to the next component. The Installation consists of simple support structure that connects to the building’s facade. The clarified water can then be used for many applications which include sanitary use, irrigation, and cleaning. Each unit can be cleaned and reclarification moved by one simple screw over the cover.
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Water Treatment Plant Clarifier
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Gray Water (sink, bath, Kitchen)
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Water Filtration System
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Swim Retreat STUDIO VIII - SPRING 10 This project is aimed to develop a community space where water is the main shared space. This project also deals with the separation and transition from private to public spaces. The interconnection of these modules is also an important part of the project because both private and public become interconnected. The design try’s to provide a sense of sequence spaces from private to the public doing this by height changes and elevation changes. It also uses the shifting of each module in a 45-degree angle which creates separation and a common corridor at the same time and provides an aesthetic identity to each cell.
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Natatorium STUDIO VIII - SPRING 10
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The Natatorium site is located along Main St. in Midtown Houston. The project calls for one large pool, offices, dressing rooms, and a fitness center. One of the main challenges of the project deals with how the building interacts with the edge of the street. The entrance to the building sits lower than street level and creates a public space that seems separated from the street. The building is divided into three sections that house the pool, the fitness center, and administration. The faรงade clearly defines each space by the use of opacity and texture. The fitness center is elevated and overlooks the intersection of Alabama St. and Main St. Underneath, covered public space is created and serves as a transitional entrance to the building. The middle section of the building contains restrooms, locker rooms along with its administrative offices. Lastly, the pool is exhibited along the sidewalk of Main St. by a large angled storefront glazing.
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support angle insulation space outdor ceiling cladding steel shelf angle
Study Center STUDIO IX - SUMMER 10 This project took place during a five-week study abroad studio in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. The site is located within the walls of a traditional medieval hill town and along one of its main streets. The project’s site is very awkward and it has no square corners which create a challenge. The projects calls for administration space, Kitchen and dining space, studio space, and rooms for 40 people. The design uses a perforated core thru the center of the building for access to natural light. The exterior of the building of partially covered with horizontal wood louvers which give the building a neutral appearance that aims to contrast with the surrounding buildings.
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Admiral Glass Co. STUDIO X- FALL 10
OKANELLA ST.
BELT WAY 8
This project is an attempt to redesign the production factory area, by focusing on the fluidity and flexibility of the working space as well as the environment of the main working area and the connection to its support facilities. One of the main factors that are directly influencing the productivity of the workers is the quality of the space they work in, especially the quality of the light. The present working environment of the workers lacks natural light, therefore, relying on artificial lighting even during the hot summer days. This in return decreases the quality of the work, the number of actual working hours, and increases the amount of electrical energy used. The proposed strategy to solve this issue is to maximize the amount of natural light entering the factory by utilizing a polycarbonate glazed roof and metal panel sunshades, which eliminate direct heat gain and act deflect natural sunlight into the main ensemble area of the factory. The flexibility issues are resolved by the reconstitution of all satellite production into one single space that shares shipping and receiving into an ample plan grid space, thus allowing for a rotational production flow that is easy to follow and manage. The administration area is separate but adjacent to the factory allowing easy access and noise insulation it from the factory as well as acting as an entrance gate into the main space of the factory.
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METAL PANEL SUNSHADES
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TUBULAR FRAMING
POLYCARBONATE GLAZING
ALUMINUM FRAMING
28K10 STEEL JOIST