Daniel Leal Advanced Design Portfolio | Spring 2014 - Spring 2015 University of South Florida School of Architecture + Community Design E: djleal@mail.usf.edu dleal1988@gmail.com C: 813-562-0270
table of CONTENTS advanced design A Boutique Hotel | St. Augustine, FL Modern Art Museum | Ipswich, England
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design development Modern Art Museum | Ipswich, England
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advanced design B Imagining Chicago | Chicago, IL
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Re-imagining Tampa Bay | Tampa, FL
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advanced design C Urban Theoretical Foundations & Speculation | Hong Kong
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Vernacular Metropolis: The Podium | New Territories, Hong Kong
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Boutique Hotel St. Augustine, FL
8 Weeks | Professor Jason Welty
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Final Model The underlying idea behind the design concept stems out of a means to connect the oldest cemetary in the city of St. Augustine, Tolomato, and the historical Castillo de San Marcos Fort. The intent is to create an intimate story line between the city and the small scale buildings by using a mediation point which acts as a negotiator between the nodes.
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Concept The focus was to create spaces that invoke reflection, relaxation, concentration and observation. They are connected by a sequence of moments which reveal their history. The connection began when the Spanish, who set up shop as a meeting point between Spain and the Caribbean, brought their Franciscan Monasteries into the city. The present cemetery was a large public forum focused on religious activities. Many soldiers who lost their lives during battles were buried here. The barricading walls are re-interpreted in the design concept with a new, contemporary wall which allows its occupants to inhabit and enjoy the surrounding views. The screen system begins a dialogue with the massing walls- past and present ways of shading and protecting the building.
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Suites are portals designed to create a dialogue with the dark, hidden and tucked away places in the fort. They simulate the same idea in a reversed manner by perforating the screen and extending out to the street providing a new kind of experience for guests; a sense of place within the fort.
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Ipswich Museum of Modern Art Suffolk, England
8 Weeks | Professor Jason Welty
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Ipswich Museum of Modern Art [ Design Development ] Suffolk, England 8 Weeks | Professor John Mckenna
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Cirque Du Soleil Tower Chicago, IL
7 Weeks | Professor Martin Gundersen
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Re-Imagining Tampa Tower Tampa, FL
7 Weeks | Professor Martin Gundersen
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Connective
Tissue
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Urban Theoretical Foundations + Speculation Wu Kai Sha, Hong Kong 7 Weeks | Professor Nancy Sanders
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Vernacular Metropolis: The Podium New Territories, Hong Kong 7 Weeks | Professor Nancy Sanders Group Member: Andres Camacho
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Description The economic formula for the podium originates largely through proven, if unimaginative, speculative real estate strategies and antiquated building development codes. The challenge is to reconsider the concept of podium, not just as type, but also an urban condition. Possibilities of this ambitious ‘super-vernacular’ design type is to be infused with imagination and intellectual speculation. Questions such as how might the podium make a fluid connection to humanly scaled streets and plazas rather than turning its back to existing building fabric and how might the form be designed with open building strategies to enable the adaptation to changing lifestyles, population growth, and the maturing of a neighborhood are posed. The aim of this portion of the project will address the above urban design and sustainability issues through hypothetical drawings and diagrams that invert, unfold, unravel and loosen the hermetic black hole of the super-podium, while offering guidelines for applying more humanistic and site-specific design strategies to this ubiquitous building type. The program intensive architecture begins with eight concepts of everyday life in the vertically dense vernacular metropolis: housing, worship, open space, shop, park[ing], play, learn and work. These can be literally or conceptually combined, re-defined or configured as fit.
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Process Speculative Section
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CASTING MIDDLE GROUND: Scalar Dichotomies Negotiated Accross The Podium & The Public Realm In The New Territories of Hong Kong. The second phase of the course is a combination two important and provocative issues; the dichotomy between the density of the urban life vs the sparsity of the village life and it’s relationship to the improperly used public realm in the New Territories. The site was chosen for its particular inherent qualities of accessibility, proximity and place-making. Located in the heart of the most active sector of the Wu Kai Sha Village, it provides the perfect setting for the development of a podium which would attract new city residents while catering to the local villagers. The design intent was to combine both ideas and create a porous structure sensitive to the village homes which have been there for over 200 years. Careful consideration was placed on the interaction between the podium and its context- this was achieved by allocating overhead walkways connecting to the MTR stations and the residential development on the east. The journey begins with a large overhead layered canopy on the east which funnels users through the public gardens around the perimeter of the project. The ribbon wraps around the building culminating at a waterfront viewing deck. Program elements include shopping and entertainment, civic, institutional, public/private gardens and office space. The podium becomes a fluid landscape which harmoniously absorbs contextual elements by having a cohesive integration avoiding over imposing its dominance upon their humility.
Site Plan
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Final Speculative Section 1
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Final Speculative Section 2
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Pamphlet
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Riverwalk
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Garden
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