Portfolio by Doroteo Arreola

DOROTEO ARREOLA CARRERA

EducationThe Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Knowlton School of Architecture

Master of Architecture, 2023 - 2025

Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 2019 - 2023

Summa Cum Laude

doroteoarreola@gmail.com

614.817.7429

ExperienceGraduate Assistant, Knowlton School, Columbus, OH

2023-2025

Assisted students on the learning of softwares and provided academic guidance

Architectural Intern, Blostein/Overly Architects, Columbus, OH 2022-2023

Collaborated in concept design, assisted on drawing making through Revit, 3D modeling, physical model making, rendering and animation, and f ield measuring

Summer Construction Worker, Columbus, OH

2018-2021, 2024

Worked as laborer in the construction of brick and block buildings

Deeper understanding of construction materials and the use of equipment

James Gui ‘54 Design Competition, 1st Place Spring 2023

Faculty Prize in Architecture Spring 2022, Spring 2023

Flexible Phragmites

Learning Center

Instructor Andrew Cruse

Autumn 2024

Phragmites reeds are currently seen as an invasive species, in which current efforts are to combat it through mowing, rolling, controlled fires, or by spraying pesticides. Flexible Phragmites challenges how these reeds are treated, instead of viewing them as waste they serve as the primary structural material throughout the project. The project works alongside the limitations of phragmites, by assembling the reeds into bundles it extends the life cycle of each element from 5 years to 15 years, it then can be reconstructed with ease due to the vast availability of phragmites reeds.

Located in South Bass Island the project adapts to the seasonality of the island, the project is flexible to allow individual learning spaces, event spaces, and even a court that doubles as a futsal and basketball court.

Concept

Phragmites Invasion

Phragmites Life cycle

Fertilizer

Transportation (21 miles)

Assembly

PHRAGMITES ROOF 01 (5 Years)

PHRAGMITES ROOF 02 (5 Years)

PHRAGMITES ROOF 03 (5 Years)

STEEL CABLE & TURNBUCKLE

PHRAGMITES BEAM (10 Years)

ROPE CONNECTION

PHRAGMITES INVERTED ARCH (15 Years)

LIMESTONE BLOCK

ROPE

Individual Integrated Lecture / Event Space

Individual + Recess Individual + Outdoor

Event Space

Amphitheater

Futsal Basketball

Student Housing

Student Housing Proposal

Instructors Erik Herrman & Karen Lewis

Autumn 2023

Collaboration with Siana Bennett & Jack Jesionek

The project aims to cater to the needs of students at the University of Cincinnati. Students often face a challenging transition from living at home to campus housing. The ground floor provides a public program that spills beyond the towers’ footprint, creating environment spaces that can be used by the students and the community.

The 3 tower typologies use a modular system of a single open unit with balconies on the perimeter. The envelope and balcony provide a sense of individuality to each user by adapting to their comfort standards, but the transparency that can be created also encourages a vertical neighborhood environment.

JEFFERSON AVE

Ground Floor

W UNIVERSITY AVE

1’=3/32” PLAN

Public Spaces on Ground Floor

Unit Plan

Unit’s Core

The envelope’s screens allow natural ventilation and sunlight into the units

Food on Wheels

Culinary School

Instructor Sandhya Kochar

Spring 2023 James Gui ‘54 Competition, 1st Place

In Food on Wheels, the educational model seeks and restores the embedded knowledge of recipes within lineages, within kinships, and within the community. This model uses the tools of storytelling, recipe sharing, and cultural interchange as the base of the cooking pedagogy. Grandma and her recipe are the building blocks for Food on Wheels. Within the community grandma’s and grandpa’s recipes have been passed down from generations and have a historical importance to the survival of a culture’s cuisine. By involving the community and their recipes, storytelling and recipe sharing become a tool to create a knowledge archive of recipes and thus a mode of education.

Through different ordinances the city of Chicago is pushing the food truck community away from the city. The city along with the restaurant lobby have established a 200ft rule in which a food truck can not park within 200ft of a restaurant. The few spaces in which food trucks are allowed to park, they have a restriction of 4 hrs which forces them to move or pay a hefty fine of up to $1,500

Massing Development

Ground Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

Ground Floor, Physical Model

Food Truck Corridor, Physical Model

View from Damen Ave, Physical Model

Second Floor, Physical Model

Old North Columbus Library

Instructor Anastasia Congdon Spring 2022

This new branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, is a design that provides Old North Columbus with the communities extensive book collection and amenities that provide recreational and social gathering spaces. Through the playful expression of organic elements disrupting the rigid structure, the project attracts people walking along High Street.

View inside library

The Library stacks aim to be a playful space that can be enjoyed by kids and adults

South-North Section

View of Entrance

West East Section

East Elevation West Elevation

East-West Section

Hughes Hall

Adaptive Reuse Proposal

Instructors Ashley Bigham & Beth Blostein

Spring 2024

Collaboration with Siana Bennett, Jack Jesionek, & Benjamin Kaufman

Our idea is to wrap the building in a translucent envelope that juxtaposes the formal language of the existing building. This dynamic visual and formal relationship will make it a focal point on campus. The skin allows us to adapt the current building to the proposed program and sets up a series of overlapping skins that create a thermal buffer space between the building and the exterior environment.