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Enrique Alberto de Solo email: enrique.desolo@gmail.com phone: 305.282.6119 website: enriquedesolo.com

Education

Experience

Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO

Digital Fabrication Lab Washington University in St. Louis

University of Florida Gainesville, FL

Kobi Karp Architects Miami, FL

Masters of Architecture, Spring 2013 With Honors

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Spring 2010 Summa Cum Laude

Belen Jesuit Preparatory School Miami, FL

Lab Monitor, 2012-2013 Used laser cutting machines to assist students in the fabrication of architectural projects at the Sam Fox School of Architecture.

Intern, May 2011- July 2011 Conducted field measurements of current projects for the production of construction documents. Updated AutoCad documents such as floorplans, sections, elevations, and details. Assisted with presentation images using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Cum Laude- Class of 2005

Bella International Group San Juan, Puerto Rico

Skills Digital

Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3d, Vray Renderer, Lasercutting, Grasshopper, Revit, and Paneling tools

Manual

Sketching, Model making, Photography, Concrete mold-making and casting

Intern, May 2010-May 2011 Produced presentation images for future facilities such as Honda de San Juan dealership and Honda de Bayamon dealership.

3-d Modeling in Rhinoceros 4.0. Assisted the architect in editing shop drawings for work on site. Responisble for the purchasing/ coordinating all new furniture inside Honda de San Juan dealership. Responsible for the production of Honda chairs in the showrooms of future dealers.

Perez and Perez Architects Planners Miami, FL

Intern, May 2007- July-2007 Edited AutoCAD documents such as floorplans, elevations, sections, and wall details. Produced base drawings off of field measurements for renovation projects.

Verbal

fluent in Spanish and English

Awards Advanced Program Washington U in St. Louis

Activities Wash U. Study Abroad Program Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fall 2011. Advanced track. MArch 2 year program

Fall 2013 - Advisor: Fabian Llonch. Countries Visited- Argentina, Peru, Brazil, & Uruguay

Selection Committee Washington U in St. Louis

AIAS UF Chapter Gainesville, FL

Portfolio review Spring 2013. Fall 2013 Incoming class . Selection based on excellence in studio.

Treasurer 2008, Vice President 2009 Documented and handled funds. Assisted and helped organize student-run fundraisers and events to establish an architecture student community in Gainesville.

Dean’s List University of Florida

Teacher’s Assistant Gainesville, FL

2006-2010

Luminaire Competition University of Florida

Design 1 Summer 2009- Advisor: Alfonso Perez-Mendez Design 4 Spring 2010- Advisor: Levent Kara Teaching Assistant for Studio Courses Design 1 and 4. Assisted students with development of studio projects during class hours and after class hours. Studio courses were heavily based on hand-produced drawings and models.

Honors Society University of Florida

UF Study Abroad Program Guadalajara, Mexico

2007-2010 Delta Epsilon Iota, Tau Sigma, and Golden Key Honors Society.

Summer 2009 -Advisor: Alfonso Perez-Mendez

2010 Merit Award

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Soundscape Station term: Degree Project Spring 2013 critic: Kathryn Dean location: St. Louis, MO Rhino 3d, Vray, AutoCad, Paneling tools, Adobe Suite

St. Louis is known for its live music scene and deep musical roots. Thousands of tickets are sold each week for shows at The Pageant, Peabody Opera House, and Fox Theatre. These formal music venues follow the standard archetype; audience and performer, stage and stands.

Soundscape station proposes the idea that the city, the individual, and the performer switch roles throughout the performance.

The station uses parabolic curvature to amplify the sounds of the street musician, the principal player. The informal music venue is a space where one can listen to music in combination with the intermittent trains and the sounds of the city itself. Located on Delmar Boulevard, at the site of the original 1920’s Depot, the train station creates an end to the unfinished Delmar Loop.

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Escenario del Barrio term: Grad 3 / Fall 2012 critic: Fabian Llonch location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Rhino 3d, Vray, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite

Villa 31 is one of the biggest shantytowns in the city of Buenos Aires with around 30,000 inhabitants. 51 percent of villa 31 is made up of immigrants from neighboring countrys. The villa is a melting pot of different cultures all in one small knot within the city of buenos aires.

The villa, located at the heart of Buenos Aires’ economic district, demonstrates the clear seperation between the highest and lowest social classes within the city.

Create Amphitheater The new school offers a stage where the varying cultures within villa 31 can come together and express their art, political and social views, and dance.

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Circulation Inside

Circulation above

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Oficina Oficina Cuarto Mecanico

Vestibulo

Sala de Conferencia

Sala Multiuso Ba単o Hombres

Ba単o Mujeres

Cuarto Mecanico

Ba単o Mujeres

Ba単o Hombres Comedor Escolar Almacen de Instrumentos

Salon Multimedia

Biblioteca

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Manis Cementum term: Grad 2/ Spring 2012 critic: Robert Booth location: Wash U Campus Digi-FAB Studio Rhino 3d, Vray, CNC mill, Lasercutter, Manual Labor

Manis- genus of animals with triangular scales Caementum- rough cut stone Manis Cementum explores the possibilities of concrete materials and post-tensioned, compression arch structures. The goal of the studio was to use digital and analog fabrication techniques to create a self-supported sculptural element. Precedents for the project included medieval chain mail, reptilian scales, and various bone structures.

The final form takes on an animalistic shape and is therefore given the scientific classification of Manis Cementum. The word “manis” comes from a genus of animals that are covered with large, triangular scales that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. “Cementum” is a play on the Roman word “caementum,” which means rough cut stone, and in the case of the Manis Cementum, reflects the nature of the materials being used in the project. +15°

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Pour Plaster Positive

make mdf mold

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make plywood box

make void formers

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pour plaster positive

sand + fill gaps

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apply mold release make void formers clean mold cut out positive apply concrete release pour rubber sand + fill gaps apply super seal

cut out positive

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Plywood Box/Pour Rubber mold

cut cut out out positive positive

take take box box apart apart

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mix concrete/apply concrete release

clean clean mold mold

6hrs/Take box apart

insert former take slot boxvoid apart

apply apply concrete concrete release release

Release module

put box together cutback out positive

ins cle

Pour concrete into rubber mold

insert insert slot slot void void former former

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Chapel San Martin term: Undergrad D8/ Summer 2009 critic: Alfonso Perez- Mendez location: Guadalajara, Mexico Rhino 3d, Vray, Photoshop

San Martin de las Canas is located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is home to approximately 800 inhabitants. This small town was originally a colonial hacienda before the Mexican Revolution. Over time, construction has erased the structure of the hacienda. The formation of the town is now strictly based on the land.

The church of San Martin is a porous building. The wood slots allow for light to filter through while the concrete planes block out the sun completely.

Throughout the day, lighting conditions within the church change. The calligraphy of the building’s exterior is displayed on the floor of the chapel as the sun continues to change position in the sky.

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Urban Organism term: Undergrad D7/ Fall 2010 critic: Bradley Walters location: New York City, New York partner: David To Rhino 3d, Vray, Photoshop

The design of the hotel was inspired from analyzing the city as a living thing. The building represents the city as an organic life form that gradually becomes part of its context through the application of layers.

The logic of the building is the inverse of formation of New York.

Instead of being constricted to the prescribed orthogonal lines of the city grid, the building begins with an organic shape which is wrapped by structure. The rigidity of the grid is reified in the structure that holds the organic tubes. Like the real grid of New York City the structure is the formal layer in which all things spawn from. It becomes the nerves and veins of the building and exterior skin act like an actual organic skin, porous and dense depending on the programmatic qualities of each space.

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