Detroit, Michigan
ARCH 4210 - 2023
New Orleans, Louisiana
ASCA Competition - 2023
Bowling Green, Ohio
Faculty Student Grant - 2022
Bowling Green, Ohio
ARCH 3210 - 2022
Skundra, Latvia
Caramel Shore Rooms Competition - 2022
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The rapid technological advancements of the Industrial Revolution brought with it a modern age characterized by optimistic themes of progress. It wasn’t until the late 1960s that concerns began regarding the well-being of nature and human health.
The studio is based around the Missing Middle, an in-between of small-scale multifamily housing that provides diverse, affordable housing choices ranging from single-family residential to large-scale multifamily housing. To provide a connection between people, housing, and urban context, and being aware of an industrial context, the following question is raised: how can architecture be proposed for nature to privilege humans’ experiences,
ARCH 4210 Design Studio 5
Prof. Linda Beall Fall 2023
shelter and positive environmental change?
The proposed master plan tries to establish a connection between Downtown Detroit and Corktown through a wildlife corridor infrastructure that hopes to interact with both part of the city through an acupuncture of housing framework and human interactions with industrialized nature. The acupuncture is establish by a urban grid with housing developments that can be inserted and assembled in multiple ways depending on the user’s needs. This assembly of housing development forms a urban continuum between pedestrian and building transforming it the city’s multi-functional and exciting urban experience that can be felt with its various functions and in-place nature.
MASTERPLAN AXONOMETRIC
The study of dandelions allowed this project to become a continuous germination of different human behaviors interacting at different scales. From ground to above ground, the interventions along this project will act as temporary structures that will be permanent in a broader sense. The other elements of these interventions will stay in the same place on a block scale. Still, its physical features will permeate, allowing for interactions that will change in position, scale, and arrangement. Their perception from the human side will be changing constantly.
Single
Quad
Roof Structure
Diagrid bracing system
Core
Mass timber construction
Each proposed building is a set type that is aware of its context. Each of the buildings’s facade will inform how they present themselves to the city. Along the waterfront, a building takes inspiration from water reliefs and studies and implements it into fiberglass balconies that interact with neighboring waving patterns to be playful and dynamic. The facade is a new opportunity for Corktown, inviting people to interact with its features and create new experiences.
New Orleans, Louisiana
RIPPLE is situated on the waterfront of the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The wavering walls respond to the flow of water, and shimmering reflections of lights, and their symbolic form manifests the spirit of the community commons.
The Woldenberg Park illustrates the beauty and ingenious city of New Orleans, housing significant events, live performances, shops, and an aquarium. Considering these aspects of the site, we proposed to make a symbol of unity that will not only commemorate the people of New Orleans but also celebrate and give continuous experiences.
The lemniscate-shaped building plan forms two courtyards. One is covered by a tall roof, serving as the Multi-purpose Hall; the other is an ample open space, functioning as the OutdoorEvent Space. For convenience, a kitchen and public bathrooms are between these two main indoor and outdoor spaces. Galleries, offices, classrooms, and other programs are distributed along the loop. The sloped, continuous roofscape is accessible to the public as an extension of the park and an elevated terrain to view the river and the city.
ACSA Concrete Masonry Competition
Prof. Yong Huang
Spring 2023
Partners: Alec Leibengood
Madeline Montgomery Chenglang Xia
4. Accessing The Green Roof
1. General Massing
3. Looped Circulation
5. Facade Application
2. Program Distribution
6. Landscape Refurnishing
In response to the climate of New Orleans, the design optimizes natural ventilation and sun shading through permeable façade system and courtyard layout.
Meanwhile, to reduce energy usage, under this continuous roof system, only programs such as classrooms, offices.
The system of Load-bearing CMU wall with arched windows + outer CMU screen wall creates fully weather protected building envelope for offices, classrooms, bathrooms, and other specific programs.
CMUs can be subtly shifted while stacking each CMU to create a porous wall system. With steel posts in-between the two layers, it supports the beams and the roof. This sustainable design strategy generates an expressive screen-wall system, benefiting natural ventilations, sunshading, and acting as a rain screen.
CMUs can be rigidly stacked as robust load-bearing walls for the storm-shelter - Multi-purpose Hall. Arched openings are designed to optimize its structural integrity.
DOUBLE SCREEN LOAD BEARING WALL SYSTEM
Through both its construction and its purpose, reef serves as a semi-private symbol of community integrated into the public space to promote design culture within the student body.
At the early stage of the design we found that the layered construction components was the best way in order to realize this project. Each of the layered components consisted of 11 layers of 5/8” plywood sheets. Due to cost, A double layer assembly of interlocking plywood structures was more efficient and practical.
REEF’s construction is expected to begin in Spring 2024.
REEF Faulty Student Grant
Prof. Yong Huang
Spring 2022
Partners:
Alec Leibengood
Madeline Montgomery
RENDERING OF PROPOSED PAVILION
Noise pollution today is no longer restricted to industrial environments, but it is an issue affecting small, mid, and big towns worldwide. This project investigates how an environment under industrial pressure can manifest a completely different atmosphere by creating dissimilar spaces.
The defining concept of metamorphism in a natural and man-made form sets the parameters for exploring how “raw form” can become less porous, proficient, expressive, and free after being under hazardous or extreme conditions.
The architectural conditions of the Carving Sculpture Studios change in behavior from stacked shifted spaces that host rigid programs into a singular gesture allowing for open circulation, individual creative spaces, collaborative studios, and gallery displays throughout the building. The use of limestone and steel also portraits how two opposites can coexist and be an element of solution to sound pollution.
ARCH 3210 Design Studio 2
Prof. Kerry Fan Fall 2022
Slave” by Michelangelo portrays a man struggling between the duality from raw material to a museum piece, encapsulated in a block of stone. This piece sets the exploration of how dissimilar reliefs play individual roles but coexist in a general compositional form.
Hand sketches were made to interpret the duality between the raw and the free form. Metamorphism is embraced to execute the idea of two opposite things: one emerging from the hazardous conditions of another.
“Atlas ATLAS SLAVERAW + FREE FORM ITERATIONS
FINAL FORM EVOLUTION
PROGRAMMATIC ZONING
Steel metal panel
plates for panels support
Curved steel bars for panels anchoring
Steel Brackets
Steel framing for facade support
resin
Acoustic Insulation
Wandering in the woods around Caramel Shore, picking up fallen peeling barks and tree branches in the boundless Latvian natural settings, the design of traveler rooms is inspired by tree barks as recyclable building materials. Utilizing 3D-printing and new material processing technologies, processed tree barks and branches can become core components mixed with geopolymers and cement for 3D-printed buildings, especially for such a cherished site to protect ecological systems from interventions of building construction.
To achieve minimum impact on the site, each ring-shaped structural element can be either printed on the site or prefabricated, then assembled on-site with less demand for heavy equipment.
Like a boat on the shore, each traveler’s hut can be situated on the land without needing a foundation. While the five huts provide comfort and privacy, they circle a central pavilion (sauna + fireplace) and form a shared community. Each structure accommodates habitable spaces and creates a new topography that allows visitors to sit and step up to view the scenery around them.
AXONOMETRIC VIEW
REINFORCED 3D PRINTED CONCRETE ASSEMBLY + PRECAST CONCRETE CONNECTION
Eduardo Cabrera
About me
Architecture is a technical answer that to a question that is not technical, but rather historical and social. I consider myself a problem solver with architectural principles whose ultimate goals are improving social, cultural, political and environmental concerns.
Design
Representation
Fabrication
2021-2023
Rhinoceros/Grashopper, Revit, AutoCad, 3DS Max, SketchUp, Adobe Suite, MS Office, Hand drafting/ modeling
Vray, Endscape, Lumion
3D Priting, Powertools, CNC Routing
+ BHDP Architecture | Columbus, Ohio
Higher Education Co-op
Acting as a Higher Education Co-op producing iterative architectural models, design solutions, graphical and construction drawings for large scale projects.
+ Teaching Assistant| Bowling Green, Ohio
2022-Present
2021-2024
Giving assistance on concept and design skills for the Freshman Architecture Class at the Architecture and Environmental design Program.
+ Atelier Hay| Bowling Green, Ohio
TA Research Assistant
Conducting and assisting on architectural research projects scrutinizing cultural and environmental affairs.
EDUCATION
+ Bowling Green State University| Bowling Green, Ohio
Bachelor of Science in Architecture - GPA - 3.97
Dean’s List (2021-2023)
Selected for Junior Honors Studio
ACHIEVEMENTS
+ AIA Foundation Scholarship
+ ALA Student Merit Award
2022 + BGSU Faculty Research Grant
+ IMI/BGSU Masonry Design Competition
+ Design/Build Student Competition
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Recipient
Recipient First Place First Place
Recipient
+ Hybrid Mass Timber + Additive Construction: Projecting an Urbanistic Building System for Social Housing
An exploration of affordable housing through mass timber and 3D Printed concrete construction.
The constitution of works presented in the former pages directly relates to the pursuit of experimenting with different design methodologies and challenging the possibilities of the built environment. These projects are worked within their parameters, scrutinized, and pushed to seek unexpected outcomes. These works are a direct visual representation of my own constitution of ideas, which I hope to continue to redefine and explore as I continue my educational and professional career.