eduardo casta単eda Selected Works [2008 - 2013]
eduardo casta単eda Selected Works 2008-2013 Master of Architecture Bachelor of Science in Architecture University of Texas at Arlington 3714 Dawes Drive Dallas, TX 75211 469.358.4234
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deep ellum | market park
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principles of collage
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conccrete fabric facade
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supended animation
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cleithrophobia house
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spanish naval museum
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green processing unit
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horton plaza | urban charger
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travel sketches
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deep ellum’s | market [ park ]
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deep ellum’s | market [ park ] 4th Year fall_2012 competition | acsa-aisc student design | steel competition professor | thad reeves AN INFRASTRUCTUAL INTERVENTION FOR THE URBAN PUBLIC
In response to the need to create a practical and iconic new space, an integrated superstructure strategy of landscape restoring will be place. Creating a legible icon that will give the site a new identity, in which makes use of interchangeable parts that allows the site to adapt to change in program and climate. Through sectional and topographic elaboration, a more complex relationship between interior and exterior can be developed. Both horizontal and vertical extended interwoven surfaces that offer new potentials for network interconnectivity as well as the iconic power of the architecture object. The landscape is conceived as an overlay that would extend the character, but not the form, of the architecture throughout the remainder of the site. This allows designing objects
small enough to blur the boundaries between landscape and architecture. Is an exhibition and orientation space where visitors can learn about Deep Ellum as it spreads out before them. Its role as a unique space within Deep Ellum allows for a great variety of activities such as memory, leisure, and commerce. A hugely developed infrastructure helps to activate destination for tourist and locals alike. Atificial Terrain
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Atificial Terrain
Atificial Terrain
Urban Void
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The landscape cuts across the top and creating a dialogue between ground and sky.
Makes use of interchangeable parts that allows the site to adapt to change in program and climate.
The area is an open space that can host inscriptive events
Superstructure
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The area is an open space that can host inscriptive events
Hierarchy of public open/street space for the interaction and social need in the pedestrian realm.
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07 | deep ellum’s market [park]
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Deep Ellum, Texas Site
Deep Ellum Art Park + Steel Highway
DART Green Station
Knights of Pythias/ Union Bankers Building
Good Latimer Tunnel (Demolished)
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The resulting structure creates landscape, infrastructure, and architecture. The landscape cuts across the top and creating a di alogue between ground and sky. It is raised above ground level on a lively, exposed steel structure. A hugely developed infrastruc ture helps to activ ate destination for tourist and locals alike. Less interest in the imitation of natural for m and more interested in new programmatic possibilities that are open up by the creation of ar tificial terrains. The freedom of the public realm complex reveals itself as a sequence. Its role as a unique space with in Deep Ellum that allows for a great variety of activities such as memor y, leisure, and commerce. In doing this we al so redefine the concept of public urban space. A place that does not function generically, but as demonstrated here, can adapt and evolve differently based on the necessity of the specific neighborhood, while always providing the two basic components feeding the body and nourishing the mind.
V E RTI C AL S CREENS [ l ate e v e n i ng sh adi n g ] RAMP [ e l e v ate d w al kw ay ] E L E VATE D TO POG RAP H Y [ l an ds c ape tray s ] R E FL E C TI VE S U RFACE [ m i r r o r e d m ar ket acti vi ty ] TRU S S [ l o n g span ] I NFR A STRU CTU RE C O L U M N S Y S TEM PAV I L I O N S [ r e s tau r an ts / bars / retai l ] V E RTI C A L C I RCU L ATI ON TR U CK DOCKS KI OS KS A CTI VE WAL L [ s to r e f ro n t en tr y ] PAVI NG [ as c o n s tan t - o r g an i zes m ark e t an d wo r k s o f f o f stru ctu re ]
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principle of collage 2nd Year spring_2010 professor | thad reeves
A constructed collage derived from the analysis of Schminke House creates the site for the project. Vertical depth was added to this paper construction and helped developed into a low relief topography. Several reiterations were made, before it was altered by cropping and meshing the existing collage with a peer’s project. The landscape were then split apart and each student enlarged the collage by scaling it up in all three dimensions. Pieces of the landscape were then chosen to become bulding-like massings for placement analysis. The landscapes were cropped one more time for the final building site. The building was developed by first choosing a mass from the site construction. Four categories of elements, site elements, objects, and events/phenomena. One of each was chosen,
and a client narrative/pogram was derived from the elements. the selection for this project was garden, kitchen, gallery, and entertaining element. The structure was designed as a house for a married couple. The design focused on their interests and hobbies to incorporate the entertainment element. Their interests included cooking, sculpture, gardening, and art. Besides the usual programmatic elements of a house, the whole ritual of the couple revolves around dinner parties. The ritual of the guest arriving to the dinner party was taken to consideration in respect to merge with the usual ritiual of the the preperation of the dinner party. As the guest goes throught the landscape experiencing through reveals and exposures of what they are about to experience. Severeal events from the green house, sculputre garden and gallery.
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published in tex files issue 03 a publication of the university of texas at arlington - school of architecture
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concrete fabric facade graduate fall_2013 professor | brad bell
A recent material innovation called Canvas Concrete or Canvas Cloth, is a concrete-impregnated fabric currently used for civil and military applications. It’s anatomy as a fabric allows it to take nearly any shape and after water saturation hardens permanently. This presents an interesting opportunity to be used in an architectural application. Our research is an investigation of the material properties of canvas concrete to create a facade screen that parametrically responds to solar and programmatic conditions. Geometry, application, and performance are the primary veins of exploration. The utilization of parametric control within the scope of this investigation has been such to optimize the annual energy consumption of two rooms, along a south facing façade, in Dallas/Fort Worth by analyzing various configurations of a facade screen system responsible for the shading of the rooms in at the specified longitude and latitude. Optimization of the HVAC system loads is achieved by minimization of direct solar/thermal gain through the curtain wall system by variation in the composition of the facade screen system. If implemented across a façade the solar shading device would note only provide demonstrable solar mitigation, but would also render a novel façade quality of ‘structural fabric’ capable of both durability and moderate load transfer.
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The textile block system is a u niqu e stru ctu ral system created by Frank L loyd Wright in the early 1920s. Individu al concrete block s are precast patterned and reinforced with steel. An early example of prefabricated bu ilding components, the block s are shipped to the site where they are assembled. These blocks were developed with variations allowing for introdu ction of natu ral light, which can be seen as a predecessor for cu rrent explorations in parametric design.
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suspended animation 1st Year
summer_2008 professor | thomas rusher
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fluctuating rhythm
Suspended animation is the slowing of a process without termination. The composition’s design is a suspended animation event space that defines rhythmic interlocking spaces and fluctuates from a hibernation state to a state of animation. Using three previously designed configurations and a given site, an
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paradoxiacal construction
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expansive collapse
Event Space is created to seamlessly connect all elements. References is made to the site by leveraging major edges, masses, volumes and planes to establish spatial edge boundaries that both literally and visually merge. The project expands on rhytmic, visual and logical relationships with a given space and the objects interwined amidst the defined zones.
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h an d-ren der i n g + ph o t o gra p h ov erla y ed o n abs t ar c t p a i n t i n g [ textur ed met al ]
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cleithrophobia house AIA Dallas Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition Best in Category - Student Digital/Mixed suckerPUNCH | Online Publication
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cleithrophobia house spring_2013 University of Innsbruck Institute of porfessors: peter trummer hernan diaz alonso jose carlos lopez cervantes + 27m
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Home is the space that we inhabit and belong to. It is were we engage naturally within our individual spaces that fulfill our basic needs and desires. This project draws together the applied research that seeks to es+ 18mredefine Ctablish a new way to the typology of the traditional + 11m E F house. This house takes place in very different contexts in which the house design is a remedy to the phobia, Cleithrophobia; which is the fear of being completely enclosed. Phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. + 22m B They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular + 9m the spatial G + 6m arts of architecture, urbanism, and film.
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One can begin to apply species by exponentially adapting formal configurations to generate an overall system that functions at each scalar level: from surface, to textures, to individual modules, to clusters of modules, to an overall massed form. By utilizing this principle, species becomes a relevant tool in initiating a new condition: how the G + 6m notion of form relates to aesthetics while also organizing the volumetric and programmatic parameters.
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VERTICAL HABITATION
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FLOOR SURFACES + SERVICE CELLS
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spanish naval museum 3rd year Spring_2011 location | seville, spain professor | thad reeves
Two interconne c te d str uc t ure s rather than b eing a central fig ure, it d efine s an absent centre. Cafe and of fice s are ind ep en d ent of the museum. Center is reinforce as a of movement with no p hysical conne c tion to the in terior of the b uilding. The original se qu ence iof ex terior p ub lic sp ace s is ex tend e d to new p ub lic sp ace s of the museum conne c tion of p lazas. The cre ation of this visu al and sp atial axis is significant by ar ticulation of the b uilding in relation to the urb an sp ace.
B uilding is constr uc te d as the sp ace of the wand erer, a p lace of p ub lic rit u als and p ersonal en counters. H orizontal movement is p arallel to the axis of the centre and b eing a d at um. Ver tical up and down one move s, movement b e come s p arallel to the ver tical p lane of the faca d e a and d at um of ground ambiguous. This ma nip ulation of the sp ace reinforce s the re a ding of this sid e of the mu seum as an ind ep end ent ve s sel almost p rovisionall y anchore d to site.
The histor y is imp rinte d in the b uilding and ar tefac ts that b e ar the trace s and the memor y of p ast events. A b uilding as an urb an inter vention that has re d efine d the sp atial and cult ural nat ure of the historic centre of the cit y. A n op en p e d e strian p laza that fosters p e op le to sit, re a d, and interac t. Stimulate s p e d e strian movement through out the are a.
Theme s unfold in time and sp ace s as one move s, o ccupie s and use s the museum. Windows eng ag e d the insid e re a ding are as with the outsid e sp ace s, re sp onds to that most p rivate of movements.
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Needed for life support systems and equipment for a dying airport , in other words what can we do with what we’ve got?
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gpu | green processing unit 4th year fall_2011 competition | fentress global challenge 2011 | airport of the future professor | john maruszczak Today’s demand for more ecological responsible airpor t has provoked us to seek ways that har ness the achievements of industrial technology to make ever y day functions and economy with the culture associa tions and ar tifacts of the past. GPU postulates the sky as being the next frontier for implementing green space in airpor ts. Athen s, Georgia, like so many other rapidly (sub) urban ization cities, has seen an overall quantittive and quality reduction in its urban canopy in recent decades. The souther n piedmont region of the United States is one of the countr y’s fastest grozwing areas, as well as home to unique outcrop ecologies. Only through meaningful progress will we be able to undo the damage if the past. A shift from technical to biological innovations will give is hope. Damaged these ecosystems, GPU seeks to use those same technologies and practices to rehabilitate them, using airpor t’s rooftops as habitats for outcrop economies. The infrastructure surgically integrates to the existing airpor t fabric by linking systems of points, lines, and landscape that strengthens and revitalizes. By using native ecosystems as model for roof ecology we not only accomplish the typical sustaina ble goals of green roofs, bu t also shift the focus of g reen roof d esign away from the anthropocentric benefits and reprioritize the programmatic elements of a green roof so that they mesh with current regional ecologi cal needs. scenario
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Promotes new efficiencies and instigates a comprehensive ecology of exchange between architecture, infrastructure and nature.
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A new fully assembled, plug-and-play modular rooftop solar power system
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action plan
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Transplanted from the city to nature our green belt act as a sustainable infrastructure a machine both enable development along its length and enhance development along its length and enhance the ecological health of the surrounding nature.
horton plaza | urban charger fall_2011 competition | horton plaza v3.0
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horton plaza | urban charger 4th year fall_2011 competition | horton plaza v3.0 place | finalist teammate | dardan hoxha professor | j. maruszczak
flexible silicon panels
solar vacum tubes energy storage
illuminated landscape
Horton Plaza v3.0 will be a space for San Diego to overcome the dissociation between physical fixed building and variable programs. Urban Charger unifies the dissimilar strip through the site with the public square that transforms as time passes. The structural scape variety brings about niche spaces at various points as well as an overall circulation strategy. The reactive faรงade actively responds to individual life patterns and interacts with bodily activities inrelative
to the wrapping membrane design. It supports any form of physical activities of the strip mall and the surrounding neighborhood by the added public and semi-public spaces underneath and next to the vertical structure for community events. All put together, here is an urban infrastructure that surgical integrates into the existing urban fabric by linking systems of points, lines and landscapes, that strengthens the plaza and revitalizes San Diego.
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travel sketches summer_2011 rome | florence study abroad program Investigate through graphic representation of sketching, measuring sites and photographic documentation the role of the public space in the urban environment.
collage of multiple rome sketches
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santa maria della pace
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villa gulia
sant’ agnese/piazza navona
palazzo far nese at caparola
rome + florence
panth eon
duomo | uf fizi | palazzo vecchio | florence
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trajan’s market
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