QR 2024 Eduardo Gonzalez Portfolio

Eduardo Gonzalez-Anaya Architecture Portfolio

[2022 - 2024

EDUARDO GONZALEZ-ANAYA

Tempe, Arizona

EGA5235@YAHOO.COM

(702)-821-5235

EDUCATION

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Masters of Architecture

Graduation: May 2024

[2018 - 2021]

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS

Bachelors of Science in Architecture

Participating member of AIAS for numerous events

AWARDS + HONORS

Collaborative ASU Design Excellence Award for Fall 2022 (Mclean)

[Fall 2022]

Expansion design of the University of Arizona Mathematics Building (Project 01)

EXPERIENCE

[2020-2022]

[LAS VEGAS] A.G. CONCRETE

Worked under the supervision of the general contractor for numerous concrete projects. Drafted documents using Autocad and Illustrator for proposals and changes to existing concrete projects.

[2020 - 2022]

[LAS VEGAS] REGAL CINEMAS (ASSISTANT MANAGER)

Learned important leadership skills to organize, communicate, and lead teams and provide a successful operation. Documentation of sales numbers and organizing events.

[Summer 2020]

[BEEBREEDERS] BUILDNER ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Worked in a two person team to design a visitor center in Abu Dhabi lead by mentors Kevin Ward and Travis Allen. Emphasis on traditional materials and practices of Abu Dhabi.

[Summer 2017]

[LAS VEGAS] CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL HOME

Volunteered to help a team with the construction of a tiny home in a Las Vegas for a small family. Construction included installing roof components, windows, steel frame, and design decisions such as window and furniture placements.

SKILLS

Rhino 3D

V-Ray

Grasshopper

Revit

LANGUAGES

Photoshop Ilustrator Indesign Premiere Pro Excel (Drawing) English Spanish

MATH BUILDING EXPANSION

The existing mathematics building in the University of Arizona campus hosts a wide range of students with additional small departments such as linguistics. The goal of the project was to add an expansion to the existing building and make the experiences of mathematics students more inclusive while still preserving most of the existing building due to its historical relavance on the campus. The expansion was created to host more space for the existing small departments and more space for the mathematics department with an emphasis on open spaces and more research oppertunities.

TYPE:

EDUCATIONAL (EXPANSION)

LOCATION: TUCSON, AZ

YEAR: 2022 COLLABORATOR: JAYANI MEHTA MENTOR: ELIZABETH MCLEAN

The existing building in the University of Arizona campus is located in the southern core. It was derived from the physics building and was made to be an intersection of students on a more central portion of the science concourse. Overtime however, the surrounding buildings changed and so did the roads.

The existing building created a number of problematic areas such as connection to the second floor of the south wing. The decision to build vertically was a challenge but welcomed other ideas such as providing more open spaces for more natural daylight since daylight was very minimal in the existing building. The site also suff ered from poor circulation due to its changes over the years since the 1970s.

Existing site

Integrate the existing small library to the main research/library floor of the expansion

natural

Integration of math lab into addition

Raise the existing circulation cores vertically

Create daylight openings to the existing and expansion. Adding open circulation space to north wing

Create exterior circulation between the main building and the expansion

Add more landscape opportunites on the site for better visibility to the science concourse

Control

daylight with a louver facade system

Adding solar panels on the southern wing roof

RIO LANGUAGE ACADEMY

Parques Del Rio in Medellin, Colombia required an urban approach to the goal of creating projects that integrated the public ground floors and connections to the city. The goal was to create a dense urban footprint that interacted well in the existing park with many programs such as a hotel, small housing, schools, and restaurants. In this case, the project was a language academy for Medellin.

TYPE:

EDUCATIONAL

LOCATION: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA

YEAR: 2023 COLLABORATOR: STUDIO MENTOR: FELIPE MESA

Medellin continues to grow and so does its capacity to create more transit systems for the city in order to grow. The central transit points are shown here and how they interact with the city to help the public get to services such as schools and jobs. Parques Del Rio is located near the south area in El Poblado. Medellin has a very urban style that is also constantly growing and influencing transit.

The designs of each building had to be thought out as one whole project and connecting to each other. The river runs towards the east face of the entire project making it a unique experience for people to connect with the landscape as well. The location of the language academy sits along the west face that hosts the outdoor ampitheater as well.

The language academy prompted a solution that would create a public ground floor that would also provide a cafe for users of the park and create a welcoming building. The breezeblock facade creates modules that highlight each classroom and providing suff icient light and ventilation into the building. The roof level also gives back its space by providing a garden on the 5th floor for flexible uses.

HUNTRIDGE LIBRARY

The Huntridge was a famous theater from the mid 1940’s with a lot of history in the building. The goal for this project was to create an entirely diff erent building that still included some of the historical preservation of the site. The site itself was designed to be built in three stages; the library, housing, and retail areas. The goal of the project was to create more flexible spaces for the future possibilities of the library. The addition of current practices in the area were carefully considered and integrated rather than rejected. The ideas was for a more inclusive and comfortable environment.

TYPE:

MIXED USE LIBRARY

LOCATION: LAS VEGAS, NV

YEAR: 2021

MENTOR: STEFFEN LEHMANN

Site and Existing Relation

One of the big design drivers was its relation to the mojave desert and embracing the land’s qualities as well to give the building a strong identity in the area of town. Features such as indoor plants and rocks were used to bring in the desert to the design. The other major criteria was incorporating the existing vendor culture that existed in the old parking lot. The idea was to also feature this in the site by providing a lot of space in the east-west direction between the library and housing. A public event space was also created to honor the original Huntridge into a building that all the public could use. The big Huntridge sign was to be preserved in this event space as well.

HENDERSON CITY HALL EXPANSION

Henderson City Hall is becoming a more public event destination for sports and other social gatherings. The off ice expansion was a primary source for providing visual interest to the site for events. The other big factor on the site is the Veteran’s Memorial which the city was looking to redesign. The idea to merge an off ice building and a memorial to provide visual interest was a challenge. Now visitors could experience the memorial in a deeper way unlike anything created on the site before.

TYPE:

OFFICE/MEMORIAL (EXPANSION)

LOCATION: HENDERSON, NV YEAR: 2019

MENTOR: JORGE HERNANDEZ

Site and Memorial Connection

Located at the southern part of the city, the city hall is a major government building. The design of the off ice expansion on the northeast side of the building creates a few challenges. The sunlight had to be a part of the facade to ensure that the sunlight coming in is not too harsh. A meaningful connection from the memorial and the building had to be created. This was done by emphasizing the idea that due to the sacrifices of veterans, we are able to construct future buildings due to the freedom they protect. The memorial connects from the southern parking lot to the forest-like area, and then to the old ADA ramp that was revamped for a more ADA accessible memorial and experience. This created a powerful connection to the memorial to the off ice in a way that flows up.

Floor Plans/Ideation

On the ground floor, the ADA ramp is moved to a more meaningful area on the east. It flows into the off ice building facade and thus creates the whole system. Engraved hollow aluminum tubing contains the names of each and every Las Vegas veteran that passed away in the Vietnam war. On the interior, a circular-like path leads to each off ice and meeting room for the city hall building. The small addition did not require services such as restrooms because of their proximity to the city hall services. The grand stairs on the northeast mark the main entrance for guests coming in. Their attention is caught by the blue lights illuminating the facade/memorial all around the building.

Aluminum square tubes containing the engraved names of the veterans from the Vietnam War. All leading up to the facade of the building.

Raw cast in place concrete

Glass railing to for clarity while viewing the names

Blue lights underneath the shiny aluminum tubing for a more interactive and spiritual experience. Creates caustic lighting on the concrete.

SELECTED DRAWINGS+MODELS

A compilation of the many drawings and models made for conceptual ideas and finals throughout the undergrad and masters architecture program. These include models that were used to study the spatial configuration of the projects and their lighting conditions.

Eduardo Gonzalez-Anaya Architecture Portfolio