Academic, Professional, and Personal Works
Portfolio Architecture, Art & Design. Selected Works 2012 - 2015
Eli Gutierrez
2016 Edition
Contents Resume Academic Experience A IA R +D Incubator 3 H i l l Market Engi neeri ng B ui l di ng V Mai son du C hef
Professional Experience Paseo U ni versi dad U ni on Gardens
Other W atercol ors Sketchbook
Subway in Copenhaguen, Denmark. October, 2013
Eli G u t i e r r e z
eli6utierrez@gmail.com 956.740.4033
Education
2014 - 2015 2010 - 2014 Fall 2013 2008 - 2010 2007 - 2008
Scholarships and Awards
Work Experience
J. B. Alexander High School Laredo, Texas
2003 - 2005
Colegio Guadiana La Salle Durango, Mexico
Fall 2014
House Charrette Competition First Place
Fall 2014
Donna P. Duerk Scholarship
Fall 2013 Fall 2013
Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) NC Chapter Scholarship AIA Laredo Scholarship
Spring 2013
Louis Sullivan Student Design Competition First Place
Fall 2012
Construction Systems Masonry Wall Competition Second Place
Fall 2012
Concrete Masonry Unit Design National Competition First Place
Fall 2012
Carolina’s Concrete Masonry Associate’s Scholarship
Spring 2012
NCMCA Brick-Masonry Competition First Place
May - Dec 2015
Hickey Pena Architects Laredo, Texas Architectural Intern
Summer 2014 Summer 2012 2012 - Current
Languages
Laredo Community College Laredo, Texas
2005 - 2007
Summer 2013
Skills
North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Major: Bachelor of Architecture (Accredited Program) North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Major: Environmental Design in Architecture; Minor: Art and Design NCSU Prague Institute Prague, Czech Republic Study Abroad Program University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas Bachelor of Science in Architecture
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Freelance Graphic Designer
AfterEffects, Autocad, Archicad, Hand sketching, Hand drafting, Hand modeling, Illustrator, Indesign, Microsoft Office, Video Making/Editing, Photoshop, Photography, Revit, Sketchup, Watercolor. English Fluent, Spanish Native, and French Basic.
Academic Experience
AIA R+D Incubator Location: Date: Course: Instructor:
Raleigh, NC Spring 2015 ARC 502: Professional Arc Studio Pat Rand, Dennis Stallings & Billy Askey
The AIA R+D Incubator for Architectural Innovation has two goals represented in its architecture: a) be a place where architects or architectural products companies can experiment with new ideas about material, design, and craftmanship and b) a place to exhibit work and open up to the community around to inspire innovation and promote collaboration among people from all disciplines. Located in downtown Raleigh, the site called for an architecture that engaged the public, friendly to pedestrians, and open and ready to be part of downtown Raleigh’s progressive image. The site is located in an active area with many features within walking distance like galleries, museums, schools, and architecture firms. Thus, members of the AIA R+D can enjoy of all the downtown amenities and viceversa, architecture and other design offices can easily reach the AIA R+D when in need of extra space or hightech equipment. Also, because it is located to the east of Art Space, one of the main venues of First Fridays, the AIA R+D public program has the potential to be activated and added to the event’s tour. Thus, the chosen site allows the AIA R+D to have the potential to become part of something bigger than itself, part of the city’s fabric, part of first friday, part of Raleigh’s innovating image, or simply part of a student’s day as a pit stop to get coffee and admire some innovative work. To best take advantage of the site and program, the building has two volumes: the exhibit and the experiment. The experiment volume is rough, brick on the inside and outside, and a place where one goes to work without worrying about dropping paint on the floor. The exhibit volume, weaving up through the experiment volume, feels as refined as a finished product - it is a place for people to gather, wander, and become inspired by the products and ideas displayed. This volume is a response to the public opportunities of the site. Thus, it can become an extension of Moore square and the street - it pulls you in from Moore square and takes you up and around back to the last gallery with an exciting view of the Park and city. The AIA R+D focuses on taking full advantage of natural systems such as daylight, rainwater collection, solar orientation, ventilation, and vegetation. The building’s views are directed towards the natural features of Moore Square. Moreover, to celebrate and learn from the ultimate designer - mother nature - the building tries to promote encounters with nature through its courtyard and greenroof. 6
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Exhibit + Experiment = Urban Incubator
A place to exhibit
A place to experiment
The exhibit volume is an extension of Moore Square, a park that often holds public events.
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Collaboration RM
Robots + 3D Print
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Outdoor Work Space
Temporary Shop
Coffee Shop
Storage
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Digital + Print Library
Conf RM
Laser Cutter RM
Outdoor Materials Testing
Materials Library
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East Elevation
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North Elevation
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Sprayfoam insulation between studs and inside studs Backer rod and sealant Steel angle Aluminum mullion with plastic isolators on both sides to prevent electrolysis with steel Steel angle attached to tube to hold brick
Steel channel behind for sliding bug screen Thermal glazing Lip to handle bug screen Operable window to slide vertically Vertical sliding bug screen Trifold wood shades with vertical slats to fold and hide in wall thickness. Solid up to 3’. Interior aluminum sill to interlock on mullion lip. Not fastened for ease of window replacement Two piece aluminum mullion
Steel channel to allow shades to slide. Intermitent clips to avoid heat train
Hardwood floor over felt
Backer rod and sealant
Plywood
Aluminum sill with wash and drip
2x4 wood
4� gray/orange brick Aluminum Grating Metal decking with poured concrete Steel Angle
Rigid Insulation Waterproof Layer
Steel Kicker L
Drainage Mat
Steel Tube
Gravel Fill
Channel glass interlocking, with aerogel insulation Aluminum extrusion
Filter Fabric Foundation Drain
Plastic Isolator
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Tempered glass railing Grass 12� Lightweight soil Aluminum base Steel Angle Plastic Isolator
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Aluminum extrusion Channel glass interlocking, with aerogel insulation Waterproof membrane Crushed stone Filter fabric
Retention layer Sheet barrier 9� Rigid insulation
Metal decking with poured concrete Steel Angle
Wood panels
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Academic Experience
Three Hill Market Location: Date: Course: Professor:
Prague, CZ Fall 2013 ARC 490 - International Studio Adam Gebrian
The site, nicknamed Proluka by the locals, is about a 25 min. walk away from downtown Prague. The 1,200 square meter space, demarks the northern end of the original Vrsovice village, dating back to the 12th century. Vrsovice’s market, the heart of the area, used to be at the south part of Proluka. Also, smaller scale commercial buildings used to define the streets around the site. Proluka’s openess is one of the reasons why the locals love the site so much. It’s versatility allows the locals to use it in several different ways. By elevating each building, making the roof occupiable, and having courtyard spaces in the middle, the Three Hill Market can become many things like an outdoor cinema, a soccer field, or a music venue. The Three Hill Market intents 1)to unify Vrsovice’s diverse community 2)honor the history of the site and Vrsovice 3)add to and activate the already commercial street, and most of all, 4)give the street back to the people. This project seeks to preserve the site’s authentic attributes: it’s openness, versatility, and richness in vegetation. Vrsovice’s market used to be the heart of the area, offering opportunities for local economic development and employment, social interaction and connection, mingling of different cultures, and building a sense of local community. Therefore, recreating the market meant to bring back the life into the neighborhood. Human Scale Proluka is an informal park and a break from the monotonous building fabric. As a result, the market attemps to stay small in comparison to the surrounding buildings; the middle courtyards and occupiable roofs are also an attempt to preserve the natural and informal connection of the locals and the land.
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Process Work
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Academic Experience
Engineering V Location: Date: Course: Instructor: Partner:
Raleigh, NC Spring 2013 A R C 3 0 2 - Architectural Design Jianxin Hu Arsalan Abbasi
*Louis Sullivan Design Competition - 1st Place
Centennial Campus was envisioned with aims to create a campus environment that would embody ideals such as innovation and collaboration. While the Hunt Library is a testament to the University’s devotion to achieving these goals, not all of the campus displays these values as explicity. The Engineering Building cluster is currently made up of massive, traditional structures with relatively little thresholds to invite visitors, especially non-Engineering students, to venture inside. The Engineering V occupies a site that caps this cluster of academic buildings and offers the potential to transition between the uncompromisingly modern Hunt Library and the more formal, traditional approach of its surroundings. Its design centers around an outdoor alley-way that invites pedestrians to pass through on their way to either side of campus, bringing them into the core of the building’s activity without intruding on it. The alley also acts as a light-well that could greatly improve the environment of interior rooms. In addition to creating a vibrant visual connection between interior and exterior, transparent labs and learning spaces adjacent to this circulation path allow passersby to peer inside and get a glimpse of the student’s work. Like the collaborative aims of Hunt, this alleyway could facilitate inter-disciplinary interaction simply through circulation and spontaneous run-ins. True to the legacy of masonry construction at NCSU, a large portion of the building uses this type of material. Aside from traditional brick, a more contemporary application of terracota was driven by a desire to bridge the aesthetic gap between the Engineering Buildings and Hunt Library’s.
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Academic Experience
Maison du Chef Location: Date: Course: Instructor:
Raleigh, NC Spring 2012 ARC 202 - Architectural Design : Form Patricia Morgado
Maison du Chef, or the Chef ’s House, is a house designed with a specific client in mind: a young chef in his 30’s who loves to socialize with friends and family, is a coffee enthusiast, a wine collector, and is into growing his own herbs and spices. This studio was about developing a program specific to the client and form experimentation. To take advantage of the topography of the site, the house has several different levels. The idea was to organize the spaces in a similar way a chef prepares a full course meal: appetizer, entree, main course, and dessert. At the same time, the order of the spaces came from understanding the surroundings so that each room had an appropiate dialogue with the outside environment. To create a multisensory experience, similar to when one eats, the house has a strong central axis: entry, herb courtyard, and backyard are all aligned. Thus, the minute the chef enters his house, he is greeted visually and aurally by his herbs and is able to see past them into the woods that extend beyond his backyard. The herb courtyard also acts as a lightwell bringing in light into the rooms surrounding it. If he has company, he can escort them to the living room, right of the herb courtyard, where his guests can enjoy an appetizer while the entree and main course are ready. Secondly, everyone moves down to the dinning room, a space with a large window to the east with views to the woods, and to the left, the lightwell/herb courtyard. The Kitchen is to the north of the dining room: a room with windows to the west, north and east, and floating on stilts. After having the rest of the meals, he can invite his friends to his wine cellar and pick an aged bottle of wine from his collection and hang out at the bar with views to the north and east of the beautuful North Carolinean woods. Wine starts kicking in and they all decide to stargaze so they sit outside in the outdoor living room. After the guests have left, the chef can walk up to his room, the furthest room to the north-east, and lay down while looking into his large north window that looks into the night sky and the tree shadows as he falls asleep.
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Professional Experience
Paseo Universidad Location: Date: Firm: Partner:
Laredo, TX Fall 2015 Hickey Pena Architects Freddy Terrones
Inspired by new urbanism’s concepts, Paseo Universidad was designed to be the new walkable, bikable, mixed used, urban community in Laredo. I was in charge of researching new urbanism communities, developing a presentation to explain its benefits, and designing a schematic master plan. The goal was to educate developers and city officials about the economic, social, health, and environmental advantages of new urbanist communities. Also, it was a proposal for a developer who owns land in an area with a lot of potential to become a walkable community with the new generation of home owners as target: millenials.
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All blocks are surrounded with trees to create canopies on the sidewalks to make it more enjoyable and comforable for people to walk, specially during the summer.
The buildings adjacent to Bob Bullock Loop, a future highway, have two front facades to allow for store visibility from the highway. Also, this discourages people from walking along the fast-traffic and pedestrian unfriendly Bob Bullock high-way. The buildings near and on the University Boulevard denser and mixed use.
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Courtyard buildings will help hide unpleasant parking lots.
The use of skinny streets reduce: speeding, vehicle crashes, street construction costs, pedestrian crossing distances, impervious surfaces (and therefore stormwater drain capacity), street maintenance and resurfacing costs, and heat re-radiation which contributes to the urban heat island effect.
The single family detached homes section is a townhouse area in the center of the Paseo Universidad community, surrounded and protected by the larger scale, mixed use buildings. This allows families to have a supermarket, drugstore, and restaurants all within 2-3 blocks.
Townhouse blocks have a service alley where the garage entrances and garbage bins are located.
Townhouses have 5-10 ft of setback and mixed use buildings 0-5 ft. This allows for a moore pleasant walking experience for pedestrians, and a more efficient use of the land.
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Professional Experience
Union Gardens Location: Date: Firm:
Laredo Summer 2015 Hickey Pena Architects
While working at Hickey Pena Architects, I had the opportunity to participate, organize, and design for the Gateway Boulevard Charrette. All Laredoans where invited to participate in the design of the five block boulevard located at the end of IH-35 approach to the International Bridge that link Mexico and the US. This site is very important for the people of Laredo because it is the portal to not only the city of Laredo, but Texas and the United States. Thus, they asked for a place that represented what Laredo is about: the merging of cultures. Currently, the blocks have dying vegetation, broken side walks, and homeless people sleeping under the few remaining trees. Laredo is known to be a pit stop city. Most of the people who cross through the International Bridge stop in Laredo only to change currency, eat, get permits, or simply wait in line. During peak season, people who have traveled across the country need to wait in line at the bridge for more than 10 hours. For Laredoans, it is a shame to know that they rarely get a real taste of the city of Laredo. To top it all off, one of the most challenging aspects of the site is that all five blocks are islands in a sea of fast traffic. So, how could we design an ejoyable space that people would dare to go without fearing for their lifes and a place that reveals what Laredo is really about? Guided by the people’s concerns and site challenges, I designed a scheme that aims to do what Laredo does best: uniting. The Union Gardens physically unify all 5 blocks to ensure pedestrian safety and circulation fluidity. The project can be divided into 2 parts: the protected and the protector. The organic form stretching from block to block is the protected, an area that people can safely enjoy without any interruptions. The regular shaped area is the protector, a barrier of dense landscaping elements like bushes and trees. Also, through the spaces the gardens create, the project aims to bring together the citizens of Laredo, and also, locals and visitors. Each garden has different features: - Block #1: pond, reading/picnic spots. - Block #2: outdoor theatre/stage -Block #3: outdoor gym equipment, children’s playground - Block #4: food truck parking, seating, restrooms. - Block #5: sightseeing tower. 60
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Other Works
Watercolors Medium:
Pencil and Wateroolor Paint
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Watercolors
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Other Works
Sketchbook Medium:
Ink and Pencil
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Sketchbook
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