ELISEO ELIZARRARAZ ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN
RESUME EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies -- UIUC 2017 Master of Architecture Candidate -- UIUC 2019 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Champaign, IL August 2017 - Present | Master of Architecture Candidate
Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium | Hamburg, Germany July 2012- July 2013 | Academic Year-Long Exchange
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallés | Barcelona, Spain September 2016- May 2017 | Academic Year-Long Exchange
Harvard Community High School | Harvard, IL August 2009 - May 2013
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Champaign, IL August 2013- May 2017 | B.S.A.S. Degree Recipient
EXPERIENCE: Draftsman/Architecture Intern | McBride Kelley Baurer | Chicago, IL June 2018- August 2018 - Composed and iterated design scheme booklets to present clients with proposals for both new and existing projects - Created various illustrated media to assist the principals in uncovering untapped opportunities in Chicago's urban landscape to further the development of projects for the broadly non-for-profit clientele base Draftsman/Architecture Intern | McCormack-Etten Architects | Lake Geneva, WI June 2017- August 2017 - CAD-drafted hand drawn plans and elevations from the partners; transferred old as-built drawings into digital format; created section drawings to aid team in finding mis-configured elements of a project; entrusted with office's main rendering jobs - Site visits to survey and measure existing and evolving project Architecture/Development Intern | Core Acquisitions | Morton Grove, IL June 2016- August 2016 - Architectural Intern; composed renderings, site plans and other illustrated graphics to expedite potential tenancy deals in properties owned by the partners - Assisted in the management of properties and showed vacant spaces to potential tenants
Email: elizarraraz.eliseo@gmail.com Phone: 815.347.1877
Team Designer/Architect | Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation Challenge | Chicago, IL January 2016- April 2016 - Lead architect and designer on the University of Illinois' HEEF Midwest Real Estate Challenge winning team - Sponsored by the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation, Illinois competed against nine other Midwest Schools to redevelop 7.5 acres of city-owned land in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago
Address: 112 E. Green Street, Champaign, IL, 61820
Design Intern | elBulliFoundation | Barcelona, Spain June 2015 - August 2015 - Worked closely with world-renowned chef Ferran Adria and a team of designers in efforts to rebrand his gastronomic El Bulli brand - Assisted in design efforts gauged toward re-opening the old El Bulli restaurant in Roses, Catalonia, Spain as an ideation and creativity center
SKILLS:
Proficient in the following: AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUP, Keyshot, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch Ideation, Laser Cutting, Hand-Worked Modelmaking
Experience with the following: Rhinoceros, InDesign, 3Ds Max
M.Arch // 2019 // UIUC
Languages: Spanish 10/10 German 7/10
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WEST HARLEM ART CRADLE
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THEAT DEL TURÓ: BARCELONA COMMUNITY THEATER
Fall 2017
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Fall 2016
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BURIED PASTURE: UIUC CAMPUS HONORS HOUSE
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RE-ENGAGING THE EXISTING: PEORIA'S WEST MAIN STREET MARKETHALL
Spring 2016
Spring 2018
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BARCELONA PUBLISHING HOUSE Spring 2017
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NEWTON HOUSE DIGITAL REPRODUCTION Fall 2017
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SKETCHES + PROJECT IDEATIONS + PHOTOGRAPHY
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WEST HARLEM ART CRADLE, New York City
This New York City-centric proposition looks to introduce civic value to the street medians on Broadway avenue on Harlem's West side between 135th street and 155th street that are currently financially upkept by the city's department of transportation. A project with aims thoroughly sensitivity to the neighborhood''s interests, the neighborhood's context and the projectable nearfuture changes in the neighborhood's urban fabric, we take a value-add approach to re-programming Broadway Ave. medians with the aim of encouraging micro-retail, satellite retail and for-profit civic tenancies. With many art and street vendors lined with art stands along Harlem's iconic 125th street stretch regularly, we sought to cement a cultural anchor in West Harlem in the form of an art incubator on Broadway between 135th and 137th streets where a sizable triangular plaza, which already houses the "City College - 137th Street" subway stop, would be engaged and used along with two other adjacent street medians to form an indoor-outdoor art hub that would benefit the Harlem art community.
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HAMILTON HEIGHTS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AXON
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POSITIONING PROPOSITION
SEARCH FOR SITE
ILLUSTRATED IDEATIONS AND EVOLUTION
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137th St. City College
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136th Street
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THEAT DEL TURÓ, Barcelona
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+ 6.01m Upper Level
+ 2.52m Mez Level
+ 0.00m Main Level
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East Elevation
West Elevation
Site Plan
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Theater Cross Section
Longitudinal Section Perspective
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BURIED PASTURE: UIUC CAMPUS HONORS HOUSE, Champaign
UIUC Campus Honors House: A building of 10,000 sq. ft., Buried Pasture's eccentric design elements, from it's southern facing tilt and buried nature to the external circulation and ethereal facade, came to be with the idea of initiating a discourse for examining the role that a university campus building in the Midwest plays and whether or not a shift in academic building paradigms need be initiated. Buried Pasture, an academic jungle gym of sorts, looks to encourage social interaction and challenge the role that a building's site context should play when on a university campus where introducing healthy and stimulating academic environments should be the top priority. Though buried, the building''s perforated facade and southern tilt ensures that light reaches the building's lower level.. External circulation leads users to cafe spaces adjacent to the library on the second level while a landscaped southern-facing courtyard encourages outside interactions between students. The building's uncommon spaces and use of external circulation was chosen to counteract campus stresses and the monotonous rhythms that being on a university campus can elicit.
Concept Sketch
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SOUTHERN TILT
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FACADE PERFORATION
EXTERNAL CIRCULATION
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LEVEL BURIED
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RE-ENGAGING THE EXISTING: WEST MAIN STREET MARKETHALL, Peoria, IL
Taking a deft, grassroots design approach to revitalize the City of Peoria, Illinois' West Main Street Corridor by re-engaging the existing built context of that city. In particular, I took the stance of proposing the adaptive re-use of two existing buildings on the east of the street into a Markethall Hub to reintroduce activity on that end.
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*Proposed Markethall Hub 24
Inventory of Walls and Existing Materiality -- West Main Street
* Existing Building: Former Ice Rink from 1927
* Existing Building: Former Radio Tower from 1937 25
Existing Conditions and Materiality
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Proposal: Re-claiming and re-engaging materials found within the city's context to provide the backbone of the new Markethall Hub's design
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Early Conceptual Sketches for Markethall Hub
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Further Sketch Explorations
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West Main Street
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PUBLISHING HOUSE AND START UP INCUBATOR, Barcelona
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SITE PLAN
CROSS SECTION
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SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
LEVEL 4
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 1
South Facade Wall Section
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NEWTON HOUSE DIGITAL REPRODUCTION, Champaign
This Newton House digital reproduction project was assigned through a fabrication seminar where we were given a group of five architects that we could choose from to reproduce project details from a recent project of theirs in your own way. I chose Newton House by architect Nader Tehrani, a living extension to a pre-existing victorian-style town house in Newton, Massachussets, for thet peculiar geometric nature of the structure's timber elements that clad the sides of the extension. I also appreciated the architect's commitment to custom designing and fabricating each and every one of his project details to meet a client's taste. With a final deliverable of a laser-cut 1.5" x 9" x 12" textbook size detail construct, I went the route of making my reproduction deployable and compact with integrated slots that allowed for sliding movement within interlocking systems, hinged supports that would support the construct's self weight when attempting to deploy the model outside the 1.5" x 9" x 12" constraints, and sliding facade pieces that interlock and change length contingent on whether it's deployed or collapsed.
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SKETCHES + PROJECT IDEATIONS + PHOTOGRAPHY
Art Cradle
Honors House
Publishing House
Theater
3D Construct
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Paris:, FR August 2015
Paris, FR: October 2012
Barcelona, SP:September 2016
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Barcelona, SP: September 2016
Zinapecuaro, MX: July 2015
Paris: August 2015
Paris:, FR August 2015
Rome: May 2013
Paris: August 2015
Saint Paul, MN, USA: January 2015
Rome, IT: May 2013
Mexico City, MX: July 2014
Paris, FR: October 2012
Paris, FR: October 2012
Paris, FR: August 2015
Sant Cugat, SP: September 2016
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