Third Year Updated Portfolio by EllieMedina

ARCHITECTURE

PORTFOLIO By: Elianna Medina

2022 - 2023

DESIGN STATEMENT

phone number: 818-423-1938 email: emedianna@berkeley.edu

Being raised in a large family with an older brother diagnosed with Autism, I have witnessed the challenges presented by the exclusive built environment and how those obstacles change the extent to which people with visable or invisable disabilites are able to interact and experience the world. Having this unique perspective while learning how to become an architect has inspired me to begin designing inclusive buildings and spaces. My hope is that as I begin to practice design that the idea of surpassing basic ADA requirements becomes commonplace, so that inclusivity is a priority as opposed to an afterthought. Pulling from my Hispanic culture of multi-generation households, I aim to design affordable housing without compromising comfort or style and hope to create spaces that families can proudly call home.

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Multi-Dimensional Movement

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Project 4: Bridget Riley Inspired Project: Spring 2022

Del Rio Arizona Residence

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Commisioned Apartment Design: Summer 2022

Los Angeles Community Trade Center

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Project 3: A Work Center Fall 2023

The Accessible Student Center Project 1: A New Public Building: Fall 2023

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MULTIDIMENSIONAL MOVEMENT

Multi-Generation Housing This project began as an analysis of different forms pulled from within a designated painting; Bridget Riley’s FETE. This focused on the multi-dimensional movement of lines and shapes and were further extracted to create a redefined look as to what two units may look like that provided both private and shared spaces within a multi-generation household.

Inspired Project Site: Los Angeles

Bridget Riley’s Fete

Fete Inspired Grid

Form Pulled from Grid

Axon of Potentional Circulation

Top View of Model 1

Circulation of Model 2

Level 1

Level 3

Ground Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

1/4” = 1’ Scale

Level 2

Second Floor Plan 1/4” = 1’ Scale

Level 4

Fourth Floor Plan 1/4” = 1’ Scale

Rendered elements of the piece while playing with open and concave arrangements to creat habitable spaces without committing to a traditional house form. Continuity of design may be observed from to exected draft models while directly referencing the original painting.

Front View Model 2

DEL RIO ARIZONA RESIDENCE 13

S HARRIS STREET

INDEPEDENT PROJECT

COURTYARD

This was a commissioned project I took on as practice of my technical and interior design skills. The client requested the space to resemble a desert with modern morrocan/mexican cultural influences. The space was orginally unfurnished, unpainted, and did not have the relaxing qualities needed of an apartment housed by two busy doctors and a senior resident. Personal Commission Site: Mesa, Arizona Budget: $3000

Site Plan

GUEST BEDROOM

LIVING ROOM

MASTER BEDROOM

KITCHEN

DINING ROOM

Floor Plan FLOOR PLAN

Unit Axon

Interior Rendering Prior to moving into the apartment, the clients were dissapointed by the limited room and designation between the kitchen, dining room, and living room areas. This apartment unit is almost identical to the rest in the complex and boasts no unique character. The clients often spend most of the day working so I relaxing and distinguable space to come home to was a requirement.

The client requested a “lived in but uncluttered” space as there would be both an elderly family member and two dogs in the unit. The result was a clean and bold statement apartment with a clear seperation between each space designated through the use and placement of warm colors. Native plants were added and complimentary textures in the furniture brought the apartment to life.

Living Room

The total length of this project spanned two weeks. 04

Tasks: - Gather dimensions of the unit - Create a 3D Rhino Model of unit - Create a mood board for use between myself and the client - Selection of all furniture, decor, and household items - Selection of paint, mouldings, and kitchen backsplash - Creation of renderings and photographs

Living Room

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY TRADE CENTER

Section: Top View

TONY SMITH ‘WE LOST’ By taking the ‘We Lost’ sculpture and using it in different orientations and scale, 6 subtractions were made to a rectangular prism. When making these subtractions, I thought of the action as carving through a solid matter that created several layers. The purpose of that space begins to shift and begins to uncover more complex geometry.

Inspired Project Site: Los Angeles

Front Elevation

First Section past facade

Tony Smith ‘We Lost’

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING SCALE: 3/32”=1’-0”

Top View

Front of Spatial Model This layering was then emphasized through the use of colored matboard to dramatify the increasing depth of each level and later used to differentiate between collarborative vs private spaces. This first “sculpture” helped me understand the potential building spacially prior to the inclusion of materials and programming.

Front of Applied Materials The purpose of this building aims to accomate for the percentage of Los Angeles that look to alternative for a college education they may not want or are ready for. This Trade Center provides the opportunity for High School Students who want to learn a trade from community members with smaller familiy buisnesses to teach them those skills.

Model

DOWN

Level 1

Level 3

FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL 1 SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”

FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL 3 SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”

Level 2 FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL 2 SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”

Level 4 FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL 4 SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”

ACCESSIBLE STUDENT CENTER 29

Demolished Parking Lot

Hearst Tennis Courts

Hearst Tennis Courts Through the process of Adaptive Reuse Integration the original cement slab used as the main structural entity for the parking garage remains in the proposed Accessible Student Center. Through a series of subtractions of the orignal slab and the addition of an oval building, the structure aims to meet the needs of current UC Berkeley students and facualty by providing both a social and study space that integregrates inclusive design and ammenities. Proposed Plan Site: UC Berkeley Campus By: Elianna Medina & Angel Lukminto

Public Parking

Open Space Parking

Main Road

Green area

Tree

Site Plan

Within the surrounding area of the current “Hearst Tennis Courts / Public Parking” preexisting parking spaces were being removed to make room for new apartment complexes. The Northside of campus lacked a student center where Berkeley students could meet recreationally of study together.

Standing Tennis Courts/ Parking

The UC Berkeley campus currently lacks; easily available resources, forms of transportation, and accessible parking spaces for disabled students and staff. In response to this we created the Accessible Student Center that provides a social space on the first floor with adjustable tables to change the height or orientation of tables in the room to accommadate the users and type of activity. The study space on the second floor provides both larger work spaces for collaboration or private rooms reserved for students with disabilities who require a quieter space to work or to recharge any medical equiptment that would otherwise require students to move off campus to do so.

College of Environmental Design

The oval shape of the building began to create its own vocabulary that I wanted to keep consistent through the use of round windows, a large curb pick up area at the front of the building for the LOOP cart; the only form of accessible transporation across campus, and in some of the furniture within the building.

Anthropology and Art Practice Building

Bakar BioEnginuity Hub & Bakar Labs

Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library

Hearst Memorial Gymnasium

Detailed Site Plan

The translucent material of the glass, and the second floor terrace served as a kind of enticing ammenity to studying at the center as it provides immediate access to nature and fresh air after a long day of studying.

LOOP Pick Up Waiting Area Storage Storage

Exterior View from Terrace Level 1 Social Floor Plan

Storage

Interior View: Study Space

Storage

Exterior View: Terrace Level 2 Study Floor Plan

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Section 2

Interior

Exterior Top View