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Enya Barquia enya.barquia@gmail.com enya.barquia@jefferson.edu 646-306-9001 Jefferson University (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) 4201 Henry Avenue Philadlephia, PA 19144 College of Architecture and the Built Environment
EDUCATION Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson + Philadelphia University) Bachelor of Architecture Graduation Date: 05/14/2020 Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering High School Diploma 2011-2015
EXPERIENCE Work Study at Registrar, Jefferson University 4201 Henry Ave. Philadelphia, PA (Spring 2018 - Spring 2020] Intern, Champalimaud Design 115 Broadway, New York, NY (Summer 2019] Intern, StoneHill Taylor Architects 31 West 27th St. New York, NY (Summer 2018) Intern, Tan Architect PC 194-02 Northern Blvd. Queens, NY (Summer 2017) Intern, Handel Architects LLP 120 Broadway, New York, NY (Summer 2014, Summer 2016, Winter 2016)
COMPETITIONS Finalist, The 119th John Stewardson Memorial Fellowship in Architecture, Spring 2020 1st Place, Architectural Glass Institute Competition. Spring 2018 Participant, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Steel Competition, Spring 2018 1st Place, PhilaU Third Year Studio Escape Lighting Project, Fall 2017 Finalist, PhilaU Cabin Competition Fall 2016
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Hearth of Mt. Hawkins Mount Hawkins, LA National Forest, California Competition | Spring 2020
Re-Designing the Birthing Experience of Malawian Mothers Malawi, Africa Design Thesis Pt.1| Fall 2019
Durango Mining Water Facility Durango, Colorado Design Project | Spring 2019
Bushwick Garden-City Bushwick Inlet Park, Brooklyn, NY Competition | Spring 2018
Library Learning Rooms Gutman Library at Philadelphia University Competition | Spring 2018
Vibranium Pavilion Central Park, NY Visualization| Spring 2018
Acoustic Panel Design Visualization| Spring 2018
Hearth of Hawkins
Fire Watchtower and Climate Observation Los Angeles National Forest, California, US Spring 2020 Finalist, The 119th John Stewardson Memorial Fellowship in Architecture Competition
This is an entry for the 119th Stewardson competition that was based in the Los Angeles National Forest. The objective of the competition was to design a FIre Watchtower and a Climate Observtion Station with relevance to the history of the site. The site was previously taken over by a forest flire which destroyed the existing fire watchtower. The goal was to be able to design a new space that spoke to the reoccuring aspects of forest fires. The “hearth� is the concrete slab in front of a fireplace. In the event of a future forest fire, the remains of this design will leave the cenotaph sitting on a concrete slab, providing hikers with information on cardinal directions, time of day according to the shadow, and engraved text that embodies the memorialization of the nature of forests, the nature of architecture, and the nature of all life cycles. Despite the tragedies of forest fires, this design explores how the memorialization of what is lost in a forest can still bring together different aspects of life, culture, and practice. The design utilizes the abstracted gnomon form to tell the story of the forest fires through the use of repetition. The inevitability and ongoing act of forest fires, both intentional and natural, inspired the multiple uses of the form, both as a memorial cenotaph and a repeated structural column.
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South Mt. Hawkins Lookout was first constructed in 1938. It was a 14’x14’ wooden cab on a 30’ timber tower. It was reopened in 1999 by Los Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association.
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Lookout tower was destroyed in 2002 during the “Curve Fire”
State of the destroyed site where foundations of the tower remain as the only remnants of the historic lookout tower.
THE 119TH JOHN STEWARDSON MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE - 2020
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A CL IM AT E + A T MO S P H ER I C O B S E RV ATI ON S TATI ON, FI RE W ATCH TOW ER, AND A MEM OR IAL A T T H E PEAK OF SOU TH MOU NT H AW KI NS
CONCEPT DIAGRAMS
POTENTIAL REGROWTH
TREES PRIOR TO 2002 FIRE
(REFERENCED HISTORIC MAP)
Despite the tragedies of forest fires, this design explores how the memorialization of what is lost in a forest can still bring together different aspects of life, culture, and practice. The design utilizes the abstracted gnomon form to tell the story of the forest fires through the use of repetition. The inevitability and ongoing act of forest fires, both intentional and natural, inspired the multiple uses of the form, both as a memorial cenotaph and a repeated structural column.
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TOWER PLAN SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”
Varying materials such as concrete, steel, and wood are used in the design in order to portray the different life cycles of each material, just as the design is attempting to portray the life cycle of a forest. The main take away from this design is understanding the repetitive action of forest fires. When we take that natural phenomenon into consideration and understand that with fires also comes new growth, the building seeks to establish the growth of new design with repetition in mind. The “hearth” is the concrete slab in front of a fireplace. In the event of a future forest fire, the remains of this design will leave the cenotaph sitting on a concrete slab, providing hikers with information on cardinal directions, time of day according to the shadow, and engraved text that embodies the memorialization of the nature of forests, the nature of architecture, and the nature of all life cycles.
HIKING SHELTER
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BALLON STATION STORAGE SAMPLING STATION
WEATHER STATION
MEMORIAL
CORRIDOR PRIVATE LOOKOUT
BALLON LOOKOUT
PROGRAM LOOKOUT OPEN TO PUBLIC
A MEMORIAL BRINGING PROGRAM TOGETHER
SITE MAP OF LOS ANGELES
FIRST FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1/16”=1’-0”
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Newly constructed 40’ Fire Watchtower, Weather Station, and Hiking Shelter. The verticallity of the facade that connects both the tower and the weather station is inspired by the bare image of trees after a devastating fire. The repetition of the memorial piece create a structure for the building; inspired by repetition of forest fires.
ROOFING STRUCTURE
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In the case of a future fire on site, the remains of the building will leave one of the structural columns that is representative of a gnomon and a cenotaph to remember and memorialize what was lost here. The concrete floor it sits on will engrave the following: TO THOSE WHO WALK BY, WE REMEMBER THE MEMORY OF THE FIRST WATCHTOWER THAT EXISTED HERE IN 1938 THIS TOWER/WEATHER STATION (2020), THOSE WHO INHABIT AND INHABITED IT, AND MOST OF ALL THE FOREST BEYOND US.
ROOFING STRUCTURE
SPACe FOR PV PANELS
STEEL ROOF FRAME
ROOF SAMPLING STATION
OUTER ROOF FRAME
VERTICAL WOOD FACADE
OPERABLE WINDOWS WOOD STRUCTURE
VERTICAL WOOD FACADE
WOOD PURLINS
STEEL FRAME
OSBORNE FIRE FINDER WOODEN RAIL
STEEL FRAME
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STEEL STAIR WOODEN FLOOR CONCRETE FLOOR PLATE
X -BRACING FACADE STRUCTURE VERTICAL WOOD FACADE
MEMORIAL STRUCTURE FROSTED GLASS
STEEL STRUCTURE
CONCRETE FOOTING
WOODEN RAIL
CLIMATE STATION AXONOMETRIC
TOWER AXONOMETRIC
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South Mt. Hawkins Lookout was first constructed in 1938. It was a 14’x14’ wooden cab on a 30’ timber tower. It was reopened in 1999 by Los Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association.
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Lookout tower was destroyed in 2002 during the “Curve Fire”
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State of the destroyed site where foundations of the tower remain as the only remnants of the historic lookout tower.
ONLY MEMORIAL STRUCTURE REMAINS AFTER FIRE
REPEATING MEMORIAL AS FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE
MEMORIAL BRINGING PROGRAM TOGETHER
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TREES PRIOR TO 2002 FIRE
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POTENTIAL REGROWTH
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MEMORIAL
CORRIDOR PRIVATE LOOKOUT
BALLON LOOKOUT
PROGRAM LOOKOUT OPEN TO PUBLIC
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LOOKOUT OPEN TO PUBLIC
A MEMORIAL BRINGING PROGRAM TOGETHER
SITE MAP OF LOS ANGELES
MEMORIAL BRINGING PROGRAM TOGETHER
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1/16”=1’-0”
Re-Designing the Birthing Experience for Malawian Mothers Malawi Health Centre Malawi Design Studio Fall 2019 Prof. Christopher Harnish
The Ministry of Health in Malawi plans to build 250 more health centres in the goals to increase access to healthcare for all Malawians. This expansion came with challenges given that the 250 health centres were going to be built using one standard design. This standard design did not meet the needs for maternity which is what this project mainly concerns itself with. Re-Designing the Birthing Experience for Malawian Mothers requires literature review and comparative analysis of maternity wards and maternity-related spaces that interconnect with the rest of the health centre. By doing so, the final design focuses on creating efficient maternity wards for staff while maintaining privacy and dignity for patients. This is part 1 of a semester long thesis project.
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KEY 1 Nurse’s Station 2 Waiting Area 3 Outdoor Patio 4 Triage 5 Staff Room 6 MVA Room 7 Sluice 8 Storage 9 Linen 10 Prenatal 11 Delivery 12 Recovery
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This project is expected to occur in three phases. Phase 1 and Phase 2 are shown to the left. Phase 1 is the construction of the maternity ward along with outpatient services. Phase 2 is the construction of the Surgery Theater along with the Maternity Waiting Homes. Phase 3, which is behind the Outpatient department is mainly for the expansion of an inpatient female and male ward, in the hopes to expand the health centre into a community hospital.
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Durango Mining Water Facility Mining Water Treatment
995 Highway 3 Durango, Colorado Fall 2018 Prof. Matthew Gindlesparger Team: Helen Phan
Durango, Colorado faces water pollution year round because it is home to countless of abandoned mines spewing toxic mine waste. To address this massive problem in a smaller scale, the problems our team wanted to address were the disturbed-soil on sitedue to previous mining practices, erosion and runoff. We wanted to address these in order to potentially improve water quality by reducing erosion and runoff into the river, remediate polluted water, and be able to also educate the city’s residents and tourists to bring light into this problem. The design decisions we chose to undertake the problems were to (1) anchors the building into the ground; spreads and reaches itself out like roots to hold back soil, (2) redirect environmental+experiential factors such as [water, circulation, people, spaces, light, transparency] and (3) reveals “regrowth” of land through it’s connection to the ground and the surrounding site.
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PROGRAM
DISTRIBUTION OF PROGRAM ACCORDING TO CATCH SHAPE
TAPER VOLUMES TO FILTER SPACE
EDUCATION WING DROPS DOWN 4’ ACCORDING TO SITE CONDITIONS
EXHIBIT WING INCREASES IN HEIGHT AND LOBBY LOWERS
ROOFS ANGLE TOWARDS THE RIVER AND AWAY FROM TREATMENT FACILITIES
FOLDED ROOF IN RESPONSE TO WESTERN SUN
EXTERIOR WALKWAY AROUND PERIMITER OF BUILDING
Lobby Wing: Information and Ticket location + Cafe+ Viewing Treatment Lab Wing: Lab Spaces that control facility and test the water Exhibit Wing: Indoor Exhibit that collectively visualizes in a micro scale, the issue of that mining creates for water and how that water has affected Durango as well as demonstrates how it is being treated at this facility.
Angled Zinc Standing Seam Roofing Landscaped Entrance to Building Parking Lot Continuous Retaining Walls
Education Wing: Auditorium and Classroom Space
Path of Rainwater dishcarge with Mine Tailings Path to dewatering treatment solids Path of treated water to Animas River
Discharge Water Pipe: Water that is treated + passed through the effluent trough runs in pipeline and discharges here to the Animas River Water Treatment Solids Drying Area : Sludge from Geotextile Bags are distributed in this drying area and exposed to air and southern sun to dry Water Storage Tanks : Water collected from building is stored here and re-used for facility and building usage Geotextile Bags: After the clarifier seperates solid and water, the solid clumps of rock and tailings are kept in this geotextile bags which help separate clump and moisture even more
Swale: to control inflow of rainwater + mine tailings coming into water retention ponds
Water Retention Ponds for storage and slowing down rate of of rainwater and mine tailings as a buffer before preparing for treatment Outdoor Water Treatment Tanks: Lime Silo Mixing Tank, Reactor Tank, Rapid Mix Tank, Clarifier Lime Silo Tank adds a base to the acidic discharge. This is then brought through the reactor and rapid mix tank where polymers are added to cause solids to clump together. The clarifier separates clumped solids and water and separates this.
NORTH ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
ZINC STANDING SEAM METAL ROOFING
8” RIGID INSULATION
METAL STRUCTURE FOR ROOFING METAL DECKING
WOOD SHEATHING
EXTERIOR HORIZONTAL WOOD PANELS
WALL ASSEMBLY: WOOD SIDING BUILDING WRAP INSULATION STUD WALL GYPSUM BOARD
STEEL TUBE WALL SECTION
Bushwick Garden-City Botanical Garden
Bushwick Inlet Park, Brooklyn, NY Spring 2018 Prof. Jeff Kansler ACSA Steel Competition Category II Open Located at Bushwick Inlet Park, in Brooklyn, NY, the design of this Botanical Garden expresses fragmentation through the use of shard-like volumes that respond to site-specific circumstances. The concept of fragmentation is a result of the study in compression and tension instances within the circulation patterns where spaces can opening up and tighten in areas in order to emphasize a view. These fragments of spaces are all connected through a lower level path but also an elevated steel red bridge that binds the circulation across all four. The red colored steel helps to exaggerate circulation path and direction meanwhile supporting the heavy loads of the gardens down to the supporting beams and columns that hold up the building. The steel encasement of each fragment diverges from the typical shape of a truss by acting as continuous frames that all together are connected by secondary and tertiary structures varying in width and span in order to accommodate the design intent within the shard like pieces in order to help make those transitions more distinguishable
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Oil Tank Pipe Lines
Views
Sun and Wind Diagram
Point of Entry
Water Flooding
Possibility of Regrowth
1 Subtraction of Volume for Cantilever
2 Divide Volume into 4 parts for Conservatories and raise heights depending on program needs
3 Rotation of Volumes based on specific views
4 Push and Pull of Volume Surface Points
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Main Lobby Auditorium Classrooms Seconday Lobby Cafe Gift Shop Staff Room Offices Restroom Storage Mech Exhibit Tropical Aquatic Warm Temperate Rooftop Walkway Bridge Walkway
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Warm Temperate Plants Houses Special Exhibit Conservatory.Ex: Succulents, Cacti, Bonsai, Flower Gardens
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Library Learning Rooms Student Study Spaces
Gutman Library at Jefferson University East Falls Spring 2018 Prof. Jeff Kansler AGI Glass Compeition 1st Place
The driving factor behind this design is to be able to magnify the idea that students learn individually but also cohesively as a group. The dichotomy between the two ways of learning is expressed in the tightening and the loosening of the facade where the middle appears tighter and the outer ends appear looser. The program is divided into three thresholds: two collaborative rooms on each end for presenting and conferences and one open area in the middle for lounging or individual work. By representing both options of working and learning, this design solves the problem of students not having access to use spaces that enhance their learning expreience through technology both in groups and individually. Technology is applied to this design in three different ways. (1) Wall Format Display Glass and Photochromic glass that turn opaque for presentations, (2) Work Surface Display Glass for enhanced collaboration right on the table, and (3) School ID Chip Scanners that allow controlled entrance to the rooms.
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EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURAL GLASS
ARCHITECTURAL GLASS ADHERED TO STRUTURE WITH SEALANT
GLASS PLATE CONNECTION WITH BOLTS AUTOMATIC SENSO-
RY GLASS
TEMPERED FIN GLASS (STRUCTURAL)
PHOTOCHROMIC GLASS AND WAL FORMAT DISPLAY GLASS FOR USE PROJECTING SCREENS
STRUCTURAL GLASS HELD TOGETHER BY GLASS PLATE AND METAL BOLT FROSTED EDGE GLASS
METAL L BRACKETS PLATFORM FOR STRUCTURE
CONFERENCE ROOM
LOUNGE
PRESENTATION ROOM
Vibranium Pavilion Outdoor Installation Central Park, NYC Spring 2018 Prof. Kevin Ryan Hybrid Project Visualization II Course
The vibranium pavilion is a gathering/relaxation space within nature, away from views of the hectic city that responds to its environment by treating the existing trees on site as points where vibration begins which brings the paviolion together structurally. In order to blend more with nature, the material chosen is treated exposed wood for its ability to be biodegradable and renewable. This is hybird project done mainly on Rhino. The two objects chosen were a PS3 controller and a Polaroid Camera. Diagramming aspects and characteristics of both, the two concepts that were used to create this hybrid were vibration and framing. Using both concepts, I designed this pavikion around this specfic location at Central Park, NY where two trees nearby one another would potentially become a gathering space, shaded by nature.
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began with a curve
2 extruded curve over area for cover
4 blended surfaces between top circle and bottom circle
3 trimmed out seating areas
5 joined and contoured all surfaces
and extruded contour curves
Acoustic Panel Design Grasshopper Exercise Spring 2018 Prof. Kevin Ryan Team: Danielle Robertson
This was an exercise project with my partner where we chose sound as our input in grasshopper. Our goal was to be able to create an operable installation in some kind of environment that required some degree of controlled noise. Using Grasshopper as a plugin for Rhino, we designed sound variables as it would be in a museum/gallery space. The traingular panel design will open in response to the level of noise. As noise increases, panels will open. As noise level decreases, panels will close. When the triangular wooden panels are closed, sound bounces and reverberates within the space. This allows sound to permeate further. When the triangular wooden panels are open, sound is able to be absorbed by the insulation behind in order to decrease echo and reduce sound during times where there is a high density of people and sound.
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