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OBJECTIVE. Architecture is in need of constant questioning, especially in a culture that is continually changing. I believe in examining styles, cultural fads and popular idiosyncrasies to explore a more progressive future; a future where Architecture is no longer silenced by a consumer market, but expressed as an inhabitable art that shapes and molds society into a more design-conscious whole.
EXPERIENCE. Urban Architecture Lab - Los Angeles, CA
May 2017-Present
Architecture + Design Museum - Los Angeles, CA
Jun 2017-Present
Design Associate schematic design, design development, construction documentation.
Graphic Designer graphic consultant on exterior, interior and overall graphic components for exhibits hosted by musuem. Arshia Architects - Los Angeles, CA
Jan 2017-May 2017
Derek Pirozzi Design Workshop - Miami, FL
Jun 2016-Sep 2016
USF SACD Workshop - Tampa, FL
Mar 2016-Jun 2016
Junior Architect design development, construction documentation.
Design Consultant schematic design for international developer.
Graduate Research Assistant schematic design for usf honors college - currently under bid for design development and construction.
EDUCATION. University of South Florida - Tampa, FL
Jun 2010-May 2016
Masters of Architecture design gpa | 3.73 recipient - sacd thesis award nominee - sacd outstanding portfolio award
SKILLS. Digital | Analog | Mechanical
Present
D revit, autocad, rhinoceros, sketchup, photoshop, illustrator, indesign. A sketching, modelmaking, bilingual (spanish), photography, sculpting, fabrication, furniture design, product design, graphic design. M woodshop, metalshop, 3d printer, laser cutter, tig | mig weld.
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PABELLON QUIXANO. In Cervantes’ Don Quixote, a series of issues are prompted to the reader, issues forcing the reader to make sense of texts that are both contradictory and ironic. It’s arguable to claim that the world is not translatable in a uniform fashion yet through multiple appropriations and perceptions. In this sense, Cervantes’s novel represents a formidable attack on dogmatisms while leading toward a philosophy that might be considered dialectical. The novel, a meta-narrative. Don Quixote perceives the world through the language of chivalric romances, which serve as modifiers for his behavior. Disregarding reality as it seems to exist, Quixote finds himself blurring the lines of what is real and/or imaginative far too often. However, it is in this ingenious blur that Cervantes pulls in the reader, manifesting a new vibrant reality that both houses Quixote and the audience. The Pabellon Quixano is a resultant of such blur, embodying the notions of meta and architecture - an architecture superimposed onto multiple spatial rhetorics. Morphing reality with imagination— Alonso quixanza with Don Quixote— a diagrammatic structure logically took form; while a new rhetoric became self-aware and structurally independent. Nestled next to Madrid’s Congressional core, the pavilion formed a multistory urban playground. Lending itself to the pride of its political context yet simultaneously activating the city - a notion that realistically, seems far too imaginative.
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PARQUE DE QUIXOTE. Embracing a more traditional style of narrative, the second portion of the novel, reverts back to a sense of order and logic. Character emotions become highly visualized and experienced as the novel lends itself to episodic events allowing for the audience to join the conversation of narrative. The design naturally called for a Park, mainly because of the typology’s innate episodic character - not to mention urban quality. Centered along a hierarchal axis, the park took form. A series of intimate spaces spread across the site - follies if you will - representing the parks episodic value symbiotic to that of the novel’s. Its design intent was promoting notions of play and leisure - one can sit and observe while the surrounding context constantly shifts and changes. Moreover, there was this systemic idea of circulation— multiple paths linking multiple episodes— hinting towards Quixote’s journey, connecting narrative to built environment. Ultimately placing an urban intervention within Madrid’s city centre, where reason is left at its doorstep.
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QUIXOTE’S BLEEDING BOX.
The bleeding box is a deconstructed metaphor of Alonso Quijano’s reality. An exploration of spatial and temporal geometries that gave way to a new interpretation of Cervantes renowned character. Based of the story of the windmills - where they transformed themselves into beast the construct aimed to capture a 3d representation allowing us to understand the world in which Quixote bled and lived in. Ultimately this deconstructivist style bled into a more realized intervention that took place during my thesis, Pabellon Quixano. where an architectural imagination co-existed within a built reality.
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MUSEUM OF LIMINALITY.
This project was developed and refined through the rationalization of a haphazardly placed column grid - with the thickening of some and exclusion of others we exaggerated the plenum space between the landscape and the masses above. As the circulation cores rose, granting access to the towering forms, this created a means of anchoring the structure, allowing for columns to reflect off of this datum. Projecting lines to the cantilevering extremities of each building, everything ties together, making the entire volume of each building a structural girder that ties back to the columns and cores giving rigidity to the elevated spaces. As programmatic elements of the upper spaces became more realized, the ground condition evolved as well. The act of elevating all the masses allows for a seamless continuation of the slicing and slanting patterns present within the adjacent context [SAM Olympic Sculpture Park]. Thus creating a folding landscape, peeling back to reveal programmatic assets within, providing retail and commercial space, several bars and restaurants all helping to encourage urban activity. Showcased here, centrally located, facing the water is the Museum of Liminality - a space dedicated to the exploration of the intangible space within a line, showcasing an evolving display of investigations in mathematics, architectural drawing, contemporary art, and experimental music that all grapple with this theme of tension and close to impossible realizations.
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TAKASE RIVER ART CENTER. A month long study-abroad program allowed me to travel to multiple cities - Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Naoishima, etc...- admiring numerous works of architecture as well as the renowned craft of Japanese design. With these notions in mind, I developed a scheme that aimed to embrace and represent the surrounding context, culture and parameters. Nestled alongside the Takase river in Kyoto, Japan “The Gate” towers over the city, a monolithic structure housing some of Japan’s most influential works of modern art. Embodying notions and conversations of order, minimalism and serenity “The Gate” elegantly separates public from private through two massive circulatory posts. Spanning between post, galleries, work spaces, and programmatic elements create a unified whole within the project and design intent.
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PARALLEL PODIA.
Hong Kong, China - known to be one of the densest places in the world, lacks a true urban environment. Drowned in a sea of residential towers, I and another colleague began exploring the possibility of ‘Urban Terraforming’ sections of the city - a reclamation of Hong Kong’s waterfront. Designed through hyper-abstract diagrams, we were able to represent different programmatic elements housed within the proposal promoting urban awareness throughout two sites, KaiTak Airport and Causeway Bay. Ultimately, the next step was to engage in a conversation in order to investigate how to formally express a new type of architecture.
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USF HONORS COLLEGE.
Led by Dr. Levent Kara, I along with another colleague envisioned and formally expressed a new chapter for the University of South Florida’s Honors college. This design embodies that new chapter — promoting students to dive deep into critical thinking and leadership skills that far surpass any traditional style of academia. The proposal, initially had several challenges, one being: how to break the norms associated with a typical institutional building? Or, how do we promote social interaction revolved around an educational setting, or more importantly, how to formally express that? Comprised of a diagram of three sections divided by a main atrium space, the design creates a hierarchy within the established programmatic elements. The sections house spaces such as classrooms, offices and libraries while the in-between space is the center for social interaction. Bridges span the atrium space, creating spaces dedicated to making,social pockets for collaboration, as well as an event space that truthfully becomes the heart of the project. The design ultimately gave life to a sense of playfulness through autonomous volumetric objects, aiding to notions of fluidity as well as experiences throughout.
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WYNWOOD: MUVE.
The Wynwood Arts District houses Art Galleries, bars, shops, and one of the largest open-air street-art installations in the world making it one of the most influential creative communities in the nation. Occupying abandoned warehouses within the manufacturing district of the Greater Miami, developers have brought life back into this industrial zone transforming them into numerous urban conditions that so many gravitate to. Located in between 27th and 28th street, this project is nestled deep within the context of the Wynwood community. Commissioned by a Latin American developer, 4C, the project: MUVE called for a mix-use design, incorporating programs such as, retail, commercial, residential and hotel space all within a footprint of 30,000 sqft. Only a block away from the famous Wynwood Walls, the center and heart of MUVE focuses around the relationship fostered between Architecture and Art. Through an evolved symbiotic connection between the two notions via concepts of Anamorphic illusions and a parametric facade system, the building allows for the artwork to bleed into the public space, creating a deeper, more intimate relationship within the vibrant Wynwood community.
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B1 UNIT. An excerpt from a series of unit plans for a 275 unit Multi-family complex in Canoga Park, CA. The project is currently under construction and is projected to be completed by 2019. All units, including “B1� are designed to be fully ADA compliant as well as CBC section 11-A compliant. In addition to that, the client wanted to have an elegant, simplified unit scheme that would not only cater to the design intent of the overall project but also to the standard of living for prospective residents.
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B1 UNIT CONSULTANT COORDINATION.
In regards to realizing a building, Architecture is only one piece of the puzzle. There is a multitude of other disciplines - Structural, Mechanical, Plumbing, Interiors, etc.. - that when coordinated properly, can be orchestrated into a building that crosses the threshold of concept into reality.
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CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION.
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CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION.
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CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION.
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P o r t f o l i o - P r o d u c t D e s i g n CHAIR. “Every great Architect designs a chair.” -Anonymous The Kelly Chair originally was meant to be fabricated out of fiberglass and poured resin - similar to the Charles Eames chair. However, while in the process of making the form work, the chair itself took control of the creative process. Assembled out of CNC milled Birch plywood, the chair dramatically shows off its contours and natural beauty through scale and materiality. A lesson to all designers, sometimes the mere act of “making” showcases an idea with more truth and intent then when the process of “thinking” took place.
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P o r t f o l i o - P r o d u c t D e s i g n TABLE. “Form follows Beauty.� -Oscar Niemeyer Fabricated after the chair, this table follows the same prowess and design intent. However, the table took a different approach in terms of functionality. It became less about the use of the table but more about a formal expression. A centerpiece of any space, I designed the table to be exactly that, a subtleness of curves that captures the movement of materiality; gravitating those around to sit and engage in conversation opposed to merely using the piece to place down any given object.
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SKETCHES.
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SKETCHES.
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BIOGRAPHY. Gadiel A. Marquez is a Los Angeles based architectural and graphic designer. Originally from Florida, he received a Masters of Architecture from The University of South Florida, where he was awarded best thesis for his work – Architectural Paroidia: The Meta-Spatiality of the Don, Literary Madness – a series of Meta architectural interventions based on the world renowned Spanish novel, Don Quixote. His interest lies in examining styles, cultural fads, and popular ideologies to explore reimagined futures: where Architecture expresses itself as an inhabitable art, shaping and molding society into a more designconscious whole. Through architectural and graphic design, Gadiel continues to push his understanding of the design profession; and as an young designer, he is committed to elevating architectural typologies and practices to both new and unexplored horizons. Outside of Architecture, Gadiel works at The Architecture + Design Museum as a graphic designer and museum staff member, where he’s actively been a part of the Architectural Imagination, Museum of Failure, and now, The Mayne 100 exhibits. Moreover, he has become involved with the Downtown Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Committee in hope of impacting, and laying a foundation for a more progressive and urban environment in Los Angeles.
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