Gabriela Abril Reyes
PORTFOLIO.
selected works
2024
CONTENT
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Japan Travel Studio Gallery of Kyoto's Urban Heritage
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House of Funk Mise en Abyme Room
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Reconnecting the underserved city Liniers Highwalk
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Integrating History and Nature 1933 Visitor Center
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Community Reactivation Colegio y Centro de Oficios
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Design in the Age of Crisis Post pandemic Quito proposal
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Indoor Exteriors Low density in La Mariscal
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Work Experience
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Miscellaneous
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b' WAKAMATSU DORI
Tea House
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Gallery of Kyoto's Architectural and Urban Heritage
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The museum inserts itself in a spacious site accessible from its four corners connected to a vast urban transport network to the North and West but with a less traveled condition on the South and East side.
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16.75
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21.54 18.25
Workshop
Special Exhibition
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6.26
Tea House
9.15
Workshop
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21.13
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18.25
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WAKAMATSU DORI
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c' b' The museum intends to act as a'an invitation to an introspective journey amid urban noise, introducing the user through a measured spatial experience defined by a sequence of encounters with nature, objects, and architectural elements that make up a set of planes at different levels and depths. 20
Site Location Daikokucho, Higashiyama Ward, Basement Plan Kyoto Term Spring 2023
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Mezzanine
Class Urban Design Studio Design Team Gabriela Abril, Raissa Gonzalez
Process Sketches
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GRID
PROGRAM
OPEN SPACES
PRIVACY
HIDE AND SEEK
OVERLAP
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SANJO DORI
48.25
Entrance Hall
Cafe
6.00
Museum Shop
Kitchinet
16.08
5.70
12.00
Offices 5.90
Public Presentation Area
5.90
1.54
2.95
1.33
Foyer
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Control Booth
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21.82
24.00
Dry Garden
Auditorium
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DAIKOKU
KWABATA DORI
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Temporary Gallery
5.50
Waterfall
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2.80 39.13
8.68
5.65
6.26
Tea House
Special Exhibition
9.15
Workshop
21.54 21.13
2.95
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2.80
18.25
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b' WAKAMATSU DORI
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Gallery of Kyoto’s Urban Heritage
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Initial Sketches
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TEA HOUSE
Gallery of Kyoto’s Urban Heritage
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STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE SLOPE OF 2 %
Section b - b’
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AUDITORIUM
Gallery of Kyoto’s Urban Heritage
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Gallery of Kyoto’s Urban Heritage
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Gallery of Kyoto’s Urban Heritage
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House of Funk Site Location North Lawndale, Chicago Term Fall 2022 Class Detail and Fabrication Studio Design Team Gabriela Abril, Raissa Gonzalez
Starting with character studies of one self and the rest of peers in the studio, the work started from the inside out to develop highly sensitive, compassionate, and exuberant design proposals for a shared dwelling space, or a House of Funk. The studio focus is directioned to architectural interiority that advances from the intimacy of the body, to the scale of furnishings, to the realm of rooms, and ultimately, to the immersive world of an exquisitely detailed building inserted within an urban context. The design of the individual room combines sectional shifts and relationships with poche spaces defined by thick architectural elements. These carved spaces are permeable through thresholds that define continuity throughout the room on all axes. The project’s walkthrough provides an unexpected, counterintuitive spatial experience and physical engagement driven by curiosity.
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bus stop
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Site Perspective
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House of Funk
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House of Funk
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The project’s walkthrough provides an unexpected, counterintuitive spatial experience and physical engagement driven by curiosity.
Color + Material Palette
Yungueni grainy yellow #F5EC40
Ground Orange #F57027
Pink Satin #F5186C
Tianguis purple #47399B
Paused rough white #E6E6E5
House of Funk
Succulent purple #726AA2
Pulpy purple #BF7CAE
Cross Section Scale 3/4” = 1’
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House of Funk Cross Section Scale 3/4” = 1’
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Level 3 - Plan
Level 3 Plan
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Level 3 - Plan Scale - 1/4” = 1’
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SECTION A-A’ Scale - 1/4” = 1’
Site Perspective
Final Model House of Funk Model
House of Funk
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Liniers Highwalk
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Liniers Highwalk Site Location Buenos Aires, Argentina Term Spring 2022 Class Architecture and Urban Design Design Team Gabriela Abril Khurtsbileg Erdenetsogt Nomination ISoA Graduate Excellence Design Awards 2022
The building would unlock the urban potential of its site at the Liniers Train Station by reclaiming Rivadavia Avenue, where disconnection between north and south is keenly felt. The project stitches together these two urban axes by its programmatic distribution. The localized intervention ties into the vision for Buenos Aires as a pedestrian friendly city with lively public spaces such as an auditorium, nursery, retail places, and programming such as a hospital and a courthouse. All of them distributed throughout. The project seeks to combine a multitude of uses in a single element that symbolizes and stands out in the urban profile. The space surrounding the site would become an elevated urban park. Extending upwards from the train tracks and reaching a highway on the other side, it is a true gateway to the city from the province.
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Liniers Highwalk
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Liniers Highwalk
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Liniers Highwalk
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1933 Visitor Center Site Location Beverly Shores, Indiana Term Fall 2021 Class Integrative Design Studio Design Team Gabriela Abril, Afreen Merchant
The design proposal emerges from the natural topographical conditions and views to existing horizons: the lake and the houses. Visitors are introduced to the building from the lowest point to begin a tour that ends with the showcasing and connection to the houses. The orientation of the volumes is meant to unblock the view creating a sloping open accessible green plaza and the open stairs aligned to the perimeter of the building. The unique condition of the project, as being tucked into the landscape, was an essential driver when taking structural and mechanical design decisions.
Awards ISoA Graduate Excellence Design Awards 2021
1933 Visitor Center
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Protection Course Waterproofing Membrane Perforated zinc sunshade on painted galvanized steel framing Perforated zinc sunshade on painted galvanized steel framing
Protection Course Waterproofing Membrane
Structural Topping/ Screeding laid to slope 4" Extruded Polystyrene Rigid insulation R-4.7/inch Concrete Slab Structural Topping/ Screeding laid to slope 4" Extruded Polystyrene Rigid insulation R-4.7/inch Concrete Slab
Double Glazed Panels Shöck Isokorb Structural Thermal Break EIFS COMPONENTS (Exterior Insulation and Finish System) Double Glazed Panels Finish Panels Shöck Isokorb Structural Thermal Break StoCOMPONENTS Adhesive Mortar EIFS (Exterior Insulation and Finish System) Sto Base Coat Finish Panels StoAdhesive Mesh Mortar Sto 4" Base Extruded Sto CoatPolystyrene Rigid insulation R-4.7/inch Sto Mesh
Aluminum Railing Railing Sheet-Metal Parapet Cap SlopedAluminum to Drain Roof Side SheetMetalRoof Protection Sheet-Metal Parapet Cap Sloped to Drain Side Concrete Wall Sheet- Metal Protection
Concrete Wall
Paving Slab laid on support pedestals Paving Pavingsupport Slab laidpedestals on support pedestals Paving support pedestals Protection Course Waterproofing Membrane Protection Course
4"Blocking Extruded Polystyrene Rigid insulation R-4.7/inch Sill Extender w/ Continuous Bead of Sealant StoGuard® Air and Moisture Barrier Blocking Aluminum with SealBead of Sealant Sill ExtenderFrame w/ Continuous StoGuard® Air and Moisture Barrier Double Glazed Panels Aluminum Frame with Seal Double Glazed Panels
Waterproofing Membrane
4" Extruded Polystyrene Rigid insulation R-4.7/inch Structural Topping/ Screeding to slope 4" Extruded Polystyrene Rigid laid insulation R-4.7/inch Concrete StructuralSlab Topping/ Screeding laid to slope Protective Covering Concrete Slab Sill Sealer Covering Protective Sealant Rod Sill Sealer Termination Sealant RodConcrete Board
Termination Concrete Board
Polished Concrete Flooring System Under floor heating Flooring pipes System Polished Concrete Insulation Under floor heating pipes Concrete InsulationSlab
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3" Extruded Polystyrene Rigid insulation R-4.7/inch Concrete Slab Capilary break over footing 3" Extruded Polystyrene Rigid insulation R-4.7/inch (Damp-proofing or mebrane) Capilary break over footing (Damp-proofing or mebrane)
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1933 Visitor Center
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Colegio y Centro de Oficios
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Colegio y Centro de Oficios Site Location Quito, Ecuador Term Fall 2020 Class Capstone Studio Individual Project
Awards Best Studio Final Project
There is a great importance of community and places to celebrate it. The role that cultural and civic spaces play in contemporary cities is essential, not just because they promote social interaction, but over all because they bring vitality to urban spaces. Quito is a city that lacks of a good quality of public spaces, which reduces any confrontation with residents or pedestrians. Currently, there are not sufficient suitable zones to promenade and that have a strong neighborhood culture. One of them is the Gonzaez Suarez neighborhood, an area with growing residential and commercial demand but without community spaces. The project titled Colegio and Centro Barrial de Oficios seeks, therefore, to be an urban and social articulator between students and professionals, creating a direct and frank relationship with the city. To achieve this, the project proposes a mixed program that creates meeting spaces where interesting collaborations among users can start.
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Colegio y Centro de Oficios
MACRO PROGRAM
RESPECT TO CONTEXT AXES
FREE PUBIC AREA
ARTICULATION
RELATION TO CONTEXT HEIGHTS
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Second Level
Colegio y Centro de Oficios
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Third Level
Colegio y Centro de Oficios
Fourth Level
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Project on display at the London Design Biennale 2021
Design in the Age of Crisis Site Location Quito, Ecuador Term Summer 2020 Class USFQ CADI Research Team Design Team Daniela Alcocer, Martin Cartuche Awards Exhibited at the London Design Biennale 2021\
The proposal is a utopian project that seeks to reinvent the way of doing architecture and urbanism, putting various strategic points of the city of Quito into analysis. La Argelia is a vulnerable zone to natural disasters and climate change. Here; popular housing is strongly consolidated but deals with severe challenges in terms of access and sustainability. The project seeks to create an urban revolution, a return to the communion between architecture and mountains. La Argelia will be the crown of the city, an image conceived by Bruno Taut as a place where arts and knowledge converge. This point of union between architecture and mountains will revitalize the city and open the way to a new architecture, a more sustainable way of living with respect for nature and adaptation of popular housing to the new conception of the city.
Published in Revista de Arquitectura, Universidad de Chile 2022
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Low Density Housing Site Location Quito, Ecuador Term Fall 2019
The process was the development of small housing units on integral lots of one block. The location between four streets and its relationship with a public block, allowed to shed light on different ways in which the building can respond to its surroundings. The block was divided into twelve lots and tow pedestrian paths. This one week exercise consisted on developing an individual proposal that can be adaptable to a global, collaborative design.
Class Design Studio Individual Project
Low Density Housing
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Low Density Housing Site Location Quito, Ecuador Term Fall 2019
The process was the development of small housing units on integral lots of one block. The location between four streets and its relationship with a public block, allowed to shed light on different ways in which the building can respond to its surroundings. The block was divided into twelve lots and tow pedestrian paths. This one week exercise consisted on developing an individual proposal that can be adaptable to a global, collaborative design.
Class Design Studio Individual Project
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WORK EXPERIENCE Project Norris University Center Project Type Higher Education Architectural Internship Summer 2023 Participation Schematic Design Phase Rendering Architectural, urban and interior design
MISCELLANEOUS
Illustration
Photography
Hand Drawing
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ILLUSTRATION
Perspective Illustration Koizumi Sangyo Corporation HQ Building by Peter Eisenman
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Unfolded Plan Casa Devalle by Carlo Mollino
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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1st Prize ISoA Perkins & Will Photo Competition 2022
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National Finalist Fondation Alliance Française "Mode et codes vestimentaires" Competition 2017
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HAND DRAWING
Churches in Cuenca, Ecuador 1
Churches in Cuenca, Ecuador 2
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Architecture must recover that clear awareness of its agency and autonomy without disregarding reality. Reclaiming this consciousness is our most urgent and ambitious commission. Our practice must draw ethical lines and produce reflective, non-gimmicky spaces. Portrayals are an insufficient choice. Instead, we must think of sequences that allow building on the memory of a place inhabited or, to be inhabited. Our purpose and action are not in the talent of drawing but in the deep concentration of thought and silence... Fragment from my Architecture Manifesto, 2022
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