GILBERT PEÑA JR. ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS
CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION Bachelor of Science in Architecture Cum Laude, December 2013 University of Texas at San Antonio Business Management and Architecture, 2004 -2009 San Antonio College Distinguished Diploma, May 2004 Memorial High School HONORS AND AWARDS Caine, Ian, Gilbert Peña Jr. (second author), et al. “Urban-X Change: Designing Growth in the Contemporary Metropolis.” Project presentation for 2014 ACSA 102nd Conference Proceedings (forthcoming) Miami, FL, USAs Caine, Ian. “ChangeScapes: Walmart Supercenters as Catalysts for Territorial Change.” ShoppingScapes’13 International Conference Proceedings Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal Gilbert Peña Jr.,et al.(Design Development and Analysis) UTSA COA 3rd Year Design Award 2013 Nominee Dean’s List: Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013 & Fall 2013. Honor Roll: Spring 2011 SKILLS Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros, SketchUp, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point, Ceramics, Model Building, Photography, Rendering, Skecthing EMPLOYMENT & EXPERIENCE Morningside Ministries Senior Living Community, September 2003 - November 2013 Cook – Serv Safe Certified. October 2008 Employee of the Month. Roosevelt Elementary PTA Member/Volunteer 2008- Present AIA San Antonio Homes Tour 2013 Volunteer CONTACT Gilbert Peña Jr. Gilbert.Pena.Jr@live.com http://www.issuu.com/Gilbert.Pena.Jr
Ex-Urban - The Active Strip Professor Ian Caine, RA Urban X Change: Designing Change in the Post-Sprawl Metropolis Co-Partner: Christopher Hernandez
San Antonio Expander - The Network Center Antonio Petrov, DDes San Antonio Expander: San Antonio as a Larger Geographic Enitity
Bus Terminal - SATX Terminal Professor Juana M. Salazar, RA, AIA San Antonio Intra-City Bus Station: Architectural Systems Design Solution
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exURBAN:theACTIVEstrip Urbanism is not a design of form, but a design of change. Changes that occur in increments of time, scale and sequence. In the United States we have abandoned the architectural visions of regional planning and housing designs. Instead substituting them with a repetition of infrastructure designed by engineers and subdivisions rolled out by developers. In this studio we focused on the design of critical urban processes as a way to successfully design urban spaces. Since its emergence in 1971 the big box has become the main source for commercial development in the United States. The most economically successful of the big boxes is Wal-Mart. Today 60% of Americans live within 5 miles of a Wal-Mart and 96% live within 20 miles. Wal-Mart has significantly changed the landscape of America over the past 40 years. For decades Wal-Mart focused its growth in the ex-urban and suburban zones, but most recently they have begun to expand to the urban zone. For this project we focused on a location in Lockhart, Texas in the ex-urban zone. Integrating Wal-Mart into an ex-urban plan consisting of the big box, commercial and residential developments. First we analyzed the elements of the big box. Then reaserached and studied the economics and statistics of the big box. We then focused on a study of the residential typologies of the three zones of urban design near current Wal-Mart locations. Taking a closer look at the grid types and block types of the three zones, we were better able to understand how to incorporate a grid into our design for the ex-urban.
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The location in Lockhart, Texas creates many unique opportunities for design. Lockhart owes its formation to the cattle trade and railroad expansion of the mid 19th century. Once a booming town, Lockhart has gone through fluctuations in growth over the past half century. Lockhart is currently positioned to undergo new growth, with the construction of Texas State Highway 130(SH130). The continued growth of surrounding towns such as Seguin, New Braunfels, Austin and San Antonio, create a situation for Lockhart where change is inevitable. The Active Strip is an urban planning proposal that utilizes change to manage urban growth in a post-sprawl city. The proposal uses the concept of a horizontal linear city. Creating bands to integrate the big box into the ex-urban landscape successfully. Within these bands you will have the big box, green space, residential and commercial developments. The band creates a system that can become interchangeable. As one big box leaves it can be replaced by green space, residential, commercial or civic space. The active strip also changes over time in various ways. Over time the bands will begin to connect the towns of Lockhart and Luling. While that change is taking place between the two towns, the bands are also expanding and changing within themselves. Each band becoming its own living system within a larger system. 0
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The Active Strip allows for the big box to successfully integrate into residential communities in an ex-urban environment. Green space allows for a rest in the landscape leaving it in its natural state. Parking is used not only for access to the big box but also to the green space, commercial strip and residential apartments. This modular structure allows for continued success over time. The active strip presents a design not of form, but of change. Designing and anticipating changes which may or may not occur over time. By approaching urban design in this manner the active strip is able to create a new approach to the ex-urban landscape. This approach does not abandon the principles of design while allowing for capitalism to flourish in restraints created and designed by architects and urbanist.
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san antonioEXPANDER:theNETWORKcenter “The world within the world”. I was asked to develop the argument that architecture needs to question the world within the world and the way the world itself is constructed. By not just looking at our site but the links between the city itself, the wilderness and region that surrounds it. When you discover these links you then look at the city and its various communities and the communities within these communities. In a sense the world within the world. Then you can see the people, who they are and in what ways architecture can serve as a instrument of change in testing the limits of these worlds. Education in San Antonio is an area I believed could benefit from such a project. Through research, interviews and data, I was able to pinpoint an area with the greatest need for change. The site I found was in a position where it could serve as a beacon for the neighborhood and the region it sought to serve. After my research I created a 2 minute documentary film that would present my project in a larger context in order to understand this world within the world. The film was titled “Path to Education” in which I followed a student on their walk to school in two opposite communities. One being where the site is located and the other being one of the top areas for education in the city.
top areas of education
united states
texas
bexar county
lowest areas of education in san antonio
three lowest high schools
site in proximity to one of the high schools
san antonio,tx
rivas st. & gen. mcmullen dr.
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path walk to school surroundings one student opposite neighborhoods
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In the next part of the project I was to create a drawing using only straight lines. The drawing would emphasize my way of thinking and analyzing the project. On canvas this would translate into an interpretation of my research on education in San Antonio. Next I develop a program for the project that would create change through architecture. My idea was to design a place where teachers, students, graduates, business owners and even reformed community members could come to mentor the youth of the community. So it would be the community giving back to the community through mentoring and tutoring. As you pass through the building you are guided on a path of education that will lead you to success. You would enter the network center below ground through a ramp that funnels you in. This first phase of the path would focus on intervention with art rooms and recreational rooms to create bonds and friendships. In the second phase I focused on transition, you would go up to classrooms and libraries where tutoring, mentoring and learning take place. The final phase is growth, in a area where exhibitions takes place to show the work the community has done. You then leave the building from above ground, down a ramp to the world.
process third floor
[growth] confidence through presentation opportunity through networks
hierarchy
movement
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[transition] build a foundation with tutoring create trust through mentoring path
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final model
first floor
[Intervention] expression through art communication with recreation
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porcelain enameled wall panels
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busTERMINAL:SA.TX.terminal Transportation is a key instrument in San Antonio’s continued growth and its goal of becoming a major city on the global stage. In order for this goal to be reached many forms of transportation and connections between cities must be reinforced. At the moment San Antonio has many bus stations at various locations. Some of which lie off main roads where you might not feel safe leaving a family member or friend. The introduction of an intra-city bus terminal would immediately increase travel to and from San Antonio while creating competitive prices that would stimulate consumer spending. Broadway and East Jones is a prime location for the introduction of the terminal. The location is in close proximity to downtown and also to the current bus terminal locations. The newly approved VIA light rail which will travel down Broadway will also create new commercial revitalization in the area. I set out to create a safe and inviting environment for the user. My concept begin with the creation of a building skin that would create movement. As my concept for the bus terminal developed, I took the opposite concept and imposed those on my design for a restaurant that would combine with the terminal. Suddenly the overall design was composed of opposite concepts but successfully integrated into each other to create one structure. The restaurant was placed directly on Broadway to invite guest onto the site and also to create an atmosphere that is vibrant along Broadway. At the corner of Broadway and East Jones I designed a plaza in respect to the sites urban context. Travis Park across the street allowed for the plaza to compliment its green space. While the San Antonio Museum of Art down East Jones allowed for the corner to transform into a gateway to the museum.
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