ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
GUILLERMO MENDOZA SELECTED WORKS | UC BERKELEY | HARVARD GSD | 2019-2023
CONTENTS
SWITCH HOUSE
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OBSCURED
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TRANSITION
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STONES
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THE SLOT
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ADAPTIVE
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INTERSECTION
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DUPLEX HOUSING
PERFORMANCE HALL
CONTACT
gmendoza@gsd.harvard.edu (209) 262-8030
AGRO HOUSING | NEWMAN, CA
BOAT HOUSE | BERKELEY, CA
THE URBAN INSTITUTE | SAN FRANCISCO, CA
BLACK BOX THEATRE | SAN FRANCISCO, CA
COMMUNITY CENTER | BERKELEY, CA
SWITCH HOUSE DUPLEX HOUSING
FALL 2022 | CORE 1 | SEAN CANTY The Switch House is a converted home, containing two units, three bedroom each. Formally, the home is split along its center, being torn in two to express the interlaced relationship between the two units, with a final depression of the roof to indicate some additional complexity. The ground uncovers opening that suggests the units eventually become subterranean. The home uses two stacked stair cases to switch the occupants from one side of the plan to the other. An occupant entering unit A on the left side of the plan at the ground level, will find themselves on the right side of the plan when on the second level or basement level. The 90 degree stairs wrap around light wells that funnel light to the center of the plan at each level. The voided conditions contain internal windows that allow occupants to look across the light well at someone while moving between floors. Each unit’s living room is a double height space that intersects the other unit’s second level space. This creates a wide corridor space that is utilized as a study, library, and eventually an external balcony.
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Basement Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan 2
Section A
Section B 3
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OBSCURED
PERFORMANCE HALL
SPRING 2023 | CORE 2 | MICHELLE CHANG Obscured is a performance hall whose diagram starts with a series of triangles nest within two squares. The diagram converts the triangular figures into voided conditions, where the remaining area around the void materializes. The negative space gets fragmented into 5 different bay conditions which when repeated can be flipped or rotated to produce different conditions. There are three performance spaces that are assigned to the ground condition of each of the triangular voids. The negative spaces are utilized as gallery rooms that lead into one another through the corners of the fragmented bays. The the stacking of voids at each levels
produces a cascading void that brings light into
all performance spaces while allowing occupants a view from across the atrium.
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Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan 7
Section A
Section B 8
TRANSITION
AGRO HOUSING | NEWMAN, CA
SPRING 2021 | ARCH 100D | DAVID ORKAND
Located in a small Central Valley town (population 11,000) called Newman, CA, this housing project attempts to blur the transition from farmlands to suburbia. The Transition speaks both to the local geography and politics. The chosen site lies at Newman’s perimeter which is a gradient between residences and agriculture. This intersection, corner of Orestimba Rd and T St, is particularly interesting as it sits between residential areas, a high school and elementary school, public parks, and farmland. This project proposes housing for farm workers who cultivate the same land they live on. The diagram of the project consists of an L block at the sites perimeter, a center pivot farm system that is placed at the block’s tangents, a greenhouse and sheltered livestock area as the interstitial space between crop and living, and a storage/utility shed on the site back corner. The ground floor is dedicated to the farming aspect, with the farm itself, greenhouse, and all the supporting farming program. The second floor is fully dedicated to the farmer’s housing, the 6 onebedroom units, 5 two-bedroom units, and 3 three-bedroom units for a total of 14 housing units to accommodate to different family living situations. The units are in their own cluster with their own shared kitchen, and stair that corresponds to the cluster. This distinction is shown in plan where the main volumes that correspond to food (transplanting and processing rooms for 1st floor, and kitchens on the 2nd floor) are rotated to the opposing grid. The stairs are strategically placed to promote interaction with the greenhouse and farmland. The goal of the project is to start a transition from the food system, in an attempt to incorporate farming into everyday life to promote sustainable methods of living.
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Site Plan
Concept Diagram
Ground Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
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Section A
Section B
Greenhouse Interior
Section C
Section D
Transplanting Room
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Bedroom Interior
Kitchen / Dining Room
Center Pivot Irrigation
Gable Void
West Elevation
North Elevation
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Skate Park View
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STONES
BOAT HOUSE | BERKELEY, CA
SUMMER 2020 | ARCH 109 | RODDY CREEDON Located in the Berkeley Aquatic Park alongside Highway 580, this boathouse supports the lagoons visitors by providing them with boats for rowing while attempting to enrich the area with a piece of architecture that is derived from the industrial context. The idea of stones cast on the lagoon shore is executed by taking the typology of a shed as a module for storage and aggregating it across the landscape of the site. These modules shift left and right to attenuate the landscape, shifting to preserve the larger trees on the site. The shift in modules then produces pockets of program on either side of a linear path that runs the full length of the boathouse, which was also produced by these shifts. This program consists of administration, a club room, a locker room, training area, indoor rowing, boat workshop, interior boat storage and exterior boat storage. Each shed module has a roof that is pitched both down and off towards one corner. This strategy is used to privilege north facing light, reducing southern exposure, and while also funneling in northwestern winds for natural air. The building also acts as a funnel for circulation as it brings people in on the northside, and it ends as a continuation of the dock onto the lagoon. The shed modules are created with concrete shells for the roof, walls, and floors. The facade and roofs are wrapped in concrete board panels to exemplify the shell-like form of the sheds. The elongated nature of the boathouse services to reduce noise from the highway both inside and outside of the boat house. These forms eventually produce an angulating roof form carrying across the landscape.
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Concept Diagram
Site Model
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Site Plan
East Elevation
Section Perspective
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Floor Plan
Serial Section
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Water View
Freeway View
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THE SLOT
THE URBAN INSTITUTE | SAN FRANCISCO, CA
SPRING 2020 | ARCH 100B | RODDY CREEDON
Located on 3rd and Bryant St in San Francisco’s SOMA, The Slot is designed as the city’s public Urban Institute. As the Urban Institute, the purpose of this building is to promote good architecture that supports a more cohesive urban life between person and building. To demonstrate this, the building showcases the WPA model of San Francisco, exhibits architectural works from across the Bay Area, and opens up a research space with additional offices, and a public assembly hall. The Slot is an urban scale move that invites the public into the building by generating a slot at the northern edge of the site. This slot serves a public space, sufficient in size to form a courtyard space at ground level. The slot extends the entire height of the building, but the remaining vertical space is inhabited by pods that are extruded off the inner surface of the slot. Each pod supports a programmatic element to is respective floor, some using their roofs to double as outdoor balconies. The slot move promotes urban life by solving the common issue where density reduces natural light and air. The facade is composed of GFRC panels acting as fins that shade the interior from excess direct light. The pattern that surfaces on the facade is the registration of the pods coming through from the inner facade.
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Ground Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
3rd Floor Plan
Concept / Structure Diagram
4th Floor Plan
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Expanded Cut
Section A
Section B
Section C
Section D
Section E
Section F
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Slot Ground Floor
Pod Interior 2nd Floor
Balcony 3rd Floor
Balcony 4th Floor
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Entrance
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ADAPTIVE
BLACK BOX THEATRE | SAN FRANCISCO, CA FALL 2020 | ARCH 100C | DARELL FIELDS
Located on Dolores Park in San Francisco, CA, the Black Box theatre introduces a three-building theatre. Dolores Park is a popular destination for local residents and for many all around the Bay Area. The park is often used to host performances, whether that be concerts, plays, or movie nights. The Black Box proposes a number a different program for the public to increase community involvement in the support of local artists. The concept Adaptive was evolved from an initial modular study to propose multiple theatres under the same “Black Box Theatre”.
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Ground Floor Plan
East Elevation
2nd Floor Plan
Long Section
Roof Plan
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INTERSECTION
COMMUNITY CENTER | BERKELEY, CA FALL 2019 | ARCH 100A | MAX OBATA
Located at the intersection of College and Claremont in Berkelely, CA, this community center is a cullmination of program that offers scpaces for the local community to gather. The design for this community center is focused on two volumes which introduce contours that are indicative of two stair cores that carru along said contours. The stair cores are split by an atrium that centers the project, providing natural light that cascades down each opening.
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Model East Facade
Stair Core
Stair Core
2nd Floor Plan
4th Floor Plan
Short Section
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GUILLERMO MENDOZA | SELECTED WORKS | 2019-2023