JUAN A. GOMEZ Architecture Portfolio UC DAAP
CON-HEX-ION LENS HOUSE OTRYD STUDIO KREMER ARCHITECTS WORK ARCHERY RANGE BUILDING FROM WITHIN TAKE TWO UNIT SCREEN
V-Ray
Grasshoper SketchUp
Rhino3D
AutoCAD
Revit
Photoshop
Illustrator
RYTERNA MODUL COMPETITION CON-HEX-ION The poor and unsafe conditions of current refugee camps represent a problem since they create inhumane living conditions for people who have suffered through war conflicts in their homeland. One of the main issues in our eyes is the social disconnect for these camps, which are usually isolated and often shunned by society. Team members: Jake Gianni, Juan Gomez, Robert Kish, Sam Kissing, Russell Zimmerman
Wall to column joint detail
As a team, our approach was to create community spaces, semiprivate and completely public, to create a strong community that can thrive in a new place. We chose the city of Sundsval, Sweden, because it offers a great variety of natural resources and job opportunities; a new hope.
For full project visit: http://issuu.com/gomezja/docs/con-hex-ion
Multi-purpose panel
On-site assembly
Column Design
Semi-private yards.
Public spaces.
The panels can be purely aesthetic, or they can become functional depending on the budget and feasibility of construction. These panels can offer refugees with the options to modify the aesthetic of their unit. They can also serve as solar panels, or they could potentially be used to collect rain water.
Panel
Solar Panel
Water Panel
Three types of untis to house different family sizes from one to five people.
LENS HOUSE The Lens House represents the design of a rowhouse for a given client. Annie Leibovitz is a well known photographer with a long standing career with Rolling Stone and Vogue. The house is designed around Annie’s lifestyle and interests. This residence features split-level circulation which includes social spaces in the first two levels, a photo gallery in the third, office and black room in the fourth level, Annie’s master bedroom in the fifth, and three bedrooms for her daughters in the sixth level. Annie is a family woman and is passionate about her profession, so it was important to find a balance between her personal life and her job, while also maintaining her privacy and the privacy of her family.
Longitudinal Section
Ground Floor Plan
Gallery Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
OTRYD The Over the Rhine Youth Development (OTRYD) is an academic project set up in downtown Cincinnati. It is set to provide affordable housing for individuals with lower income or troubled backgrounds from the surrounding neighborhoods. The program includes vocational training for the residents interested in design and fabrication. Their ideas are displayed and sold on the retail level at the ground floor. The building is designed to house four counselors that work as instructors and will serve as a lever for the residents to move forward and further develop their careers outside of OTRYD, completing the program and allowing new residents to move in.
13TH ST MAIN ST
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13TH ST
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Typical Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
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Typical Floor Plan
Counselor Units
E-W Section
N-S Section
STUDIO KREMER ARCHITECTS Drawings are fundamental to communicate complex ideas. During the first third of 2015, I completed a work internship with Studio Kremer. My resonsibilities included drafting, 3D modeling, diagramming, rendering, and existing condition surveying. The following spread is a compilation of drawings and images used to communicate the design intent for each of these projects which were done using different techniques in the digital medium.
Ursuline Chapel Elevation
Eminence Schools 3D Modeling: Benjamin VanDam Rendering: Juan Gomez
Ursuline Chapel Ground Level
Salon interior iteration
ADA Lift proposal
Schaffner Elementary 3D Modeling: Richard Hart/Juan Gomez Rendering: Juan Gomez
Eminence Schools 3D Modeling: Benjamin VanDam Rendering: Juan Gomez
Schaffner Elementary Plan: Richard Hart Diagram: Juan Gomez
STRAIGHT DRAW COMPLEX This study shows the schematic process to create a building based around a specific program. Similar to a straight draw, I decided to shift floor plates to create the envelope of the building. The archery range was placed at the center, and the rest of the programme was fitted around this central core. An adjacent building houses the lodging units for competitors and their families. The two buildings are connected through an underground tunnel exclusive for the athletes. This tunnel leads to the locker rooms, it then opens up directly into the range where the crowd is already awaiting, and the spatial contrast between the narrow tunnel into the wide open range accelerates the adrenaline and emotions for the archers.
Roof
Mezzanine Level
Second Level
Main Level
Initial sketching
Circulation
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Range Competitor Seating
Main Floor Plan Underground
North Section
Lodging
Lighting Strategy
Outdoor Public Space
Expectator Seating
Locker Rooms and tunnel
Private Training
Tunnel section
BUILDING FROM WITHIN This project consists of the exploration of design according to human proportions using Le Corbusier as a precedent. The human scale can have a great impact on architecture. If a building is too large or too small, the perception of the space will vary greatly. Figure height: 5’9” Eye level (normal): 5’4” Eye level (as shown below): 9’1”
Figure height: 5’9” Eye level: 5’4”
Through this study, I designed an outdoor space based on my body proportions, and the application of different techniques to modify a surface in relation to these newly developed measuring units.
6’6”
6’6”
1’9”
3’9”
2’6”
2’6”
7’
1’10” 7’6”
1’10” 3’9”
3’9” 2’
Figure height: Laying down height: Sitting height: Sitting eye level:
5’9” 9” 4’1” 3’8”
Figure total height: 5’9” Sitting height: 4’1” Eye level: 3’8”
2’6”
7’9”
4’3”
5’6”
3’3”
2’3”
2’6” 3’3” 1’6”
14’6”
10’
cube
inscribe+offset
expand
Rhino3D Illustrator
cube
inscribe+offset
form
form
form
carve+fracture
array
pinch
array+stack
form
carve+fracture
expand
pinch
array
array+stack
TAKE TWO Using the Monadnock Block as a precedent, a new architectural piece forms through a series of changes that destroy and reorganize the original floorplan. The two dimensional study is then transfered into the three dimensional realm through further iteration. The thick walls of the Monadnock Block inspire the thick walls which now serve as inhabitable spaces, and the new construction is comprised of passageways, courtyards, and ramps in chaotic unity.
Monadnock Block Plan by Architects Daniel Burnham and John Root Redrawn by Juan Gomez AutoCAD
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30째
30째
original plan
Step 1 rotation
Step 2 snapping
Step 3 scale up/down
Step 4 expansion and creation of pathways
Extrude
Carve
Compress/Pinch
UNIT SCREEN The project presents a wall screen created from the repetition and stacking of a single unit. Through several iterations, my colleagues and I decided to construct this screen from pine wood and aluminum rods. The angle in which the apertures are drilled for the rods allows us to expand the wall horizontally, while the stained pine provides opportunity for patterning and contrast. My major contributions for the screen are collaborating in the design process, shop work, brainstorming to create a template to drill the boards consistently at the same angle, and final assembly.
Final design Iteration process + light study
Drill-press template