Gonzalo Hernandez
Architectural Portfolio
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/ Selected Works /
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Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center 4-9
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Studio 4L Duplex 10-13
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Pacific Beach Redevelopment 14-19
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1 Food Station Restaurant 20-23
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Downtown Tijuana Redevelopment 24-29
/ Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center/
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Project Type : Hospital Expansion Date : March 2015 Location : Chula Vista, San Diego, California
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The Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center is located in Chula Vista, San Diego, California. The site already the home of an existing part of the hospital, that is partially old and outdated, the purpose of this project is to create a new hospital building that will provide a new entrance to the building, and three new floors of patient rooms, which will have 35 patient rooms in each floor. Each patient floor will have ample nurse station work space. The administrative offices are located next the reception spaces. First floor will have the lobby and dinning space, which will serve the entire hospital.
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There are 35 patient rooms are located in the outer wings of the hospital, so they can take full advantage of the views provided by the site. In the interior corridors of the patient floor, all of the nursing stations, administration offices, the patient elevators and conference rooms are within so that the hospital circulation could flow continuously and unobstructed. It is important to create atrium’s within these space to allow natural lighting, for patient and staff comfort. The reduction human errors was an important driving force. The better we can make space comfortable at most times, error happen less.
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/ Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center/
Within the patient rooms, the intent was to create a warm, calming space were patients and their families can feel like they are at home. Most of the materials in the room are warm wood looks from the cabinets to the flooring, but materials that are suitable to a hospital environment. There is a television located on the built in for patient comfort. There is also a family space when the family of the patient need to stay over night there is a sofa that turns into a bed.
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/ Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center/ There are four nursing stations on each patient floor, so then when a nurse is needed they don’t have to travel long distances, and in an emergency it is crucial for the nurse to get there as soon as possible. The nursing stations have a similar color pallets to continue consistency, but there are bursts of orange to announce that these are nursing stations. It was important to make then stand out when a family member has questions they know where to go.
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The western side of the building does not have much of a view because of the adjacent hospital building. So besides the mechanical that site on the roof of the second floor, there is an outdoor rooftop garden, where patients can get out of their rooms without leaving the hospital. This space will as provide a views for the patient rooms facing the west view. And it will create a green space for the existing hospital and its patients and staff.
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/ 2415 L Street @ Sherman Heights/
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Project Type : Fourplex Date : August 2015 Location : Sherman Heights, San Diego, California
Sponsors:
Sioux Steel Company | Lowe’s 10
2415 L Street is a Fourplex located in Sherman Heights, San Diego, California. The current site condition as it sits is home to 6 studio sized dwellings, that are cramped and unsafe on the site. The purpose of this project is to create a new residences for young creative individuals or small families who want to live right outside of Downtown San Diego Sherman Heights is a neighborhood in San Diego bordered by Golden Hill to the north, Grant Hill to the east, East Village to the west, and Logan Heights to the south. It is located minutes away from Downtown San Diego, Coronado Island, Balboa park, and the San Diego International Airport due in part to the close proximity to the 5 Freeway. 11
In the Fourplex, each apartment comes with a ground and upper floor unit, and each unit is 520 sq. ft. so in total each apartment has 1040 sq. ft. to live in and a small courtyard on the upper floor. Before proper movement around the dwellings was practically impossible. Now there is 6 foot setbacks on the sides, and 20 in the front and back. The building take advantage of all the space available in the lot. Also each apartment has a driveway and a small lawn with a few trees. The apartment’s structure is made out of light steel frame with panels as walls, making it semi - prefabricated. Constructing the structure this way makes it faster to build, which can save cost and time. 12
/ 2415 L Street @ Sherman Heights/
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/ Pacific Beach Redevelopment Project /
Project Type : Mixed - Use Community Date : October 2014 Location : Pacific Beach, San Diego, California
The site were the new community will be north of the new trolley station proposed. The location of the site is in between Morena Boulevard and Santa Fe Street and Garnet Avenue and Avati Drive. The site is between the new proposed trolley station proposed by a different member of the group. The site is currently a San Diego city utility station that serves as a storage yard for the city’s equipment and a large parking lot for all city vehicles. There will be a need office jobs and office building to increase the amount of people working in Pacific Beach. There will be multiple types of housing typologies from smaller apartment units on the west end and higher density homes closer to the trolley tracks. There will also be mixed used typologies to fuse both typologies together. The site is roughly 11.5 acres with 150 new homes adding to the development of the trolley station and more density to the community. There are also 12 new office towers that provide more jobs within Pacific Beach.
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/ Pacific Beach Redevelopment Project /
To reduce noise from Morena Boulevard and the train and trolley, that are located on the western side of the development. The residential housing is located on the central axis where the new street is located. The existing landscaping was left as is to help reduce the noise and also to create more privacy within the community. There are seven different type of communities that have the similar function but they all have different architectural style so there is diversity within the homes. There are parks in the center of the community so that residents can meet and congregate and get to enjoy the community.
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/ Pacific Beach Redevelopment Project /
The residential program is at the central core of the site, where the new bus route will run through the heart of the community, so that people can see that their community is transit oriented. The new street will allow not just for buses traveling along their route, but it will allow for cars and bicycles, because there should be multiple point of access to and from the community. There are 150 new homes in this development, which will add to the 36 residential units in the trolley station proposal. Many of the home are town-homes and row-homes that allow for more homes, but individual community identities to remain.
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/ 1 Food Station Restaurant/
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Project Type : Restaurant Date : September 2015 Location : East Village, San Diego, California
Sponsors:
San Diego Culinary Institute | Humane Smarts 20
1 Food Station is a restaurant in the edge of East Village , San Diego, California. The site is currently an Arco gas station with one pump tower, and a building housing a garage / convenient store. The purpose of the project is to transform a space that was no longer relevant in the future, were cleaner sources of energy are possible. The San Diego Culinary School and Humane Smarts farm in East Village, San Diego are coming together to teach the residents in East Village how to eat local, sustainable foods in San Diego, and also learn how to do the dishes they get to enjoy. In addition to this they will be providing simple foods to the less fortunate in east village.
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East Village is located east of downtown, and a natural border to the access to rest of San Diego. Much of the residents in East Village are considered low income,homelessness is up by 26 percent, but four new developments have gone up and pinnacle on the park open, there is an influx of new resident in an ever changing, gentrified, East Village. 1 Food Station will provide teaching sessions by the San Diego Culinary Institute for the resident in east Village. It will also provide open spaces where guest and visitors can enjoy and see where and how their food is grown. By providing a creative space for people to eat and learn at the same time, we can create better space for everyone to enjoy. 22
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/ Downtown Tijuana Residences/
Project Type : Mixed - Use Community Date : October 2014 Location : Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
In Tijuana there is a lack of community engagement with the architecture. Too many, Tijuana is a stepping-stone to the United States and in particular San Diego. For those who cant afford the American dream have made Tijuana there home,because there are greater opportunities for wealth in Tijuana then in other parts of the country. Downtown Tijuana in particular is a place where many typologies come together, but with no certain order. As Tijuana continues to grow and expand, we need to explore how the urban fabric of Downtown Tijuana is laid out, and fuse it with housing, and other outlets for people and communities to grow. There is an abundance of mixed industries, and jobs, but there is a lack of places for higher education and learning.
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/ Downtown Tijuana Residences/
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With the park being in the center of the development, and the both the school and library, more people will be prone to walk around their neighborhood. The first floor of the entire project is to support the local economy within the community. The second floor function as the home of the store owners downstairs, a live work environment. The is space left so that if the residents decide to expand their home , then there is that flexibility to do so.
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/ Downtown Tijuana Residences/
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