GRACE.VERA
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
SOFTWARE SKILLS +Adobe Illustrator
+2010-2014
+Adobe Photoshop
B.Arch 2014
University of Arizona
+Autodesk Revit +Autodesk 3ds Max +Rhino 3d +Sketchup +After effects +Microsoft Word +Microsoft Excel + Microsoft Project + Microsoft Powerpoint +Visio +IBM Tririga +SAP +BlueBeam
+Assistant Project Manager 2015 - Present Project Management Advisors, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
+Adobe InDesign +Autodesk AutoCAD
EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
QUALIFICATIONS +Project Management +Construction Management +Strategic and Tactical Planning +Quality Control +Time Management +Leadership +Attention to Detail +Bilingual +Building Information Modeling +GMP Negotiations +Practical and Technical Understanding of Building Materials and Elements, Structures, Construction and Services +Imaginative and Creative +Coordination and Interpersonal Skills to Manage a Complex Project Team of Consultants
Assist with planning and analysis of conceptual design issues and pre-construction activities. Coordination and review of the development of architectural and engineering construction drawings and bid documents. Review,
understand
and
enforce
contractual
requirements for design and construction professionals. Assist project management staff in generating contracts and agendas. Serve as liaison between client and design and construction professionals. Meet with contractors, architects, engineers and consultants to review the project status and resolve issues. Review and analysis of potential changes to budget or schedule. Monitoring of construction budget and schedule including updating and maintaining web based project controls.
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFO GRACE A. VERA
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE +Assistant Project Manager, Planning and Asset
+Assistant Project Manager 2013
1100 Euclid Ave Apt 104
Management 2014-2015
All America Engineering General Contractor,
Long Beach, CA 90804
The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA
National City, CA
619.838.0716
Develop department programs and procedures ​
Determine
to maximize efficiency of invoicing, contracting,
specifications and drawings to identify any discrepancies.
and closeout. Assist project managers during the
Prepare scope of work, contracts and job orders to
architect, general contractor and other vendor
subcontractors. Generate, update and track all RfIs, and
bid processes. Review of payment applications for
submittals, and ensure project schedule is met. Assist in
+Design Excellence Award - AIA Southern Arizona 2014
general contractor, architect, consultant, and vendor
obtaining necessary permits and assist with Estimating to
+Academic Year Academic Distinction CAPLA 2014
accounts and provide recommendation for approval
ensure quality take-offs. Prepare scope of work, contracts
+CAPLA Deans List 2013
or revisions. Perform final quality review of all
and job orders to necessary subcontractors. Generate,
documentation prior to submission for department
update and track all RFIs, submittals and procurement
+Gordon H. and Myrtle J. Fremming Memorial Scholarship 2013
approval. Assist project managers in coordination with
items with Architects, Engineers and Subcontractors to
governmental agencies for applications and approvals
ensure the project schedule is met. Review and prepared
and meet with relevant agencies to facilitate approvals.
all necessary change order requests ensuring validity of
constructability
by
comparing
pricing and consistence of presentation to owner.
plans,
vera.a.grace@gmail.com www.graceavera.com RECOGNITION
+Honorable Mention CAPLA 2013 +Academic Year Academic Distinction CAPLA 2013 +Samuel H. Morris Scholarship 2013 +LULAC National Scholarship Fund Scholarship 2012
BARRIO VIEJO CREMATORIUM, TUCSON, AZ
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DRACHMAN DESIGN BUILD COALITION, HOUSE NO 5.
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EL CORAZON MASTER PLAN, TUCSON, AZ
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CENTER FOR INFORMATION AND COLLABORATION, TUCSON, AZ
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BARRIO VIEJO FARMERS MARKET, TUCSON, AZ
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RILLITO PERFORMANCE PAVILLION, TUCSON, AZ
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LIGHT AND METAPHOR
Creating a journey of the soul through the juxtaposition of rationalism, time and threshold. Rationalism relates to Light: the life of the Barrio, Movement: potential, and actual movements that move throughout the Barrio, Materiality: creates a point of reference to the age of the building that provoke the recollection of the past, Memory: where light, texture, and movement are the catalyst for which the memory of the Barrio is reawakened, and Threshold: a creation of limits that guides you through a journey of exploration.
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FRAMING Modern medicine and technology have allowed our population to thrive leading to longer life spans, limited land, and a rise in the cost of traditional burials. With a growing percentage of our population reaching the age of 65 and older, and limited land in urban areas the cost of a traditional burial have become inaccessible for a majority of the population.
Tucson has grown significantly over the past century, landmarks such as Teatro Carmen and El Tiradito represent a celebration of the neighborhood’s cultural history. A crematorium should be respectful to the areas history, the neighborhood today, and the future. EL TIRADITO Percentage Cremations in Arizona
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CASE STUDIES
THE BARRIO VIEJO CREMATORIUM, TUCSON, AZ
KAZE-NO-OKA CREMATORIUM
Nakatsu, Japan, 1997 Fumihiko Maki and Associates
BAUMSCHULENWEG CREMATORIUM
Berlin, Germany, 1998 shultes frank architeckten
WOODLAND CREMATORIUM
Stockholm, Sweden, 1940 Erik Gunnar Asplund
PROCESSION Moment of arrival, ceremonial chapel, moment of transition, private reflection, enshrinement room, and finally the columbarium. APPROACH The approach differentiates the surrounding area from the sacred space of the crematorium. MOMENT OF ENTRY Where the visitor crosses into the sacred space beginning the ritualized sequence. CEREMONIAL CHAPEL The primary gathering space that allows the inhabitant to spend their final moments with the deceased. MOMENT OF TRANSITION Where the body transitions into the furnace. REFLECTION AREA Where mourners are released into a space for private reflections. ENSHRINEMENT ROOM Where the remains are returned to the mourners in an urn. COLUMBARIUM Ending the sequence and the final resting place for the deceased.
CASE STUDIES The Barrio Viejo Crematorium, Tucson, AZ
BAUMSCHULENWEG CREMATORIUM
Berlin, Germany, 1998 Shultes Frank Architeckten
TANATORIO MUNICIPAL DE LEON León, Spain, 2000 Jordi Badia /Josep Val
MODENA CEMETERY
San Cataldo, Italy, 1978 Aldo Rossi
Baumshulenweg Crematorium integrates both light and structure to create a spatial hierarchy with the use of thresholds. Light is used to create an emotional space and to represent eternity, slits in the concrete roof slab illuminate the gathering space with light. Materiality: constructed mainly of concrete, where there is a great contrast with natural light, and glass facades. The Tanatorio responds specifically to the existing environment recessed into the earth in reference to the traditional form of burial. Light is used in the “living commune”to emphasize the deceased. Movement: a gradual descent into the crematorium down a wooden ramp. Materiality: Wood and white concrete, representing the relationship between life and death. The Modena Cemetary uses geometric shapes and rhythm for diffuse Light, but also as an allegory for the sense of eternity. Axial organization dominates the site. Movement Entering on axis of the cemetery, where you can proceed to one of the ossuary structures. Materiality Constructed entirely of local building materials. Threshold Buildings in the design carry higher importance through their articulation and placement.
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The character of the Barrio Viejo is unlike any in Tucson, designing a crematorium for this site considerations needed to be taken into consideration concerning the site history, historical guidelines, and establish a building the fit into this historic neighborhood seamlessly. An in depth analysis was conducted carefully outlining the site light, movement, materiality, current cemeteries and crematoriums, surrounding parks, and overall walkablility.
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The conceptual design focuses on the cremation process starting with the arrival of the remains, the arrival to the ceremony, the committal of the remains, the retrieval of ashes, and the continual return back. Light dictates movement, announces thresholds, and demonstrates texture and materiality. Movement is dictated by the users, identifying 5 users : mourners, the body, the staff, visitors (business), and visitor (mourners). Materiality is a point of reference to the age of the building, Memory relating the building to the historical context of the barrio, and Threshold creating a barrier between the sequence of movement and program.
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Program is separated into four different levels: Basement where the Utilities pertaining to the building are located, Facilities for the journey of the body. Mourners for the sacred areas of the chapel and the columbarium, and the courtyards. And Staff for the Business side of the columbarium where visitors can come to make arrangements. Program layout focuses on the “ritual of cremation”, which not only involves the act of cremation it addresses those who commemorate the dead and participate in the experience of the cremation process.
01 THE BARRIO VIEJO CREMATORIUM, TUCSON, AZ
FOCUS AREAS
1. The ritual of cremation involves the procession through the building starting at the approach, 2. The moment of entry, where the visitor crosses into the sacred space beginning the ritualized sequence 3. Ceremonial chapel, is the primary gathering space that allows the inhabitant to spend their final moments with the deceased 4. Moment of transition, where the body transitions into the furnace 5. Reflection area, where mourners are released into spaces for private reflection 6. Enshrinement room where the remains are returned to the mourners in an urn 7. And columbarium ending the sequence and the final resting place for the deceased.
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PLANS
THE BARRIO VIEJO CREMATORIUM, TUCSON, AZ
SITE DIAGRAM
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THE BARRIO VIEJO CREMATORIUM, TUCSON, AZ
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+The building is divided into two main pieces, the rigid service core which is the backbone to the sacred spaces, it provides the services that allow this building to function, it hold the main circulation corridor which separates one from the other as well as allows them to be connected. +In addition, there are three different chapels that allow for
different ceremonies to take place undisturbed. Each chapel has entrance off the Meyer Ave where the visitor is guided through into the main ceremonial chapel, where both the body and the pulpit are highlighted through light wells that illuminate both the body and the speaker. The mourner sees this relationship between the dead (the body they are grieving) and the living the courtyard behind them, where there is a constant cast of shadows from the trees and vegetation moving off the walls behind the body.
ELEVATIONS
After the ceremony the body is lowered into the “earthâ€? and the mourners exit through the private courtyard. +The entry plaza acts as a buffer between the street and the larger chapel as well as serving as the overflow for the main chapel +The enshrinement room, is designed to highlight the remains of the deceased as they are returned to their loved ones. +The columbarium is the final resting place for the diseased, where visitors are guided through passing the reflection courtyard, where they are able to pause for reflection. When finally inside there is a buffer between the visitor and the deceased where rocks and pennies are left behind as a homage to their life +Finally, the exterior façade serves as a community resting place, where members of the community can come and create memories of their loved ones in a way that they will never be forgotten.
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D D B C RESIDENCE
DDBC Residence 5 is the design-build studio project for the academic year of 2013-2014 where we are built a 1200 sq. ft. home for a low income family. The Course is separated into three semesters, the first semester is design focused, where students designed and developed working construction documents, the second semester focuses on the actual fundamental behind building a structure, and the final semester is the fine details the bring the building together. Special features are a trombe wall on the south, which will gather solar energy during the cooler months to contribute to thermal comfort inside the home, and super insulated walls on the north, east and west to fight off the warm weather solar gain.
02 THE LOST BARRIO DRACHMAN DESIGN BUILD RESIDENCE 5, TUCSON, AZ
DDBC BUILDING PROCESS
Drachman Design-Build Coalition (DDBC) is a non-profit under the direction of Mary Hardin, Associate Dean and Professor, who along with students design and build prototype energy-efficient, low cost dwellings. Each prototype is permitted as a model residence and is intended to incorporate energy efficient strategies into the community for direct use by other non-profit and for-profit home builders. Nine Design-Build projects have been completed since 1996 winning design and teaching awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
02 THE LOST BARRIO DRACHMAN DESIGN BUILD RESIDENCE 5, TUCSON, AZ
DDBC BUILDING PROCESS
DDBC BUILDING PROCESS
02 THE LOST BARRIO DRACHMAN DESIGN BUILD RESIDENCE 5, TUCSON, AZ
DDBC BUILDING PROCESS
BATHROOM DESIGN
THE LOST BARRIO DRACHMAN DESIGN BUILD RESIDENCE 5, TUCSON, AZ
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SITE: EL CORAZON
El Corazรณn Norte is bordered by the Rillito River to the South and Ina Road to the North. The most distinguishing feature of this focus area is the proposed mixed use development, east of the Interstate in the existing commercial center. This urban development introduces strong connections to amenities west of the highway through greenways and a terraced underpass allowing for a significant increase in access and circulations for pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles. El Corazรณn Norte also features an earthworks park with berms and micro basins serving as a natural urban respite for neighboring residents, business owners, and visitors. To the west of the Interstate, proposed amenities emphasize the natural systems and character characteristic of the site. Facilities that enhance the natural character of the site include a recreational canyon, eco resort, aviary, extension of the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, and a preservation park.
03 EL CORAZON DEL NORTE, TUCSON, AZ
FOCUS AREAS
Repurposing the existing commercial center just south of Ina Road and west of North Thornydale as a mixed-use community will revitalize the area as a dense walkable urban node reaping economic benefits for existing and new businesses. This repurposed commercial center features abundant greenways for ease of pedestrian circulation throughout the urban fabric. These pathways run adjacent to shaded glass facades allowing people to look into shops and create visual connections.
03 EL CORAZON DEL NORTE, TUCSON, AZ ECONOMIC +Attempts to locate employment centers near residences by adapting existing buildings into mixeduse development. +To provide unique opportunities for new light industries along with other businesses to provide cross interests. +Use eco-tourism and nature enthusiasts to create employment and bring funds into the site. ENVIRONMENTAL +Attempts to repair the riparian habitats along Silverbell and within the Santa Cruz River. +Select xeriscape and draught tolerate vegetation to create the greenways and greenroofs. +Decrease water consumption, and increase grey and rainwater capture.
MASTER PLAN
FOCUS AREA DIAGRAM CULTURAL +Provides inter-disciplinary education center between University of Arizona Agricultural and the existing industries. +Express existing and historic cultural resources, such as the agricultural canals and archaeological sites. +Express Tucson as an athletic center by providing access for “extreme” human-powered sports. FUNCTIONAL + Main streets are designed as Greenways with pedestrian and bicycle dominant. + Street width allows for surface, parallel parking providing “side-friction” to visual cause motor vehicle speed decrease. + Improve walkable, bikable routes, and nodes of interest.
INA PRESERVATION PARK
INA MIXED USE CENTER
AVIARY & ASDM EXTENSION
ECO RESORT & SUNSET CANYON
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C I C U O F A
The site exemplifies and movement through the site where current bike paths and circulation paths are present, as well as the proposed light rail. It is through these paths that one can begin to draw planes of transparency that direct the public to the desired space. These planes direct the movement of the inhabitant into the site and out of the site giving the user the illusion of being present in private areas without intruding on the program. Light and views into and out of the site dictate, where these planes are to exist, connecting programs both vertically and horizontally. These planes act as physical dividers, however they unify the users giving them a similar experience as they inhabit the building. The materiality of theses spaces distinguish private and public through the use of glass, opaque glass, concrete and steel, creating permeability and boundaries, which function as a filter, where reflections dominate the space. Movement, continuity, sequence, and flow all work symbiotic with these planes, through the use of programs.
04 CENTER FOR COLLABORATION AND INFORMATION, TUCSON, AZ
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04 CENTER FOR COLLABORATION AND INFORMATION, TUCSON, AZ
CIRCULATION
CIRCULATION
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PLANS
CENTER FOR COLLABORATION AND INFORMATION, TUCSON, AZ
LEVEL 1
CORES
LEVEL 2
EXTERIOR TERRACE
GALLERY PRIVATE COLLECTION
LEVEL 3
ELEVATIONS
EAST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
LEVEL 4 WEST ELEVATION LIBRARY
AUDITORIUM
PROGRAM
CIRCULATION
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FARMERS MARKET
The Barrio Viejo is a historic and very special part of Tucson, AZ. Its unique character attracts many visitors and residents from across town to experience its charm. The Barrio Viejo Farmers market incorporated two specific programs: The Residence, and the Farmers Market, both of which would have to fit in seamlessly within the historic context. Simplistic designs were an ideal aspect of this project, as well as permeable pavers, and communal open courtyards. The project focused on a predominantly pedestrian access, where vehicles were strategically placed below grade. In addition, looking at the historic precedents of the site, floor plans are true to their historic origins.
05 THE BARRIO VIEJO FARMERS MARKET, TUCSON, AZ
MASTER PLAN Communal Courtyard with fountain 4.
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Communal Courtyard with fountain
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Areas of vegetation
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Corner House Unit (Large Unit)
Zaguan Style House A (Small Unit)
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East/West axis of circulation
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Parking level courtyard Central fountain Harvests rainwater from water above. Provides light to parking area below
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Vine walls help reduce heat gain from western sun
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Zaguan Style House B (Small Unit)
Shade structure provides shade throughout the year shelters the busy market spaces
Corner House Unit (Small Unit)
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4. Bedroom 5. Vehicular Parking Storage Bicycle Parking Mechanical Equipment 6. Laundry
Communal Courtyard with fountain
7. Private Outdoor Space Row House Unit (Small Unit)
Communal Courtyard with fountain
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RILLITO PAVILLION
The Rillito River is a seasonal river that cuts Tucson, AZ in half. This significant river has a seasonal cycle that rises the water level. During the monsoon seasons when the river is at its peak the river brings life to Tucson, allowing vegetation to grow and animals to thrive. The performance pavilion embraces the rivers cycle with different platforms at different heights, these allow people to interact with the sensitive desert climate. When the river is at its peak only some platforms are inhabitable, others are submerged, this aspect of the project allowed the inhabitants to interact with the river. The river brings life to the desert bringing with it sediment and nutritious soil from other regions, the platforms that are submerged collect this sediment, during the spring, grow into fertile plant beds, exhibiting the desert wildlife for everyone to enjoy.
06 THE RILLITO PAVILLION, TUCSON, AZ
SITE PLAN
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1. Sept 2. Aug 3. July 4. March - June 5. Dec - Feb 6. Feb - March 7. Oct - Nov 8. Existing Pedestrian Bikepath
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ELEVATION
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Education: B.Arch University of Arizona 2014 Architectural and construction support professional with more than 6 years of experience; adept at working in fast-paced environments demanding strong organizational, leadership and interpersonal skills. Committed to exceptional customer service and driven by challenges. Detail-oriented and resourceful in spearheading, organizing and completing projects; ability to multi task effectively, work well without supervision, bilingual English/Spanish with the ability to translate, and ability to prioritize and remain focused on the essence of an issue.
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