PORTFOLIO
selection from 2003 - 2010
HĂŠctor J. Montalvo
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“Life Isn't About Finding Yourself, It's About Creating Yourself.” -Scott Ginsberg
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THESIS: HIATO EN EL HABITO
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PINERO COMPLEX
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MIASMA
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URBAN HOUSING
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HOTEL MIRAMAR
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OLD SAN JUAN
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URBAN PROSTHESIS
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KIOSKOS
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BASIC DESIGN
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LOT-EK
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TORO FERRER ARQUITECTOS
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WHITE HOUSE: REDUX
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MUSEUM OF POLISH HISTORY
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BUENOS AIRES
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FALLING WATER
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SAN JUAN PEATONAL
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CAROLINA GENIAL
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TORRIMAR
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MEDIA ROOM
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GREEN DICE
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
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THESIS: HIATO EN EL HABITO Condado, Puerto Rico Studying the characteristics of the performance art, I developed in my proposal new ways to design public spaces. Usually, urban planners and architects select were is the ideal place to create a public space and the way it should be used. In my thesis I started searching spaces that people identify with the characteristics of a public space but wasn't design originally for that purpose. After studying these phenomenons I selected an iconic bridge in the City of San Juan called Puente dos Hermanos and I decided to create the architecture in favor of its spontaneous scenarios. The proposal for Dos Hermano’s bridge improves the pedestrian activities and water sports facilities. The project consists of a structural surface that goes between the existing car bridge, creating a path from the top and underneath of the bridge. The program consists of a commercial area of kiosks, public pools that works with natural sea water, dock stations for the kayaks and water sport equipment, and pedestrian connections of the main San Juan Tourist destinations, Condado, Paseo Caribe, Miramar and San Juan’s Convention District. The waffle circle structure creates a surface that gives the opportunity to choose the material to use depending of the activity of the zone. The list of materials and equipment placed on the circle holes are: wood, perforated metal, sand, different scale vegetation, lighting, stairs, elevators, pole structures for canopy and skylights. The proposal seeks to design a place where different groups of people can enjoy different activities in the same space and at the same time. The plan is designed to establish an un-impeded cultural field to ensure fluidity and connectivity between the different scenarios and spontaneous activities. Ultimately this would bring about not just flashes of brilliance, but long-term and sustained vitality to Puertorrican community.
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ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING { project: Thesis: Hiato en el hรกbito}
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DRAWING PLANS { project: Thesis: Hiato en el hábito}
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DRAWING FACADES { project: Thesis: Hiato en el hรกbito}
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DRAWING SECTIONS { project: Thesis: Hiato en el hรกbito}
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DRAWING DETAILS { project: Thesis: Hiato en el hรกbito}
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WALL SECTION { project: Thesis: Hiato en el hรกbito}
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ARCHITECTURAL MODEL { project: Thesis: Hiato en el hรกbito}
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ARCHITECTURAL MODEL { project: Thesis: Hiato en el hรกbito}
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ARCHITECTURAL RADIOGRAPHY Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico In an empty site next to the train station of the Pinero Avenue in the City of San Juan, was developed a multiuse complex. It consists of a hotel, raised housing, office building, commercial space, Movie Theater and Bowling Alley. The purpose of the course was to put in practice the complexity of all the mechanical, structural and construction codes in a big scale development. The main goal in the master plan was to concentrate all the programs in the periphery, to generate a public space in the middle, free of urban noise and safe for the community. The vertical louvers facades of the building are open to permit cross ventilation and also regulate the shadows in favor of the tropical climate.
PRESENTATION { project: Housing Development in Avenue Pi単ero, Puerto Rico}
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SITE PLAN { project: Housing Development in Avenue Piñero, Puerto Rico}
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BASE FLOOR PLAN { project: Housing Development in Avenue Piñero, Puerto Rico}
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TYPICAL HOUSING PLAN { project: Housing Development in Avenue Piñero, Puerto Rico}
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FACADES { project: Housing Development in Avenue Piñero, Puerto Rico}
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SECCIÓN TRANSVERSAL
SECTION & WALL SECTION { project: Housing Development in Avenue Piñero, Puerto Rico}
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3D RENDERINGS { project: Housing Development in Avenue Pi単ero, Puerto Rico}
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MIASMA Polluted Atmospheres Every day we meet those who, either as a result of their own decision or misfortune, end up living in the streets of San Juan. Without being aware of it, they ultimately become part of the urban landscape, ironically ignored by a society that chooses to “unfocus” their reality from the city. When homeless people move through main avenues, they define a territory of their own, even if on a temporary basis. Together with their “plea” signs, they represent a momentary distraction along the driver/spectator journey. Travel by car is thus tinged by these transient individuals who appropriate the public realm. The Project Aiming to cancel the discomfort customarily associated to the proximity between driver and beggar, specific circuits of homeless persons were identified, leading to interviews and multiple exchanges with them. Upon becoming aware of each individual’s need, new signs were designed ad hoc and provided to them. The design of an urban art journey identifies the habitants of the city’s street intersections. Intervening in the action zone of the individual, their boards were redesigned to re qualify what has become usual and signify what easily became ignored. The project changes the uneasiness in perception that becomes part of the urban journey, at the same time humanizing the presence of the vagabond, reinserting them in society. The zones of intervention included Ponce de León (8 Kms) and F.D. Roosevelt Avenues (5 Kms). Nine intersections were selected in these two main avenues of San Juan in which 16 individuals define a territory. The messages that they project on their boards and their needs were documented. Then 16 artists were selected to choose a homeless that best qualifies with their creative talents and then design a board.
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DOCUMENTATION & ANALYSIS { project: MIASMA }
Rafael rez José Pé do Merca e im Ja Luis Díaz Eliel Jesús Díaz
Jaime Rodríguez
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PHOTOS { project: MIASMA}
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URBAN HOUSING Hato Rey, Puerto Rico Housing and urbanism are confronted in a long-term project. Typological housing precedents and social issues are framed against the economic and political background, which foster and hinders housing. The project consists of designing a housing building in an urban context with a site that is near the tracks of the urban train. Considering the noise pollution and the lack of privacy in the area, I manipulated the composition and materiality of the facades as well as the organization of the apartments to coexist in harmony with every detail of the environment.
ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING & CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAMS { project: Urban Housing }
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HOTEL MIRAMAR Miramar, Puerto Rico A 13-story hotel in Miramar Puerto Rico, with a complex program that consists of: -117 Rooms - 111 Parking spaces -Restaurants -Commercial area -Service area -Back of the house -Pool and recreation -Gym -Etc. Design methods are highlighted, exploring techniques used to articulate the components of an architectural project. Problem-solving is confronted from different angles of understanding in an introspective and critical manner.
ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS & DRAWINGS { project: Hotel Miramar }
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DRAWING PLANS { project: Hotel Miramar }
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Old San Juan City fortifications Bastion San Antonio Design is related to structures of historical significance and issues of contemporary and traditional vocabularies. Preservation theory, legislation and programming, building pathology and hands-on exercises with materials are integral to the course. It is a project for a class of conservation of Old San Juan buildings, selecting a bastion from the fort walls for analysis, documentation and intervention. I created a memorial park forming a stage and a connection between the Old San Juan cemetery and the circulation of the people that visit the Fort EL Morro. I also manipulated the terrain of the bastion San Antonio to form an amphitheatre that blended in with the green glacis. A balcony for highlighting history, creating a interaction between the outside and the inside of the fortification.
ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING { project: Old San Juan City fortifications }
BALUARTE SAN ANTONIO
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ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS { project: Old San Juan City fortifications }
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DRAWING PLANS { project: Old San Juan City fortifications }
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FACADES & SECTIONS { project: Old San Juan City fortifications }
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Urban Prosthesis Condado, Puerto Rico Projects of intermediate complexity are related to the larger backdrop of culture and themes related to identity politics. The appropriateness of concept to form and context is emphasized, as well as the architect’s larger responsibilities to his/her work in society. The purpose of this project was to create an urban prosthesis, which interacts with three mechanical techniques. -In the first step I selected human lung prosthesis to abstract three mechanical techniques that describe its operation: resistance, recovery and exchange. -After studying the techniques of the biolung creating graphs, I take the next step by searching for an obsolete site that needs the prosthesis. My typology is based on the obsolete structure that lacks permeability. -The urban prosthesis produced a fake lung that creates resistance on those buildings to recover the exchange between the people, the lagoon and the sea. -The architectural form concluded In favor of the urban congestion. The building became the forces that create resistance to modulate the structure. The people represent the gases searching for the exchange and the form of the prosthesis is the guidance of the recovery.
ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING { project: Urban Prosthesis }
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BOARD PRESENTATION { project: Urban Prosthesis }
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Kioskos de Luquillo Bazaars of Luquillo, Puerto Rico A possibility to provide an alternative for development to the unsystematic bazaars of Luquillo, Puerto Rico, creating a transition between El Yunque Forest and the beautiful public beach. It produced a new habitat of 60 new bazaars with a restaurant, wich respects its natural organic context and improves the experience of the circulation of visitors. Plan, section and elevation are jointly manipulated to expound architecture’s three dimensional possibilities. Circulation and spatial sequence, structure, enclosure and tectonics are simultaneously considered in the genesis of form.
SELECTION OF DRAWINGS { project: Kioskos de Luquillo}
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Basic Design One Spatial organization, form, structure, and figure-ground gestalt issues are explored through geometry in projects developed from two-dimensional graphic design into three-dimensional architectural abstractions. A composition using a variety of art techniques illustrating three stages of the drama from a story. The final project from the first class of history; A Object that his essence is repeated of what is put on top.
WATER COLOR PAINTING { project: Aibonito Church}
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SELECTION OF MY FIRST YEAR WORK { project: Basic Design One }
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LOT-EK 55 Little West 12th Street New York 10014 Summer Internship, worked as a designer, graphic designer and laser cut model developer. In charge of the design and installation of the Venice BIennale 2008.
LOT-EK { project: Venice BIennale 2008 }
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LOT-EK { project: Venice BIennale 2008 }
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TORO FERRER ARQUITECTOS Botanical Garden Entrance & Amphitheater I collaborated in the design development of the new Amphitheater and Entrance for the Botanical Garden of San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AIA WINNER 2009 & BIENAL XI CAAPPR WINNER 2009)
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White House Redux Competition Ideas competition being held by Storefront for Art and Architecture Machine, mansion, monument, office park, home office, backdrop banner, T.V. studio, tourist trap, convention center, party school, bunker, tomb. A counterfactual historical tragedy destroyed the White House with United Airlines Flight 93, collapsing all the white houses into one. The winner of a hypothetical competition reconfigured the old as new, in the likeness of political spin. Metaphors organize the imagination, the real site of politics. Metaphors are abundant in this project. For instance, there is a Presidential Mansion at the center, but it is not central. The Black Box – a ring of media and surveillance activities – is the true center, where presidencies are produced and reproduced. It shields the Presidential Loft, and like Flight 93’s black box, it reveals its secrets after tragedy hits: every presidency is a retroactively experienced tragedy. Transparency and opacity unfold with meteorological unpredictability. The fragments of the old House are exhibited in a Museum Ring. At its core, under the Black Box’s scrutiny, a reconstruction of the East Room combines both ballroom and press room (they are the same, after all). The triangulations of L’Enfant’s plan invade and define the museum’s structural frame as a digital flying carpet broadcasts Earth’s real-time rotation. Everyone who works here has to confront the museum’s glass ceiling in their daily commute, a symbolic reminder of their bumpy ride to the top (and its collateral moral fragility). An internal metaphor organizes the architectural section: the Foundational Cherry Tree rises from the Situation Deck, its trunk seeing the light of day at the Vice President’s chamber and its branches reaching out to a loft-like version of Jefferson’s Monticello, the President’s home-office.
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MUSEUM OF POLISH HISTORY The International Architectural Competition for a Design of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw The Museum of Polish History announces an international architectural competition for a design of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, conducted under the patronage of Mr. Bogdan Zdrojewski – Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland and under the auspices of the International Union of Architects UIA. The purpose of the competition is to decide about the selection of an architectural concept with design elements for the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, hereinafter referred to as the MPH, so as to verify the initial guidelines and to set out the direction for development and execution of the investment project.
BOARDS PRESENTATION { Museum of Polish History }
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Concepts for exhibition The time frame
The scope of issues
Fast Track and highlights
Alternative narratives
Institutional manner
National manner Community manner
Anti-totalitarian manner
Cultural manner
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1914 - 1915
19th century
Modern times
Religious manner Family manner
Middle Ages
Space for exhibition
-Museum collections in witch large and small pieces are combined. -The space varies in height in order to creat the appropriate scale for the piece that is being exhibited.
Flexibility of halls
-A simply shaped hall flexible to accommodate different sizes of objects as well as different exhibition techniques.
Configuration A : day light controlled with rolling black out, in order to create dramatic contrast of light and shadows around the objects.
Configuration B : a full day light condition to exhibit elements and its context naturally illuminated.
Configuration C : a dark environment apropiate for multimedia projections.
Concepts for the building
Building and infrastructure -The bridge museum.
-A simple structure of concrete beams and bearing walls, that is modified when over the freeway.
-The beams became arches to overcome the width of the free way, creating in that operation the necessary interior height for the great forum.
Building funtional organization
-The complementary functions that need light and views take advantage of the scarpa.
-One level museum, with the complementary functions on lower level.
-The auditorium has an independent entrance that can be open while the museum is closed.
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BOTANICAL GARDEN VISITORS CENTER Buenos Aires, Argentina A four month architectural program in Torcuato Di Tella institute at Buenos Aires. Where I took a design course, a theory class of the Latin-American Architecture and a class of urban sketching. In the design class we developed a Visitor’s Center for the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden, using the Le Corbusier's Curuchet house as a precedent.
BOTANICAL GARDEN VISITORS CENTER { project: Buenos Aires}
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BOTANICAL GARDEN VISITORS CENTER { project: Buenos Aires}
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Fallingwater Sumer Internship 2006 Every year 12 architecture students are selected on an international level for a summer internship to interact with Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece. Students will examine Fallingwater from above and below, inside and out – in a detailed examination of this world-famous architectural landmark. While in residence students will examine the ecology of the western Pennsylvania landscape, explore the value of sustainable building and contextually derived building methods, and pursue the poetry of light and sound which is so palpable in Wright's work. Students will complete several short drawing and design projects while in attendance. These design inquiries will ask students to look closely at these surroundings while pursuing a broader dialogue of building materials, forms and methods. Taking inspiration from a rare level of access to Fallingwater, as well as study of buildings in Pittsburgh, students will be asked to translate their insights toward new forms, new solutions, and new methods of building.
FALLINGWATER { project: Sumer Internship 2006 }
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FALLINGWATER { project: Fallingwater visitors center }
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SAN JUAN PEATONAL Making the Old San Juan a Walking City I was one of the selected third-year students to work with the mayor of San Juan City, healing the process of making the old city for pedestrians, creating alternatives for the small walking streets called “callejones� and the public spaces. We also suggested connections between the top and the base of the historic fortification.
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Latorraca Residence Guaynabo, Puerto Rico My first built project, a luxury residence near a river and a tropical forest in Torrimar, Puerto Rico. It’s a refurbishing of an existing structure, creating a dialogue between nature and the geometry of the architectural design. The orientation of the design highlights the panorama of nature.
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HOUSE DESIGN { project: Latorraca Residence }
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HOUSE DESIGN { project: Latorraca Residence }
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PAPER ROLLS - MEDIA ROOM WALL Cata単o, Puerto Rico
PAPER ROLLS { project: Media Room }
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GREEN DICE Interactive web design
WEB DESIGN { project: Green Dice } > CLOSE WINDOW TOP
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LIBRARY { project: Green Dice }
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GRAPHIC DESIGN, EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS Clients: CAAPPR, ARQPOLI, Bobby Valentin
ENTRANCE DESIGN { project: ARQPOLI 13TH ANNIVERSARY }
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EXHIBITION DESIGN { project: BIENAL XI }
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BOBBY VALENTIN: EVOLUTION { project: Music Production Art }
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