HENRY MELENDREZ
2019-2021 | SELECTED ACADEMIC WORKS IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
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AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS H. Kennard Bussard Award, presented by RDG Planning and Design Finalist (2021) Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Student Competition Finalist (2019 & 2020) DLR Group Student Competition Finalist (2019) Iowa State Richard F. Hansen Prize Finalist (2018) AIA Iowa Emerging Professionals Competition 1st Place (2020)
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AIA Iowa Emerging Professionals Competition Honorable Mention (2019) AIA iaarchitect Winter Magazine Feature (2021) AIA Iowa/AIA National Diversity Scholarship (2020) Mark C. Engelbrecht Architecture Rome Scholarship (2020) Multicultural Visionary Program Recipient (2016-2021)
ZGF Scholarship Fund Finalist (2020) All IA Opportunity Scholar (2016-2018) Iowa State University Dean’s List x 5 DMACC President’s List (2015-2018) ISU School Pride Award (2018)
REFERENCES Available Upon Request
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EDUCATION College of Design, Iowa State University Ames, IA | Rome, Italy Expected Graduation May 2021 Bachelor of Architecture Minors in Sustainability + Digital Media GPA: 3.6/4.0
EXPERIENCE INVISION Planning | Architecture | Interiors Architectural Intern | Des Moines, IA May 2019-Present
BUILD Multicultural Mentorship Program
Mentor | College of Design, Iowa State University August 2018, August 2020-Present
Iowa State University College of Design Tech Assistant | Ames, IA September 2018-2019
Design Studies 102: Peer Mentor Mentor | College of Design, Iowa State University October 2018
SKILLS + SOFTWARE Rhino3D, Revit, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, AutoCad, Sketchup, Adobe Creative Suite, Enscape, Lumion, Microsoft Office, Bluebeam, Sefaira, Cove.tool, Vray, DREMEL 3D45, Print Studio, Grasshopper Bilingual: English + Spanish
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 RESUME 4 ARMATURE OF SAUDADE 16 PARASITIC ARCHITECTURE 30 ROME AS FOUND 38 THE FLUX 2050 48 NOMA | LEARNING IN (A) PLACE 58 PRISMA | DESIGN-BUILD
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ARMATURE OF SAUDADE Fifth Year Architecture Studio, Spring 2020 Project Site: Lisbon, Portugal Instructor: Firat Erdim Partner: Javier Rodriguez 2021 H. Kennard Bussard Award Nominee The city of Lisbon was built upon layers of history and a longingness for the past that continues to resonate throughout time. Longing not only serves as a form of reminiscing, but also as an architectural tool for transcending boundaries. Therefore the question arises, how does this architectural tool co-exist within the modern city of Lisbon, and more specifically how can it be used to acknowledge what is there and what was lost? The aftermath in the transformation of the city exerts an exercise of power in which grids and order bring upon new rationalist ideas. In the midst of collapse, caught in time and longing for place, the armature that embeds itself within the city pulls at the boundaries of the grid. The framework of recollections that emerge from saudade reveals a space that counters the grid by generating obstructions that grow over time. Threads of fragmented memories become embroidered within Lisbon causing tension and moments of loose connections. A walk through the inhabited armature of saudade allows for an experience in a surreal environment of constant longing in which the armature and its physical environment clash, exposing a disaster that will never cease to exist.
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LOCATION OF RESEARCH STUDY
COGNITIVE MAPPING
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LOCATING MONUMENTS
ARMATURE OF SAUDADE
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POST-DISASTER RE-CONSTRUCTION
REBUILDING/LOCATING CITY CENTER
“To think, yes, even to think, is to act. Only in absolute daydreams where no activity inter venes, where all consciousness of o u rs e l ve s g e t s te rm i n a l l y s t u ck i n t h e mud — only there in that warm, damp state of non-being can one truly abandon all action.” -Fernando Pessoa Portuguese Poet of the 20th Century
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ARMATURE OF SAUDADE
MATRIX MAPPING
EXISTING DISPLACED FRAGMENTS
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STRINGS OF THOUGHT | PHYSICAL MODEL STUDY
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ARMATURE OF SAUDADE
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PARASITIC ARCHITECTURE: A 2 PHASE URBAN INTERVENTION Third Year Architecture Studio, Spring 2019 Project Site: Chelsea, NY Instructor: Bosuk Hur Partner: Mary Le 2019 AIA Iowa Emerging Professionals Student Competition 2nd Place Developed through a 2 phase composition, the proposal for a parasitic, vertical campus dealt with the frustration between lack of accessible and permittable public space on W 24th and W 25th Street in Chelsea, NY and highly restrictive spaces. Our parasitic concept would begin to show the integration of the existing buidling and our design and how they can seemlessly coexist and prove to benefit from one another. The intention of the overall form was to promote a positive gentrification in the Chelsea area whilst having a physical connection to the Highline, which develops plenty of pedestrian foot traffic. Introducing a space accessible to all types of people to interact and share experiences with promotes a creative atmosphere within a unique, expressive setting. Using diagonal masses that cuts through the floors as a continuous circulation and shared programs encourages more interaction between the school and the public. Challenging what is considered truly public in Chelsea became a focus point in developing our design. Activity throughout the school is exposed to the highline level, and other levels as well. An entagled structure of diagonals and staggered boxed forms invite the public to interact and seek moments of interest within design.
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SECTION STUDY
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CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL + INFLUENTIAL
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Horizontal expressions, "randomized" forms, pocket spaces and diagonals became very influencial when considering a form for the final iteration.
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ROME AS FOUND | CARVED CONTINUITY Rome Study Abroad, Spring 2020 Project Site: Torrione Prenestino, Rome, Italy Instructor: Simone Capra Partners: Andrew Evans + Jacob Gasper Torrione Prenestino, as found, acts as a detached member of Rome’s strong and stratified urban fabric. In an area constricted by train tracks and high-speed roads, the park creates this isolation by not reaching out to its immediate context. Creating contemporary architecture in a city like Rome requires the need for open, public space as well as a relationship to the existing ancient context of the given site. Framed by four public piazzas, the open ground floor features a workshop atelier, flex space, a cafe, and atrium. Without interior walls, the programs are able to expand and contract as the neighborhood needs fluctuate. Anything from a gallery opening to a concert could inhabit this space. The second floor contains public and semi-private co-working space, which is also open and easily adaptable for any type of work. The top two floors accommodate private student housing The Nolli Plan visually explains the continuity of public space through the dense urban fabric of Rome. Our public floors facilitate this exchange through permeable facades and no interior walls. Permeability also connects the site by creating easy paths through the building. A simple design that takes precedent from antiquity informs the user about a fluidity created between interior and exterior space.
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Fluidity on the ground floor allows for an accomodation of many different programs & activties that activate the space
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THE FLUX 2050: REIMAGINING SUSTAINABILITY Fourth Year Architecture Studio, Fall 2019 Project Site: Des Moines, IA Instructor: Shelby Doyle Partner: Jaya Tolefree 2019 DLR Student Competition Nominee “Human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century” The aim of the project looks to architectural and infrastructural strategies for reducing carbon emissions and global warming. This takes the form of affordable housing and a revitalized transportation system to run along interstate infrastructure. We speculate that in 2050, burning fossil fuels has risen to dangerous levels of carbon emissions in our atmosphere. This future will require imagining new strategies for sustainability, through a means of architecture as well as developing new methods of travel to counteract the effects of pollution – such as our proposed Flux. The Flux serves to navigate the urban/rural divide by creating a system for shared autonomous vehicles as well as pods designed for quick, affordable transport. With a ban on burning fossil fuels, people would be required to share electric vehicles, dispersed through cities and towns, to make transportation accessible. The autonomous vehicles would travel along the Flux for longdistance travel, and to enter the city. Our proposal points a direct criticism towards a potential use of high-speed rail in the U.S. The average American loses over $1,000 by sitting in traffic creating phantom jams that cost the U.S. about $121 billion/year due to congested traffic on the interstate. Revitalizing interstate travel using the existing infrastructure to create high speed lanes for pedestrian/ vehicle transportation will eliminate many of the issues associated with climate change.
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THE FLUX 2050
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LEARNING IN (A) PLACE EDUCATING | ADAPTING | PLACEMAKING 2019 Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Student Competition Project Site: Flatbush, NY Instructor: Bosuk Hur Partners: Alyanna Subayno, Marilyn Stephanou, Obhishek Mandal, Vinay Porandla 2020 AIA Emerging Professional Competition 1st Place AIA iaarchitect magazine Winter 2021 Feature 2019 NOMA Student Competition Finalist Located on the edges of highly gentrified neighborhoods such as Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Flatbush is becoming one of Brooklyn’s rapidly transforming neighborhoods. In order to combat the effects of gentrification in a historically diverse neighborhood pertaining to Italian, Irish, Jewish and African-Americcan communities, it is critical to conisder the effects of design and the role it has in maintaining and preserving culture. The immense culture embedded within the community of Flatbush allows for comprehensive strategies that integrate varying housing typologies and foster diplomacy between tenants, homeowners, and the community. The goals achieved in the establishment of the project embrace local education within the community of Flatbush while also providing a solution in creating adaptable housing units located on the site. The fragmentation of the masses allow for porosity on the site, but beyond that, it allows for the proposal to be approachable from various points. The project serves as a base model for creating a typology that provides residents and the public complete access to land meant not just to serve the community, but rather enhance it.
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PRISMA : DESIGN BUILD AT REIMAN GARDENS, AMES Second Year Architecture Studio Project Site: Ames, IA Spring 2018 Arch 202 Studio's Collaboration “To educate, enchant, and inspire an appreciation of plants, butterflies, and the beauty of the natural world” - Reiman Gardens Mission Statement As part of the 2018 theme at Reiman Gardens, Movement and Kinetic Structures, PRISMA becomes a structure open to exploration and relaxation. Its organic, monolithic form allows PRISMA to become a part of the natural world by providing moments of beauty through means of hammocks, irresdescent panels, cable and a complexity achieved by Arch 202 students. 4 months.
1, 413 acrylic irredescent panels.
77 students.
51 timber members.
30 steel hubs.
5 professors. Countless Hours.
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PRISMA was constructed and assembled in Iowa. Thus, this monolothic form of cables, timber, acrylic spinning infill, ham- mocks and steel hubs become exposed to the harsh elements present in the outdoors. Iowa’s weather can range from freezing temperatures to a humid, hot climate. Due to this, I was able to compare and analyze any changes that occured on the structure in forces of nature such as: snow, rain, sunny and overcast weather. In snowy conditions, the irredescent panels glisten with the snow. In a field of white snow, the panels manage to create an aesthetic that is only visible up close. Water droplets form on the panels preventing them from showing off its irredescent color scheme. Similarly, in the rain, the panels manage to catch water droplets, but the rain becomes a big issue for people who may try to interact with PRISMA. The hammocks get soaked and the ground forms puddles, due to PRISMA being constructed in a spot where water drainage occurs. In an overcast, the panels manage to truly pop in their environment. A nice blue and green gradient happens when the structure is viewed from a certain angle. The timber, cables and hammocks become muted as the infill glows with a sharp intensity of colors. This type of weather becomes ideal for capturing PRISMA in its natural form of beauty and shape. In order to get the full experience of PRISMA, it is best to visit the site in clear sky, sunny conditions. Most elevated hammocks become usable and spectacular shadows appear on the ground from the sunshine hitting the irredescent panels. One of these type of shadows are seen as purple diamonds that stay still on the ground. The best experience of a sunny day at PRISMA are the dancing lights that happen from the panels bouncing and spinning. These lights play around all over the ground and seem to be flickering with excitement. Overall, in order to fully experience PRISMA in its best, usable form would be to visit the structure on a sunny day, or perhaps even on an overcast day, if you don’t mind a dull sky.
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CONTACT henrym@iastate.edu (515) 528-4075