PennDesign M.Arch Portfolio

ISABEL LOPEZ//FONT GRADUATE WORKSAMPLES PENNDESIGN 2016-2019

DIS[RUPTED] CAMO // the state of disturb and conceal simultaneously within the environment

To assimilate involves a process of relating to the surroundings, to absorb it and find some type of identification. Dis[rupted] Camo accentuates architecture as a form of disturbance and concealment, part of our peripheral vision among the views backdrop. It forges the architectures’ identity surrounding it, yet it seeks to create an identity of its own through the means of standing out as well as blending in like creatures of the natural world through its reflective manner. The design allows external forms and influences of the environment to be absorbed and sedimented to uphold a true identity within its natural context.

Unlike any other architecture, Dis[rupted] Camo seeks to embody the innate elements of its surrounded organisms. Through its design, a paradigmatic model of camouflage architecture evolves. Meticulously anchored in the ground, it protects, yet showcases itself. While its peculiar protrusions, or spikes absorb the environment through its reflective material and positioning, identical to a natural creature.

ARCH501 // PROF. DANIELLE WILLEMS

LOCATION // MANITOGA FOREST

// The evolution of this architecture, planted itself on the ground as a simple gesture, freely malleable. Molding is curvature by the tectonic textures of the contours, yet a manipulated form resulted to reveal/conceal its features.

//CATALOGUE OF MASSINGS

// The principal curvatures embedded in the ground, create the form. It is the act of peeling, the unique architectural character is unveiled. Alike natural creatures, this peeling effects allows new breaks, apertures to be exposed.

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SLASH[ED] EXHAUSTS // the state of reformation and rectification of what once existed

From a present reality to a parafictional future, Slash[ed] Exhausts experiments architecture as a fictional story of a future. Set in 2037, Slash[ed] Exhausts is a political architecture instigated to overthrow power and surveillance.

Stuyvesant Town was taken by the government to reconfigure a housing block to an NSA subsidiary offiice. From its original block, this project erected circular volumes to provide exhausts for the new servers within. It is later then retaken by the community once again to become its original housing complex state. Slash[ed] portrays the exhausts to be cut and mended to become glass. This architecture maintains its history through its new design.

�Discrimination and discretization were the subjects of all current events. People thought his presidency was just a phase, but look at where we are now, an environment of fear and threat. The dispute of nuclear weapons was the motive for the nuclear cold war against both countries in 2038. With North Korea already being an extreme regime for as long as I can imagine, the US started to follow along in some aspects of control and extreme power. This event in history altered even more the subject of surveillance and espionage. NSA took charge in expanding more offices to have more control on security restraints for foreigners, even us- US Citizens.�

This notion of paracfictional fear, instigated Slash[ed] Exhausts to be designed as a housing complex that offers the simplicity of life, with a new perspective out front through the new glass walls and the remanesnsce of history through its open spaces.

ARCH601 // PROF. KUTAN AYATA

LOCATION // STUYVESANT TOWN

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FRACTAL FORM[ED] // the state of fragments and shapes fused to forge an object form

Emerging from a manipulative succession of iterations at a two dimensional level, Fractal Form[ed] reimagines the compositional series of rock formations and reinterprets the notion of how land is formed, deployed and created. Fractal Form[ed] explores architecture as a building envelope delaminating from the layers of the ground. Through its patterns, it strives for a design that enlivens, stimulates, and activates the neighborhood beyond the conventional architecture. Fractal Form[ed] goes beyond the concept of what a library constitutes nowadays.

It is infused with characteristics of the present library and the notion of what a library of the future could be.

Once an abstract linework was created, a 3d volume evolved to develop the beginning concepts of a library. The process was followed with the addition of projected patterns into the 3d massing. Architecture becomes a lively experiment in the neighborhood by the addition of patterns in the urban landscape. The fractures of the pattern become a guideline to layout for programming, landscape and hardscape.

ARCH502 // PROF. JOSH FREESE

LOCATION // PHILADELPHIA PARKSIDE

//ABSTRACTED PATTERNS

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//MASSING EXPLORATIONS

//AXONS //EXPLODED AXON

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FABLAB WORKSHOP EXHIBITION // GALLERY HARDSCAPE // PLAYGROUND

FABLAB WORKSHOP CONCERT HALL // CINEMA

EXHIBITION // GALLERY

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HYA[LOID] // the state of transperency and reflectivity projected onto an object

Hya[loid] became the desire to capture the infinite variations that can occur in nature often seen in mineral materials. ie monolithic quarrys. We look deeper into a variation of the micro geometry of quarry. The formation started to navigate the intersections between soft curvature and sharp geometries of reflection. The design flickers between the hard geological forms of the quarry of Manitoga and carves out sublet part that related to the softness of the Russel Wright objects, for which obtains the concept of reflective monoliths.

Hya[loid] experiments with the elements of reflectivity and transperancy to absorb its natural enviroment - alike Dis[rupted] Camo.

It’s design originated through the erotion of rocks in the quarry, and how they end up being placed randomly, nonetheless, creating seams and ruptures in its surfaces. The seams and placements seen in the rocks within the forest enviroment, instigates the design of Hya[loid] to behave in a similar manner. This behavior is seen by the careful placement of individual Hya[loid] components, for which end creating a hollisitc object/pavillion.

ARCH501 // PROF. DANIELLE WILLEMS

LOCATION // MANITOGA FOREST

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Zheng Zhu, LiChao Liu, Xuanhao Han, Isabel Lopez-Font

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PENNDesign | Fall 2016 | ARCH 501Design Studio| Danielle Willems

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INCUBA[TECH] // the state of incubation through technology

Incuba[tech] is a market that utilizes incubator and hydroponic planting methods to grow fresh produce. Independent of location, these “satellite gardens” can be rented and monitored through the IncubaTECH app. The market runs entirely on water pumps that filter through columns, pipes that connect the floating satellites, and through floorplates and green walls in order to maintain plants. Each plant is monitored electronically which gives the user freedom to control lighting, water, and other factors from the comfort of their home.

Incubator as Economic Stimulator: Independent of location, these “satellite gardens” can be rented and monitored through the IncubaTECH app. The market runs entirely on water pumps that filter through columns, pipes that connect the floating satellites, and through floorplates and green walls in order to maintain plants. Each plant is monitored electronically which gives the user freedom to control lighting, water, and other factors from the comfort of their home. Inspired from the Detroit Grocer Incubator, this market aims to mediate the food desert in Parkside through grassroots methodsenabling local entrepreneurs to rent incubators and sell their produce.

The challenge was to create rail stop at 41st Bridge that activates the area and serves as: a welcoming for visitors, an informal public market and eating space, and a symbol of Parkside. For locals who are not interested in running a business, there is abundant opportunity to rent their own satellite garden. Finally, as the architectural design aims to create a fluid connection to the train station and neighboring streets, visitors will be excited to visit West Philadelphia and engage with the local community.

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hydroponic column

aeroponic wall

incubators

ARCH502 // PROF. JOSH FREESE LOCATION // PHILADEPHIA PARKSIDE

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RELI[QUARY] // the state of architecture as vibration suspensions with sustained resonance

The atmospheres and spaces conceived through this section are centered around the idea of artificial buoyancy through the suspension of objects.

The protagonist, or main character is classified into three territories: the sphere, the cuboid, and the quarry. Each territory withholds its own unique spatial organization. The sphere is perched on a field of columns that are embedded into the depths of the quarry bed, and features an immersive interior space.

Mist and vapor systems are embedded into the interior walls, creating a cool and damp environment. The cuboid is defined by a large intersecting cone that functions as a light tunnel and chimney. Interior activity parallels the projecting smoke, fog, and vapor emitted by the cone. The subdivided interior space with various suspended objects in which users can inhabit, traverse, and climb. Together, the components work to amplify sounds and vibrations caused by the surrounding environment or the changing activities of the user.

The protagonist’s character is a meticulously designed balancing act. Inspired by the long spanning tensile cables of a suspension bridge, and the careful tuning of guitar strings, the protagonist demonstrates a calculated instability that allows for vibrations to travel through its shell and interior.

The interior spaces reiterate the tensile cable system through organized chaos of suspended objects that all withhold its own unique translational quality and experience.

ARCH602 // PROF. SIMON KIM LOCATION // SOCRATES PARK NY PARTNER //JINAH OH

//SECTION DETAILS

GROTTO CEILING DETAIL

SPHERE MIST SYSTEM

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MECHANICAL ANCHOR FINISH FLOOR 4” RIGID INSULATION I-BEAM W12X72 WATER PIPE FEED LINE

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SYSTEM EXTRUSION INSTALLATION FASTENER TENSILE CABLE BASE PLATE BATT INSULATION I-BEAM W12X72

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