Isabella Alvarado - Architectural Assistant

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ArchitecturalAssistant IsabellaAlvarado Portfolio

Education

Cultural

Education

EarlyEducationProjects

CommercialProjects

UniversityCompetitionsandAwards

WaterkantAcademyKita Gestaltungskonzepte

(CHES)CentreforHigherEducationStudies Bespoke Education Building

WangarattaCreativePrecinct Heritage Precinct Redevelopment

YarrabingSecondaryCollege Secondary + Specialist Campus

MaribyrnongKindergarten Feasibility Studies + Schematic Design

BotaniccaCorporatePark Commercial / Workplace Building

PeterElliotArchitecture‘DrawingArchitecture’ Prize2019 3rd Place for ‘Coral Renaissance’

Project Outcome Gestaltungskonzept (Design Concept)

LPH 3 Design Planning

*Equivalent in Australia

Roles and Responsibilities:

Site Evaluation

Concept Development

Translate Concept to Architectural ideas

Schedule of Materials

Schedule of Fixtures, Furniture and Equipment

Project Address

Wasserstadt Oberhavel

Daumstraße 54A, 3599, Berlin, Germany

WaterkantAcademyKita

Childrens RoomThe Reef GruppenraumDas Riff

WaterplayThe Sea

WasserspielDas Meer

Circulation - The River

Verkehr- Der Fluss

EntranceThe Home

HaupteingangDas Haus

In 2023 I worked with Berlin based Architecture office, Baukind for a Working Residency Scholarship provided by Goethe Institute for 6 weeks. The first project I worked on was for a Kita for Waterkant Academny on the Ground floor of Wasserstadt Oberhavel in Spandau. I was responsible for creating a Gestaltungskonzepte for the Client where we provided design advice and conceptual drawings. The concept for the project was based on the question "Wo fließt der Fluss?"

Masterplan and Building designed by Eike Becker Architekten

Farbewelt
Wasserstadt Oberhavel

Konzepte

Grundriss Erdgeschoss

CentreforHigher EducationStudies

LPH 4 Approval PlanningLPH 6 Technical Design in Preparation for Project Tender

*Equivalent in Australia

Roles and Responsibilities:

Documentation / Construction Details

Coordination with Landscape Architects to find solutions to Interior Landscape and InteriorArchitecture Details.

Atrium-Interior
StreetElevation-Exterior
Elevation

CHES (Centre for Higher Education Studies) Is an Education Centre that provides high-achieving school students access to state of the art learning spaces, specialist facilities and access to leading expertise in order to prepare and develop young talent into high achieving fields.

The design of the building focuses on the full height atrium delivering natural light and ventilation tot he learning spaces. This was important due to the deep floorplates of the building volume. The roof is covered with a transparent and lightweight ETFE (Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, a high strength plastic polymer) inflatable roof.

DetailPhotographs

GroundFloor
FirstFloor
SecondFloor
ThirdFloor
LandscapeDetail
FacadePlanterDetail
Roller Blind
150mm Aluminium Glazing Frame Clear Glazing Column (Beyond)
Precast Concrete Spandrel
Precast Concrete Planter Box
Proprietary Planter Box Insert

WangarattaCreativePrecinct

LPH 4 Approval PlanningLPH 6 Technical Design in Preparation for Project Tender *equivalent in Australia

Roles and Responsibilities:

Schedule of materials

Schedule of FFE

Landscape details

Bespoke joinery details

Renders

Assistance in Presentations

Wangaratta Creative Precinct is a redevelopemnt of four existing cultural buildings in Regional Victoria, Australia. The project aims to convert the precinct into a vibrant creative campus uniting various Galleries, Performance spaces, Workshop and Education spaces. Part of the project is working to redefine and discover a new cultural identity for the city of Wangaratta.

My contribution to this project was handling Documentation sets, Renders and Interior design regarding materials and schedules. Together with the Heritage Architects and the Fire Engineers, this resulted in an extensive amount of bespoke detailed solutions that offer itself to creating a unique visual and spatial charachter specific to this project.

New Entry Tower
Gallery Entry Diagram

YarrabingSecondaryCollege

LPH 1 Basic EvaluationLPH 6 Technical Design in Preparation for Project Tender *equivalent in Australia

Roles and Responsibilities :

Area Schedules

Working in a team to develop Schematic Documentation to Construction Documentation External Consultant coordination between Structure + Services

Construction Site experience Correspondence with Builders Answering RFI - Request for Information

Yarrabing Secondary College consists of nine new buildings ranging from Learning Neighbourhoods, Gym, Administration buildings and a STEAM building (Science,Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths).

For this project I was in charge of the Administration and Library building (AR02) where I did full documentation and project management. Here I worked on the project from Concept design till the end of Construction with supervising Project Architects, Builders and Client.

General Arrangement Plan - Admin Building

Partition Plan - Admin Building

Elevations - Admin Building

Concrete Profile Plan - Admin Building

Reflected Ceiling Plan - Admin Building

Wall Type Details - Admin Building

Maribyrnong Kindergarten

ExteriorFacade-StreetElevation
Children’sRoom-Interior

Relationships-Plan

Maribyrnong Kindergarten is an Existing Kindergarten Centre dedicated to providing 4 year old Kinder. In 2022 the Victorian Government is investing 5 Billion dollars to increase capacity of all existing centres to include free kindergarten for 3 year olds aswell. Maribyrnong City council is developing a renovation of its Existing centre to upgrade and improve amenity through demolition and redeveloping its Existing site.

LPH 2 Pre-planning - LPH 4 Approval Planning

*equivalent

Roles and Responsibilities:

Site Evaluations + Preliminary cost plans to various options

Managing client expectations and brief Coordination between Structural, Accessibility, Fire and Services Engineer Research into pedagogical best practices and standards

Relationships-Diagram

A key component of its redevelopment is designing for Progressive Early education practices. The diagram on the left is a visual demonstration of the various interaction types and qualities of activities that occur in an Early Education space. And the diagram above is the translation of these principles into an architectural design. The aim of this study was to provide room for thinking about the smaller and more meaningful moments in children’s development.

SitePlan
Spatial
Spatial
City Council

BotannicaCorporatePark

The Botanicca Building is a Commercial building for leading Australian businesses situated in Richmond, along the Yarra River. The building is formed by two tower masses that utilise coloured, perforated sunshades that unify the architectural vernacular by referencing the Australian native flora and fauna of its surrounds.

LPH 5 Detailed Design

*equivalent in Australia

Roles and Responsibilities:

Assisting Interior Designers with schedules Joinery detailing Assisting Draftspersons with Documentation

Assisting with Presentations and Diagrams

PerforatedSunshades
StreetElevationPhotograph
FourthFloorPlan

PeterElliotDrawing ArchitecturePrize2019

Runner up - 3rd Place

Title: ‘A Coral Renaissance’ Studio: Map of Doom

The image is a Neo-Renaissance-esque drawing documenting Coral bleaching in the Australian Great Barrier Reef. Using the story of an existing Sinkhole as a refuge to Climate change, it becomes a stage to memorialise and speculate the new relationship we will have to adopt towards Nature in light of the Ecological crisis.

For this image I was interested in returning to ideas of Art, Science and Religion specifically of the Renaissance Era by using the geology of the site, the chemistry of the corals and our history with extracting Fossil Fuels to depict this fable / event of witnessing the last corals of the Great Barrier Reef.

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