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Year 2 (2011-2012)
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Convertible Space A Transformable Living Space Big Bend National Park Station Cliffside Ranger Station Year 3 (2012-2013) Semester 1
PERSONAL INFO Name: DOB: ID Number:
Artsplace Art Center for Houston
Israel Rodriguez 04/20/1992 1015235
Semester 2
EDUCATIONAL University of Houston - Main Campus
2010 – Present
Fall 2010 – Spring 2011 Fall 2011 – Spring 2012 Fall 2012 – Spring 2013 Fall 2013 – Spring 2014
John Tsai Michael Gonzales, Gregory Marinic Gary Machicek, Duke Fleshman Duke Fleshman, Geoffrey Brune
SKILLS Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper
Research Center for Personal Transportation An Extension of Path To Vehicular Knowledge & Development Year 4 (2013-2014) Semester 1 UHGBC Workshop Campus Workshop Development Semester 2 Social Mediatheque An Emergent Community
AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Abobe InDesign
Independent Study D3 Exhibition & Tex Fab Entry
Convertible Space
Big Bend National Park – Station
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pg.3
Artsplace
pg.11
Research Center for Personal Transportation
pg.21
UHGBC Workshop
pg.31
Social Mediatheque
pg.41
Independent Study
pg.53
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Covertible Space
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A Transformable Living Space In the ever expanding state of the world, space economy becomes essential in architecture and design. Utilization and understanding of this concept becomes important when designing. Thus, exploration in the ability to create a space contained within a very small area with but a single piece of furniture designed to break up and utilize the space for maximum living configurations (i.e. eating, sleeping, hygiene, cooking, washing, sitting, and storage) The intent in designing such a space is to design in such a way as to utilize a minimum number of moves to subdivide the space, rather than producing a space that has the most pop-out-able compartments. Thus creating a space that is easy to use, easy to access, and easy to live in.
Sitting & Reading
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4 The cooking and washing units are always left accessible for the user despite the configuration. The decorative slats that work around the design serve as seating as well as becoming shelving units on the side of the furniture piece
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Workspace & Sitting
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FEATURE PIECE:
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- Dining - Workspace - Seating Stool Low Chair Foot Stool - Shelving Unit
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Big Bend National Park - Station
Cliffside Ranger Station The design explores the concept of rotation and the design principals implied by such movement and its applications to an architectural solution. Investigative work in biomimetic design and analysis of this research is incorporated to design choices to create a relation to the natural aspect of the environmental park system. Studies done on the spinal chord and how it allows flexibility to the design of the body becomes a central design focus. Figurative comparisons of the vertebral bodies (the spinal “discs�) to programmatic sectors, as well as comparisons of the vertebral discs (fibrous tissues in between the bodies) to circulation elements are then translated into architectural elements that help create a building system that functions with the site, the user, and the environment. The design essentially becomes a manifestation of rotational movement, guiding and encouraging a path strictly directed by the design for optimum use and observational utility.
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A Program Split
2 Spinous Process B Program Sizing 1 Vertebral Body
C Terracing
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Skin System - Shading
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MORPHOGENESIS
Massing
Field of View
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Increased Field
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Spine
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Skin System
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Artsplace
Art Center For Houston Like a system that reoccurs within itself, we persist to mimic the ever-complex system that is nature. Like self-similarity, we see a constant replication of systems that strive to process and transfer information as efficiently as possible. Like a geometry that generates to form a larger system, Architecture is but a component that strives to contribute to the environment it inhabits. Like a strand that’s woven into a central system, we analyze the importance of a building and it’s contribution to its larger makeup. We attempt to reconstruct a method in which to efficiently translate information from architecture to human; from strand to system. In an attempt to expose and inform the public to the work of the community and the culture of their surrounding habitat, we define a path of information flow within a network that serves to provide a reaction to the movement and flow of travel of visitors. By encouraging a gradual feed of information to visitors along a given path, the architecture is able to stimulate and inform the public. The architecture then becomes a synapstic contact providing a stimulus of information to the travelling neurons of what becomes a larger system; Architecture and community.
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EXTERIOR TREATMENT/ SKIN
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Draping of Exterior Shell
More Opaque
Less Opaque
Exterior Glass
Steel Space Frame
Concrete Wall w/Steel Reinforcement
Concrete - Waffle Slab
Reinforcement Steel Rebar
Ventilation Ducts
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MODES OF ENCOURAGING DESIRED MOVEMENT
Path Directed
Break in Path
Program to Program
Contraction
Expansion
Movement
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Rest
Movement
Rest
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4th Floor
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5th Floor
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Steel Reinforcement Electrical Strip Concrete Waffle Slab Ventilation Pipes
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Research Center for Personal Transportation
An Extension of Path With the advent of the computer, as well as newer more intricate technologies, we live in an ever expansive world reliant on intelligence created from minds with the hopes to revolutionize and transform the way we live our lives. Society hopes to maintain ahead of technology and to persist ahead of the stresses it puts on everyday life. It is our duty to hold ourselves responsible for the residue such technologies have left on society and on the environment. We thus rely on research focused on the advancement of developing technologies and resolving issues. We as architects hope to highlight and exhibit these efforts, as well as help inform and educate the public as efficiently as possible. The proposed research center outlines a method in which to encourage a way of metabolizing information and creating exposure for such efforts. By interweaving explicit and implicit methods of education, we are able to instill a need for education. Through the manifestation of an environment in which learning is an inevitable outcome, we the create an opportunity to encite a yearning for informing ones self.
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Education - Lobby - Auditorium - Gallery - CafĂŠ
Research/Application - Design Studios - Workshops - Gallery - Offices
Audio
Hearing
Visual Sight
Site Oriented Grid
Tactile Touch
Sun Path Oriented Grid
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Ground Plan
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Structural Analysis 30’
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Steel Curved I-Beam Waterproof Membrane
Short Section Insulation
Precast Concrete Panels Rigid Foam Insulating Core
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Cladding Ties Black Slate Stone Cladding 32
Metal Decking
Hanger Wires Metal Drop Down Ceiling
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Low-E Glass Mullions
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Wooden Floor Finish Raised Floor Understructure
Drain Pipe
Stone Drainage Bed Waterproofing Membrane Spread Footing
Steel Reinforcing Rebar
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2 Vertical Columnar Members
3 Primary Spanning Members
4 Secondary Spanning Members
5 Metal Decking
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Framing
Floor Structure
3 Structural Walls
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UHGBC Workshop
Campus Workshop Development The emergent properties of an existing thing, living or inanimate, are defined and established by immesurable factors. It is with intent and deliberate purpose, that a framework is set in which attributes are established. It is an architect’s duty to understand and utilize these principals to help realize a space that serves to perform not only for the user, but the public at large, thus generating a space that has a framework that establishes properties emergent to the individual user. In an attempt to achieve such a space, the intent to introduce a component that will help mediate the flow of movement of people and ideas was thus realized. The ramp, emerging from the floor, splits the flow of movement, providing a duality of experience. Simultaneously, two experiences exist to help inform the campus as a whole, what indeed the UHGBC hopes to provide the university, as well as informing them on their current progress and achievements. It provides an interaction between student, building, and campus and creates a dialogue between user and visitor.
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Initial Exposure
Entry
Informed Conclusion
Ramp Circulation
Information Gathering
Informal Analysis
Self Informed Deduction
Information Harvesting
CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE
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Wood Angle Support Precast Concrete Roof Panel Concrete Infill Water Barrier Foam Insulation
3’ Cellular Beam
Corrugated Steel Metal Ceiling Panels
4.5’ Cellular Beam
#6 Steel Reinforcing Rebar 6” Wood Beam w/Steel Bolted Plate 18” Steel Round Column 12” Load-Bearing Concrete Wall Symbiotic Wall - Steel Wall Structure 24” Deep Holedeck Waffle Slab 0.05” Thin Concrete Ceiling Panel
Soil & Vegetation
Steel Guardrail Topping Slab (Polished Concrete) 24” Holedeck Waffle Slab Glass Rail 6” Deep Concrete Ramp Botanica Air Purifier Permanent Wall Installation #6 Steel Reinforcing Rebar
Water Filter Screen
12” Concrete Wall Raised-Floor Panels
Soil Retaining Screen
Concrete Footing Pump
Pressure Tank
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Raised-Floor Supports
Air Duct Slab-On-Grade Foundation
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+ 7’
+ 0’ - 4.6”’
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Vertical Structure
Structural Walls
Ramp System
Floor Structure
Mullions
Horizontal Beams
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Social Mediatheque
An Emergent Community In an effort to analyze and translate a learned understanding of light, the project attempts to introduce a space in which the properties of light not only activates the interior of the building, but transforms the architecture of the building into a bridge of knowledge dictating a path for growth for the community. It is with this understanding that we provide intervention, planting a community garden and allowing it to grow and virally eat away at the negative space that is the implied building volume. Through this pixelization of sorts, we are able to generate a form that allows depressions and extrusions created by the garden to create spaces that allow light to bounce from surface to interior, indirectly lighting the interior. The treatment of the facades maintains the idea of pixelization, but scales it to human proportions, creating a relief on the walls; skimming light and texturizing the wall. Through this immersion of activity and transition dictated by light, it is possible to create a spacethat strengthens and gives back to the community.
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Steel Framing
PLOT SIZES
10’ x 20’ Structural Concrete Walls
10’ x 10’
20’ x 20’ 5’ x 20’
Enclosure Wall Panels
Combined Systems
PIXELIZATION
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Southern Community Garden Designation
Public Plaza
Terracing of Levels
Northern Facade Light Treatments
FRAGMENTED
SOLID
Initial Form
Facade Elevation System
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Strategy Application Light Reflector
Light Funnel
EFFECT: Reflects light into the interior
EFFECT: Washes light on surface
Strategy Photographs
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Opacity Percentage Light Lantern
Block Pixelization
EFFECT: Light Transparency Glowing Block Effect
EFFECT: Light Skimming Light Gradation
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Independent Study
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D3 Exhibition & Tex Fab Entry component two
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COMPONENT ASSEMBLY
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GLOBAL FORM
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72ยบ
63.43ยบ
EXCAVATED DODECAHEDRON
3RD STELLATION LATTICE
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3RD STELLATION + ICOSAHEDRON
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ICOSAHEDRON LATTICE
Rotational Axis
- 72 deg
Direction of Travel + 72 deg
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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Israel Rodriguez isrod321@hotmail.com (832) 882-5953