portfolio IVAN MENDOZA
REYNALDO IVAN MENDOZA 5003 Hub St. Los Angeles, CA (323)203-6032 Ivanmendoza@Berkeley.edu
OBJECTIVE: EDUCATION • University of California, Berkeley (2008 - 2012) o College of Environmental Design o Major: Architecture B.A. Minor: Sustainable Design SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS Computer Skills / Software: Rhinoceros 3D, AutoCAD, Google Sketch Up, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier, Corel Draw, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Maxwell Render, Google Earth, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Advanced research skills. 3D printing / fabrication, Freehand drawing / Illustrating, Physical model building, fabrication shop experience Fluent in Spanish (Reading and Writing) WORK EXPERIENCE The Collective Field / Claude Collins Stracensky Los Angeles, California Studio Assistant (May-September 2011) (may-july 2012) 3D Digital Modeling, Rendering, Drawing, Design, Art installation UC Berkeley / Carlos Emilio Sandoval Olascoaga / Research Assistant (Fall 2011 – Summer 2012) Architecture research, Parametric 3D modeling, 3D printing
Berkeley, California
KALX Radio Berkeley, California Volunteer (2009 – 2011) Publicity Department – Design fliers and Table events promoting KALX radio. Production Department– Produce and record Public Service Announcements for the radio station. SALARY HISTORY The Collective Field / Claude Collins Stracensky Studio Assistant $15 / Hr
Los Angeles, California
ARCHITECTURE Urban Activities Center: A Public Building for SOMA Mountain View Cemetary Chapel Bancroft Dance Studio Potrero Branch Library Sequence: Urban Theatre Passage DESIGN Solar Water Distiller / Fountain Honeycomb Wall Shelf Concrete Bridge The Collective Field Sculptures Trench Design Modular Bryce Chair
URBAN ACTIVITIES CENTER SAN FRANCISCO, CA ARCH100B / spring 2011
In an attempt to recreate the urban experience, promote recreational activities and provide a setting for social interaction, the form of the urban activities center was developed by a fracturing and shifting of programmatic volumes that create multiple access points, programmatic relationships and respond to the urban condition of the highly urban South of Market area. The shifting allows for transition spaces and gardens adjacent to all programs, allowing the user to discover the building as it circulated through a mixture of both interior and exterior spaces; passive and active movement. Although stairs and ramps connect the programmatic volumes in a constricted manner (passive circulation), shifting and porosity encourage a more active circulation through urban activities such as parkour, free running and gymnastics. An exterior skin protects appropraite facades from the sun, outdoor spaces from weather, creates privacy and defines new spaces that blur the boundaries between the interior and exterior.
voronoi algorithm created based on program adjacencies
Sectional shifting to create programatic relationships
Further shifting and extruding on the street level to create public condition
Hybrid interior / exterior spaces created on the roof of volumes
Add skin to protect from solar heat gain, sunlight and to create privacy
Outdoor/Indoor Transition Spaces
Garden Gym
Garden Spaces
Basketball
Locker Rooms
Transition Spaces
Outdoor,Transition and Hybrid spaces
Retal / Garden
CirculationDiagram: Recreation, Retail, Community Lobby/Community
Community Room / Exhibition Space
The building’s community room is available for various local community events, such as free public workshops / training session, conferences,seminars, trade shows and receptions. An exibition space is located adjacent to this room and directily off the main steets, providing a space for local artists and citizens to display their work to those inside the building or simply walking by on Mission St.
Basketball Court
The baseketball court entrance is located off of Mission St. so the public could enter the court directily off the street without having to enter the other parts of the building. The court works similar to ones on San Francisco public parks, available to everyone on a first-come, first-serve basis from dawn to 10:30. The courts host league games and are sometimes available as rental space for other larger community events that are too large for the community room.
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Skin Orientation Diagram The skin’s density is based on site orientation and relationship to the sun. It becomes more pourous on the South and and West to more effectively proctect from the sunlight and solar heat gain. The density also works to create more privacy in the East, where the building faces a larger residential high rise. Exterior Public Condition
Arial Site View
MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETARY CHAPEL OAKLAND, CA ARCH 101/ Sp2011
The Mountain View Cemetary Chapel is conceptualized as a surface that is morphed by light and views in order to create a spatial sequence that relates the user to the environment and cosmos. The contraction and expansion of space and light releases the users from their limitations and attachments, allowing the experience of freedom, peace and tranquility. The chapel collects rainwater and distributes it into an inside pond fountain which releases a calming sound in the space. The water is also used in an outside pond, which creates a public space outside the chapel
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Form Morphology Light differentiates space by creating different moods inside the chapel suitable for different uses. Sacred spaces are the darkest for deep reflection and prayer. The procession sequence leads toward the light and the view into a larger space where meditation and larger sacred event take place. COMPRESSION / SPATIAL SEQUENCE TOWARD VIEW + LIGHT
LIGHT FROM ABOVE
SACRED SPACE UNDERGROUND + DARK SPACE AT THE END
The light also leads toward a single view of the the city beyond, making the procession much more meaningful. The chapel contains an interior pond in whcih the sound of water flowing through near the center of the chapel provides a calming, peaceful environment.
CALMING SOUND OF WATER
The ponds reuse collected rainwater which is also used as greywater for toilets, sinks and vegetation that will eventually grow on the “hill-like” form on east side of the chapel. In the winter, the chapel is heated with a radiant heating system in which water is heated and run through pipes beaneath the concrete floor slabs. These strategies reduce the overall energy and water use of the building.
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Meditation / Reflection Space
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Procession into main reflection space
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Night Rendering
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BANCROFT DANCE STUDIO BERKELEY, CA ARCH101 / spring 2011
As a response to the urban fabric and student life of UC Berkeley, the proposed dance studio attempts to create a public space in a highly circulated and fast paced location on Bancroft. The structure becomes the ground plane on the west in order to invite the puiblic onto the building and create opportunity for social interaction relaxation and recre ation. The porous skin responds to the sunlight, heat and views of the city and new landscape. A new cafe on the west will also serve as an attractor inside the building where there are also student lounge areas and smaller practice spaces that power the program and the inspiration to dance.
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DANCE SOCIAL / COMMUNITY
Five different modules are mapped onto the surface based on an interpolation of red and blue colors. Desnser modules (blue) are mapped on walking surfaces and more private locations. The porous modules (red) serve to allow light and provide views. A grasshopper script allows the modules to be mapped as single structure that is sound.
The roof of the dance studio is a public space for leasure, recreation and social interaction. The building skin slopes down and becomes walking surface at its most dense areas. The porosity allows interior views of the building, where the public could observe the dancing within. Vegetation will evenutally grow on certain areas of the roof for further leasure and
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Program divided and located on the north side for minimum heat gain. Circulation on the south side of the buidling for maximum sun exposure and public exposure.
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Split program into two floors to fit program and create double height space for the circulation N ROOF PLAN BANCROFT
Calculate square footage and “wall free� rooms within the program
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POTRERO BRANCH LIBRARY SAN FRANCISCO, CA ARCH100A / fall 2010
The traditional typology of the library is challenged through a series of volume and void operations that produce closed, semi closed and open space. Program is organized by volumes which are arranged based on programmatic and field relationships. Floors are divided into community, digital and books; allowing for operations to continue when the library is closed. Dissolution of boundaries between inside and outside is further achieved through a skin that both differentiates space and provides internal library shelving.
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Volumes sorted based on program/site relationships with ciruculation as negative space.
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Volumes rotated based on enhancing spaces and creating outdoor public space (negative space)
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Section Perspective
Arial View of green roofs / public gardens
SEQUENCE:URBAN THEATRE LANDSCAPE SAN FRANCISCO, CA ARCH100A / fall 2010
Sequence is conceptualized as a single undulating surface that creates space and a sequential procession from a parking lot to a connceted public library. Rather than working as a simple staircase, the structure creates a public theatre / space under the “stairs.� Openings in the structure allow specific light into performance and seating spaces in order to create a space for the general public and library users to enjoy.
SOLAR WATER DISTILLER JOSHUA TREE, CA CLAUDE COLLINS-STRACENSKY / summer2011
A single glass sculpture resembling a glass obelisk functions as a water distiller powered by the sun. The distiller is able to purify many liquids into potable H2O through vapor distillation. Liquids are evaporated in the food-safe glass container and collected on the inner lid of the sculpture. The condensed evaporation is then collected in a cup by gravity and the shape of the sculptures inner V shaped lid. Once the grey water basin is filled and the lid is replaced, a full cup of distilled water can be safely consumed in 1-3 hours. Permanently installed in Joshua Tree, CA.
HONEYCOMB WALL SHELF
ANIMATION
PROFILE DIAGRAM
C O N C R E T E B R I D G E (ARCH 160)
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REINFORCEMENT DIAGRAM
FORMWORK DIAGRAM
POURING DIAGRAM
CENTURY TREE SCULPTURE
TRENCH DESIGN MODULAR
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC WITH PARTS
BRYCE CHAIR
PERSPECTIVE VECTOR DRAWINGS
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