Jorge Manuel Couso Selected Works 2018-2020
contents Charleston Library
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Theatre Wrapper
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NYN: New York Negative
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Superblock
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Volume Zero Puerto Rico Competition
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Professional Work Samples
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Architrave 26 Legacy
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CHARLESTON LIBRARY
CHARLESTON LIBRARY University of Florida 2018 Critic: Peter Sprowls Program: Cultural Center, Library
This project consisted of designing a library in Charleston that would have an impact in the architecture community. Because of how old and historic the city is , a new building was needed to have a different connection with the public and stand out from the old fabric of the town as its own. The library consist of different programatic spaces that make it a multi-purpose building where visitors could go from drinking a coffee to enjoying an amazing light show performance, to read in the last floor with a breathtaking view to the city. One of the main ideas of this project was to bring the public from the inside out and have a connection with the people outside the building. The structure was thought out as certain main spaces and circulation spaces extruding out of the building to create an unique experience.
Site Location 320 Meeting St, Charleston, South Carolina
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Charleston exploded axonomotric to explore and analyse the context of the city grid.
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Scheme 2 3D massing study model. CHARLESTON LIBRARY
Scheme 3 3D massing study model.
Process construct exploring how the project fits in the site.
Process Construct exploring form & tectonics.
3D printed process massing model.
Final project exploded axonometric. This diagram helps to understand what are all the components of the building. CHARLESTON, SC
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Final 1/16 North West View.
Final 1/16 South East View.
Final 1/8 sectional model exploring the quality of the interior spaces and tectonics.
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7. Bathroom 8. Reception space 9. Exhibition space 10. Gallery 11. Shared working space 12. Video conference room 13. Administration
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14. Office area 15. Stacks 16. Storage room 17. Archives 18. Digital access 19. Bathroom 20. Reading space
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Detail study exploring the exhibition space of the library. This space was intended to be experimental and transverse a different way to express structure & materiality within an interior space.
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THEATRE WRAPPER
THEATRE WRAPPER University of Florida 2018 Critic: Peter Sprowls Program: Cultural Installation
The city of Gainesville wants to encourage new development, investment and use in Porters Community and surrounding areas. At the center of this initiative is a new performance intervention associated with the Hippodrome Theatre. The city hopes that this new intervention will reconnect the active downtown businesses and programs to Porters Community and activate existing and potential public space. The Theatre Wrapper’s design was intended to interconnect a classical structure with a contemporary one, giving the space a different atmosphere. This project activates at night, becoming a light show exhibition space. A series of renderings, diagrams, drawings and study models where done in order to understand how the project fitted in the site.
Site Location 25 SE 2 Pl, Gainesville, Florida
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Isometric illustration showing context around intervention. This drawing helps to understand circulation within the project’s site.
Interior night rendering manifesting the main gathering area of the project. The lights and graphic colors help to create an unique experience to the crowd of people in the space. 19
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NYN: NEW YORK NEGATIVE
NYN: NEW YORK NEGATIVE University of Florida 2018 Critic: Mark McGlothlin Collaboration with: Diego Ramirez + Hans Milian Program: Cultural | Residential | Office
New York city has continued to increase in public density over the last 15 years. In a context were vertical space has primarily delved from a commodity to a sole option, the less endowed have been slowly pushed out of a large majority of urban centers. As a result the availabilty of social services in high finance sectors has diminished and become inaccesible for those remaining. The NYN tower is a series of vertical spaces opposing the New York Flatiron in Madison Square Park. The building contains resources for the local residents and offers a one stop location for general public aid that is often overseen in sectors of heavy vertical density. In addition, it also offers low income apartments for the middle-class, it has office spaces and lastly an exhibition space where local artist can display their work.
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To understandand what the tectonics of the proposed idea were, a series of process models were developed. These helped to understand form and shape more clearly. Also, this construct aided to see how program could start to be integrated in the different circulation moments of the tower. The void that the tower started to conceive gave the opportunity to design an unique project that was symmetrical in the grid of New York. In addition, the idea of mirroring the Flatiron, reinforced the concept of the negative intersections between the two buildings. 27
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Exploded axonometric study of the urban area surrounding the project. This study was done in order to understand the city blocks around the project’s perimeter, and analyze the infrastructure of this specific sector of New York. Also it helped to generate a study of building typologies that are found in the area ranging from commercial to residential buildings.
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Isometric diagrams illustrating the circualtion and the program of the tower. The circualtion diagram helped to established the main routes that people would take in the proposed structure. The program diagram focuses in indicating the different sectors of the project and what they are being used as. This tower proposal can be classified as mixed-use high rise since it has multiple types of usage by the community.
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Street perspective in the corner of Broadway and W. 26th St.
Street perspective in 5th Avenue and W. 25th. As an overall view, the program in the tower ties major needs in the city of New York. It also helps to see the resemblance of what the Flatiron does as a historic building to the surrounding population and what this new building will keep doing in the long run. With this proposal the influx of non-wealthy residents will increase by a substantial amount and the community will be tighter than before. The project location is also very convenient to what the surroundings are, and people are within short walking distances to metro stations, commercial stores and public institutions. NEW YORK, NY
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The exploration of materiality was very crucial in the model since the building needed to respond to what the site was about. Render studies were done in order to show the chosen materiality clearer. As a design project the concept for this venture was explored with great depth through analyzing the site to understand what it was there and how it would be beneficial for the design. The idea of using opposing edges in the urban fabric came to be an engaging strategy that not only responded to the context but also connected to the historic layers of Madison Square Park as it referenced the Flatiron as the driver for the conceptual design. Serving as a civic center it portrays the most important elements for the community to be its priority.
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SUPERBLOCK
SUPERBLOCK University of Florida 2018 Critic: Mark McGlothlin Collaboration with: Diego Ramirez + Hans Milian Program: Institutional
Spanning from the principal streets of Bleeker and Houston, the NYU research branch is a reconfiguration and exploration around infixing a mass amount of educational program amidst a primarily residential area. The project has a multiplicity of considerations being that it was to be infixed between two large existing residential spaces. A lower profile in terms of height was chosen in order to maintain the relative scale with the surrounding neighborhoods along the westward portion. The profile was undulated with the main limb rising towards the eastern side. This slope in height was achieved in response towards the more prominent business blocks. Obeserving past iterations of the block in terms of top circulation, a series of diagrams were produced focusing on the primary massings and percieved possible routes of circulation. These would serve as a catalyst for assessing the below grade program.
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Speculative drawings where done referencing previous historical paths of circualtion with the current conditions offered in the north block. The main goal was to begin drawing conclusions on circulation through various floor levels by compacting information and looking at patterns amongst the drawings.
A speculative site mapping was done in which exploration in circulation, traffic, possible areas of intervention and population of people where analyzed in order to advanced with the project. Different graphic techniques where used in order to produce this drawing.
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1/100 scale preliminary massing models exploring site intervention, form and spaces.
1/50 scale process model exploring site intervention, form and spaces. Materiality was taken into consideration in this construct to develop the concept further in the next phases of the project.
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VOLUME ZERO PUERTO RICO COMPETITION WITH: HANS MILIAN + BEIKEL RIVAS
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Belize cruise terminal conceptual master plan rendering.
Flamingo Marina conceptual master plan rendering.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK SAMPLES
Firm: BEA Architects Occupation: Design Architect Supervisor: Mario Ortega Team: Alejandro Torres, Evelyn Inglesias, Patricia Elso
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Conceptual Renders
Port of Barcelona cruise terminal conceptual rendering perspective.
Port Canaveral Disney cruise terminal site plan rendering. 54
Layton Transfer Station The Keys, Florida. Permit wall sections indicating materiality and construction methods.
Layton Transfer Station The Keys, Florida.Roof details permit drawings.
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Firm: BEA Architects Occupation: Design Architect Supervisor: Adrian Price Team: Iris Sanchez, Gustavo Santos
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Construction Documents
Miccosukee Golf Course Club House Renovation Miami, Florida. Blow up section of the bar area.
Miccosukee Golf Course Club House Renovation. Longitudinal section showing bar area, mechanical room, gift shop and managers office. 56
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ARCHITRAVE 26 LEGACY
ARCHITRAVE 26 LEGACY University of Florida 2019 Architrave Publication Creative Executive Editor Team Members: 29 Architrave is a yearly student run publication that acts as a retrospective for the entirety of the undergraduate program at the University of Florida School of Architecture. Every year around the beginning of the Fall semester, a call for submissions of the student work is put out. Following the deadlines, what occurs is the curation of a body of work that is indicative of the energy of the school for the given period.
Inside Cover Sleeve: Front
As the Creative Executive Editor it was of importance to create a recognizable image that was indicative of the school, regardless of any trend or movement in the field. Previosly, the covers and themes for the publication were not kept cohesive. The only constant in the publication was the font. Each submitted piece of student work was retouched with permission and catalogued into a database for future publication teams. The printing process was overseen and inspected through multiple proofs for total accuracy and final product delivery. Architrave had always been the face of the student body, so it was imperative to feature the face of the school as the publication, literally. The Eastern Facades and the entirety of the school was digitally modeled in order to create the vector graphics for the Front covers, inside sleeves, and inserts. Opaque Mylar and other media were sourced as the inside sleeves of the book. The publication was sectioned into themes relating to the curriculum of the school, garnering properties of each and arrangin work for the corresponding section. The details of the Contributors was collected and assigned index numbers in order to create am Authorship Glossary with Corresponding Studio Details. This allowed for a greater range in freedom for editing space and printing tolerances.
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Pages of the book showing the variety of work collected to put the publication together. The abudance of student work is what made this book possible. ARCHITRAVE 26 LEGACY
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Contact Email | jcmanuel10@live.com Cell Phone Number | (786)-961-0910
Jorge Manuel Couso Education University of Florida | School of Architecture Bachelors in Design with Honors | 05-2019
Miami Dade College | School of Architecture
Skills Digital Modeling Rhino 6 Autodesk Revit BIM Grasshopper Autocad 3D/ Drafting
Vizualization / Digital Media Vray Render for Rhino 6 Lumion Render Photoshop Illustrator Indesign
Physical Modeling 3D Printing ABS/PLA Laser Cutting Vector
Associate in Arts | 05 - 2017
Experience
GS ARCHITECTURE Miami, Florida | 02-2020 to Present Architect Designer • Have worked in several residential projects producing construction documents in Revit. • Have done residentail house renderings using Lumion. • Worked in various residential interior desing projects.
BEA ARCHITECTS Miami, Florida | 06-2019 to 07-2020 Architect Designer • Worked in Belize Cruise Terminal Conceptual master plan. • Worked in Flamingo Marina Conceptual master plan. • Produced floor plans, rendering perspectives and diagrams for Hallandale Beach Container Retail proposal. • Produced diagrams and site plan render for renovation in Disney Cruise Terminal in Port Canaveral, Florida. • Worked in various projects producing construction documents.
BEA ARCHITECTS Miami, Florida | 06-2018 to 08-2018 Junior Architect Intern • Worked in Port Of Barcelona Cruise Terminal Proposal. • Rendered master plan/site plan for Port Of Barcelona Cruise Terminal Proposal. • Produced floor plan diagrams in AUTOCAD + Photoshop. • Assembled client presentation in Indesign.
Creative Executive Editor
Accomplishments Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Involvement
University of Florida School of Architecture
Creative Team Member
Honors Thesis Completion
Architrave 25 - Student Run Publication Fall 2017 - Spring 2018 University of Florida School of Architecture
University of Florida School of Architecture
Puerto Rico Re_start Certificate University of Florida School of Architecture
First Place Digital Competition University of Florida School of Architecture
Perkins + Will Scholarchip Candidate University of Florida School of Architecture
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Architrave 26 - Student Run Publication Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 University of Florida School of Architecture
Miami Dade College School of Architecture Study Abroad Participant Summer 2016 | Summer 2017 | Summer 2019
National Honor Society Spring 2015 - Spring 2017 Miami Dade College
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