PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE DESIGN JESSICA OCHOA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Resume 5
STL Benedictine Monastery 7
Tiber Creek Water Taxi Portal 19
LA Solar Lot 33
Hydro Brick 40
Photography 45
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E D U C AT I O N
8/2007-05/2012
Louisiana State University Bachelor of Architecture GPA 3.75 8/2010-05/2011
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Washington Alexandria Architecture Center GPA 3.75
EXPERIENCE
08/2011-07/2012
Jairo Leon Architects Baton Rouge, LA Interned under Architect Jairo Leon and assisted in various projects Created computer-aided construction documents for Architect Jairo Leon 08/2011-07/2012
Perez Architecture Firm New Orleans, LA Interned under Architect Torre Wallin and assisted in various projects
SKILLS
Language Spanish and English Technical skills AutoCad
A S S O C I AT I O N S
Autodesk Revit Rhinoceros Google Sketchup Adobe Creative Suite Microsoft Office Suite
5/2012-Present
Tau Sigma Delta 8/2007-05/2012
American Institute of Architecture Students 8/2011-05/2012
HONORS VO L U N T E E R
National Organization of Minority Architecture Chancellor’s List | Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012 Dean’s List | 2008-2011 Louisiana TOPS Scholarship | Performance Award Michael Robinson Scholarship | Faculty Design Award Fall 2009, Fall 2011
Habitat for Humanity
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S T L B E N E D I C T I N E M OS N ASTERY T. L O U I S , M O Spring 2012
The St. Louis Monastery is for a community of 30 Benedictine Monks. Two times a day the monks provide soup to the hungry, the poor, and the needy of the surrounding STL area.
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AERIAL SITE PLAN
EVOLUTION OF FORM
PROGRAM DIAGRAM
DORMS LIBRARY REFECTORY/ SOUP KITCHEN CLOISTER/ SOUP GARDEN MONASTERY ADMINISTRATION CHAPEL CIRCULATION
DORMS LIBRARY REFECTORY/ SOUP KITCHEN CLOISTER/ SOUP GARDEN MONASTERY ADMINISTRATION CHAPEL CIRCULATION
The St. Louis Monastery was designed for a community of 30 Benedictine Monks. Twice daily, the monks provide soup to the hungry, the poor, and the needy of the surrounding St. Louis area. Because the monks and the needy experience life in completely unique ways, I was interested in the portions of the day in which their worlds collide. Monks live a life of order, prayer, and faith; the hungry live day-to-day with an unpredictable future. A unique space or story is created where their worlds intersect.
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SUSTAINABLE DIAGRAM
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LEVEL 04 PLAN
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Section BB
Section AA
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Level 02 cloister Rooftop cloister
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Exterior library view
Chapel view
- Mircea Eliade
to the sacred world becomes possible," where the two worlds collide.
the paradoxical place where those worlds communicate, where passage from the profane
"The threshold is the limit, ...the frontier that distinguishes and opposes two worlds-and at the same time
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T I B E R C R E E K WA T E R WA T AS XH IIN GP TOO RN TDA. CL. Spring 2011 Located on the Tidal Basin near the original mouth of Tiber Creek, this new water taxi portal will have facilities for accommodating the safe transference of passengers, welcoming visitors to Washington, and a small museum dedicated to the history of Tiber Creek.
THRESHOLD STUDY
Rather than beginning this project starting from broad to specific, we began from studying and designing a detail of our building before we had any idea what our building would be like. Once we established our initial ideas for our detail, we began to expand on that idea and create a building from a detail. While at WAAC, we were pushed to be experimental with our design process. Through my drawings, I designed this particular project.
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INTERSECTING CORNERS
SECTIONAL ELEVATION
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SYNAESTHESIA OF MATERIAL
ROOF PLAN
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LEVEL 02 PLAN
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SECTION A
SECTION B
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Exterior View
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Exterior Portal View
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L S U S O L A R P A RBKA TIONN G LOT ROUGE, LA Spring 2010 This solar parking lot was designed primarily to harvest solar energy to reduce Atkinson Hall’s (LSU’s Architecture Facility) electric consumption by 100%. The design creates a more functional space for students to gather and travel to their classes.
DESIGN OBJECTIVES Allocate nodes to establish a hierarchy of attraction Maintain existing circulation Maximize green space Re- use materials removed from the site Separate pedestrian and vehicular circulation Harvest solar energy to reduce Atkinson Hall
electric consumption by 100%
Materiality change designates the difference in the use of space Irrigating by using the gray-water system 34
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SOLAR PANEL OUTPUT Area of Atkinson Hall 40,000 s.f. 40,000 x 17 = 680,000 kwh/ yr 680,000/ 12 = 57,000 kwh/ month 100% offset 50% offset 15% offset
38,000 s.f. 19,000 s.f. 5,700 s.f.
# of kW required 380 kW Area of Array: 380 x 100 = 38,000 s.f.
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A C M E B R I C KC RC OMPETITION O I X D E B O U Q U E T, H A I T I Spring 2010 Sixty percent of Haiti’s 8 million people do not have the means of obtaining safe drinking water. The child mortality rate is about 110 per 1,000. This is more than 13 times the U.S. rate, and more than 10 percent of infant deaths are attributed to dehydration. Due to the recent earthquake, Haiti, now more than ever, needs an easier and more efficient way of purifying water.
Seventy percent of the earth’s surface is covered in water. Only 0.007% of that is potable water. Billions of people in developing countries are in desperate need of an efficient way to collect and purify water. Every year there are 1.7 million deaths, mainly children under the age of five, due to diarrhea caused by unsafe water. Americans easily condone the issues unseen on our land, but we must begin to design for the other 95%. The research team has designed the hydroBRICK. The hyrdoBRICK will provide shelter and purified water through the use of rainfall. It becomes a life source.
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Roof Flashing
Screen Mortar Grey water collector brick Filter brick- a terra cotta clay mixed with
sawdust and fired at 860 degrees. ABS potable water collector Potable water collector brick
ABS pipes Trough hannel Rain Water Harvesting Calculations
8oz.
1,095 gallons per yr.
252 gallons per yr.
1,260 gallons per yr.
10�x 15�=12.5 sqft. Annual Rainfall=54 in. Total volume gallons= 252
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A PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION Spring 2010 I took a photography class while studying at WAAC in Alexandria, Virginia. I became fascinated at being able to capture objects in a moment of time. Using the camera as a tool, I studied the way light enhanced the materiality of objects and how it produced fascinating reflections.
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