JUAN IGNACIO GONZALEZ Portfolio Master of Architecture
Education
Juan Ignacio Gonzalez
Aug. 2018 - May 2020 St. Louis, MO
Master of Architecture / washington university in st. louis
Aug. 2013 - May 2017 Gainesville, FL
Bachelor of Design in Architecture / university of florida
Seeking the position of architectural designer; bringing two years of experience in the professional field and a Master’s degree in Architecture with strong organization skills, fast learning ability, highly motivated mindset, and exceptional creative capabilities.
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INTRODUCTION
- Graduated cum laude with minor in sustainability and the built environment - Semester abroad in Vicenza, Italy focusing on Palladian architecture and Venetian campos
Awards Oct. 2016 Los Angeles, CA
2016 Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Student Design Competition / 2nd place
Publications May 2020 St. Louis, MO
Objective
- Thesis research project on cultures in St. Louis
Jan. 2020 St. Louis, MO Oct. 2019 St. Louis, MO
Student Annual Architecture Models + Artifacts (S.A.A.M.A.) exhibit Approach 2018-2019 Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design Fall 2019 Symposium: Decoys and Depictions
Skills AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros, Enscape, SketchUp, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign / proficient Vray, ArcGIS, Twinmotion, Grasshopper, Maxwell, Inventor / basic English and Spanish / fluent, French and Italian / basic
( resume )
Experience Oct. 2020 - Current West Palm Beach, FL
Jan. - May 2020 St. Louis, MO
Alfonso Hernandez Architect / architectural intern - Lead research about national markets and business incubators to inform the client about our programming of a market incubator - Coordinated with manufacturers to obtain samples, cost estimates, and installation costs of several materials including wood ceiling baffles, resistant vinyl flooring, epoxy flooring, office furniture, countertops, signage, and cabinetry hardware to present to client - Worked on material finish research boards for a new community resource center and a renovated community center under construction - Documented site and building measurements to develop Revit model showing Design Development progress sets of existing conditions, demolition drawings, and proposed renovation designs for a one-story historic shotgun house and a three-story historic single-family house Sam Fox School / architecture history teacher assistant - Lead student discussion sessions to debate and critique key theoretical concepts in architecture after modernism
Aug. 2019 - Mar. 2020 St. Louis, MO
Sam Fox School / fabrication lab monitor
May - Aug. 2019 St. Louis, MO
Tao+Lee Architects / architectural intern
Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2018 West Palm Beach, FL
- Operated, maintained, and cleaned laser cutters in the fabrication lab - Assisted Sam Fox students with laser cutting on different materials - Verbally and visually presented design options of a single-family residential renovation to client - Produced complete Design Development set of drawings of a singlefamily residential renovation for the Architectural Review Board - Developed conceptual designs of master plans for a medicinal cannabis cultivation and dispensary facility with 3D digital renderings REG Architects / architectural intern - Worked on Request for Proposals every month by coordinating design work of consultants and in-house team members, and prepared written documentations related to design ideas, project documentation and contracts - Documented and analyzed site information to develop drawings of existing conditions, features, and regulatory requirements of a middle school and several tenant improvements - Designed diagram alternatives illustrating functional adjacencies of a temporary fence for paths of itinerary in a pre-k-12 campus for client review; presented design concepts to stakeholders and clients orally and with two-dimensional computer aided drawings - Produced marketing documents communicating the firm’s experience and capabilities - Created and delivered code analysis documentation to show egress and fire exit stairs in an assisted living community
Contact Cell: 561-568-6034 Email: ji.gonzalez.r076@gmail.com Web: linkedin.com/in/juan-gonzalez-145543145/
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Living in Horizons
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Without human activity, there would be no architecture.
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Although we react to verticality, we live in horizons. Nature gave us horizons that we occupy -- pristine architecture. By intervening in our context to either fit in or stand out, we interrupt those horizons; we create new horizons. Personally, architecture is activating natural and constructing material horizons in a symbiotic relationship. This portfolio will specify how humans approach, engage, camp, range, and flit both pure and designed horizons, thus stimulating architecture.
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INTRODUCTION
( horizons & contents )
3 sky
Experimental Architecture: Biblioteca Pubblica di Vicenza
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Degree Project: STL Cultural Incubator
Critic: Martin Gunderson & Will Zajac
Critic: Julie Bauer
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Space and Learning: Montessori School Critic: Robert McCarter
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Florida Landscape: Cedar Key Fishing Park
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Living Together: Light Commune Critic: Gines Garrido
Critic: Charlie Hailey
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Venetian Campo: Hanoi Marionette Theatre Critic: Will Zajac
Cultural Incubator Grand Center, St. Louis, Missouri Critic - Julie Bauer
Cultures
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The key design intention is to develop flexibility for the cultural businesses that will come into the incubator by designing curated walls that can be moved to change the dimensions of a cultural inhabitant space.
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Most of the one hundred-thirty ethnic groups in St. Louis are underrepresented in the St. Louis urban fabric. The proposal is a cultural incubator in Grand Center that allows minority user groups to rent spaces for longer periods, therefore 1) creating a hub for residents of St. Louis to experience various cultures year-round, 2) allow the influx of people to create a demand for the representation of minorities, and 3) find permanent locations for the cultures following their time in the incubator.
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DEGREE PROJECT
( cultures & permanence )
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Translucent Envelope
Cultural inhabitants
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Exploded Axonometric Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator
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DEGREE PROJECT
( grid & foreshadowing )
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Foreshadowing The design creates a translucent structure that foreshadows the activity and culture happening within the incubator. The plan shows the utility of the service zones that branch out to each cultural inhabitant. The walls of the inhabitant spaces can be reconfigured on the 8-foot grid of the structure to readapt to incoming inhabitants.
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Metamorphic The flexibility of tenant spaces over the years affects the communal space of the incubator as it can expand and contract. The inhabitant walls are lightweight construction of plywood and glass in order to be removed and reconstructed into a different place on the red grid that is exposed on the ceiling. Each inhabitant space can be customized and painted to show the individuality of each cultural activity from the metamorphic corridor. The relationship between the service zones, tenants, communal spaces and kinetic facade becomes more evident in the section. Layout Possibilities
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DEGREE PROJECT
2nd Floor Plan
( flexibility & metamorphic corridor )
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Metamorphic Corrridor [Year 3] Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator, Photoshop
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DEGREE PROJECT
( flexibility & metamorphic corridor )
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Flexibility The second level has two smaller communal areas that relate to the inhabitants that engage with isolation and nighttime activity. The third level has the administrative offices for the management and consultation for new cultures who intend to enter the incubator’s inhabitant spaces. The section shows the specialized platforms that can be moved up and down allowing these inhabitant spaces located on the façade of the building to be flexible in the z-axis. The incubator has a polycarbonate doubleskin envelope that protects the semi-conditioned communal spaces within. The duality of the polycarbonate skin blurs the experience of being inside or outside. The flexibility of spaces alters the experience of the visitors and the architecture of the incubator.
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Communal In the largest communal space, the façade can swing open using a hydraulic operating system that then extends the activity into the park or the park into the incubator. This large communal entry becomes a flexible area that can also change throughout time or activity. The space can be used as a performance stage with modular benches being used as seating. Or they can be used as tables for a cultural farmers market that can open up to the park. North Entry
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DEGREE PROJECT
( park & communal )
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[casual] Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator, Photoshop
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Section 1 January 11am
Light Commune Sodermalm, Stockholm, Sweden Critic - Gines Garrido
Natural Light The project responds to Stockholm’s crisis of the increasing amount of population who live alone which is normalized by Swedish independecy. The program is a commune within the structure of the Mariahissen where a group of 50-100 people will live together in a nomadic lifestyle to engage with natural light throughout the year. Located north of rock and below the street horizon, the modes of capturing light year-round became a driver for the project.
Section 2 March 10am
The circulation and congregation of human activity is specifically determined by the spaces that receive light or reject light. This allows the residents to have autonomy of the project.
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Section 4 August 4pm
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LIVING TOGETHER
( autonomy & natural light )
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Section 5 June 8pm Drawings exhibited at the Sam Fox School of Design Fall 2019 Symposium: Decoys and Depictions Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
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8th Plan with new structure
Homogeneous The organization of the activity was subdivided into free space and service space. Each level of the commune has different spaces that are open to be used; also, the service zones, including the stairs, restrooms, showers, and storage, are located within the walls of the floor in order to leave uninterrupted the spaces of human activity. Additionally, the service spaces allow light to funnel down into the lower levels. The project relates to the Escherian dichotomy of foreground and background as it explores both the free and service space. 6th Plan within existing Structure
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LIVING TOGETHER
( homogeneity & vessels )
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Light Vessels The project is defined by the light vessels that portrude the north and west sides of the Mariahissen, as well as the roof of the existing structure. The metallic material indicates the light vessels collecting natural light and dispersing it within the overall space in the red brick exterior structure of the Mariahissen.
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Biblioteca Pubblica di Vicenza
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Vicenza, Veneto, Italy Critic - Martin Gunderson & Will Zajac
Parasites After a semester studying parasitic architecture and Lebbeus Woods’ experimental architecture, the design of a library that overtakes the roof of Andrea Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy began. The library is composed of a garden that creates a new tangible horizon that visitors have to interact with from their entry to their exit. The existing courtyard entrance for the Teatro Olimpico and its museum is now brought to life with a hanging garden that provides a dappling light condition. The bulk of the library is inside the third level of the existing context where the books can be protected from weather. The parasites are jutting, hanging, and floating reading pods spread throughout the built garden where visitors can read in a more personal environment surrounded by vegetation low to the ground and adjustable roof fins to let in diffused lighting for the reader(s).
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EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
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The reading pods are designed to develop a progression as one walks through the garden. The choice to go inside one to read a book is very personal to the individual because the plan is very open.
The garden is the layer that visitors can encounter from underneath on the ground courtyard, above inside the reading pods hanging on the tower, and within the reading pods on the garden. The experience shifts as the visitor moves through the library.
The library is engraved in the existing building context. It’s the largest space of the project because it holds the majority of the books. Visitors must descend from the roof garden into the library to enter.
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EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
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Shifting Reading Pods Hand-drafted sections and plans rendered in photoshop
Library Entry/Exit
Library Lighting
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Layers of History The site was originally the Castello del Territorio from 600s to house the rulers of the city. Throughout time, the territory has been repurposed as a fortress, a prison, a powder factory, Andrea Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico, the Teatro Olimpico museum, and most recently, retail creating visible layers of history.
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EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
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Future Layer The new public library layer continues to show that the site continues on growing and adapting to the people of the community. It’s important for the people to be able to connect to the past layers as they walk around the intervention to experience the new addition.
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Tower Section Rhino, V-ray, Photoshop
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Cedar Key Fishing Park Shell Mound, Cedar Key, Florida Critic - Charlie Hailey
Florida Landscape is diverse. Adapting to a local site at Cedar Key where the tide changes drastically from morning to evening was the biggest challenge. Understanding the ground and the saturation that only Florida will provide was most important. With the site being on the water, it was important to use the seawater as a datum for the different horizons that are introduced through the intervention. With the tide controlling how one approaches the intervention, it was necessary that to enter the fishing park, one would need to kayak. The itinerary is directly related to the time of the day; in the morning, one will kayak to the fishing docks. Hours later, one must walk to the fish cleaning deck and then cook the fish at the BBQ deck. Later in the afternoon, one will finalize the day at the gathering deck of the park to indulge in the food and the site. Florida Sinkhole Analysis Plexi-layered model overlayed with trace and watercolor
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FLORIDA LANDSCAPE
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Florida Saturated Land Analysis 6”x12’0” relief section model on watercolor
Ground Approach Plan/Section Hand-drafted section/plan on watercolor
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Fishing Process As the day continues and one has caught their fish, it’s important to clean the fish in order to prepare them for cooking. The fish cleaning deck collects enough rainwater to clean the fish and provides all the shade with the longer overhead fin. Hand-drafted sections rendered with charcoal
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FLORIDA LANDSCAPE
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Smoke and Barbecue After cleaning the fish, the next step is the barbecue. The deck holds the smoke from the barbecue to create a wall of smoke creating ambiguity and sparking curiosity of the people kayaking around the intervention. The smoke wants to rise up but is forced to creep out through the bottom of the wall where it meets the saltwater.
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Montessori School University City, St. Louis, Missouri Critic - Robert McCarter
Landscape The Montessori school intervenes in University City where the police station is currently located. There are two major design goals for this project: creating a comfortable and intriguing interior of the school and designing an adventurous and safe exterior. Each classroom has access to their individual backyard and garden where students can roam around with ease. The exterior landscape becomes territories segmented by retaining walls that engage with the outskirts of the site and therefore create a playscape for the students. Additionally, the roof slopes down towards the south façade of the school where the youngest classrooms are in order to protect those interior and exterior spaces the most. Each classroom has a relationship with the adjacent classroom with the front porches located in the piazza and the back porches that peek into the working areas of the next eldest classroom. Ground Level Plan
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SPACE AND LEARNING
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Greenhouse, Roof, Playscape and Terrain Traditional Montessori education considers the student’s interaction with nature at a young age to be an imperative aspect of the learning process. The project engages with nature in three main ways: allowing light to enter the individual classrooms, framing views of the landscape from the piazza, and creating allocated territories for each classroom were the students can play.
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Classroom All the classrooms are entered via the piazza, and the interior of each classroom has a suspended greenhouse that allows light to enter the space. By allowing the students to engage with the natural landscape and permitting natural light to inhabit the interior of the school, the Montessori school in University City becomes the ideal learning space for their bright students.
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SPACE AND LEARNING
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Exploded Model of Classroom Published in Student Annual Architecture Models + Artifacts (S.A.A.M.A.) exhibit
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Hanoi Marionette Theatre Campo San Pantalon, Venice, Italy Critic - Will Zajac
Entry Campo San Pantalon is bounded by the Rio de S. Pantalon, Rio de Ca’ Foscari, and the San Pantalon Church. Pedestrians can enter the theatre when they enter the campo; the second entry is by Gondola from Rio de Ca’ Foscari.
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VENETIAN CAMPO
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Display The design of the theatre is composed of three programs: display, workshop, and performance. The display of the marionettes takes up the most space as the Hanoi water marionettes are delicately suspended from the ceiling structure.
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VENETIAN CAMPO
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Performance Stage Hanoi water puppetry is a performance created using a number of wood crafted puppets attached to bamboo logs to create movements in a waist deep pool that is the stage. The marionettists controlling the logs under water are hidden behind a thin, permeable and flexible wooden screen. In addition, traditional Venetian marionettists are controlling marionettes from above and hovering them above the waist deep pool stage. This performance theatre brings together two arts and cultures that are brought to life with water and light.
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JUAN IGNACIO GONZALEZ Master of Architecture ji.gonzalez.r076@gmail.com