Jose J Sanchez - Work Sample

Jose Joaquin Sanchez M.Arch + MS.Arch

Academic Work Sample 2010-2014

JOSE JOAQUIN SANCHEZ 915.309.3162

jose.j.sanchez87@gmail.com

cargocollective.com/josejsanchez

Born and raised in the desert landscape of El Paso, Texas, I developed an interest for desert built environments and the challenges these environments present to the architectural profession. Growing up in the skating scene of Texas, a relationship with architecture and urban-scapes was developed, divergent from the pedestrian. Through the skater’s imagination, I was able to explore how spaces may be experienced and how skating challenged the function of public space and architectural form.

Architecture + Nature: World Analysis

Through my studies, I was able to explore alternative construction techniques and materials, structural development, and a relationship of architecture with public space. Adapting our built environment to the local climate plays a ma jor direction on my work. With projects mainly located in arid to semi-arid climates, with drastic fluctuation of high and low temperatures, passive heating-cooling and vernacular design are influential strategies. I work to blur boundaries between interior and exterior spaces, materials with landscape, and digital design with craftsmanship.

Grant County + Desert Shelters

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[meta]TOUCH

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Downtown Lubbock Analysis

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South Plains School for Advanced Architecture: Administration Bldg

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National College Baseball Hall of Fame

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Kirkuk Citadel Museum + Gardens

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Digital Design + Fabrication

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Digital Art + Art

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Curriculum Vitae

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Studio projects allowed me to further develop my design techniques through multidisciplinary studies and algorithmic processes as design methodologies. Advanced digital design techniques allow me gain further control of my projects to develop comprehensive built environments.

During my extended research on my MArch, I had the opportunity to further my knowledge in digital fabrication, material science, morphological adaptations of desert biota, water conservation strategies, and rainwater catchment systems.

I will continue to further my skills in advanced digital design and fabrication, as well as my understanding of sustainable design strategies. These design methodologies will benefit my advancement in the architectural field and to pursue leadership in the profession. I am looking forward to the opportunity to collaborate and further my architectural interest with a firm willing to challenge my skills and provide influential leadership positions.

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Hydro-Harvest: Ornamentation for ................................... 04 Rainwater Harvesting

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Architecture + Nature

The dangers of global water shortages and safe access to potable water are greatly affecting nearly one-third of the world’s population. Due to population growth rates, development pressures, and changing needs and values, equitable sharing of water resources has become a complex issue. The increasing global issue on water scarcity has placed a lot of pressure on water diplomacy and water conservation policies. Water utilities around the world are struggling to keep up with demand and their supply resources are dwindling at a rapid pace. A large percentage of the world’s populations does not have direct access to public water utilities, causing them to fend for themselves to find water. What role has architecture played in the water conservation topic?

Architects have developed and implemented efficient water conservation strategies within their designs. Many strategies exist, yet the implementation of them has been minimal within the urban environment. Water scarcity is significant in urban conditions caused by the dense populations and the increased demand for clean water. Another issue faced by urban populations is the excessive supply of waste water and the strain it implements on a city’s sewage system. The expansive use of impermeable materials also contribute

to waste water supply and decrease the amount of water infiltration that replenishes groundwater. More water conservation strategies are needed within the urban environment to aid water problems.

In architecture, the envelope is one of the most important aspect of a building. The building envelope, which includes roofs, walls, windows, floors, and foundation; filters the exterior environment from the interior where humans may live and interact comfortably. It serves to protect its inhabitants from harsh conditions, and helps control moisture infiltration, air flow, and thermal comfort. With the advancement of digital and fabrication technology, architects have designed and implemented building envelopes that are responsive to the local environment and climate. As a result, architects have been implementing systems for water conservation through building envelopes.

Traditional rainwater catchment systems are based on components implemented as additional systems, besides the roof, to a building envelope. These systems, however, create a disruption with the composition of a building’s exterior. Could the building envelope, rainwater catchment systems,

and storage systems be integrated into one functioning envelope system?

Desert biota have evolved to survive harsh conditions in which temperatures are intensely high and the environment is arid; their adaptive strategies have allowed them to survive and flourish. Many of these adaptations for survival may be observed through the integument of many desert flora and fauna. Flora such as cacti and fauna such as desert lizards have demonstrated rainwater harvesting adaptations through their integument morphology. It is through these parameters that architects may learn to improve our built environment and extend the amount of freshwater our future generations will need for survival.

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Future Population Density

Arid Environments

Annual Precipitation

Water Stress

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Ornamentation for Rainwater Harvesting

Hydro-Harvest

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Mentors: Maria Perbellini, Urs Flueckiger.

Mukaddes Darwish, PhD - 2014 rhino3D. gh. kangaroo. wb. maya. 3DS max. sonic4. digital substrate. nudibranch. realflow A building envelope should efficiently prevent or greatly decrease heat gain from solar radiation during the hottest days of the year (this is most important in hot, arid regions), while effectively utilizing wind and natural ventilation. During the coldest season, the envelope must efficiently minimize or prevent internal heat loss, protect from cold winds, and increase heat gain from solar radiation during daylight. With passive solar building design and efficient building materials, energy use and the water usage in HVAC systems can be greatly decreased. With the constant growth of desert cities, the built environment needs to adapt to extreme arid environments, as previous regional inhabitants and desert biota did, and serve to influence a change of efficiency to its citizens.

Building ornamentation decreased in usage during the early 20th century. Some attribution to Adolf Loos in “Ornament and Crime”, and the Modernist ideals of “Less is More”. Ornamentation was thought as an unnecessary aesthetic relic, an impediment to optimal engineering design and equipment maintenance. Building ornamentation, however, still flourished through material textures and tectonic details. Digital design allowed for a resurgence of ornamentation design, while digital fabrication assisted in the construction process.

Ornament on a building continues to have cultural significance, social usefulness for wayfinding, developing an identity for the

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building, signaling scale, or attracting citizens.

What other functional uses can ornamentation provide?

The intention of studying the behavioral, physiological, and morphological adaptations of desert biota is to understand how they efficiently collect rainwater and conserve what little water they ingest. Certain morphological adaptations of cacti allow maximum retention of water and decreased evapo-transpiration. Various reports on desert animals demonstrate how certain systems – inter-scalar capillary channels and integument patterns -- work together to capture and transport water for ingestion.

A building’s envelope may similarly work as a system to maximize rainwater harvesting, minimize evaporation, store water for future consumption or use, and it can engage the weather and provide architectural events during rainfall.

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a. natural flow of rain water on surface b. waterflow with attraction location c. rerouting water flow with guides d. trenches and folds e. new surface f. updated rainwater flow, steep slopes need improvement.

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Desert Shelters Faywood Hotsprings

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Mentor: Hendrika Buelinckx, PhD. 2011 rhino3D. gh. ecotect. ladybug. illustrator. qgis Faywood is a high-desert oasis with a natural geothermal hot spring. Its mild-dry climate with 4 distinct seasons makes it accessible all year around. The hot water flows from an opening at the top of a distinct mound called a “tufa” dome, a porous rock composed of calcium carbonate. This tufa dome was created over countless centuries from endless gallons of flowing mineral water deposited on the nearly flat desert floor. This unusual geologic phenomenon is a remnant of extremely violent episodes of volcanic activity occurring in this part of the world some 20 to 45 million years ago, in an era when the nearby City of Rocks State Park was formed.

Currently, the tufa dome rises to some 12m (40ft) in height and is nearly 183m (600ft) wide. The water flows from the top of the dome at a rate of 190 liters/min (50 gal/min) and at a temperature of 57° C (134° F). The water has many therapeutic properties, is drinkable, and will not harm plants. The water, once bottled around the start of the 20th century, is certified drinking water by the NM Department of Health, Drinking Water Bureau.

A group of alternative healthcare (AHC) practitioners are envisioning developing a Center for Pan-Dimensional Studies.

Their main mission is to provide a place for therapeutic services to re-balance the body and mind in a natural setting. These practitioners have formed a corporation in order to pursue this center from a legal and fiscal responsibility and to advocate the best possible uses for the land.

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Boundaries are created to define limits, serving as a restriction to a separate entity; indicating the presence of at least two entities.

Boundaries may either be implied or visible; mental or physical. Boundaries cater to limit certain senses; sight, smell, touch, auditory, or taste. Entities sharing the same boundaries create an intermediate entity which blurs a defined limit.

Desert Shelters work to blur boundaries, primarily focused to stimulate the visual sense.

The shelter distorts the boundaries between sky and ground, wall and ceiling, day and night, shade and light, open and closed, shelter and the exterior.

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[meta] TOUCH 12

Collaboration: Kyle Meeks. Winston Holloway Mentor: Kuhn Park. 2012 rhino3D. gh. firefly. processing. arduino An exploratory concept questioning our perceptions of touch and connection; not restricted to the physical world, but also transcending into the digital. With the advent of social networking and the rise of cellular smart phones, we are constantly challenging traditionally perceived conceptions of how we touch and connect to each other.

When touched physically, the extended skin of the design actuates as if to reach out and touch in response while coincidently revealing the second skin. The dual layers of skin are directly relational to the conceptual idea that we as individuals have multiple layers of skin: the personal and haptic- the literal skin, the extended boundary of space around us, and lastly, the idea of a meta skin- one that permeates through the digital realm connecting and touching others.

Nonverbal communication messages can be communicated through touch, material exponential; meaning, objects or artifacts(such as clothing or architecture).

Touch, or the haptic sense, is the earliest sense to develop in the fetus. Touching not only provides information about surfaces and textures, it is a component of nonverbal communication in interpersonal relationships, and vital in conveying physical intimacy.

Control touches serve to direct the behavior, attitude, or feeling state of the recipient. The key feature of these touches is that almost all of the touches are initiated by the person who attempts influence. These touches can be further classified as compliance, attentiongetting, and announcing a response.

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Lubbock is located in a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado and ecologically is part of the southern end of the Western High Plains.

Nicknamed the “Hub City�, the city serves as a ma jor economic, educational, and health care hub of the multi-county region, north of the Permian Basin and south of the Texas Panhandle, the South Plains.

Its downtown center is spread out and divided by districts: Art in the north, Business in the central towards the west, Government next to business towards the east, Entertainment in the southeastern area, and low income housing scattered though the southwest. The center of downtown is occupied during the work week, yet empties to a wasteland of parking lots in the evenings and weekends.

Texas Tech University, located west of downtown, adds life to Lubbock. Through analysis and planning, designers may be able to revitalize downtown and connect people between the districts. Residents may be able to move their attention downtown through integration of TTU graduate level programs, urban parks, restaurants, multi-use buildings, and recreational facilities.

Lubbock. TX

Mentors: Daniel Pruske. 2010. Christian Pongratz. 2011. Gary Smith 2011 rhino3D. illustrator

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Administration Building

South Plains School for Advanced Architecture 16

Collaboration: Luis Bustamante III Mentor: Daniel Pruske. 2010 3DS max. revit. illustrator. ecotect Interaction is a necessity within the program.

Faculty must interact through studios in order to get to administration, as well as students must interact through faculty in order to reach physical library. Open Gallery and Digital Library force interaction throughout the entire site; students, faculty, administration, and visitors.

An open gallery strategy serves as circulation and for social events throughout the site.

Along with the Digital Library, open galleries lead students, faculty, and visitors through studios, library stacks, auditoriums, a private gallery, administration, and an urban park.

The Library Science program acts in a similar manner connecting the entire site horizontally through “Digital Library” and vertically through “Physical Library”. The Digital Library takes up part of the computer lab program as well, as anyone around the site is able to “connect” digitally to the server through the Digital Kiosks with anyone else on the site or at the Texas Tech Campus. The Digital Library fuses with the Urban Park, providing learning opportunities wherever one may be.

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National College Baseball Hall of Fame Mentor: Gary Smith. 2011 revit. rhino3D. illustrator. ecotect. ladybug Since 1859, college baseball has been an integral part of many college and university athletic programs. Not until 2009 was an organization created to celebrate the achievements of this institution. The College Baseball Foundation (CBF) organization was created in Lubbock, Texas, in order to found the National College Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame.

The goal of the CBF is to construct a facility in which to showcase artifacts from college baseball in a gallery atmosphere. The priority and primary purpose of the project is the Museum and Hall of Fame. A high schoolsized baseball field will be used for youth tournaments and other local baseball events.

Located north of downtown Lubbock in the Arts district, the NCBHoF will invigorate local activity and bring tourists to the area. Use of rammed earth, xeriscaping, and greywater systems will educate locals in sustainable concepts and help alleviate the amount of irrigation water used for the baseball field.

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Kirkuk Citadel Museum + Gardens Mentor: Lahib Jaddo. 2013 rhino3d. gh. kangaroo. wb. ecotect. ladybug. illustrator The citadel (term deriving from the Latin root ‘city’, civis, meaning citizen) was built by the Assyrian Empire, on high ground, to serve as a defense line to protect their empire from eastern empires. The Kirkuk citadel served as a sacred site for three ma jor religions, most notably Islam, with some Christian and Jewish communities. It is important to provide ample space for multiple ethnicity to gather and practice their religions and traditions peacefully.

During Saddam’s reign, the citadel became a ruin. Kirkuk continues to face social, cultural, historical, architectural, political, and business struggles. Being an ancient site that has not been studied, archaeologists may increase an interest in the citadel and may serve a purpose in restoring the city’s history.

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Sukkah Tube Pavilion recycled cardboard tubes. gh. circle-packing. photoshop

Mentor: Hendrika Buelinckx, PhD - 2011 The origins of Sukkot are found in an ancient autumnal harvest festival, hag ha-asif, to rejoice and thank God for the completed harvest. The Old Testament was reinterpreted with the festival to imbue it with a specific Jewish meaning. Sukkot came to commemorate the wanderings of the Israelites in the desert after the revelation at Mount Sinai. The Sukkah represented the temporary shelters that the Israelites lived in during those forty years.

Cardboard tubes are given a temporary second life through the sukkah, positioning itself from a roll support to a wall component, pipe, vessel, container, planter, a Telescope.

The full moon on September 23, 2010 marks the beginning for Sukkot of that year, with an azimuth of 62 degrees. All 480 tubes are angled longitudinal towards the southern sky to view the full moon. During daylight, inhabitants are provided with enough shade and ventilation for cooking; at night the structure allows the moon light and stars to be observed. It becomes an oasis in a desert without boundaries.

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Lemniscate Netting lightweight tensile structure. gh. kangaroo. wb. fabrication

Mentor: Rob Eleazer - 2013 The intention of this workshop was to explore digital fabrication possibilities through interactive simulations, form-finding, and optimization of meshes. Using the live physics engine of Kangaroo, and Weaverbird, directly within the Grasshopper environment, iterations of “relaxed� meshes were obtained and analyzed. Struts and connection nodes were created and organized with labels to be extracted as a representation of the desired relaxed mesh. This process facilitated assembly with struts after nodes were 3D printing.

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V-Cellular Structure gh. voronoi 3d cell structure. convex hull. digital fabrication

2011 The intention of this practice was to learn the space relationships of cells created by the 3D voronoi diagram. Furthermore, a structural study was conducted for fabrication into a temporary 1-to-1 scaled pavilion. Fabrication from recycled cardboard or fiberboard allowed for minimum material use and connection details.

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Digital Fabrication

Lazy Lawn

2014 layered recycled cardboard. waffle structure. sod.

CaBoTu 02

AmpDock

Creature

2014 2013 2012 recycled cardboard + cardboard recycled aluminum block.

LED lighting. recycled wire + tubes. circle packing. layering recycled bugle. inventor. for twine. adjustable form. rhino3D android only Collaboration: Hoyeol Kim. Nazanin Naderi. Pradeep Kumar Sivakumar

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Digital Art + Art

TTU Holiday

2013 processing. image input image-input drawing. boids path colorization

WebDrawing

2012 processing. kinect 3D feed. hand gesture-input drawing. boids paths.

Defiant Architecture

2011 rhino3D. photoshop. haboob. poetic potential of computers

Catedral de Salamanca

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JOSE JOAQUIN SANCHEZ

915.309.3162

cargocollective.com/josejsanchez

EXPERIENCE |

EDUCATION | Texas Tech University Lubbock. TX M.S. Arch summer 2014

Texas Tech University Lubbock. TX M. Arch fall 2011

Texas Tech University Lubbock. TX B.S. Arch spring 2010

Digital Design + Fabrication

Certificate: Digital Design +

Sustainable Design

Fabrication

Urban Studio Abroad 2009 Sevilla. Espa単a

RECOGNITION | 03|2015

Digital Design + Fabrication Program CROP 04 TTU Holiday E-Card Helen D. Jones First Friday Art Trail

projects recognition

04|2010

CROP 01

project recognition winner of e-card Architecture Grad Fellowship Urban Tech Gallery Urban Tech . CoA Galleries Urban Tech Gallery Lubbock Memorial Center CoA Gallery CoA Gallery . McPherson Cellars Gallery projects recognition

12|2009

First Friday Art Trail

CoA Gallery

04|2014 12|2013 08|2012 05|2012 12|2011 05|2011 04|2011 12|2010 05|2010

jose.j.sanchez87@gmail.com

Lubbock Arts Festival First Friday Art Trail

ACTIVITIES | 01|2015 founded 05|2012

Latinos in Architecture COllaborative DEsign

09|2013 03|2013 2009-2012

Barkitecture Houston KoA Pecha Kucha AIAS TTU Chapter

10|2012 2010-2012 2011-2012

Chinati Foundation TTU USGBC Students Global Architecture Brigades Tau Sigma Delta Habitat for Humanity

inducted 2011 2009-2011

active member workshops. project research. freelance team project Designed to Destroy event organizer. AIA Sandcastle. green week volunteer. TTU liaison web media. green week volunteer TTU Upsilon Chapter volunteer

El Paso-San Antonio. TX 05|2012 - 1|2015

Lubbock . TX 01|2012 - 06|2014

Dallas-Lubbock . TX 06|2012 - 06|2013 - 06|2014

Lubbock . TX 08|2012 - 12|2012

Lubbock . TX 01|2010 - 12|2011

Freelance. CoDe product 3D modeling. digital workshops. bathroom renovation. patio-deck design

SKILLS |

fluent in Spanish + English

Assistant/Advisor - Fabrication Lab . CoA rapid prototyping. CAD/CAM fabrication. website management. graphic design. workshop remodeling design documentation Instructor - Curtis W. Clerkley, Jr. Architecture Academy . CoA intro to arch. firm + district visits. studio projects Graduate Teaching Assistant Architecture Construction II . CoA statics. member analysis. material science. advanced construction systems Graduate Teaching Assistant - Digital Media I + II . CoA Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign. graphic layout. autoCAD. 3DS Max. rhino 3D. Bonzai 3D

Digital Design rhino3D + Paneling gh + kangaroo + Wb

3DS Max Maya BIM Revit ArchiCAD Analysis Ecotect + Vasari Geco+ Ladybug/Honeybee Mapping QGIS Fabrication cnc milling+routing rhinoCAM + rhinoNest rapid prototyping Rendering

V-Ray Mental-Ray Drafting + Graphic autoCAD Photoshop

Illustrator InDesign Simulation Simulation CFD RealFlow Digital Arts + Programming Processing Python Physical Making furniture making temporary structures

arduino sensor interactive arch Activities paintball sketching

painting aggressive inline skating

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