Joseph Almeida Portfolio by Joseph

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

ALMEIDA, JOSEPH 2008-2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXHIBIT SPACE

MUSEUM OF CHADO

SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

THE HUB

THE SHARD

Spatial Qualities Exhibition Space For this exercise, I wanted my exhibition space to be closely related to Toyo Itoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s houses and wanted to use many of his concepts into the design of my structure. Little did I know that my first approach looked exactly like Toyo Itoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U house and my design was ruined. I started with this project with a wrong approach and correlated my model like the U house that Toyo Ito built. From this learning experience, I decided to develop a module that I will use in my design that derived from the U House. The module I discovered is displayed in the image to the left and I was able to discover it by combing a perfect circle with the shape of a U to obtain this elliptical shape. I decided to use this module as a floor plan for the stairs of my exhibition space. From this idea, I developed a system of ellipses that rotated as the building went upwards and developed spaces that can be used to make the shape of the building that I was looking for. As for the facade, I decided not to use the idea of walls, and decided to place vertical columns that connected each ellipse and eccentuate the overlap between each floor. In addition, I decided to create an angulating space in between each columns as they approached each floor. This allowed me to form walls in each floor in order to display drawings in the walls. The finalized model had 4 floors with a two way traffic stairway that leads to each floor, a columns that made the facade of the building, and could display 3 models and 7 drawings of my architect.

Light and Shadow Museum of Chado Within the Museum of Chado, tea utensils, hanging scrolls, kimonos, a tea replica, and other items will be displayed to the public in gallery spaces that should be designed by the student. Students are to analyze how the architecture of the museum can influence the displays or whether the building itself becomes a display. The aesthetic appeal of the building should relate to the tea ceremony and capture the same experiences that can be found in a tea room. The programming requirements were given to the students to satisfy, which included the sections of administration, gallery space, teaching areas, public spaces, outdoor areas, and support areas. A back of house and front of house needed to be developed for circulation to function properly. In this exercise, the approach consisted of using light as a primary element of circulation and creating a central opening that led natural light in the building. The gallery spaces were all dark, due to special consideration of the items on display. The roftop had a garden, and the courtyard was in the outdoor areas next to the building. The building itself was to capture the feelings of the tea ceremony and create the same experiences for the inhabitants within the museum.

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

LONGITUDONAL SECTION

FIFTH FLOOR PLAN

CROSS SECTION

ADJACENCIES DIAGRAM

CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

LIGHTING DIAGRAM

VOLUMES AND PLANES SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE

For my design, I wanted to create a sense of enclosure and spaces that would bring value into light and shadow. My initial concept that I started with was to create spaces with planes, using horizontal and vertical planes that stretched from the mountain side across the valley. From there, I turned into another concept, one that integrates the dwelling with the site. When I say this, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean a connection with the outer form, but a connection within the spaces of the house. The design was to bring value to the site as the site brings value to the dwelling. The spaces are to be dark filled with shadow as if it were a cavern or a cave within the mountain. The dramatic spaces that bring light in through the top or the side are there to show only for a little the value of the view. But there is a moment where the bedroom moves, out of this cave, and bring the view, the mountain, and the feeling of freedom into the dwelling, increasing the light and the purity of this ruined piece of sculpture that is being eroded through natures cycle.

INTERIOR RENDERING

PHYSICAL MODEL

CONCEPTUAL MODEL

STRUCTURAL MODEL

INTERIOR RENDERING

EXPERIENCE SPACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As I approach the design of this elementray school, I was interested in the idea of learning through different environments, whether it occurred through sheltered experiences or outdoor experiences. With this idea, I developed a variety of gathering spaces outside of the classroom, where children and teachers can use as a learning area for a variety of activities. The idea was to keep both the classroom and these garden spaces balances and equal in size. As these gardens developed in all floor plans a began to use the idea of planes as a second major source to make the garden spaces the focal point of the project. I used the planes to guide the user, the eye, and the circulation around the project so that these planes can create curiosity and an sense of discovery within the school. Therefore, the garden spaces become a destination, where they are places of rest, relaxation, and learning. It brings the idea of home away from home and provides the students and the community with places of gathering that are more intimate.

SITE PLAN

DIAGRAMS

PARTI/CONCEPT DIAGRAM

CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

INDOOR/OUTDOOR

CLASSROOM ANALYSIS

PHYSICAL MODEL

RENDERINGS

THE HUB Los Angeles Revision Plan The Interdisciplinary studio at Cal Poly Pomona addressed the Downtown Los Angeles community in creating an improved urban community considering the master plan of Los Angeles and the new California High Speed Rail project. The project focused on creating housing, new connections to local landmarks and community intregration with current manufacturing facilities that are in place. The Hub encourages diversity in the dwelling units, affordable housin. ;andscape connections that lead across the Los Angeles River, sustainable factors, and a rich commercial areas to activitate the area. The Hub focuses on connecting to the Los Angeles City Hall and leading that connection across the Los Angeles River into a recreational facility that can be shared by the community. AThe main commerical area was placed on Temple Street, where the connection can be made and activating the connetion was a key factor in the project. In addition, the project emphasizes on a primary connection to Union Station and how The Hub can be integrated to tourist and passengers who arrive in Los Angeles.

SITE PLAN

RENDERINGS

THE SHARD Heroes Helping Heroes Initiative Rising above the ground, this museum takes you through the journey of history and reveals the scars that have been left on our soldiers. The building, with its DIRECTIONALITY and its grounded foundation, rises slowly and grows as it reaches its highest point. As it grows, it slowly assembles and reveals its pure materiality, and creates the capacity of sustaining itself in the air. The symbolism of REVELATION, GROWTH, and ASSEMBLAGE can be seen in the facade; this idea of getting better and HEALING. The building leads to the large structures that stand in the distance, this idea of directionality towards the highest, and towards the city on the hill; of reaching a larger scale, and reaching a higher moment in life. Those who want to seek further curiosity of the building can enter by excavating into its ROOTS and understanding its primary structure. People slowly descend into the darkness to approach the beginnings of terror and war. Once there, a moment of loss awaits, where one feels cold, lost, and unsettling of where they have arrived. The cracks that can be seen in the columns are signals of struggle, but not of defeat. Once entering, darkness dominates the space with bright spotlights illuminating the way around this LABYRINTH of information. Following the lights, the enlightenment process begins and one starts ascending towards the light and the peak of the building. Slowly the room becomes BRIGHTER and brighter, until you have reached the end.

SITE PLAN

CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAMS

SECTIONS

Healing our way of life

My project goal is to serve those veterans in New York who have surpassed the dangers of war as they begin their transition into society. Theater, as a source of fantasy, can affect a certain individual’s reality to the extent that he/she can better integrate with their own surroundings. The intent is to use theater and performance as a tool of expression for veterans to heal, reintegrate, and improve on their social, physical, and psychological issues in the real world, as true heroes. The United Nations serves as an entity that uniÞes various countries of the world through the values of development, peace, and human rights. My project reßects upon these same core values, but uses a different strategy to resolve the problems of war. The U.N. mandates to resolve issue through conßict while the other relieves the outcomes of those conßicts through healing. It is this process of healing that leads the design to become a transition; a metamorphosis of the change that the veterans themselves are experiencing. The transitional spaces are designed to bulge out of the structure to create a sense of importance and liberation from the rectangular shape of the United Nations. The skin wraps all the pieces together, unifying the healing process and at the same time, creating a camoußage facade. The camoußage is intended to obscure or hide veterans from their surroundings, but in this case, the same system is used to proclaim a gloriÞcation and pride in the integration of the veteran. The building itself becomes a monument of celebration and an icon of peace that follows the same values of the U.N., but intends to balance the two sides of war and peace.

Veteran Rehabilitation through theater and performance

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Site Analysis

CONTEXT ANALYSIS

FACADE STUDIES

FIGURE GROUND STUDIES

FIRST LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

FOURTH LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

TWENTIETH LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

VETERAN REHABILITATION THROUGH THEATER AND PERFORMANCE

DAYTIME RENDERING

INTERIOR RENDERING

PRESENTATION NIGHTTIME RENDERING