jose sanchez design portfolio
Sky #3, 2017 Screen print 8 x 8 inches
Jose Sanchez jsanchez82196@msn.com | 786-873-9971
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Yuan
Design/Research Center
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57Ocean
Apartment Interior
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Privee Clinics Wellness Center
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Skinny
Public School
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Jelly
Beach Shelter
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Footprint
Net-Zero Residence
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Yolk Piñata
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Bouquet
Co-living/Co-working
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01_Yuan Design/Research Center | Xiong’an, China In collaboration with Hanseul Jang Instructor: Fei Wang | Course: ARC 409_Comprehensive Studio
The Xiong’an Development Plan for China’s emerging capitol district lacks a nuanced cultural relationship with its intended site that would foster its survival as a modern city. Yuán is a prototypical adaptation of a derelict building that proposes an alternative method of urban renovation suited for Xiong’an. Employing culturally mined spatial organizations and construction methods, a pre-existing structural skeleton is expanded upon in order to encase a programmatic mass in a publicly served park space. Constructed of rammed earth, this sculptural form functions in tandem with its envelope to regulate necessary building systems while performing as a unique cultural amenity. Yuán introduces a contextual intervention that aims to answer rising developmental concerns through the considerate use of tectonic and vernacular strategies.
Displayed in the “Time Space Existance” Exhibition | European Culture Centre, Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 | Venice, Italy Displayed in the “Design Energy Futures: Xiong’an 1.0” Exhibition | World Innovation & Entrepreneurship Expo | Shanghai, China Published in “Design Energy Futures: Xiong’an 1.0” | by Fei Wang, Michael Speaks | Institute of Building Research Nominated for King and King Comprehensive Studio Award | Syracuse Architecture 6
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Original Structure
Bay Subtraction
Structural Replication
Programmatic Addition
Thermal Mass
Stack Ventilation
Solar Radiation
Cross Ventilation
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02_57Ocean Luxury High-rise Apartment | Miami, FL
Professional Work with Reginald Dunlap Interior Design Scope: Concept Design, Space Planning, Design Documentation, Project Admin
Located on the waterfront of South Beach, 57Ocean seeks to bring the rich and colorful hues of Miami into a bespoke, luxury apartment interior. Each room within the unit was designed with a distinctive, vivid palette that calls to mind the tropical setting just out the window. In the living area, matcha colored surfaces and curvilinear forms pair with marble accents; a translation of lush palms and their shadows. Deep blues with graphic patterns in the study harken back to the ocean and the subtle textures of crashing waves. The bedroom is layered with textured, natural surfaces complemented with saturated aubergine accents reminiscent of a sunset at the beach. With its carefully curated palette and custom details, 57Ocean celebrates the vibrant, warm qualities of context to elevate it’s interior living spaces.
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03_Privee Wellness center | Miami, FL
Professional Work with Reginald Dunlap Interior Design Scope: Concept Design, Space Planning, Design Documentation, Project Admin
Warm, inviting, and luxurious, Privee is a design for a wellness center that does away with the overly-sterile norms of most clinics. Reimagining the waiting room as a den, equipped with a fireplace and chaise, sets the tone for the project from the moment occupants step in. Woods and marbles, complemented by gold and purple accents, transform treatment rooms into cozy sanctuaries. Rounded details in millwork, finishes, and furniture further the sense of the safety for the center, as if embracing clients. Privee seeks to prove that wellness design can be elevated in a manner that centers the sense of comfort and security of its users.
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04_Skinny Public School | New YOrk, Ny
In collaboration with Irving Shen Instructor: Angie Co | Course: ARC 408_Architectural Design VI
Increasingly affected by the growing densification of New York City, Manhattan is facing a severe shortage of appropriate urban sites for public schools. Skinny proposes a radical reinterpretation of educational spaces by envisioning a school adapted to fit into an extreme urban niche located in the Financial District. Constrained to a 50 foot wide infill site, the project divides itself into two distinct programmatic walls, one housing all of its educational functions and the other serving as an extensive core, connected with classrooms slid between. Through its comprehensive parts, Skinny creates a kinetic experience where moving through uniquely programmed zones serves as an alternative learning condition for an experimental educational facility.
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Thin Wall
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Plan 01 +26’
Plan 04 +166’
Plan 03 +126’
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Plan 02 +46’
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Beach Shelter | Paphos, Cyprus
In collaboration with Ian Mulich Cyprus SOA Paphos Beach Shelter Competition Entry
With the delights of sun and sea, coastal beaches offer a unique combination of sensory experiences that contribute to their exotic allure. Jelly aims to capture these sensuous qualities to create an ethereal installation by drawing from the Paphos shoreline through careful material sensibilities. With its iridescent surfaces and glowing fringe, the beach shelter constantly transforms itself through its interaction with the sky, wind, and light to emulate the shifting qualities of its setting. Throughout the day, its reflective spandex canopy reflects the changing haze of the sky and its fiber optic fringe sways with the sea breeze, glowing into a vivid blur at night. Through its distinct materials and form, Jelly intensifies the sensory experience of its site while presenting itself as a unique architectural object.
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Axonometric and Section produced by Ian Mulich
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06_Footprint Net-Zero Residence | Syracuse, NY
In collaboration with Ian Mulich, Kokeith Perry II, & Wilson Slagle Department of Energy Race to Zero Competition Entry
Faced with over 1,600 abandoned and deteriorated homes, the suburbs of Syracuse are in dire need of an adaptive solution to a growing housing crisis. As a prototypical solution, Footprint proposes a retrofit strategy where a solar-optimized massing is plugged into the concrete footings of a derelict single family house to construct a net-zero residence. The massing, informed by a pitched roof designed to receive the most amount of yearly sunlight possible, sufficiently fuels a photo-voltaic system and produces energy in excess for the project. Using structurally insulated panels, the envelope of the house provides an optimal thermal barrier for harsh northern winters. With the implementation of solar design, high performing systems and materials, and affordable construction choices, Footprint aims to create a net-zero, affordable, market ready housing solution for Syracuse.
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North Elevation Elevations produced by Ian Mulich
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South Elevation
West Elevation
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Pinata
In collaboration with Mike Liu Instructor: Greg Corso | Course: ARC 500_Party Favors
Analogous to buildings, piñatas offer a case study in architectural considerations such as containment, cosmetics, and craft. Yolk employs the piñata to question the convention of hollow shells through the exploration of an incongruous interior-exterior relationship. Taking on distinct tonal and formal languages, a faceted candy-filled interior pierces out of its muted topological exterior to present a spatial object that is expressive of its internal logics. Arrived at through self-reflexive digital fabrication strategies, this piñata exhibits an approach to assembly that forefronts an alternative consideration of architectural envelopes. In valuing sectional composition, selective cosmetics, and studied craft, Yolk functions as a novel vehicle for the exploration of form, function, and fabrication.
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08_Bouquet Co-Living/Co-Working | Syracuse, NY Instructor: Britt Eversole | Course: Architectural Design V
Co-living/co-working buildings, with their excessively amenitized spaces, raise the idea of occupants functioning entirely within the boundaries of these mix-used projects. Bouquet imagines this program as an internal, agrarian world where inhabitants live and survive solely within its architecture. From sleeping to playing to farming together, the building establishes a closed ecosystem where social and spatial intentions are informed by a cyclical sharing economy. Similarly to Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, nature is simulated as a market; cultivation greenhouses and apartment units establish a shared relationship in a pinwheel organization, nurturing an internal system within. Bouquet explores the radical idea of a closed hermetic world within a building, where its autonomy is enforced by its architecture, systems, and relationships.
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