jose sanchez design portfolio
Jose Sanchez Syracuse University, School of Architecture
jrsanc01@syr.edu 786-873-9971 6900 NW 179th St, Apt 201 Hialeah, FL 33015
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Contents Bouquet
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Chattels
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Footprint
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Jelly
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Jack
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Plush
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Float
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Flicker
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Skinny
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Bouquet Co-Living/Co-Working | Syracuse, NY Instructor: Britt Eversole | Fall 2016
Co-living/co-working buildings raise the idea of occupants functioning entirely within the same building. Bouquet imagines this program as an internal, agrarian world where inhabitants live solely within the project. From sleeping to playing to farming together, the building establishes a closed ecosystem where social and spatial intentions are informed by a sharing economy. Resembling Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, nature becomes simulated as cultivation greenhouses and establishes a shared relationship through a pinwheel organization, fueling an internal system within the project. Bouquet explores the idea of a closed hermetic world, where its autonomy is enforced by its architecture, systems, and relationships.
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Chattels Anthropological Drawing Instructor: Britt Eversole | Fall 2016
The ethnography of a building’s occupants is often overlooked, yet their relationships, networks, and property come to directly influence the physical world. Chattels serves as a graphic document capturing the multivalent traits and profile of an imagined indoor agriculturalist. Through a reinterpretation of Francois Dellagret’s illustration ‘Anatomy of a Dwelling’, plants, possessions, and pipes solely come to form the micro-infrastructure that defines this figure, apart from any explicit architectural qualities. In collapsing systems and objects into one collective network, Chattels represents an identity and narrative for a character, equating to a sum that is larger than its parts.
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Footprint Net-Zero Residence | Syracuse, NY
DOE Race to Zero Competition Entry | Spring 2017 In collaboration with Ian Mulich, Kokeith Perry II, & Wilson Slagle
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 building 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 the photo-voltaic system and produces energy in excess for the project. 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 home.
Finalist Entry in Suburban Single-Family Category
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Level 01
North Elevation Elevations produced by Ian Mulich
East Elevation
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Level 02
South Elevation
West Elevation
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Section A1
Renderings produced with Wilson Slagle
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Section A2
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Jelly Shelter | Paphos, Cyprus
CYSOA Paphos Beach Shelter Competition Entry | Summer 2017 In collaboration with Ian Mulich
Coastal beaches offer a unique combination of sensorial experiences that contribute to their exotic allure. Jelly captures these sensuous qualities to create an ethereal instillation that enhances the beauty of the Paphos shoreline through careful material sensibilities. With its iridescent surfaces and glowing fringe, the shelter constantly transforms itself throughout the day depending on the sky, wind, and light to emulate the shifting qualities of its setting. Through its distinct material considerations and form, Jelly intensifies the sensory experience of its setting while presenting itself as unique architectural object.
Finalist Entry | 3rd Place
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Axonometric and Section produced by Ian Mulich
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Jack Light Box
Instructor: Lorenzo Guzzini | Fall 2017 In collaboration with Wilson Slagle
Light is a ubiquitous facet of architectural spaces, enhancing and creating unique sculptural and experiential qualities. Jack aims to harness light through rigorous spatial modeling in order to create a distinct visual experience. Following a moldmaking and plaster casting process, spatial voids and perforations are carefully constructed and removed through a mass-void inversion, allowing light to be designed as a sculptural mass. Through its specific geometric arrangement of portals, the spatial volume is viewed through a semblance of a face, rendering the object with a distinct exterior appearance. By merging specific interior qualities of light with particular viewports, Jack becomes a droll artifact with inherent visual light qualities.
Thinking by Making Workshop | Como, Italy
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Plush Archway
Instructor: Greg Corso | Spring 2016
While often described under contentious terms, folk art environments present a zealous and unorthodox solution to trite building materiality. Plush attempts to counter material banality by introducing techniques latent within the folk. Inspired by craft-based cosmetic and formal tactics that alter inherent materials traits, this project uses smooth forms and a fuzzy textural application to give plaster casts a soft and cushy resemblance in order to contradict its expected physical qualities. Plush aims to reach a new level material, aesthetic, and architectural novelty through the appropriation of characteristics innate in folk art.
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Float Conceptual Model
Instructor: Benjamin Farnsworth | Fall 2015 In collaboration with Rex Hughes
The abstraction of site for architectural representations typically leads to work that is flat, utilitarian, and vapid. Float seeks to create a new reading of site that celebrates its three-dimensionality through the reimagining of terrain as suspended islands. In the project, the analyzed site was subdivided into smaller parts which were modeled according to their terrain data and suspended mid-air by an abundance of string. This overuse blurs the support into a haze, lending the appearance that these isolated islands are floating around within a cloud. Float attempts to merge concepts of topography and context with notions of whimsy and fantasy to lend site an immersive quality.
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Model displayed at Spark Contemporary Art Space’s “TIED UP” Exhibition
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Flicker Library/ofFICE Space | New YOrk, Ny Instructor: Molly Hunker | Spring 2016
Common to New York City, construction scaffolding offers appended spaces to buildings that support social interaction and chance encounter. Flicker chooses to exploit the architectural traits innate in construction spaces and integrate them within the project through the incorporation of a spaceframe. Programs become divided into two categories: base programs that fit into white boxes to satisfy spatial and organizational needs and spaceframe programs that encourage social interactions. In integrating these two space type, a flickering occurs between them tectonically, spatially, programmatically, and visually. Flicker attempts to create an experiential haze brought upon by the blurring of structure, space, and color.
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Skinny Middle School | New YOrk, Ny Instructor: Angie Co | Spring 2017 In collaboration with Irving Shen
Increasingly affected by the growing densification of Manhattan, public schools are facing a severe shortage of appropriate urban sites. Skinny proposes a radical reinterpretation of educational spaces by envisioning a school adapted to fit into an extreme urban niche. 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 experimental educational facilities.
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Plan 01 +26’
Plan 04 +166’
Plan 03 +126’
Plan 03 +76’
Plan 02
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