jose sanchez design portfolio
Jose Sanchez Syracuse University | School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture | Class of 2019
jsanchez82196@msn.com 786-873-9971 6900 NW 179th St, Apt 201 Hialeah, FL 33015
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Contents Yuan
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Yolk
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Jelly
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Footprint
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Jack
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Chattels
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Bouquet
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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
Yuan Design/Research Center | Xiong’an, China In collaboration with Hanseul Jang Instructor: Fei Wang | Course: Comprehensive Studio
The Xiong’an Development Plan for China’s emerging capitol district must take on a cultural relationship with its intended site in order to survive 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.
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Original Structure
Bay Subtraction
Structural Replication
Programmatic Addition
Thermal Mass
Stack Ventilation
Solar Radiation
Cross Ventilation
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yolk Pinata
In collaboration with Mike Liu Instructor: Greg Corso | Course: Party Favors
Analogous to buildings, piñatas present a parallel concern for 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 candy-filled interior pierces out of its muted exterior to present a spatial object that is expressive of its internal logics. Arrived at through self-reflexive fabrication strategies, the piñata exhibits an approach to assembly that forefronts its consideration of encasement. In valuing sectional composition, selective cosmetics, and studied craft, Yolk functions as a novel vehicle for concepts of form, function, and fabrication.
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Interior Form
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Finalist Entry | 3rd Place Exhibited at the Cyprus School of Architecture
Jelly Shelter | Paphos, Cyprus
In collaboration with Ian Mulich Cyprus SOA Paphos Beach Shelter Competition Entry
Coastal beaches offer a unique combination of sensory experiences that contribute to their exotic allure. Jelly captures these sensuous qualities to create an ethereal instillation that draws qualities from the Paphos shoreline through careful material sensibilities. With its iridescent surfaces and glowing fringe, the shelter constantly transforms itself through its interaction with the sky, wind, and sun to emulate the shifting qualities of its setting. Through its distinct material considerations 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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Finalist Entry in Suburban Single-Family Category Presented at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Golden, CO
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 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.
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North Elevation Elevations produced by Ian Mulich
East Elevation
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South Elevation
West Elevation
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Jack Light Box
In collaboration with Wilson Slagle Instructor: Lorenzo Guzzini | Thinking by Making Workshop
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.
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Chattels Anthropological Drawing
Instructor: Britt Eversole | Course: Architectural Design V
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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Bouquet Co-Living/Co-Working | Syracuse, NY Instructor: Britt Eversole | Course: Architectural Design V
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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