Juan Cárdenas Academic Portfolio 2017 by Juan Heriberto

Portfolio 2015-2017

Juan H. Cรกrdenas Jr.

Juan H. CĂĄrdenas Jr. Southern California Institute of Architecture M.Arch II 1 (773) 629-2695 juanhcardenasjr@gmail.com ÂŠ 2017 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of copyright owner.

Content SCI-Arc 2GAX Replica

DS 1200 | Fall 2016 | Instructor: Marcelyn Gow

Materials + Tectonics

AS 3200 | Fall 2016 | Instructor: Maxi Ospina

Serpens IDD

| Fall 2016 | Instructor: Rachel McCall

2GBX The Bridge. The Portal. (II)

DS 1200 | Spring 2017 | Instructor: Elena Manferdini

The Bridge. The Portal. (I)

DS 1200 | Spring 2017 | Instructor: Elena Manferdini

Advanced Structures

AS 3302 | Spring 2017 | Instructor: Greg Otto

19 25

49 53

UIC UG4 Silicon Rings

ARCH 466 | Spring 2015 | Instructor: Andrew Moddrell

Statement - at SCI Arc. Juan is currently an M.Arch II student He has 2 years of professional experience as an architectural designer and permit expediter in Chicago, Illinois, focused mainly on residential work and some commercial work. Juan has also served as board member of Arquitectos – The Society of Hispanic Professional Architects, a Chicago based organization whose mission is to provide development, mentorship, community assistance and further enrich the architectural profession through different cultural views and practices. His professional interests are in the exploration of the public realm and the ever-changing manner in which society views and uses spaces with the incorporation of technology to everyday life. Most importantly, on the research of methods and solutions to providing global shelter to people in need. Juan holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago. During his time at UIC he was a member of Arquitectos–UIC and served as Arquitectos –UIC Chapter President for 2 years and was an editor for Fresh Meat, an award winning student architectural journal founded and ran by UIC students and Alumni.

REPLICA Design Studio Fall 2016 | DS 1200 | Instructor: Marcelyn Gow Team: Francisco Tam Silveirihna, Yo Tomura, Juan H. Cárdenas Jr. Los Angeles, California | Art District Michael Thonet can be considered one of the most important innovators in bentwood furniture making. Thonet was able to manipulate wood unlike anyone had ever seen before with curved framing for his series of chairs.This was a push on the agenda of the splines. Architecture also began to experiment with spline drawings by using hooked weights called “ducks’, although it did not necessarily give a mathematically computed curve, it did allow for smooth curves in design. In Animate Form, Greg Lynn describes the powerv of splines by stating, “ it perceives the motion patterns of multiple vector elds acting in space and time and can anticipate the unfolding of these pattern”, pushing the idea to perceive shapes as actual topology. There is big overlap with design and architecture and how they inuence one-another. Le Corbusier was very intrigued by the Thonet chair design that he used thonet designed furniture to furnish his Pavillion de L’Esprit Nouveau. With the big push in the Thonet design, a new agenda came with the experimentation of bending steel tubing. As the steel tubing becomes an imitation of the original thonet, the experimentation becomes becomes a representation of the original. Peter Eisenman describes his his case study House X, developed from his House I & II, House X as no longer considered “an object, but a sign - a representation of itself.” In this investigation we were inuenced by the splines of the thonet chair to overlap design with architecture. Our goal is to represent the thonet chair with specic characteristics of the curved splines to be present within our building design.

Replica | description

image | Replica

Front View

Chair Evolution This exploration begins with the Thonet #18 chair. By experimenting with the manipulation of the bent wood we attempt to lose sight of the directionality of the chair itself. Throughout the trials we begin to incorporate inflated cushions to create a massing that will be within or around the framework.

Side View

Top View

Axon View

Replica | diagram

diagram | Replica

Rendition #1

Massing Evolution In the transition from furniture to architecture the bent wood is converted to structure. In part, the inflated cushion is transformed in to massing for the overal structure.

Rendition #2

Rendition #3

Replica | diagram

Programmatic Space Shared Space Public Space Private / Rentable Space Administration Circulation

Ordering Systems

Structure

Envelope

diagram | Replica

Elevation 1

Replica | elevation

Elevation 2

elevation | Replica

Section

Replica | section

Detail Chunk Perspective

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11

KEY 1. FACADE SUBSTRUCTURE 2. REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN 3. STEEL STRUCTURE BEAM 4. CONCRETE FLOOR SLAB 5. STEEL COMPOSITE DECKING 6. DUCT AND PIPE SYSTEMS 7. SUSPENDED CEILING 8. SUPPORT I-BEAM 9. EXTERNAL STRUCTURE 10. INSULATED GLASS 11. ALUMINUM FACADE

perspective chunk | Replica

Level 3 Plan

Replica | lower level plan

Level 6 Plan

upper level plan | Replica

Replica | detail renders

perspecitve renders | Replica

CONSERVATORY RESET Materials + Tectonics Fall 2016 | AS 4200 | Instructor: Maxi Ospina Team: Francisco Tam Silveirihna, Juan H. Cรกrdenas Jr., Song Qiu

With the intent to better understand surface tectonics and surface performance an existing precedent is analyzed and documented in order to form a series of hypotheses in an attempt to construct a number of interrelated tectonic conjectures. Through this process we seek out an alternative understanding of awareness of embedded cultural habits. The Conservatory of Music is inspired by Aix en-Provence native painter, Paul Cezanne and his painting techniques of mixing juxtaposed colors and Origami figures in the way ligtht can modify the color on surfaces. The building envelope is comprised of folded anodized aluminum sheets. The folded aluminum sheets are meant to play with the sunlight in order to create deep contrasts on the surface of the facade with light and shadows.

Materials + Tectonics | section

Aix en Provence Conservatory of Music Location : Aix en Provence, France Architect : Kengo Kuma & Associates Building Envelope System : Aluminum CLadding Year: 2013

perspective chunk | Materials + Tectonics

Exploded Chunk Axon

13 9 8 7 6

5 4

16 17 18 19 21

14 20 15 9

12 10 2 1

Materials + Tectonics | diagram

HORIZONTAL PANELING

ELEVATED CLASSROOOMS INTERIOR DAYLIGHT FACTOR GRID

VERTICAL PANELING

% DAYLIGHT FACTOR 0

2.2

4.3

6.5

8.7

EXPLODED DAYLIGHT FACTOR DIAGRAM THE OVERALL SKIN IS COMPRISED OF A HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL PANELING SYSTEMS , IN WHICH THEY ARTICULATE THE SHADOWS BEING CASTED BY THE SUNLIGHT IN THEIR OWN MANNER. IN PART, THE EXTENSIVE ALUMINUM PANELING SYSTEM AND THE SMALL AMOUNT OF GLAZING AROUND THE BUILDING, ALLOWS NATURAL LIGHT TO STAND OUT MORE WHEN IT ENTERS THROUGH AN OPENING.

C 26.00<= 24.55

JUNE SOLSTICE SEPTEMBER SOLSTICE DECEMBER SOLSTICE S

23.10 21.65 20.20 18.75 17.30 15.85 14.40 12.95 <=11.50

N E

SUN - PATH DIAGRAM (C) - LATITUDE: 43.45 THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC IS AN “L” SHAPED STRUCTURE THAT FACES NORTH AT A DIAGONAL, ALMOST A 45 DEGREE ANGLE, ALLOWING FOR THE SHADOWS TO BE BETTER ARTICULATED WITH THE FOLDED PANELING SYSTEM. diagrams | Materials + Tectonics 22

Developed Envelope

In developing an envelope system with traits of the Conservatory of Music, we detached the glazing from the original aluminum panelling. Then converting the Glazing into a secondary system while also acting as a curtain wall taht will have operable windows for natural air flow. With the separation of materials, a separate structural system is added to the modified panels. In a setting where the chunk faces south and West direction, shading and lighting are both amplified while balancing room tempurature. As the panels are now detached from the glazing and from each other, the panels begin to rotate in intervals of 15 degrees, ending the south facade with a 45 degree panels. The placement and angles of the aluminum panels amplify shadows throughout the day and sunlight as the sun sets .

Materials + Tectonics | diagram

Physical Model

model image | Materials + Tectonics

SERPENS Introduction to Digital Design Fall 2016 | IDD | Instructor: -------------------This studio will interrogate the potential of the replica in architecture. Advancing recent debates regarding influence, affinity and appropriation in architecture, we will adopt an approach that exploits the potential for architectural acts of appropriation to engender new forms of authenticity and to challenge context and type within an architectural project. Quotation as a postmodern form of referencing an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;originalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and subsequent forays into sampling including kitbashing and the mash-up are various forms through which appropriation has surfaced in architectural discourse and practice. A more contemporary notion of the replica ties it to the status of the object in architecture and its inherent potential to engender multiple and coexisting forms of legibility; raising questions of scalability ranging from the colossus to the miniature. This approach involves the selection of copies (found objects) instead of the creation of originals.

IDD

precedent| IDD

Snake A Skin Diagram

Using the initial precedent, the snake massing is unrolled in order to texture map the snake skin to mimic the specific location of the skin it is seen.

IDD | diagram

Snake 2 Skin Diagram

diagram | IDD

Volumetric Plan Diagram

The second phase of this excercise consists of a four sided shape to be inserted in between the snakes in order to modify the position of the snakes while maintaining a realistic form in the overall shift of the masses.

IDD | plan diagram

Plan Render

plan render | IDD

Section Diagram

IDD | section

Axon Render

axon diagram | IDD

THE BRIDGE.THE PORTAL. (II) Design Studio Spring 2017 | DS 1200 (2GBX) | The Shape of Knowledge Instructor: Elena Manferdini Los Angeles, California | Art District SCI- Arc, until its purchase of the historic Freight Depot building in Downtown Los Angeles in 2011, was an itinerant organization, leasing spaces in Santa Monica and Marina Del Rey. It was founded as a “school without walls” in the figurative sense of being an entirely new and open form of architectural education, but also in the literal sense of inhabiting large warehouse spaces with no formal organization. The school whas since matured as an institution, and it is positioned to not only decide where the walls go, but take active control of its future through real estate development on its own land. “The Bridge.The Portal” applies a two phase process in expanding SCI-Arc. The Bridge, Phase 1, is an expansion to the school itself, in which it creates a new main auditorium and brings administration and public relations offices together. The Portal, Phase 2, is a housing developement for students that also plays as a grand entrance to SCI-Arc to enrich the Campus feel while also blending its height and business into urban fabric of the Art district.

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL.

Massing Evolution

Stage 1 | Perpendeicular

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL. | massing evolution

Stage 2 | Bend

Stage 3 | Hover & Twist

massing evolution | THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL

Phasing | The Bridge

KEY STATS • The existing Freight Depot will house Studios /

Workshops / Classrooms / Seminars + Review • Phase 1 will be the new hub for Entrance /Faculty / Auditoria / Library / Exhibition + Media • The SCIArc Print Store / Shop + Offices + Cafe will be housed in the new Phase 1 building • + Auditorium [+5,500 sq.ft] • + Faculty [+2,500 sq.ft] • + New SCI_Arc Experience Lab [+4,000 sq.ft] • - Library [-3,500 sq.ft] 37

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL. | phase diagram

Type: Area:

2B+G+2 Academic 40,000 sq.ft

Parking: 80 Surface + 190 Underground [270 required / 7 Handicapped Spaces + 1 Van]

Faculty

Auditorium (Keck 2.0)

Workshop (Experience Lab)

Residential Housing

Library

Commercial/ Cafe

Gallery

The Portal | Phasing

Type: Area:

2B+G+4+2 Residential / Commercial G 110,000 sq.ft

Parking: 60 Surface + 430 Underground [490 required / 9 Handicapped Spaces + 2 Van]

phase diagram | THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL

Redistributing Sci_Arc

PH01 CURRENT

KEY STATS • The existing Freight Depot will house Studios /

Workshops / Classrooms / Seminars + Review • Phase 1 will be the new hub for Entrance /Faculty / Auditoria / Library / Exhibition + Media •

will be housed in the new Phase 1 building • + Studios [+11,100 sq.ft] • + Classrooms / Seminars [+11,725 sq.ft] • + Auditorium [+5,500 sq.ft] • + Faculty [+2,500 sq.ft] • + New SCI_Arc Experience Lab [+4,000 sq.ft] • - Library [-3,500 sq.ft] 39

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL. (II) | diagram

Studio Crit Space Classrooms Workshops Commercials/Cafe

Auditorium Library Exhibition Gallery Seminar Faculty

CURRENT Studios Crit Space Classrooms Workshops Retail Auditorium Library Exhibition Seminar Faculty Others Circulation

PHASE 1

83500 %

sq ft

27 2 6 12 2 3 8 3 3 9 5 20

22545 1670 5010 10020 1670 2505 6680 2505 2505 7515 4175 16700

40 2 12 15

33400 1670 10020 12525

UNIT MIX A

UNIT MIX B

5 8

4175 6680

3 15

2505 12525

sq ft

Units

1 BHK (725 sq ft) 70 2 BHK (1050 sq ft) 30

53900 23100

74 22

Studio (400 sq ft) 30 1 BHK (725 sq ft) 50 2 BHK (1050 sq ft) 20

23100 38500 15400

58 53 15

126

40000 %

sq ft

Experience Lab

4000

Retail Auditorium Library Exhibition

9 20 8 15

3600 8000 3200 6000

Faculty Others Circulation

25 3 10

10000 1200 4000

PHASE 2

110000

Apartments Commercial Others Circulation

70 5 7 18

77000 5500 7700 19800

Residential

| THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL (II)

Exploded Axon Diagram

Dorm / Housing Commercial / Cafe

Experience Lab Library Gallery Faculty Keck Hall 2.0

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL. (II) | exploded axon diagram

Experience Lab

Library

Keck Hall 2.0

scenarios | THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL (II)

Ground Level Plan

02 03 01 04

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL. (II) | ground level plan

Upper Level Floor Plan

01 | Library 02 | Experiece Lab 03 | Dorm / Hotel

upper level plan | THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL (II)

Section

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL. (II) | section drawing

section drawing | THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL (II)

Model Images

Aerial Model Image Ground View Model Image

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL. (II) | model images

Plan Render

Gallery Model Image Experience Lab Model Image

model images| THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL (II)

THE BRIDGE.THE PORTAL (I) Design Studio Spring 2017 | DS 1200 (2GBX) | The Shape of Knowledge Instructor: Elena Manferdini Los Angeles, California | Art District SCI- Arc, until its purchase of the historic Freight Depot building in Downtown Los Angeles in 2011, was an itinerant organization, leasing spaces in Santa Monica and Marina Del Rey. It was founded as a “school without walls” in the figurative sense of being an entirely new and open form of architectural education, but also in the literal sense of inhabiting large warehouse spaces with no formal organization. The school whas since matured as an institution, and it is positioned to not only decide where the walls go, but take active control of its future through real estate development on its own land. “The Bridge.The Portal” applies a two phase process in expanding SCI-Arc. The Bridge, Phase 1, is an expansion to the school itself, in which it creates a new main auditorium and brings administration and public relations offices together. The Portal, Phase 2, is a housing developement for students that also plays as a grand entrance to SCI-Arc to enrich the Campus feel while also blending its height and business into urban fabric of the Art district.

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL (I)

diagrams| THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL (I)

THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL. (I) | plans

plans| THE BRIDGE. THE PORTAL (I)

Advanced Structures Advanced Structures Spring 2017| AS 3302 | Instructor: Greg Otto

This course is an introduction to the structural concepts available to imagine and ultimately design long-span, large volume architecture. The desire to create enclosure - space that is protected from external environment - has continued to evolve, pressing for greater span and more imaginative solution. Scale and geometric complexity create significant challenges unique to this sub-set of building typologies. Knowledge of the concepts, their strengths and the associated challenges in both design and construction, will enable the design decision-making process to arrive at appropriate solutions.

ADVANCED STRUCTURES

Project I Hybrid (Stadium) This combination of the AT&T stadium and Arena da Amazonia consists Using a Form active and Surface Active diamond shaped shell that will cover the entire stadium like an enclosed dome. The Form Active is extruded in areas of the surface. The megatruss runs through the center of the stadium to support the tension of the form active shell. The shell is then covered in ETFE sheets, to allow some natural lighting but metigate extreme heat

ADVANCED STRUCTURES | diagram

Axonometric View

axon | ADVANCED STRUCTURES

Structural Axonometric

PTFE Skin

Geometric Shell

Mega Truss

ADVANCED STRUCTURES | exploded diagram

perspective render | ADVANCED STRUCTURES

Roof | Elevation View

ADVANCED STRUCTURES | plan & elevation

plan & elevation | ADVANCED STRUCTURES

Project II Tensil Hybrid (Long Span Structure) In this rendition of a long span structure the tensile structure spans outwards in all four corners that is then connected to a secondary tensil structure up above. This tensile structure is help together with vector support that holds the tensile columns together and are tied together with support tensils that are also used as a shading mechanism. The tensile structure holds the fabric that is the main source of shading that creates this form active surface. The overall composition has pockets that allow for some natural sunlight to strike through the canopy, giving a stripe effect on the ground. T Creating a quadrilaterual corner structure allows for repetition to become a long span structure.

T Tied together

ADVANCED STRUCTURES | diagram

plan | ADVANCED STRUCTURES

Exploded Axon Diagram

Shading Tensile | Tie

Canopy

Structural Tensile Frame

Structural Columns

ADVANCED STRUCTURES | exploded axon

Render Images

Birds Eye View Perspective View

renders | ADVANCED STRUCTURES

SILICON RINGS Design Studio Spring 2015 | ARCH 466 | UIC Instructor: Andrew Moddrell Chicago, Illinois | Goose Island Goose Island is an isolated heavt industry island to the north of downtown Chicago. The island is used as a place of transit, meaning a large portion of people who make it to goose island are merely passing through the island; we want people going to Goose Island. By manipulating the manner in which one circulates through the island, the intent is to transform Goose Island into the Silicon Valley of the Midwest. By adjusting the infrastructure of the island to incorporate two main circulation loops, we drastically alter how the island is perceived and used. Goose Island becomes a new tech hub that revitalizes the near north side neighborhoods and creates a new identity for the island as Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Loop.

SILICON RINGS | diagram

oblique | SILICON RINGS

PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AXON DIAGRAM BY ADDING THREE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES THAT CONNECT GOOSE ISLAND TO THE MAINLAND, THERE IS A TOTAL OF EIGHT ACCESS POINTS ON THE ISLAND THAT ALLOW FOR A CONTINUOUS CIRCULATION IN AND AROUND GOOSE ISLAND.

SILICON RINGS | diagram

VEHICLE ACCESS AXON DIAGRAM IN ORDER TO CONTROL VEHICLE CONGESTION ON GOOSE ISLAND, VEHICLE CIRCULATION IS LIMITED TO THE INNER RING, ALSO LIMITING PARKING PARKING GARAGES ON THE ISLAND.THREE PARKING GARAGES ARE LOCATED JUST OFF THE ISLAND.

diagram | SILICON RINGS

Ring System

With the intent of giving Goose Island a tech hub campus-like atmosphere, the circulation on the island is altered into two separated ring systems, in which pedestrians and vehicles are able to co-exist without being a hazard to one another, while simultaniously allowing easy access on and off the island.

INNER RING (VEHICLE)

SILICON RINGS | diagram

OUTER RING (PEDESTRIAN)

GOOSE ISLAND 2015

EXISTING EXISTING TO DEMO PARKING / PAVEMENT

GOOSE ISLAND 2035

EXISTING BUILDINGS NEW BUILDING OUTER RING SYSTEM INNER RING SYSTEM LANDSCAPE PARKING diagram | SILICON RINGS

SILICON RINGS | outer loop render

inner loop render | SILICON RINGS

Thank You HISTORY THEORY

112