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Juan H. Cรกrdenas Jr.
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SCI Arc (Academia) Balanced Endeavor | Design Studio IV
DS 5000 | Spring 2018 | Instructor: Michael Rotondi
Habitat. | Design Studio III
DS 4000 | Fall 2017 | Instructor: Willy Muller
The Bridge. The Portal. | Design Studio II DS 1200 | Spring 2017 | Instructor: Elena Manferdini
RĂŠplica | Design Studio I
DS 1200| Fall 2016 | Instructor: Marcelyn Gow
Design Development
AS 3222 | Fall 2017 | Instructor: Herwig Baumgartner & Brian Zamora
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Statement Juan is currently finishing his thesis as an M.Arch _ II student at SCI Arc. He has over 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. 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.
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Balanced Endeavor Design Studio Spring 2018 | DS 4000 (3GAX) | Free Agency Instructor: Michael Rotondi Los Angeles, California | DTLA Balanced Endeavor is a work incubator designed around the formal idea of “free agent nation� board game, inspired by the book, Free Agent Nation, by Daniel H. Pink. The modern person of society today is an urban modern-day nomad. People have more active and more independent than ever in what is considered a form of income. This Incubator will allow you to work & take care of other errands or interest throughout your day without having to leave. According to Free Agent Nation, a person a more productive on a daily basis when they have a balanced mental agenda. Meaning, that a person should have 4 key things; work, play, heal & learn. Feeling a sense of success in play, heal in learn will eventually allow a person to remain focused and strive more on work. This Free Agent Incubator i specifically designed to have all 4 major components to be scattered in pockets throughout the building in order for a person to reach all four sources within reach of each other. Since a person is within reach of other key components, once they decide to move to a completely different area of the building they would have a diverse set of the 4 components. In controlling the pocket flow, a person can completely switch the type of work, play, heal, and learn areas and feel as if they are in a completely different workspace/ office.
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Habitat. Design Studio Fall 2017 | DS 4000 (3GAX) | From Periphery to Centripheries Instructor: Willy Muller Team: Juan H. Cárdenas Jr. & Ashley Hastings Los Angeles, California | Dodger Stadium “If Los Angeles is one of the worlds leading cities in architecte, it is because it is an ecology that emphathizes with the architecture, and it is up to the architects of the world to find out the reason.” -Reyner Banham, Los Angeles, The Architecture of the 4 ecologies
We are facing limit situations of obsolescence and change of paradigms, where the classical models of success will not be useful enough. These circumstances are placing in the centre of the contemporaneous urban debate a new conceptual space that we are defining as Urban Extreme or X-Urban. The target is to define which are those conditions of extremity that affect us as an habitat, understanding it as the combination of all those activities and infrastructures that societies are developing over a certain geography. X-Urban is presented as well as a pro positive methodology, in which once detected and analyzed the most relevant extreme cases, a series of strategies are proposed in order to treat them. In this sense, this methodology is based on the theoretical notion of paradigm, as was formulated by the science philosopher Thomas Kuhn: “scientific realizations universally recognized that, during a certain amount of time provide models of problems and solutions in a scientific community”. Therefore, a paradigm shift would occur when too many anomalies are accumulated in the current paradigm, which leads to its collapse and the creation of a new one. problematics. Some of these anomalies would be the urban agglomerations in relations to the programmed collapses, the infrastructures planning and the climatic change, the shift from a ratios logic to the real time data logics in an informational society, the relation between Hyper-Regions and Slow Cities, among others, that requires a different analytic effort, a more open and transdisciplinar focus as the urban sciences. X-Urban is constituted itself as a paradigm, an anomaly caused by atrophy, deformity, obsolescence or catarsis that we urgently need to study. However, it is important to create analytical bases required in order to compare, prioritize and ultimately detect the resiience of our adaptation through the biggest invention of humanity: the city.
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This transit hub also allows you to experience Los Angeles from above ground to the underground. It’s circulation gives many variables to allow the user to take alternative routes
By moving Union Station to Dodger Stadium, There is an opportunity to better connect the city of Los Angeles and mitigate the use of motor vehicles. In tandem, with the use of less automotive vehicles, the parking lot of Dodger Stadium could be cut by a fraction to better utilize the land.
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The Bridge. The Portal. 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.
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Auditorium (Keck 2.0)
Workshop (Experience Lab)
Residential Housing
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Type: 2B + G + 2 Academic Area: 40,000 sq ft Parking: 80 Surface + 190 Underground (270 Required / 7 Handicapped Spaces + 1 Van)
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Commercial / Cafe
Experience Lab Library Gallery Faculty Type: 2B + G + 4 + 2 Residential / Commercial G Area: 110,000 sq ft Parking: 60 Surface + 430 Underground (490 Required / 9 Handicapped Spaces + 2 Van) - The existing Freight Depot will house Studios / Workshops / Classrooms / Seminars + Review - Phase 1 will be the new hub for Entrance / Faculty / Auditoriam / Library / Exhibition + Media - The SCI Arc 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)
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Réplica 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.
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Diagram Programmatic Space Shared Space Public Space Private / Rentable Space Administration Circulation
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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 chunk diagram
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Design Development DD Seminar Fall 2017 | AS 3222 (3GAX) | Instructors: Herwig Baumgartner & Brian Zamora Team: Juan H. Cรกrdenas Jr., David Lin, Fiona Ng, Eugenio Superchi, Keenan Shepard Los Angeles, California | Sci - Arc Campus Our approach to design development is not only a technical advancement of the project but will also be a disciplinary one, where we challenge representation and search for relevancy in an era where documentation of design and manufacturing are in flux and are increasingly based on three-dimensional live data. While BIM is an important development in this regard, our aim is to re-think how we can envision and communicate design in innovative ways which exceed the design object itself We will re-consider drawing and the representation of the building components as one, where things can be hacked apart, peeled away, cutaway, sliced, and exploded. Cuts will no longer be flat as in conventional plans and sections, but will be warped and active. We will attempt to combine multiple ontologies into the discussion, where things may be represented in terms of their profile, silhouette, internal organization, energy, action on other things, depletion, integration, and dis-integration all at the same time.
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