P O RT F OL I O J U S T I N CUA Degree: Bachelor of Architecture Education: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Email: just.cua@gmail.com Phone: 951. 756. 5814
TABLE OF C O N TE N TS
1-24 PROJECTS 1
25-32 FABRICATION CARLSBERG INNOVATION CENTER
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Location: Los Angeles, CA Advisor: Doug Jackson Duration: 10 months
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CARLSBERG INNOVATION CENTER Location: Copenhagen, DK Advisor: Michael Cederfield Duration: 7 weeks
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COPENHAGEN CULUTRE HOUSE Location: Copenhagen, DK Advisor: Bo Christiansen Duration: 7 weeks
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[TRANS] VERTEBRAE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING Location: Los Angeles, CA Advisor: Tom Fowler Duration: 10 weeks
J U STIN C UA Degree: Bachelor of Architecture Education: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Email: just.cua@gmail.com Phone: 951. 756. 5814
VELLUM RADIALACTIVE Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Advisor: Doug Jackson Duration: 6 weeks
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THESIS SHOW PROBE Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Advisor: Doug Jackson Duration: 6 weeks
33-36 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 33
37-40 ANALOG INTERNSHIP WE ARCHITECTURE
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Location: Copenhagen, DK Duration: 5 months
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INTERNSHIP LEHRER ARCHITECTS Location: Copenhagen, DK Duration: 3 months
ANALOG PHYSICAL MODELS Type: Deliverables Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Terms: 2nd & 3rd Year
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ANALOG TRAVEL SKETCHES Type: Documentaion Location: Europe, USA Duration: Ongoing
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INT E R LAC ING S PAT I A L B O U NDA R I E S Type: Community Location: Los Angeles, CA Size: 2.2 million sq. ft. Advisor: Doug Jackson Duration: 10 months In a society that leans toward instability and is more focused on temporary events, architecture struggles to relate to culture. Culture was once disseminated from the top-down, but has now shifted to a bottom up system where individuals define cultural experiences. The new individual has shifted from a passive consumer to an active producer of their daily experiences and architecture must also take an active stance in order to remain relevant. Architecture must produce new and emerging experiences for its inhabitants. The site chosen is Los Angeles Historic Park in Downtown Los Angeles. In 2000, 35 community and civic officials prevailed in persuading the state of California to purchase the 32 acre strip of land as a state park. Since then, 13 years later, the park has remained unfinished and vacant, leaving a large void in the heart of Los Angeles. Focused on open and public use, the various programs are organized along side one another, unlike programs sandwiched between unlike programs. Through weaving gestures, program adjacencies are rearranged. The roof undulates up and down to allow access to the elevated park space at multiple levels. This weaving creates a blurred dinstiction between programs and park space.
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Site Plan
South Elevation
North Elevation
Tubes extend into the park space, allowing for impromtu performances that produce new social dynamics. Transparency in the facade allows for continuous visual activity with the various programmed spaces. 2 | Justin Cua | B. Arch
Cinema School
Retail Restaurants
Library
Museum Recreation
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Ground Floor Plan
3rd Floor Plan
Focused Segment
Roof Plan
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The public can come in and make the weaver their own dance practice space. The exposure to the more normative programs alters the experience and interaction.
North Elevation
East - West Long Section
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Panels of the weavers pop out at various times of the day to expose unepected programs, such as an art gallery, dance space or mini movie theater to unlike programs. Mutation Samples
The weavers are a series of mutated interstitial spaces that intersect with unlike program and introduce inhabitable public spaces that directly affect adjacent programs. These tubed spaces are accessible from the elevated landscape strata and provoke user manipulation. With each mutation accompanies various actions that facilitate certain programmatic uses. The actions do not dictate use, but merely suggest it. The use of the action directly affects the programs which the weaver intersects. When the weaver is not in action, the LED skin informs those outside of the intensity of activity within the tube.
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The Bridge Opportunities: Bridged Program Spaces Weaver Access
The Meeting Spot Opportunities: Studying Area Picnic Table Street Vendors
The Exposure Opportunities: Alt. Weaver Entrance Shading
The Stage Opportunities: Fashion Show Concert Street Performers
The Panels Opportunities: Gallery Art Wall Reading Space
The Screen Opportunities: Guerilla Film Projection Billboard
Track Detail
Hydraulic Piston Detail
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C A R LS B E RG I NNOVAT I O N CE NT E R Type: Community Location: Copenhagen, DK Size: 10,000 sq. ft. Advisor: Michael Cederfield Duration: 7 weeks The proposed Carlsberg Innovation Center is meant to serve as a catalyst that rejuvenates the vacant Carlsberg factory by reusing it as a space for the public from its old industrial use. The existing building is a vacant storage warehouse characterized by its barrel vaults and blrick facade. Its placement on the site makes the building a barrier between the residential areas behind it and the factory in front of it. Removing the ground floor and reusing the brick in other areas frees up the ground level for a fluid connection with the program and the site. At the second level, the facade of the barrel vaults are replaced by spider glazing so that they become viewing portals into the “think tank� rooms and exhibition. A new form is added to the top of the building, which is devoted supplying the amenities to workshops and offices. In further attempts rejuvenate the site, the design of the new landscape extends to the other areas of the factory, making the Innovation Center a facilitator of a larger social experience.
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Site Plan
Ground Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Open ground space creates a fluid relationship with the landscape and the public.
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South Elevation
The forms of the landscape extend into the ground level and accomodate functions for the cafe and the auditorium. During the warmer summer months in Copenhagen, the glass facade can be retracted, and the recessed landscape becomes a larger outdoor cafe or auditorium space.
North Elevation
E-W Section
Light quality within the exhibition level emphasizes think tank spaces and atrium connectivity.
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C O P E NH AG E N CU LT U R E HO U S E Type: Community Location: Copenhagen, DK Size: 15,000 sq. ft. Advisor: Bo Christiansen Duration 7 weeks The Copenhagen Culture House intends on bringing new life and activity to the community of Fredrickberg with its integration of the metro and walkable roof space. Currently, the area of Fredricksberg is considered an isolated part of Copenhagen that lacks activity. The project is conceptualized as a node where ideals, activity, transportation, and culture come together and diversify Fredricksberg. As a part of the porgram, the culture center includes a theaterm, exhibition space, dining/cafe area, media space, and a library. The form of the volume at the ground level is designed to funnel the traffic, creating unhindered circulation for those either interested in the metro or the culture center. WIth the ground level occupied by busy circulation, the roof gently slopes down to the plaza, becoming a walkable roof plaza and offering more opportunity for public space on the site.
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Site Plan
West Elevation
North Elevation
Ligh quality within the exhibition level emphasizes think tank spaces and atrium connectivity.
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Underground Plan Metro Entrance Theater Media
First Floor Plan Cafe Foyer Offices
Second Floor Plan Exhibition Outdoor Deck
Third Floor Plan Library
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[ T R A N S ] V E RT E B R A E T R A NS I T I O NA L HO U S I NG Type: Housing Location: Los Angeles, CA Size: 100,000 sq. ft. Partner: Olivia Calalo Advisor: Tom Fowler Duration: 10 weeks [Trans]Vertebrae is a transitional housing complex that emphasizes a full bleed transition between social spaces and program spaces. Fourteen slices of program and circulation are hung off a truss system that acts like a spine, running longitudally to the site. The spine raises up in response to the context and gestures to Downtown Los Angeles. Shifting volumes within the truss undulate in response to social and climatic needs. Each of the fourteen program blocks is structurally independent and then suspended by the primary truss system. The main truss system creates the stability needed for the projects form and large cantilever. The program sequence starts from public and ends in private, focusing on the idea that transition begins with how one deals with others to how one deals with oneself. The space under and around the building is public landscape that engages the nearby public and provides a more lively atmosphere for the community.These modules act as the vertebrae of the spine, becoming the integral spaces for both planned and happenstance interactions that promote a healthy and social atmosphere.
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Steel Tube Cladding
Secondary and Tertiary Steel Framing
Primary Truss System
Project on Site
General Use Dining
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Support Recreation Classrooms
Housing Chapel
Vertical Circulation
Overall
HOUSING UNIT HOUSING UNIT
Exploded Housing Unit
Modules dedicated for circulation creates interaction with those traversing through programs.
ADA Circulation
Egress Circulation
Overall Circulation
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Steel Tubes Low E Glass
Spider Connections Skin Framing
Secondary Framing
The cladding consists of steel tubes of varying diameter and patterning, This creates the opportunity for selective sun shading, catered specifically to each different space. The tubes have a greater diameter and quantity to provide more substantial shading and protecting from heat gain. The skin also acts as a sound barrier to the activites of the adjacent 110 freeway.
Steel Tube Connection
Spider Glazing
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Longitudinal atrium maximizes social space for the tenants.
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V E LLU M R A D I A L ACT I V E Type: Furniture Design Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Materials: MDF & Steel Advisor: Doug Jackson Radialactive is an exploration of muti-functional and continually engaging furniture. The projects is composed of two profiles design to accomodate different body positions that move radially about a hinge to create various seating positions. Through intersecting the expanding the profiles, one can begin to explore the various possibilities of use, a far more engaging experience than the everday chair. The main materials used are MDF and steel. The profiles were cut out using a CNC and then crafted by hand. The colors were chosen to promote a sense of playfulness, creating interesting geometries and spaces when manipulated. This project was submitted and showcased in the annual Vellum Furniture Show in San Luis Obispo, CA.
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Profile A
1/2” Steel Rod
1.5” Threaded Pipe
Profile B
1/8” Rubber Washer Compression Handle
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Stool
Reclined
Shared
Laid Back
Upright
Lounge
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T H E S IS S H OW P RO B E Type: Thesis Presentation Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Materials: iPad, Kinect Sensor, MDF, Plywood Advisor: Doug Jackson Probe was an exploration of layering digital and physical information through the use of sensors and iPad technologies. Wood panels and ceiling structure was fabricated to act as the platform for displaying our completed digital work. In order to view the digital work, a visitor could touch the panel and their motion would be picked up by a Kinect sensor. The user is physically involved with the digital work. iPads attached to the panels by gooseneck, which used an installed Aurasma application to visually layer more content upon recognition of a trigger image. The entire thesis show was coneptualized and built within the span of two months. All components of the show were designed and fabricated by the studio.
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Ceiling Structure w/ Projector Holder
2 Sided Projection Unit
ID Trigger
Gooseneck Attachments 3’x4’ Model Base
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INT E R N S H IP WE A RCHI T E CT URE Position: Architectural Intern Location: Copenhagen, DK Duration: 5 months
I interned at WE Architecture in Copenhagen for 5 months during the school year, where I was a part of two competition projects and one residential rennovation. For the Oasen Cancer Center competition, I was a part of the design team, focusing on Rhino 3d modeling, facade studies, schematic design, and making the final model for the submittal. Due to the desire for the firm to handle multiple competitions and projects simultaneously, the office was very high instensity. My experience was invaluable at this small office with international ambitions.
Render by Luxigon
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Submittal model for the “Suburbs of the Future” competition.
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INT E R N S H IP L E HR E R A RCHI TECT S Position: Architectural Intern Location: Los Angeles, CA Duration: 3 months
Lehrer Architects is a medium sized firm that specializes in community and residential work. I benefited the office by creating a new style of presentation drawings for the website and clients. My experience at this firm ranged from presentation drawings, to construction documents, to plan checking appointments. Through this internship, I was able to experience the process of getting a design built within the city of Los Angeles and interacting with the various consultants that support the construction.
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RNLA Elevations
Spring Street Park Axonometric
Potrero Heights Presentation Drawings
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A N A LO G P HYS I CA L M O D EL S Type: Deliverables Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Terms: 2nd & 3rd Year
This is a small collection some physical modeling I have done over my time at Cal Poly. Various materials, such as mylar and aluminum flashing, were explored to represent different skin types. These models ranged in scale and detail; from an overall representation with the site to a detail cladding model.
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A N A LO G T R AV E L S K E TCH ES Type: Documentation Location: Europe, USA Duration: Ongoing
Sketching and analyzing became an integral part of my study aborad experience in Europe. Every new building I visited presented the opportunity to practice my sketching abilities, while studying different spaces and built architecture, which greatly advanced my understanding of architecture. Over my year in Copenhagen, I travelled to 14 new and different countries, visiting famous buildings and engaging in various cultural practices. Learning outside the classroom through traveling is an invaluable oppotunity that helped me grow intellectually and as a designer. Visually documenting my experiences is an ongoing and important aspect of my lifestyle.
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J USTIN C UA thank you Degree: Bachelor of Architecture Education: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Email: just.cua@gmail.com Phone: 951. 756. 5814