PORTFOLIO Kaye Azucenas
01 CONTRA COSTA COMMUNITY COMMONS Communual Oasis
ARCHI-100A: Fundamentals of Architectural Design Instructor: David Orkand Studio Instructor: Jasmit Rangr Completed: UC Berkeley | Fall 2020
The Contra Costa Community Commons is a public building that serves the local neighborhoods of El Cerrito and Richmond, as well as the greater Contra Costa and Bay areas. The main concept of this project is oasis which is mainly achieved by a central garden at the center of the space to bring the program together through comfort in enclosure.
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02 Analytical Drawing A Precedent Study of La Massana Escola
ARCHI-100B: Fundamentals of Architectural Design Instructor: Keith Plymale Completed: UC Berkeley | Spring 2021
I did a precedent study on La Massana Fine Arts school which is located in Barcelona, Spain. Designed by Carme Pinos, the building is all about the context and historical background of the site, as well as the movement of the people. In the analytical drawing, I emphasize the spatial organization of two interlocking L-shapes around a central atrium.
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03 BIOMORPHIC TOWER Skyscraper in Mission Bay, SF
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The site is located between Oracle Bay and the Chase Center. It is currently a parking lot at a critical pinch point.
The base is constructed up to five floors for the skyscraper to rest on. This is dedicated to the commerical program.
Two towers are extruded for two different purposes: one for residential and one for office use.
The basic forms become organic and morphic in shape for aerodynamics and wind resistance.
The structure is an exoskeleton placed on the exterior of the towers. This reduces the need for interior structure.
Precedent Studies + Urban Diagram
Night Render
ARCHI-221: Architectural Design III Instructor: Daniel Abbott Partner: Ben Pilapil Agora Tower
One Museum Tower
The prevailing idea that is taken from this precedent study is the green features of the building, which are the open-air gardens and balconies.
The exoskeleton serves as a functional and aesthetic purpose. This inspired our design intention to also have an exoskeleton to reduce the need of columns.
Urban Analysis
Sendai Mediatheque
Completed: Diablo Valley College | Spring 2020 The tubes of this building serve as a principle means of support and bracing. This idea introduced voids in our tower.
The scope of this project is to design a sustainable high-rise in Mission Bay, San Francisco that addresses the city’s social, ecological, and urban issues. We aimed to transform Mission Bay to be a more vibrant and dynamic place so that it becomes as much of a tourist place as downtown SF. The skyscraper, its form resembling that of a biological cell, reinvests Mission Bay into a sustainable waterfront that revitalizes human connection to nature. Light and water diffuse through the tower’s pores, allowing residents to experience nature.
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50th NORTH ELEVATION
Sun Studies
EAST ELEVATION
BRIDGE
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ONE OF MANY VOIDS SOUTH ELEVATION
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Concepts taken from Microorganisms RESIDENTIAL FLOOR PLATE
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The voronoi tessellation pattern is used to model biological structures such as cells and detect sources of infections after an outbreak.
Green Space
The exoskeleton of the skyscraper reflects the voronoi tessellation.
Base Plan
OFFICE FLOOR PLATE
The program allows for housing units, commercial space such as exhibition spaces, conference centers, etc. Public retail include food courts and shopping malls. As for the resources program, that includes libraries and community facilities in general. Green spaces include plazas, parks, and places such as Mission Bay’s Spark Social that attracts a bustling environment of people to socialize, eat, etc.
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CORE ORGANIC COURTYARD COMMERCIAL FLOOR
MAIN ENTRANCE
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DVC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + VISUAL ARTS CONCEPT
SPIRATION
DVC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + VISUAL ARTS School Design
CHITECTURE + VISUAL ARTS CONCEPT
ARCHI-220: Architectural Design II Instructor: Anthony Grand Partner: Fernando Soria Completed: Diablo Valley College | Fall 2019
I worked with my partner in designing a school located in Oakland. We took inspiration by The Vessel staircase structure located in New York so we used that as a unifying space between the architecture and visual arts department.
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05 Artist’s Retreat Dedicated to Hokusai
ARCHI-136: Digital Tools for Architects Instructor: Grant Adams Completed: Diablo Valley College | Fall 2019
I designed a 500 square foot artist’s retreat dedicated to the Japanese arist Hokusai. The retreat is in a Japanese architectural style. Based in it’s location in the mountains, it respond to the site conditions (sun, wind, views, etc.) The interior and exterior spaces and reflects the nature of Hokusai as an artist.
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06 Calder Museum Inspired by Alexander Calder
ARCHI-121: Architectural Design I Instructor: Qi Zhu Completed: Diablo Valley College | Spring 2019
This project is a museum designed in a way that mimics Alexander Calder’s deconstructivist art style. The space is used to display his artworks, one of which is a hanging mobile sculpture.
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07 Project Tetra Cal Poly Design Village Competition
ARCHI-110: Design Build Workshop Instructor: Daniel Abbott Team: Nik Chase, Sota Kanzan, Phoebe Lam, Daniel Navarrete & Paloma Maiorano Completed: Diablo Valley College | Spring 2019
My team and I designed & bulit this project to portray the theme of “Synthesis” through the combination of an architectural skin inspired by origami, along with it’s support to the robust wooden structure. We camped in this structure as part of Cal Poly’s Design Village Competition for three days and two nights at Poly Canyon. I had to: figure out the jointry involved in buliding the structural frame through laser cut iterations and models, prepare the full scale Rhino model for CNC routing, and assit in handcutting and assembling the architectural skin.
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Kaye Azucenas kayeazucenas@berkeley.edu