Rolando Lopez Architectural Work Samples 2014

Rolando Lopez

829 Chaplin Ave Lehigh Acres, FL 33971 (239)-223-8449 www.lopez2.com rolandolopez@outlook.com

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Work Samples

Architecture is created through tectonics and experience. Tectonics, on one hand, finds beauty on the inner workings of the pieces, the creation of music through layering, repetition, and construction. On the other, experience enjoys site and place, social conditions, and attempts to create emotions and memories. The following are my explorations in both.

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Landscape House private, isolated, pavilion

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Constructed Plate educational, social, contextual

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Mirage

shelter, refuge, abstract

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Silvarium

framework, sustainable, future

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Courtyard Block Historical, mixed-use, public space in the city

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Web/Print

interface, organize, construct

Landscape House

Class Graduate Studio Critic Stephen Leet

Context West Texas

Program Vacation Home for a couple

Scale 2,500 sf

The Desert House is imagined as a pristine box bound within two planes. The planes relate to the mountainous context through irregular geometries.

These two planes – roof and ground – meet by means of monolithic sculptural columns

Habitation within topography This project calls for the design of a linear home for a swimmer and his wife, an aviator.

The site is remotely located in the outskirts of Marfa, West Texas.

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Constructed Plate

Class Design 6, Spring 2012 Critic Guy Peterson

Context Charleston, South Carolina

Program

Scale

Culinary Institute

30,000 ft2

A culinary institute in Charleston, South Carolina The Constructed Plate is a proposal for a culinary arts institute in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The project is concerned with the link between cooking and architecture, primarily presentation. Just as the food is presented on a plate when given to customers, the building presents itself as a manifestation of the program and experience of the place. t yS Ba

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The design process addresses public space as a means of organizing program. The studied option divides the building into two halves, creating a passageway between the two buildings and a plaza towards Bay Street.

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Lecture Classrooms

Learning by

Example

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Library Administration

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Trash + Receiving

Circulation + Egress

Student Lounge

Lecture

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Classrooms Library

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Administration

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Restaurant

Learning by

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Bake Kitchen and Shop Wine Room Demo Lab

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Teaching Kitchens

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Learning by Example, Learning by Doing The program is separated into two halves that relate to how students learn how to cook: learning by example, and learning by doing. Learning by doing is celebrated by a cylindrical volume that houses the restaurant - the ultimate goal for a cook.

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Wine Room Bake Shop Pastry Kitchen Storage Admissions Office Career Services Faculty Area Director’s Suite Demo Lab Lobby/ Student Lounge

10. Trash Area 11. Receiving 12. Library 13. Restroom 14. Teaching Kitchen 15. Restaurant Kitchen 16. Classroom 17. Restaurant 18. Auditorium

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Concrete Enclosure

Restaurant as Hearth

Steel Diagrid + Circulation

Enclosure System

The restaurant is celebrated as the primary goal for the cook-in-training and the point of contact with the public. A large cylindrical concrete volume is inscribed with a steel diagrid which houses the restaurant. The space surrounding the restaurant becomes the circulation for the building.

Concrete Plates

Steel Structure

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Pre cast concrete decking

Steel girders and joists

Recycled Refrigerator Door Panels

Secondary Tube Bracing

Structural Steel I Beams

Steel shading screen

Point fixed glazing

Steel serves as a common denominator amongst Charleston, Construction, and the program of cooking. The assemblage of the building celebrates steel as the primary building material.

steel + water steel + structure

steel + cooking

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Mirage

Context

Class Design 4, Spring 2011 Critic Wendy Fok

Abstracted Desert

Open Spaces

Program N/A

Scale 80,000 ft2

Closed Spaces

This project consists of a series of spaces which shelter humans from the harsh desert climate. Related to the idea of a mirage, the construct is designed as a place of refuge. The systems put at play create a gradient of enclosure through a forced itinerary through the construct. The visitor starts at large, open atrium spaces and makes the transition into a ramped walkway which takes him to the tectonic volumes.

A wind catcher is placed In order to improve ventilation and temperature within the building.

The wind catcher, a staple of desert sustainable design, uses pressure to cool the building The building is sheltered from the harsh desert environment with a breathable enclosure that allows for ventilation during the day and cooling by night.

A series of tectonic volumes hold the program: a museum for aboriginal art. The volumes are “jewel boxes� that store relics from the past.

The building is circulated through a promenade loop that provides a linear itinerary of the spaces.

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Silvarium

In collaboration with Bryant Nguen, Plub Warnitchai, Ben Vongvanij, Critic Mark McGlothlin

Silvarium proposes a framework that simulates the organic growth of a forest and infuses it with the needs of sustainable vertical living.

The resulting system of towers is by all means an ecosystem capable of sustaining life and sustaining itself.

Silva forest

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Extra Curricular

-arium a place where something grows

Shinjoku, Tokyo

Program Mixed

Scale City

Silvarium threads the urban fabric through a case study in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinjuku Station, one of the busiest rail stops in Japan, is the site of the intervention. We begin by making new ground spanning from the station and growing outwards throughout the rails. Then, a series of towers begin to grow and connect to form a network that cleans the air, produces energy, and redefines the way people interact with buildings in an urban environment.

The constructed forest consists of four key factors: it is self-sustaining, it grows, it changes, and it reproduces.

The tower can sustain itself by collecting and growing all of the supplies it needs. If the tower needs to become taller to accommodate a denser population, then its forests can be harvested for materials.

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The junction of two towers in the sky forms vibrant public centers

The ground is given back to nature by means of a natural forest, from which a platform threads into the towers creating parks and green spaces.

The towers are indeterminate and can are constantly growing to accommodate more program. This is done through the separation of the structural system and the program/floor plates.

traditional carbon flow

contemporary carbon flow

silvarium Silvarium is designed to grow trees through the use of its double skin, and through the constructed ground plane.

These trees clean the air of the city, making a healthier environment.

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Sliced Courtyard

Class Design 7, Fall 2012

Context Rome, Italy

Program Housing + Shopping

Scale 500,000 ft 2

Critic Alfonso Perez-Mendes In collaboration with Jenny Park

Exploring Public Space in a large urban scale The site, located at the banks of the Tiber River in Rome, provides the unique opportunity of intervening/grafting to a historical fabric. The urban form of Rome is understood as a combination of courtyard clusters and sliced pathways, which inform the operations of the intervention.

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11+29+60

Verticality as Privacy

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The programs of the block become more private with the rise in verticality, allowing for privacy for the housing, and a flux of people for the public spaces.

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548,100 f2

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58,000 f2

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157,400 f2

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Number of Attractors 4 (museum, theater, supermarket, department store)

Streets

Intensity of Public Space

58,000 f2

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Housing Density 88 dwellings per acre

43,000 f2 Museum Theater

332,700 f2

15+35+50

Cultural Center 20% 6%

Shopping

Plaza 58,000 f

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Amenities 51,100 f2

Horizontal Housing 116,600 f2

Vertical Housing

114,400 f2 2

165,100 f2 Supermarket Cafe/Restaurant Department Store Retail Stores

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Vertical Housing

20% 11% 7% 35%

Horizontal Housing Amenities

Cultural Center

Shopping

Public Plaza

1. Vertical Housing 2. Horizontal Housing 3. Amenities 4. Shopping 5. Retail Store

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Enclosed (Private) Courtyard

Permeable Courtyard Permeable Courtyard

Enclosed (Private) Courtyard

Implied Courtyard

Open Courtyard

Implied Courtyard

Open Courtyard

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1. Public Plaza 2. Theater 3. Gallery 4. Commercial/ Retail 5. Department Store 6. Entrance to Housing 7. Community Amenities

vertical housing vertical housing

cultural center cultural center

Implied courtyard as public space The courtyard is acourtyard space which defines Roman Block.

Implied as public space The intervention implements a courtyard as the primary courtyard a spacevisitor, whichand defines Roman Block. publicThe space for the is resident, passerby.

After The intervention implements a courtyard as the primary defining several courtyard typologies, the implied courtpublic space for the resident, visitor, and passerby. yard is used in order to create streets and permeability After several courtyard typologies, the implied courtwithindefining the block. yard is used in order to create streets and permeability within the block.

retail store retail store

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vertical housing vertical housing

retail store

horizontal housing

retail store

horizontal housing cafe/restaurants cafe/restaurants

elevation from plaza NW elevation from plaza NW

elevation from plaza SE elevation from plaza SE

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Tectonic Systems

Summer Solstice

The block is conceived through three tectonic enclosure systems which provide varying degrees of transparency.

Winter Solstice

Wood Balcony System

Translucent Diaphragm System Opaque Curtain Wall System

Wood Balcony System

Opaque Curtain Wall System

Translucent Diaphragm System

glazing Primary Structure

Glazing + Mullion

cantilevered concrete slab

Concrete Column

Pre-cast Concrete Panel Steel Mullion 2-layer wood louver Corrugated Glass

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Works Web Design Web Design Works

Print Design

Architrave #20 Role: Editor in Chief Architrave is a student run publication featuring work from the University of Florida design students. The publication is a combination of self-submitted student work, faculty work, and lecture series interviews.

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Contrary to previous isuses, we wanted to stray away from a single arbitrary theme to organize the book. Instead, we opted to see how the student work related to the primary design exercises of the curriculum. In doing so, the publication becomes an The publication has evolved from a pamphlet to a agent for thought and reflection amongst the school. magazine to a yearly catalog of the ongoings of the University of Florida and the field of Architecture. The Architrave launch event featured a series of projections which showcased the book’s orgaXFactor Servers- Game TheServers 20th issue of the publication is a 200 page nization and work. The book is given out free of paperback book, published through funding charge to registered University of Florida students. from Student Government and local sponsors. About 600 copies were distributed in one week.

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