Luz Flores Maciel Spring 2024 Portfolio

Luz Flores - Maciel

Spring 2024 Portfolio

ABOUT ME

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LUZ VIVIANA FLORES - MACIEL

(515)710 - 5926

luzflomac@gmail.com

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE

EDUCATION

| August 2021 -Present Iowa State University

-Deans list (3.5 or above gpa)

-Minor in Urban Planning

AFFILIATIONS

-Science Bound Scholar

-Lois Dale Bright Scholar

-National CMiC recipient

-ACE (Architecture Construction Engineering) mentor Program Alumni

PARTICIPATION

Adventures in Architecture 2021-2023

-Leadership position along high school teacher and professional Architects

-Empower Middle schoolers into a career in Architecture

-Ensuring learning and safety in a fun environment

-Insight of being an Architect and mentor

Girls for Construction Camp 2021-2023

-Understand the process of trades and construction to be a better Architect and planner

-Breaking stigmas of women in the trades and STEM fields

-Wise use of summertime

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer | Summertime

-Give back to my community

-Expands construction knowledge and skills

-Investment on my career goals

Science Bound | 2016-Present

-Recipient of scholarship, now mentor for scholars beginning their journey.

-Full circle moment of investing in the community that has invested in me.

-Public speaking, networking skills.

SKIILS

-Knowledge in professionally used softwares such as, but not limited to

Illustrator

Photoshop AutoCAD

Rhino Grasshopper Revit

WORK EXPERIENCE

Global Voices Jan 2021 - Present

Translation Services offered in Health care

-Ensuring a comfortable place for patients, while breaking language barriers

-Contrast in skills Compared to Architecture

Constructed Detail

55 Doorhandles

Understanding Architecture means understanding the detail within it. This project dives deeper into that mentality through seeing doorhandles as the first handshake with the building.

Through sketching the same doorhandle 55 different times a bond with the materiality and detail is created. To then, be able to create a physical replica of the door handle you’ve been seeing is understanding detail even further.

55 Door handles

Materiality

Iterations

Creating door handles, by taking inspiration from precedent artists while adding my personal creativity allowed me to refine my tool-handling skills.

The final doorhandle made, took all the efficient aspects of the previous iterations, and evolved around being a whimsical approach.

First Model

Second Iteration

Third Iteration

Final Views

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Hues of Joy Screen Project

This project began with various iterative paper models to understand materiality further. Patterns and shapes were formed that allowed for more creative doors to open. From color theory and manipulation of paper, these models captured the parti of a final product that focuses on the way color, and light can create a spatial exeprience if it were to be created at a large scale.

The purpose of my screen is to create a special place for people to gather and appreciate the detail within the detail that creates the overall experience.

Screen Model

Geometries

To take it a step further, these geometries were created to showcase the part of a whole. When multiple of these are put together, they work to enhance a continuous theme of light and color.

Made with laser cutting technology, connected with small metal wires attached to fishing swivels, these are able to rotate with the wind.

Life and Death

Ritual Project

Taking walks with my family is one of my favorite things to do. It calms me and helps me reflect on my emotions and thoughts about the recent and upcoming days. During these walks I always go back to thinking about how blessed I am to be alive, and how we never know when our time on this earth will end. Although this is a very harsh and sensitive topic to talk about, it is inspired by my culture’s celebration of Dia de Los Muertos. Through this celebration I’ve learned to have a better relationship and understanding of death. It is a reminder that some day we will also be part of the altar, and knowing this, is a motivator to make good use of the time you are alive. I see life as a ritual and part of it is death also. My architectural intervention to this ritual is a place for people to also take walks along the bridge and reflect about this topic, so that at the end when they reach the colors, it is a celebration of life.

A celebration is full of color and light, thus my focus is to implement these design aspects onto my project

North East

South

West

Heritage Mosaic

301 Semester Project

Kansas City is a place full of a vibrant community. Specifically the City market neighborhood which hosts their year long farmers market. A couple blocks away, there’s deterioration. This project is an architectural intervention that will revitalize this forgotten area. Through a canopy space in which people can go and enjoy the outdoors, while fostering community.

Non Traditional Render

In this image, people are seen as happy and kids are having fun running in the park. All under the canopy that offers shading and an unique exeprience through its geometries.

Through this collage-style rendering, you are able to have a better understanding of what it’s like to experience the place.

Hansen Exchange Design Competition nominated

Model Photographs

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