MARIA ULLOA Work Sample
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MID SPACES Voids located in spaces between buildings
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PRIVATE VEGETATIVE PRIVATE VISUAL PUBLIC BACKYARD WRAPPING TERRACES CONNECTION PARKING
SOMA’S MID-SPACE ANALYSIS Live/Grow Spring 2017 Iñaqui Carnicero
RESEARCH/ANALYSIS
Programs Used: Rhino, Illustrator, ArcMap
Through an urban analysis of San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood, a wide range of mid-spaces, or voids located between buildings, were found. Multiple uses varying from private to public conditions were discovered. Although some of these programs are considerably unsuccessful, due to lack of space, light, and accessibility, their qualities informed how a mixed-use building could provide more inviting, open, and dynamic green spaces for residents and the community.
WHO WILL BE AFFECTED? OAKLAND 35.7% AF. AMERICAN
SAN FRANCISCO 49.7% WHITE
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-HIGHER INCOME WHITE INDIVIDUALS
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-LOWER INCOME WHITE AND ASIAN NON-FAMILIES
-LOWER INCOME BLACK FAMILIES
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EAST PALO ALTO 34.7% HISPANIC
Incremental Change for East Palo Alto Fall 2017 Janette Kim
When facing the effects of sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay area, understanding the complex demographic conditions of its communities is critical. By looking at the per capita income and racial demographics in San Francisco, Oakland, and East Palo Alto, differences in vulnerabilities amongst these communities are made clear. This research hints the need for small-scale strategies to be implemented locally in order to truly help the Bay Area as a whole.
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THREATENED ECOLOGY Ecological Research Spring 2018 Neeraj Bhatia
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As initial research prior to redesigning the urban fabric of Oakland’s bayfront, changes in the San Francisco Bay’s ecology and their potential threats were illustrated. From a historical buffer to an urbanized edge, human interventions along the bay created our current conditions. Two of the most prominent ecological threats remain to be sea level rise and groundwater flooding. Furthermore, noting management strategies that exist on other sites can help to understand how we can design for resilience.
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STRATEGIC CARVING Architectural Analysis Spring 2017 Kristen Sidell
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60 Richmond East Housing Co-operative functions as a mixed-use building whose mass is a result of strategic carving. This was done to create voids and terraces of various levels. The form allows for light to be drawn into the interior of the building making the outdoor green spaces lively. These green spaces are part of a unique ecosystem that exists in the building; Hospitality-working residents grow produce, which is then used in the communal and commercial kitchens of the lower floors.
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Maria Ulloa | mulloa@cca.edu | 646.351.7606
RESILIENT COMMUNITIES Incremental Change for East Palo Alto Fall 2017 Janette Kim
CAD/DRAFTING
Programs Used: AutoCAD, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
Long-term resilience planning can only be effective if it takes immediate, short-term concerns into account. This project builds affordable, flood-proof housing in East Palo Alto through an incremental, patchwork strategy. Floating buildings among ponds that express a high water table are built amidst existing churches, schools and homes. This section depicts sustained and native low income families living alongside others of different communities, i.e tech workers.
ADAPTABLE FACADES Hotel Extended Fall 2016 Jason Anderson & Peter Anderson
Located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, Hotel Extended’s layered community parks required innovative measures in order to funtion yearly. This section detail illustrates an inflatable facade that, through engineered tracks and air pumped polyethylene pockets, brings life to these parks during the harsh winters of the city.
ROTATING VIEWS
Hotel Extended Fall 2016 Jason Anderson & Peter Anderson STORAGE
In order to optimize views for guests and visitors, Hotel Extended expresses a strong orientation towards the Southeast. While the lower floors lay in line with the urban fabric of the site, the higher the level the greater the rotation. The hotel begins by lining up with the city’s grid for a smalled scaled connection to the site. At its highest point, it ends by lining up with the city’s water line, creating larger scaled connections.
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Live/Grow Spring 2017 Iñaqui Carnicero
This housing projects overlays a lack of affordable housing with a lack of functional green spaces in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco to provide a unifying solution. While providing affordable living for low-income hospitality workers, Live/ Grow provides shared green spaces that can be used for recreation, agriculture, and interactive circulation.
Maria Ulloa | mulloa@cca.edu | 646.351.7606
A COMMUNITY SUSTAINED Live/Grow Spring 2017 Iñaqui Carnicero
RENDERING
Programs Used: Rhino, Photoshop, V-Ray, Maxwell
This housing projects serves to benefit the members of its community as well as those of the surrounding site. While outdoor, shared, green spaces provide residents with the resources needed for a healthy lifestyle, ground-floor programs ensure the same for all others. An indoor farm provides produce for the building’s restaurant and farmer’s market, and simultaneously sources the surrounding restaurants and cafes in an effort to reduce food transport.
FROM LINE TO LAYERS Hotel Extended Fall 2016 Jason Anderson & Peter Anderson
Hotel Extended takes advantage of the existing infrastructure that is the High Line, physically extending it onto the hotel. This extension is done through two distinct conditions: pedestrian traffic through green space and communal park spaces. Private green spaces are placed on each floor to create interactions between guests on the same floor, and between floors themselves.
WELCOMED NEIGHBORHOOD Hotel Extended Fall 2016 Jason Anderson & Peter Anderson
Connecting to the existing culture of the neighborhood is as crucial as connecting to existing infrastructure. A plaza that connects to the street level consists of restaurants, cafes, and art galleries, conditions that are commonly found throughout the site. These implemented conditions ensure community engagement, regardless if one is a hotel guest or not.
LANDSCAPES EXTENDED Concrete Views Spring 2016 Clark Thenhaus
A sloping landscape along with a rocky and windswept shoreline allows for a dramatic exploration of terraced and cantilevered forms. Embracing the landscape of Lands End in San Francisco, Concrete Views connects its programs of private research, gathering green space, and exhibition with the existing circulatory patterns taken by visitors.
Maria Ulloa | mulloa@cca.edu | 646.351.7606
ALL HANDS ON DECK
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Incremental Change for East Palo Alto Fall 2017 Janette Kim
ILLUSTRATION
Programs Used: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
This illustrated narrative gives perspective to how the initial steps of Incremental Change in East Palo Alto could work on a community scale. New developments and existing residents co-exist in a way that avoids displacement. Residents and volunteers help one another relocate families within proximity. Through community engagement, no one is left behind and everyone can get relocated into flood-proof housing, reducing vulnerability to ecological threats.
JUST KEEP SWIMMING Incremental Change for East Palo Alto Fall 2017 Janette Kim
This illustrated narrative gives perspective to how building incrementally can result in negative circumstances if the process decelerates. On one community block, residents have been successfully relocated to newly developed, flood-proof housing. Their former structures have been retrofitted and repurposed to serve the needs of the community. Across the street however, numerous families weren’t helped in time, and they suffer from the effects of sea level rise.
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DEVELOPED VS. AVAILABLE
EAST PALO ALTO: PHASE 1
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Phase 1 requires an analysis of the land conditions of East Palo Alto. University and Clarke Avenue are two prominent main roads that connect residents to the outer edges of the city, and similarly connect outside cities to East Palo Alto. Secondary roads that branch off of Clarke result in dead ends near the water’s edge. Although dense, most buildings in East Palo Alto are only single-story. There is a significant amount of open, vacant land in the city. A large portion of that vacant space lies adjacent to the water’s edge, while remaining lots lay more inland. A majority of the East side, from Clarke Avenue and over, is in most immediate flooding danger from sea level rise, water table rise, and creek overflow.
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In order to create a strategic plan for resilience, existing urban conditions need to be analyzed to highlight zones for potential development. By noting vacant areas in East Palo Alto, we are able to strategize development that can provide a solution for the needs of the community, while ensuring that no one is displaced. Through this strategy, a continuous cycle begins: Vacant land is developed, formerly used land is made available, and new development can continue.
LANDSCAPES EXTENDED Hotel Extended Fall 2016 Jason Anderson & Peter Anderson
Hotel extended provides a plaza that connects to the street level. This plaza consists of restaurants, cafes, and art galleries, conditions that are commonly found throughout the site. These implemented conditions ensure community engagement, regardless if one is a hotel guest or not.
Maria Ulloa | mulloa@cca.edu | 646.351.7606
TERRACED SPACES Live/Grow Spring 2017 Iñaqui Carnicero
FABRICATION
Methods Used: Hand Modeling, Lasercutting, 3-D Printing
Live/Grow’s form was developed through inspiration from the dramatic landscape of San Francisco’s hills. Mimicking dense housing situated on undulating slopes, the building’s terraces express the circulation of its residents. Sliced into three bands of apartments and directed towards the south, optimal lighting is absorbed to ensure the life of the building’s green spaces.
FROM MASS TO VISION Hotel Extended Fall 2016 Jason Anderson & Peter Anderson
Hotel Extended began with a form that expressed a minimal footprint for quick access from the street level. In addition to maximizing views, the hotel’s “L” form serves to ensure building functionality in the case of surrounding buildings adding stories to their structure. The building’s rotated form was thoroughly explored through the aid of 3D-Printing technologies.
DIRECTED VIEWS Concrete Views Spring 2016 Clark Thenhaus
Concrete Views’ form can be understood through four categories: circulation, observation, growth, and exhibition. A large vertical bar houses the buildings’ circulation through a series of ramps that begin and end in line with existing trails. The top level houses private research through the observation of plants growing in the open nursery. Completely roof-less, the second level absorbs the site’s climate ensuring the native flora’s growth. In the ground below exists an exhibition recognizing the site’s historical context.
DETAILED CONSIDERATIONS Cantilevered Library Fall 2015 Mark Donahue & Thomas Ryan
Cantilevered Library is a public library designed for the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Focusing around aspects of natural lighting and pedestrian traffic, this model expresses the library’s cantilevered entrance and guiding bookshelves. Not only does this form draw visitors in from the adjacent park, but it also allows for a continuation of the open gathering space to occur. Inspiration was drawn from Sou Fujimoto’s Musashino Art University Library.
Maria Ulloa | mulloa@cca.edu | 646.351.7606
THANK YOU mulloa@cca.edu