MAURA PEREZ ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
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Bryan Turkish Bath
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Multi-Use Complex
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Coulter Pavilion
Craig Babe Design Studio | Collaboration: Beatriz Ordorica
Brian Gibbs Design Studio | Collaboration: Norma Montoya
Julie Rogers Design Studio | Collaboration: Jonathon Tellez & Mayra Millan
Ahmed Ali Design Studio | Collaboration: Jack Searcy, Catalina Morales, Stephanie Matteson, Rebeca Diaz, and Hwaraa Charara
CAMH The new Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston is over 80,000 square feet and located at the intersection of Montrose Boulevard and Westheimer Road. The massing’s formwork draws from an offset curvature of Montrose and anchors itself back to the straight nature of the site’s adjacent eastward street. At the center of the mass is the underground auditorium. Its arced form actuates additional regulating geometry for the building.
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Programmatic spaces include three galleries as well as a street level gallery, auditorium, multi-purpose room, classrooms, offices, and storage area.
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The adjacent long building for education, offices, and storage is a concrete two-way slab and beam construction while the gallery space has a steel structure.
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A series of composite trusses act as the long spanning steel structure for fifty feet high gallery spaces. The repetition of offset panels on the westward faรงade mitigates the sun exposure while also utilizing natural daylight.
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Bryan Turkish Bath
This bath house serves as a transitional object that connects the lesser developed downtown Bryan and the more developed
downtown Bryan. Three masses of differing program for the bathhouse rest upon the site. Each one differs in elevation: one is at ground level, another is partially submerged, and the last is a subterranean space. The merging of these three forms creates a wrapping scheme of L-shapes most notable in the bird’s eye view.
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Transitioning between the elevations is meant to be experienced as a gradual procession through the use of ramps. Prior to entering the bath spaces, there is a crucial initial decision of choosing a ramp up or down. As one descends or ascends there is a visual reference to the other as a glass curtain wall both divides and connects the two paths. While moving through the space, the reflecting pond allows one to reference where he or she is in relation to the ground level. The pond serves an indexical role of denoting where the third building lies fully submerged. When occupying this underground space, the grid of skylights has light filter through the water again providing reference back to the space’s index.
A single tree is the primary focus of the green space as the occupant proceeds onward to the ramps; connection to this tree is highlighted in views during the procession. In order to address the lack of appeal from an eastward approach to the building, the wall facing the parking garage is shaped to frame the tree. This allows people passing by to have a connection with the tree from an external perspective.
Interior Perspectives
Multi-Use Complex We began with a parti which symbolized the connection of two piazzas on opposite ends of the site. These would act to funnel visitors to the building from the town of Castiglion Fiorentino, IT and the adjacent train station.
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The desired connection of the piazzas was strengthened by the elevated exhibition space. This acts somewhat as a tunnel connection that allows one to exhange views with different aspects of the site.
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The multi-use complex consists of a supermarket of the future, restaurant, classroom, exhibition space, and interactive hydroponics gardens. This
complex is meant to encourage both an educational aspect to the growth of agricultural techniques as well as creating a communal gathering place of all ages.
Coulter Pavilion The Coulter Pavilion was developed on a historic site in downtown Bryan, TX. Resting upon the historical footprint of the original Coulter House, our group decided to create a design that payed tribute to its precedence with conscious awareness to the historic existing buildings on-site. Placement of the Pavilion in the former spot of the Coulter house allowed the alignment to the existing servant’s quarters.
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Consideration of the structure truly helped define this project. The custom multi-member truss system was developed from a half scissor truss. There are alternating member connections of the truss with the columns. Liberation of the roof from the
structure allows sunlight to shine through the conjoined structural components. The raised decking also had a thoughtful quality of remembrance towards the former existence of the Coulter house in that same spot.