MAURICIOVIETO CORNELL UNIVERSITY www.mauriciovieto.com
MAURICIO VIETO is a fifth-year student at Cornell University pursuing a professional degree in Architecture with a concentration in theory and discourse, with a particular interest in cross-disciplinary design practice. Originally born and raised in San JosÊ, Costa Rica, Mauricio has studied, worked, and conducted research in various international contexts including USA, Mexico, India, Italy and Switzerland. Mauricio’s thesis research addresses the latent infrastructure of a European pilgrimage route, focusing on the choreography of the body in relation to architecture, materiality, and landscape.
CAMPUS FIREHOUSE
HELVETIAN DORMS
HORTUS CONCLUSUS
KUNSTHAL FOR VIDEO ART
BRIDGING DENSITIES
MUSEUM OF JADE
BAYOU CHAPEL
STRUCTURAL MODEL
MASTERPLAN RESEARCH
Ithaca, NY Prof. Jerry Wells Fall 2010
Buffalo, NY Prof. Arch Mackenzie Fall 2009
Bayou de View, AR Prof. Marlon Blackwell + George Hascup Fall 2012
Berne, Switzerland Prof. Arthur Ovaska + Marilí Santos Spring 2012
Kelso, Scotland Prof. Mark Morris Spring 2010
CICB Pavilion, Shigeru Ban Prof. Brett Schneider Spring 2011
Rome, Italy Prof. Mark Morris + Marina Kavalirek Fall 2011
San José, Costa Rica Independent Competition Winter 2012
Village of Diggi, Rajasthan, India Independent Study in Urban Planning Prof. Jeffrey Chusid Spring 2010
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Conceptual Rendering “The Library of Babel” ARCH 3102 Prof. Jim Williamson Spring 2011
MAURICIO VIETO mv275@cornell.edu http://www.mauriciovieto.com ACADEMIC ADDRESS 207 Fall Creek Dr. Apartment No. 3 Ithaca, NY 14850 Ph. +(607) 280-4124
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EDUCATION CORNELL UNIVERSITY College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Ithaca, New York, USA Bachelor of Architecture (B.ARCH) Expected Graduation: May 2013 - Cumulative GPA: 3.74 / 4.00 (Dean’s List) - Concentration in Architecture Theory - Switzerland traveling studio, Spring 2012 - Cornell in Rome Study Abroad Program, Fall 2011 USGBC LEED Green Associate | August 2012
RELEVANT SKILLS PROFESSIONAL: Architecture, Graphic Design, Design Research, Real Estate, Data Visualization, Environmental Analysis, 3D Rendering. LANGUAGES: - Spanish + English: Native command. - French: Professional proficiency. - Italian + German: Limited verbal fluency. - Mandarin Chinese: Elementary proficiency. 2D + 3D SOFTWARE: AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino 3D, V-Ray rendering, Google Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects CS6. ANALYSIS: Autodesk Ecotect + Weather Tool, Radiance Photometric Analysis, Working knowledge of ArcGIS and Global Mapper tools. PROTOTYPING: Trained in woodworking, metalworking, casting, and digital fabrication (laser-cutter, CNC Mill, and 3D Printer).
WORK EXPERIENCE
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GENSLER Design and Research Intern, Chicago, IL, USA | May - August 2012 Developed a cross-disciplinary framework to assess the strengths, weaknesses, and potentials of urban space in its various cultural and economic contexts. Designed and implemented value surveys, and used them to harness public opinion from designers in over fifteen locations worldwide. Refined this information into a framework for site analysis, focusing on issues of program, cultural specificity, and potential for user-centered design approaches. Collaborated with marketing and graphic design teams in streamlining the visual identity of this framework into a data visualization application, an infographic video, and a concept for an interactive web platform. ROJKIND ARQUITECTOS Architectural Design Intern, Mexico City, Mexico | June - July 2010 Produced schematic design proposals and façade studies for a major retail department store in Mexico City, a mixed-use project in Monterrey, and an urban master plan in Querétaro (in conjunction with Office for Urbanism in Toronto, Canada). Produced conceptual sketch models and digital renderings. Assisted with 3D modelling for a competition entry for the new National Archive in Mexico City, working in collaboration with the London-based practice Kokkugia. BRUNO STAGNO ARCHITECTS AND ASSOCIATES Architectural Design Intern, San José, Costa Rica | June - August 2009 Collaborated with a team of international interns on a proposal for an urban landscaping pilot program in San José, Costa Rica. Prepared graphic material, presentation boards, digital renderings, and physical models presented personally to the City Mayor.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE Undergraduate Research Assistant, Prof. Medina Lasansky Ithaca, NY, USA | August 2009 - May 2012 Gathered, verified, and analyzed historical sources, rare books, and manuscripts for upcoming publications. Digitized slide collections for new lecture material, compiled course documents for undergraduate and graduate-level seminars, administrated blackboard websites, and organized online content for new courses in Ithaca, NY and Rome, Italy.
LEADERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES CORNELL UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN | September 2012 - Present New York City Tech Campus LEED-ND Team, Roosevelt Island Researching neighborhood planning strategies for Cornell’s NYC Tech Campus project in Roosevelt Island, while assessing the feasibility of obtaining LEED-ND Silver certification under the forthcoming guidelines of LEED v.4. Prepared a feasibility report with design recommendations for the design architects, project consultants, and University officials. ASSOCIATION, Cornell AAP Student Publication | December 2011 - Present Managing Editor-in-Chief of Volume 5, recipient of the Cornell Council for the Arts Grant. Coordinating a team of editors, managing fundraising, compiling and curating projects from students in architecture, fine arts, and urban planning, assisting with typographic and layout standards, overseeing the production and distribution of physical copies, and re-branding the publication’s visual and web identity. INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING | January 2010 Participated in an urban planning research trip to the pilgrimage sanctuary of Diggi, in Rajasthan, India. Conducted a comprehensive site survey, documented interviews, produced on-site sketches and analytical documentation, and compiled and edited a written report, delivered to the Thankkur of Diggi and his team of design architects at Kaimal & Chatterjee Associates in New Delhi, India.
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CAMPUS FIREHOUSE Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Prof. Jerry Wells ARCH 3101 Fall 2010
Proposal for a firehouse in the outskirts of Cornell’s College of Engineering. The program is distributed in two masses: a “wall builidng” that sits against the steep lanscape and contains the living quarters, utilities, and administrative places; and an “object building” that houses the apparatus bays for the fire trucks. A training tower for firemen sits adjacent to the fire truck garage. Tall, semiglazed ventilation towers create convection currents that allow the flow of clean air into the apparatus bays.
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Process Sketch Models
Elaborating various arrangements and relationships between main living quarters and the fire truck apparatus bays.
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KUNSTHAL FOR VIDEO ART Buffalo, NY Prof. Arch Mackenzie ARCH 2101 Fall 2009
A board game (i.e. ‘generative device’) is designed, built, and played multiple times. The results of the game are interpreted as abstract two-dimensional diagrams, and later as basic organizational volumes. These become the formal and operational premises for an architectural proposal. The resulting spatial order is injected with program: a 60,000 sq ft Kunshtal for the display of contemporary video art. Thus, the resulting building is not based on typological or programmatic precedents. Instead, it is an artifact that results from a sequence of rationalized formal operations.
“Gestalt Collage”
The goal of the game is to produce multiple readings of figure and ground within the confinement of a grid. Ideas of layering, and spatial superimposition are implied in the resulting board arrangement. The results of the game are diagrammed and extruded into threedimensional volumes that determined the spatial arrangement of the kunsthal.
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Kunsthal Lobby Interior Rendering
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BAYOU CHAPEL
Apple Lake, Bayou de View, Arkansas Prof. Marlon Blackwell + George Hascup ARCH 5101 Fall 2012
Bayou Chapel is conceived as a mediator between a dense natural context (i.e. the Bayou de View) and a carefully construed landscape (i.e. an artificial levy). The scheme takes its cues from the axial geometry of the levy, formally extending this linear vector across the water, and into the swamp. This sets up a careful choreography of motion and perception— prescribing the way in which the visitor moves from the parking lot, approaches the lake, and catches framed glimpses of the chapel in the distance. Facade and skin studies were derived from anatomical observations of a bird species along with an analysis of local vernacular tectonics (shingled construction).
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PRIMARY STRUCTURE
LIGH
FRAMING CLIPS
GLAZING
Bird Wing Structure: Overlapping barbs and barbules.
PRIMARY FACADE FRAMING SECONDARY FACADE FRAMING
SKIN
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Skin Study Model: Gradation of overlapping shingles.
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Longitudinal Section through Fellowship Hall and Dormitory.
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HELVETIAN DORMITORIES Berne, Switzerland Prof. MarilĂ Santos-MunnĂŠ + Arthur Ovaska ARCH 4102 Spring 2012
This project is a proposal for two large-scale urban housing blocks for students at the University of Berne. The project mediates the stepped section that currently divides the site, and weaves a pedestrian promenade that links the campus of the University of Berne with its adjacent waterfront. In addition, the placement of these urban blocks results in an open plaza that integrates the program of the adjacent Reithalle, a major cultural venue and gathering space for Swiss counterculture. The housing block thus doubles as a large-scale backdrop for events taking place in the plaza, which become displayed to visitors entering the city by rail. Divided into single, duplex, and double duplex units, the dormitory halls provide for flexible housing arrangements for single, married, and short-term exchange students. Small winter gardens flank the interstitial space between these units, and provide opportunities for communal gatherings in every cluster of dormitories.
UNIT_A SINGLE DORM WITH PLAZA VIEW
UNIT_B DUPLEX DORM WITH ADJOINING TERRACE
UNIT_C DOUBLE DUPLEX WITH SHARED TERRACE
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BRIDGING DENSITIES
Village of Kelso, Scotland Prof. Mark Morris / Critics: Andrea Simitch + Val Warke ARCH 2102 Spring 2010 Housing project for a population of 250 eldery bagpipe players located in a ficticious village in Scotland. The design aims to extend the logic and scale of the existing medieval fabric across the river and into the steep landscape that lies beyond it. The organizational parti developed in this project borrows ideas from the existing urban spine and mimics them in its massing strategy.
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STRUCTURAL MODEL
Centre d’Interpretation du Canal de Bourgogne Shigeru Ban Architects + Buro Happold Project Partner: Donald Silberman ARCH 3603 Spring 2011 A structural model of a lightweight paper-tube canopy designed by Shigeru Ban and Buro Happold was built as the final project for a course in structural systems. Construction required a digital 3D model of every structural member, transposing it to a CNC milling file, and finally cutting and soldering individual brass and aluminum members on a milled “template”. In total, over 700 pieces were soldered and assembled to generate the arched form of the canopy.
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spaceFRAME
Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan ArchMedium Student Design Competition Collaboration with Jeniffer Grosso January 2013 Standing out from the its surrounding context, spaceFRAME is an infrastructural insertion that displays and celebrates the various systems that allow it to function as a haven for partygoers, karaoke singers, gamers, and shoppers—everything from utility ducts to structural members to computer servers for online gaming and cloud computing. Elevated above street level, spaceFRAME is also a threshold between two distinct nodes of urban activity, inciting the passage of pedestrians and allowing activities in the private sphere to become insinuated within the public realm Much like its surrounding commercial signage, spaceFRAME acts as a billboard that projects the activity of the individual karaoke rooms through the filtered façade of the building. Open to the dense activity of Akihabara, spaceFRAME is both a space of spectacle and speculation.
Server Room: online gaming and cloud computing.
Private karaoke rooms, projecting lyrics onto filtered facade.
Comic book and video game shop for anime fans.
Cafe and multipurpose space suspended from overarching spaceframe.
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DANTEUM REDUX
Rome, Italy (Cornell in Rome Program) Prof. Marina Kavalirek Critics: Mark Morris + Davide Marchetti ARCH 4101 Fall 2011 This project re-visits Giuseppe Terragni’s 1940’s commission for a “Danteum” in the historical center of Rome. The scheme is composed of three interconnected library buildings: half-sunken Platonic volumes linked to a walled garden akin to a medieval Hortus Conclusus. A grand travertine cordonata doubles as an urban piazza that frames the perspective towards the Colloseum and leads the flow of tourists into a separate block that contains the public components of the program (a café, an exhibition hall, etc). A lookout tower is placed at the edge of the garden facing the Basilica of Maxentius, reminiscing Terragni’s earlier designs for a Torre Littorio on the same site. The project not only caters to the needs of the Dante scholar, but also the densely packed urban life that already exists at the site. The sunken garden—the epicenter of the composition—ultimately doubles as the buffer zone that mediates between the realm of the sacred (i.e. knowledge) and the realm of the banal; the tourist experience of Rome as it exists today at Via dei Fori Imperiali.
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NATIONAL JADE MUSEUM San José, Costa Rica National Design Competition In collaboration with Kyle Schumann January 2012
Proposal for the new headquarters of the National Jade Museum, a center for the display of the largest collection of Pre-Columbian jade art in the world. This entry was presented in the context of a ten-day national design competition commissioned by the Government of Costa Rica. The proposal is composed of three elements: a stepped piazza that integrates the oblique geometries in the immediate context, a tower for administrative and curatorial services, and three “arms” that cantilever toward the adjacent plaza and contain the permanent exhibition halls, showcasing views of the immediate urban context. A large, naturally lit atrium underneath these halls serves as a vestibule and a space for temporary art exhibitions.
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ADMINISTRATIVE AND CURATORIAL OFFICE SPACES
PRIMARY CIRCULATION ELEVATORS TO EACH LEVEL AND EGRESS STAIRS CHIRIQUÍ ARCHAEOLOGICAL REGION
SECONDARY CIRCULATION: DIRECT LINK BETWEEN PERMANENT COLLECTION HALLS
CENTRAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL REGION
GRAN NICOYA ARCHAEOLOGICAL REGION
ABOVE: STEPPED OPEN-AIR PLAZA BELOW: MUSEUM SERVICES, RESTORATION, AND STORAGE
MAIN ATRIUM: VESTIBULE AND TEMPORARY EXHIBITION HALL CONTEXT: ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY OF COSTA RICA
ACCESS FROM PLAZA OF DEMOCRACY
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MASTERPLAN RESEARCH
On-Site Independent Study in Regional Planning Village of Diggi, Rajasthan, India Prof. Jeffrey Chusid CRP 4970, Spring 2010 This collaborative project was developed by an interdisciplinary team of students in architecture, urban planning, and engineering during an on-site survey of the pilgrimage center of Diggi, in Rajasthan, India. The goal was to develop comprehensive documentation of the village’s public infrastructure, civic institutions, and economic conditions for the development of a new infrastructural masterplan in time for the next pilgrimage season. Containing a total of twenty-seven temples and a mass of 100,000 visitors within a radius of less than one mile, Diggi’s pilgrimage seasons are often chaotic. The final aim of this Independent Study was to gather and analyze the data, interviews, and images collected on-site, and deliver an analytical report to KCA Architects, a local design firm in New Delhi that is currently developing an urban master-plan for the village in dialogue with the Thakkur of Diggi. Project published on Ezra Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3 - Spring 2010
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TRAVEL SKETCHES
ITALY AND GREECE, FALL 2011
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SELECTED GRAPHIC WORK
LITHOGRAPHY | DRAWING | PHOTOGRAPHY
Convent of La Tourette
CMYK Lithographic plates on white Strathmore From the “Pilgrimage” series (2012) Edition of 12
Ronchamp
CMYK Lithographic plates on white Strathmore From the “Pilgrimage” series (2012) Edition of 10
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Device for Coding
The goal of the project was to design a device that could portray letters, grammar, and syntax in the form of an abstract drawing. The device translates the alphabet into a series of concentric arcs that spell words and sentences based in a systematic code.
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Urban Theatricaility: Photographic Study of Via dei Banchi Nuovi, Rome, Italy