Undergraduate Portfolio Selected Works
Bryan Hernandez
Bryan Hernandez from Saginaw, Texas
UTA Undergraduate Portfolio Selected Works
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Table of Contents
Peak
Innsbruck, Austria
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Case Study: Ex of In House Steven Holl Rhinebeck, New York
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Funneled Vessel
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Nucleus
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Nested Overpass
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Vernacular Memory
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New Orleans, Louisiana
Surfside Beach, Texas
Anchorage, Alaska
Fort Worth, Texas
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Peak Location: Innsbruck, Austria Program: Public Seating
In Collaboration with: Rameesa Ahmed Montgommery Borg Youssef Elmergawy Victoria Hernandez Kaylee Lamb Lance Moltzan Crystal Musick Sadia Rattani Calvin Ridenour Chloe Thomasian Diane Williams Tuyen Lemai Brady Porter
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Design/ Build Process
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Construction/ Completion
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Ex of In House CD’S Case Study Architect: Steven Holl Year: 2016 Location: Rhinebeck, USA Area: 918 ft2 Materials: -Raw materials - Solid Mahogony window and door frames -No Sheetrock -Curved thin wood layers Credit: http://www.stevenholl.com/projects/ex-of-in-house
Case Study: The objective was to pedagogically develop a Construction Document Set through research of the precidence as well as application of our knowledge on structures and construction. 13
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A1.0 Plans
A2.0 Elevations
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A4.0 Sections, A6.0 Wall Sections/Details
A5.0 Interior Elevations, Electrical/Plumbing, Door and Window Schedules
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Funneled Vessel Location: 930 Royal Street; New Orleans, Louisiana Program: NGO (non-governmental organization) office, outdoor plaza, auditorium, and coffee shop
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Process
Site Plan
Interior
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“New Orleans is an active and dense city that lies in the mouth of the Mississippi river below sea level. The French Quarter is the historical side of the city that fabricated a French style for their architecture. The buildings share similar heights and aligned balconies similarly to Paris. Despite its deep European influences, Jazz is a huge part of the New Orleans culture. Funneled Vessel was a project that was inspired by the culture of jazz in the city by establishing monumental and transparent funnels that house public space for major events to occur. The project embraces the sun as the soul of energy for the building and the driving concept of funnels provides public space, natural light, and intriguing soaring spaces that makes the human scale seem minuscule. The funnels are angled relating to the sun path of the city and to relation of the roof slopes of the adjacent buildings. Serving as a community engagement center, the funnels engage interaction, and a circular form to center use of that space. The funnels contain the major programmatic spaces of the building which are a coffee bar, exterior public space, and an auditorium space that overlooks the courtyard. The rest of the spaces that are not occupied by the funnels are for the NGO offices. The office desks can be arranged however wanted to establish a juxtaposition between free open space on the office levels horizontally and the contained space that funnels provide vertically. The plaza derives from the circular form of the funnels. The circles, rippling through the plaza, are scaled bigger or smaller and go sightly up or down to engage the alleyways and courtyard space to welcome the visitors. The Funneled identity of the building welcomes interaction as well as highlighting the importance of the jazz culture in New Orleans.�
Floor Plans
Exploded Isometric
Level +02
Level +01
Auditorium Funnel
Office Cubicle Prototype Auditorium Funnel Structure
Front Facade
Level 00 0’ 5’ 15’
30’
Building Footprint + Plaza
Level -01
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Elevation from Royal Street
Transformative Massing Models Scale: 1’-0” = 1/32”
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Long Section
This project was exhibited in the AIA Fort Worth Latinos in Architecture Perspectivas exhibition in 2018.
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Nucleus Location: Surfside Beach, Texas Program: Electric car charging station, drive-in restaurant, and shelter
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We dealt with the topic of post-oil environments and experimenting with a bacteria or fungus that was swabbed from a car exhaust, which is a vehicle from the oil era, was a step to greater emphasize our research. The Post-oil era's focus is not only about the harm oil does for the environment. But what other solutions we, as architects, can resolve after we shun away from oil, hypothetically. This topic then allows us to develop a narrative on how this project applies in the context of the post-oil era. Inspiration
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Final Form Top View
central tower
car pod
mechanism
good weather road
boardwalk
bad weather
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From what was observed in the small coastal city of Surfside Beach, there was a street that led straight into the beach. With the heavy usage of the car, especially in the state of Texas, the building would be a place that serves for people as well as their cars. A requirement that this project needed to consider was the fact that being near the coast allows this site to be vulnerable to hurricanes, tropical storms and/or any other natural disaster. To protect the inhabitants, the car pods and the central cylindrical tower goes underground to seal off the weather as seen in the diagrams above. Perspective from Car
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Perspective
Shelter in Good Weather
Shelter in Bad Weather
The renderings above shows the shelter to its full capability. In acceptable weather, the shelter is opened up functioning as a drivein restaurant that would deliver food as well as providing charge for an electric car. In times of disastrous weather, as stated above, the components go underground. Whats shown in the rendering is that the tower can serve as a spot to help people that need to be rescued. Hypothetically speaking, this shelter would be a project that would be developed in a time period where the electric car is in high demand and in high use. In the post-oil era, seeing the need for electric charging is essential for the electric car. Just like gasoline and oil for cars then and now.
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Model
Scale: 1’-0” = 1/16” 30
Exhibition
Funneled Vessel/ Nucelus
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Nested Overpass Location: 5th avenue; Anchorage, Alaska Program: Wildlife Research, Design/ Build facility
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Process
Inspiration
Fracture
Bridge Nested Overpass is a design/ build building that is affiliated with the university of Anchorage. The site dwells in the center of downtown Anchorage in place of the Kobuk cafe. The site is adjacent to town square park, which is composed of sinuous pathways and irregular shaped green spaces. Angled towards the park
Second “bridge� repositioned
The concept of Nested Overpass is based on two core elements. The first element is the fracture down the middle which creates a tapered pathway into the park as well as funneling circulation through the building. The concrete fractured volumes are symbolic to what the human impact is to their environment here in Alaska. The second elements are interlocking volumes that bridge the fractured components together. These wooden volumes are metaphorical to the proposed solutions the students and faculty have created to aid the wildlife. The main bridge volume is cantilevered over the park to capture the view of the town square park. The building will host spaces for collective collaboration on designing and simulating the created prototypes. The prototype is then shipped off to the site that is in need of help. Kobuk Cafe, which is what the Building is originally on the site, has been integrated with the building to provide public space in the building for guests. This building also provides awareness to the situations that are going on in Alaska as a whole.
North block reconfigured
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Massing Strategy
“Human Constructed Bridges”
“Exsisting Fractured Enviornments”
Northern Facade Massing
Building
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Perspective from the Southeast
Floor Plans B
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Key: 1. Kobuk Cafe 2. Fabrication Shop/ Mechanical/ Electrical 3. Simulation Gallery 4. Map Room 5. Studio 6. Lab 7. Classroom 8. Offices 9. Mailroom/ Breakroom
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Level 00
Level +01
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Level +02 0’ 5’ 15’
Sections
Cross Section
30’
Horizontal Jog Section
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Model: 1’ = 1/16” Perspective view from the east
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Model: 1’ = 1/16” Perspective view from the Southwest
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Vernacular Memory Location: 3rd Street in Fort Worth, Texas Program: Central Library
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Site/Context Project Site Current Central Library Transforming Lives Center
Concept Diagrams
Fort Worth YMCA Fort Worth Methodist Church US Health
Courtyard Lofts
1898 Sand Born Map of the Site
City Grid Response
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Entryway Portals
“Floating Study/ Meeting Rooms”
Sections Vernacular Memory is a new central library in downtown Fort Worth that responds to previous site conditions as well as the two superimposed city grids of downtown. A Fort Worth Sandborn map that dated back to 1898 shows five houses that had existed on the site of the new library. The idea was to preserve the memory of the houses by creating lofted courtyards that would engage the library’s visitors. “Floating rooms” in each courtyard echo the voids of the housing footprints which are represented as landscape. The Setbacks on top of the building are in direct response to the orthogonal grid as the building is situated on the rotated grid. The future library of Fort Worth is intended to respond to its vernacular past.
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Floor Plans
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Plan +01
Plan -01
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Plan +02
Plan +03
Level -01 -Storage -Book Repair
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Program Per Level Level +01
Level +04
Level +02
Level +05
-Lobby/Reception -Permanent and Rotating Galleries -Children’s library -Homeless Outreach Center -Auditorium
-Work Spaces -Auditorium -Teen Stacks -”Floating study rooms”
Level +03 Plan +05
Plan +06
-Work Spaces -Adult Stacks -”Floating study rooms” -Computer Stations
-Work Spaces -Adult Stacks -”Floating study rooms/ meeting rooms” -Computer Stations -Outdoor Rooftop Terrace
-Work Spaces -Adult Stacks -”Floating study rooms/ meeting rooms” -Computer Stations
Level +06 -Cafe
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Perspectives
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Exterior Perspective From Current Central Library
Children’s Courtyard
Interior Space + Circulation
Interior Space of 5th level + Circulation to Cafe
Models
1:100 Context Model and Massing
1:100 Context Model and Massing
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