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Melissa Marrero Burgos | Design Portfolio 2013
dwelling
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La Casa Cortada
urban
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Riverside Alley
infrastructure | landscape
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UNzipping Coasts
educational
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Children’s Art Museum
housing
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Affordable Housing for Artists
cultural
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Peace Pavilion
lighting
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ZipLamp
furniture prototype
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Sitting Apparatus
La Casa Cortada San Juan, Puerto Rico Second Prize Winner Archon Prize Design Competition
Food has been the basis for social gathering throughout time, and serves as the inspiration for this project. Located in a highly cultural and gastronomic area in San Juan, PR., La Casa Cortada is an urban dwelling that focuses on the rituals of food preparation and consumption, conceived as a unique space for social gathering and exchange. Inspired by the study of vegetables and fruits, this space is conceived in layers. Concrete is the outer structural layer and the wood is the soft interior layer. A single long central table dominates the interior. The table is surrounded by a sequence of architectural slices that respond to program, natural light, and ventilation. The slices reveal views and create a physical atmosphere that enhances the experience. The space symbolizes and celebrates the processes of growing, making and serving of food. The dwelling fuses food and architecture into one continuous process.
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Riverside Alley Chicago, Illinois
We propose an active fissure that will transform the alley into a path for downtown Chicago and Printer’s Row Neighborhood for city life and entertainment. The city of Chicago today has more than 1,900 miles of alleys, providing convenient access to buildings, garages and loading docks. Many pedestrians walk through the streets of chicago and notice those mysterious alley ways or urban gaps that exist between building but these narrow urban lanes are usually uninviting. In places such as Europe, alleys are often what is left of a medieval street network, or a right way or ancient footpath in an urban setting and they continue to be spaces for restaurants, retail or art, where people can gather. The idea of creating a project that embraces the idea of a city gap and transforms this forgotten space into a path of activities and landscape is the foundation of our intentions. The project will invite people through an intentional landscape that will guide the public through entertainment, galleries, art, music, restaurants and music. It is important to create that transition from the city to the landscape and from the landscape to the program that will respond to the hybrid complexity of the project.
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structure
circulation
cavities
residence
hotel
offices library/ media labs retail concert hall
metra communter rail subway rail lines & stations water taxi elevated rail lines & stations bus transit bycicle parking
downtown mixed
parking
downtow service historical landmarks
W Harrison st.
bridges
downtown core planned development river
zoning
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downtown mixed downtow service historical landmarks downtown core planned development river
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BAR
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CAFE
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RESTAURANTS
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DOG PARK
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BIKING
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KAYAK
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WATER TAXI
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mechanical residence
residential lobby mechanical
hotel
hotel lobby
mechanical
offices
retail / restaurants
underground parking
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Cavities are created inside the high-rise transforming interioir space, providing natural light and direct contact with the sky.
hotel floor plan
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[Un]zipping Coasts Tokyo, Japan Director’s Choice Special Mention d3space | Unbuilt Visions International Design Competition Second Prize Graduate Studio Award for Design Exellence Tokyo is famous for being one of the largest metropolitan areas and one of the most densely populated cities in the world. The city’s urban composition is mostly conformed of tight spaces, small streets and reduced public space due to rapid population growth and poor urban planning. Tsukiji Market is one of Tokyo’s main public spaces and it’s the most well-known wholesale fish market in the world. This market is a complex physical, cultural and laborious environment, which cannot be understood apart from its placement. This construction of place connects the social structure to a meaning of identity and tradition carried out by the Japanese people and its processes. This infrastructural intervention strives to embed the market in its place and provide temporary relief against flood hazard while still attending ecological issues in Tokyo Bay, with the purpose of restoring and creating new ecosystems and providing safety measures for urban life at water edge.
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Tsukiji Market forms part of Tokyo Bay’s waterfront area, but being at the water edge brings many possibilities as well as many disadvantages. Tsukiji Market has to deal with high flood risk due to sea level rise caused by storm surges and global warming. Also, the waters of Tokyo Bay suffer from Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, due to high pollution caused by land reclamation on the bay. Taking this research as a backdrop, Tsukiji Market renders many opportunities for much needed productive open public space for city life at large.
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infrastructure
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To rectify the bay as a thriving ecosystem, hydraulic structures were designed to treat the Tokyo Bay water. The zipper-shaped weir is a hydraulic structure that works as a barrier designed to alter the flow characteristics of water using a trapezoidal shape to oxygenate the water as it moves through the weir. By aerating the water, this infrastructure could provide sufficient oxygen to start restoring marine life in Tokyo Bay. This design strategy became a way of envisioning an intervention that would attend to the agendas of the site in a passive way.
This ecological infrastructure is designed as a system formed by
The zigzagging behavior of the infrastructure provides
vast concrete structures, which inject themselves 50 meters deep
numerous possibilities of canals, lagoons, wetlands and
into the ground and use the market as a catalyst for a larger coastal
aeration areas for the treatment of Tokyo Bay’s water and
intervention that invades other water edges. By attaching itself to
the growth of small ecosystems. Water tanks, spillways
other sites it starts creating a buffer that offsets the water edge
and wetlands are used for water management and for the
further back with the purpose of protecting city life for future water
temporarily relief of flooding that may occur around the
level rise.
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urban space _ strategy
flood relief _ strategy
With the help of wetlands and the process of water aeriation, we will rehabilitate ecosystems in Tokyo Bay and bring more fish to these waters
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ecological _ strategy
Use of wetlands with purpose of decreasing flooding, removing pollutants from water, protecting the shoreline, providing habitat for wildlife , and serving important recreational and cultural functions.
High water current canal that agitates the water sufficiently to introduce oxygen in the bay water by creating bubbles.
“Spillway� structures used to collect and release water due to water level rise by flood.
Temporary water storage which can provide water for current and future needs
Provides area of shelter for birds.
Zigzagging canals that control the flow of water adequately with the purpose of increasing the marshes capacity to absorb pollutants in the water of Tokyo Bay
fi sh m a rk e t m a i n p rogra m a r r a n g e m e n t in 10 pieces
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Children’s Creative Arts Museum Champaign Illinois
“Think like a child, design like an architect.” The concept of the Creative Arts Children’s Museum is to appeal to the senses in a new way. By changing our perspectives and being sensitive to a child’s scale, we can start perceiving the world in a different way. For this reason the museum is designed in two parts, the first half responds to the adult’s scale and the second half responds to a child’s scale. These are connected with a hiddencolors bridge that marks that transition between these two. From the entrance to the lobby to the galleries, the museum tries to stimulate a child’s senses by creating spaces that distort reality and enhances it according to each sense. The program of the museum provides art classrooms in the upper level to educate children of different ages in making art and appreciation. The lower level of the museum responds to a more public realm providing exterior arts spaces, café restaurant and library, where is combines the community, the park and the riverfront.
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A Child’s Path through the Museum ...
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scale distortion | aira.balloon entrance lobby SCALE DISTORTION
hidden colors bridge
b. HIDDEN COLORS - BRIDGE
texture gallery maze
c. SURFACE MAZE
d. MAKE-A-SOUND GALLERY
make a sound gallery
e. EXHIBITION SPACE
kaleidoscope gallery
f. KALEIDOSCOPE GALLERY
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The museum takes advantage of its location activating the small riverfront by providing a cafe restaurant, library, an exterior gallery space and a multipurpose room for the use of the community. It also integrates in the program the fishing piers and small piers for the small boats that pass around the river.
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The museum consists of a double facade, of which the exterior is designed to control light and views according to program with a playful pattern made by fritting.
Affordable Housing for Artists Caguas Puerto Rico The objective of this proposal is to provide affordable housing that acknowledges the art community and address the new demographics in the urban center of Caguas. This program is designed to accommodate a cafe theater and an art gallery space that will provide a lieu for social exchange, art exposure and cultural festivities. My approach separates the functions by locating the residential in the north building and the workshops in the south building with the purpose of keeping the user or the artist in constant movement and separating living from working areas. The residendial units are deigned to accomodate diversity in one building, from the individual to a family. The ground level is designed as a sequence of spaces that are individual in prigrams but provide the opportunity to combine themselves to create a larger space where art, flavor, music and people come together.
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Peace Pavillion London England Facial scaring is deeply embedded in sudanese culture. Sudanese tribes mark their bodies with patterns to commemorate achievements - a mark of identity and distinction. The structure consists of pieces that fit into each other, with no need for secondary structure. Each module is of equal importance to the stability of the structure, symbolizing cooperation required to sustain the sudanese peace. The pavilion embeds the traditional scarification patterns into the piece. Shadows cast from the patterns are projected onto the visitors. This symbolically allows the visitors to identify themselves with the people of sudan, their social struggle and the universal idea peace.
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CONCEPT Two traditional patterns abstracted from facial scaring marks characteristic for tribes of North and South Sudan are embedded into the structure. ATMOSPHERE The pattern transcends the idea from the physical to a more experiential realm through the play of light and shadow.
ZipLamp
A zipper is a commonly used device for binding the edges of an opening of fabric or other flexible material. We use this device everyday on conventional things like clothing, bags, sport gear, etc. The concept of the lamp emerges from the idea of using a habitual device, such as the zipper, in an unconventional way. The zipper as the main material for the design of the lamp would convey properties like flexibility, self-structure and an opportunity for unique lighting effects. The arrangement of the zippers in the lamp creates a variety of lighting effects throughout the shade. This device provides the user a possibility of interaction with the lamp by zipping or unzipping different areas of the shade to reveal the light inside. The zip lamp uses a compact fluorescent light to create a warm effect that would not heat up the shade. The lamp creates an ambient light that could be used in a diversity of spaces and functions.
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Sitting Apparatus
The concept of this prototype comes from the analysis of the rotational mechanism of an exiting joint. The sitting apparatus consists of two semicircular wooden pieces intertwined, allowing a rotary movement, horizontal and vertical expansion. A simple japanese joint embeded in both pieces is used to transform it to a different shape and height.
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address
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512 S. Third 315 Champaign IL, 61820
787.361.5669 mrrrbrg2@gmail.com