MARIA F. ZUBILLAGA GONZALEZ ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
MARIA F. ZUBILLAGA GONZALEZ
6974 Rothchild Drive Charlotte, NC 28270 | mzubilla@uncc.edu | (732) 309-7570
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Undergraduate Selected Works
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Maria F. Zubillaga Gonzalez CONTACT From: Barquisimeto, Venezuela 6974 Rothchild Drive, Charlotte NC 28270 mzubilla@uncc.edu mf.zubillaga@gmail.com
EDUCATION University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC. Program: Bachelor of Arts in Architecture. Expected Date of Graduation: May 14th 2016.
Relevant Courses: Comprehensive Design Studios, Recording Observations, Urban Studies, Architecture history, Structural Principles, Solar Decathlon Seminar, Computational Methods, Urban Sustainability, Environmental System principles, Environmental Ethic.
Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC Degree Obtained: Associates in Arts, May 2013. GPA: 3.8 AWARDS University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dean’s list. Wake Technical Community College Dean’s list.
(732) 309-7570
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariazubillagagonzalez
Fall 2013 - Present Spring 2013 Spring - Fall 2012
CERTIFICATES
issuu.com/mf.zubillaga SKILLS Analog Model Making Drawing
Minor: Urban Studies. GPA: 3.7
Painting Sketching
Digital
Recipient of Honorable Mention Award for the Northwood Ravin Housing Design Competition Certificate of Completion Revit Architecture, Autodesk. Certificate of Completion AutoCAD 2D, Autodesk. Certificate of Completion AutoCAD 3D, Autodesk.
2015 2011 2011 2011
INVOLVEMENT
Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Rhino AutoCad
Grasshopper Sketchup Revit Vray Microsoft Office
Construction Flooring Tiling Framing
Painting Plumbing
LANGUAGES English Spanish Portuguese
Fluent Native Beginner
Member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society Member of The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Mentor of the Adult Mentoring Program for Students (AMPS) Volunteer at Habitat For Humanity Society of Hispanic Professional Volunteer at the Children's With Cancer Foundation
2016 2014 - 2016 2015 - 2016 2011 - 2016 2010 - 2016 2006 - 2016
EXPERIENCE Gerencia De Proyectos 6052 C.A: Internship, Architect Assistant. M.M C.A: Store Manager. NICKELS C.A: Operating System Manager
2009 2009 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS Selected Projects
Uptown Charlotte Art Center Coexisting Art Forms
REI Warehouse Complex Reactions to noise and grain
University Fabrication lab
Reactions to noise and grain
Charlotte, North Carolina 5 Second Year Architectural Studio
Dallas, Texas 17 Third Year Architectural Studio
Chicago, Illinois 25 Second Year Architectural Studio
6 School of Architecture
18 School of Architecture
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Dead Letters Monument USPS Pavilion
Wood Warehouse Visual Kinetics
Steel Warehouse
Northwood Ravin Charette
Davidson, North Carolina 37 Second Year Architectural Studio
Third Year Architectural Studio 45 University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Second Year Architectural Studio 49 University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
School of Architecture
School of Architecture
Selected Artwork Art Exhibitions
Activating communities
Breaking the Arch
Arquitectural Intervention Third Year Architectural Studio
University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Architecture
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Personal Art Exploration Raleigh-Charlotte, NC
ART SPACES THAT COEXIST The Ultimate Art Center Final Project Second Year Architectural Studio Uptown Charlotte 6th and 7th Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC
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This project was developed from a series of compositional drawings and diagrams that lead into modernistic shapes and forms. The initial stage started with a photo grid exploration of Uptown Charlotte in search for clues of what the city needed. After careful analysis and diagraming of the site and context, the key element was determined as the connectivity of the skyland mall and its bridges to the existing site. Therefore, a deep exploration was set in motion about the connectivity of such bridges while also considering their individual architectural style, circulation, program, affluence, among other factors. The analysis brought out interesting theories about the existing site and the future it holds in downtown charlotte.
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The site given was placed in an area where it had the possibility of becoming a Node and landmark. According to the analysis, the site lays in between the old development and the future development of the city. Therefore, the building had the potential for greatness. After understanding the culture where the site was embedded, it was noticeable that Uptown Charlotte was lacking an innovative Art Center that would activate the neighborhood and bring young life as well. The building became a center of all art forms by mixing different art practices into one cohesive building.
Site Analysis Photogrids Analyzing Architectural Context
Line that separates Privacy levels
Skywalks affecting privacy levels among buildings
Skywalks in Realtion to Site
Thresholds among paths
Differences in Districts
Historic
Business
Future
Comercial
Public Vs Privat Buildings
Skywalks that connect buildings
Hierarchy of Paths
Movement towards the core
Merging Cultures and Programs
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Privacy Levels
Relationships among height and privacy levels
Business Circulation
Differences in Scales
Future Expansion area in Downtown
Traffic Density
Pedestrian Circulation
Vehicular Circulation
Traffic in Contrast to site
The Future of Overstreet Mall in Relation to site
Site Analysis Diagrams Understanding Culture and Context
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The event spaces for this project consisted in six art events that were connected among them. The events portrayed in the photo grids represent a type of art form while not exactly being the same. The building would encompass music, fashion, dance, film, culinary, and sculptural art form. My goal was to make them coexist with one another but without interrupting their functions. Since the project would host artistic facilities, the main generator for its form developed from abstract compositional drawings. These compositional diagrams were the drivers for the shapes of my irregular floor plates and the compositional section diagrams were the drivers for the vertical circulation throughout the building.
Site Analysis Photogrids Analyzing Architectural Context
Program Analysis Diagrams Program functionality influencing design
The lines and the points from the compositional drawings were connected to one another in order to define floor plans, programmatic spaces, circulation, and structural members. After the best compositional set was selected the programmatic elements were placed throughout the building with the idea of how
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people would be attracted to the building. Therefore, the more attractive spaces would be located at the top with the aim of people inviting people to travel throughout the structure. The dynamism and process of this project helped create an sculptural architecture that clearly reflects the program that houses.
Compositional Diagramatic Drawings Forms shaped by artwork
Traffic Density
Pedestrian Circulation
Vehicular Circulation
Traffic in Contrast to site
The Future of Overstreet Mall in Relation to site
Program Analysis Diagrams Program functionality influencing design
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1st Floor
2nd Floor
3rd Floor
4th Floor
5th Floor
6th Floor
7th Floor
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Axonometric Renders of Art Center
REI Warehouse Complex
Distribution Center with Outdoors Complex Third Year Architectural Studio Project Dallas, Texas
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This project developed from the inspiration of the given site’s topography and the nature that surrounded the place. Since the first visit to the site, the idea of including both nature and the community into the project became the driver. My customer then became the REI outdoors company. With this in mind, the project intends to create an outdoors complex in order for customers to be able to utilize as much as the exterior space as employees use the interior areas of the project. Inspired by the topography a series of diagrams were made in which the landscape was studied. Therefore, after thorough diagrammatic analysis the existing topography was exaggerated to immerse the warehouse within the new landscape. Since REI stores are separated into categories the warehouse was separated into these components: Hiking, Climbing, Biking, Camping, and Kayaking. The warehouse/storage space is the piece that unites the five buildings making it a whole entity. People would be able to access the five separate structures to access each individual Customer Contact Center while having a real REI outdoors experience. The majority of the building was buried within the landscape in order for the activity complex not to be drastically interrupted. Thus, keeping the integrity of the REI outdoors style.
Analyzing the site’s topography created the following sets of generative diagrams. Sections of the given site in Dallas Texas were taken to explore the shifts between the current space and the adjacent levy system. After obtaining the existing curve levels the comparison between the highest and lowest points were represented diagrammatically. In order to take the exploration further, the site was placed within a reticular grid were the main topographic points were placed. Thus, creating comparisons and what I
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have called the Topographic Density map. After rigorous analysis an exaggeration of the current topography was made creating new topographic levels in order for the project to be immersed within it. After the new “landscape” was developed, the buildings were immersed within the ground. The shape and form of the buildings were influenced by how the landscape would interact with the structure. Even though the five buildings had the same program and structur-
Diagrams that reflect the density hierarchical spaces to shape topography
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al principles, they developed into five different shapes due to the areas of the structure that would peak out of the earth to reveal their form.
Diagrams that reflect how the topography affects the 1/64” =1’-0’ building formation
Site Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
1/200” =1’-0’
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Building Model 1/16” = 1’-0’
Detailed Bay Model 1/4” = 1’-0’
Diagramatic Program Exploded Model showing correlation of levels 1/50” = 1’-0’
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Building Model 1/16” = 1’-0’
Rendered North Section
Rendered South Section
University Fabrication Lab
Reactions to noise and grain influences Chicago, Illin Second Year Architectural Studio University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Architecture
This project consists in breaking the grain patterns and utilizing elements of the Prairie style to acknowledge The Robie House that is located next to the site. The Prairie style elements utilized are the aspect of the Reaching out element, horizontality, the path of discovery, the compression and expansion, the organic architecture, and the privacy levels.
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The building is shaped into an elongated rectangle to break the axial rhythm of the surrounding buildings in order to have an open plan with horizontal influences. The buildings shape took form by analyzing the views from the site towards the Robie house and using this point to resemble the reaching out aspect the Prairie style entails. The building developed into two wedges that scissor and create two different experiences. The outdoor public experience and the interior more private experience. To access the building people have to access the pathways resembling the path of discovery. Since the building is mostly underground, the impression is that you will access the building to go up. However, the building does the opposite by forcing you to go downward in order to access the fab lab.The fabrication lab was buried inside the ground in order to react to the noise the machines would produce. With this in mind, the building would not disturb the surrounding architectural attraction The Robie House while also performing as a full scale Fabrication lab for the school.
Path of Discovery
Secondary Paths
Tertiary Paths
Site Plan and Section
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Floorplan
Development of Form Diagram
Public and Private Spaces Above Ground
Breaking the Grain Patterns
Public and Private Spaces Under Ground
Levels of Privacy Above and Under Ground
West Elevation
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East Elevation
Section B-B
Section A-A
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The Dead Letters Monument USPS PAVILION
Narrative Assignment Jackson St, Davidson, NC Second Year Architectural Studio University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Architecture
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As we die we leave pieces behind as a reminder of where we stood, what we were, and our essence. Layers of our past lives lay there untouched as a memorial of who we were as entities. Sometimes as memories or as an effect of mourning. These layers of our character can be peeled away so we could see the bigger picture or can act as a barrier to separate what is dead and what has survived. This pavilion represents a memorial for the deceased post office. Its demise was the effect of Davidson’s culture. The post office was immersed in a culture in which they would pass without noticing their surroundings. The emptiness of the entrance of the site acted as an implied wall that people would not dare to cross. The pavilion represents the extrusion of these implied walls from the post office as a criticism for people’s attitude towards this institution. Throughout the pavilion curiosity is rewarded since it is one of the most important assets in life. For the curious people the courtyard in the center would represent a space for reflexion where people could meditate about the post office life and how we experience life in general.
Parti Floorplan Diagram
Parti Elevation Diagram
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Extrusion of Walls and Angles
Compression and Expansion
Movement among walls
Human Scale and Changes in the Wall Heights
Process Diagrams
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Process Diagrams
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Floor Plan
NE Elevation
W Elevation
Wood Warehouse Visual Kinetics
Third Year Architectural Studio University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Architecture
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This project’s consisted in creating a wood model representing a warehouse design. As inspiration we searched for an artist as our client to design our warehouse. The parti for this project consisted in incorporating wood to this artist’s warehouse/studio. Therefore, transferring the essence of his work into the architecture. The artist chosen was Carlos Cruz-Diez, a Venezuelan artist characterized by his visually kinetic artworks in particular his physically kinetic paintings and sculptures. With this in mind, the driver in this project was to create a statement within the architecture that would portray the artist influence. The roof became this kinetic piece that is meant to form a sculptural characteristic to his warehouse. The roof is meant to create a visually dynamic gesture that allows the program to be guided from entrance to exit by spatial arrangements. Where the peaks are the highest is where the most important pieces of program as placed, and the lowest peaks are for circulation. In order to reflect his artwork in the façade, every aspect of the facade treatment was carried through with the idea that light would change the interior of the space all throughout the day. This aspect mimics his idea of kinetic paintings.
TRUSS UNDULATION
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TERTIARY STRUCTURE
TRUSS DETAIL
CUSTOMIZED TRUSSES
OVERALL ROOF STRUCTURE
Steel Warehouse Breaking the Arch
Third Year Architectural Studio University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Architecture
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For this project the program remained the same as the wood warehouse assignment. Even though it was the same program, it gave us the opportunity to better understand how materiality could change the overall design. It was very interesting to see how the introduction of steel changed the outcome of the warehouse. Our given system was the 3-Pin arch. Our main inspiration was the idea of having triangular arches that were united by a single pin. Therefore, giving the impression that the removal of such pins would force the arches to fall apart outwards. This premise would challenge the idea of arches in general. The form of the warehouse gives a structural statement as well as giving a visual experience much like Cruz-Diez artwork.
LONG ELEVATION
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SHORT ELEVATION
Wall Section
INITIAL ARCH CONCEPT
EAST ELEVATION
SHORT SECTION with LIGHT
ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE RENDER
ACTIVATING COMMUNITY Northwood Ravin Charette
Arquitectural Intervention Morningside Village, Plaza Midwood Charlotte, NC This project explores the idea of an architectural intervention throughout a neighborhood. The Northwood Ravin developing group created this hous-
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ing inquiry to help design the urban fabric of a developing neighborhood. This Charette asked its participants to consider how architectural elements would operate and affect the context of the new housing project named Morningside Village in Plaza Midwood. The project currently under construction is a band of linear apartments that would be separated by these empty spaces. The goal of the assignment was to activate these spaces to create communal spaces and invigorate the social interaction of the neighborhood. Driven by a conceptual framework, this project attempted to engage the residents by using a canopy system that spanned in between the buildings, as well as having components that extended in and around the building. This created a social environment that would provide a dynamic and vibrant component to an otherwise static and underutilized space. The canopies have a tactile component that allow users to manipulate them with a pulley system, effectively creating their own space rather than having it dictated by the conditions of their assigned apartment.
SELECTED ARTWORK
DISJUNCTIONS
Interpretation of Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts 55 56
School of Architecture, Stoors, UNCC Charlotte, NC
Disjunctions is a project that celebrates the work of Bernard Tschumi and deeply relates with his text The Manhattan Transcripts. The aim was to design and construct a project that would have a response or interpretation of Bernard Tschumi’s projects. Throughout the activity the ideas and concepts of space, intervention, program, event, and object where analyzed leading to our final installation of columns. The following drawings are a reinterpretation of the Manhattan Transcripts into our lives as architects, specifically inside the Stoors building. The first drawings study the placement of columns throughout the building and the consequences this placement would implicate. The columns created this intervention in the spaces that would challenge the spectators to think about the idea of space and program. The last drawings represents a set of diagrams that exemplifies the hectic life of the salon as well as the lives of the architects that occupy the space. In this drawing the accelerated pace of architectural reviews is translated into diagrams that express the movement, program, and circulation our main salon experiments during our day to day review sessions.
4 sisters | Ink and Paper
Study of Nature | Charcoal
StillLife Study | Charcoal
Gestalt Studies | Cardboard
Self Portrait With study of Textures | Ink and Paper
Stillife and watercolor study | Paper and watercolor
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Exploring Textures | Ink and Cardboard
Stillife | Charcoal
Stillife | Cardboard and pencil
Abstract Stillife composition | Cardboard
Lonely Couches in Nature | Charcoal
United As One They claimed that we could not be together And carried on with their lives People tried to keep us away From enjoying each other’s stay But we always had faith Never being completely done or erased Then again would come the chase The hatred, the jealousy One that became a never ending race Every now and then when the darkness sets We would sneak to meet each other Our hearts would melt into each other’s chest In a tight embrace we wept Before leaving and up came the sunset The months continues The clouds passed through the sky With faith every moment, not a single one went by Our good moments stayed in our minds Other people’s days were happy Celebrating anniversaries Reciting famous nurseries Kids excitedly playing left and right Mothers holding their babies tight We both imagined what it would be like To live with the one you love To have it all in front of you Knowing you won’t lose One world, sharing a pair of shoes Oh, how the water would gently flow Making small waves, but it would never overflow The surface, how it gleams in the sun Smooth as a marble Yet, rough like the seeds on top of a hamburger bun A few years went by We somehow made it together Made it through the storm We made it through We made it through
Gestalt Studies | Cardboard