Second Year Studio Portfolio Spring 2015 Maria F. Zubillaga Gonzalez
MARIA F. ZUBILLAGA GONZALEZ ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO Second Year Studio
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 Second Year Studio Spring Semester
TABLE OF CONTENTS ACTIVATING COMMUNITY
DISJUNCTIONS
Northwood Ravin Charette
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Arquitectural Intervention Morningside Village, Plaza Midwood, Charlotte, NC
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Interpretation of Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts
School of Architecture, Stoors, UNCC Charlotte, NC
YALE CENTER FOR THE BRITISH ART
TEA CEREMONY SPACE Creating Program
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Analyzing Cultures and Traditions School of Architecture, Stoors, UNCC Charlotte, NC
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New Haven, CT
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Final Project Uptown Charlotte
6th and 7th Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
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Final Contextual Design Uptown Charlotte 6th and 7th Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC
COEXISTING ART FORMS
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Final Project Uptown Charlotte
6th and 7th Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC
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. These apartments would be separated by this empty spaces. The goal of the assignment was to activate this 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.
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The system wraps over, through, and around the units; physically weaving the urban fabric.
Adjustable canopies can be modified using a pulley system.
DISJUNCTIONS
Interpretation of Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts
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.
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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.
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TEA CEREMONY SPACE Creating Program
Analyzing Cultures and Traditions School of Architecture, Stoors, UNCC Charlotte, NC
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This project explores how program can support a specific set of actions and experiences in a given space. The aim of the project was to understand the phenomenology and culture of the tea ceremony and use our observations as generative tools to design the ultimate space. Throughout my research and experiencing the tea ceremony in person I came to understand how important nature and body movements were for the spiritual ceremony. Since the ceremony intends to take you out of the common world and forget about your surroundings nature was the driver of this project. The intention was to create an oasis in which people could only focus on the ceremony and meditation itself. In order to incorporate nature into the ceremonial space, everything became nature itself. The tea house would act as a single planar architecture in which nature would grow from the structure. This would create a modern oasis that would lead your circulation and your body movements inside the tea room where you would start the ceremony.
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YALE CENTER FOR THE BRITISH ART Precedent Study Louis Khan New Haven, CT
This project consisted in studying historical prec-
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edents in order to learn the successful techniques that made these architectural pieces important. The buildings epitomize the themes that we have been studying the past few years. The intention of the project was to interrogate these precedents with strategic intention and clear focus. Also understand how the elements of site, spatial hierarchy, program organization, circulation, materiality, light, and scale play a major role in these buildings.
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SITE ANALYSIS Final Project Uptown Charlotte
6th and 7th Tryon Street Charlotte, NC
This site analysis project took a different approach as usual. We went to uptown Charlotte to explore our site and its surroundings; however, we were
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asked to create photogrids of repetitive elements found around our site. This resulted in creative insteresting ideas and helped mantain a different outlook while exploring our site. The way we had to pay attention to every detail open our eyes into many options. The key elements into my site analysis was about the skyland mall and its bridges. I studied in depth the connectivity of such bridges to our site while also considering their architectural style, circulation, program, affluence, among other factors. The analyzing brought out interesting theories about our site and the future it holds in downtown charlotte.
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Design Development Final Contextual Design Uptown Charlotte 6th and 7th Tryon Street Charlotte, NC
This project was developed from a series of
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compositional drawings and diagrams that lead into modernistic shapes and forms. The assignment was created in search for futuristic buildings that would hold a variety of programs. After the shapes were taken from our diagrams we had to fit program into our spaces and take a series of decisions that would slowly take shape into our final design. The event spaces for this project consisted in 6 art events that were connected among them. The 6 events represented a art form of some sort while not being the same. My goal was to make them coexist with one another but without interrupting them.
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Traffic Density
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Pedestrian Circulation
Vehicular Circulation
Traffic in Contrast to site
The Future of Overstreet Mall in Relation to site
ART SPACES THAT COEXIST The Ultimate Art Center Final Project Uptown Charlotte
6th and 7th Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC The end result of this project is a building that becomes a center of all art forms. With this in mind, the building intends to attract a younger and culturally diverse audience into downtown. The idea of creating an art center that connects the past and the future of
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downtown charlotte was developed from the site analysis. The 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. The program was placed throughout the building with the idea of how people would be attracted to the building. Therefore the more attractive spaces would be at the top so people would enter and travel throughout all the environments in order to reach their final destination. With all the decisions made throughout the project I intended to create a building were all these art form would coexist with one another in one place without interrupting each other at the same time. Also, with the idea of bringing a new dynamic into downtown charlotte.
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