MIA MAZARIEGOS ARCHITECTURE
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Architecture Work Memory Makes the Metropolis Undergraduate Thesis
Interior Architecture Work 1
Innovation 2030 “Communality�
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Aarhus Midtraffik
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Backyard on the Street
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Crossing Chattanooga
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Collaborative Flexibility
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NOMAS Competition
Additional Work
Weaving Woodlawn Honorable Mention
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Irritable Bao Store Front
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Scalar Reciprocity
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Photography
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Memory Makes the Metropolis An Exploration of Collective Memory & Identity in Architecture
Midtown Manhattan, NYC Spring 2020 Undergraduate Thesis
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Bachelor of Architecture Degree, Auburn University College of Architecture, Design, and Construction Thesis Abstract: The way we remember events, buildings, and people is rooted deep within psychology, specifcally of the collective memory. This thesis aims to clarify the role of collective memory in creating identity and the way we it affects the language and narrative of a city. The research on memories (individual and collective), identity in architecture, and preser-vation will ultimately determine the significance of collective memory on an urban architecture.
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The proposal is a high-rise hotel designed for users of Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. The hotel program also includes many amenities to round out the building as the complete destination for a short stay. The narrow floor plate is characteristic of current New York architecture. The buildings is designed around a central atrium that runs the length of the entire building. This space is a connection between all the programs as the user moves through them; the entire building becomes circulation to continue the transiency of the Penn complex.
History Collage
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“Your one stop transient stay�
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hr stay
Hotel floors
Amenity Hub
Hotel Restaurant & Bar Spa & Gym Collaborative Space Retail
Add. hotel floors
Main entrance
Circulation cores
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Site Plan
The old Penn Station, the new Moynihan Train Hall, and my proposed site create a Penn complex in Midtown Manhattan. The program was develped to fit the needs of Penn station users; commuters are encourgaed to supplement their travel at the hotel that hosts a variety of amenities. The circultation starts at the top of the hotel. Users are encouraged to use various programs throughout the building, emphasizing the movement down through the building’s main atrium space. Once a user has utilized all the programs available, their stay is complete. Individual circulation is considered a part of the buildings overall experience.
Ground Floor Plan
6 The ground floor is open to the flow of pedestrian traffic that dominates the area. The entrance to the building is located on the mezzane level one floor above. An oversized staircase structure provides a public program for the space, allowing for moments of pause within the high speed area. The mezzanine level is accessible through the staircase and is the point where the user enters the building’s circulation; elevators then take you straight to the top of the hotel.
View from intersection of 8th and 34th
View from observation deck onto MSG and train hall
7 While the circulation is open to the user as they navigate the various programs, the starting point is always the lobby. This grand space is reminiscent of the grand spaces in Penn Station, with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the entire city. Motifs of Penn Station’s facade have been etched into the glass. This space exists for a moment of pause and refelction on the city/Penn Station and its history before entering the program of the building.
View up into atrium
Site/Atrium Section
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View of main lobby
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Typical Hotel Floor Plan
View of mezzanine circulation entrancence
Lobby Plan
View from elevator into lobby & atrium
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Restaurant Floor Plan
Bar & Lounge Floor Plan
View into observation floor
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Aarhus Midtraffik
Aarhus, Denmark Spring 2018 Office and Bus Station
This project took place during an abroad studio in Aarhus. After studing the characteristics of Scandinavian architecture, we proposed an office space in the heart of the city. The value placed on light and the harsh consequences of weather were highly valued and considered. This project seeks to capture the Danish value of light and materiality. The exploration of materials drove the design process, to see how light could be distributed and reflected. Its location on a busy street allows for a public ground floor program, combining a ticket office, bus stop and cafe.
Street Elevation
13 The new office building blends into the backdrop of the street elevation, almost disappearing among the sky. This design is more about the quality of interior, atmospheric space over the appearance of exterior form. The exterior is made of double paned glass channels that reflect light inward, serving as a translucent but not transparent shell. Its form maintains the street but also steps back to allow for light and a covered bus stop on the ground floor. Floor plates pull back and taper in an atrium to filter in sunlight in the stacked workspaces.
Section A
Section B
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Ground Floor
Upper Office Floors
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Detailed Facade & Wall Section
OPERABLE EXTRUDED WINDOW
CUSTOM WINDOW SEAL
CONCRETE SLAB
LUMINECENT CEILING TILES
U-SHAPE GLASS CHANNEL
REFLECTIVE FINISH
RECESSED LIGHTING
The exterior is made of double paned glass channels that reflect light inward, serving as a translucent but not transparent shell.
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Night Render
Building becomes a lantern
Light Diagram
Glass Channel Window Detail
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Crossing Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN Fall 2018 Mixed-Use Retail & Residential
Within a rapidly developing city, an empty parking lot was the designated site for a mixed use building with retail and office space on the ground floor and residential above. The proposed site is already one of high density, thus allowing for a far richer community life in the area. This housing approach maintains the movement that happens throughout the city and funnels it inward to the site. The permeable ground floor allows for flexible maneuvering through the topography, allowing for pedestrian traffic to follow its previous patterns. Businesses stand as glowing boxes with solid cores to allow for visual connection.
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Ground Floor Plan
Covered Market Retail Retail
Ampitheater
Grocery
Retail
Lobby & Restaurant
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Typical Floor Plan
Section Perspective
Each floor plate exits as a small community, sharing public spaces and large outdoor hallways for interaction betweeen residents. Its circulation enforces the crossing pattern found in the ground floor, this time through a shared atrium. The atrium is inhabitable space, meant as a private space for the residents away from the larger population of the neighborhood. The units develop new relationships by having diagonally seperated spaces of interaction, sharing a balcony with one neighbor and a front porch with the other.
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SLIDING ALUMINUM GLASS DOORS CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE TERRA COTTA TILES
NON-STRUCTURAL METAL FRAMING GLAZED ALUMINUM CURTAIN WALLS GYPSUM BOARD THERMAL INSULATION INTERIOR FINISH CARPENTRY EXTERIOR FINISH CARPENTRY
Structure/Wall Section
The structure is cast in place concrete resembling a bathtub. Its curving shape internalizes the structure within the floor plates. Horizontal fins stabilize the system and provide a base for the flooring and column system. At 2’ thick with hollow interiors, the floor plates can run electrical, HVAC and fire systems through it.
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Unit Types
2 Bedroom
1 Bedroom
Urban Context
Studio
There is a lot of traffic along the site that can be pulled in
Urban Context Urban Context
There is a lot of traffic along the site that can be pulled in
Movement Movement
Movement pass the site draw you in between the masses
Movem
Movem
Unit Layout Unit Layout Circulation The units are flexible in use. The necessary utilities are located closer to Eachthe floor has a different hallremainder circulation create spaces behallway, leaving the ofto the spaceinteresting to be rearranged with tween floors walls. movable
Exteri
The so ally fill
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Innovation 2030 “Communality�
Auburn, AL Fall 2017 Sustainable Elementary School
Project was submitted to the 2017- 2018 COTE Top Ten for Students design competition , presented by the AIA COTE and the ASCA, in special collaboration with Architecture 2030 and Design Intelligence Design excellence and environmental performance were combined in the design of this elementary school in the southeast. This prototype school focuses on energy and emissions, adaptation, and resilience as a way to design for the future. It was modeled followed ten sustainability measures that will guide the way into 2030. The form is defined by individual grade-level courtyards that allow for interactions within an age group. The outdoor spaces provide a play area and common learning area. The rest of the school follows this same outdoor scheme.
Outdoor Learning Space and Playground
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Community
Wellness
Ecology
Economy
Water
Discovery
Integration
Change
Resources
Energy
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Main entrance
2 Third grade 3 Fourth grade 4 Fifth grade 5 Gym and Cafeteria 6 Art and Music classrooms 7 Library and Media center
Water collection is very important to the design and is made interactive for students as an educational opportunity. Rain gardens and bioswales break up the paths between the major programs. These paths between moments of discovery are essential to the student’s education. Everything about this school fosters discovery and exploration on the student’s own terms.
8 Administration and Lobby 9 Learning garden and playground 10 Multi-purpose space
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Library axonometric
Classroom developed surface
Fiber concrete panels (exterior)
Recycled rubber playground surface
Recycled carpet
Reclaimed wood
Marmoleum
28 This design was focused on creating a classroom grouping module. This module could be used as many times as a school design needs. This truly makes this school design a prototype that can be adapted to different locations.
1,168
metric tons of estimated carbon emissions Classroom module
Interior vs Exterior
Variety of heights makes the school feel an appropriate scale for children. Most building roofs pitch away from courtyards and usable space; water is collected behind and in between large spaces, in spaces such as rain gardens and bioswales.
Cross Section
Longitudinal Section
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predicted walk score
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Backyard on the Street
Selma, AL Spring 2019 Restaurant and Outdoor Space TEAMMATE: Patricia Fonseca
“The yard is a simple gesture that refocuses the street into small identifiable spaces where people come together to socialize or for other leisure activities.� Our studio was approached by a co-op in Selma looking to restore an empty building as a community restaurant and garden. The revival of Selma through new business requires a certain level of social planning, achieved in this design through the differently scaled spaces along the street edge that continue interaction from the neighborhood into the restaurant. The clients traditional notion of a gazebo was challenged, by unfolding it and creating a continuation of dining along the whole block and engaging the street.
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Site Plan
Alabama Avenue
Franklin Avenue
Sandlot
Interactive Kitchen
Interior restaurant area
Teaching Garden
Community Lawn
View into community garden
Hinton Alley
View of partition wall in dining space
Gallery
Communal Living Space
Teaching Kitchen
The inside of the existing building was very limited, so the space had to be flexible. The ground floor is mostly kitchen and little restaurant space. The second floor allows for larger group seating and entertainment, with a more casual setting. The third floor satisfies the client’s need for revenue by becoming temporary housing; two 1-bedroom units can become AirBnB spaces and have their own egress throughout the restaurant spaces.
Meeting/Dining Space
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2nd Floor- Restaurant
Cross Section
3rd Floor- Residential
Street Axon
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Unfolded Gazebo Process
Instead of a central gazebo, this design untilizes the idea of a covered space and explores its many shapes (see left). In an attempt to be cost consious, the roof structure changes in width along its length and is puntured in certain areas to allow stronger light in. The result is a light, narrow feature that provides room for a stage, dining area, and seating space. Seating modules were repeated in groups that allowed for a variety of programs and an ability to accommodate various groups and demographics. The restaurant space does not stop at the curb, but expands into the street , perfect for large gatherings and special events (see right).
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Collaborative Flexibility
Birmingham, AL Summer 2019 Coworking Space
An abonded building in downtown Birmingham was the proposed site for a re-fitted coworking office space. The identity of an employee is tied to their workspace, meaning the most successful work environment is one they have control over. In designing an office space for a company model such as WeWork, the need to maximize desk space meant the floor plate could be opened up to afford an adjustable space. The end result was a design all about the stuff (categorized as tables, chairs, shelves and columns) in the space, alcoves, and flexibility becoming variety.
Model view
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Developed Surface
The defining characteristic of the space is the lfexibility.A wide variety of programs were offered and needed to be properly defined. The different design methods were used to explore interior relationships and materiality. The above drawing was part developed surface and built up model.
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Overall Scheme Axon
Different scale alcoves cover each floor alike. In contrast to the uniformness of the office space, the alcoves have more domestic characteristics achieved through bright color and soft materials. Each domestic scene mimics a room in a traditional house that functions as a group work space. The overall schemes of the building is understood as repetition with different color themes as a way of way finding.
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Typical Floor Plan
Floor Plate Section
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Ceiling Axon Textures and fixtures on the ceiling and floor helped delienate spaces. This worm eye view shows lighting fixtures and sound absorbant panels on the ceiling.
Model Views
1/4� model was created to study relationships between materials with (realistic textures) and the effect of shelves in the central workspace
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Central public workspace
View from alcove into public area
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Weaving Woodlawn Weaving Holes, Making Whole
Chicago, IL October 2018 Mixed-Use Transportation Hub TOD TEAMMATES: Chenxi Dong, Regan Eiland, Melissa Ensley, Denisha Garland, Rengin Gurel, Jeff Jeong, Sarah Livings, Kendal Ludewig, Cam Lynch, Daniel Mejia, Aaron Neal, Yibo Qiao, Justice Richardson, Sarah Shepherd, Preston Smith, Yi Su, Conner Tomasello, Haoyu Zhou
The identity of Woodlawn is in a moment of transition. Once thriving, it had been deserted but recently came back to life with the proposal for the Obama Presidential Center. This proposal reacts against the typical model that consolidates all program in one central location. Program was spread throughout the neighborhood, rather than create a node of wealth on site. We are directly
engaging the community, not simply coexisting.
45 The first urban strategy, Sprawl, locates the proposed housing off site and in the neighborhood at the scale of current existing housing. The second strategy, Hub, is located on site and incorporates transportation, community oriented programs and retail. We are developing
a space that weaves the community of Woodlawn with tourists and residents of other metro Chicago areas.
The Hub will start a cycle of bringing people into the space, educating them with key tools and then sending them back into the community to continue taking initiative in restoring Woodlawn.
Sprawl Outward Hub Inward
OFFICE
COURTYARD
COFFEE SHOP RESTAURANT COURTYARD
OFFICE
COURTYARD
COLLAB
CLASSROOMS
AUDITORIUM
YOUTH
BIKE SHARE
MARKET
COMMUNITY GARDEN
PHARMACY
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Lot Figure Ground
25% of Woodlawn lots empty
25% of empty lots filled
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B
HEAVY
SOLAR PANELS
LIGHT
GREEN ROOFS CISTERN
Section cut locations
Section A
South Elevation
Section B
Sustainable systems
Building materiality
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Scalar Reciprocity A Mosaic of Space
Brooklyn, NY October 2019 Mixed-Use Retail and Residential Hub TEAMMATES: Collin Brown, Regan Eiland, Patricia Fonseca, Daniel Mejia, Sarah Shepherd, Preston Smith, Conner Tomasello Flatbush holds the biggest Carribean community, a fact we could not ignore in this community mixed use and residential design. We realized that to properly celebrate the foreign born identity we needed to make our building a background instead of a central design. Within the design, different scales of interaction exist between architecture and people. There is always a place to celebrate Flatbush publicly and a place to celebrate privately. This attention at every scale means we are preppared in the face of inevitable attempts at gentrification.
Public Captured Landscape
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Communal Hallways + Living Spaces
Greenhouse Bridge
Exterior Patios
Captured Landscape Site
Building
Courtyard
Individual and Collective Community Mosaic
Building Tile
Sidewalks
Courtyard
Gathering
Hills
Residential shared living room
Public captured lanscape during a special event
55%: 2 Bedroom
Unit hearth and nook
45%: 1 Bedroom
Unit
Residential
Entrance along Nostrand Living Room
Hallway
Hearth
Nook
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The Irritable Bao Store Front
Auburn, AL January, 2020 Restaurant Space TEAMMATE: Sarah Shepherd
The Irritable Bao is a famous Auburn establishment whose rapid success forced them to look for a new, bigger store front location. This proposal considers the personal connection the restaurant owners have developed with the community. The small space provides mutiple spaces and zones for socialization. This design creates a series of layers, from seating types to material textures to variations in levels. There are different sections of seating that consider the size of the group, the length of stay and the formality of the visit. The hanging decorations create an interesting view at eye level and continue the intricacy of the restaurant floor plan higher up.
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Furniture Catalog Martin Black Chair (IKEA) Quantity: 8
Laneberg Extendable Table Brown 51” (IKEA) Quantity: 2
Hampton Bay and Kimba Ceramic Lantern (Home Depot) Quantity: ~6
Set of 2 Rhodes Metal & Wood Seat Square Counter Stool (Target) Quantity:14 total
12-Cube Organizer Shelf 11” - Room Essentials (Target)
Bamboo Pendant Light (Etsy) Quantity: ~7
Jameson Dining Table 30”x30” (Wayfair) Quantity: 2
Outdoor Seat Cushion Room Essentials (Target) Quantity: 7 (varying colors)
5’X8’ Geometric Woven Area Rugs Red - Weave & Wander (Target)
Laneberg Extendable Table Brown 51” (IKEA) Quantity: 2
Red Microsuede Bean Bag (Home Depot) Quantity: 2
WINDOW BAR SEATING
COMMUNAL TABLE
The vary narrow space is broken down into three sections with rearrangeable furniture. All seating was chosen to be affordable or easily contructed to align with the budget of a small buisness.
LINE/WAITING AREA
Restaurant Floor Plan
LIVING ROOM
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Brand promotion was important in the final design
Pendant lights define seating
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View of queue space in proximity to seating
From the counter, a clear view is provided of all the customers
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Photography
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