MDS works
statement + resume learn about Michael David Salinas
a monument to change Presidential library, museum, + foundation
the enterprise collaborative research facility
industrious
manufacturing + corporate headquarters
intervention
digital design / fabrication - installation
XXL
college campus master plan
moving up
mixed use housing/commercial
retreat
community clubhouse
show stopper public music library
parasite
historic motel transformation
making
MICHAEL DAVID SALINAS 1917 Ridgecrest Dr SE #315. Albuquerque, NM. 87108 Phone: 512.587.9386 Website: ̵michaeldavidsalinas.com̵ Email: ̵michael.david.salinas@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE INTERN ARCHITECT FBT Architects ALBUQUERQUE, NM Mar. 2014 - Present - Junior Designer assigned on +300,000sf New Construction/Renovation of a High School. - Key player in Revit BIM management + coordinating with consultants. - Contributed to floorplan/section design; specifically solving the first phase 'core' concept. - Helped build Phase I submittals from SD to CDs, actively designing + drafting detail drawings. - Currently working on CDs for Phase II. CD experience on two previous public school projects.
architecture as a goal I do not want to be a ______ architect, I want to be a good architect. A good architect has a balanced, pragmatic approach to design, evaluating simultaneously the impact of asthetics, sustainability, context, mechanical / structural system integration, + how the users of the building will respond to their surroundings. One person or tool cannot yield the best results. Collaboration + utilizing multiple mediums are essential. Furthermore, change is constant; flexibility + adaptibility are critical. While compromises are bound to occur, the goal will always be architecture. A physical expression of the society that commisions it, the context that shapes it, the people that foster it, + the elements that manifest it.
PART-TIME FACULTY UNM School of Architecture + Planning ALBUQUERQUE, NM Jan. 2015 - Present - Teaches one of three intro courses required for admission into the School of Architecture. - Focuses on physical model making, analog graphic skills, + conceptual thinking. GRADUATE / RESEARCH ASSISTANT UNM School of Architecture + Planning ALBUQUERQUE, NM - GA - Intro to Architecture (Managed operations, assisted lectures) - RA - Fabrication Lab (CNC, laser, metal, + wood working machinery) - GA - Introduction to Arch. Graphics (instruction of analog methods)
Aug. 2011 - May 2014 (Aug 2011 - May 2012) (June 2012 - May 2013) (June 2013 - May 2014)
LEASING + MARKETING COORDINATOR May 2010 – Aug. 2011; RAM Partners LLC. AUSTIN, TX Jan. 2007 – Dec. 2009 - Real estate sales, client service, marketing, + office work for a national multi-family management company; processed credit/criminal applications, performed file audits, assisted in collections. - Learned on the job property management software systems, AMSI, AMSI e-site, + Yardi Voyager NEW HOME SALES CONSULTANT KB Home AUSTIN, TX Dec. 2009 – May 2010 - Real Estate sales + client service for a national, production homebuilder. - Developed an understanding of the homebuilding process, jobsite management. - Left upon scholarship award for UT Summer Academy in Architecture.
EDUCATION Beauty exists in works of architecture; good architects make architecture. Architecture is a goal.
University of New Mexico, SA+P ALBUQUERQUE, NM Master of Architecture, May 2014 - Awarded Matthew Smilovits Endowed Memorial Scholarship, $1000; 3.8 gpa
Aug. 2011 - May 2014
University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN, TX May 2010 - Jun. 2010 Certificate, Summer Academy in Architecture - Recognized with the “Award of Excellence;” Awarded 90% scholarship based on entry portfolio. University of New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, NM Aug. 1999 - May 2003 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History - Awarded the Political Science Department Legislative Internship, Santa Fe, NM. - Community volunteer + activist. USER GUIDE:
SKILLS
Colorized or spot-color images indicate those that I claim no authorship. Black + white or full color images are created by me. (with the exception of borrowed satelite imagery.) Cyan - final year of grad school Magenta - second year Grey/Yellow - first year or prior.
ON THE COVER:
“Flattened Iron” Digital Photograph, Nikon D5100, 35mm lens New York City - 2014
- Skilled in, Rhino, Revit, AutoCad, SketchUp, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and more. - Digital fabrication skills, designing via 3D software, utilizing laser, CNC, + 3d printing machinery for results. - Some experience in Grasshopper; picks up + adapts to technology quickly. - Exceptional graphic, rendering, + oral presentation skills; possesses analog drafting + modeling skills. - Research, project management, interpersonal skills.
BARACK H. OBAMA CENTER FOR CHANGE - CHICAGO, IL University of New Mexico SA+P - Spring 2014 - Professor Kramer Woodard
“I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee; Wednesday, April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated.
SP 2014 - A MONUMENT TO CHANGE
a monument to change
On Chicago’s South Side, there is a place that feels neighborly, yet still Presidential. It pays respect to a community that shaped Obama, but is strategic in its proximity to the University of Chicago + it’s ambition impact growth on the South Side. The design resolves complex programs + circulation patterns while investigating an architecture that is a critical of urban, historical, + social contexts. By pairing simplified + warped geometries, it gives voice to the sobering realities of the Presidency. Finally, while Obama’s election might be heralded as America’s arrival to the ‘promised land,’ the mountain top within reminds us of the work left to be done.
Perspective looking SE, at 60th + Woodlawn.
SP 2014 - A MONUMENT TO CHANGE
context 1 (1) Blues star, Muddy Water’s abandoned, 25’-wide prototype home in Chicago’s Southside.*
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
(2) Robie House, located + maintained by the University of Chicago. (Frank Lloyd Wright)* (3) Brick Weave House fits in a historic working class neighborhood, West Town, (Studio Gang)*
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PRECEDENT: 42 + 43 Clinton’s (42) pairs full + semi-transparency; opaque masonry drapes George W. Bush’s (43) ; each reflect on the people who occupied the oval office, intentional or not.*
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site selection national mall, washington d.c.
(1) Logan Center for the Arts (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects)* (2) School of Social Service Adminstration (Mies van der Rohe)* 3 - Law School Quadrangle + Reflecting Pool (Eero Saarinen)* (4) Rockafeller Memorial Chapel (Bertram Goodhue)*
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borrowed material, applied as geometry
PATTERN PROTECTION MASS PASSAGE
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The historic 25’ wide lots suggests a familiar rhythm for infill, a module tailored to existing fabric.
post-industrial Brick’s reduced role over time.
The staggered, brick pattern is applied to space + structure
SP 2014 - A MONUMENT TO CHANGE
borrowed geometry, applied to material
Borrowed geometry, not program.
Manipulation, spin, disjoining, + patching; a non-partisan remark on Presidential politics.
Parametric modeling assigns Chicago’s brick a new role. Brick seperates this + that; it’s transparent, yet opaque.
A modern ‘motar’ binds an assembly.
SP 2014 - A MONUMENT TO CHANGE
representations (1) Perspective looking SE, Plaza level entry at 60th + Woodlawn.
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(2) Overhead looking E; student + public parking scheme under The Midway consolidates pedestrian traffic to a single, secure entry. (3) Main Lobby with Cafe 44 + the archives in view, above. Museum patrons rise together on a glass enclosed platform, inside the brick tower.
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(1) Inside the brick tower, natural light pours down on museum patrons as they ascend en masse; the experience is disarming (2) Meanwhile, ‘transparent brick’ surrounds. A critique on the goodwill for transparent government versus the reality of national security; The general public will never touch the archives.
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(1) Exhibit level lobby. The flexible gallery is structurally interupted by staggered columns on a 25’ module, 50’ on center. Partitions are placed at curators’ discretion. (2) Direct sunlight is baffled to illuminate the space while protecting exhibit artifacts.
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(3) ‘The Mountain Top,’ or final exhibit, brings the primary programs into one view. The active diorama recalls Dr. King’s famous speech, echoing America’s true distance from the promised land. History is still being shaped + the promise of ‘change’ is still yet to come.
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enlarged plan: 3 paths, never cross.
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PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION SUITE
PUBLIC RESEARCH
1” insulated, low-E glazing unit metal coping extruded aluminum retainer cap frame metal flashing LED light fixture, 1’ O.C. FiberTite single-ply roofing membrane rigid foam insulation vapor barrier Aerogel insulation in valley, continuous prestressed, site precast voided biaxial concrete roof slab, polished on finished ceiling side metal bracket soffit with mechanically fastened walnut panels + track light strip steel anchors steel plate, field welded column plate composite column; tube steel w/concrete fill polished terrazo floor tile raised access floor system return air under-floor ductwork HVAC supply 8” hollowcore, precast concrete deck w/2” grout topping shear connector; grouted void space between deck slabs composite beam (wide flange cast in concrete)
SANDIA NATIONAL LABS / UNM SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING JOINT RESEARCH CENTER - ALBUQUERQUE, NM University of New Mexico SA+P - Spring 2013 - Professor Roger Schluntz, FAIA
SP 2013 - THE ENTERPRISE
the enterprise
The built environment has an impact on productivity within the workplace. Many high level research facilities invest in spaces that encourage collaboration, promote wellness, + offer natural light. All true, except in New Mexico; most are merely adequate. Spawned by the desire to collaborate, Sandia National Labs + the UNM School of Engineering seek a home to house their combined efforts. It houses a dynamic internal public realm known as the ‘urban canyon’, shapes the user’s role within. Further, the design re-interprets program + typological models for the purpose of creating a stimulating working environment.
the ‘urban canyon’ performs as an enclosed street, offering public functions along the ground, while resident scientists dwell above.
SP 2013 - THE ENTERPRISE
visual reference
kasha-katuwe tent rocks national monument cochiti pueblo, typical ‘rue’ paris, france nm Urban + Canyon; cues from the natural + built environment are borrowed to define public / private space.
residents street
25 broad, lower manhattan new york, ny
“my curves are not mad” nasher center, dallas, tx ((richard richard serra) serra)
the 8 house copenhagen,dk copenhage (big)*
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caltrans district 7 los angeles, ca (morphosis)* Science Fiction is the muse of scientific discovery. Combined with an available address of 1701 Central Ave, a scientific lab had to capture this spirit.
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a retail-wrapped garage concentrates pedestrian flow; courtyard scheme emerges.
the gift of shade advances a safe path; the solar path distorts the courtyard.
the lightwell illuminates a public realm within; the city becomes a spectacle.
SP 2013 - THE ENTERPRISE
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SE Entry Lobby; a public forum occupies the lobby, ideal for informal gathering, lunch, lectures, or watching the city. A tiered threshold filters the public along the busy street.
The canyon walls play on the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;deviceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of an implied surface, communicating space + volume while operating materially minimal. Perspective looking NW; collaborative + wellness spaces poke through the metal-mesh veil.
SP 2013 - THE ENTERPRISE
The implied surface is carved by the sun; deciduous vines allow bounced light to filter into lab spaces. Top floor lab spaces are daylit via south facing baffles.
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(1) Program shaped the early studies of the light ‘canyon.’ (2) Utilizing Grasshopper, a plug-in for Rhino, the surfaces are then subdivided to develop constructability. (3) The parametric script is modified to simplify geometry into developable triangleated surfaces. A 3-pointed surface is always flat; curvature is handled only in the joinery; it is ‘easier’ to build.
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University of New Mexico SA+P - Fall 2013 - Professor Kramer Woodard
FA 2013 - INDUSTRIOUS
industrious The client is a startup, therefore, the factory is approached as a generic type, just in case they are not here tomorrow. Thus, the design exercise is a search for context to shape the project. Climatic: The harsh conditions demands a design that negotiates scarce solar access + frigid temperatures. Physical: Industry’s hazardous conditions + XL scale removes it from the city; it ‘lacks’ context. manufacturing conceptual e-w section
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Embeded: The struggle between the classes - Proletariat + Bourgeoisie. While tensions are cooler today, the design attempts to optimize productivity by placing white + blue collar along a common plane. Programs of wellness are lifted, uniting all workers.
FA 2013 - INDUSTRIOUS
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Transportation circulation
Isometric Section Detail @ East facade - offices
FA 2013 - INDUSTRIOUS
representations Overhead perspective looking North. The rhythm of folded roof planes distribute daylighting throughout. Main lobby + staircase; butt-joint glazing maximizes the visual connection from showroom to factory floor, blurring the line between white + blue collar. The stair also serves as a formal/ informal meeting place.
FA 2013 - INDUSTRIOUS
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Perspective of main entry; the Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis, in the background during winter nights. Transit by air is very common between Alaskan settlements; here, an overhead perspective under darkness.
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1200 SAN MATEO SE - ALBUQUERQUE, NM
University of New Mexico SA+P - Spring 2012 - Professor Kristina Yu
SP 2012 - MOVING UP
moving up
In Albuquerque, there lies an edge between desirable + not, providing lessons for developments that followed, yet itself still in tension. Located along that ridge on an existing, underutilized parking lot beside a vacant shopping center is1200 San Mateo Blvd SE. It speculates that a single mixed use project can serve as a catalyst towards further endeavours, improving life in the emerging International District of the Southeast Heights. Facing the street at ground level are three retail ‘pods’, capable of being subdivided into six total storefronts. The affordable housing apartments range from studios to three bedrooms. Inside, residents enjoy atypical fenestrations for dramatic daylighting, open living plans, shared + private patios. Rather than fortifying, privacy is acheived by remaining permeable, banking on increased ‘eyes on the street’ to deter unwanted activity. Simultaneously, the added density rejuvenates urbanism at the block scale.
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DE ANZA MOTEL - ALBUQUERQUE, NM
University of New Mexico SA+P - Spring 2014 - Lecturer Francisco Uvina
SP 2014 - PARASITE
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PROJECT TEAM: Daniel Aguilar Michael Salinas Sarah Vander Wegen Sonia Vinajeras-Gallegos
In Highland, just East of Albuquerque’s Nob Hill, lies the city-owned De Anza Motor Lodge, a Route 66 icon on the Historic National Registry. Vacant for some time, recent efforts to utilize preservation tax credits have failed. (Ironically, the developer wanted the ‘30s version, preservationists the ‘60s.) Meanwhile, it continues to decompose in plain sight in an area plagued with vacant lots + retail spaces; the district remains in crisis. While a public owner cannot shed the Historic Registry tag, a private one can. Enter the ‘Parasite:’ obviate the preservationists + forget the tax credits. Instead, urgently negotiate with the city for purchase with a promise to do something tasteful. The city continues by creating leverage via the media. The project would introduce new mix of uses (commercial, residential, + motel), acting as a catalyst for revitalized street life, growing Albuquerque’s most successful pedestrian corridor.
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SP 2014 - PARASITE
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SP 2014 - PARASITE
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INSTALLATION - GEORGE PEARL HALL - ALBUQUERQUE, NM University of New Mexico SA+P - Fall 2011 - Instructor Stephen Mora, Sci-ARC
SP 2012 - INTERVENTION
intervention Graduate Communications is a key component in the 3.5 year track; this installation was the culmination of an accelerated semester study of 2D/3D digital design tools to investigate possibilities, produce orthographic representations + details into a constructable reality. With Pearl Hall as the host, Intervention prompted 5 design teams (3-4 people) to propose an installation that would transform an often vacant courtyard + engage the users in a dynamic way. PROCESS: Utilizing Rhino as the platform, a series of curves were constructed, then lofted into a complex-curvature. After editing, the complex shape was reduced back into 2D contours 16â&#x20AC;? on center. Cross + longitudal curves were further manipulated into extrusions which were booleaned to produce dry-fitting, interlocking pieces. To reduce waste during CNC fabrication, the profiles were further refined into into segments, utilizing planar, puzzle-like joinery to assist the mechanically fastened mending plates. The skin are ribbons of pine, soaked in water to allow material manipulation during installation. Published on Suckerpunchdaily.com. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s description is co-authored by Stephen Mora + Michael Salinas.
WINNING DESIGN TEAM: Jason Argyropolos Servando Miranda Sonia Vinajeras-Gallegos
COMPETITION TEAM: Brooke Belyeu Adriana Liberman Michael Salinas
CONSTRUCTION TEAM: Jason Argyropoulos Brooke Belyeu Ricardo Cano Sam Flores Angelina Grey Stevie Hartmann Hooman Keyhan Adriana Liberman
Dale Lusk Servando Miranda-Parra Eduardo Ordaz Stephen Conner Reichert Michael Salinas Sonia Vinajeras-Gallegos Natalia Vladimirova Maggie Wells Zhu Zhu
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO KLAUER CAMPUS - TAOS, NM University of New Mexico SA+P - Spring 2013 - Professor Roger Schluntz, FAIA
SP 2013 - XXL
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XXL Today, the University of New Mexico - Taos is a modest branch, offering a part-time, community college education. The setting is on a donated, isolated, barren mesa between the lush Rio Grande + epic mountain terrains that offer 270° views. While a seemingly generous site, a 100’ setback + a 25’ building height restriction name only a couple of the challenges with expansion.
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The solution was to integrate indexical urban terrains that also remidiate the regional asthetic, culture, + sense of place. Verticality is acheived by digging in, splitting the terrain, recalling ceremonial ‘kivas’ dug into the earth while accumulating building area density. At the micro scale, the ‘streets’ are lively + comfortable, while the prominent landscape feature returns you back to isolation on the mesa + its disarming landscape; you are meant to feel small again.
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ALTURA PARK COMMUNITY RETREAT - ALBUQUERQUE, NM University of New Mexico SA+P - Fall 2011 - Professor Gabriella Gutierrez
FA 2011 - RETREAT
retreat ‘Altura’ is a typical neighborhood park in Albuquerque; a perfect place to enjoy the outdoors, surrounded by a tree lined edge, 20’ on center. An ambiguous brief described a need for a ‘community clubhouse’ that had a stair element, public restrooms, + fireplace. Site analysis revealed that neighbors of the park gradually errected walls; it reveals the difficulty with perception of comfort near a public place. The design responds with walls of it’s own; a conservative facade that does not reveal it’s elegant, modernist architecture until situated inside the site. Typical to modernism, the generic, open-plan is capable of hosting both small + larger functions. An axial relationship between preserved trees + the fireplace provides a delicate anchoring to the site.
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AUSTIN MUSIC LIBRARY - AUSTIN, TX
University of Texas SoA (Summer Academy) - Summer 2010 - Studio Instructor Matthew Leach, Lecturer Kevin Moore, Professor Kevin Alter, Director
SU 2010 - SHOW STOPPER
show stopper
From the home of Austin City Limits and SXSW, an interactive/music event, a proposal emerges for a public library focused on sharing + cataloging music of all styles. Located along 8th Street, between Congress Avenue + Colorado Street, the site sits on a sloped, under-utilized lot in downtown Austin, TX, adjacent to a busy one-way thoroughfare.
Site model, looking West along 8th street.
Perspective looking South. Longitudal section looking West.
The goal was to not merely catalog, but to create a bold architecture that strives to embody the spirit of Austin’s live music scene. It’s cantilevers appear to leap + lean towards the street, trying to stop the traffic, calling passers by to see what’s inside. Inside, the listening + reading areas are enhanced by the visual connection to the urban scene. Meanwhile, peculiar nooks, terraces, + overlooks create a spatial fabric that is three-dimensional, allowing for multiple, smaller-scale experiences that become personal + intimate.
Programing occured quickly using colored foam blocks.
ground level
one point five level
third level
fourth level
fifth level
RECLAIMED
reclaimed Waste is difficult to accept, + yet the energy to convert the discarded into the useful must be minimal. Making from scraps must evaluate the ease of both the transformation + the new application. The piece is both elegant + unrefined - this is intentional. The table top + base’s exterior finishes are treated, while the underside leaves behind, without apologies, the memory of how it was made. PROCESS: To become a coffee table top, recovered strips of birch plywood were bonded with wood adhesive, clamped, allowed to cure, then stripped of excess glue via scraping, then sanded, + finished with a polyurethane coat.
The base was fabricated from reclaimed steel angles abandoned in studio. To transform, the steel was cut down with a metals chop saw, then a jig was created from wood scraps to reduce error in fabricating two, identical longitudal sections + keep them square during the MIG welding process. The remaining cross-spanning pieces were welded to the long sections while attached to a portion of the existing jig. The metal was finished with a grinding + polishing wheel. Mechanical fasteners keep the top + base together as one.
screening Renting property is often an ‘as-is’ situation; while the essentials are mandated, there are little incentives to both tenants + landlords to make adjustments to the nuances of comfort in regards to the built environment. Both parties realize that their relationship is temporary. To the contrary, this deck/screen was conceived as a ‘light,’ collapsible structure, utilizing a floating CMU foundation, secured with screws + bolts rather than nails or poured con-
crete peirs. The impact on existing structures is little to none + is meant to be re-located + reassembled somewhere else in the future. Located on the South face of a 1 bedroom duplex, the screens enhance privacy, creating an interesting play on light, space, + a cozy place to occupy. Intergral to the design are the removable panels on the upper third for Winter solar access + a pedestrian path for mailbox access.