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BÜNC-HÄUS HOSTEL
Location Austin | TX Duration 8 weeks Professor Nerea Feliz | Adv. Design Award UTSoA Design Excellence 2018
D esign began with a 13’x 18’ room within a hostel. The room is organized around a place for individuals as well as a place for a group, which manifests into distinct moves: compression and release. A large vault in the center of the space creates the group space. The vault’s massive walls create a thick band of solidity that is carved to create compact spaces for individuals. Entry into the space transitions from compression to a heightened sense of release, drawing the eye upwards towards the ceiling. A line graphic on the wall and curtains accentuate the height of the vault ( inspired by Schinkel’s curtain room), while white oak clads the compressed space. One returns to compression when sleeping. This concept transitions further to the public spaces. The tallest vault of the hostel contains the lobby space. In a similar manner to the room, smaller spaces are carved out of the wall of the vaults. Contrastingly, a large flexible lounge space in the interior of the vault provides guests a place to hangout. The textured wood within the carved spaces starkly contrasts the colorful painted gradient within the vault. This colourful gradient creates a place of intrigue, while accentuating the height of the vault through color change.
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Bünc-Häus Hostel By utilizing the ceiling, a typically overlooked surface in the hotel room, the vault creates a unique spatial experience. The drastic height change from the perimeter (8’) to under the vault (24’) in such a small room draws one’s attention upwards.
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The hostel is situated at Lamar and Airport in the Crescent shopping center which is surrounded by a mixed-use development, light industry, and the Highland neighborhood. Visitors will be able to explore Austin by taking both the light rail station and the rapid bus station across N Lamar Blvd. The original facade of the complex remains, concealing the new hostel behind it at eye level. Consequently, the facade becomes the threshold between the shopping center environment and the secluded hostel. From driving down Lamar, the tapered volumes appear above the facade acting as signage for the hostel.
courtyard anchors the hostel, while the rooms surround adjacent smaller private courtyards. Within the built volumes, back of house and individual spaces reside in the poche, while group spaces occur in the interior of the vaults. The hostel is meant to be an amenity not only for guests, but also to this developing area of Austin. The event space and courtyard can be rented out for outside events and gatherings The Bünc-Häus Hostel is a mixing of music, warm beds, sleepless nights, food, and spirits. People come to stay here simply to have good a time, make new connections, explore Austin, and create meaningful experiences.
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Site. The Bünc-Häus Hostel is situated in the Crescent shopping center, which is surrounded by a mixed-use development, light industry, and the Highland neighborhood.Visitors will be able to explore Austin by taking both the light rail station and the rapid bus station across N Lamar Blvd.
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PILOTI
Location Austin | TX Duration 4 weeks Professor Keith Simon | Matthew Tanteri | Environmental Controls 1 Partners Maxwell Baird | Will Powell
P ILOTI is a slender, wood and concrete fixture, developed to increase overall luminance within a space through primarily uplighting strategies. Just as important, and equally considered throughout the design process, is the aesthetic effect of the luminaire in the space while on and off. The commanding presence anchors the room; reading as a strong monolithic sculpture during the day, and at night becoming a far more intricate source of ambient light. The plywood housing has been CNC routed to leave only the last layer of material where the pattern occurs. Since the material is never penetrated, there is no sign of modification to the wood when the light is on. The design hides all structure, working to create a piece that has massive qualities while remaining extremely delicate. Initially developed for residential applications, PILOTI’s scale and strong sense of materiality easily make it applicable in commercial architecture.
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CORNELL FOREST EDGE
Location Van Etten | NY Duration 6 weeks Professor Hope Hasbrouck | Design V
A s defined in the landscape design guidelines of the Cornell Master Plan: “Cornell’s landscapes are essential not only to the image of the campus and research extensions, but also to the university’s academic mission and quality of life. They are a fundamental part of Cornell’s social infrastructure, providing spaces for casual interaction, recreation, and celebrations, while furthering teaching researching and outreach. Future developments will require the maintenance and improvement of historic landscapes and the creation of new ones. Indeed, landscapes will provide the framework and setting for future development.” Design began with a series of mappings across multiple scales: region, territory, and site. The focus of these studies was to inform a thesis that integrates the project to its wider social and geographic context and to select a site for the research campus.
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A. Continental map depicting the location of the two ecoregions B. Elevation change map of the Finger Lakes Uplands/Gorges and the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau Map at region scale
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Cornell Forest Edge
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When studying across these scales, a pattern of forest structure was discovered. The gorges of this region in New York organize the region dominated by forests creating clear breaks and boundaries. The location of the Field Campus was selected for its existing culture, infrastructure, and function as the main gate into the research forest. In addition, the site strongly relates to the valley created by the Banfield Creek that breaks through the center of the Arnot forest. Due to its existing culture and traditions, the research campus design aims to emulate the old Field Campus, while improving the
link to its landscape. The most sacred element of the Field Campus is the open field that all buildings bound. This field is the location of all outdoor training and social events for residents and visitors within the Arnot Forest. Architecture is used to articulate the edge conditions or extend past them creating a design that considers the site and its buildings as a single living ecosystem. A research campus at the edge of Cornell’s Arnot Research Forest aims to spatially define the physical and experiential link between a research facility and the landscape of research, creating a new social framework intertwined with the land.
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B. Composite Map of the Arnot Research Forest depicting location of site. The existing Field Campus is the farthest south location and the far right satellite image.
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RISE
Location Goose Island State Park | TX Duration 8 weeks Professor Coleman Coker | Adv. Design Partners Eric Alexander | Sara Bensalem | Hannah Frossard Partners James Holliday | Hannah Ivancie | Josh Leger | Max Mahaffey Partners Olakunle Oni | Michelle Sifre | Sebastian Rojas | Neive Tierney Awards AIA Fort Worth Student Design Merit Award | ASLA Student Design Award of Excellence Publications Texas Architect Magazine (March/April 2017) | UTSoA ISSUE: 013 (Spring 2017)
T he ADA-accessible observation platform is intended for bird watchers and nature education groups to engage with an otherwise inaccessible piece of coastal marshland. The 8’x12’ platform sits at a height approximately six feet above grade and grants users a better vantage point into a habitat notable for its diverse plant life and an abundant feeding ground for the hundreds of migratory bird species that winter near Aransas Bay. The platform is marked by a 96-foot treated yellow pine screen-wall that acts as a backdrop for perceiving the rich variety of native grasses on site. Resulting from a collaborative designbuild studio, RISE reflects a distillation of 13 individual design concepts into one built product. A wall is a vertical gesture, but our project is essentially horizontal, establishing a dialogue with the distant horizon and a register for the subtle changes in the immediate topography and the grasses that spring from it. A. Initial concept sketch of nature contrasting architecture. Scheme was selected out of thirteen others presented. A.
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LOCATION: GOOSE ISLAND STATE PARK | ROCKPORT, TX
CLIENT: TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: EMILY PRESTON
ARCHITECT: COLEMAN COKER
PROJECT TEAM: ERIC ALEXANDER SARA BENSALEM MITCH FLORA HANNAH FROSSARD JAMES HOLLIDAY HANNAH IVANCIE JOSHUA LEGER MAX MAHAFFEY OLAKUNLE ONI QIANHUI MIAO MICHELLE SIFRE SEBASTIAN ROJAS NEIVE TIERNEY
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PLAZA S A LT I L LO
Location Austin | TX Duration 8 weeks Professor Dean Almy | Design IV Partners Hannah Frossard | Jayme Greene (for initial urban plan) Award UTSoA Design Excellence 2015
T he Plaza Saltillo T.O.D., located between E 6th Street and E 3rd Street, within two decades will be enveloped in the urbanity of Downtown Austin. The solution is to design an urban plan that morphs the T.O.D. into an Eccentric Nucleus for the expansion of East Austin, while addressing the needs of the existing communities. An Eccentric Nucleus, defined in A Pattern Language, is a community core formed by local services and a transition between the nearest major urban center to a subculture — East Austin. The urban plan is a high density bulge adjacent to downtown inwardly swelling by accomplishing four goals to create a dense fabric that will extend through East Austin. Four main goals of this urban design: 1.Concentrating local services along a central artery 2.Improving pedestrian and street connectivity 3.Utilizing public space as an organizational framework 4.Concentrating residence and jobs to transit stations
A. Sketch influenced from A Pattern Language explaining the concept of Eccentric Nucleus
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A. A. Eccentric Nucleus Urban Plan with mixed use design overlaid onto an areal photograph B. Transportation diagram of Eccentric Nucleus Urban Plan with mixeduse site C. Public space diagram of Eccentric Nucleus Urban Plan with mixed-use site Plaza Saltillo
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The mixed-use design is the flagship to my group’s urban design, Eccentric Nucleus, which defines public assembly and proximity to services as the organizational framework to high density housing in East Austin. Contrasting the typical Texas doughnut design found adjacent to the site, the design carves out the initial code massing to create public space and street connections. The housing then becomes the solidity that defines these public spaces in scale and program. To the east, the building becomes the bookend to the major park created through my group’s urban strategy. This face is a defining wall of housing and is activated by
the grocery store front. To the south, housing continues the zoned massing, but carves out elevated social balconies. The main lobby is located on the southwest corner closest to the new light rail stop also created by my group’s urban strategy. The mixed use design moves from the scale of the city to the unit to study and exploit the relationship of urban housing and its setting within an urban fabric. The design addresses all sides allowing public space to enter or be bordered. East Austin within twenty years will become an extension of downtown, and the design becomes the transition between downtown Austin’s urbanity to East Austin’s culture.
A. Sketch showing the carving of the code massing to create public spaces and street connections
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B. Rendering looking at the north facade on the corner of 5th and Waller St.
B. Austin | TX
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A. Exploded axon of levels of residential in grey vs. commercial in red B. Section cut through public spaces and residential units. Red dashed line is the code massing
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Rendering looking at the south facade, including the main lobby, from the proposed light rail stop on 4th Street
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RESUME
Contact mitch flora | mitchflora@utexas.edu Education the university of texas at austin Degree b.arch. + business foundations 2018
EXPERIENCE
ACHIEVEMENTS
Michael Hsu Office of Architecture | austin, texas project designer, jun 2018 - present office, restaurant, + residential design / c.a. designer, aug 2017 - may 2018 restaurant + retail design intern, may - aug 2016 restaurant + furniture design Lake Flato Architects | san antonio, texas intern, jan - aug 2017 office, restaurant, + mixed-use design
UTSoA Design Excellence | spring 2018 + 2015 honor for exemplary studio project exhibited in mebane gallery, summer 2018 + 2015
LPA, Inc. | san antonio, texas intern, may - aug 2015 school renovation + multi-family design
ASLA Student Award of Excellence | fall 2017 honor of highest distinction selected from local and international student projects featured in landscape architect magazine, sep 2017 AI A Fort Worth Student Design Merit Award | spring 2017 honor of excellence in architecture selected from accredited texas architecture schools featured in texas architect magazine (mar/jun 2017) UTSoA Design Distinction | spring 2016 honor for comprehensive studio project
OCO Architects | san antonio, texas intern, jun -aug 2014 park master planning
College Scholar | 2015 ranked top 20% in utsoa in academic standing
SKILLS
SERVICE
Architectural Design sketchup | auto cad | revit | rhino arc gis | grasshopper
UTSoA Mentor Program | 2014 - present guide + counsel incoming freshmen
Rendering v-ray | enscape vr | prospect vr | su podium
LICENSING PROGRESS
Graphic Design illustrator | photoshop | indesign Digital Fabrication cnc routing | 3d printing | laser cutting
Architectural Experience Program | completed per axp 2017 Architectural Registration Exam | 1 of 6 completed per are 5.0
REFERENCES UPON REQUEST
P: 210.260.3972 W: mitchflora.com E: mitchflora@utexas.edu