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ALEXANDER G, BASURTO PORTFOLIO POSITION ARCHITECTURE
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alegonzalezbasurto@gmail.com
505 209 5447
ROSEPOINT RESIDENCE, Albuquerque NM, 2013
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PROFESSIONAL WORK ROSEPOINT RESIDENCE RURAL HOSPITAL 377 TAPROOM MONTANO RESIDENCE WELLESLEY 1714 ALVARADO ACADEMIC WORK LEADING EDGE COMPETITION COB UNM
ALEXANDER G, BASURTO APPLICANT FOR A POSITION IN ARCHITECTURE 2015
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING GRADUATE PROGRAM M. Architecture, 2013- Present AWARDS \ PUBLICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING GRADUATE PROGRAM BA. Architecture, 2012 AWARDS | EXHIBITIONS 2011 NAAB EXPOSITION, 1st Selection, 3rd Year, UNM Architecture Honorable Mention, 2010 Leading Edge Competition, Long Beach, CA Unexpected. September, 2007. Jane Mahoney, Albuquerque Journal
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CAMPOVERDE ARCHITECTURE 2015, INTERN ARCHITECT, Albuquerque, NM Worked developing concept and design schemes for a tenant improvement to a commercial space to house a taproom and restaurant. Was responsible for creating drawings using AutoCad, Illustrator, Layout, and Revit. Created 3D models in Rhino and Sketchup.
MODHAB DESIGN BUILD 2009-2015, DESIGNER, Albuquerque, NM Worked as a designer on 11 projects. The work involved CD, DD, SD, CA, VE. I created drawings using AutoCAD, Illustrator, ArchiCAD, Layout, Photoshop. I built physical models of several projects. I created 3D models with Rhino, Sketchup, ArchiCAD and Revit.
AWARDS | EXHIBITIONS 2011 NAAB EXPOSITION, 1st Selection, 3rd Year, UNM Architecture Honorable Mention, 2010 Leading Edge Competition, Long Beach, CA Unexpected. September, 2007. Jane Mahoney, Albuquerque Journal
ROSEPOINT RESIDENCE, 2014Albuquerque, NM
Wabi Sabi ; represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.
The idea behind this addition was to create a space that is intrinsically counterbalanced. The form is dictated largely by compliance with the established aesthetic guidelines of the neighborhood. The form itself moves from the southwest to northeast due to regulations of scale and setbacks. The building’s form is therefore ‘weighted’ with the large portion of its volume leaning towards the North and the East. The street fronts are modest and monolithic in composition revealing very little but the façade. Austerity is an apparent Reveal. Materially the building continues the exercise in contrast by fronting a rain screen facade built with Yakisugi . Yakisugi is an ancient process of charring timber for the use in cladding. This practice is reflective of the notion of Wabi Sabi . It showcases an ideal representative of an element or composition which is intrinsically in transition. It peeps into a singular moment inside a minute glimpse of how something at sometime was, and might eventually become. The exterior is accented with materials that will intentionally weather; the block wall and the raw steel gates and railings all refer to a state of transience. The exterior is also specked with fenestrations bound in white which reveal the interior essence and qualities of the interior. The interior essence is the counterpoint to the exterior. Inside there is an assertive and established statement. It is a clean and white vessel for living. A figurative ‘womb’ for living. The space is a compartment for and of habitation. It is glistening white punctuated by sharp lines, edges and planes. The interior is clean and crisp in order to facilitate and produce a ‘canvas’ for habitation. The user is then supposed to fill this space not with possessions or material things, but with life and more specifically living. This should become an archive of the user’s spiritual and existential artifacts. This contrast from outside to in echoes an idea that our ‘skin’ is ever changing via contact, age, experience, etc.; however our insides perhaps our souls, never stray from the primordial or fundamental essence found simply in a place to store, guard or shelter ourselves and the ‘things’ of which we are composed. In tandem with the theoretical and conceptual there exist the pragmatics of the building. The building is littered with gestures that foster contemplation as the inhabitant uses the building. The form gestures through weight, scale and geometry to the peak of the Sandia Mountain range. The balcony further gestures beyond the reaches of the structure to place the user in an almost suspended state as they teeter over cantilevered space. The fenestration in the roof and over the concrete banco function as solar clocks informing the user of the inescapable and constant passing of time. The placement of the banco is such that it forces the occupant to look inwards and upwards to genuinely and purposely live in the building and reflect the internal. The building perhaps best exists to remind its inhabitants and occupants to reflect on emotions, thoughts and existences which have ubiquitously been forgotten.
1108 12th Street, 2008 Albuquerque, NM   This project was a tenant improvement of a distressed commercial building. I created this drawing to help the client visualize the schematic design that our team was proposing for his restaurant concept. AutoCAD 2015 and Adobe Illustrator CS6
409 WELLESLEY, 2013 Albuquerque, NM This project was an addition proposal for a residence. I developed the proposal based on the client’s program. I was in charge of design development and presenting to the client. AutoCAD 2015 and Adobe Illustrator CS6
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377 TAPROOM, 2015 Albuquerque, NM This project was a tenant improvement of a distressed commercial building. I created this drawing to help the client visualize the schematic design that our team was proposing for his restaurant concept. AutoCAD 2015 and Adobe Illustrator CS6
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QUESTION: CAN A TRUCK BACK IN HERE TO DELIVER KEGS?
 
1714 ALVARADO, 2012 Albuquerque, NM This project was for a new infill single family residence. I was the lead on this project. I was tasked with developing the concept, resolving the program, developing the design, assembling the construction documents and performing cost analysis for this project.
 
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ACADEMIC WORK
BALELAS INFILL, 2010 Albuquerque, NM This project was for a new infill multi-use residence. I was tasked with developing the concept, resolving the program, developing the design, drawing the design documents and building several models.
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NET ZERO DORMITORIES, 2010 Albuquerque, NM * Honorable Mention Leading Edge Competition, Pasadena CA
We were interested in designing a building that is all about the speed of space. We analyzed the site and surrounding area and were compelled by the obvious notion that there is a speed of use all the way out from the highways all the way into the hallways. We were interested in developing a design based on the concept of speed. Upon approaching the challenge we asked ourselves, ‘does a building or a space have a quality of speed?’ When we studied the program outlined in the challenge, we discovered that the spaces required could be easily categorized. The program of a dormitory requires a hierarchy of spaces ranging from single occupancy to communal occupancy, public to private & so forth. When we arranged the spaces in a suitable and efficient manner, a route could be traced through the building from the large, loosely-structured living and eating areas on the first floor to the smaller single purpose sleeping quarters. We then imagined that the change in size and function of each space on the route and the effect it would have on the human traffic flowing through (or even resting). We decided that, either because the size or the position of each room, each space would suggest a different speed and density of flow. When these factors are considered, the occupants become like particles of a fluid that travel from a volume of one size and shape to another. The communal spaces (located on the first floor as well as the upper floors) were designed to be versatile so that the occupants can engage in innumerable activities, several of which may be taking place at once. This volume might resemble a large volume like a lake in which the particles are very active but do not have a designated route they are channeled into. That sort of volume might best be compared with the stair systems and hallways that range all three floors. In these spaces, persons travel from one place of occupation to the next. Like a duct is to a particle of air, so is the hallway to the occupant a place of transition. Along these channels of
movement, there are various opportunities for people to step out of the stream of flow and engage other dwellers either briefly (on the landing) or for a longer period (In the communal spaces). The dormitories are of course the volume designed to house the lowest density of human traffic – a single inhabitant usually & two rarely. These rooms might be compared to any feature where water from a tributary comes to a rest. One reluctantly compares human beings with particles that have no will of their own, but of course every metaphor breaks down at some point. Human occupants are like fluid particles except that they choose their own destination and route. The spaces are like pipes except that they merely suggest that their contents move at a certain speed and density. But this concept of thinking greatly assisted us in arranging and developing our plans. The building is designed overall around the theory of human traffic as a fluid of specific of a specific density flowing at a particular speed.
UNM ASoM, 2011 Albuquerque, NM This project was for a new infill single family residence. I was the lead on this project. I was tasked with developing the concept, resolving the program, developing the design, assembling the construction documents and performing cost analysis for this project.
 
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These diagrams were part of a transportation and program study for an infill site at the University of New Mexico. The building would house three autonomous faculties. Rhinoceros 4 and Adobe Illustrator CS6
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