Mojica Work Samples

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752 S. Main St. Apt. # 264 | Los Angeles, CA 90014 602.321.6361 | robert.mojica26@gmail.com

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OBJECTIVE To participate in the design and creation not only of meaningful spaces, buildings, and landscapes that respond to their surroundings, but of environments that are concerned with the cultural and economic contexts of each specific site.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2014

EDUCATION 2013

Columbia University | Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design

2008

Arizona State University | College of Design Master of Architecture

2006

Arizona State University | College of Design Bachelor of Science in Design, Architectural Studies – Cum Laude

2000

Mesa Community College Associate in General Studies – Distinction

2013-2014

Platform for Architecture + Research | Los Angeles, CA Project Designer Completed a successful internship that quickly resulted in an offer of a full time permanent position as Project Architect brought on by exhibiting strengths in project related research and presentations, and great work ethic. Daily responsibilities include assistance to Lead Architect, basic handling of day to day office activities relating to schedule and work quality, and client and team coordination.

Guggenheim Museum Helsinki | Competition | Finland

Site analysis and contextual research

Schematic Design

Diagrammatic Building Development

Team member coordination: 3D Modeling, physical model, submission boards

Created submittal renderings

Created submittal animation T House | Residential | Washington

Schematic Design

Schedule Coordination

3D Modeling, presentation rendering

Construction Documents

Interior finishes research

Structural Engineer and Local Architect coordination IBID. Gallery | Cultural | Los Angeles / London

Site Analysis and documentation

Schematic Design

3D Modeling

Created presentation renderings

Construction Documents Additional Responsibilities

Maintained and updated firm web site

Coordinated and created award and grant submissions

Assisted with business development research and outreach

Assisted with public relations research and outreach Platform for Architecture + Research | Los Angeles, CA Research Intern Taichung Cultural Center | Competition | Taichung, Taiwan

Assisted on project drawings

Revised concept development and building development diagrams

Revised project animation

Created award submissions and submittlals for a multitude of publictions Helsinki Central Library | Competition | Helsinki, Finland

Revised project animation

Created award submissions and submittlals for a multitude of publictions Port of Kinmen | Competition | Kinmen, Taiwan

Site analysis and contextual research

Assisted with Schematic Design

Created Diagrammatic Building Development

Assisted with submission boards

Created submittal animation Additional Responsibilities

Maintained and updated firm web site

Coordinated and created award and grant submissions

Assisted with public relations research and outreach

2012-2013

2009-2011

2006

1997-2012

Columbia University | Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation | NY, NY Output Shop Specialist.

Assisted and ran G.S.A.P.P’s output shop, supporting faculty and students with printing, plotting, 3-D modeling, laser cutting.

G.S.A.P.P. Accreditation assistant.

Urban Design and Architecture Year End Show assistant.

Blue Thumb Studio | Pasadena, CA Designer | Architect Holy Family Church, Pasadena, CA.

Lead designer for church addition of multi-purpose gym area, facility offices

reception area.

Performed site analyses in relation to client’s existing structures and surrounding

context

Developed programmatic and design scheme for project.

Illinois Public High School System, IL.

Assisted with schematic design of High School Biomass heating facility.

Deutsch Associates Architecture | Phoenix, AZ Internship | Junior Architect Completed a successful internship that resulted in an offer of a full time permanent position brought on by exhibiting strengths and talents in project related research and presentations, great communication skills and outstanding work ethic through a multitude of projects.

Excellent client relationship skills, participating in meeting coordination and

arrangements.

Excellent understanding of project management requirements, cost and schedule

demands.

Assisted with schematic, design, and construction documents.

Created interior and exterior elevations, plans, sections for various projects.

Assisted in preparing and submitting documents for review to various cities.

Updated drawings to reflect city red lines and client input.

Assisted during site visits and client meetings, gathering site information cost

analysis.

Built physical models for project presentations.

The Boeing Company | Mesa, AZ Team Lead, Military Aircraft | Electrical Technician Achieved first-hand experience engaging and working with engineers to develop and introduce schematic and engineering drawings and subsequently construct electrical components for various military aircraft programs.

Electrical technician for military programs: V-22, C-17, Longbow Apache, F/A-18,

F-15, T-45.

Team lead for the V-22 program, assisting management in the handling of day to

day activities relating to schedule, cost and quality issues, all of which are

transferable assets in the business aspect of architecture.

Excellent scope of work understanding, including cost analysis, quality and

schedule issues.

Outstanding understanding of schematic and engineering drawings.

Excellent team building and team work skills.

Successfully performed the following multi-disciplines: quality inspector, co-lead,

and safety representative, obtaining skills that are directly transferable to working

in the architecture field.

Assisted V-22 team in work area reorganization utilizing value stream mapping.

SKILLS | KNOWLEDGE Fluent in English and Spanish, both written and spoken Auto-CAD; Revit; B.I.M.; Maya; 3DS-MAX; Sketch-Up; Ecotect; Rhinoceros; Grasshopper; ArcGIS; Vectorworks; Processing Adobe Suite: Illustrator; In-Design; Photoshop; After Effects; Dreamweaver Microsoft: Word; Excel; Power Point Windows and Mac platforms Outstanding drafting, detailing, model making, presentation, and visual communication skills

PUBLICATIONS 2013 2008 2007 2006

Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation |

“Vienna Architecture and Urban Design Studio: Den Bogen Spannen” Arizona State University, School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture |

“S.A.L.A. Student Work” Arizona State University, School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture |

“S.A.L.A. Student Work” Arizona State University, College of Design | “PRE-FAB”

EXPERIENCES 2014 2014 2013-2014 1998-2009 1998-2006 1998-2006 2013 2009 2007 2006

Guggenheim Museum Helsinki | International Competition Port of Kinmen | International Competition No Kill Los Angeles (NKLA) Best Friends Animal Society | Active Volunteer Active participant in the Boeing Work Volunteer Program Phoenix Body Positive Outreach Volunteer Arizona Aids Walk Yearly Participant Traveled to Vienna, Austria | International Architecture & Urban Design Studio The New Moulin Rouge | International Competition Traveled to London, England | International Architectural Studio Stockholm Public Library | International Competition

KINMEN PORT TERMINAL The Kinmen Port Terminal undertakes a transformation from an industrial traffic junction to a regional gateway and travel center. The proposal evolved out of the desire to extend the adjacent park across the project site to the ocean.

The building is conceived as a landform consisting of two elements: a green base connecting to the adjacent park, and four towers each optimized for program organization. The base houses the 50% public green space required by the project brief. The towers are each rationally scaled and distributed according to required use and circulation.

The park and towers morph together in an undulating cascade, realizing the transition from land to water as a terraced landscape from which the building emerges.

Cruise and ferry functions, meanwhile, are located just below the public level and are kept distinct to maintain secure areas for departing and arriving passengers.

Level 3 Floor Plan

Transverse Section A-A

Landform

Program

Circulation

Views

Level 1 Floor Plan

Transverse Section B-B

Connection

Lift

Public Space

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T House is designed for a family who want something different from a conventional home. The clients looked to develop a house that would affect their lives and create opportunity for a social yet private family lifestyle. The family requested a house which felt like a connected space, and to save the landscape as much as possible, especially its characteristic fig trees.

The site is located in a semi-urban lush district of Washington, in a terrain that slopes gently down to the Potomac river in the southwest. The desire for a house with lots of light and connection to the surrounding landscape is a challenge in relation to close building adjacencies. The design strategy utilizes the building to frame private views and is characterized by a central void that interconnects living spaces under the sky.

Level 1 Floor Plan

Longitudinal Section 1

Unfolded Elevation Study

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A commission by London based IBID. to design their new gallery in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District.

Working closely with gallery director Magnus Edensvard, a plan was developed for the international gallery to expand into the Los Angeles market. The project involved adapting two warehouse buildings and a large courtyard into a 12,000 square foot exhibition and event outpost.

The design includes a reception area, private lounge, office, archival space, pantry, bathroom, and two large galleries. Most of the open interior will serve as the main exhibition area to show international artists such as Christian Rosa and Alex Ruthner. Further work on the exterior includes an event courtyard, outdoor workspace and an outdoor lounge area. Mobile furniture elements that will be used flexibly between the galleries and courtyard were designed to make use of Los Angeles’ temperate climate and expand the gallery outdoors.

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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM HELSINKI The Guggenheim Museum Helsinki, located on a prominent waterfront site, is a gathering of eight soft volumes of varying sizes and undulating heights reflecting the Helsinki skyline and surrounding waters.

The volumes lightly intersect, leading to a collection of spaces with soft connections to all sides. The resulting institution is a unique, transparent, and light building, clustered in between the park, water, and historic city center and immediately visible to visitors arriving by sea.

Spatial Development

Concentrated Organization

Porous Organization

Specific Program

Solar Rotation

The plan’s openness connects with the context while the central plaza maintains public waterfront access from the park. Breaking up the museum into smaller pieces, avoids blocking site lines while creating programmatic specificity. Further opening up the site, visually and physically, central volumes are elevated and translucent, introducing a public void in between the galleries.

Access

Circulation Loop

Level 1 Floor Plan

Level 2 Floor Plan

Longitudinal Section 1

Longitudinal Section 2

Sculpture Gardens

Views

Building Systems

Volumes

Circulation

Sculpture Gardens

Terraces

Performative Roof

B R O N X W AT E R E D G E D I S T R I C T The design proposal for the South Bronx Waterfront provides socioeconomic, cultural, and spatial conditions that incentivize and nurture the full realization of its residents in equitable and sustainable manners. The proposal for the new neighborhood provides jobs, community amenities, and access to the waterfront with different size parcels that encourage both bottom-up and top-down development.

Bronx Community

The intervention acknowledges the city’s goal to promote economic growth in the industrial zone and the community’s desire for participation, access to the waterfront, and health care.

Potential Business Model

Top-Down Several large parcels are intended for industrial users who can bring jobs and economic development to the community. Inspired by existing collaborations between Fed Ex and Nourishing USA, future industrial users will be required to partner with non profits in the community, adhering to sustainable business practices, mitigating health impacts on the community.

Bottom-Up Smaller parcels are reserved for higher density mixed-use development. Through place making, South Bronx community groups are invited to occupy and program these parcels, crating interim uses and destinations and help shape the new neighborhoods identity. The place making program is intended to transform interim tenants into permanent ones in future development.

Waterfront edges and parks give priority to pedestrians and bicycle lanes. By creating shared use paths, some of them raised, the district will open up and connect to surrounding areas like Randall’s island.

Infrastructure serves as public space and becomes a key element in the regeneration of the waterfront. A redesigned street network connects the new neighborhood to the existing residential community to the north, as well as Randall’s Island to the south.

Design requirements for new buildings ensure transparency at street level, promoting vibrant and active public spaces.

DEN B O G E N - S P A N N E N The design approach intends to physically weave together urban fabric that has been segmented and separated by infrastructure. The proposal uses a mix of residential, commercial, and industrial programs, connected by green multi-use public spaces to stitch together disparate fabric, redeveloping under-utilized areas surrounding the infrastructure. The site is transformed into a new urban experience and a duplicable model for a united periphery and a new icon: DER BOGEN. (The Arc) DEN BOGEN-SPANNEN is a conceptual link between segmented pieces of the periphery. Districts that share similar qualities and characteristics can then be stitched together to promote cross-lateral relationships. The potential of these similarities justifies investments in multiuse developments and integrated transportation sectors. This allows Der Bogen to become a magnet, promoting even growth for Vienna as a whole and reconnecting the previously separated communities.

The evolution of a radial city and the Viennese periphery segmentation due to infrastructure.

Conceptual Development

Existing networks/nodes of industry, ecology, and waterlines.

Relationship between the node and core. The size/thickness represents level of recent growth.

Potential synergies between nodes to create a hierarchy of connections.

Model of a unified periphery.

Distributing density along the U-Bahn line.

Assigning program / function to each density

Arranging densities to react to nodes identified in frame work.

Connecting nodes to the framework.

Liesing Fabric: Segments

Liesing Fabric: Integrated

In breaking down the peripheral fabric, segmented areas are located hovering in isolation, and have developed as satellite districts to the core.

Since this urban methodology cannot manifest uniform density, potential interchanges that could stimulate urban growth with lateral stitching are diagrammed.

Design Strategy: Consolidation, and extrapolation, of the existing patterns of open space and circulation. This would become a “parti� diagram: the framework used to inform both, program placement and allotment of open space as well as new public and private circulation routes in the process of stitching the site to its context. Within this framework, nodes of possible continuation through the U-Bahn line are discovered to inform further development.

Phase One Phase one focuses on the initial developer plots.

The program placed is housing: subsidized unsubsidized on the southern sites, and high end luxury on the northernmost site, as well as the beginning development of the public east west connections via a pedestrian route.

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Phase Two Phase two propagates density with additional housing and a central park. The selected plots reflect the need for westward connections. New east-west automobile, bicycle, and public pedestrian paths, along with semi-public north south routes are introduced establishing a micro-network. The commercial development along the U-Bahn line is also initiated, with a new nodal connection to the Alt-Erlaa station.

Phase Three Phase three bridges new development to existing automobile routes to the south, increasing accessibility. Community services, cultural centers, a small park, and extensions to pedestrian and bicycle routes are introduced. Expansion along the U-Bahn continues, connecting the development to a new nodal connection at the Erlaaer station.

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Phase Four Phase four completes the development. Additional mixed-income housing and the completion of commercial development along the U-Bahn line with office space and high end residential are introduced. The new public circulation network is now extended through the U-Bahn, connecting to the east side of the tracks, stitching together these previously segmented pieces.

re-SEARCH GOWANUS A revitalized Gowanus can become both core and periphery, fostering cooperative relationships among the many nuances that exist within its urban system.

Through interactions between the polluted Canal, the communities within the area, and the introduction of new systems of educational research and development, an environmental catastrophe can become a catalyst for symbiotic revitalization. Gowanus Canal was once the industrial core responsible for the development of early Brooklyn, at one time becoming the busiest shipping waterway in the United States. Today, Gowanus Canal has declined into an overlooked periphery: a derelict toxic site of dispute.

The latent potential collaborations that can arise between the business and residential communities through the introduction of an educational component can lead to the creation of innovative system of remediation and environmental awareness. Those systems can then be locally manufactured and ultimately deployed to other polluted sites.

System Plan

Design Strategy

Site Analysis

Proposal Diagram

Public Education

Manhattan Brooklyn

Commercial Flushing Tunnel

Carroll Park

Green Promenade

Flatbush Avenue

Red Hook Educational

Park Slope

Environmental

Educational Research

Watershed Local Business Residential

3rd Avenue

Non-Local Partner

4th Avenue

Non Local Business Green Infrastructure

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY WATER QUALITY ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

VACANT

RESIDENTIAL COLLABORATION

Non Local Business

Empty Buildings

Residential

Under utilized Lots

NEW PRODUCTS

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CONSUMPTION

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

NON-LOCAL BUSINESS

Local Business LOCAL BUSINESS

Existing Commercial Residential Vegetative Edge

Gowanus Canal

Vegetative Edge

Auditorium

Educational Facility

Existing Commercial Lobby A

Library

Public Courtyard

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Bond St. Existing Commercial Library Vegetative Edge

Existing Commercial

Residential

Computer Lab Gowanus Canal Public Rec. Space

Water Collection Vegetative Edge

Residential

Lobby B

Educational Facility

Public Outdoor Space

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PRO-FORMA: CON-MIX The design of a site that considered a public / private partnership between Arizona State University and a private owner, as well as contextual issues related to changes in the immediate area, such as transportation and increased density through pro-forma.

Density and inter weaving of activities and programs were the main issues in the approach of the design: an exercise in mixed development that manipulates the urban edge of the site into a formal representation, capturing its connective vitality to the urban thread, elevating it, and incorporating diversity into the structure.

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LIVING LEARNING HALL The investigation of an Arizona State University living learning hall to be located on campus, combining classrooms and a leaning “forum� conceived as a flexible space for intellectual collaboration and support.

The proposal reacted to the peculiar shape of the site by magnifying the relationship to the street, creating an urban edge that connected the spaces to its context.

At the same time, a cantilevered auditorium provides a shaded outdoor area that is both an extension of the forum and a secluded space for the surrounding dorms, as well as an outdoor auditorium.

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Objective: to design an entry sequence to a preserve, and to provide access over a wash.

Three structures were created using the shape of the wash itself as inspiration. By manipulating and transforming the basic wash shape, each unique piece interacts with the wash in a different manner, with each offering distinct views and experiences.

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The design of an architectural firm that reflects my values, architectural and otherwise. The mission of the firm is not only to create buildings and landscapes that respond to their surroundings, but to craft environments that are concerned with the cultural and economic contexts of each specific site. The hope is that this consciousness about the work’s relationship to context will enhance the surrounding environment and give something positive to the community. The building is designed to represent the complex contextual forces that layer the site, illustrating how those forces merge into a singular form that paradoxically placates and emphasizes these forces while at the same time creating synthetic connections between them through the architecture.

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Objective: to subtractively develop three rooms within a volume, while thinking about the architectural experiences that these spaces provide.

The design studies how perception of the same space can be drastically altered by its interaction with light and shadow. All three rooms are the same basic shape with similar dimensions. How light enters each room, however, is what allows for a unique experience in each one: a light room, a movement room, and a dark room.

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Bridging Facades The project explores the idea of the facade as a transformative component.

Visualizing its capacity as a protective surface that can expand to accommodate new activities, the facade crosses the boundary set by the building floor-plan, creating new outdoor spaces. In some instances, the duplication and agglomeration of the facade components unfolds beyond the site boundaries, connecting to surrounding structures and creating a new urban connection above street level.

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Alternate Facade

Self Expansion

Connective Tissue

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752 S. Main St. Apt. # 264 | Los Angeles, CA 90014 602.321.6361 | robert.mojica26@gmail.com