NADYA ROBLEDO ESPINOZA Bachelor of Architecture Design Manual
NADYA ROBLEDO ESPINOZA
Bachelor of Architecture Design Manual
RADIUS HOTEL
AR 403 Instructor: Andrew Duncan Programs: Rhino, Revit, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
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SPORTS THEATER LIVE MUSIC
GALLERY SPACE
2. MUSIC 2. + PERFORMING ARTS MUSIC + PERFORMING ARTS 3. 1. ARTS 3. + FASHION CULINARY + SPORTS 1. ARTS + FASHION
FASHION SHOW
4. EDUCATION 4. EDUCATION
5. MIXED 5. MIXED
CULINARY + SPORTS
Work
Entertainment
Education
Radius hotel is a three-quarter long project that consisted of designing from an urban to an architectural scale. First two quarters was redesigning the Experience urban fabric of Mission Valley’s Qualcomm stadium’s property and surroundings. Converting a parking lot enthusiastic space to a pedestrianfriendly environment. This hybrid Qualcomm city will Apartments
Clothing
Farm
SHELTER
FOOD
Shade
Markets
Clubs
C u l t u r e
Lounges
Restaurants
Wells
WATER River
Entertainment
Art W a l k i n g
be the home of San Diego’s new culture center. Culinary, sports, music, performing arts, arts, fashion and education are the base concentrations of the cultural center. After designing the urban fabric a mass was chosen to be Qualcomm’s new hotel. Due to Qualcomm’s residential and commercial density as well as its incoming population
a hotel is the logical choice for manifesting. The Radius Hotel is located in the East skirt of the Qualcomm stadium. The hotel complemented the adjacent circular pedestrianplaza by radiating outward. The Radius hotel focused on natural ventilation and open green spaces for users.
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60 FEET PROJECT
AR 401 Instructor: Andrew Duncan EXERCISE #3: Programs: Revit, Adobe Illustrator, THE FIRST 30 FEET Photoshop NADYA ROBLEDO ESPINOZA AR401 FRANK WOLDEN
This is a façade study for a hypothetical mixed-use project that embraces pedestrian activity.
EXERCISE #3:
THE FIRST 30 FEET
NADYA ROBLEDO ESPINOZA AR401 FRANK WOLDEN
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1’ = 1/4”
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RESIDENTIAL LOOKING TO COURTYARD
1’ = 1/4”
COURTYARD ALLOWING LIGHT TO UNITS
GALLERY AND RESTAURANT
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RESIDENTIAL LOOKING TO COURTYARD PUBLIC SEATING
COURTYARD ALLOWING LIGHT TO UNITS KING TO COURTYARD
GALLERY AND RESTAURANT OWING LIGHT TO UNITS
TAURANT
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PUBLIC SEATING 1’ = 1/4”
BRIDGING SCHOOL AR 301 Instructor: Scott Magic Programs: Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
The Bridging School is located in Little Italy a block away from India St. on the corner of Grape St. and Kettner Blvd. The challenge of this primary school is its location. As opposed to your typical primary school at a suburb this primary school is in a complex urban grid. The first level of the Bridging School is on the rim of the property line causing a courtyard affect. This courtyard affect serves as protection from the outside.
Administration offices, gym, multipurpose rooms, library, cafeteria and theater are on the first level as well the outdoor playing areas. The second and third floor consists of open plan classrooms. The modular classrooms have sliding doors that can move forward and KETTNER backward in accordance toBLVD each classroom need. This modularity allows students to interact with the outdoors while being in a classroom KETTNER BLVD KETTNER BLVD setting.
KETTNER BLVD
KETTNER BLVD
KETTNER BLVD
KETTNER BLVD CAFETERIA
KETTNER BLVD
KITCHEN
GYM
THEATRE
ART
MUSIC ADMINISTRATION
LIBRARY
RESOURCE ROOM
COMPUTER ROOM
RESIDENTIAL PLAZA MIDRISE
AR 303 Instructor: Eric Scmekmo Programs: Rhino 3D, Adobe Illustrator
The Residential Plaza Midrise is a mixed used building in Downtown San Diego on 6th and E St. A linear grid that includes residential, commercial, mixed used, parking lots and parking garages enforces San Diego’s urban fabric to be a city of cars. With no assigned space for pedestrian activity, aside from the sidewalks, a plaza
was much needed. Analyzing the current urban pattern of building-sidewalk street sidewalk-building. The project of this midrise applied San Diego’s motif of a Gaslamp sidewalk and injected it within the design. Introducing a successful plaza to the linear fabric.
LITTLE ITALY MIDRISE AR 201 Instructor: Eric Scmekmo Programs: Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Prismacolors
SITE
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SITE TRAIN
VEHICULAR
VEHICULAR NOISE
PEDESTRIAN NOISE
Noise Study
1-3 STORYS
PEDESTRIAN DENSITY
3-5 STORYS 5-8 STORYS 8- STORYS
Height Study
Cultural Analysis
a contagious culture that is very popular within the realty market. However, due to high fascination and location, Little Italy is a lavish area to live in. This project targets college art-design students that are interested in living in a culturerich neighborhood without
emptying their wallets. This is an affordable housing for students that offer spacious one bedroom lofts with amenities that encourage community. Study rooms, resident-based gallery, entertainment room, community theater, and outdoor rooftop courtyard.
Level 4 San Diego’s Little Italy offers locals and tourists a variety of restaurants, lounges, bars, and art galleries, all near the harbor. India Street is the hub for all these urban attractions as well as a neighborhood farmer’s market. Downtown’s most exciting district emits
CONTRAST + CONTRADICTION
AR 204 Instructor: Adriana Cuellar, Marcel Sanchez Programs: AutoCAD, Revit, Adobe Illustrator
Found from an alley leading out of the northwest corner of Piazza Navona, branching out to its own tiny trapezoidal piazza, Piazza Santa Maria della Pace, is where Pietro da Cortona and Chiostro by Bramante is located. Several houses had to be demolished, by Pietro da Cortona, allowing the church to thrust forward and occupying most of the
Rythmic Elements
Angular Disposition of Elements
Outward Argumentation
Inverse Voids
Vertical Excavation
Carved Void
Vertical Distribution
Relative Correlation
Proportion
Veneer Dispostion
Surface Outcome
Layer Manipulation
minuscule space. The Piazza itself gives hierarchy to the building emphasizing the church’s form and façade while generating an illusion of invasion of space and creating a monumental effect. Opposing forces and relative spatial articulation were found through the dissection of hidden geometries from the piazza. Central gravitation,
equilibrium and concaved forces were elements found in a vertical study of the church. Integrating both analysis and producing ideologies that prove contrast and contradiction at Piazza Maria della Pace. Rhythmic elements, vertical excavation, relative correlation and veneer disposition are crucial components for the illusion
3. Implied Geometry 3. Implied Geometry 3. Implied Geometry
Contrast & Contradiction
NSAD Rome Summer Project 2010 Instructors Adriana Cuellar and Marcel Sanchez Nadya Robledo
ia di Montesanto
6. Revealed Surfaces 6. Revealed Surfaces 6. Revealed Surfaces
9. Concaved Forces
of space and 9. Concaved Forcesmonumental effect.9. Concaved That Forces formula was manipulated in order to detect sites throughout Rome that manufacture the exact moment of reaction.
Found from an alley leading out of the northwest corner of Piazza Navona, branching out to its own tiny trapezoidal piazza, Piazza Santa Maria della Pace, is where Pietro da Cortona and Chiostro by Bramante is located. Several houses had to be demolished, by Pietro da Cortona, allowing the church to thrust forward and occupying most of the minuscule space. The Piazza itself gives hierarchy to the building emphasizing the church’s form and façade while generating an illusion of invasion of space and creating a monumental effect. Opposing forces and relative spatial articulation were found through the dissection of hidden geometries from the piazza. Central gravitation, equilibrium and concaved forces were elements found in a vertical study of the church. Integrating both analysis and producing ideologies that prove contrast and contradiction at Piazza Maria della Pace. Rhythmic elements, vertical excavation, relative correlation and veneer disposition are crucial components for the illusion of space and monumental effect. That formula was manipulated in order to detect sites throughout Rome that manufacture the exact moment of reaction.
ANATOMY OF CRUMBLED PAPER
FAB LAB Programs: Rhino, Rhino CAM, MakerWare, Replicator G
Field 1
Field 2
This was an experimental fabrication-based project that focused on translating digital work (two dimensional) to digitallyfabricated physical models. A laser cutter, CNC mill and two 3D printers were used to manifest this experimentation. The Anatomy of Crumbled Paper was the study of the physical properties of a
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morphed piece of paper, the transformation from a feeble to a superlative structure. The points of strength from the three sides (elevations and top view) of the folded paper were discerned and dissected into fields. These fields manifested a columniation that exemplifies the potency of the crumbled paper.
Left Elevation
Top View
Right Elevation
Field 1
Field 2
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FRRESH KILLS: CASE STUDY
PROGRAM + HABITAT + CIRCULATION
open water 210ac
Programming Instructor: Casey Mahon Programs: Revit, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
OPEN WATER
tidal wetland 135ac
WETLAND
wetland 225ac
FRESH KILLS wet meadow 35ac meadows 345ac
STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK
successional meadows 273ac
passive program 115ac active program soft 62ac active program hard 60ac
SITE
bosques 30ac birch grove 70ac
233 acres
HARDSCAPE
NORTH PARK
existing woodland 103ac swamp forest 47ac mixed woodland 535 ac
545 acres WEST PARK
FRESH KILLS
STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK
100 acres
482 acres EAST PARK
CONFLUENCE
WOODLAND 425 acres SOUTH PARK
circulation 70 ac
Nadya Robledo Espinoza
CIRCULATION
PROGRAM + HABITAT + CIRCULATION PROGRAM + HABITAT + CIRCULATION Nadya Robledo Espinoza
Programming Casey Mahon Fresh Kills
233 acres
NORTH PARK
100 acres
482 acres EAST PARK
CONFLUENCE
545 acres WEST PARK
425 acres SOUTH PARK
vehicular
vehicular
This is a case study of Fresh Kill’s design entry for Staten Island’s landfill competition. The purpose of this assignment was to produce programmatic diagrams that portray the project’s design objectives. Nadya Robledo Espinoza
Programming Casey Mahon Fresh Kills
pedestrian path
pedestrian path
open water
open water land
land woodland
meadows woodland Nadya Robledo Espinoza
Programming Casey Mahon
Programming Casey Mahon Fresh Kills
PROGRAM + HABITAT
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NEW BUILDINGS
RETROFIED NEW
NEW BUILDINGS IN G EX IST
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Nadya Robledo Espinoza
Programming Casey Mahon Fresh Kills
NEW LIGHTING Nadya Robledo Espinoza
Programming Casey Mahon Fresh Kills
THESIS BORDER CONDITIONS + RELATIONSHIPS
A Humanized Threshold
The traditional view of a border states that it is a defining line, either physical or non-physical, that separates one element from another. Thus borders are limits in conditions where a surface or area forms an outer boundary, a line or an entity that separates elements by generating a division. Implementing a synchronization condition in the confinement between two or more elements from each other, consenting growth
and extension, allows the affected elements to converge. This transition coheres the affected elements from the border disposition. These limitations from, both tangible and intangible, borders inherently stimulate restriction and hostility from either element. The division of elements exposes the dominance of a component that restricts its ownership or force to the other element. The maneuver from one element to the other is a condition that can either go smoothly or abruptly. The sensitivity of transition affects the neighboring elements by either creating a smooth symbiosis or a straining environment. In every border there exists three components, (1.) the affected elements (2.) the physical or nonphysical border (3.) and the movement from
element to element. The third element, movement from element to element, is the component that is affected by the intensities of the transitional condition. To transgress is to go beyond the limits imposed by; to violate or infringe. Transgression is the act of transition at a higher and an aggressive frequency. At what point does transition become transgression? The movement from element to element’s subtlety is crucial since it will determine a border’s condition from being territorial or transitional. The element’s properties allow higher aggressiveness of transition when bordering each other thus emitting a condition of transgression. If the same ideology is implemented at a situation where both bordering elements have the same properties the friction is equal therefore the movement from one element to the other emits
a transitional condition. Transition becomes transgression when the properties and conditions of the affected elements are introduced to each other with aggressiveness. Conversely, by adding tension to the elements the transgression properties are relieved to a transitional condition. Easing a border from a transgression to a transitional condition by applying forces perpendicular of the borderline to the affected elements can release the hostile properties and allow expansion and symbiosis. This system can be injected in a current and existing situation, the San Diego and Tijuana border, the largest political border in the world. This political border is a region of a system of spatial conditions that separates two countries with a fence and two port entries. The San Diego and Tijuana border portrays a territorial
condition because there is action adjacent to the south of the border in contrast to the north side. Amending its surroundings and allowing both entities to grow and extend as the elements converge will relieve this system of spatial conditions separating two entities with aggressiveness. Forces were applied and both balancing elements allowed the decreasing of higher and aggressive frequency and eased the border from a transgression to a transitional condition. This synchronizing intervention introduced a humanized international threshold.
BORDER ANALYSIS
Aside from the typological borders there are other tangible and non-tangible boundaries. These boundaries are: transitional borders, implied borders, surface borders, political borders, territorial borders, spatial borders, cultural borders, ubiquitous borders, and infinite borders.
Transitional Borders The process of elements meshing together or the movement away from each other and the outline or setting it leaves behind is a transitional border.Element two (blue) parting away from element one (red) showing the border of transition.
Territorial Borders
This diagram represents the linear process documentation of territorialism. It begins with a balanced circle on the upper left. The right of the circle depicts
territorial factors by exhibiting dominance of an element restricting ownership of the left side of the circle.
PROGRAM
Territorial and transitional borders seem to yield the most support to my argument. Introducing these two borders with the related synonyms will allow me to produce new conditions to a border. These interventions will allow me to prove my argument, that a border does not necessarily need to divide and set limits, but can instead bring elements together in a significant manner.
Transitional Border
Territorial Border
Transition to Transgression The patterned conditions are responsible for the intensity of transition. Transition is the movement, passage, or change from one state etc. to another. However, The maneuver from one element to the other is a condition that can either go smoothly or abruptly. The sensitivity of transition affects the neighboring elements by either creating a smooth symbiosis
or a straining environment. In every border there exists three components, (1.) the affected elements (2.) the physical or non-physical border (3.) and the movement from element to element. The third element, movement from element to element, is the component that is affected by the intensities of the transitional condition. To transgress is to go beyond the
limits imposed by; to violate or infringe. Transgression is the act of transition at a higher and an aggressive frequency.
Point of Transgression This study shows the intensities of transition becoming transgression by the frequency and heaviness of the lines. The frequency was extracted and after the manipulation of the geometry the point where transition becomes transgression was identified. 1.
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Typology: San Diego + Tijuana Border Omnipresent borders are settled in any occurrences of space. However, adding a specific typology as an experimentation of easing a border with a transgression to a transitional condition will vitalize the argument. This investigation can be injected in a current and
existing situation, the San Diego and Tijuana border, the largest political border in the world. This political border is a region of a system of spatial conditions that separates two countries with a fence and two port entries. The San Diego and Tijuana border portrays a territorial condition
because there is action adjacent to the south of the border in contrast to the north side. Due to political and cultural aspects there is a great demand to cross from Tijuana to San Diego daily.
A Humanized Threshold: From a Transgression to Transitional Condition Easing a border from a transgression to a transitional condition by applying forces perpendicular of the borderline to the affected elements can release the hostile properties and allow expansion and symbiosis. This system can be injected in a current and existing situation, the San Ysidro and Tijuana border, the largest political border in the world.
Cultural context among the border. Tension to Urban Fabric Port of Entries Physically/Visually Affected by Border
Current Conditions: San Diego
CURRENT PROGRAM CURRENT CURRENT PROGRAM PROGRAM Representation of the current conditions of San Diego and the desired outcome. The spatial conditions were categorized into three classifications 1. Ecological 2. Social 3. Industrial
Current Conditions: Tijuana
Landscape Landscape Landscape Landscape Commercial Commercial Commercial Commercial Residential Residential Residential Residential
Representation of the current conditions of Tijuana and the desired outcome. The spatial conditions were categorized into three classifications 1. Ecological 2. Social 3. Industrial
Humanized Threshold The San Diego and Tijuana border went from a transgression to a transitional condition due to the application of tension forces
perpendicular of the borderline. These tension interventions pulled the urban fabric to San Diego and landscape to Tijuana
and resulting in three cavities in which the borderline morphs and creates these nodes of symbiosis between both entities.
These nodes allowed expansion of both entities to interconnect with each other and allow interaction. From a rigid territorial
line to a stitching pattern, this intervention will promote more nodes to appear in between the spatial conditions and making it
a complete transitional border.
Built Forms The following images represent the built form of the Humanized Threshold. They depict a symbiotic relationship between
Tijuana and San Diego. Galleries, theaters, farmers market, agriculture, museums, parks, restaurants and an interactive
bridge are examples of the program used to mend the border region.
PHOTOS Several images of my travels and events.
Lojain’s Dress Riyadh, KSA Canon T3i
Españioles Puerto Nuevo, MX Canon T3i
Piazza Rome, IT Canon T3i
Untitled San Diego, CA Canon T3i
Maqueta San Diego, US Canon T3i
Polyforum Siqueiros Mexico City, MX Canon T3i
Q San Diego, US Diane F+ 36mm
Parco Della Musica Rome, IT Canon T3i
Fair Still San Diego, US Canon T3i
Fabric Tilt Shift Nafplion, GR Canon T3i
Gaslamp Resident San Diego, US Diane F+ 36mm
Bean’s Car Amsterdam, AN Canon T3i
Worm View Mexico City, MX Canon T3i
Pacific Boardwalk San Diego, US Canon T3i
Papalote Mexico City, MX Canon T3i
Museo Soumaya Mexico City, MX Canon T3i