BSLA Coursework North Pasadena Apartment ............................................................................................................1 Archipelago ...........................................................................................................................................2 Analog Drafting & Rendering ............................................................................................................3 Digital Drafting & Rendering ............................................................................................................4 Long Beach Civic Center .....................................................................................................................5 GSOC, Camp Scherman ....................................................................................................................9 Wellness Center at JFG San Diego ...................................................................................................11 National Museum of the Latino American .....................................................................................13 Personal Work Morning Mapcrunch ...............17 Digital Paintings ......................19 Sespe Creek Park ...................21 Landscape Installation .........22
North Pasadena Apartment
RS 3010, Instructor: Douglas Kent
A quick site study of my apartment in Pasadena. Modeled and rendered in Blender; the diagram details basic site info such as geographic orientation, scale, and solar pathing. More specific site details were drawn from observation.
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Archipelago
LA 1121, Instructor: Kevin Finch
This project was an intro to Rhino 3D. We started with a uniform design modeled to exact specs. We then rearranged and transformed pieces of the model into our own design, informed by a short phrase. The phrase for this design was, “to meet an archipelago.”
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Analog Drafting & Rendering
LA 1581, Instructor: Kevin Finch
My first year graphics class began with analog drafting and rendering techniques, converting an old plan drawing of a garden into several types of drawings. Rendered with Copic marker.
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Digital Drafting & Rendering
LA 1581, Instructor: Kevin Finch
In the next module we modeled the garden in Rhino and pulled the linework to render drawings using digital methods. These were created in PS and Illustrator.
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Long Beach Civic Center
CPPLA 2nd Year Studio
Project Document
LA 2111L, Instructor: Phil Pregil
For second year studio, we designed part of the Long Beach Civic Center. We were specifically responsible for the spaces between buildings and around the renovated Lincoln Park, designed by GGN Mages.
My partner and I focused on integrating form and technology to create a space that teaches the history of the Tongva Natives in Long Beach through self exploration, creating a seamless pedestrian experience.
Prepared by Nathan Liu and Grace Morton 12/03/2021, with revisions by Nathan Liu 03/13/2022
*QR’s would be presented as small brass plates, these are enlarged for test viewing; scan for a sample interaction
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Long Beach Civic Center
Some important goals of this design deal with stormwater capture and filtration, wildlife habitat improvement, urban forraging opprotunities, educational programming, and improving pedestrian circulation within the site and throught the Downtown Long Beach area.
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Site Plan + Strategies
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Unique sculptural elements reach out to the surrounding geography to bring more context to the historical narrative and prompt pedestrian interaction. Around the periphery of the site, “Urban Trail-heads” improve the walkability of DTLB and connect to nearby points of interest.
Long Beach City Hall
Long Beach Port Authority
Civic Center Parking Structure
North Multi-use Building
South Multi-use Building
Billie Jean King Library
Lincoln Park (GGN)
LBCC Metro Station (A-Line)
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GSOC Camp Scherman
LA 2121L, Instructor: Andrew Wilcox | vPartners: Alex Lopez, Jade Polvani Studio Partners: Girl Scouts of Orange County; Camp Scherman Location: San Jacinto Mountains. Design Components and Uses: Amphitheater, Stargazing, Moon Garden, Water Feature
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A Japanese Wellness Center in Southern California
Vision Statement: To provide welcoming, therapeutic, and active spaces for the community of San Diego. The Wellness Center will use plants with medicinal, culinary, and native ecological value to create an environment that promotes healing, learning, and creativity while blending resources from Southern California, with a traditional Japanese approach to wellness.
Objectives:
-Utilize regional resources wisely.
-Provide space for different levels of accessibility, activity and privacy.
-Make strong use of Japanese design principles.
-Preserve Southern California Identity within Japanese garden aesthetic
Japanese Design Principles:
Mono No Aware -Temporary water feature activated by rainfall
In-Yo -Garden layout that uses natural terrain; mountains situated to North, water flowing North to South through site.
-Atrium in Wellness Center creates contrast between rigid and soft.
Wabi Sabi - Materials chosen for function as well as aesthetic, Yakisugi fencing and Metal fixtures which will naturally patina.
Ma - Entrance to site creates brief transitioning period for spiritual adjustment.
- Building has an open, simple layout.
Secluded Entrance from Cultural Center Japanese and California Symbolism designed into water feature Solar Collection Water Heaters for “Onsen Experience” Small Meditation Atrium Featuring Rainwater Collection
Scale 1”=20’
Scale 1”=10’
Scale 1”=8’
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Hardscape Material Legend Concrete : TRADEMARK Color: Gravity, ECOCAST 3 finish Stone Paving ORCO Color: Driftwood, random 5 shape pattern Stone Paving CO Color: Detail Concrete Slab Paving TRADEMARK/SOUTHWEST BOULDER Color: Steely Slate 2” gaps, porous bound aggregate fill 2x3” Ipe Wood Slats CO Color: Natural, 3” spacing on center Cobble SOUTHWEST BOULDER Color: Santa Fe Cobble 1-2” Wood Decking CO Color: Detail CCW Stone Veneer CO Color: SEE DETAIL X Color: Detail Focal Boulders SOUTHWEST BOULDER Color: Red Mountain hand placement Nathan Liu Hardscape Materials LS.01 Decomposed Granite: SOUTHWEST BOULDER Color: CA Gold CCW CO Color: Detail Cobble SOUTHWEST BOULDER Color: Mexican Beach Pebble 3-5” Stone Tile CO Color: hand cut detail Crushed Basalt SOUTHWEST BOULDER Color: Indigo 3/4” Color: Detail CCW Stone Veneer CO Color: SEE DETAIL X Stepping Stones SOUTHWEST Color: Detail *PLANTING AREA 201.00 198.00 195.00 195.00 185.00 186.00 200.00 205.00 215.00 4.6% 2.0% 2.5% 5.0% 5.0% 5.0% 5.0% ADA Ramp 8.3% ADA Path from ELEVATOR Elevator Seat wall, T.O.W +187.50 Concrete Paving LS-02 Concrete Paving LS-02 Timber Bench LS-02 LS-02 LS-02 Section on LS-02 12
NMLA Washington D.C.
LA 4111, Instructor: Ernesto Perez | Partner: Abraham Martinez
Bobby Brooks Studio, interdisciplinary project with CPP architecture.
Project: National Museum of the Latino American | Museum and Gardens
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Shape, Texture, and Iconography Exploration
My partner and I explored the indigenous and colonial history of Latin America, as well as modern traditions, to tell stories through shapefinding and textural relationships.
Overall themes expressed in our design are rhythm, cultivation, and enlightenment.
Dancing Trees
The Dancing Trees are trellises with hollow concrete bases in the form of african drums used in Latin American music. Covered with vines, they provide shade, act as beacons for wayfinding, and balance the plaza compositionally with the Kiosco.
Form: RHYTHM, CULTIVATION, Drums, Ollas, Trees
Function: Wayfinding, Shade, Sound
The Paseo Mercado is perhaps the most important site element; it is an outdoor market space where street vendors and performers add life to the site. Its axial orientation to the Washington Monument is a strong grounding element to establish Latino identity on the National Mall.
Form: RHYTHM, Tianguis (Outdoor Market), Terminal Axis
Function: Economic Opportunity, Vitality, Site Grounding
The Kiosco Folklorico sits at the East end of the plaza, acting as another important wayfinding element. It combines the playful form of a twirling dancer’s dress with the longstanding tradition of kioscos in Central American cities; these kioscos vary greatly in design and scale depending on locality. Ours is appropriatly grand for its context and is an expression of celebration.
Form: RHYTHM, Movement, Baila Folklorico
Function: Performance, Festival, Wayfinding
Kiosco Folklorico
Paseo Mercado
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Site features include a musical plaza, performance space, interactive water features, memorial space, an outdoor market, water retention gardens, and a tidal basin overlook.
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Mist Pad
and streetscaping inverventions create visual connection
Dancing Trees Light schedule to be changed to all direction, creating a pulse between sites
Paving
Traffic
Ocarina Plaza
North Entrance
South
Kiosco Folklorico
Entrance
Basin Overlook
Manatial Eterna
SOUTH SITE
Plaza Portal
NORTH SITE
Programming in the museum gardens is highly active toward the entrance and center of the site and becomes more contemplative as visitors move toward the periphery.
Musical water features placed through out the site add vitality and auditory wayfinding.
The Manatial Eterna, (eternal well spring) is a memorial space that sits 12’ below grade and is surrounded by trees creating a peaceful enclosure.
Material textures and interactive water features encourage visitors to reflect on Latino history, identity, and progress.
The Basin Overlook is retained with a 15’ wall that eliminates sound and visual impacts from the street below. It acts as a canvas to advertise the site to passersby.
This also protects the site from the effects of sea level rise and provides panoramic views of the Tidal Basin.
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Morning Mapcrunch
From a selection of work painted daily from 12.26.20 - 01.15.2021
This is an exercise I undertook over Winter Break to improve in sketching and watercolor rendering.
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Compositions were found using random street view locations generated on Mapcrunch.com
Digital Painting
A Selection of digital studies from the past few years. Painted on Procreate for iPad. These studies range in time from 7 min to around 4 hours, give or take.
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Sespe Creek Park
2020, Personal Project
Sespe Creek Park is practice project I created for a vacant lot in my hometown, Fillmore CA. I drew a basic plan and used it to model the design in Blender The concept is a skate friendly pedestrian plaza in Downtown Fillmore. The design draws inspiration from Sespe Creek and the F&W Railway, two major features that were instrumental in the town’s founding and continue to play an important role today.
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Landscape Installation
2014, Edna Valley Residence with Kilcoyne Landscapes
I worked on this property with a small design-build practice from May to November of 2014 while living in San Luis Obispo. The landscape was barren an undeveloped when we started the project and this is the result. I worked first hand with the owner of the company and learned a lot about installation in my short time there. It was extremely rewarding to watch the transformation take place.
I personally picked, cut, laid, and leveled each stone in this pathway and landing. The work was grueling but satisfying; it gave me immense respect for the people who work to bring design to reality.
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