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“I will throw all my best efforts into it, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.�

- Frank Miller, American Comic Book Artist

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Table of Contents 1. Modulations in Structure 2. Vertical Landscape: water & cultural tower 3. Hummingbird Bird House 4. Hostel 5. Roof is a Roof 6. Housing 7. Steel Project 8. Case Studies Louvre Pyramid Phare Tower 9. Object Pamphlet 10. The Apple 11. Multi-Sectioning the Field 12. Extras

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PART 1 Studio Work

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Hanging with grace.

Modulations within a Structure

Studio 2A l Professor Marcel Sanchez-Prieto l 2009 A relational system that fusions effect with structure.

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Constructing the system starts by defining a component, a geometric unit.

This component is topologically the same...

...but with an inhert ability to have formal variations. The intent is to be able to proliferate the componet in gradient configurations in a field to create a global system that is differentiated.

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Structural organization.

Trajectories with weighted endpoints creating catenary system.

Modules become an intelligent agent by absorbing information and reacting to a set of rules.

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Flow

Modulations of components that find fitness balance & adaptability with an ongoing & continual relationship with very other element makes up its effect.

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Vertical infrastructure

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Vertical Landscape: water & cultural tower Studio 2A l Professor Marcel Sanchez-Prieto l 2009 Architectural concepts expanding on the language & components of the garden, the architecture and flow of the stairs.

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Inspiration

Guggenheim Museum, New York City Architect: Frank Llyod Wright (PHOTO: JMG-GALLERIES.COM) (PHOTO: NEWYORKPANORAMA.COM)

Incorporates a viewing platform & negotiates to its immediate context by inhabiting the roof.

WATER

Incorporating the design of a water tower as the main driver for an infrastructure architectural project.

LOUNGE & KITCHEN

Funnel circulation flow

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Garden and gallery space as a culture venue that provides the service of education to the community.

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FRIEGHT ELEV. SERVICE ELEV.

LOUNGE/KITCHEN

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FRIEGHT ELEV. SERVICE ELEV.

GALLERY

FRIEGHT ELEV. SERVICE ELEV.

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Humming-Blur

Bird House

Studio 2B l Prof. Rene Peralta l 2010 A materialize, 1 to 1, Hummingbird bird house. Conceptually capturing the rapid wing motion of a hummingbird in flight.

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Hostel

Studio 2B l Professor Rene Peralta l 2010 Beach front hostel incorporating concept & program.

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Whether you are from Mexico, U.S., or any other part of the world numerous people cross the California/Tijuana border on a daily basis. There are many ways of crossing this border, whether by foot or automoblie, people cross this border for multiuple reason.

Some come for work, some come for play, some come illegally and some come to stay.

Due to immagration conflict a wall has been built at the border. This barrier at the border has influence the concept of crossing through.

United States Mexico

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Tijuana is the most crossed border in the world...

...so the idea of “crossing� was an appropriate conceptual approach to the hostel project. Whether it is crossing paths, barriers, spaces, or just a crossing visual relationship within the building. The concept is clear.

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Rooms 1st intent, grand open space with program pushed to the sides...

Elevator, Lobby, and Office.

...however when applied the boolean difference, I derive this object...

...using the boolean tool as main driver in design, I created this massing model...

Bathrooms

Kitchen and Dinning

Bar/Lounge ...with crossing paths that cut and puncture the building.

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Dining

Office

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Lobby

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Elevator

Rooms

Lounge

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5th Level 118 SqM

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Lounge 40

Bar 16

Bath 6

Bedrooms 30

Halls 16

4th Level 96 SqM

Core 10

Kitchen 16

Halls 30

Dinning 25

Bedrooms 20

3rd Level 135 SqM

Core 10 BedRooms 10

Common Rooms 20

Halls 25

Bath 45

Open Space 25

Street Level 188 SqM

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Courtyard 65

Bedrooms 30

Bath 6 Storage 6

Lobby 41

Office 10

Beach Level 30 SqM

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East Elevation

South Elevation

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Beach Level

SECTION 1A Storage

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Open to Below

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Wood truss system

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Roof, the fifth facade.

Roof is a Roof

Studio 3A l Professor Catherine Herbst l 2010 Propose answer to logically complete the building envelope without altering the existing program, walls, and ground plane. If it is exploited well, the roof is a powerful membrane. It is structure, organization, system and element controller, and shelter.

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Existing project site.

Digital & physical model.

Concept Process.

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Living on the edge

Chinese Puzzle Housing

Studio 3A l Professor Catherine Herbst l 2010

Incorporating the idea of a chinese puzzle to design a housing complex with a strong front facade facing the city park.

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Puzzle piece / massing model process

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-Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Steel Project

Studio 3B l Professor Stan Bertheaud l 2011

The 2011 Association of Collegiate of Architecture Steel Design Student Competition. Steel used as the primary structural material with special emphasis placed on innovation in steel design. Displaying how structural steel offers a number of strengths in building design including high resiliency and performance under harsh and difficult conditions. Also showing how steel offers the ability to span great distances in shaped curved forms.

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The void was filled with a volume

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Detail Spider Connection Steel Tubes & Glass Suction Cups

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Vierendeel Truss System

Glass Mesh Panels

Steel Tubes Bridge Envelope

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Solar Panels

Roof Pond:

A roof pond uses a store of water above the roof to mediate internal temperatures. At night, the insulation is removed and the water exposed, losing significant amounts of heat by radiation to the night sky. Early in the morning, the insulating panels are replaced to protect the water from the heat of the day and solar radiation. The water remains relatively cool throughout the day, cooling the ceiling of the space below. A cool ceiling is particularly effective in rooms where heat is being generated as warm air always rises to the top, to lose its heat almost immediately to the ceiling. The water is typically contained in black bags or dark coloured containers to maximise radiant emissions and minimise evaporation.

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Application for Heating

A roof pond can also be used to provide heating. In this case, the store of water above the roof is used to absorb solar radiation during the day. At night, the water is covered with insulating panels and the stored heat warms the ceiling and radiates down into the spaces below. No convection current is created, however, as the warmed air tends to remain beneath the ceiling. The distribution of collected heat is by radiation only, so proximity of the ceiling to the individual being warmed is important as radiation density drops off quickly with distance. The water in a roof pond is typically surrounded by or contained within black surfaces to maximise solar collection. Since thermal storage is the ceiling of the building, it will radiate uniform low-temperature heat to the entire layout in both sunny and cloudy conditions.

water cooled during the nightcools the air near the top of the building throughout the day

heat from lower level rises and is absorbed by the water

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PART 2

Case Studies & Design Communication

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The Louvre Pryamid Architect: I.M. Pei Paris, France

Case Study: Louvre Pyramid Studio 3B l Prof. Stan Bertheaud l 2011 Physical section model of a primarily glass and steel structure.

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The Phare Tower

Designed by: Morphosis Architect: Thom Mayne La DĂŠfense District Paris, France

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Case Study: Phare Tower Studio 2B l Prof. Rene Peralta l 2010 Physical section model of the facade skin of a structure.

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Glass Mesh

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The Invading Objec

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The Apple Design Comm.2 l Prof. Marcel Sanchez-Prieto l 2010

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Multi-Sectioning the Field

Design Comm.2 l Prof. Marcel Sanchez-Prieto l 2010

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Section Profiles

Section Diagram

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PART 3 Extras

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Ceramics El Toro High School Instructor Michael Brail 2006

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The Object

Spiral

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Inverse

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Photoshop Workshop Design Communication 1 Professor Philipp Bosshart 2009

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Shingled

Min Pixels

Gaussian Blur

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Hand Drawn Perspective Rendering Architecture 42 Descriptive Drawing & Perspective Sadddleback College Mission Viejo, Ca. Professor Lem Chin 2008

Miniature Brick Fire Pit Materials & Methods Professor Matthew Boomhower 2009

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Barrio Scenario: Urban Letters, Numbers, & Creatures A 3 day workshop for architecture students to discover the language of the built environment of Barrio Logan, San Diego.

Instructor: Jose Parral 2010

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