Quilian Riano Select Design Portfolio: 2003-2009 by Quilian

QUILIAN RIANO

SELECT DESIGN PORTFOLIO 2003-2009

Community Center/Housing Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico Harvard GSD THESIS 2009 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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TIJUANA RIVER WATERSHED Current Condition

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REDESIGN OF CANYON Step by Step

1-CUT FROM RISK

2-DENSIFY EXISTING

Cut Houses from Risk Areas

Community San Bernardo

3-NEW COMMUNITIES

4-TIE WITH ECOLOGY

6 sections that need density

Turn Risk into Parks

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SAN BERNARDO A Prototype for Los Laureles

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MASTERPLAN AXO Planning in Layers

PIXELATING HOUSING MANY OPTIONS

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MASTERPLAN

10’

50’ 20’

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PROPOSED CONTEXT Grounding the Masterplan

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COMMUNITY SHED Systems and Materials

ColorBond Steel, to Collect Water

A Steel Cage Wall that Allows for Different Fillings as Community Needs Change

Cistern

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CISTERN IN SHED A Public Misty Cloud

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HOUSING UNIT Basic 3mx6m Unit Lip Up For Water Collection

Water Collection Tank

Metal Roof

‘Wet’ Box for Bathroom and Kitchen

6x6 Structure

4’X8’ Material Sheets with three making a complete panel

Composting Toilet (Recommended)

HOUSING TYPES One Module Many Options

Single Family

Row Housing

Studio Apartment

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MATERIAL STUDY Houses

Metal Panels/Meshes

Sheet Rock

Wood Panels

Bamboo

MATERIAL STUDY Landscape

community-made adoquine

garden

turf

dirt

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HOUSING AREA Fronting Community Shed

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Temporary Library - INSERT! team Chinatown-Boston, MA, USA 2009 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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A Harvard GSD student group came together to design and build a temporary library insert in Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chinatown. Chinatown is the only neighborhood in Boston currently without a public library branch. The temporary insert will serve to draw attention to this fact and lobby for a more permanent solution. DESIGN TEAM COORDINATORS Quilian Riano Marrikka Trotter DESIGN TEAM Julian Bushman-Copp Shelby Doyle Dan Hui Mo Lee Trevor Patt Jungmin Nam Theresa Hwang Matthew Swaidan Stephanie Tam Andrew Thomas FABRICATION: Trevor Patt Julian Bushman-Copp Matthew Swaidan Marrikka Trotter Photographer: Jonathan Santos http://insert-chinatownlibrary.blogspot.com/

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Opposite Page: Boards with the 3 designs presented at community meeting This Page: Community meeting presentation

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Youth Center Manhattan, NY, U.S.A 2003 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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Step I: [Analyzing

the UN block]

HOT DOGS AND FLAGS An analysis of the area around the United Nations Building through two itineraries: the hot dog vendor and the UN dignitary. The itineraries mapped start creating spatial territories to understand New York STAGE II: THE PRISMATIC MEAN A connection between the two spatial territories created by the two characters does not take a physical form in New York. The only true connection between these two worlds is the idea of New York a person has before inhabiting it, and the uncertain memory that New York becomes after that person leaves. Thus, the prismatic mean is momentarily crystallized in the human condition of the urban nomad: the modern tourist

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Step 2: [Finding

a Spatial Language for New York]

T-shirt with Spatial Analysis Designed as a “Performance” to be worn inside model.

STAGE III: ANTICLIMAX A proposal for New York is born, a series of spaces that flip and embrace the realities of New York.

This is done as an exercise to provide the hot dog vendor, tourist, and the diplomat a spatial language that is inspired by New York, its density, city planning, and its foreign visitor, the UN.

MODEL 24”X24”X30”

Analysis of spaces created by Model and T-shirt

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Step 3: [A

New Language]

The Manhattan Youth Center The spaces created for the hot dog vendor, tourist, and diplomat provide the language for a Youth Center in Chelsea. The spaces inside create encounters and interactions. The spaces are weaved,

and create a constant movement, and interaction within programmatic elements.

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Ground Plan

Media Center

Public Space

Offices

Basketball Lobby

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Dormitory

Pool

Education

Roof Garden

Training Room

Media Center

Offices/Information South-North Section

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Housing/Market Vicenza, Veneto, Italy 2003 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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SITE SKETCH

the political landscape:

In 2003 the government of Vicenza, Italy made an anti-loitering ordinance, so that immigrants would not be able to sit or stand for too long in the park in front of the local train station. Although Immigration the geographical landscape and the larger texture. is key for the survival of a nation with The site is in an area that is the unofficial gate to the city. The trainthe lowest birth rate in Europe, culture station is located on the north, and Corso Palladio (the main street of Vicenza) is to the south. The topography of the site is influenced by has not begun to accept the immiMount Berico, a large mountain directly behind the train-station. grants as part of the Italian texture.

the commercial landscape:

In this new millennium commerce has began to take over as the single most important human activity. Brands are shaping our world, the extension of their power is felt in all aspects of life, as we are constantly bombarded by their messages through billboards and TV and radio announcements. The main organizing feature in public/commercial space are billboards and signs. Buildings are mere formalities as the most important logics are those outside of the building announcing what can be bought.

SKETCH TOPOGRAPHY OF SITE

Symbiotic relationships: The project is for three temporary housing structures in the park directly

across from the train station. This housing would allow immigrants to have an affordable first home, and provide jobs. To provide the inhabitants with jobs, the housing units are combined with commercial space, and a large public space. The structures rise from the landscape created by Mount Berico. The houses for each family would be sponsored by different companies, who in turn are allowed to advertise on the house. This public space merges commercial, political, and topographical landscapes, while beginning to weave the immigrant into the Italian cultural web

Topography

Commerce

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WATERCOLOR SKETCH OF THE SPATIAL CONDITION IN THE SITE

SITE MODEL

GROUND PLAN KEY: 1. RAMP 2. HOUSING CORRIDOR 3. HOUSES 4. SHOPPING CORRIDOR 5. SHOPPING SPACE

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Corporate Sponsored Housing

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Housing Jamaica Plain, Mass., U.S.A. 2007 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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Housing Units Shaped to create internal Corridors/Balconies

Aggregation Strategy

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Site Plan

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African American Cultural Center Harlem, New York, U.S.A. 2004 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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Project Designer, Team Leader: Quilian Riano

Physical Model Production: Digital Production: Kar Ho Quilian Riano Coral Brandt Jen Daniels Tinh Le Linda Daniels Eva Pinero Stany Iordanova Renee Webley Ryan Wicks Cathy Le

DIAGRAM CIRCULATION SYSTEM

URBAN CONCEPT The layout of building as MASS and street as VOID breaks the space into horizontal pieces, analyzing these pieces as potential vertical layering of masses. This allows us to fold different scales and programmatic pieces together. Then these

blocks are stretched to fit the proportions of the site and become the beginning of program elements.

Formation and marking of the building to capture space begins as a gesture of FOLDING the streets up onto the surface. Movement shifts scales as the streets become the circulation of the building. This movement shifts between

the perceived interior and exterior spaces,

STACKING VOLUMES

activating the skin of the building.

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+ STACKING VOLUMES

= CIRCULATION SYSTEM

FOLD + STREET SCALE CONTEXT

Fold within the local context, at 125th Street and 7th Ave, responds to the scale of the human, allowing the surface of the fold to open and reveal estab-

lishing an interaction between person and building.

FOLD + LARGE SCALE CONTEXT

Surrounded by other zones of varying sizes and densities, Harlem has a responsibility to INTERACT within and throughout its large-scale context. The fold becomes a gesture of how the city functions and becomes an urban response to the event that is New York City.

FOLD + CULTURAL CONTEXT

Harlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intense culture is constantly moving- identity in specific periods of time. Prominent figures, events, and the spaces they occupy become the method to determine location, place, and time. Representations and form of the building become symbolic of the MOVEMENT of Harlem society. The form, charged by the program of the building,

creating a marker for the contemporary African American and his or her culture.

URBAN FOLD

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Gallery

(on top of the preserved section of

Plan Key:

the Teresa Hotel)

1-Underground

Eating Area-Gift Shop

2-Ground Floor

Lobby- Lounge-Computer Room

3-Second Floor

Theater-Education

4-Fifth Floor

Library-Education

5-Eigth Floor

Music Academy-Lounge

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Outdoor Circulation System (IN GREEN)

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Perspective-Ground Floor

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Harvard Science and Arts Center Allston, Mass., U.S.A. 2006 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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Will Harvard be a wall?

Or a Node?

Residential Commercial Industrial

Harvard

Node! Other Educational Park

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art

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to research

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to be to listen to do collective to do individual

b- program tower

i- Two Towers one for individual, one for collective. The towers are connected by public circulation that moves vertically and horizontally to connect similar spaces.

ii- the tower facing south shears and the the tower facing north moves up to allow more sun light into circulation area.

ii- a public reception area, auditorium and classrooms raise the towers.

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STRUCTURE

ORGANIZATION

Center for study of wind energy Lounges Offices

Center for study of solar energy Lounges Center for study of bio energy

Circulation

LIVING MACHINE

the wall becomes its own structural system that helps carry horizontal loads

each “neighborhood” gets its own shell that gets plugged into truss

two large trusses carry most of the vertical loads

CIRCULATION Elevator and stair core

Ramps

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MasterPlan and Landscape Talavera de la Reina, CLM, Espa単a 2007 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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Estudios de las Calles en Talavera Oriental y los Arroyos Study of Street Sections and the Arroyos

EstrategĂa de Desarrollo Growth Strategy

Detail of Intervention

Agricultura Protegida / Espacio Abierto Protected Agriculture / Open Space Agricultura Urbanizable / Espacio Abierto Urbanizable Agriculture / Open Space Áreas de la Extensión Residencial y Usos Mixtos Residential Extension and Mixed Use Areas Áreas de Usos Residenciales y Mixtos de Alta Densidad High Density Residential and Mixed Use Areas Industria Industrial Zonas de Amortiguación Verdes / Agrícolas Green xxx Areas /Agriculture Área del Estudio Study Area Alineación Propuesta del Puente Proposed Alignment of Bridge AVE AVE Arroyos Restorados Restored Arroyos

ASLA award winning project by: Ji Hyun Yoo MLAII, Alexis Peterson MUP, Quilian Riano MArch I AP

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Proyecto Propuesta en Talavera de la Reina Proposed Project for Talavera de la Reina

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1 CapturaR de 6m3 de lluvia al día Capture 6m3 of rain per day 2 Usar agua de lluvia para las necesidades de aguas grises Use rain for grey water needs 3 Enviar 4.000m3 de aguas residuales al tratamiento 1º y 2ºs Send 4,000m3 of sewer water to primary and secondary treatment 4 Enviar a tratamiento 3º en los humedales Send to tertiary treatment wetlands 5 Escenario 1: Utilizar el agua para satisfacer las necesidades de aguas grises y para la nueva playa, ahorrando un 50% del agua domestica necesitada habitualmente. Scenario 1: Use the water to fulfill all grey water needs and for Talavera’s new beach, saving 50% of the typical domestic water need 6 Escenario 2: Escenario 2: realizar controles de calidad de las aguas y utilizar esta agua reciclada como agua potable, cubriendo así el 75% de las necesidades de agua. Scenario 2: Send water to quality control area and use the recycled water for drinking, satisfying 75% of the water need

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Calidad para Beber Drinking Quality

4 5 Diagrama de los Métodos de Uso para Mejorar Eficiencia de Agua Diagram of Methods Used to Increase Water Efficiency

Calidad para Bañarse Swimming Quality Calidad para Actividades Naúticas Boating Quality No Tocar No Contact

Planta de Tratamiento de Aguas

Aguas Grises

Limpieza del Agua Completada Water Cleaning Complete

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Agua Limpiada Hasta el 70% Water Cleaned to 70%

Presa Propuesta Proposed Dam Secci贸n de la Presa Existente y la Presa Propuesta Section of the Existing and Proposed Dams

Planta de Tratamiento de Residuos Sewage Treatment Plants

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Agua Limpiada Hasta el 40% Water Cleaned to 40%

Presa Existente Existing Dam

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Condiciones Existentes Existing Conditions

La Isla y el Desarollo en Talavera Or Island and Talavera East Development

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Condiciones Existentes Existing Conditions

Humedales y el Frente del Desarrollo en Talavera Oriental Wetlands and Waterfront of the Talavera East Development

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Condiciones Existentes Existing Conditions

Parque de Riviera Waterfront Park

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Parochial School/Bull Fighting Ring Santa Teresa, Jalisco, Mexico 2003 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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Sketches of Landscape becoming designed Public Space

Santa Teresa Loses Its Wall: Santa Teresa is a city in the Tequila region of

Jalisco, Mexico. The townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy is comprised of the growth of blue agave the prime ingredient of Tequila. The town has grown in what once was a Hacienda. The 1910 Mexican Civil War and subsequent constitutional land redistribution turned the Hacienda and the land around it to the people that worked the land. The inhabitants gained the land, and the Haciendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s walls came down.

Public Space: Along wit the change of the Hacienda, and the destruction of the

wall, Santa Teresa lost its Public Space. Today the only places that the community has to come together are the church used once weekly, and a bullfighting ring, used once yearly during the Santa Teresa festival. The bullfighting ring was built around the remnants of the wall.

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SKETCH MODEL OF PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

A New Center In order to make a new public space I decided to make a new center for the town away from the historical hacienda house. The new center comprises of the site behind the church and renovating the bullfighting ring. Instead of a solid wall, the new boundary was to relate more to both the landscape and the city. A new democratic center, built on top of an area that is used by the local inhabitants to weekly celebrate the death of a religious figure, and yearly to celebrate the death of an animal for both cultural reasons and subsistence. The Cultural Landscape I created a Parochial school, that is a

gate between the center of town, and the agave fields, giving a

place for people to have a forum to discuss their religion not just once a week when the priests arrive from the larger town of Tequila. The rebuilding of the bullfighting ring included, seating, and the edge of the seating includes a series of spaces for a meat market and butcher. The market will give the bullfighting ring a daily program, making it a place for communal interaction. This new Center is a cultural center of understanding, an understanding of death celebrated by the religious functions, and the death of animals first used for cultural events, later eaten

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SITE MODEL

Plan Key: 1. Santa Teresa Church (Existing) 2. Parochial School-Classrooms 3. Parochial School-Atelier 4. Bullfighting Space 5. Seating

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