RYAN HERNANDEZ | ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
TABLE OF CONTENTS Ash Park | page 1
Cemetery | New Orleans, LA.
Contortion | page 15
Skyscraper | Chicago, IL.
Vertical Horizons | page 21
Navy Pier Redesign | Chicago, IL.
Split | page 31
Library | Chicago, IL.
Tensegrity | page 37 Group Installation
Cottage | page 43
Cottage
Models | page 51
Cottage | Vertical Horizons | Ash Park
Artwork | page 59 Paintings | Drawings
Fall 2013
ASH PARK
The faceted and torquing geometry lends itself to a graphic hatching pattern, which creates depth. The hatching is then deployed across corners to create an illusion about a 3D object, obscuring Professor: Grant Gibson, Arch 465 XLI TIVGITXMSR SJ XLI ½KYVIW 8LI XVMERKYPEXIH forms created are nested into one another to proProject Awards: Selected for exhibition, 2013 Year End Show, HYGI E ½IPH JSV E GIQIXIV] 8LI YTTIV TSVXMSR SJ UIC School of Architecture the form creates a canopy overhead and the 1 | Rundown | Ash Park
legs remain thin and create a more interactive space underneath. Directly beneath the forms, the viewer is able to see the interior of each form. The soft interior contrasts the hard edges of the exterior and delivers a different experience each time ZMI[IH 8LI ½KYVIW EVI GVIEXIH SYX SJ LYQER EWL ERH GIQIRX ERH TVSHYGI E GSRXMRYSYW ½IPH
Ash Park | View of Site | 2
Sketch Diagrams
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Sketch Diagrams
Ash Park | Diagrams | 4
-Each Figure is 20’ tall and has a volume of 115 cu. ft. -Each Figure is constructed of poured in place concrete, requiring 50 gallons of water, 300 PFW SJ GIQIRX PFW SJ ½RI aggregate (sand and human ash). 3RI LYQER GSVTWI TVSHYGIW ½ZI pounds of ash when cremated 9WMRK XLI LYQER EWL EW XLI ½RI EKKVIKEXI )EGL ½KYVI GSRXEMRW XLI remains of sixty humans -150,000 people die in New Orleans each year on average -208 Figures could be expected to be built each month. -2,500 Figures, consuming 10 acres could be expected each year.
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Soft Interior
Ash Park | Section | 6
7 | View Under Figure | Ash Park
View Looking Up
Ash Park | Interior Detail | 8
8LI WMXI MR 2I[ 3VPIERW WTIGM½GEPP] Old Algiers, was once home to a plantation in which a wealthy family also owned slaves. It was here on Old Algiers point that slaves would enter from Africa. Not all would cross the river to the heart of the city. Slaves were buried in corners of TPERXEXMSRW [MXL RS HI½RMRK LIEH WXSRIW Unlike the treatment of the slaves, this cemetery serves to call out the dead and force the city to interact with it.
Ash Park | Elevation | 10
11 | Plans | Ash Park
Ash Park | Plans | 12
13 | View of Field | Ash Park
Ash Park | View of Field | 14
Fall 2010
CONTORTION Professor: .MQIRI^ 0EM %VGL | Rundown | Contor-
Relationship exploration begins with the juxtaposition of spaces in this tower. The contortion, or shifting of the atypical modules creates an interplay of interior and exterior. The immediate interior, atop the modules, is public space; the private spaces are inside those modules. The idea was to create a
public atmosphere that fosters various interactions between all users through the contortion. The cantilevers, or museums, twist around and lie next XS XLI SJ½GI ERH VIWMHIRXMEP EVIEW %W [IPP EW WLMJX MR form, placement of program further enhances the experience of the user, forcing interaction.
Contortion | View of Tower | 16
Concept
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Retail
Museum
Office and Residential
Retail
Museum Parking
Residential
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Contortion | Diagrams | 18
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VERTICAL HORIZONS Professor: %RHVI[ 'SVVMKER %VGL Project Awards: 7IPIGXIH JSV I\LMFMXMSR =IEV )RH 7LS[ 9-' 7GLSSP SJ %VGLMXIGXYVI 21 | Rundown | Vertcal Horizons
Distinct identity plays a major role in the re design of this pier. Three different stacks are organized vertically and contrast the horizontal organization of the ground level. Upon entry to the pier, pedestrians circulate over the hill, around the bike path that runs along the south IHKI EHNEGIRX XS XLI XVEJ½G PERIW EW [IPP
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Vertical Horizons | View under Shopping | 22
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Shopping & Dining
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-Smaller and fosters quicker circulation -Roof is inhabitable for users remaining
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Ferry Plan Detail
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Vertical Horizons | Plans | 28
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Spring 2012
SPLIT
Four masses break away from on another, implying circulation. They are comprised of book stacks, pubPMG EVIEW GSQQIVGMEP SJ½GI ERH EHQMRMWXVEXMSR EVIEW and split into their own separate tube. They meet Professor: Chris Frye, Arch 366 at the center to join the most public areas of each program and these meeting areas are also the Project Awards: Selected for exhibition, 2012 Year End Show, UIC School of Architecture 31 | Rundown | Split
XVERWJIV ¾SSVW 8LI ¾SSVW WTPMX ERH GVIEXI GMVGYPEtion vertically and horizontally. The stacks are orderly whereas the reading areas split apart and are HI½RIH F] XLI GMVGYPEXMSR 8LI XIGLRMUYI SJ WTPMXXMRK also carries to the skin to adjust to certain amounts of light helping certain areas.
Split | View of Site | 32
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Scale: 1”=64’ Split | Plan & Section | 34
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Split | Section | 36
Spring 2011
UNINTENSIONAL Professor: Thomas Kelley, Arch 206 Project Awards: Selected for exhibition, 2011 Year End Show, UIC School of Architecture 37 | Rundown | Unintensional
In order to create a stage for the play Rhinoceros, our group began with a deformable reactive surface made of catenaries held up by four nine foot high tensegrities. This surface expands and retracts, forcing the catenaries to expand and retract along with it. Due to the high density of catenaries, the tensegrities are shrouded and begin to fade away, allowing to surface and catenaVMIW XS ETTIEV EW XLSYKL XLI] EVI 他SEXMRK -R
addition, the catenaries also create a moire effect, adding interesting patterns. The curves allow users to interact with them through sitting and climbing. The idea of the installation is to create a dense jungle-like environment that changes as humans move through it. For example, when the actors interact with the curves or the tensegrities, they must push through the curves or open pathways, allowing for variations of stages in one.
Team: Cherin Al-Hayek, Timothy Baldwin, Marko Dumlija, Daniel Fazcek, Jose Garcia, Kristian Gehl, Ryan Odom, Kevin Pazik, Jeisler Salunga, Erick Sanchez, Aqsa Tahir, Shuya Washido, Yuen Yeung
Drawings were a collaboration of: Timothy Baldwin, Marko Dumlija, Daniel Fazcek, Jose Garcia, Ryan Hernandez, Kevin Pazik, and Jeisler Salunga Photograph taken by: Jeisler Salunga
Unintensional | Model 1:1 | 38
39 | How-To | Unintensional
Unintensional | How-To | 40
Natural State
State of Use
User Interaction
41 | How to Use | Unintensional
Natural State
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3
Version 4
Axon View
Top View
Elevation Unintensional | Versions | 42
Spring 2013
COTTAGE
Awkward architecture, produced with a certain precision, causes the user to feel a certain level of discomfort. The elements appear haphazard and ignored and the design seems to lack a certain Professor: Paul Preissner, Arch 466 amount of skill; however, these decisions are purposeful. The aggregation of cylinders turned Project Awards: Selected for exhibition, 2013 Year End into cottages combines them in a clumsy yet Show, UIC School of Architecture 43 | Rundown | Cottage
specific way; they are slightly leaned against one another in a careless fashion. A few of the variations have a cylinder hanging overhead so the user approaches the cottage with trepidation. Each cottage has its own arrangement, interior, color, and window placement; however, one is not more correct than another, all creating a colony of cottages.
Cottage | View of Site | 44
Plan Variations Round interior rooms echoe the exterior redundantly. Using square rooms, proved to be too uptight and constricting Using a minimal amount of walls creates a deliberEXI STIR 他SSV TPER [MXLSYX ETTIEVMRK XSS HIPMFIVEXI 45 | Diagrams | Cottage
Section Variations 8LI STIR 他SSV TPER MW JYVXLIV IRLERGIH XLVSYKL XLI KVIEX LIMKLX *VSQ XLI exterior, the square footage appears endless, however; the cottage offers only one 他SSV [LMGL GVIEXIW QSQIRXW SJ E[O[EVHRIWW [MXL XLI LIMKLX SJ XLI GIMPMRKW Cottage | Diagrams | 46
Color Variations Exterior paint pattern is a seemingly bad aerosol spray, which separates the cylinders in two, horizontally, and contrasts the vertical singular interior. 47 | Color Variations | Cottage
Roof Plan Scale: 1”=32’
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Scale: 1”=16’ Cottage | Plans and Section | 48
49 | Site Plan | Cottage
Cottage | View of Site | 50
MODELS
Professors: Paul Preissner, Arch 466; Andrew Corrigan, Arch 365; Grant Gibson, Arch 465 Project Awards: Selected for exhibition, 2012 & 2013 Year )RH 7LS[ 9-' 7GLSSP SJ %VGLMXIGXYVI 51 | Rundown | Models
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