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Robert Diaz - Vicente
SELECTED WORKS
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This portfolio contains a selection of work developed throughout my academic career at the Rhode Island School of Design from the Fall of 2016 through Spring of 2019. In addition, work conducted within Summer Internships will also be displayed highlighting tools acquired through practice. These brief examples aims to illustrate an overview of both technical, and conceptual skills through the use of physical fabrications, technical drawings, diagrammatic artifacts, and renderings. Lastly, other works will also be presented displaying a variety of interests outside of the architecture discipline.
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PREAMBLE_
DEPRIVETIZING THE THEATER_ ARTISTIC | EDUCATIONAL ANCHOR + FIELD_ EDUCATIONAL
URBAN ACUPUNCTURE_ THESIS
INTERGRATED BUILDING SYSTEMS_ COMERCIAL | OFFICE
SOBRE MI RESUME
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DEPRIVITIZING THE THEATER I
Historically a public program, through the passage of time the theater has been radically transformed into a clasist, privatize event reserved only to the few. Through the use of materiality, programatic organization, and the architectural typology of the “alley� the theater once more becomes open for all, creating a new experience of interaction between the audience, and the performance.
Simultaniopusly the building aims to suplement the exhisting heavily comercial corridors within the site creating intimate spaces that are both spatially, and visually connected.
Massing_ Programatic, and spatial exploration through Mass Model sketches.*
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Occupant circulation
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PUBLIC CIRCULATION Semi- Public
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Diagramatic Exploded Axon_ Through the use of
materiality, and spatial composition deliverate deligation of exposure, and conselement of program redeďŹ nes the theater as a communal hotspot. drastically public programs are in contact with the more private intimate spaces visually, and in some cases physically while still maintaining a sense of identity, and accessivility.
ENTERING_ Render | Relationship
between excisiting alley space, and the insertion of theater illustrating physical experience within the Alley.* Program: Photoshop, Illustrator + Vray
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Program_ 1. Lobby 2. Back of House | Lounge 3. Workshop | Loading Dock 4. Gallery Space 5. Retail 6. Cafe | Diner 7. Rehersal 8. Plaza 9. Theater 2 10. Park
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Context_ Seeded with numerous comercial, and communal programatic spaces, the implementation of the theater aims to supplement the Site by creating commercial corridors activating the intimate lenguage already in Place.
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Alley_ Human scale, and visual connections are guides to creating confortable spaces for habitation.
SITE MODEL_ Image | Alley Perspective
Materials: Museum board, Chipboard, Dowels + Foam
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AUDIENCE + PERFORMER_ Render | displaying informal performances, and public response using a theatrical style of illustration.
Program: Photoshop, Illustrator + Vray
STAGE_ Render | This style aims to superimpose the Mythic poetic nature of the theater itself, inviting the user to revive notions such as imagination, and creative thinking.
Program: Photoshop, Illustrator + Vray
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SITE MODEL_ Image | Canal View of Theater
Materials: Museum board, Chipboard, Dowels + Foam
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ANCHOR + FIELD II
Serving as a point of rendezvous, the site currently a Salvation Army ďŹ nds itself as as a mitigator between two parties in a community experiencing turmoil. miscomunication, and distrust between the homeless destitute, and the residential portion of Upper South Providence has created a disfunctional space with conditions charged with opportunity. The school as an institution that is both private, and communial serves as an interesting solution as it offers an organizational structure formally, and simultaniously is able to be an incubator for solutions/programs that aim to suture together both the disfunctional site it occupies, and the relationship of its enhabitants.
INCUBATOR_ Render | Learning, and community outreach is supplemented with the use of a “field” that mitigates and provides generic programic spaces that offer the possibility for a diverse number of specific uses by both school and community. Programs: Photoshop, Illustrator + Lumion
17 PROGRAM ORGANIZATION_ Diagrams | Taking as inspiration the current services, and aid provided to the community surounding the site by different organizations began to dictate where the large programatic elelements or “Anchors” would be placed within the school.
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TEACHING PHYLOSOPHY_ Sketch Model | The teaching philosophy closely follows the Montessori teaching methods, providing students with open flexible learning spaces that encourage self discovery, and bring opportunities of community enhancement programs. Massing_ Programatic, and spatial exploration through Mass Model sketches.*
CIRCULATION_
ANCHOR | FIELD RELATIONSHIP_
*Material - foam | Program: Photoshop
TEACHING PHYLOSOPHY_ Sketch Model | The teaching philosophy closely follows the Montessori teaching methods, providing students with open exible learning spaces that encourage self discovery, and bring opportunities of community enhancement programs.
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Program_ 1. Theater 2. Gymnasium 3. Cafeteria 4. Library 5. Classroom 6. Studio 7. Public Learning Spaces 8. Maker Lab 9. Courtyard 10. Private Learning Spaces 11. Garden 12. Rec. Space 13. Outside Performance Space 14. Adult Literacy
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SITE MODEL_ Image | First and Second Floor Exposed
SITE MODEL_ Image | First and Second Floor Exposed Materials: Museum board, board Chipboard, Chipboard Dowels + Foam
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SEASONAL_Render | Illustrating adaptavility, and multy use of the Field
Programs: Photoshop, Illustrator + Lumion
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SITE MODEL_ Image | Aerial View
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U R B A N ACUPUNCTURE
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Due to the rapid development of informal settlements, essential urban conditions such as public spaces, infrastructure, and amiable living conditions are lacking from the urban context. These hyperly urban communities lack an overall organizational strategy that preserve their successes i.e. human scale, community interrelations, hyper functionality while addressing its downfalls (organic chaotic growth, lack of general systems). Conventional design and planning used in “formal’ urban spaces focus on long lasting strokes of urbanisation, this means that the built geography moves slow, and are designed for this slow pace changing. Informal Settlements are dynamic and perpetually rearranging themselves to suit the needs of the user/s. This calls for informal methods of tactics that address issues such as the relationship between public space, and housing, waste collection, and water management in ways that do not involve removing, cutting or clearing.
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WASTE MANAGEMENT Program: Illustrator
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Providing a network that works within the informal settlement, and creates connectivity to education and resources.
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TOPOGRAPHIC SPECULATION_Diagram | Before and After : Introduction of public spaces promoting reintroduction of local ecosystem, and strategic pavillions
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INTERGRATED BUILDING SYSTEMS IV
Set out to understand the intricacies, and systems within a structure eeper than its conceptual and schematic design, this course asked for students in teams of four to collaborate in designing, and excecuting both physical models, and a Construction Drawing set for an office space customed to specific needs for the client. Through this process not only knowledge was attain regarding systems such as HVAC, structure, circulation, and code requirements were obtained, but also qualities such as team work, leadership, time management, and coordination were refined. For this project the requirement for this office space were a CLT structure, peripheral core circulation, green roof, and a rain screen. conceptually what the team set out to acomplished was a building that celebrated materiality, and the horizontality of the CLT. Also, in order to create a dynamic space for the occupant within the structure the floors shifted horizontaly providing both visual connectivity from floor to floor, but also access to exterior spaces.
WALL SECTION MODEL_ Model |
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EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE_ Render | facade celebrates the CLT structure creating continuity from within the building to the exterior.
Program: Revit + Lumion
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE_Render |
Program: Revit + Lumion
COMPONENTS_
0. Glulam Beam 1. Rainscreen System 2. Hat Channel 3. Stone Wool Insulation 4. Weather Membrane 5. Gypsum 6. Foam Insulation 7. Gypsum 8. Wood Blocking 9. Mullion Cap 10. Sealant and Backerrod 11. Metal Still Flashing 12. Window Frame 13. Double Panel Window 14. Glulam Column 15. Sun/view Louver System 16. Threaded Epoxy Anchor 17. 3/4â&#x20AC;? Hardwood 18. CLT 19. Bracket 20. Exterior Pavers 21. Composite Drainage Panel 22. Foam Insulation 23. Water Barrier 24. Concrete 25. CLT 26. Air, Water,Vapor Barrier 27. Drainage Layer 28. 3 Layers Foam 29. Reservoir 30. Horticultural Soil
STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM_
First Floor Plan_
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Program: Revit