P O R ebeca T orres F O L I O
REBECA TORRES Chicago, IL
rtorre48@illinois.edu
(224) 410 - 5836
EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
WORK EXPERIENCE
Farnsworth Group
Master of Architecture Candidate | Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2022 | GPA: 3.84 Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies | Aug. 2017 - May 2021 | High Honors
Student Intern: Full -Time • June 2020 - July 2020 | Champaign, IL Student Intern: Part-Time • Aug. 2020 - May 2021 | Champaign, IL
IIllinois School of Architecture
Graduate Teaching Assistant • ARCH 274 - Representation | Spring 2022 (Present) | Champaign, IL • ARCH 231 - Anatomy of Buidlings | Fall 2021 | Champaign, IL Print and Laser Lab Technician • Aug. 2018 – May 2020 | Champaign, IL
RECOGNITION
Honorable Mention | ISoA Graduate Awards | 2021 First Place | ISoA Critical Mass Student Choice Award | 2020 Candidate | ISoA Earl Prize Design Award | 2019, 2021 Scholarship Recipient | HACIA Scholarship Foundation | 2020
SKILLS
SOFTWARE
Rhino, SketchUp, Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Enscape, V-Ray, Grasshopper
SKILLS
Model Making, Hand Drafting, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, Creative Problem Solving
LANGUAGES
English - Fluent | Spanish - Native
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ORGANIZATIONS
Gargoyle Architecture Honor Society | 2020 Open House Chicago | Volunteer | Fall 2019 Marching Illini Color Guard | Fall 2018 Illini Student Musicals | Spring 2018
INTERESTS
Cooking | Sketching | Painting | Singing | Musical Theater
Table of Contents THRESHOLD
Tokyo, Japan Mixed-Use, High Rise Grad Awards Honrable Mention
RIPPLE
Chicago, IL Urban Agricultural Center First Place Student Choice Award
SUBTERRANEAN
Champaign, IL Community Center
TREE-HOUSE
Allerton Park, IL Pavilion Design
BLOSSOM
New York City, NY Pier Urban Design Earl Prize Nominee
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2 PG. 10
3 PG. 14
4 PG. 20
5 PG. 24
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THRESHOLD In collaboration with Katie Federonko ○ Tokyo, Japan ○ Mixed-Use, High-rise ○ Graduate Awards Honroable Mention
The Threshold is a mixed-use tower in Tokyo containing hotel, residential, and retail programs. The site consists of three adjacent lots on a prominent corner of a major road called Omotesando. The site is naturally fragmented and is also unique because there is a sharp contrast between the fast-paced action of Omotesando road at the East and the religious shrine, temple, and cemetery directly West. The building concept emerged as a mitigation between two very different worlds. One is a shiny, modern shopping district and the other is a beautifully landscaped religious site. Rather than an abrupt arrival, the building mirrors the traditional Japanese idea of a threshold- a light, flexible boundary.
Movement Through Site
Form Development
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Ground Floor Plan
Vertical Urban Park Journey All seven public floors can be accessed through the central core or through the vertical park’s exterior circulation system. A series of winding staircases take visitors through the public park. This nuanced network of circulation created an elongated experience that envokes wonder. The building uses a sequence of green spaces and visible changes to distill activity across the site.
SITE PLAN
HE THRESHOLD
Vertical Park Exterior Circulation
d-use Tower in Tokyo, Japan
Entry Plaza
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Urban Park: Vertical Farming
Urban Park: Exterior Stair Journey
Residential Floor Plan
Section A-A’
Hotel Floor Plan
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Strcture Diagram
Detail at Balcony Connection
Balcony Louvers Diagram
Threshold Through Site Delacate introduction of planes and screens throughout the building and site envokes the Japanese threshold concept both formally and programattically. The design uses laterally shifting geometry to create a form that emulates gradual movement. The balconies employ personal shading and trellis screens for flexible privacy. On the larger scale, the organization creates a transition of programs from active to restful over a journey across the site.
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Podium Section Perspective
SECTION A-A’
Southwest Elevation
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RIPPLE ○ ○ ○ ○
Chicago’s South Loop, IL Urban Agricultural Center Mid-rise, Commercial First Place Student Choice Award
The purpose of this project is to serve as an urban hub to educate people on agriculture as well as to be a source of food production within the city. The program consists of a multipurpose exhibition space, a tool library, seed exchange, multiple classrooms, a library, an outreach office, and growing spaces. The concept for this design is to integrate water, both physically and symbolically, throughout the Agricultural Center as a design tool to represent the importance of water in the agricultural process. This is seen in the facade with the free flowing balconies and louvers, mimicking the flow of water and rain, in the interior with various water features, in harvesting rain water, and finally by using an aquaponics system as the main source of sustainable food production in this building.
Site Extents
Carve
Extend + Undulate
Balconies + Sloped Roof
Concept Model
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Form Diagram
Final Model
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South Loop S CLARK ST
Chicagoland Cook County
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W POLK ST
Metaphorical and Literal use of Water
All three sides of the facade play with the movement of water. The West Facade mimics the pattern of rain falling with the vertical louvers on the side, which also provide solar shading. The South and East facades mimic the movement of water rippling, and the interior “waterfall” can be seen through the glass of the South Elevation. The interior waterfall and water collection system can be seen in the rendering to the right as well as an additional pond feature under the floating staircase of the office.
West Elevation | Summer 12
South Elevation | Autumn
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Fifth Floor Lobby | Conf. Room | Private Offices
Program Organization The program is organized in a hierarchy of public spaces in the lower levels, and it progresses to private spaces in the upper levels. Each level has access to the exterior.
Event Space
Office Staircase
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Located in the heart of Champaign, this community center focuses on the relationship of positive and negative space to create usable open spaces on the surface and below the surface. Half of this building is seen on the ground level with similar pavilions varying in size. Half of the building is sunken into the ground to create a central plaza and connecting pathway between the downtown, public zone and the residential, private zone. Below the outdoor plaza is an atrium that serves as a gathering space without Midwestern weather constraints. The orientation of the pavilions and the angle of the roof is designed based on the summer and winter sun angles to provide shading in the summer and allow direct sunlight in the winter for passive heating.
SUBTERRANEAN: COMMUNITY CENTER ○ Champaign, IL ○ Community Center ○ Civic Architecture
SOUTH RANDOLPH STREET
SOUTH STATE STREET
EXISTING ALLEY TO REMAIN
WEST CLARK STREET
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SOUTH RANDOLPH STREET
SOUTH STATE STREET
EXISTING ALLEY TO REMAIN
VEGETATION
SIDEWALK PAVER
PERVIOUS CONCRETE
ENTRY LOBBIES
MULTI-PURPOSE HALL
WEST CLARK STREET VEGETATION
SIDEWALK PAVER
PERVIOUS CONCRETE
VARIOUS TREES
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GENRAL STORAGE ROOM 493.4SF
E. SMALL MEETING ROOM 180 SF
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H. MECHANICAL ROOM 782.4SF
E. MEDIUM MEETING ROOM 260 SF
D. COMPUTER LAB 1060 SF
G. WOMEN'S RESTROOM 200 SF
H. TRASH/RECYCLING ROOM 295.2SF
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E. SMALL MEETING ROOM 160 SF
B. RESTROOM 40 SF
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C. MEN'S LOCKER ROOM 300 SF
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C. MULTI-PURPOSE HALL + GYM 7500 SF
J. ATRIUM 4700 SF
E. MEDIUM MEETING ROOM 330 SF
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E. CHILDREN'S PLAYROOM 850 SF
G. MEN'S RESTROOM 190 SF
H. JANITOR ROOM 100 SF
F. STORAGE/COPY ROOM 215 SF
F. ADMIN RECEPTION 520 SF F. STAFF RESTROOM 95 SF
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SOUTH RANDOLPH STREET
E. SMALL MEETING ROOM 170 SF
B. CAFE SEATING 1350 SF
E. LARGE MEETING ROOM 740 SF
G. MEN'S PUBLIC RESTROOM 150 SF
C. WEIGHT ROOM 940 SF
H. WOMEN'S PUBLIC RESTROOM 190 SF
A. GALLERY 1200 SF
F. CONF. ROOM 120 SF
F. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE 130 SF 1
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COMPUTER LAB
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SERVICE AREAS
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OUTDOOR AMPITHEATER
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Roof Concrete Cover + Metal Decking Open Web Steel Joists WATERPROOFING LAYER DOUBLE PANE SKYLIGHT WITH LOW E-COATING
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STEEL RAFTER
5” DEPTH STEEL BEAM
LIGHT SHELF
RIGID INSULATION
RIGID INSULATION
OPEN WEB STEEL JOIST
WATERPROOFING LAYER
Load Bearing Walls on Ground Floor
5/8” GYP. BOARD
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Brick Envelope BRICK VENEER WITH MORTAR JOINTS
Skylights
2” CAVITY 4” POLYSTYRENE FOAM JOINT REINFORCING
Ground Floor Slab 8” CONCRETE MASONRY UNITS
SHELF ANGLE WALKABLE SKYLIGHT WITH DOUBLE PANE GLASS AND LOW E COATING BRICK PAVER WITH MORTAR
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BOND BREAKER AND SEALANT
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CONTINOUS METAL FLASHING
SAND RIGID INSULATION
One-Way Concrete Joists
WATERPROOFING LAYER 8” CONCRETE SLAB CONCRETE BEAMS
One-Way Concrete Joists
Basement Load Bearing Walls & Columns and Beams for Gymnasium
Structural Axon
HARDWOOD FLOORING FINISH FLOORING SUBSTRUCTURE 8” CONCRETE SLAB 6” RIGID INSULATION WATERPROOFING LAYER
CONCRETE FOOTING BEHIND GRAVEL GROUND SOIL
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COOLING GEOTHERMAL COOLING
GEOTHERMAL HEATING GEOTHERMAL HEATING
THERMAL OLING
GEOTHERMAL HEATING
SUMMER SUN
GEOTHERMAL COOLING
SUMMER SUN
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LIGHT SHELF
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THERMAL COOLING THERMAL COOLING
COMMUNITY GATHERING AREAS
WINTER SUN
LIGHT SHELF
WINTER SUN
LIGHT SHELF GEOTHERMAL HEATING
Sustainability Diagram NATRUAL DAYLIGHT
LIGHT SHELVES
Natrual daylight is a major contributer to the energy efficency of the building. The pavilions are oriented in a way to maximize natural daylight into the building with as little glare as possible. The slope of the roof and the skylights allow for passive heating.
GEOTHERMAL HEATING + COOLING
THERMAL MASS
Light shelves serve as a strategy to allow more glare free daylight to travel deeper into the building. The use of light shelves block direct sunlight during the summer and diffuses it throughout the space. In the winter, the sun rays can enter directly into spaces to allow the oportunity for passive heating.
This is used as an active system to cover the remaining temperature needs of the building that cannot be accoplished with passive strategies. Geothermal energy uses the temperature of the ground to regulate building temperature. The ground temprature stays in a consistent range year-round.
Since the underground temperature is consistent year long, burrying the building allowed for the oportunity to use thermal mass as a passive heating and cooling strategy in a midwest climate. Another benefit to sinking the building is that there is less visual obstruction on the site and more room for open, usable space.
NATRUAL DAYLIGHT
Natrual daylight is a major contributer to the energy efficency of the building. The pavilions are oriented in a way to maximize natural daylight into the building with as little glare as possible. The slope of the roof and the skylights allow for passive heating.
LIGHT SHELVES Light shelves serve as a strategy to allow more glare free daylight to travel deeper into the building. The use of light shelves block direct sunlight during the summer and diffuses it throughout the space. In the winter, the sun rays can enter directly into spaces to allow the oportunity for passive heating.
BUILDING COMMUNITY
THERMAL COOLING THERMAL COOLING THERMAL COOLING THERMAL COOLING
Although builfing a sense of community is not an environmental sustainability SUMMER SUN strategy, it is important to recognize the effect that a new building will have for the people it serves. A socially sustainable building will have the ability to encourage collaboration a WINTERwithin SUN community.
LIGHT SHELF
GEOTHERMAL HEATING + COOLING
This is used as an active system to cover the remaining temperature needs of the building that cannot be accoplished with passive GEOTHERMAL strategies. Geothermal energy COOLING uses the temperature of the COMMUNITY ground to regulate building THERMAL GATHERING COMMUNITY COOLING temperature. The ground AREAS GATHERING temprature stays in a AREAS THERMAL consistent range year-round. COOLING
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BUILDINGCOMMUNITY COMMUNITY GATHERING
WINTER SUN
AREAS
THERMAL COOLING
COMMUNITY GATHERING AREAS
South Elevation
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North Elevation
LIGHT SHELF
Although builfing a sense of community is not an environmental sustainability strategy, it is important to recognize the effect that a new building will have for the people it serves. A socially sustainable building will have the ability to encourage collaboration within a THERMAL COOLING community.
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Gym Perspective
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TREE-HOUSE
Located just 40 minutes for the University of Illinois Campus, Robert Allerton Park is looking to create a pavilion for people to enjoy and relax, surrounded by nature. This design plays with the concept of prospect and refuge to maximize the enjoyment of its users.
○ Allerton Park, IL ○ Pavilion Design ○ Enviornmental Analysis
The form of the pavilion derived from abstracting the shape of a tree, with the bottom half of the structure appearing to be lightweight and the top of the structure being heavier. The pavilion features three main levels which will serve to give a variation of views from the structure and from its standing on the topography.
Final Model
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Prospect + Refuge Prospect and refuge is a main concept in this project. Similar to a tree, this structure provides protection from the elements when underneath its leaves despite some of the openings. The user can climb up this “tree” through ladders on the side. This brings out the playful side of the building. Once users climb up the ladder, they can choose different levels of the structure to enjoy the view of the beautiful park ahead of them. 22
Winter Sun: Azimuth
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5,000 - 6,000
Source: Bureau of Vital Statistics, 2017
Source: New York State Department of Health Statewide Planning Research Cooperative
seniors living alone
Source: Bureau of Vital Statistics, 2017
Source: NYC Comptroller, 2020
seniors living alone 6,000 - 7,000 Source: 5,000 - 6,000
NYC Comptroller, 2020
3,000 - 5,000
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Rooftop Park
Design Strategy
The massing and path of the site is a symbol of a person’s mental health journey. The entry to the pier is shaded and one of the darkest, nosiest places on the pier due to its proximity to the city. A person would then climb a hill and be released into a more open landscape that views the river. The path throughout the pier is winding and turning to show that not everyone’s mental health journey is the same, and there is no straight path. Along this path and throughout the pier, the user experiences visual, tactile, auditory sensors where they can socialize or meditate. The program itself involves an urban park, water interaction, and interaction with birds through an observatory and a pond.
Park Entry
Indoor and Outdoor Activities The play motif relates to the various physical activities that happen along the pier such as walking, biking, hiking, sledding, yoga, sports, fishing, and dancing. In the interior, there is a spa with a pool looking out to the Hudson river and an indoor gym to accommodate for all four seasons in New York. Additionally, the interior also has a learning center and a co-working space to provide enjoyable activities such as cooking, art, music, and other hobbies to keep an active mind.
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Pool and Spa
PROGRAM DIAGRAM
TERRACE
HIKING/SLEDDING
TERRACE
HIGH LINE CONNECTION
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
TERRACE
CO-WORKING GARDEN
48’-0” 36’-0” 24’-0”
GALLERY
SPA WITH POOL
CAFE
GYM
CLASSROOMS
EXTERIOR POOLS
PATH
bioswale
ADA friendly slope
log handrails
native trees
colored porous asphalt
colored porous asphalt
HILL TRAIL
COURTS
FOREST TRAIL
12’ Trail through hill between forest and remaining site
12’ Trail through extensive forest habitat
PATH DETAIL
width 11” steel and wood handrail colored porous asphalt 6” conc. board steel. beam
shading device
pools
picnic benches
stone
colored porous asphalt
gathering steps colored porous asphalt
4’ conc footing
hudson river
BROOK TRAIL
12’ Trail in nodes with wetland aquatic planting
BUILT TRAIL
12’ trail through shading infrastructure
HUDSON TRAIL
12’ Trail along the Hudson River with areas to rest
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SKETCHES + MODELS Throughout the years, I have accumulated various sketches and paintings. My favorite mediums are pen and watercolor although I have also experimented with charcoal, chalk, ink, and acrylic paint. Drawing and painting continues to be a pastime for me, and it has proven to be incredibly useful to express my ideas during my design studio. Aside from studio, it is also a place where I can show my emotions as seen in the drawing titled “Withering.” Art can also be a place to make a statement such as in “Soaring,” which explores the relationship between men, symbolized by buildings, and nature, symbolized by birds. Parc de la Villette | Pen | Spring 2019 | Personal
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Withering |Charcoal | Fall 2019 | Personal
Chiswick House Bridge | Pen | Spring 2019 | Personal
Lightness + Heaviness Exploration
Lightness | Folding | Paper
Heaviness | Pouring | Rockite + Glycerin
Lightness | Weaving | String + HDF
Heaviness | Stacking | Plywood + Cork
Lightness | Slicing | Paper
Heaviness | Terracing | Newsboard
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Thank You
REBECA TORRES
Chicago, IL | rtorre48@illinois.edu | 224-410-5836