Portfolio 15 bachelor of arts in architecture university of new mexico sasha godinez
Contents 1 architecture cabin 4 farm anti-farm 10 bath haus 16 c.r.c. 22
2 personal projects fruit bowl 30 plywood paintings 34
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Architecture
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Cabin the piedmont north carolina arch 402 karen king
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The cabin was the product of the renovation and expansion of a century old log cabin for a man who wanted it to become his forever home. The basic requirements were that it needed to be a two bedroom, two bath home with views to the south east, open space for public use, enclosed space for private use, a tele-health station for daily health monitoring and communication, and must include the integration of accessible and aging in place design ideals throughout. The design began with splitting the cabin into quadrants. It then expanded based on these axes and main circulation was drawn from the fireplace. This not only helps to create a simple circulation but also establishes a changing material palette on the wall that helps define room boundaries, and helps to delineate between open space, being the larger bar on the southern side of the house, and the private space of the smaller bar on the north. The Nana walls that are placed throughout the south eastern corner of the living room also help to give the client a feel of the outdoors and a way to access nature without the trouble of leaving his home.
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Perspectives of the kitchen with accessible features such as roll under sink, pull down cabinet shelving, and multilevel counter heights, master bath with a roll-through shower and mirror doubling as tele-health station with a monitoring grab bar, and open living room with material changes
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Farm Anti-Farm 251 kearney street san francisco california arch 302 chris beccone
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book design by sasha godinez, edited by gavin brown and sidney carrasco
The farm anti-farm project began as research on the hedonism of San Francisco, from gold rush times to the present. It focused on prostitution during the gold rush, dope during the summer of love, and henceforth an attitude of easy come, easy go indulgence. So, the farm is named such because it does not necessarily farm a crop, but condones an attitude that is then put back into the city. There are four main circulations of the tower, each going to a different floor of entertainment and allowance connected by ramps. The shell of the building serves as a tease to the people who pass the exterior. As the night progresses, each floor becomes more lively than the next, allowing the apertures to open and close accordingly to show everyone on the outside what they are missing. From its location on kearney, each floor plate is twisted directionally toward a neighborhood or area that it relates to, creating a twisting movement from level 1 to 18.
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Bath Haus 5th and rosemont avenue albuquerque new mexico arch 301 chris beccone
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unfolded section The Bath Haus was designed after a precedence study of the threshold conditions at the entrance to a great kiva in Chaco Canyon, a community of ancient Native American ruins in Northern New Mexico. In this complex, a kiva served as a spiritual space, where the people gathered in mass amounts to join together in religious ritual. Based on this precedent, the Bath Haus is meant to help its users discover their spiritual presence. This is done by elevation changes, changes in the topography of the walls, ceiling, and floor, and variations in water temperature. As a person moves from bath to bath, the building’s elements constrict and then expand, warranting the user to shift into an awareness of their body and mind. This is also done through the path of the baths. As the temperatures become hotter, the elevation of the pool or room descends, pulling the user closer to the earth and sending them into an aware but relaxed state of mind. The journey begins with the medium temperature pool. It then goes threshold of kiva entrance to the hot pool, where the choice can then be made to travel to the cold pool or to the sauna. The path wraps around so that the journey ends where it began, to bring the mind back to its natural state.
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ground floor plan with baths, check in, locker rooms, and offices
basement plan with sauna and hot pool
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building form, interior topography, and circulation diagrams
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warm pool to cold pool (left) and sauna (right)
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Community Rec Center edith boulevard and tyler road albuquerque new mexico arch 401 margaret pedone
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The community recreation center (c.r.c) was designed as a building to revitalize and restore a community along the Albuquerque - Santa Fe rail runner line. It was proposed to do so by both becoming a new stop along the line and also a place for the neighboring people to spend time on recreational activity. Presently, an abandoned sanitarium sits on the site. From this abandoned building and the surrounding contextual features such as the neighborhoods and rail line I drew a site grid. From this grid I derived multiple forms and layered them upon each other. Because I wanted the top of the building to be accessible and usable as a space, areas of transparency became areas where the building sloped upward from the ground plane. I wanted to pay homage to the abandoned sanitarium because it is a site famous for harboring a “haunted� building. To do this, I used the small crossing slits that came from the grid as areas in the building where glass would be placed. This created an element of the building where it appears some areas are missing, and also gives the users areas where they can see through multiple rooms. The center holds multiple sports courts, pools, a daycare, rental store, gym, and open studios.
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offices and daycare reception/security vertical circulation food court rental store locker rooms yoga room fitness gym open studios racquetball court squash court tennis court basketball court basketball stadium surf pool recreation pool olympic pool
140 ft. basement plan
ground floor plan
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Personal Work
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Fruit Bowl
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Plywood, wood glue, and stain
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Plywood Paintings
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Plywood, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic paint
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Plywood, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic paint
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