Portfolio FAll 2014
Alvaro Chacon / Digital Media II
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Precendent Study Design Studio IV
Precedent Study Design Studio IV
Pedestrian Bridge Design Studio IV
International Bridge Design Studio IV
Barkitecture Digital Media II
Digital Composition Digital Media II
Precedent Study Primary School in Burkina Faso For our Precedent Study we were tasked with recreating a building in order to better understand the building’s structural system. Plans and drawings were recreated as accurately as possible.
Exploded Axonometric
Air Flow and Sun Protection Diagram
Precedent Study Primary School in Burkina Faso
Floor Plan
Front Elevation
Section Details
Alternative Roof Designs
Union Plaza Pedestrian Bridge
Proposed Site Plan This project involved the designing of a pedestrian bridge that would link two historic districts in downtown El Paso, Texas. Topography and ADA guidelines were to be taken into consideration for the design.
Longitudinal Section
Transverse Section
Exploded Axonometric
Santa Fe International Bridge ReDesign
Proposed Site Plan
Longitudinal Section
The Santa Fe International Bridge is one of the busiest pedestrian bridges in the U.S. Our goal was to redesign the bridge with the pedestrian in mind.
Rendered View of Glass Boardwalk
Transverse Section
Barkitecture Our objective for this project was to design a portable dog house that would be created through the exploration of three dimensional shapes.
Rendering of Doghouse
Initial Concept
Construction and Assembly Process
Finished Doghouse
Digital Composition This project involved taking an existing building, taking images or fragments of images and rearranging them in order to come up with a completely different image not necessarily resembling a structure. That image was then taken and used as a template for extruding a 3 dimensional composition.
Existin Building at 675 West Kendall in Boston MA
Digital Abstraction
Analytical Tracing
Digital Composition
Scaled Axonometric