Collective Works Volume Three

Copyright © 2014, by University of Houston ISBN 978-0996054102 Printed in the United States of America Designed by the 2013-2014 CW Team Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, 122 College of Architecture Bldg., University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 USA www.arch.uh.edu First Edition, 2014_ All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Authors hold copyrights for their individual works, essays, and images. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including scanning, photocopying, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Typeface_ This volume of the Collective Works | Volume Three uses ‘Calibri’ fonts.

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College of Architecture | Collective Works UNDERGRADUATE

GRADUATE

ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE

The undergraduate program serves a diverse regional and international student body challenge to produce excellent work, which often addresses issues facing the incredible laboratory that is the Houston metropolitan area. As many of the faculty members are active practitioners, the students are exposed to engage professionals who encourage them to imagine what might be. the program integrates architecture majors with industrial design and interior architecture majors in the foundation studio sequence, equipping them with knowledge and experience in preparation for the multidimensional challenges that will inevitably arise within their respective design professions.

The Graduate Program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture is committed to preparing its students to take leadership roles in the architectural profession as it enters an unprecedented era of rapidly evolving social and environmental imperatives and emerging technological potentials. The graduate program promotes creative critical inquiry into the material and cultural contexts where architecture is practiced today. It provides a comprehensive foundation for practice at all scales and for a future of lifelong learning. Our design-centered program contains studios, seminars, and lectures consistently focused on the process of creating where ideas find form in the field of architecture.

_Lannis Kirkland | Associate Dean

_R. Longoria + D. Froehlich | Co-Directors of Graduate Studies

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

SPACE ARCHITECTURE

The goal of the Industrial Design program is to nurture young talents to be aspiring designers through a calculated curriculum program.

During their first and second years, students familiarize themselves with industrial design history, fundamentals of form, language, materials, manufacturing methods and visual communications skills. Third-year students conduct research and apply their findings to design projects. By their fourth year in the program, students are prepared for careers through a curriculum addressing diverse design issues, design ethics, business, and entrepreneurship. Design learning emphasizes process-oriented problem-solving as reflective practice. The practical and pragmatic aspect of design knowledge can be enhanced by a series of workshops and industry-sponsored projects.

We offer the worlds only Master of Science and Space Architecture.

Our mission is to plan and implement programs that advance peaceful and beneficial uses of space technology on Earth and beyond by addressing influences of the unique conditions of the Space environment upon construction processes and material options.

_Eunsook Kwon, Ph.D. | Director of Industrial Design

_Patricia Belton Oliver, FAIA | Dean _Lannis Kirkland | Associate Dean _Trang Phan | Assistant Dean _R. Longoria + D. Froehlich | Co-Directors of Graduate Studies

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE The discourse of Architecture at the scale of the interior is undergoing unprecedented change.

Emerging as a design specialization, Interior Architecture engages trans-disciplinary knowledge within an intermingled and blended territory. Theoretical investigations, applied research, and academic studios explore alternative methodologies in an inherently hybridized approach to contemporary architectural practice. Addressing this recent shift, the teaching of Interior Architecture is adapting to and anticipating new potentialities.

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The Interior Architecture program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture investigates a new territory poised at the intersection of architecture, conservation, and spatial design by locating its curriculum through the re-use and transformation of existing buildings, as well as emerging opportunities in exhibition design, installations, and light-mobile architectures. The Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture degree focuses upon architectural interiors and spatial design with particular emphasis on ecology, materials, and adaptation framed through the social, cultural, and theoretical parameters of space. Design is the focus of undergraduate studies, combining research with building and community advocacy.

_Larry Bell | Director of SICSA

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | GERALD D. HINES | COA

_Eunsook Kwon, Ph.D. | Director of Industrial Design _Gregory Marinic | Director of Interior Architecture _Larry Bell | Director of SICSA _Michaelangelo Sabitino, Ph.D. | History + Theory Coordinator _Rives Taylor, FAIA | Technology Coordinator _Geoffrey Brune, FAIA | Comprehensive Design Coordinator _Professional Coordinator | Architecture | William Truitt _Intermediate Coordinator | Architecture | Tom Diehl _Foundation Coordinator | Architecture | Cord Bowen

Focused on the future of design practice, the Interior Architecture program seeks to embrace the limitless potential of this emerging specialization within Architecture, while shifting the conventional perceptions of and expectations for interiority. _Gregory Marinic | Director of Interior Architecture

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ARCHITECTURE 1500 | BOWEN 1500 | CHAPMAN 1500 | GONZALES 1500 | HUYNH 1500 | JACKSON 1500 | KIRKLAND 1500 | MCMANUS 1500 | PLAUCHE

ARCHITECTURE 2500 | BOWEN 2500 | CHAPMAN 2500 | FLESHMAN 2500 | HUYNH 2500 | JACKSON 2500 | NG 2500 | PLAUCHE

ARCHITECTURE 2298 | KIRKLAND 2327 | VANLANDINGHAM + WITTRY 2350 | LAOS 2397 | JACKSON + GONZALES

ARCHITECTURE 3500 | BURROW 3500 | COLBERT 3500 | DIEHL 3500 | MACHICEK 3500 |STORY

ARCHITECTURE 3198 | KIRKLAND 3350 | SABATINO 3354 | TURNER 3356 | LAOS 3372 | BOWEN 3397 | VRANA 3397 | LAOS 3397 | BACHMAN 3397 | NOLDT 3397 | NOLDT 3427 | PENLAND + HERNANDEZ

ARCHITECTURE 4510 | BRUNE 4510 | CORDILL 4510 | DIEHL 4510 | FLESHMAN 4510 | KACMAR 4510 | STORY

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ARCHITECTURE 1200 | MASHBURN 1360 | HANNA

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 2340 | KIMBROUGH 2355 | ORTO 2360 | WELLS

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 3500 | WELLS INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE 3500 | GONZALES

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 4500 | KIMBROUGH

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 3340 | FENG 3360 | VOS INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE 3300 | GAKOVIC 3397 | JACKSON + GONZALES

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 1360 | KIMBROUGH

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ARCHITECTURE 1359 | SABATINO 1360 | HANNA

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INTERIOR ARCH 2501 | MARINIC

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 2501 | FENG

ARCHITECTURE 1501 | BOWEN 1501 | CHAPMAN 1501 | FLESHMAN 1501 | HUYNH 1501 | JACKSON 1501 | KIRKLAND 1501 | MCMANUS 1501 | PLAUCHE

ARCHITECTURE 2501 | CHAPMAN + GRIFFIN 2501 | DIEHL 2501 | FLESHMAN 2501 | GONZALES 2501 | HUYNH 2501 | JACKSON 2501 | PLAUCHE

ARCHITECTURE 2298 | BRUNE 2351 | LAOS 2428 | VANLANDINGHAM + BRUNE + WILKERSON + FORD 3331 | HUXEL

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 2341 | FENG 2356 | ORTO 2361 | WELLS

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 4501 | FENG + KWON 4501 |FENG + KWON

ARCHITECTURE 3501 | BURROW 3501 | CORDILL 3501 | FLESHMAN 3501 | ROBERTSON 3501 | SELF 3501 | STORY 3501 | TRUITT

ARCHITECTURE 3342 | TURNER 3347 | THOMAS 3353 | LAOS 3365 | BACHMAN 3368 | RIFAAT 3397 | FOK 3397 | VRANA 3397 | JACKSON + GOZALES 3397 | MARINIC 3397 | JOHNSON

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ARCHITECTURE 5500 | FOK 5500 | KACMAR 5500 | LOGAN 5500 | PETERS 5500 | ROGERS 5500 | TRUITT 5500 | VRANA

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ARCHITECTURE 5500 | BOWEN 5500 | LOGAN 5500 | MASHBURN 5500 | ROGERS 5500 | SELF 5500 | TRUITT 5500 | VRANA 5500 | ZWEIG

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LEVEL I 6301 | NG 6320 | WILKERSON 6325 | BACHMAN 6397 | FOK 6360 | CRYER + BATCHVAROVA 6373 | RIFAAT 6397 | WEBB 6397 | NOLDT 6397 | NOLDT

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LEVEL II 6333 | NOLDT 6351 | TURNER 6349 | BACHMAN + COLACO 6397 | SELF 6397 | WEBB 6335 | NOLDT 6342 | TURNER 6355 | FOX 6340 | LAOS 6354 | TURNER 6367 | TAYLOR 6397 | RIFAAT 6397 | JACKSON + GONZALES 6397 | LAOS 6398 | LONGORIA

ARCHITECTURE 3428 | TAYLOR + MADGET 4324 | COLACO 4325 | BACHMAN 4333 | NOLDT 4351 | TURNER 4355 | FOX 4367 | TAYLOR 4374 | SABATINO 4393 | BRUNE 3497 | ROGERS 4397 | SELF 4397 | WEBB

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ARCHITECTURE 5335 | NOLDT 5360 | CRYER + BATCHVAROVA

SPACE ARCHITECTURE 7610 | BANNOVA + BELL

LEVEL III 6347 | THOMAS 6398 | WEBB 3365 | LAOS 6397 | MARINIC 6397 | JOHNSON 6397 | VRANA + MEPPELINK

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ARCHITECTURE 5500 | FOK 5500 | KACMAR 5500 | LOGAN 5500 | PETERS 5500 | ROGERS 5500 | TRUITT 5500 | VRANA 5500 | ZWEIG + COLBERT 5593 | TRUITT

LEVEL I 6302 | NG 6331 | HUXEL 6346 | BACHMAN + COLACO 6360 | CRYER + BATCHVAROVA 6397 | JACKSON + GONZALES 6397 | SABATINO

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LEVEL I 6601 | PETERS + LOGAN

UA ID IA GA SA 1 2 3 4

SPACE PLACE GIOVANNI PENA

ARCH 2501 | SHARON CHAPMAN + ROBERT GRIFFIN | SP 13 The T-House is an event space that takes advantage of its unique location. The goal with this project was to establish a constant dialogue with the park. To accomplish this goal, it was very important to develop a strong site integration. The T-House was greatly inspired

by Japanese architecture. Japanese architecture is rooted in the belief that man-made spaces should complement the nature that surrounds them. The architectural language used in the T-House is very minimalist. Spaces are meant to be experienced, not looked at.

ARCH 2501 | SP 13 _ Benjamin Beil, Michael R Burch, Charlie F Dominguez, Cynthia Fernandez, Eduardo Enrique Garcia, Rigo Hernandez, Arianne Alessandra Gonzato Perez, Giovanni Andres Pena, Matthew Ronald Rodriguez, Gabriel O Romero, Davy Zhu

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The Highland Commons project has an interesting mix of an urban, consumer-driven, and innovative nature. The intersection at Westheimer and Drexel calls out for a transparent yet bold place to be created. That boldness was granted due to the importance of the Tesla showroom. The innovation that this American car brand stands for is reflected throughout the entire structure, which is set apart from the rest of the shopping strip so that the exterior entry space strengthens the exclusivity of the place itself. The concept of bold innovation was particularly implemented by the stark exposition of the driving structural language of moment frame and truss suspension.

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TESLA CENTER

_Stefan Daniel Orr

_Paul Trinh Nguyen

_Austine Yu

_Jessica Yazmin Juarez

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ARCH 1500 | Cord Bowen | F 13 _ Jevrin Alviando, Max Steven Anton, Polli Leila Bush, Franco Ernesto Camacho, Maria Camila Castro, Keifer R Chase, Gabriel De La Torre, Camille Espinas, Brook Veronica Garcia, Younggil Ko, Lee Mai, Natalie Marie Marsolan, Silvia Celeste Martinez, Babirye S Nteza, Catalina Valencia, Shujing Wang

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ARCH 1500 | Michael Gonzales | F 13 _ Jose E Alfaro-Vasquez, Abdul Aziz M Alshayeb, Allen D Brannon, Delfina Domogalla, Cecily-Ann Mercedes Dosser, Anthony P Gutierrez, Jose Mario Lopez, Genesis Patricia Morales, Paul Trinh Nguyen, Stefan Daniel Orr, Elizabeth Joanna Priebe, Jonathan J Torres, Israel Valles, Hayley Reese Wallace, Austine Yu ARCH 1500 | Chan Huynh | F 13 _ Lucas Christensen, Isaac Eli Contreras, Mary K Crabtree, Martin Anthony Delgado, Angelica Andreina Lastra, Stephanie Oropeza, Brent Paquet, Brandon D Perry, David M Pham, Cristobal Pinon, Shauna L Steinberg, Oluchukwu K Ughanze, Mario Vargas Magana, Princess B Villalta

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ARCH 1500 | Sharon Chapman | F 13 _ Han Dang, Quan Anh Dang, Yaneth Garcia, John Dennis Geiser Jr, Aaron Alberto Hernandez, Nicholas Janho, Juliette Alexia Laroche , Jeannice Marie Macklin, Agustin Alejandro Martinez, Eddie Jhovany Mazariegos, Micaela Belen Preti, Golnaz Tabibian, Whitney Nicole Thomas

ARCH 1500 | Lannis Kirkland | F 13 _ Morgan Thomas Alkire, Nicole A Cazares, Paloma Elaine Daily, Guadalupe Diaz, Jessica N Hedge, Angela Hoch, Erin P Lew, Kimberly Neely, Jamie Newcomb, Matthew H Ngyen , John Gabriel Perez, Jorge E Rebellon, Charlotte M Thompson, Michelle A Toth, Michael Wilson, Michael Joseph Zepeda ARCH 1500 | Joseph McManus | F 13 _ Bedour A Abbas, Breanna A Avila, Zachary Benge Brinkman, Jasmin Carranza, Alex Evan Cervantes, Doumit Doumit, Jaclyn D Hatcher, Collin K Knight, Jacob Donald Lohman, Briana Martinez, Haley Katherine McFarland, Jannette Mejia, Kendrick Perkins, Eric Sorto, Ricardo Torres

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ARCH 1500 | Meg Jackson | F 13 _ Abran Martin Arvizu, James Jared Babineaux, Alexander B Bishop, Eric Siu-Ben Cheung, Rachel J Collins, Valeria Hernandez, Jessica Yazmin Juarez, Francis B Ramirez, Gabriel O Romero, Eric Salinas, Alexandra Marie Sambrano, Martin Solis, Brandon James Terry, Ely Ann Trevino Moreno, Vy Thanh Truong

_Eric Cheung

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ARCH 1500 | Roya Plauche’ | F 13 _ Farah K Aboudaoud, Afreen K Ali, Pedro Mateo Alvarez, Jeniza J Chala, Cass Drew-Berthiaume, Angel Flores, Robyn Ann Franklin, Jalen Johnson, Dan Tony Khac Le, Swetha Nelakanti, Paul Hastings Prestera, Gilberto Ramirez, Ruben A Reese, Kelvin A Rodriguez, Logan M Scott

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| ARCH 3372/6397 | F 13

_BENTOTE | Kongci Chan, Gift Taout, Patti Lee

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Students explore the business side of design in collaboration with the tangible design. Creating and manufacturing objects, students prepare for rigorous critiques from business owners and manufacturers, exploring much more than the simple creation of the object but also the trajectory throughout the life of the object.

Through investigation of marketing and promotion, materials, costs of production and profit margins, the designers carry out the process through the final stages that include actual sales at PH Design Shop located in Rice Village.

ARCH 3372 | F13 _ Wells Martin Barber, Kongci Chan, Martha Alicia Gloria, Andre P Jauregui, Patti Lee, Rodrigo Marron, Robert C Mazzo, Hilda Alejandra Moreno, Jacqueline Astrid Ramirez, Aysha Rehman Rana, David M Regone, Natalie Mabel Rodriguez, David Saucedo, Bundharic Taout, Christine T Tran _WALDORF | Ashley Hollon, Audra Biediger, David Rodriguez

_LONA | Jaqueline Ramirez, David Saucedo, Christine Tran

_JEUNE | Martha Gloria, Rodrigo Marron, Hilda Moreno

_COFFEE VASE | Natalie Rodriguez, Shatha Abdulmajeed

_JAUNT | James Andras, Shalini Moodley, Andrew Otoole

ARCH 6397 | F 13 _ Shatha Mohammed Abdulmajeed, James E Andras, Audra Frances Biediger, Laura Ashley Hollon, Shalini Moodley, Andrew J Otoole, David Rodriguez

_BOWL FOR NOTHING | W. Barber, A. Jauregui, D. Regone

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INAR 2501 | GREGORY MARINIC | SP 13 Taking advantage of film, students curated an installation based upon the phenomenon of space as related to the concept and inspiration of classical film. Madelaine Parker studied 2001: A Space Oddessy, filmed in 1968 by Stanley Kubrick. The student’s research led her to create Polychromatic Interplay by following and investigating a portion of the 1960’s counterculture filmography and technological advances and possibilities allowing for a bold and extraterrestrial experience. Student Ana Sotelo‘s work entitled Aggregated Singularity explores the 1981 Parisian film, Diva. The question is posed to consider the consequences of life-changing decisions. The student explores a monopoly of a single component. Use of the single component allows for the bright experience producing an overwhelming experience similar to that of one’s life. Students used material, light, and color studies to find their method of production and to curate a unique phenomenological experience within a limited space in a downtown Houston sky bridge walkway by means of installation .

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INAR 2501 | SP 13 _ Minelya Del Carmen De Leon, Joseph Matthew Echavarria, Jessica Morgan Garrett, Joshua A Hollie, Emily R Keller, Roni Kop, Jonathan Lampson, Cecilia Mejia, Madelaine A Parker, Francesca Sosa, Ana Cristina Sotelo

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| AA LONDON | SU 13

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The Visiting School is an opportunity to experience the methodology and ideas developed at the Architectural Association in an intense full-time studio for two weeks. Through the workshop, students will develop design strategies across scales that enable them to rethink the relationships between contemporary design tools, macro architecture, and the urban environment.

Inter Scaleless is a two-week workshop where students develop parametric design strategies that enable them to generate design scenarios across scales, while focusing on a given conceptual framework. The challenge this year is to rebuild the relationship between Houston’s channel border and the public urban structure of Houston, to generate a sense of place. Parametric systems that respond to both existing urban fabric and Houston’s port water mass, lead to a range of artificial landscapes that negotiate public space with the Ship Channel’s edge. Situated at the crossroads of urban design, architecture, environmental design, infrastructure and building preservation, this exercise will give participants the opportunity to develop their skills through different methodologies based on the exploration of local conditions, material processes, and the experimentation with digital fabrication and representational tools. The Visiting School is an opportunity to experience methodologies and ideas developed at the Architectural Association in a two-week intensive full-time studio

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Faculty | Victoria Goldstein + Arturo Revilla Local Coordinator | Alfonso Hernandez Instructional Assistant | Jose Aguilar

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AA HOUSTON | Victoria Goldstein + Arturo Revilla | SU 13

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NICOLAS HERRERA + JEAN PAUL RYSAVY

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PARKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NICOLAS HERRERA

The design research was about studying how music is created and its application to architecture. various songs were analyzed in order to find a defining parameter that could generate the program logic and facade. A weaving technological was discovered and this logics by mixing classroom and music together into a large open space.

The facade of the building was derived from tones of specific songs, that when put together with the brutalist typology of the building, creates an interesting color experience.

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ARCH 3501 | ELIZABETH CORDILL | SP 13

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ARCH 3501 | SP 13 _ Julian A Arango, Enrique Badillo, Enocente Jimmy Bosques, Mildred Clara Marie De Gasquet, Kevin Matthew Giuseppetti, Mohammed Awad Gowayed, Nicolas Herrera, Michael Allen Houy, Cyrielle Evelyne Le Mouellic, Clinton Dale Marburger, Jason Otero, Jesus M Vasquez

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| ARCH 5500 | SP 13

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Vitreous is a design proposal that incorporates the vantage points of the natural landscape and the technological advancement of digital fabrication and media technologies. The project is a collaborative feat between fifteen graduate and undergraduate students working towards the goal of a self-funded architectural installation.

The faceted panels disguise and blend the unbounded Marfa landscape with reflective images causing a perceptual distortion between the viewer and the surroundings and between the real and the virtual. Vitreous contends to be a visual/spatial experiment that poses a blurred line between the real and the virtual, the subject and the object. It works to deconstruct that separation and guide the subject’s perception toward the third domain in-between, the domain of relation.

The interactivity of the LEDs and the interchangeability of the colors will be determined by data-sourced information through an APP (application) developed by the student team. The APP will be available for download Online and will be available for both iPhones and Androids. This APP will be user-interacted and data-sourced to interact with the color scheme of the installation itself.

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ARCH 5500 | WENDY FOK | SP 13

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ARCH 5500 | SP 13 _ Arif S Ali, Cristhian A Bisso, Katherine Elizabeth Dominguez, Christopher Charles Heath, Thomas George Heinold, Andre P Jauregui, Ivan Jimenez, Hai H Luu, Alexander A Martin, Long Hoang Nguyen, Natalie Mabel Rodriguez, Ismael Adan Rojas, Ricardo Daniel Sepulveda

GRADUATE DESIGN | BUILD The Graduate Design/Build Studio began as a circumstantial initiative by UH faculty members Robert Lindsey and Paul Ludholz in 1990 to offer UH graduate students in our Level I entrance track the experience of building a design that they had collaboratively conceived. When, in 1994, I assumed the role of Director of Graduate Studies at UH, I became the defacto head of this initiative and guided it toward delivering on what I saw to be its high potential for improving graduate student design thinking. In 1996, I stepped in to teach the course, focusing its teaching, design work and branding profile on the intention of creating modest but exemplary works of sustainable architecture that are both climateinfluenced and tectonically direct. I saw it as the opportunity to implement at UH the strong recommendations of the Ernest Boyer and Lee Mitgang in their 1996 Carnegie Foundation-funded report, Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice, for architecture schools to get their students out of the classroom and into their communities as a means of improving architectural education while also improving their communities.

Now after a twenty-five year history and the execution of twenty-five individual projects, the Graduate Design/Build Studio evidences a maturing in its mission and methods to become a key educational experience for the UH Master of Architecture students and a foreground community engagement activity of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and the University of Houston, as a whole. The initiative contributed to the university’s achievement of Carnegie Tier 1 status in Community Engagement, and its works have been widely published in outlets such as Metropolis, Architectural Record, Texas Architect, Cite, The Houston Chronicle, and local television and radio outlets and included in the book, DBS : Design Build Studios of 2010 by William Carpenter, FAIA. The work has earned numerous awards including two national awards from ACSA and six awards from the Mayor’s Proud Partner program.

While the works by the students speak for themselves as to the successful impact of their underlying design thinking as well as the challenges and rewards of hands-on learning, the experience for those pursing community engagement on the design/build model within schools of architecture includes an unexpected realization of architecture’s positive impact on people’s daily lives through how it shapes their quotidian activities. _Patrick Peters | Professor, Director of the Graduate Design/Build Studio

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CHRISTY GONZALES, PAUL GREFF, JOHN CAPPS, + TRI PHAM INDS 4500 | MARK KIMBROUGH | F 13

The process of modular green building for METRO offers unique benefits that also contribute to sustatinble building initiatives. These benefits include limited site disturbance, the ability to use portable modular buildings and re-locatable buildings, waste reduction onsite, and reduction of overall construction time.

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INDS 4500 | F 13 _ John Daniel Capps, Christy Hellen Gonzales, Paul Nicholas Greff, Martha Angeles Hernandez, Lindsay Rose Marie Lahaug, Jose Gerardo Martinez, Elizaveta Vladimirovna Morris, Christopher K Peterson, Tri Huu Pham, Seluga Seka Sekanwagi, Trevor A Wood, Troy Allen Zinsmeister

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Taken concurrently with INDS 4500 | F 13 INDS 4360 | Design Issues | Eunsook Kwon

DESIGN STRATEGY + SOLUTION: HOPE CLINIC

LIZA MORRIS, MARTHA HERNANDEZ, + TROY ZINSMEISTER INDS 3501 | EUNSOOK KWON | SP 13

A comprehensive system that covers all aspect of health educational experience for children and their parents. It is a three-step system that helps the child be at ease with the doctor, facilitate doctorchild communication through visual aids, and reinforces a healthy lifestyle promoted by the clinic at home. Hope Clinic is a private, not for profit, community-based health center located in Houston.

Lead by the CEO, Dr. Andrea Caracostis, and the Medical Director, Dr. Richard Andrews, HOPE Clinic has a multicultural and multilingual professional staff. Through observing them, we found out how patients may feel like and their concerns; one of which, is the language barrier. The patients are directly related to the personas.

Taken concurrently with INDS 3501 | SP 13 INDS 3341 | Design Interface | Matthew Wettergreen INDS 3365 | Design Research Methods | Adam Wells INDS 3501 | SP 13 _ John Daniel Capps, Laura Fernandez, Martha Angeles Hernandez, George B Kingsley III, Lindsay Rose Marie Lahaug, Jose Gerardo Martinez, Elizaveta Vladimirovna Morris, Christopher K Peterson, Tri Huu Pham, Seluga Seka Sekanwagi, Trevor A Wood, Troy Allen Zinsmeister

UA ID IA GA SA 1 2 3 4 5 148 | INDS 3501 + INDS 4501 | SP 13

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MATTHEW BURTON

INDS 4501 | EUNSOOK KWON + JEFF FENG | SP 13

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THESIS: SOMA ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM

Soma is an attempt to design a system that can help solve our energy issues one module at a time. Soma is also an idea. Just as it takes more than one person to motivate change on a grand scale, the true power of Soma is in its proliferation throughout a cityscape and into the lives and minds of those who live within. Turbine and solar modules can be plugged into the frame structure in any combination allowing the system to be customized based on a site’s exposure to sun and wind. In Chicago the system could be made of mostly turbine modules whereas in Phoenix more solar modules may be preferred.

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Soma is a system inspired by networks of neurons that generates clean energy while improving efficiency, aesthetics, and life cycle of urban structures. Soma combines proven wind and solar power technologies into a modular system that can be applied throughout an urban environment on virtually any structure whether it is a building, a billboard, or a street light. When applied to a building Soma expands its use by acting as a brise soleil which shades, increasing the efficiency of HVAC systems and extending a building’s life. The system is comprised of a standardized mounting structure, a frame, a solar module, and a turbine module.

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INDS 4501 | SP 13 _ Matthew Charles Burton, Gerardo Alonso Cambronero, Terence J Glo, Hong Yen Thai Le, Anthony Duy Anh Nguyen, Andrea Nannette Novoa, Breah E Phillips, Hector Isaac Quintanilla, Juan C Restrepo, Marian H Uong, Derek Yeung

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Taken concurrently with INDS 4501 | SP 13 INDS 4365 | Design Practice + Business | Mark Kimbrough

_Joseph Echavarria

UA ID IA GA SA 1 2 3 4 5 160 | INAR 3397 | F 13

_Henry Ho

_Francisco Salas

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_Joseph Echavarria

Second Skin | left _ This exercise tests the inherent material capabilities and anthropomorphic opportunities of a white oxford shirt relative to the human body. Experimentation should begin at the interface between the shirt, its enclosure and the human body in space.

Container | right _ The seminar focuses on layers of interiority beginning with the closest layer – clothing – and progresses outward towards objects, furniture, interior surfaces, performance, behavior and enclosure. Understanding the dynamic relationship between the body, space, comfort and behavior, the aim of the final project is to gain an understanding of tectonics, surface and materiality as it relates to the body in space. Students investigated advanced fabrication techniques and assembly strategies to design a construct that is portable, graspable, and can contain the body.

INAR 3397 | F 13 _ Minelya Del Carmen De Leon, Joseph Matthew Echavarria, Jessica Morgan Garrett, Arianne Alessandra Gonzato Perez, Henry Bikash Ho, Joshua A Hollie, Emily R Keller, Roni Kop, Jonathon Lampson, Francisco Javier Salas, Francesca Sosa, Ana Cristina Sotelo

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This course introduces the basics of human factors and explores how the human body influences the design, construction, scale, performance and occupancy of interior environments. This seminar presents an overview of human factors critical to 3D designers: ergonomic, anthropomorphic, anthropological, and the basics of behavioral science, perception and the senses (proxemics). The seminar explores the complex relationships of space and the human body through lectures, discussions, theoretical readings and a series of interrelated design projects.

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INAR 3397 | MEG JACKSON + MICHAEL GONZALES | F 13

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HUMAN FACTORS IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

_Ana Sotelo

_Joseph Echavarria

_Francisco Salas

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_Ana Sotelo

WILSONART CHALLENGE

INDS 2500 | JEFF FENG | F 13

Wilsonart LLC. is a leading manufacturer of decorative surfaces for more than 50 years. Wilsonart Challenge is a student design competition Wilsonart International sponsors annually at selected design schools. In Fall 2013, we are very excited to be selected to host this competition at the University of Houston. The competition is to create chairs that celebrate the richness of Wilsonart International’s laminate surfacing materials. In this challenge, students will have an opportunity to design/build a unique chair. The chair must be built in full scale and be able to support 400 pounds. Each student is responsible to build their own chair.

The theme of this year’s competition is SPACE. The seed idea of student’s design should be inspired by the space in Wilson House museum. The Ralph Sr. and Sunny Wilson House is in a classic midcentury modern home style. The interiors of the Wilson house feature extensive use of decorative plastic laminates in innovative applications, most of which had not been seen before. It’s truly incredible. At the beginning of the course, students will visit Wilson House to learn more about the space, mid-century modern design and laminate uses in the house.

Each student will select and research a specific sitting typology such as a chair, stool, bench, and etc. Through studying the space in Wilson House and the mid-century modern design, students will define a certain context of use for their design. A deeper understanding about laminate as a surfacing material will help students to finish their design.

The final design must be well crafted and recognizable as a chair.

Design is more than a functional product vs. a 3D expression of the theme ‘SPACE’. The silhouette of the final product and a strong first 3-second visual impression are important factors in the final review.

The design is encouraged to be provocative in stimulating people’s thoughts about the chair and about innovative uses of laminate.

First Place Winner 2013-2014_Jenny Trieu Runners-up_Paulina Seng, Aaron Mceuen, Abizer Raja, Carrah Kaisjer, Arturo Barrera

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Taken concurrently with INDS 2500 | F13 INDS 2360 | Materials and Methods I Adam Wells INDS 2340 | Visual Communication I Mark Kimbrough INDS 2355 | Design History I Gordon Vos INDS 2500 | F 13 _ Brenda Paola Arguello, Adriana Gabriela Ayala Munoz, Arturo Barrera, Daniela Veronica Barrios Reyna, Carrah Marie Kaijser, Aaron Ross McEuen, Shane Meadows, John Daniel Proffitt, Abizer Y Raja, Kasey Renee Rowe, Paulina D Seng, Micah Simon, Jenny Trieu, Jose L Villa Jr, Richard Kodama Woodard, Jason Yang

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_Jenny Trieu

TECTONIC _Daniela Reyna

_Carrah Kaijser

_Richard Kodoma

_Abizer Raja

_Paulina Seng

_Aaron Mceuen

_Arturo Barrera

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_Jason Yang

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_John Profitt

206 | COMMUNITY OUTREACH| SP13 + F 13

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CDRC | SUSAN ROGERS | SP 13 | SU 13 | F 13 The mission of the Community Design Resource Center is to enhance the quality of life in low-to-moderate income communities throughout the Houston region through design, research, education and practice.

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COMMUNITY DESIGN RESOURCE CENTER

Since 2005, we have partnered with more than 15 community-based organizations, including the City of Houston, METRO and others.

We have collaborated with more than 500 residents and stakeholders; engaged more than 100 students in community-based learning projects and provided 25 summer student internships. We have organized four public exhibits of design work and produced eight design publications in association with our projects.

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The Community Design Resource Center works to address issues of community development, design, planning, affordable housing and civic projects in partnership with communities.

We completed the first Collaborative Community Design Initiative program in 2009 with partners in four communities for a year, providing comprehensive assistance with goal-setting, visioning and implementation strategies.

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The Community Design Resource Center’s partnerships have significantly contributed to the public debate on the role of architecture and good design in catalyzing community change. As we move forward, we are designing new ways to engage our community partners and enhance the mutuality, reciprocity and impact of our lives.

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. – Marshall McLuhan Collectives are fundamentally rooted in the shared: shared space, shared work, shared experience… and while we have never been more “connected” in our lives, our digital collectives feel oddly airbrushed (or maybe more appropriately photoshopped!). Facebook becomes more of a personal marketing tool than an account of our lives, while the brevity of Twitter acts as a digital forum to display our observations and wit.

Ultimately, these apps are ways to construct a form of self, rather than revealing one’s self to a larger digital community.

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Seen as a diagram, the “points and lines” of a digitally networked society form an attenuated model of collective social engagement. This makes our mandate as designers, to re-imagine the collective realm, increasingly more important. The humanizing force of architecture/design lies in its capacity to add a spatial dimension to the notion of networks as a resistance to the social atomization of public space.

At the College of Architecture, collectivity is found in the relationships that are forged in the studio, in the ideas that re-imagine the world, and the common struggle and discourse that keeps that spirit alive. This intimate, spatial, and collective engagement may feel awkward to the digital native, but it may also make us feel something else: more human.

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_Jason Logan | Lecturer