PORT FOLIO VANESSA LERMA
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Resume
Sketches
Hotel Lerma
811 Roosevelt Ave
Polaris
Objective Through the course of my career I have been described as a diligent worker and energetic leader. I’m searching for ways to obtain an entry-level position in hopes to further my understanding of the workplace and give back to my community.
Vanessa Lerma
Education May 2018 | Bachelor of Science in Architecture | University of Texas at San Antonio Work July 2017- October 2017 | Tower of Americas, Hostess
October 2017- May 2018 |CRJ Department at UTSA, Work Study August 2018- October 2018 | San Antonio Cast Stone
Skills & Abilities TECHNICAL - Rhino, AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Sketch up MANAGEMENT - Time management, multi-tasking, creative problem solving and great customer service.
LANGUAGES - English - Spanish
300 Labor Street, Apt 4313, San Antonio TX, 78210 210-717-0326 vanessalerma013@gmail.com
LEADERSHIP - Captain of the Brennan cross-country team for two years in high school. - Led the track team to victory at Districts, Area and Regionals. - Ran collegiately for the University of Texas at San Antonio; a NCAA Division 1 program.
Experience STUDY ABROAD IN URBINO, ITALY | JANUARY 2017- APRIL 2017 January 2017- April 2017| Explored the world of architecture, and learned how to accurately draw proportions of elaborate structures. To learn and understand the thinking of the first masters that called themselves architects. Also attended lectures in Italy, Spain, France and Greece in order to expand my knowledge.
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Sketches | Study Abroad 2017
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Sketches are not about looking pretty but about communicating
ideas. Whether it is solving initial design problems or sketching iterations, it is how us colleagues can communicate to one and other , especially to our clients. Being able to invision your idea on paper is a skill that an architectural field needs.
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Hotel Lerma Vanessa Lerma & Brandon Johnson
The objective of this project is to bring forward the concept of water to the public’s attention. In designing this boutique hotel, we took on a didactic approach to explore contemporary ecological uses of water. One of these ecological uses of water is aquaponics. Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (the soil-less growing of plants) that grow fish and plants together in one integrated system. The fish waste provides an organic food source for the plants, and the plants naturally filter the water for the fish. Aquaponics is a natural ecosystem that uses only 1/10th of the water of soil-based gardening, and even less water than hydroponics or recirculating aquaculture.
Because Aquaponics is a cleaner, more sustainable and economical form of gardening, it can have a benefical impact to Mexico City which struggles with water scarcity.To instill this didatic approach of design within our hotel, the aquaponics were incorporated on each floor of the hotel;from the bar and resturaunt to the actual hotel rooms. The aquaponics systems were placed to be seen on the building exterior in order to attract visitors so that they may enter the hotel and learn about aquaponics. Another ecological system we incoporated within the hotel design is hydroponic green walls. These green walls were used to illustrate a bold statement.
Hotel Room Aquaponics Bar & Resturaunt Aquaponics Green Wall Top Floor Aquaponics
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Lobby & Bar Waterfall
Lobby & Bar Waterfall
Lobby
Light Well
Top Floor Aquaponics
Hotel Room Aquaponics
Top Floor Aquaponics
Bar & Resturaunt Aquaponics
Green Wall
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Section AA
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Section BB
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Section Model
- Second Floor - First Floor - Parking
Plans
- Fifth Floor - Fourth Floor -Third Floor
- Aquaponics Floor - Aquaponics Floor -Sixth Floor
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Front shot of the Portal. Pulling and welcoming the neighbors to their community.
Vanessa Lerma & Alejandro Guerra
Eight-Eleven Roosevelt is located between Roosevelt Street and Mission road north of I-10. Our proposal aims to blend the urban life style with spaces used for the performing arts. The design of the auditorium re-uses an existing warehouse built in 1920 located on the corner of the site. Adjacent to the theater is an outdoor plaza that can hold large events for the surrounding community.
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Residential Commerical Parking
Mass Modeling of the whole site on live screenshot. Also capturing the EPI Center on the far back.
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Fourth Floor
Third Floor
Second Floor
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The building highlighted is one of the buildings that we focused on doing plans for.
First Floor
Theater
Existing Warehouse
Plan
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Polaris Polaris is a wall mounted light design which luminate the room with a soft radiance. The crystal is manufactured of two contrasting materials: transparent arcyclic and opaque arcylic with a brown seal in the back. The brown seal made it successful due to its richness of warm white afterglow. The rear of the crystal is transparent so light can be reflected off the plywood walls and on the back there is slit of voids to let light through and touch the wall. Polaris got its name as a result of resemblance of a glowing star. Polaris is located in the end of one of the most popular constellation called the Little Dipper. Because constellations are geometric, I taken the concept into the light design’s form.
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Iterations
Lighting Info CRI: >80 Wattage: 10 W Type: Phillip Hue Cord length: 15’ Color: Warm White
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Thank you! Vanessa Lerma vanessalerma013@gmail.com 210-717-0326
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