PORTFOLIO VERONICA VILLARREAL
CONTENTS
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FOSTER KNOWLEDGE CENTER
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VICENZA
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HOME
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KNIGHT CAMPUS
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BILDS HOUSE
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SKETCHES
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FOSTER KNOWLEDGE CENTER FIFTH YR. THESIS STUDIO
2020
The Foster Knowledge Center, located on SE Foster Rd in Lents, Portland, Oregon, establishes a community anchor at the gateway to the downtown district. The site presented an opportunity for urban renewal eastward, remediating a perilous traffic corridor in order to encourage pedestrian engagement with the library and further downtown district. A library that blends traditional program elements with general community facilities, this resource creates a dynamic space that can be utilized by a variety of occupant types with diverse operation hours. The library is programatically organized in a core+layer strategy to facilitate separation of differences in activity levels and thus acoustics. This encourages varying hours of operability of its layers and supports comfortability in social interaction - creating space where on can freely collaborate or withdraw. 2
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Foster Road
Bioswale Buffer
Pedestrian Corridor
Highway Reinforcement
Traffic Edge Single Bike Lane
Street Section
Inhabitable Edge
Commercial Space
Masterplan
Transverse Section
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Commercial Space
Commercial Promenade
Commercial Space
Ground Floor Plan
Chaos + Response 5
Levels of Engagement
Second Floor Plan
Subdued Core: Intimate Intermediate Layer: Personal
Active Edge: Public
Interaction / Activity / Acoustic Parti
Further Division 6
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Feature Wall Concepts 8
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Exterior screen system
Exterior + interior acoustic panel system
perforated steel mounted to structure
honeycomb metamaterial translucency: 60%
Systems The finer details of the building demonstrates attention to acoustic material innovation and cladding systems at and within the enclosure, as well as sustainable strategies throughout the site. Sustainable strategies include: - Mass plywood construction for decreased carbon footprint - Expansive photovoltaic array - Passive cooling via stack affect within acoustic barrier wall - Intensive green roof for increased R-value and decreased heat island effect - Hydronic radiant floor system utilizing plaza runoff gray water - Double curatin wall facade with passive conditioning, automated sunshades, and incorporated acoustic panels - Deciduous landscaping for interior cooling and heating - Permeable Climate Tile to redirect excess rainwater - Illuminated transparent water tubes to demonstrate redirection of excess rainwater from MAX platform
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VICENZA FOURTH YR. STUDIO
2019
Neighboring the historic Basilica Palladiana and Vicenza, Italy’s most trafficed piazzas, it was important to design in a contemporary fashion to complement and respect the surrounding context. The building itself serves as a part to a greater whole of the surrounding piazzas, honoring proper piazza and via design with pass-throughs, height/width ratios, and diverse senses of place where it meets the ground. Here, one structure is created to internally and externally reflect its three distinct programs: a public market hall, modern art museum, and Palladian Library for housing and reference of fragile texts. Similar to the old and new juxtaposition of this design to its context, two approaches were taken to amplify the user experience and electrical efficiency of the building: elemental design utilizing onyx “windows� to illuminate the humidor of fragile texts without sun damage, and technologically modern design of an anaerobic digester within the market hall - converting food waste to biogas. This is artistically demonstrated to visitors throughout the hall in illuminated biogas tubes awaiting conversion to electricity, encouraging users to ask questions. 12
GROUN 1:200
LEVEL 1:200
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Ground Level
Level 1
Level 2
Library - Level 3 14
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Bay Study A closer look at the gallery section of the complex reveals its monolithic enclosure, comprised of local blue travertine panels. This facade is activating in its engagement with the ground and the sky through its sawtooth form in plan and elevation. Utilizing its valleys, moments of slit perforations are implemented for dramatic lighting effect on the interior. The interior of the gallery’s ceiling is reminiscent of the exterior facade language, playfully contributing to the program of the space itself. Mechanical systems also posed themselves as artistic design opportunities to lead users throughout the space. Similarly to the slit perforations utilizing the form of the enclosure, the language of the ceiling encouraged the incorporation of skylights to illuminate exhibition walls.
Flashing cap with drip edges 3”x3” HSS framing 14” Fixed skylight kit Skylight lightwell 3” Extruded polystyrene rigid insulation Peel and stick rubberized asphalt membrane 3” Steel channel framing Ballast Filter fabric
Hot rubber 3” Concrete slab on metal deck 2” Steel angle rail 1” Steel plate struts. Weld to rail. 1/2” Type X gypsum board sheathing. Terminate with corner bead. 18
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HOME - ADAPTIVE REUSE FOURTH YR. INTERIOR STUDIO
2018
Home should leave room for the individual. This mixed-use retrofit creates varying levels of privacy throughout the design - with the public commercial spaces blending from the first floor into the second, more and less residential secluded community spaces, and withdrawn private areas. The form and depth the units create, allow for individualization and a sense of defensible space of the occupant; encouraging a feeling of security and privacy. However, all units have immediate access to common outdoor space or community areas, encouraging fellowship and tying both wings together through adjacency and materials identifiable to one’s own unique unit. This includes cloud and drop ceilings to withdraw utilities as well as define threshold outdoor space. Combined with screens, one’s defensible space facilitates an idea of personalization and retreat. 20
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Private Private Public + Private Public + Undesigned
Zoning
Defensible Space
Defensible Space
Defensible Space
Private
Defensible Space
Public + Private
Public
PARTI
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Third Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
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Unit Floor Plan
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KNIGHT CAMPUS THIRD YR. STUDIO
2017
Located in Eugene, Oregon, the University of Oregon’s Knight Campus for Accelerated Scientific Impact will now serve as a new academic destination of the classic campus. Through strong desire lines, students will be invited into the heart of a scientific academic plaza, connecting the surrounding cohesive blendable interior/exterior buildings. Ecouraging thoughtfulness, there are easily comprehensible sustainability moves visible throughout the interior and exterior of the building. These include a photovoltaic paneled sunshade, green roofs, and a rain water screen catchment system - directing the water over the face of the atrium.
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Ground Floor Plan
Desire Lines
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Independent Interior Buildings
PV PANEL SUNSHADE
GREEN ROOFS RAIN WATER SCREEN
Comprehensive Sustainability
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PC: PAYTON NARANCIC
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EQ.
4 8’ - 0” R.O. VERIFY W/ GAR. DOOR VENDOR
A5.0
SEE RCP FOR HIGH WINDOWS IN THIS WALL
3’ - 8 1/2”
ALIGN INSIDE FACE
6’ - 8”
5’ - 2”
9’ - 7 5/8”
5’ - 7 1/2”
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A8.0
4’ - 9 3/8” BEDROOM 2 CARPET
6 A8.0
BATHROOM 1 SHEET LIN.
3’ - 4 1/2”
2’ - 4”
6’ - 4 1/2”
4’ - 0”
1’ - 7 1/2” 4’ - 6”
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ALIGN DOOR JAMBS
EQ.
0’ - 5 3/8”
BATHROOM 2 SHEET LIN.
2’ - 6”
MUDROOM 1 SHEET LIN.
2’ - 11 9/16”
A5.0
5’ - 8 1/2”
6’ - 1/2”
BEDROOM 1 CARPET
6’ - 8 7/16”
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8’ - 1/2”
6’ - 6”
10’ - 9”
A8.0
3’ - 3”
EQ.
POINT OF BEGINNING
SEE RCP FOR HIGH WINDOWS IN THIS WALL
ALIGN WINDOW JAMB & GAR. DOOR JAMB
10’ - 8 1/2”
EQ.
3’ - 5 1/2”
ALIGN KNEE WALL W/ CONC. WALL ENDS
10’ - 9”
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2 A8.0
1 A8.0
KITCHEN CLICK WOOD
LOOP VENT FOR SINK & D/W PER CODE
GREAT ROOM CLICK WOOD
2’ - 2”
2’ - 2”
8’ - 3”
GREAT ROOM CLICK WOOD
8’ - 3”
ALIGN KNEE WALL W/ CONC. WALL ENDS
A8.0
ALIGN DOOR JAMBS
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A5.0
2’ - 6”
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9’ - 6” A5.0
2’ - 6”
Ground Floor Plan
BILDS HOUSE THIRD YR. STUDIO
2018
OregonBILDS is a student-run design-build collaborative studio. Located in Eugene, OR, the premise of the design is to find the delicate balance between sustainability and affordability to provide comfortable dynamic spaces for first-time homebuyers. This design capitalized on this through a 2 ft design and construction module, recycled shou sugi ban siding, permeable pavers, rainwater and pollinator gardens, energy efficiency particularly through a flywheel thermal mass wall, and conscientious affordable design to market the house at less than $200,000. Personal roles and responsibilities included: Sustainability Design Team and floor plan construction documents. The design is then brought to fruition by student construction. Credit to Payton Narancic for rendering. 30
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SKETCHES
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