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victor rodriguez www. vrodriguezdesign.com vrdesign@live.com www.linkedin.com/in/victororodriguez (205) 915-3878 Master of Architecture Savannah College of Art & Design 2015
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CHARLESTON URBAN DESIGN STUDIO Charleston, SC Fall 2014 Mixed Use Master Plan Proposal In Collaboration with Hunter Pope Professor Arpad Ronaszegi The proposed master plan to the entrance of Charleston, South Carolina deďŹ nes a landmark into the city by introducing a need for unique developments of program, and emphasizing the hierarchy of pedestrians. A multi-level pedestrian plaza creates a dynamic identity for the users with enhanced views as well as public amenities. The development of program within the master plan revitalizes the surrounding context by bringing people within multiple plaza and event spaces. A variety of program have been located along the riverfront as well as the plaza. Residential , commercial, and office spaces have been implemented to help sustain and redeďŹ ne the entrance of Charleston and how pedestrians experience it
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Due to traffic, marshlands or flooding conditions, relatively no program, lack of pedestrains / users visit the entrance of Charleston once they drive past it. The density towards the entrance has deminished and no revitalization is being done to preserve this land.
The proposed development of the entrance of Charleston, South Carolina is highlighted in pink compared to the surrounding existing buildings in light blue. A significant portion of buildings has been implemented with a wide variety of program.
Proposed Prop Pr opos osed ed C Circulation ircu ir cula lati tion on Charleston’s high density and dangerous highways/streets are uneffective for pedestrians and walking around. With the proposal of new streets and safe lanes and paths the use of these are more likely to be used by cyclist and pedestrians.
Proposed Program Vehicular Pedestrian
The masterplan incorporates residential, commercial and office spaces that not only fill what was lacking before, but reavilitizes the entrance of charleston, creating a landmark and a destination for locals and tourists.
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P dP d ti W llk k Proposed Pedestrian Walkways The proposed pedestrian and friendly multi-functional space mixed with public amenities and re-organized natural ecosystem hopes to reactivate and develop hierarchy towards the pedestrians and away from vehicles.
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Charleston’s current conditions are intricately connected to the area’s natural environment, which features miles of ocean coastline, salt marsh, tidal creeks, rivers and other waterways, This proposal extends, preserves and promotes its natural habitat, creating a harmony between man and nature.
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The Entrance This render explains the overall concept of this master plan. A monumental bridge that welcomes users to the city. The elevated pedestrian walkays that promote and increase pedestrian accesibility and the central ring that connects the four main neighborhoods of the city.
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Spring Street This render shows the proposed new Spring Street that more than a drive-thru street, it creates a destination where it brings a cosmopolitan effect to an entry that felt abandoned. Shops, restaurants, cultural and living spaces frame what the proposed intention of this master plan brings.
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This render shows one of Charleston’s unique conditions, which are intricately connected to the area’s natural environment. It features miles of ocean coastline, salt marsh, tidal creeks, rivers and other waterways, This proposal extends, preserves and promotes its natural habitat, creating a harmony between man and nature.
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Washington, DC Fall 2013 Mixed Use Proposal 94,000 SF Professor Ryan Bacha The project seeks to re-connect, reactivate, and re-produce the cultural vibe of the central Washington, DC area. Its design uses culture, connectivity and technology to achieve ecological and social exibility, creating a potential spot for a sustainable and dynamic infrastructure with a cultural identity that provides active plazas, parks and an exceptional waterfront experience.
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Aluminum Storefront with Low-E coated insulating glass
Benchmark Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) Facade System Benchmar HOC System: -Thickness 60mm (2.3in) -U-value 0.35 W/m2k -Weight 22kg/m2
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The proposed skin for the desing not only incorporates aesthetics, but most importantly iss designed for environmental factors. The appertures of each panel, is strategically placed to o accomodate, meaning to absorb or receive heatt and or light depending on the season of the year and the program they are located in. The moree wide open they are, the most light they aree receiving and the more private the spaces are, the closer the appertures get. So functionallyy, they are deeply analyzed and placed appropriately, which not only contributes to the saving g on energy cost, but most importantly, accomo ơ Ǥ
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Benchmark Ceramic Tile K20 are being used in the exterior of the retail areas mainly for aesthetic purposes. Benchmark Ceramic Tile K20 -Thickness 60mm (2.3in) -U-Value 0.35 W/m2k -Weight 37.5 Kg/m2
Retail is placed adjacent to both street access, Potomac Avenue and 1st ST SE, which facilitates its public access, by promoting the program through it.
Being Green Roofs one of the top demands in the Washington DC area, a whole building green roof system is incorporated to not only serve and entertain users, but to promote, and produce green services, such as recollection of water and temperature controller.
Restaurants are placed in the fourth level adjacent to the Green Roof for many programmatic purposes: excellent views to the Anacostia River and the National Stadium and an open-air environment experience.
Residential spaces are placed furthest to the noise levels around the context, which also increased views to the Anacostia River and easy access to the urban urban plan
OFFICES ƥ ǡ Potomac Avenue, for easierand faster accessibility
KINGSPAN PANELS Benchmark Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) Facade System is being used for aesthetics, but mainly for environmental factors. Solar Radiation is being controlled ơ appertures of the panels, which are strategically placed according to the solar skin analysis, reducing energy cost and creating a greener and healthier building system. Benchmark Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) Facade System -Thickness 60mm (2.3in) -U-Value 0.35 W/m2k -Weight 22Kg/m2
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ASHEVILLE CULINARY SCHOOL STUDIO V
Asheville, NC WInter-Spring 2014 Educational-Culinary & Research School Proposal Total Area: 30,000SF Professor Daniel Brown The Urban/Rural plan creates a strategic design that redeďŹ nes the French Broad River Park area through reprogramming land use in the public and urban scale, manitaining, yet increasing economic and ecologic diversities in the city of Asheville. An identity is created through the use of the existing historical context as a design precedent and local production of crops to give Asheville a unique sense of place and make it a learning and travel destination. This project proposes a strategy to establish a self-sustain facility where the students would learn, create and advertise what they harvest, while public users would educate in all aspects of agriculture. Together, with the use of integrated systems, will guide the school to be an economically successful and sustainable future, where it will establish an identity in culture, geology, urban structure, industry, working quality, economic growth, ecology and infrastructure in the city of Asheville.
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The Spaces The spaces were designed as a progression where the ground level welcomes the visitors and beginners in the kitchen. As their expertise increases, they move to the second level where the advanced classrooms and tools are located. Finally, the third level becomes the goal and restaurant, where the students get to produce what they’ve learned throughout their education. The spaces incorporate farming gardens where students and visitors get to use for their cooking creations. An elevated plinth, where visitors and students get to use as a sparetime and get to explore the surrounding habitat and a park, bringing kids and the community together.
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XENIA LALLY FASHION HOUSE 2 STUDIO III
SoHo, New York City, NY Spring 2013 Retail-Mixed Use Proposal one 30,000 SF The second proposal was a remake of the collaboration with the fashion designer Xenia Lally. Her senior collection served as an ispiration of the project’s design, form and structure. Sumptuous Swate 2 intends to resemble lally’s ispiration of mountains and large rock formations -”the humbling feeling of being next to something so much bigger than you.” The fascinating effect created by the horizontality movement of the lines transports any user into a still and serene atmosphere. Ultimately, this effect, is translated in the design where the shape, and the lines appear to dissolve boundaries and the overlapping and draping materials emulate the depth of the mountainous setting.
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The organic, rigid and elegant design it is a resemblance of Xenia Lally’s 2013 Spring Collection and the way she creates Fashion. Xenia’s collection consists of very light and soft materials that gives an effortless sense of movement and fluidity. The fabrics were perfectly chosen to allow the drapping, layering and weaving techniques that represent her 2013 collection. Linen knit, light weight suede, a little nit of leather and wool crepe are mixed with matte colors to allow the eye to balance between the light and soft with a refined and complex fabric execution. This effect on the fabrics, is also translated into the design, where the spaces, the structure and the skin, create a very easy, but sophisitcated design.
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FLUID GROUNDS EDUCATION CENTER STUDIO II
Hutchinson Island, GA Winter 2013 Educational-Mixed Use Proposal 22,500 SF Professor El Nahas This building seeks to educate users through the use of interactive technology, by displaying and using the existing environmental factors of the site to promote them. The project would combine two design disciplines, physical architecture and interaction design for a creative development of a scientiďŹ c environmental research and process. Truly, both ďŹ elds blend art and science, as well as both sides of the mind, understanding the phenomenology of interactions, tangible and intangible, from the architecture and the environment.
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The form of the design developed from the existing topography, by locating the highest slope point of the site topography, which would not only evade ooding, but would allow for better views The triangular shape follows the site conditions, which again, allows for a more dynamic but yet passive form. The skin of the the form resembles the river ow and again serves for solar protection and ventilation. Public gathering spaces are incoroporated through a bridging condition to allow for easier access and passive ventilation. Green roof is incorporated for water recollection, and hydrology purposes. And green spaces are incorporated and re-organize to allow for a cleaner air and to promote the existing program.
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FLUID NEXUS BRIDGE PAVILION STUDIO I
Tybee Island, GA Fall 2012 Transport-Mixed Use Proposal 22,500 SF Professor Jean Jaminet The intent of this project is to coalesce two adjacent riverbanks so that they may establish a symbiotic relationship and collide in a gentle and elegant nexus. In context, the duality of opposite forces applied to the riverbanks form the propagated topography, which orchestrates a multitude of dynamic and hybrid interaction of paths, creating a hybrid spatial separation while maintaining spatial uidity. The replicate of these forces, create a dynamic rippling pattern that weaves around the predominant form, accentuating the sensual surfaces while blending them with the ground and the water.
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The uidity of these apertures are a result of the surface logic. When the two forces meet and create the nexus, the replication of these forces form the appertures. Linear appertures follow the curvature of the rippling surface, accentuating both surfaces and deďŹ ning a central nexus in the volume. These appertures allow for views and are strategically placed to satisfy the program.
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LA VILLA RESIDENCE PROFESSIONAL WORK
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Summer 2011 Residential Under Construction 20,75 SF Client: Luis Eduardo Rodriguez The residence blends a modern translation of a traditional style with a cultural architectural language, yet respecting its context.. Social, economy and ecology are the primary drivers of the design, where cost savings and community interaction create an exceptional way of living.
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The design The design was primarily derived form the clients needs. The traditional, yet modern design resembles local culture and neighboor designs, which automatically connects it contextually. Other speciďŹ cations were also implemented. Program: they wanted public and private spaces seperate, so they were splited into two levels. the public or entertaining area located in level one and the private or rest spaces, located in level two, where bedrooms and terraces were incorporated. Economy: Local materials and thermal mass materials for thermal comfort and lower cost. Social: they wanted open spaces for relaxing and for local connection and community feel. And Sustainability: where reain collection, and pv panels were incorporated for water and electricity savings.
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The Construction The construction process began on summer 2012 and due to the locality of materials, the construction process fastened, which is helping to save cost. The images on the right, show the ďŹ rst level of the design, where brick, in-cast concrete, steel beams, and rebars are being used as the primary structural members. aesthetic and thermal purposes. The neigboorhood, where the building is located, is still in construction process, where roads, and neighboor builidngs are being constructed and or would begin their construction soon.
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HKS ARCHITECTS SUMMER INTERNSHIP 2014 PROFESSIONAL WORK
Dallas, TX Summer 2014 Intern in the Hospitality Department Principal: Edward Abeyta Throghout the internship, I got the opportunity to collaborate with some of the biggest projects in the hospitality department, including the MGM National Harbor, Hall Arts Residences, JW Marriott at Austin and the Design District Master Plan, among other smaller ones. From Planning and Design development, to construction documents completed my training during summer 2014.
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This became the bigger responasibilty as an intern. I was the designer for the smoking and restaurant canopies in many sides of the casino. I also worked in construction documents, diagrams, physical modeling and even skin facade studies of the hotel. Note: Lower Render is courtesy of HKS Inc Architects.
2 Hall Arts Residences Dallas, TX
In this project, I got to collaborate with its main designers, working in many phases, including: planning, design development, schematic design and even in facade studies. Note: Renders are courtesy of HKS Inc Architects.
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Virtual Practices show a range of explorations of different computer aided design softwares.. Including, revit, rhino, grasshopper and Sketchup. They explore parametric and generative modeling through associative geometry using advanced applications in building design. They focuse on simulating behavioral and formal responses to design constraints and limits and rules as a framework for understanding their implications as applied to building form. These explorations were intended for studies to demonstrate a wide range of factors. From design form & enclosure, to different ways of creating structural systems. Aesthtics, practical enclosures, environemntal skin studies and structural patterns are applied in the following digital works.
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