PORTFOLIO J.Yael Flores Cal Poly Pomona
(619) 327-6149 jfloresperez@cpp.edu
Table of Contents Micro-School Pasadena, CA
Modular Museum of Art Houston, TX
Thesis Project Los Angeles, CA
Multi-Family Housing West Hollywood, CA
Scientist Observation Space Mount Wilson, CA
Studio Work
Micro-School Pasadena, CA Instructor: Kevin O’Brien Cal Poly Pomona
The Micro-School in Pasadena accommodates grades 7th through 12th. The aim of this project is to improve the pedagogy of learning environments through a secondary discipline. This school emphasizes a learning atmosphere that correlates its curriculum to nature. Through architectural gestures, this school seeks to bring students to the outside in order to promote a one-on-one and hands-on learning experience. The concept of this project is a continuous wall that connects the outside to the inside in a coherent way. By using the wall as a unifier instead of a divisor, the architecture becomes the medium through which students explore the indoors and outdoors simultaneously. Furthermore, the wall system consists of repetitive perforations that further bring in light and enhance natural learning environments. Through the architectural elements of the wall, facade perforations, and outdoors spaces, the architecture of the school serves as a platform that navigates new aspects of pedagogy that strengthen educational systems.
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1. Lobby / Gallery 2. Janitor Room 3. Storage 4. Outdoor Space 5. Meeting Room 6. Faculty Restroom 7. Principal’s Office 8. Admissions 9. Faculty Lab 10. Collab Spaces 11. Public Restrooms 12. Great Room 13. Kinesthetics Lab 14. Inventor Lab 15. Media Lab 16. Science Lab
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Modular Museum of Art Houston, TX Instructor: Katrin Terstegen Cal Poly Pomona
The Modular Museum of Art displays the works of Pablo Picasso. The museum is designed with a modular system where the arch is the driven concept that solidifies a pre-existing grid. The origin of the project is a distorted grid that emerges from curved lines that are repeated on the x-axis and the y-axis creating similar but not identical spaces on which circulation and designated spaces are born. Concrete is the material that must be accentuated through the architecture and the use of a precast member, where repetition, variation, and deviation is the platform from which to elaborate from. The concept of the museum arises from the use of the arch and its perception within space and the space that it creates through a series of repetition. Apart from the core concept of the arch, a secondary layer of opening is added, to which anticipation and expectation is up to the individual that is to inhabit the space. A combination and/or pattern of apertures and enclosure is a key element to which the presence of the arch is eminent and thus architecturally interactive.
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Senior Project Los Angeles, CA Instructor: Emma Price Cal Poly Pomona
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This thesis aims to use monumentality to integrate people with mental health issues into an urban setting through architectural gestures in both a classical and a subversive way. Furthermore, this thesis explores juxtaposition between program and site, as well as juxtaposition between program and form. Monumentality is associated with hierarchy, power, and recognition. By applying monumentality to a traditionally hidden program, this thesis questions the recognition of the psychiatric space and its role in society. Monumentality becomes the concept under which this thesis structures itself to impose the program into an urban setting. Through this concept, the thesis aims to bring attention and awareness to mental institutions and their neglection in modern societies and address the stigma that these spaces have. The thesis navigates monumentality in two different ways; interior and exterior. Monumentality is to be comprehended from within through the investigation of scale, light, and enclosure and monumentality is to be expressed from the outside through façade, orientation, proportion, and absence of fenestration in contrast to its surroundings.
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“Architecture, like a giant hallowed out sculpture, embeds those who find themselves within it. It is to be comprehended from within”
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[Buildings for mental pa�ents: from the architecture of isola�on to the architecture of integra�on].
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The form is composed of subtractive volumes that are carved out strategically to accommodate a programmatic, visual, or circulatory need. Each carving creates a sense of openness by bringing in light through which space becomes inherent. Urbanistically, the carving of volumes facilitates the transition between isolation and integration. The Greenhouse becomes the interrupter to the mental health facility by reconfiguring spaces that are rooted in traditional compositions of such program. By doing so, the transition between isolation and integration within the building is interchangeable at any given time through architecture and scale. In addition, the greenhouse provides direct and indirect light, which offers a therapeutic opportunity to nurture other living organisms which becomes a medium for mental health stability. The combination of a mental health institution and a greenhouse creates a synergetic relationship that offers an alternate approach to the architecture of psychiatric institutions and their incorporation to the city.
Exterior monumentality is for those who are unaware of mental institutions as a program that needs integration to the city. It is for people that have disregarded the program and its inhabitants and through which the monolithic face of the building demands public recognition. Interior monumentality is for those who are uninhibited and without the conditioning of the experience, for those who are seeking mental stability. The voids, the scale, and the greenhouses establish the ground which evoke an array of emotions and experiences, from serenity, relaxation, to contemplation among others that further the connection between architecture and mental issues.
“Architecture, like a giant hallowed out sculpture, embeds those who find themselves within it. It is to be comprehended from within�
Multi-Family Housing West Hollywood, CA Instructor: Dennis McFadden Cal Poly Pomona
A multi family complex that houses 14 units; seven 1-bedroom flats and seven 2-story townhouses. The project began by using the most space-efficient shape for the floor plan: the rectangle. Through the process of placing the spaces within the floor plan, modification started shaping the end result of the floor plan. An important element that helped further shape the building was the use of the balconies and the use of the vertical windows that face the interior of the courtyard. It is a result of the connection between the interior to the exterior through the use of light and its perception by the inhabitants. The complex houses a courtyard, traditional to West Hollywood, thus emphasizing communal space. The facade of the building was designed in order to maximize views of the exterior and the corner windows that were given by the nature of the building’s geometry. The design is a play of having a balance between privacy and communal space through the use of light, which is the core concept of the project and the element that ultimately drove this project to its final stage.
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Scientist Observation Space Mount Wilson, CA Instructor: Nadim Itani Cal Poly Pomona
An observation space that functions as a retreat space for scientists and also as a living space. The main concept that revolves around the scientist retreat space is the idea of projection and spatial sensation through the effect of casting shadows and its effect on human interaction with a given space. Through a series of a perforated pattern, the intention was to create an arbitrary pattern that gave the inhabitants a sense of spatial enclosure without been fully closed. The main concept behind the perforated pattern was to challenge the idea of how architecture is seen: the use of a simplistic shape. In this case, a rectangle and a simple floor plan. The idea is to enhance the contrast between abstract patterns onto the simplicity of a straight rectangular wall. It is a play on questioning the interior from the exterior, along with the visuals that the skin creates inside the space.
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