Design Portfolio Undergraduate
Yerina Contin Mendoza
“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.” ― Ezra Pound
Table of Contents
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Resume
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Brooklyn History Museum
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Green Market
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Red Hook Boutique Hotel
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Brooklyn Flandra Pavilion
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Dumbo Merging Tower
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CNC Milling
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Sketches
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Yerina Contín Mendoza 1791 Walton Avenue • Bronx, NY 10453 • (646) 339-6899 • y.contin@gmail.com EDUCATION NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY (City Tech), Brooklyn, NY • Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Architectural Technology, expected 2015. Member of the Architecture Club. • Associates in Applied Science (A.A.S.), Architectural Technology, spring 2014. Member of the Architecture Club. Cumulative GPA. 3.174. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL PEDRO HENRÍQUEZ UREÑA (UNPHU), Santo Domingo, DR Interior Design Course, 2010 • Obtained basic knowledge on how to organize a functional and comfortable space. Event Planning Course, 2010 BUSINESS EXPERIENCE ATAX, Bronx, NY Intern, 2010. • Intern in a summer program. • Gained knowledge on efficient management of the resources to accomplish a valuable organization of hard copies data as well as digital. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Private Tutoring, Santo Domingo, DR • Tutoring in mathematics of elementary school, summers 2012, 2013. SKILLS • Software’s management: Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, 3D Max, Lumion, Movie Maker,. • Language: fluent in Spanish and English. • Art: Painting in oil and pencil, drawing, photograph.
Brooklyn History Museum
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The Brooklyn Historic Museum has a great collection of historical photographs that despicts the history of Brooklyn from its early days to present. Its design was inspired by “Deconstructivism.� The facade is designed in a hierarchical manner starting from thin aluminun and glass panels at the base and expanding on each floor. these panels help identify the spaces based on the level of privacy. For instance, the lower level consists of offices, classrooms and bathrooms, having more privacy. On the other hand the first exhibition level represents the dark moments while the top
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exhibition level represents brightest.
BROOKLYN THEATER FIRE EXHIBITION ROOM
MECHANICAL
LOADING DOCK
ROOM
CONFERENCE ROOM
WORKSHOP
DN
UP
UP
DN
GREENWOOD CEMENTARY EXHIBITION ROOM AUDITORIUM
UP
SMALL EXHIBITION SECURITY
COAT ROOM
LARGE EXHIBITION
LOBBY
FIRST FLOOR
EAST ELEVATION
SHOP
FIRST FLOOR MEZZANIE
SECOND FLOOR
SOUTH ELEVATION
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MAIN EXHIBITION: BROOKLYN BRIDGE
UP
DN
DN
UP
OUTDOOR EXHIBITION: BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDEN
SMALL EXHIBITION
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GRAN ARMY PLAZA EXHIBITION ROOM
RESTAURANT
EXHIBITION SMALL
UP
SMALL EXHIBITION\
DN
THIRD FLOOR
WEST ELEVATION
THIRD FLOOR MEZZANIE
ROOF
Green Market
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Green Market is one of the commercial spaces of a disaster reliefe program, in which a group of students designed a master plan as a response for Hurricane Sandy. A master plan in which its temporary residents would feel like in home, surrounded by other families in the same situation and safe environment. Hope Community would house 360 people in houses made out of shipping containers, it has a total of 227 units of containers made out of recycled materials.The families would be provided with whatever they need for
a living: a
school, library, farmacy, hospital, community center and a market that I decided to call Green Market. Green Market offers a big variety of
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fresh and organic products thinking on its community well-bein.
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Red Hook Boutique Hotel
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Red
Hood is a abandoned
neighborhood in decadence. It went from being the major port maritime of NY, where people would emigrate, to being in a state of decay. Red Hook is a boutique hotel that would attract people to the area and enlight the view. Red Hook Boutique Hotel, houses a lot of activities and a wide range of programs like a spa, where people can relax, a restaurant with a panoramic view of New York City, the Statue of Liberty and Governor Island. It design was inspired by the impression that I had of the site: Creepy, So I wanted to
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give a dinamic turn to its facade and call the drag people to its inside.
SITE PLAN
GROUND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
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THIRD FLOOR
FOURTH FLOOR
SIXTH FLOOR
SEVENTH FLOOR
SOUTH-WEST SECTION
NORTH-WEST SECTION
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SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
Brooklyn Flandra Pavilion
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Brooklyn Flandra Pavilion is a park right next to the Brooklyn Bridge in Washington and Prospect Street that is currently used as parking lot. A place in decay, dark at night and disolated. The Flandra Pavilion would be built in this grim place to lighten the mood andd create a space where people could go and enjoy themselves. My main goal is to attract people that transit the Brooklyn Bridge so they would be intrigued by this piece of art. I aim for an iconic, beautiful structure that would wrap the visitors and protect them. The observatory is built so they could appreaciate the views that have being offered, such as, the Brooklyn Bridge, The Water Front and the Manhattan’s skyline.
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Dumbo Merging Tower
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Dumbo Merging Tower is a high-ed mixed use building, having a commercial base and a residential Tower. The base is design to flow in is triangular site, with a tunnel going to the opposite street and and entrance on the most trasited street (Front St.). The towers have a different entrance in the less transited street (York St). and also have access to the commercial base. The concept is that they merge and as they go up the open up to have a panoramic view toward the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattant Bridge, the park And the Manhattan Skyline.
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CNC Milling
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For this project I parametrictly fabricated a surface in foam, taking a regular picture and molded into a 3D model in Rhino. Later the tools were set, taking three different pass: Rough, Finished, and the Profile, and then taken to the CNC machine.
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Sketches
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This is a little piece of me. “Eyes are the window to the soul.” I have always liked to sketch, draw and paint, however, what i find the most intriging is how a person can transmit emotions just by using their eyes, but the one that I find the hardest to draw would be happiness. “Happiness” is hard to recognized and yet sometimes easy to misread.
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