Yasmin’s Works Select Undergraduate and Professional Work 2022
About Me I am a Class of 19’ Texas A&M University Alumni from Houston, Texas. I was a part of the Alpha Zeta Chi A&M Chapter on campus, as well as Fish Camp; a student run extended orientation to help welcome the freshmen to our university, and the AIAS organization. Being very involved with organizations on campus has helped me learn to manage my time well with architecture and studio. My experience in the field has proven challenging yet extremely rewarding. Learning how to work with clients and material representatives has been my favorite part of the job. I am eager to work and learn with Architects and Designers from across the country and world to further my knowledge of the field. Helping bring people’s visions to life is the reason I am invested in architecture.
The Collection
Spectra Machine Vision: Cronenberg Mindful @ Glenwood Park Reflections Professional Work Personal Art
Spectra
Collab with Mariana Echanove Integrated Studio Fall 2018 Revit
Integrated is the studio that we really focus on working with structure and systems and learning how to incorporate it into our building. This was by far the most challenging and rewarding studio due to the time invested in understanding how everything works together. Our project was to design a Global Distance Education center for the international students at our college station campus. After given our site, Century Square city center, we wanted to incorporate the same nature of the buildings surrounding our lot. All the buildings around the area are independent and have outdoor connections and walk ways. Our building is split into three main spaces depending on program, with multiple different connections at different parts of each floor. We have terraces on the second, third, and fourth floor to give our visitors access to outdoor views and seating. We had trouble with natural light reaching our underground studio spaces, to tackle this obstacle we created an atrium that ran down from the ground floor to the -2 level. We also Recessed the north and south walls nine feet all the way to -3 to bring in maximum daylight to those areas. To help with the Texas heat the envelope of our building is nanogel polycarbonate sheeting which blocks significantly more uv rays than channel glass, our original idea. We had to incorporate either an under or over pass connecting our building to the campus of Texas A&M across the street. After choosing the underpass we designed it to be as enjoyable as possible for our visitors by adding a light installation much like the one in the Modern Arts Museum in Houston by James Turrell.
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Machine Vision: Cronenberg
Collab with Hans Steffes, Colin Stone, and Luis Romero T4T Lab Spring 2017 Maya | Rhino | Coding
This project demonstrates machine vision as a distorting mechanism that absorbs and analyzes information to produce geometry of a building that challenges how far data can break down and re-understand. We coded images of downtown L.A. and worked with them to create this mixed-use building. While much of the buildings output is beyond a conceivable level of complexity, traces of ourselves and the essence of original samples become readable as an interface between us and machine.
Mindful @ Glenwood Park Collab with Ezequiel Campos II, Will Palmer Spring Semester 2019 Revit 2019
This semester was a hybrid of group work and independent study. We began the semester by discussing design options with our client as well as research about the site and surrounding areas with our teammates. I was primarily responsible for the case studies and weather pattern studies for the area that helped us decide what materials we’d be using for the rest of the semester. After establishing which segment of the site each group member would be designing, we broke off into our independent study for the remaining semester. I chose to design the retail building which comprised of a local coffee shop, yoga, music and art studios, a retail store selling local goods and an emergency center. Closely working with our clients and studio professor we were able to finalize the retail building as well as my group members buildings and put it all together.
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Reflections Collab with Ashley Zannini Study abroad Spring 2018 Revit
This was our study abroad studio where we got to partner with students from either Roger Williams University or Clemson University and create a museum where we had to preserve the existing ruins under our site. It was very different from what we were used to at A&M because we usually start with a clean slate, but this time we had to work with what was already there. I have to say this was one of the most enjoyable semesters, not just because we got to experience and live in Barcelona but because it was a different style of teaching and learning that was refreshing to me. Our museum has two entrances, allowing you to enter from Carrer de Duran i Bas or Carrer dels Sagristans. The entrance from Carrer de Duran i Bas greets you with the aqueduct wall to the left and glass facades to the right, only allowing you to see what is going on inside in the evening due to glazing. This space is also the kid’s archeological dig, giving them their own play space. The second entrance from Carrer dels Sagristans greets you alongside the Besos wall. Guided through a carved out ruin space with glass floors showcasing more ruins underneath you, later leads into the lobby, circulation space. There is one exhibition space next to the lobby for temporary exhibits, and one of two double height spaces giving a glimpse of the other exhibitions which are located below. On the second floor, there is a mixture of programs; the cafe, the garden, the classroom, and the second double height space of bookcases in the library. The garden and cafe are connected, so you can go outside to relax and take a break from the museum. One short balcony extends from the garden allowing you to walk slightly out to the aqueduct wall, connecting you with the urban tissue of the site. Last, the top floor is office space and the continuation of the library. Most importantly you can view the aqueduct wall from each level, bringing the outside to the inside. Moving on to the exterior of our museum, we focused on reflections. We angled the top of our all-glass facade to reflect the aqueduct wall on to our facade, creating the same effect as the MACBA building which reflects the city of Barcelona. This incorporates the idea of bringing the old city into our new museum without damaging the wall. For the facade we used travertine because it is similar in texture to the ruins displayed inside and does not disrupt the fabric of the neighborhood.
Professional Work
Dominion Tower Location: Richmond, Virginia Worked on with PDR form Jan 2020 to April 2020 Revit
The space reflects Dominion’s deep commitment to enrich the Richmond community through support of their people and promotion of their culture while driving business performance and results. The workspace features futurefocused integrated building systems utilizing modular furnishings, ceilings, and raised access floors, with a flexible planning template to easily accommodate low cost future changes. I worked on the Construction Documents for this project which allowed me to get comfortable drawings details and making plans for large scale projects. I was also tasked with 3D modeling the elevator lobby for all 17 floors which helped me get more familiar with the Revit Software.
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Occidental Petroleum
Location: Houston, Texas Completed at PDR form August 2019 to June 2020 Revit
Located near downtown Houston, we designed two floors for this Fortune 500 Company to discover their employees’ optimal office layout, and preferred aesthetic for their next large-scale office! We strategically created a series of spaces that encourage wellness and relaxation as much as they do concentration and collaboration. Now, each floor contains walking paths at the perimeter of the building, allowing all spaces in the office capture natural light. With different levels of privacy, this company can now move their work around the office without being tied down to a cubicle. I had the pleasure of seeing this project through from start to finish. Doing so has helped me get more confident with speaking with our clients and our material representatives, which is now my favorite part of the job. I was a part of the team that selected the aesthetic and layout of both floors. We then finalized the design and created the construction documents. I created the elevations, plans, and set up the renderings to be finalized by my team members. After working with various team members we were able to give this company the Office of their future campus.
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