Architectural Portfolio Daniel Zambrano
DZ Daniel Zambrano 3014 Salmon River Dr. Monroe, NC 28110 T: (704)813-7384 E: dzambran@uncc.edu P: issuu.com/zambranodaniel
Objective
Continue to develop my interest in civic and cultural Architecture while gaining experience in the path toward licensure.
Brevard College - 3-D Design and Liberal Arts Studies August 2011- January 2013
Education
Brevard, North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Charlotte, North Carolina
August 2013- May 2016
University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Master in Architecture 2016- Expected graduation May 2018
Charlotte, North Carolina
ARE Structural System Seminar - Graphic Assistant June 2016- Present
Develop Orthographic structural diagrams for the ARE Exam Seminar. In addition, to perform redline changes and revisions. Develop the skill to keep a work demand up-to-date knowledge of software and a professional approach to time and deadlines.
Experience/ Community and Service Interests
Environmental Principles - Teaching Assistant- University of North Carolina at Charlotte August 2016- Present
Reinforce lessons presented by Professor by reviewing material with students one-on-one or in small groups in addition to help Professor prepare for lessons by getting materials ready or setting up lectures
Rolling Hills Country Club - Waiter . January 2013- August 2016
Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in the restaurant, and receiving clients or guests
American Institute for Architecture Students - 2015- Present National Organization for Minority Architects - 2015- Present
Skills
Digital Rhino Revit Autocad Vray Grasshopper Diva Microsft Office 2010 Sketchup Adobe CS5 (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign).
Physical Experience in model making Sketching Hand drafting Woodworking CNC milling Laser cutting 3-D printing
Languages Proficient in Spanish Proficient in English Intermediate in French
Won the 2016 J.N. Pease, Jr. Scholarship by demonstrating high academic merit
Awards
Member of Tau Sigma Delta Architecture Honor Society Studio projects selected for NAAB Accreditation, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015 Dean’s List Honors- 8 Semesters. 2012-2016
Table of Content:
Center for the Study of the American South
An scape from the city:
Community Library:
Warehouse Structure Exploration
Savannah, Georgia 4-13
Charlotte, NC 14-23
Story Corps: Charlotte, NC 24-29
Savona Mill: Charlotte, NC 30-37
Dallas distribution center- Dallas, TX 38-47
48-55
Daylighting Exploration 56-63
Small Projects- Interventions 64-75
Center for the Study of the American South
4_ Center for the Study of the American South
Center for the Study of the American South The Center for the Study of the American South and Physical Archive memorializes the history of the poorest region in the US in the inner city of Savannah, Georgia that once formed an integral part of that period of history. Many of the fortunes of Georgia were built on slavery; directly (sending ships to Africa) or indirectly (importing sugar and other products of slave labor).
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This residual memory of the US uncomfortable past is made manifest through a building that is deeply embedded into its history by allowing the users to circulate throughout the structure with the view of preserved artifacts that narrate people lives during that time period. The building seeks to provide a place for the city’s roots to be unveiled, calling for remembrance beyond any remorse. Buidling Concept
6_ Center for the Study of the American South
Main building Circulation
Building Core/ Physical Archives
Center for the Study of the American South
Seventh Floor Plan
Multi-purpose Space
Sixth Floor Plan
Exterior Space/ Artist Display
Fifth Floor Plan
Interior Artist Display
Frontal Elevation Fourth Floor Plan
Exterior Space/ Office
Third Floor Plan
Office Space
Second Floor Plan
Exterior Space/ Public Access
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Lobby/ Cafeteria
Elongated Section A-A
Center for the Study of the American South
Building Wall SectionArtist Display Space
Transverse Section B-B
10_ Center for the Study of the American South
Center for the Study of the American South
Building Procession A- Main Entrance with view to Physical Archives
Building Procession C- Main Attraction, Multi-Purpose Program Space
Building Procession B- Exterior Space providing shading for the visitor
12_ Center for the Study of the American South
Learn to Grow- Charlotte Community Library
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Lucena Street
Lucena Steet
Learn to Grow
Residential Day care facility
Building Targets for building Commerce
Neighborhoods in Charlotte should give evidence of a unique sense of place, such as being aware of not only the building but also conveying emotions to people since it improves life for all resident in a community. The site is adjacent to the urban context and development of the city of Charlotte. Therefore, the area could offer a considerable amount of commerce for the Norris Avenue community. Currently, the neighborhood demonstrates the lack of community because of the absence of pedestrian’s circulation. The streets around the site expose the need for visual improvement since it has a junkyard as the main focal view. Although the location is near a residential area, we can highlight there’s not really a sense of place where families and visitors could engage together. For that reason, the construction of a community library will need to activate the sense of place to improve the quality of lifestyle for its residents. Considering in front of the site there is a day care facility and elementary school; the community library will aim to target those buildings and their families as the primary consumers. Therefore, the constraint of the building will give hierarchy to the kid’s collection area where families could enjoy a space that has a considerable acknowledge of how to make the users feel comfortable in the space. Strategies such as daylighting and the use of wood materiality will make families, and kids feel in a warm atmospheric area where they can enjoy most of the time. However, families will always feel the need for a secure space where they can go at any time to use public amenities. Therefore, the library will provide a lobby/ cafeteria space where the consumer could grab a snack, read an article, or talk to other residents while enjoying the exterior and interior views the building provides. The following will contribute to give that warm embracement of a Neighborhood. Also, this space will give commuters a daytime and nighttime area where they can use public amenities such as computer laboratories, meeting rooms, and restrooms.
Although the neighborhood seems intimidating from the current exteriors views, I want to argue if we could implement an actual COMMUNITY library it can suggest investing time in people to make us experience a broad diversity and variety of mixed functions. The community library will concentrate mainly on the human experience inside of the building but most importantly, on its exterior amusement to rebuilt the thorn community.
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Lobby
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Computer center
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Office area Organization
18_ Community Library
Schema Proposal 6
Building Placement on site
Proposed Vegetation
Community LibraryLibrary Building Procession
Pedestrian Approach to Building
Learn to Grow
Pedestrian Procession to Collection Area
Office space Procession
Building Section A-A
Building South Elevation
Building Section B-B
Building East Elevation
20 _ Community Library
Community Library
Learn to Grow
Heating and Cooling Design Strategies
Daylight exploration through Wall Section
April 11am
April 3pm
April 5pm
22 _ Community Library
Story Corps- Home Depot Installation
24_ StoryCorps
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The flow of the building reinforces the change we as individuals go through after such a profound experience like participating in StoryCorps. It suggests the pre- and post- storytelling, which will have a leading and ending way to the more open space. The procession begins by heighten a person’s curiosity, then the shape and form creates a pathway going out of the box. How can the visitors interact with the space? With one point of entry and a separate exit, the building will act as a filter for the individual’s profound experience. The visitors does not leave as the same person, therefore, the individual must exit that experience in a different way than they entered.
Building Procession
Site Plan- Charlotte, NC
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Back Area/ Exit Space of Installation
26_ StoryCorps
Program LayoutInterview Space
Story Corps
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Building Axonometric Section A-A
28_ StoryCorps
Savona Mill- Community Center Intervention
30_ Savona Mill
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The Savona Mill was built in 1916 and has been growing ever since. Two additions were made before 1951 and one around 1990. It has been unoccupied until recently, when it was bought and is planned to be developed and reopened. The proposed modifications are considerate of the surrounding neighborhood/community.
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32_ Savona Mill
Front and Back Facade Juxtaposition
It served as a place for the community to socialize, learn some history about the mill or to visit the latest gallery exhibits. As of design, the main strategies were to create a central glass atrium, a division of each addition and preserve the street side while juxtaposing the back. It preserved the history of the mill while adding modern accents.
Savona Mill
Front Elevation- - Imitation of Historic Building
Building Imitation of Materiality
Back Elevation- - Juxtaposition of Front Facade
34_ Savona Mill
Addition for circulation A
Addition for circulation B
Savona Mill
Procession B- Glass Tubes leading to Patio
Main Entrance- Bar Area
36_ Savona Mill
Procession C- Main Atrium Space
An scape from the City- Dallas Distribution Center
38_ Warehouse + Distribution Center
An scape from the City Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behavior. - Thom Mayne
Dallas Distribution Center
Site Plan
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The concept for the warehouse is to influence the neighborhood by bringing a space of community and peacefulness. Since the existing site offers s ilence and nature, the building will engage with those elements in order for customers to enjoy nature and tranquility. Customers will be able to engage with horses to travel and explore the landscape as a metaphor to be calm and be away from the city; therefore, the building is acting as a scape from the metropolitan area. Considering the warehouse offers reading areas, consumers could use the following items to read either in the building or the landscape.
Pedestrian Circulation on-site
Existing Site View Truck Circulation
40 _Warehouse + Distribution Center
An scape from the City
First Floor Plan
Customer Procession
East Elevation
East section
South Elevation
Customer procession to office area
Exploded Bay section
42 _Warehouse + Distribution Center
South section
An scape from the City
Bay Structural Model
44 _Warehouse + Distribution Center
Wall Section
An scape from the City
46 _Warehouse + Distribution Center
Structure Exploration- Warehouse
48_ Warehouses
Steel Warehouse Three Hinge Arch The composition design of the steel warehouse was determined once more on the golden section ideas to be used as the mathematical proportional denominator throughout the warehouse. The mathematical proportion of the spiral shape defined the unified structure of the warehouse. More specifically, the golden section served to give the mean in geometry to divide greater and smaller ratios depending on the program usage of the warehouse space. Axonometric View South- East
Plan View with Structural Members
Thought Process- A North Elevation
Thought Process- B
Building Exploded Axometric
50 _Steel Warehouse
West Elevation
Concrete Warehouse
Slab Beam Girder Since the warehouse deals with concrete and girders, the building creates a central core axis to influence the purposes of program such as the vehicular and pedestrian circulation. By creating that axis, the interior spaces of the building will frame perspective views that allow light to be the guidance of circulation throughout the structure.
Axonometric Section A-A
Interior Perspective View
South Elevation
Plan View with Structural Members
Exploded Axonometric View
52 _Concrete Warehouse
West Elevation
Wood Warehouse B
Engineer Lumber(Post and beam)
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The main concept for the wood warehouse relied on the parameters of the golden section to determine pleasing dimensional relationships between the width of the warehouse and its height, the size of the storage area and even the position of the columns supporting the structure.
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Detail Connection- Roof Structure
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Plan View with Structural Members
Formal Order of Interior Spaces
Golden Section Investigation
West Elevation
Axonometric View North- East North Section A-A
North Elevation
54 _Wood Warehouse
Axonometric View North- West East Section B-B
Daylighting Exploration- Human Comfort
56_ Daylighting
Pavilion- Daylight Bay Study HDR- Glare Analysis
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1st Proposal
Model envelope
Roof Structure
Fabric Cloth/ Exterior terrace
Transparent Sheeting/ Interior Space
The first proposal intended to look at the skylight in the middle section of the coffee station. This decision was made since it was the area where most light would enter the space. In this specific section the pavilion was analyzed with the effect of a clear skylight as opposition to two other roof structures. With this in mind, analyzing the differences in three very different roof structures that allowed light in. Therefore, a deeper understanding of this space was needed to analyze how to filter and manage the amount of light and create a higher comfort zone. The first iteration was based on the white model. The color white selected for the model represented a challenge when analyzing the amount of light entering and dispersing throughout the space. After a few iterations on the bay analysis model, the pavilion shows in the final iteration a greater human comfort with respect to the interior space showing a darker wood color and the materials used to filter light through the skylights.
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2nd Proposal Model envelope
Roof Structure
Fabric Cloth/ Exterior terrace
Transparent Sheeting/ Interior Space
Plan View- Bay Proposal
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Section A-A 325
3rd Proposal
58 _ Daylight Pavilion
Model envelope
Roof Structure
Fabric Cloth/ Exterior terrace
Transparent Sheeting/ Interior Space
Pavilion- Sun, light flow Sun Pavilion
2nd Proposal
3rd Proposal
Restrooms Reading Area
Coffee Shops
En Cir tran cu ce lat ion
1st Proposal
The overalll iterations for the pavilion reexamined the shading system throughout the building but most importantly focused on the Western sun direction. Although the shading system was created to allow the structure to permit adequate shadows, it divided the exterior and interior spaces for the cross- ventilation to flow through from the western to the eastern openings. The final scheme portrayed an egg-crate strategy on the Western facade which then connects to the roof structure, allowing the penetration of light to be visually and physically apparent.
Seating area exterior patio
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West Perimeter- Cross ventilation
Central Core circulation
Facade study- Charlotte NC April 1pm
Charlotte NC February 1pm
Daylight entrance- western perimerter
Main entrance view
60 _ Daylight Pavilion
Charlotte NC August 1pm
Human Occupation Five Senses This project was built upon the idea of experiencing the senses and how they are perceived as we go through different activities. With this in mind, the exploration of sensorial elements through daily activities began. The diagrammatic information included in our composition reflects how the senses interact within our experiences as a whole entity and by themselves. The closing piece in the composition is a 3D design response to the overall experience. The intention with the collage and model in this piece was to represent the same transition from enclosure to nature. However, challenging the concept of enclosure and inclusion within nature. With this in mind, we created a transition from an enclosed space into a tree house in which the spectator would be completely immersed in nature.
Enclosed Touch
62 _Human Occupation + Five Senses
Desired Smell
Environment Taste
Atmosphere Hearing
Freedom Sight
Small Projects- Architectural Installations
Shopping For Survival “… Nothing is more fundamental to the Survival of Shopping than a steady flow of costumers and products.”
66 _Shopping for Survival
Rem Koolhass, “Shopping”
Shopping Is Shopping today less about acquiring what we need and more about recording experiences? The project of shopping for survival is an investigation of a series of issues related to the urban conditions of Charlotte, NC. Issues that reflect certain unusual or unknown qualities of alteration taking place at this moment in the world. Since Shopping is the last remaining form of public activity, the space for the consumers should be able to replace every aspect of the urban life. The goal of the building is to start pointing towards a successful future by transforming individual’s pain in order to get them back on track. The structure will create a framework of spaces where an individual can walk through and change his life by experiencing the need to shop for an education in order to obtain a job and maintain their living. Therefore the building is acting as a living cycle that offers the opportunity for an individual to leave their past and become a productive member of society when they exit the front door.
Shopping For Survival
Living Space
West Axon Section
68_Shopping for Survival
Private vs. Public
Education Space
Core Area
Horizontal and vertical circulation
North Axon Section
Shopping Space
Lobby Space
Exterior Areas
Fabrication Laboratory MakerSpace Chicago, Illinois
Considering the location for our site was near the University of Chicago, where people interact regularly, the orientation of the building was situated on a specific outlook that will enhance the pedestrian views towards our infill ground area.
Procession First floor
Procession Second floor
Module A- Private
Module B- Semi- Public
The design process began by taking the conceptual ideas from Eduardo Chillida on his approach to positive and negative spaces and the actions he takes on studying the human hand, which he described as, “the formation and dissolution of an enclosed internal space.� Therefore the performance of my design will be separated into three modules to divide the private, semi-public, and public spaces. The design takes the approach of a dynamic building by removing the fabrication lab in the first and second floor, to communicate the concept idea of the opening of the hand, whereas in the third floor, the structure becomes one single unit to address the idea of enclosure. In relationship to the site, the design will promote an alternative axial movement for pedestrians to gather on a certain location.
Procession Third floor
70 _Makerspace
Module C- Public
In search of Peacefulness “...Architecture must slow down our experience of reality in order to create an experiential background for grasping and understanding change. Instead of current obsession with novelty, architecture must acknowledge and respond to the bio-cultural and archaic dimensions of the human psyche.”
Juhani Pallasmaa, “Six themes for the next millennium”
Scheme Design- Iteration 1
Human Approach to Tea House Scheme Design- Iteration 4 Plan View- Final Model
Scheme Design- Iteration 2
Scheme Design- Iteration 3
Scheme Design- Iteration 5
Final Model
72 _Tea House
Tea House The TeaHouse can be perceived as an Architectural experiment that can discuss the space in relation to human and Architecture if we perceive it with our whole being while moving through space. The idea of silence in the procession can be recognized by the role of individual’s physical interaction with the space through the sense of vision and hearing. The silence space will be transmitted through senses, intuition, imagination, contemplation, and reasoning. The interest in silence will transform a space more practical towards an individual. The spatial imagination will be a situation where the landscape and the body are in constant interaction and are mutually supplementing and defining each other. Silence therefore could be defined as emptiness and eternal space. The imagination can play a major role on the style of the TeaHouse by looking at things through concepts like emptiness. By incorporating the idea of asymmetry in the design, it makes the the imperfection an art. Nature in the procession is perceived as a major role in the imagination of unfinished objects by giving a natural aspect of style to a specific area as if it was created by nature, not by human or machines.
U.S. Postal Service Pavilion
US. Postal Service Pavilion Davidson, NC
The pavilion is characterized by form and spaces organized along an axis that extends the reach of openness to a different world. The axis leads to a space, not an object, which links a structure to the larger landscape. The pavilion merges with the natural surroundings. It creates a retreat where harmony between man and nature can be experienced. Visitors can experience a different sensibility of the man made environment; the treatment of both space and form takes into consideration the human senses of sight, hearing and touch. Entering the building is a beginning of a journey that takes the visitor away from the chaos of the town into the silence of nature. It is an experience that consists of a sequence of events that stimulate the people senses and help them be in contact with nature.
Form Iteration- A
Form Iteration- B
Pavilion South Entrance
Form Iteration- C Detail Connection- Transition Zone
Form Iteration- D
Form Iteration- E
74 _US Postal Pavilion
Form Combined Iterations
An Architectural Portfolio: The development and structural analysis of a variety of programs. Documented with both text and imagery.
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behavior. - Thom Mayne