ANDREA
HERNANDEZ
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SELECTED WORKS 2021
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PROJECTS
Domestic, Non-Contact Sanctuary in Oakland Rhino + Vray, Adobe Creative Suite (Ps, Ai, Id, Lr) Re-rending L ACMA Rhino + Vray, Adobe Creative Suite (Ps, Ai) Urban Streetscape Inter vention in Los Angeles ArcGIS, Rhino + Vray, Adobe Creative Suite (Ps, Ai)
E D U C AT I O N
May 2021
U N IVERS IT Y OF CALIF OR N IA, B E R KE LE Y Bachelor of Ar ts, Architecture Minor in Sustainable Environmental Design
AWARDS
CASA Alumni’s Atonia Escobar Scholarship
EXPERIENCE
January 2018 - Current
CE N T E R FOR THE STU D Y OF C HILD C ARE EMP LOYM ENT | S T UD E N T AS S I S TAN T January 2018 - May 2018
CA L R OTARACT INTERACT C OMMIT TEE | BERKELEY, CA | GRAPHI C D E S I GN IN T E RN LEADERSHIP
August 2019 - May 2020
P U B L I C AT I O N S
“CASA Now!” ByDesign, vol. 31, 2019, Pg. 19 “10th Year Anniversary Retrospective.” ByDesign, vol. 34, 2020, Pg. 21
SKILLS
Language: Fluent in English and Spanish (reading, writing, speaking) Software: Rhino 3D, V-Ray, Revit, Lumion, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite (Ai, Id, Lr, Ps, Pr), Windows, Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, Google Drive Fabrication: Hand drafting, Sketching, Model Building
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C O N T E N T S
01 O P E N A I R H AV E N
N O N - C O N T A C T D V S A N C T U A R Y, O A K L A N D , C A
02 REFLECTION
LACMA MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES, CA
03 URBAN PROJECTION
THE URBAN INSTITUTE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
04 SHARED STREETS
STREETSCAPE INTERVENTION, LOS ANGELES, CA
01 OPEN AIR HAVEN NON-CONTACT DV SANCTUARY | OAKL AND,CA FA L L 2 0 2 0 | A R C H 1 0 0 C | I N S T R U C T O R : M I A Z I N N I
In a year of unprecedented changes, the outbreak of COVID-19 posed a critical question in the design of transitional and supportive housing. Located on Broadway and Webster in Oakland California, this domestic violence (DV) sanctuary addresses concerns around non-contact while simultaneously creating a space for retreat, restoration, and solace. The DV sanctuary promotes the concept of non-contact spaces by seeking to restore the connection to the outdoors. Increasing the ratio of outdoor areas to interior programs allowed the design of private, intimate spaces for retreat and healing while also limiting physical contact. The sanctuary addresses concerns around camouflaging architecture through the integration of impact-oriented design methods meant to provide a secure and captivating housing complex.
Exterior View
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Roof Plan
Singles Loft Unit: 500 sf
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Family Unit: 600 sf
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Ground Level Inset Corner Window
Protruding Private Window Nook Protruding Corner Window Nook
Private Single Unit Balcony
Private Family Unit Corner Balcony
Private Family Unit Balcony
Private Roof Garden
Open Air Courtyard
Northeast Elevation
Southeast Elevation
Northeast Sect
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Southeast Sect
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Courtyard View
Balcony View
Interior Loft Unit
Exterior View
Courtyard View
02 REFLECTION RE-RENDERING LACMA | LOS ANGELES,CA S U M M E R 2 0 2 0 | A R C H 1 0 9 | I N S T R U C T O R : A N D R E W AT W O O D
The project explores how rendering, and the tools used to render, can become active and generative mechanisms for designing a new bridge museum. Located on Wilshire Blvd, the museum serves as a new landmark in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) campus. Different render channels were used to isolate different aspects of materiality that focused on reflectivity, transparency, depth, and refraction. The museum’s design utilizes the channels of reflection and mirroring as a set of formal operations to create a new urban experience and attraction, similar to other LACMA landmarks. Through its highly reflective facade and its off-axes shears, the building enhances ideas about reflection and mirroring in a three-dimensional and monumental way. From the outside, the building mirrors its surroundings and projects it into the urban environment. The interior galleries and programs also inhabit ideas of mirroring that create a unique spatial experience from within.
Exterior View
Lighting
Render ID
Reflections
Normals
Different channels were isolated as part of an iterative process for designing the bridge museum. The render channels extract elements of an image and enhance those elements to new degrees.
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Process Diagrams The highly reflective qualities of the reflection channel influenced t h e m u s e u m ’s u s e o f v e r t i c a l s h e a r s structures to create dimensional projections of surrounding environment.
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Program Diagram
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Hallway
Exhibition Space
Aerial View
Exterior View
03 URBAN PROJECTION T H E U R B A N I N S T I T U T E | S A N F R A N C I S C O, C A SPRING 2020 | ARCH 100B | INSTRUCTOR: MEI-L AN TAN
Located in the heart of South of Market (SOMA) on 3rd and Bryant St in San Francisco, this Urban Institute is a conjunction of varied programs centered on tracks of research, education, and advocacy that are meant to promote better quality of urban life through design. The Urban Institute’s design serves to house and exhibit the long-lost model of San Francisco, built as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA model was once a planning tool that was presented at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island. The Institute’s design focuses on the premise of this historic artifact with inspiration from black and white film as a concept of urban projection. The building’s exterior polycarbonate envelope becomes a captivating projection screen from the outside displaying the interior activities and actors from within. It’s monolithic interior structure becomes an emphatic silhouette giving the institute character and concealing the embedded WPA model at its core.
Exterior Night Render EXTERIOR VIEW
Spatial Bridging
W PA M o d e l C o r e
The model bridges different programs together
The model connects major programs
Programmatic Gradient
Projecting Envelope
Program remains more public on the ground level, to more private on the top level
E n v e l o p e’s p o l y c a r b o n a t e m a t e rial blurs and projects the inhabitants onto the streetscape
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Section Details
ROOF DE TAIL
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FLOOR SLAB
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Interior View
Entrance
04 SHARED STREETS STREETSCAPE INTERVENTION | LOS ANGELES,CA SPRING 2020 | CYPLN 140 | INSTRUCTOR: ZACHARY LAMB In collaboration with Jennifer Recinos The section of Maple St. between Pico Blvd and 11 St, is one of Los Angeles’ well known commercial streets with many small, local businesses located in the heart of the Fashion District. This area is commonly known as “Los Callejones,” --“the alleys.” These small and narrow streetscapes contain large amounts of vehicle and pedestrian traffic which are the driving forces behind the high levels of commercial activity. However, as new residential projects begin to emerge near the larger downtown area, an influx of more affluent residents and businesses puts these commercial streets at risk of displacement and gentrification. The street’s dependence on vehicular traffic has made it difficult for local businesses to make use of the pedestrian street front, affecting the amount of income and revenue they can generate. This street has long been a core commercial site for many low income and minority groups that depend, not only on the retail stores but on the street’s rich cultural significance and in the city of Los Angeles. The design intervention seeks to convert the streetscape into a one-way shared street that prioritizes retail and local businesses as well as pedestrians without completely closing off the street to vehicular traffic.
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BUSY INTERSECTIONS CLASHING MOBILITY
LARGE INTERSECTIONS
Street Activ
HIGH PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC C R O W D E D PA R K I N G
NARROW SIDEWALKS
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CLUSTERED VENDORS
The main objective of the design is to increase foot traffic as a method for allowing local businesses to stay commercially viable. Although changes to the streetscape alone cannot solve all the larger problems around gentrification and displacement of the surrounding area, they can begin to alleviate pressures of obtaining more local business. Changes in signage, street pavements, street furniture, vegetation, and designated parking zones are some methods implemented to encourage a range of different pedestrian activities while making the street more enjoyable and lively for the community.
Current Streetscape
Design Intervention
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