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Undergraduate Architecture + Design Portfolio University of Houston Gerald D. Hines 2010 - 2014TRANSCRIPT
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6109 Pine Avenue | Pasadena, TX 77503 Convertible SpaceA Transformable Living Space
Big Bend National Park StationCli�side Ranger Station
ArtsplaceArt Center for Houston
Independent StudyD3 Exhibition & Tex Fab Entry
Research Center for Personal TransportationAn Extension of Path To Vehicular Knowledge & Development
Year 2 (2011-2012)
Year 3 (2012-2013)
Semester 1
Semester 1
Semester 2
Name: Israel RodriguezDOB: 04/20/1992ID Number: 1015235
CONTACT INFO
PERSONAL INFO
EDUCATIONAL
University of Houston - Main Campus 2010 – Present
Fall 2010 – Spring 2011 John TsaiFall 2011 – Spring 2012 Michael Gonzales, Gregory MarinicFall 2012 – Spring 2013 Gary Machicek, Duke FleshmanFall 2013 – Spring 2014 Duke Fleshman, Geo�rey Brune
SELECTED WORKS
Year 4 (2013-2014)
UHGBC WorkshopCampus Workshop Development
Social MediathequeAn Emergent Community
Semester 1
Semester 2
SKILLS
Rhinoceros 3D
Grasshopper
AutoCAD
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Abobe InDesign
Convertible Space pg.1
Big Bend National Park – Station pg.3
Artsplace pg.11
Research Center for Personal Transportation pg.21
UHGBC Workshop pg.31
Social Mediatheque pg.41
Independent Study pg.53
01Covertible Space
A Transformable Living SpaceIn the ever expanding state of the world, space economy becomes essential in architecture and design. Utilization and understanding of this concept becomes important when designing. Thus, exploration in the ability to create a space contained within a very small area with but a single piece of furniture designed to break up and utilize the space for maximum livingconfigurations (i.e. eating, sleeping, hygiene, cooking, washing, sitting, and storage) The intent in designing such a space is to design in such a way as to utilize a minimum number of moves to subdivide the space, rather than producing a space that has the most pop-out-able compartments. Thus creating a space that is easy to use, easy to access, and easy to live in.
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Closed Dining
Sitting & Reading
Shelving
Workspace& Sitting
Sleeping
Sitting & ReadingThe cooking and washing units are always left
accessible for the user despite the configuration.
The decorative slats that work around the design serve as seating as well as becoming shelving unitson the side of the furniture piece
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FEATURE PIECE:
- Dining - Workspace - Seating Stool Low Chair Foot Stool - Shelving Unit
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Closed Open
Closed Open
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The design explores the concept of rotationand the design principals implied by such movement and its applications to an architectural solution. Investigative work in biomimetic design and analysis of this research is incorporated to design choices to create a relation to the natural aspect of the environmental park system. Studies done on the spinal chord and how it allows flexibility to the design of the body becomes a central design focus. Figurative comparisons of the vertebral bodies (the spinal “discs”) to programmatic sectors, as well as comparisons of the vertebral discs (fibrous tissues in between the bodies) to circulation elements are then translated into architectural elements that help create a building system that functions with the site, the user, and the environment. The design essentially becomes a manifestation of rotational movement, guiding and encouraging a path strictly directed by the design for optimum use and observational utility.
02Big Bend National Park - Station
Cli�side Ranger Station
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1 Vertebral Body
2 Spinous Process
Program Split
Program Sizing
Terracing
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Level -1 Ground Level Level +1
Skin System - Shading
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Massing
MORPHOGENESIS
Shift
Shape
Field of View
Increased Field
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Body
Spine
Body
Body
Skin System
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Like a system that reoccurs within itself, we persist to mimic the ever-complex system that is nature. Like self-similarity, we see a constant replication of systems that strive to process and transfer information as efficiently as possible. Like a geometry that generates to form a larger system, Architecture is but a component that strives to contribute to the environment it inhabits. Like a strand that’s woven into a central system, we analyze the importance of a building and it’s contribution to its larger makeup. We attempt to reconstruct a method in which to efficiently translate information from architecture to human; from strand to system. In an attempt to expose and inform the public to thework of the community and the culture of their surrounding habitat, we define a path of information flow within a network that serves to provide a reaction to the movement and flow of travel of visitors. By encouraging a gradual feed of information to visitors along a given path, the architecture is able to stimulate and inform the public. The architecture then becomes a synapstic contact providing a stimulus of information to the travelling neurons of what becomes a larger system; Architecture and community.
03Artsplace
Art Center For Houston
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More Opaque Less OpaqueDraping of Exterior ShellEXTERIOR TREATMENT/ SKIN
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Exterior Glass
Steel Space Frame
Concrete Wall w/Steel Reinforcement
Concrete - Waffle Slab
Reinforcement Steel Rebar
Ventilation Ducts
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MODES OF ENCOURAGING DESIRED MOVEMENT
Break in Path
Path Directed
Program to Program
Contraction
Expansion
Movement Rest Movement Rest
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MODES OF ENCOURAGING DESIRED MOVEMENT
Break in Path
Path Directed
Program to Program
Contraction
Expansion
Movement Rest Movement Rest
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2nd Floor
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3rd Floor
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4th Floor
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5th Floor
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Electrical StripConcrete Wa�e Slab
Ventilation Pipes
Steel Reinforcement
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Long Section
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Short Section
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04Research Center for Personal Transportation
An Extension of PathWith the advent of the computer, as well as newer more intricate technologies, we live in an ever expansive world reliant on intelligence created from minds with the hopes to revolutionize and transform the way we live our lives. Society hopes to maintain ahead of technology and to persist ahead of the stresses it puts on everyday life. It is our duty to hold ourselves responsible for the residue such technologies have left on society and on the environment. We thus rely on research focused on the advancement of developing technologies and resolving issues. We as architects hope to highlight and exhibit these efforts, as well as help inform and educate the public as efficiently as possible. The proposed research center outlines a method in which to encourage a way of metabolizing information and creating exposure for such efforts. By interweaving explicit and implicit methods of education, we are able to instill a need for education. Through the manifestation of an environment in which learning is an inevitable outcome, we the create an opportunity to encite a yearning for informing ones self.
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AudioHearing
VisualSight
TactileTouch
Sun PathOriented Grid
Site Oriented Grid
Education
Research/Application
- Lobby- Auditorium- Gallery- Café
- Design Studios- Workshops- Gallery- Offices
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Ground Plan
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Level 1 Level 2 Level -1
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30’
45’
30’
30’
25’
30’
15’
38’
30o
60o
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Structural Analysis
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Steel Curved I-Beam
Precast Concrete Panels
Cladding Ties
Black Slate Stone Cladding
Raised Floor Understructure
Mullions
Low-E Glass
Wooden Floor Finish
Metal Decking
Metal Drop Down Ceiling
Drain Pipe
Stone Drainage Bed
Insulation
Waterproof Membrane
Spread Footing
Steel Reinforcing Rebar
Rigid Foam Insulating Core
Hanger Wires
Waterproofing Membrane
Short Section
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2Vertical Columnar Members
3Primary Spanning Members
4Secondary Spanning Members
5Metal Decking
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1 Framing
Floor Structure
Structural Walls
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The emergent properties of an existing thing, living or inanimate, are defined and established by immesurable factors. It is with intent and deliberate purpose, that a framework is set in which attributes are established. It is an architect’s dutyto understand and utilize these principalsto help realize a space that serves to performnot only for the user, but the public at large, thus generating a space that has a frameworkthat establishes properties emergent to the individual user. In an attempt to achieve sucha space, the intent to introduce a componentthat will help mediate the flow of movement of people and ideas was thus realized. The ramp, emerging from the floor, splits the flowof movement, providing a duality of experience.Simultaneously, two experiences exist to helpinform the campus as a whole, what indeed theUHGBC hopes to provide the university, as wellas informing them on their current progress andachievements. It provides an interaction betweenstudent, building, and campus and creates a dialogue between user and visitor.
05UHGBC Workshop
Campus WorkshopDevelopment
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Entry
Initial Exposure
InformationGathering
InformedConclusion
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RampCirculation
Self InformedDeduction
InformalAnalysis
InformationHarvesting
REALITYKNOWLEDGE
CONCEPTUAL
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Metal Ceiling Panels
#6 Steel Reinforcing Rebar
24” Deep Holedeck Waffle Slab
0.05” Thin Concrete Ceiling Panel
Water Filter Screen
Soil & Vegetation
Soil Retaining Screen
Symbiotic Wall- Steel Wall Structure
12” Load-Bearing Concrete Wall
Water Barrier
Foam Insulation
Corrugated Steel
Concrete Infill
Precast Concrete Roof Panel
Concrete Footing
6” Wood Beam w/Steel Bolted Plate
Wood Angle Support
Pump
Pressure Tank
3’ Cellular Beam
4.5’ Cellular Beam
18” Steel Round Column
Steel Guardrail
Topping Slab (Polished Concrete)
24” Holedeck Waffle Slab
Glass Rail6” Deep Concrete Ramp
Botanica Air Purifier Permanent Wall Installation
#6 Steel Reinforcing Rebar12” Concrete Wall
Raised-Floor Panels
Raised-Floor Supports
Air Duct
Slab-On-Grade Foundation
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+16’
+18’
+ 0’
+34’
+12
+26’
+ 0’
+24’
+ 7’
- 4.6”’
+ 0’
+16’+18’
+34’
D1D3
D2
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Level 1
BB
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CC
Level 2
AA
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Vertical Structure
Structural Walls
Horizontal Beams
Mullions
Floor Structure
Ramp System
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In an effort to analyze and translate a learnedunderstanding of light, the project attempts tointroduce a space in which the properties of light not only activates the interior of the building, but transforms the architecture of the building into a bridge of knowledge dictating a path for growth for the community. It is with this understanding that we provide intervention, planting a community garden and allowing it to grow and virally eat away at the negative space that is the implied building volume. Through this pixelization of sorts, we are able to generate a form that allows depressions and extrusions created by the garden to create spaces that allow light to bounce from surface to interior, indirectly lighting the interior. The treatment of the facades maintains the idea of pixelization, but scales it to human proportions, creating a relief on the walls; skimming light and texturizing the wall. Through this immersion of activity and transition dictated by light, it is possible to create a spacethat strengthens and gives back to the community.
06Social Mediatheque
An Emergent Community
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Steel Framing
Structural Concrete Walls
Enclosure Wall Panels
Combined Systems
PLOT SIZES
20’ x 20’
10’ x 20’
5’ x 20’
10’ x 10’
PIXELIZATION
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Initial Form Community Garden Designation
Public Plaza Terracing of Levels Facade Light TreatmentsSouthern Northern
Facade Elevation System
SOLID
FRAGM
ENTED
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Strategy Application
Strategy Photographs
Light Funnel
EFFECT: Washes light on surface
Light Re�ector
EFFECT: Re�ects lightinto the interior
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100%
50%
0%
Opacity Percentage
Block Pixelization
EFFECT: Light SkimmingLight Gradation
Light Lantern
EFFECT: Light TransparencyGlowing Block E�ect
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5 15 30 600 1202
Sect Section 2
5 15 30 600 1203
Sect Section 3
D1
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Section 11Sect
5 15 30 600
D2
D1
D2
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Level 2
Reading
ProGallery
Meditation
Mech.
Level 1
Café
Farmer’s Market
Public Gallery
Lobby
Farmer’s Market
Community Garden
Mech.
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2Sect
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2Sect
3Se
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3Se
ct
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Gaming
Aud.
Multi.
Video
Meditation
Mech.
Reading
Mech.
Offices.
Computer.
Level 3 5 15 30 600 5 15 30 600
1Sect
2Sect
1Sect
2Sect
Level 4
3Se
ct 3Se
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D251
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07Independent Study
D3 Exhibition&Tex Fab Entry
combined component
component one
component two
COMPONENT ASSEMBLY
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4 GLOBAL FORM
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EXCAVATED DODECAHEDRON 3RD STELLATION LATTICE
3RD STELLATION + ICOSAHEDRON ICOSAHEDRON LATTICE
72º
63.43º
41.81º
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Direction of Travel
- 72 deg
+ 72 deg
Rotational Axis
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