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A r c h i t e c t u r a l D e s i g n P o r t f o l i oD a n i e l a R o d r i g u e z P h i l a d e l p h i a U n i v e r s i t y


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Table of Co ntents

PROJECTS

Harvesng the Future Urban Farm, Philadelphia, USA Fall 2011

SIENA Internship Summer 2011, Quito, Ecuador Summer 2011Ludoteca in Trastevere, Rome, Italy Spring 2011

Walnut St Prison, Philadelphia, USA Fall 2010

S:CREEN Riverfront, Philadelphia, USA Fall 2010

Sustainable Design School, Philadelphia, USA Spring 2010

Sauna Pavillion Wall Secon, Philadelphia, USA Spring 2010

Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA Spring 2010

Live-Work Rowhouse, Philadelphia, USA Fall 2009

Residenal Rowhouse, Philadelphia, USA Spring 2009

Community Hill Cemetery, Norristown, USA Fall 2008The Gamble House Study, Pasadena, USA Spring 2008Design Exercises Fall 2007

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Contact [email protected]

Tel 484.624.9600

3617 Gypsy Lane

Philadelphia, PA

United States

Architectural Design Portfol io 2007-2012Daniela Rodriguez Phi ladelphia University


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Form Evoluon

HF-Urban Farm serves as the

model for urban growth by

blending technology with natural

growing methods. While vercal

farming is a generic methodology

for all cies, HF-Urban Farm drawsdeeply from the specic site and

historical contexts of Philadelphia.

Therefore, the concepts of shiing

density and the subsequent need

for interweaving spaces have

emerged to inform the design

approach for the project.

Concept Model

Race St

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Harvesng the FutureUrban Farm


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Growing vercally provides

social, environmental, and

economical benefit to the

expanding urban community.

As each element evolves,

the project challenges the

limits of technology to

accommodate the increasing

need for farming in the city.

Form Evoluon

Site Forces Guiding the Building Form

Sun Forces Guiding the Building Form


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Race St Elevaon 2nd St Elevaon

Parametric Denion for Diagrid Facade

Longitudinal Secon


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Integrated Building Systems Detail

Typical Crop

Distribuon

Detail Seconal Model

Interior Market

Crop Growing Systems

In the levels above, interior parks

are created by weaving planes

of hydroponic planter systems

with light and circulaon.

A market space carves itself

into the grade plane to lend

itself to become owned by

the community through

allocated vendor spaces.


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SIENAInternshipThese images are a collecon

of work from 2011s summer

internship. The construconcompany EDECONSA S.A. (Quito,

Ecuador) requested renderings for

the building overall, highlighted

areas of the project and renderings

for each specic apartment unit

that was going to be sold.

These images were put together

in a sales folder to be distributed

to clients, they were published in

brochures and were included in

dierent adversement banners

to showcase the project. Main Entrance Detail Main Lobby

Main EntranceExterior Rendering


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Suite Rendering Apartment Rendering Duplex Apartment Rendering

Ground Level Plan Typical Floor Plan Elevaons


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Ludoteca in TrastevereChildrens Play-Center in Rome

Located in Trastevere, one of the mostwell known neighborhoods in Rome,

the project has a playful appearance

with its terracoa panel facade and

varying ceiling heights.

The main focus is the playground

which has its own unique character.

Site Plan

East Elevaon Cross Secon

Terracoa Panels

South Elevaon

First Floor Plan


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PlaygroundDesign

Playground Plan

Playground Locaon

Longitudinal Secon

The plaground is based on

the idea of a connuous ramp

that will promote vercal

and horizontal movement

through the space. There

are two main suspended

plaorms where the main

acvies will take place.

Interior Views


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Walnut StPrison

The project consists of

three main towers that

are interconnected by sky

bridges. The towers are

elevated o the ground

for security purposes.

The vercal connecngelement is the structural

concrete core devoted to

circulaon in every tower.

Structural Model

Located in Center City

Philadelphia, the Walnut St

Prison is an inconic building.

Even though it is specically

designed to accommodate the

acvies of a penitenary,

the building sll blends into

its surrounding context.

Secon A Secon B West Elevaon


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View from entrance looking up

Site Plan View of Common Recreaon Area

The prison has a rotang system for the use of the common

areas. This prevents the inmates in each pod from having

contact with other pods to avoid conicts among them. The

inmates spend half of the day in their own pod and the other

half rotang between acvies in the prison.

Common Areas Pods sharing spaces at a me

Daily Schedule for Inmates


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Entrance Floor Plan Educaon Area Floor Plan Typical Pods Floor Plan

Main Entrance View

Concept Model Educaon Area Bridge View


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Typical Desk Panel Layout Typical Bed Panel Layout

Pod With Desk Panel View Seconal Model

The facade consists

in thick metal panels

with dierent

conguraons. They

also serve as desks and

beds for the inmates

pods. There are 4main conguraons

that give variety to

the facade and the

interior pod layouts.

The recreaon areas

have curtain walls to

allow more light in the

space.


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first floor plan

Culture_Recreaon_Environmental_Educaon_NeighborhoodsS:creen Riverfront

Longitudinal Secon

This public recreaonal complex, located along

the banks of the Schuylkill River, consists

on a series of piers inuenced by the strong

horizontals composed by the most prominent

structures in the city grid: the four main bridges.

A louver system wraps around the south and

west facades of each structure, therefore acng

as a passive shading system.


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Ground Floor Plan

Seconal ModelMain Access View


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Sustainable Design School

The building is based on the idea of having a slopping

site completely immersed in nature. The structure

therefore ows through the site. As the visitor

experiments the building he or she encounters two

basic nodes: the cafe and the gallery space.

Site Plan First Floor Plan

second floor planSecond Floor Plan

Circulaon Plan Diagram Circulaon Secon


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Detail Secon

Secon A

Secon B

Structure Diagram

North Facade


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Going with the concept of nature, the

building has wood as its structural

system along with a series ofloadbearing masonry walls. These

walls are posioned so they can block

harsh eastern and western sun. They

also give the opportunity to have open

north and south facades.

Detail Secon

South Elevaon

East Elevaon

Winter Sun Path Summer Sun Path


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Sauna Pavillion Wall Secon

Wall secon model showing exteriorcopper sheathing

Wall secon model showinginterior granite slab


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Habitat Philadelphia is a non-prot enty that

focuses its eorts in building mulple homes in a

community for low income families.

As Habitat Philadelphia connues growing, the

hopes for the near future are to increase the

number of built and rehabilitated homes and to

get a Re-Store. This component will create the

possibility for more donaons to be accepted

and obtain as much help as possible.

Site Condions Site Plan

Structural Model

Habitat for Humanity PhiladelphiaHeadquarters


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First Floor Program

Broad St Facade

Ridge Ave Facade

Third Floor Program

Secon Diagram

Structure Diagram Ground Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Cross Secon A

Seconal Model


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Secon B

Secon C

Warehouse Interior View

Re-store Interiow View

The main dividing element in the project

is the stone masonry wall that is part of

an existent building in the site. This wall

is being reused in the HFHP Headquarters

and acts as the division between the

warehouse and the re-store.

The walls structure is reinforced byconcrete bracing elements that are also

part of the overall structural system of the

building.


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Broad St Elevaon

Ridge Ave Elevaon

Third Floor Interior View

The facade is inuenced from the various colorful

murals around the site. The three primary colors are

used to create various panels that provide shading to

the interior spaces of the re-store and the common

lounge space on the third oor.

Some of the panels are aached to the curtain wall

behind them and some others are inset between

the mullions. This allows for depth variaon on

the facade and dierent shading condions for the

interior spaces.


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Live-Work Rowhouse

The building combines personal living space and professional

workspace in such a way that neither is compromised. theorganizing principle of the edice is its load bearing wall

structure going across the site which gave the opportunity to

open the front facade for daylight and venlaon.

Site Plan

south st

16th

st

Secon A

16th St Elevaon

Second Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

The design of the facade relares to

how light is required to enter certain

spaces but should be blocked from

entering other areas.

Sun and Wind Analysis


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Residenal Rowhouse

The design of this single family

rowhouse is based on the idea

of breaking away from the

typical rowhouse design and

treang the facade dierently

by stepping it inward.

In order for this to be possible

the top oors are supported

by diagonal columns that are

present throughout dierent

parts of the house like the living

room and the back yard.

Front Facade Street View

Living Room ViewSeconal Model

Axonometric Drawing

Concept Sketch


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Community Hill Cemetery

The masterplan of the Community Hill

Cemetery was based on the rigorous site

analysis that was done before the design ofthe project. This analysis included studies

about topography, drainage, vegetaon,

surrounding site context, among other

criteria.

Site Analysis DiagramsInial Site Condions

The masterplans main elements are

three prominent burial plot structures, a

crematorium, a mausoleum, a ceremonialbuilding as well as a big pond for meditaon

acvites around it.

Masterplan ModelMasterplan


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Burial Plots

Burial Plots Plan

Sun Studies

The burial plots design was

inuenced by the Aztec Pyramid

of the Sun at Teohuacan,

Mexico.

The burial plot area contains

stepped looking structures that

are open to the outside. The

roof is held by numerous thin

columns which represent each

of the grave markers. water

leads the entrance and also

surrounds each structure togive a sense of peacefullness

once the visitor is inside.

Burial Plot Seconal Model

8 am 10 am 12 pm 2 pm


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The Gamble House Study

Second Floor Plan

North Elevaon

West Elevaon

The project was focused in

understanding the architectural

language of plans, secons,

elevaons and perspecves by

hand draing the blueprints of

the house. Addionally a model

of the house was built to scale.

Recreaon of the Gamble House (1909) designed by Charles and Henry Greene.

First Floor Plan


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CardboardShoes

Mondrian in 3D

Experimenng and understanding the idea

of asecon cut by recreang a shoe with

layers of cardboard.

Side Elevaon

Horizontal Layers

Vercal Layers

Based on Piet Mondrians paintng

New York City I, the project

consists in extruding volumes

from the 2D panng to create a 3Dmodel. The concepts of depth and

hierarchy are studied through 2D

and axonometric drawings as well

as through 3D models.

Piet Mondrian

New York City I1941-42


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Skills

Experience

Selected Courses

Distinction

Activities

Architectural Intern EDECONSA, SA. Quito, Ecuador Summer 2010,2011

Worked closely with licensed architect in client meengs at the end of the design process of their most recent project SIENA.

Created the renderings of the overall building and of each residenal apartment unit that was adversed for sale.

Designed the markeng products of the project including the sales folder, two banners and a brochure for a construcon fair.

Spanish Tutor Philadelphia University, Philadelphia PA Aug 2009 - Dec 2009

Provided academic assistance for students taking Spanish courses with topics like grammar, vocabulary and wring.

Pracced conversaonal skills with the students helping them with their pronunciaon and reading in Spanish.

Architectural Intern CR Constructora, Quito, Ecuador Summer 2009

Contributed to the design of oor layouts and picked wall colors for the oce building TORRE BOSSANO.

Visited present and past job sites, and learned about the construcon phase of projects while assisng with oce tasks.

Tennis Instructor Rancho San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador Summer 2007,2008,2009

Taught tennis at a summer camp to groups of children of dierent ages ranging from 10 years old to 14 years old.

Got promoted to take care of the advanced level group aer the second summer.

Design IX

Comprehensive studio structured around working in teams to integrate structural, building, and environmental systems in

the design and documentaon of a vercal urban farm.

Advanced Modelling

Computer-aided design course that focuses on complex three-dimensional modeling, photorealisc rendering and virtual

reality. Interacve media and digital imaging were used in order to increase the eecveness of design presentaons.

Archived work for NAAB exhibit 2009, 2010, 2011

Projects chosen to be archived for the NAAB exhibit: HFHP Headquarters, S:CREEN, Walnut St Prison, Vercal Urban Farm.

Most Valuable Player May 2009, 2010

Selected MVP for the Philadelphia University Womens Tennis Team.

CACC Player of the Year May 2009

Selected Player of the Year among 9 tennis teams in the Central Atlanc Collegiate Conference

Philadelphia University Womens Tennis Team: Member and team captain Aug 2007- May 2011

Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center: Volunteer for community service and tournament planning 2010, 2011

Student-Athlete Advisory Commiee: Member 2009,2010,2011

Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia: Volunteer for the construcon of a single family house Jan 2010- May 2010

Lan American Student Organizaon: M b 2008 2009 2010

Programs

Adobe: Photoshop, InDesign

Autodesk: AutoCAD, Revit, 3ds Max

Microso: Word, Excel, Powerpoint

Rhinoceros: Grasshopper

Abilies

Site: Planning, Documentaon, Analysis

Design: Sketching, Model Building

Presentaon: Technical Drawing, 3D Modelling,

3D Rendering, Graphic Design

Languages

Spanish: Nave Speaker

Italian: Intermediate

Education

Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PABachelor of Architecture

Graduaon: May 2012

Business Management Minor Concentraon

Study Abroad, University of Arkansas

Rome Center, Rome ItalyLived and designed within the historical context of

Roman architecture for the Spring 2011 semester.

Academic Achievements

Cumulave GPA: 3.77

Deans List 9 of 9 semesters

CACC All-Academic Team 6 of 6 semesters in tennis

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