1. 1. cel: (305) 607 6271 E: ggall026@fiu.edu http://instagram.com/gio.gee/ Giovanna Gallardo ARCHITECTURE DESIGN PORTFOLIO
2. 2. My work is a reflection of several explorations dealing with user experience, small space design, playfulness with geometry, and contextual influences. For me architecture is a powerful tool for shaping the world as it reflects the mere essence of survival of the human race and can be used to enhance spatial perception by creating pleasant environments for living/working/playing. I enjoy architecture as it allows me to dwell into different life situations while applying problem solving skills using design and fabrication solutions. Throughout my education I have enjoyed leadership positions that involved helping my community which have lead me to understand society from different points of view by colaborating with people from different backgrounds and various fabrication processes. With my obtained work/volunteer experience I have developed interest in urban planning and research as my field begins to merge with technology to enhance or adapt to various spatial perception situations. I enjoy any type of design process and creating. I work well in group environments and take advantage of learning opportunities . I look forward to work with well structured, innovative and creative people. Giovanna Gallardo
3. 3. INFILL HOUSING Mix Use SECTION 1 SCALE 1=1/4 ULL NTAL SHIFT L SHIFT PROGRAM CIRCULATIONG UNITS STACKED Due to the project being confined within a narrow lot of 25x100ft. my proposal takes advantage of the tight space by challenging the idea of privacy and ownership by focusing on varied shared spaces and trimming the private living units to the essentials trying to reduce unused space packing all the must haves into an efficient floor plan distribution also using oversized beds and furniture as closet and storage space. The minimum private space is intended to maximize outdoor community interaction, hence the generous hallways and terraces. Three types of units form from a play of shifting cubes that accommodate different programs of varied sizes. The first unit is formed by a vertical shift of intersecting cubes separating public activities like gallery space or retail on the bottom from the private living space on top. Also opens up circulation on the bottom floor by opening up a corridor that connects the street to the interior courtyards. The second unit is created by a horizontal shift of the cube making a studio type flat that has a kitchen/living area and a bedroom. A generous catwalk of circulation was given to the second floor to allow for the small units to have a shared outdoor space that looks down into the courtyard. The third unit was created by a push/pull of the cube. This volume is placed at the top of the stacking volumes repeated and con- nected by a catwalk. The push/pull creates interior terraces and defines the spaces purely for the activity inside each of the cubes. PUSH/PULL HORIZONTAL SHIFT VERTICAL SHIFT PROGRAM CIRCULATIONSHIFTING UNITS STACKED PUSH/PULL HORIZONTAL SHIFT VERTICAL SHIFT PROGRAM CIRCULATIONSHIFTING UNITS STACKED PENTHOUSE GALLERY/STUDIO STUDIO PUSH/PULL HORIZONTAL SHIFT VERTICAL SHIFT PROGRAM CIRCULATIONSHIFTING UNITS STACKED 1 3 2
4. 4. CARCASS PAVILION Miami Beach Artist work live
5. 5. Program Division Circulation Core LIBRARY+PARK Lincoln Road, Miami Beach The incorporation of technology into our daily lives has allowed for information to be instant and accessible outside the walls of a specific structure, thus challenging the functional concept of library as a buiding. The library building becomes a public gathering place in which people come together to share and acquire multimedia information indivually or in groups. Unification becomes a predominant defining factor for the idea of a library in continuously evolving society. The building adapts to the site as it becomes a continuation of the park following its angularity and extending paths towards the street edge. The main feature of this project is the mesh -like skin that acts as a unifying blanket wrapping the two main towers split by the circulation core/atrium. On the roof facade, above the area where the two towers come together, a skylight opening with a series of trusses illustrate stitching where the two towers unify. The library becomes an object within the park inviting people to enjoy the the areas inside and out trying to erase the boundaries from the park and itself. Shell Facade Structural Framing
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7. 7. Natural Filtration System PARK group competition Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
8. 8. LIGHT PAVILION ArchiCAD Plans
9. 9. SITE PLAN 1= 128 PROGRAM DIAGRAM CIRCULATION DIAGRAM E OGLETHROPE AVE E BROUGHTON LN DRAYTONST LINCOLNST 224-A E OGLETHROPE AVE SAVANNAH, GA 31401 FRONT ELEVATIONSIDE SECTION 2.1. 3.
10. 10. CAD Drawings 1. Savannah, GA 2. Coral Gables, MIA 3. Lincoln Rd, MIA
11. 11. Westwind Lakes Park Pickfair Park Lagomar Park Olympic Park Water Oaks Park Kendale lakes Park UDB UDB UDB SW 8th St SW157thSt SW137thSt SW147thAve SW 56th St SW 72nd St SW 24th St SW 88th St SW 104th St SW 136th St SW 120th St SW 152nd St North-South Corridor A North-South Corridor B East-West Corridor B East-West Corridor A East-West Corridor C University Park Baptist Hospital Tamiami Airport/ Potential Industrial Park The Hammocks Kendale Lakes Kendall West UA 01 Tamiami Airport Country Walk UA 02 Tamiami University Park B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B .5 mi 2 mi N B Westwind Lakes Park Pickfair Park Lagomar Park Olympic Park Water Oaks Park Kendale lakes Park RR RR RR RR RR end end RR B B B B B B B B B BB INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION LOOP A-0116 OCT 2014INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION LOOP Strategic Development Plan for District 11, Miami-Dade County Urban Development Boundary Railroad Urban Development Boundary Turnpike Exit Proposed Intradistrict Loop Transit Lattice Floridas Turnpike RR UDB Loop Connectors Single-Family Two-Family Duplexes Townhouses Low-Density Multi-Family High-Density Multi-Family Institutional Schools Commercial Office Home Office Industrial Industrial Intensive-Office Industrial Intensive-Commercial Communications Public Park Adjacent Water Bodies Enclosed Water Bodies Canal R.O.W. Adjacent Private Agriculture Vacant High Obstruction (~6 ft+) Medium Obstruction (~3ft) No Obstruction Trail Bike-Friendly Road Bike Lane B Grant District 11 Research Mapping
12. 12. UDB UDB UDB UDB RR RR RR end end RR SW 8th St SW157thSt SW137thSt SW147thSt SW 40th St SW 56th St SW 72nd St SW 24th St SW 88th St SW 104th St SW 136th St SW 120th St SW 152nd St North-South CorridorA North-South CorridorB East-West Corridor B East-West Corridor A East-West Corridor C Tamiami Airport/ Potential Industrial Park Baptist Hospital University Park .5 mi 2 mi N 148 OFFICES + VACANT LAND A-0127 OCT 2014 OFFICES + VACANT LAND Strategic Development Plan for District 11, Miami-Dade County Turnpike Exit Floridas Turnpike Office Home Office concentration Home Office Home Office Railroad Urban Development Boundary RR UDB Vacant Government Owned, Unprotected | 119 Acres Vacant, Protected, Privately Owned | 75 Acres Vacant, Protected, Government Owned | 10 Acres Vacant, Privately Owned, Unprotected | 560 Acres One Acre Total Acreage | 764 Acres AA-0116 OCT 2014 BOW TIE ROAD TYPOLOGIES Strategic Development Plan for District 11, Miami-Dade County DRAWING INDEX LEGEND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOODS COMPILATION MAP TRANSIT MAP BOW TIE Railroad Urban Development Boundary Turnpike Exit Proposed Intradistrict Loop Transit Lattice (outside of D11) Transit Lattice Floridas Turnpike RR UDB Loop Connectors Single-Family Two-Family Duplexes Townhouses Low-Density Multi-Family High-Density Multi-Family Institutional Schools Commercial Office Home Office Industrial Industrial Intensive-Office Industrial Intensive-Commercial Communications Public Park Adjacent Water Bodies Enclosed Water Bodies Canal R.O.W. Adjacent Private Agriculture Vacant High Obstruction (~6 ft+) Medium Obstruction (~3ft) No Obstruction Trail Bike-Friendly Road Bike Lane B BOW TIE ROAD TYPOLOGIES
13. 13. Assistive Device Team project Designed: Company name, logo, presentation, idea, fabrication, drawings The product was designed and fabricated for a client with spinal and muscular atrophy type II. The client is dependent on a wheelchair for transportation; due to the wheelchair being specific for her condition there is no available product in the market that accommodates her neck posture. The intent for our product was to create a comfortable neck support that would also function as a case for adaptable technology based on Arduino boards. Incorporating the Arduino board technology would allow for various add-ons to enhance the clients daily occupations; some add-ons that we intended to be incorporated are: sensor activated speakers handled with electrode sensors that the client could control with her constrained eye motion (picture to the right), neck massage vibrators to promote blood circulation, etc. NeckREST Industrial Design
14. 14. Other proposals Dawntown 2014 Final submission The installation is meant to fill the courtyard of the Museum of History Miami. Theme: Stand your ground Stand your ground is Floridas controversial law which changes the nature of encounters in public space, empowering gun owners to use deadly force when they feel threatened. Interestingly, it is only necessary to feel threatened whether or not one is actually threatened. We imagined these politics as spatial definitions on the public plaza which is scarcely used and gives no clue of how one should interact with its generic spaces. We propose a dense stand of vertical elements, out of which spaces are carved which produce the various feelings of threats in a public space against which one can stand their ground...in a stand of architectural members. Design Build #2
15. 15. VOLUNTEER fabrication WORKSHOP Seven is an architectural experiment in the neither/nor and/or the both/and. It explores the tenuous thresholds within several fundamental binaries in architecture. object/field figure/configure finite/ubiquitous monomorph/polymorph insular/reflective amaterial/tactile mass/surface SEVEN ANumbersGame William OBrien Jr. is Associate Professor at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and is principal of WOJR, an independent design practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also one of the founding members of CollectiveLOK. In 2013 Architectural Record awarded him with the Design Vanguard Award, a prize given to ten firms internationally. The same year, Wallpaper* named him one of the top twenty emerging architects in the world, and included him in the 2013 Architects Directory. He is the recipient of the 2012 - 2013 Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome. His practice was awarded the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers. In 2010 his practice was a finalist for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program and was recognized as a winner of the Design Biennial Boston Award. His collaboration as CollectiveLOK won the Van Alen Institute international competition to redesign the institutes headquarters in 2013, and was a finalist for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program this year. OBrien has taught previously at The University of California Berkeley as the Bernard Maybeck Fellow and was the LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at The Ohio State University. Before joining MIT, for two years he was Assistant Professor at The University of Texas atAustin, where he taught advanced theory seminars and design studios in the graduate curriculum. At MIT OBrien currently holds the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair and teaches design studios in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. He was the recipient of the 2010 Rotch Traveling Studio Scholarship which funded research and travel for an advanced graduate design studio in Iceland. OBrien pursued his graduate studies at Harvard University where he was the recipient of the Master of Architecture Faculty Design Award. Prior to graduate school he attended Hobart College in New York where he studied architecture and music theory and was the winner of the Nicholas Cusimano Prize in Music. After completion of his graduate work he studied in Austria as the recipient of the Hayward Prize for Fine Arts Traveling Fellowship in Architecture under the sponsorship of The American Austrian Foundation. He has been named a MacDowell Fellow by the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and a Socrates Fellow by the Aspen Institute. PRINCIPAL, WOJR CO-FOUNDER, COLLECTIVELOK ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, MIT WILLIAM OBRIEN JR. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Modesto A. Maidique Campus Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture Building 11200 SW 8th Street - PCA 272 Miami, Florida 33199 *BEA International Gallery is located at Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture building FEBRUARY 19 APRIL 17, 2015 BEA Gallery OPENING DATE Thursday, February 19, 2015 6:30PM 8:30PM Credits WOJR: William OBrien Jr., Karine Szekeres, John David Todd. Project Managers: Albert Elias, David Pinto, Jorge E. Rodriguez. FIU: Giovanna Gallardo, Harley Martnez, Laura de la Vega, Andrea Canaves, Oscar Valdez, Katiuska Mora, Natalia Restrepo, Naaly Pierre, Ebehi Ijewere, Maria Flores, Alejandro Guitierrez, Maria Sol Rivera, Zoe Russian, Petar Stracenski, Mohammed Aljehani.
16. 16. Texture inspired from a coral reef rock Created on Mudbox Set of 2 Possible uses: Yellow: Beer mug White: Expresso cup Combined: Sake bomb 3DPRINTEDCUPS
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18. 18. Low income Housing Habitat for Humanity Competition Group Competition
19. 19. Eco couture FIU Fashion Show 2014 & 2015 Submissions