PortfolioDavid Dana20 Architecture Projects 2004 - 2011

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Resume 6 Professional Work 01 / CAF 10 02 / Colonia Obrera 14 03 / Forum of The Future 18 04 / Smith Vosler House 24 Academic Projects 05 / MorphoLogical (Architecture)26 06 / MorphoLogical (Landscape) 34 07 / The Bay Bridge Project 40 08 / Biomimicry Globe Fish 46 09 / The Mekong River Project 50 10 / Energy & Environment 56 11 / Flexible Market 60 12 / Digital Design Center 62 13 / Visualizing the virtual concourse 66 14 / Floodplains 70 15 / Housing in Doctores District 74 16 / Housing in Queretaro 76 Projects of his own 17 / Arquine Competition 80 18 / Garden City 86 19 / Lilas Corporate Building 90 20 / Vivienda Emergente 96 Awards & Recognitions 104

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DAVID DANAresume/architectureBorn in Mexico City, August 8th, 1985. Currently living in San Francisco, Ca.

E david0dana@gmail.com P 415 676 16 51 1970 Fell Street 1 San Francisco CA 94117 M Arch Uc Berkeley AIA Henry Adams Certificate Award

Professional Practice: Name of the Office/Director of the Office/Name of the Projects/Position/ Country.

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Ehdd Architecture, Office of Charles Davis. Arnold Schwarzenegger & Maria Shriver Forum of the Future. Internship, San Francisco, Ca. Nilus Design, Office of Nilus de Matran. Presidio House, San Rafael House. Junior Architect, San Francisco, Ca. Ten Architects, Office of Enrique Norten. Several Projects. Junior Architect, Mexico City. Dellekamp Architects, Office of Derek Dellekamp. Venice Biennale 2008. Junior Architect, Mexico City. Reforestamos Mexico, Office of Pavel Valdez. Centre for Reforestation Villa del Carbon. Non-profit, Mexico, City. Geometrica, Office of Rafael Dana. Concepts and sketches for housing in Vallejo. Design Documents, Mexico City. 24/7 Firm, Office of Rosallea Monacella and Craig Douglas. Conceptual Design for a House in Inverloch, Office in Swanston street & Helen Lempriere competition. Melbourne, Australia. ARPA-Arquitectura de Paisaje, Office of Armando Oliver. House in Pedregal. Design Documents. Mexico City.

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DAVID DANAresume/architecture01 educational facilities restoration 02 site analysis

E david0dana@gmail.com P 415 676 16 51 1970 Fell Street 1 San Francisco CA 94117 M Arch Uc Berkeley AIA Henry Adams flow 03 diagram of pedestrian Certificate Award

Awards and Recognitions: Name of the- recognition, award, competition or publication/ Specifications/Location.

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AIA Henry Adams Certificate. University of California Berkeley, Master in Architecture. Graduated with honors_Cum Laude & awarded with a Scholarship. Berkeley, Ca San Francisco Chronicle Publication. The Bay Bridge Project, Design Fantasies for obsolete Bay Bridge Span, Alternatives to demolition offered by John King (Chronicle Urban Design Writer). San Francisco, Ca. M_Art International Competition Opengap Network. The Bay Bridge Project, awarded with an Honorable Mention. Madrid Spain. (Published in the: Future, A+A & Accesit Magazine.) Archdaily Publication. Docapesca Archipelago Urban Project, EWWUD Workshop. Lisbon, Portugal. Generative Components Lecture & Exhibition. The Mekong River Project. Uc Berkeley. Caf International Competition. Office of Enrique Norten, Mixed use Build ing, Awarded with an Honorable Mention. Caracas, Venezuela. Participation in the Venice Biennale 2008. Office of Derek Dellekamp. Obrera District Project, Alternatives for Social Housing in the Doctores Neighborhood. Mexico City. Homo Faber Exhibition Presented in The Melbourne Museum. Architect Mark Burry and SIAL Laboratory. The Digital Design Centre Project. Melbourne, Australia. Visualizing the Virtual Concourse. Participation in the Venice Biennale 2007. Professors: Leon Van Schaik, Tom Kovac and Sean Kelly. Academic Research, RMIT Melbourne, Australia.

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DAVID DANAresume/architecture04 conceptual section

E david0dana@gmail.com P 415 676 16 51 1970 Fell Street 1 San Francisco CA 94117 M Arch Uc Berkeley AIA Henry Adams Certificate Award 05 conceptual landscape proposal

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Helen Lempriere Competition in Tasmania. Office 24/7 In Collaboration with Rosalea Monacella. Voronoi Sculpture Project. Melbourne, Australia. Opportunities Competition. National competition for architectural students. Garden City Project, awarded second place. Mexico City, Mexico. University Iberoamericana, Competition for students in Latin America. Intervention in Xochimilco Project, Finalist. Mexico City, Mexico. University Iberoamericana, Low Income Housing Competition. Housing Project in Queretaro awarded First place. Mexico City, Mexico. University Iberoamericana, Eco-House Competition. Sustainable house Project, awarded First place. Mexico City, Mexico. University Iberoamericana Frank Lloyd Wright Competition Falling Water House Project, awarded First price. Mexico City, Mexico.

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Academic Degrees: University/Country/Degree/Awards.

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University of California Berkeley. Master in Architecture. Graduated with honors-Cum Laude, awarded with a Scholarship & The AIA Henry Adams Certificate. Universidad Iberoamericana. Mexico City. Bachelor degree in Architecture and Urbanism. Graduated with honors-Cum Laude. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Melbourne Australia. Exchange program to Architecture and Landscape. Awarded with three High Distinctions.

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DAVID DANAresume/architecture06 conceptual design 07 conceptual massing

David Dana E david0dana@gmail.com P 415 676 16 51 1970 Fell Street 1 San Francisco CA 94117 M Arch Uc Berkeley AIA Henry Adams Certificate award

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High Distinctions in RMIT: Subject/Professors/University/Location

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Visualizing the Virtual Concourse with Professors, Leon Van Schaik, Tom Kovac and Sean Kelly. RMIT. Melbourne, Australia. Photography an Introduction with Professor Lloyd Godman, RMIT. Melbourne, Australia. Poise Design studio. With Professor Mark Burry. RMIT. Melbourne, Australia.

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Geometrica, Housing Complex in Vallejo Concept of 600 low income apartments Mexico City. (Under Construction). Geometrica, Entrance to Residential La Palma Concept for an entrance In Bosques de las Lomas, Mexico City. Geometrica, Bedroom x Concept and design for a bedroom of a Modern House In Bosques de las Lomas, Mexico City.

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Proficiencies:Auto Cad Revit Rhino Maxwell Sketch Up 3d Max Ecotect 95% 70% 95% 95% 70% 70% 50% Confen Illustrator Photoshop In Design Power Point Word Excel 70% 100% 100% 90% 100% 100% 70%

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Professional Work

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CAF New headquartersInternational competition in Caracas Venezuela, 2008.

Ten Architects. Office of Enrique Norten. Honorary Mention, International Design Competition. The new headquarters for the Corporation Andina de Fomento (CAF) is conceived as a detonating element of the new north south axis that will connect the central valley with the Caracas mountain range, with vegetation and Geography taking a leading role. This project expands the number of ground floors public spaces and connects two large urban parks. It also promotes the pedestrian and vehicular flow between urban sectors, public spaces and new developments. Plazas, parks, mass transit stations, paths and various urban activity centers are allocated along this new axis, which also sets a framework for a breathtaking view to the Avila Mountain. The proposal doubles the public space of plaza Altamira and Promote public transportation by providing extra parking spaces directly connected to an important mass transit hub. Along the axis an increase of density is proposed for the Altamira Sur district.

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Colonia ObreraVenice Biennale 2008.

Delekamp Architects. Office of Derek Dellekamp. The Colonia Obrera is a neighborhood of Mexico city which was developed in the beginning of the 1900s, as a housing quarter for working class of those days.It was founded for industry workers, artisans and countrymen that would work in the center of Mexico City. Since then the urban fabric has remained practically the same as it is today. All though there has been an inclusion of subways, metro bus, a major freeway (called Central Axis or Eje Central), and many transformations that have happened in the central core since then. The contradiction of this neighborhood is that although the city has evolved, in many different ways, the identity and scale of this neighborhood has remained intact, so how come the city has grown to an unprecedented scale, without transforming this area? The reasons why this has happened are not the purpose of this project, but the ways to create higher quality housing, with high density, taking advantage of the existing infrastructure and proximity of the city center. This project stretches the limits of common sense by preserving the buildings in the area we believe have value, densifying without creating an urban ghetto, connecting in a low scale with other blocks, creating an almost 80% green footprint due to terraces and green roofs, exhacerbing the principles of a community through public space which at the moment are inexistent.

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Site Area 25,537 Constructed 92,967 Housing 48,844 Green 16,765 Retail 9,418 Service 6,749 Parking 11,191

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We believe in the essence of the barrio (neighborhood) as the structure of our thought. We believe in architecture as a discipline capable of creating values in the way humans interact. We believe in social interaction, cohesion and sharing resources. We believe in accessibility with independence.

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We believe in sports, bicycles and outdoor living in an enclosed city space. We believe in privacy inside an artificial ecosystem which is the essence of a city. We believe in a programmatic hybrid, in space and in the capacity of an individual to take over it.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger & Maria Shriver Forum of the FutureLeed Building proposal for the University of California Davis, 2010.

Ehdd. Office of Charles Davis. Sustainable Architecture. The aim of this project was to propose a zero energy building for the University of California Davis. The program consisted in the development of educational facilities for environmental studies. As part of the client requirements the building incorporates the office for the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Our first approach for the proposal was to design two different massings, each varies in functionality and operation. Important topics like optimum orientation, wind flow, daylighting, and the use of local materials were the foundation of a very successful and high quality development for sustainable design.

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Smith Vosler HouseResidential House in San Rafael Ca, 2010.

Nilus Design. Office of Nilus de Matran. Residential Project, Under Construction. Located above the hills of the San Rafael Mountains, the Smith & Vosler family decided to restore their house. The proposal not only addresses the existing space but also expands the volumetry of the house by the creation of a secondary tower. One of the primary requirements of the client was to transform the southern wood facade into a curtain glass wall. This decision turned the project into a challenge; which consisted in understanding the thermal comfort performance, to develop a solution that avoids over heating. In response to that we designed a trellis above the terrace to provide shade. This project is currently under construction.

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MorphoLogical Educational Facilities

A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master in Architecture in the graduate division of UC Berkeley.

Committee in charge: Susan Ubbelohde, Tom Buresh, Marc Litalien, & Peter Bosselman. The aim of this thesis was to explore the parallel recovery and evolution of Buildings and Landscapes through time. MorphoLogical Restoration seeks to maximize the potential of postindustrial sites through decades of sequential architectural interventions. This study asks how the preserved architectural elements in the former Bayview Hunters Point Naval base could stay alive and yet be adapted to evolve over time. After the 2030 Challenge I believe that Architecture is confronting a period of re-configuration and is more aware of future challenges. It represents an open door for new ideas, technologies and possibilities. The project consists in a continuos and periodical adaptive reuse strategy of a military base into a Media Park. -Against the current proposal of redevelopment for a football stadium, I believe that the existing historical buildings have great potential to be recycled. The buildings that are located on site offer the spatial qualities to be restored into a continuos and connected complex.Performance Goals of the Project: Envelop would be preserved and readapted.

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as a response to the program requirements, parts of the facade get demolished to create a series of public plazas

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MorphoLogical Media Park

A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master in Architecture in the graduate division of UC Berkeley.

Committee in charge: Susan Ubbelohde, Tom Buresh, Marc Litalien, & Peter Bosselman. A Media Park represents the perfect bond of education and nature. The proposal brings together a social, technological, environmental and cultural program. Social: The project would offer primary education, job opportunities, social participation, recreational programs and also a sense of community. Technological: An implementation of an integral energy transportation system, the construction of educational facilities of high performance, and finally the promotion of green sustainable technology. Environmental: The project not only recovers but also expands its habitat and biodiversity. It is respectful of the environment by the recycle of landscape and buildings. It also saves land by a construction strategy of Urban Infill (by densifying the educational facilities footprint, the project releases vast areas for landscape architecture, recreational areas and open space). Cultural: The park would offer, active educational and cultural programs, that would reinforce the identity of the local community. Also recognizes its history by the preservation of important architectural buildings and by the construction of The Hunters Point History Museum.

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Objectives of the Project: Secure the remediation, rehabilitation and re-densification of the site. Reorganize and optimize the access, circulation and attractions of the site. Activate beneficial sustainable cycles for the area and for the local community of Bayview. Connect the area with the neighborhood and with the rest of the urban fabric.

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NEW PROGRAMSDIGITAL DESIGN CENTERmorphological, progressive restoration

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URBAN MATRIXurban proposal for media parkbayview hunterspoint waterfront park

LAND SCULPINGretaining walls and manipulation of topographywetlands and tidal marsh restoration

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CELEBRATE WATERregeneration of various ecosystemswetlands and tidal marsh restoration

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The Ecological Park program consists in the creation of wetlands, grasslands & flower gardens. The implementation of

recreational sport fields and community gardens & also a gradient of tree-land areas from oak to meadow.

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Academic Projects

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The Bay Bridge ProjectThe Bay Bridge Studio M Arch UC Berkeley, 2011.

Professors: Frederic Schwartz & Marc Litalien. Published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Awarded with an Honorable Mention, in the international Competition M_Art Madrid Spain. The project consists in the creation of a self sufficient community that grows food and flowers. A progressive active and changeable program of Local Development and Manufacture on site. From the environmental and ethical perspective, I am preserving a very historical site, The Bay Bridge.As most people are focusing on the construction of the new bay bridge, slated to be finished by 2013. Others are thinking of ways to reuse the old one. A structure that cost approximately $80 million Dollars.

The infrastructure and Architecture for the Master Plan are driven by sustainable design and green technology. Creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a buildings life-cycle. -Flexibility, Adaptability, Deployability and Prefabrication, were some of the explored concepts for the creation of this promenade of modular architecture.A PROMENADE OF HOUSING UNITS, WORKSHOPS MODULES, FARMING BEDS AND SERVICES, SET FOR THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR ENJOYMENT, AN URBAN MARKET IN THE BAY BRIDGE

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Biomimicry Globe FishElasticity Inquiries Studio M Arch UC Berkeley, 2011.

Professor: Maria Paz Gutierrez. Implementation of Biomimetics into the creative design process. This project consisted in the development of a pneumatic structure by studying a living organism. As part of my personal research I focused in The Globe Fish and his capacities to expand and contract his spinal chord.Thousand of years ago, The Globe fish used to be very slow, and easy to be captured. Through the course of time & evolution he developed two defense mechanisms: the first one was to become poison by eating bacteria, and the second was to inflate himself by filling his body with water. Once his body is inflated, the metamorphosis that his spinal chord experience is an incredible method to study, mostly for structural elements that have torsion, expansion & contraction.

In response to that, I invented a bio-dynamic pneumatic structure that has the ability to be expanded and contracted by air pressure; A structure that later was incorporated to Generative Components as Parametric design.A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P

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The Mekong River ProjectElasticity Inquiries Studio part II M Arch UC Berkeley, 2011.

Professor: Maria Paz Gutierrez. Incorporation of a pneumatic structure into a dynamic landscape in the Mekong river area. Project submitted to KERB competition, Melbourne Australia. The aim of this proposal was to design a system that would allow farm production of local communities of Mekong, during the monsoon and rainy season. In the past years, research has proved that communities of farmers had been greatly affected by floods and greatly unstable confronting: disease, hunger and loss of land. In response to that I designed a dynamic structural foundation, with a pneumatic unit prototype that has the potential to be vertically stacked. Each module would have a different function that would provide each family the basic needs to survive The modules would be conformed by a farming bed, a housing unit, a storage unit and a water cistern. By being stacked vertically they would create a self-sufficient life cycle that would maintain the community on site during the flood season. The result proves to be a self-generative grid that could be deployable, transportable and easily constructed. A progressive dynamic landscape that has the abilities to produce and survive.

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Energy & EnvironmentBuilding Sciences M Arch UC Berkeley, 2011.

Professor: Allan Daly & Charlie Huizenga . This course explores energy simulation programs for sustainable design. During the class we researched & tested the latest energy simulation programs for environmental design including: Confen, Resfen, Ecotect, Energy Plus & E-Quest. My personal research was focused in energy simulations for Indoor Vertical Farming. During the design process I had the opportunity to run several simulations to find the best possible solution either in: type of window, type of frame, daylighting, air flow and high performance facade. At the same time I took advantage of the weather tool in Ecotect to fully understand the site of the project and its context, including optimum orientation, prevailing winds, humidity and rainfall. As a result, the energy simulation tools provided me precise data of the units orientation, & vegetables location.

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SINGLE GLAZED TIMBER FRAME DOUBLE GLAZED LOW E ALUM FRAME10 10 270 1 s t A pr 1st Mar 285 Lighting Analysis 1 s t J un 1st M F D a y lig ht a ya c to r E COT E CT v5

300

315

%

240255 1st Feb

330 345

42.4+ 38.4 34.4 30.4 N 26.4 22.4

Value R ange: 2.4 - 42.4 %

25515

1st Jan240 1st Jan

1st Feb1st Feb225 15

18.4 14.4 10.4 6.4

255 17

2.4

1st Jan210

1st Mar09 9

30

N

17 17 16 16 240195

08 8 09 15 1518 1 s t A pr 27045

9 10

14 14 13 131st May

11 12 12 11

10

345

180

1 s t J un 28508 8 1 s t A ug 1 s t J ul

330

225300 315165 1st S ep

13575

SIMULATIONS FOR VERTICAL FARMING

C

1st O c t

STORAGE AND CIRCULATION

WARM-COLD GROUP VEGTABLES

A

ASTRAWBERRYS CARROTS SPINACH LETTUCE

CWARM GROUP VEGTABLES

B57PEPERS TOMATOES EGG PLANT GREEN BEANS

BCUCUMBER

FARMING BED PLAN ANALYSIS

Prevailing Winds Daylighting50 km/ h 40 km/ h 30 km/ h 20 km/ h 10 km/ h hrs 490+ 440 392 342 294 245 196 147 98