May 23

May 23 378 / Gregory Rendon Jr: Infill Housing

Submission #378 | Gregory Rendon Jr: Infill Housing — “Located in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, the objective was to create an apartment complex, garden & carriage house on a corner lot. This project was developed from two main concepts. The primary concept is using a dynamic built-in structure to mold furniture and create unique spacial conditions. The scheme of this design is folding a monolithic plane to serve multiple functions while removing the interpretation of what is a floor, wall, and roof. The second concept is a vertical public space that resides in the interior of the building. Illuminated by a system of skylights from above, this serves as the anchor of the social space while also illuminating the units with natural light through the interior. Materiality was carefully chosen to maintain the urban fabric while introducing a contemporary building.”

Feb 5

Feb 5 365 / Ernesto Medina: Castelvecchio Composite

Maria Flores

students

Submission #365 | Ernesto Medina: Castelvecchio Composite — “After visiting and photographing this 14th-century castle restored by the great Carlo Scarpa in the 1950s, an analytical drawing was produced in order to understand the many motifs carried out by the architect when renovating this military construction in order for it to now work as a museum; one that would not only reflect history through the exhibits on display but also through the exposed architectural details of the building itself.”

Jan 29

Jan 29 361 / Renzo Lopez: Plug-In City 2.0

Maria Flores

students

Submission #361 | Renzo Lopez: Plug-In City 2.0 — “The tower located in Skid Row Los Angeles is composed of 220 unit berths and is populated by a series of hour based deployable housing and office/work modules which allow the user to only pay for the direct amount of time being occupied. Within this system, the original otherwise fixed 220 unit berths are given a double occupancy throughout the cycle of a single day.”

Aug 17

Aug 17 342 / Renzo Lopez and Richard Jaffe: Sensorial Ambiguity

Maria Flores

students

Submission #342 | Renzo Lopez and Richard Jaffe: Sensorial Ambiguity — “Despite this long running inequality of marketing and promotion, during the 2016 Rio Olympic season the Paralympics broke worldwide audience records by eclipsing the audience of the main, heavily marketed Olympics by 500 million worldwide viewers to reach a total audience of 4.1 billion. Given this condition along with the hidden, underappreciated nature of the Paralympics, it is the goal of this Project to create a spatial experience which will promote and enhance the public perception of Paralympic athletes.”

Feb 11

Feb 11 284_Adriana Garcia: Jacksonville Culinary Institute

Maria Flores

students

Submission #284 | Adriana Garcia: Jacksonville Culinary Institute — “Located in Florida, the city of Jacksonville is well known for its business centers, banks and many other cultural points, yet as a major tourist attraction it lacks in the existence of recreational spaces. This project aims to improve the current state of public spaces in Jacksonville by providing different areas that are opened for the public to enjoy, while at the same time generate a programmatic gradient that ranges from public, to semi private to private.”

Jan 4

Jan 4 267_Elise Francis: Santuario alle Edicole Votive

Maria Flores

students

Submission #267 | Elise Francis: Santuario alle Edicole Votive — “Secret Genoa waits patiently to be discovered. Over an eight-month period I have endeavored to explore Genoa’s well-kept (and sometimes unkempt) treasures. My design methodology is an architectural form of narrative collage inspired by the writing of Italo Calvino and Bruno Schulz. The city is understood as a dense space of intertwined and overlapping stories that can be (re)written using alternative narratives that reveal essential qualities of the city without relying on what may be considered strictly factual.”

Jul 7

Jul 7 205_Paulina Hurtado: Narrows Pavilion

Maria Flores

students

Submission #205 | Paulina Hurtado: Narrows Pavilion — "Narrows pavilion is a social platform that works as a living organism introducing the subject into a portal that addresses space as the expression of scenery. The pavilion explores the idea of implied functionality. Something that might happen but doesn’t have a fixed definition. For instance, it is a space for exhibitions, but it is not a museum; it is a space with scenographic features for performances, but it is not a theater; it is a space for dinning and social encounter, but it is not a cafe nor a restaurant."

Jun 23

Jun 23 198_Saulo Nicolas Barrera: Carriage House

Maria Flores

students

Submission #198 | Saulo Nicolas Barrera: Carriage House — "My concept behind my design was influenced by the visual elements of coral, it's organic array of patterns determines the built in furniture of my design and manipulates the spaces inside. The stacking elements that the coral portrays is engraved within the project, creating a visual illusion from the outside with glass surrounding the building, while maintaining its organic elements within this glass box."

Mar 21

Mar 21 128_Phillip Goodbread and James Jackson: IL NEXU

Maria Flores

students

Submission #128 | Phillip Goodbread and James Jackson: IL NEXU — The proposed project is a result from the analyzation of the social and physical experience of Vicenza’s rivers. Relating the existing context, we unveiled a fractured pedestrian system with an inconsistent fabric of connectivity with the city periphery.

Feb 11

Feb 11 107_Houman Khosravi: Music for Housing

Maria Flores

students

Submission #107 | Houman Khosravi: Music for Housing — "The first exercise of of the semester was to craft a conceptual construct based on design intuition as well as my preconceived notions and views of London. Using mechanical found objects, I created three scenarios to build off of, each would become its own construct."

Feb 6

Feb 6 101_Mary A. Alvarez: Architecture of Metanoia

Maria Flores

students

Submission #101 | Mary A. Alvarez: Architecture of Metanoia: A Study of Space and the Transformation of Consciousness — The current state of our collective consciousness creates in our surrounding the physical manifestation of a world prioritized and driven by economic forces. Our capitalist system encourages a culture of endless consumption, and disregards that our natural environment is the most essential resource for our continuing survival; we are facing an awareness crisis in addition to the environmental one.

Jan 30

Jan 30 93_Jamison Sweat: Death of the Detail

Maria Flores

students

Jamison Sweat: Death of the Detail — "With the removal of the joint, more specifically, in the discourse of contemporary architecture, surface continuity and the diagram reign supreme. Jointless modernist organisms work so hard to detail in ways that hide the actual mechanics and ontological condensation of how buildings come into being. Tectonic is described in two realms, one pertaining to ontology, or how things come into being, and the other as representational, or the representation of a constructional element, which is present, but hidden."

Jan 20

Jan 20 77_Lenna Galanis: Miami Beach Habitat

Maria Flores

students

Lenna Galanis: Miami Beach Habitat —This Multi-function (commercial, cultural, residential) space will give the opportunity for immigrants to live and also own a small business in the same building, making Miami an even more diverse and exciting place.

Jan 13

Jan 13 72_Renzo Lopez: Miami Beach Digital Learning Gallery

Maria Flores

students

Renzo Lopez: Miami Beach Digital Learning Gallery — The new Miami Beach Lincoln road Branch Library is a duality between the closed, rigid, and pragmatic nature implicit with storing printed information along with the open ended, ever expanding nature of digital information. This duality transforms the modern library into a relevant and revitalized public building which explores and pays homage to digital information.