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JAVIER GONZÁLEZWork Sample

Design

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TanzHausCentral Business DistrictNew Orleans

Dance, alongside with contemporary forms of art and philosophy, has undergone a transformation in its fundamental cosmological approach to its craft. No longer is it about representing the unity of a harmonic order of the perfect forms of the cosmos. Contemporary discourse has challenged the ability for individual subjects to be able to obtain true knowledge of this underlying unity if it exists at all. Individual perspectives are the focus of investigations and dance has become about the interpretations that each audience member has to the performance at the stage. There is no longer a proper way to underexperience the art of dance in contemporary functions because the dance becomes about the relationship of the choreography to the subject observing it.

How to embody this transformation architecturally became the driving question of this project. By putting the circulation in the middle, through a habitable structure, the person travelling through the space gets to understand the dancers in the building in different ways - none of which can be considered proper.

Ballet is configured so the stage becomes the focal point of the performance, everyone looks at the same thing regardless of position.

Contemporary dance is not axial or centered around a focal point. There are multiple points to be interpreted individually by spectators

C L A S S I C A L B A L L E TTHE STAGE AS THE CENTER,THE UNIVERSE AS ORDERED

THE SUBJECT AS THE CENTER,THE UNIVERSE AS INTERPRETED

C O N T E M P O R A R Y D A N C E

Structure

Vertical Circulation

Horizontal Circulation

Chilled Beam System Layout

Building Arts InstituteIrish Channel Neighborhood, New Orleans

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The Irish Channel is a neighborhood defined by its history of working class residents that moved to be in proximity to the industrial activities along the river. This merging of industry and residential programs is still a defining factor of the typologies found in the neighborhood, and one that is specifically felt in the site located in Rousseau St. The Building Arts Institute was designed to embody this threshold by mitigating the different scales one encounters in the neighborhood. The gallery, designed as a gesture to the typology of the shotgun home is located at the front of the site facing the residences and acting as a public place for people in the neighborhood to come inside. The scale of the Institute is larger, reacting to the warehouse typologies found towards the back of the site, and is tall enough to overlook the obstructions to reveal a glimpse of the Mississippi.

The gallery sits at the front and generates a courtyard which is also used by the workshops as an outdoor making space. Once inside the Institute, People can navigate through the space and towards the auditorium which faces the neighborhood. The upper floors, which have the greatest views are dedicated towards learning and culminate in the library at the third floor with large balconies on both sides that look towards both the city and the river.

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Tchopitoulas St.

Jackson Ave.

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Behavioral Health And Charter School StudyNew Orleans Partner with Shirley Chen

School Grades, Enrollment, and Clinics Concentration of Student’s Homes (Nighttime Map)

Concentration of Students in Schools (Daytime Map)Concentration of Students in Schools (Daytime Map)

As part of a fellowship with the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design I coauthored a study to investigate the way which the all charter school system in New Orleans is affecting access to behavioral health resources in the city. Using Geographic Information Systems, we started to catalog the location of both schools and clinics, hoping to find a correlation between the patterns of their physical location. As our investigation took us forward, looking at the movement of kids throughout the city became a priority, as the information is not readily available. The next step of the process forced us to reconsider many of our initial assumptions and widen the scope of the research.

The second half of the project involved an i qualitative investigation to work through the steps in the process of referring a kid. We found the problem was not as reducible to a spatial framework, but used our design skills to navigate and find ways to visualize the problem to serve as a useful tool for administrators and legislators.

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School Nurse

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Counselor Social Worker

Historic Westside Las VegasNeighborhood Redevelopment Plan Community Engagement Studio

5 min15 Min

10 min

Pioneer Trail

NEVADA

INTERSTATE

NEVADA

INTERSTATE

Bicycle Circulation

Vehicular Circulation

Bus Routes

Pedestrian Circulation

046025,759

1,800 - 10,000

Through a phase of technical analysis, the student team gathered some necessary information about landmark features of the Historic Westside Community, including the peculiar condition of housing over 40 churches within a square mile. This produces an influx of thousands people that create a dichotomy between the normally vacant land and the saturated scene during Sundays.

INTERSTATE 15

OWENS AVE.

H ST.

MONROE AVE.

J ST.

D ST.

JACKSON AVE.

VAN BUREN AVE

JEFFERSON AVE

MADISON AVE.

ADAMS AVE

MORGAN AVE

GERSON AVE

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B ST.

E ST.

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HARRISON AVE

Vacant Land Churches

Concentration of churches in the area surrounded by clusters of empty land.

A Center For Congregation

20 min.

15 min.

DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS

HISTORIC WESTSIDE

Churches in the Urban Designation of West Las Vegas

Population living in the entire West Las Vegas Region

Estimated Influx of People Every Sunday for Mass

The historically black neighborhood founded in 1904 has had a history of segregation and systemic discrimination from the city of Las Vegas. As a diplomatic move in an effort to ease relations between the community and the city, UNLV had the opportunity to go into the neighborhood to meet with residents and draft a neighborhood revitalization plan. The approach was community driven, with a series of workshops that culminated in a plan and implementation strategy to encourage and guide future development.

Community Engagement Outcome

Work done through collaboration with community members, artists, and architects in multiple design charettes, and then elaborated with a team of 8 students

NEVADA

INTERSTATE

NEVADA

INTERSTATE

Medium Density HousingKeep eyes on the parks

Jackson MemorialPARK & plaza

Density housingStudents and downtown

ResidentsMoulin Rouge casino &

Vocational training center

tenaya creek brewery

And commercial corridor

Community centerComputers and courts for kids

Walker African American

Museum expansion

Medium Density HousingBuffer for commercial and residential

Business in Edmond Town Centerumc quick care clinic

Repair the EdgesMartin Luther King commercial Blvd

Create gatewaysUse public art projects

To create a strong brand

Washington liveLocal entertainment corridor

Bring back JacksonCommunity owned Business.

Madison Lot

Madison 'Spirit'Plaza

Complete The Streets

Westside SchoolRenovation

Green Corridor

Greenway at Owens

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0 - 5 Year planWhat is going on now

5 - 10 Year planBringing back the neighborhood

10 - 15 Year planBold MOVES FOR THE WESTSIDE

historic Westside Concept and Execution Plan

0 500' 750' 1000'

Urban Void Condition Pop-Up Infill proviides temporary solutions

Empty spaces can become public spaces to engage in activities

Pop-up interventions become a method to engage citizens by creating interest

Temporary interventions can become a catalyst for long term change

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