THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NATURE AND CONSTRUCTED

I BELIEVE THAT TO MAKE A SUCCESSFULL PROJECT, THE DESIGN AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT SHOULD HAVE A HARMONIOUS RELATION. INSTEAD OF CREATING AN ISOLATED ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT, THERE SHOULD BE A WAY OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SOURROUNDINGS AND CREATING ARCHITECTURE THAT IS NATIVETO A SPECIFIC SITE. IN THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS I WILL SHOW TYPES OF PROJECT CONDITIONS:

WHEN WE ARE IN A NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND YOU OPEN THE PROJECT TO THE ENVIRONMENT

WHEN THERE IS NO GREEN OR NATURAL SPACE AND I INTRODUCE THE NATURAL SYSTEM TO THE PROJECT.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES

1 COMPOSITION

2MODEL ANALISIS

SCHOOL OF GLASS

3 - 4INVESTIGATOR

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8CEILING PROPOSAL3.1

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4.1EXTRA

TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES

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WAGON WORKSHOP

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STEP BUILDING

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ENGINEER FACULTY

HOUSE REMODELING

COMPOSITION: ARCHITECTONIC VISION

COMPOSITION BETWEEN TWO IMAGES

From the beginning of the first project I decided to explore the relationships betwen nature and the contructed space. This project shows how the architecture develops from rigid ortogonal lines through organic lines.

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Professor: Magdalena Campos

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ANALISIS MODEL OF THE LOOKOUT

VERTIGO

The purpose of the proposal is to show the most important aspects of the lookout by making a model. This model is made with theintentions to enhance the feeling of vertigo that one might feel in the site. All the components are made by hand an the dimensionsare 1ʼ- 0ʼʼX 3ʼ- 0ʼʼX 10”.

Location: Aurland Lookout in Norway.Professor: Blanquita Calzada

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HOUSE FOR AN INVESTIGATOR

ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION

The temporary house is located on a garden park and the purpose is to be a house/ botanic laboratory. the concept of the house is composed of two systems: the horizontal elements and the diagonalelements. The horizontal wooden elements cover the house to let the light in or to ensure privacy. The diagonal elements serve as astructure that sustains the house inspired in the triangulations seenin nature. The volumes are distributed to provide semi-open spacesand to conect with the outdoors.

Footprint: 1,300 sfLocation: Jardin Botanico, Puerto Rico.Professor: Marco Trevisani and Bultron Stephanie Mulero

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HOUSE FOR AN INVESTIGATOR 2.1

4FIRST LEVEL SECOND LEVEL THIRD LEVEL

LONGITUDINAL SECTIONMODELLABORATORY ON THE FIRST LEVEL

EDUCATIONAL CENTER- SCHOOL OF GLASS

ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION

This project presents a building that is meant to be used in the difer-ent types of arts with glass, but is also concieved as an exhibition space. The building is located in the heart of the town and its inten-tion is to have a minimum impact on the soil and to be the oasis of the urban space.

Footprint: 12,000 sfLocation: Paseo Jose de Diego in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.Professor: Edgardo Arroyo

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SCHOOL OF GLASS CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAMS

DEVELOPMENT OF THE 2,000 SF MODULE

12,000 SF COMPLEX

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ADMINISTRATION COMERCIAL EXHIBITION EDUCATION HOUSING

EDUCATIONAL CENTER- SCHOOL OF GLASS2.2

712,000 SF COMPLEX

COMPOSITION: ARCHITECTONIC VISION

GREEK TEMPLE CEILING

Greek architects from ancient greece built temples for religious. This temple is located in Sicilia Italy and is an example of the doric order. The monument was built between the years 430 and 420, by the people of the Elimi. The assembly formed by 36 columnstopped by a smooth architrave and a Doric frieze with metopes and triglyphs, measuring 200 × 85 feet long.

Professor: Marco Trevisani

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The temple is located in a landscape eminently composed of natural rocky mountains. Te temporaryroof creates a crosslinked with existing elements anda green roof, with some openings that allow the passage of light to the place.This ceiling also hashanging plants causing shadows that produce a natural view and a magical delicate space. Maintaining the character of what existed at the time.

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ROOF PLAN PROPOSAL

SECTION

ARTISAN ʻS WAGON WORKSHOP

DESIGNING FOR THE COMMUNITY

This project creates safe and comfortable spaces for the handy-craftman poor community, that is trying to recuperate. The way the volumes are organized, creates new open and shaded spaces with a view to the northsʼ indirect lighthing. There are louvers, to pro-vide shading and ventilation, and it contains a garden on the roof with skyghtlights to provide natural lighting during the day.

Footprint: 390 sfLocation: Puerta de Tierra in San Juan, Puerto RicoProfessor: Architect Elio Martinez JoffreColaboration: Lottie Alfaro

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SHAPE DEVELOPMENT

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PROGRAM

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FLOOR PLANLEVEL 1

FLOOR PLANLEVEL 2

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

RESIDENTIAL STEP BUILDING

PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CITY

Taking advantage of the location, the buiding intends to give a panoramic view of the sorroundings in an innovative way. By sec-

characteristics from the enviroment, such as natural light, natural ventilation, views and the possibility to create private and public green spaces on each roof. It also relates to the scale of the sour-rounding buildings as well as the pedestrian scale.

Footprint: 16,000 sfLocation: Miramar in San Juan Puerto RicoArchitects: Miguel Calzada, Miguel del RioColaboration: Stephanie Mulero

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cosmopolitan

PUBLIC GARDEN COMERCIAL SPACE

GARDEN

RESIDENTIAL STEP BUILDING3.2

12PARKING ST. LEVEL COMERCIAL LEVEL SEVEN FLOOR FOURTEEN FLOOR

PHYSICAL MODELMONSERRATE ST. ELEVATION

RESIDENTIAL STEP BUILDING3.2

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INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE DETAILED DRAWING

B - DETAIL

B - DETAIL/ LOUVER

LOUVERA - DETAIL/ GREENROOF

A - DETAIL

INTERIOR WALL SECTION

ENGINEER FACULTY IN ISLAND UNIVERSITY

FOCAL POINT

-ment, by its position, its hybrid facade of vertical and horizontal,

distributed around the focal point that is an atrium to allow views and visual connections to the surroundings.

Footprint: 10,000 sfLocation: University of Puerto Rico in San JuanProfessor: Humberto Cavallin, Renate Frutcher (Stanford)Architecture colaboration: Stephanie Mulero

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ORIENTATION

NATURAL LIGHT

PATHS AND DIVISIONS

BUILDING EXPANSION

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SECTION FOUR VS THREE LEVELS

BASEMENT

LEVEL 1/ PUBLIC FLOOR

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL/ RENT

AQUAPHONIC SYSTEM ON THE FOCAL POINT

LEVEL 2/ STUDENT FLOOR

LEVEL 3/ FACULTY FLOOR

ROOF

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SECTION FOUR VS THREE LEVELS

AQUAPHONIC SYSTEM ON THE FOCAL POINT GREEN GARDEN

REMODELING AND EXPANSION OF A HOUSE

MODERN HOUSE

The concept of the house relies on my interpretation of the modern house, one that takes advantage of the sourroundings by using long windows, to provide better illumination and ventilation. Using

garden and terrace, reclaiming for nature the land occupied by the building as well as for collecting green energy through solar pan-els in the future.

Footprint: 1,200 sfLocation: Caguas, Puerto RicoEngineer: Harry Figueroa

EXTRA

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11’-0”

11’-0”

14’-10” 13’-10” 7’-10” 13’-10”

LIVING ROOM

DINNING ROOM

KITCHEN

GARAGE

BATH

FIRST LEVEL POTHO/ UNDER CONSTRUCTION