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October 2010-March 2012Marketing Management
ARCHI-LINEEngaged in conceptual iz ing digita l market ing and advert is ing solut ions for d i f ferent subsidiar ies of the corporat ion inc luding San Marco Ti les and Luminesce L ight ing Systems.
E D U C A T I O N
r e s u m e2014Master of ArchitectureUnivers i ty of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI
2011Basic Interior DesignPhi l ippine School of Inter ior DesignMani la , Phi l ippines
2010Bachelor of Science in Management, Minor in MarketingAteneo de Mani la Univers i tyMani la , Phi l ippines
March 3-7 2014
Architecture Externship
INCORPORATED NEW YORKA br ief externship that involved working on REVIT, construct ion documents and schedules , as wel l as learning the design and off ice logist ics of the f i rm.
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June—October 2009Brand ManagementREVIVING CINDERELLA
A project to revita l ize the department store chain , the study concluded with reposit ioning market ing strategies towards young adults and overhaul the brand’s image.
September —November 2009Marketing ResearchEXCLUSIVELY HIS TAILORING SOLUTIONS
The project involved survei l l ing the market for Exclus ively His and present new demographic opportunit ies for expansion and propose new market ing strategies .
November 2008—March 2009Marketing AnalysisPEDRO FOODS
A start-up food truck business vending popular F i l ip ino street food with rebranding strategies . The proposal was a cross-breeding of street cul inary culture with h igh epicures .
Rania Ghosn
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Univers i ty of Michigan
Keith Mitnick
Associate Professor of Architecture
Univers i ty of Michigan
Christ ian Unverzagt
Assistant Professor in Pract ice in Architecture
Univers i ty of Michigan
VOLUME DEPRESSION
VOLUME ELEVATIONbar skylight and roof access
bar
restaurant access from ground level
restaurant
vehicleramp
pedestrianascent
waterfront theater
Polson PierBoardwalk
workshopspace
exhibitionspace
restaurant/bar
TORONTOART
CENTERsituations studio
As an up-and-coming recreational area, Polson Pier offers an excellent site for an creative center equipped with facilities that allow interdisciplinary collaboration. The form folds itself back towards the city of Toronto, allowing interior and exterior spaces to frame views to the city while accommodating the creative exploration and expression
Old Tunnels PedestriansTrainsRiver Streets
21 ft
20 ft
1820
1855-1858
1910
1928
1929
1925
1950s-1980s
Today
City Raising from Original City Datum
First Alterations to the Chicago River
Providing access to rails
Completion of Wacker Drive
Completion of Union Station
Introduction of Two-Tier Streets in Chicago
CommercialPropertiesaquired inAir Rights
Transactions
Chicago Daily News Building to be the firstdevelopment through air rights negotiations
Development over rail lines in the city
Continued development of air rights plots andnegotiations between Chicago Union Station Companyand private actors
Development of Air Rights above Union Station
StreetcarTunnels
Freight Tunnels
579.5 ft above sea level 2 ft
18 ft
14 ft
19 ft
Chicago City Datum
Clearance height for boats
28.5 ft
Upper Wacker
Chicago River
Elevated Rail
Subway
Elevated Pedway
Underground Pedway
Lower Lower Wacker
Lower Wacker
20 ft
15.5 ft
16 ft
15.5 ft43 ft
MultipleGrounds
Taxonomy of the City’s Sectional Complexity
(RE)UNIONUnion Station Revitalization
networks studio in collaboration with Andrew Baird
Chicago Union Station today stands merely as a relic of a bygone era of industry. In pursuit of revi-talizing this icon and reestablishing its relationship with another city icon, the Chicago River, a study about the vertical richness of the city instrumen-talizes the city’s layered vernacular to reclaim and reframe the landmark.
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2100 SQ FT (75 SQ. FT PER PERSON)
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PAIRsituations studio
The project involved combining an ordinary activity and an ordinary site and speculate a surrational situation. In this case, the combination was that of selling pants in a train station, which generated a subway station that is mechanically operated by the commuters with gates’ turning stamping out trouser patterns and energy harvested from steps.
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HAVENEILANDWEST
systems studio
Haveneiland West serves as a central haven for artists and designers that pepper the city through-out. This project caters to the economy of artists, creative professionals and their patrons, cultivating a symbiosis. Duplex units separate private spaces from the more public gallery levels that snake through the complex.
DOMESTICFETISH
options studio
Hardly a house for living, the resident is postured as the exhibitionist who puts her lifestyle on display for the world of fetishists to view. The tropes of domestic decoration are reappropriated as programmatic spaces, while the architecture of illusionist and painterly spaces unravel with programmatic ambiguities.
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H E A R T H
B A Y W I N D O W
C H A N D E L I E R
GLITCH AFFECT Phenoenology of Dissonance
THESIS
Mining the illusionist and sensorial devices deployed in the spatial and immersive work of the Light & Space era and contemporary interactive art serving to reinvigorate an architecture that deviates from architecture of rhetorics and semiotics, the ambition is to cultivate the asignifying potential of spaces, emphasizing an architecture of sensorial possibilities.
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D i � u s e r B a c k g r o u n dMeant to reflect the upward light emissions back into
the installation proper
A refurbished factory, the great hall is the largest space in the UCCA compound and is connected to other smaller galleries.
Circumventing the oval, the spotlights inundate the park with light alternating between uniform heart rhythm and a canon of arrayed heart rhythms.
Controlling the series of spotlights on site, heart rate monitors on both sides register the visitors into the array of flickering lights.
In order to create a completely open installation space, the ceiling structure is suspending from ceiling rafters and the walls of the great hall
RGB Fluorescent lamps are arrayed across the ceiling above the grid meant to conceal and reveal the fluorescents.
With the structure horizontally crushing users with a lowerd ceiling, the horizon slopess into the wall on the two ends of the room
G r i d d e d C e i l i n g S t r u c t u r e
Multiple rows of RGB Fluorescent bulbs fill the ceiling arrayed to generate a color geography blending and delineating the space
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S l o p e d F l o o r s
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S l o p e d E n t r y / E x i t
1 0 0 S Q M S p l a s h Z o n e
2500 L or water pumped a 1000 L/Min must simulate drop speed
from 12M at 4M
I n j e c t i o n M o u l d e d O u t l e t s
Ceiling grates designed with smaller outlet spacing to allow
for optimal rainfall and more individual outlets
S i n g l e L i g h t S o u r c e
A single spotlight is placed opposite the installation entry to articulate the raindrops and to simulate the familiar
experience of a rainy night
Eight Cameras on two walls track users as they enter the space mapping dry zones
where people occupy the space
The grated floor concealing the rainfall runo beneath is sloped unpon entry
and exit, smoothing the transition from the museum.
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P U L S EP A R K
F E E L I N G SA R E
F A C T S
Olafur Eliasson & Ma Yansong
UCCABeijing, China
2010
Rafael Lozano-HemmerMadison Square Park
New York, NY2008
rAndom InternationalThe Curve at the Barbican
London, UK2012
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