Daniela Arriagada Academic Portfolio (Selected Works)

FALL 2010 - 3A (3RD YEAR FIRST SEMESTER)INSTRUCTOR- PATRICK TIGHE

SOLO PROJECT - DANIELA ARRIAGADA

-The community network garden project seeks to bring together the fragmented community of Las Vegas. It is an urban farming facility that makes fresh grown produce available to the low income families around the UNLV campus as well as

creating an outdoor gathering space for students at the university.

-The project focuses on varying levels of networks and branching systems, including water irrigation / structural network, connective circulation, water storage system and garden network. The building uses the terrain and embeds itself deep into the soil to create its Greenhouse/farming spaces in order to control the erratic climate of Las Vegas. Structurally, it uses the

irrigation system network together with a lightweight structural skin that shields the spaces from the harsh sun while allowing some sunlight to penetrate. The scorching desert heat is certainly an unfavorable environment for growing plants, especially

vegetables.

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[email protected] | 626-200-0797 | DANIELA ARRIAGADA / designer / selected work

2011 MUSEUM OF MACHINIC ORNITHOLOGY/ magnetic tropism

FALL 2011 - 4A (4TH YEAR FIRST SEMESTER)INSTRUCTOR- ERIC KAHNSOLO PROJECT- DANIELA ARRIAGADA

The machinic is a process that enables our capacity as humans to form alliances with non-hu-man forces, be they animal, natural forces, plant or virus. These Machinic Alliances construct affilia-tions between categories of human/nature. [implies learning, copying and blurs between both paradigms]

In our research for the Museum of Machinic Ornithology, we went plane-watching near the airport. The most impressive thing about the experience was the intensity of the raw emotions that the plane causes. Being underneath such a powerful machine that is capable of flight was really intense. That feeling is what drove my project for the rest of the semester.

The structure of the museum runs along a spine with members that rotate towards the stimulus of the passing plane. The members turn slightly, and elevate the visitor closer to the experience of the airplane. In the process, they carve out the earth and provide additional spaces.

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SPR2011 FRAGILE SPACE / comprehensive housing design

SPRING 2011 - 3B (3RD YEAR SECOND SEMESTER)INSTRUCTOR- NATHAN BISHOPGROUP PROJECT- DANIELA ARRIAGADA & KERVIN LAU

With a complex site located in front of a major freeway, with its longest side facing south, and with prevailing winds moving diagonally through it, this housing project explores ways of harvesting that wind for cross ventilation, harvesting rainwater and gray water for reuse, while reducing noise and bringing in as much natural light to each of the 12 units as possible.

The notion of "fragile space" is latent in the site due to its location as "in between" and leftover space, sitting between the neighborhood and the freeway. This idea gave way to thinking of the project as creating the feeling of living in a tissue, softly filtering light and creating a glow within the units. The space is therefore made fragile because of the lightness of the fabric and the structure.

Through a series of operations guided by prevailing winds through the site, a grain is established which guides the arrangement of the units for maximum cross ventilation. This process also creates outdoor spaces in different scales, starting with a main connective courtyard through the site which links the existing landscape of the berm through to the outdoor space of the adjacent developments and eventually creating a completely internalized ambiguous space/light well that blends the outside directly into the interior of each unit. The light wells provide the units with plenty of natural light and a connection to the outside.

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FALL2012 BARNES MUSEUM / conservation through transformation

FALL 2012 - VERTICAL STUDIOINSTRUCTOR- ANDREW ZAGOHALF-SEMESTER PROJECT- DANIELA ARRIAGADA

With the difficult task of relocating the Barnes Foundation Museum against the wishes that Albert C. Barnes had specifical-ly stated in his will, this project uses techniques of isometric and axonometric projections to transform the original museum to a new expanded building. The galleries maintain the arrangement of the art, but they become transformed and offer a new perspective of viewing the impressive collection of the museum.

SCALE OF INTRICACY SCI-ARC UNDERGRAD THESISDANIELA ARRIAGADAADVISOR: FLORENCIA PITA

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SPR2013 SCALE OF INTRICACY / undergrad thesis

SPRING 2013 - UNDERGRAD THESISADVISOR- FLORENCIA PITA

This thesis is an exploration of the scale of intricacy used as a method of design.

Intricacy as defined by Greg Lynn is connectionism of small scale and diverse elements; it is the fusion of disparate elements into continuity.

Intricacy is usually associated with ornament on a surface; therefore it is usually applied to the skin of a building. This thesis is seeking an alternative application of intricacy to the structure.

Taking cues from contemporary tectonics, especially from buildings that create a sense of mass through the multiple geometries of systems; this thesis seeks to use structural elements to support intricacy. By doing so, this thesis does not need a skin or a surface to create not only visual intricacy, but also a massing that suggests a skin.

Due to this multiplicity, the building does not need an outer skin, as the intricacy is enough to define it. This is essentially, a building without skin.

The project separates itself from structural and tectonic interests like the modern frame or smooth field density (spline) by exploring an intricate system that is irregular and has no clear datum, creating and exploiting moments of conflict in the structure.

The project is a sculpture museum annex to the Art Center College of Design South Campus in Pasadena. The building is still a museum that can be experienced in sequence and curated and choreographed, but the open and transparent nature of the project allows for the juxtaposition and communication of different works in different areas of the museum.

SCALE OF INTRICACY SCI-ARC UNDERGRAD THESISDANIELA ARRIAGADAADVISOR: FLORENCIA PITA

SPRING 2013 - UNDERGRAD THESISADVISOR- FLORENCIA PITA

This thesis is an exploration of the scale of intricacy used as a method of design.

Intricacy as defined by Greg Lynn is connectionism of small scale and diverse elements; it is the fusion of disparate elements into continuity.

Intricacy is usually associated with ornament on a surface; therefore it is usually applied to the skin of a building. This thesis is seeking an alternative application of intricacy to the structure.

Taking cues from contemporary tectonics, especially from buildings that create a sense of mass through the multiple geometries of systems; this thesis seeks to use structural elements to support intricacy. By doing so, this thesis does not need a skin or a surface to create not only visual intricacy, but also a massing that suggests a skin.

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