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Lava Flutes

Bernalillo Community Center Digital Wall

Underground Digital Media Arts Facility

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Architectural Projects

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Bachelors of Art in Architecture University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico Graduated: May 2010 GPA 3.5 with honors Cum laude

University of New Mexico April 2010 - May 2011

Completed administrative work from mail to spread sheets.

Sunrise Bluff 55+ Gated Community Drafter | Manufactored home inspector

Designed site plans for new clients, including placement of manufactured homes, garages, RV ports.

Drafted full sets of garage plans for inspector’s approval to begin building.

Created site plans for future phases of the development.

Belen, New Mexico May 2005 - January 2008

Organizations+ Interests

Mechanical drawing skills Good interpersonal skills Public speaking

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign

Academic Experience

Small scale modelingPrototypingDesign visualization

EmploymentExperience

Master of Architecture University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico Expected Graduation: May 2013 GPA 3.28

Seeking an internship opportunity that will expose me to the professional architectural working fi eld and begin to work towards complying with IDP hours and requirements.

Facilitated the Latino/a Faculty Brown Bag Lecture Series, organized event booked faculty speakers, advertised event with multiple digital media and fl iers, ordered food and set up the room for the event to take place. Graduate Student Fellowship workshops and applications for participants. Networked with other UNM organizations to collaborate on events.

El Centro De La Raza UNM Graduate Student Assistant

Tau Sigma Delta, Gamma Lambda Chapter member since 2009

GPSA Equity and Outreach Committee Chair Graduate Professional Student Association UNM 2011-2012

RGSA Critical Race Theory Committee Chair Raza Graduate Student Association UNM since 2010-Present

Portrait PhotographyDigital photography - Individual, group and special events 2010-Present

AutoCAD 2D / 3DMicrosoft Offi ce Google Sketchup

Bilingual English and Spanish (read, write, and communicate fl uently)

Associates Architectural DraftingCNM Community College Albuquerque, New MexicoGraduated: December 2006 GPA: 3.8 with high honors

ComputerProfi ciency

Education

Objective

Languages

1115 South Main St. #27 Belen, NM 87002

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A r c h i t e c t u r a l P r o j e c t s

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1. Lava Flutes

Studio 200

Spring 2008

Instructor: Kima Wakefi eld

he program of the following design is called the “Lava Flute” a camp where children can

enrich their performance by playing instruments and singing during the summer season.

This camp will provide music and singing classes and a grand stage under a cave to perform.

The stage location is great for sound quality while the children perform. The camp can house

up to 20 children for 3 to 5 weeks at a time.

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El Malpais is located south of Grants NM 80 miles west of Albu-

querque. The specifi c site is at the Big Tubes Area Lava tubes can

be huge and this area is home to one of the longest systems in

North America. A cairn route leads to Four Windows and Big Skylight

Caves, and Caterpillar and Seven.

The large opening in the roof gives this 600 foot long cave its name.

Near the entrance and the skylight, the cave is approximately 60 by

50 feet high. Under the skylight, a bed of green moss grows all year

due to the light and changing seasonal air currents. The walls have

conspicuous horizontal striations formed by fl uctuating levels of mol-

ten lava that fl owed through the cave. The large blocks of lava that

fell from the ceiling sometime after the lava completely hardened,

make travel in this cave a challenge. Following either wall will bring

you full circle back to the entrance.

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2. Bernalillo Community Center

Studio 300

Spring 2009

Instructor: Rana Abu-Dayyeh

he program of the following design is a community center in the small city of Bernalillo

New Mexico. It is a 50,000 SQF building that is meant to connect Bernalillo’s Main Street

and the Rail Runner station which is located west of Main Street a block away. The com-

munity center would have available space for a large amphitheater, theater, offi ce space,

and space for sporting activities like two basketball courts indoor and outdoor, pool, tennis

court, racquet ball courts, and a skate board park. The main feature of this building is the

main center path that connects all these spaces other while at the same time directly con-

necting the rail runner station and main street.

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Bernalillo, NM is a small town populated by almost 7,000 people. The bounderies surrounding Bernalillo, the river,

Sandia Mountains and the Native Reservations, is the main reason why Bernalillo is a town that can not grow, but

maybe vertically. Bernalillo has a history of argriculture, because of its unique location, the fl ow of rain water com-

ing from the Sandia Mountains to the Rio Grande River make Bernalillo a fl ooding town that was later controlled in

the 1920s. Ironically the fl ooding was the main reason why argricuture fl ourished in Bernalillo.

FLOOD ZONE

NATIVE LANDSANDIA PUEBLO SANDIA MOUNTAINS

NATIVE LANDSANTA ANA PUEBLO

BERNAILLO, NEW MEXICOBOUNDERIES MAP




3. Digital Wall Exponential Growth

Studio 400

Fall 2009

Instructor: Margaret Pedone

echnological advances have opened the doors to new ways of displaying digital informa-

tion. These advances allow us to experience information in places other than a simple fl at

white wall. A wall can now be transformed into a space that we can experience and interact

with. The exponential growth of technology inspired me to design a wall that literally dis-

plays an exponential curve to celebrate the rapid changes we see in technology everyday.

For that reason, I designed a wall that is semi permanent, and can be rearranged accord-

ing to the changes in ways of displaying information. I incorporated an Flexible Organic

Light Emitting Device FOLED that allows the screens to be fl exible and translucent.

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4. Underground Digital Arts Educational Facility

Studio 400

Fall 2009

Instructor: Margaret Pedone

houghout the past half century we have seen the technology grow exponentially. Technol-

ogy is now driving our life, we have grown to make it part of our everyday lifestyle, and

we are not turning back. However there are consequences to this way of living. How do we

fi nd a balance to an expanding technological world and at the same time care for it?

E-waste – What we leave behind – as consumers in this day and age we have become accus-

tomed to demanding the bigger better thing, especially when it comes to electronic devices.

What happens to the old stuff? It seems we are in some way disconnected from the changes

our world is having. As citizens of the earth, we need to be conscious of the changes to our

world and incorporate thechnolgy in a way that does no hard to our environment.

The intent of this design – Digital Media Arts Educational Facility is to try to use the latest

technologies to make people aware of the positive and negative changes we are faced with

as technology grows. Its important to give back space and recycle. E-waste as much as we

can, to fi nd a balance in celebrating new technology and respecting our earth at the same

time.

I propose an E-Waste Recycle Center to invite people from the university and community to

recycle their old electronics. Later, fi nd ways to repair and fi nd new homes for people who

may not be as technologically advanced but can still fi nd use for these electronics, instead of

having them shipped to china. The e-waste center is located in the ground fl oor of the digital

media arts park. It will also serve as an organization to try to keep people informed about

the negative consequenses of e-waste.

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The site plan is designed to resemble a computer chip. This will help create a conciousness

of the nessesity of giving back open space in place of all the e-waste that we have created.

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