2. My work is a reflection of several explorations dealing with
user experience, small space design, playfulness with geometry, and
contextual influences. For me architecture is a powerful tool for
shaping the world as it reflects the mere essence of survival of
the human race and can be used to enhance spatial perception by
creating pleasant environments for living/working/playing. I enjoy
architecture as it allows me to dwell into different life
situations while applying problem solving skills using design and
fabrication solutions. Throughout my education I have enjoyed
leadership positions that involved helping my community which have
lead me to understand society from different points of view by
colaborating with people from different backgrounds and various
fabrication processes. With my obtained work/volunteer experience I
have developed interest in urban planning and research as my field
begins to merge with technology to enhance or adapt to various
spatial perception situations. I enjoy any type of design process
and creating. I work well in group environments and take advantage
of learning opportunities . I look forward to work with well
structured, innovative and creative people. Giovanna Gallardo
3. INFILL HOUSING Mix Use SECTION 1 SCALE 1=1/4 ULL NTAL SHIFT
L SHIFT PROGRAM CIRCULATIONG UNITS STACKED Due to the project being
confined within a narrow lot of 25x100ft. my proposal takes
advantage of the tight space by challenging the idea of privacy and
ownership by focusing on varied shared spaces and trimming the
private living units to the essentials trying to reduce unused
space packing all the must haves into an efficient floor plan
distribution also using oversized beds and furniture as closet and
storage space. The minimum private space is intended to maximize
outdoor community interaction, hence the generous hallways and
terraces. Three types of units form from a play of shifting cubes
that accommodate different programs of varied sizes. The first unit
is formed by a vertical shift of intersecting cubes separating
public activities like gallery space or retail on the bottom from
the private living space on top. Also opens up circulation on the
bottom floor by opening up a corridor that connects the street to
the interior courtyards. The second unit is created by a horizontal
shift of the cube making a studio type flat that has a
kitchen/living area and a bedroom. A generous catwalk of
circulation was given to the second floor to allow for the small
units to have a shared outdoor space that looks down into the
courtyard. The third unit was created by a push/pull of the cube.
This volume is placed at the top of the stacking volumes repeated
and con- nected by a catwalk. The push/pull creates interior
terraces and defines the spaces purely for the activity inside each
of the cubes. PUSH/PULL HORIZONTAL SHIFT VERTICAL SHIFT PROGRAM
CIRCULATIONSHIFTING UNITS STACKED PUSH/PULL HORIZONTAL SHIFT
VERTICAL SHIFT PROGRAM CIRCULATIONSHIFTING UNITS STACKED PENTHOUSE
GALLERY/STUDIO STUDIO PUSH/PULL HORIZONTAL SHIFT VERTICAL SHIFT
PROGRAM CIRCULATIONSHIFTING UNITS STACKED 1 3 2
4. CARCASS PAVILION Miami Beach Artist work live
5. Program Division Circulation Core LIBRARY+PARK Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach The incorporation of technology into our daily lives
has allowed for information to be instant and accessible outside
the walls of a specific structure, thus challenging the functional
concept of library as a buiding. The library building becomes a
public gathering place in which people come together to share and
acquire multimedia information indivually or in groups. Unification
becomes a predominant defining factor for the idea of a library in
continuously evolving society. The building adapts to the site as
it becomes a continuation of the park following its angularity and
extending paths towards the street edge. The main feature of this
project is the mesh -like skin that acts as a unifying blanket
wrapping the two main towers split by the circulation core/atrium.
On the roof facade, above the area where the two towers come
together, a skylight opening with a series of trusses illustrate
stitching where the two towers unify. The library becomes an object
within the park inviting people to enjoy the the areas inside and
out trying to erase the boundaries from the park and itself. Shell
Facade Structural Framing
6. L1 L2 L4 L3
7. Natural Filtration System PARK group competition Lincoln
Road, Miami Beach
8. LIGHT PAVILION ArchiCAD Plans
9. SITE PLAN 1= 128 PROGRAM DIAGRAM CIRCULATION DIAGRAM E
OGLETHROPE AVE E BROUGHTON LN DRAYTONST LINCOLNST 224-A E
OGLETHROPE AVE SAVANNAH, GA 31401 FRONT ELEVATIONSIDE SECTION 2.1.
3.
10. CAD Drawings 1. Savannah, GA 2. Coral Gables, MIA 3.
Lincoln Rd, MIA
11. Westwind Lakes Park Pickfair Park Lagomar Park Olympic Park
Water Oaks Park Kendale lakes Park UDB UDB UDB SW 8th St SW157thSt
SW137thSt SW147thAve SW 56th St SW 72nd St SW 24th St SW 88th St SW
104th St SW 136th St SW 120th St SW 152nd St North-South Corridor A
North-South Corridor B East-West Corridor B East-West Corridor A
East-West Corridor C University Park Baptist Hospital Tamiami
Airport/ Potential Industrial Park The Hammocks Kendale Lakes
Kendall West UA 01 Tamiami Airport Country Walk UA 02 Tamiami
University Park B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B .5 mi 2 mi N B Westwind Lakes Park Pickfair Park Lagomar Park
Olympic Park Water Oaks Park Kendale lakes Park RR RR RR RR RR end
end RR B B B B B B B B B BB INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION LOOP A-0116
OCT 2014INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION LOOP Strategic Development Plan
for District 11, Miami-Dade County Urban Development Boundary
Railroad Urban Development Boundary Turnpike Exit Proposed
Intradistrict Loop Transit Lattice Floridas Turnpike RR UDB Loop
Connectors Single-Family Two-Family Duplexes Townhouses Low-Density
Multi-Family High-Density Multi-Family Institutional Schools
Commercial Office Home Office Industrial Industrial
Intensive-Office Industrial Intensive-Commercial Communications
Public Park Adjacent Water Bodies Enclosed Water Bodies Canal
R.O.W. Adjacent Private Agriculture Vacant High Obstruction (~6
ft+) Medium Obstruction (~3ft) No Obstruction Trail Bike-Friendly
Road Bike Lane B Grant District 11 Research Mapping
12. UDB UDB UDB UDB RR RR RR end end RR SW 8th St SW157thSt
SW137thSt SW147thSt SW 40th St SW 56th St SW 72nd St SW 24th St SW
88th St SW 104th St SW 136th St SW 120th St SW 152nd St North-South
CorridorA North-South CorridorB East-West Corridor B East-West
Corridor A East-West Corridor C Tamiami Airport/ Potential
Industrial Park Baptist Hospital University Park .5 mi 2 mi N 148
OFFICES + VACANT LAND A-0127 OCT 2014 OFFICES + VACANT LAND
Strategic Development Plan for District 11, Miami-Dade County
Turnpike Exit Floridas Turnpike Office Home Office concentration
Home Office Home Office Railroad Urban Development Boundary RR UDB
Vacant Government Owned, Unprotected | 119 Acres Vacant, Protected,
Privately Owned | 75 Acres Vacant, Protected, Government Owned | 10
Acres Vacant, Privately Owned, Unprotected | 560 Acres One Acre
Total Acreage | 764 Acres AA-0116 OCT 2014 BOW TIE ROAD TYPOLOGIES
Strategic Development Plan for District 11, Miami-Dade County
DRAWING INDEX LEGEND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOODS COMPILATION MAP TRANSIT
MAP BOW TIE Railroad Urban Development Boundary Turnpike Exit
Proposed Intradistrict Loop Transit Lattice (outside of D11)
Transit Lattice Floridas Turnpike RR UDB Loop Connectors
Single-Family Two-Family Duplexes Townhouses Low-Density
Multi-Family High-Density Multi-Family Institutional Schools
Commercial Office Home Office Industrial Industrial
Intensive-Office Industrial Intensive-Commercial Communications
Public Park Adjacent Water Bodies Enclosed Water Bodies Canal
R.O.W. Adjacent Private Agriculture Vacant High Obstruction (~6
ft+) Medium Obstruction (~3ft) No Obstruction Trail Bike-Friendly
Road Bike Lane B BOW TIE ROAD TYPOLOGIES
13. Assistive Device Team project Designed: Company name, logo,
presentation, idea, fabrication, drawings The product was designed
and fabricated for a client with spinal and muscular atrophy type
II. The client is dependent on a wheelchair for transportation; due
to the wheelchair being specific for her condition there is no
available product in the market that accommodates her neck posture.
The intent for our product was to create a comfortable neck support
that would also function as a case for adaptable technology based
on Arduino boards. Incorporating the Arduino board technology would
allow for various add-ons to enhance the clients daily occupations;
some add-ons that we intended to be incorporated are: sensor
activated speakers handled with electrode sensors that the client
could control with her constrained eye motion (picture to the
right), neck massage vibrators to promote blood circulation, etc.
NeckREST Industrial Design
14. Other proposals Dawntown 2014 Final submission The
installation is meant to fill the courtyard of the Museum of
History Miami. Theme: Stand your ground Stand your ground is
Floridas controversial law which changes the nature of encounters
in public space, empowering gun owners to use deadly force when
they feel threatened. Interestingly, it is only necessary to feel
threatened whether or not one is actually threatened. We imagined
these politics as spatial definitions on the public plaza which is
scarcely used and gives no clue of how one should interact with its
generic spaces. We propose a dense stand of vertical elements, out
of which spaces are carved which produce the various feelings of
threats in a public space against which one can stand their
ground...in a stand of architectural members. Design Build #2
15. VOLUNTEER fabrication WORKSHOP Seven is an architectural
experiment in the neither/nor and/or the both/and. It explores the
tenuous thresholds within several fundamental binaries in
architecture. object/field figure/configure finite/ubiquitous
monomorph/polymorph insular/reflective amaterial/tactile
mass/surface SEVEN ANumbersGame William OBrien Jr. is Associate
Professor at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and is
principal of WOJR, an independent design practice in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He is also one of the founding members of
CollectiveLOK. In 2013 Architectural Record awarded him with the
Design Vanguard Award, a prize given to ten firms internationally.
The same year, Wallpaper* named him one of the top twenty emerging
architects in the world, and included him in the 2013 Architects
Directory. He is the recipient of the 2012 - 2013 Rome Prize
Fellowship in Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome.
His practice was awarded the 2011 Architectural League Prize for
Young Architects and Designers. In 2010 his practice was a finalist
for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program and was recognized as a
winner of the Design Biennial Boston Award. His collaboration as
CollectiveLOK won the Van Alen Institute international competition
to redesign the institutes headquarters in 2013, and was a finalist
for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program this year. OBrien has
taught previously at The University of California Berkeley as the
Bernard Maybeck Fellow and was the LeFevre Emerging Practitioner
Fellow at The Ohio State University. Before joining MIT, for two
years he was Assistant Professor at The University of Texas
atAustin, where he taught advanced theory seminars and design
studios in the graduate curriculum. At MIT OBrien currently holds
the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair and teaches design
studios in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. He was the
recipient of the 2010 Rotch Traveling Studio Scholarship which
funded research and travel for an advanced graduate design studio
in Iceland. OBrien pursued his graduate studies at Harvard
University where he was the recipient of the Master of Architecture
Faculty Design Award. Prior to graduate school he attended Hobart
College in New York where he studied architecture and music theory
and was the winner of the Nicholas Cusimano Prize in Music. After
completion of his graduate work he studied in Austria as the
recipient of the Hayward Prize for Fine Arts Traveling Fellowship
in Architecture under the sponsorship of The American Austrian
Foundation. He has been named a MacDowell Fellow by the MacDowell
Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and a Socrates Fellow by the
Aspen Institute. PRINCIPAL, WOJR CO-FOUNDER, COLLECTIVELOK
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, MIT WILLIAM OBRIEN JR. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Modesto A. Maidique Campus Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture
Building 11200 SW 8th Street - PCA 272 Miami, Florida 33199 *BEA
International Gallery is located at Paul L. Cejas School of
Architecture building FEBRUARY 19 APRIL 17, 2015 BEA Gallery
OPENING DATE Thursday, February 19, 2015 6:30PM 8:30PM Credits
WOJR: William OBrien Jr., Karine Szekeres, John David Todd. Project
Managers: Albert Elias, David Pinto, Jorge E. Rodriguez. FIU:
Giovanna Gallardo, Harley Martnez, Laura de la Vega, Andrea
Canaves, Oscar Valdez, Katiuska Mora, Natalia Restrepo, Naaly
Pierre, Ebehi Ijewere, Maria Flores, Alejandro Guitierrez, Maria
Sol Rivera, Zoe Russian, Petar Stracenski, Mohammed Aljehani.
16. Texture inspired from a coral reef rock Created on Mudbox
Set of 2 Possible uses: Yellow: Beer mug White: Expresso cup
Combined: Sake bomb 3DPRINTEDCUPS
17. TERRARUIMS
18. Low income Housing Habitat for Humanity Competition Group
Competition
19. Eco couture FIU Fashion Show 2014 & 2015
Submissions