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Saul S. Archila Woodbury University Student Por t fol io 2009-2013

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Dactylogram Tracking

Studio 2B Architectural Landscaping Spring 2011Professor: Lisa Little

The everlasting landscape of the Bonnoville Salt Flats along the I-80 provide an immense amount of information that can be tracked, such as footprints, water deposits, elevation change etc. By track-ing this information and converting it into specifi c data, programmatic elements can be applied to the landscape. Thus transforming the terrain, progressively over time areas default resulting in a shift of expedenture.

The process began with an analysis of Denia Mountain, the relationship between interior and exterior conditions along with the concept of a module was harvested from the study. A new module was cre-ated as a result of the study, the module was then manipulated and responded directly to the data from the site, the size of the individual module corresponded directly to the quantity of data in the given area of the site. As the module continuosly responded to the data a new landscape formed giving direct organization.

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Densifi ed Egoism

Studio 3A HousingFall 2011Professor: Daniel Rabin

Los Angeles is known as the city of isolated individuals, with an immense amount of seemingly ever-lasting city limits, we now face the need to come back and densify many parts of the city but are very reluctant to give up the isolation that had originally attracted us to the city. Continuously when mass amounts of housing are applied to a site individual conformities are sacrifi ced in the form of shared parking spaces, shared entrances and even shared exterior spaces. The concept of the individual must be reprimanded into architectural design by reestablishing the privitized individual as the primary fo-cus for design.

The initial process began with a series of collages that set up the initial rules of design, a set of CC&R’s. The fi rst rule set up was to isolate the nine targeted units while conforming to some sort of connection between the units. The second rule set in place the concept of privatized unity, where the 9 units shared a common secret only held by those living in the units. The third rule to further distin-guish the project was a response between each of the units.

A series of initial studies recreated various formulated aspects of a grid applied directly onto the site. The nine units were then appplied to the selected grid based on uniformity of space between its inte-rior and exterior footprints. The units were then pushed and pulled while conforming to the grid and maintaining the original square footage responding to the movements of each grid. The units were then sliced based on the car creating individual parking for each of the units. The units each aquire their own parking space, entrance from the street and an individualized exterior oasis on the roof tops of each of the units.

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2nd Floor Plan 3rd Floor Plan Roof Plan

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9 Footprints Isolated 9 Footprints Extruded Push Pull Continuous Engagement Cars Introduced Final Form Resulted

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Re-Cover

Studio 3A Steel CompetitionSpring 2012Professor: Juan Carlos PortuesePartner: Jose SiquinaThe island of St. Croix located in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is well known for its culture, mangroves trees but most importantly its vast coral reef that surrounds the entire island. Globally coral reefs accounts for 25% of the worlds marine wildlife. Due to global warming over the 30% of the worlds coral reef has been lost as a direct result of coral bleaching in the past 30 years. Coral bleaching is caused when the tropical water has an abnormal change in temperature, this causes the protozoa living in the coral that allow the coral reef to thrive to disappear almost overnight. Almost immediately after the protozoa dissappear from the site the coral is left completely white and unable to sustain any marine life. In as little as two weeks the entire marine ecosystem in the area can be permanently destroyed.

The coral reef relies on a series of enjambments in order to survive. The marine biological research center will work for the site as much as the site works for the building. The proposal is for the building to control the temperature of the water through a series of systems, the water utilized by the building can then be used for all the necessities a marine biological research laboratory would need. By creating this relationship between the coral reef and the building, the design will guarantee that the coral reef will forever exist.

The building design begins by creating a footprint through the existing topography, the boundaries are created and the form is extruded from the ground sinking directly into the coast. The water that is pumped into the building immediately goes into one of two systems. The fi rst system is a geothermal where water is pumped deep underground to cool while the second system would be used to distribute water throughout the building. As the water is being recycled into the ocean it will run through tur-bines that power the entire building.

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Geothermal Piping

Worlds Coral Reef Systems St. Croix Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands With Building Functioning on Site

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Designated Site Topo Circulated Analysis Footprint Outline Extrusion Spliting of Mass Spliting of Mass Spliting of Mass Final Mass

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Close up Sectional Detail Water Pump - Water Testing - Water Turbine

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Music Cabin

Studio 4A Design BuildFall 2012Professor: Jeanine Centuri, Sony WardPartner: Angela Isayen, Phong Lee, Karen BonvadianThe task was to build a temporary housing unit centralized around the concept of music using a 10-by-10-foot prefabricated shed. The program also required the cabin to accommodate two people for sleeping, remain ADA accessible, comply to zero maintance, provide adequete natural light, venti-lation and insulation. The cabin was too also remain with the original memory of the shed, not exceed a 10-by-10foot footprint and be completed using recycled materials and a budget of $1,500.

The process began by reformulating how the 10-by-10-foot footprint could be manilpulated in both plan and section. The footprint was shrunk in order to amplify any noise created. A continuous series of sono tubes were correlated into the walls, each containing differentiated program such as storage, lighting, ventilation, and musical instruments. The cabin was also fasceted with mutiple platforms that circulate individuals into the upper fl oors of the cabin.

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