spring portfolio

Luis R. Barreda

University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Studies of Architecture

Index

Design of Space 1-2Screen Wall Unit 3-4Construction & Insertion 5-6Armature 7-8Building Analysis 9-10Color Assignment 11-12Sketching Assignment 13-14Cincinnati Art Museum 15-16

Design of Space

The objective of this project was to construct an 8’ x 8’ x 8’ space to be occupied. The space was a place for viewing resting, and also for promenade. Moreover, the team was given a specific site to locate their space, where the team accounted for different elevation changes throughout the site.

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The screen wall unit project purpose was to investigate the process of making a 8’x 8’ space. One of the rules for this project was to develop a unit that will intercon-nect with its same to make the screen. Moreover, the screen wall unit should have three possible configurations.

Screen Wall Unit

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Construction & Insertion

The construction & insertion project was about the documentation of a series of drawing over the Engineering Research Center at the Universi-ty of Cincinnati. Starting with a series of diagrams that represent arrival, threshold and promenade space. Moreover, it was asked to document a set of measure, drawings including sections and elevation. Finally, the assignment ended by making a physical abstracted section of the building, and we were to include an insertion of any material to diagram the flow in the space.

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In this exercise one needed to create an armature for a plaster block. The final design was chosen af-ter 10 iterative processes. Where the student want-ed to approach this armature by lifting the plaster cube off the ground, that way, its aspects would be easy to appreciate

Armature

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This assignment was based on the building analysis for the Design lab class which con-sisted on the analysis and process on what elements are important in the building as well as to identify critical landmarks. The fi-nal work was a combination of sections, ele-vations, and sketches, as well as the insertion.

Building Analysis

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The objective of this assign-ment was to explore colors. It consisted on creating digital im-ages from a single photograph using a monochromatic pal-let and a polychromatic one.

Color Assignment

Original Picture

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Polychromatic Monochromatic

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Sketching Assignment

The objective of this assignment was to draw 20 sketches throughout the year to see the improvement at the end of the semester.

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The objective of this assignment was to find a piece of art that one was interested in. More-over, that piece of art would be reproduced in an abstract form in five different ways.

Cincinnati Art Museum

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