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Portfolio - consisting mostly of work completed at graduate architecture school at USC and undergrad at ASU

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NICK MARTINEZPORTFOLIO

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NICK MARTINEZ

[email protected]

756 s. broadway #509 los angeles, ca 90014

626.664.5665

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TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES

ENCLOSURE|EXPOSURE

CREATIVE DISTRICTS

FOLDED PROGRAM

STRATUM / STRIATION

CROSS STITCH

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TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES Joshua Tree, California | Fall 2009

This project studies the existing topography through the use of tessellation patterns related to geometric form. A triangular tessellation that mediates between the building and landscape serves as the form generator of the project, while the area is seen as the transition from the suburban street and the Joshua Tree landscape. A louvered striated surface morphology reacts to the environment and modulates sunlight and wind while extending the exterior surfaces to mediate between the landscape and hardscape.

TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES

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FORM EVOLUTION

remapped

topography

extruded

building elements structure/skin

edited

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longitudinal section

program diagram

GALLERY SPACE

CAFE / BOOKSTORE

EVENT SPACE

WAY-STATION

RESEARCH FACILITIES

RESIDENTIAL

PROGRAM DIAGRAM composition diagramBUILDING SYSTEMS

INTERIOR VOLUME

STRUCTURE

SKIN

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wall section

level 1 plan

level 2 plan

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CREATIVE DISTRICTS Santa Monica, California | Fall 2008

The client is not a singular advertising agency, but rather a collective or co-op of agencies as the clients. In fact, the clients could represent many different creative fields such as architecture, interior design, or graphic design. The challenge of the project evolved to the provision of one building that could accommodate several agencies or firms of different types.

The design concept was derived from Kevin Lynch’s “Image of the City”, in which he described the 5 elements to good urban environments: district, node, landmark, path, and edge. The approach was to translate these successful urban design strategies to a building. This made sense because the challenge of creating an environment that connects its residents in a positive and planned way while maintaining the ability to adapt to changes, is very similar to the challenges of this building.

The 3 concepts of district, node, and landmark are the key elements in the building. In this way, the agencies could exist in any number of different arrangements of districts, the nodes would provide areas where people from different agencies could interact, and the landmarks would serve as reference points and open spaces

CREATIVE DISTRICTS

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districts nodes landmarks

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plan 2a

cross section longitudinal section

plan 2b

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environmental diagram wall section

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ENCLOSURE|EXPOSURE Joshua Tree, California | Fall 2010

Through metaphor and contextual relationship, this small pavillion project explores the possibility of the large potential impact of a small deliberate design. In the vast ambiguous “edge” between civilization and nature in Joshua Tree National Park, this pavilion offers a threshold between focused and confined geometry and perspective of the urbanized world and the unobstructed landscape of the desert. Through 2 systems, one rigidly rythmic, the other looser and more dynamic, the desert floor , sky and horizon perspectives are gradually revealed and transformation is complete.

ENCLOSURE|EXPOSURE

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roof plan floor plan

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FOLDED PROGRAM Compton, California | Spring 2009Nick Martinez

The City of Compton is a city that is both dealing with the existing problems inherited from its past and looking to improve its future role in the greater Los Angeles area. The program proposed by NICE is based around those concerns and the site is an abandoned armory in the middle of the city.

The distinction of these two types of program, reparative and productive, were central in my development of this project. I conceived of these two elements as a basis for organizing space and program elements on the site. These two “strips” of program evolved into concrete planes that fold over and around the usable spaces within the building. These intertwining sections push and pull away from each other, as the building wraps around the site, connecting the existing buildings.

FOLDED PROGRAM

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program diagram program adjacencies program adjacencies

citizen corps/MRC

office

homeless/disabled

services

violence prevention

center

disaster relief training

parenting classes/

daycare

green tech. training

prefab construction

learning center

employment center

materials recycling

public facilities

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fold facade circulation

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wall sectionfacade detailssite plan

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CROSS-STITCH New Orleans, Louisiana | Fall 2007Nick Martinez

In the years after Hurricane Katrina, many affected neighborhoods are still left unoccupied and devastated. Holy Cross is one of these neighborhoods. Holy Cross is framed by an underutilized greenbelt and waterfront and it’s future of is dependent upon the ability of new construction to integrate this land with the existing neighborhood.

This new architecture must create a new landscape that recognizes, embraces and progresses beyond the existing building and culture. This is the goal of my project. Through the concept of stitching a wound, my project aims to literally and figuratively tie together the existing homes and the waterfront’s new projects and pathways. It creates a new fabric that mediates the two separate elements on the site. Utilizing prefabrication and an adaptive model, it is both an economically and socially sustainable solution to the problems remaining in New Orleans.

CROSS-STITCH

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site plan site elevation

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unit 1 floorplans

prefab diagram

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STRATUM / STRIATION Tempe, Arizona | Fall 2006Nick Martinez

This project studies the existing topography through the use of tessellation patterns related to geometric form. A triangular tessellation that mediates between the building and landscape serves as the form generator of the project, wile the area seen as the transition from the suburban street and the Joshua Tree landscape. A louvered striated surface morphology reacts to the environment and modulates sunlight and wind while extending the exterior surfaces to mediate between the landscape and hardscape.

STRATUM / STRIATION

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