second year port
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Second Year PortTRANSCRIPT
J.J. PugaUniversity of Texas at AustinSchool of Architecture
Contents
The Austin Natatorium
The Cloud Rooms
Agora and Claus
Mixed Use Tower
Additional Work
Resume
Contact
Sited at the Stephen F. Austin High school, the natatorium represents the studio’s semester long investigation into water’s phenomenal qualities. As a liminal place, the complex acts as a vessel of mental and physical change by providing a clean medium to aggressively attack the complacency of everyday life. The apolitical values of love, kindness, and compassion will resonate within the structure creating a greater sense of Communitas within the city. Change will occur. Change must take place.
The Austin Natatorium
Professor Nichole Weidemann - Vertical Studio
The Cloud RoomsThe Cloud RoomsThis project began by analyzing water’s phenomenal qualities. Focusing on the cloud’s diaphanous condition, the phenomenon was reproduced with various screens and tested in a heliodon. The screen-light relationship was then pushed to inhabitation and used in the design of five changing rooms for Austin’s Big Stacey swimming pool. The quotidian routine inherent to the pool (the changing of clothes) would be encased by a volume similar to a cloud. Here the public could prepare for the act of swimming, leaving the normal, everyday stresses behind.
Professor Nichole Wiedemann - Vertical Studio
Agora and ClausThe duplex created for Agora and Claus was derived from Kenneth Frampton’s Reflections on the Scope of the Tectonic. Set on a theoretical Pacific beach, the objective was to create a place where the owners dwelled within the tectonic and stereotomic. The inhabitants, who suffered from a severe case of agoraphobia and claustrophobia, were required to share an area within the duplex. By treating the shared area as a place of repose, Agora and Claus would be able to understand each other’s condition and move towards a new, balanced way of living.
Professor Elizabeth Danze - Vertical Studio
Mixed Use TowerThe proposed multi-unit housing for visiting architectural professors responds to Austin’s desire to increase the density within the city. Using density as a design value, a tower utilizing 50% of the site was chosen. This design tactic provided vistas to all units and allowed future growth within the site. In order to attract the diverse social mass along Guadalupe St., the public was addressed with a ground level commercial base. By creating a dynamic place beneath the tower, the professors would be able to taste the richness of the city during their walk to work.
Professor Elizabeth Danze - Vertical Studio
Additional Work
Construction III Case Study - Carlos Ferrater
Line Study - Antoni Tapies
Line Study - Qubo Gas Blind Contour - Casa Batllo
Travel Sketch - Casa Batllo
Travel Sketch - MNAC
Circulation/Mullion Study - Vertical Studio
Water Study - Vertical Studio
Architectural Drawing Case Study - The Milam House
Julian J. Puga2301 South MOPAC Apt 521 - Austin, TX 78746 - 512.300.1285 - [email protected]
Objective
To obtain a full-time summer internship position with an office expertly executing structural strategies and material tactics in the pursuit of an engaging design solution.
educatiOn
Pursuing a Masters of Architecture Pre-Professional Degree - May 2009The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
Summer Academy - 2006The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Received the Award of Excellence
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics - 1997United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD - Graduated with Merit
PrOfessiOnal HistOry
sPecial bOat team twenty-twO, united states navy 2004 - may 2006OPeratiOns Officer
Deployed SEALS and Special Warfare Combatant Crewmen (SWCC) to worldwide theaters.
- Supervised and mentored 70 personnel providing Naval Special Warfare’s Riverine Special Operations capability to worldwide theater commanders.
- Supported Joint Task Force-Katrina rescue and recovery operations as Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Louisiana Operations Officer.
seal team One, united states navy 1998 - 2004Officer in cHarge, delta PlatOOn (2003–2004)
Oversaw closed-circuit scuba diving, parachuting, and demolition of explosives in the execution of special operations.
- Managed 12 enlisted SEALS and supervised and mentored a SEAL Officer.- Administered use of $1,800,000 of sensitive equipment. - Supported Operation Iraqi Freedom as liaison officer onboard intelligence aircraft during
large-scale assault of petroleum complex on Iraq’s Al Faw Peninsula (2003).- Executed multiple direct action and special reconnaissance missions in Iraq.
PrOfessiOnal HistOry
seal liaisOn Officer (2002)
Planned and coordinated Naval Special Warfare missions with Carrier Battle Group and Joint Special Operation Task Force (Philippines).
assistant Oic, ecHO PlatOOn (2000–2002)assistant Oic, fOxtrOt PlatOOn (1998–2000)
Directed mission planning and coordination with U.S. Army and Air Force Special Operation forces.
- Supervised a SEAL Officer and 12 enlisted SEALS.- Managed $1,340,000 in equipment and oversaw closed-circuit scuba diving, parachuting,
and demolition of explosives during special operation missions.
additiOnal exPerience
Served as Officer in Charge of Protective Security Detail for interim Iraqi Vice-President Dr. Rowsch Shaways for over 130 days. Executed over 300 high-risk motorcades in Iraq and over 15 political trips to Switzerland and Kurdistan without incident.
Four time South East Boxing All American, captaining the USNA Boxing team to National Collegiate Boxing Association Team Title - 1997.
travel
Thailand, Philippines, Okinawa, Malaysia, Australia, Bahrain, Iraq, Switzerland, Spain, Mexico, and France.
skills
Former award winning U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant with outstanding record of achievement in team leadership, exceeding goals, and solving complex problems with creative resolutions. Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Rhino, and hand drafted perspectives.
references
Larry Speck 512.471.0715 [email protected]
Nichole Wiedemann 512.471.0736 [email protected]
J.J. Puga2301 South MOPAC Apt 521Austin, TX 78746