SELECTED WORK

JOSE MIGUEL TIJERINA

JOSE MIGUEL TIJERINACORNELL UNIVERSITYCollege of Architecture, Art, and PlanningBachelor of Architecture, May 2013Concentration in Architectural TheoryDean’s list : Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2012

483 Grand Street #2, Brooklyn, NY 11211jmt282@cornell.edu | (619) 204 - 5896

WORK EXPERIENCE

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO - Architectural DesignerNew York, NY [August - October 2013]• Developed designs through diagrams, digital and physical

models, drawings, and renderings for two international competitions; a large, programmatically diverse park and a higher-education building.

• Produced fi nal competition drawings and physical models.

PROGRAM OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS - Research Professional Cornell University, Ithaca, NY [June - August 2013]• Developed and tested Sustain, a state-of-the-art energy

analysis tool aiming to integrate sustainability into early conceptual design.

• Worked with several architectural fi rms to provide feedback on how given variables affect the performance of their current design projects.

• Contributed to development of user interface.

BERNARD TSCHUMI ARCHITECTS - InternNew York, NY [September - November 2012]• Produced physical and digital models for large institutional

projects and small exhibitions, ranging from schematic design to fi nal detail design.

• Participated in an offi ce-wide design charrette that led to potential schemes for a new project.

CUSD SCHOOL HOUSE SOUTH AFRICAJohannesburg, South Africa [June - July 2011]• Worked on several aspects of a design-build project,

including production of fi nal construction and detail drawings, meeting with fabrication companies to choose details, defi ning a new sustainable construction method, and physically constructing a small school with Cornell University Sustainable Design.

ABAX ARQUITECTOS - InternMexico City, Mexico [May - June 2010]• Drafted AutoCad drawings for presentations and construction

of projects in different stages of development.• Archived images of past projects for the fi rm’s publications

and website.

GREEN DRAGON CAFE - BaristaIthaca, NY [Fall 2010 - Spring 2013]• Barista at Cornell University’s architecture cafe.

ACTIVITIES

LAB MONITOR, AAP NYC STUDIONew York, NY [September - December 2012]• Assisted students with plotting, printing and any computer issues.

LIBRARY ASSISTANT, CORNELL IN ROME STUDIORome, IT [August - December 2011]• Managed library space and new book acquisitions.• Assisted students and professors with research.

MEINIG FAMILY CORNELL NATIONAL SCHOLARLeadership Forum [Fall 2008 - Spring 2013]• Cornell Scholarship group awarded for leadership history.• Researched and offered solutions to Cornell Senior

Administration Offi cials on the issue of Student advising.• Maintained a minimum of 150 hours of various leadership

activities per year.

DELTA CHI FRATERNITY• Active Member [Spring 2009 - Spring 2013]• Social Chair [Spring - Fall 2010]

ABROAD STUDIES• Russia, Baltics, Scandinavia Travel Studio [Summer 2012]• Cornell in Rome Program [Fall 2011]• History of Art and Architecture in Spain [Summer 2007]

SKILLSDIGITAL SKILLS• Very profi cient in AutoCad, Rhino, Grasshopper, Vray,

Maxwell, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Ecotect, Arduino. • Profi cient in Microsoft Offi ce Suite, 3D Studio Max, Maya,

and Z-brush.

SPECIALIZED SKILLS• Energy Modeling and Simulation, Prototyping, Hand Drafting,

Woodworking, Metalworking, Foamcutting, Lasercutting, 3D Printing, Milling, Photography, Writing, Painting, Sewing.

LANGUAGES• Fluent in English and Spanish, knowledge of French and Italian.

PUBLICATIONS + EXHIBITIONS• Antithesis _ St Petersburg: Association Vol. 5 [2013]• Nature Does Not Exist, Featured: Association Vol. 5 [2013]• Schukino Stops Installation: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia [2012]• Digital Campfi re, Featured Project: www.epiphyte-lab.com• Danteum Redux, Final Review and Exhibition: MAXXI Museum,

Rome, Italy [2011]• Featured Projects: Elemental Instrumental [2011]

Antithesis _ St. Petersburg - Video Stills

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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2013

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KUNSTHALLE BUFFALO

2012

fall 2012

summer 2012

spring 2011

fall 2011

spring 2009

fall 2008

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LIGHTNESS PAVILLION

SCARPA WARP

TIME FRAMES

DIGITAL CAMPFIRE

LOGO: SCHUKINO

SENSATIONAL

DANTEUM REDUX

HOUSE(S) FOR THREE SISTERS

SENSATIONAL

A strong sensual stimulation provides (super)natural benefi ts to our bodies and our minds.

However, technology has allowed the realization of man’s idyllic desire to exist in a constantly comfortable environment. Walls have been erected, air cleaned, heat sucked out, and moisture sealed off. Man’s naive fantasy has become a reality in almost every space that he inhabits; a bland, numbing, hermetically sealed fantasy.

One’s most intimate surroundings should be created with the automatic possibility of constant change. The environments created will not remain static or controlled by the slow cycles of nature. The Artifi cial will be magical, powerful, and pleasurable. Environmental possibility, excitement, relaxation, and constant change: a phenomenological luxury unattainable anywhere else in the world.

The resort, located on the Northern tip of Roosevelt Island, NYC, utilizes common technology at a sensational scale as the instrument for the production of overwhelming sensual fantasies, Pushing environments to opposing limits and allowing for the widest range of potential experiences

The resort creates fi ve varieties of climatically altered zones, providing the masses from the city with a spectrum of fantasies to satisfy their needs. Each transformed zone cycles at its own rate, adding or subtracting energy from nature’s immediate and momentary condition.

Peak Summer heat at noon, cool Winter night for dinner. Bright white Scandinavian nights and foggy Fall days, all at the guest’s request

Resort Pamphlet

Spring 2013Design ThesisProfessors Caroline O’Donnell and John Zissovici, Advisors

01Climactic Zone and Augmented Cycles Diagram

Standards Unit Plan | Systems Exploted Axon

Spring 2013Design ThesisProfessors Caroline O’Donnell and John Zissovici, Advisors

02Site Perspective | Systems Perspective

Nighttime Section - Light and Temperature Effects

Spring 2013Design ThesisProfessors Caroline O’Donnell and John Zissovici, Advisors

03Daytime Section - Mist and Temperature Effects

Rendered Scenes

Looks like it’s getting

dark in here...

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So is this breakfast

or dinner?

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It’s Never bed time

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Just like the

motherland!

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stay cool

year round

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i live for balmy

decembers

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best winter

ever

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this aint quite

like bocca.

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Whats more

stimulating than a

good chill?

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Spring 2013Design ThesisProfessors Caroline O’Donnell and John Zissovici, Advisors

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Some summers, i just

want to wear fur

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LOGO SchukinoThe entrance into the Metro station connecting Schukino, a microrayon on the outskirts of Moscow, to the capital city assembles three distinct elements into the singular recognizable image of the atom, the most prominent claim-to-fame of the neighborhood. The stairs are replaced with a handicap accesible ramp and a central arrival space is created. The bus stop is fragmented into a landscape of leisure stops; places of gathering along the promenade. By building on the Russian tradition of Metro station as icon, Logo creates a sense of identity and community in the microrayon separate from the metropolis of Moscow.

The summer travel studio culminated with an exhibition in the grounds of Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery. A large model with the four different Metro station proposals was presented to our client, the mayor of Schukino, with the hope that it would start a conversation on current issues of cultural identity and the future of Russia’s Microrayon system.

Site Axon

Summer 2012 MoscowDesign IXProfessors Alex Mergold and John Zisovicci

05Perspective View | Model Instalation

DIGITAL CAMPFIRE

An exploration of how technology can create effects that alter an environment, and through sensing the reactions to these changes, how feedback loops can be established to design a self moderating, responsive space.

The idea for Digital Campfi re arose from Yves Klein’s project for Air Architecture, an immaterial architecture where the climate and environment would be controlled through jets of air, fi re and water, allowing people to live comfortably “outdoors.” I fi rst analyzed point sources of heat and light and how, when arranged in a fi eld, these spectrums of intensity interact with each other and their environment to create functional and aesthetic effects.

In the next phase, Prototype I - Light Field was developed as a way to analyze the effects of a feedback loop between readings of light intensity and light emitted from point sources through Grasshopper and Arduino. The ultimate goal of the light fi eld was to analyze a scenario in which the scale of the fi eld was habitational and human congregations and movements were the triggers for the fi eld of lights.

From there I shifted scale to create Prototype II - Heat Wall. I used incandescent light bulbs to explore the sources of light and, more specifi cally, heat that would potentially exist in the Light Field. By using a camera, Prototype II responded to movement by lighting specifi c light bulbs corresponding to where the movement was perceived. The heat produced by the light bulbs was then perceived by a grid of temperature sensors which fed a digital model, mapping the light and heat environment.

Research Drawing

Spring 2012Design VIIIProfessors Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero and Kevin Pratt

Prototype I Mapping Collage 06

Prototype I Diagram

Spring 2012Design VIIIProfessors Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero and Kevin Pratt

07Prototype II Diagram

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Prototype II - Heat Wall

Spring 2012Design VIIIProfessors Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero and Kevin Pratt

08Prototype I [light fi eld] & II [heat wall]

DANTEUM REDUXA new library and monument to Dante Alighieri, located in the heart of ancient Rome. The building takes inspiration from the Roman types of the Imperial Forum, the Medieval castle, and the Renaissance palazzo. A central courtyard is created to allow the visitor an escape from the busy main street. The library itself spins its attention outwards, highlighting its monumental surroundings. It creates an intellectual and social reason for the tourist and the local to return to Via dei Fori Imperiali.

Concept Sketches | Section looking East

Fall 2011 RomeDesign VIIProfessors Mark Morris and Marina Kavalirek

09Axon | Section looking North

Entry Level Plan | Watercolor Perspective Views

Fall 2011 RomeDesign VIIProfessors Mark Morris and Marina Kavalirek

10Lower and Second level Plans | Site Plan

Via dei Fori Imperiali

Via Cavour

Site Plan1:500

HOUSES FOR THREE SISTERSThe house for the Stettheimer sisters is sited on an island off of the coast of Maine. The single house consists of three programmatically distinct, interconnected houses; each the domain of a specifi c sister. Like the three sisters, the houses are individually distinct yet have a strong relation to each other. The center space is the communal heart of the house, created by the separation of the three houses which conceptually came from a single solid. The houses are open towards each other, while keeping the outside world out. They provide the retreat from society that the sister’s sought and provide the opportunity for them to come together as a family unit.

Elevations | Northern Rendering

Spring 2011Design VIProfessor Jerry Wells, Critic Jose Oubrerie

11Elevations | Southern Rendering

Plans

Spring 2011Design VIProfessor Jerry Wells, Critic Jose Oubrerie

12Sections

KUNSTHALLE BUFFALOThe Kunsthalle in Buffalo, New York originated from a beautiful linear park that stretches across the street from the site. The museum closes its North and South facades from the urban surroundings and allows the open space of the park to enter the building and wrap around it, becoming the roof and front facade. Different sized fl oor plates span the two thick walls creating very open, varied and organic spacial confi gurations.

Plans | Long Section

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Fall 2009Design IIIProfessor Jerry Wells

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LIGHTNESS PAVILLIONThis exercise in translation and representation started by analyzing a given artifact’s physical and mechanical characteristics and developing them in drawing. The drawings then informed a physical container for the artifact which in turn greatly expanded in scale and required a pavillion for its viewing. The pavillion translates the compression and expansion of the artifact and container to create spaces which appear to contract and expand themselves. The conceptualized motions of the artifact develop a material and spatial language which creates a sacred resting place for the artifact that generated the whole design.

Model

Fall 2008Design IProfessors Alex Mergold and Vince Mulcahy

Conceptual Drawing 14

TIME FRAMESTime Frames - Exposures in Visual Thinking, creates images which offer a sense of change through time by superimposing photographs, digital manipulation, and camera-matched renderings.

A site was fi rst selected and photographed in different lighting conditions. Architectural interventions were then incorporated into the images of the site, and fi nally a sense of narrative was added through the use of models and lighting changes. The result is a hyper-realistic, yet surreal image of an imagined new site.

Fall 2012Visual RepresentationDbox - Leah White and Matthew Bannister

15Photograph, Intervention, and Narrative Image.

SCARPA WARPIn collaboration with Adrianne Ngam; An exploration of Carlo Scarpa’s Banco Popolare di Verona’s facade based on the play of 2-D versus 3-D surface treatments made possible through the use of digital programs such as Maya and Z-Brush. We fi rst analyzed the existing facade and created drawings which exaggerated its visual characteristics. We then modeled the facade, performing two and three dimensional operations on it. Finally we created the new facade of the building which seems only appropriate in outer space. Our fi nal project was a fl y through animation showing the organic design in movement, which both contrasts and exaggerates the existing building’s details.

Process Drawings and Renderings

Spring 2012Visual Representation - Digital PaletteProfessor Amber Bartosh

Final Rendering 16