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ALFONZO ORTEGA VILLAFANEUNDERGRADUATE PORTFOLIO

CAL POLY POMONA

UNDERGRADUATE WORK

ALTERNATIVE LODGE

URBAN POLLINATION: NET ZERO ENERGY

MANUAL DRAFTING

CHARCOAL AND PENCIL DRAWINGS

As designers we have the opportunity and responsibility to turn our passion for architecture into something extraordinary for the world.

ALTERNATIVE LODGE

ALTERNATIVE LODGEAN ALTERNATIVE GUIDEBOOK TO

LOS ANGELES RIVER

WALT DISNEY IMAGENEERING FUNDED STUDIOFORTH YEAR DESIGN 401

CAL POLY POMONA Fall 2014LOS ANGELES, CA

URBAN - CIVIC- HOSPITALITY

3dsMax - AutoCAD - Manual SketchingIllustrator - Photoshop - After Effects

THE ALTERNATIVE LODGE

The Los Angeles River is a uniquely isolated area nestled among the industrial development of the city. This reinforces the notion of the Los Angeles River as a void separating the eastern communities of Los Angeles from the rest of the city. Within a sea of concrete and infrastructure lies a world that most visitors, and even locals, don’t know exists. The project’s goal is to generate a new program that be-comes a catalyst to those hidden gems by combining a guidebook experience with the existing city.

The river, and the area around it, have the potential to become a social and cultural artery connecting the communities along the river. The proposed project will integrate differing venues of recreation, show-casing local artistic creativity, providing a cul-tural event center, and become the catalyst for com-munity development. This under utilized part of Los Angeles will be a place for people to gather and find a new connection to those around them. Ultimately, the Los Angeles River will become a social and cul-tural hub for visitors and locals alike.

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GUIDEBOOK L.A. RIVER

One Lodge, Two Worlds, In�nite Experiences

Alfonzo OrtegaFall 2014ARC 401

Irma Ramirez

ONE LODGETWO WORLDS

INFINITE EXPERIENCES


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The project required site selection, various factors were considered in the selection: proximity to landmarks as is the 6th Street bridge which itself has a popularity among Hollywood Cinema and advertising agencies. Close proximity to public transportation, both Light Rail and Metro Buses. Additionally a Pedestrian traffic study was generated which track individuals in the surrounding areas and simulated pe-destrian movement. The study mapped directionality and den-sity of pedestrians, several studies were conducted with various site locations rendered. The selected site is situ-ated just south of the 4th Street bridge which allows for pedestrian access to Metro Light Rail, located within 5 min-utes of walking distance. 6th Street bridge is located south of site with enough distance for mutual appreciations and enough distance as to prevent our project from com-pletely overshadowing the bridge thus allowing for the bridge to remain its own hierarchy.

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On the East Side an abandon parcel was acquired to create East Side Plaza that created an open space that allow for outdoor ac-tivities, physical, artistic and educational. On the West Side a connection to the up and coming Art’s District which includes an Urban lifestyle surrounded by art, fine dinning and other perks. The pedestrian bridge consists of circulation paths that created various connections between both sides of the Los Ange-les River. The overlay of the these Circulation Paths help de-fined our lodges massing. The Circulation paths have various destinations, both horizontally and vertically. The loft is di-vided into two levels that have unique experiences, the Lower Lodge is the adventurous side since its closer to the river and at time of rain the water comes within 2 ft. of the floor. Fur-thermore the views are oriented into the river which at night has an underground life and access into that life is available. The top lodge is oriented into the surface with framed views of down-town and San Gabriel Mountains. A public Viewing Park was created on the roof that allows one to have a 360 degree of the site, juxtaposing the context.


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LEGEND1 Vehicle Drop-off2 Plaza Garden3 Running Path4 Civic Plaza/ Flex Space5 Outdoor Fitness Center6 Train Tracks7 Ramp to Entrance8 Murals9 Lodge Pods10 Elevator11 Journey Path12 Lower Lodge13 Registration14 Self-Help Graphics15 Viewing Pods

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URBAN POLLINATION

NET-ZERO ENERGY STUDIOFORTH YEAR DESIGN 402

CAL POLY POMONA WINTER 2015PORTLAND, OR

MIX-USED - HOUSING - SUSTAINABILITY

3dsMax - AutoCAD - Manual SketchingIllustrator - Photoshop - Building Codes


URBAN POLLINATIONLURE THE POLLINATORS

REPRODUZE COMMUNITYKEEP PORTLAND WEIRD



URBAN POLLINATION


As our population grows, so does our energy consumption and carbon footprint, it is crucial that we consider our energy impact on every project. The competition, called for students to design a net zero energy, mixed use, multifamily building for a site in the heart of Portland’s Eastside. Given the site's demographics and rich local culture there was a challenge and opportunity to generate amazing architecture that helps illustrate the connection between high performance building and high design and provide evidence that performance and design are inherently complementary. There were three main criteria for the project: social, economic and energy consumption.

The project engages and compliments existing social events that locals engage in with great emphasis on pedestrian friendly spaces cater by local shops and framed by the cities colorful landscape that includes the integration of beautiful roses reminiscence the city of Portland. Architectural moves as the inset of the building mass and the enclosure of sidewalks with large amounts of landscape as the Urban reclaimed space help generate a vibrant flexible social space rich on possibilities. Ultimately the project is intended to become Portland's Eastside HUB cater by four groups of local shops dominant in the local area: Health, Cuisine, Arts and Entertainment. An Urban pollinator that lures people, helps reproduce community ties and KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD.

DESIGN PROBLEM

SOCIAL & ECONOMIC : URBAN POLLINATION

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Existing site conditions generate problems andopportunities in the exploration of thearchitecture

Courtyard Scheme selected to meet the high FARrequired by competition at the same time generatea communal environment implied with the courtyard.

Exploration into space creation and pedestrian transition led to the creation of interior courtyardwith narrow entrances that open up into a large space.

Massing bisection as reciprication to pedestrianand environmental forces impose by existingconditions




Urban reclaimed space, rather than bring buildingfootprint to the site edges, the building masswas pushed back in order to generate social spacesthat address and emphazise on pedestrians andgenerate opputunities for social interaction.

Housing and Green design finilized building mass. Landscape integration as means of space enclosureand softening of facade and environment, creationof Pond element as a rebirth of destroyed existingpond.

Pedestrian circulationExploration into space creation and pedestrian transition led to the creation of interior courtyardwith narrow entrances that open up into a large space.


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The project is a five story building, the entry level consist of retail component while levels two through five consist of the housing component. The four levels of housing are broken down into two repetitive elements that house single and double floor units, reducing the corridors by half.

Three repetitive unit types were created to accommodate the different users. There is a single unit with open floor plan, a two bedroom unit with public spaces on bottom plan and private bedrooms and balcony on second floor and a one bedroom unit. All three units have high efficiency energy appliances that reduce energy consump-tion. All units have high performing windows facing either north or east as to avoid solar heat gains during the summer and have maximize environment light as to reduce energy consumption. The modular component brings the cost of construction down, the units are also coor-dinated with the structure grid and leave flexible spacing for mechanical elements to be integrated. Entrance into the units comes from double height social corridor adjacent to the south and east facing green house.

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SINGLE UNIT16 UNITS8 UNITS PER 2 FLOOR COMPOUND

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Rsidential units were design as modular units in ref-erence to the vertical circulation shafts which are continous from ground to roof and enclosed in glass bringin in natural light and emphazising the transi-tion into the residential area. The single unit type was design adjacent to the vertical shaft, plans are mirror along the vertical shaft.


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TWO BEDROOM UNIT PLAN16 UNITS8 UNITS PER 2 FLOOR COMPOUND

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The Two Bedroom Unit has a single module on the Residential Entry Level, and two modules on the upper floor, one of the modules sits on top of the Single Unit. The Two Bedroom Unit is the higher end unit that includes a balcony.


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ONE BEDROOM UNIT PLAN24 UNITS12 UNITS PER 2 FLOOR COMPOUND

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The One Bedroom Unit is the most common unit as a response to the target user, it has public space in the bottom with the private bedroom on the upper floor.


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SE BIRD’S EYE VIEW

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INTERIOR COURTYARD


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energy of the sun to create a thermal barrier that helps both cool and heat a building. The approach performs better in cold environments; nonetheless, the cavity utilize as the double skin serves no spatial use for the user.

The intent was to enlarge the cavity to allow the space to become a social space that allow user interaction while acting as high performance facade and green house. The corridor is juxtaposed to the green house in order to create a visual cue to the unit’s en-trance and the green house.


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Housing units were highly insulated to avoid heat losses, given the projects location the greatest energy consumption is heating.

Heat capture by heating panels cir-culates trough the floors slabs that uniformly radiate heat into the unit.

Heating panels were located within the green house as to absorb most of the radiant heat gains. High per-formance perforated curtain was in-stall to block summer heat gains.

Direct heating can be provided via an air duct that brings fresh warm oxygen filter within the green house into the unit while a small opening located on near the floor removes toxic co2, utilized by the plants.

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SUSTAINABLE SECTION DIAGRAM

MANUAL DRAFTING

MANUAL DRAFTINGARCHITECTURAL MANUAL DRAFTING

SECOND YEAR DRAFTING 271EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FALL 2012

DRAFTING UTENSIL - 2010 ENTITLEMENT PROCESS

MANUAL DRAFTING

FLOOR PLANSFLOOR PLANS

ELEVATIONS ELEVATIONS

MANUAL DRAFTING

DETAILSSECTIONS

EXPLODED DETAIL EXPLODED DETAIL EXPLODED DETAIL

CHARCOAL AND PENCIL DRAWINGS

CHARCOAL AND PENCIL DRAWINGARCHITECTURAL FREE HAND DRAWING

FIRST YEAR DRAWING 105EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FALL 2011

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CHARCOAL DRAWINGS

CHARCOAL DRAWINGS

PENCIL DRAWING

PENCIL DRAWINGS

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