Andres Jimenez Selected Works 2016

ANDRES JIMENEZUNDERGRADUATE

ARCHITECTUREWORK SAMPLES

ANDRES JIMENEZ

DYNAMIC POROSITY

ThesisA dynamic porosity allows a space between two other spaces to overlap both visually and physically with other interstices. The two end spaces include the user at one end and the extent of view or access on the other. For example, in a courtyard a user on ground level looking at the sky will look through the same space between a user on a third floor looking across to their neighbor. The use of specially designed elements can tailor both visual and physical access independently and simultaneously.

ProgramLow income and small scale living housing modules serve as components to form the spaces between.

Scale

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4”

Scale: 1’-0”=1/4”

5th Year

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RTH

08’24’56’120’

Scale: 1/32” = 1’

NO

RTH

08’24’56’120’

Scale: 1/32” = 1’

INTERMODAL HUBChicago, IL

Design ChallengeCreate a hyperlocal, yet regionally connected mixed-use market and micro-unit residences. Connect the programs to the adjacent transit center for bus, subway, and train to create a catalyst for the Jefferson Park neighborhood.

Design ConceptThe project approaches the site and programtic requirements from both architectural and urban planning points. In a neighborhood with several vacancies, the project takes the original site expands it into vacant buildings that present opportunity for greater integration of a mixed use market and residential units with existing nodes of interest.

NO

RTH

08’24’56’120’

Scale: 1/32” = 1’

NO

RTH

08’24’56’120’

Scale: 1/32” = 1’

Partner Project4th Year

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EUROPE TRAVELWestern Europe

ExperienceOver the course of three months, we traveled and researched European architecture, history, city planning, culture, and construction in over 50 cities in nine countries throughout Western Europe. Projects visited encompassed a complete range of history and scales.

FocusI focused specifically on analyzing natural lighting as a strategy in architecture, the technology that permits it, and the effect it has on spaces.

4th Year

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LIGHT FROM ABOVEBlacksburg, VA 3rd Year

Design ChallengeDesign a church, along with spaces for supplemental religious functions, to replace the current Luther Memorial Lutheran Church.

Design ConceptA church should be an emotionally-provoking comfortable and inspiring space to host both individual reflection and community worship. This space is created through comfortably modest sized spaces which are only extended through a connection between sanctuary and sky, and its religious significance. Through this decision the building can be grounded and set within the terrain, thus becoming one with the earth.

1/16”=1’0”

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kitchen

fellowship hall

classroom

classroom

organ pipes

cistern5000 gal

cistern5000 gal

choir

classroom

pastor o�ce

assistant pastor o�ce

large group gathering space/library

receptionspace

storage prayer/ meditation

living room

horizontal geothermal loop

library

storage

closet

mechanical[+geothermal heat system]

mechanical[+water catchment

system]

waterproof membrane

extruded polystyrene

backfill

filter fabric

perforated drain pipecoarse gravel

waterproof membrane

metal roof deck + poured concrete

steel structure

1/4”=1’0”

concrete slab

gravel

cruciform steelcolumns @ 20’ oc

vabor barrier

reinforced site cast concrete wall

W sectionsteel beam

1/2” dia. steel cables

metal roof deck

live roof

site poured concrete

metal deck

extruded polystyrene insulation

perforated metal ceiling panels

concrete roof

insulation

rock mulchcoarse sand

drainage layergrowing mediumsedum plants

skylightslope 1/4” per foot

bronze panel

ANDRES JIMENEZ

OLYMPIC PLAZAAmsterdam 2nd Year

Design ChallengeDesign and define the Olympic Cultural Plaza at the heart of the Amsterdam 2028 Olympic Park to serve as a lively interaction point for the public, both during and after the Games.

RESTAURANT AND OLYMPIC EXHIBITION/CULTURAL CENTER

BRIDGE TO NORTH DISTRICT

MALLAMPHITHEATER

AMSTERDAM HISTORICAL MUSEUM

ACCESSABLE GREEN ROOF SKYWALK

OLYMPIC OFFICES (EXISTING)

OFFICES

HEALTH FACILITY

TRAM STOP

HOTEL AND APARTMENTS

Design ConceptThe event of the Olympics is temporary, but through creating program-matic architecture, the site can become an opportunity for a space that is suitable for such a large event and for an expanding dynamic city.

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FUNCTION PLANSCALE 1/24”=1’-0”

CLASSROOM/COLLABORATIONENTRANCE AND ADMINISTRATIONOUTDOOR SPACE- gym and cafeteria extension- open sport fields

LARGER LEARNING AREAS-music and art-cafeteria and gym

PICK UP/DROP OFF AND PARKINGBUS LOOP

BRIGHT FUTURESBlacksburg, VA3rd Place CEFPI Competition Winner

3rd Year

Design ChallengeDesign a new 94,000 square foot STEM elementary school for 800 students in Blacksburg, VA. The building should influence healthy leadership, healthy eating, healthy body, and healthy mind. Learning spaces should include formal and informal, and collobarative spaces.

Design ConceptUse daylighting by predicting, controlling, and dispersing natural sunlight through ceiling and wall conditions. Daylighting, as opposed to artificial lighting, creates positive effects in student and teacher health, morale, and memory retention which in turn cause for a more effective education.

Entrance Cafeteria Hallway AtriumClassroom

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DISASTER RELIEF New Orleans, LA 2nd Year

Design ConceptA temporary structure used for disaster relief can evolve into a comfortable, sustaibable, and permanent dwelling.

Disaster

Families displaced to temporary

shelters

Clean Up

Areas cleaned for temporary

shelters on home sites

Resettlement

Temporary shelters expanded or replaced to

permanent dwellings

original SIP shelter

designed screens

Screen apertures orient away from the sun to shield from direct radiant heat and to diffuse intense outdoor light indoors.

incident light

diffused light

FLOOR PLANSCALE 1’-0” = 1/4”

W/DREF.

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aluminum panels

bolt fastening system

silicon seam

double pane glazing

anodized aluminum claddingwith 1” spacing

DensGlass Gold sheathing

waterproof membrane

rigid insulation gympsum

3/4” metal roof decking

perforated metal ceiling tile

6” concrete slab2” rigid insulation

6” concrete slab

3/4” metal roof decking

perforated metal ceiling tile

6” concrete slab

rigid insulation

concrete column beyond

poured reinforcedconcrete wall

window frame

waterproof membrane

gravelcant strip

NORTH WALL ELEVATION

RESEARCH FACILITYPulaski, VA2nd Place Competition WinnerRecipient of RCI Scholarship

2nd Year

Design ChallengeDesign a facility to host both expiremental and educational functions pertaining to buildng enclosures. The participants of these activities will range from groups of students and educators; owners and builders; and architects and consultants.

Design ConceptThere are tendancies of building in an historic town to try to immitate the existing architecture and in turn create a false history. The design for this project strives to make an honest connection to the history of the town while also giving it a prospect for the future. The town boomed in the late 1800s from metal manufacturing and farming. As a research and educational facility for metal, useful modern technologies can be complimentary and adventagious to the growth and legacy of the town.

DaylightingThe roof monitor and window louvers are designed to accept sun in the winter and take advantage of the light without heat gain during summer.

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HOMO-HUMUS-HUMANITASBlacksburg, VAPartner Project

3rd Year

Design ChallengeThe bathroom is often the most neglected space in architecture. We were tasked to design a rest stop for pedestrians walking along the Duck Pond on the Virginia Tech campus.

Design ConceptThe building is designed to be interconnected between every layer. It is common to think of privacy as a cut-off, but the bathroom has spacial connectedness while maintaining visual privacy.

HEART CAMBIUM BARK BRANCH

SustainabilityThe building is built into the hillside to make use of geothermal heating, makes use of angled roof for optimal angle placement of photovoltaic panels, and collects site water in a cistern to use in the toilets.