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W O R K

R E F E R E N C E S

R E S E A R C H

October 2010-March 2012Marketing Management

ARCHI-LINEEngaged in conceptual iz ing digita l market ing and advert is ing solut ions for d i f ferent subsidiar ies of the corporat ion inc luding San Marco Ti les and Luminesce L ight ing Systems.

E D U C A T I O N

r e s u m e2014Master of ArchitectureUnivers i ty of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI

2011Basic Interior DesignPhi l ippine School of Inter ior DesignMani la , Phi l ippines

2010Bachelor of Science in Management, Minor in MarketingAteneo de Mani la Univers i tyMani la , Phi l ippines

March 3-7 2014

Architecture Externship

INCORPORATED NEW YORKA br ief externship that involved working on REVIT, construct ion documents and schedules , as wel l as learning the design and off ice logist ics of the f i rm.

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Engl ishFi l ip inoChineseSpanishFrench

June—October 2009Brand ManagementREVIVING CINDERELLA

A project to revita l ize the department store chain , the study concluded with reposit ioning market ing strategies towards young adults and overhaul the brand’s image.

September —November 2009Marketing ResearchEXCLUSIVELY HIS TAILORING SOLUTIONS

The project involved survei l l ing the market for Exclus ively His and present new demographic opportunit ies for expansion and propose new market ing strategies .

November 2008—March 2009Marketing AnalysisPEDRO FOODS

A start-up food truck business vending popular F i l ip ino street food with rebranding strategies . The proposal was a cross-breeding of street cul inary culture with h igh epicures .

Rania Ghosn

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Univers i ty of Michigan

[email protected]

Keith Mitnick

Associate Professor of Architecture

Univers i ty of Michigan

[email protected]

Christ ian Unverzagt

Assistant Professor in Pract ice in Architecture

Univers i ty of Michigan

[email protected]

VOLUME DEPRESSION

VOLUME ELEVATIONbar skylight and roof access

bar

restaurant access from ground level

restaurant

vehicleramp

pedestrianascent

waterfront theater

Polson PierBoardwalk

workshopspace

exhibitionspace

restaurant/bar

TORONTOART

CENTERsituations studio

As an up-and-coming recreational area, Polson Pier offers an excellent site for an creative center equipped with facilities that allow interdisciplinary collaboration. The form folds itself back towards the city of Toronto, allowing interior and exterior spaces to frame views to the city while accommodating the creative exploration and expression

Old Tunnels PedestriansTrainsRiver Streets

21 ft

20 ft

1820

1855-1858

1910

1928

1929

1925

1950s-1980s

Today

City Raising from Original City Datum

First Alterations to the Chicago River

Providing access to rails

Completion of Wacker Drive

Completion of Union Station

Introduction of Two-Tier Streets in Chicago

CommercialPropertiesaquired inAir Rights

Transactions

Chicago Daily News Building to be the firstdevelopment through air rights negotiations

Development over rail lines in the city

Continued development of air rights plots andnegotiations between Chicago Union Station Companyand private actors

Development of Air Rights above Union Station

StreetcarTunnels

Freight Tunnels

579.5 ft above sea level 2 ft

18 ft

14 ft

19 ft

Chicago City Datum

Clearance height for boats

28.5 ft

Upper Wacker

Chicago River

Elevated Rail

Subway

Elevated Pedway

Underground Pedway

Lower Lower Wacker

Lower Wacker

20 ft

15.5 ft

16 ft

15.5 ft43 ft

MultipleGrounds

Taxonomy of the City’s Sectional Complexity

(RE)UNIONUnion Station Revitalization

networks studio in collaboration with Andrew Baird

Chicago Union Station today stands merely as a relic of a bygone era of industry. In pursuit of revi-talizing this icon and reestablishing its relationship with another city icon, the Chicago River, a study about the vertical richness of the city instrumen-talizes the city’s layered vernacular to reclaim and reframe the landmark.

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8000 SQ FT (400 SQ. FT PER ROOM)

3500 SQ FT

6000 SQ FT

(32 SQ. FT PER PERSON)

1350 SQ FT (9 SQ. FT PER PERSON)

2100 SQ FT (75 SQ. FT PER PERSON)

3000 SQ FT(200-800 SQ. FT PER SHOP)

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PAIRsituations studio

The project involved combining an ordinary activity and an ordinary site and speculate a surrational situation. In this case, the combination was that of selling pants in a train station, which generated a subway station that is mechanically operated by the commuters with gates’ turning stamping out trouser patterns and energy harvested from steps.

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HAVENEILANDWEST

systems studio

Haveneiland West serves as a central haven for artists and designers that pepper the city through-out. This project caters to the economy of artists, creative professionals and their patrons, cultivating a symbiosis. Duplex units separate private spaces from the more public gallery levels that snake through the complex.

DOMESTICFETISH

options studio

Hardly a house for living, the resident is postured as the exhibitionist who puts her lifestyle on display for the world of fetishists to view. The tropes of domestic decoration are reappropriated as programmatic spaces, while the architecture of illusionist and painterly spaces unravel with programmatic ambiguities.

T E R R A R I U M

H E A R T H

B A Y W I N D O W

C H A N D E L I E R

GLITCH AFFECT Phenoenology of Dissonance

THESIS

Mining the illusionist and sensorial devices deployed in the spatial and immersive work of the Light & Space era and contemporary interactive art serving to reinvigorate an architecture that deviates from architecture of rhetorics and semiotics, the ambition is to cultivate the asignifying potential of spaces, emphasizing an architecture of sensorial possibilities.

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immersion 01 / plan immersion 01 / section

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S u s p e n s i o n S t r u c t u r e

D i � u s e r B a c k g r o u n dMeant to reflect the upward light emissions back into

the installation proper

A refurbished factory, the great hall is the largest space in the UCCA compound and is connected to other smaller galleries.

Circumventing the oval, the spotlights inundate the park with light alternating between uniform heart rhythm and a canon of arrayed heart rhythms.

Controlling the series of spotlights on site, heart rate monitors on both sides register the visitors into the array of flickering lights.

In order to create a completely open installation space, the ceiling structure is suspending from ceiling rafters and the walls of the great hall

RGB Fluorescent lamps are arrayed across the ceiling above the grid meant to conceal and reveal the fluorescents.

With the structure horizontally crushing users with a lowerd ceiling, the horizon slopess into the wall on the two ends of the room

G r i d d e d C e i l i n g S t r u c t u r e

Multiple rows of RGB Fluorescent bulbs fill the ceiling arrayed to generate a color geography blending and delineating the space

R G B F l u o r e s c e n t s

S l o p e d F l o o r s

3 - D T r a c k i n g C a m e r a s

S l o p e d E n t r y / E x i t

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2500 L or water pumped a 1000 L/Min must simulate drop speed

from 12M at 4M

I n j e c t i o n M o u l d e d O u t l e t s

Ceiling grates designed with smaller outlet spacing to allow

for optimal rainfall and more individual outlets

S i n g l e L i g h t S o u r c e

A single spotlight is placed opposite the installation entry to articulate the raindrops and to simulate the familiar

experience of a rainy night

Eight Cameras on two walls track users as they enter the space mapping dry zones

where people occupy the space

The grated floor concealing the rainfall runo  beneath is sloped unpon entry

and exit, smoothing the transition from the museum.

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P U L S EP A R K

F E E L I N G SA R E

F A C T S

Olafur Eliasson & Ma Yansong

UCCABeijing, China

2010

Rafael Lozano-HemmerMadison Square Park

New York, NY2008

rAndom InternationalThe Curve at the Barbican

London, UK2012

R A I NR O O M

T H A N K Y O U F O R Y O U R C O N S I D E R A T I O N

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