Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Contents.
First Year
Hand Drafting. Pen Technical Draft.
Second Year.
Rest Station. Catenary.
Third Year.
Church.
Fourth Year.
Animal Shelter.
Misc.
Travel Photography.
To the right are a couple of sketches I made in one of my travels; Above is a decorative wall that works as a waterfall, below is a catholic church in the town of Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico. Medium used: Pen and Ink Notebook.
This page contains hand drawings I made through my first 2 semesters of school, mostly basic geometric designs, we were instructed only to work on the exteriors and facades.
Rest Station.
This project was to be built outside of town, next to the highway from cities Chihuahua and Juarez, being located in the middle of the desert we had a lot of room but no services whatsoever , so my design was to use whatever material already in the area, earth from the site, and wood from its surroundings, the design is very simple, and area with travel information, rest rooms, eating area, and a landscape gazer. I tried to use all the light from the exterior to use minimal electricity, its open concept allowed it to gaze much of the natural landscape, the design was to simulate sand waves in the dunes.
Front Elevation.
Left Elevation.
Aereal View.
Catenary.
In this project we only had 2 weeks to develop a conceptual proposal, the only requirement was to design infrastructure or urban furniture to be placed on a residential area, and the restriction to be a catenary structure. I choose to design a canopy on the walkways that connect the houses and buildings to make walking in those areas more appealing to the users. I used wood for all the framing, and natural wool shade designed to fit it and fall freely forming the catenary. Perspective in place of Conceptual Design.
Aereal view.
Front View.
Elevation.
Plan View.
Church.
One of my mid-studies projects, we were asked to design a church, any denomination, being from a mostly catholic country I decided to go that way. This project has a lot of symbolism in it. First off is made of basic geometrical shapes, a simple sphere in the center, representing perfection and God; It is open to the sky or Heaven. It is above ground representing the hard path to ascension and the penance of the believers. All the wooden sticks represent the individuals and families from all over the world approaching God. The water pond symbolizes the purification of the believers before coming to paradise. The whole structure forms a cross, a powerful Christian symbol, that is visible from all directions. The staircases are painted only on the risers, this conceptualizes only one point, ascending to heaven is a pleasure, and descending is really bad.
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In this project I was involved in the overall design, but more particular in the design of building A, this was designed to the government. The main design was a envelope similar to a cactus skin, this with the purpose to project an image of protection to the animals, envisioned first to fit a desert area, a place in which people would feel comfortable, come around to adopt, identify it as a positive aspect of the city, and promote similar projects to be built on other cities of the country. All the exteriors are massive to influence positively onto the city, and we tried to gain as much space to green areas as possible, hence given it a more natural look filled with local plants and trees.
Main entrance.
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Building A.
My specific building to work with. This was designed with the purpose of collecting the animals, evaluating them, deciding if they are fit and healthy to be put up to adoption, and offering the service of euthanasia a cremation of pets to the public. The program encompasses, kennels, deworm showers, isolated kennels, freezing room, incinerator chamber vets. Clinics, re, search and zootecnic control lab, offices, dinning hall, lobby and reception. Building A.
Evaluation and deworm clinic. Patio and Services. Lab. Cremation Chamber
Exterior Kennels. Big kennels. Small Kennels. Vets. Head Office. Lobby. Offices.
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Building B.
My part for this design was very basic, we discussed the main layout the formal relation of this and other building and some zoning plan. This building was designed to be operated by the NPOs its function is very different from building A, but without it the whole project lacks a more humanitarian side. This building contains mostly exhibition areas so animals can be adopted, dog a cat areas are separated, it has a formal veterinarian clinic, offices, a patio for the animals, and one of the most important parts is the lecture hall, in which education can be provided to the community, as well as local schools can make trips to receive information on the needs and obligations an animal represents.
Veterinary Clinic.
Building B.
Front Desk.
Offices.
Lectures Hall.
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Travel Photography.
Here are some examples of photographic work Ive done, these photographs reflect other interest that I have, I feel really inspired and attracted to pre-hispanic civilizations, thats a field I would like to pursue in the future at some other time, Im also very passionate abut naturalscapes and try to draw inspiration from it, although it is hard to get abstractions from nature to design compelling and at the same time functional architectural spaces, I believe that is very important to respect it and to some extent follow its example.
Fisherman's Boat.
Beach Sunset.
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Travel Photography.
Jacaranda Tree.
Uruapan, Mexico.
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Vctor D. Vargas