Work of Alejandro Gonzalez, copyright 2012. All rights reserved.

Alejandro

Gonzalez

Portfolio

Mini-Bio

A short bio of my scholastic and professional achievments

Born in Brownsville Texas.Graduated Preparatoria #7 in Monterrey Nuevo Leon MX. in 1995.Studied ESL and basic courses at Cuyahoga Community College.Studied Graphic Design at Cleveland State University.Enlisted in the U.S. ARMY in 2001. Awards: Army Commendation Medal. Joint Service Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal. Global War on Terrorism, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal.Certificate, CAD Technician, Hopkinsville Community College, May 2005.Associates, Applied Science, Print Graphics, San Antonio College, Aug. 2007. Recognitions: 8 projects chosen for VATC (visual arts & technology center) student art show. Project chosen as official Elderly Domestic Violence Campaign. Created official logo for Elderly Domestic Violence Task Force.Work Experience: CAD draftsman, Egan Martinez Design, Oct. Dec. 2005. Construction Supervisor, Costilla Construction Mgmt., Jan. Mar. 2008. Ad Designer, The Daily Cougar, Jan. Oct. 2010. Developer/Designer, Mexican Institute of Greater Houston, Oct. 2011 PresentFreelance Graphic Designer and Photographer. The Gonzalez Studio. TILDE Photography. Horwath Productions. Video Services International.Forum Coordinator, AIAS (American Institute of Architecture Students) San Antonio College Chapter.

Bayou Fish Lab

Electro-shade

ASCC

SAMMTS

Market Linearity

Solar Twist

Read-art

Photography

Graphic Design

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Site access and parking

Reshapes to to accomodate public program

Public Parking

Student & Researcher parking

Reshape to accomodatepublic programPublic Relationship

Campus Relationship

PublicResearcher

Student

BayouFish Lab

The Bayou Fish Lab is a research laboratory dedicated to the regional issues of Houston - Galveston water-shed ecology. The complex bayou to bay and Gulf water systems that make up the Greater Houston Area are being maped and studied in de-tail and added to greater regional information bases. The new facility will be shared by teams of profes-sional and student researchers that undertake granted studies in aspects of estuarial systems.

Clear Lake Marine Biology Laboratory

Flip

Rotate

Public Entry

Program Needed for Labs & Theatre+ Half of that for admin lobby and common areas

Service Entry

Building Circulation

Tank Chase + Mechanical Chasewith centralized distribution

Vertical Circulation

Void

Artifact Display Area

ETFE plastic w/photovoltaic elements, help diffuse light and collect solar energy.

Reception, Lobby + Research Display Area

Administrative Offices

Common Service Areas

GIS Theater +GIS Service Area

Mechanical + ElectricalChase Space

Laboratory Spaces

Spacial diagrams

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9 Dissection Lab10 Cold Storage11 Dry Storage12 Identification Lab13 Common Lab Chase14 M+E Room15 Staging Area16 Loading Dock

1 Lobby 2 Reception Area3 Administrative Offices4 GIS Theater5 Research Sample Display Area 6 Water Retention7 Mechanical + Electrical Chase8 Quarantine Lab Ground Floor Plan

Cross Section Looking West

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Second Floor Plan

17 Small Research Laboratories18 Large Research Laboratories19 GIS Server Room20 Server Room HVAC21 Server Room Electrical22 Exterior Green Spaces

Study models

Cross Section Looking East01 5 10 20 40

Ground Work + FoundationGround Gets prepared for foundations. Trenches for for grade beams are dug, and holes are drilled for casons. Foundation is poured. Raising the bulding level 6ft. of the ground

BeamsBeams are welded, secondary beams are places 10 o.c.

Corrugated Metal DeckCorrugated Metal deck is placed to pour concrete slab.

Trusses40 deep Jois Girders are used for primary spaning strcture and

open web josts are used as cross members, placed @ 10o.c.

Interior PartitionsInterior walls and glass is installed.

Column ErectionContinuos Columns are erected @ 30x30and 30x20 bays.

SlabConcrete slab is poured.

Building sequence

Detail Laboratory Section

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ChaseVertical Members for exterior chase are installed.

ChaseHorizontal members are installed.

SystemsMechanical, Electrical and Tank systems are installed in chase.

Exterior GlassExterior glass and furnishings are installed.

Cross Section Looking East

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Marketlinearity

The Market linearity project is a mar-ket development and office complex on the site of a major node within the houston metro rail system. The project unfolds it self into a linear concept (lit-erally). The project guides the person in a single line as it loops through the site to create outdoor spaces in order to accommodate a weekly farmers market. The project ends at a mid rise tower adjacent to a major Houston freeway containing the office complex, giving the working space the metro-politan feel that is Houston.

Market + office complex

Site

Rail lines

Buses

Cars

Hwy above

Right of way

New rail station

Pedestrian

Investigation of the flows of the site, environmental site analysis, demographics and distances.

Freeway to siteMain RoadWhitesAfrican AmericansHispanicsAsians

Site analysis + research

Structural + shading studies

Study models

Diagrid tightens where bigger stresses are found

Big masses are needed underground to recieve tranfered loads

Solar screen follows diagrid patterns and tightens where more shade is needed

Horizontal + vertical circulation diagram

Initial study model showing circulation Study model showing new office tower piece

Study model showing structure

First floor plan

1 Main entry + lobby to market2 Rail line electrical room3 Access from rail platform to market4 Blue rail line platform5 Permanent market stalls6 Park area for farmers market7 Performance area lawn8 Sitting area lawn9 Red rail line platforms10 Entry + reception area for office complex11 Lounge area12 wine bar

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1 Main entry + lobby to market2 Permanent market stalls3 Coffee bar and sitting area4 2nd floor office lobby area5 Offices

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West Elevation

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West Elevation

Site plan

The role of artwork is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actu-ally be ways of living, and models of action within existing realities, whatever scale cho-sen by the artist. The Electro-shade is a re-lational art piece at the site of a major rail and bus transportation node, that acts as a waiting station for rail and bus passengers providing shade for those waiting. At the same time the Electro-shade is composed of photo voltaic cells at the top that provide electricity to the shapes allowing people to charge their electronic devices. The design is arranged by a series of tangent circles which create a grid. The circles create a triangle which is also re-peated throughout the structure. This project was done in collaboration with Ivan Lopez .

Electro-shadeRelational art using parametric design

Parti diagram (tangential circles derived from one initial point)

Initial study sketches

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Specific pieces attach at a specific sequence in order to create the form.

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1 5 100Parametric definition

South elevation

Site plan

Top view

The design of the Ecology Lab demands thought into the interrelationship, tradition-ally separate disciplines and public space. The project serves as a public outreach pro-gram of a multidisciplinary institute study-ing human and natural effects on changes in the Gulf/Bayou ecosystem. Urban ecology informs the study of architecture at the scales of study linking urbanism, building, and envelope. The building twists at each floor allowing the water holding tanks to be ex-posed to the sun, where different organisms are being tested.

Solar-twistGulf-bayou Urban Ecology lab

Structural diagram Vertical circulation Programmatic Diagram

Mechanical

Theater

Artificial fields

Water holding tanks

Laboratories + offices

Public spaces

Vertical circulation

Concept model

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Site plan

1 Entry + lobby area2 Reception desk3 Reception office 4 Gallery area5 Mechanical/electrical room6 Lecture Hall7 Public access8 Water holding tanks9 Public access10 Lab area11 Lounge area + bathrooms12 Artificial field13 Climate controlled area14 Public Access15 Offices16 Small conference room17 Big conference room 18 External water holding tanks

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First floor planThird floor plan (similar for 6th & 8th levels)

Fourth floor plan (similar for 9th level)

Fifth floor plan

Seventh floor plan

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Study models

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Section looking north

The Architecture Student Community Center, is a place for architecture students to escape the stresses of the architecture studio for a moment, to clear up and rest up physically and mentally. The Idea of the ASCC is to move the student to a different set-ting away from that of the architecture studio. The main element of the building encases the sleeping areas. Taking into consideration the symmetrical composition of the architecture building the design takes over a different axis of circulation, relating to the central axis of the architecture building in the same North-South direction. Although asymmetrical in composition the design relates directly to the major circulation paths leading away and into the architecture building.

ASCCArchitecture student community center

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Parti diagram(circulation and separation of public vs. private)

Sketch of central axis betweenArchitecture and Fine Arts building Sketch of room partition

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First floor plan

1 Main entry 2 Lobby/Sign-in3 Counselors Office4 Outdoor Courtyard5 Counselors Quarters6 Counselors Laundry Area7 Living Area8 Dining Area9 Kitchen10 Student Org. Offices11 Custodial Area12 Mechanical Room

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Second + third floor plan

Study sketches

13 Sleeping Areas14 Mens Restroom + Showers15 Womens Restroom + Showers

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Study models

Section looking north

A Houston couple prominent in literary and archi-tectural circles has commissioned a new bookstore design featuring books on art, architecture and landscape architecture. In addition they would like to have a coffee bar with interior and exterior seat-ing. The garden will also be used to display their col-lection of Jesus Moroles sculptures. The clients have obtained a site near the Menil Collection, as they are interested in the urban and pedestrian qualities of the area. The bookstore and coffee bar should facilitate anticipated literary events and other enter-tainment functions.

Read-artMenil bookstore + sculpture garden

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Parti diagram(circulation through the building)

Indoor + outdoor circulation public vs. private

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Site plan

Longitudinal section

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1 Main entry 2 Reception Desk3 Book stacks + reading areas4 Bathrooms5 Book storage

6 Mechanic + electrical7 Rare book area8 Conference room9 Office10 Back porch

11 Caf12 Caf bar13 Storage14 Outdoor sitting for caf15 Sculpture garden

Floor plan

Parti model studies

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Study models

South elevation

Conceptual diagram Circulation diagram Parti diagram

SAMMTS

Continuing the semesters long inves-tigation of the relationship between architecture and movement. The San An-tonio multi-modal transit station would serve as a hub for Amtrak, VIA, BRT and Greyhound, integrating it with a historical building that originally served as a train station. By adding T.O.D. and a new program this historical building can be once again what it was originally intended to be.

San Antonio mult-modal transit station

Study model

Sectional model

Site analysis

Sketch of rail canopy

Underground floor plan

Ground floor plan w/proposed Transit Oriented Development

Second floor plan

Cross section

Sectional model

Cross Section

Longitudinal section

Through the Service Learning program students work with non-profit organizations and produce projects such as this campaign for the Art Direction class. Representatives of such organizations come to the class and introduce the project needed, when the work is complete they re-turn and select the one of their liking.

Poster Unveiling at Capital One Bank. In this picture (l - r): Repre-sentatives of the Task Force, my self, Brook Rosser (Art Direction teacher) and Audrey Grams (Ser-vice Learning Director at SAC).

Graphic design

Task force against elderly domestic violence

Ad campaign

Logo

Poster

Brochure

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GETS OLD

Report Elder Domestic Violence.

800-252-5400

H.E.B. Ad campaign

Two sided type poster

Scarpa shoe ad

AIAS casino night mailer

Harley anniversary poster

Logo

Patterns book cover w/spine

S.A.C. studen art show poster

AIASCASINO

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UH AIAS invites you to:

CASINO NIGHT 2011CASINO NIGHT 2011

September 14, 20116 pm - 9pmat the ARCH Center

$50 - Non-AIA Member$25 - AIA Member/Non-AIAS Member

$15 - AIAS Member

Student symposium poster

Rock + roll hall of fame mail-in invitation w/fold out poster

Angry landscape poster

Logo design for Heritage place winning horse

Wedding invitations

Other media

Pencil

Pastels + charcoal

Acrylics

Ink

Charcoal

Photography

Rome

Madrid

Pisa

Nimes

Contact Info

Telephone N

(210) 259-3027

alex@thegonzalezstudio.com

www.thegonzalezstudio.com

E-mail

Website

Work of Alejandro Gonzalez, copyright 2012. All rights reserved.Work of Alejandro Gonzalez, copyright 2012. All rights reserved.