Valeria BustosPratt Institute 2014

School of Architecture

URBAN POST-DISASTERHOUSINGProject:OEM HousingLocation:Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYYear:Summer 2013

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE

Project:BoathouseLocation:Bronx, NYYear:Spring 2013

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REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

URBAN POST-DISASTERHOUSING

PRATTGRADUATEDORMITORY

Project:DormitoryLocation:Brooklyn, NYYear:Fall 2012

ST. MARKSLEARNINGCENTER

Project:KindergartenLocation:Staten Island, NYYear:Spring 2012

NARRATIVEOF JOINTS

Project:Spatial Design- ModelYear:Fall 2020

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C O L U M B I A UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSEProject:BoathouseLocation:Bronx, NYYear:Spring 2013

Hudson River

Columbia UniversityAthletic Complex

Inwood Hill Park

Columbia University has decided to upgrade its boathouse facility on the Harlem River adjacent to Baker Field sports complex and Inwood Hill Park. The boathouse is designed as a “tailored” shed that is informed by the parameters of shell/ oar storage, access and the movement of the body in space. The shed is to be responsive to the interior and exterior pressures of program and site. The shed provides natural light and ventilation through its operable exterior walls and facade. The boathouse project is a perfect opportunity to engage in such a critical response to the water’s edge. Through a careful design, a series of structures which refuse to contribute to resource depletion and wetleand destruction, provides opportunities for community engagement with the city’s most underutilized natural resource, its waterfront.

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LobbyAdministrationCommunityBoat StorageTraining Parking

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Legend:

1- Stone Pavers2- Sloped Insulation3- Concrete Slab4- Rigid Insulation5- Insulated Glass6- Green Roof7- Filter Fabric8- Reservoir Layer9- Moisture Retention10- Aeration Layer11- Drainage Layer12- Root Barrier13- Protection Course14- Roof Waterproof15- Metal Decking16- In Slab Vents17- Thermal Break18- Coxed 8 Shell19- Boat Rack20- Frame with Frosted Glass21- Column Footing22- Pile Cap23- Gravel24- Sand25- Pile26- Drain Pipe

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Section 01

Lobby, Parking & Training

Boathouse Storage

It is a challenge to shelter New Yorkers in place after a storm. The difficulty of housing a large population of renters as well as owners in proximity to their neighbors and corner stores led OEM to study the posibilities of pre-fab-ricated multi-family dwelling and to the comission, with FEMA, the construction of a proto-type. The design explores the impact of placing the proto-type in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It explores the potential needs and benefits to the residents and their local economic and social networks. Pratt Institute’s Recovery Adaptation Mitigation and Planning program (RAMP) demonstrates how the prototype could keep people close to home by rebuilding urban neighborhoods. The prototype units used in aggregate as vibrant components, reflected the need of the neighborhood as possible safety networks within the community.

LEGEND SHELTERS/ ACADEMIC FACILITIES

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URBAN POST-DISASTERHOUSINGProject:OEM HousingLocation:Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYYear:Summer 2013

Possible Shelters

B/Q Expressway

Site Location

STACKING UNITS PRO-VIDES ADDITIONAL BAL-

DOUBLE BEDROOM

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SINGLE BEDROOM & COMMERCIAL SPACE

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SITE: PARKING

ELEVATED UNITS

CASCADING ROOFTOPS

ELEVATED WALKWAYS & BALCONIES

Double Bedroom

Single Bedroom

Triple Bedroom

Single Bedroom &Commercial Space

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Third Floor Plan

Roof Plan

LONGITUDINAL SECTION: FOOD COOPERATIVE AND ACADEMIC FACILITIESSCALE: 1/16” = 1’ - 0”

Commercial and Recreational Spaces

LONGITUDINAL SECTION: FOOD COOPERATIVE AND ACADEMIC FACILITIESSCALE: 1/16” = 1’ - 0”

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Section 01

Circulation, Corridors, & Balcony Spaces

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7TH FLOOR3/32” =1’- 0

PRATTGRADUATEDORMITORYProject:DormitoryLocation:Brooklyn, NYYear:Fall 2012

Brownstones

Warehouses

Site Location Kent Avenue

Franklin Avenue

Considerations when building in any city must respond to con-text and establish a position with respect to the fabric of the city- New York City. The design is a mid-rise graduate housing community of 55 two and single bed-room apartments for Pratt Institute. The site is a 15,000 s.f. infill site in Brooklyn adjacent to the Pratt campus. The design of a medium density dormitory housing is an opportunity to investigate multiple limitations and an architectural identity in an urban area. The use of a structural module is taken as a point of departure for the housing project. The regularity of the module is used to allow volumetric invention with regard to public spaces. The structure emerges as spatial determinant. The individual dwelling unit is explored in light of the contrast between public and private space.

Roof Plan

7th Floor Plan

6th Floor Plan

Legend:

Circulation Level Below (Duplex Units)

Back Facade & Circulation

7th Floor and Roof Patio, Interior View

FACADE

Front Elevation

FACADEFront Facade

Front Facade Frame

Exterior Stair

Back Facade

Channeled Glass & Window

Back Facade Frame

Sliding Glass Doors

Balcony Space

Exploded Axonometric of Facade Layers

Back Elevation

The process of the project began with the design of a prototypical class-room. These classrooms were then repeated or iterated and their strategies were extended to develop the larger interior and exterior environment of the overall kindergarten which was located on a steeply sloping site in St. George, a neighborhood located in Staten Island, NY. As the aggregation and assemblage of the different classrooms formed there was an opportunity to create a “playscape” on the roof of the building. The roof gave way for an additional space to be used as a recreational area, yet have a sense of uniformity throughout the project. The roof made different levels accessible to different classrooms and different areas of the program.

ST. MARKSLEARNINGCENTERProject:KindergartenLocation:Staten Island, NYYear:Spring 2012

Special Planning Areas

St. George’s HistoricalDistrict

Sloping Site Location

Hudson River

PLAN 01 PLAN 02 PLAN 03 PLAN 04 PLAN 05 PLAN 06 PLAN 01 PLAN 02 PLAN 03 PLAN 04 PLAN 05 PLAN 06Roof Plan Ground Plan

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Classrooms

Music & Gym Facilities

Administration

Section 01

Program Diagram

Building Structure In Relation To Contour & Site

Example of a Classroom In Relation to Roof Playscape

Excavated Site

Ground PLane for Classrooms

Classroom Prototypes

Structural Grid

Roof/ Playscape

Exploded Axonometric of Aggregations

NARRATIVEOF JOINTSProject:Spatial Design- ModelYear:Fall 2012

Joint of Space, the established tectonic characterizes a spatial joinery. The joints dematerialize and the voids charge. Understanding the cube as an embryonic possibility, out of which something differentiated and therefore ‘not cube’ would arise. Sequences of geometric transformation, then constructed tectonic ensembles to enact them. Continuing the idea of transformation, alowed for a static rather than a dynamic system. To create legible systems of structure and enclosure that took “identities” that were open to transformation within, and re-relation between. This play of identities created hierarchies of spatial and material enclosure that constituted as this final project.

Section 01

Cubic Spatial Diagram Research