DIANA DURAN ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
DIANA DURAN
Albuquerque, New Mexico | dianaduranumana2@gmail.com | 505-688-2637
Education Colegio Virrey Solis
Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia High School - Private
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico Amigo Scholarship Cum Laude BAA in Architecture -Spring 2017
Relevant Experience Importaciones Duran & Cia
Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia Costumer Service Manager January 2011- May 2013
Student Publications - Daily Lobo Albuquerque, New Mexico Design Assistant May 2016 - August 2016
School of Architecture & Planning Albuquerque, New Mexico Administrative Assistant Intern Marketing Assistant Intern February 2016 - May 2017
Studio Soutwest Architects Albuquerque, New Mexico Externship May 2017 - July 2017
Cherry/See/Reames Architects Albuquerque, New Mexico Architecture Inter July 2017 - Present
Profile Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society Gamma Lambda Chapter - UNM Member
Womens in Design New Mexico
Proficiency Rhinoceros AutoCad Revit
Lumion InDesign
Member 2016 - Present
Illustator
American Institute of Architecture Students - AIAS
Office Suite
Member 2016 - 2017
GreenBuild Conference Volunteer & Participant Los Angeles, California October 2016
AIA Albuquerque Golf Tournament Albuquerque, New Mexico August 2016
International Embassor Volunteer University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico Fall 2014
Emotional Intelligence - Conceptual Pedagogy Volunteer Foundation Alberto Merani Colombia
Photoshop
Languages English Spanish
Fluent
Native
References Tina Reames
Principal of Cherry/See/Reames Architects 2017 President of the American Institute of Architects Albuquerque Chapter tmreames@cherryseereames.com
Roger Schluntz
Professor + Former Dean schluntz@unm.edu
Ane Gonzalez
Assistan Professor anegonzalez@unm.edu
CONTENTS Studio Work Public
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Mixed Use
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Residential
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Exposition Center - Spring 2015 El Paso, TX - Downtown
Crest Apartments - Spring 2016 Albuquerque, NM - San Mateo Blvd 14
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El Paso Brick Bridge - Fall 2017 Historic American Engineering Records - Library of Congress
Others
School of Architecture & Planning Website 16
BRT Lighting Competition
18
Borders | Arch Out Loud
20
Recreational
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Oasis Hotel - Fall 2016 Albuquerque, NM - Lomas Blvd
Light Cascade - Spring 2017
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School of Architecture & Planning
University of New Mexico
Hospitality
The Chamizal National Memorial - Spring 2017 El Paso, TX & Cuidad Juarez, Mexico
Public
Spring 2017 Lecture Series
Smith & Union Plaza Revitalization - Fall 2016 University of New Mexico Main Campus
Bath House DMZ - Spring 2017
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Trekking Cabins, Latvia - Fall 2017
Wellness Center - Fall 2015 Albuquerque, NM - Downtown
Public
Nativa| Bee Breeders
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STUDIO WORK
EXHIBITION CENTER El Paso | Texas |USA San Jacinto Plaza, Downtown Public Mixed Use | Spring 2015
FLOOR PLANS
BEDROOM
KITCHEN + LIVING ROOM
EXTERIOR PATIO
RESIDENCE - 3RD FLOOR
INTERACTIVE WALL
COFFEE SHOP
PROJECTION ROOM
INFORMATION CENTER - 2ND FLOOR
RESIDENTIAL ENTRY
INFORMATION DESK
GIFT SHOP
INFORMATION CENTER - 1ST FLOOR
SECTIONS DIAGRAMS
Cafe
Gift Shop
Residence Theater
EXHIBITION CENTER MULTIPLICITY
SECTION LOOKING EAST
SPACE DISTRIBUTION
SECTION LOOKING SOUTH
SECTION LOOKING NORTH
PASSIVE LIGHT
INDIVIDUAL VS SHARED EXPERIENCES
FUNCTIONALITY
The exhibition center is located in El Paso, Texas. This is an infill project projected to be public building. It will serve the community and tourist that frequent downtown. The facility will be a place where people can find information about what is happening in the surroundings. Art, music, history, sports and political meetings. The announcements will fill the space with periodic activities with which we will reactivate downtown and San Jacinto Plaza and commerce in the heart of El Paso. We will make this project interactive where you decide what to see and the type of information you want to see. Render | Lumion Model | Rhinoceros
TWISTING Albuquerque | New Mexico |USA 4th Street and Gold Street Retail | Mixed use Fall 2015
CONCEPTUAL MASSING MODEL
O SEBASTIAN
DOWNTOWN FITNESS BODY PERFORMANCE
THIRD FLOOR
FOURTH FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
Downtown fitness is located at 4th and Gold street in Downtown, Albuquerque. This project is intended to be a mixed-use space that benefits the residents and professionals living and working in the surrounding areas. The purpose of having a fitness center at this side of the downtown area is to reactivate the corridor and allow flows of people to spread further and not located just along Central Ave. The fitness center is inspired by the movement of the body and the flexibility of the skin. the twisted facade allows to create dynamicspaces that provide the opportunity for activities like indoor climbing to become special and personal. The complex accomodates two dancing rooms, cardio and weight room, spa and salon, two pools, two climbing walls, a skate park underground, coffee shop, juice bar, and offices. Model: Rhinoceros Render: Vray + Photoshop
FIRST FLOOR
UNDERGROUND FLOOR
CREST APARTMENTS Albuquerque | New Mexico |USA San Mateo Blvd and Bell Street Residential Mixed Used Spring 2016
A B TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE
C D E
DIAGRAMATIC FLOOR PLANS
COMMON AREAS
A
UNITS FLOOR PLANS
TYPICAL 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS
2500 ft²
2500 ft²
B
900 ft² 1500 ft²
TYPICAL 1 BEDROOM + 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS + COMMON AREA
1500 ft²
CREST APARTMENTS
C
TYPICAL 1 BEDROOM + 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS
900 ft²
900 ft²
STREET PULSATIONS
1500 ft²
The Crest apartments are located in the international district, one of the most important zones in the city. The crest apartments is a project proposal that intent to redensify this space and bring a new face to this part of town. After and extensive examination of the history of the site, uses, and new needs claimed by the community; The project materialize social, economical and cultural aspects.
SECTION
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The Crest apartments provides exclusive common areas for residents only. The common areas are elevated above ground, this provides a sense of security and exclusivity, accompanied by breath taking views. The dynamic elevations of the common areas are the solutions to necessities exposed by the community.
PRIVACY + SAFETY SURVEILLANCE BEAUTIFUL VIEWS
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SECTION LOOKING SOUTH
Additionally, due to orientation of the complex and the height of the towers, it is proposed a translucent concrete that will allow for lit spaces in the interiors during the day, and as reference point at night time due to the emission of light coming from the interior to the exterior. All this to increase security around the complex and the neighborhood. Modeling: Rhinoceros Rendering : Vray | Photoshop
SECTION LOOKING SOUTH
• SECTION LOOKING NORTH
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The hearth of UNM, Smith+Union Plaza sees thousands of students walk through every year, it has been a place for memorable events that vanish along with the soul of the plaza. Now it's time to revitalize, allowing the new generation to enjoy from it; a new life that allows gathering and the creation of new memories. The plaza is begging for a new language, and for new defined spaces. The intent with this proposal is to revitalized the Smith plaza, repair major damaged spaces, and provide complete and easy ADA compliant access to the plaza Graphics: Autocad
OASIS HOTEL
Albuquerque | New Mexico |USA Lomas Blvd @University Blvd Hospitality | Fall 2016
Lobby
Business
Front Desk
Retail I
Restaurant
Outdoor Sitting
Bar
Retail II
Level I Public
Kitchen
Back of the House
Laundry
SECTION A3- EW
Wet Zone
Service Entrance
Spa
SECTION A4
Conference Rooms
Level II Private Ballroom I
Public Gym
Back of the House
Ballroom II
OASIS HOTEL BOUTIQUE HOTEL
Located at the west end of the development, the Oasis Hotel will provide meeting spaces for the university community and health centers surrounding the site. Located at the heart of the city, the Oasis enjoys breathtaking view of the mesa and convenient transportation facilities close by. Level III Private Public Back of the House
This development intends to activate the site with densification and pedestrian activity by providing spaces necesserary for the university a well as the general public. The interactions between pedestrians and vehicular flow will energize the area. The Hotel will provide the community with a place where visiting faculty, staff, new students, and guests can stay and enjoy from staying at walking distance from their centers of activity without worring about transportation. Render: Rhinoceros + AutoCad
RBT LIGHTING COMPETITION Fixture for a Museum Lobby Washington, D.C. Individual Entry | Spring 2017
10’
This lighting fixture is intended to provide the museum guests a magical and refreshing experience. This museum’s spaces are constantly evolving and changing. They are spaces where the best ideas and dreams are exposed to the world. I believe that creating transitional elements inside a museum lobby is an interactive and engaging experience that will bring out different emotions every time someone visits the museum.
8’
FRONT VIEW
The fixture holds itself in a steel frame. It is eight feet high and ten feet wide. The structure supports itself by a metal plate on the floor that prevents the structure from tilting and allows people to walk on it. The sources of light are LED strips that are battery powered, located at the top of the structure. The light is carried from top to bottom through fiber optic strings. The color characteristics and the quantity of light produced by the LED strips can be change and personalized with a remote controller producing more than 44 colors. The most intense light will be at the bottom of the structure and reflect up due to the reflective metal plate. The lighting source is separated three inches from the fiber optic filaments in order to provide a curious component to the fixture. The light cascades could be rearranged and reconfigured into different shapes and spaces, providing a variable range of options to enhance the museum lobby or any other event space.
12’
4.5’
Reflective Steel Sheet
TOP VIEW
3”
Copper Wired LED Strips
USE OF FIXTURE & POSSIBLE ARRANGEMENT
1”
Brushed Steel Horizontal Support Fiber Optic Rope
SECTION VIEW
POSSIBLE SPACE ARRANGEMENTS
EXPLORING BORDER CONDITIONS Bath House DMZ - Spring 2017 DMZ - South Korea + North Korea Reverse Roles Letter to President Trump Chamizal National Memorial - Spring 2017 El Paso, Texas + Cuidad Juarez, Mexico
BORDERS
DMZ, Korea Team Entry Cesar Vargas+Diana Duran Spring 2017
REVOLVING IDENTITIES A simple geometry with extensive meanings inspires the design of the bathhouse. The taegeuk is a symbol tied to the Korea culture. It is formed by two spiraling identities that represent equality, balance and the continuous cycle of life. This duality is expressed by the two entries facing East and West. One entry represents the warm experiences and the other the cold. The revolving circulation creates interior spaces that evoke perpetual motion where the two identities meet in a shared pool and come together as one. It is till you are in the shared pool, where you realize that you have only experience half of the journey...
CHAMIZAL NATIONAL MEMORIAL
Spring 2017 El Paso, Texas + Cuidad Juarez, Mexico April 1st, 2017 The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500 Mr. President Trump,
Before you became The President of the United States of America, discussions about immigration problems have always been present in the president’s agenda. Your campaign addressed immigration issues in a bold and controversial manner. You proposed to build a border wall to divide Mexico and the US and stop terrestrial illegal immigration. But I think you meant that you are completing the existing wall for a fence totaling 2,000 miles long. I don’t think you seem to understand the different implications this barrier could have.
REUSING, RECYLING AND RESHAPING THE WALL Fence Typologies Of The U.S - Mexico Border
During your first week in the position you signed the executive order banning people originally born in other countries from entering the United States. This decision touched thousands of families inside and outside the nation, your decision Mr. President had an overseas impact. It not only disturbed the people directly affected and their families, but also thousands of other immigrants that know what is like to feel discriminated and pointed at, just because they come from a different part of the world. Your decision Mr. President was an act of racism and discrimination. Today we all has high hopes that your decisions will take a wiser path. But since we know that you are a man of conviction I know your version of the border wall will be built somehow. Then Mr. President I ask you if you really want to physically isolate the country. Are borders even important anymore? We talk about the US as a globalized country but you still try to isolate us. Do you really think that a wall will protect us from pollution, terrorism, or poverty? History hasn’t favored human-made borders. Walls have inspired rejection, and they have failed and been ridiculed. I can almost predict an upcoming series of unfortunate decisions that will raise the desire of Americans to move to different countries. Maybe Americans will become the new illegal immigrants settling all over the world. Imagine the majority of this country urging to escape the affect of your decisions. In summary what I truly hope is that if you accomplish to complete the border wall, that the wall itself will show us how ridiculous of an idea is to isolate the country you are “looking after.” I hope we realize that we have the same power to build, to destroy, and to reshape this wall to our own will, because I know that even though walls will keep rising, we will keep tearing them down. I really hope this wall shows us that maybe this is the early and painful beginning of the formation of a new bigger and better country that celebrates the greatness of these two already great countries – the United States and Mexico. Sincerely, ThisIsNotAWall
13 FOOT MESH FENCE
CHAIN LINK FENCE
RECYCLE GULF LANDING MAT FENCE
18 ft STEEL BEAM FENCE 18 FT STEEL BEAM FENCE
CHAMIZAL NATIONAL MEMORIAL CELEBRATING THE GREATNESS OF TWO COUNTRIES
2020
2040 2030
WALL CONDITION
ADAPTIVE REUSE
MUSEUM
EROSION CONTROL
Chamizal National Memorial Museum
AMPHITHEATER
Merging the wall into the landscape to take advantage of different levels of privacy within the park.
RE-PURPOSE A RIO GR
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Trading Markets Markets are a critical component in rebuilding local economies. By providing a cost-effective, retail sales opportunity for local producers.
Memorial of the Border Crossers
The deaths of migrants have been a predictable and inhumane outcome of border security policies on the U.S.-Mexico border over the last fifteen years.
SKYLIGHT Modular Unit
STRUCTURAL INSULATED PANELS Units Spaces for Privacy
ENTRY
STEEL STRUCTURE Unified Mix of Units
INTERIOR AMENITIES
WATER PROOF EXTERIOR DECKING Cluster with different orientations to server groups and individuals
SOLID WOOD FRAME
Cluster of small units for small trekking groups
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RIO GRANDE
The El Paso Brick Company and its mining claims were established in 1897 on the New Mexico side of the Rio Grande, across from El Paso, Texas. El Paso was a booming railroad and smelter town and new buildings were being constructed of brick. The brick plant across the Rio Grande was constructed close to an exceptional source of shale, the raw material for bricks. However, when it came time to deliver the bricks to El Paso, the company had to load wagons, travel upstream to a wagon crossing, and then back down into town: a four-mile trip. The company constructed small bridges to connect their New Mexico site to Texas, but it was not until 1931 that a substantial bridge was built. At that time, the Southern Pacific Railroad, El Paso & Southwestern Railroad (EP&SW), and El Paso County collaborated to construct a bridge from El Paso county to the brick plant. The Southern Pacific allowed the bridge to be constructed in its right-of-way, and the EP&SW worked with El Paso County to develop the bridge as part of a county road project. A special set of circumstances resulted in two railroads and a county government working together to create a Rio Grande crossing to a private company--the El Paso Brick Company was an important part of the development of El Paso, and became an economic factor for the EP&SW.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW SCALE: NOT TO SCALE
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
NEW MEXICO
TEXAS 2 A-102
RIO GRANDE
CREOSOTE TIMBER BEAM
CREOSOTE TIMBER BENT, TYP
HORIZONTAL XBRACING, TYP
STACKED WOOD PLANKS
CONCRETE FOOTING
STEEL COLUMN
LONGITUDINAL SECTION SCALE:1/16" = 1'-0" 0'
8'
16'
32'
64'
RIO GRANDE NEW MEXICO
TEXAS 8'-7" 10'-0" 10'-0" 10'-0" 10'-0" 10'-0" 10'-0" TYP
TYP
TYP
TYP
TYP
50'-0"
50'-0"
50'-0"
50'-0"
50'-0"
30'-0"
5'-4"
TYP
UNDERSIDE SCALE:1/16" = 1'-0" 0'
8'
16'
32'
64'
3-
RIO GRANDE
A-103 ---
16'-11 1/2"
NEW MEXICO
47'-8"
2'-6"
354'-4" 47'-8"
2'-6"
47'-8"
2' - 6"
47'-8"
47'-8"
47'-8"
33'-10"
TEXAS 1 A-103
TO AMERICAN EAGLE BRICK COMPANY
TO PAISANO DR
DETERIORATED DECK TYP
PLAN SCALE:1/16" = 1'-0" 0'
8'
16'
32'
64'
1/2"
5'-0"
1/2"
5'-0"
5'-0"
1/2"
5'-0"
1/2"
3'-0"
DOUBLE ANGLE FLANGES
ANGLE WEB STIFFENERS
METAL RIVETS
3' X 5' METAL PANEL, TYP
PLATE GIRDER SCALE:
1" = 1'-0"
CAUTIONARY SIGN
ANGLE BRACE
STEEL ANGLE
3" METAL PIPE GATE GUSSET PANELS
WOOD DECK
STEEL WHEEL TRACK
TIMBER ABUTMENT
CONCRETE FOOTING
STEEL STRINGER
8" BEAM
HORIZONTAL X-BRACING
RIO GRANDE
2 A-102
NEW MEXICO ABUTMENT SCALE: 1/2" = 1'-0" 0'
1'
2'
4'
8'
CREOSOTE TIMBER BENT, TYP
STEEL DRIVE PLATES ON WOOD SURFACE
TIMBER ABUTMENT
GATE
METAL GUARDRAIL
DETERIORATED DECK, TYP 1 A-103
EARTHEN EMBANKMENT
START OF WOOD DECK / END OF ABUTMENT
PLAN - TEXAS ABUTMENT
SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0" 0'
2'
4'
8'
16'
8"X8" CREOSOTE TIMBER CAP
CAUTIONARY SIGNAGE
8'-10"
1/2" STEEL PLATE
STEEL PLATE WHEEL TRACKS
BOLT WITH CLAMPING PLATES, TYP
15'-6 1/2"
3" STEEL PIPE
WOD DECK
1/4" STEEL PLATE
3" 1'-5"
3'-1 1/2"
1/2"
STEEL ANGLE
2'-10 1/2"
2"
3" 2"
1'-5"
2'-6 1/2"
1/2" STEEL STIFFENER
3'-0"
PLATE GIRDER
WOOD DECK
8" 10"
CREOSOTE TIMBER BLOCK
STEEL STRINGER
8"
HORIZONTAL X-BRACING
12" STRINGER
2'-4 1/2"
CREOSOTE TIMBER CAP
TIMBER SWAY BRACE
ANGLE, TYP
5" STEEL PIPE
TENSION ROD
8" STEEL BEAM
5'-7 1/2"
5'-7"
6'-3 1/2"
SECTION LOOKING EAST
CREOSOTE TIMBER BENT, END CONNECTIONS SCALE: 1/2" = 1'-0"
SCALE: NOT TO SCALE
CRITICAL CONNECTIONS SCALE: 1 1/2" = 1'-0"
OTHERS
SPRING 2017 LECTURE SERIES Marketing Design Set School of Architecture + Planning Spring 2017
JINHEE PARK SINGLESPEED DESIGN US
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27TH | 5:30 PM GARCIA HONDA AUDITORIUM MARJORIE MEAD HOOKER VISITING PROFESSORSHIP
MICRO-URBANISM Jinhee Park received a Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a B.F.A. in Industrial Design from Seoul National University. Her work at SsD has been celebrated through numerous awards including a 2015 Best in Competition Award from AIANY. SsD is an architecture firm that approaches design as a convergent, interdisciplinary venture that aspires to bridge the utopian and the pragmatic. Instead of separating aspects of architecture, urbanism, landscape, history, social systems, and codes into their constituent disciplines, these essential design ingredients are simultaneously explored so that minimum form gains maximum effect. In this way sustainability emerges as an integrated rather than additive result.
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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
SA+P HOMEPAGE Spring 2017 http://saap.unm.edu/
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