Portfolio_Rodriguez

Giovanni Rodriguez

Portfolio Architecture

About

Ambitious / Adaptable / Critical Thinking / Team Work

Language English(native) Spanish(proficient)

Education Skills

Oak Lawn Community High School

University of Illinois at Chicago (Bachelor of Science in Architecture)

AutoCAD Rhinoceros Photoshop Indesign Ilustrator Chicago, IL giorodr9@gmail.com (708)-941-0144

Into The Woods

Instructor: Clare Lyster

Year: FW 2025

pg. 04-07

Another Block

Instructor: Sarah Dunn

Year: SS 2025

pg. 08-15

The School as

Instructor: Francesco Marullo Year: SS 2024

pg. 16-21

Tilted Tower

Instructor: Kelly Blair Year: FW 2024

pg. 22-27

CenterStage

The project is organized by how we view the landscape. Mostly users experience landscape looking outwards from a building. What this project does is to flip this narrative by bringing the landscape into the interior of the building. By containing the landscape inside users experience the outdoors while being inside. Small windows on the exterior look outwards from the building create a confined feeling, but the glass curtain walls to interior courtyard allow a grand view of the a 40 year old crab apple tree and a public scape that acts as a stage for a range of activities. The building is raised off the ground allowing the bike trail to carve into the central space allowing park users to participate in the space while cycling by.

Another Block

In this project, the Kitagawara Apartments was the main inspiration of how it used its space by creating a collective space that the residents of the apartmnets had to share. With the concept of sharing your kitchens and laundries is an interesting aproach. However in these simple modular units the rooms are large enough for one person to live or work. Because of this they are not meant to be permanent homes and are to be used temporary. The main focus of the design is how people experience three types of spaces: private, public, and collective. The private spaces are the small individual units, where each resident can have their own personal living area. The public spaces are found at the ground level acting as a market space that the public can gather and pass through. On the upper levels is the collective space for residents, where they share terraces, lounges, and the kitchens. This allows the residents to interact with other residents while still maintaining their own privacy.

The School As...

The idea of our school was inspired by the KAIT workshop and how the program space were determined by the people and not by walls. We viewed our school as the studio. We wanted to explore the idea of changing the idea of what a Studio is. Originally, it’s a class where students go to work on projects. For us, we believe Studio is way more. Studio includes relaxing, eating, socializing, and hanging out. In studio, students are able to roam around and do whatever they feel like doing. By doing so, our studio isn’t bound by walls and instead is found in the negative space. Students can simply hang out and socialize in the same studio space where other students could be working on a project, and others are relaxing outside. We wanted to create a sense of segregation between studio and the other programs by placing the programs inside a walled room. Furthering the idea, studio is free while the programs are spotted in set locations. Above each program room if a hole in various shapes in the roof. This allows the building to get natural sunlight and create shadows to act as shade for students. The roof continues past the floor space to allow the studio space to continue further out into the outdoor space.

Tilted Tower

This project is built out of deconstruction parts from the McCormick Place East. McCormick Place is known for its rectangular glass box shape. Its black color is also an important feature for its design. With the new construction of using these same parts, the project stays consistent with the original form. The glass boxes are a motif of the original design. However, a new element that is added is the brick boxes that are slightly tilted. The tilted element creates a lot of new designs that affect the original glass box. The brick floor plates can either puncture through the floor plates and appear on two levels. It also can remove the floorplate and create a hole allowing people to look down or up into other floors. These design changes allows the light to enter and move through the building more freely. As a result, the space feels more open and creates new experiences for the people to interact with.

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