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Index Military Experience.............1-2 Education.................................. 3-4 Awards and Recognitions................5-6 Design & Material Development...........7-8 Residential Building & Planning.............9-16 Commercial Building & Planning........17-22 Extracuricular Activities..................33-34 Internship Designs....................... 25-26 Construction Experience..........27-28 Profesional Work............ 29-33 ID Management........... 34

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Index

Military Experience.............1-2Education.................................. 3-4

Awards and Recognitions................5-6Design & Material Development...........7-8

Residential Building & Planning.............9-16Commercial Building & Planning........17-22

Extracuricular Activities..................33-34Internship Designs....................... 25-26

Construction Experience..........27-28

Profesional Work............ 29-33

ID Management........... 34

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one of the most successful engineer efforts demonstrated at NTC

chosen above his peers

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should you be recalled to active duty.

In these trying times ahead the US ArmyReserve needs your experience and training to protect this great country of ours.

You are authorized to perform inactive duty training

You are a vital part of the strength of the United States Army.

candidate for this unique assignment

immemediate response is necessary

Military Experience

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University of Colorado

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My Spanish Education Education

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Universidad de Vigo

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2005

2003

2004

Dean's Honor List

The National Dean's List

2003

2004

Only 1/2 of 1% of our nation's college students receive this award. We commend you for your accomplishments.

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Awards and R

ecognition

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awarded D.J. Hynek Memorial Scholarship

Kelvin is a lead student in the pre-development of a student group other than SODA in our college.

selected as a recipient of the Undergraduate/Graduate Scholarship

the field of architecture and minority issues.

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Shading development

Color Design Study

Sketching

Space Analysis

Design Development

Drafting

Research

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Material Explorations

To practice possibilities of diffrent "green" methods and materials . This enter-tainment center had little waste during construction. It is easily dismantled for storeage or to be transported to cope with studied human habbits.

Joint Studies: exploring tension and compresion stresses with minimal adhesive use for furniture construction.

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Desing &

Material D

evelpopments

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Residentail B

uilding and planning

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The Beach House built for a specific family in New Hampture. Many consepts within the program yet a main inphazize on the intersections of the family's path.

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In todays day and age we are forced to live in small urban settings where accomidations must be compressed functionally. This project development explored the posibilities of diffrent probable arangement of space

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Residential B

uilding and Planning

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ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of G

raphisoft.ArchiCAD

Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft.

ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of G

raphisoft.ArchiCAD

Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft.

ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of G

raphisoft.ArchiCAD

Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft.

ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of G

raphisoft.ArchiCAD

Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft.

ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of G

raphisoft.

ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft. ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft. ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft.

ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft. ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft. ArchiCAD Student version, not for resale. Courtesy of Graphisoft.

Project name:

Architect:

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12'-6" X 15'-1"

8' X 11'

Storage

Master Bath

closet

15'-3" X 16'-10"

3'-8" X 5'-5"5'-1" X 5'-5"

pantry

9'-2" X 6'-10"

Guest Bath

8'-8" X 4'-5"

13'-5" X 15'-3"

closet

laundry room

Master Bedroom

Guest Bedroom

Kitchen

5'-1

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44'-5

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51'

To get familiar with the new builging information program Archicad by Graphisoft, I rebuilt Michelle Kaufamn's Breeze House. The first floor drawn from excisting designs and basement was developed to accomidate the instructers program.

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Residential B

uilding and Planning

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Renderings:

Exterior images

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Interior images

Residentail B

uilding and planning

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Design is based on the study of sound waves and golden mean properties. Site located at Chitaqua Park Colorado -the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

Music Conservatory

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Reginal Transportation Department Office Building. The program context was an actual site in downtown Denver where one wall is butted up while the others face a busy pedestrian intersection . Curved corner maximizes the view of the mountains. Square footage increases verticly because the value of the space also increases. First floor is comercial to make the structure cost affective andopen pramanad to have a welcoming enviornment for passer-byes.

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mercial B

uilding and planning

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Latin Dance Club and Caribean Restaurant.Sublevels consist of Clothing and appearel retail spaces. Design based around Hispan-ic nature and customes.

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uilding and planning

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Affordable Housing for Artist

An actual proposal for the City of Westminster. This structure reflects many attributes of cinematography and art as a whole.

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StudioTwo Bedroom

Two BedroomTwo Bedroom StudioStudio

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Two Bedroom Studio

StudioStudio Studio

One Bedroom One Bedroom One Bedroom

North Elevation E/W Section

Third Floor Plan Fourth Floor Plan

“The Director of Photography is the custodian of the heart of film making ... as the writers are of its soul ...his tool is a box with a glass window, lifeless until he breathes into it his creative spirit and injects into itssteel veins, the plasma of his imagination .... the product of his camera, and therefore of his magic, meansmany things to many persons - fulfillment of an ambition .... realization of dreams.”- Cecil B. DeMille

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largest studnent group on campus.

Placed 9th in the race. Project driven and judged by inguniuity & creativity. Building a craft that can be so functional to be versitle in water, dirt, & mud is a huge self acomplishment.

Colorado's annual Kinetics Race

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Links Student Organization

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Extracuricular Activities

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Sun Study

Client Options:

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Internship Designs

Construction Documents

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City Papers

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Construction Experience

This bathroom was made for the clients intertainment. Aspects such as in-wall TV, 18" Tile, and lush steam shower with 4 heads, and surround sound stereo system complete a elegant yet fun enviornment. The shower's mosaic tile pattern follows properties of natural fragmentation.

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PRofesional W

ork

Main floor remodel. This project included the kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. The goal was to add value to the home at an affordable building cost.

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Landscape Blueprints

Landscape project which reflects properties of the Rocky Mountains and the neighboring golf course voted the best in Colorado.

Garage addition for a large family household that wanted to add square footage to their real estate. relating the excisting homes features were crusial in the development

Profesional Work

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Pop-top project for Rocky Mountain Real Estate Solutions. The program was to complete structural analysis and design a couple of second floor addition plans with new front faucade.

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Profesional Work

This particular project was for the City of Lafayette. The building is a historical landmark once a church is now a theater. The city asked me to design an extension of the property based on several criterias such as updated ADA regulations, storage nessesity, and intermediate place for conjugating. I proposed three diffrent options and this is the one they decided to construct.

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Finishing the basement in a six hundred thousand dollar home. It consited of mainly entertainment and lesiour spaces.

These are three deck addition options givien to this perticular customer. At the end it had to be structrually enginneered to support the dead weight of a hot tub.

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Property Management

ID is a new company in the Front Range area that provides very affordable prop-erty management for your home or busi-ness. We hire cheap labor to do handyman services and for larger homecare needs, like interior renovations or simply replac-ing a hot water heater, we compare the rates of three companies and provide the most cost effective. If interested please contact Kelvin Xuna at [email protected] or 720-937-9103

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These properties I manage are a hand full. Recently there was a pipe rupture wich flooded the majority of one of the homes. We had to knock down walls to find the rupture and tear carpet up to replace the padding.