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Marcela Gracia
PORTFOLIOselected works 08-13
contents c.v.
academic projects_selected
other_selected
professional work_selected
education, skills, experience awards, references, other
Casa Indiges_Senior Thesis _conceptual MOCA Tucson _conceptual Modular Porosity_ceramics factory _conceptual
Birdwatching tower _conceptual
Resting pavilion _conceptual Metabolic City _conceptual
College of Medicine intervention I _conceptual
Freedom by Design _built
College of Medicine intervention II _built
traveling sketches
nature drawings other drawings
Smart Lofts Ft. Huachuca
Raffles House
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SKILLS
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Pima Community CollegeTucson, Arizona Liberal Arts, AGEC-A Certification, Honors07-09
First LanguageAdobe Creative Suite AutoCADRhinocerosGoogle SketchupHand RenderingVray Rendering3ds Max Rendering
Spanish, native
Second LanguageGrasshopper for RhinoRevit 3ds Max, animation
Third LanguageItalian, 80%reading 50%spoken
Vint and Associates Architects, Inc.312 E 6th St Tucson, AZ 85705_July 2011-December 2011 _May 2013- now Schematic design Construction Drawings Light Office management
AIAS Freedom by Design_Volunteer: 11-12 _Director: 12-13 Schematic design Shop drawings Team management Public relations
faculty advisor Siri Trumble CAPLA lecturer t 520_626_9770 [email protected]
University of Arizona, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape ArchitectureTucson, Arizona Bachelor of Architecture, Cum Laude 08-13
Marcela Gracia520_312.0159
[email protected] [email protected]
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AWARDS+ACTIVITIES+INTERESTS AIAS_American Institute of Architecture Students-Active member since 08 -AIAS Freedom by Design team member 11-12 -AIAS Freedom by Design Director 12-13 -AIAS Mentorship Program Fall 11-Spring 13-Forum 2011, Phoenix, Az. -Grassroots 2012, Washington D.C.
Honors-Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society -Golden Key International Honor Society -“Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges” 2009
Awards-Be Discovered: Fashion Design Competition_Finalist -CAPLA Design Excellence nominee 11-12-2012 AIA Arizona Student Portfolio Competition_First Prize -SmithGroup Scholarship recipient 12-13 -CAPLA Senior Award nominee 12-13
Senior Awards-Best Capstone Award_Senior Thesis -Ronald R. Gourley Capstone Award for Design Excellence_Senior Thesis -Alpha Rho Chi Medal for leadership, service and professional merit -Faculty Commendation. 3.679 GPA
Interests_ArchitectureCultural relevancy+Architecture Fabrication+Materials+ConstructionSustainable Architecture Conservation+PreservationExtreme environments
R E F E R E N C E S
Brian Andrews Adjunct Lecturer, UA CAPLA ATELIER ANDREWS t [email protected] Robert Miller Director, UA School of Architecture t [email protected]
Ruben Caldwell Studio Tack t [email protected] [best by email Robert Vint Vint and Associates Architects, Inc. contact info upon request
Susannah Dickinson Assistant Professor, UA CAPLA t 520_621_6753 [email protected]
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conceptual
In order for Architecture to be meaning-ful and significant, it should be based on the careful analysis of the cultural geog-raphy of place, and the layering of time. In the understanding that in order for the Modern to exist, the non-Modern must to. The site is located in one of sixteen boroughs, called Coyoacan, being the geographical, and consider the cultural center of the city. The program responds to the economic, ritualistic and cultural needs of place, while attending to the climatic and environmental characteris-tics of the region through architectural typologies. It is comprised of an orphan-age, a housing complex and a market. It also takes into consideration the absolute need for orphan children to grow up in a place that showcases the realities of everyday life while conveying the culture around it.
Ronald R. Gourley Award for Design Excellence
Best Capstone Award
Senior Thesis_DesignStudio8Professor Brian Andrews
Casa IndigesCoyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico.
TRAFFIC/
INTERNAL ZONING
EXISTING AXIS
LOCATION
ORGANIZATION
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USES BREAKDOWNVOIDMASS
MARKET
HOUSING
ORPHANAGE
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EAST ELEVATION
MARKET COURTYARDThe local cultural practice of blanding public and private uses is explored in the shared courtyard between the housing complex and the market. The angular perspectives achieved by the positioningof volumes is counteracted by the introduction of catalonian arches. A semiotic element that pertains to the immediate identification of uses, i.e. public domain.
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ORPHANAGE COURTYARD
MARKETGALLERY
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION
NORTH ELEVATION
NORTH COLONNADEDORMITORIES
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1/2” : 1’ 0”
F.G. 100’0”
T.O.F. 113’6”
T.O.F. 127’0”
T.O.F. 139’8”
T.O.P. 142’8”
T.O.P. 145’8”
metal fence3’ concrete parapet extension
#5 rebar
brick paving
4” rigid insulation
recylcled wood boards
aluminum jalouise window
double pane insulated glass
6” rigid insulationwaterproof barrier
mechanical skylight-louvre system
double pane insulated glass
aluminum sections
cast in place concrete/pan form
11 g. L section
4” heavy timber
2x6 steel section
6” volcanic rock
6” concrete slabwaterproof layer
compacted gravel
drainage pipe
ARC452//CAPSTONE STUDIO//FIFTH YEAR//PROF. ANDREWS//MARCELA GRACIA//APRIL 2,2013//
WALL SECTION1/2” : 1’ 0”0’ 3’ 6’ 12’
conceptual
The development of downtown Tucson, and any other downtown, has to have an incremental, block-to-block, site-by-site nature to succeed. The unique settings in which the city developed and continues to grow, must not be ig-nored, but consciously acknowledged. This proposal aims to reconciliate the urban fabric of Downtown Tuc-son with the natural setting in which it exists, understanding that a build-ing does not stand alone in the city. Two main volumes create a focal point that brings awareness to the most prominent natural features of the So-noran Desert: the sky and th erth. The massing building welcomes pe-destrian activity into the museum, while keeping a more conservative interior to avoid a strong clash with the art inside.
AIA Design Excellence nominee
ARC401_DesignStudio5Professor Wilson Peterson
MOCA Tucson6 W. Congress St. Tucson, AZ
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height correla-tionto adja-centbuildings.
indentation infocal point
recessed court-yardand pedestrian ramp
CDS_FIRST FLOOR
CDS_SECOND FLOOR PLAN
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triangular slab allows forlonger spans and spacefor electrical and lighting
purposes.
underground mechanical rooms feed two vertical shafts the consequently provide the me-chanical needs for Each floor; building component activation
and mechanical ventilation.
thick insulated concrete walls work together with two solar chimneys to create desirable conditions. the solar
chimneys create a vacuum effect, sucking the cooled air from the
underground courtyard and shaded slanted walls into each floor.
ENTRANCE RAMP
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The objective of the project was to achieve an understand-ing of material properties and development of material craftsmanship applied to design, while conveying human experience. With the notion of tectonic connections, paired with a non-traditional approach with the use of heavy concrete elements, the building cre-ates a sense of both lightness and sturdiness for the purposes of human habitation and industrial activities. The concept of porosity taken from the ceramic’s properties is applied to construction to create permeability at a bigger scale; modular elements, program, public-private relatioships, and the blending of inside and outside.
ARC302_DesignStudio4 Professor Steven Ehlbeck
Modular PorosityCERAMICS FACTORY
1500 S. Cherrybell St. Tucson, AZ
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The interior open plan and the light quality created by the porous construction, create ideal conditions for the team-work based culture of factories, and provides a healthy physical, and emotional environment.
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INTERIOR VIEWxvi
conceptual
The wetlands in Southern Arizo-na created by reclaimed water cre-ate an opportunity for nature lovers to interact with the attracted fauna. The project presented a structur-al and functional problem resolved by the careful consideration for steel elements and cantilevered projections. Members in tension and compression acheieve the required structural equilib-rium in the vertical and horizontal forces. The interplay of stairs, landings and roof, create a dynamic combination of shade and shadow to activate different zones at different times.
ARC322_Structures2Professor Christopher Trumble
Birdwatching towerteam: Marco Juliani, Rene Corella, Alez Zee
(8”x8”) Steel Tube Section(1”) Thick
Cable HarnessWeld Joint
Platform
1” Bolts
steel cable (1”)
perforated metal panels (1/2”)
tube steel beams (1/2”)
steel boot
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tube steel beams (1/2”)
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A light frame pavilion with inhabitable spaces, defined by a structural assambladge in the form of a tripod column+cantilevered roof system. The composition derives introverted and extrovert-ed areas where social gathering, landscape, structure, and water management features are fully integrated.
All connection , and structural elements are specific to the internal and external forces applied to the structure,avoiding extra material and labor in the construction of it.
ARC322_Structures2 Professor Christopher Trumble
Resting Pavilionteam: Marco Juliani, Rene Corella, Alex Zee
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modular nodes that alternate in slope and orientation to
direct water.
shift modules in response to sun path
orient nodes according to vistas,vegetation and water direction;create introverted/extrovertedspaces according to wind flow
and ‘enclosed’ zones.
angled perception and entrancecreates the dynamism within theprocession, where the spatialconfiguration is ordered by thestructural hierarchy of the
modules.
CONNECTION DETAILS
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A CITY IS AN ORGANISMJust as vessels in a vascular network distribute energy and materials to c ells in an organism, road networks, paths, open space, distribute energy, materials and social relationships in an urban area. The notion that life-support functions provided by a network of natural ecosystems, with an em-phasis on inter-conenctivity, can be applied to both the human body, and the planning of cities. The similarities in processes and ener-gy exchanges, can lead to models for sus-tainability. The intrinsic efficiency of the hu-man body is an ideal model for a city that strives for natural processes in or-der to create and develop an eco-living. The actual model for most of the things in Architecture, is a lin-ear, inert model, with a linear and equally inert transfer of energy from the unsustainable built environment, to the natural world. To create truly sustainable cities, they have to be, con-ceptually and programmatically, connected to the natural processes, not isolated from them. The difference is that cities do not act in the same way that most organisms, due to the fact that the collective behavior of mass-es and the individuals, must be taken in to consideration in the making of rich environ-ments. The notion of a metabolic system is then applied to the regulatory processes of living, while at the same time, allowing for com-munity-driven living and an all-inclusive society.
ARC402_DesignStudio6 Professor Susannah Dickinson
Metabolic CityDowntown, Tucson, AZ
Arizona Challenge 2.0 Competition
conceptual
The site selected takes into consideration the desirable aspects for remediation: exploited urban core, vacant lots, closeness to the freeway. These factors contributed to the site being in downtown tucson, victim of an unsuccessful urban renewal project in the 60’s, that distressed the historical neighborhoods in the area. The project aims to reconciliate both sides of the freeway, create sustainable ways of living, respecting the historicity of the site, and creating new ways of habitation and relationship to urban environments.
SITE SELECTION
SITE PLAN
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waste water treatment
plant
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EXISTING_skin
NEW_muscular
GREEN_respiratory
BIOFUEL_immune
I-10VEINS_skeletal
AGRICUL_digestive
incorporation of existing neighborhoods to create cultural cohesiveness. historic neighborhoods areembeded in the site.
variety of program and construction forms. design allows for infill develop-ment and future vertical and horizontal expansions.
restoration of native wildlife by connecting to the natural corridors. the green interven-tion reconnects both sides of the freeway.
algae producing wall flanks the freeway, generating biofuel and distribution locally, and regional-ly. the wall also extends over the freeway to miti-gate noise and pollution
structural veins house res-idential, commercial and learning facilities connect-ing both sides of the freeway
local farming in desig-nated zones, and urban farming located in the ‘veins’ provide for the new neighborhood, and allows for resale value.
SITE SIZE: 49.25 acrePOPULATION existing: 300 new: 3000
JOBS: 500-2000 new jobs
EDUCATION existing: 41,800 sqft new: 55,450 sqft daycare, adul education, gallery, musem, comm. center COMMERCIAL 1st floor comm.: 50,550 sqft independent shops: 7200 sqft farmer’s market, bike shop, comm. center. BIOFUEL ALGAE WALL: 33,000 sqft produces: 35,000 g/year FARMING vertical: 57,600 sqft ground: 125,000 sqft
EXISTING
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green open space 15%
paved 39%
paved 20%
built 46%
built 29%
HOUSING TYPES studios 300 sqft: 110 units courtyard apts. 600-800 sq ft: 60 units apts./condos 1200 sqft: 860 unitS cluster housing 950-1500 sqft: 60 units
STATISTICS
green open space 51%
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Self-sufficient structures span west-east to reconciliate both sides of the freeway.The lightweight structural composition, allows for additive and modular components. the romboid openings are cladded with either opaque, translucent or photovoltaic panels, depending on the user’s needs. Their linear strategy provides an outlet for pedestrians and cyclist to walk along them, while at the same time getting shade on the north side. Their open plan allows the user to create their ideal living situation while being in touch with the rest of the community and in sink with the natural processes.
The south side of the veins is equipped with rotating panels for vertical farming. they allow the user to harvest them from the inside of their unit and resale them on the local shops at the end of the veins. Their rotational capacity allows for interior, exterior, sun, or shade gardening. The soil walls act as insulation during the extreme temperatures in the summer.
VEINS_concept
VEINS_food
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Houses along the existing historical neighborhoods take their planning and aesthetic principles from the sonoran row-houses. They provide a transitional typology into the other types of housing, such as the ‘veins’.
CLUSTER HOUSING SINGLE FAMILY_new+old
WASH VIEW+VEINSxxiv
The isolation of the plaza turns the entrance of the CoM into the necessary focal point, emphasiz-ing the importance of threshold. Based on previous surveys, the most important qualities looked for in the fu-ture intervention were: shade and sitting. The problem was approached from the view of rapid fabrication and digital derivation to accelerate the process in order to comply with time requirements.
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SIMPLE COMPLEXITYThe project presented an opportunity for a collaboration between the College of Medicine, and the School of Architecture at the University of Arizona. The CoM was looking for a new face to their building, while at the same time, reconfiguring their plaza to give it more prominence. The work presented here is part of the initial stages, where individually done proposal were presented to the CoM for selection. Simple Complexity became a finalist.
ARC451_DesignStudio7Professor Ruben Caldwell
CoM Intervention I SHADING STRUCTURE
UofA College of Medicine
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To unsure that AIAS chapters flour-ish locally, national offers a communi-ty service program called Freedom by Design, which utilizes the skills of ar-chitecture students ti impact the lives of people in their community through modest, universal design solutions. In Arizona, we have completed one project, and the other it’s on its way.
UofA AIAS Chapter
Freedom by DesignSouth Tucson+Marana, AZ
Involvement: 2011-2012: Design+construction volunteer 2012-2013: FBD Director
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client] Michael Williamsa] 802 w. calle de casa lindas involvement] design+construction volun-teer.
Michael was in a wheel-chair, and the difference in floor elevations made it hard for him and his wife to go out to their backyard.
2011-2012_SOUTH TUCSON
SHOP DRAWINGS
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FINAL PRODUCT
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client] Robert Cartwright, 33 y.o.a] 18391 w avra valley road involvement] FBD director
Our client suffered a stroke re-cently and requires both a walk-er and a wheelchair to move around his house and to his car. The stroke left him par-tially paralyzed, and this is were we come in. The house is elevated 3’ above the ground, which presents a problem for the dimensions of the ramp. His love for gardening introduc-es the opportunity to implement a small space for gardening in the design.
Five teams of 4 developed differ-ent ideas, and at the end we con-densated them into one design. After our firsts material dona-tions, the design adapted to those constraints and changed accordingly.
2012-2013_MARANA
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As part of a collabora-tion between the College ofMedicine and the School of Architecture at the University of Arizona, a design for a donor wall as a tribute to new and old donors was conceived. Most of the deisgn and build work was done duringFall 2012, and details were finilized on Spring 2013. The fabrication process was all done by our studio, where we all had a hand on every step of the process, while at the same time, having an emphasis on certain aspects. I was in charge of the acrylic panels where the plaques are going to eventually be placed. The wood paneling took about a total of 2 months from design, to fabrication to installation. The project has a very big scope that allowed us to be involved in many aspects of the design-build process. Everything was made at the school’s material fabri-cation shop and then transported back to the lobby at the College of Medicine.
ARC451_DesignStudio7Professor Ruben Caldwell
Involvement: Design development, acryclic design+fabrication, wood panel fabrication, construction drawings with Melanie George, and post-occupancy evaluation/pictures.
CoM Intervention II DONOR WALL
UofA College of Medicine
SITE/WALL CONDITIONS
CIRCULATION PATTERN
CoM
UMC
plaza
library
office
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32'-0 7/8"8'-0 1/2"
1 1/2"20'-3 1/2"3'-8 7/8"
3'-7 3/8" 5'-1 1/4"
9'-4
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3/4"
9'-0
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7'-11"5'-1 1/4"5'-0 1/2"5'-0 1/2"1 1/2"
LC LC LC LC LC
ALUMINUM TIMELINE
BASEBOARD
65" TOUCHSCREEN TV
POPLAR STRIPS
9' 4
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3/4"
9'-0
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13'-0 7/8"4'-8 1/4" 6'-7 1/4" 1'-9 3/8"
1 1/2"1'-5 1/2"2 3/8"6'-7 1/4"2 1/4"4'-4 1/2"1 1/2"
POPLAR STRIPS
1/4" ACRYLC DIFFUSER
1/2" CLEAR ACRYLIC
1/8" ALUMINUM MOUNTING BRACKETS
POPLAR CAP
CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE
NORTH WALL
EAST WALL
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1” clear acrylicplexiglass name plate
1/4” white diffusersteel reflector
Construction of the College of Medicine began in 1966 and completed in 1967, and was designed by Tucson architect, Bernard Friedman.
The following year, Merlin K. DuVal, MD, arrived at the UA as founding dean of the College of Medicine and set out to build a medical school from the ground up. With tireless enthusiasm, determination and steadfast community support, Dr. DuVal laid the foundation for what would emerge as one of the top
medical schools in the West.
Among his first efforts were designing and choosing a site for the original facility and raising the funds to build it. In what Dr. DuVal called "a people's campaign," a citizens' group known as Founders for Arizona Medical Education (FAME) raised nearly $3 million to build the Basic Sciences Building, where the first classes would be taught.In summer 1965, a federal matching grant of $4.3 million was awarded, and
construction soon was under way on the grounds of a one-time polo field.
Just two months after the first UA College of Medicine class graduated in 1971, University Hospital (now University Medical Center), the primary teaching hospital for the College, was completed, and the
College of Medicine was about to become a cornerstone of the thriving Arizona Health Sciences Center on the UA campus.
Louis J. Kettel, MD, served as dean of the College of Medicine from 1977-1987, succeeding Dr. DuVal (founding dean 1964-1971; acting dean 1973-1974), Jack M. Layton, MD (acting dean 1971-1973) and Neal A. Vanselow, MD (1974-1977). In his 1979 historical perspective on early planning for the College, Dr. Kettel wrote, "Moving rapidly the concept evolved of a health sciences institution which
could always react to and move with a changing society in its health care and scientific needs."
The College's commitment to diagnosis, treatment and research into causes of respiratory illness led to the establishment of the Arizona Respiratory Sciences Center (now the Arizona Respiratory Center), designated
the first Center of Excellence at the UA College of Medicine in 1971.
In 1963, after more than two decades of debate about the location of Arizona's medical school, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill by just two votes to appropriate funds to hire a dean and begin
planning the College at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Recognition of the great need for cancer research in the state spurred the renowned cancer program at the College and plans for the first major building expansion, the freestanding Arizona Cancer Center,
which was dedicated in 1986.
Merlin K. DuVal, M.D.Founding Dean
1964-1971Acting Dean1973-1974
Jack M. Layton, M.D.Acting Dean1971-1973
Neal A. Vanselow, M.D.Dean
1974-1977
Louis J. Kettel, M.D.Acting Dean
1977Dean
1977-1987
Vincent A. Fulginiti, M.D.Acting Dean
1988
James E. Dalen, M.D., M.P.H.Dean, College of Medicine
1988-2001
Raymond L. Woosley, M.D., Ph. D.Dean2001
William S. Dalton, M.D., Ph.D.Dean, College of Medicine
2002
Kenneth J. Ryan, M.D.Interim Dean2002-2004
Keith A. Joiner, M.D., M.P.H.Vice Provost for Medical Affairs
Dean2004-2008
Steve Goldschmid, M.D.Dean
2008-Present
PANEL CONFIGURATION
ORGANIZATION
The wood panel configuration is based on the service and maintenance needs of the future.
Three panels that cover the electrical circuits can be easily removed by sliding them up.
The two sides of the wall have the same configuration, but respond differently with the organization of the plaques.
The larger, east wall is dedicated to the donors, and the acrylic elements allow for many panel sizes to be put in. The north wall is dedicated to the historyof the college and onformation for current and past deans of the College.
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FINISHED PROJECTfinished March 2013
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3 buildings2 units per building
professional
We were approached by two developer clients in the Tucson area, to create a schematic design for their next project. Involvement: -Schematic Design (choosen design)-Presentation boards
Smart LoftsTucson, AZ - 2013
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professional
Included in the National Register of Historic Plac-es, Ft. Huachuca is a late 19th Century military base. Vint and Associates is contracted as a con-sultant for historic renovations. Involvement: -Assesment of historic buildings -Measurement and drawing reconstruction of historic buildings.
Ft. HuachucaFt. Huachuca, AZ - 2013
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A ranch house in eastern Arizona, where the client was the contractor as a one-man effort. He build the structure by himself and needed of the documentation required to do so. Involvement: -Schematic Design + 3d representation-Construction Drawings
Raffles houseDouglas, AZ - 2011
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drawings_travel sketches
Mexico City’s Cathedral. Pulpit. Mexico City, Mexico. Summer 2011.
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Courtyard, Casa Azul. Frida Kahlo’s house. Coyoacan, Mexico City. Summer 2012
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Nature Series Pencil. 2011
drawings
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Nature Series Ink and pencil, 2010
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drawings
Puebla Cathedral. Puebla City, Mexico.3d reconstruction from 2d drawings
Pencil, 2009, ARC232 History2xvliii
Dress design proposal Be Discovered: Fashion Design Competition. Finalist. Ink, pencil and color pencil, 2008.
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Marcela Gracia
PORTFOLIOselected works 08-13
