Antonio Pacheco 2015 Portfolio

2015

Proposals for Reconstructing Alamar

Contents:

Housing, Plaza, Park & Center

2013, Studio Project

Designed interventions aimed at adapting the climactic incompatibilities of extant Soviet-era housing in Cuba to a hot, humid climate.

OCH Kitchen Incubator

2012, Studio Project

An adaptive reuse proposal for derelict section 8 housing and surrounding lands.

A generic structure designed to facilitate the needs of a culinary academy in the Central City neighborhood.

Wetland Urbanism

2012-2014, Office of Jonathan Tate

Publication and traveling exhibition analyzing the resource-extraction industry’s impact along Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana. Exhibited: Houston, 2013; Buenos Aires, 2013; Rotterdam, 2013, Venice Biennale, 2014.

2012-2013, M.Arch I Thesis

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Antonio Pacheco

SKILLS

Digital TechnologyFluent in Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, 3D Studio Max, V-Ray, Grasshopper, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.

Physical ModelingExtensive hand drawing experience, small-scale wood working, silkscreening, and book-binding. Works well with digital mixed-media collage techniques; self-publishing and small-scale exhibition design.

Historic PreservationExperience with historic nominations process, Secretary of the Interior’s Standards, and Section 106 experience; has conducted surveys for National Historic Register nominations; generated as-built drawings and HSRs.

CulinaryTen years’ professional experience in various kitchen environments (Los Angeles, Saint Louis, and New Orleans); including two years as prodessional baker and one year as lead cook and kitchen manager.

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WORK

Supertext, Co-Founder, 2014New Orleans, LA.With Rebecca Fitzgerald; a research-oriented self-publishing endeavor focused on issues in design, urbanism, and architectural history.

Office of Jonathan Tate, Research Intern, Summer 2013 New Orleans, LA.Assisted in the research and design of a book and traveling exhibition about spatial registrations of Southeast Louisiana’s oil economy.

Tulane School of Architecture, Graduate Teaching Aid, Fall 2013 New Orleans, LA.Led weekly discussion section for introductory architectural theory and history course under Elizabeth Burns Gamard. Produced lecture material, assigned and graded writing assignments.

eVolo, Freelance Writer, Summer 2012New Orleans, LA.Daily news reporter for online publication. Assisted in photo-editing and copy writing; posted articles to the internet via Wordpress.

Preservation In Print, Design Intern, Summer 2012New Orleans, LA.Updated style-guide for preservation-oriented magazine under Mary Fitzpatrick; freelance writer, photographer and graphic designer.

Landmarks Association, Research Intern, Summer 2011Saint Louis, MO.Assisted in preparation of nominations to National Historic Registry under directors Jeff Mansell and Andrew Weil. Wrote building descriptions in support of nominations; conducted permit research.

Farmhaus Restaurant, Kitchen Manager, 2010-11Saint Louis, MO.Manager at James Beard-nominated restaurant under Chef Kevin Willmann.

J. Paul Getty Museum, Multicultural Undergraduate Intern, 2008Brentwood, CA.Assisted in public opinion surveys for Education Department under Mary Beth Caruselo, researched museum collections across USA.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Gallery Attendant, 2006-2007Saint Louis, MO.Worked as Gallery Attendant / Docent in museum’s permanent collection.

EDUCATION

Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, Louisiana / 2011-2014Master of Architecture I

Washington University in Saint LouisSaint Louis, Missouri / 2006-2010Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

PUBLICATIONS

Various Articles, 2015. Freelance Writer for Vice Media’s The Creator’s Project covering architecture, design, and urbanism.

Marcello in the Fountain: Contemporaneity, the Ephemeral, and the Absolute- Monumentality in Rome, Reconstructed, 2014.Proposal for American Academy in Rome’s 2015 Rome Prize; in collaboration with Rebecca X Fitzgerald. A preservation-oriented analysis of filmic representations and contemporary realities of architecture in Italy 1922-1985.

Purpose-Built: Problematizing the Discrete Periodization of Patrimony and its impact on the Postmodern City, 2014.Self-Published booklet observing the contemporary state of postmodern architecture in the city and the impact of historic preservation on this urban condition through the lens of case studies in New Orleans, USA and la Défense, France.

Dixieland Ranch: The Ranch House in New Orleans, 2014.A typological expoloration of post-war urban infill in a historic New Orleans neighborhood.

Peaux-Meaux: The Post-Modern in New Orleans, 2014.Article published by Failed Architectures surveying the extent of Post-Modernism in New Orleans’ Central Business District.

3 Continents Exhibition, 2014.Work from ‘Wetland Urbanism’ exhibited: Houston, 2013; Buenos Aires, 2013; Rotterdam, 2013, Venice Biennale, 2014.

Bloc Mannerism - Khrushyovka Revival: The Soviet Apartment as Preservable Junkspace, 2013.An architectural-historical analysis of extant serially-produced apartments from the Soviet era in Moscow, Bratislava, Ulaanbaatar, and Havana.

Wetland Urbanism, 2013.Publication observing and interpreting resource-extraction industry’s impact along Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana.

Proposals for Reconstructing Alamar: Adapting Soviet Housing in Cuba via Gradual, Self-Built Intervention, 2013.Thesis, Masters of Architecture I, Advisor: Scott Bernhard; A design-oriented intervention into alleviating climactic incompatibilities in Cuba’s Soviet-era housing.

AWARDS & ACTIVITIES

Outstanding Service to Program Award, 2014Tulane School of Architecture.

Rome Prize Nominee, 2014With Supertext; Invited to submit research proposal in Preservation, Architecture, and Design categories by John Stubbs.

Save the Astrodome Competition, 2014With Supertext; Submitted adaptive reuse proposal for Houston’s Astrodome complex.

Diversity Scholar, 2013National Trust for Historic Preservation National Trust Conference.

Field Studies-International Practice, 2012Traveled to Havana, Cuba under John Stubbs to conduct thesis research.

Danish Institute for Study Abroad, 2009Semester-long Study in Copenhagen, Denmark. Architecture Study Abroad, 2009Traveled throughout Western Europe on a sketching tour with Zeuler Lima and Jen Maigret.

Multicultural Undergraduate Internship, 2008J. Paul Getty Museum

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The proposed conversion of derelict section 8 housing into a multi-use community center and neighborhood park. Existing structures are preserved and utilized as entrance lobbies for new residences located above or as gathering spaces for community members. Three new housing towers replace and expand the previously inadequate housing. These four-floor walk-ups share a dual-level roof terrace and are oriented with a southern exposure for ease of solar control; North-facing elevations are clad in fritted glass. The proposed community center connects extant structures and adds 10,000 square feet of leasable space and an equivalent, elevated plaza and associated amphitheatre.

The surrounding parkland incorporates water management strategies as well as fitness-oriented landscaping, including a 1/3 mile jogging path, to provide a focal point for the Holly Grove neighborhood, the community center, its associated gyms, and public spaces.

Housing, Plaza, Park, & Center

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Jonathan Tate

Advisor:

A generic structure designed to facilitate the needs of a culinary academy on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. Office and classroom spaces are elevated above a service floor containing forced air systems, utilities, walk-in refrigerators, and curing chambers. A double-height ground floor below is left open -utilities are supplied from above- allowing for flexible kitchen spaces on the ground. The liberated facade is allowed to take on a variety of configurations such that the function of the culinary academy shifts from being merely educational in nature to a hybrid between for-profit business incubation, on-the-job training, and public space. Facades, mounted on large, movable garage doors, can take on many configurations, allowing for each bay of the facade to potentially become a different storefront where, instead of attending baking class, for example, students spend time working at an impromptu bakery, or, learn about charcuterie through an improvised butcher shop.


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Monday: Breakfast


Wednesday: Lunch Friday: Dinner

Patio

Kitchens

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Test Kitchens

Site Plan

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Natan Diacon-Furtado Rebecca FitzgeraldJessica O’DellAntonio Pacheco Jonathan TateNeena VermaAnn Yoachim

Project team:

A yearlong investigation conducted by Tulane School of Architecture and Office of Jonathan Tate observing and interpreting the resource-extraction industry’s impact along Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana through a design publication and traveling exhibition. Book and exhibition materials from Wetland Urbanism were exhibited in Houston, 2013; Buenos Aires, 2013; Rotterdam, 2013, and Venice Biennale, 2014 as part of a traveling exhibition, 3 Continents.

Images shown include work from “Postcards from a Crude Urbanism” and “Oiled Landscape,” projects that were developed by the author as independent work for the in-studio portion of this investigation.

Book photographs courtesy of OJT.

From “Oiled Landscape”

From “Wetland Urbanism”

Wetland Urbanism

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From “Postcards from a Crude Urbanism”

Wetland Urbanism

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Proposals for Alamar

Roughly 140 million Soviet-style housing units exist around the world. These generic, pre-fabricated, and often cooperatively-constructed buildings were typically employed irrespective of climate and context. Simultaneously, they represent a tremendous amount of embodied energy -an intrinsic human and material value that demands contemporary intervention. This project supposes the Soviet type can be adapted to any locale if its current condition is steered towards passive ends. The following interventions, applied at expanding scales- beginning with that of the individual unit, graduating to entire buildings, and eventually neighborhoods, can, through aggregation and sensitivity to extant vernacular adaptations, catalyze urban-scale change.


Scott Bernhard, AIA

Advisor:

As-Built View of Cuban Soviet Bloc

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Exterior Interior

Urban Section


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Adaptations to Existing Structure Views of New Construction


Documents

Antonio Pacheco 2015 Portfolio