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Melissa Marrero Burgos | Design Portfolio 2013

La Casa Cortada

Riverside Alley

UNzipping Coasts

Children’s Art Museum

Affordable Housing for Artists

Peace Pavilion

ZipLamp

Sitting Apparatus

dwelling

urban

infrastructure | landscape

educational

housing

cultural

lighting

furniture prototype

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La Casa CortadaSan Juan, Puerto Rico

Food has been the basis for social gathering throughout time, and

serves as the inspiration for this project. Located in a highly cultural

and gastronomic area in San Juan, PR., La Casa Cortada is an

urban dwelling that focuses on the rituals of food preparation and

consumption, conceived as a unique space for social gathering and

exchange.

Inspired by the study of vegetables and fruits, this space is conceived

in layers. Concrete is the outer structural layer and the wood is

the soft interior layer. A single long central table dominates the

interior. The table is surrounded by a sequence of architectural slices

that respond to program, natural light, and ventilation. The slices

reveal views and create a physical atmosphere that enhances the

experience. The space symbolizes and celebrates the processes of

growing, making and serving of food. The dwelling fuses food and

architecture into one continuous process.

Second Prize Winner

Archon Prize Design Competition

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new table size

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Riverside AlleyChicago, Illinois

We propose an active fissure that will transform the alley into a path

for downtown Chicago and Printer’s Row Neighborhood for city life

and entertainment. The city of Chicago today has more than 1,900

miles of alleys, providing convenient access to buildings, garages

and loading docks. Many pedestrians walk through the streets of

chicago and notice those mysterious alley ways or urban gaps that

exist between building but these narrow urban lanes are usually

uninviting. In places such as Europe, alleys are often what is left of

a medieval street network, or a right way or ancient footpath in an

urban setting and they continue to be spaces for restaurants, retail or

art, where people can gather.

The idea of creating a project that embraces the idea of a city gap

and transforms this forgotten space into a path of activities and

landscape is the foundation of our intentions. The project will invite

people through an intentional landscape that will guide the public

through entertainment, galleries, art, music, restaurants and music.

It is important to create that transition from the city to the landscape

and from the landscape to the program that will respond to the hybrid

complexity of the project.

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residence

hotel

officeslibrary/ media labsretail

concert hallprogram structure circulation cavities

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metra communter rail

subway rail lines & stations

water taxi

elevated rail lines & stations

bus transit

bycicle parking

parking

bridges

downtown mixeddowntow servicehistorical landmarks

downtown core

planned developmentriver

zoning transit

analytical design sequence: site approach + program

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metra communter rail

subway rail lines & stations

water taxi

elevated rail lines & stations

bus transit

bycicle parking

parking

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downtown mixeddowntow servicehistorical landmarks

downtown core

planned developmentriver

zoning transit

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Cavities are created inside the high-rise

transforming interioir space, providing

natural light and direct contact with

the sky.

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hotel floor plan residential floor

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program structure circulation cavities

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[Un]zipping CoastsTokyo, Japan

Tokyo is famous for being one of the largest metropolitan areas and

one of the most densely populated cities in the world. The city’s

urban composition is mostly conformed of tight spaces, small streets

and reduced public space due to rapid population growth and poor

urban planning.

Tsukiji Market is one of Tokyo’s main public spaces and it’s the most

well-known wholesale fish market in the world. This market is a

complex physical, cultural and laborious environment, which cannot

be understood apart from its placement. This construction of place

connects the social structure to a meaning of identity and tradition

carried out by the Japanese people and its processes.

This infrastructural intervention strives to embed the market in

its place and provide temporary relief against flood hazard while

still attending ecological issues in Tokyo Bay, with the purpose

of restoring and creating new ecosystems and providing safety

measures for urban life at water edge.

Director’s Choice Special Mentiond3space | Unbuilt Visions International Design Competition

Second Prize Graduate Studio Award for Design Exellence

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Tsukiji Market forms part of Tokyo Bay’s waterfront area,

but being at the water edge brings many possibilities as

well as many disadvantages. Tsukiji Market has to deal

with high flood risk due to sea level rise caused by storm

surges and global warming. Also, the waters of Tokyo

Bay suffer from Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, due to high

pollution caused by land reclamation on the bay. Taking

this research as a backdrop, Tsukiji Market renders many

opportunities for much needed productive open public

space for city life at large.

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zipper-like behaviorsystem

adaptability infrastructure

To rectify the bay as a thriving ecosystem, hydraulic structures were

designed to treat the Tokyo Bay water. The zipper-shaped weir is

a hydraulic structure that works as a barrier designed to alter the

flow characteristics of water using a trapezoidal shape to oxygenate

the water as it moves through the weir. By aerating the water, this

infrastructure could provide sufficient oxygen to start restoring

marine life in Tokyo Bay. This design strategy became a way of

envisioning an intervention that would attend to the agendas of the

site in a passive way.

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Temporary water storage which can

provide water for current and future

needs

Zigzagging canals that control the flow of water

adequately with the purpose of increasing the

marshes capacity to absorb pollutants in the

water of Tokyo Bay

“Spillway” structures used to collect and release water due to water level rise by flood.

High water current canal that agitates the water sufficiently to introduce oxygen in the bay water by creating bubbles.

With the help of wetlands and the process of water aeriation, we will rehabilitate ecosystems in Tokyo Bay and bring more fish to these waters

Provides area of shelter for birds.

Use of wetlands with purpose of decreasing flooding,

removing pollutants from water, protecting the

shoreline, providing habitat for wildlife , and serving important

recreational and cultural functions.

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f i sh market ma in program ar rangement in 10 p ieces

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This ecological infrastructure is designed as a system formed by

vast concrete structures, which inject themselves 50 meters deep

into the ground and use the market as a catalyst for a larger coastal

intervention that invades other water edges. By attaching itself to

other sites it starts creating a buffer that offsets the water edge

further back with the purpose of protecting city life for future water

level rise.

The zigzagging behavior of the infrastructure provides

numerous possibilities of canals, lagoons, wetlands and

aeration areas for the treatment of Tokyo Bay’s water and

the growth of small ecosystems. Water tanks, spillways

and wetlands are used for water management and for the

temporarily relief of flooding that may occur around the

coast.

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Temporary water storage which can

provide water for current and future

needs

Zigzagging canals that control the flow of water

adequately with the purpose of increasing the

marshes capacity to absorb pollutants in the

water of Tokyo Bay

“Spillway” structures used to collect and release water due to water level rise by flood.

High water current canal that agitates the water sufficiently to introduce oxygen in the bay water by creating bubbles.

With the help of wetlands and the process of water aeriation, we will rehabilitate ecosystems in Tokyo Bay and bring more fish to these waters

Provides area of shelter for birds.

Use of wetlands with purpose of decreasing flooding,

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shoreline, providing habitat for wildlife , and serving important

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urban space _ strategy ecological _ strategyflood relief _ strategy

whole sa lestorage auct ion

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f i sh market ma in program ar rangement in 10 p ieces

Tsukiji Fish Market

existent tsuki j i f ish market

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Children’s Creative Arts MuseumChampaign Illinois

“Think like a child, design like an architect.”

The concept of the Creative Arts Children’s Museum is to appeal to

the senses in a new way. By changing our perspectives and being

sensitive to a child’s scale, we can start perceiving the world in

a different way. For this reason the museum is designed in two

parts, the first half responds to the adult’s scale and the second

half responds to a child’s scale. These are connected with a hidden-

colors bridge that marks that transition between these two. From the

entrance to the lobby to the galleries, the museum tries to stimulate

a child’s senses by creating spaces that distort reality and enhances

it according to each sense.

The program of the museum provides art classrooms in the upper

level to educate children of different ages in making art and

appreciation. The lower level of the museum responds to a more

public realm providing exterior arts spaces, café restaurant and

library, where is combines the community, the park and the riverfront.

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a. SCALE DISTORTION

b. HIDDEN COLORS - BRIDGE

c. SURFACE MAZE

d. MAKE-A-SOUND GALLERY

e. EXHIBITION SPACE

f. KALEIDOSCOPE GALLERY

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texture gallery maze

make a sound gallery

kaleidoscope gallery

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The museum takes advantage of its location activating the

small riverfront by providing a cafe restaurant, library, an

exterior gallery space and a multipurpose room for the use of

the community. It also integrates in the program the fishing

piers and small piers for the small boats that pass around

the river.

The museum consists of a double facade, of which the exterior is

designed to control light and views according to program with a

playful pattern made by fritting.

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Affordable Housing for ArtistsCaguas Puerto Rico

The objective of this proposal is to provide affordable housing

that acknowledges the art community and address the new

demographics in the urban center of Caguas. This program is

designed to accommodate a cafe theater and an art gallery space

that will provide a lieu for social exchange, art exposure and cultural

festivities.

My approach separates the functions by locating the residential

in the north building and the workshops in the south building with

the purpose of keeping the user or the artist in constant movement

and separating living from working areas. The residendial units are

deigned to accomodate diversity in one building, from the individual

to a family. The ground level is designed as a sequence of spaces

that are individual in prigrams but provide the opportunity to combine

themselves to create a larger space where art, flavor, music and

people come together.

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Peace PavillionLondon England

Facial scaring is deeply embedded in sudanese culture. Sudanese

tribes mark their bodies with patterns to commemorate

achievements - a mark of identity and distinction.

The structure consists of pieces that fit into each other, with no need

for secondary structure. Each module is of equal importance to the

stability of the structure, symbolizing cooperation required to sustain

the sudanese peace.

The pavilion embeds the traditional scarification patterns into the

piece. Shadows cast from the patterns are projected onto the

visitors. This symbolically allows the visitors to identify themselves

with the people of sudan, their social struggle and the universal idea

peace.

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Two traditional patterns abstracted from facial scaring marks

characteristic for tribes of North and South Sudan are embedded into

the structure.

ATMOSPHERE

The pattern transcends the idea from the physical to a more

experiential realm through the play of light and shadow.

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A zipper is a commonly used device for binding the edges of an

opening of fabric or other flexible material. We use this device

everyday on conventional things like clothing, bags, sport gear, etc.

The concept of the lamp emerges from the idea of using a habitual

device, such as the zipper, in an unconventional way. The zipper as

the main material for the design of the lamp would convey properties

like flexibility, self-structure and an opportunity for unique lighting

effects.

The arrangement of the zippers in the lamp creates a variety of

lighting effects throughout the shade. This device provides the user

a possibility of interaction with the lamp by zipping or unzipping

different areas of the shade to reveal the light inside. The zip lamp

uses a compact fluorescent light to create a warm effect that would

not heat up the shade. The lamp creates an ambient light that could

be used in a diversity of spaces and functions.

ZipLamp

“ Z IP “

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Sitting Apparatus

The concept of this prototype comes from the analysis of the

rotational mechanism of an exiting joint. The sitting apparatus

consists of two semicircular wooden pieces intertwined, allowing

a rotary movement, horizontal and vertical expansion. A simple

japanese joint embeded in both pieces is used to transform it to a

different shape and height.

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