Jorge A. Martinez: Architecture Design II


S U P E R H E R O E S

The project for this semester was to design ways to reflect a client of our choosing through architecture but for this we needed to understand our client and their achievements. Our client needed to be someone historically significant, a real person that has died, and needed to be a woman. 

Frida Kahlo 

PROJECT 1: Memorial 

This part of the project was focused on finding a client and doing research on who they were and have an understanding to make the project more connected to who they were by making a memorial that reflects my client. 


​Collage

My collage is showing how my client grew as a person but not in the best way that's shown by the dead tree. The other show the importance of her life when she started painting, how she painted herself, and her origin. The quote "Everything can have beauty even the worst horrors" is a quote who showed how she viewed herself but also accepted who she was.
This is information gathered to show a brief on who my client was.

Memorial Design 

My memorial design is set based on the quote ​ "Everything can have beauty even the worst horrors". This design shows two paths in which you will experience the most horrible parts of Frida Kahlo life then transition to the best parts on who she became. The path and the quote could go from normal to vise - versa "Every horror can have the best beauty". 

Project II: Legacy Institute

The second phase of this project was creating a foundation to communicate our client with the public in architecture or representing information by reflecting our client.

Site Overview

Site

Picture
Site, for this part we had to pick a place that connect to our client and find meaning in it. I picked Mexico City, El Parque Hundido. I placed it here because it is a center of 3 museums of Frida Kahlo, and it was where she grew up in.

Site Analysis 

Picture
This shows the sun path and wind patters. As well as a more perceptive vew in the space I have in the park.

Concept Design

​In this part we had to come with foundations to effectively communicate with the public about our client.

Concept 1: The Dome

 In this concept I wanted to have a curve path to represent how it felt like to be her and the dome would isolate you but inside is open and colorful which that's what happened with her. She had rough life but made it to where she could be who she wanted to be.

Concept 2: Prosper Ball
This Concept was a symbol of Frida staring in a bad position and made it into an unstoppable ball> In the Ball would be most of my client's accomplishments and to learn about her. In the introduction there will be action spaces with pillars you could try to repair and the first will be the most destroyed showing she started in the in the worst way possible.

Concept 3: Wall of Inspiration

The 3rd concept is majorly separated, and main attraction will be the wall that will have a statue of Frida Kahlo and behind the wall will be broken steps representing a quote "To bright to reach but too dark to follow". The overall placements keeps workers and public spaces separated in order to keep things unified.