Blas Herrera PORTAFOLIO

CURRICULUM VITAE Educacion

Bachelor of Architecture, 2010 Woodbury University, San Diego, CA

Experiencia de Trabajo

Generica Arquitectura Washington University in St. Louis Manuel Oncina Architects, Inc.

Conocimientos en software

Autocad Rhino Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator 3D Studio Max - Basico Español Ingles

Idioma Intereses

INDICE

Academico

Competencia Zocalo 2009 Tijuana, B.C. TA cursos verano 2009 y 2010 San Diego, CA 2007-2008 La Jolla, CA

Musica Literatura

4 Business Center 8 Housing + Community Center 12 Flex Space 14 Skatepark

Competencia

16 Zocalo 11 de Julio Colaboradores: Rene Peralta Marcel Sanchez Adriana Cuellar Miguel Escobar Daniel Carrillo Arturo Gonzalez Maldonado Blas Herrera

Profesional Contacto

Arquitecto Arquitecto Arquitecto Arquitecto Arquitecto Bachelor of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture

20 Eastlake Community Church Auditorium - MOA, Inc. Nombre: Blas Herrera Email: [email protected] Telefono: 5553201308 Edad: 28 Direccion: La Jolla 14 casa 10 Col. Santa Maria Tepepan Delegacion Xochimilco C.P. 16020 Mexico D.F. Nacionalidad: Mexicano Estado civil: Soltero

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Business Center Tijuana, B. C.

The site location is in Tijuana’s downtown area. The area is about mixed-uses such as having a liquor store on the first floor and housing on the second floor. Some of the other uses are small medical centers or dentists’ establishments. The majority of the lots are body work establishments. The site itself can be seen as a connection point between the San Diego border region and downtown area Tijuana. Programmatic elements become crucial in the design process because the existing building is going to be used as parking space, and then other program elements required for the business center will start to evolve. So, the existing building on site will become a parking lot. In addition to it, the platform on the second level will be used for multiple spaces such as meeting rooms and a concert hall. The program evolves vertical connecting to the existing infrastructure, so that will leave a platform space to start generating events within the platform. The vertical architecture becomes a landmark in the urban landscape and horizontality of the canopy along the site becomes a unifying piece of the programmatic elements, such as the tower, concert hall and the actual existing building.

BUSINESS CENTER TIJUANA, B.C.

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Housing + Community Center Tijuana, B. C.

The site location is in Tijuana, and it is part of the Laureles Canyon region, which has an extension of approximately 3 miles. The site has been changing through time, and all these variations have been for different factors. People have used it as a dump field. Nature has been shaping the site through erosion. The topography has suffered changes, and it has evolved in response to nature. The program involves housing and a community center. The study of pure form growing out of the topography was the starting point to develop a relation between space and site. The concept started taking as a basis the topography and selecting a grid that was imposed over the topography. This grid was not restricted to the site because it extends out of the site parameters. The arbitrary analysis of the grid imposed on the topography created a diagrammatic plan view of spaces. The final diagram had to be transformed into a 3D model for further spatial analysis. The alteration of the model is a constant process to explore potential spaces. The intention of the project is to give the community a different way of experiencing space by producing an abstract geometry that will provoke people to feel a desire to experience it. This project implies a new possibility and inspiration towards a better way of living. Enclosed and open spaces organized in different levels are shaping the building according to the topography.

HOUSING + COMMUNITY CENTER TIJUANA, B.C.

east view towards central courtyard & community center

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Zocalo 11 de Julio Tijuana, B. C.

Un espacio publico para Tijuana. Una estrategia para el Rio Tijuana. El proyecto fue ideado como una estrategia a lo largo de varias escalas naturales y humanas que incluyen; espacios heterogeneos de convivencia social y libertad de expresion; ciclos programaticos de actividades publicas y privadas; asi como tambien la creacion de una cultura ecologica como parte del imaginario ciudadano referente al espacio urbano. Por naturaleza las plazas en Mexico son de caracter publico, sin embargo la ideologia colonialista trazo una jerarquia formal del poder por medio de relaciones fijas entre simbolos estrictos y hegemonicos. La propuesta para el ‘Zocalo 11 de Julio’ hace un enfasis en la relacion entre espacio social, ecologia y democracia politica; sin relegar la oportunidad del espacio celebre y patrio de las costumbres y festividades nacionales. La nueva plaza es maleable y a la ve puntal creando un espacio de experiencia colectiva y de interpretacion personal por medio de una topografia de diferenciacion sin perder su continuidad - una nueva topologia urbana. El usuario puede ser parte de algun acontecimiento popular al unirse a una masa critica de visitantes o simplemente encontrarse en un espacio personal experimentado por niveles topograficos y vistas urbanas. La propuesta es una superficie de relaciones espacio-tiempo ligando, ecologia, infraestructura y memoria historica transformando la conciencia urbana del espacio social

ZOCALO 11 DE JULIO TIJUANA, B.C.

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