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NICK MARTINEZPORTFOLIO
TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES
CREATIVE DISTRICTS
FOLDED PROGRAM
PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
FRAY
NICK MARTINEZ
756 s. broadway #509 los angeles, ca 90014
213.703.9574
TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES
CREATIVE DISTRICTS
FOLDED PROGRAM
PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
FRAY
NICK MARTINEZ
756 s. broadway #509 los angeles, ca 90014
213.703.9574
TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES
CREATIVE DISTRICTS
ENCLOSURE/EXPOSURE
FOLDED PROGRAM
FRAY
PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES Joshua Tree, California | Fall 2009
This project studies the existing topography through the use of tessellation patterns related to geometric form. A triangular tessellation that mediates between the building and landscape serves as the form generator of the project, while the area is seen as the transition from the suburban street and the Joshua Tree landscape. A louvered striated surface morphology reacts to the environment and modulates sunlight and wind while extending the exterior surfaces to mediate between the landscape and hardscape.
TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES
TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES Joshua Tree, California | Fall 2009
This project studies the existing topography through the use of tessellation patterns related to geometric form. A triangular tessellation that mediates between the building and landscape serves as the form generator of the project, while the area is seen as the transition from the suburban street and the Joshua Tree landscape. A louvered striated surface morphology reacts to the environment and modulates sunlight and wind while extending the exterior surfaces to mediate between the landscape and hardscape.
TESSELLATED TOPOGRAPHIES
FORM EVOLUTION
remapped
topography
extruded
building elements
longitudinal section
structure/skin
edited
program diagram
GALLERY SPACE
CAFE / BOOKSTORE
EVENT SPACE
WAY-STATION
RESEARCH FACILITIES
RESIDENTIAL
PROGRAM DIAGRAM composition diagramBUILDING SYSTEMS
INTERIOR VOLUME
STRUCTURE
SKIN
FORM EVOLUTION
remapped
topography
extruded
building elements
longitudinal section
structure/skin
edited
program diagram
GALLERY SPACE
CAFE / BOOKSTORE
EVENT SPACE
WAY-STATION
RESEARCH FACILITIES
RESIDENTIAL
PROGRAM DIAGRAM composition diagramBUILDING SYSTEMS
INTERIOR VOLUME
STRUCTURE
SKIN
wall section
level 1 plan
level 2 plan
wall section
level 1 plan
level 2 plan
CREATIVE DISTRICTS Santa Monica, California | Fall 2008
The client is not a singular advertising agency, but rather a collective or co-op of agencies as the clients. In fact, the clients could represent many different creative fields such as architecture, interior design, or graphic design. The challenge of the project evolved to the provision of one building that could accommodate several agencies or firms of different types.
The design concept was derived from Kevin Lynch’s “Image of the City”, in which he described the 5 elements to good urban environments: district, node, landmark, path, and edge. The approach was to translate these successful urban design strategies to a building. This made sense because the challenge of creating an environment that connects its residents in a positive and planned way while maintaining the ability to adapt to changes, is very similar to the challenges of this building.
The 3 concepts of district, node, and landmark are the key elements in the building. In this way, the agencies could exist in any number of different arrangements of districts, the nodes would provide areas where people from different agencies could interact, and the landmarks would serve as reference points and open spaces
CREATIVE DISTRICTS
CREATIVE DISTRICTS Santa Monica, California | Fall 2008
The client is not a singular advertising agency, but rather a collective or co-op of agencies as the clients. In fact, the clients could represent many different creative fields such as architecture, interior design, or graphic design. The challenge of the project evolved to the provision of one building that could accommodate several agencies or firms of different types.
The design concept was derived from Kevin Lynch’s “Image of the City”, in which he described the 5 elements to good urban environments: district, node, landmark, path, and edge. The approach was to translate these successful urban design strategies to a building. This made sense because the challenge of creating an environment that connects its residents in a positive and planned way while maintaining the ability to adapt to changes, is very similar to the challenges of this building.
The 3 concepts of district, node, and landmark are the key elements in the building. In this way, the agencies could exist in any number of different arrangements of districts, the nodes would provide areas where people from different agencies could interact, and the landmarks would serve as reference points and open spaces
CREATIVE DISTRICTS
districts nodes landmarks
districts nodes landmarks
plan 2a
cross section environmental diagram wall sectionlongitudinal section
plan 2b
plan 2a
cross section environmental diagram wall sectionlongitudinal section
plan 2b
plan 2a
cross section environmental diagram wall sectionlongitudinal section
plan 2b
ENCLOSURE|EXPOSURE Joshua Tree, California | Fall 2010
Through metaphor and contextual relationship, this small pavillion project explores the possibility of the large potential impact of a small deliberate design. In the vast ambiguous “edge” between civilization and nature in Joshua Tree National Park, this pavilion offers a threshold between focused and confined geometry and perspective of the urbanized world and the unobstructed landscape of the desert. Through 2 systems, one rigidly rythmic, the other looser and more dynamic, the desert floor , sky and horizon perspectives are gradually revealed and transformation is complete.
ENCLOSURE|EXPOSURE
plan 2a
cross section environmental diagram wall sectionlongitudinal section
plan 2b
ENCLOSURE|EXPOSURE Joshua Tree, California | Fall 2010
Through metaphor and contextual relationship, this small pavillion project explores the possibility of the large potential impact of a small deliberate design. In the vast ambiguous “edge” between civilization and nature in Joshua Tree National Park, this pavilion offers a threshold between focused and confined geometry and perspective of the urbanized world and the unobstructed landscape of the desert. Through 2 systems, one rigidly rythmic, the other looser and more dynamic, the desert floor , sky and horizon perspectives are gradually revealed and transformation is complete.
ENCLOSURE|EXPOSURE
roof plan floor plan
roof plan floor plan
FOLDED PROGRAM Compton, California | Spring 2009Nick Martinez
The City of Compton is a city that is both dealing with the existing problems inherited from its past and looking to improve its future role in the greater Los Angeles area. The program proposed by NICE is based around those concerns and the site is an abandoned armory in the middle of the city.
The distinction of these two types of program, reparative and productive, were central in my development of this project. I conceived of these two elements as a basis for organizing space and program elements on the site. These two “strips” of program evolved into concrete planes that fold over and around the usable spaces within the building. These intertwining sections push and pull away from each other, as the building wraps around the site, connecting the existing buildings.
FOLDED PROGRAM
FOLDED PROGRAM Compton, California | Spring 2009Nick Martinez
The City of Compton is a city that is both dealing with the existing problems inherited from its past and looking to improve its future role in the greater Los Angeles area. The program proposed by NICE is based around those concerns and the site is an abandoned armory in the middle of the city.
The distinction of these two types of program, reparative and productive, were central in my development of this project. I conceived of these two elements as a basis for organizing space and program elements on the site. These two “strips” of program evolved into concrete planes that fold over and around the usable spaces within the building. These intertwining sections push and pull away from each other, as the building wraps around the site, connecting the existing buildings.
FOLDED PROGRAM
program diagram program adjacencies program adjacencies
fold facade circulation
citizen corps/MRC
office
homeless/disabled
services
violence prevention
center
disaster relief training
parenting classes/
daycare
green tech. training
prefab construction
learning center
employment center
materials recycling
public facilities
program diagram program adjacencies program adjacencies
fold facade circulation
citizen corps/MRC
office
homeless/disabled
services
violence prevention
center
disaster relief training
parenting classes/
daycare
green tech. training
prefab construction
learning center
employment center
materials recycling
public facilities
wall sectionfacade detailssite plan
wall sectionfacade detailssite plan
FRAY Los Angeles, California | 2012Nick Martinez
Out of a heterogenous, varied collective of individual pieces - a new fabric is formed. From a pile of found, disposed wood, an assortment was collected to be reassembled and reconfigured into a new piece of consolidated furniture. Each reclaimed wood strip has its own identity - a story of original purpose and subsequent abandonment. Through the varying textures and finishes, each piece is clearly seen as unique, creates its own section and exists in and of itself. However, when merged into a whole piece, it becomes a part of something more, something greater than itself
When recombined into varying profiles, the pieces become a bench, a low table, a storage unit. From one end of the piece to the other, the balance in the relationship, between individual and collective, is manipulated. The bench devolves - from one end where the form is whole and the members are barely identifiable from each other to the other, where the function and form itself is disintegrated
FRAY
FRAY Los Angeles, California | 2012Nick Martinez
Out of a heterogenous, varied collective of individual pieces - a new fabric is formed. From a pile of found, disposed wood, an assortment was collected to be reassembled and reconfigured into a new piece of consolidated furniture. Each reclaimed wood strip has its own identity - a story of original purpose and subsequent abandonment. Through the varying textures and finishes, each piece is clearly seen as unique, creates its own section and exists in and of itself. However, when merged into a whole piece, it becomes a part of something more, something greater than itself
When recombined into varying profiles, the pieces become a bench, a low table, a storage unit. From one end of the piece to the other, the balance in the relationship, between individual and collective, is manipulated. The bench devolves - from one end where the form is whole and the members are barely identifiable from each other to the other, where the function and form itself is disintegrated
FRAY
CENTURY CITY CENTER
PRO
FESS
ION
AL
PRO
JEC
TS RUNWAY AT PLAYA VISTA
NINGXIA WINERY
GENENTECH OFFICE
JIADING MASTERPLAN
CENTURY CITY CENTER
PRO
FESS
ION
AL
PRO
JEC
TS RUNWAY AT PLAYA VISTA
NINGXIA WINERY
GENENTECH OFFICE
JIADING MASTERPLAN