Stephen Salazar19246 Dutch Iris LaneCornelius, NC 28031704. 728. 2624

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Manhattan: a two page spread for DWELL magazine

Theodore Roosevelt National Park Research Center

Undergraduate Design PortfolioStephen Salazar

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A New Plan for Downtown Greensboro

Chicago: temporary exhibition

Modern Living on Morehead and McNinch

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Travel:As a student and as a human being I have an insatiable passion for travel. The knowledge and experience I have gained from traveling, across the United States as well as Europe, has been an incredible inspiration to the way I design and the way in which I perceive the user I am designing for.

Undergraduate Design Porfolio

5A New Plan for Downtown Greensboro: revitalizing an urban coreProf. Deb Ryan. Urban Design and Renewal

FourthYear Fall SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

View across Center City Park west towards the proposed development.

Fall 2008 my design studio worked with a real client. The Weaver founda-

tion, a non profit organization dedicated to the devlopment of Greensboro,

approached my professor Deb Ryan about possibly working with her students

to provide provocative design work in order to stimulate a conversation among

the citizens of Greensboro.

This work is a culmination of my intent to develop an urban fabric which is

responsible to the pedestrian. The design incorporates a plinth as the base of

the high rise tower, a scale technique I observed while researching residential

structures in Vancouver over my Fall break.

Designing for Greensboro:

The design of the new complex was in response to the two scales of Greensboro. One of the scales being the low rise vernacular and the other being the high rise commercial.

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View from Center City Park across Davie Street towards new open lawn and high-rise housing component.Alternative B.Care of Stephen Salazar

A New Plan for Downtown Greensboro: revitalizing an urban coreProf. Deb Ryan. Urban Design and Renewal

FourthYear Fall SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

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Center City Park

View west across Davie Street.

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FourthYear Fall SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

A New Plan for Downtown Greensboro: revitalizing an urban coreProf. Deb Ryan. Urban Design and Renewal

View across Center City Park west towards the Grand Lawn.View along the base of the high rise looking North.

View from the North towards the Historical museum expansion.

View west across Davie Street.

8Manhattan: a two page spread for DWELL magazineProf. Mark Morris. Interacting with an Urban Condition

Second Year Fall SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

The very first design project I was given in my second year was to redesign the shell of a

loft in New York City. The project had been completed already and published in DWELL

magazine. Our goal as design students were to make a better design than the one which

was published than display our work in a two page layou worthy of publication in DWELL

magazine. We were to construct a finely detailed bass wood model of the space, phota-

graph it, then develop the narrative around which our space existed.

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Undergraduate Design Porfolio

Theodore Roosevelt National Park Research Center: climatic building responseProf. Dale Brentrup. Designing for Environmental Sustainabiltity

Third Year Fall Semester

Designing in North Dakota:

In the fall of my third year I had the pleasure of having

Dale Brentrup as my Studio instructor. Dale Brentrup

runs the Day lighting Lab at the University of North

Carolina at Charlotte. Through his studio I learned

through the power of design one truly has the capability

of making a building environmentally efficient as well as

respectful to the region in which it is being designed.

Through this design studio I gained tremendous knowl-

edge of passive systems such as: natural ventilation,

day lighting as well as how structural systems become

instrumental in building design. The concept of regional-

ism became very important when considering materiality

as well deciding how the vernacular architecture would

inform the student’s designs.

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Third Year Fall SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park Research Center: climatic building response

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Lower Level

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Undergraduate Design Porfolio

Chicago: temporary exhibition for WPA artist Richard WeisenbornProf. Mark Morris. Interacting with an Urban Condition

Second Year Fall Semester

During the course of my second year Fall semester my architecture year traveled to

Chicago to take on the rich history of the Chicago built environment. My studio project

that semester stemmed from that visit to Chicago. Our Studio project was to design a

temporary art gallery to house works by a Chicago native, Richard Weisenborn who

created work for the WPA during the time of the Great Depression. The site was located between

the Field Museum and the Planetarium, on narrow strip of land between the two avenues. Our goal

was to integrate drawing skill gained in our first year of school with computer skills such as Sketch Up

which we were beginning to become familiar with.

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UP CLOSE and PERSONAL

12Chicago: temporary exhibition for WPA artist Richard Weisenborn

Second Year Fall SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

Prof. Mark Morris. Interacting with an Urban Condition

UP CLOSE and PERSONAL

13Porosity: Modern Living on Morehead and McNinchProf. David Walters. Introduction to Urban Design

Third Year Spring SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

Morehead St. Elevation

Morehead St.Morehead St.

McNinchStreet

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Spring 2008 I began my first semester of Urban Design.I became instantly aware of the importance of parking in America and the ramifications of parking on the design of a building in an urban context. I also learned about facade intent in this studio as well. I began to understand relation-ship between the facade of a building and the program which inhabits the space behind it.

Original Facade Study

Soccer Lawn

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Playground

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Retail

Parking

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Morehead St.

14Porosity: Modern Living on Morehead and McNinchProf. David Walters. Introduction to Urban Design

Third Year Spring SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

McNinch St. Elevation

Rear Elevation

Alley Elevation

15Porosity: Modern Living on Morehead and McNinchProf. David Walters. Introduction to Urban Design

Third Year Spring SemesterUndergraduate Design Porfolio

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Bay Study Detailed Wall Section