Gaming Company
Corporate Headquarters Campus
550,000 SF - Irvine, CA
Pre-design
Clive Wilkinson Architects

Main reponsibilities:

• Conceptual design, programming.
• BIM Modeling, drawing, documenting, presentation production and coordination.
• Coordination of internal schedules and goals, direction of internal team.
• Work closely with the client, real estate consultants and project management team.

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lululemon
Corporate Headquarters
570,000 SF - Vancouver, BC
2019-ongoing
Clive Wilkinson Architects

Main reponsibilities:

• Space planning, program development, project and documentation development, concept design and finish strategy for the interior architecture scope.
• Working and coordinating closely with the core and shell architect - mOrphosis - through all phases in paralell.
• Sustainability development aiming for LEED v4 and Well Platinum certifications.
• Developing new and custom interior solutions.
• Digital visualization.

Leading the industry of athletic apparel, lululemon represents a community of runners, yogis, fitness enthusiasts, designers and team members, with over 12,000 employees worldwide.
Their Store Support team currently operates out of a series of disconnected buildings across 4 neighborhoods in Vancouver, B.C. The new 13-story building will bring all departments under one roof, enhancing the working environment and accomodating for future growth.
By providing amenities such as fitness studios and healthy food offerings, the facility will embody the values of the brand’s culture and their lifestyle in the everyday experience of employees and the community around it.

Malouf
Corporate Headquarters
210,000 SF - Logan, UT
2017-2019
Clive Wilkinson Architects

Main reponsibilities:

• • Conceptual design, space planning, program development, project and documentation development, both for core and shell and interior design.
• Woking closely with the client, consultants and providers.
• Developing new and custom interior solutions, including parametric design in the atrium.
• Visualization: physical and digital.

Malouf’s new headquarters is a ground-up 3-story building in the valley of Logan, Utah.
The new building will connect to their next-door existing facilities through a bridge, and it will house a wide range of amenities for 500 employees to enjoy. From large fitness facilities, gym, pool and basketball court, to a gourmet market-style restaurant and in- house barber and salon.
The outside facades provide 360 views of the surrounding valley, and are protected by a brise soleil that ensures the building’s energetic and thermal performance, even under the extreme winter conditions.

Kilkea
Private Residence
2,800 SF - Los Angeles, CA
2017
Clive Wilkinson Architects

Main reponsibilities:

• Supporting the design process.
• SDesign and construction documentation and detailing. (Including demolition)
• SBIM Modeling.
• SVisualization: physical and digital. • Permitting process.
• S Site visits.

The architecture for this house is a play of volumes and voids, and the relationships between them and their materials. The design is driven by natural light and integrating the landscape, providing moments of connection to the outside throughout the house. A variety of wooden sunshades and trellises enrich the transparent facades, all custom detailed for each unique condition. Supporting the couple’s lifestyle, there is a meditation room and a cast-in-place concrete screening room. The home office is separated at the back of the house to promote the work environment with a sense of focus and productivity.

AUTOMATED ESTIMATING SYSTEM

The company was starting a brand new architectural panels department and they did not yet have a established system for estimating them.
As the Lead Estimator, I was presented with the challenge of developing such a system from scratch.
The goal was to make the process as automated, efficient and accurate as possible.

I developed this system as an Excel book.
The first sheet is the only one for entering data: the Takeoff, including amount and dimensions of the panels.

From there on, the rest of the sheets automatically calculate the amount of each material, costs and, with a little tweaking of custom prices and details, yield a final bidding price.

Work Info:
2013
Roofing Solutions, LLC
Baton Rouge, LA

STEALTH
Kinetic Skylight

The project consisted of designing and building a kinetic skylight, through the investigation of motion, natural light and optical devices.

For 5 weeks, our team of four members developed the winning prototype -selected out of six- to be fabricated in real scale.

This design explored a play of transforming geometry that goes from closed, flat rectangles to open, three dimensional triangles.

The fabrication was carried out by a group of 8 people for the following 5 weeks, producing a fully functional, digitally operated skylight consisting of Wi-Fi transmitted controls and Raspberry Pi card, complete with its code and remote interface

Course info:
UCLA Fall 2016
Suprastudio
Second Sun
Robotics Tech Seminar
Peter Vikar

TALIK ANCHOR
Extreme Micro-living

Exhibited at FuturizeX’s UCLA Nextfest

The Talik Anchor is a one-person micro-living unit designed for extreme cold conditions in the Antartic Tundra. The submarine research pod sinks down and screws into the bottom of the lake, the talik, which is a warmer environment than the freezing tundra above.

For 5 weeks, our team of 6 solved every aspect of what was, until then, only a conceptual design. This included strategizing and planning the construction of a real-scale mock-up which we fabricated for the following 5 weeks.

The construction process entailed mostly CNC milling and assembling plywood, finalizing with detailing the interior, including furniture and LED lighting.

Course info:
UCLA Winter 2017
Hodgetts Suprastudio
Extreme Environments
Craig Hodgetts & Marta Nowak

BGB 322
Prosthetic Skin

The skin is an amazing organ, but is not without limitations. In some of these limitations, we saw opportunities for enhancement:
1. It is not as efficient protecting us thermally as those of other animals.
2. It does not provide structural support to the skeletal system.

BGB 322 is a prosthetic skin meant to help you adapt to any piece of furniture and complement your working or resting activities. The air cushions also provide different levels of thermal insulation.

The suit is 100% casted silicone and itís divided into 5 areas that inflate individually in the areas where you need most support or comfort.

This was a 10-week project developed by a team of 4 members.

Course info:
UCLA Winter 2017
Suprastudio
Prosthetics Tech Seminar 2.0
Marta Nowak

HEAT
Materials Lab

Exhibited at CES at UCLA Anderson School of Business

In this materials lab the goal was to turn trash into gold.

For 5 weeks we explored 3 materials and 2 techniques -paper, plastic, foam casting and laminating- in combination with heat to produce new materials or new applications for them.

The second phase consisted of developing the experiment with most potential: Panels of laminated plastic bags fused together by ironing.

The studies to find the best fabrication method included robotic ironing, hot stone press and -successfully- pressed thermoforming. The laminated sheets were vaccuum-formed into different shapes to create panels for applications such as facades or ceilings, thanks to their resistance and waterproof properties.

Course info:
UCLA Fall 2016
Suprastudio
Materials Lab
Marta Nowak

SUPRABAND
Vocal Synthesizer

As the singer of our SupraBand, the challenge was to design and fabricate an instrument to work in collaboration with the voice.

The wearable synthesizer uses Arduino in conjunction with Ableton Live to serve as a midi and audio controller.

The design intends to use the wires as the fabric that weaves the wearable together. 3D printed elements serve minimally as housing for the electronic components.

Buttons on the fingertips trigger samples and stretch rubber sensor loops provide a varying range of assigned voice effects.

Course info:
UCLA Winter 2017
Suprastudio
Supraband Tech Seminar
Steve Lee

MERCADO CENTRAL
San José Central Market

The current central market of downtown San José is an old, enclosed, dark building in an area of the city that has become chaotic, dangerous and dirty.
The main activity around the market is transit of buses and pedestrians transferring routes, but the market itself does not generate any relations between people or the place.

This project's objective is to reactivate the Mercado Central as an urban center of commerce, interaction, reunion and rest as well as providing a pleasant journey for the many pedestrians on their daily commutes.

This is achieved through different combinations of the concepts of: permeability, rupture vs. connection and positive vs. negative space.

Course info:
Veritas 2008
Studio 8
San José, Costa Rica

CAPILLA DE LA PAZ
Physical to Spiritual

The University for Peace is an international institution of higher education for peace. The campus is located in the mountains of Santa Ana, San José, where it hides amongst trees in a secluded rural area.

The university requires a small chapel of no specific religious denomination and a library, both spaces for spiritual and intellectual enlightenment and growth.

The design is a result of studies and experiments of light and proportion through the golden ratio, supported by the application of these concepts on Le Corbusierís Notre Dame Du Haut and Tadao Andoís Church of the Light.

Course info:
Veritas 2005
Studio 4 (First Year)
San José, Costa Rica

I.C.E CENTER
Energy Research and Cultural Center

The Research Center will serve as support for the Costa Rica Institute of Electricity's (ICE) Eolic Park on the Escazú Mountain Range, which sits at the far background of the projectsite and serves as inspiration for the form of the project.

The intent is to preserve some of the open, green space still left in the area by developing a project that emerges from the natural landscape rather than imposing a structure on it.

The project is the headquarters for continued R&D of energy solutions for the Central Valley. It is also a public place for education and recreation, hosting lectures and classes. The project includes auditorium, museum and library, among other spaces for cultural, social and official events.

Course info:
UACA 2008
Studio 10
San José, Costa Rica

PIRANESI RECONSIDERED
Perspective and light

This was a personal drawing project, studying the art of Giovanni B. Piranesi, the Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and fictitious prisons.

Piranesi was a master in lighting, shadows, perspective and designing imaginary spaces. These were the skills to be studied and applied by drawing outward from one of his originals and creating new spaces to complete a 20îx30î composition. One of the main goals was to reach his level of tracing style and density.

Eventually the original in the center was removed and the space was filled with spaces in a style greatly averted from his own.


Personal Project. California, 2015