Los Angeles, CA.
Firm: Gensler
Studio: Retail Centers
Westfield Century City is a $1 billion expansion and modernization project that transforms the property into one of Southern California's premier luxury retail destinations.
First opened in 1964, Westfield’s flagship property required a major lift up to create a truly memorable experience retail experience. Working closely with the offices of Westfield Design and Kelly Wearstler to bring to life their design vision, Gensler led a team of experts including engineers and specialty design consultants. The project included the demolition of an existing office tower and much of the existing shopping center, structural upgrades, significant reconstruction and renovation, building on top of existing structures, and new construction, and a new Macy's department store.
The new Westfield Century City features more than 200 shops, an aspirational design, and high-end amenities with integrated technology to create frictionless guest experience. As a result of this renovation, Westfield Century City has become a must-see destination, rising nineteen spots in the Los Angeles Business Journal's annual rankings to become the seventh largest retail center in Los Angeles County.
Role: Technical designer
Responsibilities: Construction documents, detail drawings, coordination with specialty consultants and vendors, construction administration and responding to request for information submittals.
Los Angeles, CA.
Design Firm: Gensler
Studio: Aviation & Transportation
Delta skyway @ LAX, a reconstruction project of Delta terminals 2 and 3 at the Los Angeles International Airport. Full demolition and reconstruction of terminal 3 and partial remodeling of terminal 2.
Following the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) guidelines, Delta skyway looks to incorporate its terminals into the future rail skyway system connecting all of the terminals at LAX. The intent is to create automatic people mover (APM) cores @ each terminal where the future skyway will connect.
Role: Technical Designer
Responsibilities: Construction documents, phase 1 demolition package, roof and ceiling details, systems consultants coordination.
Ridgeland, MS
Design Firm: Gensler
Studio: Retail Centers
Northpark mall in Ridgeland Mississippi needed a major lift up. Building on the long relationship with Pacific Retail Capitol Partners, Gensler took up the challenge.
Originally opened in 1984 and later renovated in 1998, the mall was dated and needed new strategies to attract new people.
New features include, new public entrances, fresh exterior and interior landscaping as well as new common area gathering spaces and public restrooms. A new café-style Eatery, complete with a high-resolution interactive digital display, replaces the food court. The Eatery features a nearly 1,200-square-foot mural that features four representations of the magnolia, Mississippi’s official state flower, created by Jackson native Douglas Panzone.
The new design opens up the space by clearing the old decor and bringing more glazing and height to the storefronts, as well as moving some of the vertical transportation away from the center aisle.
Role: Designer
Responsibilities: Conceptual design team, design development.
Garland, TX.
Design Firm: Page
Studio: Mission Critical
This two-story, 230,000 square foot Data Center is part of a four-building master planned site totaling 124MW (one previously built, two under Page’s scope and a future build. Each new building includes six vaults (three on each floor), a two-story office and loading dock. The vaults will be served by prefabricated UPS electrical power modules, generators and air-cooled chillers. This is a site adapt of a design previously built. Our team made several changes to the admin space and our design has now become the basis of design. Both of these building were leased out and Page was asked to perform the tenant’s fit out as well. The tenant’s final request was to update the design to a direct to chip liquid cooling design for their racks, making this one of Page’s first liquid cooling data center projects.
Role: Project Architect
Responsibilities: Design and coordination with engineering leads and architectural production team, project delivery coordination and issuance
San Antonio, TX.
Design Firm: Page
Studio: Mission Critical
Southwest Research Institute Building 299 is a spacecraft integration and testing facility. The facility includes multiple highly technical and sensitive areas necessary for satellite assembly and testing. Working with design-build partner Flintco, Page designed the approximately 86,000 SF office, testing and integration spaces. The building is designed with 4 levels, three above grade and one below grade crawl space.
The office and lab space includes a repair lab, mechanical lab, a quality assurance lab, electronic ground support equipment (EGSE) room, and multiple control and conference rooms overlooking the spacecraft integration areas. The environmental testing facility was programmed to accommodate a TVAC Chamber, 150 Db Acoustic Chamber, a 25K shaker table, two ambient pressure walk-in thermal test chambers, an EMI/EMC shielded enclosure, a spacecraft integration area, a Class 100K main integration area with an overhead bridge crane for moving equipment, and a Class 10K, Class 1K and Class 100 clean rooms.
Special consideration was given to the flow of people, information, and materials throughout the new facility. SwRI handles sensitive information and equipment, and the need to compartmentalize both people and equipment, as well as attention to the flow of raw materials and equipment components, played a key role in programming and informing the building design.
Role: Project Architect
Responsibilities: Design and coordination with engineering leads and architectural production team, project delivery coordination and issuance
Anywhere, USA.
Design Firm: Page
Studio: Mission Critical
The indoor sky diving company iFly reached out to Page to design two new prototype buildings for their new generation 9 tunnel systems, one for the 10.5 ft diameter tunnel and one for the larger 14ft diameter tunnel. Later focusing on the 10.5 design, Page developed the 10.5ft building design for several locations.
Role: Project Architect
Responsibilities: Design and coordination with engineering leads and architectural production team, project delivery coordination and issuance
Houston, TX
Design Firm: Gensler
Studio: Lifestyle
Building on a decade-long relationship, Gensler worked with this top-ten oil field services client to analyze real estate options and consolidate several locations on one site. Integrating FMC's campus as an anchor in a new mixed use development creates a dynamic live, work, play, and learn combination. While the new greenfield development represented boundless opportunities, the aim was to design the safest, most operationally efficient site possible, all while incorporating state-of-the-art employee amenities.
The improved functionality of the campus paves the way for FMC's new standard of performance. The project undertaking also serves as a testament to Gensler's project management expertise: this effort combined coordination of a multi-phase build-out with oversight of more than a dozen consultants and construction of 26 purpose-built structures, each with a specific function.
Role: Designer/Technical Designer
Responsibilities: Phase 1 Construction documents, detail drawings consultant coordination, phase 2+3 design concept & development, consultant & end user coordination, among others.
Shenzen, Guangdong, China
Design Firm: EMBT (Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue)
The Museum Park is a competition project for the city of Shenzhen in China. The project consisted in over 100 thousand square meters of museums, retail, an opera house and outdoor theater. Located on an old quarry, the museum buildings take form from the continuity of the lines of the already cut levels of the mountain, and thus reshaping the face of the mountain. This project was done in conjunction with a landscape Architecture Firm out of China, responsible for the park trails systems of the project.
Role: Designer
Responsibilities: 3D modeling and model making
Clear Lake, TX.
Student Project, University of Houston
The Bayou Fish Lab is a research laboratory dedicated to the regional issues of Houston - Galveston watershed ecology. The complex bayou to bay and Gulf water systems that make up the Greater Houston Area are being mapped and studied in detail and added to greater regional information bases. The new facility will be shared by teams of professional and student researchers that undertake granted studies in aspects of estuarial systems.
Houston, TX
School Project, University of Houston
The Market linearity project is a market development and office complex on the site of a major node within the Houston metro rail system. The project unfolds it self into a linear concept (literally). The project guides the person in a single line as it loops through the site to create outdoor spaces in order to accommodate a weekly farmers market. The project ends at a mid rise tower adjacent to a major Houston freeway containing the office complex, giving the working space the metropolitan feel that is Houston.
Houston, TX.
School Project, University of Houston
“The role of artwork is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actually be ways of living, and models of action within existing realities, whatever scale chosen by the artist”. The Electro-shade is a relational art piece at the site of a major rail and bus transportation node, that acts as a waiting station for rail and bus passengers providing shade for those waiting. At the same time the Electro-shade is composed of photo voltaic cells at the top that provide electricity to the shapes allowing people to charge their electronic devices. The design is arranged by a series of tangent circles which create a grid. The circles create a triangle which is also repeated throughout the structure. This project was done in collaboration with Ivan López and Norma Sántos .
Baytown, TX.
School Project, University of Houston
PROPOSAL FOR THE BAYTOWN WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
The City of Baytown, home to the giant Exxon refinery and the former Goose Creek Oil Field, is defined more by a de-spoiling of the environment than by strategies for its remediation. As a counterpoint, we explored one slice of this landscape as a means to develop productive design strategies that have the potential to be both exemplary and meaningful for users, mixing the presence of the oil fields with the water and more sustainable possibilities.
We engaged in practices that are performance-based, research-oriented, sustainable, and networked into the existing city. Our intention was to interweave natural ecologies like the wetlands, parks and green areas, with infrastructural, cultural, social, and environmental layers.
School Project, University of Houston
Space Wall is a structural facade system that can be applied to a certain type of buildings. Using engineered wood and recycled wood, the design is a simple diagrid system that also works on the Z plane, creating a space between the structure. The simplicity of the pattern allows for any system (glass, wood, louvers, metal screens, etc.) to be inserted to the facade. This project was done in collaboration with Ignacio Perezanta .
