Stephanie Riofrio

a r c h i t e c t u r e p o r t f o l i oRiofrioStephanie M

ArchitectureArchitecture for me is the process of analyzing and reinterpreting re-ality, emotions, forms, colors, and spaces in the making of a place.

I have come to understand that architecture is an illusion of combined colors, shapes, textures, materiality that enter the eye, and then it is transmitted to the other senses. Architecture is fairly presented in language and is absorbed from nature. It responds to current prob-lems and gives innovated solutions to ever changing societies. Ar-chitecture is in form an sculptural and detail expression of ideas.

This portfolio is a translation of some of my interpretations in the creation of places and spaces.

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Miami Pop-up Installation

Model Exhibition in the MOMA New York

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Miami Resiliency Competition

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Le Passage de la Boucle Verte

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Embarcadero 10

06Structural Analytique

07Miami Fish Market

Tropical Fruit Tile

Maholikahaus Wallpaper

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Hometown Map Case Study

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The Magic City Casino Master Plan

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The Urban Facade

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Solaris Hill Garden & Loggia

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Solaris Hill Preschool

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The Perpetual Adoration Chapel & Rectory

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University of Miami School of Architecture

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01Le Passage de la Boucle VerteUrban InterventionFall 2014Collaborators: Rogelio Delgadillo19eme Arrondisement, Paris - FranceInstructor: Allan Shulman

Creating a New Passage

Situated at the crossroads of the historical Petite Centuire, the Parc de la Villete, and the Canal de L’Ourq, Le Passage de la Boucle Verte serves as both a place for both local and regional identifica-tion and integration. Le Passage is a hundred and twenty one unit housing complex in the 19th arrondissement of Paris with ameni-ties that include a recreation center, auditorium, co-working offices, and a sixteen incubator space. The division of scales between the local neighborhood, at a residential scale, and the Parc de a Villete and Canal both at the city scale, has caused clarity as to what the neighborhood could thus become, given its post-industrial reali-ty. In an attempt to clarify the identity of the neighborhood, a new found passage was introduced with pop-up shops flanking both sides for local artist and craftsmen to introduce vernacular customs.

Scalling Relations to Introduce the Vernacular

le passage de la boucle verte

site plan


site conditions - river & train rails views location map

initial sketches


initial sketches second floor plan

first floor planView from community hall

View from le Petit Centuire



detail section

Unit axonometric view


Section A-A

Section B-B

Perspective View of the Passage

Sustainability diagram


Core diagrams

River elevation

Circulation thru program


02MOMA Latin America in ConstructionArchitecture 1955- 1980 Spring 2015Collaborators: Sophie Juneau + Zachary AndersonBogota - ColombiaInstructor: Jean-Francois LeJeune

Torres del Parque

Torres del Parque is a building complex in Bogota city. These buildings are made out of brick and glass. The cir-cular appearance of its site plan is due to its complicat-ed topography and also because of the bullring that it was on the site before the existence of these buildings.

Rogelio Salmona 1964

03Wynwood Pop-Up InstallationDoodleVilleSpring 2014Collaborators: Gerardo DelgadilloMiami -Florida

Integrating the Surroundings

The U-Doodle Pavilion, was called by the U-Doodle Founda-tion as Doodle Ville. This project was meant to create spaces for public interaction and the integration on the community and the arts. Doodle Ville served the foundation’s objective of making the art more accessible to everyone. The project is flexible for differ-ent people sizes, ages, and movements, creating the transparen-cy and different points of views once one enter in the pavilionvv.

Transforming Public Space Through Interaction

wynwood pop-Up installation

plan

plan

axonometric view of the boxes

wynwood pop-Up installation

04Embarcadero 10 - In ProgressRiver ShoreSpring 2015

Collaborators: Donnie GarciaMiami River - Florida

Instructor: Edgar Sarli

Re-structuring the Urban Corridor

Situated at south west point of the Miami River, the Embarcadero 10 serves as both a place for local and regional identification. The em-barcadero is a multi-purpose complex that includes a coffee roaster, a community hall, a fruit and spice market, a cafe bistro, a ferry stations, three private offices and a co-working space. The Industrial sense of the neighborhood makes this site attractive for the community inte-gration programs and the proposal of open spaces. The idea of this project is to continue the urban corridor of the Miami River by giving to the city a public paved spaces that allows for community interaction.

Opening a Paved Ground for the Community

Embarcadero 10

View from Gallery to Downtown

Embarcadero 10

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Embarcadero 10

Site diagrams and location map

Site plan

N O R T H E L E V A T I O N

S T R E E T E L E V A T I O N

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N O R T H E L E V A T I O N

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Embarcadero 10

Street elevation

River elevation

Program

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

Embarcadero 10

First floor plan

Second floor plan

Longitudinal Section

Embarcadero 10

Cross section bar building

Cross section gallery

Embarcadero 10 Embarcadero 10

View of access street

05Miami Resiliency CompetitionSustainability: Living on LevelsSpring 2014Collaborators: Gerardo Delgadillo + Ariana Melendez + John Gonzalez Overtown Miami FloridaInstructor: Johanna Lombard

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after

flooding maps

06Structural AnalyticReflection on LearningSpring 2014Collaborators: Gerardo DelgadilloUniversity of MiamiInstructor: Alice Cimring

Tectonics

In this project we were testing out how to represent the materials in order to reflect the honesty of the concrete structure. As a precedent we looked at Louis Kahn and Renzo Piano for innovated structural solutions. The structure of this project its meant to be concrete that span approximately sixty feet long in the second floor, made out of cladded concrete ceiling, combined with a thin doubled layer of shad-ing screens which protect people from the sun, winds and the cars.

Abstraction of the materials

Structural analytic

Structural analytic Structural analytic

Detail pictures/ shapes, shades & shadows

Tropical Fruit Inspired Tile

This drawing exercise was meant to develop our skills into the soft wares and color schemes. Thru the topical fruit exercise, we extract the colors of nature first by hand and then in the computer to develop a pattern like tile that would be divided in bays in order to be reproduce.

Blueberry Scheme

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Instructor: Oscar Machado

09MaholikahausOtto Wagner Fall 2013

Vienna-AustriaInstructor: Oscar Machado

10Solaris Hill Garden & LoggiaLandscapingSpring 2013Collaborators: Mary WissingerKey WestInstructor: Oscar Machado

Creation of Green Spaces

In order to accommodate the traditional Key West architecture, we design the Solaris Hill Garden and Loggia for the community. The garden is located next to a preschool and a cemetery. There-fore, is an area for quite walks and relaxing spaces. The idea of this garden was to implement the roman esplanades and made a refreshing environment with a large fountain that is surround-ed by large tree canopies and has around it large seating area for people to enjoy. The axis of the fountain finishes in a loggia space that acts, as a free structure spaces, accommodating sever-al events and again giving shade for the people that would use it.

Refresing enviroments

Sollaris hill garden & loggia

East-west elevation

South elevation

floor plan/ landscaping

floor plan/ landscaping

Sollaris hill garden & loggia

Logitudinal section

11Little School House in Key WestEnclosing to Ensure SecutirySpring 2013Collaborators: Shahad AbdulahKey West -FloridaInstructor: Oscar Machado

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RICHARD KEMP HOUSE1888, KEY WEST, FL

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SIMONTON STREET

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Drawn by: Shahad Abdullah & Stephanie Riofrio

Spring 2013

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Precedent Study Cypress House Key West

Protection for the kids

The challenge of this project was to protect the kids from the cars and the noise while they are at the pre-school. For this rea-son we made a courtyard building that has the main entrances by the less busy street and has the more public facilities such as the multipurpose rooms closer to the corners. This project is com-posed of a civic hall, classroom spaces and dormitory rooms.

Courtyard Spaces

Little school house

Hand drawing section perspective

Little school house Little school house

Oblique elevation

second floor plan

South elevation Ground floor plan

12The Perpetual AdorationChapel & RectoryFall 2012Chapel and RectoryCoral Gables- FloridaInstructor: Steve Fett

Exploring New Typologies

The Perpetual Chapel and the Rectory for the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, was a project that was design in accordance to the basic architecture concepts such axis to important buildings, creating community spaces, giving access and permeability thru out the complex. The project it composed of a chapel that would comple-ment the existing church and also, we were asked to provide eleven residencies for the church priest, a community library and a dinning hall.

Learning Hand Drawing

Perpetual Adoration chapel & rectory

Section A-A

Louver detail

Perpetual Adoration chapel & rectory

East elevation

Library facade

Floor plan

13Univesity of Miami School of ArchitectureThe Ziff TowerCoral Gbles FloridaInstructor: Oscar Machado

Hometown Map Case Study

The hometown map case study was an in-depth research that we had to do of our on city where we grew. My city is Quito and I choose e to express in this set of drawing the life of one sur-rounded by mountains. The complex topography and the plane terrains had allowed citizens to grow a land where thousands of year before the indigenous people have chosen to live in.

Learning Hand Drawing

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Instructor: Anthony Garcia

15Magic City CasinoUrban PlanningSpring 2013Collaborators: Anthony Cataldo + Yankun YanUniversity of MiamiInstructor: Anthony Garcia

Transforming the Urban Landscape

In the Magic City Casino parking lot, we proposed a city mas-ter plan for restoring and transforming the neighborhood in Miami. We used New Urbanism ideas, such as the 5-minute walk prox-imity to basic services and stores and the Axis to the most Urban buildings of the plan. Also we looked at the Miami transect as well as new buildings typologies for this neighborhood. In the second part of the design we were asked to design a building that would fit our master plan design, which you can see in the next project.

Florida Code Transect

Magic city casino

Transect diagram Master plan

Magic city casino

Master plan

green spaces

important buildings

street network

The Urban Facade

As part of the design process of the master plan, we proposed a building that would fit with the urban environment. This building shows the open interaction between the interior and exterior spac-es. The building has a loggia on the ground floor to give shade and protection against rainwater for the pedestrian and opens to store fronts on the facade of the building. The aspect of the building re-sponds to the cultural attitude of the neighborhood. The building has included environmental systems such as, light responsive sys-tems of louvers that open to get as much indirect light illumination.

Interaction Between the Interior and the Street

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Instructor: Anthony Garcia

Magic city casino

Logia view

Elevation

Plan

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