Harvard Application Portfolio
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This document is a resume that summarizes the applicant's qualifications and experience in the following areas: 1. Military experience and education background in sections 1-4. 2. Awards and recognitions received from 2005-2004 in sections 5-6. 3. Experience with design and material development focusing on furniture, buildings, and sustainability in sections 7-8. 4. Residential building design and planning experience including single-family homes and urban housing in sections 9-16. 5. Commercial building design experience including an office building, dance club, and affordable artist housing in sections 17-22. 6. Extracurricular activities including involvement with a student organization and an annual race
Harvard Application Portfolio
- 1. Index Military Experience.............1-2 Education.................................. 3-4 Awards and Recognitions................5-6 Design & Material Development...........7-8 Residential Building & Planning.............9-16 Commercial Building & Planning........17-22 Extracuricular Activities..................33-34 Internship Designs....................... 25-26 Construction Experience..........27-28 Profesional Work............ 29-33 ID Management........... 34
- 2. 1 one of the most successful engineer efforts demonstrated at NTC chosen above his peers
- 3. 2 should you be recalled to active duty. In these trying times ahead the US ArmyReserve needs your experience and training to protect this great country of ours. You are authorized to perform inactive duty training You are a vital part of the strength of the United States Army. candidate for this unique assignment immemediate response is necessary MilitaryExperience
- 5. My Spanish Education Education 4 Universidad de Vigo
- 6. 5 2005 2003 2004 Dean's Honor List The National Dean's List 2003 2004 Only 1/2 of 1% of our nation's college students receive this award. We commend you for your accomplishments.
- 7. AwardsandRecognition 6 awarded D.J. Hynek Memorial Scholarship Kelvin is a lead student in the pre-development of a student group other than SODA in our college. selected as a recipient of the Undergraduate/Graduate Scholarship the field of architecture and minority issues.
- 8. 7 Shading development Color Design Study Sketching Space Analysis Design Development Drafting Research
- 9. Material Explorations To practice possibilities of diffrent "green" methods and materials . This enter- tainment center had little waste during construction. It is easily dismantled for storeage or to be transported to cope with studied human habbits. Joint Studies: exploring tension and compresion stresses with minimal adhesive use for furniture construction. 8 Desing&MaterialDevelpopments
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- 11. ResidentailBuildingandplanning 10 The Beach House built for a specific family in New Hampture. Many consepts within the program yet a main inphazize on the intersections of the family's path.
- 12. In todays day and age we are forced to live in small urban settings where accomidations must be compressed functionally. This project development explored the posibilities of diffrent probable arangement of space 11
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- 18. Design is based on the study of sound waves and golden mean properties. Site located at Chitaqua Park Colorado -the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Music Conservatory 17
- 19. Reginal Transportation Department Office Building. The program context was an actual site in downtown Denver where one wall is butted up while the others face a busy pedestrian intersection . Curved corner maximizes the view of the mountains. Square footage increases verticly because the value of the space also increases. First floor is comercial to make the structure cost affective andopen pramanad to have a welcoming enviornment for passer-byes. CommercialBuildingandplanning 18
- 20. Latin Dance Club and Caribean Restaurant. Sublevels consist of Clothing and appearel retail spaces. Design based around Hispan- ic nature and customes. 19
- 22. Affordable Housing for Artist An actual proposal for the City of Westminster. This structure reflects many attributes of cinematography and art as a whole. 21
- 23. CommercialBuildingandplanning 22 FF Studio Two Bedroom Two BedroomTwo Bedroom StudioStudio StudioStudio Two Bedroom Studio StudioStudio Studio One Bedroom One Bedroom One Bedroom North Elevation E/W Section Third Floor Plan Fourth Floor Plan “The Director of Photography is the custodian of the heart of film making ... as the writers are of its soul ... his tool is a box with a glass window, lifeless until he breathes into it his creative spirit and injects into its steel veins, the plasma of his imagination .... the product of his camera, and therefore of his magic, means many things to many persons - fulfillment of an ambition .... realization of dreams.” - Cecil B. DeMille
- 24. largest studnent group on campus. Placed 9th in the race. Project driven and judged by inguniuity & creativity. Building a craft that can be so functional to be versitle in water, dirt, & mud is a huge self acomplishment. Colorado's annual Kinetics Race 23
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- 27. 26 Sun Study Client Options: 2 InternshipDesigns Construction Documents 1 City Papers
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- 29. ConstructionExperience This bathroom was made for the clients intertainment. Aspects such as in-wall TV, 18" Tile, and lush steam shower with 4 heads, and surround sound stereo system complete a elegant yet fun enviornment. The shower's mosaic tile pattern follows properties of natural fragmentation. 28
- 30. 28 PRofesionalWork Main floor remodel. This project included the kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. The goal was to add value to the home at an affordable building cost. 29
- 31. Landscape Blueprints Landscape project which reflects properties of the Rocky Mountains and the neighboring golf course voted the best in Colorado. Garage addition for a large family household that wanted to add square footage to their real estate. relating the excisting homes features were crusial in the development ProfesionalWork 30
- 32. 31 Pop-top project for Rocky Mountain Real Estate Solutions. The program was to complete structural analysis and design a couple of second floor addition plans with new front faucade.
- 33. ProfesionalWork This particular project was for the City of Lafayette. The building is a historical landmark once a church is now a theater. The city asked me to design an extension of the property based on several criterias such as updated ADA regulations, storage nessesity, and intermediate place for conjugating. I proposed three diffrent options and this is the one they decided to construct. 32
- 34. Finishing the basement in a six hundred thousand dollar home. It consited of mainly entertainment and lesiour spaces. These are three deck addition options givien to this perticular customer. At the end it had to be structrually enginneered to support the dead weight of a hot tub. 33
- 35. Property Management ID is a new company in the Front Range area that provides very affordable prop- erty management for your home or busi- ness. We hire cheap labor to do handyman services and for larger homecare needs, like interior renovations or simply replac- ing a hot water heater, we compare the rates of three companies and provide the most cost effective. If interested please contact Kelvin Xuna at InternDesigns@ Gmail.com or 720-937-9103 IDManagement 34 These properties I manage are a hand full. Recently there was a pipe rupture wich flooded the majority of one of the homes. We had to knock down walls to find the rupture and tear carpet up to replace the padding.