1. FALL 2010 - 3A (3RD YEAR FIRST SEMESTER)
INSTRUCTOR- PATRICK TIGHE
SOLO PROJECT - DANIELA ARRIAGADA
-The community network garden project seeks to bring together the fragmented community of Las Vegas. It is an urban
farming facility that makes fresh grown produce available to the low income families around the UNLV campus as well as
creating an outdoor gathering space for students at the university.
-The project focuses on varying levels of networks and branching systems, including water irrigation / structural network,
connective circulation, water storage system and garden network. The building uses the terrain and embeds itself deep into
the soil to create its Greenhouse/farming spaces in order to control the erratic climate of Las Vegas. Structurally, it uses the
irrigation system network together with a lightweight structural skin that shields the spaces from the harsh sun while allowing
some sunlight to penetrate. The scorching desert heat is certainly an unfavorable environment for growing plants, especially
vegetables.
FALL
2010
COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK / urban farming
DESIGN
STUDIO

2. DANIELA ARRIAGADA / designer / selected work
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FALL 2011 - 4A (4TH YEAR FIRST SEMESTER)
INSTRUCTOR- ERIC KAHN
SOLO PROJECT- DANIELA ARRIAGADA
“ The ‘machinic’ is a process that enables our
capacity as humans to form alliances with non-human forces, be they animal, natural forces, plant or
virus. These ‘Machinic Alliances’ construct affiliations between categories of human/nature.
[implies learning, copying and blurs between both
paradigms]”
In our research for the Museum of Machinic
Ornithology, we went plane-watching near the
airport. The most impressive thing about the
experience was the intensity of the raw emotions
that the plane causes. Being underneath such a
powerful machine that is capable of flight was really
intense. That feeling is what drove my project for
the rest of the semester.
The structure of the museum runs along a “spine”
with members that rotate towards the stimulus of
the passing plane. The members turn slightly, and
elevate the visitor closer to the experience of the
airplane. In the process, they carve out the earth
and provide additional spaces.
FALL
2011
MUSEUM OF MACHINIC ORNITHOLOGY/ magnetic tropism
DESIGN
STUDIO

3. SPRING 2011 - 3B (3RD YEAR SECOND SEMESTER)
INSTRUCTOR- NATHAN BISHOP
GROUP PROJECT- DANIELA ARRIAGADA & KERVIN LAU
With a complex site located in front of a major freeway, with its longest side facing
south, and with prevailing winds moving diagonally through it, this housing project
explores ways of harvesting that wind for cross ventilation, harvesting rainwater and gray
water for reuse, while reducing noise and bringing in as much natural light to each of the
12 units as possible.
The notion of "fragile space" is latent in the site due to its location as "in between" and
leftover space, sitting between the neighborhood and the freeway. This idea gave way to
thinking of the project as creating the feeling of living in a tissue, softly filtering light and
creating a glow within the units. The space is therefore made fragile because of the
lightness of the fabric and the structure.
Through a series of operations guided by prevailing winds through the site, a grain is
established which guides the arrangement of the units for maximum cross ventilation.
This process also creates outdoor spaces in different scales, starting with a main
connective courtyard through the site which links the existing landscape of the berm
through to the outdoor space of the adjacent developments and eventually creating a
completely internalized ambiguous space/light well that blends the outside directly into
the interior of each unit. The light wells provide the units with plenty of natural light and a
connection to the outside.
SPR
2011
FRAGILE SPACE / comprehensive housing design
DESIGN
STUDIO

4. SCALE OF I
SCI-ARC UNDERGRA
DANIELA ARRIAGAD
ADVISOR: FLORENC
FALL 2012 - VERTICAL STUDIO
INSTRUCTOR- ANDREW ZAGO
HALF-SEMESTER PROJECT- DANIELA ARRIAGADA
With the difficult task of relocating the Barnes Foundation
Museum against the wishes that Albert C. Barnes had specifically stated in his will, this project uses techniques of isometric and
axonometric projections to transform the original museum to a
new expanded building.
The galleries maintain the arrangement of the art, but they
become transformed and offer a new perspective of viewing the
impressive collection of the museum.
FALL
2012
BARNES MUSEUM / conservation through transformation
DESIGN
STUDIO

5. SPRING 2013 - UNDERGRAD
THESIS
ADVISOR- FLORENCIA PITA
This thesis is an exploration
of the scale of intricacy used as
a method of design.
Intricacy as defined by Greg
Lynn is connectionism of small
scale and diverse elements; it is
the fusion of disparate elements
into continuity.
Intricacy is usually associated
with ornament on a surface;
therefore it is usually applied to
the skin of a building. This
thesis is seeking an alternative
application of intricacy to the
structure.
Taking cues from contemporary
tectonics, especially from
buildings that create a sense of
mass through the multiple
geometries of systems; this
thesis seeks to use structural
elements to support intricacy.
By doing so, this thesis does not
need a skin or a surface to
create not only visual intricacy,
but also a massing that
suggests a skin.
SPR
2013
SCALE OF INTRICACY / undergrad thesis
DESIGN
STUDIO

6. Due to this multiplicity, the building does not need an outer skin, as the intricacy is
enough to define it. This is essentially, a building without skin.
The project separates itself from structural and tectonic interests like the modern frame
or smooth field density (spline) by exploring an intricate system that is irregular and has
no clear datum, creating and exploiting moments of conflict in the structure.
The project is a sculpture museum annex to the Art Center College of Design South
Campus in Pasadena. The building is still a museum that can be experienced in
sequence and curated and choreographed, but the open and transparent nature of the
project allows for the juxtaposition and communication of different works in different
areas of the museum.
SPR
2013
SCALE OF INTRICACY / undergrad thesis
DESIGN
STUDIO

7. SPR
2013
SCALE OF INTRICACY / undergrad thesis
DESIGN
STUDIO