Gabriela Angelina Bragan's portfolio includes projects in Mobile, AL, Izmir, Turkey and Mentone, AL. The first project is called "The Connection", apartments and a boutique hotel in Mobile connected by bridges over interior courtyards with vegetation and water management systems. The second project renovated a historic Turkish building in Izmir as a multi-use music venue called "Music Haven". The third project was for a canine hospital, adoption and research center called "Fluidity" in Mentone with a hydraulic stage system and versatile multipurpose room. The portfolio also includes photographic series, internship work and independent acrylic paintings and drawings studying artists like Van Gogh and Mondrian

1. Gabriela Angelina
Bragan
Portfolio

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THE CONNECTION
MUSIC HAVEN
FLUIDITY
OTHER WORKS
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3. Alagasco Competition
Fourth year competition under Prof. Dagg.
THE CONNECTION
Apartments and Boutique Hotel.
Mobile, AL

4. Vertical Light Shelf:
Responding to Sun’s Path:
The building’s facade reacts to how to sun moves around it on the
site. There are hanging vegetation basins and greenroofs where
southern light hits the building. There are vertical “light shelves”on
the curtain wall areas to block the sunlight from the side and provide
a sense of privacy from the street-view below.
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Programmatic & Facade Diagram:
Rear Street Perspective
Front Elevation from the North Side
Vegetation
Diagram:
THE CONNECTION PROGRAM: Market Rate Housing at approx.50500 sf.
Hotel at approx.3185 sf.
Approximate Total at 97902 sf.
SITE: Mobile,AL

6. Couryard
Plan:
Water
Circulation
in Section:
BRIDGING:
The hotel and apartment buildings are connected by a
series of 3 bridges that alternated every other floor, staring
at the second floor. They allow one to travel to the rooftop
pool and experience the gardens that rest on top of the
two atriums
COURTYARD WATER
CATCHING SYSTEM:
The courtyard is not only full of angular
detail that mimicks the bridges above,
but is a recycling system for catching
rainwater. There are channels embedded
in the grassy areas that connect the outer
pools to the inner pools by being at a
slight angle. The grey water is then held
in a tank undein a tank underground. This keeps the
courtyard from flooding in a climate like
Mobile, AL.

8. Rennovation of an ancient Turkish Han
Third year study abroad project under Prof. Orgen.
MUSIC HAVEN
Multi-Use Music Venue
Izmir, Turkey

9. : Polish original
concrete floors
: Original brick
painted white
: Recycled wood
floors and doors
: vegetation serving: vegetation serving
as railing & aesthetic
Music Haven
MATERIALITY:
PROPOSED PROGRAM: Mutli-use with a surrounding theme of music and
catering to music lovers of all ages.
CURRENT PROGRAM: Multi-use of storage, restaurant, and record store.
SITE: Izmir,Turkey

10. nightclub area during the day when well lit nightclub area at night when lit up by accent wall.

11. Hydraulic Stage System:
Section of Stage when Elevevated:

12. “Project Woof” Competition
Third year competition under Prof. Dagg.
FLUIDITY
Canine hospital, adoption, research and conference center.
Mentone, AL

13. FLUIDITY SITE: Mentone,AL
A twist to a classic:
Roof plan showing structural grid and canopied areas:
Canine hospital,orthopedic reasearch center,and adoption center.

14. Versatile Multipurpose Room with Seating:
In the multipurpose area of the building to the right of the
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atre like seating area for conferences.

15. OTHER WORKS

16. MIRRORS AROUND US
...a photographic series.

17. HOGARES y FANTASIAS

18. INTERNSHIP WORK

19. Acrylic Paintings:
Almond Blossoms
Original by Van Gogh (1890)
Studying Light:
INDEPENDENT WORKS:
Graphite on Arches.
Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red
Original by Piet Mondrian (1936)