| | | | CASA Alumni | | Name | Pablo Hernandez | | EMail | pablo_hernandez7@berkeley.edu | | Title | Junior Specialist | | Company | B.I.O.M.S. Research Group, UC Berkeley | | Address | | | City | | | Company URL | | | M/W/VBE | |
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| | | | Degree | Area of Study | Year | College / University | | BA | Architecture | 2012 | UC Berkeley |
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| | | | Alumni Scholarship Application | | My Story - Pablo Hernandez | | I was born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1990 to a jeweler and a nurse. At the time, my dad was building our house out of bricks and concrete. One of my earliest memories is of helping my dad carry bricks to the roof. I never got to see the house completely finished because we moved to Los Angeles in 1994, but I have always been proud to say that my dad built a house with limited education and materials. By seeing the house he built and all the jewelry he made, which he learned to do by apprenticeship and without any formal education, my dad inspired me to make things without being scared of criticism for lack of polish and perfection.
Now, I am lucky to have chances that my dad never did and I taking advantage of all the opportunities I have here at Cal.
After we moved to Los Angeles, I lived in a variety of apartments and even a garage once in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. I was fortunate to have a number of teachers that supported me and encouraged me to go to a four-year college. I have always been interested in anything having to do with art or design and when I came to Cal, I considered majoring in Art Practice. I ultimately chose to study architecture because I like how the work of architects can improve lives and communities more directly than can the fine arts. I would like to create something that will be useful and that will last for many years. I believe that a good, strategically-made building can positively impact a struggling community. My high school, Oscar de la Hoya Animo Charter High School, was the first high school built in Boyle Heights in around 50 years. This contemporary building is an indicator of positive change that sends a message to residents that there is hope for improvement in their community.
As a member of CASA, I enjoy going to the meetings whenever I can and meeting architecture students of similar backgrounds. The camping trip with CASA was a wonderful opportunity to connect, and hearing from CASA alumni at last semester’s award ceremony was very inspiring to me. I hope to continue to become more involved with CASA this year. I think it’s a very important organization because Latino students are a disproportionally small minority on campus; CASA strengthens the connections between Latino students and is a support network if someone is struggling. In my studio classes, I aim to help out my fellow classmates, CASA members and others, in whatever ways I can. If someone needs help and I know how to help them, I gladly take the time to do so.
When I graduate from Cal in December, I plan to get work experience in medium-sized firms, where I hope to work on projects that benefit the local community. I plan on applying to a Masters in Architecture program within the next few years and becoming a licensed architect. | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  |
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| | | | Box in a box in a box in tension | | Architecture 160 | | | This project was a group collaboration of five people; the project introduced the group to the properties of steel as well as the basics of steel construction. The project exploits the strength of steel cable in tension by holding two of three steel boxes midair only being attached to the base steel box through steel cable. | |  | |  | |  | |  |
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| | | | Designing Spaces for Subconscious Movements | | Architecture 100A | | Architecture 100A (Fall 2011) projects built up on one another, resulting in the final project. The course is exploration of concrete and reusable casts, and how both create space. The class’s initial projects lack surrounding context. The final project culminates with the introduction of human activity into our design.
Exploration of form and orientation was facilitated by the animation software Modo 501. Students were introduced to advanced rendering techniques.
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| | | | Designing a Multi-Use Workshop | | 11B Introduction to Design in Architecture | | | This assignment was my first real encounter with the challenges associated with the design of a building. In ED 11B, we were introduced to ideas such as circulation, program, and hierarchy. We were required to build a series of sketch models and topographic landscapes made out of cardboard. My project has a series of moving compartments within the structure to facilitate collaboration of the people working in the space. | |  |
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| | | | Case Study of Bernardo Rodrigues' House on Flight of Birds | | Introduction to 3-D Modeling | | | This class introduced me to the world of 3-D computer modeling. I had to model all exterior and interior surfaces of my assigned case study, House of Flight of Birds designed by Bernardo Rodrigues. In this class, I learned how to make sections in perspective, exploded axonometric diagrams, and was introduced to basic parametrics and rendering. I really enjoyed this course and I am looking forward to using these skills in my upper division studios. | |
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