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2014 DCFA MARY KOLB BERGLUND TRAVELING FELLOW EDUARDO CASTAÑEDA One of the most vital programs that the Center for Foundation administers is its scholarship and fellowship program for students and young architects. Each year, $10,000 or more is distributed to students and architects from across the state and country. This includes the traveling fellowship program: three awards granted for senior architecture students or recent graduates to travel and further their research. Here is a report from Eduardo Castaneda who used his funding from the 2014 Mary Kolb Berglund Traveling Fellowship to study urbanization in Asia. 2014 DCFA MARY KOLB BERGLUND TRAVELING FELLOW EDUARDO CASTAÑEDA

Eduardo Castañeda, born in Dallas, Texas, received his Bachelors of Science in Architecture in 2012 and his Masters in Architecture in 2014 at The University of Texas at Arlington. During this time, he studied abroad in Austria at the University of Innsbruck and traveled extensively in Europe. His interest in the influence of historic and contemporary architecture has led him on numerous architectural expeditions throughout Europe, Asia, Central America, and the . Eduardo was President of the AIAS Chapter at UTA from 2012 to 2014, during that time he has energized the chapter and worked diligently to forge productive relationships with the local AIA chapters, both Dallas and Fort Worth, and the design profession in general. Eduardo has garnered national and international attention for both his leadership and design achievements such as: 2015 National AIAS Emerging Professional Honor Award, 2015 AIA Annual Emerging Professionals Exhibition, 2014 Kolb-Berglund Traveling Fellowship, KROB 2013 – Best in Category Student Digital/Mixed, SuckerPunch Online Publication, and many other awards.

Upon graduation, Eduardo worked for Callison in Dallas, where he received the Callison $5000 Scholarship and Internship (2014). He has then worked mainly in international projects with the International Design Studio in Dallas as a Designer. As a young designer and professional Eduardo has shown a degree of diligence and involvement by leading both technological advancement and team coordination in a difficult timeframe and complex team structure.

Eduardo has served on the AIA Dallas - Board of Directors for two consecutive terms (2013 and 2014) as the AIAS Liaison. He has been an active and passionate Associate AIA members, who was the Chair for the 2015 Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition and the 2016 Vice-Chair for the Latinos in Architecture Network. Under Eduardo’s leadership, AIA Dallas and UTA AIAS have become much more aligned around a common goal of engagement, advocacy and mentorship. WHY ?

For two weeks this summer I traveled to China, in which I visited three major cities: Kong, and . The main focus of this trip was to see how the world is experiencing extraordinary rapid urbanization. While economically beneficial, such growth puts incredible strain on cities as their urban contexts drastically transforms.

PROBLEM

As Asia is urbanizing at a rate over 150,000 people per day, growth which is estimated to sustain itself over the next 20 years.

China has reached a 50% urbanization rate, meaning that over 700 million people now live in Chinese cities.

The combination of consistent economic growth and influx of people moving to take advantage of opportunity in urban areas has created a real estate boom in unpresented.

These trends seem to suggest that keeping up with the increasing demand for buildings to serve the increasing urban population will be difficult for architecture applying a traditional design and construction process which can take years to complete one large-scale building. Allowances for creativity, site-consciousness and user experience are left by the wayside in the speed of production in current developments. The result is massive development of “cookie cutter” buildings which lack standards of quality and rarely address contextual or environmental issues. MY ENCOUNTER WITH CHINA

I spent two weeks traveling around the country and it broke me down. It broke down the entire framework of what we were taught as architecture students about function, priorities and what ’re entitled to. I was taken by the city’s undeniable pulse and unconventionality.

Everything is bigger: the buildings the crowds, the traffic jams. The pace is faster. Change is not something that happens a decade away but something that you’re immediately and instantly confronted with.

For me it was crucial to visit China. To absorb the culture, gain a sense of how life unfolds. How people’s psychology functions, how emotions run.

take all that in and consider how architecture could manifest itself as a response to these notions that are beyond the technical or purely conceptual. SCHEDULE: Morning: Fly to Shanghai on Juneyao airlines flight HO1306 (11:50am-14:00pm), Mu’En Hall and/or Catholic Church,

Hotel Check-in: Day 1 Wednesday June 4/Day 2 Thursday June 5: Travel/Arrive in

Shanghai Holiday Inn Express , No. 1738 Zhongxing Road, Zhabei , Shanghai. Flight Information:

Evening: United Airlines Flight 1042: DFW (6:00am) to (7:59am) - 3 hrs + 59 mins

Nanjing Road and United Airlines Flight 869: San Francisco (1:15pm) to Hong Kong (6:40pm) - 14 hrs + 25 mins

Day 6 Monday June 9: Shanghai Hotel Check-in:

Morning: Penta Hotel , 19 Luk Hop Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Shanghai Museum, Renmin Square, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall and Theater. Day 3 Friday June 6: Hong Kong

Afternoon: Morning:

MOCA Museum, District, World Financial Center (KPF) and , Mapping/Class Exercise Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong Museum of History, the Clock Tower.

Day 7 Tuesday June 10: Shanghai Afternoon:

Morning: Hong Kong Cultural Center, Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 11Yuk Choi Rd. (Hadid)

Yu Garden and Fuxing Park. Day 4 Saturday June 7: Hong Kong

Afternoon: Morning:

Visit Museum, Office visit: MADA s.p.a.m., Giant Interactive Group Headquarters (Morphosis), and Sheung Wan and Central (will see the Cheung Kong Center, Tower (Pei), HSBC Main Building (Foster), and

French Concession Standard Charted PLC from outside on the way to Central.), Lippo Center (Rudolph), Asia Society (Williams + Tsien),

Day 8 Wednesday June 11: Shanghai—Suzhou—Shanghai Office visit: davidclovers Morning: Afternoon: Travel to Suzhou, , and the Grand The Peak, Repulse Bay Beach, davidclovers projects (de Ricou, Waterscape, PlaySquare, Entry Lobbies, Carpark Lobbies Afternoon: and Breakers), Stanley Market, Murray House, (Pei) and making and/or Manufacturing Facility Day 5 Sunday June 8: Hong Kong—Shanghai

Morning:

Day 9 Thursday June 12: Shanghai Juyongguan Great Wall and Ming Tomb.

Morning: Afternoon: Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and China pavilion at and/or PowerStation of Art Olympic Green and National Stadiums (the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube). Afternoon/Evening: Day 13 Monday June 16: Beijing Urban Walk/Free time, Take overnight sleeper train D312(19:30pm-07:07am) to Beijing,

Day 10 Friday June 13: Beijing Morning:

Morning: and Hongqiao Market.

Arrive in Beijing, check into hotel, Galaxy Soho (Hadid) Afternoon:

Hotel Check-in: , Mapping/ Class Exercise, Free Time Beijing Xihuajingzhao Hotel, No.81 Meishi Street, Xicheng District, Beijing Day 14 Tuesday June 17: Beijing Afternoon: Morning: , Office visit: Studio Pei-Zhu, Mapping/ Class Exercise

Evening: Yonghe “Lama” Temple, Linked Hybrid, 798 Arts Zone, and CCTV Headquarters.

Wangfujing Street Market, Green-Pix Afternoon:

Day 11 Saturday June 14: Beijing Day 15 Wednesday June 18: Beijing departure

Morning: Morning:

Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall, Tiananmen Square and . Check out and go to airport, Terminal #3 by .

Afternoon: Flight Information:

Beijing National Opera and Tour and Rickshaw Ride.. United Airlines Flight 888: via Terminal #3 by Foster and Partners Beijing(12:00pm) to San Francisco (9:10am) -12 hrs + 10 mins

Day 12 Sunday June 15: Beijing United Airlines Flight 1449: San Francisco (10:50am) to DFW (4:28pm) - 3 hrs +38 mins 2| On-site Installation RESEARCH The basis of an efficient installation process is the precise planning of the work The main objective is to present the current status of prefabricated flow during installation. building by documenting the different systems according to building typology and building components, thus systematically weaving a picture of the world of prefabricated systems. 3 | Modular Strategies

Modular strategies provide several benefits to the construction process. The use of modules greatly reduces time for the construction schedule.

4 | Connections

The assemblage of a building’s strategy — the primary strategy, secondary strategy, modules and components — includes the connections and the

5| Precedents

In this pages ahead, you will find precedents collected for the reasearch that hold qualities of prefabrication. These examples have been categorized OUTCOME

Designing is the ability to understand of how to interact with society in today’s world and how all the elements come together to solve functions and problems. As designers we need to be innovative and questioning things.

BEYOND

As Architects, we have a universal language, a mindset that enables us to cross between ideas, minds and worlds…

Architectural philosophy, symbolism, and ideas transpire during the smallest events of our lives and the greatest world events abroad.

I strongly believe the profession of an architect influences the way people live, eat, sleep, and network, amongst numerous activities.

Focusing on contemporary architecture and understanding how to translate common problems and being aware how society is changing.

By diagnosing all this data I have then applied that to proposed projects.