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Alex Pina: Experience Designer

Physical Design

Pooh

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General Overview
Goals and Parameters
Poster Series and Marketing
Visual Identity
Graphics
Graphic Look and Feel
Exhibit Area Organization
General Plan
Street Elevation
Exhibit Intro
Area: Eeyore
Area: Tigger
Area: Pooh
Area: Rabbit
Area: Store
Collateral Merchandise

Name: "Pooh: The 100 Acre Pop-Up"

Client: Walt Disney Corporation

Location: Former Takashimaya Department Store (Ground Floor)

693 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Description: Thesis project exploring narrative through the layering of translucent materials in the creation of a promotional Pop-Up Exhibit for Disney's new "Winnie the Pooh" (Summer 2011).

Chenel

Poster
Process Sketches
How To [Assembly]
Possibilities
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Name: Cloison Ambre [Lighted Partition System]

Sponsored By: Procédés Chénel

Description: The layering of panels and cut-outs is similar to amber's layering of translucency, color, and preserved organisms. This provides a unique opportunity to create an immersive branded story told through logos, color & quality of light.

Amtrak

Approach
Program and Dimension
Plan and Overhead Views
Landscapes
Landscapes: Interior View
Interiors: Divergence
Approach

Client: Amtrak

Location: NBTA & AARP Trade Shows

Description: Train travel brings people closer to nature than any other form of transportation. The design was informed and inspired by a train's movement through a landscape and the natural beauty of actual Amtrak destinations

Chimichurri

Approach
Bryant Park Entrance
Bryant Park and Chimichurri
Process Sketches
Approach
Floor Plan
Section
Interior View
Interior View
Approach

Name: Food Expo

Location: Bryant Park

New York CIty, NY

Description: The Dominican Chimichurri is so much better than a burger! It has layers of ingredients, flavors, and textures that make it the best meal option after a long night of fun with friends. The design of this 30' x 50' space is reflective of these qualities

EDPA

Inspiration

Process Sketches

Approach

Floor Plan

Materials

Sections

View

Approach

Client: EDPA

Location: Euroshop Trade Show

Dusseldorf, Germany

Description: Inspiration was drawn from Ice Hotels and how they draw people in and are conducive to social interaction within. EDPA similarly promotes this social aspect between its members.

Graphic Design

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Project: Branding [Stalker Joe's Coffee Shop]

Location: Storefront

Description: Stalker Joe's plays a major role in keeping celebrities in tabloids by aiding them in getting those "candid" shots. It's a staple in the Los Angeles community, a keystone in any celebrity's star, and a paparazzi breeding ground.

For any young Hollywood Starlet it's pretty simple....

Need good press with your latte? Come to us

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Site Plan

Site Images

Procession of Banners

Procession of Banners

Proposed Sign Family

Hanging Sign Type

Client: WIldlife Conservation Society & Central Park Zoo

Location: Central Park

New York, NY

Description: Wayfinding and Signage Proposal

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Description: FIT M.A. Exhibition Design Poster

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Architecure

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Cooking and Architecture

Process Models

Street Perspective

Interior Perspective

Streetside View

Section Model

Longitudinal Section

Cross Section

Name: Culinary Institute

Location: Downtown

Miami, FL

Description: The site is a small lot that faces streetside and lays between two buildings. Design was inspired by the rhythm and motion of cooking chocolate bon-bons.

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Genova

Piazza Lavagna

Process Models

Process Models

Floorplan

Name: City Within A City

Location: Piazza Lavagna

Genova, Italy

Description: Design is reflective of the richly dense architectural infrastructure of the city's medieval center. The Piazza is divided into zones that begin to atomize and fissure as the design intervention reaches the sky,

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Benetton Bazaar

Benetton Brands

Site Diagrams

Site Diagrams

Inspiration

Process Sketches

Floor Plan

Section

Structural System

Structural Detail

Screening System

Screening System

Street Corner View

Street View

Interior Images

Overhead Views

Client: Benetton Group

Location: Benetton Flagship Store

Tehran, Iran

Description: Inspiration was drawn from the rich geometric patterns of Islamic architecture in order to divide and odd shaped site, and ultimately informing every design aspect.

Designer Bio

Alex Pina

Alex Pina

Alex Pina

Name: Alex Gabriel Pina Pichardo

Place of Birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Languages: Spanish, English, Italian

Degrees:

M.A In Exhibition Design

Fashion Institute of Technology: New York City

B.A. In Architecture

Florida International University: Miami, Florida

My Foundation: Growing up I will always remember looking up at skyscrapers in Boston, looking down at floor plans, and looking at the configuration of spaces around me. Whether I knew it or not, I always had an innate sense of design and spatial organization that would lead me to draw for hours on end, design homes out of shoeboxes, and let my imagination run wild. Whenever I wasn’t outside running around with my brother and cousins, I would spend hours sketching and creating imaginary spaces. Through my formal education in architecture, I was able to take the first step in my self-realization as a designer of spaces, but it’s through my studies in exhibition design that I’m able to fulfill my potential as a designer & storyteller, and bring back a little bit of that childhood imagination.

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