Miguel Yon Architecture Portfolio

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MIGUELYONArchitecture Portfolio

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NATIONALITIES: Guatemalan (born) and German
BIRTH DATE: November, 13th 1987
ADDRESS: 103 University Village Dr. Apt 119C, Central, SC 2960
PHONE: (920) 562-2166
E-MAIL: miguelyon@clemson.edu / yonmoll@gmail.com
All images and drawings used in the professional section of the portfolio represent
the work of Miguel Yon Moll in STUDIO DOMUS; as a result, all rights belong to
Studio Domus.
All images and drawings used in the graduate section of the portfolio represent the
work of Miguel Yon Moll, all rights belong to Miguel Yon.
No unauthorized copy, duplication, publication, in any form is prohibited without
the prior consent of the author.
Licensed Architect in
Guatemala
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Fulbright Scholar
Awarded a scholarship in a
national competition in 2012
International Associate
No. 38095290
From 2011-2012
Graduate Student at
Clemson University
GPA: 4.0
Bachelor Degreee in
Architecture
Magna Cum Laude
I WAS BORN AND PURSUED BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN
ARCHITECTURE THERE.
I HAVE PURSUED ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMS THERE.
I PARTICIPATED IN ARCHITECTURE CONVENTIONS OR
EXPOSITIONS THERE
I WENT TO ARCHITECTURE TOURS THERE
01 SOUTH PORCH BREWERY
Graduate work at Clemson
VERALTO TOWER
Professional work at Studio Domus
CITIBANK BACK OFFICES
Professional work at Studio Domus
GRUPO ONYX
Professional work at Studio Domus
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05 GRUPO PROGRESO
Professional work at Studio Domus
BBDO GUATEMALA
Professional work at Studio Domus 06
07 PARK OF SCIENCE
Design thesis at URL Guatemala
CURRICULUM VITAE 08
INDEX

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SOUTH PORCH
BREWERY
Greenville, SC
LOCATION
Greenville, SC
STUDIO
ARCH 851 - Wilkerson Studio
PROJECT DATE
Fall 2012
CONCEPT
While fulfilling all the brewery program
requirements, the design also aims to
unify and attract activity to the southern
part of downtown Greenville across
the Reedy River where the site for the
brewery is located. An urban analysis of
the local city morphology has revealed
severalurbanpublicplazaslocatedatthe
North end of Main Street. My proposal
is to add an Urban Plaza at the southern
end of main street which will benefit and
encourage southern development and
will offer an area of convergence for
the variety of occupants in the southern
sector. A Brewery with an urban plaza
will be a catalyst for participation and
will improve the urban condition for the
variety of occupants within the area.
DESIGN
The principle of the design is strongly
based on the function of house porches
which are a traditional element found
in the architecture of the American
South. Using this principal of design
will promote Southern Culture and
create a better connection between
the people of Greenville and the use of
this proposed building. The porch is the
interstitial space between the private
and public areas of a house and if we
studytheurbanelementsatthesmallest
scale this principal of use can be found
as a primary urban element forming
the morphology of the city. By studying
the activities that happen on a porch
they can be interpreted as “catalyzers
of interaction”, they are welcoming
areas, a prelude to a variety of activities
within a house. Plazas have the same
functions as porches at a larger urban
scale; people also linger in plazas as if
waiting for something to happen, they
attract people, they set the stage for
events of social interaction.
DESIGN GRIDS: From Church to Falls Park
SITE OPENING: Site opens to context
GREEN ROOF & CONTEXT: 100% Site
back to the city.
DESIGN PROCESS
SITE: Greenville

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SOLID VOID: Hyatt Place Greenville, SC
SOLID VOID: Courtyart Marriott Plaza
SOLID VOID: Peace Center
SOLID VOID: Brewery opens to exterior
SITE PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
DIAGRAM: Wall Study with structural parti
VIEW: Building encourages interaction
With the understanding of
those situations of a plaza,
the magnet element, the
porch, is located at the core
of the site, and the brewery
building folds around it with
a precast concrete wall
that creates different porch
spaces, embracing and
giving form to the building.
The wall element travels
around all the site unfolding
different components which
by themselves are catalyzers
of social interaction. Two
grandstands are born from
the wall, the first at the
south is connected to the
restaurant, the second at
the north is connected to the
store and the offices.

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MODELS: design process in models Section: Wall Assembly Detail
ELEVATION: East
ELEVATION: South
Both stairs are oriented to the
center of the plaza giving and offer
access to the park on the roof of the
building, a sustainable feature of the
design that gives back a 100% of the
footprint of the site to the people of
Greenville.
VIEW: West facade from Rhett street
VIEW: From/*-Main St & River St intersection

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VERALTO
TOWER
LOCATION
Guatemala City
CLIENT
DECONSA
PROJECT DATE
2011
02 Veralto Tower is an apartment build-
ing with 108 units in 18 floors and
parking for 233 cars in 6 floors. On
the top of the parking building we
designed a green roof park for kids,
rooms for events, and a 400 meters
long jogging trail that connects the
green roof park and the first floor,
on top of the apartment tower we
designed a pool, a fitness center and
a community room.
The tower have 3 types of units var-
ying from 850 to 1300 square feet
with the objective to make the pro-
ject affordable for the middle class
in Guatemala. The design features a
structural system were all the walls
are designed as shear walls and are
built with a formwork. That repre-
sented a challenge due to the fact
that we had to design a typical floor
plan because the floors could not
have variations in nearly 80% of the
walls of the building.
The freedom in design was in the
balconies and curtain wall, both el-
ements change in every floor, creat-
ing different angles and inclinations
breaking the monotony of the walls.
CREDITS
Project Director (Supervisor):
Mauricio Barillas
Architects:
Miguel Yon Moll, Julio Barrios
Engineers:
Jose Labbe, Gustavo Ortíz (mechanical),
Victor Valdéz (structural), Pedro Mcdonald
(electrical)
Sources
Formwork:
FORSA: http://forsa.com.co/en/
Site Plan
SITE PLAN

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VIEW: Interior view of the entrance
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN: Apartments layout
INVOLVEMENT IN THE
PROJECT
In this project I was part of the design
team from the beginning, in an interac-
tive way, with the design team, engi-
neers and specialists we developed the
guidelines that would rule the entire
project later. After the establishment of
the main idea of the project, I started
to work in the lower block of the pro-
ject, that includes all the public spaces,
the parking in the project. After that I
joined another architect of the firm in
the design of the tower with whom we
designed the facades.
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
After the design phase I worked and
supervised the elaboration of the con-
struction documents of the parking
building and the public spaces in the
project.
ELEVATION: West VIEW: Parking green roof
SKETCH: Building “B” from building parking green roof

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DETAIL: Parking building Green Roof + jogging trail
VIEW: Pool at night
VIEW: Motor lobbyVIEW: Northeast facade from green roof SECTION: Transversale

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GRUPO ONYX
HEADQUARTERS
LOCATION
Guatemala City
CLIENT
Grupo Onyx
PROJECT DATE
2010 – 2011
CREDITS
Project Director (Supervisor):
Mauricio Barillas
Architects:
Miguel Yon Moll, Juan Miguel Carrillo
Engineers:
Jose Labbe, Julio Hernandez, Juan
Pablo Caballeros
Photographs:
Alejandro de Leon
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Photo: Open Workspace 3
In December 2010 STUDIO DOMUS was commissioned
to design the new offices of Grupo Onyx, in a seven sto-
rey building in Guatemala City, the requirement from the
client was to design a high functioning office with a work
space for more than 70 co-workers, conference rooms,
space for informal meetings, conferences and the offices
of the board of directors of the company.
DESIGN:
After studying the characteristics and the aesthetic lan-
guage of the building I noticed that the height of every
level was enough to allow us to play with the design of a
sculptural ceiling, at the same time preserving the con-
crete and steel materials of the structure would give the
building an industrial appearance commensurate with
the corporate image of our client.
Since the shell of the building is an angled and inclined
curtain glass façade and all the image of our client is
based in angled figures, we proposed a ceiling that goes
together with those characteristics; the result was a ceil-
ing composed of wooden sculptural surfaces made of
white-lacquered MDF pieces.
The complex sequence of surfaces creates the illusion
of waves that pleasantly guides the eyes of the visitors
through the office. The steel columns and stairs were
painted yellow, using the color of the company, which
color helps balance the cold white ceiling, the concrete
columns and floors.
RENDERING 2
RENDERING 1
RENDERING 3
SKETCH

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PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES:
In this project I was the project
manager, I was delegated with the
responsibility to design the project
from the beginning, additionally
I participated and supervised the
realization of the construction
documents for the project. During the
construction I also helped supervise
specific details on site when I was
needed. FIFTH FLOOR SHOWING CEILING DISTRIBUTION
Photo: CEO OfficePhoto: Fifth Floor Lobby
LEVELS 2-4 CEILING DESIGN Photo: Stairs

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CITIBACK OFFICE
LOCATION
Guatemala City
CLIENT
Citibank Guatemala
PROJECT DATE
June 2010
In June of 2010 we participated in a
competition to design the core & shell
of a back-office building of CITI Bank in
Guatemala City.
As a result we designed a 5 story
building, 3 floors destined to office
space and operations which contained
the IT departments, accounting, human
resources, call center, cafeteria,
services; The other two floors are
underground and serve as the parking
structure for nearly 450 cars, 116
bicycles, MEP rooms, and other
requirements.
DESIGN
We tried to create a building
that encourages interaction
and encounters between the
employees, and also. To do that
we designed an interior “street” that
connected the entire project, placing,
conference rooms and lounge zones
and coffee-bar by its side.
CREDITS
Project director (Supervisor):
Mauricio Barillas
Architects:
Miguel Yon Moll, Jose Valenzuela
Engineers:
Jose Labbe, FAPCO
LEED consultant:
1/2 Ambiente, Andres Prera

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SITE PLAN SKETCH: Passive ilumination + ventilation
AERIAL VIEW VIEW: Interior view of the entrance
SKETCH: Study of the “interior street”
VIEW: Interior
The wall is like a ribbon that
goes in and out of the building,
creating interesting spaces,
and natural light interactions
both in the interior and the
exterior; In the interior the wall is
accompanied by red stripes and
in the exterior by glass stripes,
they create a sensation of speed
and a variation of depth on all the
walls.

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ELEVATION: South
ELEVATION: North
SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES:
The form of the building was devel-
oped also with the idea of energy
savings, in sunlight and ventilation. By
splitting the building in three with the
interior streets the distance of every
point to a source of natural light is
reduced. The glazing on west facade
(right) is protected by sun louvers and
the south facade with a green wall to
avoid heat gain by radiation. Anoth-
er feature of the building is the green
roof, it protects the building, reduce
the heat island effect in the area and
is also a place for interaction for the
bank.
INVOLVEMENT IN THE PROJECT
Being a licensed architect in Guatemala
I was able to work in this project as the
architect in charge of this project with
another architect. For the design we
followed the guidelines and goals given
by the firm principal, engineers and
client.
For this project I designed the core and
shell of the building, that includes all the
material I have included in this portfolio,
the other architect was designed the
green roof, underground parking and
the distribution of the office spaces.
VIEW: Night view of the West Facade
ELEVATION: West

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GRUPO
PROGRESO
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VIEW: Business Center Lobby
CREDITS
Project Director (Supervisor):
Ana Lucía Molina
Architects:
Miguel Yon Moll
Sources:
Delta Light, Haworth, Steelcase, Herman
Miller, Interface Floor, 3form,
VIEW: Lobby / Front desk
VIEW: Waiting / Informal meeting area
LOCATION
Guatemala City
CLIENT
Grupo Progreso
PROJECT DATE
2011

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19TH FLOOR
18TH FLOOR (MAIN ENTRANCE)
VIEW: Open WorkspaceVIEW: Workspace Lobby
The design of the offices of Grupo
Progreso, the biggest producer of
Cement and aggregates in Central
America consists of three parts,
the business center located in the
east wing of the 18th floor features
conference rooms, meeting rooms,
spaces for informal meetings and
brainstorming, and a room for train-
ing; the IT and communications de-
partment is located in the west wing
of the 18th floor, and two other de-
partments of the company located
on the 19th floor.
In the design we had to compress 3
floors of underused office space into
to 2 efficient floors, one challenge
of the design was taking a third part
of the staff out of their offices, a de-
cision we did not only to save space,
but also to increase collaboration
between employees, and to promote
knowledge sharing among all the
staff of each department. VIEW: Meeting Room 1
VIEW: Meeting Room 2

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BBDO
GUATEMALA
CREDITS
Project Director (Supervisor):
Ana Lucía Molina
Architects:
Miguel Yon Moll
Engineers:
Jose Labbe
Sources:
Steelcase (Campfire), Herman Miller
(Canvas), Interface Floor.
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VIEW: Pitch Zone
LOCATION
Guatemala City
CLIENT
BBDO Guatemala
PROJECT DATE
2012
17TH FLOOR (MAIN ENTRANCE) 18TH FLOOR
VIEW: Open Workspace 1

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DESIGN:
After talking with our client we un-
derstood that the pitch meetings is
an important part of the work pro-
cess in BBDO Guatemala, is in those
meetings when they launch a pro-
ject. For that reason we designed
a “Pitch Zone” at the center of the
office, that space will be used for in-
side meetings, team organizations,
and also as a movie teather to pres-
ent campaigns to the clients.
In the design we acknowledged the
increasing importance of spaces to
socialize and collaborate, a charac-
teristic of progressive workspaces
today.
VIEW: Open Workspace 3VIEW: Open Workspace 2
VIEW: Lounge Area VIEW: Private Offices
VIEW: Pitch Zone

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PARK
OF SCIENCE
07: LOCATION
Guatemala City
STUDIO
Christian Vela Studio
Universidad Rafael Landivar
PROJECT DATE
Fall 2009
MODEL: Park of Science
IDENTIFYING THE
NECESSITY
In most of the cities of the world, ex-
ists a culture of city that differs from
Guatemalan culture. In Guatemala and
most of the cities of Central America
exists a large number of parks, most of
them in poor conditions, some of them
even closed to ensure the security of
the people, but who would like to go to
a closed park?, as a result those parks
havebecomeforgottenspacesthatonly
contribute to purify the air of the cities.
One of the major problems in Guate-
mala is the insecurity, nobody wants to
be exposed to insecurity, which is one
of the reasons why in Guatemala there
is no culture of walking to observe and
enjoy the cities, like any other country
in the world, everyone would rather be
in a mall or in their house than being in
parks or open spaces, the citizens have
become spectators of the city when
they should be the protagonists.
DESIGN CONCEPT
The design goal of this park is to chal-
lenge that paradigm and introduce a
park that promotes interaction and
activates the neighborhood, bringing
new opportunities of development and
economical activities with the goal to
change the reality of insecurity and
create a healthy environment.
The Park features a convention
center a planetarium and various
spaces to serve the community.
Site Plan
Existing Gas Station
Protected Area Convention
Center
Entrance
Parking 1 Exit
Parking 1
Parking Entrance
Parking Exit
Drop Off
Plaza
Plaza
Planetarium
Parking
Entrance
Bus Parking
Bike Path
SITE PLAN

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CONVENTION CENTER
A convention center is a key facility
in order to bring life to the park, it
congregates people that can use the
park in different ways.
CONCEPT
One of the goals of the design was to
extend the public zones of the park into
the building, to achieve it the design
uses the sloped site as a strategy to
connect the floors of the building to the
main areas of the park, the use of the
natural topography allows the users
access to a green roof, through a plaza
and the walkways, as a result the green
roof can also be used for exhibitions or
conventions contributing with the life of
the park.
The convention center have two main
public entrances , one in the first
floor in front of a plaza that connects
with the parking, and the second on
the third floor, in front of another
plaza, connecting the building with
the north parking of the park and the
planetarium. That solution allowed the
possibility to divide the building, with
the objective to be able to have two
different conventions or activities at the
same time.
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
SECTION A-A’
VIEW: Aerial view of the park

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The proposed planetarium integrates
various activities related both with as-
tronomy and geology, I abstracted those
concepts in the design of the planetarium
with a sphere that represents the earth,
that I divided in two parts, and displaced
one to the other. The piece of the sphere
on the top represents the astronomy and
the humans watching to the sky; is in this
VIEW: Planetarium
SECTION A-A’
part that the Imax projection dome is loca-
ted. The other piece of the sphere repre-
sents the earth opened, so the humans can
observe the interior of the earth, following
the same line of thought that place of the
project contains a museum of geology.
And the ring that surrounds the pieces of
the sphere represents the connection be-
tween the events of the earth and space.
SECOND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR

21. MIGUELYON
103 University Village Dr. Apt 119C, Central, SC 2960
(920) 562-2166
miguelyon@clemson.edu I yonmoll@gmail.com
Clemson University
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