LÓPEZAYALAarturo CV PORTFOLIO a selection of exercises
CV ARTURO LÓPEZ AYALA Urb. Montenebros I n°9 28400 Collado Villalba, Madrid / Spain +34 602 113 490 larturo@student.ethz.ch
LANGUAGES Spanish mothertongue English second mothertongue through british education, high level (C2) German high level (C2) French basic level (A2) Italian basic level (A2)
2019
Christian Kerez, Berlin starting March 2019 6 month internship
2018 - 19 Estudio Carme Pinos, Barcelona 6 month internship 2017 - 18 Helping assistant ETH Zurich, Andrea Deplazes 2015 - 18 School of Architecture, ETH Zurich. BSc ETH Arch 2013 - 15 School of Architecture, Escuela Politécnica Madrid (ETSAM) four semesters completed 1998 - 13 Montessori School British Education, IES María Guerrero, Madrid First class honours, scholarship of excellence 1995
Born in Madrid, Spain
SEMINARS 2018 Texas, in USA and Mexico, studio Philip Ursprung and Alex Lehnerer 2017 Metal and forge, in Berlin, with berlin artist Jan Bünnig, studio Cecilia Puga 2017 Classic bookbinding, in Zurich, studio Cecilia Puga 2017 Historic construction methods, in Sicily, with the institute of construction history of ETH 2016 The future of Havana, in Cuba, studio Urban Think-Tank 2016 The future of construction, in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, studio Dirk Hebel 2015 Thinking Matera, in Italy, studio Alberto Campo Baeza
ETH PROFESSORS FS18 Prof. Christian Kerez HS17 Prof. Cecilia Puga HS16 - FS17 Prof. Andrea Deplazes HS15 - FS16 Prof. Christian Kerez, Prof. Annette Spiro, Prof. Karin Sander
INTERESTS Metal and forge, ceramics, photography, drawing, travelling, reading, sports
Barcelona, 10th January, 2019
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The spa is conceived as programmatic water boxes that have been embedded within the main concrete structure by connecting both end points of the water boxes witheach another, understanding the whole as a continuous material system.
Arturo Lรณpez Ayala (individual work)
THE AQUEDUCT - A SPA PROGRAM studio Cecilia Puga autumn 2017
The space develops itself at three levels, conforming an introduction, a plot and a climax at its highest point. The outdoor spaces are public water-contained spaces, which contrast with the introverted, dense and linear structure. Inside, and between the water program boxes, one finds everything that has no direct relation with the programmatic spa boxes: resting points, shops, restaurants, administration. The physical model should be understood as an inhabitable entity that denotes the number of indoor and outdoor spaces. A linear relational system has been verified both in terms of potential circulation and organisation of space, and in terms of the organisation of the overall volume. The complexity of spatial situations and diversity of nuances accounts for the richness and complexity of a potential program, achieved by a simple rule: the continuous conection of the water boxes, which allows for the different spatial experiences of the spa.
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Untitled, 2017. Iron bar 0.8 x 0.8 x 600 cm; sculpture 60 x 12 x 8 cm
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Wall: a continuous vertical structure that encloses or divides an area of land. It is this duality of the wall - that encoleses and divides at the same time - that defines the the action that controlles the spaces of the house.
Arturo Lรณpez Ayala (individual work)
DOMUS MURUM studio Andrea Deplazes autumn 2016
Domus Murum: the house of the wall. A wall that splits a 6 metre wide house in half. The common spaces are divided from the private ones by the wall, which contains the serving spaces of the house. The wall controls the different incarnations of the space that the wall generates throughout the house, where a big private space comes with a small public area, and vice versa. The wall is the main structure and runs through the whole artefact: from the rooftop to the ground floor. The wall has to be understood as a radicalisation of the concept of the project: the dematerialisation of a house to one element, which runs infinite. The space in the house can be read both along the wall as perpendicular to it. This duality of space allows the house to expand or reduce itself, allowing different relations and interactions between the users. The wall in each cell unit is not to be broken: small interfaces allow the permeability of the wall from the private spaces to the public ones.
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1 Concrete 2 White external plaster 5 mm 3 Exterior wooden floor 4 Support 5 Protection fleece 6 Thermal insulation extruded polystyrene 150 mm 7 Polymer bitumen membrane 8 Chromed handrail 9 Rubber profile 10 Glass 11 Connection rebars 12 Interior plaster 10 mm 13 Wood flooring 14 Underfloor heating 65 mm 15 Floor heating 16 Separating layer (plastic 1 mm) 17 Impact sound insulation 20 mm 18 Concrete floor 200 mm 19 White ceiling plaster 10 mm 20 Concrete element prefabricated, white plastered 21 Mortar template 40 mm 22 Thermal insulation 40 mm 23 Prefabricated lintel 24 Prefab concrete windowsill with insulating core 25 White exterior plaster 26 Insulation board (5/150/10 three-layer board) 27 Plastic screw plug (star anchor) 28 Brick masonry B 29 / 17,5 / 19 17,5 mm 29 White interior plaster 5mm
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The ascending space is a space that develops itself along a vertical axis, where tensions of closeness and remoteness are stablished between the observer and the space. Walking the space in its verticality will allow the visitor to understand the different degrees of relation between the horizontal planes that are spanned along vertical planes that define the space.
Arturo LĂłpez Ayala (individual work)
ASCENDING SPACE - A SUMMER HOUSE studio Christian Kerez spring 2018
For achieving this space typology, a tower nor a stacking is needed or relevant. Rather, a particular sense of ascension in space towards the light that floods the space in one way, and one of vertigo in the opposite way of the same direction. In fact, it is this duality what makes the observer want to explore this space, in search of a total understanding of it, a space that goes far beyond a mere central void. The idea could be summed up as a 90° turn to the constructed reality, just as if the centre of gravity of a man had been inverted inside a space that was developed in its horizontality, and thus walls are perceived as floors, and, simultaneously, floors as walls. In this type of space, all elements are strongly related within another by a staircase system. To sum up, one could describe this spacial typology as a system of planes defining a space that are put in tension within another, thus creating a static force between them that prevent us from falling into the emptiness, as if we were electrostatic bodies suspended between two charged poles.
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