CURRICULUM VITAE|PORTFOLIO_2018
Alex Solà de los Santos
ALEX SOLÀ DE LOS SANTOS
CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION name Alex Solà de los Santos birth 08/02/1992 address C/ Pirineu nº1 08553 Seva, Barcelona phone +34 619 40 92 96 e-mail arch.alexsola@gmail.com EDUCATION AND TRAINING degree Building Engineering Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)-EPSEB
September 2009/ June 2013
studying Architecture (Final Project) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)-ETSAB September 2013 Architecture (5th year)
Università degli Studi di Ferrara (UNIFE)-FAF
September 2017/July 2018
language First Certificate Exam
University of Cambridge December 2010
OTHER SKILLS driving Driving License (type B) language Catalan (native)
computer Autocad (expert) Revit (advanced) Spanish (native) 3DS Max (advanced) English (advanced) Photoshop (expert) Italian (advanced) Illustrator (advanced) manual Modelling (advanced) InDesign (advanced) digital Photography (Amateur) SketchUp (expert) Rendering (Advanced) Office (advanced)
ALEX SOLÀ DE LOS SANTOS
CURRICULUM VITAE EXHIBITIONS photo
Facoltà di economia di Ferrara (ECO)
First prize #FerraraMeetsErasmus - The Exhibit May 2018/ June 2018
Ajuntament de Bagà
projects
June 2014/ August 2014
Comune di Imola
July 2018
urbanism Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC)
January 2014
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) June 2014
workshop Arhitektonski Fakultet (Univerzitet u Sarajevu)
January 2018
WORK EXPERIENCE position
Dare Architettura_Ferrara, Italy (http://www.dare-architettura.net)
January 2018/ June 2018
position
Batlle i Roig Arquitectura_Barcelona, Spain (http://www.batlleiroig.com)
June 2016/ July 2016
Junior Architect
Building Engineer/Junior Architect
position Construction Manager Higarsystem S.L.
July 2017/ September 2017
August 2016
July 2015/ September 2015
position Warehouse Manager Sahivo S.A.
June 2014/ September 2014
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INTRODUCTION_INDEX|
Brief introduction and index
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ALEX SOLÀ DE LOS SANTOS
PORTFOLIO INTRODUCTION
This portfolio is a collection of my most recent architectural projects in university as well as some photos that I’ve been taking over this time. The projects are ordered chronologically. The pictures are ordered as you would see the world during a day. About me, I’m graduated in Building Engineering and almost done with Architecture, interested in 3D, rendering and photography, being this last the one I invert more time with. Architecture changed the way I think, observe, travel and most importantly the way I live. Get up and get out, architecture has to be lived.
INDEX
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Architectural Survey
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City Analysis
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03
5500m2_200P 22
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House for an artist
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Catalonia National Library
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Food Bank Foundation
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SENSE
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Imola Sperimentale
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Dare-Architettura Work
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Photography
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ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY|
Casa Fuster - Building Engineering (Bachelor’s Thesis)
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About an architectural survey of the Casa Fuster. Graphic representation of the three facades of what once was one of the most prestigious houses from the modernist Barcelona. Built by Domènech i Montaner, it was a pleasure drawing one of his works. I took it as a personal challenge and drew it with Adobe Illustrator and AutoCAD. I had almost never used Illustrator and it was a great practice.
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CITY ANALYSIS|
Urban Design II - Architecture (2nd year)
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Analysis of different cities and districts, heights, vials, streets, building typologies... The following are from Imola, Zona Franca and Barri de Poblenou (both from Barcelona) respectively.
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5500M2_200P|
Design III - Architecture (3rd year)
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This exercise consited in designing a 5500m2 building for 200 people. This must include flats for 1 and 2 people of 30 and 45m2 respectively and apartments for whole families of 4. The building was in the Barri del Raval (Barcelona). I used a solution of building a dynamic facade which gave live to the street which was quiet and dead. The building was structured with 2 parts, one held the apartments while the other one held mostly the smaller apartments. Both volumes followed the lines of the existing plots.
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HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST|
Design IV - Architecture (3rd year)
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The program of this project was based on building a house for an artist, which must include a workshop, housing for 5 students and a family house for the sharecroppers. My house was built for Evru. After studying him, an artist which has been held in a mental hospital, I got the idea that the complex had to be an absolute chaos, with no right angles and of difficult understanding but functional.
in collaboration with Alexandre Walbrecq
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CATALONIA NATIONAL LIBRARY|
Design V - Architecture (4th year)
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The program for this project was to rehabilitate an old airplane engine factory based in Barcelona in order to engage the Catalan National Library Inside. I took the main office volume from the old factory and extruded vertically to give the users a more silent and private space to study while granting them great views over the Besòs river and over the whole library without being seen. The ground floor is organized with house style boxes where activies were held inside.
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FOOD BANK FOUNDATION|
Design VI - Architecture (4th year)
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The old building hosting the Food Bank Foundation in Barcelona was colapsing, so the program for this project was to create a new building to hold the necessary activities for the Foundation to continue it’s work, as well as teaching spaces for the adjacent school and a kitchen space to cook food for those who are in need. The project is organized in three volumes, each of them is proportional to the activity being held inside. The central volume makes a step forward to welcome visitors as it’s the volume with office spaces and receptions.
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INCUBATOR_1530m2 RECEPTION_70m2
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FOOD BANK_300m2 OFFICES_365m2 RECEPTION_70m2 KITCHENS_950m2
P1
WAREHOUSE_3300m2 WAREHOUSE EQUIPMENT_175m2 REFRIGERATION CHAMBER_540m3 FROZEN CHAMBER_540m3 RECEPTION_70m2 KITCHENS_1275m2 COMMON AREAS_ CLASSES_360m2 PB
PROFESSOR ROOM_175m2 LIBRARY_240m2
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SARAJEVO UNIVERSITY CAMPUS|
Laboratorio di Progettazione III - Architecture (5th year)
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The program for this project was to create a new university campus for the University of Sarajevo. The method this project was developed was special, as the masterplan was defined by ten groups, each group then getting a building with a use to develop. Our group received an expositive area and street art content, so we structured our project with a continuous of concrete walls to use to paint graffities from the exterior. One volume works as the expositive area and the other as working and artistic laboratories. in collaboration with Irene Bandieri, Marc Nicolรกs
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IMOLA SPERIMENTALE|
Laboratorio di Progettazione IV - Architecture (5th year)
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Given a location in Imola, previously a mental asylum and now abandoned, the objective was to revitalize the space as a urban central point and give the people uses and spaces to enjoy. The idea behind the project was to connect four poles identified creating a cross. Breaking the old asylum in four different parts, each of them with a different use, the center point is lowered and four buildings emerge from the ground to create the central urban point.
in collaboration with Marc Nicolรกs
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DARE-ARCHITETTURA|
Tirocinio
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Here’s a selection of works I did at the studio Dare-Architettura (Ferrara). Those include competition renders, as the first ones from a new school competition in Ozzano dell’Emilia, a new fountain in Florence, where we got an honorable mention and the project was published, or a new skin and energetical renovation for a group of buildings in Trento.
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PHOTOGRAPHY|
Amateur Photography
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Some pictures I took from the last trips.
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