ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO
ADRIANO VALDEZ SERRA
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CONTENT
Presentation
Academic Projects
Curriculum Vitae
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Motivation Letter Summary
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Climate Change Research Center
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Bella Vista Sports & Social Center
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High Garden Center
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HACMA Hotel
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Union Medica Tower E & Services
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Thesis Project 2016
Sports & Education Project Individual Project 2015
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Commercial Building Individual Project 2015
Professional Projects
Bioclimatic Hotel Design Lead Architect 2018
Medical Building Design Cristobal Valdez & Asociados Facade & Render Modeling 2017 - 2018
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION University Studies (2011-2016) Bachelor in Architecture - Cum Laude (GPA 3.4) Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Green Building Expo Dominican Republic (2014) Participant Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Adriano Valdez Serra Architect
Match Talent Certification (2016) Prefabricated Architecture & Industrialization of the Construction Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Match Talent Certification (2017) Budget, Unitary Prices & Cubage Analysis Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Sustainability in Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (2018) Certificate of Achievement Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Master Studies (2019-2021) MSc Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences track Building Technology Delft University of Technology The Netherlands
Born January 9th, 1990 Santiago de Chile Delft, The Netherlands avaldezserra@hotmail.com +31 6 45057572
Languages Spanish - English - French
Software Skills AutoCad Revit Sketchup Pro Lumion Rhino Grasshopper Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Design Builder
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE JCH Studio Arquitectónico (2016) Architect and coordinator of Presidential Suites Cabarete by Lifestyle. Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Acero El Aguila (2016-2017) Architect, Steel Designer and Quality Supervisor of Multiple Projects. Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Acustison (2017) Resident Architect and Supervisor of Mishu Studios (Record Studio). Colonial Zone, Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Cristobal Valdez & Asociados (2017-2018) Facade Designer, Drafter & Render Artist of Union Medica Tower E. Designer of “Villa #2” in Punta Cana. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Independent (2018) Lead Architect & Designer of HACMA Hotel San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic Grupo Therrestra (2019) Resident Architect at Ocean Coral Spring by H10 Montego Bay, Jamaica Team SUM (2019-2021) Architect, Drafter, BIM specialist (Revit), PV Design, HDU Structure, Circularity Evaluator, Facade Design Delft, The Netherlands
MOTIVATION LETTER SUMMARY
During my development in the Dominican Republic, a third world country, I learned that there’s much to protect and cherish as humans, particularly from the point of view of an architect. Through my accumulated experience, I´ve settled my belief that sustainable architecture is a vehicle for helping the world, since it serves as a bridge between the ever-growing human population and it´s respective infrastructure needs with its evolution towards a sustainable world. While studying and working as an architect I developed an indescribable passion towards smart design, taking great focus on the building technology that makes sustainable design an invaluable tool to create low impact buildings and spaces that would blend in harmoniously with the environment and in effect, would contribute with the ever-increasing challenge humanity has against climate change. According to the Global Risk Index, The Dominican Republic is one of the most vulnerable countries against this phenomenon, which makes it the ideal place to implement bioclimatic designs with sustainable technology. The different experiences I´ve had have helped me not only to see the need for sustainability, but also to comprehend the surging technology and the need to incorporate it into architecture. From my thesis project, where I studied rain water collection systems, solar energy equipment, smart lightning systems and green roofs and walls, to my experience in a steel company, which help me comprehend the versatility of diverse materials and finally all the information I recollected to design ventilated facades with ceramic tiles, PVC curtain walls to enhance the buildings performance. These different experiences have culminated in the design of a bioclimatic hotel, where I´ve had to apply the knowledge I have learned. I have a determined drive and passion to learn more, to be better and to learn from experts in the subject. Simultaneously, I have begun looking deeper into the necessities of the Dominican communities by building homes as a volunteer with TECHO. In conclusion, I truly think that the experience I´ve accumulated and my desire to make this country a better place will permit me to make the most out of this master´s degree. These situations and experiences have greatly motivated me to be part of the change in this vulnerable planet and I believe that studying in this prestigious university will define me as the professional I dream to be, to be able to help my country and perhaps the rest of the world.
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ACADEMIC PROJECT Climate Change Research Center Type: Research Center
Team: Individual Thesis Project Area: 20,000 sq m Year: 2015-2016
Supervisor: Arch. Cinthia De La Cruz
email: arq.cinthiadelacruz@gmail.com This project is an institution of scientific character that studies the effects and future consequences of
climate change in the Dominican Republic and the Ca-
ribbean Region. It uses research as a primary tool to analyze the variety of ecosystems that hold mayor vulnerability to this variation in the climate.
The Dominican Republic and the Caribbean lack a research center of this global importance and through
this Bachelor’s degree thesis proposal, a new institutional tool of global scale was presented as a vehicle, using sustainable architecture as a theme.
The implementation of a well-equipped research cen-
ter, which provides academic resources to strength-
en the bases of research and also provides an ideal environment for research, can have a positive impact
as a tool to take a stand against climate change both nationally and internationally.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS The inception point of design starts from an existing Samanea Saman in the vast terrain of the project. The process consisted in relocating the tree to the geometric heart of the lot and using that starting point as the catalizer of every traced line in the design.
The symbolism of fertility represented by the soil of the project’s location establishes the source of natural language as a fundamental concept of the research center’s pur-
pose of counteracting the effects of climate change. For that reason, it was considered appropiate to create an open floor plant in the first level to upgrade the relationship with the natural environment by generating a car free plaza with tables, seats, bicycle parking spaces and walking paths.
The project’s main topic was sustainable architecture, therefore it was fundamental to apply a building structure that was efficient in waste management during the construction period and versatile enough in radial and curved design forms. The steel structure
had the best qualities for this challenge for its polyvalent features such as flexibility, endurace and recyclability.
The selection of materials focused on the versatility to face tropical weather conditions
and the high acoustics of vehicular circulation, as a result the materials utilized were exposed concrete, stones, synthetic wood, plastic and others. To enhance the applica-
tion of these materials and reach a higher performance threshold, it was necessary the combination with building technology, such as automatized facades, green walls, green
roofs, sunshades, rain water collector for gray water usage, solar panels and pvc windows with double faced panels.
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Render credits: Adriano Valdez
THE RESEARCH BUILDING The Research Building is the main building of the project. It’s organized in 3 levels The first level consists of the access hall, the service area (recycleable waste management, regular and rainwater cisterns, gas tanks and solar power inverters), and the
open plaza which contains the bicycle parking, benchs, walking paths, bus stops and the natural environment.
Level 3
The dynamics of eliminating the car parking space from the project was to create an
incentive to use public transportation and bicycles, with the purpose of setting an example to the city on how to reduce the carbon footprint that transportation produces.
The second level is named the academic floor. It contains the classrooms for students,
Level 2
basic laboratories, common areas, a library, a book shop, a cafeteria, bathrooms and employee’s area.
The third level is named the research floor which presents all of the different research offices and their laboratories, including a conference room, more common areas, an open space for weather equipment usage in the roof and the solar panels.
Level 1
This building’s purpose is to research and study the effects of climate change. To do
this, it is necessary to collect data to share with the local academic institutions, government and international community. In the academic side, the purpose is to educate
future professionals in the subject with the collaboration of universities and the government to fund the programmes.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN The structure of the research center is a special structure from several points of view. Do to the fact that we have an annular plant with a missing sector, it turns out that both static and dynamic behavior is dominated by torsion.
From the static point of view, the torsions appear as a result of the curvature of the
main beams, which support the radially arranged secondary elements. This added to the great openings, it makes necessary a full story truss system; to decrease deflections and the effects of twisting on the set of elements.
From the dynamic point of view, with an important torsional behavior due to its asymmetry and the wide opening on the ground floor as the predominant architectural spatial
element; It makes the inclusion of traditional solutions such as concrete elements (walls) or steel elements (walls or braces) difficult to implement without appreciable sacrifice in form.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
This case has the combinations of typical factors for the use of base isolators as an earthquake-resistant solution. These are devices that artificially produce a kind of soft
floor of very low height, with known dynamic characteristics, which prevent seismic energy from entering the structure.
This is an approach already proven by the scientific community and available in the international and even Latin American market. Image credits: Adriano Valdez
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Image credits: Pioneer Rubber Industries
THE AUDITORIUM The auditorium is a fundamental space inside the project’s campus because of its use in the academic area. Its purpose is to educate through
classes, seminars and conferences by professors and specialist in the subject of climate change research both nationally and internationally.
For those who visits from another country, the project enabled residences near the auditorium.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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BUILDING TECHNOLOGY The architectural building technology applied for this project intended to maximize the building’s quality in bioclimatic design in combination with sustainable architecture.
Dimmed
Solar Panels
Ligthning System
Introduced to create an indepen-
Establishing an intelligent artificial light-
dent and sustainable source of
ning system provides a more efficient use of
electricity for the building.
energy resources. Connected directly to the solar panel energy source.
Automatized Sprinkler
Green Walls
System
Designed for the enhancement of the
walls thermal control and aesthetics composition in relation with the automatized façade.
Sun Shades Created by the need of an auxiliar filter of sun rays to reduce the walls heat exposure
Renders credits: Adriano Valdez
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ratio.
A series of sprinklers with automatic reaction perfor-
mance were presented in the project as part of the securty mechanism against fire inside the building and for gardening work in the landscape area.
Green Roofs Placed to improve thermical comfort with a more
effective heat absorbtion natural layer. The combination of a sequencial group of layers are necessary
to obtain optimal drainage of the rain water in order
to be collected for gray water usage and to avoid any leakage in the building.
Automatized Façade
Grass
Substrate
Filter Layer
Designed
to
optimize
ventilation
in the whole building using a system
of
modules
of
louvre
win-
dows with synthetic wood panels.
Drainage/Reservoir Protection Layer Waterproof Membrane Insulation Vapor Barrier Base
near the service area to function as a storage for grey water use, such as gardening and toilet flushing.
matic control and has the ability to
and the wooden modules as a whole.
Using special filters to absorb water through the green roofs, the building collects rain water that later is saved into a cistern
This mechanism is operated by autoopen and close both the wooden panels
Rain Water Collector
Renders credits: Adriano Valdez
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PROFESSIONAL PROJECT HACMA Hotel Type: Bioclimatic Hotel Design
Team: Independent Project Area: 28,670 sq m Year: 2018
Client: Dr. Eudes Espinal
email: espinal123@gmail.com The HACMA hotel is projected to be a four star hotel to work in close collaboration with the hospital HAC-
MA, which is the main building of an ambitious set of innovative projects that also includes a supermarket and in a later stage, an airport.
These group of designs establish the core of the strategic masterplan of services just a few kilometers from the center of the city of San Francisco de Macorís.
The main design intention of the HACMA hotel is to represent the original taino tribe of the “macoriges”,
the initinial settlers of the region before the spanish conquest. One of the main characteristics of this culture was the hospitality of its people, which reflects accurately the purpose of a hotel.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS The welcoming of the hotel is the lobby, so it would represent the first functional space to receive visitors.
The main block serves as a connecting nucleus to the habitational blocks, which where thought to be distributed in modules from a displaced rectangle, looking to create a curved shaped which symbolizes arms that protect the most precious symbol of the Taino culture : the deity. This deity is presented by a trigonolite that symbolizes the god of fertility, the seas and the yucca; which is displayed in the shape of the pool.
The restaurant, the kitchen, the service and the respository area were located away
from the guest blocks but in close connection with the reception area, to enhance the functional flow of the private, public and service areas all together.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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THE MAIN BUILDING The main building contains the Lobby and the Reception area. These spaces merge together under the cover of the tilted roof, which supports a series of
solar panels all over its surface. This body is supported by a tilted combination of concrete and steel columns that hold together the lower slope. On the other end, resulting from the inclination, the roof opens another source of natural light towards the high end of the roof.
The mezzanine and the vertical space generated under this structure achieve the design goal of a great welcoming to the guests; alongside with the combination of materials, that include stones, glass, ropes, wood and passive colors to obtain the transmision of the taino culture and the sensation of peace.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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THE HOTEL ROOMS BLOCKS The room modules are junior suites, designed with a height of 3.5 meters to provide enough room for air conditioning and natural lighting through the tilted cana roofs on the second floor.
The representation of the typical taino home, the Bohío, is the main reference of every
module of rooms. The cana material is well known for its thermic and acustic insulation properties.
To enhance the bioclimatic design of every module, the tilted roof, materials and green walls placed in the facade of the hallway contributes to diminish the solar exposure effect on the room blocks.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
Serving lators,
Green Wallls as
green
natural walls
insu-
where
placed over the hallway ex-
Solar Panels
terior faces to improve tem-
For a sustainable source of energy, 96 solar panels
perature comfort on each
where placed over the tilted roof of the Lobby.
room block.
Grey Water Collectors
Designed to collect rain water for two purposes:
1) Storage in a cistern for
Green Roofs
Placed to reduce elec-
gardening use.
tricity costs on air condi-
2) Avoid flooding due to the
cal equipment and food
vulnerability of the area and
tioning over the electristorage.
weather history.
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Renders credits: Adriano Valdez
Grass
Substrate
Filter Layer
Drainage/Reservoir Protection Layer Waterproof Membrane Insulation Vapor Barrier Base
PROFESSIONAL PROJECT UNION MEDICA TOWER E & SERVICES Type: Medical Building Design
Firm: Cristobal Valdez & Asoc.
Team: Michelle Valdez, Karina Mendez, Rancellys Sanchez, Adriano Valdez Area: 22,000 sq m Year: 2017-2018
Client: Union Medica del Norte email: info@cvya.com
Render credits: Rancellys Sanchez & Adriano Valdez
The project consist of a vertical solution to the ex-
pansion needs of the existing Union Medical Clinic. The demand for more surgical areas, offices and
rooms for patients shaped the distribution of the ar-
chitectural spaces in an elegant 16 floor building in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
One of the main appealing features of this building is the facade, which portrays a combination of glass and ceramic tiles that resembles the professional
identity of an advanced medical building to the public view.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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Render credits: Mario Salcedo
DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS The project was organized in different stages of development. The first step was building the
Tower E & Services buildings, and then redesign the frontal facade of the existing clinic alongside with an urban plaza for better use of space.
The Tower E & Services buildings are filling the growing needs of another emergency room, surgical floors, medical consulting rooms, rooms for patients and several other areas of support.
Given the small portion of terrain to build the expansion, the only alternative was to distribute all the areas vertically with connection points between the new and the existing Tower C. The process will have one “9 floor stage” and afterwards will complete the final projected 16 floors.
Model credits: Yohanny Ochoa
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TOWER E & SERVICES BUILDINGS These buildings portrays a steel structure, consisting of metal deck floors, I shaped beams, H shaped columns and cross section steel beams.
The facades were the main protagonists of the project. The combination of a ventilated
facade with tiles and a curtain wall with awning windows on both types permits the control of air flow and maintenance.
Images of this page: Adriano Valdez
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VENTILATED FAÇADE This was one of the main tasks that I worked in the project. The walls of the building that were affected the most by solar radiation served as hosts of the ventilated façade design.
The structure consists of T shaped steel profiles fixed into the wall with a series of brackets and anchorage screws. These profiles are placed between each end of every tile, which is held together by clips.
The space within the wall and the tiles generates a chamber of air that provides an enhanced insulation effect alongside the protecting properties of the tiles against the solar irradiation.
Image credits: Tempio
Image credits: Tempio
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Render credits: Adriano Valdez
ACADEMIC PROJECT BELLA VISTA SPORTS & SOCIAL CENTER Type: Sports & Education
Team: Andres Vargas, Nazzira Martinez, Adriano Valdez Area: 16,377 sq m Year: 2015
Professor: Arch. Gustavo Montenegro
email: gustavomontenegro4@gmail.com Render credits: Adriano Valdez
The Bella Vista Sports & Social Center represents the cohesion between the socio-cultural and sports aspects through the crisscrossed steel cables in the facades.
The spaces of the proyect are specialized on the educational, cultural and physical enrichment; containing areas from cultural exposition and educational workshops to athletics track, gym, martial arts and basketball court.
Render credits: Andres Vargas & Adriano Valdez
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DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS The distribution of the steel tension cables that hold the roof simbolizes a nurturing nest protected by the pilars of culture, represented by the steel columns that support the whole structure.
My participation in the proyect during the process of ideas were the dynamic place-
ment of the three main floors, displaced with the intention of creating interesting vertical spaces and mezzanines between each floor; which also permitted to take
advantage of the pronounced slope of the terrain and maximize its views to the beautiful river Yaque del Norte.
Adding to the three floors, I also proposed the idea of the giant pillars that hold the
structure together, along side with the steel cables that give extra support to the
tilted light roof of aluzinc, which provides a better entry of sun light and fresh wind meanwhile it canalizes the rain water more effectively as well.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN The main purpose of this project was to build a structure that could only be designed and built by steel. The body of the structure consists of a series of H shaped steel columns combined with multiple systems of large I shaped beams conecting each column and several joists system in between them to support the metal deck floors of each floor.
The tilted light ceilings of aluzinc are holded up by two sources of support: trusses and steel cables. The first group use a high cambered measure to take advantage of bigger lights between columns. The second group uses the top of the column as the force source to support every holding point placed on the top of the roof.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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ACADEMIC PROJECT HIGH GARDEN CENTER Type: Commercial Building Design
Team: Independent Area: 28,000 sq m Year: 2015
Professor: Arch. Marcos V. Ureña email: marcosviniciou@gmail.com
The project was designed with the intention to pro-
vide an elegant and innovative commercial building to the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
It contains passive and active commerce areas, leaving the first 3 floors for mall activities and the rest of the floors for offices. It also presents a parking building to optimize the use of space.
The main feature of this building is the beauty of the
open space plazas with a tree in each office floor,
that was placed in harmony with every facade of the structure, so every office would have its own open area.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS The thought of creating alternate plazas with trees in each floor was the main objective even before the first line was drafted.
Using the structural distribution with metal deck supported by steel columns and beams
opened up the opportunity to use more space between each column, which resulted in a versatile composition played with open tree plazas for each commercial floor in different vertical positions.
The sustainable technology was planned as well, using green roofs over the commercial
center and the office building. Solar panels were placed over the parking building roof to take advantage of the intense and vast solar radiation of the caribbean sun.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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THE HIGH GARDEN STRUCTURE Every “green plaza” module is composed by a steel structure
that holds a ring shaped wall around the soil that serves as the nutrient core of the tree.
Each module possesses a reinforced beam system to isolate the floors and roofs together into a “box”, capable of supporting the weight of the specialized soil.
The remaining perimeter space of the floor below of each plaza serves as an archives room for each office level.
Render credits: Adriano Valdez
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