Aitor Aboy Architecture Portfolio

portfolio architecture & design

Aitor Aboy

Architect and interior designer

B. Architecture Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Born and raised in Barcelona.

By nature, architects are asked to constantly manage the main parts that define the job: artistic concepts and built realities. With the premise of sustainability, in the search for this meeting place I have found efficient solutions as an architect and builder. After receiving my professional degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, I worked as a freelance, immersing myself in the porcess of design and making, and later I founded my own architecture firm Intellecta in Barcelona. From small-scale residential projects to large-scale public works, my time as an architect brought a socially conscious approach to design. These experiences have fueled my curiosity. Looking for the perfect balance of comfort and aesthetics.

Through travels I developed a deep understanding of diversity and I am aware of the importance of preserving the identity of every space, respecting the roots and the character of the place while making it functional and contemporarian.

Skills Revit | BIM

Advanced

Autocad 2D-3D

Advanced

Microstation 2D-3D

Advanced

Lumion | CG’s

Advanced

3ds Max | CG’s

Beginner

Corona renderer

Beginner

Adobe Illustrator

Advanced

Adobe Photoshop

Advanced

Adobe InDesign

Advanced

Education Bachelor of Architecture, UPC | Barcelona

Equivalent to current qualifying master’s degree MArch

sept. 2012 - jun. 2021

University of Bío Bío | Chile

International Mobility Program

ago. 2017 - jun. 2018

Experience Architect | Founding Partner

Intellecta Group

feb. 2022 - present

Junior architect

Freelance

sept. 2021 - feb. 2022

Junior teacher at architecture workshop

ETSAV - UPC

dec. 2018 - jun. 2019

Research staff member

RESSÒ BarcelonaTECH

jan. 2017 - jul. 2017

Internship trainee architect

Denibi

mar. 2016 - nov. 2016

Awards 3r Award in the ISOVER Multi-Comfort House Contest

Isover Saint-Gobain | Passivhouse design

apr. 2016

Final degree project with honors

Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

jun. 2021

JEDDAH N1

New Senegalese consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

The location presents two problems: high solar exposure and pollution typical of a dense urban environment. This project provides sustainable solutions, through bioclimatic strategies.

For this reason, the administrative buildings and the residence are carefully integrated into the terrain, through the articulation of gardens and porches, to improve environmental conditions.

The dialogue between traditional and modern architecture enhances our design, integrating traditional elements in a contemporary language, such as the mashrabiya.

Consulate design precept

Residence design precept

General ground floor

Residence: ground floor

AUSTRAL GLAMPING

Re-thinking the tourism model of Patagonia

Seven volumes are born completely integrated into the landscape, with views of the lake while enjoying privacy, thanks to the morphology of its architecture and the careful implementation on the ground.

Inhabit without threatening the carrying capacity of the environment. The reversible foundation and the arrangement of platforms protect and preserve the native trees. The distribution of the complex encourages a mixture of people, activities and uses, configuring a balance between common and private spaces. A walkway connects the platforms, with carefully studied visuals.

Materiality is resolved with traditional and local materials, but worked and placed in a contemporary way and with current technology.

PreservedIntervened

16 (9,81%)

Tree mapping and identification of possibilities

147 (90,19%)

Architecture integration

NORTH Water module floor

Rail and extendable skin

The rooms are formed by a nylon skin with a water column of 3000 millimeters, and by some rails through which said skin unfolds.

The privacy of the module is guaranteed through the opacity of the skin in strategic areas, solving the connection with the walkway and neighboring modules, and opening up to frontal views.

Rooms and study

The bedrooms enhance the experience of inhabiting the forest similar to camping, guaranteeing comfort. With the folding of some floor panels, the mattress surface appears to be able to sleep.

Section B-B’

Room floor Room

22@ SOCIAL HOUSING

Improving the Eixample’s block of Cerdà, Barcelona

The relationship with the environment to guarantee a good quality of life involves contact with the outside world and nature, a fact that has been lost with the densification of cities.

We understand the place as a point of great opportunities since the future project will be the link between the new Glòries park and the Cerdà extension. Thus, the main idea of our proposal is the integration of homes in an environment where the natural coexists with the urban, through a precise staging in the expansion, respecting the entire block of the urban fabric.

This decision determines that a large area of the block is built, but allows us to comply with the regulations with little built-up depth. As a result of this decision, we achieved shallow floors and a great ratio of interior square meters per square meter of façade, having a great relationship with the exterior.

MORPHOLOGY

according to light

according to view

PASSIVHAUS BLOCK

Brest’s new urban garden of passivhaus, Belarus

The aim of our passive houses is based on generating the greatest possible thermal capacity inside, and avoiding transmission losses in order to conserve energy inside. In this way, users can be comfortable without the need for any active mechanism to air-condition the home.

A main condition is all apartments maximize solar radiation, facing south and with the rest of the facades underground, using the earth as a thermal regulator. To preserve the internal thermal load, we have heat recuperators in the mechanical ventilation for the extraction of stale air.

To store that solar energy so that the temperature does not drop at night, we use paraffin as a phase change thermal accumulator. This paraffin is placed in the glass of the second skin of the gallery and has the function of storing the energy received during the day to act as a diffuser of it at night. Energy is conserved through an insulation system in the form of a garage portal.

Winter energy balance

Sk k il l ls s Re R e vi v t | B BI M

A d v a n c ed

Auto ca a c d 2 D -3 3 D

Ad A d va v a n nc c ed e

General ground floor

Ad d va a v nc n c e ed d

Lu L u m mi on n | C G’ ’ G s

Mi i M cr c r o os s ta t a ti t on o 2 D D- 3D A Ad v va nc ed

3d d 3 s Ma a M x | CG C G ’s s

Be B e gi g i nn n n e er

Co C o r ro na ren de e re r

B Be gi g i nn n n e er

Ad ob e Il I l l lu st ra a to o r

Ad A d va a v nc ed d

Bachelor of Architecture, UPC | Barcelona

Equivalent to current qualifying master’s degree MArch

dec. 2018 - jun. 2019

Comercial P-1

3r Award in the ISOVER Multi-Comfort House Contest

Duplex ground floor

Duplex P+1

Transversal section

Various possibilities of public uses

South facade elevation

Bioclimatic concepts

Bioclimatic concepts

In summer the shutters can be used as sun protections if the temperature is too

lates energy by phase-changing. The mechanical ventilation drags contaminated air and, by heat exchange, recovers a part of its energy. releases the energy it acumulated from the sunlight.

Detailed sections

Detailed sections

1:20

Phase change material :

Non-paper-faced gypsum board

Isover mineral wool 15cm

Concrete 30cm

Floor heating pipes

Water evacuation pipe

Isover panels 5cm

Isover mineral wool 20cm

Wooden structure 10*20cm

Double glazed window with argon

Ceiling : U= 0,18 W/m²K

Floor heating pipes

Isover Eps.sol plus 9.3cm

Wooden structure 10*20cm

Isover mineral wool 20cm

Finished ceiling 3cm

The alternation of materials in the ceiling and in the walls garantizes the Airborne Sound Insulation (DnT,W>63dB) and minimizes the Impact Sound Transmission (LnT,W

Burried wall : U= 0,15 W/m²K

Concrete 8cm

Isover Eps.sol plus 9.3cm

Perforated drainpipe

pARTy walls

Building community through culture and identity, Barcelona

This project is the result of investigating different problems in a neighborhood with a low socioeconomic level. Our proposal is based on generating and conditioning public spaces to establish a united cultural community that unites the inhabitants and regenerates the identity image of the neighborhood in Badia del Vallés.

At present, the party walls are an identifying element of Badía, due to the great weight they have in space. That is why we offer an opportunity to intervene in them with a system of 'lanes' and low-cost fabrics in which to show the culture of Badía in an effective and easy way. In addition, we place multipurpose rooms that serve as production for its subsequent exhibition.

DRIVING FORCE

1.

Sew and join different spotlights with cultural intentions, rethinking the dividing walls

CURRENTLY DESIGN

INDIVIDUALIZED AND DISCONNECTED CULTURAL MODEL, WITH A LACK OF VISIBILITY TO SOCIETY

“ART & CULTURE” + “PUBLIC SPACE”

Conditioning spaces to promote culture and generate an exhibition system in the medians

"The blocks speak" have a strong social implication and have been promoting the urban culture of Badía del Vallés for years. They began to talk about a project to give color to the city in conjunction with the spray brand 'MTN' located in Barcelona.

Emphasize the feeling of community through participation and social inclusion

TO REACTIVATE

Contribute to the metropolitan area, being a claim to come to know Badia

System of rails anchored to the party walls through which canvases slide and hold to display the works.

2. THE IMPORTANCE OF FLEXIBILITY

STRUCTURE AND POSSIBILITIES

STRUCTURAL STRIPES

DIFFERENT ACCESSES

SURFACE FLEXIBILITY

POSSIBILITIES OF POSITIONS

EXHIBITION

PRODUCTION

PLACE 3. RE-THINKING PARTY WALLS

Badía party walls currently generate residual spaces on public roads. We believe that creating a space for social cohesion in this area will improve the current conditions and the demands of the neighbourhood, as well as avoiding social gentrification by being located in an already active point. The design of this system is implemented in this location to later 'infect' and reactivate other areas of Badía with less activity. In a final phase, the design of a temporary route through the different medians of Badía would be given, thus being a tourist attraction, an open-air museum.

LOW-COST MATERIALITY

4. BUILD BY PHASES

For an effective integration in the neighborhood, we decided to differentiate the construction phases according to priority and cost:

1. SANITATION

ADAPTATION OF DISUSED PARTY WALLS

2. ANCHORS PLACEMENT OF THE METAL PROFILES

3. CONSTRUCTION MULTIPURPOSE UNITS

4. SET UP FABRICS

WOODEN UPRIGHTS AND SLEEPERS

1 2 3 4

THERMAL INSULATION

PANELING

FINISH ACCORDING TO USE: WOOD, MIRROR, SLATE