Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada, ETSAG.
Alberto Camarero Matas
b. 1997, Granada, Spain (+34) 617003309
albertocamareromatas@gmail.com
Master Thesis: “Ceres y Vesta, An interpretive journey”. Grade: 9/10.
National Exchange Program.
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM. Bachelor in Architceture (BArch).
International Exchange Program.
Université d’Architecture La Cambre Horta, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles.
Bachelor in Architecture (BArch).
Bachelor in Architecture (BArch).
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada, ETSAG.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York, NY.
Internship, Fundación Arquia Program (18 months).
+ MIT Metropolitan Warehouse, School of Architecture (Commission). Facade design, interior design and furniture studies. Drafting, drawing, rendering and image post-production.
+ University of New Mexico, Center for Collaborative Art and Technology (Commission). Conceptual Design, Design Development and Construction Documents. Drafting, technical drawings, rendering and image post-production. Coordination with engineering, MEP, audiovisual and acoustics consultants.
+ MoMA New York, Retail Circulation (Commission). Technical documentation review. Rendering and image post-production
+ Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro (Competition). Design development. Drafting, drawing, rendering and image post-production.
+ Cultural Center in Valdeavellano de Tera, Soria (Commission) Conceptual Design and Design Development Drafting, drawing, rendering and image post-production.
+ La Alameda, sustainable housing development, Segovia (Commission). Project management and coordination. Conceptual Design and Design Development Drafting, drawing, rendering and image post-production.
+ Fuenlabrada Station: Overpass and surrounding area redevelopment (Competition) Rendering and image post-production
LANGUAGES
Spanish Native
English C1, APTIS Advanced Certificate
French B1
Italian B1
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
COAM 2024 PFC, TFM, and Doctoral Thesis Awards. First Prize for Master’s Thesis: “Ceres & Vesta, An interpretive journey”.
Best Master’s Thesis Award. ETSAG 2022/23 & OTIS Mobility. For Master’s Thesis: “Ceres & Vesta, An interpretive journey”.
Alonso Cano Award for Artistic Expression. Architecture Discipline. For Master’s Thesis: “Ceres & Vesta, An interpretive journey”.
OTIS-FAyS Awards 2023.
Third Prize for Master’s Thesis: “Ceres & Vesta, An interpretive journey”.
Other Grasshopper, QGis, Adobe Premiere, Microsoft Office
Collage: The fourth Tower, Arquia Foundation Award, 2022.
ACADEMIC. STUDIO PROJECTS.
+ Final Master Thesis. Ceres y Vesta, An interpretive journey.
+ The Great Beauty. A church turned garden.
+ Realejo’s Public Library.
+ Alcudia’s New Pier.
ACADEMIC. RESEARCH.
+ Bachelor Degree Thesis. Mapping an Agrarian Landscape.
CERES Y VESTA
An interpretive journey
An overlooked path catches the traveler’s eye: a trail that traces the edge of the gully and the fertile plain, weaving through almond groves, olive trees, and pastures. Along the way, it connects medieval fortresses and caves, viewpoints, striking rock formations, and sites of geological and ethnological significance. The discovery of this path becomes the catalyst for the project: an exploration of alternatives to the traditional interpretation center model. It addresses the neglect and abandonment of heritage while confronting the obsolescence and decline of the local economy.
center” are precisely scattered throughout the territory, like milestones along the itinerary. Each individual building is designed to meet the particular circumstances of its immediate surroundings, but they operate as a whole in the comprehension of the territory. Some buildings have a cultural and museum-like program, by creating new spaces for the interpretation of the habitat and the landscape. Others propose communal and public spaces, devoted to agricultural production or commercial activities.
Cortes y Graena, Granada, Spain
ETSA Granada
Final Master Thesis, 2023
Link: full project
The material and immaterial resources of the site are cataloged, including constructions and caves, crops, heritage sites, natural species, constellations, seasonal cycles, and growing seasons. As a result of this research, eight sites of opportunity are discovered along the itinerary, each one will be addressed based on its particular condition. Each one of the buildings that constitute the new “visitor
The two largest and most significant interventions are explored in greater detail. The first hosts a public and museum program, with workshops and meeting rooms at the lower level, and an interpretation center nestled into the hillside. The second intervention, located at the end of the trail, features a produce market and a temporary residence for tourists or researchers, sunken into the terrain.
la materialidad del proyecto lo estereotómico
luz, la masa y el vacío
fragmento B
fragmento A
fragmento C
la tipología el patio (excavado)
fragmento D
la técnica constructiva la excavación de
la cueva
Intervención A2 centro de interpretación + talleres y salas de encuentro
un patrimonio geológico y arquitectónico olvidado ...
The conference hall is the central space and the main hub of the building. The room is a double height, square shaped space which is flanked by service and circulation spaces. These spaces house the MEP systems and provide support for the show or activity to be carried out in the main hall.
The Andalusian farmhouse or “cortijo” typology is revisited and adapted to the local context. The design proposes an excavated volume with a sunken plaza that leads to the dwellings. Two rows of caves will be excavated. The deeper and darker spaces will be used as bedrooms. The ones closer to the facade will be daytime areas.
THE GREAT BEAUTY A
church turned garden
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Zagreb stands in ruins, its vaults collapsed after the earthquake. The physical decay of the monument reflects the inevitable erosion of its symbolic significance.
The project proposes a change in function and purpose: the church detaches itself from its liturgical role. It is dismantled and opens up to the city, inviting passersby into the basilica’s nave and the courtyard. Traditional religious rituals are set aside in favor of a new form of worship, focused on the body and mind. A temple dedicated to the worship of the mundane. The program is hedonistic, centered around the pursuit of immediate sensory pleasure, with water and vegetation taking center stage
of the chapels is echoed in the garden, with the new paths engaging in a dialogue with the liturgical spaces, interpreting and transforming, redefining a new experience.
Time becomes the primary design tool. In the later stages of the project, the garden overflows with vegetation, and the artificial pools fill with water, creating diverse atmospheres and landscapes. The ruins of the church hanging from metal meshes, forming a new, inverted, vegetation-covered vault
Zagreb, Croatia
The project’s layout is shaped by the existing geometry of the basilica. The axes of the nave extend into the garden, creating a grid that organizes the entire intervention. The geometry
Interior del Banco de Inlgaterra, Joseph Gandy, 1798
Cloudscapes, Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo, 2010
Stop City, Dogma 2007
Parc de la Villette, Bernard Tschumi Architects, 1987
Instalación Paracaidista Av. Revolución, Héctor Zamora
Existing Condition
Intervention in the Basilica
Activation of the Perimeter
Roofing System
Devices/Follies
Developed phase
REALEJO’S Public Library
Las Palmas park, located in Granada’s historic center, borders an unused plot of land and two historically significant mill houses. The variety of urban fabrics in this small section of the city calls for an urban renewal project that must enhance the public space and connect the different urban fragments
At the lower end of the plot, a public library completes the intervention. The pre-existing historic buildings play a key role in the design decisions. The library building is shaped, rotated, and transformed as it approaches the irrigation canal, adapting its form to create a direct dialogue with the mills. This interaction is no accident; it forms a connection through their courtyards.
The vegetation, materials, and composition reflect the interior of the old mill courtyards. Although the new building is larger in scale and constructed with contemporary materials, it harmonizes with its neighbors and the surrounding urban landscape.
Planta Baja
Planta Primera
Planta Cubiertas
ALCUDIA’S
New Pier
Alcudia, Mallorca, Spain
ETSA Madrid, 2021
Link: full project
Puerto de Alcudia, Mallorca. The former thermal power plant, which provided electricity to much of the island for over 25 years, now lies abandoned and in ruins. The project aims to repurpose and transform this infrastructure, restoring the former power plant’s role as a hub of activity for the Bay of Alcudia, reclaiming the prominence it once held
The power plant will once again serve as a catalyst for energy, utilizing materials and processes that integrate both active participants (users) and outputs (energies).
The new intervention introduces a spatial system which is at the same time a construction technique; that creates a series of neutral spaces, colonizing the site. A linear building, closely tied to the port infrastructure.
It is conceived as a lightweight framework of beams and columns, repeated modularly from the port to the power plant. This system acts
as a support structure, housing elements at certain points that enclose and condition the space, adapting to the needs of the city and its inhabitants
CARTOGRAFÍAS
De un Paisaje Agrario
La Vega of Granada, a historically agrarian landscape, is now heavily shaped by human activity and under significant urban pressure, threatening its integrity and long-term survival.
The Acequia Gorda del Genil is the backbone of the landscape and the guiding element of this graphic investigation. This centuries-old infrastructure has been heavily altered and is deeply influenced by urban developments. The goal is to identify and reclaim the true identity of the acequia and its surroundings—one that remains unchanged despite transformations.
system, cataloging and classifying it. This has enabled the creation of an atlas or inventory of the most significant parcels, including their vegetation, crops, and built elements that define and distinguish each one.
Granada, España
ETSA Granada, 2021 Final Undergrad Thesis
Maps, historical cartographies, zoning plans, and orthophotos are collected to create a series of maps that capture and reflect the evolution and transformation of the territory, as well as the relationships between its components
The collected information has also been used to represent the current agricultural parcel
