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ALBERTO CAPITEL MARTORELL

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ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ-CAPITEL MARTORELL ARCHITECT

Bio: 12 august 1987 - Born in Oviedo, Principado de Asturias, Spain Address: c/ Joaquín María López 72, 5º, 28015 Madrid Tel: +34 680240991 / +34 915491375 Email: a.capitel1987@gmail.com STUDIES [2005-2012] Architecture School of Madrid (ETSAM) at the Poliytechnic University of Madrid [1992-2005] Liceo Scientifico Italiano Enrico Fermi, Madrid SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS [1] [2011-2012] Final Project and Projects 9 - Prof. Luis Basabe - Outstanding (9) [2] [Autumn 2010] Restauration Project - J. Ibáñez - Outstanding (9) [Spring 2010] Foundation of ACetsam (ETSAM’s Area of development Cooperation) [3] [2008-2009] Projects 6 - Mexiko Praktikum - Outstanding (9) [4] [Spring 2008] Projects 5 - U.D. Campo Baeza - Outstanding (9) [5] [Autumn 2007] Projects 4 - U.D. Tuñón y Mansilla - Outstanding (9) [Autumn 2006] Projects 2 - U.D. Fernández-Galiano - Outstanding (9) AWARDS & GRANTS [2011] Collaboration with ETSAM Associations Grant [2009-2010] Academic Excellence Grant [2008-2009] Erasmus grant in Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) [2008] National competition for Neuer Augustinerhof. Nüremberg, THIRD PRIZE with Nieto Sobejano architects PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE [october 2012] Work at the exhibition Spain Mon Amour in the Biennale di Architettura in Venice, commissioned by Luis Fernández-Galiano.

[7] [september-december 2011] The observatory and the stars, workshop introducing architecture to children at the National Library Museum, in occasion of the Week of Architecture, Madrid. Design, organization and direction of both workshop and publication. [spring 2010] Gran Vía centenary model, 3D modelling of the Gran Vía (Madrid) buildings, designed, organised and directed by ETSAM professor Javier Ortega. Built and fixed as a public sculpture at the end of Gran Via street.

[6] [august-september 2008] Nieto & Sobejano architects Internship. Competition in Nüremberg, Neuer Augustinerhof, winning the third prize.

Joanneum Museum Extension in Graz, execution project. Phisical models, 3D modelling and detail design.

[8] FOUNDATIONAL MEMBER OF ACetsam ACetsam is an association created by ETSAM students. Its main goal is to open the university environment to varied architectural realities across the world in search of different solutions. Formed by and for the students in order to deliver real experiences and training in this field, Acetsam researches basic habitability concerns in a multidisciplinary approach, regarding all aspects that involve Cooperation and Development.

LANGUAGES [SPANISH] Native [ITALIAN] Native [ENGLISH] Excellent (CAE - CPE) [GERMAN] Good (B2 level) FIELDS OF EXPERTISE & RESEARCH *Collaborative design, real and active user participation. *Sustainable thinking as a complete working dynamic (social-economic-cultural-environmental-technological-political). *BOTTOM-UP dynamics, belief on the power of social activism. *New Media & Design and its capacity to generate and express ideas. *Restoration as an attitude towards heritage and present practice. *Informality as a deep and complex field of study. *Productive Housing as a research on the multiple links between housing and work/ production spaces. *DesignBuild Studio as a key educational tool on any Architecture student path.

ABILITIES [COMPUTER] Proficient in the use of Autocad, Rhinoceros, Adobe programs (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Premiere, Dreamweaver) and Windows Office programs (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).

Advanced control of both Windows and Mackintosh operative systems.

[TEAMWORKING] Receptive, team oriented with experience in multicultural environments. Wide knowledge of other European and overseas mentalities, either for direct contact with natives as well as for temporal residences in the corresponding territories (specially Italy, Great Britain, Germany, New Zealand and India).

[HOBBIES] Great enthusiastic and exerciser of several sports (football, basketball, tennis, volleyball, swimming, cycling, climbing, snowboarding) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION [2002] FCE (First Certificate in English, Cambridge University) [2004] CAE (Certificate in Advanced English, Cambridge University) [since 2006] Driving license [2010] Goethe Institut B level on German language passed.

*a/oW *P *C *E *Cp *Bw RELATED EXPERIENCES: Attended/Organised Workshops, Publications, Conferences, Exhibitions, Competitions, Built works [dec 2012 - jan 2013] Final Project as part of the Exhibition PFCs sobresalientes septiembre y octubre 2012 at the main Hall of the Architecture School of Madrid (ETSAM). [nov 29th - dec 1st 2012] Workshops and Exhibition at the International Symposium DesignBuild-Studio: New Ways in Architectural Education, organised by CoCoon at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB). [october 2012] DMH (World Habitat Day) 2012 - Constructive Workshop Canya Viva, held by the colective Canya Viva, learning the logics and processes of a constructive system made of cane bundles. Organisation with ACetsam.

[2012] Participation on the Project Nueva oportunidad: La Colonia: held by students from the University of Fine Arts in Madrid, artist Fernando García-Dory and Taller de Casquería, La Colonia seeks to generate a collective experience around the construction and mainteinance of an urban garden and a greenhouse. http://www.lacolonia.org/ [june 2012] Design&Build Workshop Bellastock Madrid, held by the group Madstock, consisting on a three day construction festival with tires and cardboard tubes. [october 2011] DMH 2011 - DesignBuild Workshop Handmade Urbanismo, held by the group Zuloark, consisting on the design and construction of an infrastructure for the DMH 2011. with ACetsam.

Interactive FAQ: architecture///cooperation///university, dialogue established with the presence of ETSAM professors M.J. Aranguren, L. Basabe, A. Cánovas, N. Maruri, E. Sáez. Organisation and host with ACetsam. [march 2011] Workshop Joint Studio Housing at CEPT University Ahmedabad, India, held by CEPT pro.fessors Vishwanath Kashikar and Surya Kakani, ETSAM professor Ismael Miguel and assistant Rodrigo García. The workshop consisted on the research and study of public space in Ahmedabad, focusing on the intereference of different urban tissues. [october 2010] DMH 2010 - Constructive Workshop Domocaña + Ferrocemento, consisting on the apprenticeship through direct construction of these two structural dome systems. Organisation and management with ACetsam. [march 2010] Workshop for Haiti, consisting on the production of a previously designed basic shelter, made of advertisement recicled canvas, later delivered to Haiti. Organisation and management with ACetsam. [spring 2009] Audiovisual documentary Crop’it after the seminar RETHINKING BERLIN//private spaces, public gardens, held by the artist Luisa Greenfield. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C83nc-Dk5l0 [spring 2009] Research article Collage: Struggling Dichotomies on the seminar Architectural Identities? Or the privilege of partial Perspectives, www.energyandbuilding.uc.cl/wise2008archidentities.pdf held at Habitat Unit TUB by Prof. Renato d’Alençon.

[2008-2009] DesignBuild Studio: design and construction of an enlargement of the Tabacco-grower women Cooperative UMCAMIX headquarters, Guadalupe Miramar, State of Oaxaca, Mexico.

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PFC Final Project /// 2011-2012 /// ETSAM Rethinking urban managment, Ahmedabad, India The project develops a complete urban management system, based on a profound integration with user’s design&work labour. The proposal is located in Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat, India.

The project is structured into 2 groups: INFRASTRUCTURES: Variety of buildings that give physical form to the new neighbourhood, infrastructure is defined as the “set of elements necessary to create and operate a certain organization”.

GUILDS: Technology that supports and produces infrastructures. Technology is regarded as a complete social structure.

La propuesta, localizada en un barrio de la ciudad de Ahmedabad, India, parte de una reflexión sobre la gestión urbana y expone un modelo basado en una profunda integración del usuario en la articulación vecinal.

La propuesta se divide en 2 grupos: INFRAESTRUCTURAS: referida a los distintos edificios que conforman el proyecto. “Infraestructura” como “el conjunto de elementos necesarios para la creación y funcionamiento de una organización en el espacio”. Ningún edificio puede ser entendido de manera aislada, sino que debe comprenderse en su relación con el resto.

GREMIOS: son las agrupaciones diferenciadas de vecinos que sustentan y hacen posible la realización y sostenibilidad de las infraestructuras mediante una determinada tecnología,. la cual a la vez se entiende en tanto que estructuración social completa

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parcipative urban development desarrollo urbano participativo

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[INFRASTRUCTURES.1] BRICK KILN --> PUBLIC SCHOOL 5

[INFRASTRUCTURES.2] EXTENDABLE HOUSING 6

[INFRASTRUCTURES.3] PRODUCTIVE & HOUSING BLOCKS

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[GUILDS.1] BRICK DESIGN&MANUFACTURING 8

[GUILDS.4] WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

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[GUILDS.2] STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS

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Restauration Project - autumn 2010 - Prof. Ibáñez Las Matas neighobourhood reactivation The project aims to recover and activate the original railway town of Las Matas in Madrid.

In order to reach that goal, a new educational and cultural program is chosen and organised into the site: a small scale agro-alimentary vocational training campus.

The existing buildings from the original town are here gradually occupied as part of the new program. The rithm and logics in which these pre-existences are located are taken to order the new construction and its access.

The modular constructive system is a metalic star-shaped frame redesigned from an original Jean Prouvé to accomodate different deck dimensions.

El proyecto busca la recuperación del pueblo ferroviario original de Las Matas, a 30 kilometros al noroeste de Madrid.

Para ello se opta por la inserción gradual y sensible de un nuevo programa educativo y cultural, un campus de formación profesional ligado al sector agroalimentario.

Para dar cabida a esta nueva institución se tienen en cuenta los edificios ya existentes, así como el orden y el ritmo establecido entre ellos. De esta manera, se organiza el terreno en tiras de distintos anchos, que van componiendo las nuevas edificaciones, modulares y sus accesos.

La solución constructiva elegida es una estructura modular estrellada, obtenida a partir de un diseño orginal de Jean Prouvé y modificado para conseguir variaciones de cubierta.

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small scale agro-alimentary campus campus de formación profesional agroalimentaria

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Projects 6 - 2008-2009 - Prof. Ursula Hortig Mexiko Praktikumsseminar, TU Berlin The DesignBuild Studio of Mexico implied a radical shift in my understanding of architecture.

It was structured in 3 blocks: DESIGN: a small cooperative of coffe-grower women (UMCAMIX) needed an extension. It is located in Guadalupe Miramar, a remote village on top of the Sierra Mixteca, Oaxaca. A detailed project was developed for the next step.

CONSTRUCTION: 7 weeks working with our own hands in order to build up the project we had previously designed, in cooperation with local population.

DOCUMENTATION: back in Berlin, design and publication of a book about the project.

El proyecto de diseño y construcción en México, realizado durante una estancia Erasmus en La Technische Universität Berlin, supone un antes y un después en mi formación como arquitecto.

Se trata de un taller dividido en 3 bloques: DISEÑO: el programa comprendía la ampliación de la sede de una pequeña cooperativa de mujeres cafetaleras en Gudalupe Miramar, un pueblo en la Sierra Mixteca, Oaxaca. Se desarrolló en detalle para su ejecución.

CONSTRUCCIÓN de siete semanas en el lugar de destino, realizando físicamente lo que previamente se había diseñado y entrando en contacto con la población local.

DOCUMENTACIÓN: de vuelta en Berlin, desarrollo de una publicación sobre el proyecto.

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UMCAMIX cooperative extension ampliación de la cooperativa de mujeres UMCAMIX

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Projects 5 - spring 2008 - U.D. Campo Baeza Caixa Forum Madrid

An alternative design for the Caixa Forum Madrid was requested.

The designed building closes itself to the surroundings, creating a large inner courtyard, a high and covered void opened to the perimeter exhibition halls, recalling the typical corralas from Madrid.

The main entrance counters this effect by showing itself to the Paseo del Prado with a wide protruding window, allowing the vistas to the Botanic Garden.

El planteamiento consiste en proponer una alternativa al diseño realizado por Herzog&deMeuron para el Caixa Fórum de Madrid.

El edificio se cierra de cara al barrio, formando un gran patio interior cubierto y vacío de gran altura al que asoman el resto de espacios expositivos, como si de una corrala madrileña se tratara.

La introversión del bloque queda contrarrestada en su acceso principal: un gran ventanal en voladizo que se asoma al Paseo del Prado y recoge las vistas al Jardín Botánico.

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caixa forum madrid - cultural centre caixa forum madrid - centro cultural

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Projects 4 - autumn 2007 - U.D. Tuñón y Mansilla Europan 09, Poio - with Miguel Fernández-Galiano The exercise requested to select an Europan 7 competition for its development.

A thoughtful study of the dichotomies Poiorural-elder VS Pontevedra-urban-youth, was necessary in order to understand Poio. Places that, because of their inbetween quality, tend to lose their identity.

3 slim residential towers settle on a complex topography, solved by means of different productive and water-treatment sytems.

El ejercicio proponía la selección de cualquiera de los enunciados del Europan 7 para su desarrollarlo en pareja.

La relación Poio - Pontevedra supone una reflexión acerca del conflicto entre el espacio rural y el urbano, entre la generación joven y la tercera edad, en lugares que, por encontrarse a medio camino, pierden su identidad.

Se plantean 3 esbeltas torres residenciales y un cuidado estudio y resolución de la topografía mediante sistemas productivos y de recolección y tratamiento de aguas.

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such great heights

viviendas de encuentro rural-urbano

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summer 2008 - NIETO SOBEJANO architects Architecture internship in Berlin

Neuer Augustinerhof competition, Nuremberg concurso Neuer Augustinerhof, Nuremberg

This project, winner of a third prize in the competition, inserts a mixed program into a block located at the historic centre of Nuremberg.

Mi collaboration on the project consisted in working with the volume of the proposal (both on digital and physical models), the resolution of its fassades as well as the layout for the final presentation.

The project was published on the magazine A+T, Hibrids II (a+t 34, ISSN 1132-6409, 2008) El proyecto, ganador del tercer premio del concurso, propone un programa mixto en una manzana del centro histórico: viviendas, oficinas y bajos comerciales.

Mi colaboración consistió en el trabajo de la volumetría mediante un modelado en 3d y varias maquetas, así como la resolución de las fachadas. Además, participé en la maquetaciónde los paneles finales del concurso.

El proyecto ha sido publicado en la revista A+T, Hibrids II.

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Work at NIETO SOBEJANO architects Berlin Trabajos realizados en NIETO SOBEJANO arquitectos, Berlin

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Joanneum Museum extension, Graz

ampliación del Museo Joanneum en Graz The extension for the Joanneum Museum was already on the detailed project stage when I entered the studio.

The new spaces are located under the museum public square, which are illuminated and given access to by a set of round glazed perforations.

My contribution was to complete the other half of the model shown in the left, as well as making a 3d model of each of the crystal cones, extracting their final form and divisions for construction.

La ampliación del museo Joanneum estaba en fase de proyecto de ejecución cuando llegué al estudio.

El proyecto propone enterrar el nuevo programa bajo la plaza del propio museo, dotando de acceso y luz a estos espacios por medio de grandes perforaciones vidriadas.

Mi trabajo consistió principalmente en realizar el modelado 3D de los conos de vidrio, extrayendo la geometría exacta de sus partes para su posterior construcción.

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october 2011 - National Library Museum, Madrid Workshop for children and publications On the occasion of the Week of Architecture, the Museum of the Spanish National Library decided to organize a workshop to introduce architecture to children.

The job was divided into two parts, one shorter and theoretical, and a longer practical workshop afterwards. In addition, a booklet was to be published and handed to the young participants.

The first part presented some architectural concepts, such as the scale and drawing plans, as well as showing animal architecture, key concepts of sustainability...

The workshop itself consisted, with the help of some previously designed stencils, in the creation of an ideal city growing gradually during the week.

En ocasión de la Semana de la Arquitectura, el Museo de la Biblioteca Nacional decidió organizar un taller de introducción a la arquitectura para niños.

El encargo se planteaba en dos partes, una primera, breve y más teórica, y un taller práctico posterior. Además, el encargo incluía el diseño de una pequeña publicación.

Publicación y componente teórico avanzaban de la mano y ofrecían pinceladas sobre conceptos arquitectónicos como la escala y los planos, nociones sobre la arquitectura animal, conceptos de sostenibilidad, etc.

El taller práctico consistía en la creación, a partir de unas plantillas, de una ciudad ideal, realizada por el conjunto de alumnos que pasaban en el taller a lo largo de la semana.

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the observatory and the stars el observatorio y las estrellas

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2010 until today - ACetsam, student association Workshops and much more ACetsam (Cooperation Area of the Architecture School of Madrid) was born from and for the students, under the premises that there was an urgent need to construct an alternative educational path in opposition to formal academical curriculum.

Truly convinced of this gap in the established educational plan, ACetsam consolidates itself in the Architecture School by organising periodical constructive workshops. These are always accompained by other complementary activities, such as exhibitions, conferences, debates, contests, installations, research workshops...

ACetsam (Área de Cooperación de la ETSAM) fue fundada por y para los estudiantes, bajo la firme creencia de la necesidad de una formación distinta, alternativa o quizás suplementaria a la que hasta el momento se podía recibir en la universidad.

Convencidos de la existencia de una gran laguna en la formación planteada por el Plan de Estudios vigente, ACetsam propone como punto fuerte y constante de sus actividades los talleres constructivos complementados con otros formatos didácticos como son las exposiciones, conferencias, debates, concursos, instalaciones, talleres de investigación..

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introduction to ACetsam introducción a ACetsam

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constructive workshops talleres constructivos

march 2010 - WORKSHOP FOR HAITI first ACetsam activity ACetsam was launched a few months after the Haiti earthquake, and a few before the begin of the monsoon season.

We decide to organise a workshop to quickly build and set shelter kits, a modular system mounted with donated billboard canvas, and send them abroad.

ACetsam nace tras el terremoto en Haiti, unos meses antes de que comience la época del monzón.

Decidimos montar un gran taller de montaje de kits para enviar a Haiti. Cada kit consiste en un módulo de tienda mínima diseñado por nosotros y confeccionado con lonas publicitarias donadas por empresas locales.

DMH (World Habitat Day) 2010 3 WORKSHOPS with Basurama 3 different workshops were held during the World Habitat Day. The first one was held by Basurama (a colective that researches on the reuse of urban waste). The other two dealt with different low-cost constructive systems: Domocaña + Ferrocemento and Quincha + Beno.

Para el Día Mundial del Hábitat 2010 decidimos organizar 3 talleres constructivos diferentes. Para el primero se invita a Basurama (colectivo que indaga en la reutilización de residuos urbanos). Los otros dos abordan el conocimiento de sistemas de construcción low cost: Domocaña + Ferrocemento y Quincha + Beno.

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DMH2011 - HANDMADE URBANISM with ZuloArk We decided to invite the architectural collective Zuloark to organise this workshop, with the goal of bringing life into the ETSAM courtyard.

Each of the 3 groups that took part in the activity built a wooden truss, which were then joined in order to complete a piece of funny public furniture.

Llamamos al colectivo Zuloark para que liderase un taller constructivo con el objetivo de dotar al patio de la escuela de un lugar de encuentro.

El taller se estructuró en 3 grupos. Cada uno quedó encargado de diseñar una cercha que, unida más tarde al resto, dio forma al mueble.

DMH2012 - CANYAVIVA WORKSHOP with Canyaviva In 2012 we managed to bring Canyaviva, a collective dedicated to the research and construction with structural canes.

Their proposal was to build a prototype made of 5 arches of different lengths joined together. The workshop remains uncovered, uncompleted waiting for a second future phase.

Para el 2012 conseguimos traer al colectivo Canyaviva, dedicado durante años a investigar las posibilidades constructivas de la caña.

Nos propusieron levantar un pequeño prototipo a base de 5 arcos de caña unidos entre sí. El taller quedó en su primera fase, dejando para un momento posterior su cubrición total.

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