Alejandra Kuri
Portfolio lighting
design
selected projects 2019
image: design process Spazi.
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image: Istanbul, Turkey. Phtography by Alejandra Kuri.
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Contents
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CV
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01 Atmospheres: Fabra I Coats creation factory | interior lighting
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02 Axis: Puente de Moura urban lighting
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03 Cyclus: Llum Barcelona lighting artistic installation | bici hub
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04 Spazi
light exploration | light object
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Alejandra Kuri González Architect + Lighting Designer
EDUCATION
ABOUT ME. Mexican architect and future lighting designer. 25 years old. Interests. Architectural lighting, lighting installations, interior design, automation systems (domotica), residence and retail projects. Hobbies. Graphic design, acrylic painting. Work Experience. Construction management, design and excecutive residential projects, apartment refurbishments. Objectives. Become a lighting designer by studying a Master’s Degree and working in this subject.
November 2018 - October 2019 Lighting Design, Master’s DegreeUnivesitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. August 2012 - May 2017 Architecture Degree [Average. 9.1/10 - Thesis with Excellence] Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey. February 2015 - July 2015 Architecture Study Abroad Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
WORK EXPERIENCE March 2019 - present. Da Gayo Inversiones - Barcelona, Spain. Architect (Refurbishments)
August 2009 - May 2012 International High School Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey.
LANGUAGES
September 2017- October 2018 Safa Velez Proyectos - Monterrey, Mexico. Junior Architect (Design and Excecutive Planning)
Spanish Native Language
August 2015 - September 2017 Safa Velez Proyectos - Monterrey, Mexico. Residential Construction Management January 2012 - August 2015 Redso Digital Marketing - Monterrey, Mexico. Graphic Designer 2011 - 2018. Free Lance - Monterrey, Mexico. Graphic Designer
SKILLS Autocad Revit Dialux Sketchup / Vray Photoshop Illustrator InDesign 3D Max LightRoom Microsoft Office Suite
Hand drafting and modeling Sketching Site Analysis Laster cutting Teamwork
English TOEFL 610pts.
French Multicultural Diploma ITESM
Address
Consell de Cent 277, 3-1 Barcelona, Spain.
EXHIBITIONS 2019
Llum Barcelona. Light Artistic Installation. Lighting Design Master participation in lighting festival.
2017
Student architecture 5th Biennal, Colegio de Arquitectos of Nuevo León. Thesis publication: “Hyperblock”.
2015
Centenario Museum Academic Proyecto Publication: Urban Regenation in Centrito Valle, San Pedro Garza García.
RECOGNITIONS
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November 2017 Silver Medal, Mixed-Use Category. Student architecture 5th Biennal, Colegio de Arquitectos de Nuevo León. Thesis “Hiperblock”. May 2017 Excellence recognition. Thesis for architecture degree. Universidad de Monterrey.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE November 2018 - present Master’s Degree Barcelona, Spain. January 2015 - July 2015 College Exchange. Santiago, Chile. April 2008 Leadership Summit Geneva, Switzerland
Contact
alekurig@gmail.com Whatsapp: +52 8120750285 Phone: +34 695071878 @alekurig https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-kuri
ACTIVITIES / WORKSHOPS / SOCIAL PRACTICE 2018 Revit course - Parametric families. Safa Velez Proyectos’ Workshops. Monterrey, N.L. 2017 Tatiana Bilbao Workshop Conference and Thesis feedback. Universidad de Monterrey 2016 UDESIGN Art, Architecture and Design Congress. Pabellón M, Monterrey. 2015 Ando San Pedro Regeneration of the public space event. Collaboration with furniture production and marketing. Casco Urbano, San Pedro Garza García. 2015 Construye Contruction social practice. Casco Urbano, San Pedro Garza García. 2014 Centro Roberto Garza Sada: Center of Arts, Architecture and Design’s opening. Volunteer / Staff Universidad de Monterrey 2011 - 2012 Entrepreneur Congress 1st edition. Board of directors Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey 2009 - 2012 Student Council Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey
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FABRA I COATS The language of light: atmospheres.
01 Atmospheres Year Place Collaboration
2019 Barcelona Marta Fernandez & Celeste Mazzucco.
The industrial complex: Fabra i Coats was a thread and textile factory of the 19th century. The building is a industrial heritage icon from Barcelona that now holds a creation factory. It’s main objecive is to be a resource center for the artistic production, formation and investigation. The project consists of lighting the building’s interior; focusing on the necessity of modularity and flexibility for the different activities and users that Fabra and Coats hold. The insipration for the project came from its own architecture, natural light entrance and its flexible needs. The purpose was to create dynamic light that follows the users rythms, as well as position them in time and space.
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Concept. Atomsphere change.
Natural Light
Constant change.
Space
Chamged overitme + it’s flexible.
User
Changes space.
Peter Zumthor, in his book: Atmospheres talks about the perception of a space and the feelings that a place give you in a very quick impresion with its color, light, temperature,, sound, forms, etc. He analyzes 9 points that define an atmosphere. We resumed to 3 points in Fabra and Coats that are constantly changing and directly affect the atmosphere of the place: natural light, space and user. The building to intervene has four floors in which there are spaces that will be taken to consideration in the project: pointed out in the diagram below.
Spaces to intervene.
Third Floor Event Room
Second Floor Artistic Residences
First Floor Coworking
Ground Floor Multipurpose Rooms Hall/Reception -
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Coworking & Artistic Residences: Design Process General light + Accent Light
The idea resulted from the actual ceiling that is sectioned in planes, so the proposal is to tilt them and “filter� light the same way daylight comes into a building.
The objective is to give direct light from the linear luminarie and also indirect light by reflection of the same tilted planes.
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Besides de general light, there is a need of a more addressable one, reachable, aprochable, dynamic and closer to the user.
Users need many different typologies of light depending on the task they are doing. These are some examples.
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ALBA
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Alba was born from the necessity of a dynamic and flexible luminarie in the artistic residence space, which is constantly changing due to its modularity. The idea came from a difuse light and the question of how to narrow it to an specific task. The idea of a folding object gave us the opportunity to narrow the light and direction it through its different paralel planes. Alba can be controlled directly by the user so it is approchable and adaptable to many kind of activities.
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Coworking & Residences
Section Plan_ 1st floor (coworking) and 2nd floor (artistic residences)
Top View Plan_ 2nd floor (artistic residences)
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Hall & Reception
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Alba changed from user to building scale. The objective in the hall & reception area was to have an sculptural light that captured the users’ attention and conduced them into the building. The sculptural Alba makes a connection between exterior and exterior and with the same concepto of directioning light, it directions flows and distributed users around the building.
Another objective in this space is to have a contrast between the scultptural light placed in height and the lower accents that make the user feel comortable. The contrast would be in temperature of color and intensity.
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Multipurpose Rooms & Event Room
In the multipurpose rooms and event room, the idea is to use the structural column grid to divide space not physically, but with light. The idea is to light up “pixels� by using the four columns that surround it, and hide a projector from the ceiling that makes the illusion that the columns are lighting it. The difference between the multipurpose rooms and the event room is that the event room has an RGBW luminarie in the columns that give the possibility of a more dynamic scene and different atmospheres.
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02 Axis Year Place Collaboration
2019 Puente de Moura, Barcelona Florencia Perez
The Moura Bridge is located in the Besós River that divides Barcelona and Sant Adriá de Besós and hold a lineal parc where several sport activities happen. The bridge is characterized by it’s curved organic structure. In the urban analysis, the discovery of a government’s plan of a green axis in the street that connected to the bridge gave the direction of the lighting concept: nature. The bridge became a part of a master plan that included the green axis, the Besós Parc and the connections between them. Light textures repeat during this masterplan making a connetion between spaces.
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Part of a Master Plan
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This project became part of a master plan that includes government’s plans of a green axis. The concept is to give continuity to the projected lineal park though the Besós Park and connect these the Moura bridge with the same organic and natural language.
Lighting Effects The diagram below shows the important hotspots to intervene and the lighting intentions of each space. H1
Funcional (x4) Objeto lumínico (x3) Proyecciones Texturas (x2) H2
Señalética H3
T1
H4
T2 T3
H1 PARC BESÒS
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H2 PASOS DESNIVEL
T2
H3 ROTONDA
T3
H4 PUENTE DE MOURA
Escultórico
Mobiliario
Señalética
Proyección
Señalética
Escultórico
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Vial/General
Señalética Proyección
Rasantes (3)
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Functional and guidance light.
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Roundabout, Park Besรณs & Under the bridge.
Inspired by Jean Nouvel, Otto Pienne and other artists and designers, the light coming though diverse object along the axis project organic textures in different surfaces. This are artistic installations that indicate the axis components and unifies the whole project.
Light integrated in urban furniture.
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Section of light box in space under the bridge.
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Photoshop.
Real mock up.
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Under the bridge.
Another  organic texture hotspot would be the estrategically chosen walls under bridges. They give vertical light and work with our own luminarie design that consists of a motorized cylinder that filters light through different openings that give different textures from tree-shadow like to water forms.
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LED Tube T8
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Protector de Cristal de 6mm Viga de acero corten.
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Interior color negro para
Detalle Constructivo Cilindro metĂĄlico negro motorizado con perforaciones segun diseĂąo.
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Photoshop.
Real mock up.
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03 Cyclus Year Place Collaboration
2019 LLum Bcn, Poblenou, Barcelona Marta Fernandez, Celeste Mazzucco, Alberto Rodriguez, Juan Felipe Ortiz, Marisa Cevallos, Estefi Marti, Florencia Perez, Felipe Huerta, Ricardo Fonseca, Alexis Fuentes.
Can Picรณ is an urban equipment with heritage value. It belongs to the city hall and nowadays holds the Bici Hub. It is a space where coworking and workshops related to the bicycle world take place. This project explores the essence of the relationship between the movement of a bicycle and its own light. It is a lighting choreography that stages the eternal persecution between the intermitent back light and the continuos white guiding light.
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Techincal Light Plan
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Light & Sound Choreography
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04 Spazi Year Place Collaboration
2018 Poblenou, Barcelona --
This project’s objective was to explore light’s behavior. While playing with light I discovered that when light is guided through a plane its filters it and guides it through different projections to other surfaces. When the light encounters this surfaces, its geometry is revealed. Architecture uses natural light to discover places and architects use it as tool to guide, indicate and emphasize elements. Spazi’s concept is natural light as a constitutive part of architecture, how it is introduced and how it works to perceive interior spaces.
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Direct Light
Tilted Planes
Discover Space.
The intention is to direct light into space by an overhead light, filtered in tilted planes and to let light encounter limits and discover the geometry of the space. As it is shown in the image in last page, the posibilities of ways of light entering a space are infinite. So, Spazi is conformed of different modules that can mi configured in many ways The modularity of the light object let the light go “down� in various paths. Module
Composition. Solids
Voids
Paths
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