ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Alejandro Cruz Nacher
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Alejandro Cruz Nacher 2016
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CV Curriculum Vitae / Qualifications
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A Form of Flesh Critical Mass LaPaz Floating Park 16th Street Market Transgression Frabricating the Ground H2P Building i.e.i House
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Santa Cruz Law Office Spazio Restaurant
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Remix Magazin Flesh Culture : The Scrapbook Furniture Design The Fleshed Body: A Motion Capture Reading
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Academic Work
AW Projects made during the 5 years architectute program in Veritas University, Costa Rica and the Masther Program at Staedelschule Architecture Clas SAC.
Professional Work
PW Works and projects made in the professional field as a certified architect and as partner of nc.nou architecture studio.
Art-Design Work
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CV
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Basic Information Alejandro Cruz Nacher M.A. Architect Birth Date: 02/02/1990 San José / Nicoya | Costa Rica Tel: (+49) 179 833 69 49 - (+506) 8864 84 66 e-mail: alcruna@hotmail.com Based / Current city: Frankfurt am Main
Education -Primary School and High School: “Colegio Espiritu Santo” - Espiritu Santo High School, Santa Cruz, Costa Rica -University: Universidad Veritas, San José, Costa Rica 5 year architecture program - Bachelor + Master Staedelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt am Main, Gemany 2 year M.A. - Master of Arts in Architecture - Architecture and Aesthetic Pracice -
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Work Experience 2012 - present Co-Founder and partner of nc.nou arquitectura. (2012-2013) -Assitant Professor of Design Workshop 9 at Universidad Veritas Workshop Coordinator: Architect Cesar A. Carrascal -Editor in Chief of the first edition of R e m i x Magazine. Graphic design and cover design. (November 2012)
Workshops Landscape Urbanism : Fabricating the Ground Workshop Nicolas Saladino (Italy) - Chen Chen (China) VERITAS European Architecture Field Trip 2012 Director Architect Edgardo Mora
Exhibitions III ILAFA Competition of Steel Design for Architecture Students, Latin America in Argentina [Hilton Hotel Buenos Aires, Argentina, Host Country of the 2012 Latin American III ILAFA Competition of Steel Design for Architecture Students.
SAC - Rundgang 2015 and 2016 - Architectural Exhibition The Feast, 2016 - Architectural and Culinary Experience SAC Rundgang
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Design Softwares Rhinoceros Grasshopper Autodesk AutoCad Vector Works Maya 3D Autodesk Revit 3DMax Zbrush
3dsMax
Adobe Creative Suit Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustraror Adobe InDesign
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Power Point Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel
Nationalities Spain [Spanish Citizenship] Costa Rica [Costa Rican Citizenship]
Languages EspaĂąol/Spanish - Native Language English- Advanced Deutsch/German - Basic CatalĂ /Catalan - Basic
Awards
CV
-Honor Diploma for Excellence in the Graduation Project, Universidad VERITAS, Costa Rica -Costa Rica’s National Winner of “III Concurso ILAFA de Diseño en Acero para estudiantes de Arquitectura” [First Place in III ILAFA Competition of Steel Design for Architecure Students, Costa Rica] Group Project: “Parque Flotante de la Paz” Group Members: Alejandro Cruz Nacher, Ricardo Prada, Yair Izrael, Andrés Orozco
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AWAcademic Work
- A Form of Flesh Master T hesis P r oject
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Academic Work
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A form of Flesh Reimagining the flesh Year: 2016
Crack / Thread
Thread condition of surface as a result of dryness.
Shrink
Reduction of more global pieces and bursting of fatty tissue
Swell
Inflamation of tissue
Pinching
Reduction in thickness
Folding
Creation of space pockets in the surface do to the heat process.
Collaging the Body A New Imaginary of Flesh
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A form of Flesh A Restaurant and Culinary Gallery Complex Year: 2016
An engagement with a spatial-material intimacy that contrasts with the neutrality of idealized forms.The Project specifically is a culinary center with the main function of a restaurant and a art gallery. It’s located at Konstablerwache in the city center of Frankfurt am Main with the objective of articulate the different qualities and activities in the site.
The involvement with the culinary and our work in the kitchen has given us the opportunity to understand the intense and detailed relationship between everything material, the transformation of matter and basically that include us and revolve around the body.
The body then is an incomplete and indeterminate element, one filled with uncoordinated potentialities that are awaiting and require administration. 12
AW 1
- Berserk Species Behavior
Direct Mixed Species Complexity
Duple
A-Berserk A-Berserk is a complex subject composed by a swollen body with a folded spatial cavity in its mid-section. It possesses a complex cracked texture that reacts to movement in its back. This character behaves in a mixture of prosaic and upright movement.
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Section C
Prosaic
K-Berserk K-Berserk is a complex character composed mainly by folds in the body. With a smooth texture, the focus is in the spatiality created through the intecraction of the folds. It possesses an earthly behavior, spending most of the time in a four limb’s prosaic movement.
Upright
E-Berserk With an upright behavior, E-Berserk is a complex body based on the resulting spatial cavities of the shrinking process. Balanced with some swollen areas, this character is capable to interact dynamically with its similar folded counterpart.
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Plan Level 1
The building is a subject that impacts and ingests not only human objects but that also builds a constant dialogue with the institution under it, the temporal market. And this happens through the fleshiness of this expression of anthropomorphic quasi animalistic vitality of this character that no only interacts and shapes an environment. Plan Level 3
In this sense, the building is a restaurant/gallery that sets itself over the local weekly market and seeks to create new dynamics in Konstablerwache that for part of the culinary focus.
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Section B
The interior results of the corporeality of the form and the set of conditions for the reverberation of intimate interactions among subjects. An this intimate relationship should also exist in the manner of how this presence alters and reorganized and important social construction such as the market. The interior is this corporeal space full of pockets and folds that stich a narrative of intimacy and seeks to shape not only this intimate interaction between bodies, but also of the bodies and the building.
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Building interacting with the market
Interior Visualization
Secondary corporeal buildings
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AW 2
Critical Mass A Restaurant and Culinary Gallery Complex Year: 2016
Critical Mass started as an exploration and their translation from a material such as fabric to a massive medium. The fabric the becomes the envelope and mediator between the mass and the condition and forces affecting it. This intecation between mass and envelope resulted on massive volumes where all the spatial qualities of folding and texture were recorded. The introduction of seams in the envelope allowed for a more complex manipulation of the mass.
Fluid and complex mass resulting of the envelope manipulation through seams and vector forces.
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AW 2
Critical Mass Housing Complex Year: 2015
In the digital medium, the seams were defined by flock agglomeration and fluid simulations. With these, reproducuing mass behavior in a seamed envelope resulted in a spatial exploration of the fluid space of mass.
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AW 2
The project is a dwelling complex that tries to solve the shortage of housing, while implanting an intervention right in border between Frankfurt and Offenbach that in a way seeks to highlight a sector of the city where these two meet and that presents conditions that can be further developed. The approach of the project then should be critical. The project needs to be discriminating and incisive about what is happening in the site, this condition of physical and virtual border between Frankfurt and Offenbach, what can the housing mean for this condition and above all what does the mass as thinking line can do for all of them. 19
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Alejandro Cruz Nacher SAC 2015
Section B
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The buildinng inhabited mass that creates a new set of spatial qualities and relations that thicken the idea of border and would contain the dwelling program. The final form is majorly inform from all the research, where even these now condition of porosity of the mass in form of windows is the result of the voids resulting in the sectional input of mass. Alejandro Cruz Nacher SAC 2015
Section B-B Scale 1 : 200 Alejandro Cruz Nacher SAC 2015
In section the mass creates an internal relation by a new ground that articulate the slabs. The housing program then borrows the logic of the initial seam system seeking to produce similar movement conditions as the ones obtain in the mass simulation. 20
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Alejandro Nacher In this sense, the apartments become secondary units of mass contain by the wholes, as Cruz mentioned also by the one of the SAC 2015 initial definitions of mass collection of incoherent particle, parts or objects regarded as forming a body.
In the end the project seeks to depict the border, understand it, thicken it and enhance what is already happening using the mass as key element in this pursuit.
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Alejandro Cruz Nacher SAC 2015
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Costa Rica National Winner of “III Concurso ILAFA de Diseño en Acero para estudiantes de Arquitectura” [First Place in III ILAFA Competition of Steel Design for Architecure Students]
Unfolding the surface of the park to create a panoptic and amphitheater-like leisure area with commercial programs beneath it to regenerate and dynamize the La Paz Sector, eliminating the current residual spaces.
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La Paz Floating Park Urban Design Year: 2010
The area of ​​the La Paz Park was born as a spot for the middle class in San Jose, but now is the convergence point of many slums of San Jose and also the point where these slums intertwine with those few neighborhoods that retain their original vocation and the center of the capital. The Metropolitan Park of La Paz, was introduced in 1989 to solve the social problems that were just beginning, but because of a rigid road structure and the existence of fragmented neighborhoods , the solution of the problem became the problem itself, at least in Sector 6. This sector becomes the backyard of the houses, generating an insecure and socially ill residual space. Sector 6 came to establish itself as a dead green point surrounded by hard and impervious edges, which by virtue of their isolation continue enlarging the social gap and generate marginal effects across the nearby Metropolitan Park of La Paz sector.
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The project seeks to overcome hard, rigid and under-proofing edges using in contrast activity generating programs. As part of the conceptual process we seek to maximize the area involved, without sacrificing existing green space. Under this premise, the conceptualization of the project is based on lifting the “skin� (green area) of the park and place activation activities and programs in the folds, thus achieving the dynamization of the sector and even an increase in the greeb surface of the park.
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Adding to this concept, different factors appear, such as the context, the containment, the scale, the different programs surronding the area, the aperture, etc. These factors begin to model and shape the project, always under the tone of raising the “dermis” of the body of the current park. In this way, the analysis begins to set the project’s name.The project functions as an elevated plaza or park, which once it interacts together with the La Paz Park, carries the name of La Paz Floating Park. This is a direct application of the concept of skin, which when raised, creates a feeling of buoyancy of the covering. In this space the users who inhabit the project have the perception of the non-material space. To achieve the feeling of hovering and lightness of space, the only material capable of allowing such expression is metal, particularly steel. Otherwise, it would be impossible to achieve 45 m cantilevers with the slenderness required to create the feeling of buoyancy. Thus, the use of steel and other metals are the only viable solution to meet the structural requirements which are subject structures. To achieve greater lightness and taking into account the characteristics of steel, we chose a spatial structure similar to a truss, that finds it’s greatest structural capacity when functioning as a whole.
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AW 4
16th Street Market Transgresion Transgressiรณn Mercado Calle 16 Regenerating Project Thesis Graduation Project Year: 2011-2012 Awarded with a Certificate of Honor for Excellence
The transgression of the concept and function of the market through an architectural intervention for the regeneration of the 16th Street Market. A heterogeneous covering that by its abstract nature implements conditions, programs and interventions for the regeneration of the 16th Street Market
Current image of the 16 Street Market
“Transgressions opens the door into what lies beyond the limits usually observed, but it maintains these limits just the same. Transgression is complementary to the profane world, exceeding its limits but not destroying it.” Georges Bataille, Eroticism
This project develops the vision of the market when its architecture and its concept are transgressed. The current market has become a rigid social structure that has fallen to detriment, so special attention is put to the concept of transgression, which becomes the mean to deconstruct the current meaning of the market and provide an architectural tool that allows it to generate a dynamic regeneration. Street 16 Market, better known as the La Coca Cola Market is probably one of the places with the most commercial potential in San José, however, it is also one of the most deteriorated. A market must play a leading role in the urban balance of the places that integrate it. Besides supplying the local population, the market should also promote economies of small scale as well as determine a social image that directs attention to the place they belong to. This project seeks to create a view of the market that does not deny its context, that takes advantage of the complex web of relationships that compose it and from that a programmatic hybridization, it could regenerate itself as a social institution of great importance in the city. It directly addresses the problem of the deteriorated infrastructure and covering of the market, the latter being the conductive element of transgression. Nevertheless, the Coca Cola Market sector is one of the most deprived areas of the capital. The Merced district, is now one of the sectors with the highest number of social ailments, ranging from insecurity and delinquency, to poverty and prostitution. Speaking specifically of the market covering or roof as an architectural object, it is where the market unveils probably one of the biggest obstacles to its development. The covering of the market concentrates much of the infrastructure itself and yet it’s damaged and aesthetically problematic.
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The corresponding intervention to the covering seeks to keep as integral as possible the set of relationships and events that happen in the current market. For this reason, the heterogeneous covering gives an “in-between” space of interaction where the market situation can be further developed spontaneously. This also carries the idea that by this separation, the covering doesn’t look to crush and stunt the market, both functionally and visually. The project builds a perimeter. The facades are looking to establish a uniform image that transgresses and becomes a contraposition to the market chaos. The construction of a perimeter over the market generates a rationalization in the image of the context. This perimeter helps to create a social surveillance system of the context to promote the sanitation of the Coca Cola sector.
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Urban Section CORTE URBANO SECCIÓN C-C
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ALEJANDRO CRUZ NACHER | TECNOLOGÍAS EMERGENTES
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Section C-C ALEJANDRO CRUZ NACHER | TECNOLOGÍAS EMERGENTES D
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“The greatest pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where the boundaries are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.�
In terms of the site context, the project abstracts elements and situations on the sector for a better implantation and relationship with it’s immediate context. These abstractions range from simply repeating a texture in the facade of the project for it to form part of the reality of the city, to the fact of taking into account the heights of the surrounding buildings and movement flows of users existing in the area. Including these factors in the design of the project results in a contextualized intervention with the ability to have a greater impact on the site. This covering features an abstract character with a determination degree that allows for two spatial conditions. The first is an area with a public character that can be used for leisure activities, trade, exposition, etc; and a second with more private properties where apartments and offices could be located.
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AW 5
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Fabricating the Ground Landscape Urbanism Year: 2011
Site Characterization Indexing the sector of Palmira for a possible solution and change of the current economical needs and environmental problems in the area. Modifying the character of the site through the landscape and solve the current struggles of Palmira.
MESH CONSTRUCTION _ INFRASTRUCTURE AXIS
Palmira works as a seasonal system. Almost all aspects of the region are influenced by seasons. We understand season as a determind time with certain conditions in a specific place. In a socio-economical plane, there are two strong seasons: “zafra” season (sugar cane harvest) and high season (tourism). These two occur at the same time, about 4 months (from december to may) and represent about 70% of Palmira’s labor sources, meaning that almost 70% of the population have no means of income during eight months per year. In an environmental plan, it has two clearly defined seasons. Dry season and rainy season, each one of them with specific consequences. In dry season, Palmira struggles with water shortage beacuase of the low flow of the river and the overexploitation of the water resources. In rainy season the large amount of rainfall ends in flooding. This flooding not only produces economic losses but also a contamination process due to the flood of crops and it’s oxidation ponds.
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AW 5 PROTOTYPE CATALOG LARGE PLOT SIZE | SMALL PUBLIC SPACEFOR MAXIMUN CROP AREA
PLOT AREA = PUBLIC SPACE
LARGE PUBLIC AREA | SMALL PLOT AREA FOR MORE PUBLIC SPACES AND REVALUE OF TEMPISQUE RIVER VISUALS
EVOLUTION
MORE DEEPNESS FOR MORE CATCHMENT AND OTHER ACTIVITIE
DEPTH USEFUL FOR WETLANDS
MORE SHALLOW. SPECIALLY FOR PERMACULTURE ACTIVITY RICE CROP + FISH
PLOT SIZE OPTIONS
DEPTH
THE PROTOTYPE DEPTH VARIES ACCORDING TO THE PROXIMITY OF THE RIVER AND WELLS. WHEN CLOSER TO THE RIVER IN IT ALLOWS COLLECT WATER, GENERAT WETLANDS AND FUNCTION AS WATER INJECTIONS TO THE UNDERGROUND WELLS.
PLOT SIZE
TERRITORY SECTION COMPONENTE FOR PERMACULTURE
TEMPISQUE RIVER BASIN
COMPONENT FOR WETLAND
COMPONENT FOR WATER CATCHMENT
COMPONENT FOR WATER CATCHMENT
POND SIZE DEPENDING ON PROXIMITY TO TEMPISQUE RIVER OR ROADS TO CREATE MORE PUBLIC SPACES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THEIR REVALUATION LARGE BOTTOM SIZE FOR MAXIMUN CROP AREA PERMACULTURE ACTIVITY
BOTTOM SIZE USEFUL FOR WETLANDS
SMALL BOTTOM SIZE FOR MORE WATER CATCHMET AND WATER INJECTION
POSSIBLE FLOODING LEVEL
SCHEME OF USE OF THE COMPONENT IN THE TERRITORY
BOTTOM SIZE OPTIONS EVOLUTION
BOTTOM SIZE
SIZE OF POND BOTTOM DEPENDING THE PROXIMITY TO THE RIVER OR THE CITY. WHEN THE COMPONENT IS NEAR TO HOUSING AREAS, THE SIZE AND THE DEEPNES ALLOW A MAXIMUN USE OF THE SPACE, SO PEOPLE CAN GENERATE A PERMACULTURE SYSTEM. WHEN IT'S NEAR TO THE RIVER, THE PLOT ALLOWS TO COLLECT MORE WATER AND TO MITIGATE THE FLOODINGS.
RUGOSITY
AS CLOSER THE PROTOTYPE GETS TO A WELL, THE MORE RUGOSITY IT FORMS. WHEN THE PROTOTYPE PRESENTS MORE RUGOSITY, IT GENERATES MORE FRICTION
AND MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE WATER INFILTRATION TO THE WELLS
The main problem in Palmira is the agro-industrial economic dependency.This seasonal economy leaves without an income to the PalmIra-Paso Tempisque axis of inhabitants during almost seven months per year. This major phenomena forces us to search a way to accomplish an economic independency of the current income model. To solve this problem, an implementation of a new hybrid model is necesary. This model mixes a variety of economic, agricultural and housing solution models with an enviromental proposal that aims to mitigate flooding and contamination issues. As part of the project agenda, the application of seasonal responses to the seasonal phenomena, makes a more coherent solution. The approach to this seasonal model is based on the use of a system that allows the planting of different crops during the dry season. The crops would be contained in a system of “crop ponds” formed by artificial topographic depressions that in the rainy season could work as water ponds that not only function as aquaculture ponds or hydroponic plantations, but also to help the mitigation of the flooding process. To achive a more resilient system, the implementation of a community permaculture model that permits the inhabitants to support themselves in case of an extreme event that affects the seasonal model is extremely necesary.
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H2P Building
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MULTIFAMILY BUILDING Year: 2009
A multifamily building in San José downtown. In a city with limited green areas, the idea of this building is to introduce green spots in the city trough the building. The project possesses two floors with openings that consolidate large green areas for leisure. In-between Green and Leisure Floors
On the first and second floor, the project has a social and public meaning through commercial activities and restaurants. This project seeks to become a start point for regenerating San Jose downtown.
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These openings plus a central garden allow a well natural lighting and ventilation in the building. They also introduce the green element to the heights of facades and construct a new profile for the city.
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i.e.i House SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING Year: 2010
A search for a dual space where the limit of what is around us becomes blurred and ambiguous. The feeling of the outside in the interior of the house is presented in a subtle way.
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CANOA DE ZINC # 24
LOZA DE CONCRECTO 15 cm de espezor 0.15
Generate a duality where the outside space of the house meets it’s interior through the architecture. This idea is represented with the following scheme of:
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Green Area [Inside] + Deck + Interior + Deck + Green Area [Outside] This project was conceived under the premise of designing an adjacent house, with the posibility of using the house to conform a neighborhood. The natural ventilation and lighting along the project were key topics.
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CIMIENTO FLTANTE 40 X 30 cm, concreto de 210kg/cm2
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CUBIERTA CON ZINC ESMALTZDO BLANCO
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VIGA CORONA 40 x 12 cm VIGA CORONA 40 x 20 cm
DECK EN MADERA, DE PINO DE 2,5 cm x 10 cm con tinte de nogal VIGA DE ENTREPISO 40 x 20 cm ENTREPISO ESCOSA SISTEMA DE ENTREPISO ESCOSA PARED CELOCIA EN MADERA, DE PINO DE 2,5 cm x 10 cm LOZA DE CONCRETO 20 cm Y CUBIERTA DE PARQUEO
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CIMIENTO FLTANTE 40 X 30 cm, concreto de 210kg/cm2
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CONTRAPISO 15 cm, concreto 210kg/cm2
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The topography and the idea of a functional house for an organized neighborhood, modifies the way the different levels of the house are determined. The idea of a common underground parking lot with a green public space on top of it, results in a house adapted to this condition that allows the user an easy relation between the private and public spaces.
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The space is conceptualized as a simple linear corridor where the different house activities are placed and organinized around. To the left, a green and natural patio and to the right the social area with the living room and dining room. The corridor leads to the functionality of the kitchen and vertical circulation. Likewise, the articulation between levels is directly linked to the free space of the patio (garden), which functions as an open vertical connection system.
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Housing typology in a Neighborhood Block Display
Front View
CELOCIA HORIZONTAL FIJA, EN MADERA DE PINO DE 2,5 cm x 10 cm con tinte de nogal, para protección del sol
VIGA CORONA 40 x 20 cm CELOCIA HORIZONTAL FIJA, EN MADERA DE PINO DE 2,5 cm x 10 cm con tinte de nogal, para protección del sol
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VARANDA EN TUBO REDONDO DE ACERO INOXIABLE, EL PRINCIPAL VERTICAL DE 7.5 mm, EL SECUNDARIO HORIZONTAL DE 2.5 mm
PARED CELOCIA EN MADERA, DE PINO DE 2,5 cm x 10 cm
SISTEMA DE ENTREPISO ESCOSA
LASTRE COMPCTADO capa de 30 cm de espesor
CONTRAPISO 15 cm, concreto 210kg/cm2
In the right image you can see how the house will function in a “barrio” (neighberhood) display with well defined distinctions between private and public spaces. Also, a commercial and community building is put in the area to dynamize the social activities around the public spaces.
CIMIENTO FLTANTE 40 X 30 cm, concreto de 210kg/cm2
CIMIENTO FLTANTE 40 X 30 cm, concreto de 210kg/cm2
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Santa Cruz Law Office Office Location: Santa Cruz, Guanacaste Construction area: 185 sqm Role: Design, Drawing and Technical Direction Project Status: Awaiting Construction Start Year: 2013
A versatile and resilient space that has the capacity to change with the pass of time. An office, a house, a commercial space are possible uses of the project that can be implemented without losing the logical sense of architecture and function of the original project. A small scale transgression of the widely used concept of “static architecture�.
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This project stems from the necessity for a new law firm of a group of lawyers in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste. Due to the economic crisis and deteriorated investment process in Guanacaste, one of the guidelines for this project was that the proposed building not only needs to work as an office, but it should also give the owners the opportunity to change it’s use to a house in the future if necessary.
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The third and private area is for the individual office space. This area will accommodate the offices and other exclusive services. For a house distribution, this area will be conformed by the bedrooms and private areas of a house. There is also an internal garden (patio) to enhance the sense of spaciousness which allows a better natural ventilation and lighting in the middle area of the project.
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Transversal Sections
Longitudinal Sections
The house possesses great quantities of openings for cross ventilation through the internal garden. Also this aspect permits a good relationship with the outside. The idea is to construct a completly open facade with well defined volumes articulated through a hall/corridor. This corridor is the virtual line that divides the different privacy levels inside the project.
Lateral Elevation
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Spazio Restaurant Remodeling Commercial Project Stage: Finished Role: Design, Technical Direction and Supervision Location: Nicoya, Costa Rica Year: 2013
This project consists in remodelling an old house into a contemporary author’s cuisine restaurant with a quite small budget. Under this premise, the main actions were to open walls and close windows to create more large spaces and open new windows. Instead of the garage, now there is the restaurant counter, the entrance now is a “roof to floor” crystal wall, and the bedroom are now different restaurant spaces. Special attention was put int the colors, textures and lighting, with these tools the character of the old house was transformed into a elegant, seductive and contemporary space. For this remodeling project different furniture pieces were created, such as lamps, tables and counters.
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Remix Magazine [Costa Rica] Graphic Design Design of the first edition of Remix Magazine (Editor and designer) Various Illustrations Year: 2012 Creating and presenting an “over the top� kind of art, but with a contextualized feeling. The concept was to mix everything that surrounded us and come up with a unique final result. The magazine sought to create a global character that works with our local identity and at the same time with the way foreigners see the world.
Remix Magazine Concept and Inside Page
As Editor of Remix Magazine, the need to express the cultural and art value in Guanacaste was born. The idea under this first edition was to evidenciate the beauties of the region under another glass, and to show the talent that can be found in it. Photographers, writers, painters, etc, all were concentrated under one roof, the Remix Magazine roof.
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Flesh culture
Design of food/architecture Research Logbook Architecture and Aesthetic Practice (AAP) Staedelschule Architecture Class Thesis Research, 2016
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Furniture Design [Costa Rica] Office Table # 1 - There was the need for a versatile table with contemporary lines that could be used in different tasks. The budget was small so I needed to use alternative materials. For its construction, recycled wood, long screws and sanitary fittings were used. The cost of the finished product was about $ 150 dollars.
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This project consists in exposing the raw material in an aesthetic way. As a design firm we feel that materials should stand out by their function and raw aspect not so much by their finished look.
B a t hr o o m Fur ni t ur e # 1
Bathroom #1 - A simple and sober piece of furniture to stand out the quality of the bathroom tiles and sanitary fittings. Made completly out of wood with a dark tint to stress the colors used in the tiles, the design seeks not to cover the wall’s material. With this idea, the furniture gets a more frame-like design with just a closed column for storage, exposing much of the wall behind it.
C e i l i ng Wo rk
Year: 2012
O f f i c e Ta bl e # 1
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This is a strong statement in a conservative city. People are used to “spanish neo-colonial” patterns that they have lost sight of the materials they used. Restaurant Table #2 - This particular piece of furniture needed to be made showcasing everything mentioned but under the premise of very economic table due to the small budget. In this way, a metal structure was made to support a tile design. For the demanded table’s concept, the tiles and details were chosen with a reflective characteristic. As a result, the table met all expectations, with a small cost of under $ 50 dollars.
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The Fleshed Body A Motion Capture Reading Year: 2016
A conducted 3D motion tracking with real human figures that interacted with one another are bestowed with select, extreme physical characteristics interpreted from fleshy bodies. The motion tracking not as a literally tracking but as an understanding of the movement of the figures and more a form of sculptin fleshy bodies in real time. Allowing the development of a notational system for how these characters interacted and coalesced into multi-character, fleshy volumes. Plan
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