A Gil Herrero cv&other by Alejandro Gil Herrero

ALEJANDRO GIL HERRERO ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO & CURRICULUM VITAE

I was born in Segovia, a small but ancient city of the countryside in the centre of Spain. Living in a small place has always invited me to look outside, leave the well-known and seek for the unknown, looking for a global point of view. I completed my Studies in the Universidad PolitĂŠcni-ca de Madrid. During this time, I was very fortunate to have different international experience practicing, researching and traveling all around the five continents. After graduating I decided to keep searching of the unknown which has allowed me to work and learn in different countries and continents; Spain, India, Vietnam, Malaysia and currently in Australia. The main reason that has always aimed me in this quest has been the human side of architecture and the relationships that the human being displays in the urban space. It is the urban scenario who sets the base for a life in community as a collective and not as individuals. Along the years I have created (still creating) a big and international network not only of people related to architecture and education but also from a multidisciplinary background. This is allowing me to consider the world as my classroom, my library and my playground, always learning and listening to the others. Nelson Mandela said that Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world. I agree and believe that trough architecture, urbanism and design we can facilitate and provide the basis for this change. Knowing our roots and traditions as a human race will support us creating a more prosperous and equal future for everyone.

CURRICULUM VITAE Age: 29 Address: 1/8 Gwenyfred Rd, Kensington, WA 6151 Phone: + 61 413 266 405 Email: alejandro.gilherrero@curtin.edu.au Nationality: Spanish

ACADEMIC EDUCATION Masters of Architecture and Civil Engineering- MArch

2006-2013 Polytechnic University of Madrid. E.T.S.A.M. UPM

Final Thesis: Urban learning space, Ahmedabad, India. Supervisor: María José Aranguren & Marcelo Ruiz Pardo

WORK AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ARCHITECTURE SKILLS

CURRENT ROLES / POSITIONS HELD

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Community Principal, GDS, Perth Australia (2017) Project liaison, Architecturing Health, SoBE-AIA (2017) Sessional Academic, SoBE-AIA (2017) Dissertation Supervisor, SoBE-AIA (2017) Sessional Academic, Open University Australia - OUA (2017) These roles support: + Designing, developing and delivering teaching. + Development of educational material for delivery through digital and physical platforms. + Extending and pushing the limitations and boundaries of design experimentation and exploration. + Explore new innovative technologies and develop learning strategies, engagement and outcome. + Facilitating T&L activities to support staff and student mobility through international travel. + Establishing partnerships and industry engagement opportunities via the GDS program. + Supporting the building of a culture and community of practice that celebrates architectural education.

PREVIOUS ROLES / POSITIONS HELD Architect at Space Matrix, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) (2016-17, 3months) Architect at Kien Truc O, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) (2016, 1month) Architect at Kerry Hill Architects, Fremantle (WA) (2016, 3months) Sessional Academic, ALVA, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth (WA) (2015) Architect at Smar Architects, Perth (WA) (2015-16, 9months) Research assistant, SoBE-AIA (2015) These roles support: - Designing, developing and delivering architecture in practice. - Development of a global understanding of architecture, urbanism and communities. - Exploring architecture attached to a place and understanding of social engagement with it. - Valuing the importance of history and tradition in the near and the far future architectures. - Designing, developing and delivering teaching.

ArchiCad - advanced Adobe CS - advanced Rhinoceros - intermediate AutoCad - advanced SketchUp - intermediated Physical model making- advanced

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Spanish: native English: Advanced_conversation, writing and comprehension French: Medium_conversation, writing and comprehension German: Basic_conversation, writing and comprehension

TEACHING AND LEARNING PROJECTS + Architecturing Health: Reimagining professions beyond traditional boundaries. Represents phase one of a larger project which aims to provide interdisciplinary Wil experience for health and Architecture students. (2017) + Endeavour Scholarship Grant – Research, Experience, Capture (REC Program) Singapore: an Indo-Pacific student mobility program seeking to investigate strategies to improve the liveability of Singapore through architecture, education and conscious practice. (2017) + Global Design Studio LiveABILITY Malaysia (Miri, Sarawak) – Phase 1 - SarAWAKEN: an Indo-Pacific student mobility program seeking to investigate strategies to improve the liveability of Miri City through architecture, education and conscious practice. (2017) + Global Design Studio LiveABILITY Malaysia (Miri, Sarawak) – Phase 2 – SarAWAKEN on the road an Indo-Pacific student mobility program seeking to investigate strategies to improve the liveability of the State of Srawak through architecture, education and conscious practice. (2017)

RESEARCH + Creatives can …? TransFormAction: Academic and Industry Symposium GDS (WA) (2017) + ARTIM (Agroforestry Resources and Traditions International Meeting), Espinosa de los Monteros (Spain) (2014) + International Habitat Design Studio, Ahmedabad (India) Vastu-Shilpa Foundation and CEPT University) (2012) + Timber Construction, Segovia (Spain) Research Center of Traditional Architecture (CIAT) (2012) + Clay Construction in Spain and Morocco, Segovia (Spain) (CIAT) (2012) + Construction of a Slum School, Architects Without Frontiers Australia (AWF), Ahmedabad (India) (2012)

PROFESSIONAL WORK 2012-2017 + + + + + + + + +

Mixed used resort, Tây Ninh, Vietnam Hospital extention, Da Nang, Vietnam Wanda One Hotel Tower, Sydney, Australia Metro Headquarters, Madrid, Spain Aalto’s Museums extention, Helsinki, Finland Culture/Civic Center, Madrid, Spain Green Academy, Bologna, Italy Lighthouse resort, Siracusa, Italy Urban learning centre, Ahmedabad, India

Project info Title: Mixed used resort Architect: Space Matrix Location: TĂ˘y Ninh, Vietnam Year: 2017 Client: Chao Ltd. Status: Construction Documents

Summary

In a perfect location, Tay Ninh is a key point in the route Vietnam-Cambodia. The new development will be a mixed-use resort. The two main focus will be the Residential tower and the Hotel. A 3 levels podium will connect the whole complex providing with shopping area, sports facilities, cinemas, restaurants. The project is articulated around a inside public garden street.

Competences

My participation in the project was during the Concept Design phase; research, master plan, massing design, development of ideas, documentation of the project and delivery to the client. My competences included meetings with the client and visits to site.

Project info Title: Hospital extension Architect: Space Matrix Location: Da Nang, Vietnam Year: 2017 Client: Hoan My Ltd. Status: Under construction

Summary

The project is located in Da Nang in a problematic area of the city due to flooding. The facilities of the existing hospital needed an extension to provide with enough space for the program required. The new volume increases notoriously the number of beds, common spaces and a new reception and launch area for the whole complex.

Competences

I joint the project in the Construction Document phase and my main focus was the facade of the new building; research, selection of the construction system, documentation and cost. Also I was involve working in the documentation of the stairs and elevators and the connections with the old building.

Project info Title: Sydney Wanda One Hotel Architect: Kerry Hill Architects Location: Sydney, Australia Year: 2016 Client: Wanda Group Status: International Competition (2nd place)

Title: Hospital extension Architect: Space Matrix Location: Da Nang, Vietnam Year: 2017 Client: Hoan My Ltd. Status: Under construction

Summary

The design proposal for the hotel delivers a highly activated ground plane which is defined by transparent frontages and strong, sculptural sandstone forms which anchor and connect the buildings to their geological and historical context. A sweeping curved podium draws pedestrians into the laneway network from Herald Square and Pitt Street. The upper volume of the building which contains the hotel rooms has been situated on the north to maximise views from the hotel rooms and to provide a generous distance to the southern neighbours minimising the impact of the development.

Hotel guest functions and publicly accessible areas of the hotel have been planned to maximise views to the north and also to activate Pitt St. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic are separated by level to provide seamless arrivals and departures to the hotel. Minor modifications are proposed to Building A to give greater coherency for the overall development.

Competences

My participation in the project was along the whole competition period. As part of the designing team I was involved in the whole process from the massing design till the final delivery of the project to the client. During the first phase of the project I worked in the concept design and once it got approved my main focus was developing the public spaces of the brief with special emphasis in the communication cores of the tower. My competences also covered the design of all the underground part of the program; managing circulations, access, parking, loading bays, plank and technical rooms. Also designing the ramp and dealing with the Sydney underground train which crosses the site.

Project info Title: Headquarters Architect: Smar Architects Location: Madrid, Spain Year: 2016 Client: Metro de Madrid Status: International competition (shortlisted)

Summary

-Identity: replicate the exit from the Metro station. -Biophilia: chance to open a park created from trees of the whole Region. Appropriation of ecosystems. Integrate the building in the park. In-between spaces: platforms, steps, stairs create a constant opportunity for social interactions.

Competences

As part of the designing team I was involved in the whole process from the massing design till the final delivery to the panel. I worked in the design concept and in the development of it till the end including all the documentation on the project.

Project info Title: Extention between Aaltoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s museums Architect: Smar Architects Location: Helsinki, Finland Year: 2015 Client: Alvar Aalto Museum Status: International competition (3rd place)

Summary

What if, instead of designing a new building, the proposal follows what is already there, (the guidelines of the site) to find a natural connection with Aaltoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architecture? The proposal creates a sequence of natural/artificial and outdoors/indoors multipurpose spaces that celebrate the work of the great Finnish architect.

Competences

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TERRAZA VERTICAL

Descripción

45m2

230m2

270m2

EXPOSICIÓN EXPERIENCIA 300m2

440m2

100m2

70m2

40m2

Tienda

Elaboración Embotellado Degustación

Degustación Cátering Celebraciones

Historia Exposiciones Eventos Conferencias

Talleres Degustación Experimentación Actividades sensoriales

Almacén Lobby

Despachos Reuniones

Experiencia vertical

7200€ ()

57000€ ()

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Demolición (acabados, tabiquería) Acabados Instalaciones

Demolición (acabados, tabiquería, forjado)

Demolición (acabados, tabiquería) Acabados Instalaciones

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Project info Title: Cultural/Civic Centre Architect: Smar Architects Location: Madrid, Spain Year: 2015 Client: Mahou Status: International competition (shortlisted)

Summary

The neighbourhood of La Latina is an intense social experience in a constant flow of in-between spaces coming in and out the urban public space. The proposal try to replicate those atmospheres into a volumetric “intense social experience” using typical architectural elements of this part of Madrid.

Competences

Project info Title: Rehabilitation of an old factory Architect: Alejandro Gil Herrero Location: Bologna, Italy Year: 2016 Client: YoungArchitectsCompetition Status: International competition

Summary

The proposal seeks to gather and mix every single level of the recycling process. From stuÂ dying and learning to researching, experimenting and testing and finally ending with the development of new your organisations and startups comÂmitted with the environment and sustainability. The main entrance is located in the central volumen. This space works as a big lounge area which conects the visitor with all the departments. A big stair rises until the rooftop linking the three floors and creating double and triple heights. This space will be home to events and exhibitions or just a beautiful space for meeting, resting and socializing. Another hotspot in the building is the Incubator where all the masonery walls have been removed and accomodate a coworking space destined for new young companies and firms.

Project info Title: Lighthouse resort Architect: Alejandro Gil Herrero Location: Siracusa, Italy Year: 2015 Client: Archideas Status: International competition

Summary

The Lighthouse resort keeps the old lighthouse tower as the genesis and hearth of the project. The hotel is displayed continuing the profile of the coast. The programme takes place in different lines which follows the topography and the movement of the waves. The public progamme and facilities, such as the reception building, offices, the restaurant and the Spa centre, are disposed in a first line taking advantaged, restoring and occuping the old buildings. The private programme, the suites, are disposed down to the way to the cliffs. The bedrooms are located in three moduls facing the sea. The Lighthouse Hotel is built up with materials which harmonize perfectly with the old lighthouse, the colours, the textures and the sea. The combination of concrete and corten steel cladding talks with the environment creating a sober and beautiful spot.

Project info Itle: Urban learning centre Architect: Alejandro Gil Herrero Location: Ahmedabad, India Year: 2013 Client: Final Dissertation (Academic project) ETSAM, UPM Score: 8,5/10

Summary

WhatÂ´s the meaning and relevance of public space in indian city?Like everything in India, public space is a crazy mixture of activities and purpose where peolpe, animals, vehicles and noice flow all around life. A density of 650p/ Ha in Walled city becomes really hard to find personal space for working, conecting peolpe, having fun and basically living. In spite of being a problem, indian way of life solves it creating a continous multipurpose in all spheres of life, both public space in family and social life in community. Relating with the programme of my final thesis; I noticed that a big amound of children need to move long distances to get school or highschool and in precariuos way because there are not too many educative centres inside the Wa-

lled city. So I got the opportunity of develop a Highschool there and try to minimize the problem of movement. I wanted that my project was another piece in the big puzzle that indian urban planning means. A multipurpose space where educational activities take place and mix with other suburbÂ´s activities. An open area to the community and a meeting point where space can be change deppending on necessity and purpose along the day. Combining own materials (clay bricks, bamboo and concrete) the project is inserted inside a plot and offers the suburb new facilities; music area, dancing and playing space, open air cinema, workshops and obviously classrooms and spaces for learning and studying.

OTHER SELECTED WORK 2012-2017 This is a selection of other type of projects, where architecture, urbanism and education have always been the main component but from different points of view and ways of thinking. All of them also show the importance of engaging with design and creativity from a community based projects. Also different ways to enrich my career as an architect and a person taking advantage of these opportunities that rarely get the chance of developing in a professional/industry environment.

GLOBAL DESIN STUDIO - GDS

CREATIVES CAN...?TRANSFORMACTION

PRINCIPAL

INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM

Community portfolio http://www.g-d-s.com.au Location: Global

In collaboration with: GDS & THE PLATFORM http://www.g-d-s.com.au Location: Perth, Australia

The Global . Design . Studio (G.D.S) is an active community-network of creatives collaborating on projects supporting the design, development and delivery of innovative approaches to education, research and practice. It is fundamentally a knowledge sharing and community engagement platform for participating creatives. The G.D.S team shares a strong belief in the importance of creating avenues to respond to complex challenges facing built environments worldwide. Attracting creatives from across diverse industries and academic disciplines together to co-create new knowledge, build shared resources and engage in sustainable collaborations, in order to collaborate in design, research, practice, education and community projects.

The 2017 inaugural â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creatives Can...?â&#x20AC;? dialogue series call for creative action which will focus on community engagement. This event brings together people and organisations to foreground important issues that offer creatives the opportunity to apply design-thinking to these issues. The symposium will comprise up to 50 Maters of Architecture postgraduate students from Curtin University with the opportunity to undertake their design research topics with real-world issues and applications discussed. Creatives are by their nature collaborative design thinkers who seek transformational problem solving through a esign process motivated by craft, making and action.

SarAWAKEN EXHIBITION

PHASE 1

SarAWAKEN ON THE ROAD

PHASE 2

INDUSTRY EXPERT

In collaboration with: GDS & CURTIN UNIVERSITY http://www.g-d-s.com.au Location: Miri, Malaysia

In collaboration with: GDS & CURTIN UNIVERSITY http://www.g-d-s.com.au Location: Sarawak, Malaysia

Led by Fellow of the Curtin Academy and GDS co-founder and director Associate Professor Khoa Do, a group comprising 80 students, academics and industry experts chose Sarawak as the destination for their international field trip component of their studies in architecture-the GDS Malaysia LiveABILITY Project. Commencing with a think-tank stage ‘Conversational Piece’ students undertook a scoping-study of Sarawak discovering value insights into learning and teaching at Curtin Malaysia, including campus activation and learning environments, design and creative thinking pedagogy, influence of community and cultures, and the impact of Sarawak’s tourism and economic development strategies.

A group of 30 (staff, students and industry experts) collaborated with high schools and primary schools, organisations/ foundations and industries in Miri, Bintulu, Sibu, Mukah and Kuching. The Campaign on the Road project seeks to AWAKEN the community in activities that actively and creatively demonstrate learning collaboratively by re-engaging with shared meaningful experiences. These activities included: design learning through a problem challenge, creative origami time capsule, positive aspirational messaging though painted murals, urban cinemas showing the importance of learning together, presented at knowledge share platform “PechaKucha”, activity space at the Children Cancer Centre ,Urban Sketches to capture the narratives and joining the local people...

SLUM PRE-SCHOOL, INDIA

CONSTRUCTION WITH REED & ADOBE

VOLUNTEER COLLABORATION

CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP

In collaboration with: Architects without Frontiers http://www.anganwadiproject.com/projects/ Location: Ahmedabad, India

In collaboration with: ARTIM http://www.todolocrialatierra.com/ Location: Burgos, Spain

Bholu 11 preschool was built in Ramapir No Tekro, one of the largest slums in Ahmedabad. Tekro is comprised of approximately 150,000 people belonging to the so-called Dalit or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;untouchableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; caste. The new school is sited near a major dumping area in the slum, with two existing trees on site. Bholu 11 is a happy, bright and thermally cool learning environment, with an ample walled garden space (a luxury in the slum). Bholu 11 has become a beautiful oasis within the barren slum, with young and old enjoying the greenery of the vegetable garden and the shade beneath the two trees. Wall and floor mosaics add an element of surprise and playfulness to the space, and express the love that was given to this small project by volunteers and community

Invited as an expert in tradicional construction: The workshop gave the opportunity to the participants of learning and experimenting about tradicional ways of construction. The project developed was based on the use of clay and reed as part of the heritage of certain regions in Spain. The goal of the workshop was the understanding of local materials and the technology employed along the history but also with the idea that traditional materials and traditional techniques can be a real option in the architecture and construction of the 21st Century.

CONSTRUCTION WITH TIMBER

CONSTRUCTION WITH CLAY

CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP

In collaboration with: CIAT & ETSAM-UPM http://ciat.aq.upm.es/ Location: Segovia, Spain

In collaboration with: CIAT & ETSAM-UPM http://ciat.aq.upm.es/ Location: Spain & Morocco

Education and a direct contact with traditional techniques and experts related to the use of timber as a traditional material all around the world but with special emphasis in its use in Spain. Traditional construction and materials integrated with modern design and current needs of the society. The project developted was a structure integrated in a public square wich provides shade and places for sitting. Traditional construction and materials but with a modern design.

Education and a direct contact with traditional techniques and experts related to the use of clay in the regions of Spain and Morocco. The program was developed in two phases; the first in Spain and the second one in Morocco with a theoretical and practical process. That gave me a deep understanding of the important of clay in construction not only in the past but also as a material to be kept in mind nowadays.

HAND MADE URBANISM

CONSTRUCTION WITH REED

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP

CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP

In collaboration with: Acetsam & Zulorak http://www.zuloark.com Location: Madrid, Spain

In collaboration with: Acetsam & Canyaviva http://www.canyaviva.com Location: Madrid, Spain

We started by identifying the lack of place available to sit in the central courtyard of our school. Therefore, we decided that the place for the workshop had to be there. We proposed then the construction of three different structures that would be connected to create a stand and a pergola that will protect from the sun and illuminate at night the central courtyard. Organized in three different teams, each one with the responsi-bility to design and construct its own wooden structure with no restrictions. It is considered as a process of negotiation between the teams who had limited material.

For this year World Habitat Day WHD we managed to bring to our school the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can-ya Vivaâ&#x20AC;? collective, to organize the workshop. It was an incredible opportunity to have them with us. The workshop consisted of building a pavilion with river cane. The objective was to understand the characteristics of cane and bamboo structures: thanks to its flexibility and lightness, they are even resistant to earthquakes; and thanks to the aerodynamic forms they can assme, resistant to high winds too.

ALEJANDRO GIL HERRERO ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO & CURRICULUM VITAE