alejandro nu単ez alfaro ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
CONTENT Residential
Office
Urban Design
- Chichen Itzá - Los Encinos - Bosco House - Lépez House - Cuernavaca House - Las Acacias - Reyes House - San Luis Potosí - Villa Olímpica
- Valeria Florescano’s Showroom - UACM Headquarters - BMW Motorcycles Culiacán - BMW + Mini Mérida - UACM del Valle Cafeteria
- Median strip Ferrocarril Industrial Avenue - Thesis. Xochimilco’s Master Plan and Los Manantiales Restaurant Proposal
Competitions
Academic
Others
- Archivo Pavilion - Barragรกn walkway - Guadalajara Downtown Hotel
- TECA. Experimental Workshop for Architectural Composition - Buenos Aires, Argentina University exchange program. .Heuristic .Hospital and School
- Photography - Sketch - Biography - Contact
Chichen Itzá Residential
Alejandro Nuñez + Alfredo Nader GOO Arquitectos
Chichen Itzå is a mixed use building located in Mexico City. The plot has a corner condition and one of its facade’s views is to a public square. The principal idea aims to emphasize the stairs as an important public element of the building; that is the reason why the circulation routes are located between two housing buildings. Its purpose is exposed to the exterior through a wood curtain; meanwhile from the interior we gain an encounter site, making tenants meetings in a more human way. The trade is located in the ground floor corner to get better views to the street and plaza.
Los Encinos Residential
Alejandro Nu単ez + Alfredo Nader GOO Arquitectos
The final form of the principal façade is a very solid horizontal wall on the ground floor, acting like a robust base for two lightweight elements placed at the first level. One of the most important characteristics of the house, which came from the analysis of the site’s environment, is that the north façade is as closed as possible to avoid the cold wind and the south one is mostly opened to get the most quantity of sunrays to make the house warmer inside. The access, at first instance, looks like a modest entrance, but once you cross the hallway, the house appear completely opened, full of light and directly related to the yard. Living room, dining room and kitchen are located on the ground floor in a single and large space; also in the same level, are placed the servant spaces like laundry room and toilet for guests. On the first level are placed the private spaces like the TV room, two secondary rooms and a master bed room. We propose a terrace on the roof top to get the most wonderful views of the Nevado de Toluca volcano (the fourth highest of Mexican’s peaks).
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VIGA PERIMETRAL DE MADERA DE 6'' X 12''
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SISTEMA DE CALEFACCIÓN HIDRÓNICA 10cm SOBRE FIRME
FALSO PLAFON DE TABLARROCA 12.7 mm SUSPENDIDO MEDIANTE CANAL LISTON Y CANALETA DE CARGA METALICAS. ACABADO CON PINTURA BLANCA MARCA COMEX PRO 1000 COLOR BLANCO S.M.A.
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BLOCK DE POLIESTIRENO (TAMAÑO INDICADO EN PLANTA)
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TRABE DE CONCRETO ARMADO VER PLANOS ESTRUCUTRAL
ACABADO RÚSTICO COLOR S.M.A
PISO DE INGENIERÍA MARCA ELEMENT MODELO ROBLE NATURAL ENVEJECIDO DE ESPESOR TOTAL 15 MM. CHAPA DE MADERA NOBLE DE 3 MM. LARGOS VARIOS: MÍNIMO 500 MM. MÁXIMO 1600 MM. ANCHO: 14 MM. ACABADO: BARNIZ UV CON ÓXIDO DE ALUMINIO SÚPER MATE.
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PASTO, TIERRA NATURA Y FILTACIÓN AL TERRENO, VER PLANO DE JARDINERÍA.
SISTEMA DE CALEFACCIÓN HIDRÓNICA 10cm SOBRE FIRME
FIRME DE 10 CM. ARMADO CON MALLA ELECTROSOLDADA 6X6-10/10
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Bosco House Residential Tadao Ando Architect & Associates TAAA
Alfonso Qui単ones / Joaquin Castillo / Alejandro Nu単ez / Alfredo Nader / Luis Mu単oz BAAQ Arquitectos
Publicated on : GA Houses 130 : Project 2013 Publisher Ada Ed. Global Architecture. Japan
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Bosco House is a project designed by Tadao Ando Architects & Associates for the contemporary artist Bosco Sodi. The house is located at the beach in front of the Pacific Ocean, 20 minutes from Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico. The project is composed by a long and straight path of 312 meter long accompanied by an exposed concrete wall of 3.60 meters high. The spaces of the house will
emerge from this path, in the middle is located the Large Villa or the principal house with a terrace and a pool with incredible ocean views; to the right side are located six small villas for guests artists and to the left side are located the gallery and the artist’s studio. Within the plot, that has more than 27 hectares, will be placed an sculptural pathway in between the existing nature.
The Mexican team for the development of the project was in charge of BAAQ Arquitectos; our participation was during the development of the construction documents that were constantly checked by Arch. Ando’s architectural office. In the construction documents we integrate architectural plans and details with the work of the structural, mechanical and electrical engineers.
LĂŠpez House Residential
Alejandro NuĂąez + Miguel Vargas
The principal idea for the refurbishing is to give its own personality to a house that feels like a white box everywhere. The idea is to have a long wall, with plants, color and texture that goes all around the house from the beginning at the entrance, going inside through the windows and finishing at the terrace. The proposal for the terrace is to have a roof and a protection door, for the laundry room, with the same constructive language, so that they are physically similar, but the first one is horizontally placed while the other is positioned vertically. terrace
view from inside to the terrace
Cuernavaca House Residential
Alejandro Nu単ez + Alfredo Nader GOO Arquitectos
The house proposal came from the idea of gathering spaces into one single volume; this will make the most of the exterior space. Bearing this in mind, the ground floor is completely open to the terrace, pool and garden; meanwhile the first floor is more closed and with high roofs to avoid heat concentration inside, considering that the average temperature of the site is about 30째C (86째F). To emphasize the lightness concept, the pitched roof is separated from the main beam of the house by wood pieces. master bedroom
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Las Acacias Residential
Alejandro Nu単ez + Alfredo Nader GOO Arquitectos
This project is about a weekend house located outside Mexico City. Considering the different usage of this house, we intent to make the most of the outdoors spaces, leaving indoors to minimum dimensions. So the relation between indoors and outdoors becomes the key of the project; to make more dynamic this relationship, we propose wood panels that can be opened or closed as desired. Despite having fixed spaces like bathroom and kitchen, all other spaces can be adaptable. The first level can be used like a bedroom or a tv room; and the ground floor
could be used like a living room, dining room, lounge or a meeting space. The yard also could be adapted for different activities; we propose several pole holes that can be used to define an entertainment activity like soccer, volleyball or a tent space in the middle of the yard. Furniture is an important piece of the house, because with them the space could be transformed, we designed wood square stools that can be used in different situations depending on the position they are laid, these could be used indoors as well as outdoors. entrance
Reyes House Residential
Alejandro Nu単ez + Miguel Vargas
The house is clearly divided by an horizontal axis that separate servant spaces at the north side of the house and served or living spaces at south. The idea was to seek for the best natural daylight for the living spaces, that is the reason why we decided to place the volume near the boundary of the plot; also with this emplacement we can get a bigger yard and a constant daylight during the day.
San Luis Potosí Residential
Iris Sosa Alejandro Nuñez
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The proposal’s objective, is to extend the space of a small flat located on the roof top of a building on the Roma neighborhood at Mexico City. We propose a lightweight steel structure covered with glass that does not jeopardize the slab’s resistance; the intention is to achieve the appearance of a glass box. It is accessible from the inside of the department as well as from the terrace; we include a wooden pergola to make shadows
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Villa Olímpica Residential
Iris Sosa Alejandro Nuñez
Refurbishing project of a flat at the Olympic Village in Mexico City. For the project, we try to represent the original idea with similar finishes, but in a more contemporary way. Most changes were at the bathrooms, the client decided to have one big bathroom with a tub and one smaller with a regular shower, instead of three bathrooms that the flat originally had. Other works were done, like replacing hydraulic and sanitary installations and also new electrical wires were replaced; wood closets and parquet wood floor were reinstalled.
Valeria Florescano’s Showroom Corporate Javier Sanchez Arquitectos + Iris Sosa JSA
Project team
Alejandro Nuñez
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The design of Valeria’s Florescano showroom, aims to magnify the presence of the XVII century building where it is located and also to express the beauty of imperfection that natural elements like wood and glass have. The final proposal is a shelves furniture that tries to emphasize the essence of construction, making a reference between the square wood posts of the furniture and the posts that support the wood falsework of a cast concrete slab or those that are simply used to prop the structure of a building for a short period of time. For the wood cladding, we used a traditional Japanese technique called “Yakisugi” to make a burnt wood finish, this technique consists on charring cedar wood planks until fire gives a black color to the wood and expounds its inner fibers; this process is often used on buildings of Japanese coastlines, because with this technique the wood lasts a longer period of time and it makes it more resistant to plagues, to UV sunrays, to the rain and also to the humidity. For this project we decided to use this technique because fire also makes a conceptual dialogue between architecture and glass blowing jewelry and wax objects of Valeria Florescano’s work.
UACM Headquarters Corporate UACM Dirección de Obras Iris Sosa
UACM Coordinador de Proyectos Daniel Filloy
Project team
Enrique Lastra / Matias Martinez / Alejandro Nuñez / Neyra García
Conde de Regla’s house XVII century
Pedro Romero de Terreros turned into the richest man in America because he labored the Vizcaína mine at Real del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico. In 1768 Carlos III gave him the Spanish nobility of “Conde de Regla”. Besides having other important charges in different states of Mexico, he founded the “Nacional Monte de Piedad” in 1774 at Mexico City. In 1764 he bought a property next to the Church “Oratorio de San Felipe Neri”, located at the number 19 of “San Felipe Neri” street, the 59 of “República del Salvador” nowadays street at downtown Mexico City. In this site, Romero de Terreros built his palace that was considered as the most luxurious palace in the Kingdom of New Spain in the XVIII century. The building possessed a lot of silver objects incorporated into architecture.
historic research
historic research
The palace was built in two stories, comparing to other palaces of the period, this one hasn’t premises facing the street. Its facade with a baroque style is composed with carved stone elements and red volcanic rocks cut in squares; the handrails of wrought iron have heart shapes as decoration. In the ground floor were located spaces like services, stables, garages and big warehouses in where they kept a lot of silver bars that came from the mines. In the first floor were located the bedrooms for the family and guests. In 1928, the palace was sold to Spanish businessmen whom found the building almost in ruins, that’s why they asked for a demolish license to build a better housing building; they replace a lot of original walls with steel columns and they also add a lot of new brick walls to conform a neighbourhood. In the restoration they only leave the front side to the street and the facade as it was in the original project. It is believed that the third level was also added by them taking into account the original first floor. Nowadays the building is abandoned again because structural failures; but the distribution tells us that the front was used for stores and the whole building was for social living. The dwellings were placed in the perimeter of the plot leaving a large and rectangular patio at the center.
masonry walls brick wall (28 cm) brick wall (14cm) ceramic brick wall (14cm) concrete and steel columns
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In red color we appreciate the structural walls of stone or brick; steel columns in the ground floor are represented in purple color, these ones were added in a later construction period to compensate the missing original structural walls. In orange color we can see the 28 cm thick brick walls of an ensuing construction period. The blue and green wall colors are from the last period of construction. Making an analysis based on the construction periods, we can deduce that red color walls were the first one to be constructed. On the other hand, the test cuts made on the ceiling, helped us to understand the Roebling construction system, that is formed by consecutive beams of steel or wood with an expanded metal mesh between them, covered with a poor cement floor that will receive a wood stave floor or covered with gypsum on the ceiling. The test cuts made on the floor were useful to let us know how the foundation conditions were and how reinforced they were; the conclusion was that the reinforcement was insufficient and poorly resistant, but we made several interesting facts about different floor levels of other periods of the building.
The project consists on the rehabilitation of this XVIII century building to be the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM) headquarters. A part of this building will have the administration offices for directors and for the rectory, but other part will be used for administrative processes of the students. The proposal tries to get back the original spaces of Conde de Regla’s house; the strategies for achieving this are: 1. Recover the two square courtyards that the building had in the origins; 2. Restore the original floor level which is 1.80 meters below the level of the current sidewalk and with this new height, a mezzanine can be placed in certain parts of the building; 3. Use new structural systems with steel and concrete to represent in a contemporary way the Spanish constructions; 4. Respect important elements like the carved stone facade and the wrought iron handrails; and 5. Replace some damaged elements like wood beams of the ceiling. By applying these strategies, the old and abandoned building will be transformed into a new one that can be used for nowadays needs, furthermore also will tell the story of the ancient palace.
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BMW Motorcycles Culiacán Corporate Alfonso de la Concha + Pablo Pérez DCPP Arquitectos
Project team
Alejandro Nuñez
Proposal for the BMW Motorcycle Showroom and Workshop at Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. With the launch of the new cycles of the brand, the architecture image is based on the “shopping experience”; trying to make it different and motivating for the consumer when buying a BMW brand product.
BMW + MINI Mérida Corporate Alfonso de la Concha + Pablo Pérez DCPP Arquitectos
Project team
Alejandro Nuñez
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Poposal for the new image of BMW and MINI Cooper Showroom at Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. Besides the current workshop and the used cars sale, the client is looking for a space where he can sell and exhibit new cars. The conceptual idea of the brand, is the feeling of the car’s speed while driving it on a highway, so the customers can get inside the car and feel that sense, also the intent is to know the advanced technology that Germany products have.
UACM del Valle Cafeteria Corporate UACM Direcci贸n de Obras Iris Sosa
Project team
Iris Sosa / Alejandro Nu帽ez
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This project was a fast proposal for the” Universidad Auatónoma de la Ciudad de México” (UACM) with the objective of adjust a public cafeteria for students and teachers of the campus located on Del Valle neighborhood at Mexico City. In addition to the new kitchen arrangement, the cafeteria will have two new dinning areas, one indoors and the biggest outdoors. Because it is located on a first level, we are proposing a lightweight steel structure that will support a wood drop ceiling with a geometric pattern, this will make an attractive play of lights and shadows and also will filter the sunlight to inside.
1. Park Fortino Serrano / 2. Sports club Moctezuma / A. Secundary school Flores Mag贸n / B. Elementary school Anahuazuchitil / C. Secundary school Juan Guillermo Villasana / D. Pediatric Hospital Moctezuma
Median strip Ferrocarril Industrial Avenue Urban Design Alejandro Nu帽ez + Alfredo Nader GOO Arquitectos
The objective of the median strip proposal at Ferrocarril Industrial Avenue, in Mexico City, is to revitalise the north part of Moctezuma’s 2nd section neighborhood. This restoration will contribute to the city with a safer street for walking and enjoying; besides promoting outdoors activities, raises the target to expand green area within the neighborhood.
The proposal tries to bring back the historical past of the Ferrocarril Industrial Avenue with the current needs. This could be achieved by giving spaces for all people; we propose modifying the sidewalk width for having more space for pedestrians and for established parking spaces. The sidewalk modification allows increasing the width of the median strip up to 9.00 meters, with this new dimension it can be placed green area, pedestrian paths, a playground, a line for jogging or biking, a space for commerce and some meeting spaces.
Thesis. Xochimilco’s Master Plan Los Manantiales Restaurant Proposal Architecture + Urban Design Alejandro Nuñez / Marisol González
Bachelor Architectural Thesis + Merit Diploma
Finalist on “Graduate Architecture” 2010 Edition as Urban/Ecologic cathegory
This project is realized as an Architecture Thesis for an undergraduate program and it was born with a firm conviction: “It’s precise or even urgent, re-appropriate our city. Go back to the streets and deal with public space from a new integrative and collaborative point of view, where the transformation and the diversity are the motto to improve. Observe, Enclose and Connect.” To make a balance between metropolis with its own lakes, channels and natural environment, involves a great effort in: take care of the environmental issues, make an harmonic infrastructure, exploit new water recovery systems and design a new urban planning; in brief, it’s important taking care on the current urban problems to recover the vitality of public life that comes with a better way of living and a better place for travelers. The thesis’s theme, came from the research of the Restaurant “Los Manantiales”, built by an Spanish-Mexican engineer on the last years of the 50’s decade at “Santa Maria Nativitas” neighborhood, near Xochimilco’s downtown in Mexico City. The proposal is based on restructuring Xochimilco’s urban network by creating public spaces, new infrastructure and green area. The place that we are considering for this, embraces the “chinampa” fields, the jetties, the neighborhoods, Xochimilco’s historical downtown area and the channels that make a border between the natural and ecologic system with the urban landscape. With these ideas, we seek for a new model of urbanism, capable of stopping the urban growth and suited for inverting the deterioration of the natural environment. We want safer streets; a city with social equity, economically stable and with ecological progress; a result of a citizen’s participation as well as with government support. We want a city with an easy mobility that promotes different ways of transportation and a place that fosters the exchange and the meeting places.
A system made of inverted umbrellas will keep water into cisterns. When the water raises certain level, it will pour into a new tank, into a watermirror that is useful to get rid of sands and sediments that will end on the bottom. From this last watermirror, water will be conducted directly to the main channel by a narrow conduit.
The market has been always the focal point of the city, an encounter point useful for commerce. This public place defines a dynamic pedestrian space with popular scope; this characteristic gives it a great urban and architectonic value. By placing exhibition/sell modules for commerce, we propose an arrangement of plazas and courtyards, creating different environments with different scale, making a relationship between Jetties and Urban Landscape.
The proposal for the recovery of the shell of the Restaurant “Los Manantiales�, is considered as a simultaneous project to the rescue of the near context where it is placed. The project aims to reclaim the outdoors space by transforming the current parking lot in an outdoors dining area. A new volume of services with kitchen, office and toilets is inserted into the iconic concrete shell without touching it or modifying it. It’s designed like a reversible structure that does not challenge the form of the shell; instead it works like a background curtain for the plaza.
The large volume of services of the restaurant is made up of private and public spaces in turn. In the middle is located the kitchen, this one is the larger space and also here are located the pantry, the storage, the freezers and the employee zone near to the service entry. The owner’s office is located near the outdoors dining area, next to the service entry and the avenue. In front of the channel is placed the terrace and the bar, this is the most private area of the restaurant.
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Archivo Pavilion Competition
Alejandro Nu単ez + Miguel Vargas + Ignacio Rodriguez
[‌beauty appears with time lapse, as the mystery of garden will be taking over space.] Luis Barragån.
The Pavilion living inside the garden
We understand the site as a transition of several spaces. The seek of a path or journey in which environment is gradually discovered. It’s then that the whole yard becomes the pavilion. Time as an important factor; we consider the pavilion as ephemeral in material sense, but it won’t be temporary for the memory of the community neither for the people who will use it.
The reason for making a single deck is because the pavilion is not an asylee object, but a space around the site, making it a part of the courtyard. The walk in the yard is more a tour through the garden, which in turn it is the result of the total pathway starting from Archivo’s entrance, going through the gallery and the terrace to end in the pavilion. The pavilion consists in a single steel slab of 82.5 sqm that can be used for exhibitions, conferences and cafe’s sporadic talks. Structurally is supported by thin columns also made of steel. For the roof and the floor, we propose Hunter Douglas’ panels and the furniture are made of MASISA’s MDF boards of different thickness.
Barragán Walkway Competition
Alejandro Nuñez + Miguel Vargas
Honorable Mention and Publication on the Architecture Magazine “ArquiTK”. June 2012. México
This proposal is focused on solving an urban problem for the zone and for the entire neighborhood; which deals with pedestrian paths and multiple connections between places. The project is located on the Constituyentes’s subway entrances at Mexico City; the proposal tries to make a real, safe and good connection between eastern and western subway entrances that are divided by “Parque Lira” Avenue. We propose a green bridge that will make this connection possible, and in addition it will be the place for a digital library where people can take online courses or make research on websites; this bridge also will have a public bike lending system that will promote the use of alternative transportation between close places like Chapultepec Park and its museums, Lira Park, the House and Studio of Architect Luis Barragán, Reforma Avenue and sites nearby. An important thing, that makes our proposal stronger, is that it will make a link with the green pedestrian connection project between 2nd section of Chapultepec Park and the eastern Constituyentes’s subway entry, which aims to have a direct connection avoiding all highways like Constituyentes and Periferico.
Guadalajara Hotel Centro Downtown Guadalajara Hotel Competition
Alejandro Nu単ez + Miguel Vargas
TECA Experimental Workshop for Architectural Composition UNAM _ CU Universidad Nacional Aut贸nama de M茅xico_ Ciudad Universitaria
Academic
The Poetics of Space
In the course of life there are modest facts which can be a gift. I had just arrived at the hotel. Always in the center of the clear mist as the blind eyes see, I explored the indefinite room that has intended for me. Feeling the walls, which were slightly rough, and sensing the furniture, I discovered a great round column. It was so broad that my arms outstretched hardly could cover it and it cost me to join both hands. I knew right away that it was white. Solid and firm rose toward the ceiling. For a few seconds I met that curious happiness that bring those things that are almost an archetype. At that time, I know, I had recovered the elemental joy that I felt when I were revealed the pure forms of Euclidean geometry: cube, sphere, cylinder, pyramid. J.L. Borges (ESJA HOTEL, REYKJAVĂ?K)
The objective of this exercise is to go back to the origins of Architecture, to those elements that form Architecture, to the sensations that make us distinguish one space from another, to the relationship between human and its living space. It is an abstract architectural exercise, where ideas form and to mark out Architecture through actions and sensory reactions. Having this in mind and with a drawing board as a container, I placed different kinds of rocks, attempting to have particular sensations; with this I make a reference on how exposed materials can form different spaces only because the characteristics they have (strength, dimension, durability, color, texture, etc.).
Exercise led by Humberto Ricalde
Light Pavilion The objective of this exercise is to understand the importance of the relationship between light and, its counterpart, the darkness in Architecture. 多How we can build a space with light? 多How light make us feel different emotions? The proposal is a pavilion that shows the conditions of light in an architectural space; for this purpose we built two volumes, one white full of light and the other one black, trying to achieve the greatest possible darkness. An important thing is to feel the light differences while walking through the pavilion and see how darkness can emphasize small light slots.
Exercise led by Mauricio Rocha
City and Context Drawing is a tool that architects have for understanding the context where they are working on, through sketch, the eye is exercised on proportions, schemes, volumes, etc.; these first site impressions are important for the future develop of the project. One of the exercises of the workshop that has the intention to grow the knowledge of the site by studying it through sketching is the one we worked at the University surroundings. Later we apply this knowledge on an architectural project located at “San Angel” borough in the south part of Mexico City. The proposal in “San Angel” consisted on the analysis of a current building and its near context, located at the corner of “Revolución” street and “Eje 10” Avenue; we found that the building should be keep the mix use of housing and small retailers on ground floor, but we propose a different housing distribution on the upper levels that will change the form of the building and will make it part of the context; now the building is composed by three volumes, two of them for housing and the middle one for lobby and vertical circulations.
Exercise led by Issac Broid
Exercise led by Nu単o MacGregor and de Buen Architects
Exchange Program UBA_FADU Buenos Aires, Argentina University Architecture, Design and Urbanism Faculty
Academic
Heuristic This work shows the philosophical and theoretical role of the designer beyond thinking in the multidisciplinary. A designer is not only a profession or a subject you can study at the University; it is the one that is capable of being apprehensive, consistent with the time and place in which he lives, which in turn is able to interpret and concentrates its efforts in intuit, imagine, solve, improve, beautify, among others.
The work, developed as the final work on the Heuristic subject at UBA, is fundamentally a cardboard with holes, where markers that are pasted with tape go in and out through it. This interprets how a designer, in its creative process, looks for nonlinear ways or methods to find the best solution to the problem. Pencils and markers are not only used for drawing or sketching, but used like a weapon that links the mind, reason and emotions for exposing them and generate new proposals; some markers are hidden waiting to be discovered, as well as ideas.
González Workshop / Hospital and Shchool There are several universities dedicated to medicine at Buenos Aries, the Argentinian capital, and one of them is the University of Salvador; they are planning to expand the school on the campus located near Buenos Aires’s downtown. The idea for the new school is to learn by doing, so it is proposed to make a hospital clinic for the community, where high level university students can practice the things learned at school.
The movement of pedestrians is an important articulator for all important points, near and outside the site. It is through this movement that spaces come alive, retaining not only the peace of the Rodríguez Peña Park, at the back side of the plot, but also the dynamics of the main street at the front of the site.
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alejandro nu単ez alfaro 09.07.1985 alex.nunez.alfaro@gmail.com www.cargocollective.com/alexnunezalfaro
CURRICULUM
Professional experience
10. 2012 | 02.2014 GOO Arquitectos Founding partner at GOO Arquitectos BAAQ Arquitectos Business association with BAAQ Arquitectos for several projects, in special for Bosco House designed by Tadao Ando Arch. Rodrigo Garagarza Arch. Business association with Rodrigo Garagarza Arch. for several projects, in special for the refurbishment of Tolsรก Museum 07. 2012 | 10.2012 Iris Sosa Arch. + Javier Sanchez Arch. (JSA) Architect / Designer 01. 2012 | 06.2012 UACM Architect / Designer for the project of UACM Headquarters at downtown Mexico City 06. 2011 | 12.2011 DCPP Arquitectos Architect / Designer / Draftsman 07. 2010 | 05.2011 Iris Sosa Arch. Draftsman / Building manager 01. 2010 | 06.2010 IDEO Arquitectos Draftsman 10. 2007 | 06.2008 Alfonso Nรกpolez Salazar Arch. Draftsman
CURRICULUM
Academic
06. 2005 | 12.2010 UNAM | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Architecture Faculty Max Cetto Workshop Mexico City, Mexico Bachelor Architectural Thesis + Merit Diploma En torno a los Manantiales, La reconciliación con el territorio lacustre en Xochimilco ( Xochimilco’s Master Plan and Los Manantiales Restaurant Proposal ) 06. 2008 | 12.2008 UBA FADU | Universidad de Buenos Aires Scholar exchange program Architecture, Design and Urbanism Faculty González Workshop Buenos Aires, Argentina 06. 2003 | 06.2005 TEC CCM | Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Architecture Mexico City Campus Mexico City, Mexico
Others 2013 Federico Mariscal Lecture / UNAM Process: Architectural Workshop Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo 2010 Workshop Candela at Xochimilco / UNAM + AUSTIN, Tx UNAM, Max Cetto Workshop + School of Architecture in Austin Texas 2009 TECA| Experimental Workshop for Architectural Composition Workshop led by Carlos Mijares Bracho Arch., Humberto Ricalde Arch., Nicolรกs Vazquez Arch. and invited Architects. 2011 The Drive of Photography: Image, Storytelling and Myth Led by Oswaldo Ruiz at Gimnasio de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico 2007 Photography Course / Workshop American School of Photography Ansel Adams, Mexico City, Mexico 2011 Urban Sketchers Urban Sketchers International member and Urban Sketchers Mexico organizing member Competitions 2013 Pabellรณn Archivo 2012 Mueble de Educaciรณn Preescolar 2011 Graduate Architecture *Finalist Barragรกn Intervenciรณn Urbana *Honorable Mention CoArq. Hotel Centro en Guadalajara 2010 Arquine. Arca Laboratorio de las Inundaciones Victorinox. Time to care 2009 Lappset. Change the way we think about playgrounds Skills
Software Autocad, 3d Max, Vray, Rhinoceros, Lumion, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Lightroom, Office Languaje Spanish (native) / English (advanced)
www.cargocollective.com/alexnunezalfaro alex.nunez.alfaro@gmail.com
alejandro nu単ez alfaro