Monterrey, N.L. Mex
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Alexandro Medina
EDUCATION
HIGHSCOOL Instituto Laurens A.C. Monterrey, Mexico .
Aug 2004 - May 2010
CATEDRA VITRO III PUBLICATION 2008
Aug 2001 - May 2004
ITESM ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM 2008 Selected as relevant project for publication .
UNDERGRADUATE COMPETITIONS AND COURSES
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CATEDRA VITRO Headed by Architect Alberto Vidal
Aug - Dic2008
ROUSSEAU ARQUITECTOS ,Monterrey, N.L Mex .-Tec Residence -Faissan Residence
Jan 2008- Aug2008
LUIS BARRAGAN REGIONAL COMPETITION 2008 PLAZA 2nd place
Oct 2008 M arquitectos. San Pedro, N.L. Mexi -RLK Apartments
Aug-2008- May2009
CATEDRA BLANCA CEMEX Headed by Architect Agustin Landa
Jan - May2009
Jul2009 - Jan2010
LUIS BARRAGAN REGIONAL COMPETITION 2010 ART SCHOOL Finalist
March 2010
TEN Arquitectos. NY ,NY. USA. -Rutgers Masterplan N.J. USA -Rutgers Bussiness Shcool N.J. USA -BAM Mixed Use Building , NY. USA -Center For Community Organizations Orange County. USA
CATEDRA ORANGE Headed by Orange Investments
Jan - May2010
SKILLS
ENEA COMPETITION (NATIONAL COMPETITION OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS) 1st place Team project . ENEA COMPETITION (NATIONAL COMPETITION OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS) Relevant Project
April 2010
3D MAX,, VRAY, RHINO, REVIT, SKETCHUP, AUTOCAD, PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN LANGUAGES ENGLISH, SPANISH
April 2010
SOCIAL SERVICE
Jan - Dic2007
DIF CAPULLOS ACADEMIC CLASSES
Summer 2009
CENTENARIO MUSEUM ARTISTIC CLASES
Summer 2007
MISSIONARY WORK PUEBLO NUEVO COMMUNITY
CONTACT. alexandro.medina @gmail.com
Resume
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE (5 YEAR PROGRAM) iInstituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, ITESM
PUBLICATIONS
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PROJECT INDEX 1-7
Student Villa
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School of Arts
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Centrito Apartments
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Tiananmen Competition
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Multi-Programatic Square
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Professional Experience
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Index
House in the valley
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HOUSE IN THE VALLEY The project is an urban family chalet, whose program is contained in different volumes that attach to an axis which works in horizontal and vertical circulations. This house was created with an idea of trying to combine both the essence of the living and the lost monumentality in contemporary architecture. The project incorporates a bold simplicity, which is expressed by the material of the concrete and the deconstruction and extension of a monolithic rock in different planes and volumes.
House in the Valley
The design process behind it started with the idea of the integration of nature with the architecture by the openness of the design, allowing different volumes attached to a single axis. .
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The house is located is in a valley in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. This Mexican metropolis is surrounded by beautiful mountains and magnificent views that allow the use of experimentation with different volumes. The process starts with the division of the mass that develops in an irregular terrain. It is then organized by an axis from north to south, where the whole structure is attached and crosses the entire house. Process diagram
The house’s organization and the attachment of the volumes start s from the social spaces and moves to include the kitchen, bedrooms, and private areas that all have 360 degree views. .
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West Elevation
Roof Plan
Longitudinal Section
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Stairs Social Services Private H. Circulations
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STUDENT VILLA This is a student housing complex at San Luis State University. This project required a great amount of area for dormitory rooms for students, spaces for researchers and teachers, social areas and lounges, sport fields, and a parking lot area. The whole complex is unified with the vision of the institution and the integration of growing schemes that tie together this housing complex with its university.
Student Villa
The design concept behind this project is simple, with unit tower structures that connect through bridges. Every connection contains a social space for TV rooms, lounges, and study cubicles. People can experience travel through the circuit from tower to tower with connection points as social gathering areas. .
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The intervention place is located 40 minutes away from the urban area, though there are easy access routes and great connections to downtown. This place is a good point of activation, while it works as a landmark and example of densification, in a horizontal place with great potential. The location of the university housing complex is on the northern side of campus, and it works as a visual landmark to that northern end of the university.
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1. The city of San Luis is actively expanding, making the location a prime place for activation through densifica-
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2. The tower unit functions as a cylinder system, which allows the South winds to flow through the complex, providing circulation.through densification. 3. The Student Villa works as a landmark in a horizontal region. 4. The ramification system creates interesting circuits with social connections
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SCHOOL OF ARTS The School of Arts is the university Tecnologico de Monterrey’s execution of the idea to combine three fields of study—architecture, digital animation, and industrial design—into one building. This building responds to different needs of each field of study while reflecting flow of ideas and creativity. The structure is an example of the success in combining ideology and beliefs of an institution with great tradition along with a search of contemporary vision. The conceptual approach integrates different concepts like technology, material, structural honesty, space richness, legibility, flexibility, and sustainability. The School of Arts works as an example of all the dynamics inside this learning machine. The design concept is all about space with the help of the two interior structures that allows flexibility and an exterior that shows the permanence and tradition of the building.
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Then interior space has a full richness and openness that pushes the creativity to the limit. This space opens up central space by integrating light, wind, vegetation, and visual connections with the help that combine to make the ideal environment for creative students.
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Flexible Multi-programmatic interior
The first steps in this project were to locate and analyze the non-existing building in the complicated context of an urban campus with a pre-existing development plan. The location inside the campus was determined after analyzing an unused plaza, and the need to make an urban intervention an architectural endeavor. The theory is to activate the plaza’s energy by the contention with buildings that embrace the open space and respect the circulations and dynamics between buildings.
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Dinamic of Buildings And plaza.
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1-5 TALLERES 6-8 AULAS DIGITALES 9.BIBLIOTECA 10. NUCLEO SERVICIOS. 11.AREA DE OFICINAS
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1-5 TALLERES 6-8 SALONES DIGITALES 9.SALA DE EXPOSICIONES 10. NUCLEO SERVICIOS. 11.AREA DE OFICINAS
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APARTMENTS CENTRITO The project is a mid-density apartment building, which rehabilitates an area of former mansions and converts them to apartments, in order to aid in solving the problem of the urban expansion. There are problems due to the expansion of the city and the non-sustainable urbanite solutions, because there is a lack of density in housing.
Apartments Centrito
The concept is about developing the interior space that generates and organizes the building. It also improves the quality of living of residents by introducing a green area, which offers ventilation and light to all the users of this building. The Centrito is surrounded by a rigid concrete structure of modules and makes the building flexible. .
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The context here is a residential urban area with great city connections and accessibility. The challenge was to integrate an urbanized surrounding where the use and density should change with a building that should be a model of densification with a mix between residential and retail.
The interior patio and the configuration of the building support the context, while the public park and the green area inside relate back to the desired sustainable elements. Also, the exterior creates a dynamic interest among the people and its circulations
Apartment A Apartment B
Apartments Centrito
The building is composed of apartment modules with horizontal circulations in their centers, allowing every apartment to have great views.
The design process starts with the rectangular terrain and the subtraction of the interior mass to create the interior area. The building rises to permit the flow of people with the building. The importance of the corner and the street make the building evolve and grow vertically towards the street and the same time announces the entrance to the building.
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00 Level
Apartments Centrito
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2 level
1 Level
5 Level Penthouse
6 Level Penthouse 3 level Apartments Centrito
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4 Level Penthouse
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TIANANMEN SQUARE COMPETITION Tiananmen Square, located in Beijing, is in a very controversial and important place historically and socially for China. Having been a place of multiple conflicts and restrictions, Tiananmen Square upholds the idea to create a city inside a city: a multicultural and multi-programmatic city. This square represents the duality between the Forbidden City and this multiprogrammatic city by displaying comparing ideas between the forbidden, elitist, urban elements of the city and the new multi-programmatic city. Proposed contents for the square are flower markets, cultural scenarios, green areas, and agricultural outlets all within the same space.
Apartments Centrito
The goal is to create a place that brings liberty to a massive city.
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Tiananmen Square is 400,000 meters in area, which has the capacity to bring a space of liberty inside the city of Beijing. This proposal respects space by carving the city and having a free visual component by bringing an open space below the plaza level.
AZADI_IRAN
MACROPLAZA_MEXICO
CITY THERAN POPULATION8,429,807 AREA 50,000
CITY MONTERREY POPULATION 5,346.800 AREA 400,000
TIMES SQUARE_USA
PLAZA DE LAS TRIES CULTURAS_MEXICO
ALEXANDERPLATZ_ALEMANIA
CITY NY POPULATION 18,223,56 AREA
CITY MEXICO POPULATION 20,000,000 AREA 9000M2
CITY BERLIN POPULATION 3,700,000 AREA 80,000M2
PLAZA ROJA_RUSIA CITY MOSCU POPULATION10.535.100 AREA7 0 000M2
Tiananmen Square
The square makes a connection to the Forbidden City with long transitional stairs. It conserves the relations to the square’s surroundings; this proposal is for the people and for their liberty.
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MULTIPROGRAMATIC PLAZA This space is located in an ideal location. Due to the lack of activation, the proposal has less intervention resulting in a great activation with a multi-programmatic concept.
Max activation with the less intervention.
Plaza Competition
Multi-Programatic Plaza
This multi-programmatic concept uses a module that works with different arrangements and locations to bring a different use to the space. The idea is a non-permanent function, which brings back original use of the plaza—a place of social liberty where dynamic, interactive circulations occur
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The area is introduced with an eco-friendly zone, free of restriction. It continues with a 6x6 meter grid that can be arranged so that the concrete pavement creates connection and dynamic circulation between users and buildings.
Multi-Programatic Plaza
The grid helps to arrange the 3x3 meter modules and arrange them for different uses. The program of the plaza works with different arrangements and a continual change that brings people together. The space could house a plethora of functions, such as a cultural gathering place, an itinerary library, a fashion show site, or a market. .
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RUTGERS University Masterplan RUTGERS University Business School BAM Mixed Use Building NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TEN ARQUITECTOS
TEN Arquitectos RUTGERS MASTER PLAN NYJ, USA
RUTGERS LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
BUS CIRCULATION
TEN ARQUITECTOS JUNE 02 2009
RUTGERS LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
VEHICULAR CIRCULATION
JUNE 02 2009 TEN ARQUITECTOS
RUTGERS LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
ENTRANCES
JUNE 02 2009 TEN ARQUITECTOS
RUTGERS LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
JUNE 02 2009
TEN ARQUITECTOS RUTGERS MASTER PLAN NJ, USA
TEN ARQUITECTOS
TEN ARQUITECTOS RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL
TEN ARQUITECTOS RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL
TEN ARQUITECTOS BAM. BKLYN,NY
Monterrey, N.L. Mex alexandro.medina@gmail.com
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Alexandro Medina