ÁNGEL RAMOS MOMBIEDRO ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Ă NGEL RAMOS MOMBIEDRO ARCHITECT
I recently received my MArch in Architecture from Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM-Madrid, Spain). I participated in international exchange programs in schools of architecture in Germany and Brazil and I worked abroad. I speak English, Spanish, Portuguese and German fluently. Through my international and varied experience I’ve developed my skills in architecture, exhibition design, product and graphic design, temporary installations and editorial research. Interested in dealing with architecture, arts and communication as a strategic approach towards space, I get inspired by distinctive aspects of every known culture with an emphasis on the own identity preservation. Well organized, working well in group and having great people skills. Here is a brief resume of academic and professional works carried out in the last years, a compilation of my own way of working and designing. Thank you for reviewing these materials and I look forward to hearing from you.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK _Isabela Capeto Boutique_Shop in Rio de Janeiro (BR). 2012. Architectural intern and interior designer. _Home Mumby_House in Luanda (ANG). 2015 Freelance architect for Projekt Angola
_Luceros Apartment_Apartment refurbishment in Alicante (ES). 2015 Architect, interior designer and project manager _Ă guila Apartment_Apartment refurbishment in Madrid (ES). 2016 Architect, interior designer and project manager _El Peso de un Gesto_ Art Exhibition at CaixaForum Museums in Madrid & Barcelona (ES). 2016. Architect and exhibition designer.
ACADEMIC WORK _Landscape Research Center. Masterplan for a coal mine washing site_Final Project Thesis. Madrid School of Architecture. 2014. _The Creative City_ Madrid School of Architecture. 2009 _Light Bath_ Velux Awards 2010. _Petrikirche Church_HCU Hamburg. 2011.
PROFESSIONAL WORK Selected professional works Date: 2012 - 2016
Here I show five samples of professional work I developed last years. Two first projects are a boutique for a brazilian renowned fashion designer in Rio de Janeiro for CAT Arquitetura and one of the four houses I developed in Luanda for Projekt Angola. Since May 2015 I was asked to renovate three apartments working as architect, interior designer and project manager. Two of those apartment refurbishment are shown here. During last years I developed some projects as co-founder member of Oficina Mutante, a group of colleagues from Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) dealing with architecture, temporary installations and product design. None of those projects are shown in this architecture portfolio but you can click here to know more about Oficina Mutante. Finally, thanks to my interest in fine arts, CaixaForum Foundation commissioned me to design one of the exhibition that will be shown in Madrid and Barcelona in 2016. The exhibition gathers pieces signed by renowned artists of 20th and 21st centuries from MACBA, CaixaForum and CAM Gulbenkian collections.
Isabela Capeto Boutique_Shop in Rio de Janeiro (BR). 2012. Architectural intern and interior designer.
Home Mumby_House in Luanda (ANG). 2015 Freelance architect for Projekt Angola
Luceros Apartment_Apartment refurbishment in Alicante (ES). 2015 Architect, interior designer and project manager
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Project
Ă guila Apartment_Apartment refurbishment in Madrid (ES). 2016 Architect, interior designer and project manager Previously
Project
Exhibition El Peso de un Gesto_ Art Exhibition
at CaixaForum Museums in Madrid & Barcelona (ES). 2016.
Architect and exhibition designer.
El Peso de un Gesto gathers pieces signed by renowned artists of 20th and 21st centuries from MACBA, Caixa Forum and CAM Gulbenkian collections. Curated by Juli達o Sarmento
CaixaForum Museum Barcelona Opening: February 11, 2016
CaixaForum Museum Madrid Opening: June 15, 2016
Sample of gathered artists:
Rachel Whiteread
Juan Mu単oz
Plan of CaixaForum Museum Barcelona
Carl Andre
Donald Judd
Edgar Degas
ACADEMIC WORK Selected professional works Date: 2013 - 2015
H
ere is a brief resume of academic work carried out in the last years, a compilation of my own way of working and designing. I worked on the Final Thesis Project for two semester in order to re-think of abandoned coal mine sites, bringing them a new use for the local population. Then, I show three academic projects I feel proud of. Three utopias are the result of a deep creative process that formalized with refined drawings, pictures and models.
LANDSCAPE RESEARCH CENTER. MASTERPLAN FOR A COAL MINE WASHING SITE. University: Madrid School of Architecture Professor / Course: María José Aranguren / Final Project Thesis Date / Year: Spring semester 2014 / 6th year
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ome regions of the north of Spain suffered the impact of coal mining on the environment, local communities and the miners themselves in last two centuries. The last environmental legislation in the European Union is cutting back on grants for coal mining from 2014 on. Those mining regions and its population have now the opportunity to change their future, making the most of their fauna and flora. In particular, the study area is located on a green valley considered a reserve thanks to its forests where the protected brown bear lives. Therefore, it is time to take advantage of its thriving environmental value considering obsolete mining industry as a sign of its past identity. The project is based on the transformation of a coal mine washing site into a Landscape Research center. The center promotes all initiatives to conserve and regenerate damaged environment and, at the same time, build up a place where dwellers can learn new professions related to environmental preservation. Transformation consists in preserving the function of the washing site as a working machine taking advantage of its huge strong industrial structure. The construction of the main building supports a hanging cloud of light platforms setting free the ground level. Damaged surrounding area is regenerated and becomes a new green link between the town and the river side. The full project has benn published. Have a look at http://www.nodopfc. blogspot.com.es/2014/10/centro-de-regeneracion-del-valle-de.html
Site plan
Coal mine washing site
Ground level plan
Top level plan
Lenghtwise section
Cross section
THE CREATIVE CITY University: Madrid School of Architecture Professor / Course: Blanca Lleó / Advanced Studio 5 Date / Year: Fall semester 2009 / 4th year
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he brief asked for a utopian creative city based on some articles about a utopian global town called New Babylon made up by the Dutch architect Constant in 1960’s. A creative city is not a strange urban place where the only creative person is its architect. In the creative city, the citizen is searching for new experiences, new places unknown till that moment, not as a mere tourist, but as a conqueror capable of acting on his own environment transforming it. For that reason, there are singular venues working as engines of inspiration. The artistic act is also a social act. Every action has simultaneous reactions till that reaction becomes into another one. Therefore, in the creative city everyone is an artist. The city could take the shape of an ascending ramp surrounding a square. This ramp would be the unpredictable promenade where some singular venues convert each one simultaneously into a sculptor, a dancer, a singer, a painter or a spectator. The ramp would start in the midst of the huge green square and it would not have end. Life is not just creativity and there would be also space for common life standing just below the creative one. It would be possible to create a two-storeys ramp. The structure would consist on a column-inclined beam system. At first, the creative city would be a perimetral ramp, becoming into an internal mesh and ending up on a global mesh as a result of its addition.
Cross section
Detaill of an edge
Site plan
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Growth phases
LIGHT BATH Velux Awards 2010 Collaborators: Isabel Sanchez del Campo + Sofía Solans Martínez Date/Year: Spring semester 2010 / 4th year Location: Madrid
Velux Awards is a competition of projects with a common topic: The
light, and how it can change architecture. This project is based on the light but with a new point of view; that is how to introduce the light in a buried space with an urban scale. The project is inspired in the beach, creating a space led by the atmosphere of light through water. A space to relax based on the reflections of sun light transformed by the movement of water. The combination of water and light creates a forest of funnel-shaped columns distributed in the space providing an enormous buried space. The result is a peaceful place where the bather can feel the experience of a light bathing. Together with these two immaterial elements, water and light, the new buried square establishes a new dialogue between beach and city and provides a powerful catalyst to reinvigorate the social and physical life of a citizen of Madrid.
PETRIKIRCHE CHURCH University: HCU Hamburg Professor / Course: Gesine Weinmiller / Advanced Studio 8 Date/Year: Spring semester 2011 / 5th year Location: Berlin
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erlin, constantly an under construction city, is a unique eclectic place where contemporary architecture merges into the historical one to reinterpret its past and consolidate its present. The project lies on a small river island close to the city center and it is a new attempt to build a church where some others were built, in different architectural styles, for ages; More concretely from the 12th century till the last one was bombed during an air raid over Berlin in 1945. The new church is contained in a perforated huge stone block surrounded by a moat. The perforated concrete block contains the atrium and the cross-shaped church. As an ant’s nest, minor rooms and chapels enclose the largest rooms. Communal living rooms enclose the atrium and the sacred basilica, so the atrium is a place for parishioners to meet and, at the same time, be isolated from the outer city. Parishioners also get rooms and small chapels to pray and reflect alone. Mystical faint light comes into the building through wide structural walls made of glass. A 150 ft campanile lies out of the stone block, on the other side of the square. It is a new milestone in the Berliner skyline and bells on its top call parishioners everyday.
Floor plan
Lenghtwise section
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