MY DESK_
Cedric Price_ THE SQUARE BOOK
S. Eiler Rasmussen_ EXPERIENCING ARCHITECTURE
J. Fiedler & P. Feierabend_ BAUHAUS
A. Tedeschi_ PARAMETRIC ARCHITECTURE
Lloyd Kahn_ SHELTER
Heino Engel_ STRUCTURE SYSTEMS
ABOUT ME_
Aran Castellà Anglada www.rnprojects.net aran@rnprojects.net
+41 782 033 231 Switzerland +34 622 105 885 Spain
I was born in 1986 and I grew up in a very little village located at the Catalan Pyrenees, known by his Romanic churches and his amazing landscapes, named Taüll. When I finished the Elementary School at my village I moved to Barcelona for the Secondary School and later on for university studies.
STUDIES_
COMPUTER SKILLS_
2006-12 Degree in Architecture Polytechnic University of Catalonia - UPC at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallès. Sant Cugat, Spain.
Vectorial Draw ·MicroStation 2D/3D. Advanced. ·AutoCad 2D / Allplan 3D. Basic. ·SketchUp 3D. Advanced. ·Rhino 3D. Intermediate.
OPTATIVE SUBJECTS ORIENTED TO: ·Sustainable construction ·Generation, rendering and animation of 3D models in MicroStation. ·Parametric Architecture & Computational Design OTHER STUDIES 2005-06 Winter Sports Technical’s Certificate. Level 1, specialty ski at the Pia School Sarrià. Barcelona, Spain. ANNUAL UPDATING: ·Technical Skills & Group Management.
LANGUAGES_ Nowadays I can manage in Spanish
3D Rendering ·MicroStation + Luxology Render. Advanced. ·SketchUp + VRay. Intermediate. ·Rhinoceros + VRay. Basic. Image Processing ·Adobe Photoshop. Advanced. Vector Processing & Layout ·CorelDraw. Advanced. ·Adobe Illustrator. Basic. Computational Design ·Grasshopper + Rhinoceros. Intermediate.
So I’ve received an education living between the mountains and the city, influenced by their respective particularities.
and English, but I’m really encouraged to improve it.
PROFILE_
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE_ In relation with architecture is not only from the studios. I’ve experience also at the building site because I’m interested in check how the constructive systems works at the reality and learn about it.
I would like to work in a place where I can make what I really love: developing ideas that allow to find new ways of space habitation and innovative strategies to generate architecture. I like to understand the projects as a synergic way that join the uses, structure, construction and installations on a single system that answer all the particular requirements, coexisting respectfully with the landscape and working in all the scales. So the system has to be flexible to develop into different shapes that works, even if we change location conditions; because I think the shape is serving the system, not in the opposite way. I’m also interested in interventions and rehabilitation in old buildings; as well as computational design applied to system’s generation.
Others ·WinEva. Structures 2D calculation. Advanced. ·Movie Maker. Video processing. Advanced. ·Sunlite Arch. Lighting DMX effects. Advanced. ·WordPress. Web management. Intermediate.
Spanish / Catalan -Native language. English -Upper-Intermediate / Fluent. French -Basic understanding. Motivated to learn it. German -Not understanding. Motivated to learn it.
AS AN ARCHITECT_ 2012-13 Independent architect at Rn’PROJECTS in Barcelona, Spain. Integral process of some small projects as a responsible.
2013
AS AN OPERATOR_ Mounting responsible of a lighting structure in Barcelona, Spain. I developed the construction work helped by two others coworkers.
2011-12 Junior architect at NOMIC inTerrassa, Spain. I collaborated in some photovoltaic energy projects, basically drawing constructive details.
2011
Operator at a house rehabilitation work. in Taüll, Spain. I worked at the rehabilitation building of an old house, basically developing the new wood floors.
2006-07 Junior architect at S99Architects inTerrassa, Spain. I collaborated in some housing and public space projects.
2007-10 Pergolas mounting operator at UNOPIU’ in Barcelona, Spain. Designing and mounting several wood pergolas during summertime.
CULTURAL EXCHANGE PLATFORM in Paris. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Barcelona. MEDIA CENTER AT THE OLD JAIL in Mataró (Barcelona).
CLASSROOM BUILDING AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CATALONIA in Barcelona. INFINITE HOUSING MESH in imaginary location. AGRICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE TERRITORIAL SYSTEM in Les Garrigues district (Catalonia). E.T.S.A.V. CAMPUS REORGANIZATION AND DESIGN OF A SHED in Sant Cugat (Barcelona). PSEUDO DOMES CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP. COMMERCIAL BUILDING ENTRANCE'S RESTYLING in Barcelona center. METROPOLITAN ROADS AND URBANISTIC PLANNING STUDY in Terrassa (Barcelona).
computational design
lighting
motion
vegetation
constructioin
structure
intervention
system
urbanism
commercial
ATTRIBUTES landscape
housing
public space
educational
cultural
USE
built
contest
final degree project
academic
SELECTED PROJECTS_
STATUS
CULTURAL EXCHANGE PLATFORM in Paris. STATUS_ #academic #finaldegreeproject #contest
USE_ #cultural #publicspace
ATTRIBUTES_ #system #motion #structure #construction
The project is part of an international competition under the motto "building with water", where what matters is innovation of the uses related to public space and, therefore, it's a free theme and the surface is 2.400m2. The location is a terrain in Paris' sorroundings with a surface of 8.400m2, limited by Périférique, Mac Donald Boulevard and St.Denís canal. The idea of project comes out from the analysis of St.Denís canal, where some historical pictures from early 1900 prove the reason why it was built for: trade shipping transport during the Industrial Revolution. So, the canal worked as a harbour which feed nearly industries, that currently have been replaced by residential fabrics as a consequence of the expansive growing of the big Paris. Considering the canal has become obsolete; the project wants to rethink in the 21st century that old industrial activity which made sense to city's infrastructure. The canal is conceived as a culture transport media, using water as activity holder. Terrains flooding provoques a scale change, so the water acts as a connector and spreads potentially the project along Sena's watercourse. It's proposed a Cultural Exchange Platform, understood as a informative organism of culture that works in two levels and the activity is concentred in standard shipping containers, which are the unit of the system. On the inferior cote +41m, cultural distribution's task is developed. It is about some floating modules of 72m2 that can be connected in order to set up travelling expositions along Sena's watercourse, pulled by motorboats as the same way as it used to be in the past century with comercial goods. Canal's walkway limits with the mooring perimeter whose aim is to generate an exchange public space among the users and artists who expose their moduls. Asphalt continuous paviment is drawed a grid to host ocasional markets under pedestrian bridges that offer sheltered surface. On the superior level +45m pedestrian bridges configurate a hanged public space that connects with boulevard's flow. It is about a living beam that can host temporary expositions or urban furniture on its sides, allowing multiple configurations depending on expositions tipology. Superior's profile of that beam contains the crane's railways that allows its motion to manage containers and, therefore, system's flexibility.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Barcelona. STATUS_ #academic #projects8
USE_ #educational
ATTRIBUTES_ #system #construction
Request is about to follow a projectual methodology of the system, starting from designing a basic classroom without knowing about terrain's geometry. It is important to choose a classroom tipology that allows different kinds of agregation systems, reason why it's decided an hexagonal grid. Once location is known it's needed to adapt the system to its morphology. It is about a solar located in Barcelona's "Eixample" with very irregular heights and shapes. The highest pieces are placed at the ends in order to avoid blind walls from neighbour buildings, as well as solving the grid's edge with the limit of the terrain. The project cares specially for visual control ďŹ elds and connector ways due to the will of transforming them in living spaces.
MEDIA CENTER AND ASSOCIATION LOCALS AT THE OLD JAIL in Mataró (Barcelona). STATUS_ #academic #projects7
USE_ #cultural #publicspace
ATTRIBUTES_ #intervention
Intervention in a modernist jail's context built in 1863 with a high heritage value, currently unused. It is about to integrate this building into the new whole ensemble configured by the media center and some association locals for neighbourhood with 3500m2 built. Location is limited by row houses' backyards, therefore, it's the interior of a block surrounded by blind fences. Strategy consists on spreading the program towards the perimeter in order to generate a central public space fed by the new surrounded architecture. There is a clear intenction for the modernist building to keep being the main part, althought with some modifications, like the glass hanged corridor joining the new media center or the practised holes at the jail's brick wall in order to use the yard as the main acces point. Configuration's volumetry's composition is ruled by it's guidelines. Concerning public space, it works as a sequence of outdoor spaces split by the living beam's projection to characterize this two worlds that it separates: the first stage with more interaction between locals' activity, the second more isolated with quieter atmosphere for the media center. Inner spaces plays with double heights and direct visuals towards the jail.
CLASSROOM BUILDING AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CATALONIA in Barcelona. STATUS_ #academic #projects9
USE_ #cultural #educational #publicspace #urbanism
ATTRIBUTES_ #intervention #structure #construction
Placed in Raval's center -in Barcelona's old town- there is the old barcelona's hospital, a gothic building complex from 1.401 nowadays used as National Library of Catalonia's headquarters and other cultural-educational institutions requesting a classroom building to impart workshops with 4.500m2, in addition of 750m2 public space. The building is part of a strategy in a urban scale that wants to connect a sequence of some characteristic public spaces from Raval and its high heritage valued buildings in a pedestrian walkway that crosses the old town through the classroom building and gothic ships. On the groundfloor there is a big covered area working as an exterior hall that wants to undensificate the area, activating the public space with small comercial locals. On the second floor there is a public garden featured by gothic ships buttress, being part of the urban walkway. Structurally it is not allowed to prop the new building directly to the terrain, because there are some buried underground storeys. So it's been decided a lightened beam with 1,5m high that sustains all 4 storeys above, transmitting the forces into underground's perimetral walls.
INFINITE HOUSING MESH in imaginary location. STATUS_ #academic #projects5
USE_ #housing #publicspace
ATTRIBUTES_ #system
The project consists of generating a 3D continuous mesh of residential and public space, in an imaginary location. There are different flat typologies and the system loses density during its growing to guarantee ground level's good sunlighting. The stairs core works at the base modul as an articulation, giving entrance to 3 flats each storey. Inner spaces care specially about sunlighting control, the visuals, their flexibility and double heights. Every flat has three kinds of spaces: indoor, covered outdoor and uncovered outdoor.
AGRICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE TERRITORIAL SYSTEM in Les Garrigues district (Catalonia). STATUS_ #academic #projects4
USE_ #landscape #publicspace
ATTRIBUTES_ #system #vegetation
WORKED WITH_ @marionafigueras
The project is linked to a territorial infrastructure with viability problems; it is about Segarra-Garrigues canal, built to transform local agriculture making it more productive, but at the present it is almost useless because farmers can't pay installation costs of water supplies for their fields. It is requested to find solutions to not wasting canal's water. Coming out from territorial's topographic analysis, there are some areas where it is possible to irrigate only with gravity force, so the investment is minimal. In addition, because of its morphology, it is part of an old watercourse. That means that was a sediment ground that guarantees good production. Agricultural typologies are chosen by productivity criteria, as well as water efficiency guidelines; but also paying attention to landscape perception and species' chromatic combination to become on an active and changing landscape.
E.T.S.A.V. CAMPUS REORGANIZATION AND DESIGN OF A SHED in Sant Cugat (Barcelona). STATUS_ #contest
USE_ #educational #publicspace
ATTRIBUTES_ #computationaldesign #structure #system #intervention
WORKED WITH_ @carlesguinot @pautost
The project is part of a competition organized by our university -ETSAV- under the motto "rethinking the campus' ordenation", because it has grown without a previous clean planning. In addition, a sheltered space is requested to connect different spaces. The proposal is developed at university's social core with the goal of connecting the bar, the terrace and the back entrance in a single level with a pallets platform. The shed is placed at the point where all circulatons and visuals cross, generated by a tensioned structure with hiperbolic paraboloid shape.
PSEUDO DOMES CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP. STATUS_ #academic
ATTRIBUTES_ #computationaldesign #structure #system
WORKED WITH_ @orioltroyano @lucassentis
The exercice proposes to design a structural system for each pseudo domes, in order to be made by numerical control machines. The basic geometry is generated by a relaxed mesh with voronoid edges. First stage consists of thinking a continuous strategy with semi-rigid plastic. If possible, like in our model, without using any other material nor mechanical ďŹ xations to solve the joinings; so it is important that it works by shape control. On the second stage the aim is to design a dished strategy with 3mm lasercuted wood, still without using other materials to build the joinings, that work again by geometry.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING ENTRANCE'S RESTYLING in Barcelona center. STATUS_ #built
USE_ #commercial
ATTRIBUTES_ #computationaldesign #lighting #motion #structure #system #intervention
Entrance's restyling of a building located in the Catalonia's most important commercial street; named Portal de l'Ă€ngel. The aim is to attract pedestrian's attention as well as lighting the entrance that is featured by a modernist gas lamp from over 100 years ago. It is about a sphere grid which generates a mesh with the original dragon's lamp; that is sustained by a complex nylon cables cobweb hanged by 4 points with the idea of not conditionate the space for future changes; because it's been conceived as an ephemeral architecture work. RGB lamps allows to program multiple cromatic shows.
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AVINGUDA PORTAL DE L’ÀN
PLAÇA CATALUNYA
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METROPOLITAN ROADS AND URBANISTIC PLANNING STUDY STATUS_ #academic #urbanism8
USE_ #urbanism #publicspace #landscape
in Terrassa (Barcelona). ATTRIBUTES_ #vegetation WORKED WITH_ @marionafigueras
Firstly the work is about to study the industrial fabrics' related to metropolitan highways and concentration on their cross-roads. Then, working the urban scale, that consists of studing B-40 highway's guidelines influence towards Terrassa city and its urban planning. This highway is going to work like a urban circulation ring, as well as generating a new neighbourhood at the west Terrassa. The request is about to find strategies to guarantee circulation's well development, minimizing the enviromental impact and allowing free spaces' permeability into Sant Llorenç del Munt Natural Park.