PORTFOLIO: MArch John Arango Arango
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+ WORK HISTORY:
JOB TITLE: Architect | Full time
MArch Architect with expertise in managing and delivering large-scale architectural projects, competitions, and commissions. Experienced in ensuring high standards across all phases of design and construction. I am always keen to investigate the physical and social context of the territory in question. In doing so, I aim to provide innovative and sustainable solutions that guarantee good use and maintenance during the buildings’ useful life. In my academic and professional experience, I have developed the ability to work as part of a team, seeking to achieve individual and collective aims, on time & on budget.
ARCHITECTURE
* M. Arch. at the ETSAM, UPM.
* B.D. Arch. at the ETSAM, UPM
* B.D. Arch. at the UNALmed.
* MEC Grant: Spanish Ministry of Education.
* Class honours in Projects Design in UPM and Unalmed.
* Acha Urioste Scholarship at Library of ETSAM, UPM.
+ TECHNICAL SKILLS:
* Design skills.
* 3D Modelling and 2D drawing.
* Creation of images.
* Concept sketching and schemes.
* Hand drawing.
* Data and metrics interpreting.
* Innovative and analytical thinking.
* Construction knowledge.
* Structural knowledge.
* Installations knowledge.
+ SOFT SKILLS:
* Ability to communicate ideas clearly
* Experience working effectively in a team, both as a leader and a team member.
* Being adaptable and flexible.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* Organised and methodical.
* Capable of multi-tasking and delivering on commitments under pressure.
* Keen to show initiative and self-motivation.
* Good time management skills.
* Strong sense of responsibility.
* Empathy and conflict resolution skills.
LANGUAGES
Spanish [Native] English [C1_ Advanced]
French: A1[Basic] German: A1[Basic]
COMPANY: ORTIZ LEON ARCHITECTS | FROM: 10/2023→ → TO: PRESENT = 12 MONTHS
MAIN PROJECT: Competitions and projects in hospitality, offices, F&B, healthcare and housing.
* Design and modelling proposals for different projects in Rhinoceros (+ Grasshopper) and Revit.
* Rendering of scenes (mainly exteriors and some interiors), with Enscape and V-ray.
* Create adaptive components in Revit in response to project needs, especially curtain wall panels.
* Assist in the development and creation of company-wide BIM and GH standards and procedures.
JOB TITLE: Architectural Intern | Full time
COMPANY: URBANIA ARCHITECTS | FROM: 02/2023 → TO: 06/2023 = 5 MONTHS
MAIN PROJECT: Rehabilitation and change of use of education infrastructure into a hotel in Madrid | 10000 m2
* Survey of the existing building, in order to make proposals for the rooms and distribution of a hotel.
* Review of the regulations that covered the new programme for which the project was intended.
* Generation of all the necessary documentation to project: schemes, diagrams, images, plans...
JOB TITLE: Production Manager Intern | Full time
COMPANY: CONSTRUCCIONES SAN MARTÍN | FROM: 07/2022→ → TO: 12/2022 = 6 MONTHS
BUILDING: Rehabilitation of historic residential building into offices on C/ Velázquez 94, Madrid | 6300 m2
* Worked on site in the refurbishment and change of use of a housing block to offices with commercial ground floor located in Madrid; its façade, hall and other elements (staircase core, stained glass windows...), are protected by Historical Heritage.
* Participated in the following phases of the building work: preliminary works, demolition, earthworks, reinforcement of the structure and pavements.
* Reviewing all the project documentation to identify inconsistencies between the budget offered and the estimated measurements. Finding the items that needed to be adjusted.
* Produced documents adjusted to the state of the work, in order to fit in the measurements and protocols necessary for the purchase of materials and the execution of the project. The specific case was to elaborate calculations and details for the correct purchase of the steel for the reinforcement of the crane footing and the lift pit.
* Participation in the Health and Safety Coordination, and the start-up as stipulated in the General Plan.
* Participated in the BREEAM certification of the project, implementing the actions for the apt treatment of waste, as well as the management of the files and certifications of the materials of the work.
* Analysis of the installations report to determine the openings for the air conditioning ducts in the loadbearing walls of the block, thus avoiding possible collisions and structural damage.
* Managed the requests for quotes from suppliers, both for materials and services.
JOB TITLE: Architectural Intern | Part time
COMPANY: MADHEL ARCHITECTS | FROM: 12/2021→ → TO: 02/2022 = 3 MONTHS
MAIN PROJECT: Refurbish a single-family dwelling | 300 m2
* Assisted with the production of the plans and the sections for the remodeling of detached house.
* Produced a series of construction details (mainly locksmithing, partitioning, carpentry, lighting, furniture...) to determine the external quotes and thus be able to prepare the project budget.
* Elaborated the measurements that allowed estimating budgets and execution times.
* Drew and modelled construction details of the project.
JOB TITLE: Scholarship Holder | Part time Acha Urioste scholarship
COMPANY: HA HISTORICAL ARCHIVE, UPM | FROM: 09/2019 → TO: 09/2021 = 2 YEARS
MAIN PROJECT: Research abouth the architects Fernando Chueca Goitia or Manuel de las Casas
* Research on the work of the architects who have donated their work to the Archive.
* Inventory of the documents of the work of architects, following the established protocols.
* Cataloguing of the documents using spreadsheets (XLS), and subsequently, through database ATOM.
JOB TITLE: Architectural Intern | Part time
COMPANY: L-FAN ARCHITECTS | FROM: 02/2015 → TO: 03/2015 = 3 MONTHS
MAIN PROJECT: Collective housing blocks in the Middle East | 16000 m2
* Participated in the technical design for a housing block in the Middle East.
* Prepared creative concepts for client presentations with sketches, 3D models, plans and diagrams.
* Developed experimental prototypes for the façade’s sun-shading system.
JOB TITLE: Architectural Intern | Part time Intern
COMPANY: CANOYESCARIO ARCHITECTS | FROM: 02/2014 → TO: 04/2014 = 3 MONTHS
MAIN PROJECT: Competitions for public buildings
* Development of national (Spain) and international (Nigeria) design competitions and projects briefs.
* Collaboration in the technical design stage for building projects.
* Produced schemes, diagrams, photomontages and technical drawings according to the project.
* Created 3D models in Rhinoceros for design proposals and competitions.
JOB TITLE: Web Manager | Part-time
COMPANY: COMPANY: DAETSAM-UPM | FROM: 09/2021→ → TO: 04/2022 = 8 MONTHS
MAIN PROJECT: Website of the DAETSAM
* Designed and edited all the information for the website, including its layout, via Wordpress.
* Developed and implemented new features and functionality for the website.
* Editing photos and texts, to be aesthetically pleasing and meet digital requirements.
JOB TITLE: Architectural Intern | Part time
COMPANY: COMM. DEPT. OF COAM | FROM: 06/2016 → TO: 09/2016 = 3 MONTHS
MAIN PROJECT: Website and Event: Madrid Architecture Week 2016
* Participated in the management of the online content for Madrid Architecture Week 2016.
* Took and edited photos and videos of the week’s events for the online gallery.
* Supported the management and logistics of the week’s events, liaising with other departments.
* Engaged in daily tasks involving plans, images and other visual content.
Abstract
In the popular collective imagination, the curtain is not considered an element of architecture in the same way as the staircase, the door or the walls, nor is it even for a more specialised group such as architecture. This was demonstrated in Elements of architecture, an exhibition and subsequent publication directed by Rem Koolhaas (1944, OMA-AMO) for the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. This comprehensive catalogue chooses and exhaustively analyses the 15 elements that are considered to make up all the buildings on the planet. In each volume, dedicated exclusively to each element, their origins, typologies, details... Unfortunately, the curtain did not have its own exclusive volume, but was relegated to form part of the sixth volume corresponding to the window element, occupying only a couple of pages in it.
This made it clear that the most generalised conception attributed to the curtain in both types of public is the one that reduces this textile layer to its most commercial or objectual function. That is to say, understood as a piece of fabric or other textile made with textile fibres intended to cover the holes of windows in the interior in order to try to block or diminish the entry of light and in some cases wind, water, insects, etc. The curtains are at the same time and in their great majority, as we will also see some transparent ones, opaque sheets that prevent visibility from the outside to the inside, achieving with them more private areas to the interior. Basically, both publics think that the curtain is an accessory to the window and that it does not construct a space, which is why it is not considered an element of architecture.
Therefore, the aim is to analyse a series of case studies of projects that integrate the use of the curtain as another architectural element, such as the Samt & Seide Café by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, the Curtain Wall house by Shigeru Ban, the Grand Parc Bordeaux by Lacaton & Vassal or the Centres for traditional music by OFFICE, among others. To establish a classification of them on the basis of the spatial relationships that configure the textile elements in them, in order to demonstrate and vindicate that the curtain is not only an equally valid element of architecture as the others, but also behaves as an analogue device capable of generating adaptable architecture.
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¡Muchas gracias por su interés en mi trabajo!/ Thanks for your interest on my work!
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Arango Arango
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