DESIRﾃ右 TORCATE
ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN
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Desirée Carolina Torcate De Pontes
Born in Venezuela, 11/10/1991 Nationality:Venezuelan / Portuguese Contact Information (+39) 380 861 8573 desiree.torcate@gmail.com
Work Experience
Software Proficiency
Banco Central de Venezuela Caracas-Venezuela July 2013 - September 2013 Design Division Hermanos Gamboa Cooperative Caracas-Venezuela June 2012 - September 2012 Customer’s Reception
Internship Customer’s Attendant
Academic Education
Languages Spanish English Italian French
Politecnico di Torino Turin, Italy 2013 - 2015 Double Degree Program (Caracas-Turin) Universidad Central de Venezuela Caracas,Venezuela 2009 - 2015 U.E.YMCA “Don Teodoro Gubaira” Valencia,Venezuela 2003 - 2009 I Cultural Exchange Program (Valencia-Nashville)
Master’s Degree in Architecture Construction and City Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture High School Diploma 3
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Public Library La Bombilla Caracas,Venezuela 2013
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Apart-Hotel Orinoco Caracas,Venezuela 2012
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Valle Abajo Monastery Caracas,Venezuela 2012 Urban Park Las Mercedes Caracas,Venezuela 2011
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La Vista Beach Club La Guaira,Venezuela 2011 Coast Retirement Home La Guaira,Venezuela 2010
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Sagrado Corazon Parochial School Caracas,Venezuela 2010
La Salle School Library Caracas,Venezuela 2009 Douglas Pavilion Exercise Caracas,Venezuela 2009
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Bicigrill Novara, Italy 2014 Student Residence Marseille, France 2014 Egyptian Museum Interior Design Turin, Italy 2015
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Santa Cecilia Residences Water Sensitive Design Bogota, Colombia 2015
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Duality Aesthetic Design Caracas,Venezuela 2011
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PUBLIC LIBRARY LA BOMBILLA Location: Caracas - Venezuela Year: 2013 Team: Christian Guerrero Gabriela Hernรกndez
FLOORPLANS
Framed in the latin-american competition for architecture students ALACERO, this project, conceived for a steel structure, takes place in a hill surrounded by low-rise suburban district. Therefore, the implantation technique aims to concentrate the intervention on one side of the hill, generating a landmark for both structural and symbolical reasons. The outcome is a building with an structural core that links it to the ground and allows the spaces around it to develop and communicate through different levels, while presenting an uniform facade to the exterior that highlights the functional image of the steel. The form also contributes to a separation of functions by layers, destinating the upper spaces to the library and the ground levels to the passing public.
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SECTIONS
FACADE
STRUCTURE BLOWOUT
MOCKUP
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APART-HOTEL ORINOCO
FLOORPLANS
Location: Caracas - Venezuela Year: 2012 This project, of higher complexity, had to be developed under the conditions of zoning regulation and incorporate the calculation of the structure and the mechanical, electric and water instalations. The implantation strategy reflects the duality of the uses and the plan situation, given that the plot has an avenue at north and the golf course of the Valle Arriba Golf Club at south. On the project, two towers are related by a patio and connected through a set of bridges that indicate the entrance to the hotel. The bigger volume is also the highest to create a boundary from the city and increase the privacy of the spaces south oriented, taking advantage of the view towards the golf course.
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FACADE
SECTIONS
AXONOMETRY
FACADE DETAIL
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VALLE ABAJO MONASTERY Location: Caracas - Venezuela Year: 2012 The idea of a monastery within the city presents, by itself, a functional dilemma due to the need of personal isolation and the devotion to communitary service. To serve both needs, a volume that holds most of the program is placed as a barrier to the city, locating the common uses in a lower layer and the individual spaces in a higher one. This volume lives towards a protected patio that is separated in two parts by a lower volume: on one side is the cloister of the monastery and on the other is the chapel plaza that welcomes the pedestrians that cross the block.
FLOORPLANS
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SECTIONS
FACADE TOWARDS THE COMUNITY
FACADE TOWARDS THE CITY
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LA VISTA BEACH CLUB
FLOORPLAN
Location: La Guaira - Venezuela Year: 2011 This project had to be developed in a hypothetical inclined plot on shore and had to include a stone ruin, which served as a case for the location of the high pool. The project takes advantage of the slope to generate the volumes of private use and different access throught terraces, always orientated towards the view of the sea. The program is separated in three layers: the base, that locates the serving spaces of the pools. The middle one, that holds the public uses like the restaurant and the bar. And the higher layer, where the more private uses take place, the spa and the exposition hall, which gives its distinctive image to the complex.
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SECTIONS
STRUCTURE
CLOSINGS
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SAGRADO CORAZON PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
FLOORPLANS
Location: Caracas - Venezuela Year: 2010 The plot is located next to the “Sagrado Corazon de Jesus” church and it´s generated from the analysis of the context nearby, taking the three blocks that surround the plot. Throught the analysis, an abstract object was created which was the base for the project: A group of volumes that contain the program unified by the structure, that allows to separate the school schedule in a higher layer, while the lower layer holds the community program, with a different schedule and a connection to the church next door.
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MOCKUP
SECTIONS
ABSTRACTION PROCESS
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DOUGLAS PAVILION EXERCISE Location: Caracas - Venezuela Year: 2009 As the first architectural exercise, the purpose of the pavilion was to generate a sequence of spaces with different hierarchies to influence the perception of the user through the passage.
SECTIONS
The project is located in a hypothetical slope with mild inclination. Starting with an interpretation of the Douglas House by the architect Richard Meier, this piece consists of two parts formally diferenciated. The first one holds the spaces of lower hierarchy, smaller and more private, while the second part contains the main public space, with a three story height that unifies the circulation visually and it´s connected with the exterior throught the basement.
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MOCKUP
FLOORPLAN
FACADE
MOCKUP
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EGYPTIAN MUSEUM INTERIOR DESIGN
Location: Turin - Italy Year: 2015 Team: Heimary Barreto Natalia Lozano Framed in the renovation and restoration intervention of the museum in 2015 and accompanied by the tourist notoriety that the city expects with the extension of the Holy Shroud, the Expo Milano 2015 and Torino Capitale dello Sport, the project seeks to highlight the museum’s collection as the second most important of its kind, after the one in Cairo, while maintaining the present structure and lighting. The areas, one for a permanent exhibition and one for a temporary one, will follow the concept of Reflection, taking advantage of the elyptical void and the reduced height of the space to create a wider perception of pure spatial forms whilst contributing to wiring and security aspects of the showcase.
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SCHEMES
FLOORPLAN
DETAILS
SECTIONS
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR THE PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AREAS. REFLECTION TO EVOQUE PURE FORMS, FAVOR RADIAL CIRCULATION AND SECURE THE COLLECTION
THROUGH THE REFLECTION, THE STRUCTURE TAKES PART IN THE DESIGN, HIGHLIGHTING IT WHILE AVOIDING ITS INTERVENTION AND MAINTAINING THE ORIGINAL LIGHTING
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SANTA CECILIA RESIDENCES
PHYTODEPURATION SYSTEM
WATER RETENTION SYSTEM
SYSTEM DETAILS
FLOODING SEQUENCE
WATER SENSITIVE DESIGN Location: Bogota - Colombia Year: 2015 Team: Luis Aleixo Heimary Barreto Natalia Lozano Based on a project of a residential complex for 500 people in 178 apartments, the aim of this project is to attend the clima control needs of a compact city, through the implementation of sustainable strategies at a small urban scale. The project seeks for an interconnection of green infrastructures in the city and the inclusion of water management systems in the selected area to channel, retain and treat -where possible- the runoff, avoiding the obstruction of public space. Therefore, the project is composed by three water sensitive systems. The first, a dry swale that gathers the runoff of the two circulation axes, serving as a light treatment for the water before arriving to the Dry Retention Pond. The pond, main design element of the project, retains the water until its evaporation to close the water cycle and prevent it from reaching the urban sewage system. The third system, completely independent, is destined to grey water treatment for the residences, through phytodepuration vertical-flow pools.
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FLOORPLAN
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
DRY SWALE D4
D5
D3
DRAINAGE CHANNEL
D2
DRAINAGE CHANNEL
D1
DETAILS
DRY SWALE D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
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DUALITY
AESTHETIC DESIGN Location: Caracas - Venezuela Year: 2012 Duality, present in every individual. In every aspect of reality there are opposites in constant tension that generate energy by their sole existence. This piece, elaborated in the plastic workshop on a cardboard base, supported at 5cms off the wall, has 110cms x 70 cms and pursues the representation of the fluidity between conflicting elements, keeping the sight of the viewer in movement, among these parts that contrast and complement each other.
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