Urban-scape

ROOFTOPS, WHY NOT?

What about restoring the space that the building has sent up? The lack of public spaces in the cities and particularly on the inner-city is an actual issue. However, it is possible to reinvent rooftops turning them into an opportunity to give this space back to their inhabitants.

Due to Castellón’s urban development, its historical center have been absorbed by newer buildings that are placed facing the main streets creating a kind of ‘wall’ around the small and tiny houses. Walking through the old-town, it is hard to perceive such a treasure formed by beautiful ancient houses, only going deeper into the narrow streets allows you to appreciate the valuable urban-scape which is trying to survive in this city.

In order to regenerate this spaces activating them, our proposal suggests an alternative route through the roofs, with also the aim to prevent the loss of this treasure and spreading it to the citizens. Therefore, it is proposed to recover the residual spaces (rooftops), integrating them into the context (the city), by introducing social activities and a physical tour.

‘Tour’ in French ‘Parkour’, is a sport in which individuals are moving smoothly through the city, overcoming the obstacles in the way, jumping from roof to roof if needed. This is something that inspired us when carrying on the project. The philosophy of self-improvement, has allowed us to break with the traditional roof model that is marked by the conventional and commonly auto-accepted application. Nevertheless we would like to come out on top all over the obstacles we have to face everyday in the city, reversing and making them our partners for the project.

Thus, the dividing walls become a blank canvas for exhibitions and film screenings, the gaps turns into walkways, and roof slopes provide dynamism to the route, generating the possibility of having great views. To sum up, we give the tools and provide several options but only the citizens will choose how to use them.

Program

Rooftop/ Urban-scape

Location Castellón de la Plana, Spain Contest

International ContestA Architecture: Rooftops Why Not?

Project team Beatriz Rodríguez, Daniel Garcia Tools Hand-drawing, Watercolour, AutoCad, Photoshop Project date May 2011

Public 2013

1st Prize Pladur© Construction solutions 3rd Prize Schindler© Mobility and accessibility ‘CLICK CLACK’ Urban Activity Center in Coimbra.

‘CLICK CLACK’

It is proposed the creation of a ‘Urban Activity Center’ in Coimbra, whose plot is located in a singular crossing site between ‘Praça do mercado’ and ‘Largo da portagem’, due to this, we understand the location as a considerably opportunity.

Our meeting point will be the street, holding up the building, remarking the place, recovering the gap that was forgotten and buried ‘literally’ among the winding streets of Coimbra. Thereby, these two spaces will be linked in a friendlier and more attractive way which invites you to explore and getting to know it. In addition, it works as an anchoring part of the old and the new city, intended to be a society’s reflection of those who live there, enabling, bending, turning and changing with it. After all, this is going to be the second home for the inhabitants of Coimbra.

Those twists, slope changes and that continuous movement present in this city are intentionally reflected in our project at different levels: physically at front and inside, technologically in the way of use the materials, giving the possibility of modifying its layout and urbanistically in a manner that both places are connected and integrated, not just taking into account the plant, but also the 3+1 space dimensions. In the same way as you tie one piece with another, this ‘click’ refers to the meeting, that is to say, the way of dealing with things and the ‘clack’ refers to the time when it is settled in the city without forgetting to be susceptible to several changes in the future.

Strategy 2015

Reflexiones Urbanas sobre Makeni ‘Swampscapes’ p.05-07 ISBN 978-84-608-2791-7

Swampscapes

In the process for recognizing a place, we find Makeni, the workshop focuses on solving the many problems of this city of Sierra Leone. After analysing the place we realize that the majority of problems arise as a result of pollution of the swamp. Therefore, before attempting the reorganization of the urban structure, road infrastructure or housing improvement, we have to solve several basic issues without which the development of a proper life is not possible.

The main objective is to avoid water pollution in the ‘swamps’ using a vegetative filter system, and then store the excess of water through punctual cisterns placed over the main swamp which runs through the city. At the same time we take an advance of the slopes to pick naturally purify, and keep the rainwater.

Program Strategy / Cooperation Location

Makeni, Sierra Leona, Africa Academic / Entity Development cooperation center Project team Beatriz Rodríguez, Ariadna Heyd, Giulia Carallo, Gabriel Zeraik Tools

Collage, AutoCad, Photoshop Project date April 2015

Refurbishment 2015

3rd Prize Cemex© Sustainability and Environment Transformaciones Incompletas: Centro de Técnificación deportiva en Mas Quemado

Incomplete Transformations

If we focus our look on this landscape, we will discover that it has undergone countless transformations throughout history in order to respond to the needs of a changing society,

It is proposed to design a High Sport Performance Centre in which their sport activities are related to nature. This is accepted to be one of the possible uses to bring new life to these forgotten rural villages, trusting that it will bring the right balance between human being and nature and will provide an interesting experience for future interventions in similar environments.

The main objective is re-inhabit the place, this does not only involve just the recovery of the buildings that are still standing, but also agricultural areas that have fallen into disuse and which were one of the first changes that the human being made on this landscape. The project begins also with the idea that any transformation that would be carried out in the territory will be exposed to external conditions outside of our control, both the nature of the landscape (timing of vegetation growth, weather, ... ) and by the changing society’s values.

Therefore, the project seeks as far as possible, to became susceptible to future changes. Is like to plant a ‘seed’ from which emerge the life that has lost, and continue sprouting in the needed direction at any time.

I would also like to point that the design actually does not began with the basis that the project must be sustainable, being green is just a consequence of the process, of trying to understand the place, discovering what it really was necessary to keep, modify, recover or build.

Program Sport Center/ Refurbishment

Location

Mas Quemado, Castellón, Spain Professor Eduardo de Miguel, Vicente Corell

Project team Beatriz Rodríguez Tools

Hand-drawing, 3DsMax, Mental-ray, AutoCad, Photoshop, InDesign, Architrave Project date Jun 2015

PRE- EXISTENCE CONSERVED WALLS NEW USES INTEGRATION

01_ Permeable paving terracota 02_ Fine sand 03_ Fine gravel base, compacted 04_ Pitching bowling extended and compacted limestone ram (for drainage) 05_ Filter sheet adhered to draining film based on polypropylene geotextile 06_ Brace beam 07_ Drainage pipe 08_ Climalit Silence Glass 8-12-6 09_ Ground plaster and mineral fibers 10_ Extruded polystyrene insulation freestanding 11_ Pre-existing masonry wall consolidated by mortar injection 12_ Cleaning Concrete e = 10 mm HM20 / P / 40 / I 13_ Strip footing tied to existing foundations. 14_ Lost formwork type Cavity 15_ Concrete perimeter tying 16_ Superior steel army 17_ Compression layer HA-25 18_ Thermal insulation (rock wool) 19_ Steam barrier 21_ Batten e = 40 mm arranged every 60 cm 22_ Pine parquet with natural finish of 23 mm thickness 23_ EPDM waterproof sheet e = 2.28 mm

OFIS architects 2014

Special Mention_ Arvö Part Center Competition ‘Meie Aed’ OFIS Arhitekti

Working At Ofis Arhitekti

During my internship at OFIS I have collaborated on the following projects:

_ Invited competition ‘Realisierungswettbewerb Fallstraße 34’ , Munich, Germany p.29

For this competition I prepared the models and virtual images of the apartment units and exteriors, as at the time I joined the team, the project was already in a developed stage. When the project came to my hands, even I just had to take care of the renderings I realized that the project didn’t comply with the building codes and regulations therefore the director spoke with a German consultant who reassured that we should change the design of the northern units as we could be disqualified if we didn’t.

_ Competition ‘ Russian cultural and educational center’ Moscow, Russia. p. 30-31

For this competition I researched and develop ideas keeping in mind the competition briefing, users needs, building’s usage and environmental impact. I worked on the develop and the presentation of the project including part of the booklet’s layouts using InDesign, the plans and sketches with AutoCad and Photoshop, the visualizations through 3Dmax and V-ray.

_ Invited competition ‘ Arvo Pärt centre’ Estonia. p.32-33

For this competition I made several quick testing models from the possible solutions. Some of them developed with SketchUp and others hand made. Then I transfer and modified the selected one through 3Dmax. I also help with the plans and presentation of the project using again AutoCad and Photoshop.

*Even these projects are a team work, here I only included the images and drawings that had my hands-on it.

GEHÄUSETYP A 1_40m2

Wohnzimmer/ Schlafzimmer 01 Küche

Badezimmer 01 36, 26 m Netto 38, 67 m Brutto

GEHÄUSETYP B 1_60m2

Wohnzimmer Küche Badezimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 01 Balkon 49,77 m Netto 56,38 m Brutto Wohnzimmer Küche

GEHÄUSETYP C 1_80m2

Badezimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 03 Balkon

70,07 m Netto 76,6 Brutto

GEHÄUSETYP C 5_80m2

Wohnzimmer Küche Badezimmer 01 Badezimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 02 Balkon 82,66 m Netto 91,79 m Brutto

GEHÄUSETYP D 1_100m2

Wohnzimmer Küche Badezimmer 01 Badezimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 03 Schlafzimmer 04--+ Balkon 93,19 m Netto 100,37m Brutto

GEHÄUSETYP A.2_40m2

Wohnzimmer/ Schlafzimmer 01 Küche Badezimmer 01 39,01 m Netto 44 m Brutto

GEHÄUSETYP B 2_60m2

Wohnzimmer Küche Badezimmer 01 Badezimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 02 Balkon 59,77 m Netto 64,80 m Brutto

GEHÄUSETYP C 4_80m2

Wohnzimmer Küche Badezimmer 01 Badezimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 02 Balkon 74,57 m Netto 79,91 m Brutto

GEHÄUSETYP C 6_80m2

Wohnzimmer Küche

Badezimmer 01 Badezimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 03 Balkon 80,56 Netto 87,66 Brutto

GEHÄUSETYP D 2_100m2

Wohnzimmer Küche

Badezimmer 01 Badezimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 01 Schlafzimmer 02 Schlafzimmer 03 Balkon 90,48 m Netto 99,20 m Brutto

Working At 7475

My main duties at 7475 were;

- Design stands and advertising material for shops and exhibitions.

- Consulting with clients to determine requirements for designs and obtaining their approval of concept by submitting layaouts, designs and prototipes.

- Complete projects by coordinating with outside agencies and studios.

- Designing and preparing drawings and CGI images from scratch for client’s products. I create the ideal spaces from scratch to post-production.

To make this portfolio easier to read I just included one image as an example of my main duty at the office. In case you would like to see a bigger sample of my work at 7475 do not hesitate to contact me.

PUCHOL Arquitectes

2013 - 2017

Working At Puchol Arquitectes

I collaborated as an architect at Puchol Arquitectes studio, mostly making realistic visualizations for their ongoing projects.

Some of the projects, worthy to mention among others , in which I have been involved are; Swimming pool 2013 (ideal plan), Casa en la Vessant 2014 (Under construction), S-Tyle House 2015 (Ideal plan) Casa cal- caria 2016 (built), Terraced Apartment Building 2016 (Sustainable Retrofit for Flooding Resilience research), and Casa entre naranjos 2017 (Built).

On the right page you can see an exapmple of my work in their office.

- Casa entre naranjos. (Built 2017)

For this project I used transfered the AutoCad plans to 3Dmax for modelling, add the furniture, backplates etc. Texturing and lighting was done using Vray as a renderer. After obtaining the main layers for post production I used Photoshop to control the brightness and add the cut-people.

Project Casa entre Naranjos Tools

3DsMax, V-ray, Photoshop Project date CGI 2016 Built 2017

Self-employed ABN 30 841 647 330

2017 - 2019

SELF-EMPLOYED

In 2017 I went to Australia as an unsatisfied architect with a desire to feed her curiosity and the need to improve her English. Being a foreign Architect in an unknown territory is challenging. With time I started to do some ‘small’ jobs as a independent contractor. Most of the jobs I have done are related to Architectural Visual Communication. Architectural studios are nowadays more aware regarding the importance of communicate their ideas and how this can add value to their projects.

I also had the time to explore the unfamiliar architecture, the mind-blowing landscape and the culture of some of the Asia-Pacific countries. This had feed my architectural brain with the 5 senses. Now, I understand why we are a profession of travellers and why those architects from which we learn at school, Troppo, Mies, Le Corbusier, Utzon... have done it at least once in their life.

Being an architect is a trip, every project you dive into is an exploration, everything is new and challenging, the way you approach it when being influenced by what you had already saw and lived, what you want to accomplish.

Program

Branding Concept / Brochure Location Sydney, Australia Client Canary Constructions & management Pty Ltd Tools

InDesign, 3DsMax, V-ray. Project date may 2019

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LVG Ceramic Surfaces S.L

LIVING CERAMICS - LITHOTECH - CERAMIC LAB ] 2021 - Present

Working At Lvg Ceramic Surfaces

LVG Ceramic surfaces S.L is a holding comprised at the moment of the following brands: LIVING CERAMICS, LITHOTECH and the younger CERAMIC LAB.

I work inside the marketing and design department. My main job is to direct and create from scratch the Virtual images for all the brands. When creating the images, I have full autonomy. I also prepare layouts and illustrations for displays, catalogues, and marketing material.

Working in a multidisciplinary department allows me to learn from other collages, when assisting in the photography and video sessions or brainstorming when developing promotional material and content.

The following images are just a small sample of my CGI work there. I have selected those images as an example of a more ‘realistic’ style in contrast with the concept images showed on my previous works, where the communication idea required another approach. The same tools are used in a particular way to generate a distinctive communication language. In these case the brand wants to go beyond the stereotypical ceramic tiles images and create a different athmosfere where the light and shadows are the ones generating the space.

Project Visualization for Uno Collection Living Ceramics

Location Vila-real, Spain Tools 3DsMax, V-ray. Project date Nov 2021

Visualization for Blanc Collection

Lithotech

Location Vilareal, Spain

Tools

3DsMax, V-ray, Photoshop.

Project date Mar 2021

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