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BORJA FERNANDEZ Architect & Architecture Photographer PORTFOLIO

2019

A Building Is a story told every time, enriched by the people who use it. Woven into a fabric of time an space. A testament. A narrative.

BORJA FERNANDEZ | Architect & Architectural Photographer Design BIM Architect, with studies carried out in the Francisco de Vitoria University and a degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Experience in Spain and United Kingdom. Extensive training due to my professional experience and due of my unstoppable curiosity. Extrovert, ease at personal relationships, having excellent work capacity, effort and permormance, and above all, passion for architecture as measure of expression. My goal is to develop personally and professionally through a job that allows me to contribute with my knowledge, values and desire to take on challenges and leadership. The years of experience have generated in me, as an architect, a special sensitivity towards the development of the projects in an effective, organized way, and maintaining the good architectural stle in the decision making process.

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DESING ARCHITECT (BIM)

Borja Fernández Flórez Spanish Flat 44, Priory Heights | 2, Wynford rd (N19SL) +44 07922 465682 bffarchitect@gmail.com www.bffarchitect.tk Borja Fernandez Florez

Benoy 2016 - Currently

(http://www.benoy.com/)

Collaboration in projects: Multifunctional Residential Masterplan Almaty (team consisting of 4 components, 13Ha & 6.7 Ha, Tipology: Multifunctional Residential) Solitaire (team consisting of 7 components, 96,000 m2, Tipology: Retail&F&B), Allders Minerva, Croydon (team consisting of 3 components, 48,000 m2, Tipology: Retail&F&B), Victoria Sq Woking (team consisting of 12 components, 70,000 m2, Tipology: Retail, Residential, Hospitality, Tall Buildings, Mixed-use), The Sixth Museum (team consisting of 7 components, 545,000 m2, Tipology: Urban), Al Basheer Medical City (team consisting of 4 components, 65,000 m2, Tipology: Healthcare), St Edburg´s Walk Bicester Oxfordshire (team consisting of 5 components, 19,000 m2, Tipology: Retail&F&B), 81 - 103 King’s Road (team consisting of 3 components, 23,000 m2, Tipology: Retail&Offices)

ARCHITECT (BIM)

Grimshaw Architects 2015 - 2016

Education

College of architecture in the Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid). Scholarship of excellence in the community of Madrid in the first year with an average of 9.65

September 2008 - June 2011

ARCHITECT

Hago Office 2014

(http://www.estudiohago.com/)

Collaboration in projects: The Mainz City Hall contest of rehabilitation (equipment made up of 6 components, 5700 m2, client: Mainz City Hall), Museum of fine arts Badajoz (nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe awards of architecture 2014; team consisting of 8 components, 3300 m2 and budget of € 5 million, client: Badajoz City Hall), Gran Canaria fine arts museum competition (team of 4 components, 11000 m2, client: City of Gran Canaria)

ARCHITECT

ProfessionalAssociations December 2014 - Continued Marhc 2016 - Continued

(http://www.arocasygonzalez.com/)

Registered member of Oficcial Architect Collegue of Madrid Registered member of Architects Registration Board (UK)

Awards, Achivements and Publications Printed Publications -Farini de Orleans, Elena. TIME AND CITIES. Editorial: UFV. ISBN: 978-84-89552-83-8 -Esguevillas, Daniel. THIS IS TOMORROW. Editorial: UFV .ISBN: 978-84-15423-13-3 -Farini de Orleans, Elena. FLOWSCAPES. Editorial: UFV. ISBN: 978-84-15423-43-0 -Designing the future. Review nº5. Editorial: Advantia comunicacion gráfica. ISSN: 2340-9150

Online Publications -Productive Landscape: Rotterdam is self-sufficient (PFC): http://pfccommons.org/ | http://nodopfc.blogspot.com.es/ | http://www.dtfmagazine.com/ -Actuosa Participatio, Parish Centre (UFV): http://talleralcubo.com/ -Finalist in 5th Schindler Spain architecture Awards Contest (Local )

Awards

-2nd in PLADUR® XXIII competition (Local ) Constructive Solutions

Relevant Skills Software

Arocas & Gozalez Architects 2013 - 2014

Collaboration in projects: Polyclinic and future university hospital centre (team consisting of 4 components, 8400 m2 surface, client: private developer), Nursing home “La Merced” (equipment consisting of 4 components, 3200 m2, € 3.5 million budget, client: private developer), Residence and productive Botanical Garden (team of 6 people, 15000 m2, € 2 million, customer: private developer and City Hall in Tres Cantos), Rehabilitation building of laboratories in Tres Cantos (team of 4 components, 1500 m2, 2.3 million, customer: Merck laboratories)

Creativity and graphic expression master

Master degree in architecture-related, developed over three academic years. Drawing techniques, media and forms of expression, and methods of development and fostering of creativity

(http://grimshaw-architects.com/)

Collaboration in projects: Oman Botanical Garden (team consisting of 40-50 components, 15 ht surface, client: private developer), Macadam Building Planning Study (team consisting of 4 components, 25,000 sqft surface, client: FRASER )

Architecture degree

September 2008 - June 2014

Media Languages Social / Volunteering

Expert user: Revit, Adobe Pack, AutoCAD, Sketchup, V-ray, Office Experimented User: Rhinoceros, 3D Max, Lumion Some experience: ArchiCAD, Microstation, Grasshopper, Dynamo Drawing, Sketching, Draughting, Photographing Spanish (mother tong), English (Fluency), French (User Level) Teaching of social cooperation: 2D and 3D drawing (Horizontes Abiertos NGO) Development Educational buildings Volunteer (VIPEIKA FUNDATION)

ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS 2012 - 2019

BENOY |

MULTIFUNCTIONAL RESIDENTIAL MASTERPLAN 6.7 & 13 Ha

Term: 4 weeks | Role: Design/Lead architect | Area: 13&6.7 Ha | Team: 4p | Typology: Residential

Both the 13 and 6.7 Ha Sites are split by an existing neighbourhood but will be connected via a ‘green trunk’. The green trunk then branches out to the newly proposed residential blocks, integrating itself with its’ surroundings. The overall structure of the urban pattern takes into account to the surrounding existing urban fabric. This therefore creates a seamless intervention and allows the users to enter the site with a familiarity that has been upgraded and modernised to that of the surrounding neighbourhoods. The central boulevards cut the green trunk into segments allowing a controlled flexibility to the whole scheme. These boulevards act as a key connection points between the residential blocks to that of the retail zones allowing for a lively social space, creating unique meeting points which will, in effect, draws in a larger footfall. The green boulevard will also have a servicing function allowing car access for parking and deliveries to the residential units.

BENOY

SOLITAIRE

Term: 5weeks | Role: DesignBIMarchitect | Area: 96,000sqm | Team: 7p | Typology: Retail&F&B

An Arabian rock sculpted along the years by the elements. The sun and its light rouses the wind and through its dance, unveil the gem. This Option is about bringing people in, and protect people from the noises, sunlight and pollution where people will dwell. Where rocks cracked, the gem will be revealed from the streets. Plans and sections are developed to reflect the concept and to consider environmental analysis. The project has been developed up to schematic, with a scheme of 3 +GF floors of mixed F&B and Retail units, generating 2 main Plazas at the sides of the main boulevards, and making a clear distinction between 2 atmospheres, with an external and an internal retail areas.

BENOY

MINERVA

(CROYDON)

Term: 3Weeks| Role: Architect | Area: 48,000sqm | Team: 3p |

ALDERS

Typology: Retail&F&B

The proposed scheme promotes a full redevelopment of the site, providing a mix of retail, leisure, office, and residential uses. Building on the history of Croydon as a thriving market town, this scheme provides a strong and dynamic retail podium level with commercial use residential and office towers above. Structured into 5 interlinked blocks, a total of approximately 49,000 m2 GEA in size, the scheme consists of the following programme: • Block A: 14 storey residential accommodation located adjoining Dingwall Avenue with a basement level car and bicycle parking. • Block B: 3 storey commercial office accommodation above retail levels adjoining George Street. • Block C: single storey of plant adjoining North End and located on the roof. • Block D: 5 storey residential accommodation adjoining the Whitgift Centre to the North. • Block E: the largest element of the scheme comprising 3 storey retail and leisure accommodation fronting North End, George Street and adjoining the Whitgift Centre with a basement level of retail, leisure, storage and servicing.

BENOY

THE

SIXTH

MUSEUM

Term: 4 weeks | Role: Design/Lead architect | Area: 545,000sqm | Team: 7p | Typology: Urban

Create connections through water... Extend the museum into the everyday... Water acts as a connecting element, an identity and character creator and a cooling component to the scheme. It is multifunctional, adds beauty and playfulness to the environment and leaves an indelible memory in visitors minds through sensory generating installations. Water permeates through the site, imbuing a sense of hierarchy and importance to main streets, axis and view corridors. Different expressions of water are filtered throughout the site to respond to the character of each district. Playful interactive water fountains and mist installations are used in the community focused zone. Spiritual, meditative water is displayed in the wellbeing high-end district. In the dynamic and innovative zone, water walls and waterfalls are high energy and interactive, creating words as drops fall and playing with the sense of enclosure and transparency. This is The Elixir, the central heart of the scheme. The scheme remains both sympathetic to surrounding iconic museums but also promotes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own strong identity. An identity created by water and art and the integration of the two. This is The Sixth Museum...

BENOY

Basheer

Medical

City

Term: 1months | Role: DesignBIMrchitect | Area: 65,000sqm | Team: 4p | Typology: Healthcare

From the project outset it was imperative to understanding the wider client/project aspirations andgoals. The aspirations transcend individual buildings, components and architecture and provide the backdrop and character to the overall development. These aspirations can be summarised as follows; To create a world class Medical City. A destination that is memorable, dynamic and recognised as a place for healing and wellness. Aligning our design thinking with the project aspirations we created a series of key design objectives that were aimed to shape and define the project. These objectives were centred on opportunities to: Create a world class healthcare facility that creates and positive environment for wellness, recovery and research.This facility needs to utilise modern thinking and best-practice aligned with. â&#x20AC;˘ Create new connections and links between project components and avoid heavily segregated and isolated solutions. â&#x20AC;˘ Produce an architectural (and master planning) solution that responds to the local climate in its orientation,proximity, design, and materiality.

BENOY

Victoria

Woking

Square

Term: 12 months | Role: Architect (BIM) | Area: 15 ht | Team: 12-14 p | Typology: Retail & Residential

Victoria Square is a significant regeneration scheme for Woking. It is part of a wider ambition which aims to reposition the town, improve and reinforce the way in which its existing retail components are connected and create a new gateway to the town centre from the West. The development is centred on an external public space in the town with generous landscaping and a substantial dining district. It will also be the address for almost 400 new homes including two tall residential buildings. A third tower will incorporate an international 4-Star hotel with spa, gym and two restaurants, one of which is located on Level 22 to exploit the magnificent views. This comprehensive, mixed-use development will also include a medical facility and additional car parking..

All dimensions to be verified on site. All discrepancies to be clarified with project Architect. This drawing is the property of Benoy Architects and is issued on the condition it is not reproduced, retained or disclosed to any unauthorised person, either wholly or in part without written consent of Benoy Ltd. Ordnance Survey material is used with the permission of The Controller of HMSO, Crown copyright AR 159670. The CDM hazard management procedures for the Benoy aspects of the design of this project are to be found on the "Benoy - Designer's Hazard Identification and Management Sheet" and/or drawings. The full project design teams comprehensive set of hazard management procedures are available from the Planning Supervisor/Safety Coordinator appointed for the project.

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King’s

Road

Term: 2months | Role: Designarchitect | Area: 23,000sqm | Team: 3p | Typology: Retail&Offices

The site sits on the southern side of King’s Road and is bound by the existing developments on the remaining three sides. The existing slip road access to the properties at the back of the site is required to be retained. The slip road also leads to the existing car park at the rear of the site. Rights of light constraints, particularly towards the rear of the site need to be considered. An existing bus stop sits directly in front of the site. The existing development lettable area is spread across three levels with some minimal retail space on the basement floor. The client has advised that the current site capacity is circa 65,000sqft. Create a destination and experience that doesn’t currently exist on the King’s Road. Develop a new site narrative and identity for the site and the surrounding part of the street. Understand and investigate the locality and establish requirements and

The Oman Botanic Garden is a project of national importance and international signifi cance. It is an institution which seeks to understand and preserve the diversity and fragility of the natural world. Oman Botanic Garden will bring habitats to life from all over Oman. Visitors will be able to experience the landscapes, damp, cool fog forests of Dhofar all year round, the baking sand desert, unique juniper forest, arid, salty Sabkha, dry gravel desert and the beautiful wadis all in one place; surrounded by a stunning nature reserve. The mix of both internal and external habitats will be the largest of its kind in the Arabian Peninsula.A comprehensive master plan was prepared by Atkins in 2006 to guide the development of the Oman Botanic Garden from concept through to implementation. Since that time, the development of the Oman Botanic Garden has proceeded and strayed from the recommendations of the original 2006 Master Plan to such a degree that the current design does not meet the philosophical, scientific or operational requirements of this internationally signifi cant project.

Typology: Museum

In collaboration with the architects Hago, the Badajoz Museum of Fine Arts is developed, recently nominated for the MIES VAN DER ROHE architecture 2014 awards. “With a prestressed skin of perforated cement on the facades, ceilings, and interior borders to visually link together the building’s different spaces, the Madrid studio Hago – Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio and Emilio Delgado Martos – has carried out the expansion of the Fine Arts Museum (MUBA) of Badajoz and the renovation of the existing building, located in the historical quarter of the Extremaduran city. The cultural complex presents two new constructions connected by a courtyard, each opening up to two different streets. While complying with heritage guidelines and paying attention to archaeological remains as well as to contact with party walls, the program addresses functional, spatial, and structural requirements in an L-shaped scheme.”

HAGO OFFICE |

Rehabilitation of the Mainz City Hall and its Surroundings

Term: 2 weeks | Role: Architect | Area: 5.700 mÂ˛| Team: 5 p |

Typology: Cultural

This competition arises from the city of Mainz. The Goverment sets a renovation of its headquarters (building of Arne Jacobsen), and a recovery in the immediate surroundings. Proposes the removal of the existing podium of 5 m, which is considered a barrier for the population, from the urban to the river arising in the East facade of the building. This seeks to bury the road traffic, to generate greater freedom of transit between areas, proposing at the time an extension of one of the main routes which will result in the river as leisure and recreation.As for the intervention of the building itself, it reorders highlighting the points of greatest architectural wealth. At the time, the unevenness to access the building in its original state is also removed.

Typology: Cultural

The competition rules state an urban needs in order to revitalize the historic center. Our proposal, far from raising global action, aims to create a major trigger for the activation of this historic downtown area. It is proposed to build a visitor reception center on the site located north of Ramon y Cajal street, opposite the main entrance of the Museum. This building largely solve all the needs identified in the program of the competition with regard to public car parks, entrances, bus stops and connections between Juan de Quesada street and the historic center. The proposal suggests that a space that serves as presentation for all the cultural axis that exists in this area of the city is settled inside.Its roof, a large viewing platform, will serve as a public space prior to the Museum and emphasize the presence of the institution in the urban fabric, also dignifying the presence of the building in the environment.Generally a dual action is pursued, since in the north facade the permanence of historical space is represented, while in the south the volume that hosts all functional uses of the program offering a more contemporary image of the built complex is drawn.The proposed Museum of Fine Arts in Gran Canaria presents a comprehensive review of the existing set in order to renew its functionality and upgrade relations with the environment of the city.

Developed in the new area of expansion in Tres Cantos, it set up an innovative project and social character, which includes a new botanical garden open to the people of the city, both for your enjoyment as mean of entertainment, and for itÂ´s use as a productive element; and on the other hand a launch of houses. This type of accommodation is defined by its social atmosphere, through a series of low incomes. At all times these will be linked to the agricultural world that confines them...However and taking advantage of the ecological and social nature of the proposal, developed on behalf of another private promoter (Senior Center) that just like the housing part, interacts with the Botanical Garden

Typology: Cultural

Project developed in collaboration with Gallinero architects. The project departs from the published bases by the UNESCO for the development of a cultural center in Bamiyan’s zone (Afghanistan). This way two basic concepts are decided that will remark the evolution of the project: The reorganization of the area that exists nowadays, seeking to reorientation of the sights towards the locations of the former budas (UNESCO heritage) and a game of walls of concrete Cyclopean that similarly adapt to the new level curves, they are contain as requested in the program. Therefore the presence in the existing landscape scarcely changes, and the set goes unnoticed except where it´s now open, seeking interesting sights. At the same time a landscape labor is being done integrating a series of agricultural gardens in the environment, to energetically self-supply the set and to use the activity of major economic power of the zone.

Typology: Cultural

The mobility and elements of communication Schindler Company called for the following contest, without an exact location or concrete program, except for the fact of settling the problematics of accessibility and the use of some of his products. This way, the possibility of combining these guidelines with some architectural elements for it to be able to recover. For it focussed on the sight of Moncloaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current beacon, in disuse for years. The intervention supports the sign of identity of the uprightness of the existing building along with the atmosphere os these views. At the same time iwe mimetyze with the enivronment, burying the low zone of the building, covering the glass elevators that reflect the environment and generating a top platform from the one that will divide a steam clous that imitates the real clouds tat are around the building. To develop the visual mobiles according to the moment, a few frames are donte to condense the steam allowing the vision through them.

MUSEO DE AMERICA

AECID

RECTORADO UCM

PARDE DEL OESTE

103,5 m 100,0 m

Typology: Hybrid

The general idea of the project is based on establishing agriculture, and architecture of the programs linked to it, as the hinges between the urban environment and the rural adjacent; the aim of this project where we draw our full attention, and all interventions developed along the territorial scale of the Rotterdam; Taking advantage of the economic gaps and areas lacking green, which are set on the outskirts of the North, both Rotterdam and adjacent municipalities, through specific interventions are connected by agriculture and green locomotion, generating a new agro-arquitectonica hinge linking Rotterdam society with their immediate natural environment through primeval activity in the composition of cities.The architectural piece is located in the urban limit (West side) of the municipality of Vlaardingen, near Rotterdam. The plot is defined by its location in what is nowadays a park without hardly any use lack of connections with the surrounding urban fabric, and itÂ´s limited on one of its sides by a channel that acts as a fissure or urban-rural limit. The project is defined because of itÂ´s original conception of an element that is directly linked to their constructive and structural nature from different areas and points of action.

PHOTOGRAPHY W O R K S 2008 - 2016

01. Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam | 2014 02. Hogeschool Utrecht | 2014 03.Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam | 2014 04.Rome Museum MĂŠrida | 2013

01. Cultural Centre CajaGRANADA | 2012 02. TV Tower, Amsterdam | 2014 03. The Wave, Amsterdam | 2014

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A Picture Is a secret about a secret. The more its tells you, the less you know.

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Printed 2018

All the images, drawings, and references to any project issued here are property of the respectives offices (GRIMSHAW ARCHITECS, BENOY, HAGO OFFICE, AND AROCAS & GONZALEz ARCH.)

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BORJA FERNANDEZ | Architect & Architecture Photographer +44 07922 465682 | bffarchitect@gmail.com | www.bffarchitect.tk