ARMANDO BUSSEY
ARMANDO BUSSEY
INDEX
LUCAS CULTURAL ARTS MUSEUM DEMSA COLLECTION BRENT CROSS MASTERPLAN AJTC DRINKING FOUNTAIN WALLTOPIA LOOKOUT POINT SAN ANGEL HOUSE SAN ANGEL HOUSE PAN EN VIA ENCINO HOUSE TATSU TRIANGLE FIRE MEMORIAL CHILDREN’S PARK LIFE AQUATECH CITÈ VERT TOWER & BRIDGE FURNITURE & DESIGN ART
EMPLOYEE WORK
OWN WORK BUS Architecture
ACADEMIC WORK
BONUS
Born in Mexico City, he attended at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) School of Architecture, and was awarded with a scholarship to finalize his studies at the Technique Superior Architecture School of Madrid´s Polytechnic University (UPM) in Spain. Graduated with honours under academic excellence. Bussey holds a Post Graduate degree in Architecture and Urbanism in the Design Research Lab (DRL) programme, graduating with honours by distinction from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, UK. He has two different minor degrees: “Photovoltaic solar energy application for the urban planning” by UPM, and “Real State Project Valuation” by UNAM. Armando has been distinguished with the following awards: AA Project distinction 2013, Architectural Association Bursary 2011, “Magallanes SMILE Excellence Scholarship for studies at European Union”(2007), Intra-workshop 2007 contest Mexico City, “Red Humboldt de Acción Comunitaria SC (NGO)” contest first place for “ECO-Tourist project.” Zaha Hadid Architects, Kokkugia (Robert Stuart Smith), Dellekamp Architects, Paul Cremoux Studio and Abalos & Herreros are some of the offices that Bussey has collaborated with in London, Madrid and Mexico city, which encompass a range of work that goes from interior and product design up to masterplan urban developments. In 2010 founded Bussey Urban Studio of Architecture (BUS Architecture) as an independent project architectural firm dedicated to the pursuit of progress, evolution and experimentation in favour of an authentic integration of time, space, ground, man and architecture itself. The practice has achieved projects like: housing, cultural, social, public space regenerations, offices, medical facilities, roof gardens, real estate and restaurants.
ARMANDO BUSSEY SOLLEIRO Architect
In 2010 became cofounder partner of IncubaUrbana S.C., a municipal infrastructure project development incubator, where a multidisciplinary group of consultants work together to deploy municipal projects involving technical, economic, sustainable, legal and social matters. Developing mobility urban studies, landscape projects, highways, soil use regulations and town centre projects for Municipal and State governments as; Jalisco; Guanajuato, Morelos, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Hidalgo, linking BUS Architecture as a team member in urbanarchitectonic work and production. His work has been published by Magazines, News papers and blogs as MARK, Dezeen, designboom, evolo, lemay, suckerpunch daily, among others.
ARMANDO BUSSEY SOLLEIRO Architect
Male Nationality: Mexican Birth: March 20th 1985 Phone: (+44 0) 7742129073 37 Bryantwood Road, London, UK. N7 7BG Web: www.armandobussey.com / www.busarchitecture.com E Mails: armandobussey@gmail.com / bussey@armandobussey.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - May 2013 - to date -
- Jan 2013 - May 2013 -
- Jan 2008 - Jun 2008 -
Recognition: Merit Honours diploma under academic excellence.
Madrid’s Polytechnic University (UPM), Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM). Degree: Academic exchange (one year). Excellence Scholarship for Studies in EU. Recognition: Magallanes SMILE 1st. Place Scholarship.
Madrid’s Polytechnic University (UPM), Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM). Degree: “Photovoltaic Solar Energy Application for Urban Planning” Seminar.
Recognition: Diploma.
PROJECTS AND WORKSHOPS BLOOM The Game (www.bloom-thegame.com) London UK (Design, Construction and Promotion)
Bussey Urban Studio of Architecture (BUS Architecture) (Founder).
- Jul 2012 -
AA Visiting School Sao Paulo. Brazil (Assistant Tutor.) Project: SHOP-FRONT FAB 2012
- Jul 2009 -
Thesis and final year project. Project: CitèVert, Real state self-sufficient mix-use tower. Recognition: Merit diploma under academic excellence.
-Project Architect: Design and team coordination.
Projects: Dental Clinic interior design (Private, 2013-14). Pan en Via Restaurant (Private, 2011-12). Encino House (single familiy house, 2011) TATSU Restaurant (Tatsu Japanese grill, 2011). Children’s park in Jalisco (Government, 2010). UNACH Campus masterplan (Government and UNACH, 2010) -Personal career on the professional practice. Responsible for directing and leading the office as well as
the design process in the implementation of projects aimed at promoting progress in Mexican architecture.
- Summer 2008 -
IncubaUrbana SC. (Association with BUS Architecture) (Partner). Projects:
Director of the “Urban Growth Plan of Irapuato 2011-2024” Central Market of Cuernavaca. Zapopan Jalisco Urban Study. Public park in Jalisco.
-Looking for associations I became partner of the company and ultimately Director of the architecture division, developing urban analysis studies for state and municipal governments and linking as well the architecture projects to BUS Architecture (own practice) in a multidisciplinary teamwork.
Dellekamp Architects (Mexico).
Projects: Lookout Point/Restaurant (Public project in association with Herzog&DeMeuron). INFOBOX (Government project). Gösta Museum Extension. Polanco Housing Building -Project Leader: Responsible of design, executive project, budget, schedule and managed relationship
- 2013 - Oct 2010 -
- Aug 2010 -
with client and construction companies throughout the execution.
Paul Cremoux Studio (Mexico).
Projects: Red House (Private housing project). Santamarina House (Private housing project). -Architectural Assistant: Responsible of design and drawing package with a sustainability perspective.
Abalos & Herreros Architects (Madrid)
Internship: Assisting in the development of physical/digital models and presentation plans.
- 2007 -
Selected by UNAM to compete for the best Architectural thesis nationwide. Selected to become part of the university honour archive.
Mexico City’s Ministry of Urban and Housing Development (SEDUVI) Project: Mexico City’s Historic Downtown Urban Rescue. (International Workshop). -Be part of a team consisting of an international workshop with the universities of Texas,
Maya • Modelling • Animation • Render 3DS Max & V-Ray • Modeling • Animation • Render Autocad • 2D &3D Rhino • Grasshopper • 2D • 3D
AWARDS PROFILE AND PUBLICATIONS “The Life Aquatech” project publication at: Mark Magazine, Lemay Magazine, Dezeen, Designboom, Suckerpunch Daily.
CS6 Adobe Suit
CitèVert, self-sufficient mix-use tower. (Publication title).
Source: El Pulso de Mexico (politics and social development magazine).
Processing / Python
Think Green, Sustainable Architecture. (Publication title).
MicroStation
1st. And 2nd. Place in the Intra-workshop Contest.
Sketch Up RealFlow MudBox
Colombia and Puerto Rico, meeting leadership, adaptation and cultural interaction.
Source: DPreferencia Magazine (construction magazine). Project: Hosing complex in La Roma district, Mexico city. Institution: UNAM’s Faculty of Architecture.
- 2007 -
SOFTWARE
Softimage • Modeling • Animation • Render
English Spanish French
Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM), Faculty of Architecture. Degree: Architecture Licence.
modelling up to constructive package planning, dealing with consultants and external associations.
Recognition: AA Honours Distinction / Winner of AA Bursary 2011.
2012-2013
- Aug 2008 - Oct 2009 -
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Projects: Collider Activity Center, Sofia Bulgaria.
- Nov 2009 - Jan 2011 -
- 2004 - 2009 -
- 2007 -
Robert Stuart Smith Design (London)
- 2010 - 2012 -
Architectural Association School of Architecture. Postgraduate - MArch in Architecture & Urbanism / Design Research Lab (DRL)
Projects: Demsa Collection (Istanbul, Commissioned Museum) Brent Cross Masterplan (London, Commissioned Commercial development) George Lucas Museum (Chicago, competition) AJTC Kiosk (London, drinking fountain) -Architect: Responsible of design, and execution of the projects in their different stages, from concept
- Jan 2010- 2014 -
LANGUAGES
- 2007 - 2008 -
Zaha Hadid Architects (London)
- 2011 - 2013 -
ACADEMIC PROFILE
1st. Place in Community Action Humboldt Network Contest.
Project: Eco-touristic development in the forest of Michoacan state.
CNC & Laser cutter
Commissioned project to develop the George Lucas Arts museum in Chicago, dedicated to be the house of a cinematographic iconic legacy oriented to the world and new artist generation. The building seeks to create an awe inspiring space which is closely connected to its environment and the passing seasons. The Key is to bringing together the Lucas collection and the Chicago context into a strong and coherent proposal is the balance between an open, visible building close to the nature and the city whilst providing a series of connected flexible galleries and a controlled and protective environment for the collection. The entrance on the upper level is inspired by the universal spaces created by the Chicago based architect Mies Van de Rohe and the epic panoramic vistas of the Star Wars movies. The lower level is a more controlled environment responding specifically to the gallery program. In this sense, the concept is generated from the idea to have a light weight shell standing on 6 points which lay on a raised podium, achieving a large span panoramic transparency across the main atrium of the museum. The shell is surrounded by a 360 itinerate landscape experience, passing from water and meadow up tu desert and hard surfaces.. The atrium is conceived as a large, open and transparent space allowing views through the building and to the lake beyond, making the context a main part of the museum attraction. The building has been designed to maximise natural daylight where required; to minimise solar heat gained through the building envelope in summer, but to use it during the winter. The roof naturally forms and functions as horizontal shading device, providing shelter from the Sun in summer and allows intake of daylight from low sun during winter. The art collection is distribute in 7 thematic galleries located on the ground floor but leaving an sculpture field dedicated to large Star Wars objects on the Main Atrium above the ground level to take full advantage to the public exposure and height.
CHICAGO, USA
employee work / 2014
Office: Zaha Hadid Architects Client: Skywalker Ranch www.zaha-haid.com
Zaha Hadid Architects
LUCAS george lucas cultural arts museum
GROUND FLOOR
DETAIL SECTION
TRANSVERSAL SECTION
+57'-1''
Exterior Seating Area
+26'-3''
Waterfall
Interior Seating Area
Courtyard Garden
Prefunction Area
+26'-3''
Gallery 7 Digital Art
Circulation
+0'-0''
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
+26'-3'' +11'-5'' +0'-0''
Prefunction Area
Green rooftop
Museum Shop
Entry Lobby
+26'-3'' 1:15 slope
Archives - Mezanine Floor Archives
Courtyard Garden
Circulation
Gallery 6 Fashion
7
5.50
6
E 18th Drive Towards Moe Drive / E18 Station
7
+0'-0'' Car Park
STRUCTURE BEHAVIOUR
COMPLEX PROGRAM
Podium Level +8.00
Mezzanine Level +4.00
Ground Floor Level Âą0.00
Level -1 -3.20 Level -1 -6.40 Level -1 -9.60
The museum is located at bay in Istanbul Turkey, one of the oldest areas of the city. The project aims to house a bast art collection divided in traditional turkish art and new contemporary art. The concept comes from a box that gets carved and crystallize to create the interior spaces that divides the public spaces. The crystallization was generated by an algorithm that subdivide the surface according to the pattern that grapes along the cube exterior. The museum contains 3 levels of art exhibition, 1 level of presentation and auditorium and the top levels are destined for a restaurant and a sky bar.
Status: In process, DD stage ISTANBUL, TURKEY
employee work / 2013-14
Office: Zaha Hadid Architects Ltd. Client: DEMSA Group
Zaha Hadid Architects
DEMSA turkish art museum
ELEVATION
RATIONALIZATION
Diagonals / Coffered Beams Structure
02 Panel
Angle Stud
y 03 04
02
01
05
06
Acute angle < 30 degre e Acute angle > 30 degre e
Demsa Collection
PANEL 01
PANEL 02
PANEL 03 smallest angle
PANEL 04
Extrusion Option
Zaha Hadid Architects
6mm
Centre Line 1mm Panel Offset
2mm
SECTION A
SECTION C
The proposal for Brent Cross Cricklewood master plan has been guided by the primary movement flows and corridors defined in the Design and Access Statement. Movement routes are re-oriented to facilitate greater fluidity and connectivity between North and South, throughout the development and to the leisure facility from: The East/West High Street South axis, The Living Bridge and Market Square and an enhanced pedestrian component on the new A406/Tempelhof Avenue enabling a more seamless link from Brent Cross Shopping Centre and the Wanda Mall leisure facility at Station Quarter. Enhanced links between public transport and master plan from the East and West via High Street South, to the leisure mall and Brent Cross Shopping Centre will further enhance connectivity and integration with adjacent areas. The approach to the Brent Cross Cricklewood master plan area aims to balance the sound urban design approach taken by the master planners with a more fluid and contemporary approach to urban planning whilst incorporating the aspirations and ambitions of Wanda Commercial Planning and Research institute. We have considered the incorporation of the significant leisure component in the redesign of the master plan. The quantum of development combined with the level of investment in housing, commercial office, hotel, industrial/distribution, community, shopping and public space should ensure the place is an integrated contemporary community, sustainable as a place and makes a significant contribution to the regeneration of Brent/Cricklewood.
www.zaha-hadid.com LONDON, UK
employee work / 2014
Office: Zaha Hadid Architects Client: WANDA
Zaha Hadid Architects
BRENT commercial & regeneration masterplan
Facade skin
Connection Bridges
Building Massing
Pedestrian pathway/plaza
MASTERPLAN
0m
25m
50m
100m
200m
400m
MALL COMPOSITION
The concept of the kiosk design is based on the continuous loop of the water cycle. The design is a twisted curve which describes the canopy and collection pool. The canopy performs the task of collecting rain water and also channels it via the structureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curvilinear geometries to the pool at in base of the kiosk, creating a new public fountain for the area.
Zaha Hadid Architects
DRINKING AJ Turkish Ceramics The geometry of the ceramic tiles was the driving force in rationalising the form. The kioskâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surfaces were resolved specifically to incorporate repetitive flat tiles without compromising the design intent. 93% of the tiling required for the kiosk uses tiles of a single dimension: 50 x 300 mm. The remaining 7% of tiles vary in size to achieve the twist in the form. The tiles will be laid with an irregular surface in areas where water will run to further animate the design and display the dynamics of water in motion. Water will continue to circulate throughout the kiosk in all weather conditions. Drinking fountains are embedded within the primary structural loop of the kiosk at varying heights for adults and children. The cantilevered canopy rises over the seating and drinking fountains on one side of the pool to offer shelter. Alternatively, the seating on the other side of the collection pool is open to the sky.
Status: Won in competition. In process SOUTH BANK, LONDON, UK
employee work / 2013
Office: Zaha Hadid Architects Client: AJ Turkish ceramics
ELEVATION
RATIONALIZATION
91% of pieces = same size
LONDON SOUTHBANK
Office: Kokkugia LONDON Client: Walltopia (climbing walls) Area: 20,000 m² SOFIA, BULGARIA
employee work / 2012-2013
Walltopia creates OTHER NATURAL WORLDS The Collider Activity Centre design provides an iconic building that communicates to all that Walltopia is the leader in creating OTHER NATURAL WORLDS. Walltopia is the international leader in designing and producing climbing walls. If the Collider Activity Centre were to look like any other building it would not communicate the creative and productive power of Walltopia or the excitement it brings to so many people! An iconic backdrop to many spectacular events Collider will form the back drop for many spectacular events held outside and inside of the premises. A grand design is capable of producing a much more powerful media image for Walltopia than any company logo or statement providing the design is unique and simple in concept. An unrivalled 3D spatial experience. The design of the centre diverges from commonly perceived building languages by appearing to be carved out of a solid geological formation. Space, form, pattern and material convey a three dimensionality not normally seen in buildings. Most buildings appear to be constructed from planar facades, which always leaves the impression of a paper-thin architecture. The Collider has been designed through advanced computational methods in such a way that one perceives depth in the carving out of space due to intrinsic relationships between space,materials and patterning that encompass these. This creates a visitor perception of an authentic 3-dimensional space and material - an immersive experience not to forget!
Kokkugia
WALL collider activity centre
COMPLEX PLAN
CONCEPT
GROUND FLOOR
AGENT BASED CONTOURS
FACADE SECTION
UNWRAP FACADE & TILING
AA DRL thinkTANK
Architectural Assosiation Design Research Lab MArch (DRL) thinkTANK: Armando Bussey, Edward Luckmann Ana Wang, Vishayuth Meenaphant www.thinktankaadrl.com
academic work / 2012-2013
The Life Aquatech investigates relationship between the building systems that mediate between interior and exterior and architectural design by shifting from air based systems to water based system. Human comfort is one of the main drivers of the investigation, seeking an ideal relationship between the userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comfort in relation to temperature and how the building can self-regulate in order to provide it. By focusing on the behaviour of fluid as part of both generative design methodologies and evaluation tools for functional criteria, the Life Aquatech proposes the deployment of a building system where water plays an integral role in the building tectonic. Through the collection, storage and distribution of water, the building prototype aims to create a cohesive architectural environment through the interaction of different water based building systems resulting in a fusion of design aesthetic and building performance. The proposed water management system is conceived as operating in relation to seasonal and daily cyclical needs in relation to water, where the behaviour of the building expresses how it engages with these criteria both in real-time performance and in the design process through the use of lightweight rigid material and soft expandable material. By integrating fluid based building systems with architectural design intent, Life Aquatech seeks out an architecture in which system and architecture operate as a single self-regulating, dynamic, and integrated, biologically inspired soft-bodied organism that generates new forms of space configuration through the use of fluids. Considering the use of advanced materials and construction technologies that allow for the layering of different material properties into single composite materials offers a critique of conventional construction methodologies where buildings are seen as heterogeneous composition of unrelated elements. Life Aquatech seeks to conceive of an architecture in which systems operate as a series of symbiotic relationships, or as ecology of building systems layered as one material. By developing generative methodologies that rely on environmental inputs and programmatic requirements in relation to fluids, Life Aquatech aims to deal with issues of topological formation, integrated fluid networks, and fluid allocation in a single architecture in order to challenge the modernist notion of hermetically sealed architectural environments frozen in time.
AA DRL Postgraduate
thinkTANK - Life Aquatech
BUILDING SYSTEMS (ARCHITECTURE AND PERFORMANCE)
SYSTEMS IN ARCHITECTURE ANALOGY
SAMPLE CATALOGUE (STRUCTURE, FORM & FLUID BEHAVIOUR)
SURFACE CORRUGATION AS WATER CONTROL
FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
DESIGN FLOW SCRIPT
DISTRIBUTING VEIN GENERATIVE PROCESS
STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION 1
2
initial structural analysis
3
gravitational flow analysis
4
ridged structural analysis
ridged stress analysis
SCRIPT SYSTEMS OVERLAY
MATERIALITY COMPOSITE
SKIN FLOW LOGIC
MATERIAL FABRICATION
SEASONAL & DAILY CYCLES
HEATING night / winter
LIFE CYCLE (WATER COLLECTION)
1 YEAR
2 YEAR
OFF GRID WATER
3 YEAR
PREVIOUS RAIN WATER
4 YEAR
5 YEAR
GRID WATER
0 12:0
00
0:00
0: 0:00
0:
00
12:0
0
COOLING day / summer
OVERALL MARKET CONTEXT
INTIMATE INTERIOR
PUBLIC INTERIOR
1 :1 CHUNK PROTO-MODEL
PROTOTYPE: MARKET SITE: ANTALYA, TURKEY
SECTION
VIA
BUS Architecture
PAN dinning room
A casual restaurant largely focused on home deliveries, located in a tight space and sited on a corner, was remodelled and equipped with a new interior design. A suspended canopy, formed by planked wooden panels that hold light tubes, is placed on a number of different levels to create a 3-D character that presides throughout the space. This and a gray slate wall are the space’s signature elements. The dinning room was decorated with light-toned wooden tables and gray chairs characterized by their simplicity and clean lines. At the rear, along the service bar, a window revels a white wall and the kitchen entrance; above, a blackboard announces the day’s menu. As the site is located at the corner of a square, a large window opens to integrate the interior and the street terrace.
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Own professional work / 2011-12
Office: BUS Architecture Client: Pane En Via Company Area: 100 m² Status: Built
FLOOR PLAN
SECTION
suspended sculptural facade
MEMORIAL
Client: Triangle Fire Coalition Area: 2,400 m² New York City, USA
Own professional work / 2013
An abrupt awakening, Like being hit by bucket of cold water, it’s how the 1911 Triangle Factory Fire hit a nation. It’s legacy, the awakening of a labour conscious. The splash represents a “relief”, the aid that did not arrived in time. This fire was the unfortunate evidence of the lack of laws and rights for a working class. The splash of water takes the allusion of an action… A tragedy that was strong enough to wake up the humanism of a nation. The intension of this sculptural facade not only represents the hope that could extinguish the pain or fire, it emerges to celebrate the inception of a new era, which reminds us those women did not die in vain. A bold and alluring facade that contrasts with the history is the result of the process, a proposal capable to put New York back on the map of the avant-garde cities. The proposal has the possibility to adjust itself to different sizes of budgets, without changing drastically its main formal expression, in order to conserve the symbolism of the piece. These variations are guided mainly by the several options of materiality, fabrication process and overall weight. The light weight sculptural façade is mainly proposed to by fabricate in high density foam, sculpted by a CNC Milling machine, which takes the shape from the computational design strategy. Furthermore, the pieces would be assemble to create a mould that would be cast in fiberglass and resin to achieve structural qualities and a smooth surface finish that can be crystal clear, white or metallic appearance. In technical matters, the sculpture would be hanged and tensed by cables that will be supported from the roof and a secondary structure to carry the weight. The cables will hold the sculpture, suspending it at mid height, and constraining its movement by being attached to the ground floor.
BUS Architecture
TRIANGLE
FABRICATION
RESIN & FIBER-GLASS PROPOSAL
1
CNC PROTOTYPING
2
ASSEMBLY
3
CASTING
SOLID FINISH PROPOSAL
SPLASH 1,000,000 particles
4
FIBERGLASS FINISH
dwelling
BUS Architecture
ENCINO golf club private
Surrounded by a forest, the house was born from a balance between the wishes of the client, the bio-climatic requirements and the strict regulations of the neighborhood regarding to aesthetics. Located in the Encinos Golf Club, the house is a place of contrasts. The house takes its location responding to the topography of the site, creating a central circulation axis which acts like a pivot point from where the whole house rotates in order to enhance the views and energy efficiency. From this generic process is that the project achieves its X shape, which opens to the golf field. Although an X is totally symmetric, the design challenge was to make the house look absolutely different from every side.
TOLUCA, MEXICO
Own professional work / 2011
Office: BUS Architecture Client: Private Area: 1,800 m² Status: Under construction
CONCEPT
AXOMETRIC VIEWS
DETAILS
GROUND FLOOR
BUS Architecture
TATSU japanese grill Japanese interactive restaurant located in “Paseo de las Palmas,” one of Mexico’s most valuable avenues. The project’s challenge was to convert the site in an interactive place, where the architecture and interior design play with customers by lights, projections, sounds and touch screens. The restaurant was designed to allow 64 people seated, including Bar and terrace, using a table module that works as a big touch screen where the customers view and order their meals. Because the place is located in a basement, the entrance to the restaurant was made by a spiral staircase that emerges to the surface as a light and translucent cylinder made of glass which turns to a big lamp at night. The Bar is contained with a perforated steel sheets envelope with a backlight that illuminates the place in a progressive way, following the people walking in front of it. Toilets are unified in a unisex space, where the cabins are translucent and transparent but turns opaque and dull instantly when the door is locked, leading us to see the available and the engaged ones. The facade is composed by a monochromatic LED wall that turns on by movement sensors that interprets the silhouette of the pedestrians, working as a light mirror letting people play with the architecture.
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Own professional work / 2011
Office: BUS Architecture Client: Tatsu restaurant group Area: 250 m² Status: Under construction
LOGO DESIGN TATSU = DRAGON
touch experience
tatsu
TATSU japanise grill
LOGO DESIGN
FLOOR PLAN
FLOOR PLANT
FREE TOILET
OCCUPIED TOILET
REST AREA PLAY AREA 3 ENTRANCE
PLAY AREA 2
PLAY AREA 1
Office: BUS Architecture & IncubaUrbana SC. Client: Government of Jalisco Area: 2,400 m² Status: Under reglamentation
BAMBOO LABYRINTH ENTRANCE
JALISCO, MEXICO PARKING
Own professional work / 2010
Public playground located within downtown of Zapopan’s city in Jalisco state. The project emerges through Zapopan’s Central Hospital reorganization, which intends to decrease its area in the lot by restructuring the building and making it grow vertically in a new construction, so the released space (50%) would be used as a daycare centre and a playground for children, equitable. The complex lies in a didactic and educative concept, applying and introducing a series of games that interact with children, developing both learning and fun, focusing on children of different ages, needs and interests. The project features a bamboo maze extending its surroundings and demarcating the entries, being part of the vegetation; bringing privacy and control, converting itself into the park’s main attraction by gathering children from 3 to 12. Also includes a sandbox and green areas for children from 3 to 6, where they play alone based on experiences related to tact, sight and sounds. For children between 6 and 8, which tends to play in group, it was designated one of the central spaces for a game module equipped with slides, swings, mobile equipment and a series of colorful steel tube telephones manufactured in situ that rise from the ground to communicate spaces sonorously, encouraging social relationship. For the groups of children from 6 to 12 were designed spaces with webs, climbers, threedimensional structures and a game module due to their interest in activities related to dynamism, action and physical and mental skills. At the same time, the whole park is divided into 3 sections: the first one, bordering the street, is occupied by the bamboo maze; the playground occupies the middle section, covered by a colorful dampening floor, giving itself safety and visual appeal. The third zone consists of green areas and benches, which are elevated from the ground level to provide parents a higher visual control. A public parking lot embraces the park for users.
BUS Architecture
CHILDREN’S public playground development
BAMBOO CONCEPT
PARK LOGO
parque infantil hospitalito
MASTERPLAN
Office: BUS Architecture & IncubaUrbana SC Client: Government of Cuernavaca Area: 45,000 m² CUERNAVACA, MORELOS, MEXICO
Own professional work / 2010
Adolfo Lopez Mateos Marketplace is located in Cuernavaca’s downtown is considered the most important groceries supply of the city. The main core was designed by Mario Pani, a renowned Mexican architect, and it was inaugurated by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos in 1960. Although the proposal was visionary, today the complex shows overpopulation of official and illegal merchants who block and invade aisles, roads, entrances, exits, parking lots, upload and download areas. This growth without control has generated a total chaos in function, efficiency, health and public safety. Therefore, the government request us an architectonic and urban rescue proposal. Mexican marketplaces have been earning through time an image of disorder and dirtiness. But despite the chaos, it is plenty of folklore: colors, flavors and smells are mixed. Due to that, the project is approached using the famous Mexican “SARAPE” image as an interpretation of the colorful layers that cover Mexican streets on marketplace’s day. This folkloric element integrates traditional and cultural ideas to the architecture. In the first stage the project rescues the original main vault and adds several out-of-sync ruffled roofs to the sideways to generate a colorful effect of movement. A new commerce module maximizing the space for a better organization and capacity reorganized the internal distribution. Three different spaces were projected around the complex; in the south there is a threestory underground parking lot, in the north an upload and download area for merchants and in the front another parking lot on ground level, while the bus station was relocated underground, beneath the lot. For the second stage two large commerce structures were designed for the east and west sides of the complex to fully regularize merchants and to prepare for future growth. Furthermore, the bridge of the marketplace, entrance and main connection to downtown, is proposed to be free of merchants and converted to a garden high way as a transition space between city and a culture-commercial experience.
BUS Architecture
CENTRAL of cuernavaca
5142 COMMERCIAL SPACES 919 PARKING SPACES 27 BUSES (STATION CAPACITY)
MEXICAN MARKET
SITE
CONCEPT
CURRENT CONDITION
UNDERGROUND BUS STATION
This is a neutral architectonic intervention that complements Herzog & De Meurons Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum) located in the Parque-Mirador Independencia of Guadalajara. The lookout-point and coffee-restaurant rivet the natural disemboguement of Av. Independencia but unobtrusively align to the sliding gesture of the landscape. Both facilities were achieved through a single architectonic manoeuver that consisted of an excavation and displacement of the look-out ground onto a jutting platform. The main virtue of this direct and simple intervention is that both facilities are inconspicuous to sight and their interrelation subtly emulates the landscape gesture of the ravine. In addition to the restaurant and as complement of the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landscape, a prototype kiosk pavilion was designed with the aim to be spread with in the area, bringing shelter to the people as meeting / picnic points. The pavilions were considered as prefab units with the capacity to assemble to each other in order to generate different sizes and distribution.
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO
employee work / 2010
Office: Dellekamp Architects Client: Government of Guadalajara / Herzog & DeMeuron Area: 2,000 m² (restaurant) 62,000 m² (park) www.dellekamp.com
Dellekamp Architects
LOOKOUT restaurant & landscape design
CONCEPT
SECTION
RESTAURANT FLOOR PLAN
The design was conceptually developed as two independent private functional areas with a social public place joining them. The formal structure and the materials used in the project allow the building to be in context with the historical neighborhood of San Angel in MĂŠxico City.The orientation of the new building towards the west and south helps to position the project itself regarding the site of the old adjacent house at the same time it opens to enjoyable views of the forest area.
Paul Cremoux Studio
SAN HOUSE single family project The new house unfolds and integrates the existing trees. These trees confine an important element in the control of temperature and sunlight as they create a micro climate to which the building attempts to contribute. The central public area of the house is settled in between an entrance patio and the main garden generating different views as well as natural ventilation. Materials and green technology systems are being proposed as an essential part of the project. Red ceramics are being chosen to give the project a contemporary appearance while maintaining the context of the vicinity. The interior of the house is simple and luminous. A piece of certified wood wraps the dinning area all the way up to the upper family room. From this room there is a possibility to walk through an open corridor to an exterior roof garden. This upper garden is also a public space half enclosed where you can find a hammock and enjoy the view of the area.
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
employee work / 2009
Office: Paul Cremoux Studio www.paulcremoux.com Area: 574 m² Status: Built
SCALE MODEL
EXECUTIVE PLANS
Situated on a very dense tree hollow, where light and temperature is poor. The main volume is strategically located by a series of guiding lines: The house has the minimum programmatic terrain contact area to minimize interaction with the ground.
Paul Cremoux Studio
SANTAMARINA single family dwelling Located on an open tree spot; the house is surrounded by the forest with an only way in, through a slight wood/metal bridge. Composed as two dark plates that have a variety of perforations and volume terraces the project integration to the environment is achieved by colour correction
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
employee work / 2008
Office: Paul Cremoux Studio Client: Private Area: 550 m² / 5,920 sq. ft. Status: Built
FACADE
GROUND FLOOR
Thesis project Land area: 2,200 m² MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
academic work / 2008
The project came up of with the concern of the excessive and endless growth of Mexico City and the stagnation of the architectonic progress. It responds as an alternative real state model including different uses inside the building and maximizing space efficiency to provide services and green areas ensuring a self-sufficient development without sacrificing the financial terms demanded by investors. It is a real state project of a mix-use tower designed under bioclimatic criteria and sustainable principles holding commercial, office and housing concepts. The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s morphology seeks to break with the urban context rigidity appearance but keeping the visual rhythm provided by surrounding buildings. The tower grows in the west side of the land leaving a free public plaza on the ground floor as an urban connector among streets. The tower emerges as a great structural skeleton with three different incrusted blocks separated by green and common areas that define its aesthetical and functional personality. It finishes with a sport garden covered by a large photovoltaic generator. The first six-level block is for commerce and has six spaces to be used as restaurants due to the high demand of the zone. The second block has ten levels for offices, auditoriums, multiple use saloons and garden areas that work as small bio-climatic generators inside the building. In the third block there are 14 levels for housing distributed in four sizes (S, M, L and XL) in one or two levels for different types of families. All the apartments in every level are isolated from the others by green areas working as orchards to ensure nutritional sustainability inside the complex. In this way people feel surrounded by an urban context as it happens in the city. The parking lot is located in the building foundations with a robotic system that provides 512 spaces in an area of only 16,500 sq. ft. for housing, offices, commerce and general public in the zone who demands those areas due to the lack of parking availability in Polanco district, thus reinforcing the financial sustainability of the project.
Thesis
CITĂ&#x2C6; self-sufficient mix use tower
solar photovoltaic generator L
L
M
S
sport garden
housing
M
M
S
XL
XL
HOUSING TYPE PLANT
offices
commerce
TOP VIEW
FRONT FACADE
LATERAL FACADE
madrid exchange
TOWER BRIDGE p a v i l i o n The project is located in the Picotajo area within the city of Aranjuez in the community of Madrid, one of Spain’s most representative and historic places due to the well-known Royal Palace with its gardens and the geometric draw of orchards, designed by architects Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera in the XVI century. To enhance tourism, Aranjuez authorities call for a series of temporary and permanent works and projects of different approaches, integrating its history with a contemporary architectural point of view. The project came up as one of those temporary exposition pavilions, placed in the central intersection points between the orchard’s roads and the Royal gardens, which are separated by the Tajo River. The pavilion took a concept of Tower and Bridge at the same time with the intention to get multiple experiences, using the bridge for pedestrians as a link between the Palace and the orchards. The bridge decreases its volume alluring the walkers entering by the front, while in the back the landscape is portrayed with a constraining view. Likewise, the bridge volume reproduces itself in an upright way intersecting it, and generating a tower where an elevator and stairs let the visitors reach a sky view of the Royal Palace and its gardens but most of all, the orchard’s geometric draw which can only be seen from a higher point.
Madrid Exchange ARANJUEZ, SPAIN
academic work / 2007
The pavilion has a steel structural skeleton that is covered by an envelope of perforated steel sheets, which has a rusty appearance. The volumes adopt the shape of a horn trying to re-create the sensation generated when walking through the green roads of the orchards. The entrance and the exit of this vegetation tunnel are enhanced because they seem endless from a mid point. Sun light filters inside the steel envelope of the pavilion reproducing the light effect that happens when the sunrays cross through the branches of trees.
FACADE
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
SITE
STREET VIEWS
FURNITURE DESIGN TEQUILA “DON JULIO” BAR FOR RESTAURANT
JOSE CUERVO FURNITURE FOR DUTY FREE STORE
ROOF GARDEN FOR PRIVATE APARTMENT, MEXICO CITY
BLOOM THE GAME, COLLABORATION, LONDON UK
Furniture & Design / Own professional work / 2009-2014
JOSE CUERVO VIP BAR IN “REINA” NIGHT CLUB, MEXICO CITY
“CAD” DENTAL CLINIC RECEPTION, MEXICO CITY.
ART
art / 2004-2014
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