KU Leuven Portfolio- Camila Méndez

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2022

Portfolio

Selected Works Camila Méndez Barba


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Profesional Work

Architecture Design- Interior Design - Commercial Architecture

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Visualization Work

Independient Work - Virtual Reality - Interactive Architecture

Academic Work

Thesis- Urban Lab - Social Architecture Work

Contents

Selected works of the 2018-2022.


Type_Professional Location_ Bogotá, Colombia Role_ Lead Architect Designer Status: Built Coface Headquarters in Colombia, is designed from the concept of helping others, which is the objective of the company that provides help to other ventures and ideas to improve and as a new business. The strategy of the French company is to design an open office, divided under the character of an interactive space; where collaborators can have a single complete community and use different types of jobs. The change of the workspace scale provides collaboration between workers, multifunctional zones, among others. By doing this, the office enviroment becomes a dynamic, energetic and living organism around vegetation and the city.


Wooden style with a comfy propositive design in corporative offices

Hybrid model of office, with a excelent workspace and vegetation.

Colaborative and workspace zones around the office


Type_Professional Location_ Bogotá, Colombia Role_ Lead Architect Designer Status: Built The design of the Husqvarna Headquartes in Bogotá explores the relationship between nature, skyline and the feeling of living in the city. Within a detail technology in the offices and corporate branding; the space explores and experienced the atmosphere of calm design enviroment that guaranteed an exceptionally healthy work stage for employees through high tech automation and further corporate grow. The heterogeneous and multidirectional space reveal the different spaces of the project within an organic rhythm, brough peaciful experience.


Husqvarna


TDCX, an acclaimed and technological center of technology that starts and decides to select Bogotá as its first headquarters in Bogotá. Its intention is to carry out multiculturalism in all its locations, trying to use typical Colombian characteristics combined with the new image of the company. Its “Be Happier” slogan reveals the need to contemplate a creative space, of tranquility, with all the facilities. The new vision of the TDCX offices will be based on a job where its collaborators can grow and find a family in the physical space.


work ambience with high-tech for employees

createadaptable enviroments within a user-centered.


Residencial Family House in Guasca, Colombia Type_Professional Location_ Guasca, Colombia Role_ Lead Architect Designer & Construction Status: Built Furniture Design 2D and 3D visualization Negotiation with suppliers Direct handling with client The design of the country house in Guasca converges on the careful and persevering intention of mimicking the comfort of home and the peace of nature.

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Interior and Architectural Design

Mainly, the design was intended to be a space of comfort, warmth and familiarity. The greatest use of the site’s characteristics was required, such as its natural lighting, connection with nature, so that the installation and construction would be carried out in a responsible manner.

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Concesionarios Chevrolet LATAM Type_Professional Location_LATAM (Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Perú, Venezuela) Role_ Lead Architect Designer

With a lead marketing and advertising colombian company Inxait, General Motors and Chevrolet Colombia, we create the brand manual for the low, medium and high-end dealers of the North American Chevrolet was developed. The spatial characteristics, both architectural and constructive, that the infrastructure of the commercial business should have in the different locations in Latin America were established. The project was intended to promote a collaborative, strategic space for brand sales through the renewal of the brand’s interpretation.

The work was under construction approximately six months where the main intention was to clearly establish within the world what solutions would be proposed withthe brand to adopt and evolve to a facet of high-end vehicles, as the CHEVROLET brand is the largest Colombian car dealer.

Harmonization of the brand-concept vitrinism

Spatial Alternation


Design / Visualization Car dealers LATAM Chevrolet - General

Design Sections: The most important areas for pretotyping the brand were mainly: - General sales room - Delivery areas - Workshop area - Management Office - Waiting room - Accessories - Exterior (Vitrinismo) - Signage

The main task within the project was to transform the brand from being recognized as cheap, replaceable and not very authentic, into a high-end brand that offers products within reach of its customers. For this reason, their corporate image had to change, they proposed a total adaptation of both furniture and architectural infrastructure implements. The technological adaptation for the support of its commercial advisors was a key part at the time of the construction of the design.


Strategic proposal for the corridor between the Chia-Guasca

municipalities,

Colombia.

From the typical culture as a structurant.


Thesis Proposal Type_Educative Location_ Guasca, Chía, Tocancipa, Colombia Role_ Lead Architect Designer (Student) Status: Design

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The proposal then, would consist of a regional model based on the particularities or the genius loci of each of the places, which would be the nodes of fusion between adjoining territories. The continuation of the architectural program would provide training at any of the levels and would establish a collective relationship beyond the administrative, a solution to expansion as an active border method and a filter for activities that are indifferent to the area.



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The ETSAB already made a first incursion into this project within the subject of the third year of Degree “HIC_Habitatge i Ciutat (Housing and City)” in June 2015. With a workshop format of two weeks, it was one of the events that took place in the OPEN ETSAB-ETSAV action as an opportunity to open public Schools of Architecture to the city. After starting the academic year from “Habitatge i Ciutat” for the third consecutive year with “Arquitectes deCapçalera”, now there is the opportunity to take it to its maximum capacity within the Pilot Floor, this being the star activity of the exhibition.

Type_Educative Location_ Barcelona, España Role_Architect & Furniture Designer (Student) Team: Camilo Guerrero Angela Osorio Jacob Súarez Status: Built http://arquitectosdecabecera.org/


Many workshops for painters, sculptors, photographers, potters, restorers, puppeteers; - And families who live in the factory housing. In addition, we must take into account that the Projects in Can 60 are supported by both institutions public and private; and that we are part of the associative fabric of the


Type_Educative Location_ Madrid, España Role_Architect & Furniture Designer (Student) Team: Camilo Guerrero Angela Osorio Jacob Súarez Status: Built

During the week (from June 29 to July 4) we will manufacture a large number of OPEN SOURCE urban planning objects that will be coordinated within a common structure that will give meaning to the entire performance.Aworkshop with PKMN, Basurama and zuloark organized by the PEI of the Javeriana University of Bogotá and Medialab Prado. Battle Royale / Medialab Edition is a workshop on open designs and common infrastructures, which proposes practical pedagogical exercises on how to furnish the urban laboratories that we can find in a city like Madrid.



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Architecture

Visualization

Render / Ilustration /Content

Software Model Software_

Rhinoceros, 3DSMAX, Sketchup, AutoCAD 3D

Post-Production & Rendering_

V-Ray, Lumion, Photoshop, After Effects, Mental Ray

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SKILLS Software Autodesk Autocad 2014 Level: High Software Photoshop CS6 Level:Very High Software Illustrator CS6 Level: High Software Excell Level: Medium Software Autodesk 3dsmax Level: Medium Software Google Sketchup Level: Very High Software Dreamweaver Level:Medium Software Premiere PRO CS6 Level: Very High Software Autodesk Rhinoceros Level: High Software Autodesk Revit Level: High


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