CAMILA OCEJO ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN PORTFOLIO
CAMILA OCEJO ocejoc@gmail.com
WORK EXPERIENCE Jan 2020
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE 2020
Rachel Thomas Studio www.rachelthomasstudio.com London, UK
Freelance work for the design of a Stella McCartney showroom and the set design of an Apple TV music video
Feb 2019Dec 2019
Jan 2016Dec 2016
Sundae Architecture & Design Studio
instagram.com/sundae__studio/ London, UK Part II Architectural Assistant for design projects including residential, retail, restaurants, and entertainment developments / Website design
2013
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construction
Legorreta Arquitectos
www.legorretalegorreta.com Mexico City, Mexico
Apiacás Arquitetos
Flat Refurbishment in Bosque Real
Location: Bosque Real, Mexico City Client: Ruth Navarro Stage: Construction Project design and construction supervision
www.apiacasarquitetos.com.br Sao Paulo, Brazil Proposal development for Mirante Park, Priacicaba IAB contest -honorable mentionand for Urban Operation Água Branca, Sao Paulo IAB contest, partnership with Terra e Tuma Arquitetos
2013
ACADEMIC TRAINING 2017-2018
2017
Project design and construction supervision
2014-2015
Location: Tecamachalco, Mexico City Client: Ramón Rodriguez Stage: In Use
Mexican Tennis Open Stands
Location: Acapulco, Guerrero. Client: Grupo Pegaso Stage: In Use
Market Refurbishment Project
Location: Cuajimalpa, Mexico City Client: Adrián Rubalcava Stage: In Use
Project development of facade and renewal of hydraulic and electric systems
MSc Landscape Urbanism
Architectural Association School of Architecture London, UK Thesis Distinction “Fish Match: A network for Inshore Fishers”
House Extension Fuente de la Raza
Project design
www.baso.mx Mexico City, Mexico
Graphic and editorial design for magazines and competition entries / Architecture postproduction arrangement / Event organization and coordination
Oct 2014May 2015
2013-2014
BASO Arquitectos Project development management
Jan 2016July 2016
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LANGUAGES AND SKILLS Spanish English Portuguese Software
Native Speaker Advanced (IELTS Academic 7.5 Band Score) Advanced Modeling
Postgraduate Architecture Course
University of Liechtenstein Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Escola da Cidade School of Architecture
Adobe
Bachelor in Architecture and Urban Design
Data Analysis
Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011-2016
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City, Mexico CEMEX Cátedra Blanca Studio Thesis Distinction “Water Negotiations” Foro ENTRE 2013/ Concept Development & Organization Architecture forum of 400 participants with guest speakers Frida Escobedo, Gabriela Carrillo, Marcos Betanzos, S-AR Studio, and Alejandro Sánchez goo.gl/h9i37m
Autocad 3D’s Max Maya Revit Rhino 3D Sketch-up Illustrator Photoshop Indesign Premier ArcMap
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS 2018
FUNED-CONACYT Scholarship
MSc Landscape Urbanism Architectural Association School of Architecture Scholarship from the Government of Mexico for Mexican graduate students to pursue further education abroad
2016
Cátedra Blanca CEMEX Award Best Thesis Project “Water Negotiations”
2016
Cátedra Blanca CEMEX Scholarship
2016
Archdaily Publication
Postgraduate Studies University of Liechtenstein
Water Negotiations, winning project for Cátedra Blanca CEMEX Award goo.gl/NchRhZ
MORLACO FLATS Baso Arquitectura 2017 Flat Building in Mexico City Location: Anzures, Mexico City Status: In Use
Flat 1: Living Room and Kitchen
Located in the heart of Mexico City, Morlaco was a development project of a three-story building that hosts five spacious flats, each one of a kind, distributed around two large patios. The clarity of spaces and simplicity of materials were leading factors in the design of the project.
Involvement: Fully developed the whole of the architectural project meeting building regulations and working closely with developers and other consultants to comply with the business plan. Worked up all the drawings from the Initial Consultation Stage to the completion of the Developed Design.
Photographs by Daniel Alonso ©
Flat 1: Main Bedroom
Flat 4: Living Room and Kitchen
Flat 5: Living Room and Kitchen
Front Facade
Flat 4: Kitchen
Main Patio
MARLU HOUSE Sundae Architecture & Design Studio 2019 House in Australia Location: Victoria, Australia Status: RIBA Stage 4 Completed (Technical Design)
Located in rural Australia, this spacious off-grid house for two is designed to be energy self-sufficient, using solar power and hydro heating. Featuring an outdoor kitchen in the courtyard to accommodate the client’s passion for cooking as well as a pool overlooking the fields.
Involvement: Undertook this project from a RIBA Stage 2 up to working drawings for tender (Stage 4). This included technical design, from foundation plans, structure detailing, and lighting design to finishes and schedules. All presentation drawings and renders developed by me.
The structure was carefully designed to contribute to the energy efficiency of the house. Both the ribbed concrete slab that separates the house from the ground and the light metallic structure for the roof were designed to allow air voids and a layer of insulating material to contain the temperature
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BRAND SHOWROOM Rachel Thomas Studio Fashion Brand Showroom Location: London Status: Concept Design
The design intends to highlight the brand’s mission and commitment towards beautiful and sustainable fashion. By playing with scales, the user would come in to what would feel like an enlarged organic cotton field. The four cylindric capsules would serve as information points for users to learn about the process of cotton.
Involvement: Concept design and development. All presentation drawings and renders developed by me.
CULIACÁN FLATS Baso Arquitectura 2017 Flat Building in Mexico City Location: Condesa, Mexico City Status: Construction
Culiacán is an ambitious residential development project that configures a total of 24 flats and duplex apartments distributed around one main patio in a corner plot. This sevenstory building had to comply with many regulations including parking space, ventilation, ducts, limits on meters squared built, etc.
Involvement: Fully developed the whole of the architectural project meeting regulations and working closely with stakeholders and consultants. Worked up all the drawings from the Initial Consultation Stage to the completion of the Developed Design.
The leading idea behind the project arises from one of the biggest obstacles: privacy and protection of noise coming from the avenue with a high level of traffic. The balconies are used as filters for all interior spaces providing each flat with an outdoor area. Following this idea, all flats were designed with open kitchens and common areas in order to provide flexible and spacious areas.
CITY RELAY LOBBY Sundae Architecture & Design Studio 2019 Lobby Prototype for City Relay Location: London Status: Concept Design
The project was designed as a prototype for City Relay’s stores to be replicated accordingly to the company’s needs. Thought as a multiuse office space with a home-like welcoming appearance as if hosts were walking straight into their living rooms. Involvement: Concept design and development of project proposal of the modular stand and spatial layout.
WATER NEGOTIATIONS CEMEX Cátedra Blanca, Bachelor Thesis Design Studio, CEMEX Award for Best Thesis, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City 2015-2016 Location: Valle de Chalco, Mexico Professors: Diego Ricalde Emmanuel Ramírez www.mmx.com.mx Team Members: Altair Cerda Andrea Gonzalez CEMEX Cátedra Blanca is a oneyear design studio divided into three interrelated phases. The territorial analysis and research of the basin containing Mexico City, followed by the analysis of the selected site, concluding with the development an architectural project that responds to the previews two phases- in our case, a market in Valle de Chalco. Mexico City was built on top of a lake on the lowest point of a watershed. Throughout the past century, the metropolitan area has grown in such a rapid pace that this lake has undergone a big transformation to supply the growing population, generating disjointed systems while exceeding the regenerative capacity of nature. Today, the pumping up of underground water represents one of the main sources that supplies the population of Mexico City, which along with concrete waterproof floors, leads to problems of subsidence and heavy flooding, while exhausting the underground water reserve.
The Municipality of Valle de Chalco Solidaridad in the State of Mexico, located right next to the lake of Chalco, suffers from several social and environmental issues caused by the mismanagement of land and water. The urbanization over underground water recharge areas obstruct storm water and the overflowing lake to infiltrate the ground causing floods to sweep over most of the municipality. The pictures show the prominent watermarks on the facades due to the constant flooding of Valle de Chalco.
The project aims to restore the ecosystem’s natural cycle while becoming a source of economic growth and prosperity. The project involves a technique where the overflowing water from the lake enters a filtration system of wetlands that generate a dike along the border of
the urban area and returns water to the aquifer through canals that run through the urban zone. The lake is re-purposed for agricultural practice while the lake front aims to host new program to support local economy and reactivate the relationship with water.
The market functions as an element that articulates the city and the lake. It consists of large umbrella-like structures surrounding squares that work as regulators for the overflowing water as they progressively flood and redirect it along the canals. The structures are arranged at different levels in order to stand clear of the
flood while being articulated through a single ramp that runs throughout the project. The market is fragmented into 22 units, each supported independently by a central structural core and foundation to avoid the collapse of the building caused by the uneven thrust of the lake terrain.
KING VALLEY HOUSE Sundae Architecture & Design Studio 2019 House in Australia Location: Victoria, Australia Status: Concept Design
Rural house set in vineyards overlooking a valley. The project consists of three main sheds that contain several covered outdoor areas to maximize habitable exterior space overlooking the rows of vines that surround the site.
Involvement: Concept design and project development. All presentation drawings and renders post-production developed by me.
ARCHTRIUMPH PAVILION Sundae Architecture & Design Studio 2019 Archtriumph Pavilion Competition www.archtriumph.com Location: Museum Gardens Bethnal Green, London
The pavilion points out the relevance of natural form within the city, and comments on the isolated condition of urban living. As the visitor moves towards the heart of the maze, the presence of the museum gardens and the buildings that surround them dissolve through the surrounded faceted mirrored surfaces, finding, at the core, a solitary tree.
Involvement: Concept design and development. All presentation drawings and renders developed by me.
Status: Finalist - Mention
All images belong to Sundae Architecture & Design Studio
UNITED CHIP SHOP Sundae Architecture & Design Studio 2019 Fast Food Restaurant Location: Shaftsbury, London Status: RIBA Stage 4 Completed (Tecnhical Design)
United Chip started off as a pop-up restaurant in 2018. This fish and chip shop aimed to revive this national staple with a modern and sustainable approach. The design meant to reproduce this intention through pop colors, tiled surfaces, terrazo flooring, powder coated steel frame booths, and a sharing table.
Involvement: Concept design and development of project proposal. Contributed to spatial layout, flooring, lighting and furniture design. Took part in the development of technical drawings and fit-out detailing.
FOI ET JOI HQ Design Studio VI, Winning Project, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City 2014 Location: Port Au Prince, Haiti Professors: Fermín Andrade Victor Alcerréca Juan Carlos Cano Team Members: Estefanía Anaya Andrea González
This was a competition winning project of a rural school post-earthquake in Haiti. Although it was meant to be built, the funding fell through and was left only as a project. The buildings are arranged around several plazas that host diverse activities related to the buildings surrounding them. The project’s is thought through stages so the organization’s builds the complex according to it’s economic possibilities and spatial necessities. On a first stage, solid concreteblock service cores are built of the corresponding main areas of the complex. Afterwards, modulated wooden structures grow from these cores holding either bedrooms or communitarian spaces, permitting the headquarters’ development through a clear and organized constructive system that can be carry out in stages.
Se levantan los muros de block configurando los dormitorios de las cabañas.
Del primer módulo de cabañas se levantan vigas y columnas de madera que actuan como la estructura que porta al el techo.
Se anexan muros que delimitan la zona de lavado y el área de depósito de basura. Estos son de mayor altura para aislar olores y ruidos que puedan provenir del cuarto de lavado.
FISH MATCH
Landings Per Port
MSc Landscape Urbanism, Master Thesis Design Studio, Thesis Distinction, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London 2017-2018 Site: Sidmouth, United Kingdom
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Professors: Jose Alfredo Ramirez Clara Ortiz Eduardo Rico Team Members: Raúl Bielsa Fish Match compiles an extensive analysis of the United Kingdom’s economics, policies, and social structures around the fishing industry. The proposal is a series of guidelines and spatial policies to empower fishermen and coastal communities while fostering closer dialogues between disciplines at local, regional and territorial scales. We tested these guidelines in Lyme Bay at regional scale, and then in Sidmouth at local scale. Over the past decades, fishing policies have led British small-scale fisheries into an overall deprivation, impacting the way fishers live and how they interact with the environment, the market, and the communities that have historically depended on this industry. Around 80% of the fishing vessels in the UK are under 10 meters long. This determines the amount of quota fishers get, and although small inshore fishers account for the majority of United Kingdom’s fishing fleet, they only catch around 6% of the total landings due to quota restrictions.
<10 m vessels
Landings for Over 10m Vessels
Landings for Under 10m Vessels
Vessels Per Port
83%
<10 m vessels
Over 10m Vessels
Under 10m Vessels
Navigation Routes for Over and Under 10 Meter Vessels
The drawings show the results of a simulation of the multi-layer spectrum of territorial production through methods of associative, co-operative production within fishers assisted with an app that displays the spawning areas and allows communication within fishermen to join fleets or exchange quota in order to become stronger competitors. This was performed in a yearly time lapse, taking into account seasonal factors such as wave data and the availability of certain fish species.
One Year Fischer Interactions in Lyme Bay
Year 2020
Sand Mounds
In Sidmouth, the outcome of the regional strategy would require a bigger mooring space that could host up to 40 boats while having a market and recreational area. For this, we used a coastal evolution model software to simulate sand movement and retention through time to create a natural marina with softer waves where mooring was feasible. The project then incorporates a system of floating tyres to protect the accumulated sand from eroding and to host new program including a floating market. These steps would serve as design guidelines for fishers along the coast to be able to replicate a working strategy accordingly to their needs.
Year 2024
Mooring Area
Year 2028
Floating Market
Year 2032
Proposed Mooring Area in Sidmouth
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