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Profile
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Profile & personal statement
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Curriculum vitae
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Publications
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Architecture
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Hans Wall Haus
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Amsterdam 297
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Helsinki central library
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Patio House
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Dream´s pavilion
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Stands
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Urrea 2010
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Urrea 2011
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Comex 2012
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Media & design research
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Starlings shelter
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Light pillars
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Sonnengarten
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PROFILE
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PERSONAL STATEMENT
As a Professional Designer with high-level management experience in the Architecture Industry, I’ve learned that the best way to stay motivated, achieving high quality performance is to find yourself doing what you like the best. Thus, several years ago I took the decision to follow the path of contemporary architecture practice. In Germany I graduated from the program M.Sc. Media Architecture from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where I deepened research on technological innovation, media and its integration with architecture. Nowadays I’m particularly interested on how the economy is shifting from physical worlds into virtual spaces and digital interconnections. I should mention my previous work in Mexico city at HERNANDEZDELAGARZA S.A DE C.V, leading the architectural design area, I’ve been involved in specific ways of contemporary architecture practice; the first one is the development of modernist design, focusing attention on minimal aesthetics and constructions details, the second one is focused on international contests, where the proposals are conceptualized pushing the limits through digital design techniques, and the third one are Stands, where the approach to corporate design and branding requirements allows to integrate innovation through media techniques.
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CURRICULUM VITAE Professional 2017-2018 GNÄDINGER ARCHITEKTEN Architect
Berlin
2017-2017 AVANTGARDE Architect, Spatial Brand Design
Munich
2010-2014 HERNANDEZDELAGARZA Architect
Mexico City
Degree Bauhaus-Universität Weimar M.Sc. Media Architecture (2016) Universidad Iberoamericana Course of Advanced Architecture (2009) Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Architecture and Design Faculty Architecture Bachelor (2008)
Congress & volunteer MAB 2014 Media Architecture Biennale 2014 “World cities” Student volunteer Aahrus, Denmark Advanced parametric urban research SCI-ARC Los angeles (2010)
Exchanges & courses Universidad de Buenos Aires Architecture Design and Urbanism Faculty Student Exchange (2006) Centro Cultural Rojas Art & Philosophy Course Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006) Aayojan School of Architecture Summer student exchange Jaipur, India (2005) 6
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal data Name: Carlos Abraham Ornelas Aispuro Address: Wittstocker str. 9, 10553 Berlin, Germany Phone number: +49 0178 3624424 e-mail: carlos_aoa@hotmail.com Nationality: Mexican Date of birth: March 14 1983
Skill sets Digital Drawing & Coordination Photoshop, Indesign, Ilustrator, Corel Draw, Microsof Office Digital Modeling & Production 3dmax Advance modeling, V-ray rendering Maya Basic modeling, Basic rendering Rhino Modeling & V-ray rendering Grasshopper Visual programming Sketch up Modeling & renderingz BIM softwares Archicad Basic overall knowledge Programming & Electronics Arduino Basic overall knowlegde Processing Basic overall knowledge
Languages Spanish English German
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PUBLICATIONS Personal Diagraphics (Conceptual Diagrams) Harper Collins Publishers, New York, Printed in Spain 2011, Editor & Texts: Macarena San Martin
What Urban Media Art Can Do, ( Sonnengarten project ) Susa Pop, Tanya Toft, Nerea Calvillo, Mark Wright. avedition Stuttgart, 2016.
in HERNANDEZDELAGARZA S.A C.V. L’ARCA Selection of Young Architects in Asia and Latin America by Richard Meier Italy, 2011 (Poste Italiane Spa Sped. in A.P. D.L. 353/03 (conv. in L. 27.02.04, n° 46), art. 1, c. 1, - LO/MI)
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Poder Magazine (Various projects) Mexico City/ 2012/ Year 8/ ED No 11
Website Publications Archello, Helsinki Central Library, Europaconcorsi, Helsinki Central Library
World Interior Design, Fascinating Exhibition Spaces, Stand Comex 2010 Phoenix Publishing Limited, 2012, Autor: Aimee Wu and Anna Qu
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HANS WALL HAUS
BERLIN
Hans Wall Haus
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Hans Wall Haus The Hans Wall House combines generosity with glass, light and bold curves Directly on the legendary Friedrichstrasse in Berlin-Mitte, a new architectural eye-catcher will be built at a first-class location by 2021. The design by architect Gnädinger Architects envisages a seven-storey building with retail, office and residential spaces covering a total area of 3,000 sqm and an underground car park. The 400 sqm ground floor, which can be divided into three rental units, offers ideal conditions for businesses: The Hans Wall House is located directly at the intersection of Friedrichstrasse and Torstrasse – in the midst of a lively, popular and well-developed environment. The curved double-glass façade and the exciting layout are sure to garner attention. At the same time, the glass fronts provide natural light and a smooth transition between inside and outside. State-of-the-art air-conditioning technology is part of the high-quality fittings of this property. The ceiling height of 3.80 m creates an agreeable feeling of spaciousness and pleasant expanse, as well as providing utilization flexibility.
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Studio: Gnädinger Architekten Position: Architect Phases: LPH 3 and LPH 4. Year: 2018
HANS WALL HAUS
BERLIN
Interior view Penthouse
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Ground floor
Penthouse
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HANS WALL HAUS
BERLIN
GROUNDFLOOR The 400 sqm ground floor, which can be divided into three rental units, offers ideal conditions for businesses: The Hans Wall House is located directly at the intersection of Friedrichstrasse and Torstrasse – in the midst of a lively, popular and well-developed environment. The curved double-glass façade and the exciting layout are sure to garner attention. At the same time, the glass fronts provide natural light anda smooth transition between inside and outside.
Facade view
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2.OG - 5.OG
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HANS WALL HAUS
BERLIN
OFFICE FLOORS The office spaces of the Hans Wall House are located on the first to fifth floor. A representative lobby with reception counter on the ground floor creates a visitor-friendly impression. Each of the 450 sqm large floors is modernly air-conditioned and naturally illuminated by floor-to-ceiling full glazing with integrated sun protection. The supply of electricity and network connections via tanks in the raised floor allows the use as an open-plan office as well as the customised division into team and individual offices.
Facade view
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APARTMENTS
MEXICO CITY
AMSTERDAM 297
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AMSTERDAM 297 The project is defined as a mixed-use building which includes four apartments, two of 105 m2 and 2 of 180 m2, two PH of 180 m2 with roof garden and a restaurant. It is located on Amsterdam street in Mexico city. The main facade responds to the inner function of the complex, creating a continuous connection through the terraces. This unique element along the faรงade helps for the integration of large openings in each apartment, allowing an excellent illumination inside the common areas. The ground floor was designed for a commercial space, specifically a restaurant, which would be part of the life on the Amsterdam corridor.
Studio: HERNADEZDELAGARZA S.A. DE C.V. Position: Architect Activities: Overall design process, functional analysis, visualization. Year: 2014 20
APARTMENTS
MEXICO CITY
PH2 floor
PH1 floor
First floor
Ground floor
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APARTMENTS
MEXICO CITY
The formal distribution in “L” allowed the location of some apartments at the rear of the property overlooking Amsterdam street. This project is also part of the heritage conservation to preserve the existing façade of the original house.
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CENTRAL LIBRARY
HELSINKI
Helsinki Central Library
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Helsinki Central Library Valolaatikko, which means Light Box, is the proposal of an international competition for the design of a Central Library located in the center of Helsinki. The design is a functional result of the study and combination of culture, entertainment and technology so that it can be much more than a traditional library. Its form adjust to the urban context of the Töölönlahti area allowing to have different views of the cityscape as well as creating a relation to the park and bay located close to the library thanks to its dynamic skin which covers most of the building. Also, the building promotes the pedestrian and cycle access from the plaza, park or the street. The skin’s openings will be optimized to promote daylight to all habitable spaces and passive solar heating to communal circulation areas. A public project like this is the perfect opportunity to be a showcase for Sustainable Design. Innovative Strategies, should be evaluated and if implemented, have the potential to be a learning source for users and visitors. The proposed library will meet the highest standards for sustainability by following an ‘Integrated Approach’ throughout the design process. The project will achieve a minimum rating of a recognized International Certification Scheme such as LEED ®, BREEAM International, Living Building Institute or equivalent.
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Studio: HERNADEZDELAGARZA S.A. DE C.V. Position: Architect Activities: Overall design process, functional analysis, Parametric surfaces research. Year: 2012
CENTRAL LIBRARY
HELSINKI
Interior view from lobby
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Underground floor
Ground floor
First floor
Second floor
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CENTRAL LIBRARY
HELSINKI
SOLAR ACCESS ANALYSIS These graphs show the cumulative isolation values for the whole year in Helsinki. This analysis helped to identify which surfaces will receive the most and the least solar radiation. It can be seen that the south vertical surfaces are the ones that receive the most solar radiation, followed by the west and the east planes. Then the sloped roofs toward the park are surfaces with the least radiation.
Interior view
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West Facade
East Facade
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CENTRAL LIBRARY
HELSINKI
South Facade
lounge view
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PATIO HOUSE
ESTADO DE MEXICO
Patio House
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Patio House 2011 Estado de Mexico Patio House is located in the State of Mexico, Mexico. On the first floor are the parking lots and the service bedroom. Entering the house from the front door found the living rrom, the dining room. The circulation revolves around an inner courtyard, which can be accessed from three sides. East of the house has the kitchen with the room service, and to the west lies an open terrace. The bedrooms are on the back of the house, along with their respective closets and bathrooms. A square within a square is the scheme that governs the distribution of space, allowing a simple way of contemplation and contact with the outside on a private view. The aesthetics of the house is governed by the simplicity and minimalism of the orthogonal white wall, as well as transparency of the main facade, which, stretches across the width of the house with a clean and free flying.
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Ground floor
Studio: HERNADEZDELAGARZA S.A. DE C.V. Position: Architect Activities: Overall design process, functional analysis, visualization.
PATIO HOUSE
ESTADO DE MEXICO
Stairs & terrace view
Rear facade
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Frontal terrace view 36
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PATIO HOUSE
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DREAM’S PAVILION
NEW YORK
Dream’s Pavilion
Dreams Pavilion 2013 New York Our Proposal is based on the reutilization of recycled car tires, which after concluding their usual life cycle we adapt them in an architectonic approach that provides protection against inclement weather, as well as generates public ergonomic spaces to read, play, work, eat, take a nap, or just relax. Due to the material composition, this structure will provide parents the security they need when their children use the space as a playground. They would be able to jump, climb, run, or play safely. The circular floor plan of the pavilion responds to the same circular form of the tire, located in a radial way in which initial point points the principal access to the pavilion. This generates a central yard which can be used for leisure and entertainment such as concerts, lectures, conferences, etc.
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Studio: HERNADEZDELAGARZA S.A. DE C.V. Position: Architect Activities: Overall design process, functional analysis, Parametric form research.
Island Map
Dreams Pavilion 2013 New York There are 18 to 20 million wasted car tires generated annually in New York. This waste material is left in the New York Residential HHW Drop-Off Site storage, located in 605W 30th St. New York, NY 10001. Usually this material is not being recycled, so we propose to use this pneumatics in our concept during the exhibition. After is finished, the tires are destined to waste storages where they can continue their recycling process as crumb rubber or fuel. In this architectonic proposal we want to exploit the resources 100%, in this case cataloging the waste storage places of pneumatics as a raw material source, generating a great support for actual ecological movements. The project could be visualized as a reflection of citizens’ participation on fighting against global contamination.
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DREAM’S PAVILION
NEW YORK
Plan
Functional activities with tires
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Sunset view
Recycling Strategies
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DREAM’S PAVILION
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URREA 2010
MEXICO CITY
Urrea 2010
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Urrea 2010 Mexico city The 2010 Urrea Stand uproots on a 140 m2 platform in one of the largest exhibition of construction in Mexico. The volume opens its four walls to create a dynamic and fluid space. The front and rear facades have total openings, giving great transparency to the exhibit inside, where there is a lounge that serves as a social space for the development of public relations between the company and its visitors.
Studio: HERNADEZDELAGARZA S.A. DE C.V.
The slanted walls leads to an strategic location of the brand, which is visible from any point of travel and thus achieved a union between architecture and marketing campaigns.
Activities: Overall design process, functional analysis, visualization, construction supervisor.
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URREA 2010
MEXICO CITY
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Urrea 2011 Mexico city The 2011 Urrea Stand uproots on a 140 m2 platform in one of the largest exhibition of construction in Mexico. Under an open plan scheme, the Stand is distributed in 5 settings, for each of the 5 exposed lines. The project has a mezzanine, which enables the interaction with the user through a paint roller that discovers a digital image in the wall. In the middle of the stand we can find an interactive wall, which consists of restroom accessories and digital cards that project images of the exposed product lines in screens. An interactive shower device was also integrated to the design. It works as a cabin that simulates flowing water as if you were taking a bath.
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URREA 2011
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URREA 2011
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Comex 2012 Mexico city The biggest challenge for the development of this proposal was to integrate a diverse architectural program, where the Mexican Painting company Comex, could show the different solutions that account for the different segments, through the residential to industrial. The segments are divided into an architectural typology, and each display area allows Comex products for different applications, through furniture, walls and floors. This is precisely to demonstrate the concept of the exhibition. The roof of 450 m2 contains the different segments, which differ by volumes and colors, thus creating a clear space between each area, along with promoting aesthetic game between program segments.
Studio: HERNADEZDELAGARZA S.A. DE C.V. Position: Architect Activities: Overall design process, functional analysis, visualization, construction supervisor.
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COMEX 2012
MEXICO CITY
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Green section view 54
COMEX 2012
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Tendencies section view 55
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STARLINGS SHELTER
BERLIN
Starlings Shelter
Media Architecture Installation
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Starlings Shelter 2018 Berlin Starling flocks often seems to react to environmental perturbations as if of one mind. Thousands of birds elegantly dancing through the sky as one in a seemingly perfectly choreographed manner. This installation aims to create a digital shelter, which reshape its own form with the motion of every participant.
Artist: Abraham Ornelas
The dynamic logic of flocks will be triggered by the human presence and movements, thus generating and interactive and unifying experience.
Curator: Susa Pop from Public Art Lab
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STARLINGS SHELTER
BERLIN
Starling flocks diagrams
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This installation consist of a reflective wall, where the dynamic shelter is proyected as a videomapping animation. The movemente of participants is tracked and analyzed to interact with the proyected shelter. The reflective wall will give you the image of yourself inside the virtual animation.
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STARLINGS SHELTER
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Animation Click Here! https://vimeo.com/294937414 Animation of Interaction
YOURSELF INSIDE A DIGITAL SHELTER
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LIGHT PILLARS
JENA, GERMANY
Light Pillars
Facade as communicative interface
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Light Pillars 2015 Jena, Germany The project is based on a visual light phenomenon called “Light pillar”, created by the reflection of light from ice crystals which are suspended in the air. The installation aims to represent operations and cycles of living systems, on the one side invisible data from internal biological processes of plants, and on the other side human movements. Thus, people will be able to visualize hidden functions from other forms of life and also they will identify themselves with a strong symbol. “Der botanische Garten” in the city of Jena will be the building to host the Media Façade intervention as communicative interface, which will be attach on a section of the eastern side. The greenhouse hold different variety of plants that will be use to extract information through the principle of biofeedback technique, that focuses on obtaining data on various physiological functions of an organic body, using instruments to obtain records on different cycles of these organisms. By translating the received biofeedback readings in a synthesis of intermittent data, it will end up producing an abstract visualization.
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Msc Media Architecture Bauhaus Universität Facade as communicative interface First semester project Professors: Prof. Geelhaar, Jens Prof. Rudolf, Bernd Prof. Kästner, Andreas Prof. Mark Shepard Dr. Zierold, Sabine Guest: Dipl. Des. Susa Pop
LIGHT PILLARS
JENA, GERMANY
Furthermore the MediaFacade system will be shaped by two mirrors which are facing each other, in order to create an infinite reflection from any light that is in it. The mirror which is in the outside layer should be translucent, so the reflection could be admired from the outside. The lights of the frame will created a virtual illusion of deepness and the lights of the bottom will draw a line on a translucent fabric to generate the form of a pillar. Afterguard the light pillars will strength through the intermittent data extracted from plants, and also will follow the movements of the people through tracking technology.
natural phenomenon
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LIGHT PILLARS
JENA, GERMANY
Video Click Here!
https://vimeo.com/124654324 Video of the interaction with the prototype
Prototype
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Sonnengarten
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Msc Media Architecture Bauhaus Universität Urban Media Art
2015 Jena, Germany
Public Art Lab
The idea of the installation „Sonnengarten“ was to create a counterweight to the dominance of concrete and steel at the “Sonnenhof” in Jena. Connected by adopting given shapes of the courtyards modern architecture and design, the installation was supposed to be a temporary suggestions to improve the quality in public places by nature. The two existing ventilation shafts are used for the installations. By using organic materials for the construction and green walls with grass and plants, the installations are an contrast to the surrounding so that the site gets the attention it deserves as a central place in the city. While being neutral on site at daytime, at night the project set the courtyard in a new light and creates a completely new atmosphere. The top and bottom covers of the installation are transparent and allow to visualize a play of light from the inside. To involve the idea of a new way to get attention for nature in cities, while touching the plants the proportion of light changes. Not only so that people get connected to the place also they should directly get in touch with the plants and use them in a way the might never thought about before.
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SONNENGARTEN
JENA, GERMANY
Video Click Here! https://vimeo.com/156949885
Video of Sonnegarten installation in Germany
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SONNENGARTEN
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