Carlos Fernรกndez Vozmediano Architect, Seville (Spain), 1983 CV + Architecture portfolio 2007 - 2014
Carlos Fern谩ndez Vozmediano Architect, Seville (Spain), 1983 carlosfernandez.architect@gmail.com +1 (501) 507 7637
Education
Work experience
03/2008 Long cycle degree in architecture. University of Seville, Spain.
06/2012 - 07/2014 Europa19 Arquitectura y Construcci贸n.
Distinction: Urban landscape + Planning and heritage preservation 2009 CYPE structure calculation. University of Seville, Spain. 2010 FCE certificate. University of Cambridge, UK. 2011 TOEFL Ibt certificate (99/120). Computer skills BIM Autodesk REVIT Design Autocad 2D+3D Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator + Lightroom + InDesign 3D Google Sketchup VRAY Calculation Cype Cad + Cype Metal (concrete and steel structures calculation) Other Mac OS + Windows Office suite
Santiago (Chile) www.europa19.cl Retail + Housing + Public spaces
Position: Project designer, project manager and construction administration architect Duties: -Project design, producing details, drawings and specifications. -Coordinating specialities, specifying the nature and quality of materials required -Budget -Managing and coordinating the work of contractors, negotiating with them and other professionals -Site visits to check on progress, resolving problems and issues that arise during construction 02/2012 - 06/2012 PAN Estudio.
Santiago (Chile) www.panestudio.cl Competition + Public space design
Position: Project designer Duties: -Project design, producing details, drawings and specifications.
01/2011 - 01/2012 Freelance architect. Sevilla (Spain). Rehabilitation
Position: Project designer and construction administration + Building rehabilitation Duties: -Project design, producing details, drawings and specifications. -Managing and coordinating the work of contractors, negotiating with them and other professionals 08/2010 - 01/2011 Nero Architectuur Design.
Gent (Belgium). www.nero.be Housing + Master Plan + School projects
Position: Project designer Duties: -Project design, producing details and drawings -Competition 11/2008 - 05/2010 Arcadia Arquitectos.
Sevilla (Spain). www.arcadiaarquitectos.com Heritage + School projects + Housing + Office building + Public building
Position: Project designer Duties: -Project design, producing details, drawings and specifications. -Structure calculation
04/2008 - 11/2008 MX Arquitectos. Sevilla (Spain). www.emediez.es Environmental projects + Building rehabilitation
Position: Project designer + consulting Duties: -Project design, producing details, drawings and specifications. 07/2007 - 09/2007 Gardi Architecture. Novi Sad (Serbia). (www.gardireba.com) Housing + Offices
Position: Internship Duties: -Inside design -3D Models 09/2006 - 06/2007 MX Arquitectos.
Sevilla (Spain). www.emediez.es Environmental projects + Building rehabilitation
Position: Internship Duties: -Project design, producing details and drawings
01. Residential 02. Commercial 03. Educational 04. Public building 05. Landscape
Arrayan House Santiago (Chile) 2014 Architecture project + Construction www.europa19.cl We had an existing building constructed that had a kitchen, bathroom, a dining room and a small patio separating a parking area. We had to propose an extension of the house to provide adequate living area for the growing family. The main space of the project is the new entrance, connecting every “family” space of the house: the current kitchen and dining room with the new living room, its terrace and a den. The den can be part of the family area if desired, by opening or closing a sliding door, and is also the nexus with the private part of the house. This “private” part has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, with a private terrace separated from the main one. Santiago has a very mild climate and they use the terraces the main part of the year there so we designed the living room and the bedrooms with the intention of making them seem to be part of the outside space. That is why we opened the whole space with windows and we used the same material for the floors and ceilings, and made the sills of the doors flush with the floors. They also have privacy because the house faces the mountains. The back of the project is mostly closed because that side faces the other houses. This side of the house has a high, long, narrow window to let the light enter the corridor.
Golfo de Darien House Santiago (Chile) 2013 Architecture project + Construction www.europa19.cl This house in Santiago had two important requirements, light and privacy. This is the reason every room has a different patio that gives a private exterior space to each one, and why the house has two main skylights crossing the whole house in order to have light during the entire day ( one in the living room oriented to the north - south hemisphere, and another in the rooms oriented to the west - they have windows to the east ).
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Living room, dining room, a small bathroom and the kitchen are in the shared part of the house, with another living room to watch TV, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a playroom in the private part. The kitchen was another main space where the family spent a lot of time.
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1. Plot 2. Entrance + corridor 3. Main faรงade 4. Kitchen 5. Kitchen 6. Floor plan 7. Dining room + living room
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Los Jesuitas Barbacue Santiago (Chile) 2012 Architecture project www.europa19.cl We had a house with a big, empty backyard, with a temporary fence. The client asked us to design a cookout space, a permanent fence and a swimming pool. Cooking out is the most important social activity for Chileans. That is why they wanted a whole outdoor space with a kitchen, toilet, shower, a room to change clothes and, of course, the main space for a big table to enjoy their gatherings. The proposal was to close off the view and noise from the next house, opening the space to the west, to connect the swimming pool and have a lot of light during the entire day. In this way the open area would be sunny the whole day, private, and be part of this new open-air room. Inside it has a concrete counter where the family is able to cook, wood furniture, a wood deck in the whole space, white stuco walls like the rest of the house, and two grass steps were a slope of ground was before. The structure has three apertures. The main was thought with a second structure where plants were able to grow and create a fresh ambiance during the hot summer. The second is to give direct light to the cooking zone. The third one is the bathroom ceiling.
Machelem master plan Machelem (Belgium) 2010 Competition www.nero.be Machelem is split in two due to the Brussels ring road. It separates the city of Machelem from Diegem. This was a quick competition to propose houses that the city needed as well as city regeneration around the main church. The main idea of both projects is to have the parking lots outside the complexes to maintain the vegetation and little parks or squares instead of a mix of parking lots and houses that compromises the park-like feel of the space. Projects of condominiums are starting to appear in a country were the street has always been the main space. We didn’t want to lose this space to enjoy the street, changing side walks with parks. Project A uses traditional Dutch housing, Project B urbanises with a subterranean level, allowing houses to have two levels where only one is legal (from street level and above). A third part was designing a space around the church, with several underground parking decks, solving the difference of level with the houses and giving some summer- winter spaces around the trees.
500 Housing Oran Oran (Algeria) 2010 Competition www.arcadiaarquitectos.com Private competition after we won another one in the same city (the new town hall). Argelia and Oran were growing up more and more, and they needed a high level housing district. There were arriving lots of people looking for business, and some of them for some long periods of time. This project wants to give them private apartments where all this people are able to meet each other, with high standards. The towers were thought as two skins. The interior one is just a rectangle were the main program of the house is. The exterior is irregular and gives terraces and low down the temperatures. The idea was to avoid the direct impact between the sun and the interior skin. The space between towers were another main part of the project. It connects the whole space. We covered this space creating a micro-weather. Holes with plants in the roof and water spary systems refresh the connection, using the same concept that in the Seville Universal Exposition worked so well, but with a different design.
San Luis student dorm Seville (Spain) 2017 Architecture project + production information University of Sevilla San Luis District is located in the historical centre of Sevilla. The project has two different parts, one for students (developed prpoject) and another for doctors who have graduated but are still studying their specialist area in a nearby University Hospital. Due to the really big apple, I proposed a semipublic street breaking the site in two. The point was to achieve a big square for students and the neiborgooh. The empty space in the main building plus a empty first floor in the middle one, that connects with another patio, creates this big square. The faรงade is the result of horizontal windows where the tables are and vertical ones where the corridor is, with a samll balconey in double rooms. Vertical or whole openings are in the terraces that connects 2-3 rooms or common spaces. The project has 48 rooms, single and double. Common spaces are the most important part of the project with inside and outside spaces for studyng, a restaurant, Tv and internet rooms, or open spaces where students are able to relax and meeting each other. The main building has private spaces in the faรงade and common spaces inside with patios that cross the whole project giving light to every corridor and different terraces. The rooms have several ways of using it. Depends the moment, the students are able to chose between a space to sleep and study, sleep and meet, or just meet. Depends the number of student, the left room can be used for one or two students.
San Luis student dorm Seville (Spain) 2017 Architecture project + production information University of Sevilla The dorm building has a parking undergroung. The first floor has the reception and administration, space for visitors, the cafeteria, kitchen and a main space to watch TV or rest as main spaces. The second and third floors have the rooms facing the main square and common spaces facing the patios that are crosing the building at the back.These patios give light to the whole building, having terraces in diferent levels.Library, computer room, washing machine and dryer room, terraces and common spaces are in each floor. Almost a whole house in a room is how students live in dorms. Due to this situation I designed a whole furniture-wall, that hides or open tables for studying, tables for relax, bed, table for bed, shelves, a separation wall... In this way double rooms are able to use as single or double, and they are able to have a living, a room, a space to study... Or even in double rooms they are able to share a space using it in different ways. The opposite wall is use as closet, so at the end the whole room is a empty space with everything they need inside these walls. The faรงade is a mix between horizontal windows where tables to study are and vertical ones where the corridor is, with small terraces in double rooms to have a small private outside space.
01. Residential
02. Commercial 03. Educational 04. Public building 05. Landscape
Santa Pizza restaurant Santiago (Chile) 2014 Architectural project + Construction www.europa19.cl Our client wanted to rehabilitate this old house into a italian restaurant. There were some main objetives. Opening every space it was possible and working with very light colors, in order to have a well illuminated and happy atmosphear as well as elegant. Designing a nice patio where a old backyard was, trying to open the whole restaurant to this space, opening with a whole glass wall. A black steel structure whith pots is the scenary where the whole restaurant is looking, with a old looking floor that gives a constrast between a classic outside and a modern inside. Grey porcelain floors, american oak in the walls, white stuco and wood white structures in the celiling, black furniture and couches inside, simple but elegant as the chain wanted.
MINI Mall Parque Arauco Santiago (Chile) 2013 Architecture project + Construction www.europa19.cl MINI is a car german brand who wanted to design and construct their premium store in one of the main malls of Chile. The urban concept that MINI follows was taken as the main idea, designing the pavement as a street, choosing a pavement really similar to the exterior one, making a pedestrian crossing inside the store, letting every pipe viewed, ilumination as street lamps and a black ceiling in order to lost it in the dark. The faรงade is a whole glass with a orange portrait in the perimeter, iluminated at night and just the logo upside, trying to make the store as part of the street, witht a continuous exterior-interior pavement.
MINI Cantagallo Santiago (Chile) 2013 Architecture project www.europa19.cl We had to redesign an existing building and give it the urban, colorful and striking look that MINI wanted. New cars, used ones, mechanical repairs, oficces, a bar for parties and a shop with clothes and stuff from MINI was the target. We focused in the faรงade, trying to achieve something that people driving in the big avenue in front of the building were able to recognize really easy. Inside we used black porcelanate and we painted black the existing ceiling and beams. The main elements were some existing offices in the second floor that we closed with glass as cubes floating in the showroom.
Melissa stand Santiago (Chile) 2013 Project www.europa19.cl Melissa is a brazilian shoes brand who wanted to introduce itself in Chile through this stand in a important designer exhibition in Santiago, Chile. They work with very colorful plastic shoes so the main idea was design a simple white shiny background with boxes of light where these shoes were shown. The project has just a counter and bunch made with the same material. One wall has a brand graphic and the other one a whole mirror to make the stand bigger. All their hoes are made of plastic, it is their really big difference with another brands, so it was proposed a plastic grass as a wink to this “Plastic Dream�.
Puyehue stand Santiago (Chile) 2013 Project www.europa19.cl Small stands for this chilean brand of mineral water. It had just a graphic over the walls, with their advertisement and a whole shelve furniture full of their bottles, with a counter where they had hide fridges something really simple and clean, as well as very low price as they requested.
Sol Rojo stand Santiago (Chile) 2013 Project www.europa19.cl Small stand for this argentinian brand. Low cost stand and furniture able to use again were the main requests. Small stands where they were able to exhibit and stock the jewellery the sell.
01. Residential 02. Commercial
03. Educational 04. Public building 05. Landscape
San Andrés School Jaén (Spain) 2009 Competition. 1st Position. www.arcadiaarquitectos.com San Andres district needed a new school, with a sports center for both, the school and the district. It is a very complicated building site, irregular, separated in two and with high differences of levels inside. Despite this, the school classrooms need to be light and airy, with regular spaces, and by law has to have an amount of space for the patio, the main handicup that this project had. We were asked to make two large spaces (the patio and the sports center) and we weren´t able to construct a high building due to the city skyline so we proposed to build the patio under two “bridge buildings” and connect the sports centre with the school over one small street (with a separate entrance for the district). The idea was have the outside necesary space that a school needs using the space under the buildings, space that due to the hight temperatures was going to be really nice during the spring-autum.
Alcaudete Primary School Alcaudete (Spain) 2009 Architecture project www.arcadiaarquitectos.com We proposed this expantion with classes upstairs and a free spaces downstairs to let the students be able to be out during the raining-warmer days. It has two entrances, one from the old school and another one from the patio.
01. Residential 02. Commercial 03. Educational
04. Public building 05. Landscape
Pinto townhall Pinto (Chile) 2012 Competition www.panestudio.cl Competition to design the town hall and main square after a big earthquacke that destroyed almost the whole town. The idea had two main ponts, to design the main conference room looking to the town, opening the whooe room with a huge glass showing what was hapenning all the time to the people. The second idea was to connect the main square with the building, trying to be a path that everyone use everyday and have a town hall that everyone knows and uses when they need. We didn´t want to design something close that just onece every long time people visit. As main material we used a very coomon stone in the region and a kind of trees well known in the country and from this region too.
Oran New Town Hall Oran (Argelia) 2010 Competition. 1st Position. www.arcadiaarquitectos.com The city council of Oran decided to move the new Town Hall to inside the Chateau Neuf (a Spanish fortification built when they occupied Algeria). About 20 years ago they began to build a 20-storey building project that was never finished. Our proposal was to use this project to try to create a contemporary image and a representative building for the city). We proposed to renovate all of the fortification. Around the castle, there are some towers which were used to keep watch over the Mediterranean sea. There were paths inside the fortification connecting the towers. We studied these paths in historical documents, recovering them, and creating the fortification project around them. We created a underground parking connected to the main entrance of the building under the historical walls outside them, making the least possible number of changes to the fortification. With defined pillars in the currently building, we were looking for a solution where changes could be made easily. Thus we decided to modulate the floors with light walls inside. changes to the fortification wall.
Culture House Building Los Molares (Spain) 2008 Architecture Project www.arcadiaarquitectos.com Located in Los Molares, this building was the result of a competition run by the Culture Council of AndalucĂa ( Spain). Expositions, permanent collections, spaces for the village where the villagers could read, work, study, attend conferences and organise activities was the easy yet complex program required for the building. The council wanted something different to the traditional buildings that the village already has, but built using traditional materials. It had to be remarkable and illustrative of the village whilst thinking of the surroundings even though the building site was outside the historical centre.
01. Residential 02. Commercial 03. Educational 04. Public building 05. Landscape
Padre Arrupe School Patio Santiago (Chile) 2012 Architecture project + Construction www.europa19.cl Although the budget was really low (It is inside one of the poorest parts of the city), we tried to design something different to how every patio normally is. There were just two courts, and because the little amount of money we weren´t able to move them. We repavement this courts, made a race track to have sport clases in the exterior, bunches along both courts to watch the games and another space with lines of bunches so they can play-talk inside these smaller spaces. It had some big trees, and we proposed new ones to have more shade during the hottest season, trying to follow the bunches, creating grass spaces under it where kids were able to sit and play, trying to create diferent enviroments in the same space.
Carmona walkside Carmona (Spain) 2007 University of Sevilla Connecting the historical town to this new district was proposed a walkway (shown at the top of the image) along the top of a quarry. There were competitions to create connection projects with current buildings connecting them with this walk. There were two old buildings which had empty lower levels, just with pillars used as parking places.This project wished to renovate the lower levels, designing new green zones and connecting the buildings to the walkway. I worked just with concrete (the same material as the walk) for the pavement andfor all furniture. It was important to create attractive meeting zones with shady spaces for the summer and sunny spaces for the winter, working with different types of vegetation.