CARLOS TORRES ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2015
INDEX
2015 EARLY MID LATE
2014 EARLY MID LATE
ABOUT ME
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FIVS 2015
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SOCIAL HOUSING CONTEST
T25 BUILDING
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MOBIUS PAVILLION
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SCHOOL IN TORREÓN
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SPORT CENTER
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SA HOUSE
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RENDERING & OTHER SKILLS
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MIXED USE COMPLEX
PARAMETRIC PAVILLION
EDUCATIONAL
PARAMETRIC STADIUM
SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE
PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, 3D MODELING, DIG-FAB
ABOUT ME CARLOS TORRES CORTES torrescc93@gmail.com 81-8259-1471 Monterrey, Nuevo León, M.X. www.carlostorresc.com
AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS SEMIYA project - 1st place on FIVS 2015 National Contest 07/2015 SEMIYA project - Honorific Mention on the Students IV Binnale of architecture 2015 11/2015 Selected project for “Proyecta 5” (School in Torreón) 12/2014 Selected project for “Proyecta 4” (Mixed use) 05/2014
LANGUAJES English Spanish French
SOFTWARE 70% NATIVE 20%
Autocad 2D Revit Arch. Revit MEP Grasshopper
90% 90% 70% 70%
3D MAX SketchUp Vray Illustrator
10% 95% 60& 50%
InDesign Photoshop MS Office
60% 90% 60%
PERSONAL PROFILE
I am a dedicated, organized and efficient person with a curious mind. I am always enthusiastic to learn and undertake new challenges that can help me improve my skills and develop new ones. I am used to working in a team whilst also being capable of using own initiative. Also I like to share my knowledge on my skills to my teammates and friends so we can do a better job. I have an active and dynamic approach to work and getting things done and always seeking to achieve a high standard in whatever work I undertake. Also I have the ability to work under stress and prioritise my own workload effectively to finish on time.
PERSONAL DATA
I am currently studying the 8th semester of Architecture at the Tec de Monterrey Campus Monterrey, living as foreign student. During my career I have been several job opportunities and internships , as well as invitations to freelance work from my teachers and other architects because I'm active and dedicated to my work. Also at the suggestion and recommendation of my director I have served as an instructor for several semesters of different useful tools for architecture within the student community. Some of which Ecotect, Vasari, Sefaira, Sketchup, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator, among others. These courses helped me to keep learning and improving my ability to teach and communicate with people at all levels because I have taught teachers, students and friends.
EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture (Tecnológico de Monterrey) 2013 - Present Bachelor in digital arts and animation (Tecnológico de Monterrey) 2011 - 2013* Incomplete High School (Tecnológico de Monterrey) 2008 - 2011
WORKSHOPS Chicago Workshop by ChicagoComplex 03/2015 Arquitectura 3D Nivel 1 by Tutograma 08/2014 Arquitectura 3D Nivel 2 by Tutograma 01/2015 T4LLERepresentación by Camilo Nucamendi 03/2014 Manejo Integral de Huertos Urbanos y Cultivos Familiares by JARZO 10/2013
WORK EXPERIENCE Freelancer 2015 - present Thanks to my abilities I have worked as a freelancer complementing my studies, sometimes working directly with teachers, friends and even other architects. 7.13 Arquitectos - Intern 02/2015 - 05/2015 Work as an intern, focused on the representation of the projects through renderings for presentations for customers, among others. NORMAN MILLER - Intern 03/2014 - 11/2014 I work on the construction site and in the office, most of the time supervising the progress and quality of work. Moreover working at the office I made some renders and illustrations for presentations to clients.
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FIVS 2015 1ST PLACE NATIONAL CONTEST
INFONAVIT, an agency that is responsible for granting credits for affordable housing for workers in Mexico call for the 3rd edition of its contest “FIVS” which seeks proposals that break paradigms and open the panorama to a new architecture. The 2015 edition was focused on intra-urban and vertical housing, our proposal “SEMIYA” (seed) was selected as the first place from among 350 entries from over 85 universities. Likewise the project won an honorable mention in the IV Stutent Biennale 2015 SANL. Our proposal seeks through a terraced concept to generate a decent, safe and with great opportunities for expand the housing by autoconstruction techniques. Moreover, the diversity of floor plans and modules make possible different scenarios and environments to suit the end customer, the family, regardless of whether this is large or small, mixed or with special needs, the project seeks to adapt to these needs. 2015 TUTOR: JUAN CARLOS LÓPEZ AMADOR TEAM: DAVID SALINAS MONTOYA KARLA ZELAYA CASTREJÓN ALEJANDRO VELASCO NAZARETTI CARLOS ROSALES FUENTEVILLA CARLOS TORRES CORTÉS
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DISTRITO TEC Distrito TEC is a masterplan in continuous improvement made by Sasaki and associates and also with the participation of students of the Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey students and the residents of nearby neighborhoods. The masterplan aims to improve and regenerate the urban center that is around the campus of the Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey, it also seeks to set an example of an inclusive, dynamic, sustainable, and rich culture society, that can generate employment opportunities that can lead to economic development, and especially the integration of the community. Distrito TEC masterplan has a polygon which includes 24 neighborhoods, taking the ITESM campus the epicenter.
DISTANCE BY RADIUS RIVER MONTERREY MAIN ROADS SITE It is a polygon of 4.6 hectares located in a corner almost at the border of Distrito TEC polygon, however it is well connected by the Garza Sada Avenue, one of the most important avenues of Monterrey that allow you to move from North to South, also the site is 2 blocks from the Alfonso Reyes Avenue that allows to move from East to West. On one side the is a small river that is going to be a linear park on the next years, our proposal takes it into account and adapts to it.
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2Km
1Km 0.5Km
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TERRACES A terraced building offers a medium to high density, but also increase the views, the sunlight illumination, and maximize the free spaces on that can lead to expand the house by autoconstruction.
MODULAR SYSTEM
Each apartment start on a surface of 6x9m, this rectangle is divided into 6 smaller modules of 3x3m. Some of this modules are going to be build into the apartment and other are going to be empty, to be used as terraces and space for future expansions, so when the owner can afford it, or the family grew, they can expand their home inside their own boundaries.
The ability to expand the unit, by self-construction methods were fundamental, because in México most of the families do it in that way.
SEED The complex grows through the site by residential wings attached to “seeds” that works as cores.
Each core has a unique CORES ambient and host a different activity depending on the distance to the street. Some activities are for invite people to come and other are for residents.
The steel flexible structure allows to build as much as the as the owner can afford.
Owners can arrange the interior walls as they wish for make bigger and smaller spaces according to their own needs.
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Even double height living room its a possibility
Y-00, one of the smallest units in the project, it just have what is need to live and feel safe at home. Its also the main idea and shows the concept of the apartment, 3 modules, one for the kitchen, another for bedroom, and the core of the apartment for the bathroom, and spare space that can be used as storage, small studio, for a double size bathroom, or in bigger apartments, for stairs. The hatched area show the terraces, that are the boundaries for future expansions of the apartment.
Y-00 27m2 - 54m2
Y-01 27m2 - 54m2
Y-02 36m2 - 54m2
Y-03 36m2 - 54m2
Y-04 54m2 - 90m2
Y-05 54m2 - 90m2
Y-06 63m2 - 99m2
Y-07 72m2 - 99m2
First oor
The facade is a frame modulated in 3 columns, it allows the owner personalize according to privacy of the interior space, the sun insolation, wind streams, sound, etc. Each panel can work with glass, louvers, or a solid wall.
Second oor
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TERRACES A terraced building oers a medium to high density, but also increase the views, the sunlight illumination, and maximize the free spaces on that can lead to expand the house by autoconstruction.
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
MASTER PLAN
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T25
MIXED USE LIVE+WORK+RETAIL
We face the challenge of design a mixed use complex on a high-end district of Monterrey. It must have apartments, retail stores, boutiques, offices, and a hotel. We must start from a research topic to get the most of the shape, and link it with the parametric skills that we learned during the semester to model our proposal. We use “folding” as our research topic because of the structural advantages that it has.
Folding a surface increase it stifness, and allowed us to have less internal structure and a cleaner interior space, as well as an interesting facade.
STUDIO V 2015 TUTOR: ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ TEAM: CARLOS TORRES CORTES DAVID SALINAS MONTOYA VIRIDIANA NEGRETE HIDROGO TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY MONTERREY M.X.
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SAN PEDRO N,L. M.X. Known as one of the most high-end and exclusive district in México, San Pedro gathers retail stores, malls, offices, luxury houses and apartments, schools, hospitals and one of the most important financial centers of Latin America. The population is over 126,000 inhabitants, but hundreds of people come and go every day to work and shop.
DISTANCE BY RADIUS PARKS & GREEN BELTS
2Km
RIVER MAIN ROADS SITE
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1Km
0.5Km
The site is located between two avenues, Lázaro Cárdenas one of the most important avenues of San Pedro and Frida Kahlo on the other side, the site is privileged with two main fronts. Northen to the site, is a 90m hill, that is used as a natural boundary for San Pedro district, and it has great views. Less than 500m away to the West is the park Rufino Tamayo, a public and open space full of nature that can be used by the people that live and work on T25 Complex. In addition to its benefits on street level, the site is part of a neighborhood that has no height limit. This has triggered a race to build the tallest building in Latin America, just across the street is KOI Sky Residences with 276m, our proposal seeks to overcome that with 300m.
280m OF STOREFRONT
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ITERATIONS With the folding concept in mind, we start doing some volumetric towers with Rhino and Grasshopper trying to get not only a good looking tower, but a efficient tower that can shade itself by its envelope, as well as an aerodinamic shape that help reducing the wind loads into the structure. After multiple iterations, and analysis we decide to go with the “T25” model. Later on through some rotations and intersections of volumes it take an efficient shape. Then we stack up 9 modules to get 270m height tower + 30m on the mall that work as base we get a 300m project.
T25 MODULE
CORE FOR STRUCTURE AND VERTICAL CIRCULATIONS
The T25 tower start from a 25x35m rectangle with 30m height that works as a module, and is divided each 5 m to get 6 floors.
MECHANICAL ROOM & INSTALLATIONS
CONCRETE CORE
CORE Rotating the top cap, it start to autofold by changing the vertical edges to diagonal edges. This edges can form “mountains” or valleys depending if they are faicing to the inside or to the outside. TRIANGULAR COLUMNS THAT FOLLOW EACH FOLDING ON THE FACADE
Taking away some parts of the face we mix the valleys and mountains to get the best of booth, and this also create new terraces for each floor.
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SHADOW ANALYSIS We analyse some iterations of the tower using the plugin “Shadow Analysis” for Sketchup. We try rotations from 5° to 35° degrees, but in the end 15° degrees has the best relationship for shadows/form. The next images show in the South and West facade the amount of shadows on the same period of time. July 1, from 11 to 18 hours.
Regular building
T25
T25 optimized
WIND TUNNEL Analysis made with Flow Design show some of the advantages of a non regular facade, the building is more aerodynamic because of the folded facade , rather than the usual flat face of conventional buildings. This allows to reduce the internal structure to a core and columns just in the perimeter. Besides the wind it is channeled to the terraces of the apartments so they can take advantage of cross ventilation.
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FLOOR PLANS Due to folding system on the facade, the modulation and the rotation of the slabs , the tower has 7 differently slab shapes. These slabs are rotated 3 degrees each with respect to the previous one maintaining a central core for stairs, elevators and mechanical room in each level. Also the intersection of the facade and the slabs generate terraces for the offices and apartments.
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APARTMENTS Each floor starts without any division at all, however through partition walls each level of apartments is divided in 3, 4 or 5 segments to form apartments ranging from 110 sqm up to 400 smq. Each apartment has a terrace and a different distribution based on its unique shape and size, some can accommodate up to a family, while others are for students with one bedroom.
165m2
218m2
165m2
218m2
110m2
140m2
HOTEL
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2
190m2
210m2
200m2
215m2
195m2
190m2
145m2
218m2
132m2
120m2
170m2
400m2
230m2
180m2
330m2
210m2
145m2
OFFICES
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OFFICES
MAIN ENTRANCE
Pool
Pool
Pool for hotel guests
Boutiques
Private pool for apartments
Mall 27
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MOBIUS PARAMETRIC PAVILLION DIG-FAB
As part of the digital fabrication course, we need to build a parametric pavillion using the software and techniques seen in class. The shape of the pavillion is based on the Mobius Strip concept, a surface with only one side and one boundary.
We decide to use a Waffle structure made of MDF to build the pavillion because we want a permeable and light structure that allows to integrate with the nature around, the shadows that it can create and structural reasons. My main role in the team was to develop an algorythm that take the surface made by David Salinas, and make the waffle with vertical and horizontal
curves,
the
notch
system
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assambly the pieces together, trim the curves so they can fit on a sandard size MDF Sheet (1.22x2.44m), tag each piece, nest the pieces for laser cut on the most efficient way, and design the foundation system. 2015 TUTOR: ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ TEAM: JOSÉ VARELA DANIEL QUINTANILLA GUSTAVO PULIDO SARA DESCHAMPS MARTÍN MARTÍNEZ DAVID SALINAS CARLOS TORRES ILENIA BRACACCINI JOSÉ MEDINA VIRIDIANA MONSERRAT
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SCHOOL TORREÓN, M.X.
During the semester we have to design an educative institution, either a school or a museum, I choose to design a school in Torreón, a city at the northern part of México. The city with a desert environment, extreme temperatures and changing weather through the year were a challenge. The project must have a kindergarten, elementary school, high school, parking lot, auditorium, GYM, as well as soccer field among other facilities in order to satisfy the needs of the surrounding neighborhoods, an area with a recent residential developments.
STUDIO III 2014 TUTOR: RODRIGO LOBEIRA TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY MONTERREY M.X.
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SITE NEW RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS IN THE AREA Was the main reason for choosing this plot of 2.9 hectares in the outside of Torre贸n. It is located at the northen part of the city that in the coming years it will become a new urban center.
LIBRARY At the 4th floor to take advantage of the natural light.
HIGH SCHOOL
PARKING LOT Capacity for 200 vehicules for teachers and parents.
CAFETERIA
ENTRANCE AND RECEPTION OFFICES First floor ELEMENTARY SCHOOL The curtain wall at the north facade allows to get the most of the natural light.
AUDITORIUM Capacity for 1125 people, also there are classrooms for arts and dance under the sittings.
GYM WAREHOUSE
Its roof allows the wind direction and use it in the cooling them. Also it rainwater and store it warehouse.
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FOOTBALL SOCCER FIELD 90x50m Its dimensions allows to easily divide in smaller courts.
KINDERGARTEN Inner courtyard for more control and security over the children.
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PREVAILING WINDS
Because of the shape of the complex the wind that flows mostly from SW, can flow into the classrooms, and generates a slow speed vortex on the main courtyard, another on the North facade where the windows and glazing of the elementary school are located. Also there is another at the parking lot that flows through the East facade, the high school.
INSOLATION ANALYSIS
VASARI insolation analysis there fundamental from the very beginning of the project, Torreón had an intense sun heat like a desert during summer, and cold temperatures on winter, so it was necessary to consider passive protection to sun radiation for summer, but something that would allow the sun to warm during winter.
SUMMER
12 p.m.
4 p.m.
WINTER
12 p.m.
4 p.m.
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MASTER PLAN
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SPORT CENTER MONTERREY, M.X.
We had to design a college football stadium two blocks away from the university so it is expected that most of the spectators arrive walking or in bicycle. The site was enough big to host all the stadium facilities along other smaller sports facilities such as
smallers football fields for
practice, gyms, as well as green areas for exterior activities and underground parking. The project was to be made entirely with Grasshopper and Rhino to understand the parametric capabilities of these tools. STUDIO V 2015 TUTOR: ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY MONTERREY M.X.
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HALF-BASEMENT
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FIRST FLOOR
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SECOND FLOOR
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RENDERING & OTHER SKILLS
INDUSTRIAL LOFT PRACTICE RENDER SKETCHUP + VRAY + PS MID 2015
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FINAL RENDER
RENDER WITHOUT POST-PRODUCTION
CLAY RENDER
SKETCHUP 3D MODEL
LOFT PRACTICE RENDER 3D MAX + VRAY + PS LATE 2014
STUDIO PRACTICE RENDER 3D MAX + VRAY + PS LATE 2014
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CHURCH OF THE GESÚ HISTORY III CLASS SKETCHUP + VRAY MID 2014
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APARTMENTS STUDIO II SKETCHUP + VRAY + PS EARLY 2014
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SCHOOL IN TORREÓN STUDIO III REVIT + SKETCHUP + VRAY + PS LATE 2014
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SEMIYA NATIONAL CONTEST ORIGINAL RENDER BY CARLOS ROSALES FUENTEVILLA POST-PRODUCTION BY CARLOS TORRES CORTES SKETCHUP + LUMION + PS MID 2015
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FAMILY CLUB CONTEST ORIGINAL RENDER BY DAVID SALINAS MONTOYA POST-PRODUCTION BY CARLOS TORRES CORTES SKETCHUP + LUMION + PS LATE 2015
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FAMILY CLUB CONTEST ORIGINAL RENDER BY DAVID SALINAS MONTOYA POST-PRODUCTION BY CARLOS TORRES CORTES SKETCHUP + LUMION + PS LATE 2015