Carlos Vinocour // Architecture Portfolio + Selected Academic Projects + Professional Colaborations + Ideas Carlos Vinocour Alvarez (2012-2016) 201020020 veritas architecture academy
Curriculum Vitae Carlos Vinocour
Education (2010-2016)
VERITAS Architecture School (Costa Rica) | Senior 5th year Architecture License Degree +Architecture Graduate Degree 2017 Promotion. +Arduino Art & Interaction Workshop +Revit Workshop
(2013-2014)
UPM - ETSAM (Madrid) | Mansilla + Tuñón Unit +Completed six months architecture unit +Analog Photography Unit +3D Printing Workshop +Landscape Workshop
San José Costa Rica P (506) 2225-5730 C (506) 6085-6981 charlievinocour@gmail.com I.G carlosvinocour Idioms> Spanish & English
Experience (2014-2016)
Osarq | John Osborne, Roto Architects Associate Architect www.osarq.com +Schematic design, design development, model making, precise and advanced 3D modeling for visualization through 3D printing and laser cutting machines, construction documents, construction observation, graphics creation and presentation preparation in Tamarindo Costa Rica.
*Graphic design, drawings, renderings and diagrams done by Carlos Vinocour.
(2016)
Architecture Photography Assitant | Fernando Alda www.fernandoalda.com/es/ +Architecture photography assistant for Osarq projects in Costa Rica.
(2016)
Designer | Urban Sculpture for “Plaza Tempo” competition. +Research design and proposal for an Urban Sculpture, for a new commercial concept for Tempo Plaza located in Escazú Costa Rica.
Actual
Tutor | Rhino 3D and Grasshopper / Freelance +Individual and group presential teacher for modeling architectural and conceptual free-form projects and diagrams in Rhino and Grasshopper.
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Designer | Affordable Housing Development Competition CFIA +Research design and proposal for an affordable housing develpment with strategic morphogenesis tecnics that allows finding new optimized materialities in concrete that allows new ways of efficient construction, therefore achieving low cost overall production. Team consists of architects, ingeniers and an advanced architecture student.
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Recognition & publications (2016)
XIII International Architecture Biennale in Costa Rica | Green Within the Grid San José 2050 +1st Place Award for best non built urban design.
La Nación
Project author> John Osborne Project team > John Osborne - Carlos Vinocour - Paola Fernandez Press Info > http://www.nacion.com/vivir/tendencias/Arquitecto-teleferico-transporte-San-Jose_0_1565443488.html https://vimeo.com/105579328
(2014)
Designing The Essence Workshop | Tutor Benjamín García +Benjamin Garcia Saxe and Laura Morelli led an “International Workshop” at the Universidad Veritas in San Jose Costa Rica for a class of students. The month long workshop was intended to give the students time to design and build a real world project, deal with limitations of materials, create a space and elicit human emotions. Working on a very tight budget with limited resources, the students dreamed up simple and inexpensive ways to convey space, light and movement.
Press Info & Publications > Domus Central America // NO. 022 Publication ArchDaily http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/756648/experimentacion-material-cascadas-de-luz-destellos-ocultos
professional skills + Abilities Proficiency in software listed below >
CAD> AutoCAD, Rhino 3D BIM> REVIT (Basic) VISUALIZATION> Rhino 3D, 3DS MAX, SketchUp, VectorWorks ADOBE> InDesign, Photoshop, Ilustrator PARAMETRIC & ANALISIS> Grasshopper, DephMap X 0.29, Ecotect, DIVA GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION> QuantumGIS FABRICATION> RhinoCAM, 123DMake PROGRAMMING> Processing, HTML, CSS (Basic Knowledge) OFFICE> Word, PowerPoint, Excell
References Academic> MSc. Architect Esteban Castro TEC/Veritas Professor (The Bartlett Alumni) castro@aarcano.com www.aarcano.com Professional> Architect John Osborne Roto Architecture Associate Architect (Universidad del Diseño) osarq@me.com www.osarq.com
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Change is More > Impermanent Manifesto 16/10/16 Having to review all my work made me re-examine and re-build the idea of my own manifesto as an architect (student), to further answer this question: Who am I as a designer and as a person? This compendium of academic work is intrinsically linked to my philosophy as a designer. I understand that in order to make good architecture one must have a clear reading of the time and place in which we live. Today we don’t just live in a physical world, there’s a new space: The digital space, and in this space, cultures, societies and organizations are born; they also die, mutate, evolve and become extinct like any other living creature on the planet. In the old days, architecture used to be drawn in graphite, now it's drawn in pixels. One feature of the selected works in this portfolio is that every project is different from each other, and that is the shared key characteristic > difference. This is the culture of uncertainty and Millennial impermanence* and the importance of choosing quality over quantity’s philosophy is what will drive the new world societies and body politics. I find that now more than ever it's important to be resistant to change and uncertainty since this is the evolutionary engine of nature’s order and today's society behavior. Mind (re) evolution is faster than ever thanks to technology’s progress. I think that being constantly adapting is healthy for quality work, design and even the mental health of a person, that’s why I call this "The Impermanent Manifesto” stating in itself that even this manifesto’s concepts and ideas can suddenly change, in a way so that I don't become constrained by my own ideologies and principles. The impermanence concept is a Buddhist principle that says that nothing is ever still, nothing stays the same, everything moves and everything's alive. This reflects the changing nature of my work as a designer. While it is essential to deepen and focus on a single aspect of work to achieve consistency, it is also healthy to gain perspective, seen it from the outside every now and then to achieve objectivity, self-criticism in order to know and be able to better calibrate, change, and inform on how to evolve in future design problem solving. I define my work as consistently changing and adapting. Carlos Vinocour. *Impermanence : Not lasting forever : not permanent
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A house for BRuce wayne
found object
building the essence
morphogenetic pavillion
ant house / langosta villas
Tutors> + Arch. Iván Delgado + Arch. Victor Murillo
Tutor> + Arch. Guillermo Garita
Tutor> +Arch. Benjamín García +Arch. Laura Morelli
Tutor> +MSc.Esteban Castro
Project Author> Arch.John Osborne Project Team> Carlos Vinocour
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“Architects do not make buildings, they make diagrams of buildings� -AAD (2014)
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A house for BRuce wayne This project’s idea is to experiment with a house for a multiple identity character. This house had to have a place to welcome people in order to satisfy Bruce Wayne’s wealthy and social status, while at the same time give an underground space to hold experiments and develop tecnologic machinery and vehicles to secretly defend a broken city. (The Batcave)
Tutors> + Arch. Iván Delgado + Arch. Victor Murillo
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COCINA/TERRAZA
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PLATAFORMA MECçNICA Para salir s e eleva el batimovil en l a plataforma hasta quedar a n ivel d el suelo, y v iceversa p ara ingresar.
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“Space brings the resonance of the acoustic near to life� John Cage
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Found object
Experimental Acts Summer Workshop 2013
The project states a change [adaptation] of a cracked topography by altering the geometry and possibilities of a once lost and forgotten territory [non place] generating geometry through the planar axis of the existing morphology > a possible extension of the local topography, altering the spatial dynamics, perspective of time [non temporal design] and sense of space; bringing new possibilities, joy, experience, movement, peace?
Tutor> + Arch. Guillermo Garita
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“Architecture is a visual art, and buildings speak for themselves� -Julia Morgan
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Building the essence
Benjamín García Summer Workshop 2014
In August 2014, Benjamin Garcia Saxe and Laura Morelli led an “International Workshop” at the Universidad Veritas in San Jose Costa Rica for a class of students. The month long workshop was intended to give the students time to design and build a real world project, deal with limitations of materials, create a space and elicit human emotions. Working on a very tight budget with limited resources, the students dreamed up simple and inexpensive ways to convey space, light and movement.
Tutors> +Arch. Benjamín García +Arch. Laura Morelli
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Building the esence The “International Workshop� at the Universidad Veritas in San Jose Costa Rica for a class of students. The month long workshop was intended to give the students time to design and build a real world project, deal with limitations of materials, create a space and elicit human emotions. Working on a very tight budget with limited resources, the students dreamed up simple and inexpensive ways to convey space, light and movement. The group built two pavilions that were placed in abandoned park in the city with the intention that people would visit the park, experience the public space and regain interest in the oft-forgotten spaces of their city. Cascades of Light was built with a metal framework and recycled plastic string that is often use in local rocking chairs. Light streams through the clear strands and reflects through the waterfall of material. Visitors can lounge inside the space, look up at the tree, the passing clouds and the sky. The other pavilion, called Hidden Flashes is a plywood box that visitors step into. Once inside they see an array of hammered recycled nails lit from above through slits in the box.
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+info> qr code
https://vimeo.com/105579328
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Form finding experiments Spores morphologies and material behaviour explorations
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morphogenetic pavillion The morphogenesis workshop goal was to study and understand growth patterns that occure in nature, not only why it happens but how it happens, the nature of spontaneus formations, erotions, matter degradation, autopoietic sytems or changes in state that are present in all forms in nature. Then experiment and generate new materialities to therefore optimize and inform the design process decisions based on material behaviour, structural and spatial needs.
Tutor> +MSc.Esteban Castro
Concrete module developed in process
“Complexity that works is built up of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other� -Kevin Kelly
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Morphogenetic pavillion
fabric formwork module
The morphogenesis workshop goal was to study and understand the growth patterns that occur in nature, not just why it happens but how it happens, the nature of spontaneus formations, erotions, degradation of matter, or state changes that are present in all forms in nature. The question stated was, why do we (humans) keep using construction materials as if they aren’t part of nature procesess? We as humans tend to mechanise building processes reducing the material potential and possibilities in their natural way of behaving. So the next question was how can we change the paradigm in which we use concrete? and how can we use it without constraining it? So the ending result was using hibrid flexible fabric / wood form-work module, with two rare earth magnets in between to achieve voronoi porosity,therefore being able to control the density and optimize the density of material used, meaning that the resulting structure will have more material where required based on structural analysis and several iterations performed.
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voronoi 2d space Growth
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pavillion layered geometry
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Professional colaborations OS-Architecture Internship
In mid 2014 I had the urge for learning something that was outside the Architecture Academy so I applied succesfully to a payed internship offered by OS Architecture. This 8 month internship gave me priceless knowledge and the experience of working on a highly international architecture office, while working in small to medium residential scale projects, including the renovation of an architecture office, a 7 house residential project, and an award winning urban scale utopic project, “San José 2050” (this last one was an Ad Honorem saturday morning project) which then led to several opportunities and a job offer while going back to college.
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Ant house- langosta villas The Ant House Project in Langosta Beach Costa Rica studied the behavior of ants and termites, how they live, and how they create their settlements according to geomorphology. The resulting project is a hibrid between a tower and a house, it negotiates between the efficiency of verticality and the privacy of having an invidual house, giving the cultural factors of the region and the social resistance for large scale developments.
Project Author> +Arch.John Osborne Project Team> +Arch.John Osborne +Carlos Vinocour
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TERMITES MOUNDS AS DOMICILE
NATURAL CONTEXT
HOW TERMITES OCCUPY LANDSCAPE? THE TERMITE MOUNDS ARE LIKE THE LUNGS FOR THE UNDERGROUND COLONY, THEY ACT AS MEDIATORS BETWEEN THE OUTSIDE AND INSIDE SPACE, NOT ONLY AS A SHELTER BUT AS A WINDOW THAT FILTERS AND CONTROLS AIR FLOW, MANAGING INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT, NOT LETTING UNWANTED FLOWS OF AIR ENTER THE COLONY BUT USING IT IN A CONTROLLED WAY (DUE TO THE TERMAL SENSIBILITY OF THE FUNGUS THEY CULTIVATE AS AN ENERGY SOURCE.)
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THIS WAY OF APPROACHING ARCHITECTURE ACT AS A VERY LITERAL TRANSLATION BETWEEN AN ORGANIC SYSTEM AND A TECTONIC MECHANISM BY EVALUATING NATURE’S WAY OF S U R V I V I N G .
NPT +7.15m vertical dense module
NPT +4.50m DIVIDE MODULES
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LANGOSTA VILLAS These prototype combinations will be virtually tested and will be subject to change, interact or combine with each other and with any outside force, in order for [it] to adapt and survive through time.
basement / bbq
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[1. Context: meaning 3 physical dimensions, 1 temporal dimension, and all of its physical attributes of the geographical location in which it will be inserted] “we understand the pure geometry as the result of a primitive tool, the pure form as a block when its ready for being sculpt.” Diego van der laat
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These range of shapes are examples of posible transformations in the outside shell of the volume that causes a Mutation in the geometry; it stimulates
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