Carlos Vinocour // Architecture Portfolio + Selected Academic Projects + Professional Collaborations + Ideas - Competitions 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 *Graphic design, drawings, renderings and diagrams done by Carlos Vinocour.
Experience (2014-2016)
Designer | Osarq 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.
(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.
2016 - 2017
Intern | Gensler (MUKARAMAH COMPETITION) +In 2016 I was invited to participate in an internship for the Jabal Omar Development Project, MAKKAH AL MUKARAMAH COMPETITION. 4 firms were invited including Gensler and Foster + Partners, I was involved in primary conceptualization, schematic design, diagrams, panneling optimisation using grasshopper, and model making.
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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. Project author> John Osborne
La Nación
Project team > John Osborne - Carlos Vinocour - Paola Fernandez Press Info > http://www.nacion.com/vivir/tendencias/Arquitecto-teleferico-transporte-San-Jose_0_1565443488.html
(2014) https://vimeo.com/105579328
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, Grasshopper PROGRAMMING> Processing, HTML, CSS (Basic Knowledge) OFFICE> Word, PowerPoint, Excell
References (more info upon request) 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 Professional> Architect Richard Hammond Design Principal at Gensler
richard_hammond@Gensler.com www.gensler.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 discourse as an architect, 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
*Impermanence : Not lasting forever : not permanent
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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.
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A house for BRuce wayne
building the essence
morphogenetic pavillion
SHELL HOUSE / HOLCIM AWARDS
ant house / langosta villas
Makkah Competition 2016
Tutors> + Arch. Iván Delgado + Arch. Victor Murillo Author> Carlos Vinocour
Tutor> +Arch. Benjamín García +Arch. Laura Morelli
Tutor> +MSc.Esteban Castro Author> +Carlos Vinocour
Project Team> +MSc.Esteban Castro +Ing.Shalini Tahilramani +Carlos Vinocour +César Morales
Project Author> +Arch.John Osborne Project Team> +Carlos Vinocour
Project Team> + Arch. Richard Hammond + Arch. George Miller + Arch. Mariana Madríz + Arch. Melissa Montero + Mr. Sergio Nicolaas + Mr. Carlos Vinocour
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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)
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-AAD (2014) “Architects do not make buildings, they make diagrams of buildings”
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Tutors> + Arch. Iván Delgado + Arch. Victor Murillo
COCINA/TERRAZA
SALîN FIEST AS
DORMITORIO
DUCTO SECRETO
VENTANAL VIGILANCIA
ENTRADA SECRETA BATICUEVA LABORATORIO
RAMPAS 11% GARAGE/TALLER
PLATAFORMA ELEVADOR
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COCINA/TERRAZA
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DORMITORIO
DUCTO SECRETO
VENTANAL VIGILANCIA
PLATAFORMA ELEVADOR
RAMPAS 11%
ENTRADA SECRETA
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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Building the essence 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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02 Tutors> +Arch. Benjamín García +Arch. Laura Morelli
+info> qr code
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Morphogenetic pavillion 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.
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Tutor> +MSc.Esteban Castro Author> +Carlos Vinocour
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. 01 Node
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pavillion layered geometry
Form finding experiments Concrete module developed in process
Spores morphologies and material behaviour explorations
Wood + Fabric Form Work for Concrete
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Shell House HOLCIM AWARDS Shell House is a social housing unit of 47m2 that aims to replace the traditional system used in Costa Rica. The idea is simple: using the existing technology of Upcrete to cast special formwork, we prefabricate 4 pipe like pieces of concrete to be assembled on site, reducing the construction time and total cost, and thus taking advantage of the qualities of the material in durability, little maintenance, resistance to fire and as thermal and acoustic insulation. The house is modular, adaptable, and all the components are prefabricated. It’s size has been optimized to a family of four and to ground transportation (the width and height of the section allows that all the necessary pieces fit in 2 trips) since only 4 modules are necessary to build a house.
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Concrete is produced in Costa Rica and is one of the most used material. Several concrete plants located in different parts of the country are evidence of how well adapted is to our culture. Transportation therefore is minimized in time and energy. Rural and sub urban social housing projects will benefit with this system. The construction is modular and the project can be adapted to future growth or user needs: 4, 5, 6 modules depending on the plot configuration. The same thing happens with the interior layout: 1 or 2 bedrooms, open floor plan, etc. The concrete shell could be built with windows and installations. Most of the remaining components are pre-fabricated: furniture, windows, partitions, mezzanine, etc, have been pre- packed and ready to assembly. Construction time is 2 weeks. we propose a different approach for the use of the design. We remove the idea of a front garage to replace it for a open living area to be related with the neighbor. The car is secondary, and common parking areas are also used as public plaza or sport court. Green path walks are the main access to each unit.
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Project Team> +MSc.Esteban Castro +Ing.Shalini Tahilramani +Carlos Vinocour +CĂŠsar Morales
Assembly
Structural piles logic
47 sq meters
Wind Analysis
House profile
Size optimisation
Assembly
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TERMITES MOUNDS AS DOMICILE 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.) 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 .
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Ant house- langosta villas OS-Architecture Internship
Project Author> +Arch.John Osborne Project Team> +Arch.John Osborne +Carlos Vinocour
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.
NATURAL CONTEXT
NPT +9.80m
NPT +7.15m vertical dense module
NPT +4.50m DIVIDE MODULES
in between space
NPT +1.00m fragmented 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.
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2 OPEN TERRACE 01 [PRIMITIVE BOX]
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3 Semi-Permeable Facade geometry (STUDIED ABOVE)
[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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1 Platforms for each level
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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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Makkah al mukaramah Competition 2016 gensler In 2016 Jabal Omar Developments invited Gensler along with 3 more architecture offices including Foster + Partners to parcticipate in a payed internal competition to redesign a Four Seasons Hotel and two residential buildings in Mecca, Due to the religious importance of the site it needed to be a very respectful design, encompasing and understanding the history and islamic values that are engrained in the culture and community of the site. Mecca, known to the Muslim faithful as Umm al-Qura, the Mother of Cities, is the holiest place in the Islamic world. It was here that Muhammad the Prophet (c. 570–632), the Messenger of God, the founder of the Muslim faith, was born in 570, and it is here within the Great Mosque that the Ka’aba, the most sacred shrine of Islam, awaits the Muslim pilgrim. Throughout the world, wherever they may be, all devout Muslims pray five times per day, each time bowing down to face Mecca. All able-bodied Muslims who have sufficient financial means and whose absence from their families would not create a hardship must undertake a pilgrimage, a hajj, to Mecca once in their lifetime during the Muslim month of Dhu-al-Hijah (the twelfth lunar month). The hajj begins with a procession called the tawaf, which takes the pilgrim around the Ka’aba seven times. The Ka’aba is a cubeshaped structure that stands about 43 feet high, with regular sides from 36 to 43 feet.
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Project Team> + Arch. Richard Hammond + Arch. George Miller + Arch. Mariana Madríz + Arch. Melissa Montero + Mr. Sergio Nicolaas + Mr. Carlos Vinocour +Arch Andrés Lara +Arch Priscila Cambronero +Designer Irene Arteaga
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