Daniel Ovalle-Costal///architecture portfolio

Daniel Ovalle Costal.

Architect danielovalle88@gmail.com http://forgottenumbrellas.com +44 7446 979306

Daniel Ovalle Costal

availability: July - September 2013 Arquitecto (Universidad PolitĂŠcnica de Madrid / Madrid Tech) Architect (ARB / part 2 equivalent) I have spent most of my life next to the sea in Galicia, in the Northwest of Spain. I moved to Madrid to study Architecture at 18 years old, where I lived for four years fascinated by the pulse of the city and its rich cultural life. I was brought up by my parents in the habit of going to exhibitions regularly and Madrid felt like paradise in that sense, with top galleries like El Prado at my doorstep.

In 2009 I accepted a grant to do my fourth year at the University of Bath. The experience was challenging at all levels and it made me take the decission of coming back to the UK after completing my degree in Madrid to do a Master of Architecture and Urbanism at the Architectural Association.

Curriculum Vitae

///education/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Present-10

Architectural Association, London

Master of Architecture & Urbanism, Design Research Lab

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UNED (Spanish Open University)

Degree in Social & Cultural Anthropology

2010-09

University of Bath

Bsc Architecture (year 4)

2012-06

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Architecture degree (6 years full-time)

2005-97

Music studies

Eight years of official violin studies

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Architectural Association Scholarship to attend Design Research Lab Master of Architecture & Urbanism Shanghai Municipality grant to attend 2012 “Shanghai Summer School”.

Erasmus Exchange program grant at University of Bath to attend 4th year of Bsc Architecture Excellent Academic Performance grant by Madrid Regional Government 1st prize at XVII Rúa Nova 33 young writers contest with the novel Ladrón de luva branca.

///seminars & workshops///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2012-July “Shanghai Summer School” at the Sino Finish Center, Tongji University (160 hrs) 2011-Dec. “Cosy Parametrics” workshop directed by Izaskun Chinchilla (Madrid Tech / Bartlett) & official Rhino trainers(48 hrs) 2011-Sept.

“Sustainable Urban Transformations” seminar by Universidad Iternacional Menéndez Pelayo (30 hrs) 2010-July “Artificial Intelligence” seminar at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (30 hrs) 2009-March “Urban Negotiation Processes” workshop at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (20 hrs) 2008-January “Contemporary Metropolitan Conditions” workshop at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (20 hrs) ///skills///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Design:

Technical drawing, spatial layout, model & prototype making, 3D modelling.

Computer:

AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Maya, Softimage, Rhinoceros & Grasshopper, Processing.

Social:

Ability to work as an individual or as part of a team, organiser, negotiator, communicative, flexible, motivated, committed and responsible.

Languages: English: Cambridge CPE - C2 (Council of Europe) /// TOEFL iBT: 106/120 French: basic knowledge

Portuguese: Pontevedra EOI - B1 (Council of Europe)

ur-Bain: Bathing City in the

4th year project at the University of Bath

TheRural

City European Centrefor Crafts

5th year project at Madrid Tech Juan Herreros unit

TheProductive

Greenbelt

Thesis Project at Madrid Tech directed by Izaskun Chinchilla

GoldenCity theFuture of Paradise

4th year project at the University of Bath

TheReaccity:

Parametric Urbanism

Parametric Urbanism project at Madrid Tech under JosĂŠ Ballesteros Education Innovation Ptroject

Design Research Laboratory Architectural Association, 2012/14 Behaviour 1.0

Ur-Bain: Bathing in the City There is something very primal about human interaction with water. To play with water, to splash, wade, float, swim, walk through mist or steam feels very natural and enjoyable to us: we are in our element.

This is a very pure and simple enjoyment, and one that needn’t be presented in a very complicated nor convoluted manner to be enjoyed.

So often today do we, as a society, search for more and more complex forms of entertainment, when such a pure interaction with one of nature’s most essential elements can provide the greatest of joys.

The aim for this project was from an early stage to, through the medium of water, to allow people to experience a pure and primal joy, not something new, but something we may have forgotten

///group project with: Marta Ferreira & Emma Dochniak ///tutor:

Martin Gledhill

///date:

Autumn 2009, 4th year, exchange student

///school:

University of Bath

p interior spaces p axonometric diagram

Golden City: The Future of Paradise The approach to this project was an exploration of the section of the city as a landscape. The differences of levels in the site are taken not as a handi- cap but as inputs that help in the definition of that landscape and its aim of linking bits of city.

The idea of courtyard informed the nature of the plinth, an edited volume of solid and voids that occupies all the available surface but at the same times leaves most of it as public space.

The audittorium sits like an object on top. the landscape wraps up and around the object linking the plinth and the auditorium together.

An important role is played by Kingsmeade st. As shown in the previous chapter, it was once a busy and main street in Bath. Traways used to run all down the street. Today the street is interrupted by a block of public housing and public offices.

The project wants to take advantage of this bizarre situation reinstating Kingsmeade street and joining it with its natural continuation: New Kingsmeade street.

As it crosses the building, the street is not meant to be the busy road it used to be at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is meant to be soft, a landscaped pedestrian way that can also be used as a service way into the building

///tutor:

Suzie Lloyd & Martin Gledhill

///date:

Autumn 2009, 4th year, exchange student

///school:

University of Bath

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The Rural City:

European Centre for Crafts

The brief for this building among the European Centre for Crafts describes a program occupying about 1000 sqm, which allows it to be developed in a single level.

///tutor:

Juan Herreros

///date:

Autumn 2010, 5th year

This level is placed above the site held by steel supports, in order to minimize the intervention on the site, filled with fantastic aims of what may happen under the building. The slab would be covered by a lightweigh steel structure roof. Both slab and roof are pierced by patios, in which trees grow, and yellow plastic elements. Those plastic elements allow natural light into the building and the space under the slab and they also house access staircases and services eventually.

///school:

ETSAM (Universidad PolitĂŠcnica de Madrid) Design Studio 8

In order to reduce the number of support in the lower level, structure is condensed on the façades in the form of steel trusses up to three meters high. Those trusses cover spans up to thirty meters, which takes the number of supports to a minimum. Steel trusses hold 200 mm thick counterlaminated timber slabs.

The shape of the building in plan adapts to the space left by pre-existing houses and building, following a set of occupation rules. The generation of the plan by a set of rules allows the building to repeat itself in similar sites of the village. The possibility of growing ties the building to the development calendar of the overall masterplan

The building is covered by a secondary skin formed by a metal net which supports several species of climbing plants. The design of this secondary skin changes according to the orientation of every particular façade. The intersticial space between the two skins houses bits of extra program.

In order to offer convenient housing to people working in the offices, the building grows eventually. In addition, those crafts workshops designed to the village on the general masterplan are feature in the main level of the building, occupying spaces between the offices and the green

secondary skin.

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p colonisation strategy p exterior image concept

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the REACCITY Recession induced freezing of construction in the Spanish capital has created a number of unplanned urban voids. The team found one of those voids next to the M30 ring-road junction with A1 motorway.

The site was meant for the CICCM, a giant exhibition, auditoria and congress space whose parking areas will be the only part of it to be built.

This site was considered to be perfect for the development of a so called program driven thermodynamic micro-urbanism. A set of architectural objects able to implement innovation in the fields of energy, arts and business. This micro-city has been called REACCITY, for short.

///group project with: Gonzalo del Val (MArch), Elisa Marini, Laura Ordóñez, José Sanz & Alicia Vicente

The name of the project refers to the Reactable. Developed at the Universitat Ramón Llull, Barcelona, Reactable is an electronic musical instrument featuring a sensitive table and a set of pieces which, when moved over the table produce sounds. The characteristics of these sounds depend on the position of a piece on the table and its relative position to other pieces. This model is taken at a bigger scale as a base for our parametric urban design. We will be playing with 5 hyper-specific programmes: solar energy collection, vehicle exchanger, housing, open program and establizers. All of them change, grow, densify or disperse according to a series of parameters featuring on-site collected physical data, social dynamics or building regulations.

That energy will be used in the vehicle exchanger in order to charge electric car batteries whilst the building’s earth-made thick skin releases oxygen in the environment. This skin holds the vehicles heat and is able to grow thicker in order to hold a larger number of plants, contributing to the overall air quality.

The number of housing units depend on the number of cars in the system, and are devoted both for people using the vehicle exchangers and people working in the existing office towers or the open program that links to them.

The whole project is conceived as a live and changing organism.

The REACCITY is able to work as an optimised urban system based on the collaboration of different programs featured in the system, generating a complex and dynamic environment. The control of this environment is through a set of parameters which act like filters or samplers, giving the city its rhythm.

A surrounding topography, access routes and paths create an infrastructure which is used as motherboard of the whole system. As it happens with the Reactable, the position of the first element starts a rhythm: the solar energy collector holds a set of photovoltaic panels with a structure defined by the shaded site area of the panels themselves.

///tutor:

José Ballesteros Raga

///date:

Spring 2011, 5th year

///school:

ETSAM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Parametric Architecture Unit

p general section sketch

p urban scale solar topography: landscaped public space generated by a study of solar irradiance on the site and shadow by surrounding buildings

p adapted topography

p monthly average irradiance

Productive Greenbelt The brief of this project is a design reaction to a set of circumstances: the lack of a clear link between food production and the city dweller; the solitude and isolation of the rural inmigrant in an urban environment; and the historical indefinition of the limit between rural and urban in the city of Vigo.

The sites chosen for the project are a rural communities that have been swallowed by a dense urban fabric as the city grew during the 20th century. These communities, though half abandoned by their former inhabitants, still keep the singularities of rural life. The project seeks to keep those singularities and not to imitate the surrounding urban fabric.

The aims of the project are to build an environment in which a link between the city dweller and teh production of food can be established.

Another aim is to add service, commerce and industrial infrastructure to a mostly residential area of the city, thinking particularly in vulnerable communities such as rural migrants.

In terms of construction, the project takes the form of a set of cantileverd extensions to existing high-rise buildings. These extensions hosue most of the program while generating an artificial landscape of hanging gardens on top. Rising from these hanging gardens and climbing next to the existing building facades an architecture of timber galleries, wicker amde gazebos and ivy covered summerhouses is implemented. Such oposed architectures in term of conceot and materiality are klink by the daily use madse by city dwellers of all class in their new lifestyle which includes the production and responsible consumption of food.

///tutor:

Izaskun Chinchilla Moreno

///date:

June 2012, Thesis

///school: ETSAM (Universidad PolitĂŠcnica de Madrid) Thesis Project

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p elevation

p verncular architecture studies

p vernacular inspired galleries

p vernacular inspired dwellings

p public spaces & hanging gardens construction detailing

AA DRL Thesis This thesis project addresses the issues of population growth and urban expansion. Our approach consists on densifying existing urban centres and we will develop it in the Chinese city of Shenzhen as it is a paradigmatic example of exponential urban growth. With this project we aim to respond to current models of urban expansion by means of material and spatial organisation strategies.

///group project with: Michael Barraclaugh, Matthew Le Grice & Jos茅 Pareja G贸mez

Our thesis develops a strategy for densifying existing cities maximising public space both in quality, quantity and accesibility while increasing population density. We achieve this by making circulation and public space within the building the focus of our spatial organisation looking at the concept of streets in the sky.

From a material point of view, the issue of rapid urban expansion asks for systems that are both adaptable and quickly deployable which we are addressing by proposing flat sheet patterning to produce three dimensional structures and spaces for dwelling and circulation.

The drawings, diagrams and pictures featured are work in progress documents. This thesis is currently being developed and will be submited in January 2014.

///tutor:

Robert Stuart-Smith {Kokkuggia}

///date:

2012-14, Master of Architecture Thesis

///school:

Architectural Association, London Design Research Lab

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Air-Beam Reinforcing

Resultant Skin

p generation of structure & circulation with flat sheet patterning

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p resin impregnation models

p electronic control of inflation of soft bodies

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p more projects & info:

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