PORTFOLIO. PORTFOLIO.
/ Dinorah Martínez Schulte. B.Arch
Bachelor in Architecture Graduate Specialty in Creative Design Code
Selected Works 2011 - 2019
Universidad Iberoamericana. CENTRO Diseño, Cine y Televisión.
PORTFOLIO. / Dinorah Martínez Schulte. B.Arch Bachelor in Architecture Graduate Specialty in Creative Design Code
Selected Works 2011 - 2019
Universidad Iberoamericana. CENTRO Diseño, Cine y Televisión.
“Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless� - Zaha Hadid, Zaha Hadid Architects.
index.
C U R R I C U L U M V I TA E
10
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS TOPOGRAPHIC SUTURE
14
FLEXTRUCTURE
28
B O D I E S I N F O R M AT I O N
48
V I N C U L A C I Ó N C H A P U LT E P E C
54
FÉ Y ALEGRIA
60
ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS M E L B O U R N E TAT T O O A C A D E M Y
66
ENTREPRENEURSHIP PIXOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY
72 80
about. study. bio.
DINORAH M A R T I N E Z S C H U LT E
October 2018
January - July 2016
August 2011 - December
Graduate Specialization in Creative Design Code. CENTRO Diseño, Cine y Televisión, Mexico City, Mexico. / Thesis Project: Flextructure. Workshop: Bodies in Formation By Andrew Kudless ACADIA 2018, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico. Studied Abroad at University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia. / Third Year. Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism (B.Arch) , Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City, Mexico. / Average Score 8.9
SOCIAL SERVICE July 2014
Enero 2019 - July 2019
May - August 2018
sordomadaleno.com
i-mad.com May 2016 - May 2017
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019
/ Publication at Digital Magazine: The Archiologist: Flextructure
https://thearchiologist.com/student/dinorah-schulte?fb clid=IwAR1guEiRDxW2mQSl-h9399XDlF1dg7sAt_ZsVQPQML0nQ9TpVNypdszzgw
2017
/ Publication at Digital Magazine: The Archiologist: Topographic Suture.
rojkindarquitectos.com
LECTURES May 2019
/ “Manuel Garibay” Award: Topographic Suture, Best thesis project winner.
Project : Sutura Topografica Tutors : Marq. Diego Ricalde / Marq. Emmanuel Rámirez. Collaboration with: Ricardo López 2016
“The Utopian Architect” by Dinorah Martinez Schulte. The Design Kids por PUBLICO CDMX, México.
March 2019
“The Utopian Architect” by Dinorah Martinez Schulte. ENADII: CONEA Weekend México. CDMX, México.
February 2019
“The Utopian Architect” by Dinorah Martinez Schulte. Universidad Continente Américano Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico.
October 2018
/ MCHAP Student Awards 2016: Topographic Suture, Nominated project.
/ Chicago, IL, USA. http://www.arch.iit.edu/prize/mchap/selected-works/ project/universidad-iberoamericana-cuidad-de-mexico
“The Utopian Architect” by Dinorah Martinez Schulte. Facultad de Arquitectura UNAM + CONEA México. CDMX, México.
April 2019
https://thearchiologist.com/student/topographic-suture
2016
Rojkind Arquitectos, Mexico City, Mexico. / Media and Communication Director
Projects: Tori Tori Altavista, Rincón de Romos Infonavit, Rehab 01, Atelier de Hoteles, Valle de Guadalupe, Foro Boca, VACA + Rojkind. Exhibitions: “Deconstruye tu Cubo” by Marmoles Arca, “Atelier de Hoteles” Public Presentation. Lectures: Academia Nacional de Arquitectura 2016, Moscow Urban Forum 2016, PINC Sarasota 2016, PLAT 2017, Semana Nacional del Emprendedor 2016, Talk Walk Series Terhán, PLAT 2017 and PINC 2018. Juries: Fairy Tales 2016, IE Student Awards 2016, FONCA 2016. Awards: A+Awards 2016, WAN Awards, International Architectural Awards 2016. Competitions: RFP for OCAD University Re-design, Toronto Canadá feat PARTISANS Architects. - Collaborated with management on the marketing plan and brand strategy. - Created mediakits for all projects and submit them to print and digital media. - Created, manage and published content for their website, social media accounts and newsletters, and submit content to architectural blogs and websites. - Prepared and monitor awards submissions. - Updated company profile. - Coordinate lectures and presentation between media.
Native lenguage Toefl IBT: 80 / IELTS: 6
https://www.forummexico.mx/arquitectura-y-diseño/ flextructure/
MAD Architects, Beijing, China. / Architectural Internship
Projects: LA Landing, Changsha Highrise, Kindergarten and HK Henderson Highrise. - 3D Modeling in Rhino. - Graphic Design: SD / DD Documents and diagrams. - CAD: SD / DD Documents drawings.
/ Autodesk Autocad 2D + 3D / Autodesk Revit. / Rhinoceros / Grasshopper / Processing / Autodesk 3Ds Max Design. / Autodesk Maya 2017 / Adobe Suite Package (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects and Lightroom CC)
/ “Flextructure” published in themagazine: “FORUM” Edition no. 33 March 2019
Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, Mexico City, Mexico. / Architect. Projects: C6, Rancho Valle de Bravo and Bogota 92 - 3D Modeling in Rhino. - Graphic Design: SD / DD Documents and diagrams. - CAD: SD / DD Documents drawings.
LANGUAGES
2019
Arquitectura 911, Mexico City, Mexico. / Urbanist.
arq911.com January - May 2018
August - December 2017
Spanish English
tektil.mx
Projects: Distrito Chihuahua, Chihuahua. - 3D Modeling in Rhino. - Graphic Design: SD / DD Documents and diagrams. - CAD: SD / DD Documents drawings.
Foi et Joie, Education Organization, Port Au Prince, Haiti / By Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
/ Great ability to speak in public. / Excellent capacity for graphic representation. / Easiness for quick problem solving. / Mastery in architectural programs such as making models, renders, and 3d modelling. / Competence for fast learning.
TEKTIL S.A. de C.V., CDMX, Mexico. / Acoustic Designer and Sales Representative and Marketing coordinator. - Public Relationships - Sales - Digital Marketing and Social Networking - Acoustics Design with SAAD Acústica
May - August 2017
ABOUT ME
SKILLS
Archinect: http://archinect.com/dinorahmschulte
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
E D U C AT I O N January - December 2018
México, D.F. | 55 8290 9897 dino.schulte97@gmail.com Instagram: @dinorahmschulte Twitter: DinoMSchulte
“The Utopian Architect” by Dinorah Martinez Schulte. Cuarta Semana del Diseño por la Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Veracruzana. Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
September 2018
“Presentación” by Dinorah Martinez Schulte. Lafarge Holcim Chair, Universidad Iberoamericana. CDMX, Mexico.
M OT I VAT I O N “I believe that in order of architecture to be effective, we need to recognize the issues of our context through understanding of architecture as a holystic system, or a relationship between spacial composition and society. And as such, find patterns and create algorithmic systems to form the most optimal solutions that answer to a necessity and providing benefits for our society. As an architects, we are not just designers, we are multi-disciplinary thinkers to are concerned to solve all the necessities through our designs. Architecture is the art of creating and selling the experience of inhabiting a space. “ Dinorah is an extremely passionate about cities and architectural design. She wants to make cities a better place by carefully analyzing them in order to find specific solutions suitable for the exact place. Her interests lie in exploring the relationships between technology and architecture applicable in the creative process and design. Shaped by her working experiences, she is determined to bring an international perspective to her academic, professional, and creative work. A versatile and driven architect, she has worked and volunteered in fields spanning from international development to design.
01 TOPOGRAFIC SUTURE Description: Thesis project at Catedra Blanca CEMEX 2015/2016, Universidad Iberoamericana. Tutors: MArq. Diego Ricalde, MArq. Emmanuel Ramirez (Estudio MMX) , Arq. Moises Gamúz. Location: Texcoco, México City, Mexico. Date: 2015 / 2016 Collaboration: Ricardo López The atelier objective was to analyze the terrain from the biggest scale that would have an impact on the city, which meant studying the Basin of Mexico. This is the name given to the region of four valleys in the central part of the Mexican territory, which not only contains Mexico City but also other federal states. To study it properly distinct binomials that create city were assigned: water, landscape, urban and infrastructure. Our project studies the binomial of water and landscape, understanding the effect of the ever-growing metropoli against what used to be the dominant natural environment. Numerous zooms were made in search of the critical point of that binominal, which turned out to be the heart of the Basin of Mexico, what was once known as the great Lake Texcoco.
W AT E R + LANDSCAPE
In colonial times, rivers were sent underground and lakes began to be drained; the sinking of the city and floods are a consequence of those actions, problems that consume the city today. Neither the city nor the Basin of Mexico are auto sufficient; and it is ironic that a region shaped to contain a great body of water has to bring it from other hydrologic systems; that the lowest point of the basin is not covered by rainwater which instead of being stored, is ejected from the territory. Through an urban proposal and later an architectural proposal, we address all these factors from the macro scale and reflect them on a micro scale Mexico City has grown disproportionately eliminating its connections with the natural environment. We believe that to amend this, the territory should answer to its topographic vocation where natural systems correspond to the heights of the land. In today’s context it is impossible to go back to depending on only one great lake, because of this we seek to divide the magnitude of this lake in various fragments that adapt to the contemporary infrastructure. The project strives for a topographic suture of the surroundings of Lake Texcoco.
1.1 Manifestation of water and landscape through infraestructure and mobility; linking Texcoco with Mexico City
If we join the sites of water with the sites of landscape we can have a suture, weaving the programmatic axis of the city with the natural axis of the basin which is its natural drain, the sewage of Mexico City. Naturally, the high points of the basin are where landscape emerges and the low points are where water accumulates. The project strategy places the ecologic as its first hierarchy, followed by the urban and finally the architectural. The essential action is to regenerate a withering landscape. Because of the absence of an immediate urban context we use topography as a means of order, where the same natural trend of the basin is replicated in order to be able to reconfigure the terrain. We elaborate a network of high points which is where we can build, and another network of low points which become bodies of water. The places where these two meet become areas for mangroves and natural reserves.
1.2 Location Map
02. Basin’s Sinking
03. Basin’s Water
04. Basin’s flooding
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1.4 Map of problematic at Mexico City’s Basin
1 CUAUTITLAN
Altitud
764 mm.
764 mm.
Altitud
498 030 hab.
764 498mm. 030 hab.
764 mm.764 mm.
764 mm.
2.260 msnm
2.260 msnm
ECATEPEC
ECATEPEC Barranca Tepatlasco
Superfie
Superfie
820 msnm
15.046 km²
Longitud
Longitud
110 km
PRECIPITACIÓN ANUAL POBLACION
190 ha.
859 hab.
16.4 km
Almacenamiento
14 km
24,700,000 m3 800 mm.
800 mm.
186,9 km² Altitud
Longitud
Longitud
190 ha.
Longitud
2.250 Capacidad demsnm desalojo
153.3 km
Superfie
40 m3/s
83.40 16.4 km
800 mm.
Superficie
186,9 km² Altitud
Longitud
Longitud
153.3 km
2.250 msnm
800 mm.
1 656 107 hab.
1 656 107 hab.
800 mm.
800 mm.
Ecatepec de Morelos
Superficie
40 m3/s
83.40
Almacenamiento
15.046 km²
800 mm.
Gran Canal de Desagüe
Capacidad de desalojo
Superfie
14 km Superfie 24,700,000 m3 Superfie
820 msnm Longitud
859 hab.
Ecatepec de Morelos
Gran Canal de Desagüe
Rio Tlanepantla
Presa de Madin
El Salitre
Altitud
110 km Altitud
Rio Tlanepantla
Presa de Madin
El Salitre
Barranca Tepatlasco
800 mm.
CIUDAD NEZA
CHIMALHUACAN Presa Anzaldo Río Churubusco Gran Canal de Desague
Cerro de San Miguel
CIUDAD NEZA
Río Magdalena Contreras
Cerro de San Miguel Altitud
Ciudad Neza
Superfie Superfie Río Magdalena Contreras
Superfie Ciudad Neza
29.25 km²
452 ha.
16 km²
Longitud
Longitud
Almacenamiento
Longitud
190,00 M3
13.4 km
Altitud
28 km Superfie
Superfie
3790 msnm
29.25 km²
452 ha.
Longitud
Longitud
1529 HA 0 hab.
0 hab.
Lago de Texcoco Río Coatepec Monte Tlaloc
Superfie
16 km²
CHIMALHUACAN
Chimalhuacan
Lago de Texcoco Río Coatepec Monte Tlaloc
Presa Anzaldo Río Churubusco Gran Canal de Desague
3790 msnm 1529 HA
PRECIPITACIÓN ANUAL POBLACION
4
13 825 hab.
13 825 hab.
109,9 km²
24Altitud km
24 km
3
PRECIPITACIÓN AREA / VOLUMEN ANUAL
3
15,000 M3
Superficie
Superficie
Longitud 109,9 km²
15,000Longitud M3 24 km Almacenamiento
24 km
2
AREAUSO / VOLUMEN USO DE SUELO Y VEGETACION DE SUELO Y VEGETACION CORTE GEOGRAFICO CORTE GEOGRAFICO
3
3
Longitud
110 km
POBLACION
2
Superfie
16.426 km²
Superfie
Superfie
16.426 km² 348 ha.Almacenamiento 16.426 km² Longitud
Longitud110 km
Cuatitltan - Izcalli
Cuatitltan - Izcalli
348 ha.
16.426 km²
Superfie
Rio Cuatitlan
Superfie
Superfie
2.795 msnm
Altitud
Longitud 2.795 msnm
AREA / VOLUMEN AREA / VOLUMEN USO DE SUELOUSO Y VEGETACION PRECIPITACIÓN DE SUELO Y VEGETACION CORTE GEOGRAFICO CORTE GEOGRAFICO ANUAL POBLACION
22
Rio Cuautitlan Presa de Guadalupe
Sierra de Monte Alto
Rio Cuatitlan
Rio Cuautitlan Presa de Guadalupe
Sierra de Monte Alto
CUAUTITLAN
PRECIPITACIÓN PRECIPITACIÓN ANUAL ANUAL POBLACION POBLACION
1
/ VOLUMEN USO DE SUELO USOYDE SUELO Y VEGETACION CORTE GEOGRAFICO AREA /AREA VOLUMEN VEGETACION CORTE GEOGRAFICO
1
Capacidad de desalojo Chimalhuacan
Superfie
40 m3/s
35 ha
27 km²
Longitud
Longitud
Longitud
Altitud
22 km
25 km
4125 msnm
153.3 km
Superfie
Capacidad de desalojo
Longitud
190,00 M3 734 mm.
13.4 km 734 mm.
153.3 800 mm.km
734 mm.
734 mm.
734 mm.
800 mm.
Superfie
35 ha
40 m3/s Longitud
Almacenamiento
km 73428mm.
Superfie
27 km²
Longitud
km 62122mm.
Longitud
25 km 621mm.
621 mm.
621mm.
Superficie
2613 HA
Superficie
2613 HA Altitud
4125 msnm 0 hab.
0 hab.
4
PRECIPITACIÓN AREA / VOLUMEN ANUAL POBLACION
AREAUSO/ VOLUMEN USO DE SUELO Y VEGETACION DE SUELO Y VEGETACION CORTE GEOGRAFICO
CORTE GEOGRAFICO
4
4
PRECIPITACIÓN ANUAL POBLACION
1.3 Concept of Basin
01. Basin’s Landscape
TLAHUAC Lago Tlahuac
Tlahuac
Río Amecameca Iztaccihuatl
TLAHUAC Lago Tlahuac Superfie
Río Amecameca Iztaccihuatl Tlahuac Superfie Superficie
40 ha
55 km²
Longitud
Longitud
Altitud
46 km
5286 msnm
66 km Superfie
40 ha
Superfie
55 km²
Longitud
Longitud
km 66766mm.
46 km 667mm.
667 mm.
667mm.
90,2840 HA
Superficie
90,2840 HA Altitud
0 hab. 5286 msnm
0 hab.
1.5 Strategy
ZONE 02: Landscape ZONE 01: Energy
TOPOGRAPHIC SUTURE
ZONE 04: Infraestructure
ZONE 03: Water
2.1 Urban strategy, four sector programming..
URBAN LEVEL The project proposes a solution of four sectors, where the program corresponds to the terrain that now lies divided by its own infrastructure.
LANDSCAPE LEVEL The place where we can build and landscape emerges.
2.2 High points which is where we can build and landscape emerges.
WATER LEVEL The place where water accumulates and we can find connection and mobilty programs through the project.
ECOLOGIC LEVEL The project proposes to heal the territory with a 30 year plan of habitat restoration, with the recovery of water bodies.
2.3 The low points are where water accumulates.
TOPOGRAPHIC LEVEL The building further-develops site renewal; it is the final piece to solving the problem of frontier and to healing the critical point of water and landscape. A suture is a stich which purpose is to unite again what was separated or damaged.
2.5 Strategy.
2.4 High and low points create a topographic network.
TOPOGRAPHIC SUTURE
08. Project Location
Suture: Step 01
Suture: Step 02
Suture: Step 03 2.7 Topographic suture masterplan, reprogramming Mexico’s forgotten lake.
ARCHITECTURAL PLANS
3.1 Axonometric
Administration Area Public Space Banks Car Rental Terrace Food Court Car Wash Subway Plataform Machine Room Parking
3.2 Project Program
Section A
Section B
Section C
Section D
3.3 Sections
South Facade
East Facade
3.4 Facades
4.1 Concept Studio
4.2 Building Infrastructure
4.3 Facade Studio
At the architectural level it creates the suture by means of a train station whose purpose is to link to the City with this new natural paradise as with the new airport. The composition of the building responds to this same concept of arrangement where low points store water for future use. It is thanks to this that the territory is completely reconfigured, the final piece to solve the border problem and heal the critical landscape and water point. A suture is a seam whose purpose is to rejoin what was separated or damaged. It is only through a new connection to the city between the old and the new, that we managed to rethink the metropolis through a water and lansdcape perspective.
02 FLEXTRUCTURE Description: Thesis project at Graduated Specialization of Creative Design Code by CENTRO DiseĂąo, Cine y TelevisiĂłn Tutors: Yoshi Fukumori, Eduardo Obieta and Eduardo Ramirez. Location: CENTRO University, MĂŠxico City, Mexico. Date: 2018 Traditionally, architectural design has been prevailed by topdown design methods, which generally subordinate material and manufacturing considerations for the geometry learned. While bottom-up strategies have increasingly been explored in design processes, such as biomimetic approaches, they often follow a top-down manufacturing solution. Unlike conventional design methods, both the design development and the materialization process can be considered equal design drivers through the use of biomimetic design principles and the simultaneous development of new manufacturing methods (La Magna et al. ., 2013; Menges, 2013) . Biomimetic approaches have proven to have significant potential for design implementations through their systemic complexity and multiple logics (Gruber 2011). The morphological principles of natural organisms
are absorbed and transferred to architectural applications for their performative geometries and their functional integration. The evolutionary biological processes offer a remarkable example for the integration of multiple requirements in the morphogenetic process. This project seeks to make a replicable structure optimized from biomimetic studies to support anti-earthquake loads and to make a new and innovative construction process for the engineering and architecture market. Based on the spiderwebs, the most resistant natural structure in the world, this project was developed in six different explorations to study the physical and mechanical properties about them and how they work as a structure.
Spider silk is a protein fiber spun naturally by spiders. The spiders use it to develop hunting nets or webs, nests, protections for their eggs or even to be transported by air as a paraglider. Thanks to this form of transport, some sailors have reported the presence of spiders among their sails after having sailed, even at distances of 1,600 km offshore. They have also been found in atmospheric globes in their tasks of analysis of the atmosphere at heights somewhat less than 5000 m.
the spiderwebs.
Funnel webs Velvety fiber that is meshed to form a large hole in the center in layers to go unnoticed and then entangle its prey to hunt peacefully.
Sheet webs They are the most common and you can find them in trees or human objects. - Silk bed elongated, flat and white. - Against the attack of wasps and birds because of their thickness and complexity with their target deficit.
classifi cation.
¿Why are they
so resistant?
the
nodes.
The cobwebs or spiderwebs, one of the most efficient and unsurpassed natural processes in the world. There are 700 m in a continuous thread, increasing the image 12,000 times the spider has in the adomén 4 organs called “rows” each contains taps, which produce liquid silk a few thousandths of a millimeter thick. The spider pulls these threads and turns liquid silk into solid and twists several rows together to give strength to the thread. Each thread has a thirtieth part of hair that contains a force outside its scale.
proper ties.
His genius and secret of his resistance is in the drops of water that there are of each crossing. Within each drop there are strands of cobwebs strongly entangled, when the victim collides, these strands unravel, causing the fabric to bend and stretch without breaking.
exploration 01:
study of flexible structures. The first exploration consisted in studying how flexible structures work with and respond with square shaped nodes with flexible materials (clips). Experimentation from a digital process, gave us the result that when using square modules are easily deformed, but when adding a module in the form of a triangle, tension is created and its deformation is prevented by the properties of the geometry.
1.1 Physical study
1.2 Digital Study: Grasshopper
exploration 02:
I bought a tarantula of species The orange baboon tarantula (Pterinochilus murinus) is a species of tarantula of the genus Pterinochilus, belonging to the family Theraphosidae. It can be found on the African continent, specifically in the central and southern regions of Africa. This species was chosen for its quickness to make cobwebs in a short time and its dense web was studied in the original container.
study of the naturalspiderweb.
exploration 03:
mapping the process of spiderweb.
1. Module 01
1. Module 02
1. Module 04
01
02
03
We build an acrylic box of 15 x 15 cm. where perforations were made so that the spider could breathe and also the mapping of the cobweb process was simple.
Then guides were built so that the spider would lean and could weave its web through them, as well as leaving food and drink at strategic points for more than 3 weeks.
After the estimated time, the record of how the spider made its web was mapped and a line was woven that crossed from point to point to be able to manipulate the design.
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05
06
The process was extracted and that is how we chose the guidelines to be able to do the process of programming, simulation and solidification of the process.
From the points and lines of the process mapping of the natural web, a simulation was made with Kangaroo, which gave us the following diagram as a result and which allows us to simulate the mechanical properties of the web.
As a final result, this polygon mesh was optimized, using the Cocoon plugging, which allowed us to solidify the process and obtain a structure that is the result of a natural process, whose properties come from a natural web and can be edited to our own taste , depending on the necesity.
exploration 05:
simulation of the web.
exploration 06:
01. Slack increase study.
02. Study of increase of vertices and slack.
03. Study of increase of vertices to tension.
study of a flexible node.
“Spider mind doesn’t completely reside in their body as their web constitude a form of spatial thinking. Information from their web becomes integral part of their cognitive systems. The web provides a medium of interaction with embedded intelligence. Form (web morphology), matter (spider silk) and production (spider behaviour) are interfered with an algorithmically designed and machined printed spatial scaffolding. The object and it’s spatial architecture becomes ambiguous as spiders are both behavioral model informing the digital substratum and active agents of artistic production”
“The development of manufacturing strategies based on the material behavior allows an integration early logics of manufacture in the design process and an exploration of new structural typologies. “
designing with nature.
03 BODIES IN F O R M AT I O N Description: Workshop by ACADIA 2018 Tutors: Andrew Kudless Location: UNAM, MĂŠxico City, Mexico. Date: 2018 Collaboration: ACADIA 2018
This 3-day workshop will focus on the use of flexible fabric formwork in the casting of plaster and concrete. Building on the work of many architects such as Miguel Fisac as well as the research at Matsys, this workshop will explore both analog and digital techniques for the design and simulation of casting using flexible formwork. The workshop will cover instruction in Grasshopper and Kangaroo to simulate and explore variations in the constraints on the flexible formwork. In addition, students will work in groups to develop a collective series of cast wall panels. Kudless’s projects, both speculative and built, harness the opportunities that exist within the digital field, to interrogate issues of design, craft, and fabrication. Individually and collectively, the works present an examination of the tension that exists between the analog and the digital.
IN BETWEEN D I G I TA L A N D P H Y S I C A L FA B R I C AT I O N 1. First Step: We assemble the wooden mold with its respective parts. Once armed, we drew a grid where we set the rules to direct the curves of our casting. Once the grid was established, we made it with wooden or steel molds, depending on the technique that will be used.
2. Second Stage: Already established our grid and the mold, we had an elastic fabric made of lycra so that it could give the elasticity and resistance necessary to create our pre-cast. Once the fabric was stretched, we prepared a mixture of gypsum and fiberglass to plasticize the result.
3. Third Stage: Now ready the mold with the tensioned fabric, we place the mixture of plaster and fiberglass very carefully over the whole mold until it is filled up. We wait a period of 20 minutes for the mixture to dry and with gravity to settle the fabric to project the result. 4. Final Stage: The mixture is already dry, we check it manually and we take it to get out of the mold. Then, we disassemble the mold and detach the cloth until we obtain the complete piece and let it dry upside down until we obtain plaster curves. With this result, we verify the resistance, elasticity and the characteristics of the material with the gravity that give us as result, that marks the relationship between the digital and analogous manufacturing.
Exploring
a n a l o g and d i g i t a l t e c h n i q u e s for the design and simulation of casting using flexible formwork.
Bodies in Formation highlights the emergent relationships between architecture, engineering, biology and computation. These cross-disciplinary relationships are radically changing the conditions for production in the field of architecture. Transcending various scales and typologies and taking inspiration from a myriad of sources, Kudless’ work challenges our preconceptions of Architecture and the boundaries of traditional practice.
04 VINCULACIÓN CHAPUTEPEC Description: Project at Vertical Studio by Julio Gaeta at Universidad Iberoamericana. Tutors: M.Arq. Julio Gaeta (Gaeta Springall), Arq. Luis Carbonell, Arq. Tiago Pinto de Carvallo, Arq. Alberto García. Location: Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico. Date: 2014 Collaboration: Estefanía Anaya A park and a residential zone; divided by a great avenue, two neighboring zones continue to wither while undiscovered potential remains wasted. The shortest distance between two points is a line, but every line is different; the solution comes with urban unison. A bridge, a visual link: the intervention connects the two sides of a metropolitan sea through permeable architecture. Placing completely different architectural agendas on each side that react positively to the area. Thus, enabling the user to live a walkable city.
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TITUYENTES
ción general
Ubicación intervención 6.1 Chapultepec + San Miguel Chapultepec 05
6.2 Constituyentes Location Map 06
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Urban fracture on the edge of Constituyentes Avenue, between the first section of the Chapultepec Forest and the San Miguel Chapultepec colony. In order to solve this, our main objective is to work on integrating the trace of the San Miguel Chapultepec colony into Section 1 of the Chapultepec Forest to generate an urban link. To achieve this urban urgency, the plan is to blend the building trace into the park, materializing buildings on both sides that are similar but not quite the same, housing different program that respond to the site´s neccesity. When analyzing the San Miguel Chapultepec colony,it appears to be programatically divided, having one commercial block, a cultural block, and an inactivity block. Furthermore there are no buildings with sports or recreational use. Buildings facing Constituyentes avenue appear to be in a deteriorating state, which not only damages its interior space but loses its relationship with the avenue, further enhancing fracture on the site. Meanwhile, on the side of the Chapultepec Forest there is no program that faces the avenue, indirectly provoking waves of insecurity. This is why we decidided to develop the program C (Sports and recreational), the one that has greater potential to link nearby recreational areas such as the Chapultepec Castle, enabling the user to move comfortably in this area.
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05 FÉ Y ALEGRÍA R E G E N E R AT I O N Description: Project at Vertical Studio at Universidad Iberoamericana. Tutors: M.Arq Juan Carlos Cano (Cano-Vera), Fermin Andrade, Victor Martínez and Juan Casillas. Location: Port Au Prince, Haiti. Date: 2014 Collaboration: Ana Sofia Narro and Mathieu Perrier. Home to 9.9 million people, Haiti houses some of the poorest living conditions in the world. No constant water or electricity supply, no roads; no haven for any kid growing up. This is the sole purpose of foundations such as Foi et Joie, create a better place for children. The architectural challenge presented consisted of renovating the spatial foundations, the establishment itself. Responding not to chaos or tragedy, but rather to the extreme weather conditions; to the true necessities of the people, using only material that would be available to the people, in an aesthetic manner.
MISION
STRATEGIES
Fe y Alegria is an international movement of popular education and social promotion, based on the values of justice, freedom, participation, fraternity, respect for diversity and solidarity, aimed at the impoverished and excluded population to contributed to the transformation of societies .
1. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the area in order to respond adequately to the context. 2. Based on the old system of vernacular housing to which Haitian users are accustomed. New facilities will blend to local context, creating a sense of beloning while still providing a fresh architectural perspective.
MASTERPLAN
WORKSHOPS
TALLERES Faith and joy is characterized as an open forpor ser un espacio Fé ypublic alegria sespace caracteriza abierto al público para reaizar actividades de learning activities and workaprendizaje e imparte talleres con actividades comunes para la población activde Haití, como es shops; providing common taller de carpintería, danza, música y aveces ities for the population ofdeHaiti: hasta se realizan cursos apredizaje como matemáticas o clases de lectura para evitar el carpentryanalfabetismo, shop, dance, music ya que las cifras son grandes. and ocassionally academic courses including reading and
DINING
“Fecomedor y Alegria” is concerned Fé y Alegría preocupa por of la nutrición with thesenutrition usersdeand los usuarios y darles la oportunidad de tener alimento por el tiempo que esten ahi. give them the opportunity to Por ello cuenta con un comedor totalmente have food by the time they abierto al público en general para brindar desayuno, comida y cena y regalarles un arrive. Open to the general tiempo de convivencia. public, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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COTTAGES
“Fe y Alegria“ gives users priCABAÑAS alegria otorga a losthey usuarios espacios vate space Fé toy sleep when privados para dormir cuando estos no tienen de do not haveun atecho, roof, providing se les brinda esta oportunidad con un espacio digno. shelter a decent shelter for the homeless.
DORMITORY DORMITORIO
Besides the cabins there are Aparte de las cabañas more private spaces thatque son espacios más privados para brindar techo, Fé y Alegría cuenta con espacios provide roof, “Fe ytambién Alegria” comunales para aquellos usuarios que no has communal spaces forel users se nieguen a compartir espacio con alguien más o no tengan la necesidad de who neither mindmucho sharing hospedarse tiempo. space nor have the need to stay for long.
T H E
ANTI-SEISMIC HOUSES Houses with the appropriate design to face an earthquake, built with a set of economical and technical principles for maximum resistance. The cube-shaped housing is the basic principle to ensure safety, this is then followed by a series of constructive steps to assure structural integrity.
C O T T A G E The Cube: Aseismic Geometric
Simetric Principal Structure
Ariostres Secondary Structure
Warp and filling
Paraseismic housing
CUTTING FRONT Material Analysis
TIN ROOF
The sheet is very common in the region in Haiti.
THERMAL INSULATION
Leaving an air chamber is essential for commodity, given that tin roofs multiply local heat.
BAHAREQUE WALL
This technique combines various economic materials while still maintaining rigidity in walls: Background: I talk + Mortar bottles. Structure: Bamboo Coating: Adobe
WOODEN / BAMBOO WINDOW CANCEL A glass supported by a bamboo structure
BAHAREQUE WALL
This technique combines various materials and obtain a wall very rigid such materials are: Background: I talk + Mortar bottles. Structure: Bamboo Coating: Adobe
SLAB
Concrete slab that creates insulation, prevents internal heat in the room and allows circular ventilation.
GIVEN FOUNDATION
A basic concrete foundation to support single columns and provide support for the structure. More expensive than traditional construction but allows the building to stand in the event of an earthquake.
Photography by: Dinorah MartĂnez
06 MELBOURNE TAT TO O AC A D E M Y Description: Architectural Competition by Bee breeders. Location: Melbourne, Australia. Date: 2016 Collaboration: Ricardo López, Nathalie Franquebalme and Alexia Tardán. The main objective of the project is to give identity to the Melbourne Tattoo Academy, such as a tattoo does on the human body. The urban strategy of the building is based on the ten year“North of Melbourne Structure Plan”, creating recreational areas in the local district. The proposed architecture responds to the flows of the area, incorporating the building to the main road, enfasizing a public acces with an inner courtyard. This way, the geometric gesture allows a constant flow of pedestrians. Consequently, seeing the current needs for public space of inhabitants in Melbourne, a public agora becomes the heart of the project, and then the heart of the district. A place for art to be contemplated, be it the human body or the academy itself.
Rene Descartes once said that “the being expreses himself through the body and the body through dimensions to discern between the good and bad�. This philosophy became a central idea in the project, which main objective is to give Melbourne identity such as a tattoo does on the human body. Throughout history, the idea of the tattoo represents hierarchy and maturity. Following the psychology of this art, the tattoo has a special meaning depending on the place where it is drawn. Just as a tattoo changes meaning depending on its location on the human canvas, the project agenda evolves and matures as you move along the project and the building becomes the skin on which the tattoo is drawn. Similarly, depending on the level in which the user is involved the relationship of the agenda has a different meaning. The urban strategy is based in the north of Melbourne structure plan. The project responds to the flow of the study area, incorporating the main avenues to have a constant vehicular and pedestrian flow. Similarly we attach a new public space to the city, creating more green areas and turning the building into an urban landmark.
8.1 Exploded Axonometric with program
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07 P I XO LO GY Description: My own company of architectural visualization and creative studio. Pixology is a design studio dedicated to the visualization of ideas to facilitate communication during the creative process, the design process and the execution of projects between a multidisciplinary team and the client, with the aim of generating new emotions and experiences for a project. Pixology specializes in offering new ideas visualization proposals, which deepen in detail in realistic simulations the behavior of lights, textures and various materials to consolidate a real representation of any architectural project.
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