Por tfolio Eloy Garcia
Intro
My portfolio will reflect on my ambitions as an architect. The small details one can learn by working with your hands or materialising ideas in the physical world is quintessential. The created architecture is not a specific style but is adapted to the context, people and program so it gives the best solution to the thoughest problems.
Data
Hasselt, Belgium Constant-De-Rouxstraat 57 0496 91 80 43 eloy.garcaa@gmail.com 1992-18-08
Education
Applied sciences
2004-2010 Vrij technisch instituut Hasselt
Bachelor architecture
2010-2014 University Hasselt Faculty arts & architecture
Master architecture
2014-2016 University Hasselt Faculty arts & architecture
Skills
Sketching Aquarel Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Vectorworks Revit SketchUp 3DS MAX Rhinoceros Grasshopper 3D printing Lasercutting
Design
Carving & modelling 8 Living underground 9 Landscape 10 Tea for two 11 Rocking stool 12 The wedge 14
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Carving & modelling June 2014
To transform a material is getting to know the material. It’s not only about a shape it is about the characteristics. How you can emphasis on a material and follows its shape. So it’s actually the material defining the shape. In this case the materials is a local stone from the quarry in Mazy. A very special dark stone with very few white vains and a pinewood which have beautiful marks on them.
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Living underground November 2012
The gypsum model is a materialised concept. It is a concept used in an architectural design where the challenge lays beneath the ground. The idea is to begin with the a flat surface and folding it. Two volumes play with an open and closed feeling.
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Landscape November 2012
Landscape in every project is an important element. The models shown are integrated in the landscape. Together they have a symbiotic relationship where they compliment each others shapes. The horizontal layering with the horizontal model and the two vertical walls bring contrast and suspension in this symbiotic relationship.
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Tea for Two Januari 2015
Because of the three materials a complex challenge. The goal was to find different local experts who are capable to create the design. The shapes are inspired by geometry, the circle, the rectangle, the square. The teapot is a collabaration with ceramic artist Marleen Maris. The blue stone is a neutral plateau but with a high level of detail. The glasses are double-layered which creates an estranged effect.
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Rocking stool Januari 2016
To create a stool is to think about materials and functionalism. Is there a minimum for a stool and can we still bring an element of suprise through the use of form and the use of an elegant material such as leather. The color of the 2mm thick leather is due to the vegetal tanning method. The stool questions the stability of a stool and the volatile, short use of the object.
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The wedge April 2016
A new modular seating systems that requires a minimum out of a material and gives a maximum to flexibilty. The whole design is made out cm thick plywood. The measurements of the holes in the base plates determines its height and thus creating different scenarios. With this design there are infite possibilities to make different configurations.
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Architecture
Public Housing 18 The hybrid school 20 Global Schlinder award 22 Peggy Guggenheim museum 24 Lost Barrier 28 Sky garden 30 The farm 32 Living landscape 34 Carefully inside-out 38
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Public housing April 2014
Provide social housing for 60 people in a rural setting in Hoeselt. The greenery, wood and the gable roofs are used to fit in this small town. Two types are generated with the lower parts being family minded with a garden. The upper part are designed for young couples with a small terrace with a view on the greenery. The houses are connected to the school which can be build in another phase. This will make it commercially interesting but will also stimulate mixed use and its oppurtunities
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The hybrid school June 2014
How to design a primary school that fits the current social and physical standard? The multifunctional hallway/lunchroom/playgarden is the focal point that can be closed and be rented out for family parties, ... The school is interconnected with the social housing so it becomes a new social active community.
Sociale w oningen
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Global Schlinder award December 2014
The competition explores other possibilities for rapid growth in Shenzhen, China. This is the large masterplan situated near the Honghu Park. The concept was a loop around a traffic junction. The loop brings together the seperated areas divided by the junction.
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Global Schlinder award December 2014
On this plan you can zoom in on the details. As the loop is not an isolated island it will also reshape the ground level and morph the crossing building into this giant structure. This way it becomes a hybrid building. Supported by the framework as it gives opportunities to different programs.
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Peggy Guggenheim Museum June 2015
The extension for the Peggy Guggenheim museum in Venice. The facade depicts an reflection of the layering visualizing a gradient from open to close . The columns become more massive depending on the level and the spaces become smaller as they rise. This important aspect is achieved by playing with the scale of the surrounding buildings and the unfinished faรงade of the original, making a unique building arise out of Venice
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Platforms
Circulation
Art core
Layers
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Section model scale 1/100
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Lost barrier in MAXXI Jule 2015 (Š SO? Architecture and ideas)
SO? was asked for an Istanbul exhibition in the MAXXI-museum in Rome. They decided to work on the theme “barriers� because Istanbul is a city of physical and mental barriers. The barriers used for this installation are police fences. My idea was to create a chaotic undesigned structure with these fences but where there are possibilities to sit, to go inside, to climb, to jump in this structure. As people in Istanbul also manipulate this fence in every possible way. (Responsible for the whole design procces and model making)
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Sky garden
Jule 2015 (Š SO? Architecture and ideas)
Sky Garden is a suspended garden in OrtakĂśy Square which is one of the most touristic and busiest squares in Istanbul. Putting a garden on the ground in such a congested area would reduce the walkable surface and make the square even more dense. Instead, we proposed to hang the garden while keeping the ground still accessible. We used the existing slab in the square as a base for the new garden which will also serve as a canopy made of pots during sunny days.(Responsible for the generic 3D model and detailling of the hanging system)
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Isometric views of the hanging system
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The farm
February 2016 (Š Wastiau & co)
The aim is to preserve the historical identity in the landscape, while fulfilling a new, adaptable program. In order to compete with the new scale of the built environment a new structure is placed over the existing one. And, not just any structure or form. Through extrusion of the original typology, scaling it up to a new, more public stature. Allowing history to co-exist with the future, side by side. Compatible and complementary.
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New public space
Original farm
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Living Landscape April 2016
This competition is set up by ISOVER and the theme of this competition was Multi-Comfort Housing. The project is located in Brest, Belarus and has a very big and rational masterplan. The masterplan is a rational grid and this was a starting point for the design. By inversing the grid inside one plot and extruding it. The next step was to adapt it to sun, shadow and privacy rules. The ground level has a commercial function and the center-building serve as a flexible open space that serves the inhabitants of the building.
Axonometric view of the project
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BUILD ON AXES CREATING COURTYARDS, OPEN SPACES AND ADDED COMPACTNESS
adapt grid to context
Inverse build volume INDRODUCE GRID
ON AXES
round corners for integrating and anti-turbulence
Extrude volume
BUILD
Create courtyards CREATING COURTYARDS
LIFT EDGES FOR EFFICIENT RAINWATER COLLECTING AND INCREASED SUNLIGHT PENETRATION
Lift edges for rainwater, views, solar gains.
Longitudinal section
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round corners for integrating and anti-turbulence
Adapt structure to optimalize views, privacy, orientation
integrate further in landscape trough re-use of soil
Integration in landscape & re-use of soil
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Carefully inside-out June 2016
Located in Tanzania, in the heart of the residential area of Kigamboni. In this research by design project, care is the programmatic opportunity to explore new typologies and urban spatial compositions that enable the informal settlement to densify, at its own pace, preserving the quintessential public space for daily interactions. Firstly, a subtle network of pedestrian links, in between the existing buildings and private plots, is defined. These axis become the guides of future growth, organising public space and liveable, safe areas without typical barbed wire or enclosures.
Residential walls in Kigamboni
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Isometric view with phasing through axis
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Carefully inside-out June 2016
The ground level focuses on life between buildings, strengthening the bonds of the inhabitants. The concrete plinth allows large openings enabling the accessibility of the buildings. Rammed earth walls on top of this concrete plinth and provide an eco friendly material. Facing the streets, the walls show a geometric pattern and give the building it’s worthy appearance, while the courtyards provide contrast with their sober wooden galleries that link the buildings together. This contrast between the two types of wall creates an onset toward defining semi - public and private spaces.
The surface of an average house and the new compact surface
Stacking in a vertical way rather than the horizontal
Pitched roof to reflect on the build residential skyline
Flexible typological volume adapted to the environment
Wooden terraces to create breazy semi/private spaces
Materialising in a permanent oncrete and ecological earth
The facade facing the street gets a representative function
Stimulating public life with windows, greens, shades, ...
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Model Scale 1/50
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Lectors
Arch. Johan Berben (A2O) Arch. Carlo Cappai (C+S ) Arch. Maria Segantini (C+S) Arch. Sevince Bayrak (SO?) Arch. Oral Goktas (SO?) Arch. Marie Wastiau (Wastiau & Co) Arch. Allen Zimmerman (Wil - Ma) Arch. Danny Windmolders (FCS Architecten) Arch. Nick Ceulemans (CTA) Arch. Johannes Janssen Arch. Frank Vanden Ecker (De Gouden Liniaal) Arch. (urban) Peter Bongaerts Arch. Iwert Bernakiewicz Eng. Jos Delbroek