ARCHITECTURAL INVESTIGATIONS
ENRIQUE CAVELIER
PRELUDE
What can architecture do?
Contrary to the classical definition of architecture as a solid
form created through material associations, I think of it as a fluid, never-ending event generated through the participation of a multiplicity of people and ideas. This book recollects a series of investigations exploring the capacity of architecture to produce new forms of behavior and relationships that question established social, spatial and political norms. Each project aims to expand the work of the architect from the production of independent objects to creation of new material and immaterial associations. By working on a multidisciplinary and collaborative manner the projects presented here allow to understand the practice of architecture as a research platform capable to link ideas, people and materials and to create new meanings to the concepts of authorship, singularity and completeness.
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WHAT CAN ARCHITECTURE DO?
TEACH AN ENDLESS PLACE
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WE PLAY, YOU PLAY
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Fall 2017 Milan, Italy in collaboration with Giancarlo Mazzanti, Felipe Guerrero and Alonso Atienza
Spring 2017 Milan, Italy in collaboration with Giancarlo Mazzanti, Mariana Bravo, Luca Molinari and Alessandro Benetti
RESEARCH THE WORLD IS NOT FLAT 30 Spring 2014 - Studio project in collaboration with Ximena Robelo
INHABITING MEMORY Spring 2014- Studio project Bogotรก, Colombia
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GENOME CENTER 44 Fall 2012- Studio project New York, USA
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REDEFINE 626 FLATBUSH AV. 50 Spring 2013 - Studio project Brooklyn, USA
DWELLING X 62 Spring 2013 - Studio project in collaboration with Joshua Cruz
HORIZONTAL CAMPUS 68 Fall 2017 Medellin, Colombia in collaboration with Giancarlo Mazzanti, Felipe Guerrero and Alonso Atienza
INTERNATIONAL ANTARTIC CENTER 84 Spring 2017 Punta Arenas, Chile in collaboration with Giancarlo Mazzanti, Felipe Guerrero and Alonso Atienza
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architecture as a pedagogical instrument
Different spatial configurations of a classroom
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The value of educational architecture cannot lie on itself, but in its capacity to trigger new forms of behavior and relationships between children and teachers. In this project we propose spaces that allow a whole new range of pedagogical experiences through the creation of new spatial and material relationships. Like a sinuous corridor full of sensorial experiences than becomes a pedagogical instrument for children. This project aims to rethink schools not as purely functional structures but as playful spaces where children learn through experience and ludic activities in new spatial configurations.
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A classroom that expands to the outside and multiplies the students’ spatial experiences.
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WE PLAY, YOU PLAY
exploring the role of play in the architecture of El Equipo Mazzanti
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The exhibition explores the act of play as an operational process of action and reaction that leads to a new perception of the other contenders, the context or oneself; altering the quality of the relationships that affect it. Play is not an idle activity, but a complex event that is supported by a system of rules and operations capable of transforming self-regulated human relationships and contexts. It is interpreted as an interruption or a break from the ordinary world and daily duties. We play, they play is imagined as a place to play, a canopy of actions and reactions - an architecture of events. The gallery turns into a ludic laboratory based on changing exercises, capable of giving the voice to the visitor and giving her or him the power to decide where to go and what to do in the space. By providing the visitors with protocols and commands, they become the real players, authors and observers of the exhibition, with the ability to decide what to draw, design, watch, and play in the space.
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Transforming surfaces into tridimensional spaces
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Each material has its unique opportunities and its limits. Using different technologies that vary from the cutting knife to the 3D printing machine and a router, this project explores the possibility to transform flat surfaces into tridimensional spaces.
A plastic sheet transformed into an inflatable meeting room in the middle of an architecture school.
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INHABITING MEMORY a living memorial
Calle 26 in Bogotรก as a new memorial space
7 STAGES OF GRIEF
Denial
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Anger and Defence
Bargain
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Depression
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A memorial as an inhabitable space, where victims come to live, heal and reintegrate into society.
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The aim of this project is to create a new kind of living memorial, one that reconciles the past events with the present and the future. Unlike static structures of the past that deploy established signs to memorialize events, this project proposes a new typology for a Memorial/monument, one that is not static but alive and transformable. Victims commemorate the past by a process of rehabilitation that is framed by the new architecture and landscape design. Their daily lives record multiple spatial conditions that allow them to heal while also engaging the public’s awareness and participation in their healing process.
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GENOME CENTER
a research center as a new kind of public space
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This project explores the possibility to create a space to house the findings of The Human Genome Project (HGP) in a way they become legible and accessible to the common public. The HGP is the world’s largest collaborative biological project that has ever existed, its goal is to determine the sequence of the human DNA and identify and map all of the genes of the human genome. The proposed structure became a never-ending ramp wrapped in a copper façade will be built and transformed as the HGP advances, becoming a physical representation of the HGP itself. Inside millions of panels will be located containing the information of every human gene in different languages and codes allowing people and machines to freely read and access the information.
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626 FLATBUSH AV rethinking the urban block
Aggregation of residential units around a vertical core
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125 units
circulation cores
elevated streets plaza
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theater
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library
This project explores the relationship between the public and private realms in a residential building. The different residential units are organized around five vertical circulation cores where each unit is imagined as an individual town house, with private terraces and gardens. On each floor of the tower a module is taken out to become a public space where community meetings, children playground areas or sports facilities begin to appear. The ground floor works as the truly public space, where the people from the neighborhood are invited to participate in different public programs and interact with the project’s residents. By always creating new spaces for public spaces and activities in a private building, the project is constantly redefining the relationship of its residents and the city.
Units as individual houses connected to the circulation system
Units open to public courtyards
Units shift in order to create public and private terraces
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DWELLING X
rethinking the relationships between public and private spaces in the domestic realm
Public and private spaces in different residential units
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Dwelling X is an exploration on the complex relationships that exist between publicity and privacy on a residential unit. Located on a narrow plot, the house proposes a new residential typology where the limits between public and private spaces are in constant change. The unit is organized around an X shape structure that defines the degrees of privacy of the house. Every time you cross the X structure you enter on a space with a different degree of privacy. The resident is then invited to manipulate the curtains, doors, and movable panels on the structure to change the private or public character of the each space.
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HORIZONTAL CAMPUS a new kind of educational space
Different spatial configurations of the same floor plan that show its flexibility in time
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This project reflects our belief that educational buildings should not only be a pure functional organization of classrooms and circulation systems. In this project, for a school of Medicine, the different classrooms, laboratories and other community spaces are organized around courtyards, gardens and empty un-programmed spaces. By organizing the program in such an unconventional manner the project main to trigger new relationships and forms of behavior between students as it values the empty space as a space for multiple and diverse uses that create a true campus life. The building acts as an open infrastructure where classrooms and laboratories work as demountable modules that can change and expand in time with the future needs and changes in medical education. These modules are then traversed by a circulation system that connects the different levels and spaces in unexpected manners. This circulation system acts as a promenade for students to walk around the building as if they were on a traditional university campus and not just a typical university building.
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A university building thought-out as an experiment for campus life to emerge.
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A circulation system that creates unexpected encounters and connections.
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INTERNATIONAL ANTARTIC CENTER
a museum and a research facility organized around a new kind of public space
Programmatic organization of the new public space inside the center
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A new kind of covered public space in the core of a museum and research center.
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The city of Punta Arenas is located in the extreme south of Chile on the banks of the Strait of Magellan acting as the gateway to the Antarctic continent. Due to its proximity to the South Pole, the climate of the city is characterized by cold and rainy winters and temperate summers with very strong winds. These climatic conditions force Puntarenas residents to live their day to day very sheltered and with few opportunities a year to occupy the public open spaces of the city. Understanding these conditions, the project aims to create a public covered space for Punta Arenas. Working totally independent to the research program and museum, this space hosts a very public program such as a sports field, playgrounds, and picnic areas giving it a true public park character to the project. Using a modular system the project can be built in different phases and expand over time.
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CV
ENRIQUE CAVELIER PIEDRAHITA EDUCATION 2017 | RCR BUNKA + ETSAB | X International Worshop of Architecture and Landscape | Olot, Spain 2010-2014 | University of Virginia | School of Architecture | Charlottesville, USA Bachelor of Science in Architecture | 3.846/4 GPA | High Honors (Magna Cum Laude) Minor in Architecture History Undergraduate Thesis Candidate (Spring 2014) Dean’s List (From Spring 2011 to Spring 2014) | Intermediate Honors (Fall 2012) Study Abroad Experience Summer 2013 | India Initiative | India 2012| Pratt Institute| Summer Intensive Course in Interior Design| New York, USA 1995-2010 | Lycée français Louis-Pasteur De Bogotá | Bogotá, Colombia French Baccalaureate in Sciences | Honorable Distinction
EMPLOYMENT 2015-Current | El Equipo Mazzanti | Architect | Design and Research Studio Director | Bogotá, Colombia Directed multiple projects and competitions including the competition entry for the International Antartic Center in Punta Arenas, Chile, the new building for the Medical School of the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia among others. Also participated in many other projects and competitions including the winning competition entry for the Capillas de la Fe Cemetery in Bogotá, Colombia, Atrio Towers (with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) in Bogotá, Colombia among multiple others. 2014-2015 | Hart Hawerton Architects | Junior Architect | New York, USA Participated in different projects including a hotel in Puerto Rico, a residential project in Rome, Italy among many others; working from the conceptual stages of each project to the elaboration of Design Development documents sets. January 2014 | Morphosis Architects | Extern|New York, USA Participated in the construction of a 3D printed model for the Bloomberg Center in New York. January 2013 | OMA | Extern | New York, USA Participated in the construction of a physical model and the making of renders for the Faena Center in Miami. Summer 2014 | Escalar | Intern | Bogotá, Colombia Participated in the elaboration of Design Development and Construction documents sets for a residential building.
AWARDS + PUBLICATIONS 2016 | Campos de la Fe | First Prize Capillas de la Fe Cemetery Competition 2016 | Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Javeriana | Honourable Mention Facultad de Ciencias Univerisdad Javeriana Competition 2014 | Landform to Landfill | Honourable Mention: Xaveer De Geyter Award 29th After the Sprawl Vortex Competition 2014 | TruFood|First Prize Hearst Business Media Challenge 2012 | Belmont Unabridge | Public Award Belmont Vortex Competition 2012 | Belmont Unabridge | Best Urban Planning Design Project Gait-Way Belmont Bridge Competition 2012 | Belmont Unabridge | Best Bridge Design Project Gait-Way Belmont Bridge Competition 2014 | Design Excellence Award Presented by the faculty of architecture to the students demonstrated excellence in design during their four years at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. 2014 | The Sean Steele- Nicholson Memorial Award Presented by the faculty of the School of Architecture to graduating students who have exhibited an overall excellence in design and scholarship and enthusiasm, joy and wonder architecture coupled with the ability to in still these same feelings and qualities in others. 2012 | University of Virginia School of Architecture Publication: Catalyst | Projects Featured 2012 | Piedmont Council for the Arts | Featured at Exhibition
INVOLVEMENT 2017 - Current | Director of Jardin Parlante 2014 - Current | Member Alqueria Dairy Board 2013 - Current | Member of the Raven Society 2013 - 2014 | Member of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Chapter at UVA 2013 - 2014 | Copy Editor for Lunch | Academic Journal of the University of Virginia Architecture School 2011 - 2013 | Treasurer of Towards a Better Latin America (TBLA) at the University of Virginia
TEACHING Spring 2018 | Universidad de los Andes | Facultad de Arquitectura y DiseĂąo | BogotĂĄ, Colombia Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate studio taught by Giancarlo Mazzanti Spring 2014 | University of Virginia | School of Architecture | Charlottesville, USA Teaching Assistant for ARCH 1010: Lessons of the Lawn
SKILLS CAD Tools | Rhino - Revit - AutoCad - Grasshopper - Sketchup Graphic | Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign Digital Fabrication | 3D printing - Laser Cutter - MasterCAM - CNC Sewing Languages | Spanish (native) - French (fluent) - English (fluent)