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Enrique L贸pez Rodr铆guez
DATE OF BIRTH NATIONALITY
06 路 August 路 1988 Spanish
enrique.lopez.rguez@gmail.com
TEL. SPAIN TEL. GERMANY
+34 680 507 199 +49 152 251 378 43
WEBPAGE
www.cargocollective.com/enriquelopezrodriguez
LINKEDIN VIMEO FLICKR
www.linkedin.com/in/enriquelopezrodriguez www.vimeo.com/user10873818 www.flickr.com/photos/wchwrn
CURRICULUM VITAE
Work Experience 12/14 · 04/15
02/13 · 06/13
03/11 · 07/11
07/2008
02/07 · 06/07
Education
ESTUDIO ICIAR DE LAS CASAS Madrid, Spain · Architectural and Graphic Designer Book and exhibition design on the architectural work of Manuel de las Casas
2006 · 2014
MADRID SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE · UPM Madrid, Spain · Teaching assistant of professor Manuel Blanco at ETSAM in Architectural Analysis Assisting second-year architecture students in developing core fundamentals of architectural drawing and analysis
2012
BRÈS+MARIOLLE ET ASSOCIÉS Paris, France · Architectural Intern · www.bresmariolle.fr Internship by invitation from ENSA-PB professor Béatrice Mariolle having the opportunity to work in projects related to housing, urbanism, mobility and landscaping, from concept stage to detailed design, including: · Gran Toulouse Nord: architectural and urban development of six train stations and the surrounding areas · Tergnier urban development project B+DU ESTUDIO DE ARQUITECTURA Madrid, Spain · Intern · www.bduarquitectura.com Collaboration with ETSAM professor Begoña DíazUrgorri in various office projects, from masterplanning to infographic works, including: · Refurbishment of Palacio de Santoña for the Madrid Official Chamber of Commerce and Industry · Madrid 2016 Olympic Village International Competition TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MADRID (UPM) Madrid, Spain · Research Assistant Scholarship to participate in an architectural research about European architecture at the Projects Derpartment.
2012 · 2014
2012 · present
2010 · 2011
MASTER DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE ETSAM · Technical University of Madrid (UPM) Master Thesis Project Center for Landscape Research in Villablino DEGREE IN CONTEMPORARY ART AND ARCHITECTURE Academic specialization in UPM ART HISTORY DEGREE Spanish Open University (UNED) ERASMUS EXCHANGE PROGRAM École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville
Workshops and Seminars 2010 · 2011
LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN DESIGN Paris · École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Belleville Seminars including History of Ornamental Gardening, AvantGarde Landscape Architects, Garden Cities and Landscaping
05/2011
BELLASTOCK ’11 : “LA VILLE EN SOUFFLE” Bruyères-sur-Oise · Architecture Schools of Île de France Project and self-construction workshop about pneumatic architecture using recycled materials and a tight budget
02/2011
UNAM MOBILITY WORKSHOP Mexico DF · Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) Project workshop about mobility, society and architecture with local urbanism and architecture students
2010
ENSA-PB SÉMINAIRE Research about parametric design and generative architecture
2013 · 2015
Exhibitions and Publications
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LEARNING FROM LAS CUENCAS EU Prize for Cultural Heritage · Europa Nostra Awards 2015 www.aprendiendodelascuencas.com Master Thesis Project as part of the exhibition and the book · LaBoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial · Gijón 2013/14 · Architectus Omnibus · Instituto Cervantes · Berlin 2015 · Fetsac’15 · A Coruña 2015
SPANISH Mother tongue
GERMAN Working Proficiency · B2
ENGLISH Working Proficiency · C1
FRENCH Working Proficiency · C1 Test DALF C1
2012
ARCH DAILY Plataforma Arquitectura Best from Flickr June 2012
2010
LABORATORIO GRAN VÍA Project chosen for exhibition and book in first centenary of Gran Vía street, Madrid. Some of the architects who participated were Abalos+Sentkiewicz, AMID.cero9, Izaskun Chinchilla, Andrés Jaque and Ecosistema Urbano.
Recognitions 2015
PORTO POOL PROMENADE Shortlisted in Ctrl+Space Architectural Competition
2012
VIDEOETSAM CONTEST Technical University of Madrid 3rd Prize and People’s Choice Award
2011
2007
CHILLIDA-LEKU MUSEUM 2nd Prize in Eduardo Chillida’s Photography Contest BECA DE EXCELENCIA Academic Excellence Scholarship · Government of Madrid
Skills Autocad Rhinoceros Autodesk Revit Archicad Sketchup
Adobe Adobe Adobe Adobe Adobe
Illustrator Photoshop InDesign After Effects Premiere
Adobe Muse Scripting Grasshopper MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Freehand drawing Model making Rendering Spatial layout Presentation techniques
References ICIAR DE LAS CASAS
BÉATRICE MARIOLLE
Architect · Red dot award winner tel. (+34) 649 04 04 32 iciardelascasas@gmail.com
PhD Architect · Professor ENSA-PB tel. (+33) 01 43 25 32 83 agence@bresmariolle.fr
BEGOÑA DIAZ-URGORRI
MANUEL BLANCO
PhD Architect · Professor ETSAM tel. (+34) 91 359 42 73 b.diaz-urgorri@bduarquitectura.com
PhD Architect · Professor ETSAM tel. (+34) 629 887 719 m.blanco@telefonica.net
March 26, 2015
To Whom It May Concern: I am pleased to provide this reference letter for Enrique López Rodríguez. I have known Enrique since he was a student in my course in Design Studio in his second year at the Madrid Technical School of Architecture (E.T.S.A.M.). I was his professor at the second and third Year Studio, Enrique distinguished himself in my course by receiving the highest grade in the class. He proved to be very rigorous and precise in his work, and able to articulate, explain and conceptualize his projects, with special and creative aptitudes for design. He worked during the summer 2008 in my architecture office B+DU estudio de arquitectura where showed great commitment and enthusiasm. Enrique worked in a proposal for the International Competition Olympic Villa for Candidacy of Madrid 2016. Despite the difficulties and ambition of the project, Enrique was able to develop with success all stages of this stimulating challenge, thanks to a hard and constant work. He also took part in the first stages of the refurbishment of Palacio de Santoña, a publicly protected building, the headquarters of the Madrid Official Chamber of Commerce. Working in a new glass and steel roof for the central court of the building and generating technical documentation were part of his tasks, which he successfully accomplished by sketching, drawing with CAD software and making proposal models. After finishing his studies in 2014, I had the pleasure to count with him in the design of the book and exhibition about architect Manuel de las Casas. His valuable contributions made him an important member of the team. His tasks included graphic design, redrawing plans, dealing with the printer and publisher, proposing ideas in designing both the book and the exhibition. His work was professional. Enrique is hardworking and confident - traits which will serve him well in his architectural career. I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience working with him. He is an architect of unusual intelligence, perception and maturity. I found him to be stimulating to work with and also enormously congenial with everyone he worked with in the office. I look forward to maintaining professional contact with Enrique as he moves ahead in the field of architecture. Sincerely,
Begoña Diaz-Urgorri Professor in Design Studio ETSAM
May 2015
To Whom It May Concern
I’m writing in general support of Enrique López Rodríguez as architect.
References ICIAR DE LAS CASAS Architect · Red dot award winner tel. (+34) 649 04 04 32 iciardelascasas@gmail.com BEGOÑA DIAZ-URGORRI PhD Architect · Professor ETSAM tel. (+34) 91 359 42 73 b.diaz-urgorri@bduarquitectura.com BÉATRICE MARIOLLE PhD Architect · Professor ENSA-PB tel. (+33) 01 43 25 32 83 agence@bresmariolle.fr MANUEL BLANCO PhD Architect · Professor ETSAM tel. (+34) 629 887 719 m.blanco@telefonica.net
Upon the recommendation of Begoña Díaz-Urgorri I have worked with Enrique on the design and development of the monograph and the exhibition that address Manuel de las Casas’ thinking and the work of his studio. The project that intends to assemble and depict de las Casas architectural achievements aims for a temporary exhibition in Madrid, Spain, accompanied by a monograph including de las Casas major works and comments by contemporary Spanish architects such as Rafael Moneo and Emilio Tuñón. As a result of our collaboration, I would like to express my appreciation for the excellent contribution to the project that Enrique provided. During his work Enrique glanced with precision and creativity. He shaped the sophisticated design of the monograph and produced excellent redrawings of de las Casas’ plans, displaying a detailed analysis of the architect’s career. Enrique managed to balance a modern design with the studio’s familiar style. Hence, he largely contributed to illustrate and acknowledge the originality of the Spanish architect’s work. As the initiator and manager of the monograph and the up-coming exhibition, I worked closely with Enrique to make sure that the needs and standards that are required to remember the work of de las Casas were not only met but exceeded. Throughout the project I felt that Enrique engaged with the work and acted as a reliable partner with each member of our team. His designs and plans were delivered always on time, and he reviewed his work promptly, proposing unconventional and accurate ideas. Additionally he demonstrated his excellent skills in InDesign, Illustrator and AutoCAD. The collaboration that Enrique brought to the table everyday was greatly appreciated by all members of the team. This cooperative atmosphere resulted in a truly enjoyable project experience for everyone involved in the compilation of Manuel de las Casas architectural inheritance. I can say without equivocation that Enrique is a very creative, enthusiastic and professional architect. I look forward to the opportunity to work with Enrique again.
Sincerely,
Iciar de las Casas Architect Design director+co-founder Weco windows
iciardelascasas@gmail.com Tel: (+34) 649 04 04 32 c/ Fábrica, 7 28221 Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain www.weco-system.es
CONTENTS
WORK EXPERIENCE France · Spain 2008 · 2015 Iciar de las Casas · B+DU · Brés+Mariolle
CENTER FOR LANDSCAPE RESEARCH Villablino · León · Spain Master Thesis · 2014 ETSAM
SLOPETOPUS Porto · Portugal Competition · 2015 Ctrl+Espace
mobilité: des raccourcis
RACCOURCIS Ham · Picardie · France ERASMUS Studio Project · 2011 ENSA-PB
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SUMMER SCHOOL IN ESCORIAL El Escorial · Madrid · Spain Studio Project · 2010 ETSAM
TELEFÓNICA FOUNDATION Madrid · Spain Studio Project · 2009 ETSAM
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Internship Paris · France 03/2011 · 07/2011 www.bresmariolle.fr
Brès + Mariolle et associés My work experience at Brès+Mariolle et associés allowed me to face some challenging projects related with mobility, housing, landscaping and urbanism. The urban development of Grand Toulouse Nord included the arrangement of six train stations and the surrounding areas, integrating the railways in the urban fabric and moving towards better public spaces where pedestrians become the principal actors. The housing and landscaping project in Tergnier is a transition between a residential area and nature, increasing the density and creating a stimulating and permeable urban space. The dwellings are bound to water through canals, providing a leisure area amidst the public buildings in the park.
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Internship Madrid · Spain summer 2008 www.bduarquitectura.com
B+DU estudio de arquitectura During my internship at B+DU estudio de arquitectura I had the chance to work in two very different projects: a proposal for the International Competition Olympic Village for Madrid’s 2016 Candidacy, a project where housing, public infrastructures and landscaping design met; and the refurbishment of Palacio de Santoña to house the headquarters of the Madrid Official Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The intervention is centred in the patio, central nucleus and articulator of this building listed for preservation. My tasks included designing a new glass and steel roof for the central court of the building and generating technical documentation.
Industrial refurbishment Villablino · León · Spain Final Thesis Project · ETSAM 2012 · 2014
Center for Landscape Research Laciana’s Valley has been a territory economically focusing on the mining sector. The end of the coal subvention condemns the mines to their closing and endangers the future of the region. Nevertheless, the magnificent landscape and the unique traditional architecture, together with an interesting industrial patrimony, make this unconventional area an interesting opportunity to bring nature, tradition and mining legacy together. A coal washing site next to Villablino, León, is refurbished into a Landscape Regeneration Centre where the ethnographic characteristics of Laciana can be valued. The photography of the “pallozas”, a traditional dwelling in north Spain, taken by the ethnographer Fritz Krüger in 1927 serves as inspiration. These houses distinguish the landscape, descending down the hillsides into the valleys, reflecting the topography, sometimes
even melting with it. The new building appropriately recalls this unique architecture, and emerges as a tribute to the role of the “pallozas” Laying at the lowest point of the valley, the roof of the building will be visible from almost every point of the village and the surrounding area. Therefore, it is necessary for the roof to become a main façade. An undulated, textured roofing, constructed with a system inspired by traditional techniques, slides down the ancient mining silos recreating a new topography. The washing site also was an obstacle between the town and the river Sil. The intervention generates a wide transformation on the site, bringing the town and the riverbank together by removing the five meters drop and the barriers, creating a smooth and progressive transition towards the riverside. The landscaping is designed to combine the productive usage, as for example private gardening, farming, and reforestation, with the public areas of leisure and sports.
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The new building is the core of the landscape transformation by connecting the upper terrain to the river. These new ways cross the building allowing citizens to feel closely engaged in the activities inside. The circulations embrace and touch the amenities of the Centre. Conceived as a centre of landscape research, integrating nature and public walks alongside scientific and educational spaces, the refurbishment will include offices, apartments, exhibition spaces, shops and amenities to create a sustainable mixed-use community. The scheme integrates facilities for visitors to the laboratories, offices and greenhouses, planned to target three key areas: research, education and management. The plan of the new building is determined by the preexistences of the coal washing site. The three main silos constitute the origin and the points of attraction for the new structure, which extends connecting the silos among them and with the upper level of the site. The central silos serve as starting point. The distance of 9 meters between pillars found the axis for the frame, which dilates and contracts generating the spaces for the amenities. The union of the straight sectors follows the same measures. Using a restrained palette of elements, forms, measures and materials, the Centre can be built within costs no greater than those of an average building.
Refurbishment of the silos The thermal coal silos are reused to accommodate the residences for researchers and staff. Two analogous but still different typologies are created: apartments for long-term and temporal living. The first ones are located at the upper prismatic part of the silos, the second ones in the lower reversed pyramidal volume. Both count three levels organised around a staircase, which marks the directionality of the space, with a cross, free view through the new permeable faรงade. This faรงade is the result of stripping the structure of the silos and adding a new metallic, performative skin with a similar texture and colour to the original. A new dynamism is introduced while preserving the original industrial image. The intervention meets the needs of a residential usage, making a former mining structure inhabitable and allowing the interaction of its residents in the common areas.
Refurbishment of the silos The raw coal silos house the exhibition areas and the machine and system rooms. The exhibitions are accommodated in a flexible and continuous space, with the only fixed elements of the stairs, elevators and toilettes. A new undulating stair connects the ground with every level, creating a tour inside the former silos that allows the appreciation of the reused industrial patrimony. The silos are, therefore, part of the exhibition themselves. The original structure is once again stripped and cut, so a connection among the cylinders is possible, and closed with a curved skin that confers a sinuous and uniform appearance.
Urban Pools Porto, Portugal Competition 2015
Porto Pool Promenade Slopetopus is a site-specific proposal located in the riverfront of Douro river, Porto. The project recovers the urban pool program, so popular in Europe and North America in the 19th and 20th Century. The site is located beside the Luis I Bridge, historically outside the fortified city walls and in direct continuity with the tourist section of the riverfront. The presence of the bridge has virtually limited the growth of the public further. Slopetopus interlocks the existing promenade through crossing under the bridge, as well as connecting the bridge itself to the project. Old traditional characteristics of Porto's architecture are reinterpreted, and landscape colouring, topography and urban distribution are readapted into a new architectural appearance.
Porto's former stairs system is reconfigured into a slope distribution, establishing the interconnection among the different levels. The pavement is increased towards the river, including a double-sense cycle-lane. Due to the multicolored banister modification, indoors and outdoors spaces on the slopes supply the requirements of the program. It provides a framework to a wider set of informal activities, not only urban swimming pools but also cycle paths, piers and boarding docks, restaurants, kiosks and an open-air performance space. Each program mixes gradually with the others paying special attention to the relation between public and private spaces. The structures adapts itself to the behavior of the tides, resembling a giant jetty in the middle of the city. Floating bath houses, located above the platforms in the lower levels, allow safe
swimming and bathing closer to the city. According to that, the ramps hang between the original terrain and the new floating platforms on Douro River, working as a traditional quay. Lower levels also house indoors programs, covered with a perforated dome to protect from bad weather. This provides light and shadow to the interior of the building, and includes a flexible program that would enable to cope with the winter months with a similar degree of activities. The proposal Slopetopus revitalizes the river into a place for living and recreation, a year round activity attractor. With its innovative structure, it provides a lively place where people can interact, creating a meeting space by the river. Slopetopus promotes new uses, a better awareness of the river and generate spontaneous activities at the edge of the water.
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on Urban acupuncture Ham · Picardie · France ENSA-Paris Belleville · Erasmus Studio Project VIII · 2011
Raccourcis Ham is a village in the agricultural region of Picardie, France. The particular conditions of the place – low density, crossing train ways, a channel, abandoned industries, ruins - should give the clue for an intervention that must harmonize architecture, urbanism, mobility and social issues. The aim of the project is to achieve a more habitable town where citizens can interact. Inhabitants should be able to build their own city and become part of a sustainable social, commercial and architectural network. This interaction between participators is achieved with a prototypical system that can be applied to any analogous urban conditions.
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The local authority offers structures that can be used by the citizens to improve their quality of life: increasing their living space, creating a better ambiance, generating energy and water, or cultivate food. In return inhabitants allow other community members and visitors using their terrains: for example shortcuts trough interstices, installations of public catalyst structures, temporary accommodation or any urban intervention agreed between owners and authorities. These personal initiatives benefit not only the individuals involved but also the whole community.
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The project is rather a service-based than a conventional architectural intervention. Citizens create their own catalyst structure using the standard elements offered by the public authority. Each intervention will be different, but keeping a homogeneous aesthetic given by the individual elements. Owners can choose them from a catalogue according to their needs. These elements can be combined and modified to adapt to the properties and circumstances regarding orientation, form, space available, or meteorological conditions, . Inhabitants can modify them at any time or stop using them, ceasing the agreement with the public authority. The items and structures don’t create enclosed spaces, but an ambient lattice, generating buffer spaces between exterior and interior. They can
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either be linked to individual parts of the building, surround the whole building or be added as an external space on the property. This flexible and customizable system can be provided with elements that generate goods (energy, water, food), space (increase, transformation, spatial enrichment and improvement) or ambiance (temperature, humidity, scent, sound, light). Each item has its own advantages and restrictions. Following some instructions, users can combine them in order to make the best out of the catalyst structure. Together, these units form a lattice that can for example provide shade or reflect the light, modify the temperature or humidity of the air – a unique ambiance that can be considered as a small ecosystem.
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Summer School El Escorial 路 Madrid 路 Spain ETSAM Studio Project VII 路 2010
Summer School in Escorial The summer School of Architecture in the famous village of El Escorial is situated along a hill, embracing one of the stone-made walls of the Escorial Monastery, in the mountains of Madrid. The aim was to blend academic training during the summer for all the students of architecture in Spain departing from traditional learning methods. To break down the scale of the building, the Summer School is divided into five smaller units, one for the learning center, one for the multiuse space, and three for the students and teachers residence. Each program is placed to benefit from the particular conditions of the site.
The project explores new construction methods and forms to break the excessive linearity of the wall and allowing the users to profit of it as a useful element and not a barrier or a border. The learning center embraces the wall and profits from its different heights to use it like furniture - table, bar, seat or division. This unit is conceived as a connection between the two sides of the wall and between the ground level and the top of the wall, where the user can enjoy of the amazing views over the vegetation of El Escorial. The multiuse space presents two openings that can be used as stages in combination with the soft slope of the terrain, which creates a pleasant open-air grandstand where enjoying a concert or a lecture. The bedrooms are located at the top of a little hollow, allowing the residents intimacy and a free view over the trees. These three parts are linked by a central outer space surrounded by land-
scaping, which creates a natural focus for social interaction. Using a restrained palette of materials, the Summer School of Architecture is built with the intention of a minimum impact, so all it can be seen is wood and transparency (EFTE), giving the image of a forest. The structure is a triple-ring system made in wood: the external rings supports the building, the middle one forms the façade and the floor, and the interior ring makes up the furniture and divisions. Altogether evocates the rings of a trunk’s section: the user has the impression of walking through the interior of a tree. The EFTE conforms an air-camera that isolates the building at the same time that provides natural daylight. All the pieces are designed computationally, cut in a factory and transported to the site where the assembly is easily made. The undulating wood structure and the light EFTE create cozy spaces where working and socializing comfortably as a community.
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Perception Museum Madrid · Spain ETSAM Studio Project V · 2009
Telefonica Foundation Telefónica is one of the most important companies in Spain, and its new foundation is situated in the most popular street of Madrid, Gran Vía, place of most fashionable business in the city. Completed in 1929, Telefónica Building, was one of the first skyscrapers built in Europe, containing central offices of the company and a revolutionary automatic telephone exchange system. Nowadays employees work in a new complex recently built in the outskirts of the capital. This project aim not only to bring the old building back to life, but also to provide the functional needs of a contemporary cultural foundation and to create a renovated image as challenging and transgressor as it was the original one in its time.
The intervention consists in leaving naked the structure of the building, conserving only the pillars and the frameworks and changing the heavy faรงade into a lighter clad made in EFTE. A sensation of evanescence and vanishing is achieved, with a higher presence of the building from bottom to the almost invisible top. This EFTE faรงade makes up a new surrounding space, with different heights and appearances between the steel and concrete structure and the new skin. The new function of the building is a perceptive museum, based in the light and its possibilities. At the subbasement of the buildings there are darker spaces, where the artificial light and the technology are the protagonist. Progressively, some glass bubbles appear, with contents of the exhibition in the interior. The more the user ascends, the more presence the bubbles have, till the moment where the situation has reversed and the luminous space is everywhere, with a minimum content of solid elements. The natural light and the views over the roofs of Madrid are the only elements in the last floors. The building is highly energy-efficient. The space achieved with the light skin works as a buffer zone, with absolutely different conditions from the exterior. A system of entries and exits of air allows to control the ambiance at the interior in summer and winter, achieving a comfortably environment for the users trough the year.
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3rd Prize and Audienze Prize Competition Madrid School of Architecture VideoETSAM 路 2012
Deuteranomal Architecture Arquitectura Deuteran贸mala is a video made for VideoETSAM, a contest organized in School of Architecture of Madrid, in Technical University of Madrid. Its aim is to experiment with production and use of audiovisual tools. Because of the different disciplines and fields included in architecture, for instance representing a project or an activity, the competition proposes an audiovisual creation to display the possibilities of representation in this medium. The video presented shows different architectural examples, simplifying their geometry and shape with color and movement through animation. Buildings from important architects as Van Eyck, Le Corbusier, Boull茅e or Niemeyer are converted in circles, squares, triangles or even a growing plant, and are moved and transformed by wind, light bulbs and arrows. The music has also been created for this film.
ENRIQUE LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ ARCHITECT · Madrid · (+34) 680 507 199 · Berlin · (+49) 152 251 378 43 enrique.lopez.rguez@gmail.com www.cargocollective.com/enriquelopezrodriguez