Portfolio Erick Vaca

PORTFOLIO

Erick Daniel Vaca Benavides + (593) 987002822 edvb90@gmail.com

ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS

In this part I show projects that I have done during the bachelor period in the Pontifical University of Ecuador (PUCE) at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Arts (FADA) one of which was presented at the University of Morรณn in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the last one was developed while I studied at the Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina (UCC).

NAUTICAL MULTIFUNCTIONAL PAVILION Prof. arch. Fernando Hinojosa (gfhinojosa@puce.edu.ec) Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Manta - ManabĂ­. Dec. (2011) The project was assigned in the coast region of Ecuador to provide both, recreational and cultural space to the citizens near the pier. Re-interpretation of the complex history of the city was important in order to understand the culture and people customs. The project has the aperture of a big open space because of the humid tropical climate. Indeed, wood colums and beams were projected to take advantage of nearer materials and for light structure.

Left Hand skecthed Drawings Elevations Right 3D model Lower part Model

INTERPRETATION CENTRE OF KNOWLEDGE Prof. arch. Owaldo Paladines Zurita (ojpaladines@puce.edu.ec) Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Cumbayá - Quito. May. (2012) Cumbayá is a rural parish located in the east of Quito which its suburban blocks present an enclosed environment. The objective was to design a project with tecnological resources and services, in which people can develop local products or generate knowledge to enhance the productivity of the community. Then, borders of the block opnes to break the enclosed paradigm of one big block by creating three separated blocks differentiated for the metal cladding color.

Likewise, It’s in the public space where the architecture has more potential and the collective ideas can create an appropiation sense of the building. Hence, different services in the ground floor wrapps the project and joints to the public space.

Left Study render of the building

Right Urban study Lower part South elevation and Section

Up Study render of the building Left Model

Right North Elevation

RURAL AGRICULTURE CENTER FOR ‘EL TINGO’

Prof. arch. Rogelio Dávalos (rdavalos@puce.edu.ec) Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) El Tingo - Quito. Dec. (2012) El Tingo is a small rural area located in the parish of Alangasí in Tumbaco valley. The master plan proposed a rural re-generation to support agricultural plots in the sorroundings of Tingo and Guangopolo. Moreover, the plan projected to enhance the green areas that were abandoned, water treatment from the San Pedro river that was contaminated, and reuse of the water reservoir. All of them as new recreational areas for the community and turism. As a result, an agricultural green corridor extends through the tree kilometers in order to joint other small rural areas and engage the community. New roads for cars, paths for bicycles and pedestrians were projected. Finally, together with the farmers’ market the plan tried to connect the small communities’ commerces, strenghthen the landscape experience for those approching from Tingo to Guangopolo, and to bring people to promote the turism culture .

TRATAMIENTO VERDE GREEN TREATMENT

PARCELAS AGRICOLAS AGRICULTURAL PLOTS

ESPACIO PÚBLICO

ESTRUCTURA DE CONECTIVIDAD

PUBLIC SPACE

CONECTIVITY STRUCTURE

reservoir rehabilitation

new green axis

pedestrian and bycicle paths agricultural plots

conectivity of sectors new green public areas

ARCHITECTURAL PROPOSAL GASTRONOMIC YARD

LANDSCAPE CONDITIONS

PEDESTRIAN PATH

El Tingo is in precarious conditions, and very few people visit the place bacause the public spaces are in bad conditions and the river is contaminated. Thus, agricultural, industrial, commercial, and social activities are very low and little exploited. Therefore, the objective was a reactivation plan of the town which its spaces provide new different services and becomes attractors of economic activity. Services as markets in which the suppliers can work their own land to self-sustain the community. A concept of agricultural sustainability was planted that can strengthen economic, social, tourist and recreational activities.

PUBLIC SPACE

CROPS

GREEN AREAS

Section trough the river

Left part Recreational patio

Right part Crops

Lower part Food services next to the river

EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE PERIPHERY Prof. arch. Ricardo Sargiotti (https://ricardosargiotti.wordpress.com/) Catholic University of Cordoba (UCC) Project Supervisor: arch. EloĂ­sa Minoldo (eloisa_minoldo@yahoo.com.ar) Cordoba - Argentina. Jul. (2012)

The project was developed in the north-east sector of Cordoba near to the highway that limits the city. The atelier deal with problems of underdevelopment and movement of minorities in the periphery of the city. The project emphasized the border character that the peripheral sector has, and enhance the sector with particular emphasis on the public space. For instance, the streets and sidewalks need to be rebuilt because that is the place where society connects to the building. As a result, the project tried to avoid social segregation in the border of the city and provide public equipment to the marginal population of the periphery.

Industry predominance areas.

Lineas de predominancia comercial.

Principal urban conections Highway delimitates the city Center of the city Industry proximity Cercania a la industria

Urban settlements Barrios CrĂ­ticos

Medium density population Densidad poblacional media

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New green axis of conection

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Re construction of pedestrian paths that connect with neighborhood parks to the school

It is a neighborhood-scale project based in a share agreement between the different users that intervene in the public space. Comercials and families were the principal actors around the neighbor. Therefore, the comercial activity and public space was important because it can create a network services and trigger attractiveness and sense of protection to community.

Right Diagram sections

To maximize the use of the school’s infrastructure, it is important to establish that in the educational community the schoolyards should be public places after school hours.

This provides the benefit of mobility and independence to the children, and upgrades the use of land to public environment.

01 Architecture program proportinal space

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Natural lights

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Double heights and open corridors

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Accesibility, ramps and auditorium

Down Longitudinal section - Relation with the highway

UP

Transversal section

Up Sketch drawing of the facade skin Down Bird view of the building.

Right Model of the high school and view of the playgrounds

Master plan implantation Section through campus

Master plan design for PUCE /Nayรณn as an ex-urban settlement Prof. arch. Eugenio Mangia (evmangia@puce.edu.ec)) Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Quito - Nayรณn. Jun. (2015)

The following work describes the design of an ex urban master plan generator in the border of the city of Quito in its edges. The site plan of the PUCE /Nayรณn campus enhances connectivity between different schools along the longitudinal axis which is every 300m approximately. The major points (departmental schools) are grouped according to their affinities. The green areas of permanence, transition, movement are the main paths that connect pedestrians with different schools and allow a direct relationship between the buildings and the landscape. The campus becomes a prominent reference for the design of a semi-independent university city in which encourages the leading of society to a community.

East elevation

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Implantation of the university residence

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The university residence within the university campus is a temporary residence for foreign students, who mostly come from other provinces to study in the capital city. The project joins up the conception’s ideas of a minimal housing for students. Thus, minimal housing becomes a strong mechanism that allows the expansion of individual and collective identity, and self-recognition of the person in order to exchange and negotiate different situations in everyday life. As a result, an alternate aisle is designed as a place of social connection, experimentation of external conditions and relations with the campus‘ views. The aisle enclose the building rooms’ design with the principal objective of extracting potential views from the east and west, the air blowing crossing from west to east, and natural light incident.

Similarly, the topographic continuity into the project is represented by the structural rings, which form an invert U-shape around the perimeter of the building, and are key support to hang the slabs. In addition, the rings represents the structural and architectural expression of the building.

Transversal section of the building

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Longitudinal section of the building

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West elevation

East elevation through courtyard

Exploded axonometric

Residences typology

Shared dwelling

Individual dwelling

Duplex shared dwelling

Individual dwelling + Kitchen

North elevation

Individual dwelling + Kitchen

South elevation

Duplex shared dwelling

Vertical section trough wall

Water consuption Cross ventilation Two opening - opposite walls

Axonometric exploded - Intersection node for diagonals and rings

Axonometric section trough column union

Diagram showing daylight facade strategy for predominantly synnu sky conditions

Floor slab union to structual rings

Glazing with integrated reflective profiles

WORK EXPERIENCE

After having finished the fifth year in the school of architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, I worked in several projects for private and public companies in Quito - Ecuador developing projects as part of the design team and realized a variety of vizualization and representation work in the projects . As part of the design team, I had the opportunity to be part of the designing process as well as using specialized software in order to represent the project the best possible and in short periods of time.

This is a briefly explain, in which show a couple of projects I have worked on.

MASTER PLAN DESIGN OF AN URBAN AGRICULTURE CENTER IN QUITO Project supervisor: Arch. Daniela Avellan (danielaavellan@gmail.com) Quito - Ecuador. Dec. (2016) Agronomic industry, food transportation and long distances between orchards and the market are raising drastically, and puts in doubt the quality and availability of food for urban residents because the food is becoming more expensive and less healthy. The municipality of Quito offers programs to encourage the use of urban gardens through minimal technology in reduced spaces to supply the needs of the home and having an additional income. This initiative puts in consideration growing food within the city, the landscape and buildings architecture. How can people facilitate food production within the city? The municipal company CONQUITO, promotes an urban program named AGRUPAR (Participatory Urban Agriculture), which establishes spaces for urban agriculture in order to develop, experiment and disseminate the practice of urban agriculture. The urban agriculture center is a place where such practices are developed focused on a social productivity, cultural, educational, environmental-sustainable purposes.

Cars route

Pedestrian path

Site plan

Green houses, public crops, cultives

Ground floor plan

Water distribution for public and private crops

Green slopes for wind protection

Green house production

Bio- fair, discover, experiment

Agricultural prosecution

Kitchen, restaurant, coffee

Exposition, pedagogical classes

Architectural program

Zonification trough program relations

Cover design

Right Ground floor Educational farm, storage, processing plan, bio- fair, exhibition rooms, rest rooms, coffe shop, market, restaurant, crops, terraced crops, vertical agriculture, greenhouses, public productive area, water reservoir.

Longitudinal Section

Water reservoir, educational farms greenhouses

Market and gardens

PUBLIC INSITUTION FOR SUPERIOR EDUCATION IN CUENCA Project supervisor: Arch. Mauricio Albornoz, Arch. Daniela AvellĂĄn (danielaavellan@gmail.com) Cuenca - Ecuador. Aug. (2016) The National Secretariat for Higher Education, Science and Technology (SENESCYT) promotes agreements with different organizations to strengthen the higher education system in order to strength the arts and crafts role within the country as well as the productivity field.

It is planned to build and re-built 40 Higher Institutes, among them; the Public Insititution of Superior Education of Cuenca in Azuay province. The institution offers a technological trainning oriented to the development of the studets’ abilities and skills, and its educational system is focused on the know-how practice.

CORREDORES Y PATIOS

ESTRUCTURA DE CONECTIVIDAD

AISLES AND COUTYARD

CONECTIVITY STRUCTURE

AULAS

TALLER DE CERAMICA

CLASSROOMS

CERAMIC ATELIER