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PORTFOLIO EUGENI BRU

Eugeni Bru Golobart Barcelona, Spain

05/08/1991

150-0044 Maruyamacho, Shibuya, Tokyo 25-5 ebgolo@gmail.com +81 080-1306-7497 ( Japanese )

Status : Working Visa ( nov2020-nov2025 )

EDUCATION 2018-2019

ETSAB ( Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC ) Master degree : MarqEtsab (MArch) www.etsab.upc.edu/en

2016-2017

FADEU Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ( PUC ) International Exchange in Chile www.fadeu.uc.cl

2014-2018

ETSAB ( Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC ) Architecture degree : GarqEtsab (BArch) www.etsab.upc.edu/en

2010-2014

ETSALS ( Universitat Ramon Llull - URL ) Architecture degree www.salleurl.edu/en

OFFICES jun 2020 - currently

Kengo Kuma & Associates Staff Architect. Project management, CD,SD,DD and Tender stage. www.kkaa.co.jp

jan 2020 - may 2020

Atelier Bow - Wow Architect. www.bow-wow.jp

oct 2018 - jun 2019

Estudi d’Arquitectura Toni Gironès Architect. Project management, work visits, executive plans. http://www.tonigirones.com/en/

mar 2017 - jun 2017

ELEMENTAL - Alejandro Aravena Internship. Competitions, executive plans, light design Artemide. http://www.elementalchile.cl/

feb 2017

Mathias Klotz Practices. Images, project plans https://www.mathiasklotz.com/es//

dec 2016 - jan 2017

Max Núñez Arquitectos Practices. Images, competitions, design. http://maxnunez.cl/

set 2016 - dec 2016

Cecilia Puga arquitectura Internship. Work visits, executive plans, measurements.

AWARDS 2020

Premis AJAC XII Winner. Category Best Master´s Project. Individual proposal www.ajac.arquitectes.cat

2020

Tube 8x8x300 Concept Design Competition Finalist. Individual proposal www.mp.weixin.qq.com

2019

Ruanda Chapel YAC ( Young Architects Competition ) Honorable Mention. Individual proposal www.youngarchitectscompetitions.com

2015

DSFA. Detroit Station For the Arts ( Archmedium ) Finalist. Group proposal ( M.García + M.Miró + P.Martínez ) www.student.archmedium.com

2014

FAD. Ephemeral proposals ( BCN RE.SET Pavilion Identitiy) Selected. As a participant student. Fundació Enric Miralles + La Salle + Josep Ferrando + Eugeni Bach + Urbanus www.fadeu.uc.cl

WORKSHOPS august 2016

WAUM 2016 Student. IIT Chicago + Università IUAV di Venezia + Politécnico di Milano + Universidad Mayor Chile

aug 2 - aug 28, 2015

RCR arquitectes. Intern. VIII LAB · A. Architecture and landscap in Olot. www.rcrlaba.cat

SOFTWARES

LANGUAGES

3d max

Spanish

Adobe Illustrator

Catalan

Adobe Indesign

English

Adobe Photoshop

Japanese ( Nokken 5 )

Adobe Premiere

French

Archicad AutoCad Corona 3.0/Vray

SKILLS

Enscape Grasshopper

Executive plans

Lumion

Models

Revit

Design

Rhinoceros

Teamwork

Sketchup

Drawing

Cype

Landscape Photography

INDEX

Final Master’s Project ( resume ).

“Yakhit” : intervention for refugees in Morrot.

.............................................................................6 - 31 pag.

Competitions

Gluggaveður Cafe_Buildner

Karesansui Corridor_Tube 8x8x300m Competition

Parasyte Tower_Arquia Competition.............................................................................................44 - 45 pag.

Rwanda Chapel_YAC ( Young Architects Competition ) ...........................................................46 - 49 pag.

Walls of empathy_Kaira Looro Competition (2019) ................................................................50 - 55 pag.

Baobab tool_Kaira Looro Competition 2017

The Lantern and the City YAC ( Young Architects Competition )

...............................................................................................34 -41 pag

......................................................42 - 43 pag.

.......................................................................56 - 57 pag.

......................58 - 59 pag.

Academic projects

“Isarhof”_5th grade project. ETSAB ( UPC ) ...................................................................................62- 71 pag.

Constructed projects

“Identitat” Pavilion_BCN RE.SET

...............................................................................................74- 75 pag.

PROJECTS

01 - “Yakhit” : intervention for refugees in Morrot ( Barcelona ). ‫يخيط‬.

Master’s final project ( MarqETSAB ). 2018-2019 Les Rondes 2042 ETSAB ( Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC ). Winning project in Arquia Premis XIII, for Best Master´s Degree of Catalonia.

The Moll ( wharf ) de Sant Bertran must stop being the gateway to the port of Barcelona, to become a welcome one in the city of Barcelona. A welcome for all those who arrive by sea.Through pipes, cables and reconversion of marine containers, the entire project will be enabled to provide a program that faces the problem of refugees in the Mediterranean. By rehabilitating pre-existing hangars, the workshops will be located for conversion to temporary housing with containers, should they come by sea refugees. Other modules of the hangars, will be located the Museum of the Memory of the Mediterranean, a meeting space and an explanation of the humanitarian drama. A final module will be traversed by a new gateway that connects with a pre-existing arrival of cruise ships, which will recover the natural contact that Montjuïch mountain had with the sea. The concrete slab in front of the hangars will be transformed into an extension of the green of the mountain, by means of cables that will transport desalinated water from the sea through the pavement, and illuminating at night with tilt lights. The project becomes meaningful as the years pass, and this space of 30,000m is gradually transformed, to welcome citizens and people who flee from war. A place of meeting and understanding for all.

As mentioned previously, it will not be focused as an increase or addition to the tourist use in the rest of the coast, if not as an opportunity to create new realities that can eliminate the strict zoning of the coast as a tourism leisure area . A shocking reality, which will require the habilitation of this area without having to create permanent volumes that remain free space of the Morrot.

Site current status

Axonometric MasterPlan proposal

2020

2022

2042

daylight

2042 autumm

Program One of the unresolved issues when selling people at risk is how to integrate into a society that is unaware. One way to avoid alienation is to find economic independence and be able to contribute laborally in the host country. Make citizen feelings giving opportunities for the future and at the same time approximate the relationship with the citizens Therefore, this set of containers, unlike the housing area, are considered as permanent uses due to their recreational use, and regardless of the arrival or non-refugees. Containers will offer jobs for the refugees living there. Uses such as restaurants (with the cuisine of their countries), shops, recreation areas, terraces, etc.

2042

midnight

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Hangars rehabilitacion. Museum of the Mediterranean´s Memory.

2,10

4,22

2,10

2,12

2,22 6,44

2,10

2,32

2,22 6,52 29,04

2,32

2,10

2,22 6,44

2,12

2,10

2,12 4,22

0,50

C01

0,55

E01 C02

C03 C05

0,29

C07

0,19

3,98

C04

12,10

C12

C06

C08 C09

C11

6,60

C14

C10

I01 C16 C13

E02

Secció

C17

E03

C14 C06

2,32

C08

2,22 6,52

2,32

29,04

E01_Voladiu de formigó armat preexistent E02_Projecció de la cimentació del pilar de fusta E03_Perns a sabata, Ø 2cm. C01_Xapa ondulada d’acer preexistent, 2mm gruix. C02_Biga corvada en arc, de fusta de pi radiata laminada, 31m de llarg i 55cm de cantell C03_Fixació a fusta, d’acer inoxidable C04_Panell Sàndwich de 18cm ( 3+12+3 ) amb acabat de pi de 3 cm a cada banda, i interior de Poliestirè extrudit. C05_Dintell de fusta laminada de pi C06_Pilar de fusta laminada de pi, de longitud variable ( 10,6 i 8,7m ), amb tranctament per l’exterior. Ample 20cm, i costat 35cm. C07_Tapa-juntes de fusta C08_Montant de fusta massisa serrada de pi. 6,5m de llarg. 15cm d’ample i 6,6 de costat. C09_Travesser de fusta massisa serrada de pi. 2,05m de llarg, i 7cm d’ample per 6,6 de costat. C10_Pletina cargolada a base de pilar de fusta, per resoldre el contacte amb la cimentació de formigó i els perns a al sabata. C11_Porta corredera d’hangar ( 6,6m d’ample i 6,6 d’alçada ). C12_Raíl de la porta corredera C13_Rodes inferiors porta corredera C14_Panells de policarbonat*, ample 2,2m i alçada 6,6m. C15_Llosa interior preexistent del hangar. 20cm amb armat superior. C16_Grava C17_Làmina impermeable

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Desalination of water by evaporation

At the end of the extensive mesh of 200x100m from the wharf, on the South side, a series of 12m containers are located. Distributed in two columns, 10 of these containers will be modified by removing several parts of their enclosures, and will be tightened, taking advantage of the fact that the cables of the modules are attached to the ground, a series of 3mx12 long white sheets. Behind the tarpaulins, a series of marine water pools extracted with bals, will have the purpose of following a natural evaporation desalination process. The pools, steel painted black for ease the rise of temperature, will cause an evaporation of the contained water, leaving the salt as a residue and condensing water suitable for irrigation consumption on the canvas. This water is collected in a channel that flows into the next column of containers, where there are deposits of storage of such water and impulse pumps to reach the sprinklers of the modules. This system is a contemporary adaptation of traditional methods of Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, where fresh water is reduced but have great access to the sea. This water, which will have a limited yield for the expected flow of use, will help to maintain and grow the whole new system of vegetation that is proposed. 24

Temporary Housing for refugees

We find a distribution focused on providing privacy with respect to the exterior to the houses, while also allowing the natural ventilation and entrance of light. For this reason, many openings are located in areas of control of the user, far from prying eyes. On the other hand, the first floor is an open system, where the balcony opens onto the green esplanade, protecting the volcano on the ground floor and allowing the traditional blind to create a space of quality both in the summer and in the summer. winter Due to the limited dimensions of the containers, by normative it would not fulfill some requirements of accessibility. Even so, the use of the first floor is independent of the full functionality that has the whole floor below, in case of immobility of the person. The total area is 45 m2, divided into 2 containers and the space left between the interlayer of the neighboring containers

COMPETITIONS

02 - Gluggaveður Cafe Buildner Competition Prize : Not released (July 2022) Individual proposal. 2022 June. Gluggaveður is an icelandic unique concept that can not be translated to other languages. Literally, it would mean a kind of weather that is nice to look at through the window but not nice to be out in.

Of course, being near a volcano can be an overwhelming beautiful scene, but also is usually contemplated under tough climate circumstances. This cafe wants to recover the Gluggaveður concept, creating a warm and cozy space where you can enjoy Hverfjall volcano and learn about the volcanic icelandic nature. For this cafe, it´s very important to create a dialogue between architecture and volcano´s language, using its morphology or materiality.

The cafe’s seating area faces South, looking towards the best view of the Hverfjall volcano. The entrance area of the project is where the Hall is located, with an exhibition of photographs and rocks from the area until reaching the reception.

REFERENCES

Through an organic form

This hole gives light to

The space is the cen-

Inspired by the basalt

that evokes the morpho-

the

tral zone of the Cafe,

natural formations, the

logy of volcanoes, the

mouth of a volcano, whe-

where people gather to

ceilings and walls use

building has an elliptical

re the user observes the

talk and rest near the

the stepping

shape with a zenithal

scene from below.

fireplace, which with

opening on the roof. This

its metallic red color

hole gives light to the

reminds of incandes-

interior, like the mouth

cent lava falling down a

of a volcano, where the

hillside.

user observes the scene from below.

interior,

M AT E R I A L I T Y

The structure of the building is made up of wooden pillars and beams, which support a very thin steel cover but with thick thermal insulation due to the low temperatures. This type of structure has less involvement removing earth, and facilitates the dismantling of the cafe to another place, for example. Other types of wood are also used with the false ceiling, with wood panels. Walls and ceiling are covered by burnt wood finish, with vertical wood slats at the partitions to emphasize the rough effect. This effect recalls the materiality of volcanic stone from afar, without having to resort to expensive stone as a coating. The counters of the Café or the Hall are the only volcanic stone element in the project, reminiscent of natural formations in the volcanic landscape.

WALLS/CEILINGS BURNT WOOD

FLOOR 1 OAK WOOD

FLOOR 2 AG G R E G AT E

STRUCTURE TIMBER WOOD

CHIMNEY ALUMINUM

COUNTERS B A S A LT

E A S T E L E VAT I O N

S O U T H E L E VAT I O N

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5 1.Entrance 2.Exhibition Hall 3.Storage + Office 4.Information stand 5.Cafe 6.Cafe counter 7.Toilets 8.Resting Area

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FLOOR PLAN

A. Hall + Entrance repection B. Skylight C. Cafe counter D. Cafe tables E. View to volcano F. R e s t i n g s p a c e G. Information stand H. Storage + Office

A. Hall + Entrance repection B. Skylight C. Cafe counter D. Cafe tables E. View to volcano

F. R e s t i n g s p a c e G. Information stand

H D

H. Storage + Office

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

AXONOMETRIC

STEEL ROOF

TIMBER WOOD STRUCTURE

CEILINGS

I N T E R I O R S PAC E S

GLAZED ELEMENTS

F O U N DAT I O N

CAFE

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11 1. Steel roof plank. 5mm

S.L

2. Thermal insulation 20+140+20mm 3. Transome and glass frame 4. Ceiling Gypsum board 20mm+20mm timber wood 5. Cove light 6. Wood structure 7. Double laminated glass 8. Oak floor 20mm

GLAZED FACADE SECTION 40

9. Concrete slab. 300mm 10. Drainage + Barrier protection

RECEPTION

EXHIBITION HALL 41

03 - Karesansui corridor Tube 8X8X300 Competition Prize : Finalist Individual proposal. 2020

The premise of the competition was to propose a new use for a pre-existing corridor located in a basement, of 8x8x300m.This proposal tries to transform a prexisting corridor in a basement, as forgettable space into an unforgettable experience. To do this, the program is based as a museum for sculptures, from different ages or authors. The main concept on the japanese karesansui concept, or “dry landscape” garden, where white sand covers the ground, where sculptures emerge like rocks. The light spheres on the floor highlight the works of art, giving the place a dreamlike and timeless atmosphere. Finally, a metal walkway acts as a engawa, another japanese element, and allows the visitor to walk near the works but protecting them at the same time. The curtains filter the light and separate the different artists or themes from each other, creating a more intimate space.

04 - Parasyte Tower Arquia Competition Individual proposal. 2020

The proposal raises the need to understand the facade of the future as an exterior and interior space of the user’s life. A simple metal structure that, through wooden modules, will be able to vertically metabolize pre-existing buildings. The set of heights allows the facades to go out onto the shared garden roofs between houses. Storage spaces turn out to be large air chambers. The façade of the future will not only be an enclosure, it will become a habitable and socializing space for people in their homes.

05 - Rwanda Chapel YAC ( Young Architects Competition ) Young Architects Competition YAC Prize : Honorable Mention Individual proposal. 2019 july. The proposal tries to be respectful with the Rwandan culture, the materiality and the atmosphere of the place, but also in the rigor of the religious program that is requested. With a cruciform plan, this chapel contains all the necessary spaces for congregations of the faithful, and has the will to be a place of meeting and reference for people. The thickness of its clay walls provides freshness due to its thermal inertia, while its wooden cover allows ventilation of the hot air.

06 - Walls of empathy Peace Pavillion. Kaira Looro Competition Prize : Individual proposal. 2019 The proposal has the intention of generate empathy between the Diola/Jola ethnic groups, the majority in the Casamance region, and the Wolof ethnic group, which predominates in Senegal. After the conflict for the independence of Casamance, there are still physical and emotional sequels that have not been resolved to this day. To generate this meeting place, both ethnic groups enter through different accesses to reach their respective exhibition spaces. Along the symmetrical route, a series of photographs, writings and paintings explain the point of view of the opposite side, to give another perspective of the conflict to the user. At the end of the exhibition space, both sides meet in a courtyard that is open by porchs overlooking the Casamance River. In this introspective space, both users will find a place to talk, rest, and learn the history of the Casamance conflict.

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COST OF THE MATERIAL bamboo vulgaris 707 bars of 4-6m, ø8cm. x2500 = 1.767.500 fcfa 2.698€ armor irons 620 armor irons 4,5m length ø16mm. 1,58 kg/m ( 1,58 kg x 4,5m = 7,11 kg/unit ). 7,11kg x 620 = 4.408 kg 4.408kg/100 kg = 44,08 44.08x50.000fcfa x2500 = 1.767.500 fcfa 2.204€

cement (32,5) foundation blocks : 126/u. 0,3x0,35x0,35 = 0,036m3 x126 = 4,63m3. 3.000kg/m3 x 4,63 = 13,89Tn. 13,89Tn x 77.000 fcfa = 1.069.500 = 1.632,8€ beams : 18 units 0,2mx0,2mx4,5m = 0,18m3. x18units = 3,24 m3. 30000kg/m3 x 3,24 = 9,73Tn 9,73Tn = 680.400 fcfa = 1.038€ cement brick ( with holes ) 616 units x 250 fcfa = 154.000 fcfa /655 = 235,11€

laterite bricks 8.057 units x 300 fcfa = 2.417.100 fcfa 3.690€

clay plinth 1,05mx4,20mx0,35m = 1,54 m3 x 14 units 21,6 m3 x 1420( density clay )= 30.684 kg 30,6Tn x 50.00 fcfa 1.534.239 fcfa 2.342€ TOTAL COST

13.840€

07 - Baobab tool Kaira Looro Competition Prize : Individual proposal. 2017 Due to the desertification and entry of salt water from the land to the farmland, fertile land and plant species have been lost. This process is generated by the thawing of dust due to climate change, which raises the sea level and speeds up this infillation of salt water. Trees such as Baobab, which have a great religious and symbolic importance for Senegal, are disappearing. The proposal attempts to overcome this problem, and at the same time, create a spiritual project, which was one of the premises of the project. Through hyperboloids made with palm wood and covered with tightened fabrics, rainwater is collected in wells. This water will serve as one of the basic elements that the population needs to plant, but it also has a spiritual symbology for the three religions that live in the country in a rather harmonious way. Around these hyperboloids, reminiscent of the figure of the baobab because of its height and shape, a ring of mud banks is generated where you can sit down, and you can see popular dances under the baobab at night. During the day, and through meshes that run through the banks, pots with seeds of different types of plants are available, so that people can recover the lost vegetation. Finally, wooden boxes are placed where vegetable remains are placed, which will naturally become a fertilizer. Therefore, thanks to the artificial baobab, we get the basic elements to replant Senegal: the water (with rain), the seeds (in the mesh) and the fertilizer (in the recycling).

08 - The Lantern and the City Museum for Climate Change Prize : Individual proposal. 2020 Reimagining a museum that acts considering the problem of climate change has different points to solve. The museum should not only expose the problem of Climate Change through conferences or exhibitions, but it should also be built with the minimum possible environmental impact so as not to contribute to accentuate the problem. The project is structured in 4 main points: -Use of materials with low environmental impact : The structural use of native wood (Scots pine), this being a renewable material and not a CO2 generator. Those materials such as mesh or metal sheets can be reused from old buildings. The surface built for the building tries to compensate with the use of a covered roof garden.

-Use of the museum as a public space : It is intended to generate a gallery open to the outside, where the pavement of the street enters the interior, blurring the limit of the museum. This corridor encloses a sculpture patio, in which an upper floor circulates with more exhibition space. This reimagining of a museum flees from the idea of a locked box

-Awareness : The exhibition part of the gallery is an open street with panels or works of art, or photo exhibitions that show the deterioration of ecosystems. The central patio represents a complementary space in which a landscape destroyed by climate change is symbolized. Dead trees with a pavement of fallen leaves, like a landscape of a possible future in which life is ending due to climate change. A way to make the visitor aware of the future landscape in which we will live if the problem is not stopped.

-Use of passive energy systems : To save the energy use of the building and its demand, there are a series of mechanisms that help to thermally protect the building. The use of recycled polycarbonate on the upper floor allows cross ventilation and homogeneously illuminates the building, reducing the number of artificial lighting. The landscaped roof provides thermal inertia to thermally protect the roof.

Ground floor

First floor

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

09- Isarhof Institute in Munich 5th year grade project ( GrauArqETSAB ). 2017-2018 ETSAB ( Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC ).

The project is called Isarhof, which means in German “the patios of Isar”, referring to the importance of these in the program of the institute, and at the same time the location close to the Isar River. We want to implement a system of three different patios, where the urban life is developed and at the same time the day to day of the students. These gaps generated by the building itself and the elimination of some pre-existing ones, generate different interstitial spaces. From an open courtyard that connects with the park, an interior that connects the facades of the institute, and the last one that crosses the entire island. At the façade level, it is assimilated to the Bavarian construction where we find openings with bow thresholds on the ground floor, and on the upper floors more conventional openings. At the same time, as in the door of Isartor, we find large arcades in several streets of Munich, which my project attempts to make to cross the school and the emptiness of the island courtyard. The behavior of the façade, where we find a metal structure that is supported by the reinforced concrete wall, generates a series of greenish tone vaults that remind the river Isar, which is very close but not visible from the lot.

lavabos

pati

aules

circul·lacions

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CONSTRUCTED PROJECTS

“Identitat” Pavilion BCN.RESET_Tricentenari. Summer 2014, Plaça Nova, Barcelona, Urbanus + Josep Ferrando + Eugeni Bach + Fundació Miralles + 20 La Salle students La Salle ( ETSALS ). Universitat Ramon Lull - URL.

Intervention in the circuit of pavilions organized by the schools of architecture and design of Barcelona for the set of activities organized by the Tricentenari, the City Council of Barcelona and the Foundation Enric Miralles. Work group of 21 students from ETSALS, alongside the professing architects Eugeni Bach and Josep Ferrando as tutors together with the Chinese office Urbanus who helped in the process. Constructed with bamboo crosses brought from China, the pavilion tries to reconstruct the part of the Roman aqueduct of the square, which acted as an ancient limit on it. The repetition of the module allows an easy installation in which the students also could be part and complete the entire process of the project. At the back, a great Catalan vault is recreated as a symbol of the constructive identity of the proposal. It was selected for the FAD 2015 in the category of Ephympera Architecture and remained throughout the summer of 2014 installed in the square with great success and influx.

REFERENCES

Pattern Center of Siena, Italy

Drawing Atelier Bow - Wow

Time

Barcelona’s coast, before Olympic Games

Habitabily

Estudi d’Arquitectura Toni Gironès

Atmosphere

Hiroshige ( 1797 - 1858 )

Materiality Traditional tile chiloé, Chile

“Life is a breath. Everything ends. They tell me that after I die, other people will see my work. But these people will die too. And others will come, that will also go. Immortality is a fantasy, a way of forgetting reality. What matters, while we are here, is life, people. Hug friends, live happy. Change the world. And nothing more” Oscar Niemeyer

Thank you for your time!