Eduardo Zambrano - Architecture portfolio

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Eduardo José Zambrano Villamizar

Eduardo José Zambrano Villamizar

I am a Colombian student currently enrolled in the M.Sc. Architecture Construction City programme at the Politecnico di Torino. I like to explore the history and theory of architecture from the various places I’ve had the opportunity to study and work in, believing that when combined with new and emerging technologies, it can address cultural and environmental challenges for the future.

ezambranovlla@gmail.com

+39 3516187498

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Experience

Internship

(01/22 - 05-22)

Aslan y Ezcurra Arquitectos Buenos Aires, Argentina

Main activities and responsabilities: CAD drawing for projects, contests, and 3D modeling support. Post-production of plans in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Education

M.Sc. Architecture Construction City (09/22 - current)

Politecnico di Torino Torino, Italia

Bachelor’s degree in Architecture (01/17 - current)

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia

Skills

Software

High level: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Illustrator, Vray.

Medium level: Revit, 3DsMax, Sketchup, Photoshop, Grasshopper.

*Model making - laser cut files and assembly

Languages

English (C1)

Italian (B2)

Spanish (Native)

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New Scalo Vanchiglia

Year: 2024

Course: Atelier on Computational Design

Programs used: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Illustrator, AutoCAD, Revit, Vray

In the north of Turin there’s a vacant land that used to host a railway station (Scalo Vanchiglia) that stopped working in the mid 1990’s. The goal is to develop a master plan for this terrain using as starting point a recognition of the city blocks, then employing computational tools of parametric design for abstracting and reinterpreting the typologies. In the latter part working with BIM to develop individually a building in the plan.

Team: Eduardo Zambrano, Burak Avcıoğlu, Yeliz Erinç.

Role: Team-design of the project. 3D modeling. Drawing of plans, axonometries and diagrams. Renders

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Using and abstracting blocks from Turin for masterplan concept.

Steps for conceptual and parametric computational development. We took a grid extracted from the city and some important points of public space and introduce this data on grasshopper, then playing with permeability preferences in different areas we draw out the footprint of the whole masterplan.

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Heights are also parametrized in grasshopper.

+M M M +0m MASTERPLAN 50m 100m 250m

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Selecting a block for developing architecture.

Student residences mixed with commerce in the ground floor.

Continuous

Vertical

Structuring a catalog with parameters for inside spaces. The idea, following the evidences from the city, was to keep a plane static façade towards the outside of the block, while playing with extrusions and with the continuous circulation on the inside courtyard façade.

- Ground floor

Services Common spaces

Outside facade

Outside facade Courtyard facade Courtyard facade

vertical circulation and areas

- Upper floors circulation cores 9

Dividing the block into the group members and develop individually a building following the catalog of sequences previously developed together.

INDIVIDUAL PART

Ground floor with commercial uses First floor Third floor

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Second floorcontinuous stair

Courtyard facade

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Outside facade

South Facade - Metal mesh towards the outside

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Perspective section

0m 5m 10m 20m 13

Year: 2022

Morph Hotel

Course: Atelier on Architecture and Built Environment

Programs used: Rhinoceros, Illustrator, AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup.

In the center of Turin lies the former building for the Procura of the city, now abandoned. The goal of the atelier is giving the building life by turning it into a hotel conserving its structure, taking as much evidence and references from the context and different projects in the world to make the design coherent with its surroundings and the city. Focusing as well on the façade technology and constructive detail.

Team: Eduardo Zambrano, Behrad Zolfagharzade, Daniel Serrano.

Role: Team-design of the project. Drawing of axonometries, sections, facades, and construction details. Assembly of maquettes.

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Taking evidence from the city

Using reference for program

Empire Riverside Hotel David Chipperfield Architects

Using formal aesthetic reference

Kunsthaus Zürich Museum

Extension David Chipperfield Architects

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Turin

Location plan 0m 50m 100m 150m 15

The idea was to adapt the program of the large vertical hotel into this size, placing the common and public uses towards the principal façade in Via Milano and the rooms toward the longest wing.

Bar - Terrace

Spa Rooms Rooms

Multipurpose room

GYM

Via Milano

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Facade towards Via Milano - West

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Facade towards Via Torquato Tasso - South

For respecting the context and neighboring buildings a stone façade was proposed, with horizontal elements following the lines of the adjacent façades and vertical elements following a rhythm based on those found around.

Facade axonometry

For responding to the change of geometry of the roofs there is a regression in the terrace and the maximum height of the building is the same as the windows from the next building.

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Perspective section parallel to Via Milano

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Maquette photos

For the technology solution there where used hollow stone elements attached to the original building beams, with these horizontal elements holding the vertical ones. The roof is demolished and a new metal structure is placed for the last floor.

a) Mineral wool Insulation

b) Timber board (OSB)

c) Gypsum board

d) Double-glazed windows with insulating thermal strips in the frame

e) Rounded stone pilaster facade

f) Thermal break proﬁle

DETAIL FACADE SECTION Facade Plan 1:50 Facade Elevation 1:50 VI VI

DETAIL FACADE PLAN

Close-up facade Close-up room type B

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Detail facade plan

Facade

1) Steel deck

2) Cellular glass isolation

3) Gypsum board/False ceiling

7) Steel C proﬁle

8) Hollow proﬁle with stone ﬁnish

9) Rounded pilaster facade

10) Gypsum board ceiling

4) Thermal waterproof insulation

5) Gutter

6) Waterproof membrane

15) Self-leveling screed

16) Hardwood floor ﬁnish

17) L steel proﬁle

18) Pillar (inner side)

11) Expansion bolt

12) Dry construction wall

13) Stone cladding

14) Ceramic tile floor ﬁnish

19) Insulating panel

20) Outer mineral wool isolation

21) Interior roller blind

22) Reinforced concrete slab and beam

23) Double-glazed windows with insulating thermal strips in the frame

24) Galvanized metal grid for drainage

25) Gravel base

DETAIL FACADE PLAN

Section 1:50 I I II II III III IV IV V V

1 2 3 4 6 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Detail facade section 21

Production Nexus

Year: 2023

Course: Atelier on Architecture and Urban Desing

Programs used: Rhinoceros, Illustrator, AutoCAD.

Industrial parks have gradually become of relevance in the last decades, with typologies for processing and assembling such as ‘maquiladoras’ for importing/exporting purposes. These places take up large pieces of land while being a specialized area without any other uses, leading to the question of how other uses could be hybridized inside them. This exploration is made in Monterrey, Mexico, where there has been an exponential growth in industrial development.

Team: Eduardo Zambrano, Burak Avcıoğlu, Behrad Zolfagharzade, Iliyan Stoykov.

Role: Team-design of the project. Drawing of urban plans, diagrams, axonometries. Design and assembly of maquettes.

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Final Urban Maquette Photos

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Final Architectural Maquette Photos

We start from a vacant land at the north of Monterrey, this plan was made for studying the typologies and urban layouts of the surrounding settlements. As well as identifying natural, transportation and agricultural elements.

SETTLEMENTS, MORPHOLOGIES AND BOUNDARIES 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Km Main River Branches Secondary River Branches Farmlands Highways Connections Potential expansion of settlements

Design Area Water traces Borders

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Typologies

Villa - Housing Surrounding Urban and architectural typologies Housing complex

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Industrial park

For designing the masterplan, we took an initial grid based on sizes from the surrounding industrial parks and modified it in the places where we don’t want to build marked mostly by the greenery and water traces already existing in the lot.

New Typologies: The idea was to hybridize the different uses by bringing them into the industrial typology and organizing them into the masterplan accordingly to their specific needs

0 500m 1 km 1.5 km 2 km 2.5 km 3 km

1 2 3 4 5 6 RESIDENTIAL + PRODUCTION NEED OF ACCESS TO GREENERY 1 OFFICES FOLLOWING THE MAIN AXIS 2 EDUCATION+ PRODUCTION NEEDS ACCESSABILITY TO GREEN 3 PRODUCTION SHIFT THEM NEXT TO BORDERS FOR ISOLATING 4 COMMERCE+ PRODUCTION BETWEEN BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND GREEN 5 LEISURE+ PRODUCTION BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL 6 MASTERPLAN 26

It’s

And

great that the residences are close to the green and open areas Who are you talking to? Dude, who even speaks like that?

It’s

I love working along the main axes that organizes the whole area Seriously, what are you saying?

thoughtful that the educational uses serve as a connection between the green and the production

to mention that having the production on the outside borders help keeping a distance to it STOP IT!

it’s very convenient to have commercial uses between the other uses Also having access to leisure at the center of other uses is the cherry on top! I’m leaving 1 2 3 4 5 6 27

Not

And

ARCHITECTURAL AXONOMETRY

For exploring closer to an architectural scale the masterplan a zoom is made, in this case we chose the educational + industrial typology next to the square park, two volumes connected by a bridge wing connecting both uses.

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Manzana 134

Year: 2021

Course:

Programs used: Rhinoceros, Illustrator, AutoCAD, Sketchup.

The legal protection in the historical centers of Colombian cities, as well as the lack of financial income to protect it have led to a situation where multiple blocks have abandoned historical buildings and courtyards. The goal is to take the block “manzana 134” of Getsemaní in the city of Cartagena and develop a project that respects the heritage and the memory of it while giving new life to the block as a whole, taking the decision to use it’s original structures and turn it to a gastronomical cluster

Team: Eduardo Zambrano, Giancarlo Nossa.

Role: Team-design of the project. 3D modeling. Drawing of axonometries and 3D views.

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Manzana 134 in Getsemaní

To fulfill the purpose of carrying out the project, a sustainable model is generated over time, based on gastronomic activities that cover production, consumption, waste management and the concept of waste to resource.

Valorization: Next step is evaluating the value of the individual buildings and remaining elements using three categories for understanding them in their similarities.

High value One floor houses Two or more floor houses Block courtyard and ruins

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Medium value Low value

Conservation level: How much are the buildings conserved?

Total High Medium

Low

New uses plan for the block

Commercial

Gastronomic training

Housing

Food trucks

Agricultural crops

Hotel

Hostel

Food market

Cultural house

NEW BLOCK PLAN

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Original state of the block

New marketplace

Using the ruins of the Lemaitre factory for placing a new market as a complementary use for the crops in the block courtyard.

Market view from the street

Section through the street Floor plan

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Section A

In the east-south corner of the block we find the “Casas accesorias”, houses with no climatic solutions and currently face an inside parking lot. We propose opening the houses in their back part, grouping the corner houses into a mini-market, and converting the parking lot into crops for the house users.