Architectural Magazine of Projects

2020 ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE OF PROJECTS

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FERNANDO BRIZ

DOTTORE IN ARCHITETTURA E DISEGNO URBANO

“L`architettura è una professione di servizio, perché questo è quello che è: un servizio. L`architettura è un lavoro complesso perché il momento espressivo formale è un momento di sintesi fecondato da tutto ciò che è dietro l´ architettura: la storia, la società, il mondo reale delle persone, le loro emozioni, speranze e attese; geografia e antropologia, il clima, la cultura di ogni paese in cui lavorerà; e, ancora una volta, la scienza e l`arte. L`architettura è un mestiere artistico, ma allo stesso tempo è anche un ufficio scientifico; è proprio questo il suo carattere distintivo.”

-Renzo Piano-

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FERNANDO BRIZ ARCHITECT MUSICIAN

Proyecto Huella Xochimilco (Urban regeneration) Casa Verver (Housing) Conjunto Tijuana (Social Housing) Geriatric Center (Elderly People Residence) FÃ brica de Humanos (Multicultural Center) Torre Tlalpan (Mixed-Use) BR-425 (Mixed Use) TEC DISTRICT (Urban Project)

Citizen Integration Center (Mixed-Use)

2011 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 2015 2014

CTLS (Office Building Design) Paradigm Offices (Interior Office Design) Villazul Buenavista (Geratric Center) Villazul Bellavista (Geriatric Center)

2015

RCR - Costa Rica (Mixed-Use)

Vizzazul Winner Contest (Geratric Center)

CRESTCAP (Social Service)

Casa Monterrey (Disable people housing)

BACHELOR PROJECTS ITESM CCM(MEXICO) PROFESSIONAL

MEXICO

2015 2015 2015 2016 2016 2

Municipio Àlvaro Obregòn (Urban Project) BRT-Querètaro (Public Transportation Project)

ME Cancùn - Melody Cancùn (Hotel Design) Casa Avàndaro (Housing Restoration) Via Monte Generoso 29 (Housing Building) Viale Gran Sasso 50 (Abandoned building Intervention) Via Cuzzi 9 (Housing Building) Via Marazzani 5 (Housing Building) ADMISSION TO POLITECNICO DI MILANO MSC ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN

2016 2016 2016 2017 2017 2019 2019 2019 2020 2017 2017 2017 2018 2018

LA MACCHINA SCHOOL OF MUSIC + PERFORMANCE SPACE Prof. Cristina Pallini Prof. Helder Casal Ribeiro (Como-Italy) THESIS LAUREA MAGISTRALE

2019

Planting Seeds - Final Studio Prof. Emilio Faroldi - Stefano Capolongo - Silvia Sbatella (Milano - Italy)

Commons of Fusion - Thematic Studio Prof. Francesco Leoni - Roy Nash (New York - USA)

L PROJECTS

Collegamento Calusco - Preservation Design Studio Prof. Antonella Elide Saisi (Calusco D`Adda - Italy)

La Macchina - Architectural Design Studio Prof. Cristina Pallini (Como-Italy)

The New Game - Construction and Sustainability Design Studio Prof. Ingrid Paoletti (Dubai-United Arab Emirates)

Watu-Wataka - Urban Design Studio Prof. Maria C. Pastore (Dar Es Salaam-Tanzania)

Casa Juan de Acuña (Housing)

Time-Line of Projects Selected Projects

Built Projects

MSC PROJECTS (ITALY)

ITALY

2019 2020

MASTER`S OF SCIENCE PROJECTS ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN

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MACCHINA Flexible architecture is a seductive concept that invites us to dream of spaces that are changed voluntarily by the human, thus adapting them to their needs and immediate activities, generating utopic-almost-infinite configurations in the same place. Starting from this idea and avoiding flexibly empty spaces where furniture is the main character, Macchina is born from the premise of implementing a versatile and physically adaptable architecture that is therefore helpful to meet the needs of a real situation implemented within an existing building which by itself consists of its own historical character of high degree of importance in the city. Macchina is a project inserted in an existing building, the Politeama Auditorium at Como, Italy where the fusion is not only physical but also programmatical in order to reinforce an existing identity. The project covers three architectural scales (urban, architectonic and interior) resulting a complete design network. Macchina is a project with a background that involves various theories of architecture which throw the beginnings of a concept of architecture in motion. The project invites us to explore and live the fusion of the historical identity of a building with a physical and programmatic flexibility of a new architectural project.

L`architettura flessibile è un concetto seducente che ci invita a sognare spazi che sono cambiati volontariamente dall`umano, adattandoli così ai loro bisogni e attività immediate, generando configurazioni utopiche-quasi-infinite nello stesso posto. Partendo da questa idea ed evitando spazi vuoti flessibili in cui l`arredi è il personaggio principale, Macchina nasce dalla premessa di implementare un`architettura versatile e fisicamente adattabile che è quindi utile per soddisfare le esigenze di una situazione reale implementata all`interno di un edificio esistente che da solo consiste nel suo carattere storico di alto grado di importanza nella città. Macchina è un progetto inserito in un edificio esistente, l`Auditorium Politeama di Como, in Italia, dove la fusione non è solo fisica ma anche programmatica al fine di rafforzare un`identità esistente. Il progetto copre tre scale architettoniche (urbane, architettoniche e interne) risultanti in una rete di progettazione completa. Macchina è un progetto con uno sfondo che coinvolge varie teorie dell`architettura che mettono in moto gli inizi di un concetto di architettura. Il progetto ci invita a esplorare e vivere la fusione dell`identità storica di un edificio con una flessibilità fisica e programmatica di un nuovo progetto architettonico.

Location: Como, Italy Località: Como, Italia

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Status: THESIS LAUREA MAGISTRALE School: Politecnico di Milano Year: 2020 Role: Design Lead Design team: Fernando Briz (Mexico) Gerardo Mendoza (Mexico)

URBAN MACCHINA:

1. Urban Devices / Open Spaces

2. Program and Connections

3. Activity Network

The concept on which the urban project of Macchina is based is a very simple idea. It is based on an analogy with current machines which are subject to a specific programming that through a connection, the result is an specific activity. In order to understand the concept, it is necessary to break down each of the elements that develop the programming: 1. DEVICE / INPUT: The device in this design analogy is a building with a unique character in the city of Como. (Urban Activator). The input itself is the function of the building. (Program)

1. Device / INPUT

2. INPUT Insertion

3. OUTPUT / Connection

2. INPUT INSERTION: The Input is inserted into the device, generating a programming language, a unique character to the building in question.

3. OUTPUT / CONNECTION: The result of the previous step evokes in an Output (Activity), that is, a tangible action that is achieved through a direct connection between the aforementioned elements and the Output itself.

4. URBAN TYPOLOGY: The final result of the concept derives in a building (Device) with a specific program (Input) that through a direct connection such as a public space, generates anOutput (Activity) generated from the building’s program.

To complete the urban project Macchina, a system of urban stages of light, economical and versatile construction, (scaffolding), was designed. The general design of the urban stage consists of a 2m x 2m modular platform. This basic design can be multiplied to generate a diverse range of stages for different performances, depending on the number of people and the act to be performed. For example, the students of the La Macchina School of Music can perform some musical events in one of the public spaces of the urban project network.

4. Urban Typology Performative Device

URBAN MACCHINA

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ESSENCE: One of the first reasons to consider to start the design process is precisely the fact that despite the state of abandonment in which the Politeama finds itself, over the years it has had a particular character, its own essence. This is one of the strongest arguments to consider to generate the architectural program, since Macchina is just that, a reprogramming of the original Politeama software, art, performance and music.

LINK: Due to the abandonment, it is normal that the building over time has suffered a disconnection with the city of Como. Currently, despite the great location of the building (corner between Via Tollomeo Gallio - Viale Felice Cavallotti) on building lacks any type of urban connection since it is completely closed and lattice, sunk into oblivion. One of the premises of Macchina is the connection. The aim is not only to give Politeama its rightful place in Como, but at the same time, to generate a new urban corridor.

DEVICE: The Politeama, speaking from a physical point of view, due to the lack of maintenance, presents various material and structural damages throughout its geometry. One of the most notable and, in fact, dangerous damages, is the one found in the backstage of the building. The structural damage is very advanced and even in a few years, it could collapse. La Macchina proposes to remove this old device and insert a new one, keeping the original programming but with current avantgrade.

1. Building in abandoned conditions

2. No urban connection / no natural light

Devices Diagram

POLITEAMA`S URBAN CONNECTION

MOTION MEANS EVOLUTION: A building created to be flexible, to change, to adapt ...Macchina base programming strategy consists of three different devices: Device 1 - POLITEAMA Device 2 - POLITEAMA`S MAIN STAGE Device 3 - MACCHINA The three main devices have an individual programming that can work by itself. At the same time, the 3 devices can work in different configurations with the idea of combining their components and generating a broader programming.

The programming of La Macchina therefore tends to change depending on the connection configuration to which the devices are subject.

3. Backstage with structural damage

Architectural INPUT (Program)

WELCOME TO MACCHINA

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MACCHINA PERFORMANCE OPTIMAL TYPOLOGIES:

MAIN STAGE

MACCHINA TEATRALE

FULL MACCHINA

GROUND FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

INVERTED MAIN STAGE

DRAMATIC DEPHT

FLEXIBLE HEIGHT

GROUND FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

SCHOOL OF MUSIC SPACIAL ARRENGEMENT:

MACCHINA MORNING

THIRD FLOOR

MACCHINA MIDDAY

THIRD FLOOR

MACCHINA AFTERNOON

THIRD FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR (MORNING) FOURTH FLOOR

FOURTH FLOOR

FOURTH FLOOR

FIFTH FLOOR

FIFTH FLOOR

FIFTH FLOOR

FOURTH FLOOR (MIDDAY)

MACCHINA MORNING

MACCHINA MIDDAY

MACCHINA AFTERNOON

FIFTH FLOOR (AFTERNOON)

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SCENIC ARC RE-DESIGN

HYBRID RUNWAY PLATFORM SYSTEM

05. PLATFORM STEEL STRUCTURE

GUILOTINE WALL SYSTEM

05. ACOUSTIC LIFTING WALL

10. MACCHINA STEEL STRUCTURE

01. EXISTING SCENIC ARCH STRUCTURE

01. MACCHINA STEEL STRUCTURE

06.METAL DECK SLAB SYSTEM

01. LIFT PULLEY SYSTEM

06. STEEL STOP FOR LIFTING WALL

11. MACCHINA CEILING

02. REINFORCING STEEL STRUCTURE

02. STEEL CORBEL ATTACHED TO MAIN

07. TOP METAL-SHEET FINISH

02. ELECTRIC HOIST MOTOR

07. FLOOR ACOUSTIC SEAL

12. SPONGE ACOUSTIC SEAL

03. REINFORCING STEEL BRACKETS

STRUCTURE

08. REMOVABLE RAILING

03. LIFT PULLEY SYSTEM STRUCTURE

08. ACOUSTIC FALSE CEILING

13. METALDECK SLAB SYSTEM

04. STEEL COVERING

03. RUNWAY CRANE BEAM 04. MOTORIZED END TRUCK

PERSPECTIVE SECTION: SCENIC ARC VIEW

PERSPECTIVE SECTION: MACCHINA VIEW

ENVELOPE-FACADE DETAIL 01. MACCHINA STEEL STRUCTURE 02. “C” CHANNEL MULLION 03. CHANNEL GLASS FACADE PANEL 04. ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (UHPC) LOUVER SYSTEM 05. “C” CHANNEL ENCLOSURE 06. METALDECK SLAB SYSTEM 07. STRUCTURAL UNION STEEL PLATE 08. DOUBLE GLAZED FACADE

PERSPECTIVE SECTION: FULL PROJECT

ENVELOPE-FACADE DETAIL

FALSE CEILING SYSTEM

INTERIOR GUILLOTINE WALLS

01. MACCHINA STEEL STRUCTURE

01. STEEL FRAMING

01. FRAMING

02. “C” CHANNEL MULLION

02.WOODSKIN™ ROTATING

02. INSULATION

03. CHANNEL GLASS FACADE PANEL

SYNTHETIC FELT ACOUSTIC PANEL

03. ACOUSTIC DRYWALL PANEL

04. ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE

03. ACOUSTIC DRYWALL

04. WOODSKIN™ FRAMING

CONCRETE (UHPC) LOUVER SYSTEM

COVERING PANEL

05. WOODSKIN™. FOLD ACOUSTIC

05. “C” CHANNEL ENCLOSURE

04. LIGHTING FIXTURES

PANEL. VARNISHED BIRCH PLYWOOD.

06. METALDECK SLAB SYSTEM 07. STRUCTURAL UNION STEEL PLATE

08. DOUBLE GLAZED FACADE

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HONORIFIC MENTION INSPIRELI AWARDS 2020

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COMMONS OF FUSION New York is one of the most interesting and caothic cities in the world. There are some particular characteristics that make New York a unique city and one of those is the diveristy of people. The project title is derived from the intention of developing Roosevelt Island to become an attraction for people living in Manhattan and Queens through creating a sequence of nodes “Commons” that act as public spaces with different atmospheres and serving different functions in order to generate spaces for interaction and integration “Fusion” of all different races, ages, interests, groups in trial to merge between educational, recreational, cultural, leisure and co-working spaces all oriented to public spaces, landscape and waterfront.

New York è una delle città più interessanti e caotiche del mondo. Ci sono alcune caratteristiche particolari che rendono New York una città unica e una di queste è la diversità delle persone. Il titolo del progetto deriva dall›intenzione di sviluppare Roosevelt Island per diventare un›attrazione per le persone che vivono a Manhattan e nel Queens attraverso la creazione di una sequenza di nodi «Commons» che fungono da spazi pubblici con atmosfere diverse e servono funzioni diverse al fine di generare spazi per interazione e integrazione “Fusione” di tutte le diverse razze, età, interessi, gruppi in prova per fondersi tra spazi educativi, ricreativi, culturali, ricreativi e di collaborazione tutti orientati verso spazi pubblici, paesaggio e lungomare.

Location: New York, United States of America Località: New York, Stati Uniti d`America

2. Commons of Fusion Design Process

Status: Academic Urban Master Plan School: Politecnico di Milano Year: 2019 Role: Design Lead Design team: Fernando Briz (Mexico) Cansu Yucel (Turkey) Ahmed Ghazy (Egypt) Bengisu Bilekli (Turkey)

1. Existing Conditions

2. Definition of 3 main nodes and its connection

The main concept of the design is trying to act to the existing situation of the island and taking full advantage of the potential of having “Cornell Tech Campus” buildings on one end of the project area and the “Historical Ruin of the Hospital” and “Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park and Memorial”.

Considering these two areas as main attraction nodes on the island, the design strategy is to connect them through a main path passing through a third node in the center of the path designing the new mixed use intervention of the project around it. Starting with a linear path going through the three zones where all different functions are placed on both sides of the path creating a central space giving more advantage to the Island borders to be designed as waterfront public spaces and landscape areas with visual relationship to Manhattan and Queens.

Playing with the shape of the path one side adjacent to educational and co-working buildings was kept linear and on the other side where most public functions are the path started to deform in shape of cracks reflecting on the shape of masses and their orientation in a way to differentiate between functions and create a dynamic path and spaces.

Elevation A facing to Queens

3. Central path creating 2 main volumes

5. Main volumes extrusion and definition of the main views

4. Definition of the secondary paths according to the functions

6. Final volume shape and main central path

MASTER PLAN AXO VIEW

Elevation B facing to Manhattan

2. Commons of Fusion Axo views and sections

COMMONS OF FUSION MASTER PLAN

Section A facing Manhattan

ROOSEVELT MUSEUM AXO VIEW

Section A Roosevelt Museum

2. Commons of Fusion Renders

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PLANTING SEEDS As in almost all the biggest cities around the world, Milano is a city that suffers a constant expansion. This produces an exponential urban growth, phenomenon which generates that the zones in the periphery of the city get absorbed by the urbanization. The site where the project is located has a particular atmosphere. It is a unique boundary where the city diffuses and merges itself with the agricultural context in the south of Milano. The cascine are the characteristic architectural and social typology of this unique site and due to the urbanization and the development of agricultural mass production, they are in constant deterioration.

Planting Seeds explains an idea of preservation, regeneration and green connection between the identity of the place and the city itself. This connection will be spread from the agricultural lands reaching the city but leaving in the way seeds of health.

Come in quasi tutte le più grandi città del mondo, Milano è una città in costante espansione. Ciò produce una crescita urbana esponenziale, fenomeno che genera l`assorbimento dell`urbanizzazione nelle zone periferiche della città. Il sito in cui si trova il progetto ha un`atmosfera particolare. È un confine unico in cui la città si diffonde con il contesto agricolo nel sud di Milano. Le cascine sono la caratteristica tipologia architettonica e sociale di questo sito unico e, a causa dell`urbanizzazione e dello sviluppo della produzione di massa agricola, sono in costante deterioramento.

Planting Seeds spiega un`idea di conservazione, rigenerazione e connessione verde tra l`identità del luogo e la città stessa. Questa connessione si diffonderà dalle terre agricole raggiungendo la città ma lasciando sulla strada semi di salute.

Location: Ronchetto sul Naviglio, Milan Località: Ronchetto sul Naviglio Milano

3. Planting Seeds Design Process

Status: Academic Urban Master Plan School: Politecnico di Milano Year: 2019 Role: Design Lead Design team: Fernando Briz (Mexico) Francesco Fusaro (Italy) Ramtin Meyghani (Iran) Amedeo Valente (Italy) The urban proposal reflects the intention of connectivity in different ways of mobility, prioritizing the clean transportation and sustainable mobilization such as pedestrian, bicycle and public transportation systems. Since the new metro line is under construction, after the urban analysis, the connectivity became the first issue to solve. The metro station of San Cristoforo will bring more people to the district and the density will increase.

This has a direct impact into the functional proposal of the project that will seek to satisfy this future need of expansion.

Saying this, the first seed to be planted is mixed use building units (commerce, housing and offices). Devices that cover the expansion and litigate it as well adding a new functional urban typology to the district.

After the analysis done in the site, it was also noticed that there is a lack of health care services in the zone which means that a new Hospital is needed to be planted. This big seed will provide to this district a new health care atmosphere that in addition with the agricultural identity, gives more strength and viability to the concept, the roots get stronger. To complete the master plan, it was necessary to plant two more seeds in order to fulfill all the needs for the people in terms of health care. The third seed is a Community Hub that includes a Library and a Sport Center. This type of function is also lacking in the site and to have a function like this means to create spaces of interaction and wellness, branches that bring together the rich human diversity that Milano has. The branches of interaction will spread creating not just urban connections but human networks.

The fourth seed that completes the project is the Research Center. A space for people dedicated to the study of many health care disciplines. This will supply the site with a high-tech function in which labs, universities, hospitals, industries and many other kinds of technological researches will merge to the study and development of technologies for the human wealth.

3. Urban Fabric

1. Existing Conditions

2. Agriculture / City influences

4. Main Axis

5. Grid 15m x 15m

6. Network of streets

7. Accessibility

8. Car Parking System

9. Green System

MAIN PIAZZA AXO VIEW

Section A

3. Planting Seeds

Architectural drawings and conceptual diagrams

Explosion Diagram Sport Center 1. Ground Floor

Section B

Explosion Diagram Library

PLANTING SEEDS MASTER PLAN

3. Planting Seeds Renders

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS MEXICO CITY - COSTA RICA - MILANO

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RCR The design concept starts from creating a building whose green spaces are predominant, contemporary, alive, pedestrian, with public spaces, interactive and dynamic. Based on these premises the design responds to the site, a privileged site with monumental trees that become the central element of the architectural proposal.

The central space of the project is a tribute to these beings who become masters of architecture. The intention is that all uses of the building (retail, offices and housing) live that green environment, offering views of great aesthetic quality and natural light inputs. The architecture is dynamic and seductive, inviting and provoking that all the users that live, work and realize their purchases, stimulate their senses to live a full experience of environmental quality. Always with a direct and an interactive relationship between the interior and exterior of the architectural project.

Il concetto di design inizia dalla creazione di un edificio i cui spazi verdi sono predominanti, con una atmosfera contemporanea, viva, pedonale, con spazi pubblici, interattivi e dinamici. Sulla base di queste premesse il disegno risponde al sito, un sito privilegiato con alberi monumentali che diventano l`elemento centrale della proposta architettonica. Lo spazio centrale del progetto è un omaggio a questi esseri che diventano maestri dell`architettura. L`intenzione è che tutti gli usi dell`edificio (commercio, uffici e abitazioni) vivono tale ambiente verde, con vista di grande qualità estetica e gli ingressi di luce naturale. L`architettura è molto dinamica e seducente, invitante e provocando che tutti gli utenti che vivono, lavorano e realizzano i loro acquisti, stimolano i loro sensi a vivere una piena esperienza di qualità ambientale. Sempre con un diretto e un rapporto interattivo tra l`interno e l`esterno del progetto architettonico.

Location: Escazú, Costa Rica Località: Escazú, Costa Rica

4. R C R

Design Process

Status: Mixed - Use Building Year: 2017 - 2015 Role: Member of the design team.

CREDITS: Dialog (Canada) Rojkind Arquitectos (Mexico City) Alvear Arquitectos (Mexico City) Fernando Valdès Rendering (Mexico City) The concept of design goes hand in hand with the principles of design that have been menitioned before.

Create a building with urban sense, predominant green spaces, contemporary, lively, pedestrian, interactive and dynamic.

Architectural Program: Retail: With an innovative proposal the project will have stores of different ranges.

Housing: Through different types of housing, it is intended to attract a wider market of customers, offering pleasant interior and exterior spaces, taking advantage of the local climate.

Restaurants: The gastronomical international offer in the main target of the restaurants.

Beer Garden: With a privileged location, the Beer Garden seeks to be a unique space in the area, attracting a younger market and making RCR a dynamic place.

Offices: The office offer is based in multifunctional spaces where can be placed differend types of business centers.

Market: Taking advantage of the local gastronomic offer and creating spaces to attract international gastronomy, we propose a market that offers a great variety of products and attracts people of all ages and social strata.

Recess: RCR will be an exculsive project, but with a great

urban impact to Costa Rica, so there will be many public spaces and many recess zones where people can go to shop, eat something or just go to relax

Based on these premises, the design concept resorted to the site, to a privileged terrain with spectacular trees, that become the central element of the architectural proposal.

The central space is a tribute to these living beings who become the owners of space. The intention is that all built spaces, whether retail, office or housing, live mostly that green environment; Offering the most possible views and natural light inputs.

The organic forms of the buildings arise for several reasons: by adapting to the geometries of the treetops and by the respect and integration of the surrounding topography to the site. The intention is that the project mimetice with the nature for which Costa Rica is famous.

The buildings mostly offer terraces with areas with gardens to soften the architecture. In the same way, the buildings are smoothed in their geometry, reducing as the level rises. This geometrical gesture also responds to the sunlight that enters the central space, which is the heart of the project, just like the terraces.

The architecture is dynamic, seductive and inviting, inviting and provoking all users to live, work and make purchases in spaces that stimulate them to live an experience of visual and climatic comfort. Always with an interactive relationship between the interior and the exterior.

1. Isolate Noise by identifying main trees and acces to the project

3. Identifying the program in the buildings and the vertical circulations.

2. Making urban connectoins crossing the main central public space .

4. Design the shape of the main buildings embracing the trees and the context.

Render by Fernando Valdès Rendering

4. R C R

Conceptual Drawings

1. Ground Floor - Circulation Cores - Retail - Restaurants - Main Public Space

2. First Floor - Circulation Cores - Retail - Beer Garden - Recess- Restaurants

2 .3nd Floor - Circulation Cores - Offices

4. Housing Typology Floor

Section A

Render by Fernando Valdès Rendering

Section B

4. R C R

Conceptual Drawings

Conceptual Facade Section

All the edges of the building are planned to have prefabricated concrete flower pots in order to generate the atmosphere of the ÂŤGreen EverywhereÂť. In the detail is visible the water collector system in order to re-use the water for the maintainance of this flower pots and the greenaries in the project.

Prefabricated Analysis of the concrete flower pots along the buildings

Housing Typology with Amenities: 1. Yoga Room 2. Kitchen 3. Storage Room 4. Restrooms 5. Cafeteria 6. Multipurpose Room 7 Housing Typologies 8. Central Main Space / Swimming Pool

Housing Typology Housing Typologies Conceptual Division

Render by Fernando Valdès Rendering

VIA MARAZZANI 5

Housing projects in Milan have a very important significance for the city, since they are responsible for generating internal market due to the high demand for housing of different typologies and the constant movement of the population.

This Housing Tower located in Milano, part of the premise of creating an iconic building in the eastern part of the city. The architectural intention consists of a dynamic and colorful building, which seeks to integrate into the Lambro park. The commercial target of this building is to create medium / high-rise housing, so the spatial quality within the apartments was one of the premises of the architectural design.

I progetti abitativi a Milano hanno un significato molto importante per la città, poiché sono responsabili della generazione del mercato interno a causa dell›elevata domanda di alloggi di diverse tipologie e del costante movimento della popolazione.

Questa torre residenziale situata a milano, parte della premessa di creare un edificio iconico nella parte orientale della città. L›intenzione architettonica consiste in un edificio dinamico e colorato, che cerca di integrarsi nel parco Lambro. L›obiettivo commerciale di questo edificio è quello di creare alloggi di media / alta altezza, quindi la qualità degli spazi all›interno degli appartamenti è stata una delle premesse del progetto architettonico.

Location: Via Marazzani 5, Milano Località: Via Marazzani 5, Milano

5. Via Marazzani 5 Conceptual Drawings

Status: Housing Building Year: 2020 Role: Design Leader CREDITS: STUDIO D` ARCHITETTURA PRADERIO (MILANO) This Housing Tower located in Milano, part of the premise of creating an iconic building in the eastern part of the city. The architectural intention consists of a dynamic and colorful building, which seeks to integrate into the Lambro park. The commercial target of this building is to create medium / high-rise housing, so the spatial quality within the apartments was one of the main aspects to consider of the architectural design.

Urban Axo View 1: ACCESSES

The interesting thing about this architectural project was the way the design process took place. The chief architect of the office, Franco Luppis, who also works as a great painter, started the architectural project from an oil canvas, carrying the ideas of abstract art on architecture.

With this, the building acquires an even more artistic and user-sensitive character.

This building, in urban terms, comes to regenerate an area that has been commercially forgotten and little exploited. The building is located between the Udine and Cimiano metro stations, a zone that have abundant areas for commerce, recreation and offices, which make the area commercially interesting and attractive to catalyze economic and social activity.

Architecturally, the tower of Via Marazzani 5 has 4 apartments per floor of 120 square meters each with terraces connected to the most important living spaces of the house. This gives the building, on the faรงade, an even broader sense of depth and spatial freedom, which in the end, gives the building an aesthetic character.

Urban Axo View 2: URBAN LAYERS

5. Via Marazzani 5 Architectural Drawings

Housing Floor Type A

Housing Floor Type B

5. Via Marazzani 5 Renders

Render by DA/AM Diseño Arquitectònico

GRAN SASSO 50 The architectural project is based on designing a co-working space in an abandoned building. This building is located in a strategic area in the city of Milano, where there is ample urban equipment in terms of transportation and connectivity. It is an area very close to the Politecnico di Milano therefore, the young population is very high and in search of spaces like the one that the architectural project offers. After an analysis, it was concluded that the architectural typology of co-working space was the most viable option. The abandoned building had the function of being a cinema. The space inside the building is wide and flexible, saying this,the architectural intervention is affordable in terms of structure and interior usable space. These types of work typologies are increasingly requested in cities such as London, Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, among many more.

Il progetto architettonico si basa sulla progettazione di uno spazio di co-working in un edificio abbandonato. Questo edificio è situato in una zona strategica della città di Milano, dove sono presenti ampie attrezzature urbane in termini di trasporto e connettività. Si tratta di un`area molto vicina al Politecnico di Milano, quindi la popolazione giovane è molto alta e alla ricerca di spazi come quello che offre il progetto architettonico. Dopo un`analisi, si è concluso che la tipologia architettonica dello spazio di co-working era l`opzione più praticabile. L`edificio abbandonato aveva la funzione di essere un cinema. Lo spazio all`interno dell`edificio è ampio e flessibile, dicendo questo, l`intervento architettonico è conveniente in termini di struttura e spazio interno utilizzabile. Questi tipi di tipologie di lavoro sono sempre più richiesti in città come Londra, Parigi, Lisbona, Madrid e molte altre.

Location: Viale Gran Sasso 50 Milan, Italy Località: Viale Gran Sasso 50 Milano, Italia

6. Gran Sasso 50 Design Process

Status: CO-WORKING Space Year: 2019 Role: Design Leader CREDITS: STUDIO D` ARCHITETTURA PRADERIO (MILANO) The architectural project consists in generating a flexible space. Movement and fluidity are the premises of the concept itself, creating comfortable work spaces for the people. The organic design of the project offers the user a wide variety of stations to work where the furniture acquires the same organic character of the project.

A fundamental element of the design is the inclusion of nature to the work stations. Throughout the project you can see trees that generate a sense of freedom and ecology that make the design proposal even more interesting.

The architectural intervention consists of 2 levels: the ground floor where a large projection room was located and with the design it is transformed into one big space with 3 platforms full of workstations where the connection between them is given through ramps to include within the project disabled people.

The first level had 2 regular projection rooms, in the project they are transformed into a single area of ​​work stations divided into 3 platforms.

Ground floor sketched proposal: 3 platforms with organic working stations

1st Level sketched proposal: 4 platforms with organic working stations

For architectural intervention, light is a fudamental element, especially natural light. On the double height ceiling on both the ground floor and the first level, different domes were opened to allow the entry of natural lighting into the building. With this, the co-working space becomes even more efficient for the user.

Sketched Section proposal

Arch. Selgascano - Coworking London

Arch. Selgascano - Coworking Lisbon

6. Gran Sasso 50 Architectural Drawings

1. Ground floor (Existing Condition)

1.1 Ground floor (Proposal)

2. First floor (Existing Condition)

2.1 First floor (Proposal)

3. Section (Existing Condition)

3.1 Section A (Proposal)

6. Gran Sasso 50 Renders

Material Inspiration:

Concrete Walls Public Pavement

Epoxy Floor Work Stations Meeting Rooms

Nature Atmospheres Comfort

VILLAZUL Villazul Bellavista is an architectural project that aims to solve the needs of elderly people. The project is located in a very favorable context to generate beautiful views full of life and vegetation. The site is immersed in a very wooded area, near a golf field and far away from the chaotic urban environment of Mexico City. The premise of the project is to create spaces with a high quality living performance, spaces with particular characteristics for elderly people and a high sensory stimulation. The users will lose the notion of being in a cold hospital and will always have the awareness of being in their second home. The architectural result is a simple building, which uses as a guiding base of design the module, generating orthogonal volumes that make more efficient the diverse spaces that the project has in order to create a high spatial quality.

Villazul Bellavista, è un progetto architettonico che cerca di soddisfare i bisogni degli anziani. Il progetto si trova in un contesto favorevole per generare un ambiente bello pieno di vista della vita e della vegetazione. Il posto è immerso in una zona boscosa nei pressi di un campo da golf, lontano dal caotico ambiente urbano di Città del Messico. La premessa del progetto è quella di creare spazi con una qualità elevata, spazi con particolare caratteristiche per gli anziani che vivono lì, e un`alta stimolazione sensoriale. Si perde la nozione di essere in un ospedale freddo e sarà creata la conoscenza di essere nella loro seconda casa. Il risultato architettonico è un edificio semplice, utilizzando come base di progettazione il modulo, generando volumi ortogonali eficienti. Il progetto alla fine è bello perchè genera una elevata qualità spaziale.

Location: Golf Club Bellavista, State of Mexico Località: Golf Club Bellavista, Stato del Messico

7. Villazul Buenavista Design Process

Status: Elderly People Residence Year: 2016 - 2015 Role: Member of the design team CREDITS: Proyekta Medical (Mexico City) Alvear Arquitectos (Mexico City) Fernando Valdès Rendering (Mexico City)

1. Site

2. Main Building Position

3. Main Building Extrusion

4. Lateral Volumes Position

5. Lateral Volumes Extrusion

6. Final Result

Elderly people has particular needs. This projects seeks to solve them in a very particular way. The design itself of the spaces is aimed to create the sensation of being at HOME , this premise is essential. So the architectural proposal is focused in this duality between a building that carries out medical services for elderly people and also a building that carries out sensory stimulation into the high quality open and closed spaces, in addition with the program of activities that will be carried out there.

The building has all the basic medical services for the care of users, elderly people. The architectural project has several public spaces with a high spatial quality that will allow users to spend their time in various activities. These spaces have a great spatial quality, beautiful views towards the golf course or the central garden making the experience of these spaces very pleasant. The public spaces which the architectural project has are the dining room and the central garden on the ground floor, and the gym, the multipurpose room, the bibliopub and the chapel on the first level. In the upper levels there are rooms of different typologies that will provide the user with an own space that can be adapted at will in order to give the space a sense of belonging. Each room has the maximum comfort for elderly people, as well as accessible services defined by the building regulations in Mexico City.

7. Volumetric Analysis

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7. Villazul Buenavista Architectural Drawings

1. Ground Floor - Reception - Dinning Rooms - Rooms - Special Gardens

3. Second Floor - Amenities - Rooms

2. First Floor - Administration - Rooms

4. Room Type Floor

East Facade

South Facade

7. Villazul Buenavista Renders

Render by Fernando Valdès Rendering

VIA MONTE GENEROSO 29 Housing projects in Milan have a very important significance for the city, since they are responsible for generating internal market due to the high demand for housing of different typologies and the constant movement of the population.

This Housing Building located in Milano, part of the premise of creating a beautiful an efficient building in the northwest part of the city. The architectural intention consists of a dynamic building, which seeks to get integrate d into the context, keep the proportions of the buildings nearby and also remember the «LUOGO» which means the place. The commercial target of this building is to create medium / high-rise housing, so the spatial quality within the apartments was one of the premises of the architectural design.

I progetti abitativi a Milano hanno un significato molto importante per la città, poiché sono responsabili della generazione del mercato interno a causa dell›elevata domanda di alloggi di diverse tipologie e del costante movimento della popolazione.

Questo edificio residenziale situato a Milano, fa parte della premessa di creare un bellissimo edificio efficiente nella parte nord-ovest della città. L›intenzione architettonica consiste in un edificio dinamico, che cerca di integrarsi nel contesto, mantenere le proporzioni degli edifici vicini e ricordare anche il «LUOCO». L›obiettivo commerciale di questo edificio è quello di creare alloggi di media / alta altezza, quindi la qualità degli spazi all›interno degli appartamenti è stata una delle premesse del progetto architettonico.

Location: Via Monte Generoso 29, Milano Località: Via Monte Generoso 29 Milano

8. Via Monte Generoso 29 Architectural Drawings

Status: Housing Building Year: 2020 Role: Design Leader CREDITS: STUDIO D` ARCHITETTURA PRADERIO (MILANO) This Housing Building located in Milano, part of the premise of creating an iconic building in the eastern part of the city. The architectural intention consists of a dynamic and colorful building, which seeks to integrate into the Lambro park. The commercial target of this building is to create medium / high-rise housing, so the spatial quality within the apartments was one of the main aspects to consider of the architectural design.

The interesting thing about this architectural project was the way the design process took place. The chief architect of the office, Franco Luppis, who also works as a great painter, started the architectural project from an oil canvas, carrying the ideas of abstract art on architecture.

With this, the building acquires an even more artistic and user-sensitive character.

First Floor

Ground Floor

2nd / 6th Floor Type

This building, in urban terms, this building seeks the premise of maintaining in composition, rhythm, and materiality, the proportion of the buildings in the neighborhood. It is part of the construction regulations in that area of the city to generate a homogeneous architectural environment.

Architecturally, the building of Via Monte Generoso 29 has 13 apartments in 7 stories. In average, the apartments have aprox. 60 square meters, each with terraces connected to the most important living spaces of the house. This gives the building, on the faรงade, this dynamic sense that we wanted to give. So at the end, the building not only fits perfectly in the context, but it has its own identity and its own architectural character.

7th Floor

8. Via Monte Generoso 29 Architectural Drawings

ACADEMIC PROJECTS ITESM MEXICO CITY CAMPUS

BR-425

The project is located on the corner of two major roads in Mexico City, Periferico and Barrance del Muerto, conditions that make the building BR-425 have an excellent urban connection. After an analysis of the area, the program that was given to the building is mixed-use, where housing, hotel and commerce were the main functions that could enhance the architectural project. The architecture of the BR-425 generates a dialogue from the public space towards the urban entity. The design of this public space starts from the need to have areas isolated from daily noise pollution, so this space is designed under the ground level, changing the urban scale and providing a bigger comfort environment.

Il progetto si trova all`angolo di due strade principale di Città del Messico, Periferico e Barranca del Muerto, condizioni che rendono l`edificio BR-425 un ottimo collegamento urbano. Dopo un`analisi della zona, il programma che è stato dato all`edificio è un uso misto, dove le abitazioni, l`albergo e il commercio sono gli usi che potrebbero migliorare l`architettura del progetto. L`edificio BR-425 genera un dialogo dallo spazio pubblico verso l`entità urbana. Il design di questo spazio pubblico parte da un bisogno di avere aree isolate dal rumore di tutti i giorni, ciò è che lo spazio pubblico è sotto il livello dal pianoterra cambiando la scala urbana e fornendo un ambiente più confortevole.

Location: Barranca del Muerto, Mexico City Località: Barranca del Muerto, Città del Messico

9. BR - 425 Design Process

Status: Academic Urban Mixed - Use Building School: ITESM Mexico City Campus Year: 2014 Role: Design Lead Design team: Fernando Briz (Mexico) Andrès Dominguez (Mexico) Alan Baños (Mexico)

1. Main Building Extrusion

2. Hotel Building Shape

3. Hotel Building Insertion into the Main Building

The project is located at the corner of two major streets in Mexico City: Anillo Periferico and Barranca del Muerto, within the limits of the Delegation Benito Juárez and Álvaro Obregón. This condition add more value to the site to having an excellent Urban Connection. It has a large number of basic services very close like schools, hospitals and supermarkets. Also less than a kilometer away is Insurgentes Sur, an important corporate corridor.

It was decided to make a complex of mixed uses, where housing, hotel and retail were the main functions chosen as a result of a previous urban analysis of the area, where different factors were studied.

4. Hotel Building floating

from the ground

5. Creation of the underground public space

6. Hotel Building main Structure

7. Main Building housing typologies

8. Housing typologies moving to create the final shape

9. Final Shape of the Building BR-425

The guiding axis of the project is based on generating a volumetry whose premise seeks to merge the building with the context, respecting the quality of life of neighboring buildings by allowing the passage of natural light to their spaces.

The architecture itself is a reflection of the dynamism of the site. Since it is located in the corner of two main streets, the flow of people and cars, shape this particular atmosphere that is reflected in the movement of the volumes within the architectural language.

Urban Profile

9. BR - 425

Architectural Drawings

1. Underground Public Space

3. Hotel Typology

2. Ground Floor

4. Housing Typology

5. South Facade

7. Section A

6. West Facade

8. Section B

9. BR - 425 Renders

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