Portfolio 2023

Portfolio. Florencia Ramirez Selected Works

Florencia Ramirez

Florencia Ramirez Gonzalez is an architect based in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America.

Her ultimate goal is to investigate new materials and computational tools, so she can apply them for improving construction systems in Paraguay with lowcost, efficient technologies.

She has participated in the foundation of a computational design community in her country and assisted participants in a parametric design study group, she wants to strengthen this community by making meaningful connections with other universities.

Contact

flopirami@gmail.com

1420, Asuncion +595981178770

06-sept-1994

Paraguayan

Skills

Teamwork Skills

Rhinoceros + Grasshopper

Sketchup

AutoCAD

Archicad

Autodesk Revit

Adobe Package

Lumion

V-Ray

Python

QGIS

Microsoft Office

Languages

Native Spanish

English C2

German A2

RAMIREZ

Education

2022-2023

Postgraduate Course- Parametric Design and Visual Programming on BIM

Zigurat Institute of Technology

2014-2021

(B.Arch) Bachelor of Architecture

School of Architecture, Design and Arts. National University of Asuncion (UNA)

Thesis grade 5/5 Published as an article

Employment history

2022-2023

Club Jardin

Landscape Architect. -Develop documentation for exterior design projects and medium scale projects using AutoCAD/SketchUp/Lumion. -Cost and quantity for the installation of electrical and plumbing ducts, pipes and fixtures.-Coordinate technicians and trade personnel on site. -Assist in organizing tender process and asses the quality of construction materials. -Present alternative documentation and methodology for the workflow.

2022-2021

Aranda Benitez Constructors

Architect/ Interior Designer. -Creating project presentation. -Draft and develop small to large fit-out projects. -Explore, understand and incorporate top design trends into practice’s projects.-Research on new materials and implement cost-effectuve elements to keep project cost under budget. -Cost and quantification of the projects.

2019-2017

Aurea Architects

Junior Architect/ Interior Designer. -Prepare and present the project brief to the client -Execute and document for small to medium projects.-Incorporate contemporary design trends into practice’s projects. -Cost and quantification of the projects.-Managed the construction process.

Bauen Architects 2014-2015

Architect intern. -Develop documentation for medium to large scale projects using AutoCAD.-Assist in the construction of a small scale project.

Internships

Fab Lab CIDi 2019

Digital fabrication tools training(Laser, 3D printing, CNC Router, 3D scanning, electronics) at the Center of Investigation Development and innovation at the National University of Asuncion.

Achievements

Young Researchers AUGM Latinamerica/ Published Article 2021

“Design exercise and simulation of ventilated facades and upper enclosures cases: Ayfra building and the First colonos del Chaco school“

Calle Idea Competition/ Award winner 2021

“Tava pyaha” proposal made with parametric design for “weaving” public spaces in the metropolitan area of Asuncion

Hobbies

Digital Sketching

French A1 3D Printing

Ceramics

Art

Traveling Science

Literature

References

PhD. Elena Vazquez

emv10@psu.edu

+1 (814) 232-9447

MSc. Juan C. Cristaldo

+595 981 806235 juan.cristaldo@arq.una.py

Calle Idea Competition/ Award winner 2021

Tactical urbanism proposal for a connection of public spaces and an iconic park in Asuncion “Parque Caballero”

Courses

Visiting School Stuttgart, Germany. Architectural Association London 2022

Solar Design Pavilion

Workshop Sequential Structures, Digital Futures 2021

Circular Economy for a Sustainable Building Environment, TU Delft 2021

Generative Design for Revit, ACADIA (Granted) 2020

Workshop Tensegrity CoDe, Digital Futures 2020

Introduction to Python, Penguin Academy 2020

Extra-curricular Activities

Girl’s Code Associate (NGO) 2022

Voluntary for International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 2022

Voluntary at Center of Investigation Development and innovation (CIDi) FADA UNA 2020

Printing Farm Project. COVID-19 Faceshield kits for public hospitals

2018-2019

Voluntary at UPEA (Paraguayan Architecture Students Union) (NGO)

Content Comissioner

2014-2015

Voluntary at TECHO Paraguay (NGO)

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Adaptive Skins.

Year: 2023, Postgraduate Course Final project

Zigurat Institute of Technology

Location: Asuncion, Paraguay/Barcelona, Spain

Tutors: MSc. Arch. Marilena Christodoulou

MSc. Arch. Javier Bernal MSc. Arch. Byron Cadenas

The project consisted in explore the interoperability methods in BIM with computational design tools such as grasshopper and Dynamo. The form was generated in Rhino and Grasshopper, a twisted prism, that was analyzed with climate simulation (Ladybug). According to the result shown on the colored mesh, which data was exported to Excel, to make the decisions to create an adaptive panel in which the adjusting parameters would control the opening levels.

To transpolate this data into Revit, Rhino.inside was employed, whereas starting to model with detail in Dynamo. Creating the family of the panels, inserting into the model, creating the floors, walls, doors, everything parametrized in Dynamo.

The last step was about managing data inside the model. In order to do this, the finished Revit model was exported to an ifc. file. Therefore this lead to work with engines such as Python in different platforms such as Jupyter with Pandas library, and finally to visualize data about the elements in the model, Microsoft Power Bi was employed.

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Building from Google Earth position and solar studies

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Process.

Dynamo Revit script.

Data Visualization.

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Revit model based on Ladybug. IFC Model.

Nodes.

Year: 2022, Photo Exhibition

Project in execution

Location: San Bernardino, Paraguay

Role: Design concept, scripting in grasshopper, 3D printing and execution

In collaboration with professionals: Arch. Mauricio Villalba

Arch. Claudio Coronel

Environmental awareness is necessary for our community, there are incessant forest fires and our fauna is affected. To make a statement a local photographer wanted to make an exhibition of how human contamination is affecting native animals and their habitats.

With this premise, the exhibition must be materialized in a pavilion that demonstrated respect for nature, the golden proportion found in organic elements makes the spiral in the base and goes upward connecting delaunay triangles. The concept was to combine traditional materials with 3D printing technologies to represent awareness for our present and consciously look into the future.

The materialization went through distributed printing processes, bamboo struts prepared with strict curation one by one. It is crucial for us to test these techniques in a pavilion, this kind of project made us acknowledge how innovative technologies work for future designs that could be used for a different scale or element.

The design process took a month, while the documentation and fabrication of the nodes took another month. The duration of curating the bamboo was two days, the assembly of the base was held in two days, the pavilion changed its location, finally being set in the research center for its collaboration with the photographer and their researchers.

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ASSEMBLE-DISASSEMBLE Nodes were 3D-printed with holes for screws in order to be assembled into the structure. Each node had its code, generated by Grasshopper and to be ﬁtted inside a cube with the standards dimension for each printer

JOINTS

The joints were organized by nodes and struts with a detailed illustration. Each node was generated in Grasshopper by the parameters of the joints and preserving the angles.

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Node with junction 3D printing 18 Nodes Base with nodes. Curated bamboo. Burning bamboo to curate

Tensegrity Skin.

Year: 2012

Team: Steven Rubio

Type: Ideas

Role: Visualization and design

Status: Completed

The Historical Center of Asuncion is where the case study is located: The Ayfra building. The Center has suffered abandonment gradually, today we have more than a hundred empty buildings. There are buildings that are not fit for the climate context of Asuncion, which is hot and humid: subtropical. In the 80s the international style was utilized for new projects such as the Ayfra building.

The Ayfra is a building is made of curtain gold glasses, concrete, and metal, without doubt, an icon in the skyline of the capital. Today this building’s energy consumption due to the sun and heat exposure leads to an unsustainable future for its lifespan.

The environmental impact is now a priority worldwide and in this investigation the issue of thermal performance is analyzed to make a proposal of retrofitting the facade of the Ayfra building to adapt to our climate, social and environmental aspects to expand its use and create a more comfortable space for work.

For the proposal tensegrity structures were chosen given their light-weighted feature covering the facade having an equilibrium with daylight and sun protection.

To develop the double-skin facade, according to the data outcome of simulations with digital tools such as Grasshopper, Kangaroo, Ladybug, and DIVA.

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Case study: Double-Skin Facades

Local Regional International

The case study included seven double-skin facades divided by location (Paraguay, local; South America, regional; Middle East, International). Each case was modeled parametrically and made variations for each case.The type of Double-Skin facade chosen was tensegrity for further studies.

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Snelson’s planar pieces. Burkhardt (2008) Kangaroo Solver results.

Process.

Diagrama de ﬂujos

Form-Finding: Tensegrity- Tensile+Compression Forces

Design process

How the algorithm works.

Simplex Module*

*A minimum unity for tensegrity structures

Reciprocal Union Projection of points

Connection of points

and reciprocal union

*term adopted of Kenneth Snelson’s work

Criteria and details.

Physics simulation

Reciprocal Union Projection of points

Connection of points

*term adopted of Kenneth Snelson’s work

Physics simulation

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PROTOTIPO

FABRICACIÓN Ensamble Tiempo RRHH Máquinas Escala

Triangles

LOGÍSTICA DISEÑO

EVALUACIÓN OPTIMIZACIÓN RESULTADO

Fabric incorporation Triangle Shape

*co-planars

PARAMETER

PROCESS RESULT

Material SISTEMA CONSTRUCTIVO PRE-DISEÑO LOGÍSTICA DISEÑO SIMULACIÓN PROTOTIPO EVALUACIÓN OPTIMIZACIÓN RESULTADO FABRICACIÓN Estructura Ensamble Tiempo RRHH Máquinas Escala

Triangle

Triangles *co-planars

Fabric incorporation

Shape

and reciprocal union

1 Design Criteria Solar path. The northern-south facade is receiving vertical incidence and the east-west horizontal. 2 Protection type according to the northern-south facades. The need of a horizontal element to cover the solar incidence on this facades. The need of a vertical element to cover the solar incidence on this facades. Protection type according to the eastern-west facades.