Final

architecture portfolio.

Giovanni Alejandro Llamas Perez

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TABLE OF CONTENT

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SMALL

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MEDIUM

EAAD pp.08

CONTEST

ARQUINE: MEDIAPARK pp.24

CAN I HAVE A ROOF?

pp.22

CV+INTRO

pp.00-02

SOLAR COURT pp.06

( /PATHS ) pp.03

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EXTRA LARGE

ARQUINE:

EXPO MILAN 2015 pp.14

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

PROFESIONAL WORK

LARGE TACUBAYA pp.16

ACADEMIC

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XL

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pragmatic

CP

conceptual

CV

Proffesional.

Personal.

CURRICULUM VITAE W.E.Y.E.S. Especialziada Giovanni Alejandro Llamas Pérez PERSONAL.Giovanni Alejandro Llamas PérezConsultoriaACADEMIC/PROFESSORS Urban Regional Plan of San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato. La Caja Acustica (opera House) 19.11.87/Gto_Gto. Mexico Catedra Audodesk/ 19.11.87/Gto.Gto_MEX (/Paths) 3Houses V.S.C. Sangath giolp8711@gmail.comgiolp8711@gmail.com Arq. Adrian Gracia+Arq. Rodrigo Maisterrena cities ourselfs.

Education.

C.Vitro/Arq. Carlos Estrada La Yucateca (House) STUDIES.C.E.C. Celaya.Gto_MEX ´94-´99 Ahmedabad 2030:our UR (University District) Campus Bachelor of Architecture.

(5 year program) Tx_USA ´99-´00 Raksha Shakti University Catedra Legorreta-Tagliabue_summerworkshop E.I.S.D.Evadale.

SolarLegorreta+Legorreta Court (Urban Intervention) ITESM+LaSALLEURL+EMBT+ Smriti Van Memorial Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ITESM ´03 C.M.C. Celaya.Gto_Mex Teotihuacan (Housing Project) Rasna UniversityCatedra Campus Orange/ 1 summer course Universitat Ramon Lull La_Salle. Barcelona Es. ITESM_QRO.Celaya.Gto_MEX ´06 Valery (Dress Store) Lic. Memo Llaguno+Orange Investment Alembic City Bachelor in International Business. (1 year, incomplete) SEK_lesAlps.Fr ´04 Leonors Kitchen (Intervention) Catedra Legorreta Tagliabue VIII C.E.D.I.M. Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ITESM ITESM_MTY.Mty.NL.MEX ´12 The Apothecary Arq. Diego Rodriguez+Arq. Vicente Tapia(Image & Store) Structures IV professor.

Highschool LASALLE_URL.Bcn.ESP ´08 Distrito Tec (Mix use Building Contest) +Arq. Armando Chavez+Arq. Maria Bustamante academic/PRoffesors.

Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ITESM/Qro. Mex. PROFESSIONAL.Consultoria Especializada MEX ´06 Expo Cluster International Workshop Catedra Autodesk.

Arq. Adrian Gracia & Rodrigo Maisterrena San Estanislao de Kostka SEK/ San Nicola de la Chappelle Fr. V.S.C.SANGATH IND ´11 Expo Milano 2015+Politecnico di Milano Catedra Legorreta-Tagliabue BCN EMBT+ITESM+La_Salle+Legorreta contest.

W.E.Y.E.S. MEX ´13 Solano Benitez Workshop/Arq. Solano Benitez Arquitectura de Impacto. ist place.

Catedra Vitro.

Arq. Carlos Estrada C.E.D.I.M. MEX´13 Al_Borde Workshop/Arq. Catedra Luis Barragán 2009. Best proposal.

Catedra Legorreta-Tagliabue VIII. David Barragan Speaker at EMERGENTE U.de.C Espacio Ambulante. 1st place.

Arq. Benedetta CONTEST Tagliabuea+Victor Legorreta+Diego Rodriguez+Vicente Tapia+Armando SOCIAL SERVICE.Mexico Urbano Arquitectura de Imapcto Fernandez+Daniel 1st place Arquitectura Joven A.N.A.C.M. 2010. 2nd place.

Chavez+Maria Bustamante+Gerardo Caballero+Maite Rossello+Joan Callis.

LANGUAGE.Spanish/Esp Catedra Luis Barragan 2009 Best proposal Catedra Luis Barragán 2010.

Expo Cluster International Workshop.

English/Eng EspacioMilano Ambulante 1st place Arquine 2010: Mediapark.

Politecnico di Milano+Expo 15 SKILLS.DWG Arquitectura Joven Arquine 2011: Desplazados Solano Benitez Workshop.

Arq.A.N.A.C.M Solano Benitez 2010 2nd place RVT . Honorific Mention.

Catedra Luis Barragan Al Borde Workshop.

Arq David Barragan2010 Publications/conference Speaker PSD Arquine 2010:Mediapark Social service.

Residente Cancha Solar.. INDG Arquine 2011: Desplazados Honorific Mention Mexico Urbano.

Stilo Jovens Arquitectos de Monterrey.

AI Skills ACADEMIC TRIPS Our Cities Ourselfs:Ahmedabad 2030Publication.

3DM+VRAY Chicago, New York, The path of Barragan in Mexico DWG:Autocad/BIM:Revit & Archicad/3D:Rhino/Rendering:V-Ray, Photoshop, Illustrator & InEmergent Congress @Uni de Celaya speaker.

MODELMAKING Barcelona, India, Milan. design/Language;Spanish & English DRAWING

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INTRO.

How many times we try to explain a Project and fail to do it?

We depend in our presence to explain what we are trying to do.

Even when they are only simple questions that have to be answered so that everyone can understand it. Also they are often given for granted in the explanation so we think everyone understands; what is it?, where is it?, why is it done? And in some cases, how it will be done? Everything is reduced to nice looking renders and technical drawings that can’t be really analyzed because of the scale of the drawing and lack of information.

WHERE?

WHAT?

And it is not new for architects that have to find a way to communicate their ideas, Le Corbusier showed us the importance in communication and thanks to his relations with publishers and very simple schemes he managed to spread his ideas through the world in times when sharing ideas was more difficult. There is also Rem Koolhaas who work with Bruce Mau, a graphic designer to make S,M,L,XL one of the most important books in architecture that thanks to the innovative way of describing Koolhaas projects was able to again communicate all of his ideas.

And now we can see Yes is More, by Bijarke Ingle that not only he started his book as a comic and using very good methods to transmit the ideas of his studio, but now has also transformed the same book with the use of technology in to an APP that makes the whole experience a very interactive way of understanding architecture.

This Portfolio will try to show part of the ideas behind what I believe of architecture responding always to the projects. The next symbols will help identify what are you looking at the page, and also will let you analize and read the project in many ways but always aware of the basic ideas of the project.

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WHY?

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HOW?

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S .( /PATHS ) W.E.Y.E.S. + ARKRAFT

Monterrey_N.L.MEX ´09 3 houses

? New house for a young family Very low budget construction based on densglass and light structures.

houses located in Monterrey N.L. Mex. The colors used for the house intend to mimic the sky at day and night. The plot is divided to 3 plots, two brothers with their families and the parents retirement house.

The plot was a small 600 sqm aprox. that had to be divided in 3 plots, with a budget of 70,000usd for a just one of the houses.

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Design PROCESS

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BUILDING PROCESS

1. Actual Site

2. Proportion

1. Actual Site

2. Parking cut

3. Subdivition

4. Modul

3. Access

4. House_01

5. Emplacement

6. Landscape walls

5. Main Pabillion

6. House_02

7. Courts

8. Final Project

7. House_03

8. Final Project

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

context.

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

wood truss used for the small concrete element that the house will have, are going to be reused as rooftops in the entrance.

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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

S .Solar Soccer Court

r Plant.

W.E.Y.E.S. + La_Compañia+Covachita Published@Revista Residente

Monterrey_N.L.MEX ´13 Public Space

Pieces of the project.

ROADS & VEHICLE ORIENTED SPACE ARE THE MOST & MAIN PUBLIC SPACE IN THE CITY.

The Sun.

Ropes.

? The city has very little public places.

SPACE.

Plastic sheets to cast a shadow with the contour of a soccer court in a street CONTEXT

Floor Plant.

Plastic Sheets.

Pieces of the project.

MTY.NL MEX

on.

pective.

MOST COMMON TEMPERATURE: 103oF

The Sun. Ropes.

SITE & ATMOSPHERE

Section.

St. Lucia Bridge.

LIGHT.

Plastic Sheets.

St. Lucia Bridge.

LIGHT.

SCALE.

SPACE.

Shadows.

SCALE. Shadows.

Perspective.

Comunity.

Comunity.

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The project in action. by:

Alfonso Reyes

“ See inside my mind, everywhere I go, despite the dark clouds, Oh, how heavy this sun occurs!

Oh, how much it hurts, this sun well I carry inside!

My childhood, by a shadow was never cast, I saw it all in a different. light.”

Fragment of:

El sol de Monterrey (Monterrey´s Sun)

Something that could give back the #public_ space to the community without the need of a big budget or any goverment permision.

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M .EAAD

Students data.

Team: David M. +Moises M. +Andrea L. +Esteban M. +Ilse B.

Monterrey_N.L.MEX ´10 School of Architecture, Art & Design.

? Colaboration among the three schools of design.

Placing the building in a strategic place of the campus, promoting the design studios.

LID 640

ARQ 1200

students

students

LAD 380 students

floor plants.

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0 MTS 5 MTS 10 MTS

25MTS

50 MTS

0 MTS 5 MTS 10 MTS

25MTS

50 MTS

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design process.

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Students flow of movement @campus

context.

Campus transformation.

New buildings on campus reflect the lack of colaboration with the school of architecture and design.

Original campus

Campus with the new building

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roof detail.

transversal section.

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Program of the school.

Classrooms 1006m .2

Workshops 2760m2.

Labs.

Administration 202m 2.

Cafeteria 447m 2.

Library 645m 2.

Auditorium 180m 2.

Gallery.

LIGHT.

ATMOSPHERE.

TRUTH.

CONTEXT.

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M .Expo Milano 2015 Cacao Cluster, International Workshop

Milan_IT ´12

guidelines.

instructions.

STRUCTURAL POLOGY GIVEN.

Pavilion for the World Expo

? Shared pavilion for countries with low budget.

Use the facades to interact and comunicate with the visitors.

The Cocoa Pavilion for the Expo Milano 2015 is a change in the common pavilions, with the idea of a building that transforms to communicate histories behind the country and the production of Cocoa.

ROOF SYSTEM

EACH 9x9m AREA

9 PAVILIONS FOR THE CLUSTER

TRADE COCOA BEANS FOR FINAL COCOA PRODUCTS TO LEARN THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION AND THE POEPLE INVOLVED IN THE PRODUCTION.

GET COCOA FROM THE FACADE OF THE PAVILION.

EXITE EDUCATE ENTERTAIN

STRUCTURE DENSGLASS

TO MUCH CONCEPT & TOO LITTLE CONTEXT

COCOA BEANS COCOA RELATE IMAGE ANCHORS

pieces of the project.

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PVC TUBES THAT HOLD THE COCOA BEANS, WITH A DISPENCER AT HUMAN LEVEL.

LEARN SOMETHING ACCORDING FROM THE PAVILION.

LOOK AND FOLLOW A COLOR IN THE STRUCTURE.

the Cocoa pavilion.

DIAGRAM OF HOW PAVILIONS WORK IN TIME, TRANSFORMING THE FACADE. AUGUST

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

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L .Cinema Ermita

Catedra Legorreta-Tagliabue VIII Workshop

Tacubaya D.F. _MEX ´12 Mix use (Housing +offices +library +plaza).

? Regeneration of the Ermita Cinema Building.

Opening the old projection hall, turn it to a public space & adding new program to the building.

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The historic context.

The intervention is on the old building by the architect Sordo Madaleno, first of its kind, built in the 60´s, as well as the whole block.

Located in Mexico City, it’s home for many local musicians and artist like Chucho Reyes who lived here.

The site is near the olde entrance, that now is the building

by Juan Segura The Ermita.

present condition.

Now in the heart of the city is one of the best connected place in the city, three mayor subway lines pass by.

Here the mexican archtiect built his house-studio, we can find also the Ortega gardens and the Gilardi House.

Now the place seems to be abandoned, the old tradition for movie theaters in the zone died, leaving the old building forgotten.

Insde the main hall got destroyed and divided to become a multicinema that no one likes to go because its a dangerous place.

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The intervention.

Old Roof

Glass enclosing the old atrium.

Actual Building.

Technical Private School.

Old Cinema Backstage.

Pieces of the Old Building.

Intervention proposed

Floor Plants.

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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

The public space in the north is thought to complement and reactivate the old Ermita Building.

The Building in the Context.

The Ermita

C1

C1 Inside and as an entrance hall to the public library the space left on the shape of the cinema is designed for holding concerts.

Public space

Public space

C2

C2 19

longitudinal section.

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Old brick walls for auditorium.

Pieces of the project.

Elevator Amenities & bike Parking

Housing

Mirror Fountain

Comercial & Office space

Roof with light filter Library

ATMOSPHERE.

Stairs MEMORY.

Garden Tower to articulate old building with new

Main entrance

Cuts on the wall to Allow Public Street inside

TRUTH.

FORM.

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Arquine Contest.

Team: Abelardo G. +David M.

D.F. _MEX ´12 Shelter for the migrants from south america.

Reference.

L .Can I Have a roof? ? The old shelter has no more capacity.

With prefab materials, the main objective is to make a public space for the all the community.

1. The contest asked for a shelter for migrants.

2. So the idea comes from a shelter, and a common thing in every shelter was always a: roof.

3. Create a meeting point where people could have a public space and share a shelter.

4. built with standart materials to spread it through the road of the migrants.

The shelter.

context.

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Instructions.

To sustain the idea, Mario Vargas Llosa in his book, la civilizacion del espectaculo (The civilization of entertainment) says anything thats not seen, it doesnt exist, so the idea is to put the migrants issue in the mind of the people to make it real, and thats why we respond with a public space.

REGISTER

kitchen

storage

register

workshops workshops

class rooms

PLAZA

meetings

FORum lobby

wc

open festivals dinningroomworkshops

lobby

dancing

religion services

community integrator

sports

men dorms children woman

wc

access

class rooms

stairs

infirmary

stairs

WClockers office

wc

locker

stairs

chapell

stairs

infirmry medical aid office register lobby

office

pieces of the project.

chapell Infirmary LABS kitchen ACcess

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XL .Mediapark

The Contest asked for a Mediapark in Cd. Juarez Ch. Mex. In the old Convention center PRONAF which is now an almost abandoned place.

Arquine Contest. Team: Abelardo G. +David M.+Roberto J. + Enrique de la C. Everyone becomes an observer, violence happends because everyone is afraid to report it due to police corruption so, if everyone can report to a place where everyCd. Juarez CHI_MEX ´11 one can see, no matter what they send, a twitt, a fb post, or a video, then it will then Mediatheque & park become a safe place. ? No cultural space to help fighting the violence. German Impresionist as well as George Orwell said that people change their behavior when they know they are observed, this had an impact on architects like Repetitive module that can transmit images of the Mies Van Der Rohe who wanted to create his transparen buildings. So whay if evcity, preventing & communicating the citizens. eryone in the city could look for each other & there was a transparent city?

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The site, an old mall and convention center.

the Module.

A Mediapark can’t solve the violence problem @Cd_Juarez but a larger scale intervention may start a change that can improve the situation.

turn it to a Mediapark & public space.

Behind a wall you feel safe but you ignore what happends behind it.

Behind a cristal wall you could see, but you will never feel safe watching anything bad.

Expand the modul in the city to have a larger scale impact. turn a wall in to something that can show whats happening behind you will still feel safe and aware.

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The mediapark or the modul will not change things in short time

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But as the city learns to use the modul, things will start to change.

near a school in juarez, 2011

near a school in juarez, 2015

social houses in juarez, 2011

social houses in juarez, 2015

local park in juarez, 2011

local park in juarez, 2015

So all of the mediaparks will in the end become a reflection of the city and the community.

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? .A Museum?

CLB Contest. Team: Abelardo G. +David M. + Enrique de la C.

Fundidora Mty/N.L._MEX ´11 defending an Idea.

? a contest that asked for a museum of architecture. not do anything and make the people aware that the city is the museum of architecutre.

1. For this contest they asked for a museum of architecture for the city of Monterrey N. L. Mex...But how can can you display architecture like an object in a museum? what’s the correct size & format for architecture?

2. Formalism could take the project to very different paths:

3. But you can speak what you believe:

The city is the museum of architecture

conclutions.

Like in the book of Julio Cortazar, Rayuela. In all portfolios & projects the reader has the chance to decide what story to read, or what path to take to understand it. But it is the job of the writter and of course the architect to put all the information necessary to make everyone in the end understand the main idea.

Remembering a talk we had after work with the architects B.V. Doshi, Rajeev K. & Sonke H. where it was asked to everyone What is the next step for architecture? Apple proved that with design and creation the world could be changed and with todays technology Zaha and Ghery finally achieved & improved what Robert Venturi exposed in his book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture where any form could be finally acomplished and architecture became free of style and rather has a more personal identity in each project. But has architecture reach it’s limits? After this, there is nothing more than the creativity of the architects?

Solano Benitez tought me that there is a long way to go and we have to really understand, what are we doing? Rethink architecture to achieve its true purpose to humanity, good architecture has to become democratic, it should be everyones right to enjoy & live it unstead of feeling discriminated by who can pay for it.

In conclution we have to rethink architecture, and maybe question again the idea of an international movement, not as a set of dogmatic aesthetic rules on how architecture should be, but how can we achieve everywhere in the world good architecture. thanks to all the people that support me.

CONTACT.

The image shows the given site for the contest, empty & only with our siluets and a line pointing to the city.

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Giovanni Alejandro Llamas Perez email / giolp8711@gmail.com cel/ +5218187044145

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