GERMÁN CABO ARNAL ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Selected works 2006 - 2012
GERMÁN CABO ARNAL 31/03/1985
Valencia
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EDUCATION Degree in Architecture (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
2003 - 2011
Degree in Architecture (Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst) [Ghent, Belgium]
2008 - 2009
Workshop “Designing In The Dark II”
2008
Workshop “Lifelong dwelling: one side of the sustainability”
2008
Scientific-technical secondary education (La Salle de Paterna)
2001 - 2003
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Sports events promotion assistant (Sports vice-chancellorship in Univerdidad Politécnica de Valencia)
2010
LANGUAGES Spanish
Mother language
Valenciano
Father language
English
Level B2
French
Level A1
Cambridge First Certificate in English examination
COMPUTER SKILLS AUTODESK
AutoCAD; 3DS MAx.
ADOBE
Photoshop; Illustrator; Indesign; Dreamweaver; Acrobat Pro; Premier Pro; Soundbooth.
MICROSOFT
Office
INDEX Cabanyal housing
6 - 15
Perm museum
16 - 21
Row family houses
22 - 27
BenicĂ ssim spa
28 - 31
CABANYAL HOUSING
2011. Final degree project. Housing and civic center hybrid in the Cabanyal neighborhood, Valencia.
We are talking, not just about housing design, but the new elderly and youth dwelling research. With 40 and 70 square meters respectively, they resolve the social problems we have to face nowadays. Hybridized in all its volume, and making itself as a whole, it is developed an elderly-aid and civic center.
The Cabanyal urban fabric, in the South section of the map, contrasts with the new buildings in the Malvarrosa neighborhood, in the North of the avenue. The seafront means a fundamental determining in the project development. Naranjos Avenue panoramic view taken from South facade.
The project raises the essential living aspects, since it is not just housing construction, but it creates life places for everyone. It is a new reference point in the neighborood.
Longitudinal East section. Interior elevation.
Ground floor
Volume or permeability, depending on the visitor position in the map.
First floor
Third floor
Constructive East cross section.
The blocks articulate between each others, making a continuous circulation possible.
80m2 youth lower floor duplex
80m2 youth upper floor duplex
70m2 elderly dwelling
Flexibility on the space and hazy sunlight.
PERM MUSEUM
2009. Design Studio II, Ghent (Belgium). Museum for the own artistic/cultural city heritage. Perm (Russia).
The project raises the design of a museum that faces the Kama river, in the city of Perm. Adapting a continuous canopy along the steep land, the existing contour lines create the flow where every use will be carried out, both exhibition and maintenance.
The project site it is placed in an important zone of the city, creating not only a facade to the Kama river, but a letter of introduction of itself, since the bridge that cross the river it is one of the main entrances to the town.
1st GrOUND PLAN
Perm city - new museum?
Russia people
Movie Nostalgia
Reflection x
The canopy envelops the natural flows, making the transversal permeability possible.
1st GrOUND PLAN
First floor
2nd GrOUND PLAN
Second floor
Movie Nostalgia Perm city - new museum?
Russia people
4-4´
3-3´
2-2´
1-1´
sECTIONs
Section 1-1’
Section 2-2’
Section 3-3’
flection x Nature in Perm city
River bank
Concept
Building program
flection x Nature in Perm city
River bank
Concept
Building program
flection x Nature in Perm city
River bank
Concept
Building program
flection x Nature in Perm city
River bank
Concept
Building program
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Section 4-4’
The volumes and the footpath intertwine between each others along the whole walk, creating diferent spaces while they meet.
ROW FAMILY HOUSES
2007. Project Design III. Computer graphics redone in 2012. Row family houses for a mediterranean climate.
It is about a group of houses thinked for moneyed families. The design tries to emphasize the changes in the perception of the interior as the day passes, that is the incorporation of the light as matter in the project.
Roof floor
The light transforms interior and exterior.
the
space,
both
First floor
Ground level
Underground level
East elevation
The flexibility of the space makes possible to organize itself by furniture position. West elevation
North elevation
East section The vertical circulation appears as an element added to the main volume. Its design provides drama to the route, relating itself with several rooms, and it converts the user into part of the project.
South section
North section
BENICÀSSIM SPA
2006. Project Design II. Water spa in Benicàssim town, Castellón .
A concrete worm, which interior houses several livings, making an experience in itself. A strange relaxing concept, escaping from the commercial standard imposed by gresite and excess of lighting. A trip through the cave, with its textures and shadows as well as the uncertainty feeling that it can produce. Radicalism and contrast is what we can extract from the final result.
South elevation
Schematic sketch about circulation. The user is submitted to a compression and decompression spacial sequence as he walks through the project. South section
Third floor
Second floor
First floor
Underground level
East elevation
West elevation
Night view of the interior of the spa.
West section
The volum emerge from several folds in the concrete. This gestures allow to open some gaps, in a natural way, for sunlight collection. The worm has a generous opening in its sea elevation, while West one, where a garden it is placed, it has not one as big as the other..
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