Luis Gil SรกnchezMejorada
portfolio 2017
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“A la diabla” Chair
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B507 Apartment Mexico’s pavilion in Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Unfoldings and Assembleges
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Room of the Present
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Güicho’s House
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T81Roof Terrace
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Luis Gil Sánchez Mejorada Mexico City gilsm.luis@gmail.com 2009
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· Start of bachelers degree at Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA)
· Academic exchange in Escola
workshop & tecnology workshop IV
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workshop III workshop & city: OtroVertical
academic
workshop II
workshop & environment
expression II expression III disenho III basic computer-aided design
expression IV
work/projects
foro entre/ 2010 Cartagena international summer workshop
BA student union 2010 foro entre/ 2011
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BA student union 2011 · BA student union president, UIA
model fo liga 01 & 02
pedro y el lobo album collaboration
ticuatira em constu
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Cidade, São Paulo, Brasil a da Cidad
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· BA formation from Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) · teaching assistant. urban proyects workshop with Pablo Aboumrrad, UIA
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· AFCA at UIA RotP
city for sale (degree project) http://birdhaus.mx/luisgil
silla a la diabla
unfolding & assamblages
· Mexican Pavillion at the Venice Bienale 2016
comunity service: 10 social dwelling T81 terrace
Av. Higienópolis, 578 Av CT kitchen
for Marína Portolano’s TFG or Mar
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Güicho’s house
J30 kitchen
· arquitectura 911sc internship
DMOS office
B507 apartment
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“silla latina” competition Status: Manufactured “silla latina” competition teacher: arch. Rodrigo Langarica teacher:
Project description: arch. Rodrigo Langarica “Silla a la diabla” is a chair inspired by all the hand trucks—diablito in mexican slang— used in markets for proyect description: hard lifting work. “Silla a la diabla” was design for Since its use is so popular, I the proyect description: sixth furniture designwas manifesto decided implement a seat— “Silla a to la diabla” design for the competition UP (Palermo sixth design manifesto cut in furniture a CNC mill—so it University, could Buenos Aires Argentina): Chair"; competition - UP work as a chair or (Palermo as, a"Latin handUniversity, as part of the class Network "Latin Chair"; Buenos Argentina): truck, to Aires lift up, load, or seat Architecture, which as part ofrest. the classconsiders Networkdigital down to design processes which to convert the variation Architecture, considers digital Design as part—i.e. of the class and adaptation the parametric design processes to convert the variation Network evolutionary Architecture for the…— generative, and adaptation —i.e. design the parametric 6º furniture design manifesto to into digital manufacturing generative, evolutionaryprocesses design …— competition - UP (Palermo materialise. into digital manufacturing processes to University, Buenos The name comes fromAires the latin slang for materialise. Argentina). hand Allthe around Thetruck: name“diablito”. comes from latin slang for Latinamerica the world), it is hand truck:(and “diablito”. All around commonly used in markets for lifting Latinamerica (and the world), it is merchandise. commonly used in markets for lifting Since its use is so popular, I decided to merchandise. implement seat in a CNC mill— Since its ause is —cut so popular, I decided to so it could work as a chair or as a hand implement a seat —cut in a CNC mill— truck, lift up, load, seat down so ittocould work as or a chair or as atohand rest. truck, to lift up, load, or seat down to This way the chair works perfect for all rest. marketplaces andchair hardworks liftingperfect work. for all This way the marketplaces and hard lifting work.
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B507 Apartment Status: Built Project description: Restauration of an apartment located in Centro Urbano ‘Tacubaya’, a modern housing estate builting from 1957, by mexican architects Juan Cuevas and Fernando Hernámdez.
Detail of the rear facade, Centro Urbano ‘Tacubaya’ (ISSSTE Housing Unit Tacubaya), Tacubaya, Mexico City 1957
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Mexico’s pavilion in Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 urator: Pablo Landa
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his exhibition features architectures Following a competition that embled from fragments, received 286 modules, entries from 26 ations, stories, tactics, technologies, and of the 32 states of Mexico, 31 nstruction strategies. proposals have selected e emphasize experiences thatbeen can be to be presented at the Mexican nslated, adapted, and multiplied rather an complete works, products, or closed Pavilion at the 2016 Venice tems. WeBiennale. intend to build on existing Narrating the “deep dies of knowledge and, by putting the history of social participation eces together, start answering questions Mexico, ” the exhibit, the socialinrole of architects and chitecture.“Unfoldings and Assemblages,” ur points of departure design, will featureare “architectures f-buildingassembled and participation By frommanuals. fragments, rrating their deep history in Mexico we modules, relations, stories, hink the past and present of our and chitecture.tactics, Manualstechnologies distill architectural construction ” The owledge and help displacestrategies. the cipline’s focus from isolated works with exhibit will focus on work and ique authors to processesthat whereby skills experiences can change, d knowledge are transmitted and propagate and adapt, rather plied. They are also instruments that, by than closed systems owing communities to shape their or final products. vironment, link design and construction ategies to The community organization pavilion is built around hemes. a principal axis of historic e present works and experiences manuals. The manuals, and the nnected to the manuals’ themes and connected them, shifts jectives, aswork well as comparabletostrategies the focus from architecture’s the production and dissemination of owledge. We have selected exhibition common perception of aterials to unique show how the contributions of authors and standchitects might have an impact beyond a alone works. These manuals ilding’s walls, connect to other strategies, the knowledge for d enable aprovide community’s self-determination, allowing f-determination. Architecture is always mersed incommunities social processesto and build their erdisciplinary frameworks. The own environments and asking ofession’s potential is only realized what modern instruments or rough collaboration.
technologies can further bring the public into architecture.
Success stories are good. Systems for the multiplication of success stories are better
Self-building manuals disseminate knowledge for self-determination
Architecture does not solve social problems People working together solve social problems
Blueprints are the secret language of technicians. Which instruments and technologies might bring broader publics together?
Successful works of architecture do not depend upon the continuing presence of architects
Two large walls hold each module, acting as storage spaces for all transit and packing materials, both for the pavilion and furniture, and all the exhibit boxes. The storage space is accessed through the outside walls by means of removable panels, leaving the inside walls free to display prints, photographs or other artwork.
Unfoldings: Transformations that connect buildings to other times and places Assemblages: Open-ended sums of materials, affects, actors, intentions and effects
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The exhibition pavilion itself is built using the same principles of assemblage and dissemination. Using a repeating system of large structural modules and a textured honeycomb structure - all of which are made stable with rigidly flexed plywood panels – the pavilion exhibits notions of adaptability and resilience.
Room of the Present Given the conditions of the present, how can and how should we live? Project description: The Room of the Present will be a flexible, economic, easy-to-build, single-family dwelling. Its design integrates resource, energy and waste management systems in which locally appropriate low-tech devices can be “plugged in.� Work will involve collecting and adapting existing sustainable technologies, and promoting their popularization and massification. The project will build on the research conducted for the Mexican pavilion in the 2016 Venice Biennale and on one of the projects it featured: the Cultural Pavilion for Migrants, a dismountable structure for workshops along migrant routes. Colaboration with: Pablo Landa Rodolfo Samperio
Our work emerges from the Adaptation the Cultural Pavilion and exploration of the virtues of configurations with different shapes and sizes. The structure is designed for easy assembly and sturdiness.
The Cultural Pavilion for Migrants, built in Tijuana in 2015.
Exploration of possible formal variations to the initial structure.
The Cultural Pavilion for Migrants is now used as a shelter by stranded Haitian migrants in Tijuana.
Posible assemble of basic units into larger dwellings and groups.
Designing a house where locally appropriate technologies can be inserted and connected to other devices involves (1) collecting relevant manuals and documenting building practices and resource management strategies and, (2) adapting them to different contexts, including high-end housing.
The ROTP will integrate sustainable water and energy management technologies into systems.
Integrating different technologies and materials, depending on its context and its occupants’ needs.
Güicho’s house Güicho’s House
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description: Project Named description: after one of Mexico’s The project isliders, located a small independence Sanin Miguel de Allende is a small town characterized alley in the town of San Miguel by its colonial houses and the recent Allende. occupation of the terraces. The design takes under It wasn’t always as bright, the town consideraiton theafter typology was long forgoten the depleted ofsand themines townforce colonial houses, the industry to move somewhere else. But in the last organizing the living space decades new recidents have manage arround a central patio. to revert this situation by recovering Design as a retirement house the old houses and turnig their roof for Güicho, an audio engeenir tops into amaizing terraces overviwng and a pizza lover, the house has town. The project is located in spaces, a small alley, wide and illuminated a just around Ancho Antonio, huge kitchen, anddea San small studio the main entrance to the inone theofthird floor, just across historic center. the garden, enjoy the Therooftop design takes undertoconsideraiton amaizing views while having a the typology of the colonial houses, organizing great pizza.the living space arround a central patio. Design as a retirement house for Güicho, an audio engeenir and a pizza lover, the house has wide and illuminated spaces, a huge kitchen, and a small studio in the third floor, just across the rooftop garden, to enjoy the amaizing views while having a great pizza.
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T81 Roof Terrace Status: Ongoing project Location: Mexico City Project description: The terrace was design for an office rooftop. The assemblages for the structure are based on the japanese wood tradition, with an adaptation to the mexican craftsmen technics, witch are not as impecable, and don’t have that much complexity. The demountable structure is unfold alongside a modular construction processes. To simplify the joints, wedges are places to interlock the framework in both sides, and this way, avoid using screws and fasteners, and a heavy construction proces. As a result you end up with a modular structure that is easy to assamble, and provides a simple shelter to use the rooftop.
Asembly drawing
Constructive Criteria
Structure Detail
Structure assamblages