HELLO THERE! I’M DAVID DIAZ BUSTAMANTE
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Curriculum Vitae
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A Retail Merchandising Kiosk
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A Micro-Living Unit
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A Cafe
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A Bar
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WORKS
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A Temporary Structure
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Student Housing
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Social Housing
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Urban Renewal
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Landscape As Public Space
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CONTENTS
An Urban House
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Urban Public Facility
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Urban Theory Research
CURRICULUM VITAE /00
CONTACT David Diaz Bustamante 01-12-1989 / Colombia +39 3317204610 daviddiazbb@gmail.com Via Tucidide 56, 20134 Milano, Italy
EXPERIENCE
RESUME 2015 -2016 (June / June) FREELANCE WORKS (Silent Architecture - www.silentarch.com) Freelance Architect 2015 (March / May) SPAZIO GRID Internship: Interior Designer 2012 / 2013 (June / August) MARCO RINCON ARQUITECTOS Architectural Designer 2012 (March / June) OFFICE OF THE GENERAL ATTORNEY OF COLOMBIA Internship: Office and Workspace Designer 2011 / 2012 (December / January) ARQUITECTO MIGUEL MOTOA Architectural Designer (Substitution) 2011 (July/ November) DUSSAN & VALDERRUTEN, ARQUITECTOS PROYECTISTAS Internship: Architectural Designer
PERSONAL STATEMENT ABILITIES Autocad Archicad Sketchup 3DS Max Revit V-Ray Photoshop
EDUCATION
Illustrator 2013 / 2015 POLITECNICO DI MILANO MSc in Architecture 2007 / 2012 UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN BUENAVENTURA Bachelor of Architecture 2011 UNIVERSIDAD ICESI Diploma on Strategic Marketing
accomplishments *2016 / Participation: Seminario Bogota ; Guest Lecturer, Architecture and Violence, Universita di Pescara, Italy. *2015 / Course: Workshop Terraviva ; Milano, Italy. *2015 / Project: Svobody4 Wine and Music Bar ; Construction Complete - Minsk, Belarus. *2014 / Exhibition: ’Ri-formare Milano’ Triennale di Milano, Project: H.A.M, Italy. *2014 / Grant: ‘Invest Your Talent in Italy’ Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry scholarship for postgraduate studies. *2014 / Publication: ’CGL: Prishtina’ Politecnico di Milano, Project: IN BETWEEN OTTOMAN SPACES, Italy. *2013 / Grant: ‘Colfuturo’ Colombian scholarship program for postgraduate studies in foreign universities. *2013 / Award: Competition ’Fill The City’ 3rd PLACE organized by DOMUS ACADEMY, Italy (individual). *2013 / Course: Rapid Development of Innovative Products in Emerging Markets at Coursera.org. *2013 / Publication: ’Alternativas para Cali a la Autopista Bicentenario’, Project: EJE DE INTEGRACION URB. *2013 / Award: Competition ’Concurso diseño dotacional público servicios sociales Usme 3rd Place, Colombia (group).
In-Design
Energy, matter and time can all change any environment. Architecture, as their embodiment, alters everything around it, either the context, or the lives of the people living in it. I believe architecture should have minimal impact on the context and a maximum impact on the lives of peoples, as opposed to loud, signature, iconic architecture. My aim is to create places, by observing them in and around, learning about what already exists, and understanding if anything is missing, avoiding unnecessary consumption, destruction or attention.
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PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Maria Serova Silent Architecture maria@silentarch.com +7 916 508 4840 Marco Lazzari Spazio Grid ml@spaziogrid.com +39 335 618 9438 Marco Rincon Marco Rincon Arquitectos marcor@mrarquitectos.comc.o +57 315 568 1528
WORK SAMPLES /00
CHAIBERRY Type: Commissioned Work Status: Sanctioning
Typology: Retail Task: Visual Merchandising and Spatial Branding
An upcoming Belorussian loose tea and coffee vendor commissioned the design of a retail kiosk, of which several units are to be built and distributed around shopping centers of Minsk. The task also included defining the brand’s visual merchandising display, providing space not only for their products but for seasonal campaigns. To facilitate construction, local materials and techniques were chosen, a series of clear birch panels facet along a light steel structure, creating the fluid shape of a tea leaf.
Team: David Diaz, Maria Serova Year: 2016
Location: Minsk, Belarus Area: 10 m2
RETAIL MERCHANDISING KIOSK /01
CHAIBERRY
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A . Kiosk Plan B . Main View C . Cashier Desk D . Main Product Display E . Interior View F . Technical Drawing for Construction of Front Module G . Technical Drawing for Construction of Back Module
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SOKOLNIKI Type: Commissioned Work Status: Sanctioning
Commissioned by a single woman, her request was to re-design the interior of a soviet era studio apartment she had partially abandoned for several decades, located in the Sokolniki area of Moscow, and to style it to her tastes and needs into a comfortable and very feminine living unit. During the first site survey, several pieces of original soviet era furniture were found and their restoration included in the plan.
Typology: Residential Task: Interior Design
Team: David Diaz, Maria Serova Year: 2015
Location: Moscow, Russia Area: 46 m2
A MICRO-LIVING UNIT /02
SOKOLNIKI
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A . View From Entrance B . Apartment Wardrobe C . View of Entrance D . Bathroom E . Social Area F . Kitchen G . Bedroom With Sofa-Bed
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FRIENDS Type: Commissioned Work Status: Cancelled
Typology: Hospitality Task: Interior Design / Spatial Branding
Friend’s Cupcake Café was to be the place of choice for the young generations of Minsk to profess their love for pastry and live cuisine, featuring an open kitchen and a cake decoration area organized as an ‘scenario’, the interior itself was styled to provide a cozy and casual atmosphere, organizing the tables in 3 seating areas with different degrees of openness: a summer terrace, an open saloon facing the park and an interior room facing the street.
Team: David Diaz, Maria Serova Year: 2015
Location: Minsk, Belarus Area: 152 m2
A CAFE /03
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A . Interior Sketch B . Floor Plan C . Summer Terrace D . Main Entrance E . Fresh Product Display F . Seating Area G . Long Table Area
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SVOBODY4 Type: Commissioned Work Status: Built
Typology: Hospitality Task: Interior Design / Spatial Branding
The idea behind SVOBODY 4 was that of creating a place where nobody would feel out of place, to achieve it, a relaxed atmosphere was created using an array of ‘raw’ materials (micro-cement, exposed plaster, poured concrete, mild steel) along ‘warmer’ elements like wood (floors/seats/tables) and brightly colored upholstery that set a juvenile tone to the space. The task ranged from the general concept, the design of custom elements, the selection of elements and the support during all phases including construction.
Team: David Diaz, Maria Serova Year: 2015
Location: Minsk, Belarus Area: 168 m2
A BAR /04
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A . Floor Plan B . Sections C . The Bar D . Table Area E . Sofa Area F . Wine Rack - Technical Drawing G . Wine Rack - Close-up
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VILLA SAN ANTONIO Type: Commissioned Work Status: Design Project
Typology: Residential Task: Architecture and Interior Design
A very long plot in one of the oldest colonial neighborhood in the city of Cali, sits currently empty, recently bought by a family, they chose it to build a Villa in the middle of the city, the position is ideal, since the shape of the plot can accommodate the traditional typology of patio house which is well appreciated in the area, the house is composed of pavilions closed by white plastered walls (local technique) and topped off in traditional terracotta roof tiles that behave very well in the year long summer weather of the city.
Team: David Diaz, Maria Serova Year: 2016
Location: Santiago de Cali, Colombia Area: 694 m2
AN URBAN HOUSE /05
VILLA SAN ANTONIO
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A . Longitudinal Section B . Ground Floor Plan C . Upper Floor Plan D . Aerial View E . Kitchen Area F . Social Area G . Waterfall Room
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CINEMA LA PIROGUE Type: Professional Competition Status: Participation
The competition brief was simple, create a structure to serve as a temporary cinema, which could be easily disassembled and reassembled allowing to change locations around Dakar. The proposal drew inspiration from one of the most common elements of the local urban-scape, the ‘pirogue’, the long boat used by fishermen all around the city. A simple structural frame built with local wood working techniques, was internally shaped by the convexity of the shape’s boat, it is in this space that the theatre area was to be placed.
Typology: Cinema Task: Architectural Design
Team: David Diaz, Jorge Herrera Year: 2015
Location: Dakar, Senegal Area: 137 m2
A TEMPORARY STRUCTURE /06
CINEMA LA PIROGUE
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A . Screening Area B . View of Seating C . View of Built Cinema D . Plans and Program Diagrams E . Section and Elevations F . Morphological Concept Diagram
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GREENHAUS Type: Academic Status: Academic Project
This project was produced during a workshop focused on sustainable design techniques, the idea was to create a simple housing project in Milan, to apply the techniques learned during the courses. The concept chosen for this design was the greenhouse, using its principles as a climatic design strategy. After trying several combination of materials to reach satisfactory insulation levels and no thermal bridges in exterior and interior partitions, the resulting lower energy consumed in heating/cooling combined with the greenhouse climatic strategy and sources of energy production (PV panels) were combined to create a zero energy pavilion.
Typology: Residential Task: Architectural Design
Team: David Diaz, Jorge Herrera, Mengyao Han Year: 2015
Location: Milan, Italy Area: 1245 m2
STUDENT HOUSING /07
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A . View of Housing in Winter B . View of Housing in Summer C . Ground Floor Plan D . Construction Detail for Slab Insulation E . Detailed Transversal Section F . Interior View of Common Areas G . Heating, Hot Water and Solar PV Calculations
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MESH MEDELLIN Type: Professional Competition Status: Participation
A competition held to provide ideas for the revitalization of a whole block in the very center of the city of Medellin. The former place of the city’s first hospital, the demolition of most of the complex left it in state of decay, currently being occupied by a parking plot and the old hospital church, to fill the gap, a social housing project was proposed. The concept was simple, re-create the perimeter of the block using housing blocks, but making the interior permeable and accessible, using a grid structure similar to the urban structure of the city center to fit several living units and public courtyards inside.
Typology: Residential Task: Architectural Design
Team: David Diaz, Jorge Herrera, Ignacio Uribe Year: 2014
Location: Medellin, Colombia Area: 6950 m2
SOCIAL HOUSING /08
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A . Distribution of housing unit types in all levels of the project B . View of one of the entrances to the project through the corner C . Plot intervention strategy D . Axonometric view of the proposal
Existing perimetral block with central open space with no public access
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Breaking down the open space and opening the perimeter to provide access to interior
Creation of internal circulation grid to accomodate housing units and courtyards
Housing units organized inside the grid and around existing pieces of the city (old church)
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A . Housing type A: New families / Autoconstruction B . Housing type B: Students / Young workers C . Housing type C: Families in consolidation D . View of internal galleries and patio houses E . E-W section showing relation with existing church F . N-S section showing scale of courtyards in relation to housing units
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EL OBRERO Type: Academic Competition Status: 3rd Place
Typology: Mixed Use Task: Urban Design / Architectural Design
El Obrero was the first true working class neighborhood of the city of Cali, during the 1950’s, several army trucks carrying a cargo of TNT exploded, leaving a big part of the neighborhood in ruins, to this day, many places haven’t been revitalized, including a crucial urban block right next to the neighborhood’s main square, the proposal seeks to expand the educational infrastructure of the quarter which hasn’t been updated in 40 years, without moving out the current residents of the area, for this purpose, a part of the master plan was dedicated to create social housing units that would not only house the existing residents, but bring in more people to an underpopulated city area.
Team: David Diaz Year: 2013
Location: Santiago de Cali, Colombia Area: 6352 m2
URBAN RENEWAL /09
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A . Pedestrian divide between school and social housing B . Detail of the prefabricated social housing C . View towards social housing area D . Longitudinal section through the school building E . Transversal Section Through Auditorium F . Ground Floor Plan
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MILANO ALTERNATIVA Type: Academic Status: Academic Project
Typology: Public Building / Public Space Task: Urban Design / Landscape Design
The ‘Baden Powell’ park in Milan features an unattended vast green space which for years has waited for an intervention to transform it into a real public space, included in the area are also 2 former residential structures from the 1700’s, the proposal references the very diverse and organized crop fields of the areas of the Milanese hinterland, forming stripes that house several different functions, the activities provide a theme for the park: ‘active public space’. The proposal for the old structures also incorporates the theme, providing a house for several Milanese sport’s institutions, a connection to the channels designed by Leonardo da Vinci which lay just in front of the park, and a Hotel that would provide revenue to the project.
Team: David Diaz, Marianna Katenko, Anna Chistopovalova Year: 2014
Location: Milan, Italy Area: 6352 m2
LANDSCAPE AS PUBLIC SPACE /10
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A . Each stripe houses a unique part of the program B . The stripes ressemble crop fields common in suburban MIlan C . Masterplan and functional division of the landscape D . Bird’s Eye View over Channel Front E . Close-up View of Recycled Structures F . Pedestrian View from Park
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A . View of the connection with the channels B . The new bay also serves as an urban beach C . A system of bike ramps connect the buildings D . Public sports facilities and hotel plans
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CENTRO USME Type: Professional Competition Status: 3rd Place
Typology: Public Building / Public Space Task: Urban Design / Architectural Design
Usme is the fastest growing area incorporated to the ever-growing city of Bogota, to compliment the vast influx of people into the area, new facilities for public services were to created, this national competition was held seeking for the design of the main cultural/educational and sports facility of the area, with a very complex program, it should also house a big part of the zone’s public spaces. Using the terrain, a level 0 was created where most of the public space was to be fit, and through public space, by using ramps conceived as iconic elements and courtyards, the other levels of the project were to be connected, being all under the level 0, the roof plan of the project is in reality it’s main façade.
Team: David Diaz, Miguel Motoa, Enrique Ramirez Year: 2013
Location: Bogota, Colombia Area: 18452 m2
URBAN PUBLIC FACILITY /11
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BOGOTA: VIOLENCE AS URBAN GENERATOR Type: Academic Research Status: Published
Typology: Landscape/Public Space Revitalization Task: Urban Research / Urban Design
The whole research including this project is contained within the book Bogota: Violence as Urban Generator. There is no obvious relationship between architecture and violence, but motivated by the obvious violence of Latin American cities a research was set in motion to investigate how has violence ‘developed’ our cities, to prove this thesis, a research around a case study was done: Bogota, a city that has gone through 57 years of Colombian civil war. If architecture serves as a tool to exercise violence in the urban scale, how can it be used as a tool exercise reconciliation? An area chosen for its particular importance in the city (location and history of conflict) was investigated more in-depth: El Cartucho neighborhood was called the ‘National Shame’, located 200 meters away from the presidential palace, the biggest police station in the country and several ministerial buildings, where police and army would not even dare to enter, it constituted a power void which was suddenly erased from the map in a radical intervention during the year 2000, leaving in its place an urban void in the form of a park that still constitutes a wound rather than a scar for the city, and which still lives in the memory of every generation of ‘urban dwellers’ as a place of danger, the final outcome of the research sought for ways in which to use this space to reconcile the urban and social tissues of the city, lost in the middle of reckless urban renovation and poorly socially-backed process.
Team: David Diaz, Jorge Herrera Year: 2016
Location: Bogota, Colombia Area: 16245 m2
URBAN THEORY RESEARCH /12
BOGOTA: VIOLENCE AS URBAN GENERATOR
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A . Map from chapter ‘Erasing Urban Battlegrounds’ showing the effects of the demolition of ‘El Cartucho’ B . General view of the proposed project for a reconciliation ground in the old site of ‘El Cartucho’ C . View of the public space D . View of the open market structure E . Bird’s-eye view of the proposed urban farms and gardens F . Longitudinal section showing the scale of the park and the new market structure
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A . ‘Tercer Milenio’ Park in its current state B . ‘Reconciliation Grounds’ Park proposal C . Existing services (admin/forensic medicine/tech. school) D . Proposed additional services (market/restaurants/observation tower/educational center/peace delegation office) E . Proposed modulation for crop field system as landscape organizer F . General view of the proposed farm and garden areas G . Public urban farms (administered by the city) H . Private urban farms (administered by proposed private restaurants) I . Community farms (administered by local leaders of the area) J . Community gardens (mantained by the city)
LET’S KEEP IN TOUCH! David Diaz Bustamante +39 3317204610 daviddiazbb@gmail.com Via Tucidide 56, 20134 Milano, Italy
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