Photography: Daniele Macis (National Geographic). Ruins in la Colba, La Sardegna, Italy. 2018.
INCA HERNANDEZ Inca Hernandez, is an Architect graduated from the Universidad
Nacional
Experimental
del
Tรกchira
(UNET) in Venezuela. He has worked independently in different real estate, housing and cultural development projects in his native country. In 2015 he moved to Mexico, to work with BAAQ', an emerging architecture firm, where he had the opportunity to work with worldrenowned Architects such as Tadao Ando (Pritzker, 1995) and Alvaro Siza (Pritzker, 1992) in different projects in Oaxaca for Casa Wabi's foundation. Inca Hernรกndez has also worked in new real estate developments and restoration projects in Mexico City. He has currently started with his own firm developing research, art direction and architecture projects in Mexico, Venezuela, Italy and Colombia.
Web: http://incahernandez.com/ Inca Hernandez
incarquitectura
PROFILE C O N TAC T
COURSES
Tel.: MEX +521-5578103630.
• 2011, "Art and Painting Course", Escuela de
Mail: info@incahernandez.com
Artes Plasticas Valentin Hernandez Useche,
Address: Av. Nuevo Leon 211, Col. Condesa,
Tachira/Venezuela.
Mexico City, Mexico.
• 2013, "Applied Pottery", Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City/Mexico.
E D U CAT I O N
• 2014, "Advanced 3D Visualization Course", Universidad
Nacional
Experimental
del
Tachira (Venezuela) Located in Venezuela and graduated in 2015.
• 2015 - 2017, Architect and Designer, BAAQ' and Casa Wabi's foundation, Mexico City and • 2017 - Currently, Main Architect and Art
2015,
Registration
Hernandez
2019,
Construction,
Arquitectura,
Visiting
professor
Universidad
in
Nacional
City/Mexico.
"Historic
Cultural
Workshop",
Heritage
Instituto
del
against
Earthquakes",
Publico
Prim
&
ReUrbano, Mexico City/Mexico.
• 2017, "Honorable Mention and Publication Mention for Thesis Work and Research", Universidad
Nacional
Experimental
del
Tachira (UNET), Tachira/Venezuela.
EVENTS 2018,
del
AWAR D S
Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
•
Experimental
Patrimonio Cultural, Tachira/Venezuela.
Mexico City/Mexico. -
Nacional
• 2017, "Shoring and Structural Support
Puerto Escondido/Mexico.
2018
del
Táchira (UNET), Tachira/Venezuela. •
Saforti, Barinas/Venezuela.
•
Experimental
Táchira (UNET), Tachira/Venezuela.
Universidad
• 2013 - 2015, Architecture Draftsman,
Inca
Nacional
• 2015, "Sustainable Clay Construction",
EXPERIENCE
Director,
Universidad
"ÍNDIGO",
Organizer,
• 2018, Winners among BAAQ' design team, MM34
The Architecture MasterPrize: Restoration
Exhibition, Mexico City/Mexico.
and Renovation Category, Bilbao/Spain.
Link:
• 2019, 1st Place, III Latin American Call for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvVOpC
a Degree in Education, Innovation and
beuo
Technology
by
Guayaquil/Ecuador.
Trama
Magazine,
PU B LI CAT I O N S Press Appearances • 2018, "En Restauración", Cream Magazine, pages 58-63, October, Guadalajara/Mexico. Link: https://duquejuan.com/cream-magazine • 2019, "III Convocatoria Proyectos de Titulacion en Educacion, Innovacion y Tecnologia", Trama
Magazine, pages 88-89, October, Quito/Ecuador. Link: http://libroecuador.com/detalles_productos.php?i dlibros=162 • 2019, “Centro Cultural y Memorial de Puerto Escondido”,
ARQA,
December,
Montevideo/Uruguay. Link:
https://arqa.com/arquitectura/mm34-mar-
mediterraneo-34.html • 2020, "El Resurgimiento de un Barrio Mágico", Glocal Magazine, May, Mexico City/Mexico. Link:
https://glocal.mx/el-resurgimiento-de-un-
barrio-magico/ • 2020, "Second life to the ruins", Espaço de Arquitetura, June, Oporto/Portugal.
Link: https://espacodearquitetura.com/projetos/marmediterraneo-34/ •
2020,
"Mar
Mediterraneo
34",
World
Architecture Community, June. Link:
https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-
projects/hfgfc/mar-mediterraneo-34-projectpages.html
PORTFO LIO
“Tradition is a challenge to innovation.” - Alvaro Siza -
CULTURAL AND MEMORIAL CENTER MEXICO
The structure is designed elevated from the ground simulating a mangrove swamp, allowing adaptability with the ocean swell phenomenon. The facade of the building with wooden lattices, allows passing of the sea breeze. This connection with the surroundings is also transmitted on the roof which simulates the waves of the ocean and functions as a Skatepark.
Circular courtyard flooded by Swell, Inca Hernรกnedz, 2017.
Puerto Escondido is known worldwide Aerial view of the project. Inca Hernรกnedz, 2017.
because of its surf-friendly waves. The project arises from the need to create a space
dedicated to the cultural promotion of the area. It proposes the creation of large-scale educational and cultural spaces to promote the regional heritage. The building is planned as an educational and sociocultural space within a linear park, constituting a Master
Open public library. Inca Hernรกnedz, 2017.
Plan on the coast. The volume integrates with the regional vegetation through internal gardens that work also as galleries, at the same time a platform is created where cultural and educational activities converge with a view to the ocean. Public Galleries. Inca Hernรกnedz, 2017.
Location: Tacuba, Mexico City Use: Housing Architect: Inca Hernandez. Development: Top Project Multiplex / Efrain
Hernandez. Photography:
Joao
Morgado
-
Architecture
Photography. Area: 620 m2. Interior
design:
Ana
Ximena
Garcia,
Inca
Hernandez, Raiz Mx, Adrian Gonzalez (Mercado de Chacharitas). Collaborators: Gabriela Llovera Arciniegas, Luis Enrique Vargas. .
Mediterrรกneo #34, November, 1978. Secretaria de Cultura -INAH-Fototeca Constantino ReyesValerio - MEX- Colecciรณn Cajas Rojas
MAR MEDITERRร NEO 34 M E34 XICO
Structural engineering: Javier Soria.
Mexico City is a historical setting with an
Year: 2020
enormous cultural and architectural heritage
More:
protected in its magical neighborhoods.
https://www.joaomorgado.com/pt/reportagens/mar-
Tacuba is one of them, located northwest to
mediterraneo-34
the
downtown,
this
neighborhood
has
undergone social and urban transformations that have lasted to this day and where vestiges forged at different times can be found. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Tacuba became one of the wealthiest areas of the city with large country houses, which over time and
different
abandoned
and
political many
changes were
were
collapsed.
However, among these vestiges the house of Mar Mediterraneo 34 remained.
Aerial view: Neighborhood of Tacuba , 1946, FAO_01_004094, Fondo Oblicuas, Acervo Histรณrico Fundaciรณn ICA, A.C. .
Joao Morgado - Architecture Photography, 2020.
Joao Morgado - Architecture Photography, 2020.
Built in 1910 through an eclectic French style belonging to the Porfiriato era, it
currently holds historical value by the National Institute of Fine Arts and the National Institute of Anthropology and History. The project started with the idea of ​giving a new life to a house designed in two volumes, where the first incorporates the main facade while the second has a view to the main patio, although both were in advanced deterioration and the second volume was in ruins.
Joao Morgado - Architecture Photography, 2020.
Based on these characteristics, the restoration and intervention of the original elements of the era are implemented, where the spaces are regenerated with a new materiality, and the multiple artistic and artisanal elements are recovered from the main facade such as the carved quarry from the balconies and lintels, the iron railings, the large windows and the glass roof tiles, intending to rehabilitate the new urban image. The interior Joao Morgado - Architecture Photography, 2020.
is reconstructed as a reinterpretation of the past through a contemporary perspective, where a volume is raised framing the sky in
the existing main patio and portrays the arrangement of the old portals as a sequence of light and shadow, this is how these openings rise intermittently from the ground floor in double height and become a solid element of introspective architecture.
The project intends to fusion what prevails and what is reborn
through a linear
Joao Morgado - Architecture Photography, 2020.
connection between two eras, this connection is also reflected at the entrance by a volcanic stone baseboard which surrounds the entire ground floor and functions as the foundation to lift what has resurfaced. The restored house has 3 levels and 7 apartments that
adapt to different flexible spaces (Loft, studio, familiar apartment and penthouse).
Joao Morgado - Architecture Photography, 2020.
DOLOMITE LONGHOUSE PAVILION USA - CANADA
The Project is consolidated through an elliptical axis that is structured as a floating bridge supported on the borders of the United States and Canada along with the small existing islands in the Niagara River, in turn this bridge is transformed into a large “long house”, Resembling the constructive typology of the Iroquois; with the intention of creating a vaulted and perforated path
Floating Bridge between two countries. Inca Hernánedz, 2019.
through a lattice structure that opens different visuals to the natural context. The materiality is through the native rock of the site, called Lockport Dolomite.
The intermediate island of the Niagara River is intervened and connects with the bridge,
Cavern Gallery. Inca Hernánedz, 2019.
however these islands are spaces of migratory birds that travel each year to the south, which is why the spaces designed on the largest island function as sculpted underground spaces over the layers of natural rock, allowing
permeability
with
birds
and
vegetation on the surface. In this area a small auditorium, a coffee - bar, an anthropology
Space of Migratory birds. Inca Hernánedz, 2019.
and archeology gallery, administration area, storage, public toilets are distributed. These spaces and connections reflect a monolithic and stereotomic character as they are archetypal references to the tectonic and isostatic
origin
that
built
the
natural
landscape of the Niagara Falls. Monolithic Form. Inca Hernánedz, 2019.
THEOSPACE FRANCE
The Lake of Gaube, located in the French Pyrenees, transmits the vibration and the interchangeable through the reflection of its high reliefs on the water. It is transformed into an abrupt and ideal setting for Soto's kinetic work, full of constant transformations in its different weather stations full of life. The Mauré effect: It is a visual and geometric distortion effect caused by the interaction of two patterns,
located one in front of the other. A particular effect on nature, which the artist Soto observed
Theospace Cube. Inca Hernánedz, 2019.
and transformed in his work, what he called “vision of movement”. This visual effect is positioned on the facade of the house as a sculptural element within the natural setting of Lake Gaube; where from the aesthetics of the penetrables it is wrapped and perceived in the distance as a solid cube floating on the hillside, but that the closer we get, the cube as a geometric body that does not exist in nature loses its condition of solidity and it spreads in
Kinetic View. Inca Hernánedz, 2019.
the natural environment, in ways that appear and disappear to the sensible reality of the
Infinity:
universe and the eye.
In repetition is infinity. From the ascent of the lake to the slope, the house is accessed from below, where each of the levels represents a transition from the daily actions of the home with artistic activity. This is how each of the levels gives the perception of reaching heaven, an act before the divine presence of God.
Interior House. Inca Hernánedz, 2019.
ATEPEHUACAN PARK MEXICO
Coexistence space and pets. Inca Hernánedz, 2020.
Atepehuacan means "Where the water emanates". The park is located in one square in the north of Mexico City in the town of San Bartolo Atepehuacan. It’s currently in disrepair and has
few functions for residents and citizens who visit the area, that’s why this project is proposed, seeking the recovery of green areas to generate recreational activities, where each space is Amphitheater. Inca Hernánedz, 2020.
inspired by the “Fractal” universal form and cyclical spaces designed to personal growth and collective development are regenerated, like an amphitheater, playgrounds and urban orchards. The project emerges as a point of Urban Acupuncture
and
idiosyncrasy
where
sociopolitical improvements are conceived in the Urban Orchards. Inca Hernánedz, 2020.
zone through sustainable activities where the same visitors can plant and build their own public space.
C O L LA B O R AT I O N S
CASA WABI MEXICO
It was designed and built by the renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando (Pritzker, 1995), Project Manager / Architect Alex Iida, with the collaboration of the local BAAQ’ office. The project site is situated directly facing the South Pacific Ocean, sharing 550 meters of coastline with only the breathtaking beach. With such a generous length of site, I have created a single concrete wall of 312 meters long by 3.6 meters high. The wall creates horizontal separation Edmund Sumner, 2015.
between public programs on the north side and private programs on the south side. The wall also generates the main circulation path cutting across every program, serving as a dual interior and exterior wall.
Rich red and orange sunset is to be reflected on the concrete surface. The interior vertical space is formed by two essences.
Edmund Sumner, 2015.
Edmund Sumner, 2015.
Edmund Sumner, 2015.
CLAY PAVILION MEXICO
AREA: 140 m2 ARCHITECT: Alvaro Siza Viera. LOCAL ARCHITECT: BAAQ’ / J. Alfonso Quiñones. ARCHITECT
LEADER
IN
PORTO:
Clemente Meineres. BAAQ'
TEAM:
Inca
Hernández,
Itzae
Carrasco, Alfonso Sodi. CONSTRUCTION: Mario Conde. STRUCTURAL DESIGN: Alfonso Sodi. FACILITIES: Heriberto Carmona. CONSTRUCTION LEADER: José Ramírez.
PALAPAS: David Jiménez. CARPENTRY: Javier Gomez. PHOTOGRAPHY:
Joao
Morgado
Architecture Photography & Eduardo Amaro. Eduardo Amaro 2017.
Eduardo Amaro 2017.
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CLAY PAVILION MEXICO
Part of Casa Wabi's foundation mission, is to encourage, generate knowledge and new skills in the children in the region. Casa Wabi's staff identified that teaching the technique and the process for handling clay would be a very positive tool for the community, since this is a technique that has been taught for generations. Thanks to this initiative, Casa Wabi
invited Architect Alvaro Siza to design a pavilion for teaching the handling of this material. Joao Morgado - Architecture Photography, 2020.
The project is centered on a main "Palapa" (a building with a palm roof), where the modeling of the material is taught, and the pieces resulting from the workshops are exhibited, it also has a storage, a sanitary building, and an oven. The whole program is contained within a wall in the form of a half circle that protects and delimits the space. As a half circle it allows the place to preserve its nature as an open space. The construction was made with annealed red bricks, these bricks have special measures, to be
able to fulfill their structural work. A "palapa" covers the space and its shape resembles that of medieval structures made of wood in Europe. More Picture: Joao Morgado - Architecture Photography, 2020.
https://www.joaomorgado.com/pt/reportagens/pa vilhao-do-barro
LIRIO 7 MEXICO
Located in a quiet street in one of the most emblematic neighborhoods in Mexico City (Santa MarĂa la Ribera), this project is an
intervention
that
has
its
roots
on
the
understanding of population dynamics, urban settlements and especially the current situation of Mexico City.
Lirio 7 has an interesting background; as an Art Deco building, originally housed public baths during the 30s, then in the 50s became a sanatorium, and before its abandonment in which the property was found, it was the
LGM Studio, 2017.
headquarters
of
Considering
these
a
security conditions,
company. we
took
advantage from an abandoned building without any recognized heritage value by local authorities, to restore it and offer a specific
model of housing that recovers the historical value of Santa Maria la Ribera neighborhood. The design process is based on the concept of a central patio and its perimeter circulation, which was adapted into a new layout to create 12 apartments where the main corridor becomes part of the home.
LGM Studio, 2017.
LIRIO 7 MEXICO
LGM Studio, 2017.
LGM Studio, 2017.
Location: Mexico, 2017 Area: 1,100 m2. Architect and Direction: BAAQ’. LGM Studio, 2017.
Collaborators:
Inca
Hernandez,
Fermin
Espinosa. Construction: Factor Eficiencia. Project Manager: Ana Garcia. Landscape: Bibiana Davo. Photography: LGM Studio, Jaume Masdeval. Awards: 2018, Winners among BAAQ' design
team,
The
Restoration Bilbao/Spain.
Architecture and
Renovation
MasterPrize: Category,
LGM Studio, 2017.
ART DIRECTION
EDITORIALS
EDITORI
BOYS IN TOWN
Photographer: Rodrigo Ă lvarez / @rrodalva Direction: Daniel Victoria Gleason, Maria Burguete / @danvictoriagleason, @mariaburguete Styling: Daniel Victoria Gleason, Maria Burguete / @danvictoriagleason, @mariaburguete Producer: Inca Hernandez / @incarquitectura Model: Bang Model Management: Max, German, Cole, Sean / @bang_management, @maxdammit, @ger.cuevas, @sean.michael.stewart Assistants: Kevin Corona, Camila Ruiz-Olloqui / @cruizolloqui @kvvcorona Link: https://www.vacantarchive.com/diary/boys-in-town
En Restauración— for Cream Magazine’s 35th print issue, shot on location at ‘MM34’ in Tacuba, Mexico City. A restoration project by Architect Inca Hernandez of an eclectic french-style house originally from 1910.
Art Direction: Juan Duque / Photography: Rodrigo Alvarez / Styling: Daniel Santana / Grooming: Aracely Zarate / Assistant: German Cuervas @ BANG! Management Brands: GUCCI, LOUIS VUITTON, SÁNCHEZ-KANE.
Links: https://cream.mx/ https://duquejuan.com/cream-magazine
GOLD MEDALS – OLYMPIC GAMES 2021 Photographer: Rodrigo à lvarez / @rrodalva Producer: Daniel Victoria Gleason, Maria Burguete / @danvictoriagleason, @mariaburguete Styling: Daniel Victoria Gleason, Maria Burguete / @danvictoriagleason, @mariaburguete Art Director: Inca Hernandez / @incarquitectura Assistants: Kevin Corona / @kvvcorona Brands: Calvin Klein, Adidas Originals, DIESEL. Link: https://solarmag.es/caminoaloro/
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“History always appears to be a guideline, even if it is by opposition. Guideline for the transformation of the city and the transformation of man”. - Alvaro Siza -