Isa Barbosa Digital Portfolio 2014

Arq. I s a B a r b o s a Ag u i l a r Por tfoli o

WE, the architects, must do things that matter to people, cities, and society.

DETAILS, portion of a work that express the soul of every project Arq. Isabel Barbosa

Isabel Kristina Barbosa Aguilar ikba1705@gmail.com / 001 954 2535597

Education SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO IL, USA / MASTER IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE, 2014 UNIVERSIDAD EXPERIMENTAL SIMÓN BOLIVAR - CARACAS, VENEZUELA / BACHELOR ARCHITECTURE,, 2009

Professional Experience SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL MAY 2013 - AUGUST 2013 Chicago, IL - USA

AÑIL ARQUITECTOS C.A. MAY 2010 - SEPT 2011 Caracas, Venezuela

OAMCD ARQUITECTURA OCT 2009 - MAY 2010 Caracas, Venezuela

SELF-EMPLOYMENT 2006 - PRESENT

Summer Intern = COOP 2013 Part of a team work developing a variety of projects at different scales, residential projects in a mix uses skyscraper, international architectural competition, corporate projects and more detail orientated projects.

Design Architect, 2010 - 2011.

Acted as primary point of contact for clients on a variety of projects such as residential, interior design, commercial and office design, resort projects in Dominican Republic and throughout Venezuela, designed in a team work. Conducted client meetings; prepared presentation drawings, construction documents, and specifications with special emphasis in interior design details, furniture design and site inspection.

Design Architect, 2009-2010.

Developed a variety of projects such as residential (Beach House), urban planning, Metropolitan plan for potential use of water resources from Avila National Park, national architectural contest and international architectural contest.

Freelance architectural projects.

Supervision of construction contractor Furniture Design (Tables, Desktops).

3D Rendering Images.

Community Service Project.

Skills OPERATING SYSTEMS Mac OSX and Windows SOFTWARE Microsoft Office AutoCad 2D, 3D Architecture Autodesk Revit Architecture Autodesk 3D Studio Max 2011 SketchUp Pro 8 Adobe Photoshop CS5 Adobe Illustrator CS5 Adobe InDesign CS5 Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Adobe Flash Professional CS5 LANGUAGE SKILLS SPANISH - Native Speaker ENGLISH - High Level, Verbal and written communication skills.

FRENCH - Basic Level.

Verbal communication skills.

Resume 2004 - Present Venezuelan Licensed Architect National Architectural Award Venezuela, 2010

Academic Projects 2004 - 2009 / 2012 - 2014

Professional Projects 200 9 - Present

Detail Design 2009 - Present

CO-OP Internship May 2013 - December 2013

The 2030 House = Supersurfaces as an alternative model of living SAIC - Interior Architecture Thesis MArchIA - 2014 The Music Box = Cultural Foundation for Diaspora Music SAIC - Studio V 2013 Re-imagining the Merchandise Mart SAIC - Studio IV 2013 Pilsen = Structure, Agency, Gesture SAIC - Studio III 2012 International Venezuelan Airport USB - Architectural Thesis 2009 Archaeological Museum USB - Design Studio IX - 2008 Design Competition Centro de Accion Social por la Musica, 2009 - OAMCD Avila Green Potential Use of water resources and its potential, 2009 - OAMCD School Stage - AW Arq. Isabel Barbosa / Arq. Lucy Querales - 2012 Gedisa’s Office Interior Architecture - Interior Design 2011 - Anil Arquitectos PH2 Apartment Interior Architecture - Interior Design 2010 - Anil Arquitectos PH2 Apartment Kitchen Interior Architecture - Interior Design 2011 - Anil Arquitectos Carpentry Works Interior Design 2011 - Anil Arquitectos Iron Door Design Interior Design 2011 - Anil Arquitectos Wood Door Design Interior Design 2011 - Anil Arquitectos Test fits Presentation Drawings Technical Drawings Schematic Design Concept Confirmation Design Competition

Index 2004 - Present

Academic Projects 2004 - 2009 / 2012 - Present

Pilsen = Structure, Agency, Gesture SAIC - Studio III 2012 Re-imagining the Merchandise Mart SAIC - Studio IV 2013 The Music Box = Cultural Foundation for Diaspora Music SAIC - Studio V 2013 International Airport USB - Architectural Thesis 2009 Archaeological Museum USB - Design Studio IX - 2008

The 2030 house Supersurfaces as an alternative model of living SAIC MArchIA - Interior Architecture Thesis - 2014 Recent architecture addressing housing design fails to consider today’s human lifestyle and the future of it. The 2030 house pops the bubble life by integrating the architecture with digital design, creating a new way of interaction between each other, a new lifestyle with endless possibilities for space and conditions.

As the link between virtual design and physical architecture becomes stronger, this relationship creates new virtual and physical dimensions. When new technological dimensions are created, how can they be used for innovation and problem solving?

It is possible to REIMAGING the interior space divisions and the components of design such as “walls and floors” among others and its functions.

Concept

Expanding the bubble, so it disappears

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house The lifestyl e o f the n e a r f u t u r e

PROJECT IDEA: A single-family house that allows people to create a new form of social life bursting their virtual bubble combining virtual design and physical architecture, redefining the envelopes in which humans live. The relationship between the space and its function will be given by the inhabitant. The architecture of the house will be modifiable. Its appearance will change totally or partially in accordance with the will of their inhabitants.

RELEVANCE: Contemporary domestic life happens in a ‘bubble’ largely defined by digital technology. These ‘bubbles’ can be transformed by redesigning the human behavior through architecture.

Bubbles

Individual virtual inner-world, Isolated Culture ‘Bubble’ as the Individual virtual inner-world, the envelopes that we are surrounded with.

Bursting the bubble means the realization that there is no outside and inside, the recognition that there is distinction in unity and there is unity in distinction but at the end we are part of a bigger membrane, a bigger bubble so big that we don’t notice it anymore and it disappears.

Relationship with technology Bringing the computer into the real world

SUPERSURFACES AS AN ALT ER N ATI V E M O DE L O F L I V I NG

The Music Box School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Studio V

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1. Interior view from exhibition area in second floor 2. Exterior view from the South facade, Apartments 3. Intrior view of the apartment

Circulation Diagram The flexibility of openings for the four performance spaces , allows the heart of the second floor to become a merging space where cultures could mixed and collaborated between each other

Re-imagining the Merchandise Mart School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Studio IV

The Merchandise Mart is one of the biggest buildings of square footage per floor in the world. Is a building with history whitin the city and its relevance today and the communication with the citty has been lost. This project is about re-imaging the Merchandise Mart by using all its location potential and improving its connectivity with the outside by embracing the river and the local bussineses.

Exploring, through physical models, the potential of the first three floors of the Mart and its spatial relationships and connections. Making the city come into the buiding and gone throught it.

Location: Chicago, US

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Seeing the new through the old. Respecting the existing building structure, the new program and intervention plays a roll of adaptation. Library, museum, restaurants, auditorium, and classrooms are some of the volumenes that give life to the intervention. The Merchandise Mart becomes a city whitin a city

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The first three levels of the Merchandise Mart acting as a node, conecting the city from north to south, and east to west. The multiple plazas in different levels act as a connection between the train station and the river

New architecture floating between old structure. Plazas, balconies and terraces play a key roll in the spatial connection of the building

The project seeks to embrace the river with plazas and spaces for outside activities. At the same time, creates a new front to the restaurant gallery, duplicating the activities from the street to the Mart

Pilsen = Structure, Agency, Gesture SAIC - Studio III Conceptual Models

Cultural center in Pilsen, Chicago. The concept of the project is to connect the activities that are happening around it, acting like a Node, creating path across the site. Designing a non aggressive architecture. An architecture that allows you to be part of the project at any time in different ways. Creating interior spaces for the people in Pilsen that add value to the daily life of the community.

Pinsel 2012 - Structure, Agency, Gesture CREATING INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE

Design Process Creating different levels of layers.

Vertical element that connects in a vertical way the different types of activities happening inside the building.

Integrating the main activities of the project (Sharing – growing and cultural activities). Non invasive architecture.

Position Statement Designing an architecture that can be inclusive in the site. Not an aggressive architecture. An architecture that allows you to be part of the project at any time in different ways. Creating interior spaces for the people in Pilsen that add value to the daily life of the community

Bringing light into every public space

Connection of uses Connectivity with the context Connecting activities that are happening around the site Acting like a node Creating paths across the site

public plaza

theater

galleries

food/share

public plaza

public garden

existing building

food-court

food/share

art galleries

public plaza

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Sections used to explain the spatial relationship between the spaces in the project Showing the vertical volume (building) and the way it connects part of the project. Also, showing the amphitheater and how it gets connected to

An architecture that can be inclusive in the site. Not an aggressive architecture. An architecture that allows you to be part of the project at any time in different ways. Creating interior spaces for the people in Pilsen that add value to the daily life of the community

Approach to existing building 1. Framing the existing building with an interactive glass of box.

2. Visual connection of the old through the new 3. Concept of Solid aganis Light 4. Connection of cultural activies for the community

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Perspective from the balcony-garden of the vertical building Perspective from the Box-of-glass Building Interior view of the Galleries Interior view of the Food-court

National Architectural Award

International Airport USB - Architectural Thesis 2009

The idea of the project was to design an airport capable to respond to the needs of the country and the city. Designing a sustainable airport that could function without air condition in the 70% of the spaces.

Location

This building is located in front of the roundabout that receives and dismisses the visitors to the city of Puerto Cabello, Vzla. The Project

Puerto Cabello, Venezuela

was designed next to the existing airport and using the current airplane track.

Master Plan

Big structure that generates a dynamic space for the user, in both, the reception volume and the waiting room space.

Conceptual sketchs levels Layout and their relationship between each other

Light coming through the roof, creating an uniform shadow. The study of the light was a key element into the design of the building.

Archaeological USB - Design Studio IX - 2008

Museum that serves as both, an exhibition and teaching space, including art galleries, work spaces, library and conference rooms.

The Connector Is proposed as a link between the buildings currently built and proposed buildings creating an specific way to unite spatially, architectural and artistically sectors that occurs to be sub-dividing the campus.

The project was design under the concept of a box of glass where the connection between inside and outside is present all the time.

The design seeks to create a building with an interesting internal spatiality that is capable of giving the feeling of lightness and transparency to illuminate the central space with natural light

The general idea is that exhibitions occur inside closed solids which give the sensation of being suspended. The circulation inside the museum is given by ramps to the outside, or stairs supported by supporting walls in the inside. All main working activities occur on the ground floor, where the space has the potential of expanding to the outside.

Design Competition Centro de Accion Social por la Musica, 2009 - OAMCD Avila Green Potential Use of water resources and its potential, 2009 - OAMCD

Professional Projects 200 9 - Present

School Stage - AW Arq. Isabel Barbosa / Arq. Lucy Querales - 2012 Gedisa’s Office Interior Architecture - Interior Design 2011 - Anil Arquitectos PH2 Apartment Interior Architecture - Interior Design 2010 - Anil Arquitectos PH2 Apartment Kitchen Interior Architecture - Interior Design 2011 - Anil Arquitectos

The architectural project is a response to an open call National Public Competition for the International Complex for Social Action through Music its urban environment.

A volume where the boundaries are blurred thus opening the surrounding landscape is proposed . The main deisgn elements in the proposal are : a podium or entrance plaza, which acts as an integrator between the north-south boulevard and park; the various schools that make up the system, organized way of perimeter rings; and concert halls , protected in the center of the building.

Design Competition Centro de Accion Social por la Musica Designed with: OAMCD Team Location: Caracas - Venezuela Designed in: 2010 Status: Completed

Design Process / Idea Sketches by MCD

Social and cultural exchange within the facilities is maximized by the creation of spaces that flow naturally, the interface with the environment , as well as the overlapping of different networks activities that happen within the complex.

The building facade also provides for the incorporation of art to architectural - urban scale, in the tradition of artists in our modern urban spaces and buildings as Otero Soto and Cruz -Diez

Competition Board 1

Competition Board 2

Avila Green Potential Use of water resources and its potential Designed with: OAMCD Team Location: Caracas - Venezuela Designed in: 2009 Status: In progress

School Stage - AW Arq. Isabel Barbosa / Arq. Lucy Querales

Designed by: Arq. Isabel Barbosa / Arq. Lucy Querales Location: Caracas , Venezuela Designed in: 2012 Status: Completed / Built Non-profit project

Improving students quality life through architecture ... A simple design, simple materials but effective results in both practical multi-uses and in the aesthetics of it.

Gedisa’s Office Interior Architecture - Interior Design

Designed with: Anil Arquitectos Team Location: Caracas - Venezuela Designed in: 2011 Status: Completed

The project idea was to use the ground floor as a reception area for visitors where the double height space gives hierarchy to that space and also gives the opportunity to observe the important of the stair’s element.

As a design element, a wall was used as sculpture to separate public space and an open space for all workers. In the second floor is the company’s president’s office and the meeting room. Both rooms have the possibility to go outside where there is a wooden deck with view to the city.

PH2 Apartment Interior Architecture - Interior Design

Designed with: Anil Arquitectos Team Location: Caracas - Venezuela Designed in: 2011 Status: Completed Construction: Built - 11.840 sf

The main space of the house is the living room where a double height space gives importance to the place. The room was designed to provide the best visual ambiance and allows natural lighting during the day.

The complete apartment has been designed, including lighting, floors, selecting furniture, lamps and materials. It has clean materials such as brown marble emperor, travertine, wood tazo marble and white stone. All doors, bathroom furniture and libraries are custom designed.

PH2 Apartment Kitchen Interior Architecture - Interior Design

Designed with: Anil Arquitectos Team Location: Caracas - Venezuela Designed in: 2011 Status: Completed Construction: Built - 11.840 sf

The kitchen floor’ design is light marble with brown emperor marble lines. The material of the furniture is painted with both, white and wood lacquer. The result is a modern, lightweight design with the use of few materials. This project was designed in collaboration with Collectania team.

Detail Design 2004 - 2009 / 2012 - Present

Carpentry Works 2012 Iron Door Design 2011 Wood Door Design 2011

Carpentry Works Library Design

Interior Architecture - Interior Design

Designed with: Anil Arquitectos Team Location: Caracas - Venezuela Designed in: 2011 Status: Completed

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Designed with: Anil Arquitectos Team Location: Caracas - Venezuela Designed in: 2011 Status: Completed

what gives character to the space inside the house. Fine lines of solid wood (cedar) and glass, in some cases are made of wood and free spaces.

16 ft wood door

The design of these iron doors is determined by customer demand.

With this design we push the limits of technology and creativity to make a 20 ft height door both light and practical for a house. With empty interior spaces and other solid spaces for security so that the door was not too heavy. Also, we had to design a special lock for the thickness profile of the door.

Iron Door Designs Interior Architecture - Interior Design

This piece was first made of iron, installed and then

20 Ft iron door

painted with the selected color.

Designed with: Anil Arquitectos Team Location: Caracas - Venezuela Designed in: 2011 Status: Completed

Summer + Fall Internship Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP - Chicago May 2013 - December 2013

Note: The selected SOM drawings that have been shown in this portfolio have been updated or created in conjunction with my collaboration or as a result of my work.

Working with established project teams at SOM, involved in the day-to-day planning and design of SOM's numerous projects.

Summary: • Performs work on different segments of a project.

• Assists in general preparation of design and construction documents and models.

• Performs documentation and presentation work.

• Develops understanding of building materials, details, and construction techniques.

• Adheres to procedures and directions.

Schemes Design ISABEL KRISTINA BARBOSA AGUILAR

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1 Test Fits

Role in the project - Understand the value of each scheme - Understand the program of the project - Design the Interior distribution layouts of each scheme and its program - Presentation

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OPTION 1 4 TENANTS

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2 Presentation

Role in the project - Understand the value of each scheme.

- Understand the program of the project.

- Assitant in Presentation Drawings.

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Scheme 2

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Role in the project - Understand the program of the project.

- Produce construction Detail sets (CD) in sections and plans related to furniture, RCP, lighting, among others.

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4 Schematic Design Role in the project - Understand the conceptual idea behind project - Understand the program of the project - Transition from the Conceptual Design to the schematic / progrmatic Design - Design the 35% of the units under supervision - Transition of the project from AutoCad to Revit. Updates.

- Presentation Drawings

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Block 1 of Apartments 3er, 4th, 5th Floor 2, 3 and 4 Bedroom Apartments

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Block 2 of Apartments 6th, 7th, 8th Floor 2, 3 and 4 Bedroom Apartments

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5 Concept Confirmation Role in the project - Understand the value of each scheme - Understand the program of the project - Design the Interior typical floor layout of each scheme and their program - Assist on the Interior Amenity Levels Layouts.

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Understand the concept of the building Understand the program of the project Produce schematic plan diagrams Collaborate with Presentation Drawings

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