I find myself in the midst, to be surprised, to blur boundaries, maybe in the Aleph (Borges), in Zaguan as space for everything.
I believe in these in-between spaces, where disciplines converge, to discover, to find new questions.
I see architecture as a medium of questions, a journey to address climate change, to embrace diverse cultures, to think in the future, to breathe fresh air.
I find myself shaping moments, building systems, new ecologies, to leave a legacy, a better place.
PROFILE
Architectural designer with 6+ years of experience.
Collaborating within a team, starting from complex design questions to bringing architectural projects to life, and experiencing the transformation from conceptual drawings to inhabited spaces is a deeply rewarding journey that truly captivates me.
With a forward-thinking perspective, I am committed to shaping potencial futures by creating complex architectural projects, that advocate for sustainable building practices, and encourage the development of flexible spaces that can adapt to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
My enthusiasm for architecture has led me to become a researcher, constantly exploring innovative paths to go beyond boundaries. Furthermore, engaging in numerous competitions has allowed me to work in a fast paced environment and has ignited my curiosity about discovering fresh angles within this field.
EDUCATION
University of Zulia, Venezuela
Faculty of Architecture and Design
Architect 2010-2016
University Of Buenos Aires
Workshop: Convocar la materia
Guest Teacher: Solano Benítez. 2019
Novatr
Master Computational Design Course.
BIM Workflow Specialist. 2023.
EXPERIENCE
RDR Architectes | Madrid, Spain/ Lausanne, Swiss. Mar, 2023-
https://rdrarchitectes.com/es/home
BLARQS | Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jul, 2018- Sep, 2022 https://blarqs.com/
NMD NOMADAS | Maracaibo, Venezuela. Feb, 2017- Mar, 2018
https://www.nmdnomadas.com/
CONTACT
cabrerajesus.91@gmail.com +34 624550731
Madrid, Spain
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjcabrerah/
SKILLS
2D | Autocad
3D | Rhinoceros, 3D max
BIM | Revit, Archicad
Render | Vray, Enscape
Adobe Creative Suite | Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign
COMPETITIONS
Coastal Park Competition. Maracaibo, Venezuela. 2016
Biennal of Architecture. Caracas, Venezuela. 2017
Lima Art Museum. Lima, Perú. 2017
Memory Museum. Concepción, Chile. 2017
Banco Ciudad Office. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2018
University of the Future Education. Argentina. 2019
La Victoria Market. Lima, Perú. 2020
Biennal of Architecture. Caracas, Venezuela. 2020
Urban Planning. San Salvador de jujuy, Argentina. 2020
In this exploration, I begin by posing questions: How can we facilitate learning effectively? Where is the optimal enviroment for learning? How might we improve air quality within educational spaces?
The intervention aims to envision a unique landscape crafted within a big land designated for the upcoming agroecological school near Perijá Mountain Range, intending to stablish it as a landmark in Venezuela. Incorporating the existing trees serve as points of origin, I propouse a mapping approach that integrate these natural elements, creating voids that seamlessly connect nature with the built enviroment, thus extending the city’s boundaries towards architectural innovation.
This new grid positions voids to respect the site’s natural conditions while generating circulations and conections. By scaling these voids into surface and the territory, a new conception of nature emerges.
Drawing inspiration from methologies akin to what Toyo Ito succesfully achieved with the Sendai Mediatheque, I propose utilizing natural, inclined, and ambigous towers, manifested as wooden columns, reaching heights of up to 18m. These collumns will serve as supports for floating surfaces on the landscape, avoiding enclosure system to better integrate with the tropical sourrounding.
This design encourages continous interaction with the landscape, creating an inmersive learning experience. It establishes a direct relationship with courtyards situated within the internal voids, representing an inside-out learning journey.
Hyper-classrooms
This learning system is structured as a series of innovative fluid, solid and dispersed programs strategically positioned across the school’s campus. The vision aims to elevate the building to the role of a “third professor” and integrate it into the curriculum.
02 Sea Terminal
Academic project
Location: Maracaibo, Venezuela
Type: Infraestructure, terminal, landscape
Area: 75280 m2
Softwares: Autocad, Archicad, Vray, Photoshop
Grounded in a sustainable methodology that prioritizes the enviroment, economy, and society, this project involves a comprehensive study of the city, utilizing all urban and natural resources. Its vision is to position Maracaibo city as a metropolitan hub by establishing a park with a program designed to forge national and international connections. Concurrently, it aims to boost productivity and efficiency while minimizing enviromental impacts. The proposal significantly contributes to increased oxygen production and alternative energy generation, fostering landscape regeneration and shoreline cleanup.
The terminal act as an extension of the city towards Lake Maracaibo, facilitating direct interaction with this natural body of water. It incorporates a variety of programs that activate the area on multiple levels. The proposal is based on the concept of interpreting the land as a code, aligning with natural elements
and shaping architecture acording to topological principles. As a result, the structure conforms to the contours of the lake, it edges, gullies, and topography, creating architectural spaces where geometry and surfaces take on distinct characteristics.
The overall spatial continuity dissolves the specificity of individual situations into group logics, creating sequences of diffuse spaces that resonate with a comprehensive topological sense. This approach liberates architecture from the constraints of a fixed design lenguage, allowing it to respond organically to the surrounding enviroment.
La Villette Park
Tshumi
Sustainable Devices
The inherent potential of the territory is optimized to generate essential resources and alternative energy through a self-sustaining structure. This innovative building fulfills its own requirments for clean air, electricity, and water through four equipped towers, each designed for specific funtions.
Solar Panels Dehumidifier
Fotocatalityc System
Water collector
Flexibility
To blur or erase boundaries, space, and forms. The dissolution of matter represents the triumph of space over constraints. Spatial configuration can change, contracting or expanding based on the program. The program itself can be expressed as density, dispersion, or fluidity.
Cooling solution
Designed to harness ecological processes and create an oasis within, featuring fan-coolers that acelerate the evapotraspiration of trees and plants. This system helps decrease the temperature by aproximately 8 °C. In one of latin America’s hottest cities, we could see temperatures drop from 34 °C to 26 °C.
The renovated building wants to open its doors to everyone and will house new, state-of-theart private office space. In addition, it will offer a new, urban living experience through a number of semi-public spaces, which will enrich the quality of everyday life for its users and enliven the neighborhood.
Contrary to the probable preservation of the facade, the interior of the building will be almost completely renovated. This renovation includes technical, functional and aesthetic aspects. And will give the building a new, sustainable lifecycle and an updated identity that represents UBS’s corporate values.
It will be an attractive and flexible space that
can be freely interpreted, allowing pedestrians to linger or stroll by. It will have an informal and friendly atmosphere, with water, greenery and plenty of natural light combined with natural materials such as wood and stone.
The ambition of this project lies in its embrace of complexity. In a broad sense, it seeks to challenge the foundations of an educational archetype that can no longer adequately address contemporary challenges.
Insteade of adhering to traditional educational norms and historic university structures, the project envisions systems capable of adapting to the prevalence of individuals within digital interface. It aims to create performative, relational, and adaptative scenarios, designing spaces that seamlessly integrate students while fostering environments that emphasize the significance of innovation and entrepreneurship for the future. The goal is to establish a continuous learning experience akin to a dynamic movie, within an urban project inside innovation park in Buenos Aires.
Key Strategies:
1. Performative Qualification: the workspace as a third educator.
2. Systematic programming: implementation of continuous routes, contemplative parks, sustainable devices, and hyperclassrooms.
3. Fields operations: incorporating dense, dispersed, and fluid programs.
4. Matter changes: utilizing sustainable materials as algae, plants, wood, fotocatalityc system, dehumnifidier and water collectors as a facade to get a carbon zero building.
The outcome is a building characterized by a continuous section, capable of producing different simultaneous scenes that enhance and multiply educational programs. This design takes full advantage of the flexibility required to address the new challenges of future education.
Continous Park
Continous Section
Garden-classrooms
This learning system is designed as a series of liquid and dispersed programs strategically positioned across the expansive park of the university campus.
Hyper-classrooms
An essential element of the program focuses on cultivating a synergy among hyperclassrooms to shape the education of the future. Despite the uncertainties that lie ahead, the goal is to foster shared learning through common scenarios.
