Portafolio Sandra Palacios Arq. by Etra

SANDRA PALACIOS VEGA + PORTAFOLIO Republica del Salvador Ed. Claude Monet , phone: 593 2243 285 Cel: 095086197 e-mail: sandra_pv@hotmail.com Quito/Ecuador

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.â&#x20AC;? Frank Lloyd Wright

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Plan Masa Mat building

Meander

Mixed-use building

Observatory

Tesis

Workshop Cartagena

Work Experience CONSTRUCTIVA C.E.V. LTDA Position: Design Architect IDEA ARCHITECTURE Position: Designer and Constructer Position: Design assistant and drawer EL CONEJO EDITORIAL Position: Assistant General Manager

7 August 2011 – December 201 June 2010 - October 2010 June 2009 - October 2011 June 2009 - October 2011

Studies UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO (Ecuador) August 2008 – October 2011 Major: Architecture Degree: Architect GPS: 3.36/4 UNIVERSIDAD DE BELGRANO (Argentina) July 2006 - December 2007 Major: Architecture Level: 1-2 INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AAA (Argentina) March 2007 - April 2007 Course: Autocad 2d y 3d LOS PINOS HIGH SCHOOL (Ecuador) September 1998 - June 2003 Degree: International graduate GPS: 18/20 KILBOURNE MIDDLE SCHOOL (Ohio / USA) September 1997 - June 1998 Level: 8th grade Skills LANGUAGES English: Fluent IBT toefl Score: 107 COMPUTER SCIENCE: Computer assisted design and 3d modeling • Autocad 2d y 3d • Achicad • Sketch up Illustration • Adobe Illustrator CS5 • Adobe Photoshop CS5 Microsoft Office Operative System: • Macintosh • Windows Extra-curriculum activities • Practice ballet for 6 years • Amateur painter and sculptress • Member of Amnesty International (Active participation: 2005) • Yoga Instructor • Jogger

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The task of this project was to create and unify 6 blocks, located in a privileged ground of the city of Quito. Creating a high density-housing complex that will allow people to live near the commercial heart of the metropolis. It combines 6 mat buildings well organized that share the same public spaces and roads.

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Bridge facade

Transit and visual fluency

Urban culminations

Functional bridges connect the different buildings and are read as urban references that enclose the residential complex. The design will depend on the specific use each one has.

Bridge secction

Urban plan

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Meander The volumes that surround the plaza had to be of service to the people of the town and to the visitors of the whole project, that is why in addition to the public library it was suggested an outdoor cinema/theater and a market that completes the already existing one. The Cinema as a link and a barrier between the Library and the market. This building is situated above a platform for shows. The outdoor furniture is located facing the structure for this reason. The market was conceived as a piece that could dialogue with the plaza, the student residence and the town surroundings. A link with the city was created this way. To solve the chaos that takes place in this conjunction point of the city, particular roads and an underground bus station where created. You can access this station from the plaza. The spatial figure created by the volumes guide you visually to the exit points out of the project.

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To understand this project we have to analyze the urban surrounding of the last part of the meander, as we have called our urban plan. It was needed to develop a limit for the project and at the same time a link to the city. Since, in this part of Cumbaya converge various roads of different kinds: pedestrian flow, recreational pads, public transportation, and regular traffic. As a result three main volumes where conceived which in conjunction with the urban matrix develop a plaza useful to distribute pedestrian transit or for leisure purposes. This Plaza has a vanishing point, created by its shape, pointing out the library (main building) and leading you to the exit and converging point of the town. This project tried to weave itself in to the existing patron by connecting the main places of Cumbaya with pedestrian roads and an opening that let the city in.

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29 The volumes that surround the plaza had to be of service to the people of the town and to the visitors of the whole project, that is why in addition to the public library it was suggested an outdoor cinema/theater and a market that completes the already existing one The Cinema as a link and a barrier between the Library and the market. This building is situated above a platform for shows. The outdoor furniture is located facing the structure for this reason. The market was conceived as a piece that could dialogue with the plaza, the student residence and the town surroundings. A link with the city was created this way. To solve the chaos that takes place in this conjunction point of the city, particular roads and an underground bus station where created. You can access this station from the plaza. The spatial figure created by the volumes guide you visually to the exit points out of the project.

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Mixed-use building The intention of this project was not to interfere with the pure and beautiful landscape around the site. Therefore, an elevated volume was designed taking advantage of the uneven levels presented by the terrain in order to place some elements underground. As a result and since the element has been concealed, the city of Cumbaya, already crowded, can enjoy and save its essential view, air and green landscape. Zone classification: The lot is surrounded by building of diverse use making it an ideal spot to locate a building of this nature.

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Implantation

Iso 1

Iso 2

Iso 3

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Observatory The project integrates the mountain like environment, beginning from the observatory with a radial axis for the disposition of the elements of the program. These elements are connected by a path that makes you travel around the mountain and the project at the same time. Alloying you to engage with nature and live a sensorial experience while in you occupy the facilities. The intention is to lead a person through a path where he can sense the space while communicating with the nature and other elements.

38 Terreno

Axo 2

Axo 1

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Cientific Ground

Comercial Ground

Education Ground

Roof Ground

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Reference

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Tesis The project’s purpose is to highlight the space concept understood as the place created by means of the human activities performed within. The concepts of fluency, integration, flexibility and versatility were incorporated in order to categorize the space without necessarily dividing it. Urban situation The park “Gabriela Mistral” is a strategic urban spot with great development potential, regretfully it has been neglected mainly because people don’t find any reason to go and feel the place as theirs. This is why this project suggests a mix use building creating a facility that holds an Architecture Faculty that will bring life to the place and elements of public use that interact with the urban weave. Having protected houses and trees in this space was an advantage since they became an essential part of the project. In this intervention the concept of crossprograming has been referenced by adapting existing buildings to new developments and society trends. To accomplish this expansion of the urban space a study of the existing pedestrian and vehicle paths was conducted. As a result, the street Juan Rodriguez was meant to be just for pedestrians use due to its unique characteristics and historical value. Consecuently, a megablock of public use was born.

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Circulación Diafragmas y columnas Estructura de Aluminio Losas Hormigón

Areas Urbanas Parque Galerias

2723 1044.44 3767.44 m2

Terraza

565.21 m2

Facultad

451.79 m2

Facultad Terraza

544.36 296.31 840.67 m2

Biblioteca

357.56 m2

Biblioteca Semicubierta

567.99 198.81 766.8 m2

Facultad

386.7 m2

Facultad Terraza

544.36 545.42 1089.78 m2

Bar Cafetería Terraza

171.09 389.68 878.1 1438.87 m2

Restaurante Lobby Auditorio Semicubierta

457.66 457.52 404.12 387.36 1706.66 m2

Total Edi. Área Total

7604.04 m2 11371.48 m2

vidrio 4mm parantes cercha metalica policarbonato translucido

Vidrio 4mm Parantes de soporte celocias de aluminio

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Av. COLÓN

Av. 6 DE DICIEMBRE

LUIS CORDERO

DIEGO DE ALMAGRO REINA VICTÓRIA

LIZARDO GARCIA Av. AMAZONAS

MARISCAL FOSH

El edificio esta ubicado de tal manera que el sol incide directamente en las dos fachadas mas largas en la ma帽ana y en la tarde correspondi-

Se utilizan dos materiales principales para la protecci贸n solar: las celosias de aluminio moviles y el policarbonato translusido

ESTRATEGIAS percianas policarbonato

Balcones profundos

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Grilla de composici贸n El parque se conformo a partir de una grilla de dos por dos mediante la cual se formaron cuadrantes para uso p煤blico

elementos de camineria

elementos

3 verdes

muebles

Cuadrantes Se distingen dos tipos principales de cuadrantes 1. De exposici贸n 2. De reuinion

Luminaria

bancas

exposici贸n

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Workshop Cartagena Participation in the 2010 INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP IN CARTAGENA - Architectures for Facilities Surrounded by Walls organized by: Universidad de los Andes, School of Architecture and Design. “For the last 24 years, the Department of Architecture of the Andes University has been holding in the city of Cartagena during the month of July the International Architecture Workshop of Cartagena – Types of Architecture for Facilities Surrounded by Walls. National and foreign students and professors take part in the workshop; the four weeks’ duration they live in the city, and are participate in the development of a contemporary architectural project, absorbing the colonial architecture of Cartagena, represented by its plazas, houses, churches, and particularly by the walls.”

PROJECT Our group was in charge of creating a new cultural center for the city of Cartagena in front of the biggest bastion of the old city. We knew that the first task was to find a way to incorporate the project in the existing dynamic of the place. With this in mind we elaborated a building with an organic form that let people in the building with out leaving the city. This was accomplish by having no establish limits between the out side and the inside. Diagonals invite you in, you could see the city from almost every place of the project and enter and exit ways were no explicit.

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