Joan Manuel Bermúdez García architect
PORTFOLIO
2020
Joan Manuel Bermúdez García architect FORMATION
Bachelor in Architecture, Los Andes University. January 2000 - September 2005. Bogotá, Colombia. Laurea Magistrale (MSc) in Architecture and Urbanism, Politecnico di Milano. September 2017 - December 2019. Milano, Italy.
PROFESSIONAL
PROFILE
Architect with ten years of experience in the architectural design, technical coordination and supervision of building projects including single housing, collective housing, hotels and mixed-use. Advocating for precision, innovation, efficiency and effectiveness within the design and construction processes at different scales (from urban plan to building detail), my goals and professional achievements prioritize the balance among the programmatic, technical and aesthetical relationships of each project.
ADDRESS
During my professional practice I have been acknowledged as a creative, responsible, organized and critical person. Always working as a team-member, coordinating designers and consultants, I consider the architectural praxis as a continuous learning-negotiation process where knowledge and skills must have a social and sustainable commitments.
CONTACT
WORK
EXPERIENCE
http://www.ariassernasaravia.com.co/
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"El Tambre" house, located in “La Reserva de Potosi”, Sopo, Colombia. "Cabo Tortuga" housing building in Santa Marta, Colombia. "Puerto Manoa" housing project in Cartagena, Colombia. "Salvio" mixed-use building in Bogotá, Colombia.
(+57) 3216586598 joanmanuel.bermudez@ mail.polimi.it LANGUAGES
Arias, Serna, Saravia S.A.S.
Project Architect: architectural design, development of general plans, executive plans, construction details, technical coordination and architectural supervision on site of:
CL. 68 No.00-25, Bogotá, Colombia.
June 2012 – September 2017 Bogota, Colombia.
* English: professional working proficiency * Spanish: native * Italian: basic WEB SITE https://joanbermudez.com/
WORK
EXPERIENCE
DIGISKILLS
ESCALAR Management Real Estate. https://www.escalar.com.co/
Project Architect: architectural design, development of general plans, executive plans, construction details, technical coordination and architectural supervision on site of: • •
February 2011 – May 2012 Bogota, Colombia.
"MT6" housing building in Bogotá, Colombia. "Retiro 84" housing building in Bogotá, Colombia.
AWARDS
Arias, Serna, Saravia S.A.S.
http://www.ariassernasaravia.com.co/
Architect: architectural design, development of general plans, executive plans and construction details of: • • • • • •
AutoCAD: excellent Revit: optimal Sketchup: optimal Microsoft Office: optimal Photoshop: basic
October 2007 – January 2011 Bogota, Colombia..
Ibis “Bogotá Museo” Hotel in Bogotá, Colombia. Ibis Hotel in Medellín, Colombia. “Summum” housing project in Bogotá, Colombia. "Puerto Tambora“ housing project in Cartagena, Colombia. New building of the Arts Faculty of the Xaverian University`s competition in Bogotá. Readaptation of the house located in the 82nd avenue # 7-60, Bogotá, as a showroom of the `Summum` housing project.
*CEMEX Awards – Colombia - 2013. First Place in the Housing category for "SUMMUM" housing building, with Arias Serna Saravia S.A.S. *MASTER DEGREE Final Mark: 110/110
Ivan Baquerizo Architects. http://ivanbaquerizo.com Architect: architectural design and development of general plans of: • • • •
Housing project competition in the 94th street # 21, Bogotá, Colombia. Housing project competition in “Bosques del Marques”, Bogotá, Colombia. Housing project competition in “Santa Barbara”, Bogotá, Colombia Housing project competition in the 19th avenue #128, Bogotá, Colombia.
January 2007 – June 2007 Bogota, Colombia.
Osmond Lange Architects & Planners https://www.osmondlange.co.za/
Architect: architectural design and development of general plans of: • •
“King Shaka” International Airport competition in Durban, South Africa. “A5” housing and office building in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa.
July 2006 – November 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa.
WORK
EXPERIENCE
De la Carrera-Cavanzo Associated Architects http://delacarreracavanzo.com/
Architect: architectural design and development of general plans of: • • • •
“Postal Museum” competition in Bogotá, Colombia. “Bosques de Sans Souci” housing project competition in Villavicencio, Colombia. Renovation of “House of the anthropologist”` in Bogotá, Colombia. Renovation of “House of Abanderado Espinosa” in Bogotá, Colombia.
September 2005 – December 2005 Bogota, Colombia.
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“Postal Museum” in the ground floor of Murillo Toro building, Bogota, promoted by ADPOSTAL: Second place with De la Carrera-Cavanzo Associated Architects. 2005 “King Shaka” International Airport in Durban city, South Africa. First place with Osmond Lange Architects & Planners. 2006 Two housing buildings in El Marques and Santa Barbara sectors, Bogota, sponsored by CIUADELA REAL building company. First place with Ivan Baquerizo Architects. 2007 Housing building in the 19th avenue with 128th street (La Calleja), Bogotá, promoted by PIJAO building company. First place with Ivan Baquerizo Architects. 2007 New building for the Arts Faculty of the Xaverian University: First mention with Arias Serna Saravia S.A.S. 2010. COMPLEMENTARY
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STUDIES
Aesthetic Lessons V, VI and VII dictated at Los Andes University 2002, 2004 and 2005. “Travel Around the City. Different Looks Over the City” Seminar dictated at Los Andes University, 2004. “Table of Regional Planning Bogota-Cundinamarca”, held at the Xaverian University from the 3rd to the 8th of November 2003. “Cartagena International Workshop”. 2004, dictated by the Department of Architecture of Los Andes University. Lessons from history II (Paris: Le Corbusier and Surrealism), taught at Los Andes University, May 2006. PUBLICATIONS
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XXI Colombian Biennial of Architecture 2008. Restoration of the heritage-intervention of estate-selection: "House of the Abanderado Espinosa", property of Los Andes University, with De la Carrera- Cavanzo Associated Architects. Construccion Metalica Magazine No. 11 (2010). Publishing by Legis S.A., special about Ibis Bogota Museum Hotel, with
Arias Serna Saravia S.A.S.
XXIII Colombian Biennial of Architecture 2012. Architectural project - selection: Hotel Ibis Bogota Museum, with Arias Serna Saravia S.A.S. XXIV Colombian Biennial of Architecture 2014. Architectural project - selection: Hotel Ibis Medellin, with Arias Serna
Saravia S.A.S. XXVII Colombian Biennial of Architecture 2020. Architectural project - selection: “Salvio” Building, with Arias Serna Saravia S.A.S. ”Tipologías de vivienda para los habitantes afectados por el huracán Iota de las islas caribeñas de Providencia y Santa Catalina. Selección de proyectos.” Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos, CIPSCA, 2021.
CONTENT
PROFESSIONAL pag.
I. Ibis Bogotá Museo Hotel
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II. Faculty of Arts Competition
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III. «El Tambre» House
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IV. «Cabo Tortuga» Building
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V. . «Puerto Manoa» Project
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LAUREA MAGISTRALE VI. Shimei Civic Center
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VII. Residential District Renovation
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VIII. Qualification of Train Station & Piazza
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email: joanmanuel.bermudez@mail.polimi.it mobile: +57 3216586598
Professional
Bogotá – Colombia / 2007 - 2017
I. Ibis Bogotá Museo Hotel Junior Architect, 2007 – 2010.
The project is in the 7th street No.27-70, Bogota, Colombia. Limits by North with 28th avenue and the National Museum of Colombia, by South with 27th street (Santa Cruz of Mompox pedestrian passage), by East with the 6th street and by the West with the 7th street. It includes 216 rooms, 6 retail spaces and their respective technical areas. Embedded in an area of urban renewal, the project contributes to the process of revitalization of the downtown.
Lot area: 1.703 m2. Built area: 11.780 m2.
IMPLANTATION The building is structured with the articulation of two elements: 1) platform, that saves the unevenness of the topography and develops a continuous front along 7th street up to 28th street; 2) tower, isolating itself from the limit on 28th avenue, opening the visuals and space toward the National Museum and the eastern hills of the city. The platform covers the entire batch and constitutes the pedestrian access to the project. From the 28th avenue there is a green zone with slopes and vegetation improving the public space continuity already present in front of the National Museum. Redesigning the 27th street, a pedestrian passage between 7th street and 5th street, the building not only integrates better to the natural areas but also warranties the pedestrian permeability of the sector. The East-West tower´s orientation, avoids the direct sunlight on its longer facades.
NORTH WESTERN CORNER– Photo Manuel Alexiades SITUATION
4°36'52.91"N / 74° 4'8.04"O
Centro Internacional
Parque de la Independencia
IBIS BOGOTÁ MUSEO HOTEL 2007-2010 / BOGOTÁ / Professional / Supervisor: Fausto Fabara H. / Junior Architect
Responsibilities: architectural design and executive plans
27th Ave
National Museum of Colombia
VISUAL PERMEABILITY
ROOF PLAN 7th Street
URBAN STEPBACK
GREEN CONTINUITY WEST FACADE
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CONSTRUCTIVE PROCESS A breached system with columns, beams and slabs, was used for the platform since it includes parking levels, retail spaces, services-technical floor and the building´s lobby. On the 4th floor is a “transition slab” which serves as a bridge toward the tower`s structural system made by load walls (stand and enclosure). The "forsa" form, used for housing buildings, was the appropriate instrument to built rooms that have similar dimensions dispensing columns for an optimum use. As solar protection strategies, the tower´s longest facades includes metal louvres and, in its shortest sides, stone anchored as a ventilated facade system.
Load walls system
Transition slab
Structural system change
Column-beam system
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
Foto Enrique Guzmán
PROGRAM
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* Access level (2nd floor plan-lobby): reception, restaurant and bar, bathrooms and administration office. The hotel´s entry is located on the 6th street. * Services level (first floor plan): laundry, storage, baths of employees, deposit, wastes and administrative office. * 3rd to 14th floor plans: 216 rooms are developed with 18 rooms per floor, two staircases, three elevators and a floor for service station. * 15th floor plan, technical level: lift`s machine room and supply / extract equipment of air conditioning. * Commercial and retail areas are located to the 7th street at the 0.00m. Level, which corresponds to the ground floor plan.
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LEVEL 3
TYPE LEVEL
1. Lobby 2. Restaurant 3. Administration 4. Kitchen 5. Terrace 6. Garden 7. Vehicular access 8. Pedestrian entry 9. 27th avenue – pedestrian path 10. Vallet parking 11. Retail space 12. Parking 13. Employees area 14. Technical area 15. Rooms
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Photo Manuel Alexiades
Photo Enrique Gúzman
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II. Faculty of Arts Building Junior Architect, 2010.
CARRE
MASTER PLAN
FACULTY OF ARTS, PONTIFICAL XAVERIAN UNIVERSITY 2010 / BOGOTÁ / Professional / Competition/ Supervisor: Fausto Fabara H. / Architect
Responsibilities: architectural design, master plan plans, ground floor plan and descriptive memory
PARQUE NACIONAL
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4°37'34.88"N / 74° 3'51.78"O
AEREAL VIEW WITH THE TWO PHASES
The project is in the south of the Pontifical Xaverian University´s campus. Limits to the East with Fernando Barón building , to the West with the Gabriel Giraldo building, to the North with José Gabriel Maldonado building and to South with the National Park of Bogotá city. The competition´s rules consider the development of the project in two phases: first the Faculty of Arts and, second, the Faculty of Architecture. The development of the first phase at the level of preliminary architectural design was required: design a building with spaces for performing arts, visual arts and music, which at the same time abides the general determinants of the master plan and the requirements of a privileged place within the University´s campus.
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URBAN AND GEOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS * Public transport system: Transmilenio (7th Street, Caracas Street) and 13th Street. * Natural urban system: eastern hills and National Park. * Private transport system: Circunvalar Avenue and secondary pathways.
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* Circulations East – West system: axes of union between components of the Master Plan / important flows at the border between University and National Park / link between hills and city.
* Pedestrian access and University´s central circulation: NorthSouth connection / urban doors to city and National Park / articulation between the built and the natural.
* Squares and permanence system: building-square typology/
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places of stay connected to the University´s vertebral column and axes.
IMPLANTATION 1 Square Basement and access of the project that links the building to the central axe of the Master Plan and solves the topography of the place. It holds the components of the program that do not require direct light.
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2 Arts Building Located to conform the square, without affect the visuals of neighboring buildings. It also shapes the southern edge of the University. With his orientation and internal organization, it optimizes the lighting and visual requirements of the classrooms.
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3 Garden and Courtyards Entrance of light, area of expansion and circulation for those components in the basement of the project. 4 Second Phase Future Faculty of Architecture whose development does not affect phase 1. If the second phase is not done, the project still being complete. 5 National Park – University Connection The square and the building configure the threshold between the Park and the University´s central space. It is the south facade of the campus that separates and distinguishes between the two different spacialities.
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PROGRAM A
Common Services
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Music
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Visual Arts
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Performing arts & practices
PROJECT A. BASE * Basements of parking and technical rooms. * Performing arts: space flexibility and courtyard appropriation. * Multiple Lounge: integration with the courtyard, accessible to the public. * Photography and printmaking laboratories: areas with less need of natural light.
BASEMENT 1
B. GROUND FLOOR PLAN * Plaza and entry to the project – public level of the building: integration to the University and the National Park. Open exhibition of artistic expressions to the city. * Teacher´s area: easy access for students. GROUND FLOOR
C. FIRST FLOOR PLAN * Music: practice classroom and test with introverted spaces. Visual relationship through contemplation gardens. D. SECOND FLOOR PLAN * Music: classrooms in relation to National Park through gaps and transparencies. E. THIRD FLOOR PLAN * Visual Arts: rooms with visual relationship to the National Park and possibility of daylight.
F. ROOFTOP PLAN * Coffee shop and communal garden: space of permanence, rest and expression for students.
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
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TRANSVERSAL SECTION
PHASE 1 AERIAL VIEW
The project is a lighthouse raised from the ground floor building, which ensures a great public space of openness between the University and the National Park. A double glass faรงade unifies the upper volume, protecting it from solar radiation and isolating it acoustically. The glass treatment of the faรงade combines the density and presence of external surrounding elements with the internal functional requirements of the program. The result is an abstract prism whose materiality softly vanish toward the sky.
m o u n t a i n s t r e e s
Visual Arts Music Classes Music Practice
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Render: EKOOMEDIA
PROGRAM
ELEMENTS
SOUTHWESTERN CORNER
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Render: EKOOMEDIA
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III. “El Tambre” House Project Architect, 2012.
«EL TAMBRE» HOUSE 2012 / BOGOTÁ / Professional / Supervisor: Fausto Fabara H. / Project Architect
Responsibilities: architectural design, technical coordination and executive plans
The house is situated on lot 3 of the residential complex “La Reserva de Potosi”, close to the road La Calera - Sopó (Cundinamarca - Colombia) Total built area: 627m 2.
PROGRAM The project places the conventional dwelling´s dependencies around a courtyard. This “void” separates and articulates private, public and service areas following the prevalent use that everyone has. The house is between lot 2 and lot 4, the entry path is to the eastern side and in the back limits with one of the lakes that makes up the general planning of the urbanization. We decided to locate the social area toward the lake in order to have a greater private expansion zone, bedrooms near to the entry, services and complementary spaces on the sides towards the neighboring separation.
SITUATION
4°48'4.09"N / 73°57'44.86"O
La Reserva de Potosí
La Pradera de Potosí
Photo Enrique Guzmán
LOT PLAN
URBAN PLAN
IMPLANTATION The urban planning of the residential group “La Reserva de Potosí”, like a botanical garden, uses a variety of native plants and species as structuring axes for the organization of dwellings and common areas. With wide roads, fair pedestrian trails and generous space among lots, the asked questions were how to inhabits a botanical garden? how to intervene the natural landscape? The house´s architectural proposal was born as the articulation of the natural and the private through three operations: 1) Zoning and dividing the house´s parts into volumes according to their function. 2) Organizing the volumes to conform a courtyard as the core of the house where the circulation between dependencies takes place. 3) Opening the volumes through generous and controlled voids in dialogue with the surrounding landscape.
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1. Pedestrian entrance 2. Vehicular acces 3. Parking 4. Service room 5. Hall 6. Bathroom 7. Bedroom 8. Bedroom´s place 9. Laundry 10. Storage 11. Kitchen 12. Dining room 13. Living room 14. Courtyard 15. Covered terrace 16. BBQ 17. Main bedroom 18. Vestier 19. Bathroom 20. Terrazce 21. Rooftop
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
LONGITUDINAL SECTION, LIVING
The entire house´s composition echoes a basic geometry using a column-beam structural system and few construction and finishes materials. It revaluates the traditional massiveness of old country houses and allows a clear reading between the parts and the whole of the project. WEST FACADE
The structural configuration ensures flexibility in the distribution of the house´s dependencies, enhancing the modification of its intern measures. Likewise, the structural system was coordinated with the intention to compress and expand the house´s internal heights, differentiating the hierarchy between social areas, rooms, circulations and service areas.
SECTION, BEDROOMS AND ENTRY
Photos Enrique Guzmán
EAST FACADE
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SECTION: LIVING, COURTYARD AND BEDROOM
SOUTH FACADE
SECTION: PARKING, KITCHEN AND LIVING ROOM
NORTH FACADE
DETAIL Photos Enrique Guzmรกn
Photos Enrique Guzmรกn
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IV. “Cabo Tortuga” Building Project Architect, , 2013-2014.
«CABO TORTUGA» BUILDING 2013 / BOGOTÁ / Professional / Supervisor: Nicolas Sotto / Project Architect
Responsibilities: architectural design, technical coordination and executive plans
SITUATION
11°10'26.81"N / 74°14'5.29"O
“Pozos Colorados” is the place where the building stands, a precious bay close to Santa Marta city in the heart of Caribbean Sea. It is a “holiday /second” housing project made by two compact lengthened blocks that include town houses, apartments, penthouses and amenities. Lot area: 14.279 m2
Built area: 39.617, 89 m2
IMPLANTATION The project respects the natural preexistences of a lake and a native forest closer to the beach. It`s geometry not only follows the shape of these elements but also stablish an important presence in front the sea. Reaching sixteen stories high, It`s organization propose a graduation between public, common areas and private units. Holding the parking area, technical rooms and deposits, a platform constitutes the base of the building. On this platform, the ground floor and the first floor include the amenities and communal areas. From the second level upward, the apartments take place. The project confronts environmental conditions, like sun and wind, featuring, first, balconies for shading and internal space extension, second, leaving the circulation system (corridors, stairs and elevator`s halls) open without any restriction as a porosity for wind flow. Photo Enrique Guzmán
PROGRAM Despite the project is the union between tower 1 and tower 2, the whole ground floor appears as a permeable level featuring straight relationships with the landscape and its surroundings. Wide circulations with double high, open the visuals to the mountains, to the sea and even to the building`s bridges above. Gardens, swimming pools, BBQ areas, jacuzzi, outside bar, living and resting places, enrich this generous access level. The communal areas are in tower 1: gym, games room, services, restaurant, bar-lounge and reception lobby. In tower 2, the town houses and the administration office take place. The main entrance is under the join of the two blocks. In the first level of tower 1, a spa and a multipurpose room complete the common areas of the project. The first level of tower 2 corresponds to the second level of town houses. Type of habitational units:
town house type 1 y 2 apartments type A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
Total amount of units:
town houses apartments
Units areas: 278,63m2 246,01m2 398,32m2
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penthouses
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GROUNDFLOOR PLAN LONGITUDINAL SECTION
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Due the block`s parallel to shore orientation, the design places apartment`s social areas and main bedrooms looking the sea, while circulation system, services and secondary bedrooms looking the mountains in the back. The division among served and servant spaces, then, is clear since the elevator-escalators` cores are connected by bridges that reach the entrances of each apartment. A conventional column-beam structural system ensures an easy distribution of spaces inside the apartments. This flexibility was translated in a variety of types within the same volume. The multiplicity is controlled by a facade composition that plays with the balconies` horizontal lines and with the vertical divisions between private units. Taking advantage of the penthouses` larger internal height and using the separation among properties, a couple of big frames broke the horizantal predominance proposing a clean symmetry in each tower. This verticality also includes the circulation core`s volume that attach and covers the air conditioning technical rooms in the roof AXONOMETRIC VIEW
TYPE PLAN
Tower 2 Tower 1
APARTMENT TYPE C
APARTMENT TYPE E Photo Enrique Guzmรกn
SWIMMING POOL, GYM, GAME`S ROOM, SPA, RESTAURANT
TRANSVERSAL SECTION
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APARTMENT`S POOL DETAIL
APARTMENT`S JACUZZI DETAIL
FACADE SECTION
ENTRANCE
GROUNDFLOOR CORRIDOR TOWER 1
Photo Enrique Guzmán
MATERIALS The project`s basement or plinth is covered with “Tayrona” stone, a local rock used by native people in the construction of huts. It`s color, texture and manageability is wide used not only for functional purposes but also for aesthetical reasons: it gives a special `patina` and ambient to the spaces where it is. The “Tayrona” stone denotes how the building belongs to and emerges from the earth. In the ground floor and first floor, organic materials like wood, textiles and wallpapers, dressed the skin of the spaces encouraging human interaction while giving a warm character to this common open zones. The use of pergolas, celosias and shutters made in these materials, nuance the visual interaction between inside and outside. The block`s walls, made in concrete and masonry, are covered with a white-bone colored plaster, stablishing a clear contrast from the ocre-yellow-greenish palette of the surroundings. This color also attenuates wall`s heating. Some horizontal incisions aligned with the slab and balconies` borders, liven up the volume`s purity. Light, therefore, plays an important role as the ethereal material, the background melody, bringing shadows and brightness once it touches all materials. The proximity and deepness of surfaces gain relevancy due Caribbean sunrise.
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V. “Puerto Manoa” Building Project Architect, 2010, 2014-2015.
PUERTO MANOA 2010 – 2014-2015 / BOGOTÁ / Professional / Supervisor: Álvaro Arias R. / Project Architect
Responsibilities: architectural design and technical coordination
It is a housing project located at the entrance of the island of Manga in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Bordered on the North by ‘Roman’ bridge and the 25th Street (Calle real), on the West by Cartagena´s Bay, to the South with San Sebastián de Pastelillo Fort and to the East with 17th Street and H. L. Roman Park. Lot area: 17807 m2. Built area: 36117 m2.
IMPLANTATION Against the irregular geometry of the lot and reacting to the different conditions available at the place, the project steps back from their boundary through a “starry” geometry in which the three main bodies of housing are radially organized around the center of the lot, generating large spaces in their interstices that isolated dwellings and open the visuals to Manga, the Caribbean Sea and the foundation city. The project, therefore, avoids to shape none of its edges and neither reaches the permitted height by normative standards. With a low density and low occupancy, the implantation openly respects and communicates with the context.
Foundation City
Getsemani
Caribean Sea
Manga
Bocagrande
Cartagena´s Bay
Render: METHANOIA
SITUATION
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H. L. Román´s Bridge
IMPLANTATION
Cartagena´s Bay
Calle 25 ( Calle Real)
Cartagena´s Fishing Club
Tower one and two (located to the West and to the South) begin at their ends with 2 storeys which staggered gradually to increase its height towards the center of the batch until reach six storeys. Tower three is the only one with a continuous 7-storey profile and looks impressive on the northeastern corner, at least, the more urban zone of the lot. With the «star» plan form, the housing blocks divide communal services and guarantees total freedom in the visual relationships to the surroundings. The pedestrian and vehicular entrance are organized in the opening formed by the Tower 1 and 3, right in front of Manga L. H. Roman Park and 17th Street. Communal areas with gardens, terraces, pools and amenities open to the sea and their backrest are the towers 1 and 2. Finally, Tower 2 and 3 limit a large green area of environmental control and contemplative character where some technical systems are also resolved. The gardens and the tree planting include native vegetation and constitute the common tissue that identifies the entire ground floor and basement on which rest the three towers.
San Sebastián del Pastelillo Fort
17th career (Av. Del Parque)
H. L. Román – Manga´s Park
Free visuals
Implantation divide uses
Wide open building
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PROGRAM The project is made up of: 1) Basement: parking, apartment deposits, employees area and technical rooms. 2) Ground floor: vehicular access, pedestrian entrance, environmental control area to the North zone, uncovered common areas towards the sea, covered common areas below Tower one, dwellings in Tower two and parking under Tower 3. 3) The apartments are located from the first floor plan til the seventh floor plan. Staggered and jagged tower´s profile echoes the irregular outline seen on the colonial walls and castles of Cartagena. Due to this geometry the project have 11 different types of apartments that vary according the location within the building.
MODULATION A column-beam structural system supports the entire project except for special structural situations such as the extremes of the towers where, instead of columns, walls are used to support vertical weight and horizontal movements. A vertical circulation core point, made by the stairs and elevators, serves to two apartments in each storey. As the building goes up, an apartment´s ceiling could becomes the above apartment´s terrace. The building is designed to be built entirely in architectural concrete.
Cartagena´s bay
25th Street ( Calle Real)
Cartagena´s Fishing Club
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
21 17th career (Av. Del Parque)
Apartament Types A
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Tower 1
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San Sebastián del Pastelillo´s Fort Bay
LONGITUDINAL SECTION TOWER 1 AND TOWER 2
Tower 1
17th career
Tower 3
25th Street
LONGITUDINAL SECTION TOWER 1 Y TOWER 3
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1. Aparment Hall 2. Entry 3. Bedroom hall 4. Service bedroom 5. Store 6. Bedroom 7. Social bathroom 8. Laundry 9. Kitchen 10. Dining romm 11. Living room 12. Terrace 13. Covered terrace 14. BBQ 15. Main bedroom 16. Vestier 17. Bathroom 18. Technical romos 19. Elevator 20. Pool
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COMMUNAL AREAS
TOWN HOUSE INTERIOR
APARTMENT INTERIOR
Render: METHANOIA
CENTRAL COURTYARD
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Laurea Magistrale in Architecture & Urban Design
Milan – Italy / 2017 - 2019
VI. Shimei Civic Center Architectural Studio, 2018.
SHIMEI CIVIC CENTER 2018 / MILANO / Architecture Studio/ Professor: Maurizio Meriggi
Responsibilities: architectural design
SITUATION BUSINESS AREA AND CIVIC CENTER OVERVIEW
The project is in Shimei, China, an area that had been suffering several changes during last 20 years. The region moved from a rural condition to an urban situation through an aggressive process of construction that have damaged the environmental landscape and the traditional print of historical villages. The previous landscape made by islands used for agriculture, rivers for fishing and small towns with traditional architecture, is destroyed by huge highways, random industrial settlements and a disrespectful governmental master plan based in an abstract grid that solves pragmatically economic and mobility problems. This civic center is part of a new general Master Plan proposal that relocates the heavy functions as offices, institutions and transport stations to the border of the area where right now lies the highways proposed by the government. This boundary release the inner part of the area for landscape conservation, generating a huge park surrounded by new housing typologies, denser, but following the geometric and spatial patterns present in the historical towns. In the core of this central green area appears the civic center as a public building that deals with the more intellectual and aesthetical aspects of humankind. It is a complex with spaces for art exhibitions, concerts, public congregations, work, learning and cultural training.
24°29'40.75"N / 117°53'48.26"E
IMPLANTATION The project plays with diversity of functions and unity of geometry. It is a complex made by different functions organized within a clear geometry in plan and sections. At the same time, each component has his own identity not only in the internal distribution of spaces but also in the faรงade openings, skylights, courtyards and circulation systems. The principle of respect the environmental preexistences leads to a large horizontal building that delicately touches the ground with the lowest amount of built area. Cantilever volumes and bridges bind the aggrupation and complement functions. The whole composition stimulates free mobility, opening visual and spatial relationships between inside and outside. The structural systems responds to the specific functions encouraging flexibility. Concrete and steel are combined in columns, slabs, beams, walls, truss and roofs. Traditional elements of Chinese architecture as courtyards, heaviness of roofs, hierarchy in the distribution of functions, geometrical patterns of doors, celosias, parapets, handrails, rusticity of materials in skin finishing, controlled openings in facades, among others, are part of the proposal.
CIVIC CENTER ISOMETRIC ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE
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PROGRAM The project features a complex join of spaces which are located regarding public accessibility and functional requirements. The museum is the main building since it includes the public path (bridge) that connect the business area with the civic center and with the upper parts of the Master Plan. In the ground floor, to the west side of the project, the museum shapes 2 public plazas: to the north with the auditorium and the offices in one island, and to the south with the workshops in another island.
SECOND FLOOR
FIFTH FLOOR
The main public plaza lies in the north side of the complex, made by the auditorium, the offices and the museum, having a communal open space at the heart of the complex. Attached to the auditorium are technical areas, spaces for rehearsal, dressing rooms, lockers, toilets, etc. The school of arts is also attached to the auditorium but internally separated for operative reasons. The library is in the opposite island not only of the auditorium but also of the museum. It is more independent and private due its technical requirements of noise isolation, controlled visuals and spaces.
A series of bridges complete and unify the composition. They hold various functions depending their location: offices, auditorium, classrooms, workshops, exhibition areas and library.
FIRST FLOOR
FOURTH FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR GROUND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
MUSEUM
SCHOOL / LIBRARY
OFFICES / MUSEUM / AUDITORIUM
AUDITORIUM / SCHOOL / LIBRARY
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WORKSHOPS / MUSEUM / RIVER / LIBRARY
MUSEUM / PLAZA
LIBRARY / RIVER
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MUSEUM
LIBRARY
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VII. District Reconstruction Architectural Studio, 2018 – 2019.
ARCHITECTURAL RECONSTRUCTION OF DISTRICT, Wilhelmstrasse BERLIN 2019 / MILANO / Thematic Architecture Studio/ Professor: Michele Caja
Responsibilities: architectural design
SITUATION
52°30'20.19"N / 13°23'6.01"E
BLOCK VIEW
After WWII Berlin had been subject of a reconstruction process that continues nowadays. Different approaches can be identified within, from the traditional perspective that follows the previous urban print, until radical projects that suggest a complete different set of connections among the city. This project, then, has two instances: 1) a Master Plan that propose general interventions in the Wilhelmstrasse zone 2) the architectural development of an area determined by that Plan. The main direction was to understand the condition of this part of the city, in terms of functions and urban shape, to project different buildings for it`s improvement.
Tiergarten
MASTER PLAN Like a dentist, it completes the urban tissue attending the surrounding typology and morphology. In some cases, voids within block`s perimeter are filled since it is relevant to shape the street and conform an interior courtyard for environmental requirements and private benefice. In other cases, the proposal follows the predominant isolated typology of the buildings around. The appearance of plazas and high constructions is necessary to remark focus points due urban geometry (streets and blocks).
Kreuzberg
Tiergarten
Topography of Terror
MASTER PLAN
31 Kreuzberg
MASTER PLAN AXONOMETRY
Kreuzberg
Tiergarten
DISTRICT PROPOSAL Between the available and projected areas, two blocks were chosen and “unified”: those which borders are Anhalter Strasse to South, Wilhelmstrasse to East, Stresemannstrasse to West and Leipziger Strasse to North. Regarding the dispersed presence of public and governmental buildings like museums and official offices, which sometimes face the streets and others are not attached (isolated) inside the blocks, the concept of a city inside a city, with a shared common ground, was the best way to give character to this fragmented zone.
PROJECT ELEMENTS The common ground is a place for artistic and social interactions, park and plaza with axes made by vegetation, underground and overground sectors, urban mobiliary and material diversity that encourage free circulation and permanence inside the complex. The topographical intervention propose an open relationship with the underground, more vivid and optimistic, opposed to the former “negative” perception as a place of death, where prisons and treasures were hidden. The location of the new constructions attends the preexisting urban morphology. The visible geometry of streets, blocks and buildings, shape the project`s form. This geometry, orthogonal, rectilinear, with sharp angles, contrasts with the more “organic” and curvilinear evident in the park-plaza design.Toward borders, the proposal features a “block belt” made by buildings with a courtyard typology. The definition of the urban street front also defines the interior plaza limits. In some cases, parts of the new buildings rise and become towers that respond to urban axes as focus points. The location of functions inside the buildings follows those already in the area: offices and housing. The ground floor holds public functions as commerce, services, entrance lobby and so. From the new proposed buildings in this sector, the three located to the South (on Anhalter Strasse) were architectonically developed. As a collective intention, their ground floor includes cultural functions towards the plaza to give it a special character, less secular but still public: there are a school for adults, an art gallery and a library. These functions have only two story high, proposing a soft volumetric relationship with the park. In contrast, toward the street, the volumes reach seven story high.
BLOCK VIEW
PLAZA - PLINTH COMMON GROUND Topography as unifier and stave
GEOMETRY Urban axes, streets, blocks, determine building shapes
BOUNDARY Perimeter made by blocks with courtyards
FUNCTIONS Cultural Office
Housing Commerce
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NORTH EAST AXONOMETRY
SOUTH EAST AXONOMETRY
NORTH WEST AXONOMETRY
School Anhalter Strasse
School
School
Offices
Offices
Commerce
Commerce Wilhelmstrasse
GROUND FLOOR PLAN: school, commerce, offices
FIRST FLOOR PLAN: school, commerce, offices
Anhalter Strasse Wilhelmstrasse
EAST FACADE
NORTH FACADE
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SECOND F. PLAN
THIRDH F. PLAN
SIXTH F. PLAN
Wilhelmstrasse
TRANSVERSAL SECTION -school, courtyard, commerce, housing
Anhalter Strasse
Anhalter Strasse
SECTION - commerce, housing, courtyard, school
LONGITUDINAL SECTION: commerce, housing, offices
The volumetry defined by the Master Plan joins independent buildings with different structure, diverse internal distribution and dissimilar facades. Besides this, unity and diversity are explicit since the sharing of structural levels, structural modulation and double high within ground and first floors. An internal courtyard articulates the general composition and stablish a controlled dialogue between project and city (park, plaza, sidewalks, etc.) once it is connected through passages at the school entrance and in the Wilhelmstrasse – Anhalter Strasse corner. The aggrupation`s corners receive special attention since they are points of large concurrency and referential places. For instance, in the Wilhelmstrasse – Anhalter Strasse corner, the building goes back in the ground and first floor releasing a wide and double high space below. Simultaneously, on Wilhelmstrasse, toward Topography of Terror, the corner is solved by a tower conceived as an abstract element that joins the open space below and corresponds to the confluence of some street perspectives. The relationships between parts are carefully studied to have clear transitions among functions, properties and forms: gaps, alterations of high and facades backwards, are some of the gestures used for this purpose.
PARK – PLAZA
COURTYARD
WILHELMSTRASSE - ANHALTER STRASSE CORNER
WILHELMSTRASSE VIEW
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VIII. Qualification of Train Station & Piazza Master Thesis, 2019.
QUALIFICATION OF LAMBRATE TRAIN STATION & PIAZZA ROMONO 2019 / MILANO / Laurea Magistrale Thesis/ Professor: Camillo Magni
Responsibilities: architectural design
AXONOMETRIC CURRENT SITUATION
AXONOMETRIC VIEW
The project is an architectural requalification of Lambrate train station area, an urban node located in Milan, Italy. It starts with a general approach to Lambrate and Città Study districts, understanding their urban dynamics and identifying relevant areas where architecture must operate. Between these, piazza Romono results more attractive due the complexity of fluxes, morphological confluence, built preexistences and functions. The architectural proposal, then, first address a general master plan for the potentialities of those areas (following the urban tendencies already there) and, second, focus in piazza Romono generating a new public space taking advantage of the diversity of functions, enhancing the connectivity and bringing a new urban character to the place.
SITUATION
45°29'4.99"N / 9°14'18.67"E
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL
MASTER PLAN ACTIONS
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ROOF PLAN
To define and shape the public space, the proposal see the location as a destiny, a place to go, a place to stop. At the same time, it constitutes a door, a threshold once the train line is considerate as a wall that divides this part of Milan. Piazza, park, tower and wall are the leading elements of the proposal including, also, a temple and a horizontal pavilion which shapes the connection between the piazza and the park that comes from scalo Lambrate. The PGT requirements and the Milano 2030 strategy were the directions taken for the definition of the program
Continuity, the connection between relevant parts of the area, underlining the pedestrian
piazza vs park
geometry
visuals references
space definers
occupation / isolated parts
circulations
fluxes over vehicular requirements, is the main purpose that leads the master plan actions. Public space become the carpet where the furniture / buildings play new roles. Following the urban `inertia` present in the site, some walkways were reinforced and projected. At the same time, some vehicular streets were displaced and erased while others proposed and enlarged. Geometry and topography, regarding function and location, give variety and complexity to the whole composition: in some areas, curves and `soft` materials command the design, whereas, in more exposed zones, hard pavements and buildings predominate. The designed master plan, then, looks for a pleasant linkage among preexistences and new additions, always having elements of straight but not obvious correlation.
DEMOLITION / RELOCATION
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APARTMENTS
COMMON AREAS
AXONOMETRY
WEST FACADE
TOWER It is a hinge, a lighthouse, a pivot around things happen; It is a guide, a mirador; a needle that plays around the train line. Housing is the main function of this element since it is required by the PGT and since all this cultural node involves people for its appropriation. The language of the project appears neutral and pristine, somehow like a shelf. The location of columns in the perimeter and core of the building, facilitates the free disposition of dividing walls having variety of programs, areas and distributions.
PERSPECTIVE
The monotony of the structural grid is broken by the location and linkage of the communal areas, that each three levels rotates and spins around the tower. This gesture gives different faces to the building and open diverse perspectives to the city.
TOWER – LEVEL 2 - APARTMENTS
TOWER – LEVEL 4 - APARTMENTS
TOWER – LEVEL 3 - APARTMENTS
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TRAIN STATION The current buildings are not well related with the public space and lack of built elements to denote the relevance of this important place in Milan. Furthermore, they have truculent circulations without comfortable spaces for users as a result of individual not coordinated interventions. The proposal is a re edification of station entrances and the unification of the current circulation system that reach the station platforms. Additionally, since this point is understood as a threshold between Lambrate and CittĂ Study districts, it is required the inclusion of better pedestrian connections to facilitate circulation of people, goods and services. The project also intervenes the built train line itself, interpreting it as an ancient wall with arches in brick, concrete and stone. Inside it holds offices, retail and services, promoting public activities facing the city. Contrasting with the train line, the new access buildings employ light materials like glass and steel, with more openings and using a generic composition based on repetition. This kind of glass house, carefully aligned with Via Pacini, explicitly bites the train line and holds stairs, elevators, ticket offices, restrooms, seats, machines, etc. It is the element where platform access and tunnels come together.
AXONOMETRY
PERSPECTIVE
AXONOMETRIC SECTION
pedestrian connections
circulation fluxes
new attachment
TRAIN STATION ENTRANCE
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
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TEMPLE Faith requires a special place, a quiet one, distant from the ordinary world. A process of separation is fundamental: doors, walls, change of materials, stairs, ramps, above ground, underground, became part of that operation. After this, the sacred space could be an empty box, a void, a silence, but also a place full of special decoration, with sacred texts, spells, tales, etc. This proposed temple is open to different believes without preferences. In a world full of fictions, with information overdose and newness greed, the proposal shapes a space where darkness and light, the essentials, take command. Occupying the site of a former market, the building holds a place for introspection and contemplation, a place to canalize our faith, an apparatus of connection between mortals and deities. First, we are forced to go underground (somehow die) and from there, second, we appreciate just the light, the sky. The use of the rectangle and the circle as geometrical types, marks the separation and the unification, respectively. The temple is an implivium, a place for meetings and happenings, a workshop, an exhibition area.
AXONOMETRY AXONOMETRIC SECTIONS
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
GROUND FLOOR
INTERIOR
UNDERGROUND
LATERAL PATIO
TRANSVERSAL SECTION
ENTRANCE
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PIAZZA VIEW TOWARD PAVILION, TRAIN STATION, TOWER
PIAZZA VIEW TOWARD TEMPLE
CONNECTION TO SCALO LAMBRATE: VIEW TOWARD TRAIN STATION, TOWER, PAVILION
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IX. Other Projects
Research Center, San Cristoforo, Milano 2019. Readecuación Casa La Scala, Lago di Garda Casa del Abanderado Espinosa, 2005. Museo Postal, 2005.
Edificio MT6 2012. Edificio Retiro 84, 2012.
Hotel Ibis Medellín 2011. Edificio Salvio 2017.
Architect De la Carrera - Cavanzo, Arquitectos Asociados
Project Architect ESCALAR Gerencia Inmobiliaria
Project Architect Arias Serna Saravia S.A.S.
2019.
Housing Prototypes for San Andrés Islands 2020.
Final Studio Interiors Design Studio Politecnico di Milano
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