Portfolio Jordi Malet, march 2017

PORT F OL IO JO R D I MALET i PONSATÍ

Barcelona, march 2017.

References available upon request

Jordi Malet Ponsatí

Born 12.03.1991 in Barcelona Avinguda Príncep d’Astúries 14, 5 2, Barcelona 08012, +34 647 063 318 malet.jordi@gmail.com

Education 2017

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSAV, Degree in Architecture - Llicenciatura pla 94

2015

Sant Cugat, Barcelona

Hochschule Luzern, Architecture School Exchange Master Student

2015

Luzern, Switzerland

ETSAB Summer school workshop Arquitectes de Capçalera - Ciutat de Barcelona Award

2013

Barcelona

Universidad del Bío Bío, Architecture School Exchange Bachelor Student

2009

Concepción, Chile

Institució cultural del CIC, High school graduate

2008

Barcelona

Princeton High School, Junior year

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

Professional Experience 2016

Intern, Group 8 , march - september Development of competition Campus Santé - 2nd Prize Development of competition Carantec - 1st Prize

2015

Geneva, Switzerland

Collaboration with PCAU-Arquitecte, march - june Refurbishment of an old farmhouse

Barcelona

Intern, A12 Arquitectes, january-march Development of the executive project for an apartment block refurbishment 2014

Barcelona

Teaching Assistant, ETSAV - UPC, september - january

Introduction to Architecture

Sant Cugat, Barcelona

Collaboration with PCAU-Arquitecte, september - octuber Apartment refurbishment Languages Catalan, native Spanish, native English, advanced, [CAE grade A] French, advanced German, begginer Computer Skills Autodesk AutoCad Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign Bentley Microstation Sketchup Pro, Artlantis & VRay

Barcelona

CLARA’S Apartment refurbishment Gràcia, Barcelona PCAU - Arquictectes , autumn 2014

OLMSTED Concours Campus Santé_ 2nd Prize Les Côtes de la Bourdonnete, Lausanne Group8, spring 2016

SERPENTINE Concours Carantec_1st prize Grand Saconnex, Genève Group8, spring 2016

PRODUCING SANKT MARTIN Master thesis Sankt Martin im Calfeisental, St. Gallen ETSAV - UPC , autumn 2016

CLARA’S apartment refurbishment

period

Autumn 2014

With a typology fairly similar to that of the Eixample (Barce-

place

Gràcia, Barcelona

lona’s famous grid) than to the ones we can easily find in the

program

Apartment refurbishment

village like neighborhood where the apartment is located, we

with

PCAU-Arquitecte

found ourselves with a very simple spatial organization; the entrance is through the middle of a long hallway connecting the two facades and living spaces - one facing the street and the other towards the spacious courtyard that defines the back of the building - and the service areas placed around an interior courtyard.

When talking to the client about her main desires, we were posed with one very specific demand; the improvement of the service area. Little else was said. The combination of the deepness of the typology along with the narrow façades usually leaves these apartments with long and dark hallways, so lighting comfort became one of the main issues of the design.

During the design process decision were made according to those few wishes. In order to improve internal circulations and the natural lighting comfort an opening was done, tearing down a small portion of the wall which separated kitchen and living room, along with the improvement of the bathrooms and the recognition of the hallway as one of the characteristic elements of this typology of apartment, always betting on light colours and textures for the finishing surfaces.

OLMSTED Competition for the Medical Campus in Laussane.

2nd prize

period

Spring 2016

The western region of Lausanne develops through the constel-

place

La Bourdonnette - Laussane

lation of large urban entities with strong figures. The competi-

program

Medical campus, simulation

tion asked for a design proposal for a complex program which

hospital and student housing.

included private housing, an administration building for the

group8

Vaud canton and a public equipment for the city of Lausanne,

Laurent Ammeter

along with a thorough definition of the new medical campus

Adrien Besson

for the university of Lausanne. The latter included three very

Tarramo Broennimann

unique usages: the HESAV (including classrooms, auditoriums

Olivier Fleith

and administration offices), the C4 (a simulation hospital for the

Alexandra de la Chapelle

medical students) and student housing.

with

Camille Abeille Clio Gachoud

The various programs of the site are set up in such a way as

Julie Cisterne

to form a coherent and homogeneous whole, whose layout of

Lili Szabo

the built masses follows a geometric pattern around a park to constitute a center. The traditional figure of the block is here revisited to make a thick but porous material, able to integrate public spaces.

South of the park, the campus programs are distributed in a continuous figure where each program receives, by its position, its specific identity and its own address. An alley passes longitudinally through a series of courtyards and squares, creating a circulation space that facilitates the orientation of the users and is protected from the nuisance of the boulevard.

Each of the programs is developed according to its own typology. The HESAV occupies the western part, the program of the C4 is located in the middle part while the student housing is placed at the eastern end. The upper floors are connected to each other by an “inner street� located on the second floor. This route is a way to join all the entities of the programs and thus builds a double circulation. A single facade system is deployed with the same register throughout the building. The latter is expressed by a set of horizontal plates supported by columns, with variations of overflow specific to each program and orientation

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SERPENTINE Competition for a new square and residential buildings.

1st prize

When analyzing the site of the contest, we find ourselves on the crossing of two very marked axes; one defined by large period

Spring 2016

urban entities that culminates by the “place des Nations” and

place

Grand Saconnex, Genève

another characterized by small scale, village-like, buildings.

program

Public square, residential

The competition asked for the definition of a public square for

and commerce buildings

the village of Grand Saconnex, along with the development of

group8

private housing and commerce.

with

Laurent Ammeter Adrien Besson

The urban form is based on a serpentine plan, drawing a sil-

Tarramo Broennimann

houette with differentiated heights, in response of the two axes

Clio Gachoud

mentioned beforehand. These volumetric joints ensure open-

Julie Vanbruaene

ings of the space and varied perspectives to the public spaces

Julie Cisterne

and distant views to the majority of the apartments. It favors crossing and bi-oriented typologies, with loggias that open the angle of the houses where they penetrate deeply into their plan. The morphology as well as the tectonic register of the architectural expression seek a unitary register in order to induce the notion of ensemble. The irregular outline of buildings is a place with a wide variety of proportions and produces a multitude of perceptions.

The square is distinctly separated from the pedestrian area separated from the road. It is composed of a succession of places and atmospheres that constitutes a set of public spaces. The “Maison des Médecins” is the link between the spaces of the square. The full play of the mall of trees and the voids of the plots corresponds to that of the heights of the buildings.

In contrast with the regular, mineral and flat, a linear and picturesque park rises above the tapered relief. It is an extension of the existing park “des Délices”. The main and public road, located on the same contour, offers a walk from the town hall towards the library, crossing the perimeter of the project in its entire length and widening in places to form playgrounds.

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PRODUCING SANKT MARTIN Learning from tradition.

period

Autumn 2016

In October 2016 I found myself surrounded by high larch trees

place

Sankt Martin Im Calfeisental (SG),

and steep snow-covered mountain slopes in the valley of the

Switzerland

Calfeisental, birthplace of the Calfeisen Walser, a community

Refurbishment of an abbandoned

that went extinct over 400 years ago. What was once the cen-

Walser settlement into a mountain

ter of a community of alpine farmers that lived in total synergy

refuge.

with its environment, has shifted towards a touristic resort that

ETSAV-UPC Master Thesis.

shows little respect towards the natural habitat.

program

with

But the Walser people left and important heritage that not only shows itself on the wooden houses, built entirely in the traditional technique of strickbau (literally knitted construction), of the abandoned settlement of Sankt Martin, but in a lifestyle that characterized itself with the utmost respect towards the valley that nourished them.

It is this almost forgotten heritage that the project wishes to enforce, and through a thorough analysis of the environment a new program is placed in Sankt Martin, deviating from a “picturesque� restaurant to an alpine hut searching a connection with the old farming routes which are now part of a network of hiking paths.

Understanding that the materials and constructive system of a building do not only determine the aesthetics, but generate a genetic code which can be individual and unique to each building, the technique chosen for the construction of the mountain hut is my own interpretation of the traditional strickbau, which is a conclusion of what i learned from the analysis done on both old and modern examples of this system.

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Barcelona, march 2017.

References available upon request