portfolio | 2022 juan sebastián cardona | selected works
01. OBSOLETE OBJECT'S INTEGRATION TO THE URBAN FABRIC | Old National Brewery’s Learning Center
OBSOLETE OBJECT: OLD INDUSTRIAL SITE The project surges from a deep inquiry about the future of objects that are no longer integrated to the city, a pertinent architectonic intervention is explored to find a solution to reincorporate these now obsolete objects to the urban fabric. Strong analysis of the context situation of the site lead to a project that reintegrates the industrial remainders of the Old National Brewery to the city.
OBJECT'S CURRENT SITUATION: The Old National Brewery is located at La Magdelena parish in the southern part of Quito. Nowadays, eventhough is known as a urban landmark, it remains abandoned and disjointed from its context. The construction of La Magdalena’s subway station in the adjacent lot, gives the Old National Brewery the potential to become a hub of development for the parish. This is why it is essential to give a new function for the city: a learning center.
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The project proposes the link and use of the old concrete silos, located in the center of the site, as organizational objects of the public space and of the new proposed architectonic elements. Directionality and modulation of the central 16 silo block is used for the spatial and formal configuration of a dialogic architecture. A functional occupation of the preexistences by the use of its infrastructure is proposed. Additionally, 2 supplementary types of intervention are proposed; Focus: mimicry through materiality, and burying underneath the ground level the new architecture in order to highlight and focus the preexistences, while allowing an underground connection between the main building and the subway station. Contrast: Interventions using different materials from the silos, while keeping the pronounced topography of the site, achieving the connection with the upper levels.
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1. San Lazaro’s hospice 6. San Diego’s cementery 11. hotel Quito
2. Tejar’s cementery
3.Sena’s public pools
7. old National Brewery
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4.old García Moreno’s jail
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5. old Quito’s art school
9. Royal’s windmills
10 .Olympic stadium
14 . industrial zone granados
15. el batán’s cementery
EXTERNAL VIEW OF CLOSURE/ AV. 5 DE JUNIO
INTERIOR VIEW 1 / / GENERIC TYPOLOGICAL BUILDINGS
NITERIOR VIEW 2 / / ` GREEN AND VISUAL AREAS
SILOS VIEW / MONUMENTALITY AND MATERIAL
INTERVENTION | ORIGINAL STATE PRE-EXISTENCE TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL REMANENTS INTO A HABITABLE SPACES
OLD NATIONAL BREWERY The investigation determined that due to the urban-architectural conditions of this space, this old industry is the ideal space for an intervention that will have a great impact on the city of Quito
EXPLODED ISOMETRIC VIEW BY BLOCK RELATION BETWEEN BLOCK AND THE CONTEXT
EVIDENCE / RESCUE keep the memory of the city by the articulation of objects that belong to different temporal layers
CONNECT articulate and integrate the obsolete object with the city structure. [public space + urban green areas]
DIALOGUE generate a formal and material dialectical relationship between the objects found and the elements that are inserted.
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The new elements to be inserted are built with COR-TEN steel, in order to contrast with the pre-existing concrete. Even though this is a new material, its rusty appearance dialogue with the old concrete.
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public space | external view from mural
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02. CHOCO ANDINO | ETHEREAL LANDSCAPES | Interventions on the landscape.
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Recognized by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve, on a large scale, the Chocó Andino is a forest landscape composed of eleven ecological systems, comprising from the moor to the rain-forest.
After recognizing the landscape, the workshop sought a more haptic and personal perspective regarding the understanding of the particularities of the site, where the work by hand and the idea of the gesture was proposed as a reflection of this sensitive experience of the landscape. Thus, emphasis is placed on techniques such as handdrawing, painting and modeling as means of expression and representation of ideas and intentions in relation to the territory
The C.A. it is defined as a transitional corridor between the mountains and the coast, where the main conditions are defined by the meeting of climates, its abundant forests and the particular material expressions that change while the territory is explored. The approach to the territory was directed through "the drift", with which we were able to discover particularities, signs, phenomena and traces that make up the memory of the place.
|A1| INTERVENTION IN THE RUIN
|A2| LIGHT'S SPACE
|A7| MASHPI'S HERMITAGE
In this way, the interventions were proposed in order to give meaning to the different ways of inhabiting the landscape, creating a joint place where the architectonic object is present to the extent that the territory requires it.
nicole andrade josé lopez mafer moreta adriana granda daniela jarrin david rodriguez
dennis solá gabriel troncoso jaire cagigal jose perez sthephanny soria vanessa buitrón juan cardona
In the Yunguilla's, Mindo's and Mashpi's (cities of the Chocó Andino) interventions, the main objective is to understand the specific nature of each territory with a specific aesthetic and use according to the character of each region.
The use of "the drift", here expressed in a photographic record, was the method that helped us understand each territory, leading us to discover the particularities, signs and phenomena that compose the memory of each place.
|A6| MEDITATION SPACE AT THE RIVER |A1| INTERVENTION IN THE RUIN
|C1| MINDO'S CHILDREND PLAYGROUND REGENERATION |A2| LIGHT'S SPACE
|A8| MASHPI'S CONTEMPLATION SPACE |A4| ROAD'S LOOKOUT
A series of photo-compositions let us comprehend and express the strong relationship between the projects and each natural region. The project evolved into different designs that allowed 3 types of functional characteristics: contemplative, ludic or spiritual.
"MASHPI'S HERMITAGE" spiritual
"RIVER'S MEDITATION CENTER" spiritual
"BAMBOO'S PLAYGROUND" ludic
"RUIN'S RECUPERATION" spiritual
"MINDO'S PUBLIC WORKSHOPS" ludic
"MEDITATION BY THE FOG" spiritual
03. HERMITAGE OF MASHPI SPIRITUAL SPACE | Voluntary and temporary confinement in nature
MYSTIC SEARCH IN THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE The project proposes a mystical search that starts with an ascetic path that creates spaces that promote disconnection from the routine to allow and arouse the connection between the human soul and the sacred created by an experience in the natural space. CATHEDRAL FOREST “Commonly I have the thought that the forest is a living cathedral, but this is to diminish what it really is, the forest is not an expression of the sacred, nor its a place that evokes it, the forest is sacred in itself. Whoever enters in the forest, experiences holiness in his entire body, breathes and contains it within himself, opens his eyes and observes the beauty of God."
Faced with the daily perception towards nature in the inhabitants of Mashpi (lack of appreciation) + the lack of a space for spirituality in the town, the project propose a space that evokes connection and spiritual search that origins from a natural space. The project seeks to maximize the humanexperience in the nature, it focuses, enhances and exalts the natural landscape where it is implanted. Components: stone, earth, vegetation, water ... light and shadows... This intervention works in harmony with the natural space, it has been implanted in a concave topographic singularity, to which, through light interventions in the land, a circular buried space is created, making reference to the ceremonial spaces of the Tulipe's culture (nearby ancient Andean ruins).
CONECTION collective space + intimacy It is the term of the project, the last stage of asceticism, the space of harmony that seeks to arouse the connection or spiritual revelation through and harmonic experience.
forest | color + light and shadow
The final circular space corresponds to a simple, unitary and consonant space.
DISCONECTION 2 cave | contrast + material
space of individuality + intimacy The second part of the project consists of multiple interventions situated on a path, interventions such as viewpoints + spaces for individual meditation. It seeks to generate a disconnection throughout confrontation with oneself, these individual spaces allow individual reflection, always in relation to nature.
ruins | nature vs constructed through time
DISCONECTION 1 the first phase seeks to generate a confrontation with the visitor, it is composed of a buried geometric path that faces the topography. seeks to generate disconnection from confrontation over physical effort, changes of pace, spatial changes.
Andean pre-existence | site's past
planta general | recorrido y espacios
section 1 | connection space
fianl space | model phase 1
fianl space | model phase 2
fianl space | model phase 3
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lookout entrance1 | disconnection 2
culunco | path | desconection 1
conection space | relation water-stone - vegetation
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meditation space | conction 2
04. RUMICUCHO'S PUCARÁ | CONTAINING THE VOID | Intervention in the ruin
This theoretical project was design from an architectonic inquiry about the way to understand the built heritage and the different ways to intervene the preexisting elements. The study case was the Rumicucho Ruins an old Andean complex at the northern part of Quito. (EC).
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RUINS MANIFEST
ABSTRACTION OF THE OBJECT: Walls and platforms – geometry / The intervention in the ruin looks to give meaning and order to the fragmented elements of the existing object
Facing the romantic vision of the ruins, where there is no other possibility than leaving the site as it is. I started from the rational analysis of the object in order to find an adequate form to insert a new architectonic object in the existing space. This interest doesn’t limit itself to a material nor formal comprehension to the ruin, instead looks to understand the possibility of an intervention through the voids and objects that compose the ruin. Understanding how the new project gives sense to the fragmented element, and return the habitability to this space, that through the years has lost its shape and function.
UNDERSTANDIG THE EXISTENT ELEMENTS: footprints-remaining | presence of the object in the space/ materials – order –shape / space –non space
An equipment that allows the use of this abandoned space is proposed. The design involves the generation of a crematory and columbarium inside the complex. The project looks to generate a new architecture that dialogue directly with the pre-existences in both formal, material and spatial ways. This management of contrasts defines the way to intervene in the site.
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LANDSCAPE AND RUINS: DESCRIPTION The ruins are a simple topographic geometrization through a series of contiguous platforms that follow the shape of the hill. The strategic location and arrangement of the object enhances and directs the voids and the views, of both the mountain, the river, as well as the distant views of the mountain range.
PROPOSAL: BETWEEN VOIDS AND ABSENCE INTENTION: give meaning and order to fragmented elements that composed ruins (walls and platforms). ESTRATEGIES: dig under existing platforms to create a functional space in the heart of the hill. -Connect the voids of the city with natural void of the creek with a subtraction that articulates and allows access to the specific functions of this new CEMENTERY composed of a crematorium / columbarium.
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aerial view from the creek | south view
A DIALOG BETWEEN RUINS, LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE The base form of the project starts with the superior platform of the ruin, a rectangular platform that slightly protrudes above the hill. This rectangle and a circular rock wall, serve to order and shape the new architecture, a series of prisms buried underground connect the inferior part of this platform with the lower layers of the terrain (entrances from the city) at the same time it generates a direct relationship with the natural creek.
transversal TFDUJPO | FOUSBODF y DPMVNCJOFT
longitudinal section | hypostile and crematorium
planta general | planta baja
MATTER AND LIGHT The relations between the new and old elements is given from their physical qualities. The preexistences are made from two materials, dirt and stone, while the main material to be used in the new intervention is concrete, this will generate a differentiation between the two temporal layers, without creating a great contrast This old ruins are located at the Equatorial Line, this allows an exploitation of the light at the interior of the spaces through natural and zenith light that guides the paths and remarks the differentiation between spaces.
05. NATURAL PARK'S ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER FOR THE GARROTXA'S VOLCANIC RESERVE | RCR LAB-A 2019
TUTORS: NARCIS FONT GONZALO BARDACH
SITE | LA GARROTXA
CONCEPT | LANSCAPE BUILDING
The project is located in Olot, a small town in the volcanic zone at La Garrotxa's natural reserve with exceptional landscapes due to the amount of volcanic cones and dry basaltic lava flows that make it the most iconic exponent of the volcanic landscape in the Iberian peninsula
The design proposes a landscape-building that scatters between the forest glade, creating paths that give continuity between the different strata found, giving the user a soft transition between the built and natural environment.
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM | The Natural Reserve Administrative Center to be designed, act as a hinge between the natural environment of the Garrotxa and the town. For this motive, the project is strategically located in the Parc Nou, one of the main natural spaces in the town, linking Olot with the natural reserve. ATMOSPHERE | FOREST STRATA Starting from an intensive reading of the layers that conform this natural environment, the project will recreate this forest atmosphere characterized by different filled spaces, shadows, light, and time.
By doing so, the project stimulates the consciousness of nature, allowing a compression of the geographical elements that define Olot’s identity, and at the same time, facilitates the vigilance of the park to the people working in the building.
francisco hernández (COL) lucía castro (ESP) juan josé vargas (COL) maría quesada (ARG) juan martin flo es(ARG) camila joaqui (COL) juan cardona (ECU) maría josé cachau (ARG) lavinia tommasoli (ITA) teresa eyzaguirre (CHI) linda cortés (ESP) mariana alves (BRA) lourenço gimenes (BRA) miguel nazar (CHI)
LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION
ABSTRACTION | VOLCANIC SITUATION geography create continuity and allows orientation
desvinculation city | nature
the situation | city - park
intervention zone interstice city | forest
intervention character no order | interstice
vacant space | 3 typologies: vegetacion , void y buildings
intermediate zone |
natural zone | parc nou
the place | current state
green mass continuity
urban acceses forest - city relation though the wall
lecture by strata: tree as strata unfier
urban zone | av coloma
| interstice natural - urban
the site | intentions
PARC NOU
proposal | main plan
opportunity spaces | intervention zone utilization of voids in tree cups + vacants
promenade | connections
elevated walkways that create a path though the forest
structure grid | occupation of the terrain
dialectic between structure and nature + reuse of old structures
temporality + nature
nature as an agent of time that modifies the internal spaces
functional spaces
disperse occupation taking advantage and filling the voids
public spaces
character is modified according to the context that surrounds it.
tree logs
nature's strata
trees tribe
giovanni b. piranesi
temporal relation between nature and artificial
way to habit the forest
proposal | conceptual references
esther stocker
structure: order, light, transparent
theatre: internal experience | trans-lucid space
elevated walkways: relation in the nature
proposal | aerial view
public space | paths y resting spaces in the nature
06. MOSHI’S EARTH SCHOOL | Earth architecture competition
Lead designer in collaboration with arch. Paulina Flores Year: 2020 Project location: Moshi - Tanzania Process: Finished Competition
It is estimated that 3 million Tanzanian children are orphaned as a result of HIV and AIDS with this not being the only cause for the children’s vulnerability in Tanzania. Other factors include living in an abusive environment, living with a sick parent or guardian, living with a disability, living in elderly-headed households or living with families facing absolute poverty. All of these situations can make children vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, illness, withdrawal from school, and emotional distress and trauma. Around 11,216 orphans and vulnerable children live in residential care centres. (C-re-aid, 2020). The proposed project proposes to create an open school, a space where children can run, play while they learn. The design consists of a set of 4 volumes that revolve around a central patio that functions as the heart of the project. In addition to allowing the adverse weather to be controlled by maintaining constant temperatures inside the enclosures, it serves as a playground, an amphitheater and the main meeting area. Additionally, this space has a perimeter corridor that connects the activities, thus acting as an articulating space.
Outside the complex, a series of platforms that adapt to the slight slope of the terrain are proposed. The platforms are designed to become access areas, areas for crops, water recollection zones as well as playgrounds. The intention is that the children who inhabit this place feel free to explore, play and learn not only inside the bulding but also in the exterior zones.
Typical courtyard: protection and control on the inside
Optimized courtyard: reduce built space. Improve economic proposal
Fluid and con nected spaces connect internal void - external areas
Remark the courtyard + connect spaces with circulations.
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5.promenade 6.washroom 7.water storage 8.amphiteatre 9.exterior platform (ac cess) 10.vegetable garden 11. herb garden
Light metallic roof
Structural wood framing
Wood casework
Earth structural walls
Natural Ground + grass + crops External earth platforms + stone furniture
Concrete platforms + stone base walls Earth internal court yard+ stone bleachers
Natural Ground + grass + crops Bathrooms
07. CENTINELA | PLASTIC ISLAND SHELTER Collaboration with David Rodriguez + Gabriel Troncoso Year: 2021 Project location: Galapagos - Ecuador Process: 4th place / Competition
Every protected territory is a threatened territory. The Galapagos Islands was the first place in the world to be declared a Natural World Heritage Site due to its volcanic condition and its immense biodiversity. It is the place where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution. Since 1986, the sea that surrounds the Galapagos Islands has been declared a Marine Reserve, a Whale Sanctuary, a Biosphere Reserve and a Ramsar Site. Historical events and the unique natural quality of the archipelago make it an irreplaceable space that must be protected. We consider it pertinent to reveal the Galapagos Archipelago to the world through architecture and research. Una meditación sobre las islas es necesariamente una meditación sobre las aguas, aguas envolventes, aguas primordiales. El hombre insular se mueve en su espacio como el embrión se mueve en su líquido amniótico»
andrés sánchez robayna
We consider that given the importance of the existing landscape, it should not be intervened in a permanent, so we project a floating object, a nomadic island. A thin plastic membrane must be what separates the insular man from the ocean. a thin membrane transparent that reveals its content, that in its presence allows all light and sound to pass through. Theplastic as a noble material, no longer as a harmful agent. Not new plastic, but recycled plastic. A self-sufficient and symbiotic object with the environment where it is inserted. This object appreciates its surroundings and shows the visitor, within this space research and the exchange of ideas are prioritized as a means essential to increase, preserve and value knowledge. Likewise, objects are proposed complementary smaller-scale satellites in order to allow and facilitate research, monitoring and conservation of the landscape and all its elements
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1. Entrance and exhibition space. 2. Reception 3. Main multimedia room + auditorium 4. Laboratory 5. Traveling exhibitions + circulations 6. General toilets 7. Offices
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interstitial spaces
flexible spaces
8. Cafeteria services 9. Open cafeteria 10. Lookout 11. Water vacuum 12.Vertical circulation 13. Showers 14. Recycling Warehouse
1.Vertical circulation 2. Maritime Observatory 3. Research exhibitions. 4. Machine room and general storage.
used spaces
submerged space
water voids
interstitial spaces
flexible spaces
5. Water well 6. General bedrooms and toilets 7. Bedroom and service toilets. 8.ocean
used spaces
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- control antenna for monitoration - Fixed Deck Furniture - walkable plastic cover -Translucent Photovoltaics Panel
- Diaphanous self-supporting structure
- Vertical translucent bodies (structural)
- exterior transparent membrane
- Superior perforations that relate the interior spaces with the sky
-Cylindrical spaces with determinated functions
- envelope made of recycled plastic materials
-Ambulatory - water voids - Module of analysis, monitoring and collection of plastic waste - floating platform
- submerged space
- spaces with determinated use - Flexible and Exhibition Spaces
- spaces with determinated use
- Flexible and Exhibition Spaces
08. PAUL RIVET RESIDENTIAL BUILDING | Collective housing
Collaboration with URLO Year: 2021 Project location: Quito - Ecuador Process: In construction
The project is located in the neighborhood of La Paz, a historically residential neighborhood in transition to become a mixed-use area. Despite being a few meters from Quito’s main avenue 6 de Diciembre; Paul Rivet Street has the potential to become a controlled densified housing area maintaining controlled uses of commerce and offices in the first floors. The proximity to integrated transport systems such as the Ecovía de La Paz station (150 meters), the complete supply of basic services and a privileged location close to facilities large-scale (hypercenter of the city) allow the neighborhood to enter the special regulations applied to eco-efficiency zones. This gives the possibility of exceeding the number of floors allowed by the regular regulations. Despite the existence of buildings of considerable height in the context, the positive topography that rises towards González Suarez, allows the upper floors of a possible proposal to have a panoramic view of the city.
The volumetric response of the building seeks to reduce the impact of the project towards the public space. For this reason, the facades of the building are fragmented and staggered to avoid having a front massive. In addition, this decision highlights the lower corner of the volume giving it prominence and character. The project seeks to contribute to the economic and social dynamism that is increasing in the neighborhood. This is achieved with commercial spaces on the ground floor, which together with a front free of spaces semi-public that serve as support for commercial activity in the form of a square and a terracecommercial, generate movement and activity in the neighborhood and create pedestrian-friendly dynamics.
metallic structure
sliding windows system
fixed and folding metal panel facade system (micro-perforated mesh)
integrated vegetation on terraces
micro-perforated mesh metal railing system on terraces
The façade improves the habitability of the building by having a clear differentiation between social and rest areas, the aim is to offer a great views, improved lighting and controlled permeability with the outside. The large windows in the front of the building facilitate the access of the sun and enhance the views, while the controlled openings on the sides of the building in the night areas allow and adequate ventilation and lighting of the rooms, while guaranteeing a solution of controlled privacy.
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09. OLVIA RESIDENTIAL BUILDING | Collective housing
Collaboration with URLO Year: 2019_2022 Project location: Quito - Ecuador Process: In construction
This mixed-use building is located in the traditional neighbourhood of Bellavista in Quito on a triangular site with a pronounced topography, which was a challenge for the initial approach. The proposal has 14 apartments, all with natural light, views, and cross ventilation. The design consists of two terraced volumes that border the front of the lot leaving a courtyard between them, which allows for light and ventilation in each home, as well as providing them with private green space. The ground floor of the building is intended for commercial use, creating two commercial fronts and a series of public and green spaces that resolve the unevenness of the street. The commercial front contributes and encourages mixed use in the neighbourhood, which makes the area more dynamic and aims to reduce car trips made in the area. The building has a communal area on the rooftop, a cinema in the lower levels, and an interior patio with native vegetation that embellishes the space and revalue the property.
The upper floors are residential and are interlocked with each other at the edge of the volumes, providing most apartments with views and balconies facing the Pichincha volcano The apartments are designed in such a way that the night areas (rooms, bathrooms) are separated from the day areas (living room, kitchen, dining room, social bathroom). The design is clear and easy to read, and the finishes help to convey a sense of warmth and order.
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glass window module - 90x240 cm
- pre-fab installation part II: fragmetns
- relation between light and modules
- interior facade / central patio
- phase I: bones of steel
- structure completion
- monolith aesthetic for night zones
- anchoring system to concrete slab
- pre-fab installation part I
- concrete pre-fab module tests
thank you for and improved visualization: https://issuu.com/juancardona1/docs/ portfolio_2019_english_18mb