Juan Escudero Pablos.
Architcture portfolio. [ 2008/2018 ]
Juan Escudero Pablos /// CONTACT INFORMATION /// ///PROFESSIONAL/// ///EXPERIENCE /// NAME. Juan Escudero Pablos ADDRESS. 346 Bethnal Green Road. Flat 9 E2 0AH London PHONE. +4407732571814 MAIL. juanescuderopablos@gmail.com ARB. 092013D
/// LANGUAGE /// Spanish Native. English Proficient. Basic.
[2018] UCA Canterbury. Seasonal tutor. Graphic communication workshop. [2017] Paula Montoya. Any scale Architecture
Collabotation developing international award winning competition.Construction development. Visualizations.
[2016] APL Arquitectos. Architecture Projects and landscape.
Architecture and landscape design. Construction development and detailing. Masterplanning. Visualizations. Revit.
[ 2013] Zoka Zola architecture & Urban planning. Internship. Architectural design. Graphic design.
/// EDUCATION /// [ 2016 / 2018 ]
[ C1.TOEFL TEST 107/120 ]
French
Architect. ARB no.092013D
[ 2008 / 2015 ]
Web design. Visualizations.
Bartlett MArch Architecture. U26.
Architecture Film and animation. Distinction [>70%].
[E.T.S.A.M] Technical school of Madrid Architecture. 5 year barchelor + master thesis
/// DIGITAL SKILLS /// Proficient. 2D. Autocad / Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign 3D. Rhino Microsoft suit / Mac-Windows Advance. 3D. Revit.
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Master thesis.
// [ 2008 / 2015 ]
Bachelor degree in architecture.
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Basic. 3D. Sketch up Grasshopper / C4D
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Specialization degree Architecture and landscape.
International exchange Madrid-Chicago.
Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL Architecture Dean`s list GPA [3/4] Selected among hundreds of students to enrol in the one year exchange program with IIT.
/// AWARDS
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[ 2017 ] [ 2016 ] [ 2015 ] [ 2014 ] [ 2013 ]
* Acknowledgement Latin America Holcim awards 2017. “Seeding Health in Nicaragua “ * Nominee YTAA Mies Van der Rohe foundation. * Finalist advance architecture contest Barcelona. Team Susana de Zárraga. * Thesis Oral review // with honors * Finalist PFC STRIKE vol. 1 ETSAM * Local accessit. Pladur Contest. * Illinois Institute of Technology scholarship.
/// PUBLICATIONS ///
[ 2018 ] [ 2017 ] [ 2014 ]
* Publication Bartlett Catalogue * Publication Bartlett Catalogue. p 315 * Publication. Atlas of emulation of the informal II: From planimetric to holographic.
DAETSAM [30 hour courses] Autocad Illustrator Revit Photography Imprographyc [ 2015 Workshop ] Collage and architecture. Sobelman IED/Spanish Institute of design [ 2014 Workshop ] Madstock. Self construction Net & tensile structures edition DAETSAM 96 hours
Distinction [>70%].
Landscape Architect [S. program 5] Coordinator. Miguel Ángel Aníbarro GPA [9/10].
Knowledge smart assesment (90/100)
Maya After effects / Premier Pro
Water treatment centre in Paraisópolis slum. [ Death and live of Paraisópolis] Thesis tutor: Paula Montoya Saiz. [9/10] Distinction [90%].
[ 7. Narrative / Death valley ]
[ 4. Cooperation / Sao Paulo ]
[ 1. Narrative / Silvertown ]
/// THE CHURCH OF SCIENCE ///
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WATER TREATMENT PLANT PARAISÓPOLIS SLUM ///
UNDERSTANDING THE MYSTIFICATION OF SCIENCE THROUGH THE ONTOLOGY OF THE CYBORG
DEATH AND LIVE OF PARAISÓPOLIS
COCKAIGNE
ISLAND
A NEW LUXURY MALL FOR HYPER-HEDONISM
[ 2. Contest/Nicaragua ]
[ 5. Theoretical / Brazil ]
[ 6. Urban / Madrid ]
/// SEEDING HEALTH IN NICARAGUA ///
/// HOSPITAL FOR A BUBBLE BOY ///
/// NEW HOUSING
RELOCATABLE MODULAR SURGICAL HOSPITAL
ATLAS OF THE EMULATION OF THE INFORMAL
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EXPERIMENTAL ARAVACA ///
COEXISTING WITH ANIMALS A RETURN TO THE URBAN-RURAL ERA
[ 3. Europan / Norway ]
[ 8. Landscape / Sequoia N.P ]
[ 9. Urban / Madrid ]
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/// SEQUOIA CLIMBING SPACE ///
/// CAR CITY IN USERA MADRID ///
THE BRANCH. UNDER, INSIDE AND OVER THE CANOPY
THE URBAN DISTROPIA OF TOMORROW
A TRAIL OF SLATE /// E14. EUROPAN COMPETITION “PRODUCTIVE CITIES”
2018.
Death Valley, USA
The church of science.
Understanding the mystification of science through the ontology of the cyborg
film. https://vimeo.com/275222227
The church of science emerges from the idea of controlling knowledge, separating it from political or economic power. This allows the new church to spread worldwide and provide knowledge without governmental control. This new order is shaped as a religion, so it is possible for the founders to maintain control over time. Further so the value of this knowledge implies the possibility of equality reshaping the current socio-economic paradigm. To do so science and spirituality are mixed and in a game of smoke and mirrors. Only those that demonstrate their faith are trained so they can see what is real and what is fake. Everyone else perceives this reality though a deforming lens so real and fictional can’t be tell apart. This mystification of science is understood through the ontology of the cyborg. The image of the cyborg has been possible only in fiction, but this has recently changed allowing the cyborg to become a reality. The Cyborg is new all mighty messiah able to surpass human capabilities and able to be replicated. It embodies the post-human as a expanding new reality. This new understanding of science allows the transcendence of technology that becomes involve within ritualistic performances in the shape of the useless machine.
Master-plan. The pilgrimage rout through Death Valley. A series of productive landscapes where pilgrims can shelter.
The church of science’s design is based on monasteries. It incorporates a series of layers that create a gradient of privacy.
The cathedral is built referencing historical religions spaces to create the idea that it was built long time ago.
The useless machine becomes the way to create the new ritual mechanising the movements of other religious rituals.
2015.
Cooperation, Sao Paulo
Water treatment plant in Paraisópolis Death and life of Paraisópolis
film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZeQmliB3IU
The regeneration of slums in Brazil is a hot topic now a days. Paraisópolis is the second biggest slum in the city with over 120.000 people and 800.000 squared meters. Searching for new ways to manage poverty and regenerate the urban spaces close to the city’s downtowns is one of the biggest commitments Sao Paulo´s town hall has. A new series of architectural prototypes that mix urban supply nets able to supply clean watter, electricity, waste treatment and public spaces. The prototype is a water treatment plant that generates a series of pools and gardens that works as a open space in the slum, over it a bath house and a textile cooperative. The building in design so the users are able to occupy the space as needed and make it their own. The supply system able to grow over time due to the structural system base on a series of pieces that makes it able to adapt to any circumstance. The net grows as a neuronal network overlapping the existing urban tissue generation new opportunities for the slum in the future. As a result a urban regeneration my be possible thanks to the new habitants that are attracted by the open opportunities in the slum.
Paraisรณpolis is the second largest slum in Brasil.
The water treatment plant is built over flooding space working also as a storm tank and securing surrounding structures.
The ground floor plan generates a series of atomized public spaces that work as extensions of the houses in Paraisopolis.
The spaces in the building can work as separate spaces or join together.
A study of the vegetation in Brazil is made to select local flora.
2017.
London, UK
Cockaigne Island
A new luxury mall for hyper-hedonism
film. https://vimeo.com/221721231
Shopping is the most lucrative, leisure activity of the 21st century. Malls have become most of what is left of public space. The old mall is in decay. Shopping is no longer an experience but a necessity in the new consumerist society that plans obsolescence to generate continuous profit. Retail is being taken over by internet shopping whilst malls continue to fall into ruin. Cockaingne is a land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of extreme luxury. The new mall is designed as a platform, a space that is infinitely flexible and continuously changing and evolving. The experience revolves around an experience of hyper-consumerisim that invites the individual not only to change their appearance but to modify themselves over and over, including their own bodies, in this cycle of constant reinvention. The shops in the new mall are understood as theatres, where companies can continually design and redesign their own spaces to show the lifestyle they sell. The visitor can experience products before they buying. Everything and anything is for sale. The building changes according to the fashion seasons, planing architectural obsolescence. The project explores on the ontology in the post pop-culture era. It understands how science through plastic surgery revolutionised the relationship between medicine and image. The raise of plastic surgery has allowed people the opportunity to become what they always dreamed to become. Shopping is an ecosystem that works using organic relationships based in biological behaviour between organisms and commercial spaces. The mall raised as a perfect controlled ecosystem for shopping, the new mall reworks the mechanical systems that once allowed the mall to succeed into a mechanical landscape that functions as a clockwork, the replacescape.
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The building is design taking in count DARK PATTERNS to generate COGNITION MAP DESTRUCTION
The building is design to change with each of the fashion season. The technical level become a constant construction set that varies through time.
The roof is designed as a series of layers that fabricate a controlled environment.
Mechanical landscape. Humidity + Heating.
Mechanical landscape. Micro environments.
Permanent promgrame. Nutrition lab.
Mechanical landscape. AC / Heating system.
Mechanical landscape. Humidity control.
Mechanical landscape. Air support system.
Structure. Tensile colums.
Mechanical landscape. Colour light system.
Outside spaces. Garden spaces bringing light to the inside.
Mechanical landscape. Cancellation rest areas. Mechanical landscape. Artificial nature.
Permanent program 7. [TROPICARIUM] A tropical winter-garden cocktail bar and SPA sharing the space.
The pop-up stores are buillt for seasons and portray lifestyles companies what to sell their clients. Everything is designed by the brand and everything is for sale.
Permanent programe 6. [PLASTIC SURGERY HOSPITAL] A place to archive the image you have always desired.
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM - ROOF.
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM - TECHNICAL LEVEL.
ROOF.
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LEVEL 1 OUTSIDE SKIN.
THE PLATFORM.
[1] The corrugated glass facade hangs from the structure deforming the exterior but allowing the building to relate to it and allowing light to go in the building. [2] The technical level is designed to be easily built both the structure and the outside skin are made out of prefabricated elements making it easy to be put together. [3] The tense columns allow the roof to become higher so the permanent programs can use a bigger space inside the open level 1. [4] The light regulation system is located underneath the glazing to control light but allow heat, the light wells permit the light dripping in the building to be more pure and the light control systems also work disrupting the sound waves working as noise insulation and “breaking� the echo effect that such a big open space may produce. [5] The platforms moving up and down are the main connection elements between the technical level and the level 1. [6] Over the glazing the LED light system brands the building to be sold and generated a constant changing light pollution slightly colouring the space. [7] The mechanical systems configure a mechanical landscape that controls the environments controlling different comfort elements. [8] The permanent programs work separately from the rest of the structure and work as the building guide system to move around. [9] Due to the size of the level 1 natural ventilation is very efficient and it works as an energy saving system.
2017.
Masaya, Nicaragua
Seeding Health in Nicaragua
Relocatable modular surgical hospital Holcim Awards. Acknowledgement
TEAM. Paula Montoya . Javier Alonso Ester Corral . Martha Peña . Juan Escudero This project is a prototype for temporary rural surgical hospitals. Because of the sensitivity of the equipment and supplies, it proposes a hybrid approach of prefabrication and local construction. Recycled shipping containers are outfitted as the core spaces of the hospital – operating room, pharmacy, kitchen, and laundry – and delivered in situ. Local builders erect wooden piles and place the containers in an elevated courtyard arrangement. Local carpentry is then also used to cover the containers with a tessellated timber roof for shading and ventilation. As the medical centre expands, the complex can grow with it. Clinic rooms and patient rooms extend out from the surgical core in a pinwheel arrangement. When the surgical core is relocated, these wings remain as a lasting resource for local public health. The project addresses an important concern: how to provide high-level healthcare in rural regions. The jury found the solution proposed here commendable. The project was commissioned by a medical organization focusing on the treatment of childhood cancer in developing countries. Their work relies on donations of time by volunteer doctors and equipment from hospitals. Within this specific arrangement, the project was seen to be a thoughtful solution that tries to use temporary medical support to induce long-term change.
Seeding Health is a PILOT PROJECT for a roving rural hospital. Mixing temporary PREFAB CONSTRUCTION with long-term, LOCAL CRAFTSMANSHIP.
Recycled shipping containers are outfitted as the core spaces of the hospital – operating room, pharmacy, kitchen, and laundry – and delivered in situ.
2014.
Theoretical, Brazil
Hospital for a Bubble boy Atlas of the emulation of the informal
The generation of a unexisting urban tissue created by the amalgamation of ten different architecture prototypes created by the students. The result is an existing fictional urban space. The division in equal areas of this imaginary urban development generated an overlapping areas were students had to deign a 3600 squared meter infrastructure designed only for one user. The fictional city created a series of traces, frictional points that remained as part of the future existing. The amount and quality of light was one of this traces, deciding how the program was going to develop. The hospital for a bubble boy worked as a positive-negative building, one not being able to enter the other but coexisting so in the positive spaces a series of public spaces were develop and in the negative the hospital for the bubble boy. All the urban spaces are created so they are accessible for the boy, having all the elements the boy need to develop into a grown man. As a way to pay for the hospital, all the public spaces have a counter program, this programs hidden in small corners of the buildings are illegal but very lucrative. For example, the zoo the building has so the boy can see and live around animal has a exotic animal shop and the old nursery is transformed into a health care that buys blood from the poorest transforming the building into a very lucrative business.
The fabricated tissue of the existing-unexisted
The holographic floor plan is created through the topological deformation of the different levels in the building.
First level of abstraction from the fabricated reality into the diagram. [CODING]
The pre-existence light quality becomes the ghosted trace that remains as the predominant quality to design the building.
The fabricated traces are coded into a set of diagrams that fabricate a ghost reality. This new fabricated reality is then recoded from the diagrams into a building. Maximizing the capabilities of the fabricated pre-existence.
The construction methodology is designed by a mixture of local techniques and construction system and inherited construction systems from the fabricated tissue.
The holographic section is created through the topological deformation of the different sections in the building.
Second level of abstraction from the diagram into the new fabricated reality. [DECODING]
The materiality of the building is design as a series of translucent filters so the Bubble boy can engage or gain privacy. Interact or retract.
2012.
Urban, Madrid
New Experimental housing in Aravaca Coexisting with animals a return to the urban-rural era
The generation of 1000 new experimental housing units in Aravaca brings the opportunity to experiment with the possibility of bringing the rural back to the cities generating coexistence between humans and animals. Through a thermodynamically mapping the space is generated so housing units, laboratories and animal growing interact but also making possible to work and live in the same block and to introduce food generation inside the city The space is generated around different squares that adapt to the needs of the community and animals, parks, farmland, auditoriums and a big wage of public uses overlap in the open space below activating and deactivating different areas for different uses around the clock. The block opens to its insides were the public spaces develops trying to generate not only a housing system but a community.
The Thermodynamically analysis includes wind, natural water flows , heat, sound and soil types generating a cartography. This cartography divides the surface in sector with similar capabilities that are more suitable for specific uses, this is how the public space below is programmed, the day cartography and the night cartography give more suitable uses for different times of the day making the public uses change location over time.
2017.
Alta, Norway
A Trail of Slate
E14 Europan Competition “PRODUCTIVE CITIES”
TEAM. Susana de Zárraga . Itziar Goiri . Juan Escudero
According to the legend, the lights are caused by a fox. Its fury tail sweeps across the snow and sends a trail of sparks up in the sky. We propose a new waterfront, one that reflects Alta’s modern times of prosperity but also one that does not forget its history linked to slate, art and northern lights. The site will become a place for residents and tourists, somewhere to dwell and to work, to observe the Northern Lights or to practice sports, to watch a play or to build your own artefacts in the FabLAB. A site to study, develop or dream. In order to achieve all this we propose a new limit, a new waterfront organised to produce energy, food and amusement. The waterfront is the catalyst for all the activities that will take place in the site. Our strategies begin with the Crystallization of the limit. This way we produce new spaces to host new activities such as algae cultivation, fish farms, natural pools or observation decks. Redensifying is the next step to make the site productive and useful at all times. Just like the midnight sun, a place that never sleeps. Finally Reusing all the pre-existing buildings giving them a new use, new spaces and a new materiality. The slate becomes the new image of the waterfront, as it is used to cover and to create the new spaces as well as the transformed ones. Slate represents both the new and the old identity of Alta. We believe that mixing and putting altogether the programmes and the uses will connect Alta to the world. Who will inhabit the sites new era? Every programme is linked to the university and used by the industry as a place to try new prototypes coming from the university. Something living, that changes as fast as the industry does. It is home for Alta’s “young knowledge-based expertise inhabitants” and retreat for tourists. Therefore, our fox sweeps and crystallises the seafront to build a trail of slate with its fury tail.
We propose a new waterfront, one that reflects Alta’s modern times of prosperity but also one that does not forget its history linked to slate, art and northern lights. Our strategies begin with the Crystallization of the limit. This way we produce new spaces to host new activities such as algae cultivation, fish farms, natural pools or observation decks. All of the programs on the waterfront have a leisure side to them but, at the same time all of them perform a secondary roll,related to energy production, food production or research.
The project revolves around a series of slate walls that generate a common front made out of the recycled slate, the new skins that configure the waterfront are also used to expand and upgrade the existing buildings.
2016.
Landscape, Sequoia NP
Sequoia climbing space
The Branch, Under, Inside and Over the Canopy.
TEAM. Susana de Zárraga . Juan Escudero
The resulting proposal is an artificial branch. This branch extends through the forest integrating itself in the environment. This truss, grows and meanders. It follows nature’s rule in growth and extension, as one more of the Sequoias in the National Park. The branch glides through the forest, allowing the visitors to experience it from different points of view. The travellers could be more than a hiker who enjoys the peace under the trees. As they ascend, the visitants could experience the feeling of being inside this infinite canopy, as an animal in its own environment. At the highest point of the journey, the height will provide a bird’s point of view over the valley. Repeating a small module creates this branch that grows to meet its supports. These vertical elements work as trunks. There is no a single trunk for the branch, but a system of vertical pieces that work as a network. At the same time, the towers structures remind of the shapes of the old mines’ towers, an important part of American History and Economy. An open and flexible space is created, blurring the boundaries between the architecture and the environment. These towers hold the administrative programs, locker rooms and classrooms. The system creates an interesting space in which the path can change and adapt to the needs. New activities are integrated along this trail. But also the path itself is a unique experience and activity. The system responds to the needs, integrating the programs carefully into the environment through the vertical and horizontal structure. The space allow accessibility for everyone who want to enjoy the experience. While the proposal focuses on one route, its development could involve new extensions and additions.
Structural towers resemble mining towers bringing visitors closer to local history.
Four different modules allow the branch to become adaptable. The module mix prefabrication and local craftsmanship allowing the structures to be built quickly but relaying on local craftments to make The Branch part of the local culture.
As visitors ascend, they will experience the feeling of being inside of the infinite canopy, as an animal in its own environment. At the highest point, the height will provide a bird eye’s view over the valley.
2011.
Urban, Madrid
Car city in Usera
The urban distropia of tomorrow
Madrid’s new urban politics is moving towards the forbidding access to private cars, allowing only public transportation to access downtown. Around 2.000.000 private cars go inside Madrid downtown every day, more than 33.000 near the entrance close to the site. In the near future all this cars will have to be storage around this motorway , including a series of uses for car as part of this new car life that has been developing in the past 20 years. The building is a giant parking, able to store all 33.000 cars and with a series of programs car related, cinemas, car-wash, mechanical workshops and so on, mixing with offices an public programs, including a series of platforms for urban camping. The cars are storage in a egg-box like structure, being able to storage cars in both side of the structure and creating an optimization of space. The outside skin is also part of this parking, changing its density depending on the our of the day and making the building change constantly.
The outside skin evolves and modifies depending on the vehicle occupation.
A variety of programs are deployed within the structure. This new programs are car related and are designed to implement this new car lifestyle.
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