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LAIA BOLOIX ROURA
Laia Boloix Roura Curriculum Vitae
Contact information Vistalegre 43-45, 1r2a 08921, Barcelona Spain
+34 690 725 802
laiaboloix@hotmail.com
Personal data
Birth: 02/25/1994 Sex: Female Car driving license (B1) since 2012
Education
ETSA Barcelona (UPC) 2012-current: Architectural Degree Col·legi Badalonès 2010-2012: High School Diploma in techical and scientific studies Col·legi Sagrat Cor 1997-2010: Elementary School
Languages
Catalan - Native Spanish - Native French - Intermediate B1 Italian - Elementary A1 English - Advanced C1 Achieved Cambridge Preliminary English Test in 2010 Achieved Cambridge First Certificate in 2011 (Performance at level C1) TOEFL ibt 107/120 in 2017
Work experience
Pastisseria Glass 2017: Shop-window design for a patisserie Tennis Club Badalona 2016-current: Tennis coach of the competition team 2010-current: Tennis coach in the Tennis Summer Camp for kids (ages 4 to 16) Cornellà International Tennis Center 2015-2016: Tennis coach at the Catalan Tennis Federation Private Tutoring 2009-current: I have been teaching kids and adults at all levels (from Elementary to University)
Other areas of interest
Enthusiastic and passionate. Outgoing and open-minded. Curious. Creative. Intrepid traveler. Avid reader. Tennis and soccer lover.
Academic awards
Jornades Científiques Ciutat de Badalona (2012) I was awarded for my research project “Una façana dels anys 30 amb interiors del s.XXI. Projecte de reforma d’una casa amb història” Graduated with honors in High School (2012) Honors in History II (2015) Honors in Occidental Art History II (2015)
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Design
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EAST-WEST ELEVATION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION C-C’
Coworking and FabLab at 22@
The project was based on the rehabilitation of an old abandoned factory. The plot was located in a land of oportunities, at 22@, the new technological and economic center of Barcelona. The program, in policarbonate boxes, is spread all around the central patio, inside of the masonry walls. Prof. Andreu Arriola
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LOCATION
URBAN SECTION
URBAN ELEVATION A-A’
GROUND FLOOR
Multifunctional building in Drassanes
The site has a relevant importance in the history of Barcelona, since it is located behind the old shipyards. The project had a complex program solved with one single tower of 23 stores with a library on the ground floor, social and conventional housing and a coworking at the top. All the cuts of the building are made in response to the urban shapes of the surroundings so it is well involved with the context, creating a dinamic and alive project for the neighbours. Prof. Alberto Peñín
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SOCIAL HOUSING
CONVENTIONAL H
HOUSING v.1
CONVENTIONAL HOUSING v.2
COWORKING
Multifunctional building in Drassanes
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ELEVATION A-A’
SECTION B-B’
SECTION C-C’
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D’
C
C’
Casa-Patio-pajar. A house for an artist
This project was about designing the house and the studio for a modern artist in the small town of Vilafamés (Castellón). Due to the complexity of the plot, the program had to be splited and distributed in different levels. Remembering the typical construction of the site, a modern casa-patio-pajar (house-courtyard-haystack) is settled over the old hospital ruins. Prof. Judith Leclerc
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PROGRAM
Contrast
With the same program as the last project, but this time in pairs, Contrast is about the old ruins, made of stone walls, and the new light constructions, made of steel, that inhabit the ruins like parasites. Through the new promenade that leads to the church you can feel the tensions between the heritage and the emerging constructions, creating atmospheres and sensations. Prof. Judith Leclerc
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We use a zinc roof for a better collection of water and for an easier cleaning. The cross ventilation along with the open spaces -such us double heights- help having less humidity and more constant temperatures.
Rodeno -stone- walls insulate us from outer temperatures and, as they are facing the terrain, thet offer us inertia.
The use of thick and buried walls provides inertia, which means the building will be fresh during daytime, but warm during nightime
Use of filters and protections
Having vegetation on the walls is very beneficial. Vegetation blocks, filters and reflects sun radiation. It also blocks, filters and guides the air flow and modifies rain impact. Moreover, deciduous vegetation such as local fruit trees -lemon, almond or orange trees- can help us get more sun during winter months and great shadows all summer long. Plus, they give us fruit.
The use of water tanks that act like retaining walls helps us storing rain water. Specially because in VilafamÊs it does not rain very often but we have heavy rain when it does. This stored water could be used to irrigate our garden, the walls’ vegetation, or even the toilets.
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
The project is about contrast and tensions but also about being conscious and delicate with the landscape and the surroundings. Therefore the project is based on sustainability, following energy-saving strategies and using recycled or reused materials brought from the CastellĂł province itself, so we can reduce costs and CO2 emissions.
Contrast
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Contrast
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THE SPORTS PAVILION BECOMES A PERGOLA
Multifunctional building in Blanes
In the seaside town of Blanes (Girona) we are asked to transform a deteriorated sports pavilion and some parking lots into a park with a multifunctional building. The program included commercial galleries, an aparthotel and multiple kinds of housing. The idea was to promote the transversality sea-mountain by stagging the tower and locating the common spaces in the central bay. Prof. Jordi Adell
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HOTEL
PARK (WEST) ELEVATION
SOCIAL HOUSING
Multifunctional building in Blanes
CONVENTIONAL HOUSING
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Multifunctional building in Blanes
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Urban Design
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Traces. Parc de Joan Miró
This park is located in the plot where the old slaughterhouse was, at the outskirts of the old Barcelona. Nowadays, people who go to the park do it for very specific reasons, if they don’t have any, they border it rather than crossing it. The idea was to create some routes: strokes, signs and landmarks, using the colours of Joan Miró that potenciate the site and its use. Prof. Xabier Eizaguirre
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La plaça de Les Corts
This site is located on NumĂ ncia street, one of the main mountain-sea connections of Barcelona. At the moment, the park has an strange configuration and it is not comfortable to go through. By creating platforms at different levels and comunicating them, we provide new uses for the park and multiple ways to cross it and discover the smells and sensations of the vegetation all year long. Prof. Xabier Eizaguirre
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La Catalana
Based on the small grid of Bari (Italy), we proposed a mesh of open blocks of 40x40m. The blocks have patios so the buildings act like isolated towers but mantain the street perspective. The site is in a land of opportunities, close to the sea and well comunicated with Barcelona and the highway. Therefore we extended the fluvial promenade up to the sea and included a metropolitan building with offices, a shopping mall and a residence for university students. Prof. Francesc Bacardit
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Actual
Empty The use is mantained The use changes
Badalona 3D
PROCESS
The industrial estate Pin-B is located in the coastal city of Badalona. Nowadays, the area is obsolete and most of the buildings are empty. The idea is to change the morphology and the tipology of the neighbourhood so it is updated to the modern life. We mantain the existing axes and promote the use of public transport in the site by limiting the use of cars. Prof. SebastiĂ Jornet
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We are changing useless closed blocks for modern open blocks. The idea is to get a sustainable area with green mobility and that promotes social cohesion between the inhabitants. Our idea of a nowaday city.
Badalona 3D
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Furthermore
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Urban analysis. Roma
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U. analysis. Roma
U.analysis. Eix NumĂ ncia
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Urban analysis. El Riu Besรณs
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Urban analysis. Autovia de Castelldefels
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Urban analysis. Barcelona and Manhattan
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Hand-drawing. Barcelona and Manhattan
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Hand-drawing. Vegetation analysis
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Watercolours
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Watercolours
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