ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
LAIA BOLOIX ROURA
Curriculum Vitae
Laia Boloix Roura 25/02/1994 Barcelona (Spain)
+34 690 725 802 laiaboloix@gmail.com https://laiaboloix.wixsite.com/portfolio
Languages
Catalan - Native Spanish - Native French - Intermediate Achieved Diplôme d’Études en Langue Française B2 in 2019 English - Advanced Achieved Cambridge First Certificate in 2011 (Performance at level C1) TOEFL ibt 107/120 in 2017
Personal skills
Communication Organitsation Creativity Team player Physical model making Problem solving
IT skills
AutoCad 2D and 3D - Advanced user Adobe Photoshop - Advanced user Adobe Illustrator - Advanced user Adobe InDesign - Advanced user 3dStudioMAX - Advanced user Google SketchUp Pro - Good user Grasshopper - Good user Rhinoceros - Good user Microsoft Office - Advanced user Windows and Mac OS - Advanced user
Educational background
ETSA Barcelona (UPC) 2012-2019: Degree in Architecture (EQF 7) Visiting Studio (ETSAB) 2018: Participation in the studio leadered by invited architect and professor Tony Fretton. WAC Besós 2017: Summer workshop on Rethinking housing in a marginal neighbourhood. Progress Project 2017: Workshop in Montpellier (France) on Management of urban green spaces.
Professional experience
Nakide 2017-2019: Internship in an interior design and architecture studio. Interior and furniture design. Budgets. Drawing of plans. Projectes de l’Arnau 2017: Design and assembly of an exposition about the rehabilitation of Teatre Arnau in Barcelona. Visions compartides. Arquitectura literària 2017: Collaboration in a self-edited book (Shared views. Literary Architecture.) as an initiative of architecture students from ETSAB and ETSAV.
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Design
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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 market 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 dynamic 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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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 as 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
SOCIAL HOUSING
Multifunctional building in Blanes
CONVENTIONAL HOUSING
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Multifunctional building in Blanes
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GROUND FLOOR
NEW FAÇADE
planta baixa
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E1/100
alçat carrer de les tàpies
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E1/100
STUDY ON STAGE POSSIBILITIES
RE(IN)HABI(LI)TING THE ARNAU
axonom
In the main theatre avenue of Barcelona (El Paral¡lel) all the old venues are being demolished to build new spaces much more adapted to the new theatre needs. In this context it is decided not to tear it apart but to rehabilitate it, trying to go back to the original plans of the building (much clearer) but with all the facilities and the comfort of a modern theatre so that it could be rehabited. Prof. Jordi Adell
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FIRST FLOOR
planta primera
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E1/100
NEW FAÇADE secció transversal a-a’
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E1/100
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In the project it is tried to be as conservative as possible with the existing building, mantaining the faรงades (only adding insulation on the inside so the external image remains the same), reinforcing the structure and the foundations only when needed. Still, the left span of the original theatre was found really damaged so it is decided to re-think it as a school for scenic arts and design it in a contemporary way.
RE(IN)HABI(LI)TING THE ARNAU
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SECOND FLOOR
planta segona
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E1/100
secció longitudinal c-c’
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E1/100
RE(IN)HABI(LI)TING THE ARNAU
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MARKET HOUSING TYPOLOGIES
ORIGINAL MASTERPLAN
NEW MASTERPLAN
75 AND 90 M2 DWELLINGS (M)
GALLERY UNIT FOR NOISE PROTECTION (M)
MAIN AVENUE ELEVATION (M)
SOCIAL HOUSING TYPOLOGIES
50 M2 DWELLINGS (M) MAIN FLOOR (M)
PIERCING A MASTERPLAN. social and market housing
In the outskirsts of Barcelona, a masterplan was proposed as a solution for providing new housing for the city. We were asked to question and modify it to transform a boring plan into a living place by developing two pieces, one for Market and one for Social housing. The alteration consists in piercing the blocks to break the faรงade monotony and to add different dwelling typologies and mixed uses to fill them with life. Prof. Tony Fretton
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DUPLEX A (S)
MAIN FLOOR B (S)
MAIN FLOOR A (S) DUPLEX B (S)
GROUND FLOOR (S)
MAIN FLOOR A (S)
PIERCING A MASTERPLAN. social and market housing
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MIXED BUILDING FOR YOUNG MIGRANTS
The project consists in a facility destined to young migrants arriving to Europe on their own looking for new opportunities. The program includes shared housing, cooperative shops and common areas for both, the youngsters and the neighbours, since it is aimed that, through the building and its mixticity of uses, new relations are forged,making it easier for the newcomers to adapt and settle down. Prof. Pilar Calderon, Zaida Muixi, Cristina Pardal
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GROUND FLOOR
MIXED BUILDING FOR YOUNG MIGRANTS
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CLIMATE STRATEGIES
EAST FAÇADE
FIRST FLOOR
MIXED BUILDING FOR YOUNG MIGRANTS
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DWELLING. CONSTRUCTIVE SECTION
MAIN FLOOR
MIXED BUILDING FOR YOUNG MIGRANTS
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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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Empty The use is mantained The use changes
Badalona 3D
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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Urban analysis. Roma
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U. analysis. Roma
U.analysis. Eix NumĂ ncia
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Urban analysis. Barcelona and Manhattan
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