KADK Spatial Design | Application Portfolio 2020 by Lorena Cruz Rocha

PORTFOLIO Lorena Cruz Rocha

lorena.93cr@gmail.com +525541757098

Application Portfolio Master in Spatial Design The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

The architectural formation has evolved my vision around cities and landscapes within the world. Lively experiences had sealed what was already decoded on my way of thinking. Both, in combination, represent a solid identity that I have put on practice as my professional career and personal development. My academic and professional performance has been directly influenced by what inspires me to be a human being making continuous effort to contribute to society. The knowledge I have acquired along the way has been a secondary tool I believe, what has made a transcendent impact is what I have learned from my surroundings and the people I have met across my life path. Their aspirations, beliefs, traditions, and approach towards a fulfilling life are what guided me to nourish myself with a wide variety of elements I search on life itself. This is a brief of academic and professional work that represents my awareness of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs. Each project acts as a summary of the way I believe what architecture can do. I see it as a tool to comprehend human behavior and translate that into materialized parts of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-awareness. My highest aim is to function as a mirror where people can feel themselves and feel the joy of life like I have done across several scenarios I have encountered throughout my conscious life.

Index Apartment in Erla 4-7 Artist Pavilion 8-11 Scandinavian Centre CDMX 12-17 Logement Ă Montreuil 18-23

A par t m e nt i n E r l a

Project located in Erla, Austria. A small town near the city of Vienna. This apartment was commissioned by a client whose desire is to use the attic from an existing family house just next to the woods.

Date: January 2019 About: Client commission Role: Individual Location: Erla, Austria. Program: Private Housing

According to the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs, I proposed to locate public areas on the east side of the attic, where there are two existing windows. Also, the chimney and gas installations are coming from the ground floor. I located the kitchen in the same position as the kitchen from downstairs in order to reduce the costs of installations and heating ducts. The client asked for a meditation room beside a guestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room, so as a master bedroom. This meditation room took place next to the kitchen with the possibility to use it as an office room. Also, I created a corridor that distributes the guest room, the bathroom, and the master bedroom. The woman asked for a walking closet in direct connection to the master bedroom, given the existing water and gas ducts, I had to locate the bathroom in the same place as the toilette from downstairs. So the walking closet had to be located after the bathroom. In addition, the proposal aims to open new windows over the ceiling, so that more natural light can come inside. The four existing windows help to provide the attic with natural crossed ventilation, whereas the proposed materials are heated tile for the floors, plaster walls with white paint finish, wooden ceiling to preserve the heat, and automatic window systems for the proposed windows over the ceiling. The aesthetics I aim to propose are based on the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taste with maximizing the reduction of costs parallelly.

Project Ground floor inhabited

Proposed windows

Private area Public

Floor Plan.

Axonometric view. 5

Section A-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1/100

Ground Floor Inhabited by the family

Basement

Section B-Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

A rti s t P avi li o n Date: December 2017 About: 1st sem MSc in Architecture AHK Tutor: Tatjana Djordjevic Role: Individual Location: Rembradntpark, Amsterdam. Program: Culture, Public space

The project arises through designing a pavilion inspired by an artist to choose from. I decided to take inspiration from “Kygo”; Dj / electronic music producer from Bergen, Norway. This pavilion aims to explore the emotions that music causes in people. The proposal consists of three volumes with different uses each, all of them connected through a walking path going inside and outside across them, this to make the visitor feel like walking through a Nordic natural landscape inspired by the origins of Kygo. We were offered to choose any spot inside Rembrandpark in Amsterdam, I choose a central part of the lake going all the way through the park. Given its wide-open view and also this spot frames perfectly the post-war buildings on the west side of the park. This spot has a smooth and soft atmosphere capable to provide comfort and relaxation to give place to meditation, reading, listening to music and so on. Therefore I aimed to recreate Kygo’s music path and also a Fjord feeling by fragmenting one pavilion into three connected volumes. The three volumes serve as shelter for visitors and also as a recreational hub where music is the main activity. They can be used as a scenario for a small live concert or set. The first volume is the starting point in Kygo’s career. Which is coming from a cold-weather country and yet producing “tropical house” music. This first volume is meant to host live concerts. The second volume is the transitional one, where visitors can sit down or stand still and admire the surroundings. The third volume represents the highest point on Kygo’s career.

FJORD

PATH Conception from Fjord volumetry.

Volume 1. Volume 2.

Volume 3. Emplacement & proportion analysis.

Site Plan.

Scan di na vi a n C en t r e C D M X Date: June 2017 About: Diploma project BA in Arch (5th year) UNAM + Merit Diploma Tutor: Miguel Soto & EfraĂn LĂłpez Role: Individual Location: Chapultepec, Mexico City Program: Culture, Public space

Through this project, I aim to create the first multidisciplinary space in Mexico, capable of offering active cultural cooperation between Scandinavian countries and Mexico. It is thought of as a significant cultural hub where Mexicans can learn about Scandinavian practices within architecture, urbanism, art, and cultural studies, among other multidisciplinary activities such as language learning, dance, crafts, etc. The Scandinavian Center is an architectural project, based on the concept of a space in which users interact with a tacit content. It is a space that seeks to translate part of the content of each exhibition room into the outdoor and public space, it is a project that seeks to give a new usage, and landscape preservation thought of the activities that are currently carried out in the lake. Likewise, one of the objectives is to capture the aesthetics and plasticity of contemporary Nordic architecture both on the facades as in the interiors of the center. To unify in an complex design, the aesthetic, symbolic and socio-cultural context from the Nordic countries. That is, the design of the exteriors as of the interiors, including the re-design of the shore from the lake corresponding to the lot, clearly, express the Nordic architecture adapted to the physical conditions and context of the site, merging subtly with the direct environment that is trees and water. That adapts to the physical-cultural context of the Forest of Chapultepec to create a new axis of cultural exchange between Mexico and the Nordic countries.

Axonometric view. 13

Above: First level plan. Below: Rooftop plan.

Ground floor plan.

1 Metal plate Tempered glass handrail Fiberglass insulantion 3" Chamfer Quarry tile floor 60x60 Metal decking sheet CAL 20 H= 16 cm 6x6 - 4/4 Drainage for capturing rainwater Upright Diagonal Bottom rope Steel structural beam H= 1.0m Kingspan K8 insulantion

Steel column 70x70 with metal welded plates 2" Plywood sheet 1" Bar for wooden frame 15x5 cm Charred wood plank 2.4x0.30 m/1" Densglass panel as full adhesion coating 5 / 8" Fiberglass insulation 3" Architecture workshop

Polished concrete floor FÂ´c= 250 kg/cm2 E= 3cm Metal decking sheet CAL 20 H= 16 cm 6x6 - 4/4 Upright Diagonal Bottom rope Beam I-profile 70x70/2" Kingspan K8 insulation

D Cellular concrete filling with an Impertyre ecological waterproof coating

Diagonal Bottom rope Steel structural beam H= 1.0m Fiberglass insulation 3"

Axonometric view. Above: Facade Detail 1 Below: Facade Detail D

Steel column 70x70 with metal welded plates 2"

Polished concrete floor FÂ´c= 250 kg/cm2 E= 5cm

Bar for wooden frame 15x5 cm Steel structural beam H= 1.0m

Plywood sheet 1" Charred wood plank 2.4x0.30 m/1" Densglass panel as full adhesion coating 5 / 8" Fiberglass insulation 3"

Offices

Above: Transversal Section A-A’ Below: Longitudinal Section A-A’

Log e m e nt à M o n t er uil Date: June 2015 About: 2nd sem MA in Arch 1 ENSA-PB 4th year (Academic Exchange Paris) Tutor: Pascale Richter & Mathias Romvos Role: (Group): Investigation and site analysis. Contribution to the investigation: Research of the historical background, timeline making. (Individual): Project. Location: Montreuil, Paris. Program: Housing

Located in the Montreuil district, a place with a long history of peach harvest in the ’40s. The project started with the site analysis from a critical point of view, focusing on the history of the place more than the physical conditions. The second phase consisted of elaborate individually on a complex analysis of one housing project. In the third phase, we were asked to think about what is for us an “ Instant of inhabiting”. I decided to recreate and transform the way I used to inhabit my family summer house located in a small city close to Mexico City. We developed a floor plan from the scenario created on this “instant of inhabiting”. The final result of my housing block is composed of two towers with an “L” shape with different heights in order to let the sunlight come inside the plot. The different typologies of apartments analyzed throughout the semester are distributed along with the two towers. The ground floor of both contains services such as laundry, bicycle storage, garbage room, etc. Also, there is a retail space located in the south tower where there is the main road. The distribution of each apartment typology allows the building to be suitable for collective and private housing standards. Finally, the materials used on the project pretend to be transparent and contrasting at the same time with the surrounding buildings, so that the historical background of the site is portrayed on the facades.

Phase 1. Housing reference analysis. Phippen Randall and Parkers Analyse Thearchitecturale Hyde Hatfield, London. 1966

Phase 2. Defining the “Instant of Inhabiting” From a chosen memory.

Studio. Architecture domestique / Romvos. Richter A. Usages

Analyse architecturale.

Studio. Architecture domestique. // Romvos / Richter Lorena Cruz

Jardin exterieur

Patio

“...Let’s turn this way to look at the other side... What do you think there is? I dunno...”

Studio Chambre 1 Salle de bain

Réception

Sale à manger

Patio

Salon

Chambre 2 Chambre 3 Salle de bain

Jardin privé

Garage Cuisine