Lucas Navarro Arévalo Architecture Portfolio 2023
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Lucas Federico Navarro Arévalo
Year 2023 +34 637 81 83 61 lucasn@dr.com Tucumán, Argentina Madrid, Spain
Architect
Work Experience Founding Partner Architect
June 2016 - January 2023
Architect
February - July 2022
Studies Treinta Grados Arquitectura
A society founded in 2016, dedicated to architectural works in single-family and collective housing, commercial and institutional premises. Preliminary project, project and technical management, refurbishment and architectural survey. 2D and 3D modeling. Photomontage, rendering and architectural animation. Negotiation with clients.
Dirección de Arquitectura Municipal San Miguel de Tucumán
Study and Project: Preliminary project, project, incident analysis, metric computation and construction budget.
Partner - CMO
June 2016 - November 2016 March 2018 - December 2020
Graphic designer
Year 2006 - 2019
CAD Drafter
Year 2013 - Year 2017
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Next Level Gaming Store
Participation in financial and management decision-making. Sales strategies based on the latest trends in video games and local competition, maximizing the performance of different areas and the company’s product portfolio. Media design and publication in social networks.
Master in Collective Housing
ETSAM - Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Master in Business Administration
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Year 2023
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Studying
Bachelor of Architecture
Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Graduated in 2017
Diploma in Finance and Management Control
Grupo Sonnenfeld
Graphic Designer
INI Capacitación
Senior Management Consultant
Year 2018
Year 2006
Instituto Nacional de Informática
Freelancer
Advertising posters, merchandising, packaging, editorial pieces, corporate identity, vector illustration, photo editing, 2D and 3D multimedia, video editing, basic and commercial stationery, brochures, composition and music production.
Freelancer
Draftsman of natural gas infrastructure works. Construction plans, according to work, surveys.
Skills Architecture Software Graphic Design and Audiovisual Production Software
AutoCAD / Sketchup / Revit / Archicad / Cinema 4D / 3DS Max / Rhino / V-Ray / Lumion / Unreal Engine / Morpholio Trace / QGIS / PrusaSlicer CorelDRAW / Illustrator / Photoshop / Lightroom / InDesign / After Effects / Premier Pro / Procreate / FL Studio / Studio One / Pro Tools / Sibelius
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Ciudad Judicial Concepción Bill approved by Congress
Workshop Final Degree Project Workshop leaders Beatriz Coronel, Patricia Rodríguez Anido, Abel Tannuré Project location Concepción, Tucumán, Argentina Team Pablo Martín Medina (Argentina) Duration 18 months
The Project Approval Process by the Tucumán Legislature On October 12, 2016, through Councilman Sergio Castillo, an Act of Collaboration was presented and approved in the Honorable Deliberative Council of Concepción, as an Agreement of relationship and cooperation for investigative tasks. A detailed and updated proposal of the Master Plan for the city of Concepción was included in support. The news reached the Secretary General of Judicial Tucumanos Agremiados, Omar Maldonado, who pledged to collaborate with the project allowing access to all kinds of information about the functioning and requirements of workers in the judiciary, of the trial lawyers and of the citizens who come to the justice services in order to design a building as appropriate as possible. On June 12, 2017, a new Collaboration Agreement was signed, this time with the mayor of Concepción, Roberto Sánchez, and the aforementioned Secretary General, Omar Maldonado, to cooperate in the design of the building of the Judicial City. On November 27, 2017, the final project of the career was presented in the classrooms of the Faculty with outstanding qualifications, which was attended by the main leaders of Judicial Associations in support of the idea. On May 16, 2018, through legislator Raúl Albarracín, the bill for the creation of the Concepción Judicial City was formally presented in the Honorable Legislature of Tucumán. On this occasion, we had the privilege of presenting the project before the Lieutenant Governor and President of the Legislature, Osvaldo Jaldo, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Daniel Posse, and the Secretary of Government and Justice, Carolina Vargas Aignasse, among other important authorities. The event was attended by various media and communication. On August 30, 2018, this law was debated and approved unanimously in the Chamber of the Legislature of Tucumán, currently waiting for the Executive Branch to initiate the project. 4
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Ciudad Judicial Concepción
The Idea The project was designed to reorganize the offices of the Concepción Judicial Branch, conceiving a new pole, key for the city. The whole has a main building, of 4 blocks, to be built in different stages, culminating in an extremely harmonious result. The building consists of the Penal and Civil Courts, linked by a large central hall. Another block is attached to it that will house different public agencies: Bank of Tucumán, AFIP, ANSES, Province Revenue, Real Estate Registry, Automobile Registry, Cadastre and Police.
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Ciudad Judicial Concepción
Current Situation
The Building
Currently, many offices of the Judicial Branch of Concepción are scattered throughout the city, generating functional conflicts and accessibility in traffic, its workers and citizens who come for its services.
Understanding the workings of the judicial system is as important as knowing the user experience today. From this three important criteria emerge that will be the soul of the project: • Maximum flexibility. • Optimal functionality. • Future growth.
Election criteria of the site
Functionality and Flexibility
• Accessibility. This is the main factor. It must be accessible to the entire city and province. • Predictability. The municipality of Concepcion keeps these lands safe for projects up to what is proposed. • Dimensions. Capacity to accommodate a super built according to the wide program of needs. • Environment. A sector where this activity does not complicate daily circulation and can become a focus of future growth.
Circulations and environments are carefully studied to achieve a correct functional zoning, in a system as complex as judicial activity. This ensures comfort, clarity and fluidity, but above all, safety.
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Hall central
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Construction Stages The design allows growth, not only horizontally in block stages, but also vertically by allowing light mezzanines to be added throughout. Thus, you can expand from three initial floors to seven, all perfectly functional.
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Domestic Fragments Workshop leader Elli Mosayebi (Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten) Workshop assistants Álvaro M. Fidalgo Project location Purmamarca, Jujuy, Argentina Team Santiago Aguirre (Chile), Stephany Pavon (Honduras) Duration Five days
Assignment A critical intellectual engagement with forms of contemporary urban housing serves as the focus of the studio project, in the design of an apartment. In this, design is to be understood as an instrument for experiencing the present age and generating knowledge. The modest scale of the projects will allow us to concentrate on the many themes of the interior, the form of the dwelling, fundamental architectural elements and the climate.
Project Each design starts with a specific idea of dwelling, prioritizing spatial and architectural potential over social relevance. The concept challenges the traditional idea of ‘individual dwellings,’ allowing for buildings designed for collective living where such distinctions become irrelevant. These structures may not only serve as dwelling spaces but also integrate work, contemplation, or other activities. The key requirement is that the apartment can accommodate multiple individuals living independently. In addition to the dwelling concept, a specific architectural element can drive the design. This element, directly related to the intended purpose, can be a standalone inspiration or complement the primary concept. These elements encompass more than structural components like windows, doors, and stairs, extending to secondary and movable elements such as kitchen and bathroom components, as well as furniture like beds, tables, curtains, etc. Ultimately it is also conceivable to take such an element as the primary origin of the project, i.e. to develop the dwelling on the basis of an architectural element or a piece of furniture. Can you imagine an inhabited staircase? How would you design a floor plan based on a chimney? Can the placement of columns define a dwelling space? How would a dwelling look that primarily serves sleeping, and in which the bed is at the centre? Who would inhabit such spaces? 12
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Domestic Fragments
Task The task consisted of designing an architectural proposal based on certain concepts and places with specific climate conditions that each group was assigned by lot. In the case of our group, the assigned verbs of collective activities were “Accommodating guests” and “Collecting”, the spatial element was “Armchair” and the place was some with the climatic condition “Cold desert climate”. Accommodating guests The concept of the building consists of a collective and transitory accommodation for tourists seeking to be part of the festivities and rituals originating in Purmamarca, such as the Carnival and the Pachamama festival. Collecting The main construction system is rammed earth, and the concept of “collecting” is justified by building the walls of this material mixing the different minerals from the “Hill of the 7 colors”, located a few kilometers from the place. Armchair The roof consists of a long staircase along the building that serves as bleachers to witness the processions and rituals that take place in the festivities. The “armchair” in this case are the seats formed by each step. Cold desert climate The place chosen is Purmamarca, a picturesque pre-Columbian village in the arid mountains of Jujuy, in northern Argentina. the climate is usually hot and warm in a few instances, not typically as hot as hot desert climates and tend to feature cold, dry summers and winters.
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From Paris to Oulu Specialty Construction & Technology Specialty leader Ignacio Fernández Solla Specialty assistants Archie Campbell, David Castro, Diego García-Setién Project location Oulu, Finland Team Fernando González (Mexico), Brittany Siegert (United States), Alejandro Yañez (Mexico) Duration Three weeks
About the specialty The aim of the module is to understand buildings as entities based on the interplay of three physical realms: structure, envelope and services, connected by a process: industrialization. At the end of the module, students will have understood design and construction as one continuous process. Design is not possible without construction, and vice-versa, if our buildings are supposed to be real architecture. Students will develop a culture of construction in parallel to their evolving culture of design.
Task Case studies were assigned to each group to be relocated to different parts of the world with different technological contexts. Our assigned case study was the Rue des Orteaux building by Babled Nouvet Reynaud Architectes in Paris, France, which is located in a continental context, humid climate zone, and moving the project to a city with a highly industrialized economy. The place we have chosen is Oulu, Finland. The objective was to reconceptualize the building’s design strategies in terms of envelope, structure and services. It was necessary to reconsider construction systems and materials and search for an appropriate solution which allowed to reindustrialize the building process, related to the available resources in the new location.
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Original Project: Apartment Building in Paris
Proposal: Apartment Building in Oulu
20 Social Housing Units Babled-Nouvet-Reynaud
The proposed number of units is 6 per floor, with 30 units total and 60 sq m per unit. The building has 6 levels and the total size is 2180 sq m.
Delivered in 2013, this building of 20 social housing very intelligently meets the challenge of meeting the requirement HQE (High Environmental Quality) without reinforcement of restrictive technology. Consisting of three decreasing volumes, the main building has completely glazed facades exposed to the course of the sun. The double-skin glass and wood ensure very efficient passive heating while providing good sound insulation. • Envelope: South and east facades are made up of an exterior layer of sliding glass doors, and interior layer of glass doors and heat-collecting concrete walls, and an intermediate roller shade imediately behind the exterior glazing. • Facilities: Located along north and west facades to accomodate the south and east facing double-glazed facade. • Structure: A post-slab concrete structural system uses less concrete, allows light to permeate deep within the building, and allows for future programatic flexibility.
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• Envelope: The facades towards the street are formed by industrialized panels with high insulation. The interior facades to the south are large windowings designed in two layers for maximum solar gain, large views and internal heat retention. The roof shape is designed for collecting water from rain and snow. • Facilities: Located between public circulation and units with maximum accessibility. It includes a hydraulic heating system, rainwater and greywater and blackwater collection system, radiant floor heating system, besides electrical installation and ventilation by ducts. • Structure: Use of concrete in pile foundations (due to the proximity of the sea and ground conditions) and in prefabricated vertical circulation elements. Wooden structures respond to the building culture of the place, contributing to the reduction of CO2.
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From Paris to Oulu
Apartment Unit As Oulu is a prominent research and technology hub, home to several universities and research facilities, our target demographic are post-graduate student and young professional renters who will typically live in Oulu for 2-5 years. The apartments will be reduced from multi-bedroom to small studio apartments for only 1-2 individuals. The building will incorporate shared spaces for cooking, working, socializing and exercising in addition to the individual apartment units. The main idea of the project is based on an industrialized system consisting of 3 different stages: the construction of the structure on site, the modular elements containing the infrastructure, and the panelled prefabricated facade. It is expected to implement quality control and achieve cost efficiency and a reduced time process. Panelised façade
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Exploded Construction Axonometrics On site element 1 2 3 4
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CLT structural wall Insulation wall Interior glazing Exterior glazing
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Microcement screed Self leveling mortar Radiant floor Expansion joint Thermal insulation XPS CLT slab Vibration pad
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Modular element & Panelised façade 1 CLT module roof slab 2 CLT beams 3 CLT structural walls 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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Wooden threshold Microcement screed Self leveling mortar Radiant floor Expansion joint Thermal insulation xps CLT slab Supports for lifting CLT beams Vibration pad
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Kitchen unit Bathroom unit Wall covering Doors
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Steel frame Densglass sheating Membrane Rainscreen mineral wool Cladding support Cladding
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From Paris to Oulu Detail A
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The modules are self-bearing assemblies which consist of a load-bearing floor, ceiling structures and load-bearing vertical structures.
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The structures, furnishing, finishing, and fittings of the modules are assembled at the prefabrication factory.
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Foundations, module lifting and stacking, assembling inter-module connections and module-to-module interface finishing remain on-site duties in fully modular building.
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20 mm wooden wall covering 90 Mm thermal insulation Steel frame 16 mm GP densglass sheating Air, water & vapour barrier 75 mm rainscreen mineral wool 30 mm wooden cladding
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Climatic Typologies Body, Climate And Architecture
Specialty Climate, Metabolism & Architecture. Towards Post-Sustainability Specialty leader Javier García-Germán Project location Barcelona, Spain Team Fredy Quispe (Peru), Paloma Romero (Mexico), Ángela Tamayo (Mexico) Duration Two weeks
About the specialty The module focuses on climatic questions and on the metabolic dimension of architecture, exploring the design opportunities which thermodynamics and ecology have opened to the field of collective housing, with the objective of finding design strategies which bridge the void between quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Task The objective was to design a 20-unit collective housing building starting from the particular atmospheres demanded by its users. First, we had to explore the interactions between the local climate, the spatial and material particularities of architecture, and the lifestyle of its users. Based on this, we had to give a precise architectural response to climate designing spatial and material systems to interact with inhabitation patterns.
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Climatic Typologies
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The climate of Barcelona is Mediterranean coastal, with hot summers and mild winters. Its high relative humidity throughout the year negatively influences comfort, so taking advantage of the winds for passive croos ventilation is paramount.
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Psychrometric chart Barcelona has 1,423 hours of comfort, which is only 16% of the year. Implementing these passive design strategies efficiently can increase the comfort time during the year up to about 80%.
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• Sun protection in summer to reduce high temperatures and high solar radiation. • Natural ventilation in summer to counteract high apparent temperatures caused by high relative humidity. • Mass cooling of materials to acclimate spaces through thermal inertia. • Internal gains as thermal energy produced by occupation density and type of activity within spaces. • Passive solar heating in winter by maximizing the amount of solar radiation that enters the building and is absorbed by its thermal mass.
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Climate A relevant factor is the humidity in Barcelona, it’s important to have a good ventilation to make it possible for people to sweat and evaporate the sweat when the temperature is too hot, this way the cooling effect works. This images show two clear examples of how people live in winter and in summer in Barcelona and the places they use to cope with the different climate conditions.
Climatic Typologies
Prototype Summer Day Sun protection to reduce high temperatures and high solar radiation. Natural ventilation to counteract high apparent temperatures caused by high relative humidity.
Summer Night Mass cooling of materials to acclimate spaces through thermal inertia. Natural cross and stack ventilation to get rid of hot and stale air
6 am cold north wind 10 am south wind Sun protection with vegetation Cold basement
8 pm north wind Vertical humidity reduction Cold basement
Winter Day Passive solar heating in winter by maximizing the amount of solar radiation that enters the building and is absorbed by its thermal mass.
Winter Night Internal gains as thermal energy produced by occupation density and type of activity within spaces. Materials with thermal mass to release heat gained by direct solar radiation.
Open south façade Deciduous vegetation allows solar gain Heat rises
Heavy courtains contain heat Low-E glazing in windows Close prototype to contain heat Heat rises
• Direct sun radiation. Social cultures seeks outdoor spaces, even in winter • Spaces blocking the cold winter breeze
• Body convective air cooling of fresh mediterraneano ocean marine breeze • High temeperatures under direct sun light • Cooling vasodilation process
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Climatic Typologies
CLT Wood & Wood Structure Reusable, recyclable and renewable material to be 100% natural. It is thermal and acoustic insulation. Its low specific weight makes it a lightweight material and very suitable for prefabrication. Its thermal resistance is 0.13 W/mK.taking advantage of the winds for passive croos ventilation is paramount.
Prefabricated Concrete Self-regulator material. Very suitable for this project because it has the capacity to absorb and store heat from direct solar radiation. Great dimensional accuracy and finishes. Faster erection at site. Its thermal resistance is 0.33 W/mK.
Thermal Insulation with Cellulose Thermal and acoustic insulating material. Regulates humidity. It is made of recycled paper and is 100% natural. It has very low carbon footprint. Its thermal resistance is 0.039 W/mK.
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Apartment Building Work Preliminary project Project location Concepción, Tucumán, Argentina Team Pablo Martín Medina
Project The client required the formation of four apartments, a common-use terrace for recreation, commercial premises and parking on a lot with a particular morphology, in which the front of the municipal line is inclined 50 degrees with respect to its party lines. In addition to this, the land area should be as small as possible. Our solution was to take advantage of this “triangle” shaped in the plan to advance on it volumetrically and form an interesting outdoor space. The five relevant premises of the building are: • Less surface occupation as possible. • Minimum and comfortable measures. • Natural ventilation in all spaces • Wide views to the outside. • Aesthetically attractive for rent.
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Apartment Building
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