Architecture Portfolio MarĂa Laura SĂĄnchez
GERMANY (currently) Ubersendling Prof. Michaeli TUM Figure drawing Prof. Schmidt TUM Urban Typologies and Transformations Prof. Wolfrum TUM
UNITED STATES
FRANCE
OF AMERICA
Artist’s atelier
Partners of the Americas, 2010 exchange
2015 Theater in the island 2015 Ensam House in the Cliff
VENEZUELA
2014 Ensam Exposition Pavilion
Urban analysis,
2013 Ensam
2011 USB Photography
María Laura SANCHEZ CADENAS
Studies B.A. Architecture (exchange studies) TUM
Munich, Germany
B.A. Architecture Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’architecture
Montpellier, France
B.Sc. Urbanisme Universidad Simon Bolivar
Caracas, Venezuela
High School diplom of Sciences. YMCA
Caracas, Venezuela
High school exchange, SHHS
Tennessee, USA
Experiences
Social engagement
Architecture renovation project for a french artist in Perpignan
Student representative for the Comission of Studies and Research at the ENSAM
Moderator at the «Festival des architectures vives» of Montpellier and La Grande Motte
Member of Partners of the Americas and Compañeros de Venezuela International ONG
Student work at the architecture library from the Ecole d’architectue de Montpellier Teacher of French as a foreign language Alliance Française of Caracas Architecture practice by Fontés Architecture
engaged to the social development of the Americas
Exchange in the USA with the ONG Partners of the Americas Active member of «ACOSID» Down Syndrom support association in Cojedes
Member of the photography group «CAF» at the Universidad Simón Bolívar
Skills and interests
Languages
AutoCAD SketchUp, Rhino
Spanish English
Mother toungue
Photoshop, Adobe Vectorworks Lightroom
French German italian
Billingual
Microsoft Office
Billingual
Conversational Listening
The most densed of the three buildings is the ÂŤmachineÂť. It is designed in a modular system of boxes of 7,5m by 8m. They are arranged steping back and forth to create three types of apartments: one with a balcony to the exterior (violet in the drawing), other with two sides for lightning (green), and double-hight lofts (blue). There are also smaller structures (the module divided into two). And the two stripes relate to each other through a common central distribution space.
Obersendling is an industrial neighborhood neighbo on the south of Munich, Germany. The objectif is to redevelop the site, keeping a mixity in the usages and responding to the needs of the people. A continous urban space served as common ground-oor for the development of three groups of buildings, all mainly residential, with a quite public grounddoor.
Acces to the site
Moulin de Salicate existing structure
Rehearsal and common rooms Performances platforms
Performances platforms
Observation platform
The site is an almost-island in the Rives du Lez in Montpellier. It hosts an old Windmill, as was the tradition all along the river .The proposed structure accomodates humbly to the existing one
Moulin de Salicate
Proposed structure
Showers and WCs
Common spaces Rehearsal rooms
Dormitory
Structure of the ancient Windmill Passarelle to the water
Common spaces
Terrace and toilettes
Common spaces
Shower and toilettes, over the water
Montpellier hosting the «Festival de l’éphémére» was the excuse for this project. Every student found a location in the city to develop a light structure for a program of our choice. Before the river meets the city center, it has some green areas. This island was home to a Windmill (Le Moulin de Salicate) that is today taken over by vegetation and graffities. The program developed for this project is a theater group that lives, practices and presents to the audience all in the island. There is a more solid structure for the living, and platforms for the presentations.
Choosing a site was the rst exercise on this project. A regular site in Montpellier, ending up in a 10 m cli is where this family house nds its place. The programm is distributed in three oors, two of which are partly inside the cli: the common spaces are in the ground-oor, the main room and two for children, in the rst underground oor, and in the third, an atelier. Between stone and wood, the materials for this house are distributed so that the solidity of the stone joins the one of the cli, and the wood its lightness.
Three small and continous projects were a previous exercise to the Pavilion. «Topography», «Boundary» and «Passage» were ideas to be reeected in a parasitic structure in the Place St. Roche. Wooden bands guide the movement through the square, and invite the passanger to take part in it, or continue its way.
The Festival des architectures vives de Montpellier takes place every year during the summer. It is most visited by families, and among the dierent installations, there is a Welcoming Pavilion. This was the program for this project. Following a stripes system, introduced in the axis of the square La Canourgue, a pavilionary space that brings the outside to the inside was desired. In the center of the project, a rolling wall remains opened during the day, bringing together both the inside and outside exposition rooms.
Hand drawings.
Tanaguarena y El Caribe
Parroquia Caraballeda Estado Vargas, Venezuela
Urban analysis’ Studio at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, under the direction of the Professor Ms. Luisa Páez. The cost areas Tanaguarena and El Caribe were analysed on their urban dynamics, transport systems and movements of people, just as in more physical dimensions such as the conditions of their built structures and ways. Together with previous physical studies of the soil, and now the urban dynamics, Vargas is settled as a vulnerable zone that requires dramatic changes in its urban structure.
Reinterpretation of Degas’ paintings. Photography essay for an exposition with the CAF Photography association of the Universidad Simón Bolívar in 2013.
I believe that architecture is a way to organize our relation to the physical space we habitate, taking as factors of the equationthe social caractheristics of people, and groups of people. This is why I have tried to get to know my own country, Venezuela, going to determined geographical zones and discovering what they hide, how the space characterizes its people and viceversa. Since three years now, I have been living in Europe. Here I have been inmersed in new ways of living, dierent ways of making cities. I study Architecture in Montpellier and now Munich, but I actually study and learn just as well by discovering.
Images: Excursion to the Amazonian jungle, Venezuela. Native children from the Amazonas. Exchange students from Latin America in Washington DC.
Since 2010 I am a member of Partners of the Americas organisation, which is represented in Venezuela by its regional chapter « Compañeros de Venezuela ». It is a volunteering ONG that aims to promote social development of low-ressources communities in latin american countries, by empowering its inhabitants to make changes on their own. The Youth Ambassadors program consists of a one-month exchange to the USA, where besides assisting a regular High School, students visit several ONG and governement Institution in Washington DC. ,to be guided into the developement of community scale projects. Along with my group partners from Caracas, we developed an environmental educational project in several schools in our neighborhoods. «Encuadérnate» consisted of collecting, and teaching children to do so as well, old or already used paper materials from schools and selling them to recycling companies, in order to have the ressources to get new ones for the students who can’t afford to. In Venezuela the recycling p process is not yet as developed as in Europe or the USA.
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