Architecture Portfolio

Exercise

portfolio architectural design projects

2011-2018

Project Name Year

Marina Garcia de Mora

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CONTENTS

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COVER LETTER

pag. 04 -05

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CV

pag. 06 -07

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PROJECTS 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8

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The Cadiz Vortex B’Wasser Cordoba over the River WorkHome FlowerTower Arcade The Living Pavilion A Matter of Light

RECOMENDATION LETTER

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08 -17 18 -21 22 - 27 28 - 33 34 - 39 40 - 47 48 - 55 56 -57

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THE CADIZ VORTEX

The Cadiz Project Name Vortex Year - 2018 2017

Center of Advanced Manufacturing [CAM]

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MASTER ON ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO 2017 - 2018

Design and develop a project that addresses all dimensions of architecture, integrating them so to achieve a succesfull result.

Software: Rhinoceros, Keyshot, Photoshop

Bottom: Transversal Section showing urban continuity

Verticality

CITY

Horizontality

Verticality

[CAM]

Horizontality

SEA

The final masters project rises up from the personal inquisitiveness of getting to control and combine, at once, several architectural approaches such as the urban, the programmatic, the social or even the formal.

[CAM] pretends to become an urban nexus within the city, providing it with landscape continuity through the building itself and integrating the urban nucleous towards this side of the peninsula.

The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018 The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018

It is for this main reason that the design concept avoided since the begining the construction of a solid volume that would strictly create a new physical and visual barrier between the city center and the sea. A new urban landscape and terrain modification inside which the different activities would be carried out was therefo-

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It seems understandable that an area such as the Cadiz bay, with the large waterfront that embraces it, historically oriented its prosperity towards the sea. Although it had traditionally developed a commerce activity related to other maritime labours, Cadiz has always had its relative importance within the industrial sector.

The naval sector has always been essential for the city economy, being mainly based on the repairing of the many ships that arrived to its bay. Therefore, since these early times until now, the naval industry has always had a huge repercusion within the city economy drastically altering its levels as its running activities oscillate up and down.

It is for this reason that big international industrial companies such as NAVANTIA or AIRBUS set up their headquarters in the province long time ago.

Currently, both industries propose a real programm in which they join together in order to develop a center [CAM] where new industrial techniques can be researched and developed by the implementation of new technologies

1m 2m 3m ROTA PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA

4m

5m Navantia - Rota 42,7 Ha 200 employees

Navantia - Cadiz 16 Ha 161 employees CADIZ

Matagorda

Airbus - Puerto Real 7,87 Ha 70 employees

CADIZ

PUERTO REAL

Navantia - San Fernando 40,3 Ha 982 employees

Navantia - Puerto Real 33,7 Ha 610 employees

Map showing the Cadiz Bay and locating the different points where both Navantia and Airbus place their facilities.

Extension on surface and ratio of employement are also listed.

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Airbus - Puerto de Santa Maria 7,8 Ha 337 employees

SAN FERNANDO

The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018

1: 70.000 Ratio of employees (x100)

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Software: Rhinoceros + Grasshopper

3D Computationally programmed surfaces through helical points

Location of 1 helical point

Location of 1 counter-clockwise and 1 clockwise helical points

Location of 2 counter-clockwise and 1 clockwise helical points

Location of 2 counter-clockwise and 2 clockwise helical points

Surface with 1 helical point

Surface with 1 counter-clockwise and 1 clockwise helical points

Surface with 2 counter-clockwise and 1 clockwise helical points

Surface with 2 counter-clockwise and 2 clockwise helical points

Surface with 1 helical point

Surface with 1 counter-clockwise and 1 clockwise helical points

Surface with 2 counter-clockwise and 1 clockwise helical points

Surface with 2 counter-clockwise and 2 clockwise helical points

2D flowlines and corresponding to surface I

Flowlines projected onto surface I

The concept Rheotomic Surface, developed

by Daniel Piker, involves the mathematical generation of ‘walkable’ interconnected surfaces. With ‘Rheo’ from the Greek for flow and ‘Tomos’ meaning cut or section, the geometry resulting from the implication of mathematical equations comes out as a smooth, continuous surface that horizontally connects at once different levels.

The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018

Simply put, two points are walkable connected if one can draw a curve on the surface between them along which top and bottom never switch planes. Therefore, through plotting clockwise and counter-clockwise helical points in x and y on a mesh plane, a chain of real and imaginary components from complex numbers can be generated, in turn making it possible to then plot the vertical points

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Flowlines separated from surface I

Flowlines extruded and thickened I: structural ribs

of the helicoid. Finally, to allow the surface to be connected, a separate algorithm is necessary to remove the unecessary surface excess.

This is also very usefull structurally, as it means that loads can always be passed down into the surface. Thus, Rheotomic Surfaces combine useful and dynamic architectural form with structural performance.

Furthermore, they utilize geometry not just as a fancy roof or a decorative pattern, but as the fundamental generator of an exciting new type of space, one which avoids many of the common pitfalls and provides a viable alternative to the flat parallel and orthogonal places of architecture based on the Cartasian Box.

Final building form: surfaces combination for total continuity inside and outside the building. Programatic use is also approached.

Surfaces Disposition Structural Grid The final building disposition is achieved through the repetition, as many time as necessary, of a single programmed surface that is then non-digitally edited regarding also the urban context.

The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018

In such way the joint between them is absolutely smooth thus achieving complete continuity.

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The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018 Softwares: Rhinoceros, Autocad, Keyshot, Photoshop, Illustrator

Floorplan showing surface continuity and uses distribution

1 Additive Manufacturing 1.1 KUKA 6-axis Robots (x2) 1.2 3D PLA Printers 1.3 Dust 3D Printers

2 Multifunctional Space 2.1 Wood Lab 2.1.1 CNC Router 2.1.2 Wood Lathe 2.1.3 Wood Drill Press 2.1.4 Sander 2.2 Metal Lab 2.2.1 Welding Machine 2.2.2 Radial Arm Saw 2.2.3 Vacuum Coating Machine 2.3 Plastic Lab 2.3.1 Plastic Bending Machine 2.3.2 Plastic Crusher 2.3.3 Spray Paint Machine

3 Welding & Laser

3.3

3.1 Robotic Arm 3.2 Laser Cutters 3.3 Metal Welder

4 Robotics & Automation 2.2

2.1.1

5 OďŹƒce Area 5.1 Pin-up Display Wall 5.2 Working Area 5.3 Meeting Room

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2.1.2 2.2.1

2.1.3 2.2.2

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2.1.4 2.2.3

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2.3.2 2.3.3

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4.1

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4.1 Robotic Manufacturing Chain

6.1 Visully Open Kitchen 6.2 Interior Eating Area 6.3 Exterior Eating Area

The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018

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1.2

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Softwares: Rhinoceros, Keyshot, Photoshop Illustrator

Exploded Axonometry of one single surface showing construction layers and spatial distribution

Walkable surface outter face finished on white concrete material.

Top surface - Accessible Roof Material - White Concrete

Extruded Polyesterene Cylinders used to lighten the concrete surfaces at the higher part.

Bottom surface 1 - Big Spaces Ceiling 2 - Small Spaces Flooring Material - Common Concrete

Space 2 Double skin glass facade panel joint by using structural silicone.

Structure Concrete nerves following the flowinlines of the surface construction drive the forces to the ground.

Surface structure Material - Common concrete

Structure Metal profiles serving as structural vertical elements for the support of the surface top part as well as a support for the double skin glass facade.

Flooring Material - Grey Concrete Facade Double layer glass skin; panels joint one to another by usign structural silicone.

The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018

Complete single surface

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Bottom: Longitudinal Section

Softwares: Rhinoceros, Keyshot, Photoshop

Top: Interior space view

Softwares: Rhinoceros, Keyshot, Photoshop

The program asks for a hierarchical distribution of spaces that are clearly differentiated ones from the others. The first type is designed for the installation of big machinery which requires a room with a large free height and an uninterrupted floor space for its proper functioning. On the other hand, the second type assigned for office uses requires a much partitioned space with a standard height.

The Cadiz Vortex 2017 - 2018

The spatial alteration is achieved through the connections of two surfaces with different curvatures that are joint at the highest point and start to separate as they approach the ground (lowest point), thus providing the second type of spaces in between them.

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B’WASSER

DEGREE ON ARCHITECTURE 3rd year DESIGN STUDIO - 2013 In collaboration with ANA CARRERAS

Berlin, Germany

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Stahnsdorf

Waterworks

Recharge of Groundwater

Waste Water Treatement Plant

Surface Water Treatment Plant

Intermediate Pumping Station

Discharge

Water Systems that supply water to the city of Berlin.

B’Wasswer 2013

An industrial structure designed to remove biological or chemical waste products from water.

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A hydrologic process where water moves downward from surface water to groundwater.

Water Protection Area

The treatment and purification of surface water.

Surface Water

Kaulsdo

Evaluate, update & reprogram the existing architecture applying the following concepts: music, domestic, energy, shared spaces.

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Softwares: Autocad, Illustrator

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Softwares: Autocad, Photoshop

Bottom: Longitudianl section of site; pre-existence and new incorporations.

Water pollution map of Berlin

Softwares: Autocad, Photoshop, Illustrator

The project involved the combination of a hybrid program, where an extensive music school, a student housing and an energy-efficient concept were played together, and mixed into one. The water-purifcation treatment played a role in the union of these matters mentioned above, and apart from carrying-out its main purpose, it served as a thermal and acoustic insulator around the different programs, penetrating them through small canals, into efte panel coverings/facades. A water world.

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Non-built Area

Analysis diagrams of pre-existance and explanatory diagrams of new incorporations.

Softwares: Autocad, Photoshop

Sewerage treatment

NEW INTERVENTIONS

Music & Video Studios (placed acording to a fixed distance with any other unit)

WPS (Water Purification System)

Vehicles circulation Pedestrian paths

Non-built Area

P"N OF USES

Vehicles circulation Pedestrian paths Music Studios

Leisure

WPS (Water Purification System)

Residential Compound

Office

Greenhouses

Music Academy

Information point

Sewerage treatment

Energy production

Auditorium

A closer observation of the energy production system installed can be admired in the section below. Circulations, flows and leisure were experienced, and the buildings that were intervened with the experimental, water, efte panel facades can be viewed as well.

This is an example of the aim we tried to deal with; complete equilibrium and harmony between completely different programs, using a self-created system, using real and already present resources on sight.

Softwares: Autocad, Photoshop

Built Area (University complex)

B’Wasswer 2013

Ehemalige Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau und Schi#au

Middle: Complete site floorplan; pre-existence, new building incorporations and circulations.

EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURES

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CORDOBA over the RIVER

Cordoba Over The River 2015 - 2016

Cordoba, Spain

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DEGREE ON ARCHITECTURE 5th year URBAN LANDSCAPE - 2015 In collaboration with ANA CARRERAS

Choose a fortified construction and analyse it. Study the history of the city. Reprogram and alterate the structure to rehabilitate the city.

Restoring a natural habitat was a first stop in mind that later introduced other features and uses into the project: Cordoba over the River attracts focal and new tourists, restores the historical part of the city, reunifies the ancient wall of Cordoba, and creates new pedestrian flows and networks giving a new identity to the city.

Cordoba over the River is a large and powerful project that could bring a sort of modern/ old prosperity to the beautiful city of Andalucia.

MAp KEY Top: Cordoba Provincial urban limits diagram Bottom: City History timeline

Old wall Remaining parts of Old Wall Modern Walls _Secondary Roads _Main Roads

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Attraction points Intervention Area River Temporary Cultural Walls _Cruces _Patios _Toros _Cata de Vinos _Feria

Supplied by Guadalquivir River Navegable: healthy possibilities for economy Transport Commerce Trade Protection by Mountain ranges

THe NeW CITY

Sierra Morena Las CampiĂąas Possibilities for Industry Fertile lands for agriculture Rich in minerals (gold and copper)

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MAp KEY Old wall Remaining parts of Old Wall Modern Walls _Secondary Roads _Main Roads

Cordoba Over The River 2015 - 2016 Cordoba Over The River 2015 -2016

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The concept of the proposal being drawn out is to reunify an identity inside the city of Cordoba. This has been done through the assesement of several topics: viewports, heights, landscape visibility, historical background, modern aims, natural habitats and resources.

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The walkway being proposed is drawn following the footsteps of the old wall/ fortress of Cordoba. It later adapts into an organic form following the Guadaliquivir flows whilst creating new homes for the living fauna around the area and opening new possibilities for tourism. The observatory at the highest point of the walkway is set at south where the city of Cordoba can be appreciated as a whole. Its shape wines around the idea of the sun way, as it is born in the east and sets in the west.

Connections are viable through any of the two sides of the river.

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WORKHOME in Couvet Couvet, Switzerland

Project Name Year

The way of working and living is in constant change. The way things are produced is going digital more and more as time passes by. Prototyping and high-tech enables high precision manufacturing to take place in a domestic scale.

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This leads, together with the co-working of different fields as one, to the neccesity of investigating what a factory of the future might be like and its implications in both working and living spaces.

DEGREE ON ARCHITECTURE 4th year DESIGN STUDIO 2015

Design new tools for architecture and urbanism in order to transform the nature of urbanity. Key concepts: integration, urban, zero energy, residential.

Top: City Analysis Diagramms Middle: Site Longitudinal Section Bottom: Program Calendar_Space & Time

SWITZERLAND

HISTORY OF THE ELIXIR

Origin of Absinthe

Mother Henriod

COUVET

SWITZERLAND Foeniculum vulgare Sweet Fenel

Artemisia absinthium Grade Wormwood

Cultivation She cultivated the herbs in her own garden

Pimpinella Asinum Anise

Production She fermented and distilled the elixir at home

Business She sold the elixir to dor-to-door sellers

Network Later it was sold to houholds and pharmacies

ABSINTHE TRAIL

Route de l´absinthe

MONT DE TRAVERS

1.323 m

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LES BAYARDS

GRANGESNARBOZ

TRAVERS

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There is an oficcial pedestrian tour related with the absinthe than joins France with Switzerland passing by Couvet. It lasts 48 km and has a maximum change of height of 1323m. This route can also be done by train, car or bycicle.

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ST-SULPICE

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PONTARLIER-NOIRAIGUE: 48 km

LES BAYARDS 1032 m

FONTAINE FROIDE DU CREUX-DU-VAN

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OTHER TWONS

MÔTIERS 737 m COUVET 734 m

ABSINTHE ROUTE

LA CÔTEAUX-FÉES

FONTAINE DES FÉESLA ROBELLA

11 km

ACCOMMODATION

ABSINTHE INVESTIGATION

EXISTING INDUSTRIAL HISTORIC BUILDING

(1912 INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE)

NOIRAIGUE 733 m

TGB BOUNDARY

4 km

5 km

3 km

6 km

3 km

3 km

13 km

MAIN EVENTS EXHIBITIONS (Connecting with summer outside activities)

ABSINTHE TRAIL TO TRAVERS

ABSINTHE TRAIL TRAIN STATION

RENTING SMALL-SPACES (winter)

EXISTING INDUSTRIAL HISTORIC BUILDING MUSEUM

(EXISTING FASHION DISPLAYS)

Project Name Year WorkHome 2015

ALL IN 1 ABSINTHE

WATCHES

FASHION

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30

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EXISTING WATCHMAKING WORKSHOPS

PETIT COMMITTE EXHIBITIONS

FEB

(CNIP: Centre neuchâtelois d´intégration professionnelle)

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MAY FASHION WEEK

EXISTING EVENTS FOR TOURISTS

WORKSHOPS

FOR LOCALS

EXISTING EVENTS

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WORKSHOPS

BASELWORLD

FOR TOURISTS

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WORKSHOPS

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MAIN EVENT

SUMMER COURSES WORKSHOPS FINAL JURY

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MAIN EVENT

SUMMER COURSES WORKSHOPS FINAL JURY

FINAL JURY

BOVERESSE FESTIVAL

EXISTING EVENTS

MAIN EVENT

FOR TOURISTS

SUMMER COURSES FOR LOCALS

INVESTIGATION

INVESTIGATION

CULTIVATION FOR BOTH

CO-WORKING

FINAL JURY

OPEN DAY

Absinthe is historically described as a destilled, highly alcoholic beverage, originated on Couvet at the late 18th century. It has a natural green colour and it is commonly referred to as the ‘green fairy’.

Considering these three main topics of the area we propose a calendar where all of them are integrated with each other, providing in this sense a bigger richness to the program.

However, this area is famous not only because of the absinthe but also by the factories of clothes and watches. Dubied was a company that used to sell sewing machines and the town became in a way famous when this factory was set up as workers started to live there when this ocurred.

WorkHome follows a project process from the first step to the last one, from the owners decisions to the construction on site. This process creates freedom and provides the client with the possibility of `designing´ their own house as they wish, having as a result a wide range of combinations on a catalogue that

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3m2

3m2

Architecture and spatial layout is produced after a particular combination has been chosen from the catalogue according to clients needs. Some examples are shown on the right diagram: furniture, partitions and architectural disposition in general changes depending on which subunits form the total and how those are combined.

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22m2

The arrangement of these units creates a semi public space between them where social relations among neighbours take place.

BUILDING SERVICES

LIVING

CIRCULATION

Bathroom Toilet

STORAGE

Kitchen Living

Terrace

Sleeping Vertical Communication

PLAY

Residential Units

Store Room

Top: Housing unit configuration type Middle: Housing units configuration calendar Bottom: Housing units architectural distribution

could later be appreciated throughtout the whole intervenved space.

Playground

PROJECT CONCEPT

Residential Catalogue

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ARCHITECTURAl DESIGN Residential Units

SINGLE PERSON

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ADULTS COUPLE

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WorkHome 2015

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Top: Conceptual diagram _Living & Working Middle: Intervened area transversal section Bottom: Design decisions diagrams

WorkHome provides an urban construction where people can both live and work. These are two daily activities that have almost always been developed in a private and individual manner, but this is also changing knowadays.

Typical living and working thresholds Private yard

Semi Common Semi private private

Private

WorkHome bets for the communication and interaction between members of both communities, enriching the social behaviour and knowledge of the people and creating a more comfortable atmosphere of life.

Residential developments and knowledge based organisations usually rely on a spectrum of spatial thresholds to provide spaces which are private, semi-private and public, which enables different activities to occur and different types of work to take place.

Private house

Shared

Cell

Private yard

Shared

Den

Concentrated Study

Private house

Private

Club

Group Work

Knowledge Exchange

WorkHome conceptual idea Semi-private Space Knowledge Exchange

Living

A key design feature of the WorkHome is to increase the occupant control and the flexibility of these spatial thresholds.

Exterior public space

PROJECT PROPOSAL

EXISTING FAÇADE 1m

Design Decisions

6m

LIVING AREA

4.5m

1.5m

E) UNITS ENTRANCE:

B) DISTANCES:

A) STRUCTURE: Used as formal axis for module disposition.

1m

x - x’

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y - y’ Column separation 30 cm

Wall to wall

B) INDEPENDENT LOCATION:

C) DISPOSITION LAYOUT

Aligned to, at least, 1 column axis.

3 different options for the disposition between modules.

3 living modules

2nd floor

WorkHome 2015

1st floor

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Min. distance between modules 1m

- Horizontal: x-x’ column axis - Vertical: y-y’ column axis

63m2

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A) ALIGNMENT:

50%

Entrance of unit placed in one of three sides; last one facing working spaces reserved for circulation.

- To façade: min. 1m (circulation purposes) - To working area: min. 1.5m (uses distinction, circulation, sound, etc.)

D) FAÇADES:

E) SURFACE OCCUPANCY:

F) NUMBER OF FLOORS:

min. 50% of free façade due to vnatural lighting, ventilation and circulation purposes.

- N. of living modules: max. 3 - Built + Unbuilt area/owner: max.

63m2

2 floors modules.

H) FLOOR DESIGN: Max. 4 units on a row for transversal communication..

Design Stages

2nd_Complete possible dwelling units disposition

1st_Building services units disposition following the project rules

3rd_Techincal Floor placement which serves at the same time as a gradient of privacy for the different spaces

Top: Site Longitudinal Elevation Middle: Project Configuration Stages Bottom: Project Axonometry_Overall Result

PROJECT PROPOSAL

4th_Working modules possible layout

OJECT PROPOSAL

New openings in the faรงade for better views to the river Secondary entrance for residential owners

Main entrance to building for exhibition days

Multifunctional modules disposed in a possible layout for anexhibition day

Back entrance for the unshifting of products produced in the different buildings

WorkHome 2015

Keeping existing skylights for natural lighting

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FLOWERTOWER Madrid, Spain

DEGREE ON ARCHITECTURE 5th year TECHNICAL SYSTEMS 2015 - 2016

FlowerTower 2015 - 2016

Flower_Tower is based on the idea of vertical farming, which consists on stacking cultivation systems called aquaponics floor by floor.

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Madrid Four Towers are located on Paseo de La Castellana, a central area of the capital of Spain. The location for the fith tower is chosen in order to receive as less shadow as possibles from the other four.

Analyse all technical systems of Torre Espacio. Design a new building or interact with an existing one. Develop its technical systems.

200 m 50 floors levels 3-50

vertical farming

levels 16, 32 & 50

technical floors

levels 0&1

market

The Fibonacci numbers are natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s numbering system. They appear everywhere in nature, from the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flower, the bracts of a pinecone, or the scales of a pineapple.

Why do these arrangements occur? In the case of leaf arrangement, some of the cases may be related to maximizing the space for each leaf increasing the average amount of light falling on each one. And this is one of the main issues to take into account when refering to vertical farming.

What a better thing then than looking at nature to create and design a system in which interior plants are going to be cultivated? FlowerTower is shaped following this natural principle of Fibonacci, creating its platforms a series of spirals along its central core as if dealing with a flower. In such way more light is received by each of its petals benefiting the growth of most of the products cultivated on them.

FIBONACCI SPIRAL

ADVANTAGES ADVANTAGES - Even sun exposure - Easy maintenance - All kind of products - Mix-used spaces

FlowerTower 2015 - 2016 FlowerTower 2015 - 2016

DISADVANTAGES

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- Big horizontal surface - Outskirts production - Less amount of production

- Less horizontal surface required.

- Inside city production - Mix-used spaces - More amount of production DISADVANTAGES - Uneven sun exposure - Difficult maintenance - Variable weather depending on floor - Limited product cultivation

Type Floor_Structural Plan Corrugated metal sheet & concrete slab

IPE 200 Joists

HEB 500 truss

FlowerTower 2015 - 2016

Metal “hull” prefab with UPN 100 profiles

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FlowerTower 2015 - 2016 Floor 1 & 2_ Partial Constructive Detailed Section

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FlowerTower 2015 - 2016

Floor Type_Constructive partial axonometry

ARCADE

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Arcade 2015 - 2016

Sharjah has become the cultural pearl of the UAE. It is a hub for islamic culture, art and architecture, where several events and activities are being internationally manifested and explored every year.

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However, sustainability is till a taboo in this city. Considering the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current objectives and important focuses on this topic, the initiative of a project towards reaching sustainability in Sharjah has been put to thought. Such an artistic and cultural center in the UAE, should also be represented with similiar levels of sustainable awareness and participation.

DEGREE ON ARCHITECTURE 5th year DESIGN STUDIO 2015 - 2016

Identify an opportunity within the given site; alterate an architectural piece of an existing building or landscape. Key concepts: density, art, energy, social performance.

Bottom: Heart of Sharjah_ Building anc uses analysis

The analysis of Sharjah indicates the need for drastic change in sustainable approaches, especially due to the fact that there are currently none. This project proposes to restore this somewhat lost culture and bribe it with a sustainable twist.

Through a new drawn-out manifesto, we begin an approach on Sharjah and its cultural heart with the aim of restoring it. This manifesto is a guidance to better conduct with the people and with the environment.

A study of the traditional architecture in terms of shape, design, materiality and energetic strategies is carried out to mark the rebirth of Sharjah: re-writing history but looking towards the future.

Arcade 2015 - 2016 Arcade 2015 - 2016

The map on the bottom makes a closer zoom into this so called heart of Sharjah and identifies key points and infrastructures in order to have a base point of where, how and why intervene.

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EMIRATES HANDCRAFT CENTER

SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION SPACES

HEART OF SHARJAH WALL

SHARJAH THEATRICAL ASSOCIATION

SHARJAH NATIONAL THEATRE

SHARJAH HERITAGE MUSEUM

SOUQ AL ARSAH

AL ES!H SCHOOL MUSEUM

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BAIT AL NABOODAH MUSEUM

extreme outside temperatures SUN

TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC HOUSE

COUTYARD DESIGN

- Private vs Public - Harmony with nature - Irregular plots - Coutyard first to be planned

- Thermal regulator - Private outside space - Overshadowed by high walls & foliage - Acting in three phases

Top: Project conceptual design diagrams

CONCEPT

heat loss by out-going radiation

mainly sunny days

nice exterior spaces shade needed

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INVERTED ARCHITECTURE bigger shaded open spaces!

PROJECT SHAPE

VARIABLES

SHAPE traditional islamic shapes in architecture

program urban plot

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size & scale

moved base

keeping airealviw from the traditional city

ARC strong visual element optimal structural shape material saving: sustainable

FACADES bigger rooftop

varied plan

CONCEPT

augmented scale

facade out from the sun

smaller base

multiple base

ARC CATALOGUE

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open ground

balcony cascade

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arches composition

illuminating gallery

let the sun inside

big ground + small balcony

exposed facades

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small ground + big balcony

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AXO HEART OF SHARJAH

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SHARJAH DISCOVERY CENTER

CERAMICS HOUSE

AL BAIT HOTEL

SOUQ SAQR

SHARJAH INSTITUTE OF ARTS

BAIT AL SERKAL

SHARJAH ART MUSEUM

EMIRATES FINE ARTS SOCIETY

BAIT AL SHAMSI

Bottom: Building transversal section

Arcade 2015 - 2016

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Arcade is finally located right at the heart of Sharjah, inside the perimeter of the old wall and where the Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) can also be found.

It integrates a mixuse program which raises the complex from complete public spaces to a absolutely private use: zouq in the ground floor; library, workshop and exhibition spaces at the second floor; temporary residential units for artists at the third one.

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Arcade 2015 - 2016

Top: Residential use floorplan

Zoom in residential use floorplan

Arcade 2015 - 2016

Residential units consists on individual or double rooms for artists which main element is the bathroom located at the middle of the space.

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The room is only provided with a bed and the toilet, while the rest of the activities are carried out in common, shared spaces within the same floor.

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Arcade 2015 - 2016

Building model images

THE LIVING PAVILION Madrid, Spain

DEGREE ON ARCHITECTURE 5th year DIGITAL FABRICATION CLUB 2015 - 2016

Project Name Year

Considering future buildings as intelligent robotic systems opens a new way of a fruitful interaction between Architecture, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence which is full of potential both from the point of view of research and impact in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives.

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The pavilion presents various robotic protoypes developed by several students and researchers of the school of architecture Universidad Europea de Madrid. To showcase these prototypes, the Club of Digital Fabrication of the same institution was created to fabricate a large robotized structure that is in itself a demonstration of how these technologies can be applied on an architectural scale.

Design and build a â&#x20AC;&#x153;living â&#x20AC;&#x153;pavillion with animal features and interactive robotic components for the art festival Mulafest in the Madrid Trade Fair Ifema.

Project Name Year Living Pavilion 2015 - 2016

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Future buildings will have the capability of reconfiguring some of their main components such as faรงades, rooftops and partitions, as well as lighting systems and other functional or decorative elements.

Such components will likely be equipped with sensors and actuating elements, moved according to some perception-control-action loop. They can therefore be considered robotic systems at all effects.

As such, they can be provided with learning and adaptation capabilities. Such feature will allow them to perform accordingly to the activities that take place in the building, and respond intelligently to internal and/or external environmental conditions and even according to the emotional status of the users, with the purpose of optimizing the resources employed (i.e. energy efficiency), as well as improving the comfort, empathy and wellbeing of the users. Not forgetting other characteristics that are associated to architecture such as symbolic, artistic and expressive values.

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Living Pavilion 2015 - 2016

Aereal Photograph of Living Pavilion at Mulafest Ifema

Zoom in of gradiant flakes which compose the outer skin

The techniques used for the fabrication of the pavilion mix digital and local handmade craftsmanship.

Living Pavilion 2015 - 2016

The economical crisis in Spain produced a 26% unemployment rate. Many unemployed in Spain that lost their jobs where part of the construction industry, which is also responsible for producing low quality architecture all across the country. The same is true for commercial pavillions, stands and any other ephemeral interventions. In this context we have decided to avoid machine made industrial construction systems and develop an architecture that is based on many hours of labor.

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This decision has proven to be important in other angles. Because of the complexity and the beauty of the pavillion and the skills that had to be developed, it has been a challenge for the people involved and it has proved that everyone is ready to give the extra mile when there is an ambitious goal that point towards a result that is of artistic worth. This increases the quality of the construction, but also, and most importantly, it has been very important for the laborers, as it represented for them a way of testing, learning and finally showing their abilities that potentially opened

them new possibilities of work. This has also served them in regaining the dignity lost in their profession, as industrial construction products are quite boring to put together, especially when a similar action has to be repeated endlessly.

Text by Pablo Gil - Director of Digital Fabrication Club

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Living Pavilion 2015 - 2016

3D digital design of prototype_Front Elevation & Plan

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Living Pavilion 2015 - 2016

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Living Pavilion 2015 - 2016

Front elevation photograph of Living Pavilion at Mulafest Ifema

A MATTER OF LIGHT

A Matter of Light results on a classificatory system of architecture projects regarding the use of light.

The proposed research analyzes the wide range of resultant situations proceeding from the action of light (and all its properties) when having an impact on the different architectonical shapes.

For this purpose it is necessary to take into account some other fundamental factors such as materiality and also some secondary ones, such as the spatial character of architecture or the environment where it is located.

DEGREE ON ARCHITECTURE 5th year FINAL DEGREE THESIS 2016 - 2017

The primary objective is to get to classify very specific physical situations that could be brought about by combining a determined light property together with an architectonic one provided of a spatial or constructive character. Analyzing those that already exist which have been generated all along history, the aim of the research is not to develop an exhaustive study of the well-known architects or architectural projects that work with light, but either identifying the ones that better adapt to certain circum- stances or conditions and that serve as reference for each of the cases.

The study pretends to tackle a partial aspect of an architectural project, light, without denying the importance of the combination of some others to be able to identify some of the greatest works inside the architecture field. It is focused on the element that provides the design with visibility and on its power to be able to transform those spaces. It neglects the analysis of the functional aspect of the whole to be able to center the attention in the intentioned creation of a certain atmosphere in a certain fragment of a building.

The classificatory system of architecture projects is developed within a webpa- ge through which users can navigate to be able to discover the different exam- ples, each of them categorized under a certain combinatorial analysis of terms. At the moment, the webpage only works for the first 15 chosen examples, al- though this number would be increased soon enough.

The link to visit the webpage is as follows:

A Matter of Light 2016 - 2017

https://www.marinagm4.wixsite.com/amatteroflight

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A Matter of Light 2016 - 2017

Develop an investigation thesis of a topic of your own interest. Study and analyze previous works and propose any personal contribution towards the chosen topic.

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Juan Jose Mateos Bermejo Arquitecto Profesor Proyectos Arquitectónicos Director Máster Universitario de Arquitectura juanjose.mateos@universidadeuropea.es

Madrid 11 de Noviembre de 2018

A quien pueda interesar,

Marina García de Mora, egresada del Máster en Arquitectura de la Universidad Europea de Madrid, y que conozco desde hace mas de 5 años, cursó bajo mi tutela diferentes asignaturas, en las cuales siempre manifestó un excepcional nivel de dedicación y cumplimiento loable de las labores que le fueron asignadas.

Me permito destacar en esta ex alumna su admirable disciplina, madurez y responsabilidad que la hacen resaltar académicamente. Su excelente capacidad de adaptación, gran iniciativa y motivación la convierten en una persona idónea para formar parte de un equipo de trabajo multidisciplinar, desarrollando distintas actividades dentro del ámbito de la arquitectura.

Cuenta además con gran capacidad para llevar a cabo dichas tareas eficazmente sabiendo solucionar con éxito cualquier reto al que se enfrente, debido a su poderoso impulso por conseguir lo que se propone.

Por todo lo anterior y por mi experiencia personal con ella, puedo garantizarles que cumplirá con los objetivos que ustedes le marquen de una manera totalmente satisfactoria.

Quedo a su disposición para cualquier información adicional que necesiten.

Atentamente,

Juan Jose Mateos Bermejo Arquitecto