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cv & selected works 2018
MartĂn De Pablo
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MartĂn De Pablo
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12 ¡ 11 ¡ 1994 Born in Valladolid, Spain 18 Medway House, Penfold Street London, NW8 8BH, UK mar tindepabloes @ gmail.com +44 7523 828798
forewords
I am an architecture graduate highly motivated and seeking for new challenges. My academic and job experience in different countries, ambiences and environments have given me a diverse and rich cultural background. As an architect, I am interested in the potential social role and the strength of change that architecture and urbanism can trigger on people. I consider myself to be a creative and purposeful person who enjoys both working as part of a team and individually. I believe in hard work so as to ensure the success of the projects I undertake, and I love working in any commitment related to architecture and its associated fields.
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résumé ·
academic
Master’s Degree in Architecture ETSAVA | University of Valladolid (Spain) Sept 2012 · Sept 2018 1st Year International Master of Architecture Architecture · Urban Projects, Urban Cultures Erasmus Exchange Programme KU Leuven | Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels (Belgium) Sept 2015 · June 2016 RCR · International Workshop X Summer Workshop of Architecture and Landscape RCR Arquitectes | Olot, Girona (Spain) August 2017
professional experience
Monom Architects Internship · Erasmus Grant Prague (Czech Republic) August 2017 · Nov 2017 (3 months) Mata y Asociados Arquitectura Internship · Banco Santander Grant crue-cepyme Valladolid (Spain) Sept 2016 · Nov 2016 | May 2018 · July 2018 (5 months)
honors & recognitions
H2O Ideas Forward 24h XIV International Competition · 2nd Place Design Ideas for a small water village that can be replicated somewhere over the Ocean WAS International Awards for Architecture Students · Finalist Project · Exploding Plastic Inevitable DocexDoce European I Competition for Students · Honourable Mention Proposal ideas on reuse & architectural configuration for Granada’s Botellódromo Steelcase VIII Competition for Students · 1st Prize Design Ideas for a work space that encourages creativity Schindler Architecture local Competition for Students · 1st Prize Design ideas that stands out mobility and accesibility solutions Old Laundries Rehabilitation Competition for Students · 1st Prize Proposal ideas on rehabilitation & reuse of Old Laundries in Villaherreros (Palencia) Adaptation of Exhibition Space - ETSAVA · Honourable Mention Ideas on adapting and improving the exhibition space of the Lecture Hall to quialify the space
languages
digital skills
Spanish English French Autocad Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Adobe Illustrator
Native Professional Working Proficient Limited Working Proficient Sketchup V-Ray MS Office Windows
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Entropic memory Development and Promotion Center of the Vehicle for Renault in Valladolid final thesis project · etsava Sept 2018
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Exploding plastic inevitable Creative-residence center for artists as extension of Vostell-Malpartida Museum academic project · etsava June 2017
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Natural topology Religious temple & parroquial centre in La Victoria, Valladolid academic project · etsava Dec 2016
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Liedts market Revivification of a caotic space in Schaerbeek, Brussels academic project · KU Leuven Dec 2015
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Eco-system Natural environments that stimulate creativity and promote collaboration Steelcase VIII Competition for Students · 1st Prize April 2018
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Human 2nd Origin Architecture of tomorrow: Small Water Village that can be replicated Ideas Forward 24h International Competition · 2nd Prize Dec 2016
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Entropic memory ¡ Development and Promotion Center of the Vehicle for Renault in Valladolid
Final Thesis Project Program Date
Granted with honours Museum, garage, administrative, restaurant Sept 2018
The proposed project for a Promotion Centre of the Vehicle for Renault in Valladolid (Spain), aims to help promote and promote the economic and social development of the city. The reuse of abandoned spaces is a way to save the resources of the existing city and avoid the unnecessary consumption of land and infrastructure. In this case it is about working with the automotive sector, of great importance in the economic, urban and social development of Valladolid -10% of regional employment and 20% of vehicle manufacturing throughout Spain-. It is proposed to intervene in an empty industrial space associated with the productive memory of the city (old facilities of Uralita company) and in the road corridor in which Renault is installed, very close to its assembly plants. The intervention tries to take advantage of the character and peculiarity of the environment,, as well as explore and make the most of the vestiges and history of the plot on which it sits. The strategic location of the plot and the typological analysis predominant in the urban landscape supports the decision to concentrate the program on a point and generate a building-performative screen integrated into the environment. This rises in height and becomes an iconic figure of the firm .. On its opposite sides to the road, as a counterpoint, a natural wicker skin lets climb the vegetation of the extensive horizontal plane. The intervention has enough intensity to be a representative and referential building, appropriate to the image of the Renault company in Valladolid.
road hierarchy
movement vs. density
movement vs. density
complex order of vehicle traffic routes, being the highest traffic roads «Carretera de Madrid» and the « Avenida Zamora», whose intersection takes place in a corner of the project plot. Other minor roads supply industrial or residential groups
differences in terms of traffic concurrence of vehicles according to different routes. At intersections, flow speed of cars is generally reduced. The study plot appears as a place of optimum visibility
the corridor located between Argales and San Cristóbal Industrial Parks appears as a fragmented urban landscape, contingent upon circulation routes. On the other hand, the Industrial Parks maintain a functional grid of industrial buildings
the image
in a space dominated by speed and movement, some neighborhoods differentiate according to their predominant activity (industrial-commercial, residential,...). The need for visual references in this urban landscape induces the positioning of an emerging element in the southern part of the plot
· the view from the road · The transitory, momentary and functional character of space, is dominated by the use of the automobile as the main means of mobility. Data frames and information impulses occur as it is traversed. Speed, the transient and the momentary predominate along the space, and «the functional» is taken as the backbone. The architecture is in accordance with this mobility system. Moving about this urban-commercial landscape consists in going through a vast expansive texture, dominated by billboards and advertisement-buildings, which follow one another along the road. A multitude of symbols, typographies and neons are part of the architecture and urban landscape, characteristic of their pop status as part of the consumer chain.
· architectural typologies · { industrial unit }
{ park n’buy }
{ public building }
{ closed residential group }
· the concept · 1. Industrial ruins
2. Surrouding connections
3. The park
4. The «screen»
5. Natural «invasion»
Much of the traces that still remain on the plot are preserved. They are «archaeological» vestiges with great expressivity and eloquence of the productive past of the city. It is desired to preserve the imposing flatness of its surface
Pedestrian paths that cross the extensive area of the plot to establish relationships with the environment and its urban layout -present and future-
Architectural acupuncture that recovers part of the industrial remains, modifying their use and giving them a new function. In addition, new elements are introduced occasionally to enhance the character of the landscape. A free performative journey and interaction with space is achieved
By concentrating the program in a single point, a screen-advertisement building is generated, rising in height on the flatness of the plot in front of the road. A representative building and visual reference is thus erected
Naturalization of space with the passage of time. The floor folds and ascends through the building, breaking three sides of the volume
CURRENT SITUATION OF THE ÂŤURALITA PLOTÂť The history of an old asbestos-cement factory in Valladolid
After closing down the fibrecement industry which was using asbestos mineral, it is mantained an archaeological area of 139,714m2 that stands out for its vast flatness. On in its extensive concreted horizontality, only emerges an old deposit of great attractiveness. It constitutes a suggestive and bucolic space, which combines the industrial, the archaeological and the natural. Hybrid landscape, situated between the impassive force of nature and the failure of human artifice, in which any element is susceptible of being designated as a contemporary ruin.
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Exploding plastic inevitable · creative-residence center for artists as extension of Vostell-Malpartida Museum
Academic Project Program Date
WAS International Awards · Finalist Creative ateliers & private residences June 2017
The Vostell-Malpartida Museum has been established in the Natural Area of Los Barruecos since 1976, dedicated to the figure of the artist Wolf Vostell. The particular wealth of the environment and the Museum mixes the prehistoric of the granite stones, the fascinating morphology of the landscape and the insurgent, avant-garde and obscure response of the German artist. In addition, the cultural memory of the area linked to the activity of transhumance is recalled in an old wool laundry complex declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, which hosts the Museum facilities. The intervention aims to complete the original purpose of Wolf Vostell of establishing a Residence and Creative Center for Artists, developing an expansion of the current museum. The program to be completed allows to investigate the duality between the specificity of resting spaces and the necessary versatility of working ateliers, as well as the tension that derives from the typology of the space to inhabit and the space to create. The cells, arranged on the plot, apparently dropped by chance, are placed based on the interstices, vegetation, trees, rocks or humidity. The cover of these plastic volumes through a mesh that appears and disappears, changes and mutates at the same time as the environment, taking on the surrounding nature spontaneously. They are conceptualised as semi-spherical cells made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic (GRFP), previously shaped and then transported to the site. It produces diverse relations such us the permanent and the portable, the capacity of reversibility, the minimum alteration of the landscape, or the idea of presence - non presence.
The constructive process allows, almost in an artisanal way, to build the cells out of the scope of action and transport and place them easily in the chosen areas. They build up a connection between the materiality and the memory of the site, historically connected with transhumance and wool work. The diverse program is developed inside them: fundamentally spaces of atelier and unipersonal housing or in family, that share other common areas for meeting, relation, common kitchen-canteen,...
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Natural topology · religious temple & parroquial centre in La Victoria, Valladolid
Academic Project Program Date
Parish church & parroquial centre Dec 2016
The construction of the temple, as a mysterious place and scope of representation, through ritual, life and its transcendence, has been the central object, together with the palace, of production and research in architecture since ancient times. Modernity and contemporaneity, have seen disappearing the temple from the center of the architectural production, in favor of a great dispersion of functional programs with social and productive character. However, despite the evident secularization of Western society, the temple and its construction have been the object of attention of the most important masters of modernity. It is therefore proposed the realization of a parish set, which solves an undetermined urban area, next to the Canal de Castilla. The proposal generates an interior «forest space», with clear natural references, constantly present in religion. Parish center and church define an intimate space, located in a «clear in the forest», as a place of encounter and integration as well as a space of withdrawal for the believer. An -irregular- hexagon is chosen to configure the plan, generated by various topological relationships of scale, rotation or inversion. Branches of wood form the supporting structure, and are directed towards skylights on its upper part.
The concatenation of experiences are associated with the space that represents the sacred . The silhouette of the roof evokes a discontinuous and broken architecture, which characterizes numerous ancient churches. The dark and material atmosphere inside that hosts the sacred act, and the external zinc lining materialize a constructive conception based on the continuity of skins. The dimensions of the skylights - all different from each other - vary depending on the size of the spaces: in all of them a geometric study has been carried out both of the lanterns and of the inner skin and the length of the neck that is formed in the upper part to regulate the incidence of solar rays.
prepatinated copper sheet
copper sheet support
wooden battens
oak boards
laminated wood structure
MATERIALITY
treated wood with SHOU-SUGI-BAN technique
prepatinated copper sheet
perforated aluminium sheet
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Liedts market · complexity, diversity & informality: revivification of a caotic space in Schaerbeek, Brussels
Academic Project Program Date Team
Urban analysis & revitalization Dec 2015 O. Zorlutuna, B. Vasconcelos, M. Nunez, G. Barredo
Located in the heart of Schaerbeek, in the north of Brussels, Place Liedts is characterised by its great diversity and plurality of ethnicities and cultures. At the moment, serveral issues concerning the «square» can be discovered: disorder, traffic jams, carelessness, sense of insecurity at night. The project proposes a new Market in the existing environment, taking into account the changing societal and spatial context, as well as the specific characteristics of cultural identities. The street is conceived as site of inscription and contestation, enhancing the intersections between public, private and parochial spaces. People in Liedts don’t gather in a square, they gather arpund commercial activities. This is why a market is choosen to reactivate the area. The projecto aims to «push the activity outside the box». pushing public space into buildings on ground floor and creating a shared space for vehicles and people, improving its «informality». Stronger facade connection with fixed and semi-fixed coverings will be achieved for the market. Diverse shops as well as special events and particular time-markets will take place in it.
The market has different configurations depending on the time, adapting itself to the behaviour of the people in the space. This is achieved by a wood structure easily removable that allows covering the space. It provides as well installations such us drinkable water for the stands of the market and for cleaning fast the space by small steps and ducts hidden in pillars.
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Eco-system ¡ natural environments that stimulate creativity and promote collaboration
Steelcase National Competition Program Date Team
First prize Work space that encourages creativity April 2018 Ana GarcĂa
An ecosystem is defined as a sector of the biosphere in which organisms live related to each other and to the physical environment that surrounds them. This relationship is so close that one can affirm that none of them could survive without the presence of others. This establishes a balance that allows the conditions for life in the ecosystem to remain stable over time. Like a natural ecosystem, work environments are based on the diversification of work methods. The project is based on an eco-system of spaces or natural atmospheres designed to adapt and evolve over time, optimizing the use of available space while promoting the commitment and creativity of people. Various landscapes have been studied according to the spatial sensation they produce, the predominant colors in them with their benefits in the context of well-being and creativity. Various landscapes are analyzed in base of colour, flora or sensation that they produce, and how they can positively influence performance, concentration and stress reduction, from the workers. This recreation of the landscapes is achieved thanks to a holographic projector of volumetric visualization placed in the false ceiling of the office. It is a technique that is being perfected in depth with the development of the laser, currently reaching to be able to reconstruct three-dimensional images with great realism.
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Human 2nd Origin · architecture of tomorrow: small water village
24h International Competition Program Date Team
Second prize Water village that can be replicated Dec 2016 P. Manteca, L. Gzlez-Lamuño, J. Fernández, B. Santaolaya
Everything in the universe runs to the transformation and the habit to the new conditions of life begins to become a routine. Global warming and glacier meltdown tell us that it is time to change the way we view our life on Earth. 70% of water can become 90% in a few years’ time, and adapting to this new way of life is the difference between surviving and not surviving. The problem, water, feeds every part of the proposal. It is based on interconnected inhabitable rings, using H2O structure. By assigning different functions to Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms, a highly interlocked structure is generated, meant to evolve over time. This allows constant growth and adaptation to the community needs and aspirations, considering future developments. The water village consists of two housing modules (two hydrogen atoms) linked to a large square (an atom of oxygen) in which services and commerce are concentrated. Agriculture will be developed on the roofs of buildings as traditional farming as well as a series of hydroponic crops in underwater greenhouses.
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M a r t Ă n D e Pa b l o martindepabloes@gmail.com +44 7523 828798