Portfolio 2023

Melina Berrotarán

Melina Berrotarán

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January 13 1998

Cordoba, Argentina

melinaberrotaran@gmail.com

+34 600357427

Language skills

Spanish English German Catalan Italian Software skills

Autocad 2D

Revit

Rhino + Grasshopper

3Ds Max + Vray

Sketchup + Vray

Enscape

QGIS

Photoshop

InDesign

Illustrator

Microsoft Office

Education

2015

German School of Córdoba

2016-2019

Architecture degree. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

2020-2022

Architecture degree. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquictura La Salle

Universitat Ramón Llull

University transfer from Argentina to Spain*

Work experience

2020-2021

Amazon

Project Management

Design, organization and management of processes and internal projects of Amazon Logistics

Coordination and interaction with internal and external stakeholders

Creation of the risk matrix and tactical planning: milestones, expected and deliverable results

Design of processes for the execution of activities oriented to deliverable result

Process documentation: analysis of current and expected metrics, investment and profitability reports (ROI) of the projects

Implementation, control and handover of operations

2022-2023

Joan Busquets BAU-B Arquitectura i Urbanisme

Internship

Participation in architecture and urban planning projects Drawing of technical plans and images

3D modelling of urban and lanscape projects

Courses and formation

2019

Sustainable Urbanism Course. Urban Planning and Sustainability

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Green Public Space Workshop

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Academic distinctions

2019

Competition “Planning downtown and project on the perimeter“ - Second place

Urbanism I. Facultad de Arquitectura Urbanismo y Diseño. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

Exhibition of Selected Works: “Al fin fin al”

Architecture IV. Facultad de Arquitectura Urbanismo y Diseño. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

2021

Competition “CAS Sarrià” - First place

Projects V. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura La Salle. Universitat Ramon Llull.

Index

1. Latinamerican Urban Blocks

Urban project. Academic project. 2019.

2. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Campus Park

Urban park. Academic project. 2019.

3. Promenade de la Côte Vermeille

Urban promenade. Work project (BAU-B Arquitectura i Urbanisme). 2023

4. Güemes Education Centre

Secondary school. Academic project. 2019.

5. Las Heras Building

Apartment building. Academic project. 2018.

6. Dwelling for a musician

Small dwelling. Academic project. 2021.

Latinamerican urban blocks

Manzanas latinoamericanas

Academic project

Córdoba, Argentina 2019

The project is located in Córdoba, a radio-centric city with spontaneous and horizontal growth. One of its strongest characteristics is the organization of the city through corridors, which delimits different neighborhoods.

Project on the fragments

Recover the edge of the Suqía river through a green linear park

Connect the pericentral area with the city center reinforcing public spaces, public transport (urban rail) and pedestrian mobility

Promote mixed uses through heterogeneous urban fabric that responds to the identity of the city

Densify the city center: fill the gaps in the downtown area and rebuild the industrial urban fabric

Analysis of the site and urban fabric proposal

Type A blocks

Strip blocks, riverfront. Tower typologies. Pass-through open spaces.

Type B blocks

Rectangular blocks, in front of the park or pedestrian streets. Medium height typologies. Central open space with pass. through paths.

Type C blocks

Strip blocks, riverfront. Tower typologies and existing urban fabric. Pass-through open spaces.

Type D blocks

Square blocks, located in the downtown area. Medium height typologies and existing urban fabric.

Central open space with pass.through paths.

Type E blocks

Riverfront blocks.

Tower typologies and existing urban fabric.

Pass-through open spaces.

Green spaces

Open spaces

River

Urban fabric renovation

Open spaces

River

Existing buildings

Towers (50 mts.)

Medium height buildings (25 mts.)

Low height buildings (10 mts.)

Models

Academic project

Córdoba, Argentina

The project is located at the entrance of the main campus of the University of Córdoba (Ciudad Unviersitaria), facing both an urban and institutional scale. It is also situated at an intermediate topographic point between the campus and La Cañada stream. For this reason, the park adopts an environmental role regarding the treatment of rainwater, where water collected from Ciudad Universitaria will be treated in the park and returned to the stream. The water treatment pools are placed transversely across the park, separating the central spaces intended for various student activities such as an outdoor reading room and an amphitheater. Meanwhile, circulation works longitudinally, so that the user can walk through all phases of the water treatment process.

Vegetation is used in the project as a structuring element to accentuate the axes of the park and provide environmental qualities to the various spaces. The criteria considered in the selection of species were defined based on the program and its requirements, such as sound insulation to counteract urban noise and light filtering for reading areas, etc.

Footbridge

Central spaces

Walking paths

Vegetation proposal

The vegetation seeks to generate a linear rhythm that highlights the axis of the park. On the other hand, it also functions as a thermal and acoustic cushion that protects the central spaces of the park. Through a gradient of green shades, from darker to lighter foliage; tree scales and shadow gradients, the chosen species give a feeling of openness towards the park lookout and the urban landscape.

Vegetation in central spaces and perimeter

The aim is to highlight the different spatial qualities of the central areas through the foliage of the vegetation, filtering the sunlight. Creating different areas that change their color and atmosphere, accompanying the transitions of the program. On the perimeter, the vegetation provides continuity to the system of public spaces coming from La Cañada.

Vegetation on main park lines

The transversal lines mark a rhythm and organize the water sanitation system, accompanying the program changes of the central spaces, while the longitudinal axes mark a path to walk through the park.

Alamo criollo Aguaribay Sauce criollo Cina cina

Carrizo acuatico Pichanilla Cola de zorro Stipa

Tipa Espinillo Palo cruz

Section circulation

Section: rainwater treatment pools

Section: rainwater treatment pools

Promenade de la Côte Vermeille

Work project (BAU-B Arquitectura i Urbanisme)

Canet-en-Roussillon, France 2022

Canet-en-Roussillon is a coastal town in the locality of Perpignan, France; whose main activity is concentrated in the summer season. The redevelopment of one of its main streets, the Promenade de la Côte Vermeille, aims to improve the transversal connection of the town with the sea. At each meeting point between the promenade and the transversal streets, urban lounges accompanied by large flowerbeds with mediterranean vegetation are proposed, marking the arrivals to the beach.

On the other hand, a dune system with medium and low vegetation is proposed between beach accesses, which, in addition to renaturalizing the coastline, acts as a natural barrier to the strong winds directed towards the urban front.

In the longitudinal direction of the promenade, the uses are reorganized and the parking on the street is eliminated, freeing up the public space. On the side of the urban front, the car and bike lanes are placed, while on the side of the sea, the restaurant terraces and a large pedestrian walkway accompanied by an alignment of existing palm trees are located.

New beach accesses

Urban lounges

Dunes

Intervention strategies

Vegetation selection

PALMERAS EXISTENTES

EXISTING PALM TREES

PALMERAS PROPUESTAS

PROPOSED PALM TREES

C.h Chamaerops humilis W.f Washingtonia filifera

Chamaerops humilis W.f

C.h Chamaerops humilis W.f Washingtonia filifera

ARBUSTOS PROPUESTOS

BUSHES

Arbusto grande 80 cm Ø (3 UDxM2 ) 35%

Medium height bushes 80 cm Ø (3 UDxM2/) 35%

ARBUSTOS PROPUESTOS (3 UDxM2 35%

Especie 1: 60%

Pistacia lentiscus

Pistacia lentiscus

Species 1: 60% Pistacia lentiscus

Especie 2: 40%

Tamarix ramosissima 'Pink Cascade'

Species 2: 40%

Tamarix ramosissima ‘Pink Cascade’

Arbusto bajo

50 cm Ø (5 UDxM2 ) 25%

Low height bushes 50 cm Ø (5 UDxM2/) 25%

Tamarix ramosissima Ø UDxM2

Especie 1: 50%

Species 1: 50%

Limoniastrum monopetalum 'Carnaval'

Limoniastrum monopetalum

Limoniastrum monopetalum ‘Carnaval’

Especie 2: 25%

Species 2 2: 25%

Coleonema pulchrum

Coleonema pulchrum

Especie 3: 25%

Lomelosia cretica

Species 3: 25%

Lomelosia

Lomelosia cretica

CUBRESUELOS 30 cm Ø (10 UDxM2 ) 40%

GROUND COVER PLANTS 30 cm Ø (10 UDxM2/) 40%

Especie 1: 60%

Lygeum spartum

Species 1: 60%

Lygeum spartum

CUBRESUELOS 30 UDxM2 ) 40% spartum

Especie 2: 30%

Ammophila arenaria

Especie 2: 30%

Species 2: 30%

Ammophila arenaria

Especie 3: 10%

Tulbaghia violacea

Especie 3: 10%

Species 3: 10%

Tulbaghia violacea

arenaria

spartum

cretica Chamaerops humilis Washingtonia filifera Pistacia lentiscus Tamarix ramosissima ‘Pink Cascade’ Limoniastrum monopetalum ‘Carnaval’

pulchrum

4.

Güemes Education Centre

Escuela preuniversitaria Güemes

Academic project

Córdoba, Argentina 2019

In the neighborhood of Güemes, facing La Cañada stream, a high school education centre is proposed. The project seeks to respond to the different urban fronts based on the school’s program. A double metal facade is visible on all three entrances, filtering the limit between interior and exterior. This double skin envelops the project on the outside and becomes a platform that allows the user to circulate and appreciate the different spaces on the inside.

Ground floor

The site

From its form and location, the project seeks to adapt to the different urban scales. The larger volume faces La Cañada with a portico accompanied by an interior void that invites people to enter from the other corner, and finally, a smaller-scale piece faces the Paseo de las Artes of the neighborhood accompanying the user’s city-to-neighborhood transition.

The program

The school activities and their expansion spaces branch off from a main circulation platform. The more massive programs are located on the facades, while the classrooms are located in the heart of the project.

Paseo de las Artes Güemes

La Cañada Av. Marcelo T. de Alvear

The projects aims to provide a sense of spatial continuity, while also working on spatial transitions linked to different activities or places.

The project looks forward to rethink the spaces where we educate ourselves. Thus, the classrooms are designed as a learning space that answers to traditional ways of learning, but also addresses informal learning situations. Each classroom has an exterior expansion and the double facade can be used as a teaching board,

Models

Las Heras Building

Edificio Las Heras

Academic project Córdoba, Argentina 2018

The project starts from the idea of adapting an existing building, the Juana Azurduy building by Estudio BAAG, to a plot in the city of Cordoba. The proposed building maintains the most important elements of the original building: the connection between the two volumes and the use of brick as a filter. In addition, the proposal pays special attention to the pass-through situation of the plot and diversifies the housing typologies to respond to a greater number of users.

Project adaptation

In response to the riverfront, the building presents a volume of greater height. For this, one of the volumes proposed by the original project is raised half a level

The open ground floor aims to reinforce the connection between the riverfront and the pericentral area.

Vivienda para un músico 6.

Dwelling for a musician

In 1960, spanish architect Fernando Higueras presented the following project for a national competition for ten housing units for artists in Monte de El Pardo in Madrid. Following the lines of popular architecture, Higueras proposed ten different and unique dwellings for ten different artists. The work of Higueras finds its unity in the composition rule that is capable of generating different forms.

The project aims to solve the constructive aspect for the tenth housing unit. Located in the highest topographical point and isolated from the rest of the complex, the dwelling was designed by Higueras for a musician.

Original pictures of Higueras’s model

The structure is resolved with reinforced concrete retaining walls and walls with a balloon frame substructure, on which laminated wooden beams that support the roofs are placed.

1. Natural slate stone tile (30x20x3) previously perforated. Fixed to phenolic board using nails.

2. Laminated wood phenolic board (60x120x3). Self-protective hydrophobic asphalt fabric (thickness 0.25 cm) applied with torch. Overlapping seams (approximately 8 cm) and entire bottom surface welded. Double density rock wool panel (120x100x8). Top side 180 kg/m3 bottom side 100 kg/m3/. Placed with staggered joints and screwed in place. Breathable waterproof membrane stapled to bottom panel and overlapping seams of 15 cm. Birch cross-laminated board (250x125x5) screwed to bottom support.

3. Birch laminated wood cornice in autoclave (10x26)

4. Birch laminated wood support beam in autoclave (10x10)

5. Natural stone cladding protected with clear waterproofing paint. Cement mortar 1/4:1:3 (thickness 2 cm.)

6. Reinforced concrete retaining wall 1:3:3 (thickness 20 cm.) hand-pointed manually (200 points/m2/) up to 2 cm depth. Outer face painted with adhesive resin.

7. Air gap created with solid tropical wood slats (5x5) every 60 cm, screwed to reinforced concrete wall.

8. Solid tropical wood uprights (6x6) every 120 cm, screwed to previous slats. Rock wool panel with interior side coated in aluminum (100 kg/m3/ 120x100x6). Placed with staggered joints and screwed in place. Birch laminated wood panel (125x250x1.5)

9. Waterproofing of buried reinforced concrete wall. Primed with bituminous paint and waterproofing sheet fixed with torch. Vertical joint overlaps of 10 cm welded. Reinforcing strip at junctions (10 cm width). Nodular geosynthetic drainage sheet (210x50x2) fixed with DELTA-FASTner’s type coated concrete screws. Vertical overlaps of 15 cm.

10. Solid wood slats (80x20x1.5) arranged in a herringbone pattern according to plan. Glued to lower self-leveling mortar (thickness 2 cm.)

11. Reinforced concrete slab 1:3:3 (thickness 15 cm.) Electro-welded mesh placed 10 cm (1/3 h) from lower level. Heated through radiant floor heating on top of slab.

12. Elastic expansion joint made with polyurethane foam (thickness 2 cm.)

13. Waterproofing sheet screwed to lower cleaning reinforced concrete with high density expanded polystyrene boards (300 kg/m3/ 200x100x7)

14. Wall supporting beam (20x60) reinforced concrete with 1:3:3 mixture

15. Draining gravel made of rounded stones (18/25)

16. ø100 drainage pipe

17. Reinforced concrete foundation footing with 1:3:3 mixture

18. Cleaning reinforced concrete with 1:1:4:4 mixture (thickness 10 cm.)

19. Natural terrain

20. Galvanized steel Z profile

21. Birch laminated wood cornice in autoclave (10x15)

22. Birch laminated wood support beam (20x50) in autoclave

23. Natural stone cladding protected with clear waterproofing paint. Cement mortar 1/4:1:3 (thickness 2 cm.) and electro-welded galvanized steel mesh.

24. Exterior laminated birch wood panel (125x250x1.5). Solid tropical wood studs (10x10) every 150 cm. Rock wool panel with interior face coated in aluminum (100 kg/m3/ 120x100x6). Installed with shiplap joint and screw fastening. Interior plywood panel made of laminated birch wood (125x250x1.5).