Architecture Portfolio

Miguel MĂŠndez Architecture and Desing Portfolio

Miguel Angel Méndez Zapata Contact Information

De Aragon 13 A Real de Morillotla San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, MEX 72810 +52 (993) 260 5451 +52 (222) 211 3692 miguelangel.mendez@iberopuebla.mx miguemndz@gmail.com

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Languages

Technical Skills

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Editorial and portfolios Photography Architecture Alumni Assocation Desing projects

Spanish – Native English – TOEFL iBT 97

TOEFL iPT 580 Frech – DELF B2 German – A1

Drafting

Autodesk AutoCAD

Modeling Rhinoceros + Grasshopper Autodesk 3dsMAx Trimble Sketchup Rendering Autodesk Mental Ray

V-Ray for Sketchup Indigo Renderer VR

Unity

Graphics Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesing Adobe Premier Mapping

Interests

QGis - Beginner ArcMap - Beginner

Photography Linocut and Engraving Painting and drawing

Education

Architecture Bachelor Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla

Work Experience

Achievements

2012

Drafter of Structural Desing Plans Fish & Partners Puebla, PUE

2015

Internship City and Town Planning H. Cuautlancingo Townhall Puebla, PUE

2017

Internship Social projects and architectural visualisation RootStudio - Joao Boto Caeiro Oaxaca, OAX

2015 Lecture

Regenerative Strategies and Participative Desing in Alseseca’s Riverfront

5th Climate Change and Environment Congress

Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla 2016 Prize

Best Situation Analysis Best Graphics - Digital and Mixed Media 29th Architecture Students National Encounter Univesidad Anáhuac Mayab. Yucatan, Mex. 2016 Exhibition Franz Mayer Museum - Prisma Collective San Jose Hidalgo School Mexican Design Open. CDMX, Mex.

Student Life

2017

Competition Selected work for México Diseña Apunte: Architecture and Desing Magazine

2017

IBERO Talent Catalog Visual Arts Scholarship for Creatives

2013 – present

Volleyball Beach Men’s Team

2016 – present

BLOQUE Architecture Alumni Asociation Co-founder. Coordinator Visuals and Communications

2016

Prisma Colective Desing Department Asociation

2016 PLIUL University’s Latinamerican Leadership Program.

2017

PLIUL Groups Parthner.

Desing Studio III Community Center for Ecoturism in Ixtlahuaca (Fall 2013) Project developed with Yeknimilis, a Puebla-based communal indigenous organisation focused on ecological and social engagement through tourism.

The organisation was developing its project for social economy and they needed a master plan for development and a set of specific designed spaces. This project indagates how shape can actually be blended into landscape without forcing the introduction of industrial materials while attending to contemporary forms.

Instructors: Jose Luis Sanuy Lostes,

Enrique Nicolas Ramales Montes

Desing Studio VI Urban Strategies for Housing, Lesiure and Social Health in Cuautlancingo, Puebla (Spring 2014) Based on catography and demographical data, this proposal integrates typologies of social housing and urban equipment in order to activate economy and solve health and social security needs on the suburban area between San Andres Cholula and Puebla, where the actual procces of urban growth has increased the social margination.

Instructors: Blanca Vila Cortell, Guillermo Tamborell

Rocio Suarez Guerra

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Desing Studio V Tlalli: Pottery and Handcrafts Center (Spring 2014) According to a site investigation, this project focuses on providing public and learning for the historic district of Analco and La Luz in Puebla in which the families work with clay and steel. This district contains different abandoned square cores which operate as residual spaces and parking lots.

Tlalli is a word in nahuatl which means earth and it defends the idea of working with the hands in creative work. The program consists on a mixed ussed space where the experimentation with minimal housing coexists with manufacturing and creative spaces.

Instructors: Eduardo Audirac

José Ramón Pérez.-Ocejo

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Desing Studio VI Rural School in San JosĂŠ Hidalgo, Oaxaca (Fall 2015) In order to give to the community more than a simple educational space, this project indagates how school equipment can also provide basic services to a group of rural communities in the suburban and rural area of the north of Oaxaca de Juarez. The project is placed on a ex-Hacienda which contains multipurpose rooms with different object displacement and connects to students and faculty dwelings, health facility and a local library.

Instructor: Joao Matos Gabriel Boto Caeiro

Desing Studio VII Urban Strategies in Alseseca Riverfront (Fall 2016) This project develops different urban desing strategies and equipment throught the northbound of Alseseca’s riverfront. The desing connects both sides of the river remplacing physical barriers for bridges. This proposal seeks not only to link infrastructure but also society.

The river operates as the linear axis which gives sense of unity whilst the transversal lines link the river with the neigbourghoods where the architectural proposals are located.

Desing Team: Miriam Nayeli Lagunas Moreno

Berlin Sosa Juarez Instructor: Fred Dionne Espinosa,

Diego Vilatela,

Guillermo Tamborell

Territorial Delimitation

University’s Botanical Garden Connection Proposal

Public Market in La Margarita

Cultural Cinema in La Margarita

Public Market in Guadalupe Unit

La Margarita Sports Unit

Cultural Center of Alseseca River Culture

Community Center in Ignacio Zaragoza

Gastronomic Corridor

Sports Unit Proposal in Santa Lucía

Santa Barbara’s Public Market

Sports Unit in Santa Barbara

Desing Studio VII Public Cinema in La Margarita Housing Unit (Fall 2016) As a continuing work of the urban strategies, this project focuses on a particular area of Alseseca’s Riverfront in La Margarita housing unit in southbound Puebla. This specific area has a abandoned building which was used as a cinema decades ago. Nowadays this set of buildings are used as shops and stores. The proposal combines the historic use of space with the current needs in order to create a mixed used building with cultural and economic activities.

The proposal is divided into two building which are connected through a single cover. The biggest building contains the cinema facilities, while the annex buiding have the shops and stores spaces.

This extension of the project goes from the public plaza located in front of the cinema to a local church on the other side of Alseseca river. The exsiting housing buildings take part of the project through small scalle plazas and parks.

Desing Team: Miriam Nayeli Lagunas Moreno

Berlin Sosa Juarez Instructor: Fred Dionne Espinosa

Diego Vilatela

Guillermo Tamborell

Architectural Desing and Sustainability Tortilleria in Oaxaca’s high mountains (Fall 2015) A tortilleria in Mexico is a place where women and men prepare maize meals. Usually this shops are placed on the corners at the street in mexican cities and towns. This project indagates how could popular rural materials be introduced into contemporary desing, and how this materials could interact with nature contexts.

The proposal experiments with rammed earth and wood as structural materials and incorporates ecological ovens for waste reduction and smoke control, rain water storage and dry toilets.

Instructor: Joao Gabriel Boto Caeiro

Urban Desing Three Prados Park (Winter 2016) The neigbourhood of Prados, located near to the historical center, is one of the private housing projects of the city growth which were built between the 70s and 80s in Puebla city. This area is going through a physicall transformation due to economic demand.

This changes are challenging the use of public spaces, specially when the green area of the city is limited and there is no social interaction. This proposal emphazises in how culture would be a potential field for inclusion for an urban renewal. The program is strengten through urban garden, sports field and street design for speed control and connection between the surrounding buildings and the local church.

Instructor: Victor Hugo Medrano Parra

Architecture Consolidation Workshop Alseseca Riverfront: Participative Desing Iniciatives in Tres Cruces, Puebla.

(Winter 2015) The following projects was the result of the social and technical research made with Tres Cruces inhabitants as a social iniciative for the development of urban projects called PIUS (in Spanish) Uban and Social Programs and Iniciatives. This project was supported by the School of Desing and was divided in four parts; technical diagnosis, social research, project development and project evaluation.

Through a participative desing and social work, desing proposals were made and finally presented to the community.

This proposal uses the risk data and the landscape resources in oder to regenerate the local flora and reduce soil erosion while turning the riverfront into a public park which connects to student housing and biological laboratories.

Desing Team: Luis Francisco Balderas Silva Guillermo Alejandro Dominguez Pacheco Instructors: Enrique Ramales Montes Alejandro Ponce MartĂ­n Project Registered at the Institutional Repository. UIA

29 National Architecture Students Encounter Ecoturism Complex in XtampĂş, Yucatan (Winter 2016) Mangroves and swamps are complex ecosystems which protects the land from devastation when metereological phenomenon occur. Nevertheless, risk has risen due to real state and deforestation of dunes. XtampĂş is the name of the archeological site where mayans used to produce salt. It was established within the mangroves ecosystem. In order to maintain local economy and promote environmental culture, the project assembles the Xtampu site museum, the salt pools and an research center for coastal reforestation. This master plan complex places the program through four disciplines: ecoturism, economy, ecology and education into eleven main strategies.

Prize to the Best Situation Analysis Prize to the Best Graphics in 29th ENEA

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1. Flora for natural barriers and protection.

2. Salt pools for economic support.

3. Palm roofs for tourists and visitors.

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4. Observatory and gardens for natural preservation.

5. Mangroves and swamps exploration tours for wild observation 6. XtampĂş pier

Graphic Desing IV APUNTE: Architecture and Desing Magazine (Spring 2017) Elective desing studio. In this course, we explored the application of layout principles in combination with typography in projects which combine architecture and graphic desing.

Below. Antology of Science Fiction Short Stories Right. Architecture and Desing Magazine Instructor: Ricardo Huitrรณn Aguirre

Graphic Desing IV + Current Architecture Contemporary Architecture (Summer 2015 + Spring 2017) This book is the result of the research made during the course of history and theory of modern and contemporary architecture.

However, the second edition of this material was made during the Editorial Desing course. This project gathers the analysis of architecture history as a diachronic and synchronic process in which phylosophy, social issues and art movements act as modifiers of architecture and this one as a continuing feedback of history.

Instructors: Ricardo Huitrรณn Aguirre

Eduardo Funes Cacho

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Social Service Internship Communitary Museums in Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca (Summer 2017) RootStudio: Joao Boto Caeiro, Alejandro Ponce, Irving Sanchez, Alejandra Luis Hernandez, Jorge, Gerardo Coronel, Irving FrĂ­as, Volunteer Team: Karla Herrera Osorio, Clelia Chenal, Nohemi Guegan, Raquel Olivera, Alejandro Martinez, Guillermo Dominguez, Miriam Lagunas

Bloque_ Architecture Alumni Asociation Lectures, projections, exhibitions, trips.

(2016 – present) Associate Members: Miriam Lagunas Moreno, Isabel Piùa Izundegui, Ulises Ramirez, Eduardo Martinez Escamilla, Ramon Alcolea, Mayte, Gianna del Fabbro, Karla Mortenkotter, Karla Herrera Osorio, Brandon Gamez, Azul Hernandez, Luis Suarez, Saymi Flores, Ikerne Hartasanchez, Berenice Pelaez, Eduardo Herrera, Juan C. Zepeda, Carlos Lopez