M I G U E L G O N Z Á L E Z FERNÁNDEZ PORTFOLIO
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CURRÍCULUM VITAE
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A DOMESTIC-HEDONISTIC VARIATION
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.OBJ
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UNIDAD VECINAL PROVIDENCIA
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HOUSING IN EL CABANYAL
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UNA BIBLIOTECA EN PAMPLONA
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ARQUITECTURAS DE LA VIOLENCIA EN LA CIUDAD CONTEMPORÁNEA
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CURRÍCULUM VITAE
MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ
@mig.gzlz mgonzalezf97@gmail.com +34 660 914 393
Oviedo, Asturias // Madrid 06 DEC 1997
EDUCATION 2021-2022 ETSAM School of Architecture / Madrid
Masters degree in Architecture. 2015-2020 ETSAM School of Architecture / Madrid
Undergraduate studies in Architecture. 2018-2019 ARQ UC School of Architecture of Universidad Pontificia Católica de Chile / Santiago de Chile
Undergraduate studies in Architecture. 2019 How do we live? Housing workshop / Santiago de Chile
Tutors: Jocelyn Froimovich, Johana Muzbek and Cristián Izquierdo. 2014-2015 International Baccalaureate, RIES Jovellanos / Gijón
Secondary education.
EXPERIENCE 2021 Royal Academy of Arts / London 6 mos
Architectural Programme & Curatorial Intern.
2020-2021 Soriano y Asociados / Madrid 7 mos
Architectural Intern.
2016-2018 Student Association, CMU Teresa de Jesús / Madrid 24 mos
Vicepresident and President.
2016-2017 CMU Teresa de Jesús / Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Council Member in charge of Cultural Activities. 2017 1st Feminism Week / Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Co-organizer. 2016 Urban initiative Barrio de la Estación
Part of the design team in charge of the scenographics for the non-profit play ‘El derecho de soñar’.
PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES 2020 Arquitecturas de la violencia en la ciudad contemporánea (Violent architectures in contemporary cities)
Undergraduate thesis. Tutor: Federico Soriano. 2020 A domestic-hedonistic variation / KOOZARCH
https://www.koozarch.com/abstractions/a-domestic-hedonistic-variation/ 2020&2021 Lecturer at “In-treatment” session
In Federico Soriano’s Design Unit at ETSAM, Madrid. 2016 OVNI 4 / DPA ETSAM
ISBN 978-84-942428-7-8. 4
VOLUNTEERING & INTERESTS 2018 Round table discussion La Gobernabilidad en España / Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Organizer and Moderator. Discussion with prominent politicians on Spain’s current situation. 2017 Open House Madrid
Volunteer in visit guides through Fundación Giner de los Ríos building. 2016 Banco de Alimentos
Volunteer in storage and organizing activities at a food bank. 2015 ADSIS Asturias
Volunteer. Work with children at risk of social exclusion.
AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS 2020 Arquia Scolarship for internships in European architecture studios
Awarded by Fundación Arquia. Internship in the Royal Academy of Arts, London. 2016&2020 Scolarship for Excellent performance in undergradute studies
Comunidad de Madrid. 2020 Lagos: City of Water Architecture Competition
Finalist. With Alba García & Olaya Martínez. 2019&2016 Withhonors Exhibition
Exhibition of selected works by students. ETSAM. 2017 Intransit Competition: Explorando la incertidumbre
Honorable mention. 2017 Exhibition Mejora urbanística del barrio de Chamberí
Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid. 2016 2nd Debate Tournament CMU Teresa de Jesús
Winner.
SOFTWARE Advanced Autocad, Rhinoceros, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign. Interm. Grasshopper, Sketchup, Arcgis, Adobe After Effects, Revit. Basic Cinema 4D, VRay.
LANGUAGES Spanish // Native speaker. English // Advanced level // C2 (Cambridge Proficiency Exam, 2015). French // High-intermediate level // B2 (7/7 IB exam, 2015).
OTHER Drivers licence 5
A DOMESTIC-HEDONISTIC VARIATION Prof.: Emilio Marín // Patricio Mardones
Images always tell stories. Sometimes they deal with tales of economic logics and marketing, such as computer screens flooded with pop-up ads; often they are more prosaic, as a familiar history told through the lens of your aunt’s collection of photographs in silver frames. This tension between endless successions of superseded images generated through obscure algorithms and carefully crafted collections is at the heart of modern architectural discourse: confronted with an ever-growing pool of referents, there is an unavoidable need to categorise, to develop obsessions from isolated fragments. The project aims to create a hedonic and personal world, imagined from an atlas of situations that for any unknown reason, might seem appealing. Overlapping personal images with pieces of art, imaginary places and all sorts of pictorial references reveal connections between pieces in a self-reflective effort to understand our own affinities and phobias. Unifying them through one of the simplest graphic conventions, black line drawings over white backgrounds, we can strip them of dispensable connotations such as authorship, medium or age, enabling for a more personal approach to their relations. Affinities are made explicit by means of juxtaposing these images: those providing us with a haptic impression can be assembled, thus making a small scene of The Garden of Earthly Delights edge closer to a photograph of a seemingly unnoticed building in a small street of Montevideo. The convergence these stamps requires analysing not only their relationship among themselves (and with us), but also their spatial properties, from dimensions to the viewpoint and perspectives used. As a result, the original images start morphing, either asking for more or less detail. When put together, some grey areas -those belonging to no particular image- emerge, creating a complete image of domestic hedonism, or rather, a variation of such, indissolubly tied to its author.
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Construcción de Taliesin West A Bigger Splash 1936
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Casa Eames para Vogue
Bronx Floor: Threshold
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.OBJ With Enrique Cilleruelo Prof.: Federico Soriano // Silvia Colmenares // Pedro Urzáiz // Eduardo Castillo
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Oral presentation (In spanish) https://youtu.be/c-zNsuG_R-w?t=2713
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kindergarten is no more than a place for interacting and playing, albeit with chaotic and involved users.
However, it is also a highly-technified space, with a highly specific programme that needs to run with rigour and accuracy. This programme is broken down in several case studies in the objects that it requires: from chairs, cradles, bookshelves, changing tables, wall bars, breastfeeding chairs… They all have a particular function, particular dimensions and predefined topological relations amongst them.
A school would not be complete if it remained oblivious to its surroundings, meeting the demands of parents, educators and other agents through a series of secondary programmes: microwaves, coffee machines, film rooms, climbing walls… Three totems concentrate these second programmes: one for parents, another for teachers, and a last one for other services. These totems both serve as the vertical communications core and main structural frame of the school, coupled with an exoskeleton of Gerberett girders and steel tendons.
This study allows us to analyse the opportunities and conflicts in the inner workings of a kindergarten through the simplest of elements, which may be mo- The first programme -the kindergarten- is divided ved, stacked or disposed in a way that meaningfully into storeys according to the age of the users, sha11
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False ceilings, tables, chairs, coffee machines and climbing walls. All these objects are coordinated in the project in order to shape a kindergarten. Our main goal: to integrate a kids world -free, open and silent- and its adult surroundings.
Coexisting programmes coupled with an open plan pose a distinct threat: noise interferences among different activities. In order to solve it, an acoustic false ceiling is proposed in all school areas, through a manually adjusted rod and crank system that generates parabolic surfaces. These domes are coupled with noise-cancelling devices, allowing for a significant reduction of noise contamination in the building. 12
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UNIDAD VECINAL PROVIDENCIA Prof.: Alberto Moletto // Cristóbal Tirado
UN JARDÍN METABÓLICO
Un trabajo con las preexistencias en la Uniddad Vecinal Providencia
DIAGRAMA METABÓLICO Análisis de relaciones productivas entre los diferentes programas contemplados en el proyecto. Estas relaciones, categorizadas en 4 tipos distintos, servirán de base para el desarrollo de la distribución general y de las circulaciones en el edificio.
CIRCULACIONES Se establecen unas circulaciones según las relaciones metabólicas entre los programas. Se sitúan en la parte posterior del edificio, en el andamiaje. Hay una circulación de tipo privada, asociada al invernadero, que sirve a las viviendas y al comedor; y una circulación pública, que coincide con la biblioteca.
PROGRAMA Los programas que requieran de mayor dimensión y no puedan situarse en estas circulaciones perimetrales se aíslan como 'cajas' en medio del edificio, generando una serie de vacíos que generan espacialidad y en los que se encajan las circulaciones. Esto le da una cierta permeabilidad al proyecto.
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ocial housing in Chile is a very relevant topic in a country that has undergone major changes and provided many housing schemes accross the last decades. But it is also a topic that prompts serious questions today: how to revitalize these infrastructures designed under rationalist premises and readequate them to contemporary cities?
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to connect the preexisting building with the neighbourhood and the whole of the city.
Se plantea un sistema de andamiaje que se dispone en la parte posterior. Aquí se disponen todos los programas de carácter lineal (invernadero, biblioteca, circulaciones). Como se precisan de despejes estructurales, en ocasiones este andamiaje se proyecta en modo de vigas reticuladas permiten dobles alturas y mayores luces.
BIBLIOTECA
This is made explicit by means of a circulation system developed within a scaffolding, attached to the building. The extension, serving as an garden, helps configure an urban landscape.
GUARDERÍA INVERNADERO
CAFETERÍA
INVERNADERO COMEDOR PÚBLICO
In the Unidad Vecinal Providencia — one of such housing complexes — a mixed-programme intervention keeps intact 8 flats. They will be the focal point of a project featuring a series of services that follow a metabolic scheme, in an aim
VIVIENDA
MEMORIA
El proyecto parte de la necesidad de ubicar una serie de usos mixtos de índole muy diversa en una preexistencia. La racionalidad de ésta sugiere un enfoque metabólico, en el que los programas son dispuestos según las relaciones productivas entre ellos. Esto genera un sistema de circulaciones lineales que se emplazan en una ampliación hacia el norte. Esta ampliación, en forma de un gran andamiaje, no sólo aloja las circulaciones y ciertos elementos del programa, como la biblioteca o el invernadero, sino que además tiene un papel estructural al proyectarse en forma de viga reticulada, permitiendo despejes estructurales.
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Miguel González Fernández // Taller Alberto Moletto + Cristóbal Tirado
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HOUSING IN EL CABANYAL Prof.: Iñaki Ábalos // Renata Sentkiewicz
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ur energetic consumption models and the ongoing climatic emergency pose an interesting question for architecture: how to turn such a polluting industry into a more sustainable one without sidelining human confort? In the Cabanyal neighbourhood (Valencia), a thermodynamic approach informs all design stages of the project for a productive commune. El Cabanyal has been featured prominently in regional and national news outlets, as the neighbourhood became a stage for the confrontation between a particularly aggressive process of gentrification and the social movements trying to keep alive the identity of this former fishing village. The project proposes putting into use the myriad abandoned plots in the area with solar chimneys. These rather big infrastructures would operate all year long, thanks to their specific materiality, morphology and disposition within the urban fabric. Convection, radiation and conduction are made explicit in these towers, helping configure a set of spaces saddled between the strictly private and the public. In any of them, human confort is understood as a means towards developing a truly collective life.
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Why?
Not in comfort
Why?
Not in comfort
High air temperature
Sun radiation
Object radiation
Saturated air
Doesn’t allow for losses through convection.
Direct radiation to the body.
From objects warmer than the human body.
Hinders losses thro
Reduce air temperature
Blocking sun radiation
Greatly enhances body thermal losses through convection.
Not in comfort
Low air temperature
Sun radiation
Object radiat
Doesn’t allow for losses through convection.
Direct radiation to the body.
From objects warmer human body.
Reduce air temperature
Blocking sun radiation
Greatly enhances body thermal losses through convection.
Lighter clothing
Perspiration
Uncovered parts of the body are able to radiate.
The body exhudes water, which evaporates consuming body heat.
Saturated air
High air temperature
Calmer activities
Vasodilation
Lowering metabolic rates allows for Widening of blood vessels increases Breathing less sensation of heat. The body releases ablood flows, heated andthus losing more heat.
Radiation to objects
humid air, losing energy in the process.
Breathing
Low air temperature
Saturated air
Radiation to objects
The body releases a heated and humid air, losing energy in the
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Increase air temperature process.
Heavy clothing
Hampers losses through convection.
Reduces exposed skin, lowering losses through radiation.
Lighter clothi
Uncovered parts of th able to radiate.
Vasoconstriction
Goosebumps
Physiological response
Intense activity
Energy intake
Lessens blood flow, minimizing heat losses.
Erect skin hair traps warmer air.
Higher production of adrenaline and thyroxine, increasing the metabolic rate in several tissues.
More sensation of heat.
Increases metabolic activity and internal energy production.
Why?
Not in comfort
Why?
Not in comfort
High air temperature
Sun radiation
Object radiation
Saturated air
Doesn’t allow for losses through convection.
Direct radiation to the body.
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Hinders losses thro
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High air temperature
Sun radiation
Object radiation
Saturated air
Doesn’t allow for losses through convection.
Direct radiation to the body.
From objects warmer than the human body.
Hinders losses thro
Reduce air temperature
Blocking sun radiation
Greatly enhances body thermal losses through convection.
Lighter clothing
Perspiration
Calmer activities
Vasodilation
Uncovered parts of the body are able to radiate.
The body exhudes water, which evaporates consuming body heat.
Lowering metabolic rates allows for less sensation of heat.
Widening of blood ves blood flows, thus losin
UNA BIBLIOTECA EN PAMPLONA Prof.: Juan Carlos Arnuncio // Emilio Pemjean
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n the heart of the historic quarter of the northern city of Pamplona one can find an extremely underused space, yet one full of potential: hovering over the remnants of the city walls and overlooking a large part of its natural surroundings. To foster an already flourishing cultural offer, a large 21st-century library is proposed, offering an advanced infrastructure for the lending of books, but also
delivering a space for building stronger social links between the inhabitants of the city.
looming over the city, and then drawn into the small space between itself and the ground.
The first intuition of the project is to elevate the bulk of the programme to a certain height, symbolized in a seemingly compact concrete structure, thus liberating the lower part and enhancing its topographic condition in order to create a public plaza. From afar, one is attracted by the presence of this heavy mass
Light is the overarching idea of the project and it is used to model the giant concrete cube: large wells of light are excavated in this heavy mass; reading halls and study rooms are connected to them in a labyrinth-like structure. This light spilled over the walls has plastic properties thanks to the heavily texturized concrete,
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which makes the most of the horizontal lines of the formwork. Whenever these rays pierce the entire volume of the library they illuminate the plaza below, contributing to the development of social activities there: from film projections to concerts and workshops. This programme is developed between a forest of pillars that does not hamper the views of the surroundings.
false ceilings, technical rooms and restricted areas. All this allows for a better understanding of the ultimate concept here developed: conveying the impression for any visitor of an almost mystic compact rock painstakingly bored in the quest for light, providing a shelter for the citizenship attracted by the noble idea of sharing knowledge.
The project follows the same logic structure-wise: the network of columns and girders needed to support the building is partially concealed by means of 21
ARQUITECTURAS DE LA VIOLENCIA EN LA CIUDAD CONTEMPORÁNEA UNA TAXONOMÍA NARRADA: DE LA MURALLA A LA LÍNEA Tutor.: Federico Soriano
VIOLENT ARCHITECTURES IN CONTEMPORARY CITIES A NARRATED TAXONOMY: FROM THE WALL TO THE LINE
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This essay establishes a taxonomy of the architectural devices that participate in the logics of production and reproduction of violence in contemporary cities. Due to the profusion of diverging theories regarding urban violence, we propose a fundamentally inductive process. After the collection and sorting of a large number of potential devices, five architectures of violence are identified. These architectures — mere rhetoric figures — allow us to classify the different architectonic expressions of urban violence. Each one of these categories are self-referential, autonomous and partial.
This taxonomy is put into work in three different case studies: the degradation of the Bellas Vistas nighbourhood in Madrid, the social housing schemes in peripheric areas of Santiago de Chile and the American suburban garden. In each of these situations, the devices — or architectures — are co-dependent in generating a violence directly connected to the urban logics of production. The thesis aims to connect theoretical considerations — from the fields of sociology, philosophy or urbanism — with a textual and cartographic analysis of these violent architectures.
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