Academic Portfolio - María José Ceballos

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MARÍA JOSÉ CEBALLOS ALZATE CONTACT: + 57 1 3003836101 mj.ceballos@hotmail.com VIRTUAL PORTFOLIO: be.net/mjceballos LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/mjceballosa ID: CC. 1019131030 Bogotá, Colombia As Michelangelo said: “I am still learning”.

As an architect I am deeply interested in people, the ways we learn, our interactions with spaces, with the cities, with landscape...

I am passionate about representation and communication (graphic, written and oral communication). In spite of my profound interest in architectural design, I have become more and more intrigued by collateral subjects, such as interior design, landscape architecture and architectural analysis. Besides of course, anything to learn I find along the way.

*All images and texts in this portfolio belong and were created by the author.

urban suture: a stitching bridge

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fractal

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bloque cc: university campus

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process and synthesis document

void taxonomy: city and territory

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mextrĂłpoli pavillion

grammar: earth pavillion

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bogota’s public media library

other temporary obsessions

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NAME: Urban Suture: A Stitching Bridge AREA: Architectural Design, Theorical System SEMESTER: 2019-01 TOOLS: Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS: Calification 5/5

This project explores the proposal of an existing housing model applied to Bogotรก, in a context where the city is highly affected by social segregation: co-living dwellings.

The intention was to create a bridge that connects people with the city, people with urban landscape, and more importantly, people with each other.

This way, that bridge that passes over the Molinos River generates spaces and situations where comunity life is encouraged and inequality decreases.

Modular, flexible, adjustable and expandable apartment proposals...

¡The connection with the sky!

The roof collects and stagnates rain water, creating films of water that reflect the characterisic clouded Bogotá gray sky.

The bridge... A platform that crosses the river, connects people, creates a transparent and walkable public first floor.

¿How is it supported?

The pre-dimensioning of a structure that seeks the verification of the materialization of the project.

The trusses and structural cores work like a large portico and support everything that happens inside the building and the platform.

NAME: Process and Synthesys Document AREA: Editorial Design, Illustration, Analysis and Argumentation

The book was written as a diary or travel journal. Showing the whole dis

SEMESTER: 2019-01 TOOLS: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhinoceros.

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS: Calification 5/5

Fragments of an illustrated urban tale through which the city’s local con

Fragments of an illustrated architectonic tale that shows the project’s o In this book was depicted the analysis, argumentation, investigation and comprobation of the Urban Suture project.

Everything that lead to the final result and the answer to all the asked questions.

Random pages of the analysis and thoughts, data and referents captur

scusion that lead to the project.

ntext was analyzed in order to proposed the project.

overtone and background, the main purpose of all the spaces that shape the project.

red in the book.

NAME: Void Taxonomy AREA: Landscape Architecture, Planning SEMESTER: 2017-02

TOOLS: AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.

This project was presented in the University of Pensylvania in front of students and faculty professors of the Landscape Architecture masters degree.

It is also featured in the Bermúdez Arquitectos official site in the “Investigación y Docencia” (research and teaching) section by architect and teacher Diego Bermúdez: http://www. bermudezarquitectos. com/ejericio4uip201702/

How can we design urban growth despite a city’s reality? How can we make Bogotá understand that it has water inside it?

One possibility is to understand different situations where urbanization and environment collide and design those situations.

Design the city around the voids that water fills and flows through hills, neighbourhoods, cannals, parks.

First situation: When the river flows underground and has to be heard even though it cannot be seen.

Second situation: When the river flows between a park and a street.

Third situation: When the river has to pass underneath an avenue.

Fourth situation: When the river flows free in the middle of a park or public space.

Fifth situation: When the river flows down a hill and is collected at the bottom.

NAME: Fractal AREA: Landscape Architecture, Planning SEMESTER: 2017-02 TOOLS: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD.

Group project accompanied by Juan Francisco Panesso, Gabriela Ortiz y Angelina Fernรกndez, presented in the University of Pensylvania in front of students and faculty professors of the Landscape Architecture masters degree.

NAME: Pavillion for MEXTRÓPOLI Fest AREA: Architectural Design SEMESTER: 2017-01 TOOLS: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Photoshop.

Group project accompanied by Manuela Orozco, José Botero, Valentina Carreño y María del Pilar Zuluaga.

This project won an inside contest to build the pavilion in MEXTRÓPOLI fest in Mexico’s city.

NAME: Stone House Grammar into Earth Pavillion AREA: Architectural Analysis, reference analysis, Architectural Design SEMESTER: 2016-02 TOOLS: Technical Analog Drawing, InDesign.

Group project accompanied by Mateo Soto.

This project consisted on the design of an Arts Pavilion, strictly based on Herzog & De Meuron’s Stone House. Through the analysis of the formal and compositive strategies used in the referent it was possible to design a building that has the same shape without copying its figure.

NAME: BLOQUE CC: University Campus AREA: Architectonic Design and Structural PreMeasurement SEMESTER: 2017-01 TOOLS: Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator.

Group project accompanied by Valentina CarreĂąo.

Here, the goal was to explore a concept and design a building based on it: learning is a continuous experience, therefore it should be hosted by a continuous building that balances recreation spaces as well as learning spaces.

NAME: Bogotå’s Public Media Library AREA: Architectonic Design and Structural PreMeasurement SEMESTER: 2017-01 TOOLS: Photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD.

This project was the architectonic design that resulted from an abstract concept: contrast.

While the upper and heviest volume hosts books and librarylike activities, the glass lightest volume houses the modern and technological activities: the media library.

WHAT ARE THESE? -Other Temporary Obsessions

RakĂş Ceramics Little Houses Town

WHY? -Because I consider interdisciplinarity is key, I am interested in doing and learning about more than architecture.

Photography and editing (trying)

Logo designs for a friend’s entrepreneurship

Banana Bread, Capresse Arepa, Carrot Cake, Shortbread Cookies, Pesto and

d Bacon Pasta