Maria JosĂŠ Gaspar Clemente
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25 - 02 - 1990 Sagunto, Valencia, Spain +34 645 934 072 mjgasparclem@gmail.com
MariaJosé Gaspar Clemente architect ABOUT ME
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I became an architect when I finished the five year Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) in July 2014, where I received both technical and artistic education. I have also work experience, as I have collaborated with a local studio, and I am currently enjoying a training grant for three months that allowed me to work in public institutions as an assistant architect. I could define myself as curious, ambitious, energetic and passionated, but also responsible, patient and coherent. I am looking forward to expand my horizons and to apply my skills and passion for architectural design in an international professional setting.
Autocad 2006 - 2015 Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Indesign CC Adobe Illustrator CC
EDUCATIÓN
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2008 - 2014 Architecture School at Polythecnic University of Valencia Technical and artistic studies which included subjects such as project design, urban planning, restoration, construction, structure calculation, installations, composition or history. 1993 - 2008 Colegio Alfinach Graduated with honors
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE September 2014 - December 2014 FORMA-T grant for recently graduate people 3-month internship period for young graduates offered by the local government. This grant is giving me the opportunity to work in public institutions as an assistant architect: collaborating in the design of urban projects, participating in the remodellation of subsidised houses and making construction visities. March 2013 - July 2014 TAU Nebot Studio What started as a 3-month internship turned into a one-year participation as a collaborating student in a small local firm currently involved in projects of different scales, including restoration, urban design and private housing.
COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING August 2014 Piranesi Prix of Rome International Workshop on Archeological and Museographic Architecture. Study and proposals for a new museum pavilion in the archeological context of Villa Adriana, Tivoli (Italy). July 2013 - September 2013 International Workshop of High Buildings in Chicago Modelling and structural analysis of high buildings with SAP2000 and study trip to Chicago.
Revit Building Archicad 3D Studio Max 9 Microsoft Office
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PERSONAL SKILLS Excellent organisational skills Excellent sense of responsibility Good communicator and presentation skills Tactful and polite Friendly and good at relationships Able to work as part of a team or individually Ability to solve problems Flexible and willing to travel Ability to work under deadlines pressure Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing Appreciation of beauty in simplicity Artistic and creative vision Good photographic and model making skills
LANGUAGES Native Spanish Mother tongue. Excellent level of English Certificate of Advanced English (CAE). C1 ESOL. Obtained in January 2014. Good level of Italian Currently preparing for getting the B1 certificate in the Official Languages School. Basic notions of French Studied as a second language for 6 years in secondary school
OTHERS Driving license B1 permission Availability to travel Sporty and healthy life
April 2013 Estudio Agraph Workshop Professional postproduction for architecture projects July 2012 International Workshop on Landscape “City and Port” Study of the encounter between Malaga’s city and its port through analytical work and proposals of intervention on the edge. REFERENCES available on request...
FINAL DEGREE PROJECT (2013 - 2014)
COWORKING FACTORY
OBJECTIVES Recycling and recuperation of abandoned spaces + new construction in urban voids. CONTEXT El Cabanyal is a neighborhood, located in the East side of the city of Valencia, that connects the city with the Mediterranean sea. It is linked to the port. Its urban shape has been experiencing several transformations all over the years. Nowadays it is noticeable the presence of isolated sites and abandoned buildings, which live together with single family homes and tall buildings. PROJECT The project pretends the recuperation of some abandoned industrial units that were built at the beginning of the XX Century, so as to the intervention not only in urban voids, but also in the public space. A coworking space will be placed in this old building, a place for cooperative work, where business and freelancers from different sectors will be able to place their seat in a temporary way or permanently, and will be able to collaborate with one another, or to develope by themselves. The project’s first intention is to keep up the industrial units as if they where an architectural skin, operating on them in order to guarantee the inside confort, but without loosing their image and their characteristical space. From that point on, we create spaces inside of spaces, independent shapes which allow to host several uses and to stablish relation spaces with other shapes. The system extends to the urban voids in the intervention area, generating always a group of pieces related to one another and to the preexistent buildings around them, emphasizing their convincing volumentric nature.
1 - Outdoor hall 2 - Entrance 3 - Indoor hall: reception and administration 4 - Multifunctional space 5 - Team work unit 6 - Boxes 7 - TV Space 8 - Toilets 9 - Kitchen 10 - Resting table 11 - Meeting point - Classroom 12 - Disabled access and emergency exit 13 - Storage and installations room 14 - Puppet theatre for children 15 - Kiosk, news stand 16 - Exterior box 17 - Bicycle station 18 - Coffee shop 19 - Terrace 20 - Playcentre 21 - Playground for children 22 - Exhibition space and shop 23 - Temporary appartment 24 - Gym (reception and administration in ground floor) Ground floor plan
1 - Multifunctional space 2 - Team work unit 3 - Boxes 4 - Resting space 5 - Lifting platform for disabled people 6 - Individual working space 7 - Disabled access and emergency exit 8 - Cleaning room 9 - Meeting room 10 - Exhibition space and store 11 - Storey room First floor plan
Constructive linear section
1. Previous state
4. New volume construction
2. Roof dismantling
5. Roof frame set up
3. Rear wall demolition and walls hollow out
6. Roof reconstruction
1. Concrete supports construction and beams assembly
4. Roof slab beams assemblly
2. First slab beams assembly
5. Roof construction
3. First slab construction
6. Enclosure and glass panes collocation
Top boxes
Slab
Botton boxes
1. Frame assembly
2. Inside wood panelling
3. Outside wood panelling
PROJECT DESIGN III (2012 - 2013)
HOUSING AROUND A COURTYARD
OBJECTIVES Transforming an urban void to recover and revalorize the courtyard, where 30 houses and a public neighborhood building will be placed. CONTEXT The project is located in the expansion district of the city of C贸rdoba, very close to the historical centre, where voids are lacking, except for the courtyards. The buildings are opened to these courtyards, and they are considered public spaces in many cases. PROJECT The project pretends to reconsider an existing urban void, which, nowadays, has a non-defined nature between a courtyard and a square. The construction of 30 houses connected to that space is considered, as well as a small library for the neighborhood as a public dotation. The architectural group means to improve the comunity life, generating a relation space between public and private. The main intention is to reinterpret the traditional courtyard in a functional way. The courtyard is understood as a serving space for the houses, but also as part of the city. The full-empty relationships arise from the manipulation of the traditional shape of the buildings developed around a courtyard. The irregularization is achieved by movements and openings which adapt to the surroundings, and generate an irregular volume related to the twisting and narrow streets of C贸rdoba. In this way, strengthening the itineraries and the indirect lines of sight, a four-side-closed courtyard is avoided.
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Second floor plan
Roof floor plan
HOUSING TYPOLOGY 1 Capacity: 2 people Area: 60 m2
Viviendas tipo 1 Viviendas tipo 2 Viviendas tipo 3
HOUSING TYPOLOGY 2 Capacity: 3 people Area: 90 m2
Edificaci贸n de 2 plantas Edificaci贸n de 3 plantas
HOUSING TYPOLOGY 3 Capacity: 4 people Area: 115 m2
Library ground floor plan 1 - Access 2 - Access to higher floors 3 - Storey
Library first floor plan 4 - Caretaker’s 5 - Library 6 - Toilets
7 - Access to other floors 8 - Storey 9 - Lecture space
10 - Study space 11 - Toilets
WORKSHOP ESTUDIO AGRAPH (April 2013)
GRAPHIC POST-PRODUCTION FOR ARCHITECTURE
CONTENT Intensive workshop for architects and architecture students in order to improve their level of architectural representation. The aim is to analyse and understand the possibilities that CAD and Photoshop offer when it comes to represent an architectural project. From graphic treatment of plans, elevations and sections, to the production of photomontages as of 3D bases, treatment of digital images, infographics, typography and fonts, composition and colour. It is not a general learning of 3D or Photoshop course, but the teaching of a methodology, with futile compositive keys for panels composition and specific knowledge, tricks and applications, so as to be able to make the most of projects. The final project of the workshop consists on the elaboration of a complete photomontage
INTERVENTION IN RESIDENTIAL URBAN AREAS (2012 - 2013)
RENASCENTIS TEMPLUM
OBJECTIVES Recuperation and revitalitation of a historical urban setting, keeping in mind both its historical evolution and its current situation. CONTEXT The Jewish neighborhood (La JuderĂa) in Sagunto has had a distinguished importance all over the history of the city. Originally, during the Middle Age, it was an enclousure isolated from the rest of the city, where Jewish lived avoiding contact with the Christian city. However, after the Jewish expulsion, and as years went by, the neighborhood has been increasing its permeability with the surroundings. Nowadays the neighborhood has a extremely low population density, and a high demographic age, which generates an abandon situation of the houses and the loss of urban interest. PROJECT Singular elements
Public walkways
The starting point of the project is the recuperation of the original framework of the Jewish neighborhood, which consisted on a group of houses around private courtyards. Now the courtyards pretend to have an urban and public nature, in order to improve pedestrian walkways. In addition, three public elements will help to develope the interest of the neighborhood and they will become a new atractive for visitors: - The recuperation and revalorization of Templo de Diana, which was declared as a National Monument. - The construction of a new vertical light building, as an illuminated viewpoint and object of attention.
Public squares
Buildings involved in the intervention
- The recuperation of the old Jewish synagogue.
Urban elevations
RECOVERY OF DIANA’S TEMPLE The intervention in this point of the neighborhood pretends the revaluation of Diana’s Temple (first monument declared Spanish National Heritage, in 1963). The proposal implies the demolition of the buildings that are currently placed over the rests of the temple’s walls, which where constructed making profit of them as foundations, and with no contemplation nor respect to the ruins. In this way it is pretended to recover the historical rests as much as possible. The main idea of the project consists on recalling the original shape the temple might have had by using horizontal metal slats, which allows the light to go throw the temple. In this way, the original walls will be preserved and the metallic structure will reproduce the rest of the temple.
Intervented buildings
New singular elements for the square:
Original position of Diana’s Temple Existent ruins of the Temple’s walls.
Diana’s Temple Old Synagogue Atraction tower
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE (July 2012)
MÁRLAGA
OBJECTIVES Finalisation of the remodelling in Malaga’s Port, and connection of the city and the sea. CONTEXT Malaga’s Port has mainly a comercial character, but it’s also a passengers, sports and fishing port. It means one of the main economical powers of the Andalucian city. At the end of the XX century the Special Planning of the Port began, arranging new urban spaces that linked the city and the port. Nowadays, two out of three docks have been already remodelled, generating a great modernization of the facilities and extending the city limits to the Mediterranean Sea. PROJECT The project pretends the finalisation of the maritime port of Málaga, by remodelling the third dock. The main objective is the connection of the expansion district with the sea, so as to achieve a definitive connection of the city and the port. At the same time it is essential to keep and continue the pedestrial walkway that starts at Palmeral de las Sopresas, in the Dock 2, in order to link it with the opposite riverbank of Guadalmedina River. The join component will connect the buildings in the city with the nature of the sea, through an hibrid nexus based on the topographic architecture, a solution that mixes nature and architecture.
Connexion of Lauria Street and the new Port
Port’s section
INFOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS TO FORMALIZE THE PROJECT (2011 - 2012)
WHERE THE WORLD BEGINS
OBJECTIVES The aim is to acquire a methodology and aesthetic, graphic and composing judgement, regarding to the elaboration of architecture competitions and its graphic representation. CONTENTS The proposed exercise consists on the elaboration of exhibition panels as a kind of an architecture competition about an existing project. In this case it is about the ARQUA Museum (Underwater Archaeology National Museum) in Cartagena, by the hand of the architect Guillermo Vรกzquez Consuegra.
URBAN PLANNING III (2011 - 2012)
BEYOND THE LIMIT
OBJETIVES
PROJECT
Treatment of the city limits and its connexion with the rest of the urban spaces.
The intervention pretends a new ordenation of the city limits, defining the northern edge, which is currently disorganised; and from this point it is proposed to create an itinerary net linking this side of the city with the center and the hill, in the southern side.
CONTEXT The Murcian township of Yecla has a very highlighted limits, defined by the agriculture activity in the North, the industrial activity in the East, and a high hill that defines South and West boundaries.However, the connexions of these limits with themselves and with the rest of the city need urgent treatment. Between them there’s only vehicular communication, and a ring road stands out conforming the urban perimeter.
So, from this itinerary, the most important points will be highlighted, like the historical center, where it is generated a new square in front of Asunción Chuch, or the hill, a natural spot that will be connected by pedestrian ways in order to be able to enjoy the nature and the views over the town. The project goes in depth in the northern limit of the city, where it is proposed the building of official protection housing, and new equipments, following a comb diagram so as to allow the permeability of the urban space beyond the city limits.
URBAN PLANNING II (2010 - 2011)
BACK TO THE ORIGINS
OBJETIVES Recuperation of a natural space lost by human invasion and proposal for a respectful interaction project between nature and human intervention. CONTEXT The agricultural development of La Albufera’s lake, in Valencia, during the XIX and XX Centuries, resulted in the loss of a huge amount of the lake’s territories in benefit of farming lands. This implied also the disappeareance of El Palmar island, anciently located inside of the lake. All of this has become a serious alteration of the natural ecosystem, of the flora and fauna, as well as the deterioration of the original landscape of La Albufera. PROJECT The project sets out the recovery of the hypothetical situation of the lake in 1850, studying in this case the urban development of El Palmar island in a context of stimulation between man and nature. The project results in a partition of the island so that part of it remains virgin while the other is built by using sustainable methods. A light architecture that flotes over the lake and dunes, and a set of equipments thought to provide the residents needs occupies the islands coast. At the same time, the place is meant to also become an attractive leisure area for tourists, therefore its cape is supplied with restaurants, rural market and a small pier that connects the islan with the lake’s perimeter.
La Albufera’s natural interpretation centre
Pedestrian bridge
Fish market
Footbridge and quay
Housing
PROJECT DESIGN II (2011 - 2012)
MARKET KM 0 AND RAILWAY STOP
OBJECTIVES Reflection about the architectural barriers created by the railway and elaboration of a market project. CONTEXT The project is located in Burjassot, a town on the outskirts of Valencia, next to the vegetable patch. The town is divided by the railway, and that means an impediment for daily circulations of citizens, besides a borderline with the vegetable patch. PROJECT The intervention means to erase the barrier caused by the railway and achieve the transition between the patch and the city by a public space where the market km 0 will be developed. In addition, the renovation of the current railway stop is proposed. The project is based on the creation of a public space as a kind of square in which some modular pieces are disposed, hosting the market activities and the railway stop. The gathering system of the units is the same that train wagons use: each piece is added to the next one by its smaller side, defining a directionality corresponding to the railway.
1 - Frame assembly
Closed market unit
Market unit detail
2 - Inside panelling
3 - Building of the wood envelope
Opened market unit
Closed market unit
Opened market unit
Sectioned market unit
ARQUIDEAS COMPETITION (June 2011)
TAP SANTORINI (Tourist Accomodation Prototype)
OBJECTIVES Generation of a tourist accomodation prototype in a protected natural reserve. CONTEXT Santorini is a small circular archipelago made up of volcanic islands, located in the Aegean Sea. Due to the singularity of its environment, its consideration is essential for the intervention. PROJECT The TAP is composed of several groups of buildings with different utilities. Between them some common spaces are organized, gathering in solid ground and defining a public square which will serve as an opened entrance hall. The private living spaces have a more independent character as they are disposed at the sea. Small islands are made up between them, which are comunicated with floating paths; a group of walkways that invite the visitor to stroll over the Aegean water. We have chosen the clearness and elegance in volume. Pure geometries that talk about simplicity and firmness by the strenght of its white concrete walls. Materials which, in contrast with the blue water, remind of the mediterranean architecture. The structure of the studios is inspired by the Archimedes Principle, adopting a shape based on the buoyancy and the anchoring of the ships.
MARIA JOSÉ GASPAR CLEMENTE architect 25 - 02 - 1990 Sagunto, Valencia, Spain +34 645 934 072 mjgasparclem@gmail.com