FRANCISCO BROWN MANAGUA KABUL NEW YORK
DESIGNED AND BUILT PROJECTS IN AFGHANISTAN Provincial Justice Center, Bamyam. 2014 1 M Usd 20 K Sq. Ft. Institutional Women Assembly Hall, Maimana 2014 660 K Usd 10 K Sq. Ft. Cultural District Justice Center, Hairantan And Khost 2014 250 K Usd 3 K Sq. Ft.(Each Building) Institutional Ministry Of Counter Narcotics, Khost And Farah 2012 - 2013 280 K Usd 2.5 K Sq. Ft. (Each Building) Institutional District Assembly Hall, Maimana 2011 1 M Usd 10 K Sq. Ft. Cultural National Police Academy. Kabul. 2013 12 M Usd 140 K Sq.ft Educational Counter Narcotics Regional Hq. Kandahar. 2013 1M Usd. 25 K.sq. Ft. Institutional Forensic Laboratory. Kabul 2013 500 K Usd. 5500 Sq. Ft. Institutional Display Room, Counter Narcotics Academy, Kabul 2012 90 K Usd. 900 Sq. Ft. Educational Justice Center, Kandahar 2012 800 K Usd. 9 K Sq. Ft. Midwife Training Centers, Badakshan, Bamyan And Khost 2011-2013 500 K Usd 4 K Sq. Ft. Educational Center For Returnees, Kabul 2009 1 M Usd 8 K Sq. Ft. Institutional
DESIGNED AND BUILT PROJECTS IN NICARAGUA Central American Forum, Managua 2012 660 K Usd 4 K Sq. Ft. Institutional Kempf Beach House, San Juan Del Sur 2009 120 K Usd 1.2 K Sq. Ft. Residential Schroeder Ortega Beach House, San Juan Del Sur 2006 180 K Usd 1.3 K Sq. Ft. Residential Rogers House, Rancho Santana 2008 380 K Usd 2 K Sq. Ft. Residential Hamhuis Beach House, San Juan Del Sur 2005 250 K Usd 2 K Sq. Ft. Residential
ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN NEW YORK Wikimedia Foundation Data Center Building Energy And Heat Harvesting from the Urban Water Cycle Research. 400 K Sq. Ft. 2014 Commercial Mumbai Residential Tower. Passive Design Strategies Research Mumbai 2013 450 K Sq. Ft. Residential
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Design Consultant And Third Party Reviewer Jury Member And Keynote Speaker Architecture Competitions Workshops And Summer Schools Academic Research
This portfolio includes a sample of projects I’ve designed as an architect and project manager. Between 2009 and 2013 I worked in the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Kabul, Afghanistan, designing a variety of institutional and humanitarian projects and leading the design team. Being part of an international team gave me the opportunity to be engaged in a variety of leadership positions throughout the different project phases. I worked directly with stakeholders on feasibility studies and lead the schematic design. I continued managing the project team through design development and construction documents. In this portfolio I’m also including portions of my research project conducted at the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology. CASE. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill SOM) in New York City.
FRANCISCO BROWN MANAGUA KABUL NEW YORK
fbrownortega@gmail.com +(1) 646 306 6928 433 E 6 ST APT 3R New York. NY
Project Site visit with stakeholder. 2010 Northern Afghanistan
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LEAD DESIGNER AND PROJECT MANAGER (2009-2013) International Organization for Migration IOM
FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Architect responsible for the schematic design, and the design development supervision, including review of construction documents. • Project manager in charge of the coordination between the design team and the construction and quality control departments. • Project representative in charge of preparing project reports, and marketing material for the different counterparts.
DISPLAY ROOM. COUNTER NARCOTICS ACADEMY
Design concept: Elevation and Plan of the new building “sliding” inside the allocated lot within the existing academy boundaries
Client: United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime UNODC and the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan Location: Kabul. Afghanistan Total Area: 900 Sq. Ft. Completion: January 2012
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The 900 sq. ft. room was designed to exhibit ordinary-seeming objects used to smuggle drugs outside the country. The building includes an exposition area, with 4 large display built-in cabinets; and an small projection room. The allocated place for the project was a residual space between two existing classrooms; therefore the Display room had to interact with the structural and site conditions, and the esthetic language of these buildings. The main goal for the interior design was to create an ethereal white room, to focus the attention in the specific displayed objects.
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COUNTER NARCOTICS REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS Design concept: The Project’s program is organized around a central courtyard, and due the high risk of terrorist attacks in the area the compound is secured by several “layers” of forced protection elements, The natural light and ventilation is provided by the courtyard and the interior gardens located in each of the main building zones.
Client: United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime UNODC and Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan Total Area: 25,000 Sq. Ft. Completion: June 2013
Above: The Building facades were designed with the minimum amount of wall openings to reduced the blasts impacts in case of any attack against the complex.
The Academy, is a 25,000 sq. ft. facility dedicated to train local officers to fight the “War against poppy.” The project is located in one of the most dangerous cities in the world: Kandahar. Every single aspect of the project, from massing, geometry, circulations and the structural design was taking into account all different security risks scenarios. The approach was to design a “fortress” compound, with the program organized around a central courtyard. This arrangement allows for natural ventilation and light for the areas adjacent to the courtyard, while the outside-facing walls Below: The central courtyard. The wall openings were carefully are a solid structure with almost no wall placed to reduce the solar heat gains and city views. openings.
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NATIONAL POLICE ACADEMY The project includes an Academy building, dormitories, conference hall andDORMITORY administration buildings. AND COMMANDER’S OFFICE BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION
Client: European Union and the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan Location: Kabul. Afghanistan Total Area: 140,000 Sq. Ft. Completion: January 2014
Above and right: the Conference Hall under construction and finished. Below: the Dormitory buildings. The project used hybrid construction techniques and methodologies: we used American and European design codes, but readapts the means and methods to local know-how and available materials and products, that meet the design criteria.
The National Police Academy is the largest building I designed in Afghanistan, and the most complex construction process I’ve been involved in to date. Funded by the EU, the project, had major challenges, such as: site constrains, insurgency controlled district, reduced budget. Due to political pressure, the building had to be ready in 16 months, including the design phase. In order to meet the ambitious deadline, different design and construction management strategies were put in placed such as: architecture and structural modular approach, such as repetitive bays, typical window types and construction details. In the construction management field, we implemented: on site design teams, three construction working shifts and a daily work progress monitoring.
Beach House Project Site view. 2008 San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
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ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT (2004-2008) brownARQUITECTOS
FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Architect designer and interior design consultant. • Manager for the residential projects office department • Public relationships and marketing strategies coordinator.
SCHROEDER-ORTEGA BEACH HOUSE
The house was designed with feng-shui principles, and using the main beach view and predominant winds as the most important features.
Architect: Francisco Brown Client: Sonia Ortega and Alan Shroeder Location: San Juan del Sur Beach. Nicaragua Total Area:2,850 Sq. Ft. Completion: January 2007
The house is located in the south pacific beach of San Juan del Sur, and 2 hours away from the country’s capital. The most important aspect of the project, was to design and build an affordable single family residence, using the local available materials and trained craftsmanship. The house is designed in an open plan arrangement, to reduce partition walls for cost reasons, and to allow as much air flow as possible, which is essential to reach thermal comfort in tropical climates. The designed mixes Spanish colonial elements with contemporary aesthetics and space planning strategies; creating different spaces that meets the owner’s foreign requirements, with the local beach house lifestyle
NICARAGUA CENTRAL AMERICAN FORUM BUILDING Client: National Assembly of Nicaragua and Central American Parliament Location: Managua,Nicaragua Total Area: 5,000 Sq. Ft. Completion January 2010
The 5000 sq. ft. Forum is located within the Governmental District of the city, just across from the Vice- Presidential Residence and the National Assembly Building. The building morphology responds to two main requests from the client: that the building be fully handicapped-accessible, and that a remaining cylindrical structure that was once a security tower for a prison located on the site until it was destroyed in the 1972 earthquake be preserved. In the final design solution, the entire project hinges on the connection between the tower and the main building over the ramp that takes the user on a journey through both zones.
Downtown New York view from CASE studios at Skidmore Owings and Merril Offices, in 14th Wall street. New York
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MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE II
Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology CASE. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI and Skidmore, Owings and Merril SOM.
Objectives • Research and analyze buildings performance systems, within the built environment. • Implement sustainable design strategies, including state of the art and new generation building systems using both theoretical and real case scenarios
A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, It generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls, etc. Large data centers are industrial scale operations using as much electricity as a small town, up to 150 W./sq. ft. The objective of this project was to design a large scale Data Center, with an energy consumption and coefficient of efficiency no larger than 1.5 PUE. The strategy implemented was to harness the available natural resources in the Buttermilk Channel, to reduce the energy load on the cooling systems and the electricity consumption.
WIKIPEDIA DATA CENTER GOVERNORS ISLAND ACTIVE DESIGN STUDIO Team: Francisco Brown Location: Governors Island, NY Total Area: 400,000 Sq. Ft. Completion May 2014
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PASSIVE DESIGN STRATEGY The mechanical system basis of design utilizes a direct evaporative cooling concept where no chillers or compressors are needed for cooling the IT load. The design utilizes a built-up system where the mechanical air side functions are located in a field-constructed penthouse. A set of automated and parametric based louver design to respond to the program, air flow direction and velocity and solar radiation.
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RESIDENTIAL TOWER PASSIVE DESIGN STUDIO The tropical rainforest’s solar radiation stratification as a design concept
Team: Francisco Brown and Guanzhong Wu Location: Chennai, India Total Area: 170, 000 Sq. Ft. Completion December 2013
The objective of this research, was to propose an archetype model for a residential building in a TROPICAL CLIMATE. The building was defined as a self sustainable ecosystem, harnessing the available resources to decrease the energy consumption through a passive design strategy. We analyzed the vernacular architecture examples in the region and in other similar bioclimatic conditions, in order to increase the interior building comfort, and to learn traditional methods to storage the available resources. The proposed concept was the “Dappled Tower”, after analyzing the morphology, the energy flows and ecosystem behavior of a tropical rainforest, we established a clear design strategy for the solar radiation, air flow, diurnal temperature swing, relative humidity, and human comfort, in a passive way. 15 OCT
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Above: The project was designed as a multi objective integrated systems tower. The geometry of the floor plate funnels in the air flow to reduce the indoor mean temperature and to reduce the humidity at night time. The structural system also delivers the rainfall storage water all over the vertical gardens. The added vegetation was added to reduce air pollutants before they enter the living units. Below: the three typical living units.
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Protect from direct solar gains Allow natural ventilation to cool the living units, and to remove the excess moisture from the air. Collect, store and distribute rainfall Increased air movement and desiccation during the night to reduce humidity and increase comfort Low mass envelope materials, to decrease latent heat storage in the exterior walls. Use of vegetation as thermal regulator
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European Architecture Student Assembly 2006 Summer School. The Workshop took place in a World War II Ship. Budapest, Hungary
WORKSHOPS AND COMPETITIONS
-The rhizome is an acentered, non hierarchical, non signifying system without a General and without an organizing memory or central automation, defined solely by a circulation of statesGilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus
THE WHITE HOUSE REDUX COMPETITION Francisco Brown, Carlos Lanuza, Andrea Griborio Contest Organizer: The Storefront for Architecture. New York. Contest Date January 2008.
This physical landmark of the United States collective memory, changes its nature from an iconic symbol to a reconciler unifier by open itself up to regular citizens, summing the whole concept of “Union of States� layered in the urban landscape of Washington DC, closing the institutional gap between the democratically elected president and the people he or she serves. The design provides an absolutely permeable space with room for everyone who wishes to serve in office. A duality is then established. First, the sober but reliable facade of the public service ideal and a private more concealed facade more related to the idiosyncrasies of Washington, ideology and politics. A defying presence that rises up in the city skyline with a conciliatory face and several meanings. The present proposal breaks up the nature of the current building by questioning and rethinking this existing dichotomy, this relationship between political power and the individuals that are ruled by it. The project emerges from the city, giving itself up to its users and their collective imaginations, reinventing a piece of history and its monumentality to define a new iconic figure that will live out for generations to come.
ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SUMMER WORKSHOP MADRID Tutors Jose Ballesteros (IE Madrid) Peter Ferrato (AA London - Herzog & de Meuron) Architectural Association and IE Madrid Project Location AZCA District. Madrid Spain Year 2009
The AA Summer workshop in Madrid, was an informal experimental course led by the AA London. It was established as an urban think tank to intervene the AZCA district of Madrid. This district is a modern architecture style and office-retail mixed area, and it was built in the 1960’. Currently the area suffers from major urban problems such as: crime, infrastructure deterioration and low property value. The main objective of the project was to activate some unused residual areas using different design strategies. My project main concept was to remove the insular condition of the area by extending the major avenues and streets of Madrid, not only for circulation use, but as a habitable program of layered, horizontal public space, “cutting” through existing buildings and removing all the peripheral low rise ones
EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS ASSEMBLY ROUBAIX 2004. Workshop Name: Follow the Ribbon Tutor: Vicenzo di Siena (Politecnico di Milano) School: University of Lille Project Location: Roubaix/Lille. France Year 2004
Since 1980 the EASA workshops have become one of the most important experimentation platforms for European design students: a two weeks camp where participants live, eat, work, and sleep with 400 other students from all over Europe. The “Follow the Ribbon”workshop was led by an Italian urban artist and architect. The idea was to “wrap” La Condition Publique building, a cultural center that used to be a textile factory, when Roubaix was an important textile production city. The result was an intervention that reminded the community about the building and the city’s recent past history, and their vibrant future as the 2004 European Cultural Capital.
FRANCISCO BROWN Registered Architect Nicaragua 433 E 6TH ST APT 3R New York. NY 10009 fbrownortega@gmail.com EDUCATION Master in Architecture II Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, CASE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM NY) New York, New York 20132014 Academic Grant www.case.rpi.edu Bachelor in Architecture Universidad Católica “Redemptoris Mater” Managua, Nicaragua. 2002 – 2006 Full Academic Scholarship LANGUAGES Spanish English French COMPUTER SKILLS AutoCAD, Sketch Up Pro, V Ray, Adobe Suite 6 Rhino 5, Grasshopper Diva Energy Modeling, Archsim, Lady bug and Honey bee RECENT TRAVELS Malaysia, Spain, Portugal, France, Egypt, Jordan, Thailand, Tanzania, Turkey, Germany, England, Mexico, United States of America, India, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Japan, Belgium, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Cuba, Venezuela, Panama, El Salvador, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Ethiopia. INTERESTS Love, travel, dance, cycling, and museums
+ (1) 646 306 6928 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE LEAD DESIGNER AND PROJECT MANAGER (2009-2013) International Organization for Migration IOM. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Provincial Justice Center, Bamyam. 2014. 1 M Usd 20 K Sq. Ft. Institutional Women Assembly Hall, Maimana 2014. 660 K Usd 10 K Sq. Ft. Cultural Justice Center, Hairantan And Khost 2014. 250 K Usd 3 K Sq. Ft. Institutional Ministry Of Counter Narcotics Farah 2012. 280 K Usd 2.5 K Sq. Ft. Institutional District Assembly Hall, Maimana 2011 1 M Usd 10 K Sq. Ft. Cultural National Police Academy. Kabul. 2013. 12 M Usd 140 K Sq.ft Educational Counter Narcotics Hq. Kandahar. 2013. 1M Usd. 25 K.sq. Ft. Institutional Forensic Laboratory. Kabul 2013. 500 K Usd. 5500 Sq. Ft. Institutional Display Room, Kabul 2012 . 90 K Usd. 900 Sq. Ft. Educational Justice Center, Kandahar 2012. 800 K Usd. 9 K Sq. Ft. Institutional ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT (2004-2008) brownARQUITECTOS. MANAGUA, NICARAGUA Central American Forum, Managua 2012. 660 K Usd 4 K Sq. Ft. Institutional Schroeder Ortega House, San Juan 2006. 180 K Usd 1.3 K Sq. Ft. Residential Rogers House, Rancho Santana 2008. 380 K Usd 2 K Sq. Ft. Residential SELECTED POSITIONS. New York City correspondent for ARQUINE Magazine Mexico 2013 Jury Member at the 14th ARQUINE Competition of Architecture. Mexico 2005. General Secretary of the National Architecture Students Association (CONEA) of Nicaragua. 2002-2004 SELECTED WORKSHOPS Architectural Association and Instituto de Empresa School. Workshop. Spain 2009 European Architecture Students Assembly, Hungary. 2006 and France 2004 Latin-American Architecture Students Assembly. El Salvador 2007, Panama 2006, Cuba 2005, Nicaragua 2004, Venezuela 2003, Mexico 2002 COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS Selected project at The White House Redux, New York 2008. Published in the “123 Selected Projects” Book, Storefront for Architecture, New York. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Architecture in two times: Kabul/New York. American University of Nicaragua. 2014 Architecture in War Zone with Mustafa Nouri AIA. At the AIA Maryland 2010 The White House Project. National University of Guatemala. 2007 Designing Museums in Latin America? Central American University of El Salvador. 2006 REFERENCES Ivan Davalos. Special Envoy. International Organization for Migration IOM. Peru idavalos@iom.int Mustafa Nouri. Manager. International Organization for Migration IOM. Afghanistan mnouri@iom.int Ana Dyson. Director. Center for Architecture Science and Ecology CASE. US dysanna@gmail.com