Honors Degree. School of Architecture Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Medellín. 20192024. Cumulative GPA: 4.67
Education / Academic Exchange Exchange Semester Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ETSAM. 2022
Supplementary / Course
Special Course in Electrical and Plumbing Installations, SENA. 2021
Education / Elementary and Secondary Marymount School Medellín
WORK EXPERIENCE
Experience / Junior Architect Lineal Arquitectura. Feb 2024-Oct 2024
Experiencia / Academic Intership Lineal Arquitectura. Nov 2023-Feb 2024
SKILLS
Languages
Spanish – Native English – Advanced (C1) French – Basic (A2)
Softwares
Revit - High
Autocad - High
In Design - High
Illustrator - High
Photoshop - Medium
Sketch up - High
Vray - Medium
Lumion - Medium
AWARDS AND HONORS
Honor Scholarship / 2023-01
Honor Scholarship in the Architecture Program for Highest GPA in the Faculty.
Contest/ Special Prize
Special prize in The Architecture Student Contest 2023, Saint Gobain International-Lisboa, Portugal. Team: Raquel Bernal and Conchita Escobar.
Project: Dwellings in Memory, Building an Adaptive Lisbon.
Contest/ 1er Prize
First Place in The Architecture Student Contest 2023, Saint Gobain Colombia.
Team: Raquel Bernal and Conchita Escobar.
Project: Dwellings in Memory, Building an Adaptive Lisbon.
Honorable Mention / Workshop 5
Project: Barrio en Altura
Honorable Mention / Workshop 3
Project: Antejardines Habitables
RIBA Distinction
Project from Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 selected for the RIBA exhibition, Palacio de la Cultura, Medellín.
Honor Scholarship /2019-01
Honor Scholarship in the Architecture Program for Highest GPA in the Faculty.
REFERENCES
Alejandro Restrepo Montoya
Director of Strategic Urban Projects, Medellín City Hall.+57 3148933909
Beatriz Rave
Dean School of Architecture and Design Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. +57 3147999325
01.
Lineal Arquitectura
Year: 2023-02
Barichara, Santander. Colombia
Casa Barichara is presented as a reinterpretation of the traditional architecture of the region and colonial architecture.The project's siting is a direct response to the reading of the plot, its views, shape, and sunlight exposure. allowing the house to engage with the landscape and the different tensions within it. The floor plan is defined by guiding walls that divide the space into two areas: the social and service area, and the private area with the bedrooms. The gardens assume a key role in the design, as it is through them that both areas are connected and maintain a relationship not only with each other but also with the surrounding territory. The garden becomes an integral part of the composition, reinforcing the relationship between built and natural environments.
CASA BARICHARA
Outdoor terrace render. Self-Made Model for Lineal Arquitectura– Render by Odd Visual Studio
Indoor render. Self-Made Model for Lineal Arquitectura– Render by Odd Visual Studio
Access, interior and bedroom render. Self-Made Model for Lineal Arquitectura– Render by Odd Visual Studio
The first visual contact is established with a solid rammed earth wall, which is perforated and framed to create an opening that leads to the entrance of the house. This transition introduces an interior space that is open to the landscape, permeated by both internal and external gardens. Private circulation is experienced through a series of filled and voided spaces, where the play of volumes and heights is key. The bedrooms open directly to the garden and the surrounding landscape, establishing a seamless connection with nature. Support was provided from the conceptualization stage all the way through to the full development of the construction documentation, including floor plans, sections, and technical facades. A BIM methodology was used to create the model, alongside the production of renders and presentations for the client. Additionally, detailed construction elements, such as furniture, bathrooms, and hydro-sanitary installations, were modeled. There was also active involvement in coordinating other disciplines, including bioclimatics, hydraulics, and structural engineering.
02.
JARDÍN BOTÁNICO- LA RUTA DE LA SIERRA
Degree Project Workshop
Year: 2023-01
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
The development of a project aimed at contributing to the consolidation of sustainable tourism in La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is proposed. This initiative is grounded in a central question: Why a Botanical Garden in La Sierra Nevada? What should it be like, and what actions should it undertake within the territory? In response to this challenge, an analysis of programmatic, urban, formal, and territorial intentions is carried out. The proposed project envisions a forest embraced by a circular structure gently placed on the terrain, enabling multi scale circulation. The botanical garden must not only educate its visitors but also contribute to the conservation of species across the five thermal floors. These natural factors were carefully considered in the project’s design, prioritizing the preservation of the surrounding environment. Additionally, it was essential to acknowledge the presence of indigenous communities, recognizing the site as sacred territory.
The territory where the botanical garden is located presents a dual and permanent topographic condition: the sierra and the plain. The project aims to reinterpret this duality through its architecture, further influenced by the changing climatic experience, expressed through three main elements. First, an ascending and continuous circulation; second, a geometry that layers dual forms; and third, the materials employed, light and heavy, stone and wood. A constant inhabitation between tensions.
Los Naranjos
a. Plazoleta de acceso
b. Oficina de control c. Sala de reuniones d. Sala de empleados e. Salon para la comunidad f. Exposiciones itenerantes
g. Sala de plantas útiles y expo
h. Aula exterior i. Sala frío
j. Sala páramo k. Sala templado l. Plataformas de agricultura m. Jardines de fitodepuracion
Restaurante
Teatro al aire libre p. Graderias q. Caminos
The project is structured around a circular circulation fragmented by buried volumes, following a centralized spatial system where the program is articulated through tensions. A continuous platform-like circulation is proposed, which not only serves as a pathway through the project but also as a space to inhabit. This platform forms the constant point of contact with the program, dynamically adapting in height and function depending on the type of use.It rises to allow the forest to permeate the project and integrates programmatic elements into the platform itself a permanent device designed to respond to the ever-changing.
Formal Operations
Boring through the void
Intentions
Fragmenting the program, understanding circulation as a large surface of contact with nature
Connecting with geometry
Raising above the ground
Intercepting the circulation
Circulation as a constant
The forest is provided with a program through the platform
Raising and burying the project to establish connections with the territory at different scales
Arranging the geometry in relation to sunlight
Raising above the levels while maintaining permeability
Aligning the volumes of the rooms to the north
Creating a grid based on a centralized spatial system
Roof Typologies According to Thermal Zones
ECOSISTEMAS PISOS TÉRMICOS Y TIPOLOGÍAS DE CUBIERTAS
REUTILIZAR- JARDINES DE FITODEPURACIÓN INTEGRAR - RED PEATONAL Y ESTANCIAS
IntegratePedestrian Network and Rest Areas
Sala fría
Cuarto técnico Punto de observación
Transversal Section - El jardín de la Sierra
Pórticos madera contralaminada
Sala templado Sala páramo
Escalera en acero páramo Sala templado
03.
DWELLINGS IN MEMORY-BUILDING AN ADAPTIVE LISBON
Saint Gobain Architecture Student Contest
Team: Raquel Bernal y Conchita Escobar
Year: 2022-02
Lisboa, Portugal
Special Prize
The Architecture Student Contest is a two steps competition: the National Stage and the international Stage. The objective of the contest is to develop a project based on sustainability, both for people and the planet. The assignment for the 18th International Saint-Gobain Student Contest is to design the revitalization of an area located west of the Lisbon City Center, along the river Tagus, belonging to the City Hall, anchored in a new cultural activity complemented by residential functions. The challenge for the students includes three items: A. To create the new Lisbon Video Library (Building A), by renovating an existing building. B. To design a new residential building (Building B) with underground auto parking, that will combine private residence and co-living residence for resident artists or investigators using the Lisbon Video Library and its Audio Vision Center. C. To design the interconnection of the buildings (External Area C) by exterior public green spaces to be used as enjoyment spaces, allowing the quarter crossing and connection with surrounding streets.
1. City's condition
Caracterized by a series of interweaved streets, that hold memory within interstices
2. Composition
A. Dwellings of memory
B. Housing
C. Folds
3. Re-interpretation as our concept
The project is a direct re-interpretation of the city's physical-spatial condition, creating a way of dwelling witihin
Undoubtedly, humanity is facing several crisis, they’re inevitable. But, how can architecture help us thrive though them? How can it be adaptable and resilient for future crisis? Without the need to change a city’s identity and way of living? Our solution to face this issue is called: Dwellings in Memory, Building an Adaptive Lisbon. In the tropics, our solutions have to optimize each aspect, therefore, architecture, bioclimatic design and sustainability are one single discussion Our solution creates a continuation of Lisbons way of living, by the re-interpretation of its spatial condition. To do so, we identified 3 composing elements: dwellings, folds, and housing.
Blurring boundaries by interweaving the three projects creating fluidity and allowing them to function as one
Even though there were three projects to solve, there was one single discussion. They function under a single modular system which originates from the extension of Building As current structural grid, creating spatial fluidity amongst them.
Building
Revitalizing through the recovery of Lisbon's native vegatation
Connecting through folds and dwellings in memory
DWELLINGS
Through our connections, a storytelling of Lisbon´s heritage unfolds. As different users pass, the memory of Lisbon lingers in what we call dwellings in memory, allowing for a constant meeting of the past, present, and future.
Water management through phytodepuration and recycling
Consequently, we achieve adaptability though demountable walls, as they can extend or contract within its modularity. Hence, having capability to meet the evolving needs of both the climate and the users.
Also, we created bioclimatic tool through the re-interpretation of Lisbon's balcony found in common housing. This flexible space regulates indoor conditions, through 384 different configurations adapting to each user's own comfort. In winter, it works as an insulated gallery, while in summer it serves as a shaded balcony.
Finally, this double skin allows natural ventilation, thermal insulation, protection against solar radiation and ensuring air renewal.
04.
CATALIZADOR URBANO- EL MERCADO DEL PESCADOR
Workshop on Sustainable Communities Year: 2022-01
Cartagena, Colombia
The project was carried out in the city of Cartagena, in La Ciénaga de La Virgen. A project module, Emerging Aquatic Landscapes, was developed to foster a flood-resilient community by transforming high-risk areas into elastic landscapes. These landscapes embrace nature and water as opportunities, working alongside public spaces to promote social cohesion and community well-being. This is achieved through the design of public space by implementing landscape technologies, such as edge interventions, rain gardens, treatment lagoons, and wetlands. Additionally, the facilities are characterized by the historical productive vocation of the canal, fishing. Therefore, the building developed within the project module is the Fishermen's Market.
Flood-Resilient Vegetation – Riverbed Restoration
Urban Fabric Connectivity
Wetlands for Phytoremediation
Flood-Resilient Terraces
Nature-Based Solutions
Longitudinal Section
A renaturalization of the channel is created as the foundation of the project, undulating its course.
The axes of the public space and the rhizomes are outlined, marking a grid in the occupation.
The project is inserted as a transitional device between the public space and the fisherman's dock.
A floating facade is used to open up the landscape, allowing for a permeable occupation on both floors.
