SEBASTIÁN BAYO
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About me: I am a 24 year old Spanish architect, I have just finished my studies in architecture at the San Pablo CEU University in Madrid. I have also studied at The University of Edinburgh in 2013, thanks to an Erasmus scholarship. During my studies (2008-2014) I have received several awards both for specific competitions and for my overall achievement (Angel Herrera prize and Excellence scholarship). My work has been selected to represent my university in several events and exhibitions. I have been very involved with my university, assuming responsibilities as student representative as well as assisting in the organization of several events. Extra academically I have co-founded two student groups with whom I have done different activities related with architecture, some of which have been internationally awarded.
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Sebastiﾃ｡n Bayo Monjas
sebastianbayo@hotmail.com 78 Woodsome Road, London T(+44) 07526986761(London)
EDUCATION
2007 - 2014
Ceu - San Pablo University, Madrid Polytechnic School of Architecture / average grade: 7,95 / 10 (Equivalent to first-class degree)
Sep-Dec 2013
The University of Edinburgh (ESALA) MA (Hons) Architectural Design (Erasmus student)
1996- 2008
Sagrado Corazﾃｳn School, Vitoria (Spain) Specialisation in Mathematics, Physics and Drawing / University acces examination mark: 8.2 / 10
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Dec 2014-Febr 2015
Mecanismo Studio | www.mecanismo.org Part 2 Assistant - competitions, built projects, graphic design and video production (Stages 0-3 and 6-7)
2011- 2014
Picado-de Blas Architects | www.picadodeblas.com Part 1 Assistant - competitions, built projects, graphic design and video production (Stages 0-5)
Summer 2013
Luis Urculo Studio | www.cargocollective.com/luisurculo Production Assistant - Model making and visualisations for short films
Summer 2013
AWA Studio | www.awaestudio.es Part 1 Assistant - competitions, built projects and graphic design (Stages 3,5,6 and 7)
2012-2014
Micras Collective | www.cargocollective.com/micras Co-founder of student-led design team - competitions, installations (separate CV available)
AWARDS AND FEATURES Jan 2012
ﾃ］gel Herrera Award (Ceu - San Pablo University) (best student at the Polytechnic School)
Mar 2012
Design work featured in Spanish national newspaper El Paﾃｭs http://blogs.elpais.com/del-tirador-a-la-ciudad/2012/04/33-m2-por-10-.html
Jul 2012
DIT Europa Student Design Competiton Award Spatial installation in Copenhagen
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Architecture students representative: graduation speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87p57efWdg (min 59)
Sep 2012
SHELTER International Student Design Competition Shortlisted | Commissioner: Akihisa Hirata
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10-11 Sep 2010
Selected for representing EPS-CEU university at the “Encuentro entre Escuelas de Arquitectura” ETSAM www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Bs6kkypIo
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Scholarship “Ayudas al talento” by Ceu-San Pablo University Kept along six years (average grade above 7/10)
2011-2013
Student representative - architecture department (Elected by students)
2013
Erasmus Scholarship
Dec 2009
Selected for the end of year design exhibition and crit, with Iñaki Ávalos and José Gallegos “Refugio en las lagunas del porcal” design project
May 2010
Selected for the end of year design exhibition and crit, with Andrés Perea “Umbráculo en el jardín Botánico de Nueva York” design project
Dec 2009
“Best design project - Taller Transversal” competition First place “Refugio en las lagunas del porcal” design project
Apr 2010
Design Workshop - Bolles +Wilson Selected to have a crit with Peter Wilson
Mar 2010
Spaghetti structure resistance competition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k9cysoWjP8 First place in the categories: load, calculation and mass - load rate
Feb 2012
VI edition of the “CUADERNOS DE VIAJE” competition. Drawing and Photography First place in the photography category (trip to Granada)
Feb 2010
IV edition of the “CUADERNOS DE VIAJE” competition. Drawing and Photography First place in the drawing category (trip to Italy)
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“Integración en mi barrio” short film competition Third place for “Manana”
GENERAL SKILLS
Languages
Fluent | English, Spanish Basic | Basque
Informatics
Photoshop / Indesign / Illustrator / Premiere / AutoCad / Rhino / Office
Others
Analogue and Digital Photography Digital Video Editing Video production
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Works: 2008-14 Selection of academic and extra-curricular exercises.
This portfolio contains examples of some of the works produced between the years 2008-2014 corresponding to both academic exercises and extracurricular activities. The aim of the publication is to show a selection of representative images of these projects, while giving the opportunity to access to a more extended version of them online. http://cargocollective.com/sebastianbayo
Works Selected for this portfolio
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Final Year Project Pfc: hostel in Fonte da Telha, Lisbon. This is a hostel for a hundred people on Fonte da Telha beach, 20km south from Lisbon. After a thorough analysis of both urban and historical contexts, the strategy consisted in developing a building that adapted to the tourists’ demand, transforming with the seasons. A hostel that appears only in summer, when the beach is crowded, and disappears during the winter, in a way to reduce both environmental and visual impacts within such a sensitive context. (Explanatory video: http://vimeo.com/111736446) The project is structured around two main ideas: the recovery of the memory of the place through an operation of landscape archaeology; and the generation of a hostel that comes and goes with demand. Stemming from observation and dialogue with the context, this building aims to exemplify a way of approaching architecture without imposition or aggression, reclaiming the social meaning of the profession, and offering a solution to other problems surrounding architecture. It states formulas of economical models based on ‘proximity with the environment’, relating to urban planning and architectural development ideologies, in opposition to speculative models and in favour of civic and social values. The project is a personal stand on the imminent expectation of giving a professional response based on simple approaches, in a proportional way to the real situation of our society and our profession within it.
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Winter Plan.
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Summer Plan.
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General Elevation and Section.
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Technical Definition Constructive, structural and M&E systems development. The room unit, a key component of the hostel, is designed as a light, transportable element that can be compacted to the size of a parking space. It is composed of two different types of elements: on one hand, four deployable mobile elements that contain the different functions of the room, on the other hand, a container element that stores the mobile elements when the room is in a compacted state, and houses the bedroom function when the room is deployed. During the project development this room was defined in its constructive, structural and m&e aspects. In the following pages some of the constructive documentation is summarised. CHOSEN MATERIAL Due to the system’s requirement for human operability, it had to be made as light as possible. For this reason aluminium was chosen for most of the components of the room. Both the structural elements and exterior finishes of the containers were made using this material, although it was combined with wood, plastics and textile elements, always aiming at the goal of achieving maximum lightness.
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Caparica
Pr.8 / Hostel in Fonte da Telha, Lisbon. This project was developed prior to the final year project, answering the same brief that would be developed in the following year. This brief asked to design a hospice at Caparica beach in Fonte da Telha. During this first exercise efforts focused on the site’s analysis, working with conceptual models and hand drawings, inspired by the suggestions of both natural and historical contexts.
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Drawings / Models Pr.8 / Hostel in Fonte da Telha, Lisbon.
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Conceptual plaster model 1
Conceptual plaster model 2
Conceptual plaster model 3
Conceptual plaster model 4
Implementation model.
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Sketches for the general Section and individual rooms.
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Edinburgh
Architectural design explorations / fill, flow, track on the isle of Rum. This document summarises the work carried out between September and December 2013 for the course “Architectural Design 3 Explorations: Fill, Flow, Track on the isle of Rum” with tutors Lisa Moffit and Victoria Bernie at the University of Edinburgh. Focusing less on sustainable metrics and more on the qualitative and experiential dimension of environmental conditions, this unit used the Isle of Rum as a site of speculation. The studio focused on these dynamics, between the shifting and the inert, the fixed and the sway, the systems that flow and those that resist. We explored the relationship between ideas that could be tested within the controlled environment of the studio and those that could be gleaned through field occupation. This course focused on four contemporary disciplinary themes: drawing, environment, fieldwork, and scale. SURVEY DRAWING PROPOSAL The objective was to represent on paper the complexity of a river analysed in a survey. A ‘score’ of the river’s sound was created. This score was designed as a linear plot with an associated time, in which all elements that affected the sound of the river were illustrated. The result of the superposition of information on a timeline constituted the ‘score’ of the river. It is possible to observe within this score moments such as the places of greatest water speed, turbulent points, areas of calmer water... The proposed architectural project was a linear intervention along the whole river rather than a series of specific site constructions, with major architectural proposals materialising along four areas, chosen for their differing sound characteristics. 28
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4 Notes / Modular units composing each a final architectural proposal.
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Culinary University Pr.4 / Culinary university in Matadero, Madrid. This project addressed the request of designing a culinary university in the Madrid’s old slaughterhouse, now transformed into a large cultural complex. Initial thoughts aimed at designing the university itself and how learning spaces could be devised, coming to the conclusion that the best option would be an isotropic space of smaller scale, in which the classrooms, study areas, kitchens and common spaces were combined in a non-hierarchical way. The Marrakech souk was taken as spatial reference, and its complexity was taken to the scale of the existing slaughterhouse space. The formal complexity of the souk was imitated through a modular element that would simplify the construction and internal structure of the university, maintaining the anarchical aspect of the souk. This idea was achieved through three pieces. Three ‘tiles’ that combined in all directions generated a complex geometry that contrasted with the industrial scale of the spaces of the existing context.
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Concept: Cells Pr.4 / Culinary university in Matadero, Madrid. The main objective was to generate a building system that could grow infinitely, through a series of modular elements that would be fully integrated when combined, giving the building an organic look inspired by medieval urbanism.
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The three modules fit together at their perimeters. Each of them are subdivided into several smaller fragments, providing the whole assembly with the appearance of and irregular cell frame.
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Dendrological Centre Pr.5 / Dendrological and botanical centre in Nevada. A dendrological and botanical university was to be designed in Nevada, on an area that in the 50’s had been a testing ground for nuclear weapons. Instead of designing a single building, the college programme was divided into small constructions spread across the desert. Students moved through the campus in electric motorhomes. This decision was taken in order to address the hazardous atmosphere of the nuclear field, as it allowed students to move from one building to another without coming into contact with the exterior. These vehicles consume hydrogen, discharging water steam to the atmosphere instead of smoke. This brings moisture to the soil and allows the growth of vegetation behind the motorhome’s movement paths. This design aimed at transforming the desert area, ‘drawing’ green strokes of vegetation in the landscape through the movement of the homes.
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Umbráculo
Pr.3 / Canopy at the New York Botanical Gardens. This proposal consisted of a canopy to provide shade and at the same time capture and project the different atmospheres that exist within the New York Botanical Garden. A ‘foam’ rests on slender legs, under which visitors experience the different aspects of the park: all of the colours, sounds, smells, temperatures... collected throughout time in the botanical garden. This idea is presented in a poetic way through a narrative that tells the story of Isidore Louis, a collector of atmospheres at the Botanical Garden.
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Pr.3 / Canopy at the New York Botanical Garden.
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Olympic Heart
Pr.7 / Pavilion for Madrid’s 2020 Olympic Candidacy. The aim of this exercise was to design a pavilion for the organiser’s team to explain to the IOC committee Madrid’s candidacy for the Olympic Games in 2020. This building was to be a very striking architecture, capable of expressing the nature of the candidacy, but with a low cost. The proposal was an inflatable pavilion, called the ‘Olympic heart of Madrid’. It was composed -like a real heart, of a series of chambers connected by valves for visitors to walk through in the same order as blood flows through the heart. The transition from one chamber to the other consisting of valves, they produced tensions and strains to the textile building membrane through shifting air pressures. This movement, seen from the exterior would resemble a heart’s beat. The reflective and translucent properties of the enveloping membrane’s material, along with coordinated lighting and video projections in the interior would complete the piece, which was constructively composed of a series of skins and air propellers.
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The pavilion installed at the central square Puerta del Sol, the heart of Madrid.
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Housing in Madrid
Pr.7 / Residential building and offices in Alberto Aguilera, Madrid. The brief involved the construction of a residential and office building on Alberto Aguilera street, in Madrid. The decision to raise the building as a stacking of different geometries and size pieces arose from an initial context analysis. The pieces were combined to generate a wide range of situations. The result was a terraced building in which public and private uses were mixed and in which each storey counted with a profusion of singular spaces.
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La Ensaimada Pr.7 / Recreational building in Madrid. La Ensaimada is a proposal for a recreational building in Madrid. It challenged the brief ’s requirement of occupying an urban void, placing the building over the rooftop of the block instead, leaving the site intact. The proposed architecture had a soft aspect, deformed by the contact with surrounding buildings, and inflating at the top.
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Kunkel Residence Pr.5 / House for the Kunkel scientists in Nevada.
This is a house for a scientist couple in an old nuclear testing ground in Nevada. The building is designed as a mutation, an architecture affected by radiation whose geometries arise from the transformation of a series of modular elements, by cutting them at different heights.
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Flock House Construction / Pladur competition 2012.
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Dreamt Restaurant Pr.3 / Dreamt restaurant for Ferrรกn Adriรก.
This is an inflatable restaurant and food laboratory that could be set up anywhere. The inflatable system enables chefs to create different atmospheres in order to manipulate and control smells, temperatures and even oxygen (and other gases) levels, with the aim of achieving a complex gastronomic experience.
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Plu. Agurain Urban planning / Salvatierra - Agurain.
In order to solve various connection problems detected between different areas of the city of Salvatierra, a bridge-building was designed. Its rooftop was a walkable street for public use, from which a series of ramps connected the different levels, overcoming physical barriers. This residence building also introduced activity in an unoccupied area.
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The Mask
Pr.7 / Cripsis and aposematism: fast exercise - The Mask. This mask design was made from flat patterns drawn from a study of the face’s geometry. The final design was built in transparent methacrylate, by laser cutting the various flat parts and stitching holes and subsequently bending them with a heat gun. They were sewn together using nylon thread and an elastic thread for the jaw.
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Flat pattern of the mask with variable expressions.
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Micras Collective Extra-curricular activities / architectural performances.
Micras is an architectural and space research collective formed in early 2012 in Madrid, Spain by a group of architecture students. Established by Sebastian Bayo, Ana Alonso, Ignacio Álvarez, Sofia Romeo and Miguel Sotos, this collective has made several ephemeral architectural installations in Madrid, Toledo and Copenhagen. It has also collaborated with Ceu San Pablo University, the European University of Madrid, and The University of Castilla-La Mancha, as well as with Madrid city council, collaborating for three years in the ‘Madrid GastroFestival’. In June 2012 Micras won the Dit Europa Festival competition, taking part with a one-week performance in Copenhagen. Some of these works have been published in the Spanish newspaper ‘El País’ and the popular architecture blog ‘Edgar Gonzalez’.
Sebastián Bayo, Ana Alonso, Ignacio Álvarez, Sofía Romeo & Miguel Sotos.
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Images of two of the performances.
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Video
Selection of academic and extra-curricular videos. Since the beginning of my architectural education I have used video as a tool to communicate architectural designs. This is a very efficient format to synthesize and express in a direct way spatial suggestions and architectural concepts. Throughout my career, I have done freelance work producing short video clips for several architectural practices. I have also assisted Luis Úrculo, an internationally renowned architect and visual artist based in Madrid.
2014 - Hostel in Fonte da Telha Final project explanatory video. https://vimeo.com/111736446
2010 - Urban Picnic Year 3 design course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVh61yMQ_mA
2013 - ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ ‘Siempre nos quedará París’ workshop with Luis Úrculo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckAD1iDCFjc
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2010 - Pop-Up / Picado-de Blas Commissioned by Picado-de Blas architects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azMEcaqOFkk
2011 - La Casa De La Moneda Commissioned by Picado-de Blas architects. https://vimeo.com/114465662
2009 - Anthropometry Year 2 design course. https://vimeo.com/114465472
2013 - Concrete Bubbles Commissioned by Picado-de Blas architects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjLAeDjWIeE 63
Work Experience Part I and Part II work experience in Spanish practices.
Throughout my architectural degree, I have worked in a series of practices during my free time and holidays. Despite it not being a requirement in Spanish architectural education, I have always believed that practical work is a crucial complement to academia. I have had the opportunity to participate in every stage of the building process, from strategic definition to handover, learning many valuable skills along the way and overall having a very enriching experience.
Dec 2014-Feb 2015
Mecanismo Studio | www.mecanismo.org Part 2 Assistant - competitions, built projects, graphic design and video production Assisted in the following projects: Complejo Canalejas Intergolf I
(stages 0,1 and 2) (stages 5,6 and 7)
2011- 2014
Picado-de Blas Architects | www.picadodeblas.com Part 1 Assista潞nt - competitions, built projects, graphic design and video production Assisted in the following projects: South Harbour Helsinki
(stages 0,1 and 2)
Tondeluna / Ecahurren
(stages 3,4 and 5)
Maite Commodore
(stages 0,1 and 2) (video production)
Hormig贸n en Pompas Cover for las Ventas
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(stage 1)
Summer 2013
Luis Urculo Studio | www.cargocollective.com/luisurculo Production Assistant - Model making and visualisations for short films Assisted in the following projects: ‘Anima’ by Bernard Tchumi
(production assistant)
Summer 2013
AWA Studio | www.awaestudio.es Part 1 Assistant - competitions, built projects and graphic design Assisted in the following projects: Elevator in Juan Montalvo 12 (stages 5 and 7) (stages 3,5 and 6) Box Art. LaTorre. Hotel Domotol
(video production)
2012-2014
Micras Collective | www.cargocollective.com/micras Co-founder of student-led design team - competitions, installations (separate CV available) Projects: DIT Europe kopenhaguen
(competition)
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