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_Victor Fernandez Gil
South elevation from the new limit for Miraflores
5.2020 | CHICAGO, IL
_ Architecture student from the north of Spain, now at my fourth year at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM), where I have been able to develop great knowledge in the field of architecture with both technical and artistic approaches. This year I am involved in an exchange program at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where I can expand my knowledge. _ Active, critical and enthusiastic about architectural design. Highly interested in the development of new metropolis, the design of high-rise buildings and new sustainable environment features. Thanks to the knowledge that I have been acquiring over the years, I believe that my passion for this profession and problem-solving qualities have been improved markedly. I have been able to test my skills to work in a team, face problems from different fields and the importance of hand drawing to start the projects, which I consider essential to the architectural practice. _ Currently working on the Cloud Studio with Dirk Denison team at the IIT, developing a project on the former Continental car and motor factory in Detroit. Developing this building with the help of landscape professors from the University of Virginia and for a city developer.
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vfernandezgil@hawk.iit.edu +1 (773) 491-9882 1237 W Fullerton Ave. Apt 604C Chicago 60614, IL
EDUCATION
VICTOR FERNANDEZ GIL Architecture & engineering student
_ Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) - UPM | 2016 - current. Bachelor in Architecture - GPA: 3.2 _ Illinois Institute of Technology - College of Architecture | 2019 - current. Bachelor in Architecture (International Program) - GPA: 4.0 Studio IX & X: Dirk Denison FAIA dirk@dirkdenisonarchitects.com
EXPERIENCE
_ Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM) | January 2020 Arquitectos Student Shadowing Program, Chicago Participant in the program in the SOM office in Chicago, having the opportunity to rotate through different departments granting a complete perspective on the company's work and the day-to-day experience of design professionals. _ Colegio Mayor Universitario de San Pablo, Madrid | 2016 - 2019 Responsible for architecture tutorials and Architecture meetings and lecture organizer Responsible for architecture tutorials, meetings and lecture organize. Providing help and advice to architecture students of younger years. Helped and supervised by Javier Saenz Guerra, certified professor at CEU San Pablo University. Graphic Designer for Social Media and Sign for events Graphic designer of posters and tickets to the events organized by the CMU San Pablo, contributing to the media content by posting on social networks. _ Colegio Inmaculada Concepciรณn - Jesuitas | 2014 - 2019 Sumer Camp Monitor Five years of experience serving as a camp monitor, titled by the Community of Castilla y Leรณn. Performing a full of children every year, getting to have waiting lists and very positive ratings from parents.
COURSES
_ The Warton School - University of Pennsylvania | 2019 - current. Introduction to Corporate Finance _ Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) - UPM | 2019 Rhinoceros 3D + VRay _ llinois Institute of Technology - College of Architecture | 2019 - current. Autodesk Revit | Autodesk 3Ds Max | Grasshopper
LANGUAJES
_ Spanish Native _ English First Certificate in English (FCE) - B2 | Canbridge University (June 2014) TOEFL iBT | Grade 84/120 (December 2018)
SKILLS
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AutoCAD Rhinoceros 3D Revit VRay 3Ds Max
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Microsoft Office Adobe Cloud (Ps, Ai, Id) Grasshopper UMI/Diva/Ladybug Blender
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NEW LIMIT FOR MIRAFLORES Professor: Emilio Tuñón, Jose María Garcia Subject: Urban Development, Residence, Lanscape Location: Miraflores peninsula, Córdoba (Spain)
If we analyze the extensive trajectory of the buildings of Koolhaas, we can see that there are many similarities in the way he treats and develops his projects in relation to cinema and architecture: both refer to ideas, spaces, routes, and even predetermined frames. The site proposed by the organization of the contest lacked interest: in addition to the nerve center of the city, in the old Miraflores peninsula, it did not offer great possibilities for the context. Faced with other proposals that were limited to proposing moderate solutions, Koolhaas decides to take advantage of the potential of the place and develops a perfectly rectangular volume that aims to consolidate the EAST-WEST axis of the peninsula, dividing it into two, connecting the city center and establishing multiple and varied dialogues with the city, such as the mosque of Cordoba or the urban landscape of the historic center of the city.
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The proposal consists of a longitudinal volume that takes advantage of the location proposed by Rem Koolhaas for its Cordoba Congress Center project. It establishes a relationship with the peninsula as a retaining wall of the urban fabric from the Miraflores peninsula. The set proposed acts as a receiver of the traffic that accesses the peninsula through the bridge of the north, elevating said passage and allowing the development of a freer public use than the one that could be previously developed in the area, crossing the building through the first floor.
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This is how the greatness and impact of the building proposed by Koolhaas take over the context, detaching itself from it to reinvent it while enriching it: the city of Cรณrdoba does not need another new operation that adds to the others, but a forceful volume that revitalizes it, extolling its intrinsic beauty.
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Given these objectives and, lacking the site of the requirements by which Koolhaas could develop its proposal decides to propose a new location. Located slightly to the north, the theatrical stall from which the architect’s building will represent its function before the beautiful city of Córdoba.
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HOUSE 1
HOUSE 2
Area: Type: 35 m2 (21 m2 + 14 m2) - Terrace: 12 m2 (4 m x 3 m)
Area: Type 2: 53 m2 (31,5 m2 + 21,5 m2) - Terrace: 18 m2 (4 m x 4,50 m)
Small Familly Student Housing - 1 bedroom - 1 bathroom
Small Family - 2 bedrooms - 1 bathroom
FORMAS DE HABITAR:
JÁNDULA - CÓRDOBA
P5_UD TUÑÓN // VICTOR FDEZ GIL 16628
HOUSE 3 Area: Type 3: 71 m2 (42 m2 + 29 m2) - Terrace: 24 m2 (4 m x 6 m) Standard Family Student Housing - 2 bedrooms - 2 bathrooms
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SUMMER HOUSING IN ALMERIA, SPAIN Professor: Jose Antonio Ramos Subject: Housing, Urban Planning, Construction Location: Carboneras, Almeria (Spain)
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The Cabo de Gata has been chosen, in AlmerĂa. Specifically, the town of Carboneras and its environment, variable, in addition to its enclave on the Mediterranean coast, for being a productive town, which is the agricultural field, a desalination water treatment plant, a thermal power plant and a cement plant. It has also suffered tourist problems of great impact. Three options of choice are raised about it: residential performances in the agricultural zone, integrated with the population or
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productive zone. As well as others, they consider how alternative experiments to tourism.
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Work on the habitat of rest, vacation, retirement, shelter... an alternative to everyday life, where nature brings its best qualities, causing two fundamental movements, contraction and expansion. The intimate resistance next to the opening of the world and the objective reality that transcends it. These two opposing movements occur in contemplation and their place is withdrawal.
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THE CONTINENTAL WAVE, DETROIT Professor: Dirk Denison, Julie Bargmann (D.I.R.T Studio) - Spring 2020 Subject: Landscape, Community Development, Urban strategy Location: Detroit, Michigan
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mographic, social, and economic situation that Detroit has gone
great decrease in the density of the population in the most central city. Being the former world leader in the development of the
he main factories in North America. We will focus on the ancient
actory, near the current Chrysler plant, on the northeast side of
as a major supplier of aircraft engines during World War II to the this, they tried to join the production of cars without any success,
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arried out by Philip Kafka, a great promoter of the current Detroit,
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lant. Thanks to him, it has been possible to plan rehabilitation to use it as a social promoter and attract people again. For this
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In turn, the proposal arises as a continuation of the previous
ester, where a system was looked for to promote the place, in
se by developing a community that sought self-sufficiency and
moted a neighborhood movement that encouraged people to move nearby. of the place.
he pavilion itself follows the mechanics of the stretched fabric
uctures created by the ETH in Zurich. Thin shell structure to be
nstructed using a prestressed, cable-net, and fabric formwork. shell has a concrete thickness varying between 3 and 30 cm, cm on average, features spans in the range of 6-9 m, and is
ed on two ‘touch-down’ points with free edges along its entire
meter. The shell is built up as a sandwich composite consisting
of ferrocement or textile-reinforced concrete faces, and a rigid polyurethane (PU) core.
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Landscape Intervention: The landscape intervention here has a determining role since it tries to give unity to the place. Tried to make as little intervention as possible and let it be her, nature, the one that reigns over this place. In this way, the only intervention that would be carried out would be the water line that surrounds the site. Like the Muslim culture, the water serves to guide us through the place, either by water channels or by its sound. For this reason, this water line that takes advantage of the cracks in the ground gave us the support for the different interventions in the place, in addition to helping to drain the water that can reach the plot.
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THE CONTINENTAL, DETROIT Team: Paloma Gรณmez, Marta del Pozo & Victor Fernandez Professor: Dirk Denison, Philip Kafka (Prince Concepts) - Fall 2019 Subject: Reform, Community Development, Urban strategy Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Located in the former Continental Motors factory in Detroit, the rehabilitation and revitalization of this abandoned area of the city are proposed. Located next to the current Chrysler factory, it is a privileged location due to its proximity to the most prosperous areas of the city. The intervention aims to be as simple and progressive as possible. The main idea is to create a community based on cooperative and sustainability, starting with an annual festival that aims to be the main source of income for the community and thus be able to grow.
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GREENHOUSE USES
Storage . Reading Area . Wood . Workshop . Restaurant . Recording Studio . Greenhouse . Conferrence . Lounge . Grocery . Office . Amazon Lockers . Bookshop . Clothing manufacture
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- Made by grid of 10ʼ and diferent width - Diferent materials Opaque Tanslucid Transparent
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20ʼ x 40ʼ x 17ʼ- 6ʻʼ
Model B + B’ 10ʼ x 40ʼ x 15ʼ 10ʼ x 20ʼ x 15ʼ
Model C
20ʼ x 20ʼ x 17ʻ- 6ʼʼ
Model D
12ʼ- 1ʻʼ x 20ʼ x 17ʻ- 6ʼʻʼ
Model E
12ʼ- 1ʻʼ x 20ʼ x 20ʼ
Model F
12ʼ- 1ʻ x 10ʼ x 17ʼ- 6ʼʼ
Model G
12ʼ- 1ʼʼ x 30ʼ x 20ʼ
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temporal markets or whatever the
community wants. This residentia works as the principal entrance when there is no event, while the greenhouse covers the main entrance for a big amount of people. 24 Victor Fernandez Gil
With the least intervention of permanent architecture, two external elements would be created that delimit a central space as an agora. These elements would house the residence and the initial greenhouse and workshop spaces. Once capital allows evolving permanent exhibition and coworking spaces would be created
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_NEW PROPOSAL FOR GOVERNOR’S PALACE Professor: Alberto Morell, Eduardo Gómez, José Jaraiz Subject: Housing, Monumental, Gobernament Complex Location: Chandigarh, India From 1951, Le Corbusier was asked to create the city of Chandigarh from scratch, culminating his work with the realization of the Capitol. In this way, it is related to India, a relationship that will allow him to conceive and make monumental images and make the city, especially in the case of Chandigarh, a laboratory of formal experimentation that is, at the same time, a theorical and political discourse. The design of the building recalls a version of the convent of La Tourette, whose patio would have been filled, or also a dilapidated Villa Savoye, by the disposition on the periphery of the bodies of the building.
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The proposal consists of the creation of the building in the image of the great palaces of northern India. In the same way as Fatehpur Sikri, the intention is to take a tour of the palace through “patios” looking for the creation of filters that will give that sense of privacy necessary. This project is based on the arabic form of creating palaces such as the Alhambra of Granada. The area to the north, has one of the largest courtyards, designed to accommodate the receptions and banquets that the governor needs to celebrate. At the end of the route, again to the south, the- re are the dependencies of the governor, next to two of the apart- ments available for guests. From the open spaces you can see the various gardens that offer great luminosity and privatize the rooms to the governor’s chambers.
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_ADVANCED MODELING Professor: Alphonso Peluso Code: ARCH 436 Illinois Institute of Technology VVVContent: Grasshopper, Kangaroo, Karamba3D, DIVA, UMI, Biomorpher... The purpose of this course focuses on the 3D modeling of complex geometric patterns that can be introduced into the architecture design. The resulting different forms will help us to be able to imagine new spaces, sculptural objects or any type of solution of any scale that is desired, understanding the difference between the virtual and the physical. The various models cover from parametric design, Generative Design, Responsive Modeling and Form Finding. Through these new computer-assisted methods, we can define specific parameters of the final product, solve their efforts, even define the qualities of the final product. It is about expanding our acquired skills and applying them in different models, applying research and experimentation. It’s about exploring these new tools to reach the design limit. To exploit the structures to their limits, reduce thicknesses and reduce construction costs. The purpose of this is to create a proper way to apply the software tools and concepts discussed in the course. In addition, the physical creation of real 3D models is joined through the use of 3D printers, through FDM filament or powder printing.
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_BASICS OF ENERGY SIMULATION FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Professor: Peng Du Code: ARCH 421 Illinois Institute of Technology
ARCH 421 - Simulation for Building Performance and Urban Sustainability
High Density and High Performance Residential Community Energy Simulation Professor: Peng Du Team: Marta del Pozo, Paloma Gomez, Ander Giner & Victor Fernandez
In a world with a population that grows exponentially, we can not afford to allow our cities to expand hori- zontally. Plainly, a time would come when there would be no space for farming, green areas or more hou- sing. Therefore, the only solution is to grow vertically. High rise cities are the future of humankind. This project s purpose is to prove that high rise cons- tructions are more energy efficient and sustainable than the common horizontal cities. Here, we will con- duct a process to find the most energy efficient combi- nation of shapes, orientations and qualities for each building. It is important to highlight the 4 most important factors when designing a modern city: buildings efficiency, geometry of the building, orientation towards the sun and building colocation.Thi slittle changes will influe- ce the amount of energy produced for the city, the temperature on the streets and the amount of sun ab- sorbed by the buildings.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) how they would design a city of the future (National Geographic)
In this project, which is merely theoretical, the performance of the buildings is not real. We have modified the templates to get the best results, but it is possible that the conditioning equipment we require is nor real, nor anyone fabricates them. As a result, the consumption of our buildings is very low. That collides with the fact that the solar panels located on the buildings roofs generate way more energy than consumed. In other words: our buildings generate more energy than they consume. Because of that, there is no need to add any other eco friendly technologies to obtain energy. 30 Victor Fernandez Gil
As an overall conclusion, buildings performance can be affected by its composition, materials and structure, position, geometry and orientation. Their consumption is also bound to their environment. A short building surrounded by bigger ones receives no solar energy, therefore needs more energy to compensate for that lack of natural heat. Also, the solar panels on its roof might not get as much radiation as if they were located on the highest roof or in open space. High rise buildings are more effective when it comes to energy consumption, and also they occupy less space than a horizontal city, so the remaining ground can be used for agriculture, green areas, solar farms... Summarizing, high rise cities are the future of humankind.
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Chicago, IL +1 (773) 491 9882 victorfernandezgil1@gmail.com vfernandezgil@hawk.iit.edu