William Maya Professional Portfolio
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“La Calera” House. Instructor: Fernando de la Carrera Date: Spring 2013
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Learning and playing within the void space. Instructor: Emmanuel Admassu Date: Summer 2016
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Intervening the modern avenue through the “Caja de crédito agrario” building. Instructor: Lorenzo Castro, Camilo Isaak Date: Fall 2014
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Tying up the courtyard: A housing project on 57th street
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LAB-LAX workshop. Instructor: Claudio Rossi Date: Summer 2014
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Centro CĂvico Universitario. Internship El Equipo Mazzanti Date: Spring 2016
Instructor: Leonardo Ă lvarez, Carolina Blanco. Date: Fall 2015
“La Calera” house.
Universidad de los Andes. Instructor: Fernando de la Carrera
‘La Calera’ House is a single family house located in the urban area of La Calera in the outskirts of Bogota. This house tries to think over the way humans relate to nature. Most of the house is common-shared open spaces and green roofs. It wants to act as a medium in the relationship of nature and the human being, protecting people from the harms of nature, letting them enjoy and discover it.
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Learning and playing within the void space.
GSAPP. Columbia University in the City of New York
Instructor: Emanuel Admassu. TA: Britt Johnson At “Intro to Architecture” summer course we studied urban anomalies around the city of New York. For the site we choose, we studied about the rock formations. By creating an analytical drawing, we approached and learned to read the site identifying specific ‘Urban Elements’. I worked around Urban Voids and the levels of Infestation of the site while proposing a daycare to attend to the social problematics of Washington Heights, a place for kids with social problematics to play and learn about nature, the rocks and the history of New York itself.
Analytical Drawings Every layer of information noted a specific aspect of the site, such as density of vegetation, levels of infestation, materiality, and slope. By crossing the various layers you could differentiate types of voids which repeats over the site. The architectural actions were different on every type of urban void, whatever it was to touch the site, look at it or stand over it. The building came by crossing the needs of the daycare with the characteristics of every void.
Kids directly interacting with the rock. The best place to play and interact with nature.
Looking and learning about the site. The best place to learn and meet the physical needs of the daycare.
The nature as the place to meet and interact with other humans, The soft floor to safety play, run, jump and fall.
A place to sleep and occasionally look outside.
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Intervening the modern avenue through the “Caja de crédito agrario” building. Universidad de los Andes
Instructor: Lorenzo Castro and Camilo Isaak Project team: Iván Lizcano, Andrea Gómez As a special occasion in this studio, every group of three had to work with the same historical building the whole semester. Every week we had to intervene the building based in a specific architectural element (window, door, garden, first floor, stairs roof), and design something out of it. This can be seen as a whole single project, or as a series of 8 different project approaches. Every spread shows the iteration that was made that week and the architectural results that came with it.
Intervene the door.
The main idea of this iteration was to look the door as threshold or “umbral” as the word in Spanish means; umbral as that poem tries to unfold, there are many shades than La claridad se agota sobre los pavimentos. Poco a poco se just being inside or outside. The idea of the in-between, and what differentiates being nos van las palabras, se elevan por encima de la línea de outside from being inside. What is this but a concept? What really determines if we are sombras que hay sobre nosotros […] Un corazón que late outside or inside of a building? Is it just the physical inability to enter a space, or can we be inside a building without even entering said building? vertical en el suelo, dispuesto a envejecer.” -Basilio Sánchez
Drawings showing the thinking process of the project
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Estructura en Concreto color marfíl Control de Maniobra
Perfil metalico I 0.40 x 0.40 m
Interruptor de fin de Carrera
Refuerzo en X. Perfil 0.20x0.15m
Motor con regulador de Velocidad
Refuerzo en X. Perfil 0.20x0.15m
Carriles guía del Contrapeso Contrapeso
Acabado de madera maciza en Altorrelieve. Anclado a la estructura metálica
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Estructura metálica de reforzamiento. Carriles de Guia Riel
Renderings of the building
Intervene the stair
oxidation caused by time, forming a ribbon, as solid as a sculpture unwrapping to the sky and landing on every floor of the building, moving with it, dancing with it. Climbing Hidden between two solid walls, the first step takes form besides it one can fully understand the landscape, reaching finally to the world above us, and takes us away from the soil to begin the ascent to the the roof, looking the world from 11 stories high, and meditating over the dance we just world above us. Above it, the second movement, the second took. This is the path of the stair we propose. segment of the path, similar yet different to the one before. The last piece, light surges and on the surfaces appears the
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Intervene the bridge The bridge acts as a connector of two very similar yet different buildings. The bridge consist of two pieces, each one an extension of the building it comes from and with some structural reinforcement to the cores, it can fully support tensors that connect the two buildings.
Drawings showing the thinking process of the project
Main sections Madera Teca Dimensiones 0.16 x 0.9 m
Prefabricado en Concreto Cables tensados para anclar los prefabricados en concreto. Platina de Soporte
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Perspective form the bridge 1
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Intervene the 3.5 meter section
landscape and the building. The new piece was set as the link between the unconnected landscapes and the building. A new way of occupying the piece by forcing the people to Deconstructing as a way of understanding how the whole look out to the landscape. object works, taking the object piece by piece and intervening them to change the piece as a whole. By selecting a section of 3.5, taking it out, changing the piece and putting it back together we could fully understood the relation between the
Drawings showing the thinking process of the project
View inside the 3.5m section
Exploded axon showing the modified parts
View inside the building
Exploded axon showing the original parts
Exterior view of the building
Intervene the garden The key of this interaction was understanding the difference between a garden and a park. We understood the garden as a place of meditation, a place where the human and the nature are apart and not physically touching, a place where the human can contemplate the nature; the difference of human and divinity – divinity as something outside of man, immortal-. Which building is most useless and contemplative than a ruin? The ruin has lost the inherent
Drawings showing the thinking process of the project
function of architecture which is to protect men from the outdoors; it has lost its human condition submitted by nature. The ruins have lost its humanity to become a deity. According to this, this project can be understood in two phases, the first one, a mineral garden; the ground level representing the earth and the human place, where the body and oneself can be contemplated; we begin the ascent to divinity. The stairs are the link between two, some concrete rational stairs –human and rational- consumed by plants and vegetation – divine nature-. The second part, the roof and last floor, a natural garden. The ruins of what the building was, consumed by nature. Like Piranesi designed his ruins, we designed the opportunities for nature to grow, we designed a way where ruins could surface.
Last floor plan. Natural garden
Main facade Perspective showing the top floor. Natrual garden.
First floor. Mineral and water garden
Image showing the transparency of the facade
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Intervene the building For this Project we decided to look at the future of the city; there is going to be a lot of high rise building in the same area our building is located. The 10th street, the 5th avenue in Bogotá, or the most important planned street in Bogota was supposed to be one to be compared with all metropolis cities, instead it died and it never got to fully develop. What we aim to do in this intervention is through
a high rise development, try to dignify the street and give it the building it never got. To fully intervene the building we had to look at three key aspects of the building, its “feet”, its “body” and its “head”. The feet are the place where the building directly intervenes with the city and urban life, by proposing a smooth transition between the building and the street we can guarantee to revive the long forgotten street. By working on the body of the building, we propose a multi-use building, where office, retail and housing spaces can all coexist, making the building active all day long. Lastly by intervening the head of the building, we can give the city a private, open space, where the whole city can go and reconnect with the most important landscape piece f the city, the western mountains.
Public terrace Housing Public realm Office Hotel Public realm Museum
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Work exhibition
As the final exercise, we had to intervene the space where we were going to show the work of the whole semester. To give a new “light” to the 10th street where all building Exhibition curators: William Maya, Sebastián Castiblanco, are located, each project turned on a light for the street. Along with a model showing all the final designs for each building we can hope for a better city through architecture as Felipe Santamaria the mean to fully intervene and transform the space where we live. Exhibit conceptualization: William Maya, Ivan Lizcano Exhibit collaborators: Juan Mendoza, Felipe Santamaria, Andrés Palacios
Tying up the courtyard: A housing project on 57th street. Universidad de los Andes
Instructors: Leonardo Álarez and Carolina Blanco Undergraduate thesis project. The idea of this project was to think about the effects of the insertion of a highly, intrusive, massive, transportation system as the metro over a highly constituted neighborhood as it is Chapinero, in Bogota. This project was looking to reflect over the way the city has been consolidated and propose a new way to group housing units around a shared common space, and the consequences and benefits this could bring. I looked especially the example of Le Corbusier’s ‘unite d’habitation’, and different examples of grouping habitats and creating a sense of community, which was lost in this neighborhood and was the main reason why it was so devastated.
Boundaries: Searching for a design process Main premises: The movement and flux of activities surrounding the site should be exploited inside the project, moreover if necessary, the project should create new movement and activities from within the architectural actions.
Housing 60.6% Retail 17.4% Services 12.2% Industrial 4% Equipamientos 4%
Public space as the main idea of the project. Surrounding public space should be understood and utilized as a fundamental item to be integrated in the project.
Identigying old continuities (Public realm)
Creating new continuities (Private realm)
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Grouping of houses around a courtyard
Grouping of houses around a courtyard
Axonometría del módulo en altura.
Diferent kind distributions Vivienda tipoof 2.residential Módulo simple de vivienda. Escala 1:100 Vivienda tipo 2. Módulo simp Vivienda tipo 1. Casa sobre casa. Escala 1:100
Vivienda tipo 1. Casa sobre casa. Escala 1:100 Vivienda tipo 3. Módulo doble de vivienda. Escala 1:100 Vivienda tipo 3. Módulo doble Vivienda tipo 2. Módulo simple de vivienda. Escala 1:100
Vivienda tipo 2. Módulo simple de vivienda. Escala 1:100 Vivienda tipo 3. Módulo doble de vivienda. Escala 1:100
Vivienda tipo 3. Módulo doble de vivienda. Escala 1:100
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LAB-LAX workshop. Universidad de los Andes, Southern California Institute of Architecture. Instructors: Claudio Rossi
LAB-LAX was a study travel and summer workshop in Southern California. We went to the Los Angeles area to firsthand experience the post-modern and contemporary architecture that the city offers.
LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO 19 al 29 de Agosto de 2014 salรณn de exposiciones dep. de arquitectura
Exercise 1 Analog model: As a mean to re-discover the city, we proposed analytical to explore urban anomalies. Then using google earth and grasshopper we mapped those anomalities to extract new kind of information.
Exercise 2 Golden Gate Park : While visiting San Francisco, each pair was given an unique and singular activity. We have to propose a retirement site for that specific person. We had a surfer.
Exercise 3 Table exploration: For this exercise, we participated in a competition to digitally design a table for an architect.
ARCHITECT’S TABLE BY: WILLIAM MAYA
Work Exposition:
internship
Centro cívico universitario
El Equipo Mazzanti.
Project team: Giancarlo Mazzanti, Eugenia Concha, Iván Samaniego, Juana Salcedo Input: architectural design, execution of plans and sections, 3D modeling, post production, diagram execution. In 2016, “La Universidad de Los Andes” called for a closed competition to develop its next building, according to its campus development plan as well for the well-being of its students. The main idea of this project was to develop a building which adapted to the complex topography of the site creating a chain of green and open spaces integrating the urban life surrounding it and the day to day activities of the campus. Also, create a platform in which the city could extend “invading” the campus and creating a fully open space where people living in the surrounding neighbourhoods could use even when the campus is closed. As an intern, my main task was to support the project in all its stages, from the architectural development to the execution of architectural drawings, models, and post production.
The project joins the main paths of the city from eastwest and forms the urban paths towards the main plaza proposed, the context, the partial plan “ Triangulo de Fenicia” connecting the neighborhood “Las Aguas” and both universities north - south
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The platform articulates the programmatic needs of with the whole population. All the urban activities such as the theatre, retail, library and the university with the creation which its main purpose is the university itself make the urban space something full of life and human activity 24/7, the extension of the public realm. Being this the main space promoting the public use of this space even when the campus is closed. in wich the people can enjoy outdoor activities, sharing it
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Platform showing the occupation by the near communities and the theater
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SALIDA DE EMERGENCIA ACCESIBILIDAD
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ESQUEMA DE CIRCULACIONES VERTICALES
Axon of the main classrooms