Portfolio AMCO 2015

Alejandro Martínez del Campo OviedoCivil Engineer & Master in advanced architecture at IaaC

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Alejandro Martínez del Campo OviedoCivil Engineer & Master in advanced architecture at IAAC 2013-15

Introduction

The projects and works presented in these Portfolio are a mixture of some of the most de-manding projects that I did while studying my bachelor degree in Civil Engineering at Uni-versidad Iberoamericana back in Mexico City, during my working experience at GAP In-mobiliaria also in México City and my Masters in Advanced Architecture at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia, to show and demonstrate that I am able to plan, design, create, innovate and carry out projects that ensure economic, social and environmental ben-efits for today’s society, and a better way of living to their future customers or users.

2015


Sample of works PORTFOLIO 2015Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

- From January 2015 to date. Assistant tutor at IaaC in Data Informed Structures and Light-weight Structures seminars.

- Summer of 2014. IDOM México (Proyect Management). Assistant manager of 2 Bio-ethanol plants.

- From August of 2012 to August 2013. GAP (Grupo de Administración y Promoción Inmobiliaria, Mexico City).

Development City Towers II Coyoacán (Construction supervisor). Housing Nacional Award México 2014. http://www.citycoyoacan2.com/

Development Grand Tower del Valle (New projects Costs and Budget Area Assistant Manager).

- Summer of 2012, two months. Math teacher at Las Trancas comunity in Guanajuato, Mexico. (Social Service program of Universidad Iberoamericana).

- From January of 2011 to January of 2012. Estrattego Soluciones S.A de C.V.

Company engaged in environmental consulting and raising capital for sustainable projects . through various financial sources. www.estrettego.com

- Summer of 2010. Especialistas Ambientales S.A. de C.V.

Company engaged in environmental consulting (Environmental feasibility studies for . . construction companies and factories all around the country). www.esam.com.mx

Contact Information:

[email protected] Day of birth: 24 of April of 1989

Mobile: +34-634-972-563Home: +34-936-675-330

Academic Achievements - October 2013 to date. MAA_02 Master in advanced architecture at IAAC (Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia) and specialized in Self-sufficient Buildings.

- August of 2008 to December of 2012. Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering at the Universidad Iberoamericana campus Ciudad de México. Specialized in edification & seismic analysis.

- August of 2005 to July of 2008. High school studies at Colegio Vista Hermosa in Mexico City.

- August of 2002 to July of 2005. Middle school studies at Colegio Vista Hermosa in Mexico City.

Languages

- Advanced Spanish and English (speaking, listening, writing and Reading).

- French in a lower stage (speaking and Reading).

Software & Programs

- Design & modeling. Rhinoceros with Grasshopper and AutoDesk Programs (Maya, Ecotect, Auto-CAD, CivilCAD, Civil CAD 3D).

- Presentations. Power Point, Adobe Ilustrator, Photoshop & InDesign.

- Structural Analysis. Robot (Autodesk) and Karamba/Grasshopper plug-in.

Publications and exhibitions

- PYTO SENSE Façade. Paisaje Arquitectura, May 2014.

- Fab10 Barcelona (FABLAB annual event). DHUB Barcelona Museum, collaborator and work exhib-itor. Work exhibited: Tensegrity Lego, lightweight structure designed for Santiago de Compostela. July 2014.

- IaaC Winner Proposal, Barcelona City Hall architecture Torre Baró competition 2015. http://eldigital.bcn.cat/es/my-new-post-10791_149557.html video of proposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jf-cV5bLO_g

- IaaC Pavilion Light festival LLUM BCN 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5MzRpWJTg-g&feature=share


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Projects made during my Masters in Advanced Architecture at IaaC

Introduction to MAA_02 projects

The projects presented in this section are a brief graphic sample of what the complete one´s are, all projects are published at www.iaacblog.com.

All along the development of each one of these proyects I tried to learn the most from the architectonic point of view, but never leaving apart my engi-neering approach, but rather apply my knowledge of structures into them.

Nowadays I´m working on my Master thesis in order to finish the program by the end of June of 2015. The thesis is called “A sustainable Cement Industry. Reducing the environmental impact of the factories by applying design pa-rameters and tools.” and its about designing a Cement Manufacturing factory which reduces significantly the impact on the environment and improves its aesthetic, by creating a program which follows settled [technical & design] pa-rameters.

Energy Machines. Windmill wall made from Bio resins

Designing slope & palesTo protect, cover and increase the wind speed to the turbines, pales were added. The pales have two main aims; one is to direct the wind towards the turbine, and second is to accelerate the wind speed. The twisting design of the pales helps in achieving the objective and also creates a Venturi effect. The pales are shaped as NACA foils, so they reduce the turbulence inside the slope.

Protection for cropsA wall protects a plantation from the strong wind from the north, and allows the sun to reach the plants from the south. The small plants are placed near the structure, because they need more shelter from the wind

Wall production of energyThe wall produces energy through wind turbines and feeds the plantation with water. The wall also collects rainwater into a tank, which is connected to the grey water from Valldaura.

Master in advanced architecture [MAA_02] at IaaC projects



Site Valldaura (IaaC´s ecologic Campus)The structure is a new wall merging into the environment of Valldaura. The house of Valldaura is supported by retaining walls made out of local bricks. When the road was made to Valldau-ra, natural stone was exposed. The new wall component is the juxtaposition between the stone wall and manmade tile wall.

Other sites proposalsThe wall can be used to turn harsh areas into possible areas for plantation by creating a micro climate. The example shown is from a windy dessert.

ONE MODULE Technical Data

Weight: 12kgDimensions 750x1200x900mmNumber ofturbines: 4

Construction materials: Wood [MDF] Hemp fibers Organic Resin

Rated power output: 12voltsProduct life: 10yearsWind speed needed: 5m/sGenerators: 4x6 volts

Water tank capacity: 65liters

Battery: 6volts

Pump: 6 - 9volts Range 3.5m

Cost: Buying materials 350euros Growing materials 262euros

1.- Slope directing the wind2.- Pales directing the wind3.- Turbines4.- Construction frame5.- Dynamo/generatior6.- Tank for compost7.- Water collection tank8.- Electronics

Master in advanced architecture [MAA_02] at IaaC projects


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The ATMO prototype: Torre Baró Self-sufficient House competition between IaaC second year of masters [MAA_02] students.

This project was a competition organized by the City Hall of Barcelona, in which the best 6 architecture universities of Barcelona would propose a design for a self sufficient house in the neighborhood of Torre Baró, located in the outlines of Barcelona, in order to push the develop-ment of this area.

This first project stage here explained was an internal competition within the students of the second year of the master programm at IaaC, in order to choose a design and a team that further on would design IaaC´s official proposal for the City Hall.

Along the development of this proyect I was in charge of the structural design [structure made out of scaffolding tubes and analysed with Robot AutoDesk software] of the house, its skin expansion [according to seasons] and all the applied systems to make of this proposal a self-sufficient house [implementation of solar panels according to solar analysis, collection of water through the tubes and design of thermal mass slabs to maintain the temperature on the different living areas around the year].

Winter behavior Summer behavior

Expandable skin & slabs system Thermal-mass system on slabs



Technical data of analysis

Until now there is no scaffolding based structures regulation for housing in Spain, because of this, all elements implemented in the design of the structure were obtained from LAYHERS Technical brochure, accomplishing with this a real & feasible structure proposal.

Applying their real steel stiffness, cross sections & element lenghts, in addition to joinery and connections of an “allaround scaffolding connec-tion system”.

The analysis even though the architectural school didn´t ask for it, was made for live and dead loads, air loads and additional loads from water collection and thermalmass heating systems, ending with the foundation for each tubular column connected to the terrain.



Self-sufficient house in Torre Baró competition. IaaC´s official pro-posal to the City Hall of Barcelona.

After submitting the first stage of the competition within the students of the second year masters in IaaC, the university asked us to develope it´s official proposal under the tutorial of IaaC´s faculty, Javier Peña and Silvia Brandi.

This project is a further development of the previous design, but applying a few changes to it: This proposal involved the addition of a second site, in which we designed an Eco-Park with urban agriculture plantations [to enhance this activity inside the neighborhood], social areas created by Catalan vaults & water irrigation systems.

Along the development of this proyect I was in charge of the structural design again [struc-ture made out of wood columns & beams and analysed with Robot AutoDesk software] of the house, in this proposal there´s no longer expansion so I focused on the movement of the solar panels throughout the year to get as much radiation as posible, the collection of water through the tubes and design of thermal mass slabs to maintain the temperature on the different living areas around the year]. As well as intervening in all stages of design and production of the 1:50 model.

Site 1. Eco Park

Windy area for windmill

Shaded and less accessible

Public space area [flat & shaded]

Sunny & terraced area

Mid-sun & terraced area



Windy area for windmill

Shaded and less accessible

Public space area [flat & shaded]

Sunny & terraced area

Mid-sun & terraced area

Site 2. Self-sufficient



Tensile Waving Staircase. Experimental Structures Analysis Seminar (Karamba, structural analysis Grasshopper plug-in)

During this Seminar I was able to learn how to use Karamba as a design tool by applying all the technical and structural result into a final [not final because theres always opportunity of im-proving the design of our structures], and to analyse from beam to shell structures, applying them to unusual geometries and studycases.

As a final proyect for this seminar a Staircase had to be designed appling the information ob-tained from the structural analysis into a 1m3 phisical model.

In my case I designed a Tensile Waving Staircase, which aims to reduce the amount of ele-ments needed to make it stable by using the rotation motion activated while the step load is applied. The elements at each step of the stairs become the counterstep on the other side of it, rotating upon a the central spine where a tube is placed, and tied down by tensile cables in the oposite side of where the load is acting. This cables work in tension as the element tries to rotate on the main spine to keep the elements in place and redistributing the stress lines to the spine and cables and landing them the floor.



The Tensegrity Lego. Tensile Lightweight Structures[Exhibited at DHUB Museum Barcelona during FAB10. Summer 2014]

The tensegrity lego is the result of one of the seminars during the first year of the masters called Lightweight Structures, in which after learning how to use Karamba (Grasshopper plug-in for structural analysis) I implemented all the structural knowledge into this 1:1 pavilion designed for the “Camino a Santiago de Compostella” in spain.

Its a structure built on wood and a non-deformable textile, in which the design of the component shape, helped by four tensors on each angle (behind the textile), make the comonent to be stable enough, so that when creating the final shape, the weight of each component helps the structure to be stable enough to let several kids play on it and get some shade/rest from the kilometric daily walks.



PHYTO SENSE Interactive green façade. Physical Computing using Ardui-no micro processor

The “Arduitecture” façade system is an interactive green facade that uses swept frequency capacitive sensing to play with light depending on touch. An array of plants selected by their texture lets the user interact and be in “touch” with them by fading light to the plants being touched.

Built on a reused pallet, Phyto Sense is comprised of 12 planters fastened to the back of the pallet, al-lowing plants to grow through the exposed gaps. A copper plate lines the inside of each planter and is attached to a swept frequency capacitive sensor (SFCS). Four SFCS sensors control the four quarters of the pallet and each quarter has 3 rows of plants. Each sensor allows the user to control a quarter independently a LED strip fades to red whenever one of its plants is touched. The whole prototype is controlled by one Arduino Mega. When the plants are touched an increase in the sensor value is sent to the arduino. Depending on which quadrant is touched, addressable LEDs gradually fade from green to red. The absence of touch returns the LEDs to their previous color. The SFCS technology has the potential to detect many changes in capacity and can sense a variety of gestures when using a single vessel. Plant sense uses a variety of local plants and their ability to measure capacitance differs depending on various factors, such as leaf length, water retention, and soil moisture. The many and different values led us to simplify the interaction.



Other projects using machines such as milling machines, 3D printers and laser cutters. Digital Fabrication and Digital Tools Seminars

During the masters in advanced architecture at IaaC, we have access to all the machines in the FA-BLab and are enhenced to learn how to use them.

All Digital fabrication proyects done with laser cutters, milling machines and 3D printers are sup-ported and designed on Rhino 5 + Grasshopper. This are some of the proyects done with these machines.


Sample of works PORTFOLIO 2015Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering at Universidad Iberoamericana projects

Projects made during my Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering

Please note that the degree in Civil Engineering doesn´t encourage their students to excel in an architectural design or aesthetical way, but it en-courage us to design projects in the most efficient, secure and econom-ically profitable way, in addition to solving, planning and constructive or structural projects. The projects presented in these section are a brief graphic sample of what the complete projects are, so if by any reason you need them, please don´t hesitate and ask me to send them to you by any means.

1.25 km Highway (real proyect)

This Project was made during a whole semester, in which at first we learned the basic theory and the regulations that govern the highway design in Mexico, then 1.25km of the complete project were entrusted for us to do the engineering design of it and the mass curve of the earthworks that were needed.

Super-elevation diagrams in overlaping curves.

Earth works needed and excava-tions along the highway.

Blueprints of 1.25km of designed highway without using softwares but AutoCAD. To prove students knew how to design a Highway



Development project of 70 acres of housing, commerce and industry in Huehuetoca, México City.

This was the last project I made during my bachelor degree program and served as a thesis to complete my studies. It was made during the last semester and suffered a lot of changes during the whole process.The objective of this project was to create something new from a previously unstudied terrain, in which I needed to propose a mixture between housing development, trade and industry, which had to be profitable for potential shareholders, in addition to satisfy the needs of future customers and improve their living standards.This is the land in which I had to make the new development.

To achieve excel at this project I worked throw a huge list of studies and stages, which made the final project a profitable and viable development. - Similar developments and competition in the town of Huehuetoca.- Interviews with potential buyers/customers.- Market research.- Field data and ground studies.- Infrastructure and resources.- Financial evaluation.- Business model.- Engineering and regulatory framework.- Risks study.- Final project.

At first I proposed a development in which real estate would be the main business, and I gave the 80% of the land to it. Letting industry a 15% and trade a 5%. This is the first layout proposed.

After one of the weekly presentations my thesis assessor told me that the cost of the land needed to be of 1000 pesos (100dollars) by m2, this made my financial numbers to stop being profitable so I had to look for another solution to make the project viable. So I increased the percentage of industry to 70% proposing 55 warehouses of 5000m2, but it wasn´t the best solution, because now the problem was to sell or rent all of the according to the financial projection.



So once again I needed to change the project and adjust the layout and the financial and market num-bers to make it profitable, so I proposed less warehouses with more road percentage which made easier the logistics of the distribution center and the project more profitable.

At this final layout you can see that each one of the different business areas had everything to make the project profitable. The real estate business consisted of 1400 houses of 60-100m2 of construction, with more green areas than the one´s requested by the law and with an elementary and middle schools inside the devel-opment in addition to an area of amenities which included sports fields, playground and kinder gardens. The IRR was of 1.98% because of the high cost of the land.The trade business was a small mall consisted of one anchor store like Wal-Mart, which is the one that would bring the people to it and some small businesses complemented by a fast food area. The IRR was of 10.91% and I concluded that the cost of the land makes very business difficult to establish in that area. And finally the industrial business consisted of 29 warehouses of 7000m2 which would be built de-pending on the sales, so that the project could finance itself. The IRR was of 16.57%.


Sample of works PORTFOLIO 2015Working experience as a Assitant tutor at IaaC in Data Informed Structures Seminar

Assistant Tutor in Data Informed Structures seminar at IaaC.

The following images are some of the outcome results from the seminar & workshop of Data In-formed structures given by Manja Van de Worp [Structural engineer] and assisted by me.

The goal of this seminar is to introduce the students of the first year of the masters to get involved with structural analysis in this case by using Karamba software [Grasshopper plug-in for structural analysis], and apply what the program is teaching them to make their architectonic projects more efficient and understanding the structural behavior behind them.

The work shown in this page is the work from the students under my assitance, not mine.


Sample of works PORTFOLIO 2015Working experience at GAP Inmobiliaria in Mexico City

City Towers Coyoacán II

This project is already built and won the 2014 housing award in México City with more that 320 apartments, so these are the only blueprints or images that I can use for personal applications. At this project I was a on-site supervisor for 4 months until they asked me to become the Assistant Manager of the Costs and Budget area of the new development.



Project 2: City Towers Coyoacán IV

The budget was finished before I came to Barcelona and today this project has been under construc-tion for 17 months. As in all developments, the architectonic project is subject to changes, so because of that I was allowed to show you some of the now changed blueprints with which I worked doing quantifications and providing ideas to the architectural project. This project has 465 apartments, 21 different prototypes which go from 60 to 120m2, two amenities areas (swimming pools, cinema, an event´s saloon, business center, kinder garden, games saloon, convenience store and garden with playground) and about 950 parking lot spaces.

Working experience at GAP Inmobiliaria in Mexico City


Sample of works PORTFOLIO 2015Drawing´s made before my profesional studies

Hobby drawings made during my spare time

These drawings were made during my spare time before my professional studies, I show them because they are part of who I am and because they helped me decide what I wanted to become as I grew up.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION!

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