DIEGO LUZURIAGA c/ Canet 2, 2º-2ª 08017 Barcelona Spain 0034 / 619860751 diego.luzuriaga@gmail.com
Dear Sr, I am an architect with +7 years of expertise in all phases of the design process. I am a very motivated and creative person and I am looking for a new challenge in a design-led practice. I have highly developed skills in building design, project scheduling and team leadership ability to prioritize and perform multiple tasks, and also have discipline and confidence in a complex international environment.
I worked for the past six years in MYAA Architects, Barcelona’s branch, with extensive project management experience on large-scale projects from concept design through construction document for international competitions and developing residential projects as a Project Design Architect.
I have excellent design skills and I am proficient in advanced knowledge of 3D Max, Vray, Rhino 4, Auto CAD and Adobe Suite.
Looking forward to hearing from you to discuss my application and how I can significantly contribute to the ongoing success of your office.
Sincerely Yours Diego Luzuriaga
DIEGO LUZURIAGA Architect NATIONALITY Spanish / EU
ACADEMICS IPA, Master of Digital Architectural Projects, FPC / UPC Fundación Politécnica de Catalunya. Barcelona-Spain ( Set 2000 / Jun 2003 ) Diploma in Architecture UNC / FAUD University of Architecture. Cordoba, Argentina ( March 1990 / Dec 1997 ) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE MYAA Architects Barcelona Spain ( August 2004 / August 2010 ) Lead 3D renderer, Principal 3D concept, created design drawings and concept studies in a design team environment. Experienced in architecture design & modelling on a multiple task of large-scale international competition. Relevant Projects Abbey Mills Riverine Centre, London UK, competition, 120.000 m2 Pre-planning proposal for a large cultural centre within the Olympic Master plan in the Lea Valley Position: Part of core design team, lead 3D visualization and modeling North Harrow Community Centre, London UK, competition, 5.000 m2 Mixed Use, cultural centre and mosque Position: Part of core design team, lead 3D visualization and modeling Organisation of Islamic Conference Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 3rd place competition entry for the headquarters of the OIC. Master planning and concept design building. Position: Part of core design team, lead 3D visualization and modeling The Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies [QFIS], Doha Qatar. 35.000 m2 Concept and schematics design for a new educational facility as part of the Education City. Position: Part of core design team. architectural concept design, lead 3D visualization and modeling Masdar Headquarters. Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 43.000m2 Zero Emission Corporate Headquarters building for Masdar, the Future Energy Company Position: Part of core design team, lead 3D visualization and modeling Ferry Terminal and Transport Hub, Abu Dhabi EAU. 120.000m2 Concept design and master planning of a ferry terminal, office complexes and automated car park. Position: Part of core design team, lead 3D visualization and modeling Business Bay Office Tower. Business Bay, Dubai. 15.000m2 The 25 story tower for DAMAC was won in an international design competition Position: Part of core design team, lead 3D visualization and modeling Dubai Maritime City Tower. Maritime City, Dubai, UAE. 36.000m2 Situated in the newly built Maritime City, Dubai, the 200m high residential tower Position: Part of core design team, lead 3D visualization and modelling House in Valldoreix, Barcelona, Spain. Residential. 450 m2 Project Architect: Control built and details construction documents Terraced Housing, Ulldecona, Tarragona, Spain. Residential 2400m2 - 2005 Project Architect: Control built and details construction documents Carre del Mar, Residential House. Ulldecona, Barcelona Spain. 220m2 in site - 2006 Project Architect: Control details and documents construction Passeig de l’Estacio, Residential Apartment. Ulldecona, Barcelona Spain. 770m2 site Project Architect: Control details and documents construction
C/ CANET 2 - 08017 BARCELONA SPAIN DIEGO.LUZURIAGA@GMAIL.COM 0034 / 619860751
GRV Architects. Barcelona Spain ( August 2002 / August 2004 ) CAD technincian/visualiser and construction documents Residential Apartment, 655 m2, Barcelona Spain. Residential Apartment, 2.541 m2, Segur de Calafell, Barcelona Spain. Kinderganten, 145 m2, Cunit, Barcelona Spain Cultural Centre, 2.107 m2, BAIX PENEDÉS, Barcelona Spain. Residential House, 115 m2, El Masnou, Barcelona Spain. Civic Center Argentona, 472 m2, Argentona, Barcelona Spain. Library, 2.107m2, Cunit, Barcelona Spain Public School, Santpedor, 3.600 m2, Barcelona Spain. RQP Architects. Barcelona Spain ( August 2001 / August 2002 ) CAD technincian and construction documents Hotel VINCCI Condal Mar, 22 @. 8.900 m2 Bracelona Spain. Library, Generalitat of Catalunya. 3.400 m2 Barcelona Spain. PERSONAL PROJECTS. Barcelona Spain ( 2009 / 2011) Competition The SPIRETEC Competition, Noida India, February 2011 http://www.spireteccompetition.com/ Design Architect airBaltic Competition, Riga Airport Latvia, Juli 2010 Design Architect Aula 2.0 UIMP Competition, Santander Spain, June 2010 Design Architect Intercontinental Hotel Competition, Yerevan Armenia, December 2009 Design Architect PERSONAL PROJECTS. Cordoba, Argentina ( Dec 1997 / 2000 ) Gamez Apartment. 110 m2, Rehabilitation Cordoba Argentina, 2000 Project Architect, Built Carlos Luzuriaga House. 110 m2, Built, Villa Maria, Cordoba Argentina, 1999 Project Architect., Built Daniel Demarchi House. 160 m2, Built, Villa Maria, Cordoba Argentina, 1998 Project Architect Federal Court Competition, Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. 1997 Design Architect, Built ALSI Construction Company Cordoba, Argentina ( 1995 / 1997 ) CAD technincian and construction documents AWARDS Honorable Mention Competition, Aula 2.0 International University, MenÊndez Pelayo (UIMP) 2010 www.uimp.es/blogs/prensa/2010/09/07/ TECHNICAL FOCUS Specialist in design architectural concept, rendering compositing for international competition projects Experienced in architecture design & modelling with Rhino 4 SR7, 3DS Max 9, VRay, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Adobe Indesign, Autocad 2007, Basic knowledge in Catia v5 REFERENCES MYAA-Architects, Consell de Cent 347, cp.08007, Barcelona, +34 / 932154268 MYAA-Architects, 21 Chapham High Street, London SW4 7TR, +44 / 2079782656 www.myaa.eu C/ CANET 2 - 08017 BARCELONA SPAIN DIEGO.LUZURIAGA@GMAIL.COM 0034 / 619860751
ABBEY MILLS RIVERINE ISLAMIC CENTRE
DATE: 2006-2010 PROGRAM: Institutional CLIENT: Abbey Mills Riverine SIZE: 120.000 m2 LOCATION: London, UK STATUS: Competition ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Part of core design team Lead 3D visualization and modeling The Islamic Garden The scheme is organized as an Islamic Garden. The Islamic Garden is used to drive a spatial narrative setting out the relationship between interior and exterior, or between zones of contemplation, ritual ablution and congregation and prayer. The multiple functions of the Markaz suggest highly adaptable space. The building, although firmly anchored, adopts the language of nomadic structures using through the use of fabric canopies over courtyard spaces. Water, light, sound, calligraphy and islamic patterning are used integrated into functional and structural systems in the mosque. The scheme will also draw light into the prayer halls thoroughly, stressing the geometric patterns on the lattice roof.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
NORTH HARROW COMUNITY CENTER
DATE: 2006 / 2009 PROGRAM: Mixed Use CLIENT: SICM SIZE 5000m2 LOCATION: London, UK STATUS: Competition ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Part of core design team Lead 3D visualization and modeling The mixed use scheme was won in competition in 2006. The project incorporates a mosque, a children’s play centre, a nursing home, restaurants, a library and a deep basement accommodating a sports hall. The £25m scheme creates spatial juxtapositions where people of different age groups and religious faiths can meet in an informal way.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
DUBAI MARITIME CITY TOWER
DATE: 2008-2009 PROGRAM: Residential Tower CLIENT: DAMAC SIZE: 36.000m2 LOCATION: Dubai, UAE STATUS: Competition ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Part of core design team Lead 3D visualization and modeling Located in the city of Dubai, the residential tower of 200 meters high, was conceived as a sculpture and cognitive marker of the new city. The project is inspired by the gentle landscape of the desert of the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic geometric patterns that give identity to the regional architecture. The relationship and interaction between landscape and geometry is explored through the undulating shape of the tower vertical outer skin and geometric designs. The glazing system is separated from the outer skin of the tower for ease of construction. This separation allows the diameter of the network system serving as the umbrella of the tower. The podium of the tower houses the parking, services and shops at ground level with a rooftop garden.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
BUSINESS BAY OFFICE
DATE: 2007 / 2008 PROGRAM: Commercial Office Tower CLIENT: Damac SIZE: 15.000 m2 LOCATION: Dubai, UAE STATUS: Competition ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Part of core design team Lead 3D visualization and modeling The 25 story tower for DAMAC was won in competition in 2008. The scheme provides 25,000m2 of office accommodation in Dubai Business Bay with shopping center at ground level. The scheme adopts strict LEED sustainability standard.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
SHAMS TOWER
DATE: 2007 PROGRAM: Office SIZE: 18.000 m2 LOCATION: Abu Dhabi, UAE STATUS: Competition ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Part of core design team Lead 3D visualization and modeling
The 25 story residential tower is located at Reem Island.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
FERRY TERMINAL
DATE: 2007 PROGRAM: Ferry Terminal and Transport Hub SIZE: 120.000 m2 LOCATION: Abu Dhabi, EAU STATUS: Competition ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Part of core design team Lead 3D visualization and modeling
The new Ferry Terminal and Transport Hub will ease travel between MAYA Island and the Abu Dhabi Mainland. The scheme is composed of a Ferry Terminal, Shopping Centre, Public Beach and Robotic car park for 6000 cars. The scheme is laid out as an ‘aquatic landscape’ - between the land and the sea.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
MASDAR HEADQUARTERS
DATE: 2007 PROGRAM: Commercial CLIENT: Masdar SIZE: 43.000 m2 LOCATION: Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE STATUS: Competition ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Part of core design team Lead 3D visualization and modeling The scheme is a Zero Emission Corporate Headquarters building for Masdar, the Future Energy Company of Abu Dhabi. The scheme is located in Masdar City, the first Carbon Neutral city in the Middle East. The scheme incorporates a range of cutting edge technologies to reduce green house gases and operational costs.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
QFIS UNIVERSITY
DATE: 2008 - 2013 PROGRAM: Education CLIENT: QFIS SIZE: 35.000 m2 LOCATION: Doha, Qatar, UAE STATUS: under construction ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Part of core design team Lead 3D visualization and modeling The building will provide a new home for QFIS and will also accommodate the Education City campus mosque. In a programmatic sense The QFIS scheme explores the relationship of ‘Knowledge and Light’ where the Qur’an places an emphasis on the importance of knowledge in order to reach enlightenment. The scheme is thus organized in plan as a spiral arrangement of teaching room and faculty offices which eventually lead to the Mosque. The scheme also establishes four Islamic gardens around the perimeter of the building and a calligraphic courtyard in the centre. Classrooms and external elevations are provided with a ribbon of calligraphy which ‘binds’ the various elements of the building program through Qur’anic verse. The scheme is currently under construction and due for completion in 2013.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
QFIS UNIVERSITY
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
airBaltic RIGA AIRPORT (RIX)
DATE: 2010 PROGRAM: Residential CLIENT: Riga airport ARCHITECT: Diego Luzuriaga SIZE: 60.000 m2 LOCATION: Latvia STATUS: competition
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
The SPIRETEC Competition
DATE: 2010 PROGRAM: Residential, Commercial, Hotel, Institutional, IT Offices CLIENT: Greader Noida National Capital Region ARCHITECT: Diego Luzuriaga SIZE: 62.750 m2 LOCATION: Noida, India STATUS: competition The total Site Area for SPIRETEC integrated IT development is 85.029 sqm. The Incubation & Business Centre is devised as a collaborative ground for growing and start-up businesses. It aims at promoting entrepreneurship and innovation through shared resources of space, resumes and knowledge. It is both benchmark in greather Noida, part of the Delhi, national capital region NCR
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
CLASSROOM 2.0 UIMP
DATE: 2010 PROGRAM: Education CLIENT: UIMP International University MenĂŠndez Pelayo ARCHITECT: Diego Luzuriaga LOCATION: Santander, Spain STATUS: under construction AWARDS: Honorable Mention
This work seeks to approach the future educational model in Spain, analyzing the possibilities of using ITC, in education.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
TERRACED HOUSING
DATE: 2005 PROGRAM: Residential CLIENT: Private ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Project Architect SIZE: 2400m2 LOCATION: Tarragona, Spain STATUS: Built
The terraced house is an inevitable consequence of mass production. The terraced house is a representation of collective desires, aspirations and anxiety coupled to the fortunes of the property market. Within this seemingly innocuous urban model, there are layers of social and psychological convention.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
HOUSE IN VALLDOREIX
DATE: 2006-2010 PROGRAM: Residential CLIENT: Private ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Design Architect SIZE: 450 m2 LOCATION: Sant Cugat, Barcelona, Spain STATUS: Built
The project is located in the Village of Valldoreix, in the hills above Barcelona.The Villa is set in a garden plot which numerous fruit trees. The Villa is seen as continuation of the garden – a hybrid structure which is neither house nor garden but both. The main structure of the house, its roof and floor plains emerge from the garden and are a continuation of old pathways. The pathways converge to lead up to the roof and a view of Mont Serrat in the distance. The space around the house is formed into a series of smaller thematic spaces. These include ‘the walled-garden’ at the entrance to the house, the ‘jasmine garden’ adjacent to the bedrooms and the ‘secret garden’. The upper level is organized as ‘garden pavilions’ clad in plastic screens which separately accommodate the lounge and study areas. At night the pavilions appear as lanterns.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
CARRE DEL MAR APARTMENT
DATE: 2006 PROGRAM: Residential CLIENT: Private ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Project Architect SIZE: 220 m2 LOCATION: Tarragona, Barcelona, Spain STATUS: Built
The building consists of 3 apartments, on the ground fl oor housing projects that are suitable for the disabled and their top two duplex. As two duplex community just steps reaches the second fl oor elevator avoiding the requirement. The steps in ventilated facade and atrium of better ventilation and lighting of the rooms in the back. The ventilated faรงade is composed of an artificial stone Naturvex.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
HOTEL VINCCI CONDAL MAR
DATE: 2002 PROGRAM: Hotel CLIENT: VINCCI HOTEL ARCHITECTS: RQP arquitectes POSITION: Design Distribution Plans SIZE: 8.900m2 LOCATION: Barcelona Sapin STATUS: Built
The Hotel Vincci Condal Mar is a vertical elliptical structure with 14 fl oors. The Vincci Condal Mar Hotel offers 178 rooms and Suites. The hotel has a meeting room for 250 people, can also be divided in fi ve fully soundproofed independent rooms.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
BONAVISTA
DATE: 2006 - 2008 PROGRAM: Residential CLIENT: Private ARCHITECTS: MYAA POSITION: Project Architect SIZE: 770 m2 LOCATION: Tarragona, Barcelona, Spain STATUS: Built
The apartment building with a total of 9 apartments spread over three apartments per floor, with a total of three plants, of which seven are accessed by a practicable route from a common hallway, and the remaining two located on ground fl oor directly from the street. Being a fi eld very long, all the rooms ventilated directly to the facade. The facade, which means the color and balconies refl ects the movement of the trains running parallel to the promenade, creating an effect of mobility and dynamic.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
MADRAZO
DATE: 2003 - 2005 PROGRAM: Residential ARCHITECTS: GRV arquitectes POSITION: 3D Model and construction documents SIZE: 655 m2 LOCATION: Barcelona Spain STATUS: Built
The project of 3 apartments and parking at ground floor, housing on fl oor, the facade is closed by vertical strips side sun visor. Special care was taken in the finishes and interior details.
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect
LIBRARY CUNIT
DATE: 2004 PROGRAM: Education CLIENT: City Council Cunit ARCHITECTS: GRV arquitectes POSITION: 3D Model and construction documents SIZE: 2.107 m2 LOCATION: Cunit, Barcelona, Spain STATUS: Built
Diego Luzuriaga Design Architect