PORTFOLIO | Alba Mínguez Moreno

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Alba Mínguez Moreno

Personal Information name | Alba MĂ­nguez Moreno

mail | albaminguez@gmail.com tlf | +34 661 45 76 30 birth date | 10.09.1985 nationality | spanish

Educational background 2005_2012 | Master Architecture studies Cardenal Herrera_CEU University, Valencia 2009_2010 | Erasmus exchange program, Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark 1988_2004 | English School Los Olivos, Valencia

Work experience 2011-2015 | Architect in Arquitectura Racional “Arquitectura Racional” is an architecture office that works in all tasks related to promotion and construction of housing, characterized by the use of efficient and sustainable energies. Here I gained more than 3 years experience as project controller, worked in architecture competitions, feasability studies, design projects and interior design.

2011 | EASA Spain Organizer This two week summer school encompassed over 400 students representing over 45 different countries. I was part of the team which brought this event to Spain. With 20 different lectures and 30 different workshops to organise and fund I gained invaluable experience in many diverse areas of working life.

2010 | Aarhus Palletvilion Tutor The AAA encourages students to make a self study as part of their course work. Some erasmus students and I decided to design and construct a pavilion in the courtyard of the school made entirely from a singular material, the euro pallet.

Competitions 2014 | House of Hungarian Music, Liget Budapest Competition.

2014 | Renovation “Mercado de Abastos”, Roquetas del Mar. 2012 | Adidas Store Competition, Stuttgart.

International Workshops 2013 | EASA_Reaction, Zuzemberk.

2012 | EASA_Wastelands, Helsinki.

2011 | EASA_DeCOASTruction, Cádiz 2010 | EASA_Identity, Manchester.

Relevant skills languages | spanish (native) | english (proficiency level) | german (B2 level) | catalan (elemental)

IT | Autocad | Rhino | V-Ray | Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | Sketchup Pro | Vectorworks other | Physical models | Carpentary | Foam modeling | Laser Cutting | Photography

PROJECTS Public School Ruzafa | Valencia | Spain Public Market | Roquetas del Mar | Spain Hungarian House of Music | Budapest | Hungary 176 Flexible Dwellings | Xรกtiva | Spain Modular Industrialized Houses | Valencia | Spain

WORKSHOPS Palletvilion Workshop | Aarhus | Denmark Avanzada Workshop | Cรกdiz | Spain Holy Moley Workshop | Zuzemberk | Slovenia

PHOTOGRAPHY

Public

School

Ruzafa

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Valencia

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Spain

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How to build inside a block?

Following the bylaw, the result would be immediate.

Close off the street with a height of GF + 5 (and a buildable depth of 16m), and develop one floor building inside the plot.

The challenge will be to forget the easy answer, and propose alternatives to reflect on the validity of the block as urban unit, or rather about how they have occupied the interior of blocks in the widening of Valencia.

_The public school is located in Ruzafa, a dense neighborhood with an established urban structure, between the Ruzafa market and the future central park.

_The objective of the project is to make the school itself a public space, where various cultural activities can happen, and serve as a meeting place for the local people.

_It is meant to respond to the lack of public facilities suffered in Ruzafa creating a school and a green area, essential to maintaining the vitality of any neighborhood and increase the quality of life.

The building is set back from the front facade to create a gap in the dense network of streets, introducing the public space within the plot.

The main idea of the proposal is to release as much as possible the ground floor, concentrating common uses of the program in one sideband.

Organizationally the occupation of the plot is divided into parallel strips, seeking a gradation of public and private uses.

OUTDOOR PATIO

COVERED PATIO SUNKEN PATIO

PUBLIC SQUARE

A courtyard appears as a separation between public and private use, creating a visual continuity in the ground floor.

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

Classrooms volume rises above the square, leaning on the side of common uses and releasing the ground floor.

The classroom volume consists of 4 pieces separated by courtyards. One moves to level -1 becoming a void which divides the plot and distributes the different areas.

Public

Market

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Roquetas

del

Mar

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Spain

The project aims to update the market function with community services and leisure demands that society requires today.

Rehabilitation of markets, that are being undertaken recently in all European cities, follow the same principles of use, not only market but also a meeting place where socio-cultural activities take place.

The current site is the first vision that receives the visitor when he enters Roquetas, and therefore the main facade becomes an image of the city. The project envisages that space as a large public square and meeting point with one of the great arteries of the city leading to the port.

GASTROBAR

MARKET

SERVICIOS

TERRACE

PUBLIC SQUARE

_Relocation of services into a single band.

_Release the perimeter for better use of natural light.

The market becomes an open space that opens to the outside. The inner perimeter is released allowing the opening of the facades, achieving better circulation, ventilation and natural light.

_Increased traffic flows and creating spaces of permanence.

The arrangement of the shops follows a linear rate, generating breaking-stay spaces to sit, relax and chat while they shop.

_Creation of new activities by increasing the hours of use.

The creation of a new “gastronomic and playful� space where you can taste market products, attracting new user profiles is proposed.

Within the market we generate a space linked to the gastro-bar area, with the possibility of indoor-outdoor use, according to the season.

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Hungarian House of Music | Budapest | Hungary The aim of this competition was the design of the Hungarian House of Music building within the framework of the Liget Budapest Project on the territory of the City Park Budapest. The constrution of the new building and the complete renewal of the green area of the City Park.

Our idea was to create a pentagonal shaped building taking advantage of the plots shape and creating five different, diverse and at the same time interesting spaces surrounding it.

We softened the starting geometry by rounding its edges and creating a continuous faรงade.

The openings have been designed in accordance to their use as well as the expressive intention for the building.

The five lines of the structure have been assumed as the basis of a musical stave and so in the three upper floors a local musical tune has been imitated with musical notes presenting the shape of many bars which function as rhythmical drillings on the frontof the building.

The possibility to generate an empty space inside and away from all acoustic pollution implies the consistent use of these empty areas as being considered the adequate spaces for music. In the interior yard and in the terraces facing it, a variety of events could be held. Under the already mentioned terraces and maintaining same shape, we can find the most acoustic isolated room: the audition room and event hall.

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Flexible

Dwellings

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Xรกtiva

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Spain

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The challenge of this project was to accomplish an unfinnished building in a nice residential area of Xativa.

Considering the old stucture we aimed to design different typology dwellings.

The idea was to create a building offering flexibility, capacity of evolution, comfort and generosity of space and light for young families.

UNPROGRAMMED /FREE SPACE

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The idea lies in the provision of space which does not determine division and occupation.

The only defining element in the space is a core within which all service functions rise and drop.

The building block features a large variety of flat sizes.

The occupants can choose how their respective space can be subdivided.

The dwellings are delivered empty, as they are the users who should fill it or use it as they wish.

Continuous suspended ceiling and floor are used for easy positioning of partitions

The 176 dwellings of this building are designed joining up wet rooms, to simplify installations, and setting free the remaining space to create different typologies depending on the type of families.

They all have cross ventilation and double orientation to enjoy fresh air and natural lightning.

The inner courtyyard has a green area to refresh the dwelling during summertime.

It is simple dwellings distributions where wet cores are placed in the center generating the division between day and night and simplifying the passage of facilities through a vertical column.

ADAPTABILITY, CAPACITY OF EVOLUTION

small apartment

working space

big bedroom

two bedrooms

small apartment working space/ studio

2nd common bathroom children’s open room

bedroom with bathroom single bedrooms

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One of the ideas was to provide flexibility in the way that the dwellings could be joined or divided over time. This was of particular importance to accommodate extended families.

House type A (1 bedroom) can be combined with house type C (3 bedroom) to create a bigger house if required, or it can act as a teenager or grandparent anex.

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Modular Industrialized Houses | Valencia | Spain The idea of this project was to investigate technics of industrialization to promote terraced houses and design an architecture project of concrete modular houses to be done entirely in an industrial production line.

A new way of conceiving the quality of life that is based on three main principles: the highest quality in terms of construction, technology, energy and functionality.

_Controlled dimensions due to building municipal ordinances and transport restrictions.

max 5m

y max 6,5m

_Building system consisting of a reinforced concrete skeleton that acts as structure and at the same time as facade.

_Modular building system consisting of concrete cubes that can be combined, vertically or horizontally, to create a unit.

_Among the party wall facades, is the structure and a series of interstitial spaces that allow the house to adapt to the most advanced technical solutions for the benefit of energy improvements, centralization and rationality of each of the installations.

_Each module is designed without ceiling, not to double the floor structure, so that the next module fits perfectly ontop of it.

There will be a plain roof module to cover the previous ones.

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MOVABLE Movable flexible houses capable of being torn down and reassembled in another location.

_Industrially prefabricated building system. This ensures the best control and building quality in the shortest amount of time.

_Delivered on the back of a lorry from the plant to the building site.

_The modules sit on steel feet and have to be connected to the other modules and to a sewage system.

_The house is ready for delivery in a few days.

TRANSFORMABLE Characterized by modular design, capable of adding or removing units or components.

3 MODULES HOUSE

1 BEDROOM DWELLING

96m 2

4 MODULES HOUSE

3 BEDROOM DWELLING

127m 2

5 MODULES HOUSE

3 BEDROOM 1 STUDIO DWELLING

159m 2

DETACHED HOUSE TYPOLOGY

1 MODULE: 31,85 M2 4 MODULES HOUSE: 127,4 M2

GROUND FLOOR: 63,7 M2

FIRST FLOOR: 63,7 M2

module 1: open living room

module 3: 2 10m2 bedrooms

module 2: entrance, kitchen and toilet

module 4: 13m2 bedroom, 2 bathrooms

PROJECTS Public School Ruzafa | Valencia | Spain Public Market | Roquetas del Mar | Spain Hungarian House of Music | Budapest | Hungary 176 Flexible Dwellings | Xรกtiva | Spain Modular Industrialized Houses | Valencia | Spain

WORKSHOPS Palletvilion Workshop | Aarhus | Denmark Avanzada Workshop | Cรกdiz | Spain Holy Moley Workshop | Zuzemberk | Slovenia

PHOTOGRAPHY

Palletvilion

Workshop

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Aarhus

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Denmark

The Pavilion was designed to become an active element in the everyday-life of the school, and not to be only an object.

By adapting naturally to the original flow of people crossing the courtyard, the Pavilion invited people to interact with the structure and to follow the strip inside the shelter, built all around the tree.

Inside, up to twenty people could easily stand and sit down, being totally covered by the pallets. Sunlight was going through the thickness of the strip, creating a calm and cosy atmosphere, insulated from the external heat.

PUBLISHED http://pasajesarquitectura.com/be-paletto/ http://www.archdaily.com/67540/temporary-pavilion-at-the-aarhus-school-ofarchitecture/ “Ultra Low Tech Architecture� Book, Ed. MONSA BLOG http://palletvilion.blogspot.com.es/2010/06/be-palleto.htmlthe-aarhus-school-ofarchitecture/

Stacking the pallets in the same direction made the structure of the pavilion. Some of pallets were set perpendicularly, as cantilevers, to create steps going out of the structure, this allowed people to climb over the structure, or to sit down. The pallets were easily attainable from a neighbouring harbour. The pavilion was temporary vernacular architecture.

Comprising of 420 overlapped pallets, the pavilion was basically a strip interacting with its context. A tree, a table and its bench, people and daylight patterns impacted on the pavilion’s shape. The “strip” encouraged people to use a different route when crossing the courtyard, by walking and sitting on a landscape, which reaches a height of 3.50m. By curving the strip to link and adapt to each element, many steps were created between the pallets, allowing people to sit in the sun, like on a terrace.

Avanzada

Workshop

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CĂĄdiz

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Spain

This temporary exhibition pavilion was built as part of the student event EASA, European Architecture Students Assembly, in Cadiz, Spain The concept for the pavilion was inspired by the maritime history of Cadiz, and in particular, the Galleon sailing vessel.

The pavilion was to host exhibitions by young artists who would display their work in turn during the course of the Pavilion’s lifetime. The artwork would respond to the maritime theme and in so doing would create a strong conceptual relationship between container and contained.

PUBLISHED http://www.archdaily.com/180326/cadiz-temporary-pavilion-breathnach-donnellan-with-easaparticipants/

The morphology of the project is based on a folded + stretched container, a reference to the activities of the modern shipyard.

Key axis and lines of sight determine the angles of the arms of the Pavilion, along with the use of shade as a device to make the public places around it more enjoyable.

Our team saw the opportunity to highlight the history of the site, and created a temporary exhibition pavilion whose design was partly inspired by the material palette of the Galleon. Rope, always a material relegated to servant duties, is allowed to relax and becomes a skin, expanding and contracting to reveal the artwork inside.

Holy

Moley

Workshop

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Zuzemberk

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Slovenia

The most beautiful site in Zuzemberk is the River Krka, where all of its inhabitants gather during the summer days.

We decided to design and build a deck with a staircase so they could jump or step into the water and a floating platform, where they could even make a fire and enjoy.

PROJECTS Public School Ruzafa | Valencia | Spain Public Market | Roquetas del Mar | Spain Hungarian House of Music | Budapest | Hungary 176 Flexible Dwellings | Xรกtiva | Spain Modular Concrete Houses | Valencia | Spain

WORKSHOPS Palletvilion Workshop | Aarhus | Denmark Avanzada Workshop | Cรกdiz | Spain Holy Moley Workshop | Zuzemberk | Slovenia

PHOTOGRAPHY

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Alba MĂ­nguez Moreno