Ana García Constantinescu – Architecture Portfolio

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Ana García Constantinescu architecture PORTFOLIO

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ana garcĂ­a constantinescu PORTFOLIO 2020 This is a compilation of academic, professional and personal works made by Ana GarcĂ­a Constantinescu during the years 2011-2019. No part of this publication may be reproduced or copied in any way without prior permission of the author.

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CV– About

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Vía 2030 – ‘Gathering Strangers’

October 2018, ETSAB Barcelona Location of the project: Barcelona, Spain Intervention: public, urban and architectural Professors: Jaime Coll, Daniel García, Jordi Oliveras, Jordi Pagès, Jorge Blasco, Helena Coch 16-19

● ROS

August 2019, Ouest Architecture Location of the project: Forest, Belgium Intervention: public competition 20-21

● BSN

May 2019, Ouest Architecture Location of the project: Brussels, Belgium Intervention: private house 22-25

● KIRCHE

‘Phantomschmerzen – Nichts ist heilig’

August 2015, RWTH Aachen Location of the project: Dülken, Germany Intervention: restoration and architectural Professors: Sabine Brück, Fred Humblé, Christoph Helmus, Anette Essam, Bas van der Pol, Detlev Kraneis, Christian Raabe 26-29

● Onstage

– Solar Corona

November 2015, ETSAV Valencia Location of the project: Valencia, Spain Intervention: ephemeral instalation Professors: Débora Domingo Calabuig, Laura Lizondo-Sevilla 30-31

● ‘Xurreries

necessàries’

June 2017, ETSAB Barcelona Location of the project: Barcelona, Spain Intervention: conceptual intervention Professor: Xavier Monteys

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● analogue

photography

* ● professional ● academic ● personal

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name

Ana García Constantinescu born

Valencia, Spain, 18.11.1993 nationality

Spanish

contact

0034 685522723 anagarciaconstantinescu@gmail.com www.anagarciaconstantinescu.com

experience

BAST - Bureau Architectures Sans Titre | Toulouse, France

feb 2020- present | Architect

OUEST architecture | Brussels, Belgium

may 2019- aug 2019 | Architect

Collaboration on teaching ‘rehabitar’ | ETSAB, Barcelona

oct 2017- feb 2018 | Subject ‘Rehabitar, La casa y la calle’ –taught at GArqEtsaB by the professor Xavier Monteys Anna Codina Arquitectura | Barcelona

dec 2016- mar 2017 | Architecture Student

education

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona | UPC, Barcelona

2017-2018 | MArqEtsaB Architecture Master degree – Theory and Project specialization 2016-2017 | Sicue exchange programme Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia | UPV, Valencia

2011-2017 | Architecture and Urbanism Bachelor degree (5 years programme)

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule | RWTH, Aachen, Germany

2014-2015 | Erasmus exchange programme (Architecture, Fine Arts and Urbanism Master degree) Jesús María School | Valencia

2007-2011 | High School + College

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language skills

Spanish native Romanian bilingual proficiency Catalan/ Valencian bilingual proficiency

software/ skills AutoCAD 2D/ 3D ArchiCAD Photoshop InDesign Illustrator

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English advanced proficiency (C1 Cambridge) French learning (B1-B2) German basic skills (course B1 RWTH)

Rhinoceros + Vray ●●●●●●●●●● Revit ●●●●●●●●●● Mac OS – Apple iWork Windows – Microsoft Office Scale model skills

scholarships

Research group Habitar | UPC, Barcelona

oct 2017- jun 2018 | Collaboration scholarship for research from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports | Tutor: Xavier Monteys With Honors College | Valencia

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workshops

Porto Academy | FAUP, Porto

july 2019 | MOS Studio

final thesis

gran vía 2030 ‘gathering strangers’ | ETSAB, Barcelona

PFC – Final Master’s Thesis| 2017-2018| Tutor: Jaime Coll

Architectural comparative analysis of schools with educational philosophy Reggio Emilia | DPArq, ETSAV, Valencia

TFG – Final Bachelor’s Thesis| 2016-2017 | Tutor: Carla Sentieri Omarrementeria | http://hdl.handle.net/10251/102465

publications/ awards

JIDA’18 | Experimental studio TRA-NE: transfers between research, learning and professional practice

2018 | Selection of works for an article at JIDA’18 Workshop on Educational Innovation in Architecture | http://hdl.handle.net/2117/124517 Project selection yearbook | Department of Architectural Design, ETSAV, Valencia

2011-2012| http://dparq.upv.es/departamento/anuarios/anuario-2011-12/ipr-2011-12 2012-2013| http://dparq.upv.es/departamento/anuarios/anuario-2012-13-2/pr1-2012-13 Special mention Valencia CREA |

2011 | Corporate Identity’ category– Photography collaboration UP Urbanismo y Paisaje – Urbanism and Landscape | ETSAV, Valencia

2012-2013 | Publication of academic projects

volunteering SEEDS | Iceland

summer 2016| ‘Revegetation in the South of Iceland’– Environmental workcamp 48H Open House | Barcelona

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Gran Vía 2030 – ‘Gathering Strangers’ the covered street

October 2018, ETSAB Barcelona – Final Master’s Thesis Location of the project: Barcelona, Spain Intervention: public, urban and architectural Professors: Jaime Coll, Daniel García, Jordi Oliveras, Jordi Pagès, Jorge Blasco, Helena Coch In a fictional future in 2030, the Gran Vía of Barcelona-Hospitalet has stopped being a dual carriageway that isolates its both sides in order to become an underground road that allows a friendlier mobility in the surface.

The project aims at joining together three concepts in a single construction: the culture, the food and the house.

The ground floor of the building is fragmented in order to create a ‘covered street’ that crosses it –something in between a transit point, a resting space and a garden–, looking for a more intermediate and human urban scale. This street, with both shady and sunny areas, becomes a gathering and leisure space. ‘Life between buildings’. The geometry, the limited compartmentalisation and the openness of the most public areas give the building the ability to accept future changes of use with greater ease.

The residential part of the building is conceived as a cooperative housing, putting a series of communal spaces at the disposal of the community members. The outside space of this floor offers different terraces, a vegetable garden and a greenhouse. The laundry porches are shared between two dwellings in each floor of every stair-well (A and B).

There are two main housing typologies: four bedrooms and two bedrooms, the layout and the relation of which allows them to be transformed. In 04

the central part of the block, both typologies can give up rooms from one to another in order to transform the house and to get a new three bedrooms typology.

The house is conceived to be a flexible house. Flexibility here is understood as the capacity to change its use without changing its form. That is, the distribution and the relation between them allow the rooms to change their use with no alteration in the partitions’ position: a room may well be a bedroom, a dining room, a living room or an atelier. That way, the dwelling gets more complex and ambiguous.

More doors. And different in sizes and forms. Supplying the apartment with more doors than ‘normal’ allows the user –with a very simple movement as it is opening or closing them– to modify the way in which the rooms can be used depending on their addition and combination. The house is conceived as a sum of spaces.

The double access in one of the typologies also brings more opportunities in terms of use: a part of the house can ‘become independent’ from the core.

Corridors are suppressed and the kitchen, from its central position, assumes the role of a transit point –as well as the cooking place, of course–. It would be difficult then to draw the circulation axis of the house. All this ensures a more versatile, flexible and long-lasting domestic space.

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the access

and the core of the house

the room

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more doors

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the gallery as an intermediate space

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between the inside and the outside

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moving through the kitchen

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ROS

August 2019, OUEST Architecture, Brussels Location of the project: Forest, Belgium Intervention: public competition

Winner proposal for the extension of the building complex that hosts a campus for internationally acclaimed dance school P.A.R.T.S., dance company Rosas and contemporary music ensemble Ictus.

The project consisted on the addition of new programs/buildings for more dance studios, integrated into a new general masterplan/reorganization for the whole site and its landscape.

During my internship at Ouest I mainly worked in this project, developed together with the office Vers.a.

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BSN

May 2019, OUEST Architecture, Brussels Location of the project: Brussels, Belgium Intervention: private house, renovation

Some collages for a private house project made at the beginning of the internship at OUEST. The aim of the images was to try different materials and colours in order to configure the spaces.

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KIRCHE ‘Phantomschmerzen – Nichts ist heilig’

August 2015, RWTH Aachen Location of the project: Dülken, Germany Intervention: restoration and architectural Professors: Sabine Brück, Fred Humblé, Christoph Helmus, Anette Essam, Bas van der Pol, Detlev Kraneis, Christian Raabe The church of Herz Jesu was built in 1954 by the german architect Karl Schlüter. It is located in Dülken, a small town close to Düsseldorf, Germany.

The aim of this project is the restoration and reconversion of the old church into a building with a different purpose. The program includes the creation of a residential complex, just as the incorporation of a ‘special’ use. This complementary use is decided by the designer according to the needs that are considered as necessary for the nighbours from the dwellings but also from the surroundings.

The main premise for the development of the design is the conservation of the big central space of the original curch, where the mix of complementary uses is placed –a reading area, a kiosk/ cafeteria, two rooms for free use and a chapel (which is also connected to the nursery home that is behind the church and the one that these people are currently using)–. This central space is likely to become a meeting point for neighbours and a space to share and live in community.

The housing units have south-west orientation in order to take advantage of natural light and warming from the sun. The existence of two big patios helps all the spaces in the flats to have natural light and ventilation.

Having different tipologies of housing allows the complex to accommodate a wide range of family structures and life situations.

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Onstage – Solar Corona

–Team project– November 2015, ETSAV Valencia Location of the project: Valencia, Spain Intervention: ephemeral instalation Professors: Débora Domingo Calabuig, Laura Lizondo-Sevilla Amongst the old town of Valencia –as in many other spanish cities–, the visitor can find an important presence of empty plots waiting for a building, park or square to be constructed that seems like never coming...

Due to the bad administration of the public economic resources, the lack of private investors or the slowness of burocratic processes, amongst others.

In a few of these ‘abandoned’ spaces, the neighbours of the area –together with different collectives of architects, artists and designers– have been developing some self-managed projects for some years. The aim of these agents is to make these empty places useful and so put them in service for the citizens.

These kind of initiatives could be considered as a neighbours’ demand for quality public space. The public space in the surrounding area was, in general, quite poor and did not allow people to develop activities in a comfortable way. The fact that, at the moment of the project, the use of the road traffic was still allowed in the area, had also influenced the proliferation of these experiences. They provide the opportunity to organise different activities, workshops, open-air cinema, exhibitions, theatre plays and other cultural events.

‘Solar Corona’ was probably one of the most popular of these selfmanaged spaces in Valencia’s old town, so this is the location this project is designed for. The exercise consisted in the design of an ephemeral stage 26

for the play Central Park West –Woody Allen– to be performed by the valencian theatre company Off. Our project posed the creation of two different stages, each one of them was supposed to serve for each act that the actors were going to perform.

These two spaces adapted to the different setting of the scenes, including elements that would allow to identify the part of the play and chosing the location on the plot that suited best.

This exercise was part of a competiton for the students of ‘Taller 2’ design studio from the Architecture School of Valencia, the winners of which would have the privilege of building their proposal with a 1400€ budget.

Our proposal was one of the finalists.

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‘Xurreries necessàries’

June 2017, ETSAB Barcelona Location of the project: Barcelona, Spain Intervention: conceptual intervention Professor: Xavier Monteys A ‘churrería’ is a very well known urban agent in the Spanish popular culture, usually materialised as a stall selling ‘churros’ in the streets.

Nowadays, they are in danger of going extinct and are usually bonded to special occasions and traditional festivities.

This excercise consisted in choosing one of these existing ‘churrerías’ in order to change its location in the city. In this proposal, the ‘Xurreria el Savi’ was re-located from the square Alfons el Savi to Portal de l’Àngel –a commercial and very crowded pedestrian street in the gothic quartier of Barcelona–.

With this conceptual action we aimed to test that urban transformation is not only about building and adding new objects or furniture in the streets, but also about making little changes that bring big changes in terms of how people use the space and interact with it.

Through this operation we also wanted to emphasize how food affects to the operating rules of the city.

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analogue photography –everywhere, everytime–

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Maison LaRoche, Paris Le Corbusier

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Thank you.

0034 685522723 anagarciaconstantinescu@gmail.com www.anagarciaconstantinescu.com

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