Competitions portfolio 2021 - Andrea Rubio

Andrea Rubio Competitions portfolio

2017 - 2021

Awards 2023

2021

Honorable mention with masterʼs thesis “Observatory F.L.O.R.A.” Design Educates Awards (Germany) MAEBB 2021-22, IAAC Winner IAAC scholarship competition with entry “Adaptive Waste” for Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities // Valldaura

2019

2018

Merit Award with entry Housing” AIA San Diego Awards (USA - México) CROstudio

Directors Choice Award “Lagos Waste-Lab” Arch o Waste competition (USA) Simbiosis

Publications + Exhibitions

Andrea Paola Rubio Paredes

2023

Mexican architect focused on sustainable design. Passionate for digital fabrication, material research, wood working and teaching/academia.

Published with masterʼs thesis “Observatory F.L.O.R.A.” in Designboom, ArchDaily, Divisare, Dezeen, Detail Magazine and Arquine.

MAEBB 2021-22, IAAC

2019 2018

Exhibition and Pub Premio Felix Candela “Memoriales del 7 y 19 bre” through various in México and Spain. Simbio

Education Enrolled Jan 2024

Barcelona, Spain andrearubio18@gmail.com +52 (664) 491 50 15 andrearubio18

Oct 2021 Sept 2022

Aug 2011 Dec 2015

Skills SOFTWARES

AutoCAD Rhino 7 Archicad(BIM) Revit Architecture(BIM) Sketchup

Feb - Aug 2013

2023 Current

Teacher ( U Bachelorʼs tion//Urban (Rhino - Twin

Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities (MAEBB) Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Valldaura Labs - Barcelona, Spain

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Founder ( 3D printing Fabrication/ (Rhino - Gra

Bachelor’s of Architecture: Honorable Mention Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana Tijuana, México

2018 2023

Freelance Architecture projects//De engineering (Rhino - Arch

Feb 2020 Aug 2021

Junior arch Project coor scales//Build ization// Co (Rhino - Arch

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Postgraduate Fab Academy BCN: Applications and Implications of Digital Fabrication Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Barcelona, Spain

Certification in Architecture: “Sustainable community management and interdisciplinary projects” Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana Tijuana, México

GH + Ladybug Twinmotion Enscape Illustrator Photoshop InDesign

Nov 2016 Nov 2017

HARDWARE

3D printing (clay&plastic) Laser cutting Carpentry tools CNC routing & milling

May 2014 June 2016

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2018

Finalists with entry “Embarcadero” Premio Felix Candela and IESARQ (Spain and México) Simbiosis

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Exhibition and Published in “Del territorio al habitante” and “Redensificación Urbana” by Mexicoʼs Institute of the National Fund for Workerʼs Housing (INFONAVIT) and Arquine. CROstudio

Work Experience

Universidad Iberoamericana) Tijuana level focused on Sustainable design strategies//Digital fabricanism//Design development//Lectures//Material research. nmotion - Adobe suite - 3D printing - Laser cutting - CNC)

Extractica ) Tijuana products and finishes made out of waste//Computational design// //Biomaterials in order to promote circular design. asshopper - 3D printing - Laser cutting)

( Simbiosis estudio ) Tijuana / San Diego e competitions//Project manager for housing and commercial esign development//Construction documents sets//Coordinating teams//Administration//Fabrication detailing//Site supervision. hicad - Adobe suite - Twinmotion)

hitect ( Design Opera ) Los Angeles / Tijuana rdinator for residential and commercial projects from a variety of ding codes in USA and México//Design development//3D visualonstruction document sets. hicad - Twinmotion - Adobe suite)

chitect ( Bartolini arquitectos ) Tijuana or multiple remodeling projects, residential and commercial facilities. n documents sets//Supervising project teams//Administration//CoMEP engineers. (AutoCAD - Rhino - Revit - Sketchup - Adobe suite)

chitect ( CROstudio ) Tijuana / San Diego r for competition entries regarding rural social housing prototypes reactivations//Research boards//Design development//3D visualonstruction documents sets//Coordinating MEP engineers//Marketor book publications. (AutoCAD - Rhino - Adobe suite)

( Estudio Santander ) Tijuana / San Diego al architecture competitions//Design development//Environmental arketing graphics//Construction docs sets//Site supervision assitant.

Revit - Sketchup - Adobe suite)

IAAC

+ MAEBB scholarship 2021

INFONAVIT + APAN rural housing 2017 - 2019 + Redensification 2017

ARCH OUT LOUD + Waste stadium 2018

PREMIO FELIX CANDELA + APAN rural housing 2018

MAEBB scholarship program IAAC

Adaptive Waste Prototype manual

Competition details & brief: The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia announces every year a Scholarship Competition giving our master’s applicants the chance to win partial scholarships covering a porcentage of tuition fee of each IAAC’s academic programme.

Project type: Competition // Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities ( IaaC )

“Ecological Wood Construction” – Propose a structure or design (from architecture to furniture) related to ecological principles using wood containing a short description in English of the strategy/rationale behind the proposal.

Award: Winner for MAEBB course

Intention: Adaptive waste is a prototype manual using formwork waste wood used in construction that adapts on distinct context. A module that can be carried, assembled and stored easily by any user and it’s ocassion. The prototype acts not only as an object but as infrastructure of awareness and sustainable building.

Design: Andrea Rubio

Program: Site furniture Housing Infrastructure

More info: https://iaac.net/iaac-scholarship-competition-2021-winners-announcement/ https://iaac.net/sc holarships-2021-maebb/

MAEBB scholarship program IAAC

ADAPTIVE - WASTE

Waste Production of Dangerous Materials by State (Semarnat 2015)

PROTOTYPE MANUAL

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WHERE? - WHY? In México, the cement industry prevails in construction methodologies, articulating an extense network of operators, promoting pollution and ecological inefficiency. The formwork wood used to support concrete casting deteriorates throughout the construction process and ends up as waste while being mixed with other materials. How can we improve and recycle the majority of the wood that is left considered waste?

HOW? The intention of this prototype is to not only reduce-recycle wood from construction usage, but to create an element that adapts on distinct context - users needs. A module that can be carried, assembled and stored easily by any user and itʼs ocassion. The prototype acts not only as an object but as infrastructure of awareness and sustainable communities.

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Production by material group Semarnat (2017)

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MAEBB scholarship program IAAC

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APAN rural housing INFONAVIT (Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores) and CIDS (Centro de Investigacion para el Desarrollo Sostenible) launched a program to solicit new approaches for affordable rural housing. They commissioned 84 design firms from México and the United States to design prototypes for dwelling units optimized for different states and climate zones across the country.

INFONAVIT colluded with New York–based firm MOS to help narrow the schemes to 32 projects, develop a master plan for a campus of built prototypes and design an education center to promote awareness about them. The campus is located in Apan, about 50 miles northeast of México City and was completed in the beginnings of 2019.

Project type: Social housing Urbanism - Research CROstudio team: Adriana Cuellar Marcel Sanchez Andrea Rubio Blas Herrera Ryan Goodwin Photography: Jaime Navarro

Built Location: Apan, Hidalgo, Ciudad de México Published: “Del Territorio al Habitante”

by Infonavit & CIDS (2017)

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Tecate: A cross-border territory, where the infrastructure of resource is the main element in the physiographic pattern configuration of the territorial development, such like adobe ovens and brick production.

The prototype is an approach to contemporary rural territory, an evolving housing prototype and opportunistic in adapting to the growths between family and their sources of work.

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Centralized housing allows density growth throughout each families needs. In proportion of site, the housing mass is minimal due to agriculture, animal breeding or handcraft activities. Due to the type of limits, it tends to generate diversity between family and collectives.

Centralization continues but loaded on one side due to the limitation boundaries that emphasize individuality of families, generating less collective interaction. The ratio between site of the land housing mass is reduced but continues allowing density through a second level, in addition of the use of better construction materials.

The house typology emphasizes the individualization of families, notably reducing the site and doubling its volume, obtaining more interior space but greater defragmentation of activities. Limits prevent family bonding and interaction.

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APAN rural housing - CROstudio INFONAVIT

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Redensification - CROstudio INFONAVIT

Redensification Competition brief: “INFONAVIT’s (Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores) Redensification project aims to reconfigure the urban fabric by seizing underused land and abandoned houses, in order to achieve efficient and compact cities that provide a better quality of life for its inhabitants.

Through this initiative, 32 proposals for vertical mixeduse housing were developed in 13 states all over México, promoting patrimonial value and the most efficient use of land in the densification process. The challenge lies in the ability to generate decent and affordable vertical housing schemes that can be accepted by Mexican families.”

Strategies: The design scheme resides on a linear packaging of basic services, storage and circulation which extends throughout the length of the property lot. Leaving a 20% coverage for patio space that contributes by giving a permeable space in the dense urban fabric of Misión de Huinalá. This input explores borders between the multiple layers of private and communal life, giving the importance to public facilities spaces the equally need as to own a private space.

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CROstudio team: Adriana Cuellar Marcel Sanchez Andrea Rubio Blas Herrera Ryan Goodwin Location: Misión de Huinala, Apodaca, Nuevo León, México Published: “Redensificacion Urbana”

by Infonavit, CIDS & Arquine (2018) Program: 4 apartments / 4 levels 1 commercial level Site: 90 m2 Built: 230.96 m2

Misión de Huinala

Redensification - CROstudio INFONAVIT

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Project type: Urban Research - published

Current Housing Conditions

1 Story Housing

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Growth type: Attachment

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Location: Front / Back / Up

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Housing type is dense in proportion of property, generating reductions for connectivity and recreation. Due to the characteristics of itʼs layout and the lack of infrastructure design, it limits growth possibilities in both housing and commercial activities.

Centralized housing emphasizes the individualization of families, causing less collective interactions. The allowed density in proportion of the property size generates division between the front and back patio, limiting growth and connection flexibility.

The individualization of families continues as the housing type remains centralized in proportion of the property size and layout.

Families tend to need an extra income and prefer to replace their parking space with a commercial front.

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Waste stadium - Simbiosis estudio ARCH OUT LOUD

Lagos Waste - Lab Competition brief: “How can we rethink a typically wasteful building type that is sited on a former waste landfill? What role might a hybrid stadium take to best serve the city?

How can this anchor serve as a role model for the circular economy, zero waste, material efficiency and reuse? Can it trascend sustainability beyond ecology?”

Strategy: Lagos contemporary conditions situated the city as an ongoing laboratory of ideas and realities. Acknowledging a new layer within the urban fabric “trash layer” the project seeks to reimagine the stadium as a power plant evolving into a new infrastructure for the city that generates energy by gathering waste through mapping a growing network of vessels connected to the dwellings. The stadium then becomes a disposal consumer and a power conceiver entity for Lagos.

Simbiosis team: Oscar Cortés Jorge Jiménez Andrea Rubio Location: Lagos, Nigeria Award: Director’s Choice Award Arch Out Loud International Competition (2018) Program: Stadium Waste Power Plant

Waste stadium - Simbiosis estudio ARCH OUT LOUD

Olusosun, Lagos, Nigeria

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Embarcadero - Simbiosis estudio PREMIO FELIX CANDELA

Embarcadero Memorial Competition brief: “In order to devise a memorial that commemorates the earthquakes of September 7 and 19 in 2017, more than a 1,000 participants accepted the challenge by designing without a place but only around one of the two epicenters and a critical position that would allow to find the architecture manifest of this memorial.”

Project type: Competition Simbiosis team: Oscar Cortés Jorge Jiménez Andrea Rubio Location: Embarcadero, Pijijiapan, Chiapas, México

Historically speaking, society has built commemorative monuments as containers of information that last a life time. The project explores the events of the earthquake as an absolute, repetitive and timeless accident that does not belong to a specific place or time. The intention of the monument is not to recreate regional tragedies but to honor the victims beyond a brief sensation. The proposal consists in a series of timeless monoliths that function as information entities spread over platforms, along with an infrastructure of activities that celebrate the memorial with it’s users.

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Architecture portfolio** https://issuu.com/andrearubio18/docs/andrea_rubio_ arq_2024 Fabrication portfolio** https://issuu.com/andrearubio18/docs/andrea_rubio_ fab2023_2

Simbiosis estudio (Mexico/US) https://issuu.com/simbiosis-estudio/docs/ws_-_espa_ol Directos Choice Award - Arch Out Loud https: //www.archoutloud.com/waste-results.html

APAN rural housing - CROstudio (Mexico) Architect magazine https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/ house-30-apan-housing-laboratory_o Publication “Del Territorio al Habitante” https://infonavit.smart-ed.mx/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file. pl?id=e163e73546a0eab83dbe48fec3e0abef AIA Design Awards - Proyectos Tijuana https://aiasandiego.org/design-awards-1/2019-design-awardsh2rzj

Barcelona, Spain

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