ANDRÉS CRUZ ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2019
Politecnico di Torino / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
He l l o!
My name is Andres Felipe Cruz Rodriguez and this portfolio contains the most relevant academic architecture projects and competitions produced during the undergraduate program in the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, and now in the double degree program at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy (2014-2019).
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AGRICULTURAE Turin, Italy
Urbanism & Arch. Design, 2019
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OSTANA RESORT
Ostana, Italy
Arch. Design, 2018
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FAROL DO PORTO
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Urbanism & Arch. Design, 2018
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PHOTOSYMBIOSIS
Bogotá, Colombia
Urbanism & Arch. Design, 2018
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LOCANDA RETRO Stupinigi, Italy
Arch. Design, 2019
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CUBE HOUSE
Los Santos, Colombia Arch. Design, 2015
03 COMPETITIONS MÁQUINA VERDE
Cartagena, Colombia
Urbanism & Arch. Design, 2017
RÍO DE CALI
Cali, Colombia
Urbanism, 2018
POLLI NATION
Suqian, China
Urbanism, 2017
01 CURRICULUM VITAE
CURRICULUM VITAE |
01 Andrés Felipe Cruz Rodríguez Bucaramanga, Colombia 09 / 08 / 1996 +39 327 1177624
Via Broni 3, Turin, Italy acruz@cruzrodriguez.co
SKILLS Rhinoceros Google Sketchup Revit Grasshopper AutoCAD Lumion
V-Ray Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe After Effects
ATTITUDES & APTITUDES Proactive Positive Attitude Honesty Emphaty Self Security
Versatility Teamwork Solve Problems Initiative Leadership
EDUCATION Politecnico di Torino 2018 - Today
Undergraduate Double Degree and MSc. Architecture for the Sustainable Design | Turin, Italy
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2014 - 2018 4 Years of the Architecture Carreer | Bogotá, Colombia Eurocentres 2013 - 2014
English Language Exchange | London, England
Fundación Colegio UIS 2013 High School Diploma | Bucaramanga, Colombia
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LANGUAGES Spanish (Native) English B2 IELTS Exam Italian B2 Istituto Italiano di Cultura
EXPERIENCE Cruz Rodriguez Arquitectura 2015 - Today
Architecture Collaborator and Creative Director | Bucaramanga, Colombia
Politecnico di Torino 2019
EDGE Certification in the Solar Decathlon Latin America & Caribbean 2019 | Turin, Italy
CODIARCO Ltda 2018
Architecture Collaborator in the “Alcaldia Local de Santa Fé” Competition | Bogotá, Colombia
Colombian Society of Architects (SCA) Students Collective 2016 - 2018 Regional Coordinator Bogotá D.C and Cundinamarca | Bogotá, Colombia DAMM Arquitectura 2017
Natian Cup International Design Competition | Bogotá, Colombia
Colectivo MU 2017
Volunteer in the Architectural renovation of the Bogotá Heritage City Center | Bogotá, Colombia
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2017
Premios Corona 2017 Architecture Competition | Bogotá, Colombia
DAMM Arquitectura 2016
ALACERO Architecture Students Competition 2016 | Bogotá, Colombia
AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS Hackathon PUJ 2018 First Place 2018 Diaspora Project | Bogotá, Colombia Premios Corona 2017 Second Place (Share) 2017 Maquina Verde Project| Bogotá, Colombia (CHAT) ELIER 2018
Exhibition and discussion best students projects | Bogotá, Colombia
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02 ACADEMIC WORK 10
AGRICULTURAE Turin, Italy
Urbanism & Arch. Design, 2019
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OSTANA RESORT
Ostana, Italy
Arch. Design, 2018
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FAROL DO PORTO
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Urbanism & Arch. Design, 2018
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PHOTOSYMBIOSIS
Bogotรก, Colombia
Urbanism & Arch. Design, 2018
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LOCANDA RETRO Stupinigi, Italy
Arch. Design, 2019
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CUBE HOUSE
Los Santos, Colombia Arch. Design, 2015
YEAR: 2019 | LOCATION: TURIN, IT | TYPE: URBANISM & ARCHITECTURE | ACADEMIC WORK |
AGRICULTURAE THE GREEN PRODUCTIVE MACHINE
The old FIAT factory located in the Mirafiori neighborhood in Turin, Italy had a large residential urban core due to the number of workers they had in their industries. After technological advances in the automotive sector, the workforce in the factory began to decline and the neighborhood began to empty until it became a desolate and totally disconnected sector of the city.
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02 Work Team Andres Cruz Alessia Cavallini Christophe Bovet Giulia Viglianco
The inhabitants and the new policies, have generated new urban and architectural proposals to recover the sector but unfortunately none has been able to find a correct solution. At this time is when “Agriculturae� is born, a proposal that seeks through urban agriculture that is the main economic activity of the sector, revive and recover the area.
Mirafiori Residential Buildings Today
The Productive Machine
Mirafiori Urban Sections
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The Productive Machine Section
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With sustainability and agriculture as its focus, it is proposed to replace the residential nature of the sector with a new productive character in which a large urban green machine is generated capable of becoming a new point of economic and tourist attraction for the city. As for the existing buildings, the reuse of them is proposed giving a new internal use with vertical farms capable of producing food and crops throughout the year. On the other hand, new spaces are created such as the Bio Market, the Kiwis Square, the Laboratories and Control Tower where tourists can buy products and be an active part of the project, understanding the entire process of the large production machine.
Horizontal Farm
Food Laboratory
Bio Market
Vertical Farm
Residential Complex
Control Tower
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YEAR: 2019 | LOCATION: OSTANA, IT | TYPE: ARCHITECTURE | ACADEMIC WORK |
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OSTANA RESORT
PANORAMIC RESORT IN THE MOUNTAINS
Work Team Andres Cruz Donatella Bate Daniel Olivares Elisabetta Manzzuco
Located in Ostana, Italy next to the Po Valley, the complex is located in an area characterized by a particular panoramic view: the Italian Alps and the Monviso mountain range, which become the focal point of the project. For this reason, we try to identify a design strategy that allows us to establish a solid connection between the host and the landscape richness of the surrounding context.
Ostana Resort is a project that places in its base the interest for a sustainable architecture that allows architecture and nature to interact. The building consists of five modules connected and connected to each other, which, thanks to the semicircular structure of the structure, rotate adapting to the topography of the territory, framing and highlighting different views of the landscape.
Organizational Space Chart
Project Areas
Vegetation Analysis
Solid Transformation
Sun Analysis
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Panoramic Restaurant
Familiar Room
In the center of the hostel is the main module, in which public spaces such as reception, bar and restaurant are located. Through its lateral wings, rooms and spaces directed to other hotel activities, such as spa, gym and multipurpose room are distributed. On the other hand, for the rooms different types are proposed that adapt to the needs of the users, from individual rooms to family rooms all enjoying a view that allows a connection with nature during your stay.
Duplex Room
Finally, the hotel’s internal-external relationship is carried out through a garden staircase that, thanks to the different levels at which it develops, allows guests to go out, experience and live the mountain.
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Axonometric Exploded View
Urban Planning
Facades and Sections
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YEAR: 2018 | LOCATION: RIO DE JANEIRO, BR | TYPE: URBANISM & ARCHITECTURE | ACADEMIC WORK |
FAROL DO PORTO TWENTY FIRST CENTURY HABITAT RIO
As Rio de Janeiro is a city full of nightlife, festivals, and outgoing culture, the project bases its concept on the stage city, seeing great potential in the industrial area of Porto Maravilha, located a few blocks from SAMBODROMO, a specially used place for the most important culture and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Facades
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Work Team Andres Cruz Juliana Jimenez Juan Felipe Robayo
The enclosure is located in the area of the recovered maritime port, where tourists from many parts of the world are expected to arrive, thus seeing the opportunity to develop spaces for tourism, economic activities, business and large companies.
Urban Masterplan
Farol do Porto is a project that seeks to integrate and complement a master plan for the city sector in which a 6-star hotel, private offices, a coworking and spaces destined for large-scale commerce are proposed internally. The building through its morphological dynamism and its height aims to become a new point of reference for the city giving the similarity to a lighthouse in the port. As for its design, the building is divided into 3 very well structured phases that being the same building allow the privatization of spaces without any problem for the user and without the need to limit their movement in the project. Constructive Section Detail
Sections
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YEAR: 2017 | LOCATION: BOGOTĂ , CO | TYPE: URBANISM & ARCHITECTURE | ACADEMIC WORK |
PHOTOSYMBIOSIS GENETIC AND BIOMIMETIC ARCHITECTURE
Just as the hacker finds the weaknesses of an operating system, to enter it and modify its information through a virus. The project finds the existing weaknesses of architecture and urbanism, and spreads the photosymbiosis virus, which acts as a large network, which mutates evolves and controls the architecture, creating living systems from the non-living. Urban project scheme
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02 Work Team Andres Cruz Juliana Jimenez Maria Paz Novoa
An organism is considered alive by having a metabolism, an inheritance and a body and being able to self-organize, grow and reproduce. It seeks to replicate these three characteristics of a living organism, in this case the microalgae, generating a lively, mobile architecture capable of evolving through a parametric membrane in the wetland.
Urban Planning
Urban Species
Parametric Conections
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YEAR: 2019 | LOCATION: STUPINIGI, IT | TYPE: URBANISM & INTERIOR DESIGN | ACADEMIC WORK |
LOCANDA RETRO
Work Team Andres Cruz Stefano Guerra Paola Pensato
INTERIOR REACTIVATION OF THE OLD BARN
The old hunting palace of Stupinigi is a historically important site for the inhabitants of the city of Turin that over time has been denigrating and becoming a pole of attraction for prostitution and sale of narcotics. The state with the support of the inhabitants of Stupinigi seek to recover and revalue the sector. Exhibitions and Library
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Tasting Room
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The proposal generates the revival of the old stables creating new artistic spaces for the community where you can find exhibition halls, libraries, a tasting area of the famous Stupinigi cheese and wine and new spaces for collaborative work. All these spaces being converted into inclusive spaces for all types of users. Workshop Space
Facades and Sections
Perspective Section
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YEAR: 2015 | LOCATION: LOS SANTOS, CO | TYPE: ARCHITECTURE | ACADEMIC WORK |
CUBE HOUSE COCOONING ARCHITECTURE
The spatial character occurs in the division of small modular spaces contained within a larger module that generates architectural qualities such as double height, space optimization, the conformation of intermediate spaces and the representative character that generates the movement of the sun and the light inputs. Facades
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Work Team Andres Cruz Manuela Castro
Within the dimensional study of the accessories that are part of the house there is a minimum repetitive pattern of 0.70m, which is taken as the base module of composition. Accessories that are grouped or distributed giving rise to spaces that modulate each other corresponding to a series of dimensioning logics.
In the project, the elements that appear are classified in 4 clearly defined and with a specific function that makes it fundamental in the proposal Articulating element: It is the main axis and by which the whole house is related both horizontally and vertically. When projected on the roof allows us to bring a beam of light inside throughout the day, this gives a unique orientation of the project and a notable decrea-
se in energy expenditure. Social element: It is made up of social or meeting spaces. Its main activity is to concentrate and group. Private element: They are the spaces given to the exclusive use of the main family nucleus, this is achieved by placing it on the second floor, it is flexible in terms of its use as required by users. Wet element: It arises from the concentration of spaces intended for both personal and domestic hygiene.
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MÁQUINA VERDE
Cartagena, Colombia
Urbanism & Arch. Design, 2017
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RÍO DE CALI
Cali, Colombia
Urbanism, 2018
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POLLI NATION
Suqian, China
Urbanism, 2017
YEAR: 2017 | LOCATION: CARTAGENA, CO | TYPE: URBANISM & ARCHITECTURE | COMPETITIONS |
MÀQUINA VERDE
PROGRESSIVE GREEN SOCIAL HOUSING
Maquina Verde proposes the recovery of the natural ecosystem of the Ciénaga de la Virgen, its mangroves, and the channel of the Chiricoco and Limón streams located in the city of Cartagena. The use of bamboo guadua and participatory design tools with the community are the two main ideas of the proposal whose objective is improve, strengthen and recover the three ecologies. Social Housing Comparison
Urban Section
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Work Team Carlos Hernandez Colectivo NT
The guadua bamboo, the structuring element of the project is a fast-growing and versatile management seedling that is used for the elaboration of structural, dividing and enclosure elements in homes, warehouses, warehouses, furniture, and handicrafts. In this way, guadua allows generating a sustainable productive cycle of which users are the main agents.
Project Scenarios
Structural Model
Guadua Bamboo Plantation
Entering the architectural proposal, the quality and the urban environment derive from the efficient use of the land and the house with possibilities of growth through its progressive and incremental character. The proposal integrates the possibility that each individual or family implements or completes the home through the specific parameters of the structural, bearing and roof design. The sense of articulation and efficiency in housing is
presented as an opportunity to bridge the gaps caused by the segregation and exclusion of the most vulnerable communities in Cartagena as a replicable model for other areas of the country. In addition, the project exceeds the reductionist logic of traditional minimum housing standards with 45 square meters, fostering the ability to self-manage based on individual, family and collective well-being.
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YEAR: 2018 | LOCATION: CALI, CO | TYPE: URBANISM | COMPETITIONS |
RĂ?O DE CALI LINEAL GREEN PARK OF CALI
The proposal for the Rio de Cali contest is a project that turns the river’s green corridor into an integrating element of the city, where users can enjoy a large, continuous and public urban park. The new corridor of the city is equipped with bike paths, communal facilities, beach areas and spaces for passive observation. Urban Spaces and Activities
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Work Team Cruz Rodriguez Arquitectura Colectivo Torino
It have also large areas for sports, artistic and cultural events, itinerant markets, all of them with free access and circulation being a fundamental axis in the environmental education and protection of fauna and flora present in Cali.
Urban Planning
Through the connection of important roads, new trails and visual points are generated around the ecological park which it is not only perceived as a lung for the city, but also a creator of new environmental networks that connect the city with other green existing axes
The proposal has as its main focus the conservation of all existing trees within the park. The triangulation system is generated from the location of the tree trunks and the new level of the park flush creating a three-dimensional topographic effect.
Urban Axonometries
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YEAR: 2017 | LOCATION: SUQIAN, CN | TYPE: URBANISM | COMPETITIONS |
POLLI NATION NATIAN CUP COMPETITION 2017
To understand de focus of the proposal for Suqian axis between Luoma Lake and Santaishan National Park, it’s crucial to highlight the natural process of Polli Nation as an urban methodology that will organize the existing natural ecosystems as “public-space amplifiers” in order to reconnect the city and potentiate its civic life.
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Work Team DAMM Arquitectura Colectivo NT
The main objective of this intervention is to integrate the existing city net with the present Green environment and the actual water ecosystems spread all around the area that will relate the city throughout a public natural infrastructure that transports, connects and relates its users with the constructed context.
The sustainable energy investigation stripe, proposes a perpendicular connection in relation with Luoma Lake Axis that will permit spacial and social relations among the city in al type of urban scales. This stripe based on a voronoid net, proposes a new relation with the public space by an undulate surface that will create all type of interactions in buildings and new relations among what is public and what is private. Urban Polli Nation Species
Conceptual Polli Nation Section
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