Portfolio 2023

Miguel Angel Juarez Salayandia

Architect 29 yrs old.

Monterrey, N.L Mexico

+52 (656) 280 1968

miguelsalayandia94@gmail.com

Profesional experience

JCV Arquitectura & Urbanismo / May 2022 - Current

Architect

Consulta Management Consulting / May 2019 - Jan 2022

Architecture manager

Corcuera Arquitectos / Sep 2017-Jan 2018 May-Aug-2018

Practitioner

Education

Monterrey N.L.

Monterrey N.L. - Mérida Yuc.

Monterrey N.L.

Architecture Bachelor - Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.

Highscool & Highscool junior

Portafolio

August 2012- December 2021

Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.

August 2006- May 2012

Monterrey N.L. Ciudad Juárez Chih.

https://issuu.com/anglezarkemoor/docs/portfolio_mj_2022

Awards & aknowledgements

Certified BIM & Revit course - March 2020

Owens Corning Living Inovations 2017 - 1st place

Cathedra TTQ - Building Information Modeling workshop - 2016

Skills

Self taught in ArchViz

Adaptability and versatility

Ease for teamwork

IT troubleshooting

Extracurricular

Serigraphy design workshop (2011)

Freelancing render and design (2016-Present)

Adept oil painter (2009-Present)

Horticulturist (2020- Present)

Feasible tools and languages

(Advanced) (Intermediate) (Basic)

Autocad Vray Lumion

SketchUp Photoshop Illustrator Office

3ds Max InDesign

Premiere Pro Revit

English

French

Spanish (Native) (TOEFL 600) (Basic)

Villa Roma Residential Housing

Wind study

A basic wind study shows the way the wind blows in order to show which facades can take advantage of this element to use it at best.

Sun study

Another part of the context which was well planed study used to maximize the amount of light that goes that require more shading.

Site Overview

A tailored house for a specific client.

This residence concept was designed around a very specific program that involved many needs such as private quaters along with guest and rent spaces.

The design itself it’s the product of analizing the client’s psycological needs.

This project took into account the site context and it’s surroundings in order to create an adecuate way to intervene.

planed about this residence was the sun goes in and to show the weak spots

Inner Courtyard with Pond

Isometric View

Sustainable Living

One of the main features of this residence is how it’s U shape allows views into all parts of the house within itself, the pond at the center can be equiped to treat gray waters.

Longitudinal Section

Ground Floor

Courtyard at night

Livingroom Interior

Among the client needs, a goal was a to connect the interior areas visibly speaking as much as possible thus the resulting in a vast amount of glazing all around that makes a seamless approach to the general design of the house.

Green roof and Terrace

The project asked for a major use of green areas, here a green roof serves as both a terrace space and as a eficient insulator for the areas below.

Earthly Colors

The idendity surroundhting the materials resonates the classical Fallingwater color palette giving a slight vintage but nonetheless elegant interior design .

Uptown House

Residential Housing

The project asked for a major use of green areas, here a green roof serves as both a terrace space and as a eficient insulator for the areas below.

It actually has the possibility of expanding is required.

A house for the 21 century

Uptown House is an unifamiliar home meant for a family of two and maybe three people in a future.

The concept is clearly form follows function, both in materials and space planning addressing the needs of the average family of the 21st Century. Creating a warm living environment through the inclusion of color, texture, space and honest use of materials.

expanding for additional space upstairs if another room

The foundation is concrete, the roof from asphalt, the frame from steel, and the walls from a mixture of materials including: glass,stucco, wood, metal, and synthetics.

Uptown House is a beautiful continuation of space. The rooms are liberating, flowing into one another even between floors through the double-height space. The construction system allowed that liberty of not using bearing walls or columns, allowing a free plan, standing out the fact that the house is small but genuine.

The project asked for a major use of green areas, here a green roof serves as both a terrace space and as a eficient insulator for the areas below.

Zirene Sand & Sea Living

Apartments building

Set to be completed on the beaches of Chixhulub Puerto just a 20 minute drive from Merida, Yucatan, this luxury apartment building is set to become one of the first projects of its kind in the go to summer vacation spot for locals as well as for many international residents looking for a retreat during winter time

⦁ 9 levels

⦁ 12 apartmental units

⦁ 3 configurations

⦁ 4200 sqm

One of the main goals for this development was to use as many local materials as posible to keep its true nature as a project in Yucatan

In order to satisfy all users, multiple amenities in the groundfloor as well in the rooftop were placed in acordance to familiar use and a more beach party vibe

The open ground floor space is one of the main characteristics of similar buildings and a must for locals that want a uninterrumped wide view to the beachfront

Credits

Architecture by:

Arkham Projects

Interior design

Concèntrico

Architectural vizualization:

Miguel Angel Juarez

Type A layout

Penthouse upper floor layout

The facade of the building is the main focus of the project as it becomes the introduction when accesing the property.

A set of steel plates and bolts hang on the edge from level to level in between the faces of each floor

The main idea behind this set of overlaping planes was to give a major sense of privacy and a sound proof solution due to the large amount of bars and restaurants nearby across the street.

UnoLiving Apartments building

A unique modular set

With a blooming real estate demand, the city of Merida, Yucatan is slowly transforming into a cosmopolitan center competing with neighbouring states and that same competition can be seen in between the many projects being constructued all over the safest city in Mexico.

⦁ 7 levels

⦁ 34 apartmental units

⦁ 6 configurations

⦁ 4200 sqm

Credits

Architecture by: Arkham Projects

Architectural vizualization: Miguel Angel Juarez

A growing demand for flexible layouts

While a large number of apartment configurations comes with many design and construction disadvantages it cannot be overlook that the current real estate market in this particular city carries a wide array of clients with particular interest for their investments.

Single bedroom spaces are popular among single and newly wed as well divorcees

Two bedroom for families or as co living spaces

Interestingly theres a demand for three bedroom configurations where one of the bedrooms is cut off from the rest of the space, typically for Airbnb uses.

Most of these types of projects demand a minimum set of amenities that play a key role on the market placement the project will have

Taller de Plata San Pedro

Comunity Development

A comunity workshop for local artists

This project aims to relocate a silver jewlery workshop into an old warehouse used by the local municipality as storage.

This project required mostly the renovation of an old space keeping the same structure as well to accomodate an existing program composed mostly of machinery and work processes.

A concept of the inside

Site View

Parque Las Fuentes

Comunity Develpment

A new chapter for this terrain in Las Fuentes neighborhood.

This terrain original occupants were ousted by the local goverment and this left a wastedland in the middle of a neghborhood in San Pedro, N.L,

This project aims to revitalize the site with a park with a tight budget, this resulted in concrete benches and pots for trees as a way to give a sense of use of the space at a low cost.

A shading strucutre was proposed in the center of the project as a meeting point for users.

The low cost material employed had to bear the weather and be of low mainenance in order to fullfill the client needs, in this case raw concrete.

The low cost material employed had to bear the weather and be of low mainenance in order to fullfill the client needs, in this case raw concrete.

Three

main areas were requested for this project, a meeting place in the center of the park, a playground area for kids and an excersise area for runners.

Auditorio Arizona Comunity Development

Addition of computer workspace, there are often many times in which for some reason or another students lack the tools or software necesary to fullfill their academic needs, thus some cad computers should be available 24/7

The goal is to bring many scattered spaces as close create an additional support area for the main workshop crowded in exam season.

close as possible, the main goal is to workshop space next door that often gets

One of the main activities realized at the Architecture workshop at ITESM are presentations, from guest speakers to students presenting their work, therefore an stage in order to realize that is needed, thats what this project aims to fulfill.

The main focus of design for this project was the implementation of BIM (Building Information Modeling) and here in these samples are some technical details about HVAC as seen in the isometry and the section detail.

HVAC Section Detail.

The demand in the city of Monterrey for mixed use buildings keeps growing each year and therefore this project aims to fulfill those needs, this building’s space is divided into comercial, restaurants and offices.

First level commercial space.

Commercial space.

Restaurtant space.

The use of Revit and BIM here showcases the advantages of wokring a functional 3D model which can highlight most detail with an unique accuracy which allows for it to detect an sort out design problems

This HVAC isometry shows all the ducts and machinery as well as their components allowing for a seamesly understanding of the system in the project.

Upper level office spaces.

Felix U. Gomez 1107

Mixed Use Buildings

Design process

The methodoligy of design and diagrams used to give form and shape the set of buildings relies mainly on the context of the site and it’s surroundings. In this case a series of diagrams based on wind flow simulation was choosen as our primary imput of information.

Conceptual mass

Based on the lines created by the wind tunnel, shapes and we extruded them based on the architectural create.

Wind tunnel simulation using Autodesk Flow Design Program distribution by levels

we managed to create closed architectural program we wanted to

A multipurpose urban development

This mixed use proposal is located in downtown Monterrey Mexico and along many other projects and proposals in this area, it is focused to revive the urban area in the center of the city after years of decline.

The program

The lower levels of the complex are meant to include commerce and restaurants meanwhile two towers are dedicated to living quarters and the third tower is used as office space.

The result

After analyzing the given data a set of three buildings was shaped following the program and a design process derived from initial context diagrams, the landscaping is meant to connect as a transition the peculiar form of the site with it’s surrounds.

Final layout of the complex

Residential Tower Section

The first of the three towers designed for this project consists on this irregular shaped form that uses the same slab shape but rotates a certain amount of degrees after each level.

Residential Tower Section

The second tower for this project resulted according to the interpretation of data in a long cresent shape which was best suited for housing units as most of the residences here have 2 opposite faces towards outside facades.

Circulation

Evevator shaft

Staricase

Apartments

In between buildings

The empty space in between structures is meant to become a micro city withing thus blending the inside of the site with its urban surroundings.

Comercio Restaurant e Circulacion Estacionamient o Kyo Radiant

A building frozen in time

Formerly a popular and succesful sort of Home Depot like store, this logging workshop became a unique art deco jewel within the city of Monterrey. However, it has been abbandoned for almost 80 years and it has been left untouch to decay since it closed its doors.

The lack of realiable parking space surrounding the site and existing regulations made it almost impossible to add more parking space, thus a mechaninc parking tower was thoguht to be the best solution to this proyect.

Layered Section Juxtaposition Structure

The site occupies half an apple in urban space which seems vast at first, but the dealings of the family that owns the space have split up the building in 2 spaces, one to be demolished and replaced with a highrise, meanwhile the other half seeks to be saved with is original facade in place.

The stategy used to renovate the building seeks to lightweight and neutral tone structure that adds more would work along the existing concrete columns left

Distribucion espacial del p rograma encort e transversal.

to preserve the main facade as it is, white adding a more space and relies on a steel beam system that on the original rooftop possibly to add another level

A push for more cultural movement

Many thought were put in place as for that the program for the renewed Madereria should be, in the end two levels of comercial stores, including a library, one level of office space split into three zones and the whole top floor as restaurant seem like the right balance of mixed use for the rebirth of a once popular spot.

A place to congregate Working Space

Libraries often atract people of all ages with ease even when most of the customers possibly won’t buy a book, but other business like a coffee shop can benefit from those same customers. This part is the only major demolition of the original building, taking away a whole slab module in order to create a more open and vivid space filled with light and giving a glimpse of the mysterious space within the back of the buidling.

The idea behind adding office space seeks to bring a regular flow of people to the building and as a contemporary office , it becomes a hotspot being in the middle of downtown Monterrey, whereas most fancy

Ground Floor

The general layout seeks to be as transparent as possible, while trying to be as efficient with shared service areas for different comerce spaces.

Office space

The general design gives up to thre offfice zones with a single set of bathrooms, storage and lunch area, this gives the oportu-

offices are in San Pedro, this office space can take advantage of its surroundings.

Rooftop Restaruant

A very important goal in the design of the top floor was that it’s structure should be blind on the main facade for a neutral juxtaposition, therefore the terrace and glazing on the top floor look towards the inside rather than to the main street, a big mural seems like a great idea for a vibrant interior space rathen that a non conventional, possibly expensive and thoughtless “green wall” (A simple approach almost all my classmates concluded)

nity to host three different tenants or a single one resulting in different departments for a better organized space, either way works great.

The rooftop restaurant is divided in one outdoor area and another indoor area, for a variety of options depending on the weather, the kitchen relies on the ground floor for storage and aditional services.

Constitución 1017 Urban Development

Some deep thoguhts on the city and its river

This proyect as a whole seeks to intervene in many parts of the city along the Saint Catherine River that cuts through Monterrey and defines many of the urban systems on which the transport infraestructure relies on.

The border along the river and the city currently near non existent an this project seeks to define said border and how it conects the river, a major landmark and the urban development next to it, this particular study lays on the very center downtonw area of Monterrey near its historical district.

Natural Challenges

Riverbed would be a more precise term for the landsacpe that goes a long the river as this is dry most of the year save for times where torrential rains overcome the sewage system and the ocasional tropical storms every decade or so which can bring massive disaster by overflowing the causeway.

It is then that one wonders, how can such a unpredictable terrain become usable at all?

A Urban Hub

The second challenge approaches how this area can connect on a massive scale to the rest of the city and it’s unpredictable neighboor next door.

What posible use can the site perform is not quite clear at this point as we strive to understand it’s urban surroundings, for now the default will be a mixed use center.

Its all about transport

Monterrey unfortuantely relies heavily on automobile vehicles and unsurprisingly the major and most troubled highways run along the border to the river, a series of studies in this project tries to explore alternative measures to bring down car use.

Highrise becomes experimental

Uneasy at first, our profesors suggest we toy around the idea of a highrise building with a complementary building surronding it and blending the historic distring behind it and the modern frontside that.

One of the main activities realized at the Architecture workshop at ITESM are presentations, from guest speakers to students presenting their work, therefore an stage in order to realize that is needed, thats what this project aims to fulfill

The river: what to do with you?

The main actor of the project is also the most difficult one to yield to a solution that everyone can agree on (literally). Any sort of intervention withing the river causeway will be sweept away the next time nature unfolds itself, so what can be done about it.

Half something and a half nothing

As if the urban hub and the river were two enemies, we took a negociator approach and we did something that gives both parts what they want.

A stepped terrace structure unfolds on a side of the causeway, connecting the lineal park in front of the complex to the river as seamless as possilble, thus giving its way for the next big storm to pass unchallenged, and even then, if such storm wont forgive the terraces, they aren’t more than just grass and concrete.

The tower would employ a double facade system with 40% glazing and 60% solid panels for added efficency. A mechaninsm of manual lourvers and hatches would allow for external ventilation to flow inside as desired by users.

Polygon 29-Escobedo N.L.

Urban Development

The existing streets were too wide for the current population and the sidewalks were in disrepair, because of this the choice was to make them wider and take on the unused street space.

Bringing social change through urban improvments

The urban polygon within this project shows particular levels of poverty mixed with other social economic levels in this area in the municipality of Escobedo N.L.

Althrough the low income largely dominates the majority of the area, a series of empty property plots and a wide street along the study area make way for a set of urban solutions that could change the way people that live there think about their neightborhood.

Pocket Parks are poweful spaces fueled by simple ideas.

Water features can be a burden to mantain but even a small fountain like this paves way for a unique and ethereal atmosphere that anyone within reach of a walk can enjoy

Larger unused plots can host a whole parkwith enough space left for any sort of activities to take place there.

Many small business benefit from spaces like pocket parks by making the stay of their users longer and pleasant.

Creating theme spaces across the polygon.

Earlier studies showed a diverse population living inside the site and it was then when the idea to give everyone a space to enjoy became the main goal for the layout of the pocket parks, a total of nine designs were spread around the map.

Foodtrucks

As stated before, parks are places where people convene, and small business can thrive more succesfully, this park has an inner street on one side to allow foodtrucks park withour disrupting the street traffic, some seating for eating at site and finally a fenced playground for kids to hang out within vinicity of their parents.

Water Jets

Another water feature, with a garden an a fun twist, water jets flow up from the ground to splash anyone close enough, the kind of enjoyment that can motivate a kid to leave his house with his/her parents for some family time.

Skating

A skate ground can make a safer street automobile users and a safe enviroment for skaters as this reduces the likeness one will run into another resulting in a common tragedy.

With the right treatment some wood ramps could stand up to the sunlight, rain and of course the skating, if not some raw concrete can do the job at a lower cost with a longer lifetime.

Excercise

For both young and middle aged adults, this aims to attrac those who either way are too old for skating or would rather not break a bone trying.

A half a basketball field allows for the space to also include a mixed excerise and training area that can be used in a numer of ways to bring more users, besides, it is also to make a point soccer as popular as it might be is not the only sport.

Open Air Theater

This larger plot is well suited to host a series of large seating steps at the back for a elevated view that can serve in a number of ways, a musician, some story telling , even a major neighbors meeting could take place, the only limit is the size, then its up to the users.