Portfolio + CV - Diego Ballesteros Campa

Undergraduate portfolio | Diego Ballesteros Campa | ETSAM

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DIEGO BALLESTEROS CAMPA

WORK EXPERIENCE TOUR GUIDE VOLUNTEER 2017 - 2019

OPEN HOUSE Once a year, showing different buildings from Madrid and dealing with people. Buildings were shown to thousands of people each event.

LANGUAGES SPANISH NATIVE

Native language.

ENGLISH FCE B2

FCE certificate (B2) at Beda Language School.

FRENCH TCF B2

TCF certificate (B2) at Institut Français Madrid.

SPANISH BACCALAUREATE & HIGH SCHOOL 2010 - 2016

IG: @arqdbc 28030, Moratalaz.

Madrid

PROFILE A motivated, enthusiastic, responsible and hard-working architecture student that can work well in a team. My technical knowledge about computer programs and other facts makes me useful when working in group, as well as individually. I am willing to help my team-mates, and ready to learn while working with them. Always learning from mistakes.

HARDWARE RHINOCEROS

STUDIES ARCHITECTURE DEGREE 2016 - ACTUAL

ballesdiego98@gmail.com

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

ETSAM - UPM

AUTOCAD

Reaching Architecture degree in Madrid. First and second year with an average grade of B. Currently in the third year.

SKETCHUP

IES REY PASTOR

GRASSHOPPER

High school’s B grade average.

Baccalaureate’s B grade average.

ILLUSTRATOR

PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATION 2019

With Honours mention. Coll-Barreu teaching unit. www.archive.dpa-etsam.com.

EXPOSITION 2018

Exhibition in educational exchange in the Seville University. Grupo 4 teaching unit.

PUBLICATION 2018

Publication of architectural projects. Grupo 4 unit.

PUBLICATION 2021

Publication of urban projects. Córdoba + Verdaguer unit.

TWINMOTION (RENDER) VRAY MAIN OFFICE SOFTWARE

SKILLS GRAPHIC DESIGN

AWARDS HONOURABLE MENTION

2019

RENDERING

DOCEXDOCE COMPETITION The project ZENTER was about a Technological Centre placed in Zurich.

MODELING DRAWING

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INDEX ARCHITECTURE Weight qualities 3D_PRINT Dédalo Underground winery vGhost_Reality

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BIG SCALE Mahou-Calderón Algo pasa en Bustarviejo

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EXPERIMENTAL Architecture and landscape: drawing works Architecture composition Beijin’s Airport - Grasshopper parametrization

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COMPETITIONS Zenter

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WEIGHT QUALITIES Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID DEC 2017 COLAB WITH Pablo Ruz Sampalo | Francisco Durán | Gonzalo Gefaell TUTORS Javier Mosquera | Jesús Ulargui | Sergio de Miguel DESCRIPTION The course consisted of a search for architecture through experimentation with physical objects. Intuitively and somewhat abstractly, these objects fragmented, separated, divided again, evolved, divided again and mutated.

As the course progressed, more concrete concepts were sought, deriving the course in a search for architecture through objects considered “heavy” or “light”. In each of the phases of the course, the materials were explored and pushed to their limits.

After obtaining these items, they suddenly became dwellings. It was necessary to exercise the action of inhabiting those sculptures that had been fragmented and modified several times.

Once achieved, these sculptures multiplied, and became larger, capable of covering dozens of homes. These groups also had to be associated with other groups of other classmates, in order to create a neighborhood in which everything was balanced.

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3D_PRINT Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID MAY 2019 TUTORS Ignacio Peydro AWARDS Nominated to With Honors by DPA LOCATION District of Tetuán, Madrid, Spain.

DESCRIPTION Tetuán is a very heterogeneous district located in the north of Madrid. In it you can see many differences, both social and architectural, in the different neighborhoods that comprise it. The project will be located in the proximity of Cosmos Street, in the district of Valdecarros, in a rather poor area that was inhabited by shanties. Subsequently, many homes were expropriated, leaving now a large area to be resolved.

The purpose of the project is to offer the neighborhood housing for around 400 people. To do this, a search is made for a new way of colonization, similar to the old shanties and adapted to XXI century’s technology. The solution is 3D-PRINT, that allows a new form of colonization which is regulated, and each house is different. All of this is complemented with the necessary facilities for the support of the machines responsible for printing the furniture. The result is a building made with a printing tower, in which 3D-PRINT machines and humans live together.

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DÉDALO Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID DEC 2019 TUTORS Miguel Kreisler LOCATION Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain.

DESCRIPTION It is a multisport complex built in Ciudad Universitaria, in Madrid, near the athletics track. The project consists of a large concrete mass, made up of numerous blocks that are sized to collect a series of sports. These volumes are concatenated with each other, forming a large framework that filters the light when it passes through the building. The human scale cannot be distinguished until it is inside it, thus giving a landmark image. The building aims to crown an area dedicated to sports, and that is why it is oriented with views towards the athletics track, down the hill, as if it were a great monument to sports.

The disparity of sizes in the blocks allows not only to host sports of a very different nature, but also to create outdoor spaces that serve as a meeting point for those who use the building. In addition, they are all connected inside, forming a kind of labyrinth that the wind can travel through, as if it were an organ. On the façade, numerous large-scale openings receive both the entry of the wind and the light, from multiple directions, which bounces and seeps into the intricacies of the interior, producing different effects depending on the conditions of the same.

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UNDERGROUND WINERY Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID DEC 2020 TUTORS Arturo Franco LOCATION Alcudia, Mallorca, Spain.

DESCRIPTION Project that was born to give use to the old Thermal Power Plant of Alcúdia, currently abandoned.

After investigating the conditions of the town, the enormous dependence that it has on tourism. After assuming that Alcúdia cannot detach from tourism, or survive without it, a performance is decided to empower it.

Among the many types of tourism, one of the most money-generating in Balearic Islands is gastronomic tourism. However, Alcúdia does not have a place to practice it, since most restaurants are fast food.

That is why it was decided to make a center dedicated to enoturiso, in which priority is given to an abandoned building of great architectural value as is the central. To do this, she strips herself of everything around her and is left alone, along with its chimneys, reigning the port. Now it will be a renovated space and renovated, dedicated to the enjoyment of wine, as well as art.

The rest of the dependencies in charge of making that possible (that is, of wine production) will be buried in a large platform that he was already in dialogue with the central office before abandoning himself. Thus a building is created directly related to the plant, and to the sea.

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VGHOST_REALITY Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID MAY 2021 COLAB WITH Miguel Zoya Keller TUTORS Pedro Pitarch | Silvia Colmenares LOCATION Hlebozavod Nº9, Moscow, Russia.

DESCRIPTION The project consists of developing new construction methodologies in the old Bread Factory Nº9 in Moscow that will be adapted for the next few years in the new Post-Carbon world. The plot will be used as a place of experimentation, in which these methodologies will know their limits.

The project was born with the aim of readapting and preparing architecture for this new stage, in which society becomes aware of the current problems posed by the greenhouse effect and proposes solutions. Thus begins a search for new construction methodologies that reduce the carbon footprint produced by architecture.

The system of realities takes center stage, in which borders are crossed and allow architecture to reach hitherto impossible limits. Thanks to augmented reality we can modify physical reality, creating a mixed reality with infinite possibilities. Programs, experiences, atmospheres. Nothing is final.

Everything is unique and customizable.

It is intended to use this new construction methodology in a wide variety of uses, such as theaters, academies, co-working spaces, greenhouses, parks, gyms, virtual recreational facilities, laboratories and experimental temporary housing. All these uses are located in the environment of the bread factory, where people can enjoy unique experiences. Everything is possible.

To do this, they will use augmented reality glasses more ergonomic than the current ones, from which they will be able to enjoy the system that is developed with the project. All this is supported by a large data and service infrastructure with which we develop our application, which allows users to jump between different realities within the same space, completely changing the environment that surrounds them.

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MAHOU-CALDERÓN Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID DEC 2020 COLAB WITH Alberto Coronado Díaz | Marcos García Hurtado | Miguel Navarro Flores TUTORS Sonia de Gregorio | Álvaro Ardura LOCATION Old Vicente Calderón Stadium location, Madrid, Spain.

DESCRIPTION The project is born from a great area of opportunity ​​ that has left the demolition of the old Vicente Calderón Stadium and the Mahou factory. The The aim of the project is, first of all, to establish a connection that will beyond the physical, and cause a transit in which diversity and the comfort. After this point of union, it is intended that the whole place is more homogeneous with respect to the opportunities of people and services that they can get from the place. Therefore, the pillars of the project are to create a new infrastructure that works on the north side of the Manzanares River and greatly improve the conditions of the neighbors who live in the area South, which is currently very neglected and with a clear lack of dignification. A vegetation gradient is established that goes from greater density from the San Isidro park, to a lower density, but present, in the Mahou area. As we do with buildings: greater density in the imperial neighborhood, and lower in the park crossed the river.

We improve the accessibility between the two neighborhoods and their connection with the city of Madrid. We implement trade in low ground to improve and support the local commerce, and we generate a city mode based on the development sustainable, generating the same green areas as buildings, we pedestrianize the road and eliminate the presence of the parked car. For the San Isidro area we carried out the same operation, very similar to that of Madrid Central, we change the road and locate which are the premises abandoned and disused plots, to promote urban spaces that revitalize our scope of work.

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ALGO PASA EN BUSTARVIEJO Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID MAY 2019 COLAB WITH Javier Cabero Esteban | Marcos García Hurtado | Laura Mira Romay TUTORS Rafael Córdoba | Carlos Verdaguer LOCATION Bustarviejo, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.

DESCRIPTION The town square should be a place of claim, a place traveled and frequented throughout the day, either by tourists or by the inhabitants themselves Township. We propose a completely mobile space, delimited to the east of the square by some modules own design, retractable and with the possibility of function as a commercial space, warehouses... On the one hand, commercial activity is promoted of the area; on the other, a place of approach and socalización for the neighbors. The area of storage has 2 meters deep to be able to protect all the urban furniture proposal, which leaves the warehouses and populates the square, adapting to the users: seat, relaxation, food, play... revitalize our scope of work.

However, in the second proposal, also we rehabilitate a park located north of the town, 50 meters from the square. This park is located on the hillside and has a great unevenness, which makes its operation very difficult, as well as access to it. That is why we generate a staggering that also serves as a place leisure and rest, green areas, maintaining also the vegetation of the park and a climbing wall.

These spaces, in addition to recreation, will provide sun protection and wind barrier, predominant south-east. The union of both spaces is made by means of a striking colored pavement. Once in the enabled square, a tiled path will be followed which takes them to the new park.

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ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE: DRAWING WORKS Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID MAY 2020 TUTORS José de Coca Leicher | Luis de Fontcuberta | Mara Sánchez Llorens LOCATION “El Rastro”, Madrid, Spain.

DESCRIPTION Compilation of quick drawings made with watercolor and other techniques in a small format. The objective has been to find, through painting, a method to propose architecture, as well as a method to represent project ideas.

To do this, in the first place they experiment with techniques, taking as references very diverse artists, and imitating them. Concepts such as light, contrast and color have also been studied and put into practice with these quick drawings.

To end the course, all the students proposed a performance in the “Rastro” area of Madrid. ​​ The city of Madrid was drawn from many points of view, even approaching the scale that architecture will create.

The result was a large photosensitive roof that ran through the streets of the market, and ended in the library square designed by Juan Navarro, near the Puerta de Toledo.

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ARCHITECTURE COMPOSITION Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID DEC 2019 TUTORS Agatángelo Soler DESCRIPTION General theories of form, composition and architectural types. Aesthetics and theories of the arts. The form as an image and as a structure: elements and relationships, compositional mechanisms, models, types, relationships between form and meanings, symbolization processes, relationships between form, function and construction. The urban form as a structure and as an image; urban landscape.

Architectural criticism.

These are the objectives that were worked on during the course. We worked analyzing a large number of great works of architecture, trying to understand the process with which they were conceived. Once these processes were understood, an architectural proposal was made.

At the end of the course, as a compilation of all the knowledge acquired, a proposal for social housing was made.

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BEIJIN’S AIRPORT GRASSHOPPER PARAMETRIZATION Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID DEC 2021 TUTORS Sonia Rueda | Ascensión Moratalla DESCRIPTION The purpose of this course is to provide the student with the tools geometric and programming necessary to get the best performance possible of the software used, and investigate the new ideas and spaces that this environment facilitates.

During the course, the introduction of geometric tools and of programming in Grasshopper for the purpose of developing a project architectural.

The learning will be guided by the reproduction of architectural projects already existing and the generation of their own designs, which show the need to know the geometric and programming concepts that will be developing throughout the course.

This semester projects based on the generation of curves were carried out and free-form surfaces, NURBS (known as “Freeform”) and in the shape search using Kangaroo as well.

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ZENTER Undergraduate academic project ETSAM | UPM | MADRID MAY 2019 COMPETITION DOCEXDOCE LOCATION Zúrich, Swizerland.

AWARDS Mentioned (Audience award) by DocexDoce DESCRIPTION Switzerland is one of the countries that most stands out in the study and advancement of technology worldwide. Many of the young people from all over the world emigrate to Switzerland to contribute in this field, and to achieve different scientific advances. For this reason, the construction of a new technological center that will house hundreds of students of all nationalities has been deemed necessary.

The new complex is located on the banks of the river Sihl, as it passes through the city of Zurich; on the plot of the temporary Globus building, built during the 60s, and its immediate surroundings. The technology center uses the existing Globus warehouse structure, as well as a block of flats located right in front of it. All of this is unified with a curvilinear and fluid-looking envelope, produced from Voroni polygons. This roof is materialized from EFTE, glass and ventilation systems, to heat and protect the complex. The research center is made up of three elements: the study center, where the laboratories, classrooms and offices are located; the residence of the young researchers; and a public space that unites both parties and in turn serves to establish contact with the Swiss city. Much care is taken to ensure that it is a sustainable building, with a large amount of vegetation and green areas, and through innovative technologies that take advantage of the forces of nature such as, for example, river water, which serves to cool the server system of the laboratories.

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