Beatriz Fernández-Ávila Architecture portfolio
e architect has to feel curiousity and desire to assimilate everything, even things outside architecture and to always look further for something better.
" e architecture is not complete until the human being has experience of it" For what is a container of di erent situations and thus allows social change to arise from within it.
e architecture has to transform the uncertainties into possibilities. Less is less, more is more; but always make the most with the least possible.
ABOU T ME
Hola! My name is Beatriz. I am a vocational architect. proactive and involved I am not paralyzed by challenging situations, and I am always curious and I am creative and innovative in what I do. I have a rm passion for my work, wich leads me to be willing to learn to grow in my architectural practice My experiences abroad have helped me to have a more substantial awareness about human necessities without matter where we live but at the same time the importance of cultural traces in our daily places.
Also, It has developed my interpersonal skills and team working abilities. Fascinated by the architecture and convinced that the way that we create spaces can radically change the life of the people that make use of them I am currently looking for new challenges to enrich my architectural knowledge as a whole.
EDUCATION
LUXURY BRAND MANAGEMENT - University of Arts L ondon, England
SCULP TURE & ENVIRONOMENTAL ART - Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
MASTER BIM CERTIFICATION AU TODESK - 24 Studiolab Madrid, Spain
MASTER ARCHITECTURE - Alfonxo X University of Madrid, Spain
ERASMUS PLACEMENT SCHOLARSHIP - Architecture School of Nantes
TECHNICAL SKILLS
LANGUAGES
Spanish English native speaker professional compentence complete prof compentence
CONTACT
phone: (+34) 676396431
bebybo8@gmail.com
Marbella, Spain
Beatriz Fdez-Ávila Castro
WORKSHOPS & COMPETITIONS
Architectural Visualisations Speciality (3dmax+Corona) - Vizacademy, London, UK
PORTO ACADEMY Workshop with Gafpa architects - Porto, Portugal
Selected for the Program of Reactivation of the City Center - Belfast, Ireland
SYMMETRIES ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP - Split, Croatie
Honor mention in the Competition Changing Cities - London, England
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
RBTA
Barcelona, Spain
To date, I have been working on large-scale international projects inside the Interior Design team of RBTA. From concept to detail design, my role as head of an ensemble of buildings has comprised; the creation of ID concept (mood boards, material and color palettes, building narrative, layouts, nishes, and FF&E de nition), design in collaboration with other disciplines singular elements of the buildings, coordination with consultants as acoustic, lighting and MEP; interior details and custom furniture development, manage artwork commission, dealing with suppliers to evaluate their range and produce speci c pieces for these projects, compilation of nishes samples to send physical material mood boards to the clients and project monitoring until the openning for the univerty of Rabat.
BRYDEN WOOD
London, UK
For almost two years, I have been working in an international awarded rm. is practice has a solid base in industrialization and standardization that has been for me a master in the way how to approach architectural problems and set up constructive solutions. I have had the opportunity to deal with large scale projects, to learn how to work from the scale of a master plan to the scale of a manufacturer. I started to deal with clients independently and managing small teams.
OAOA ARCHITECTS
London, UK
At my rst start in London, I collaborated for 5 months in a fast track project to develop a luxurious o ce building in Bahrain.
AVATAR BIM (TMASD)
BIM architect in mixed-used buildings and compound houses.
PROINTEC (TMASD)
Madrid, Spain
Madrid, Spain
For one year I was developing the project of the Ryhad Subway, as BIM architect.
LUIS SEGUNDO ARANA ARQUITECTURA Madrid, Spain
Since the beginning of my professional career, I have been working with this practice, sometimes as a freelance for punctual projects and in fully during 2016/17. His work is focused on residential, refurbishment, and restoration projects. ere I started to learn the reality of construction, the criteria to choose in between di erent materials and suppliers also the importance to create a good understanding with clients and administration.
L+R ARCHITECTURE
Nantes, France
For 8 months, I worked mostly in residential projects, interior and cultural typologies. I developed survey plans, planning applications, sketch, tender, and construction drawings both in 2D and 3D.
PROFESIONAL PROJECTS
OAOA Architecture Associates
Kommerling
L+R Architecture
Red Material Palette Design of Singular Elements
Materiality of Singular Elements
Design the reference hotel and theatre for an ambitious scheme university campus of more than 400.000m2. Due to client requirements, the rst phase has been conceived and built-in just one year. Developed in Revit and coordinated especially with lighting and acoustic consultants. I have worked as interior design architect to create the identity concept of the hotel for the rst phase, which will be followed as a guide in the hotels of the next phases of the project. Project monitoring until the opening in September 2022.
TRAVIATA SINGLE HOUSE Arana Arquitectura
e project arises from the search for an architecture capable of re-identifying a new landscape as a system of organisation and linkage between the city and the port.
e whole piece was thought of as a landscape artefact with imperceptible volume changes outside, but with a human scale interior to promote interaction within.
e overall aim is a subtle disengagement of the physical presence of the architecture from its primary purpose, by bringing forth the interest that it produces.
STRAIT CROSSING HOTEL e Hotel of the Future competition Room de nition
SEEDS FOR COMING TOGETHER Kaira Looro competition
is proposal is the response to Kaira Looro competition and is created as a new place for the divine and the profane, versatile and accessible. On the outside it will have a strong presence, be tting a space for worship, but it will not compete with the surroundings and it will not negate the landscape of a Senegalese town.
e design chosen is a symbol of union and encourages people to come together despite despite their culture and it beliefs are. It takes the environment in high esteem, but manages to create new public spaces for the town and intimate spaces for religious purposes.
THE CRACK FOR THE MEETING
Final thesis project
Here is an extract of my nal thesis project where I proposed to create a new emblematic building to revive an abandoned zone next to a motorway. e new building is a multifaith center, which tries to reach out to the dialogue between the three monotheistic religions that are born around the e Mediterranean.
Because of the complexity of the subject and the urban context, next to the motorway and in face of a bullring, which is already a symbolic building, I would appreciate the opportunity to share this project with you directly to show you a bit more about my design process and my passion for this profession.
e tower of hope was the end of a journey for people lost in the life without direction. ey have forgotten who they are and which was their place in the world. ey have abandoned them dreams to ful ll the dreams of others. e tower was a metaphor that turns up for the castaway of life.
As in a mirage, the perception deceives us and looking at it front, One would swear to be levitating, crossing the sky with his boat. On approaching, a largely mirrored arches hold the structure. A large vault welcomes us, as a large lobby that welcomes the pilgrim from all directions. In its center hangs a rope, without touching the water.
As we ascend, we feel we leave behind all that torments us.We went through a transition, which costs us much toil and dedication. But little by little we approached the light until we conquered the sky. Looking at the oculo is almost to looking into the abyss. And when we are there up, a little closer to the sky, we think of the way we have traveled to get here, what we can achieve, what inspires us, what moves us, what we want to be, where we want to go. We stopped being lost
