P o r t f o l i o .
Architecture
ETSAM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Technische Uninversität Wien, Vienna
Berta Fernández Arribas | Selected works 2022 - 2024
ABOUT ME
I am Berta Fernández Arribas, a 4th year architecture student at ETSAM, part of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. I am currently studying in Viena, at Technische Universität Wien.
What interests me most about architecture is Urban Design and Construction, but every aspect of building excites me.
Design competitions and volunteer work related to architecture are other hobbies I try to exploit.
Email: berta.fdez02@gmail.com
Phone number: +34 662 432 069
WORK EXPERIENCE
2023, June-August
Trainee at ARUP, Master Planning department EDUCATION
2020 - 2025
ETSAM, Bachelor’s degree in ‘Fundamentos de la Arquitectura’
2023 - 2024
Erasmus Program in Technische Universität Wien
2018 - 2020
International Bacculareate in IES Ramiro de Maeztu, Madrid
LANGUAGES
Spanish - Native
English C1 - Full professional proficiency SOFTWARE
Rhino 3D
AutoCAD
Autodesk 3D Max
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premier Pro
Quantum GIS
HONORS AND AWARDS
2023 - 19th Edition Cátedra
Blanca Competition - 2nd place
2023 - Open doors exhibition in Matadero, Madrid
VOLUNTEER WORK
2022 - CEB construction in Merzouga, Morocco
2022 - EELISA material association in ETSAM, Madrid
The Dino Bar, Vienna Scale it Up! Design Studio Technische Universität, Vienna 2023-2024
O2 O3
Social Housing in La Palma Proyectos 5, Unidad Aparicio ETSAM, Madrid 2023
Sports Town, Manchester Proyectos 3, Unidad Ramos ETSAM, Madrid 2022
Ruina habitable, São Paulo
Proyectos 4, Unidad Aparicio ETSAM, Madrid 2022
Territorial Analysis
Ciudad y el Medio ETSAM, Madrid 2023
Personal projects 2023
The Dino Bar
School: Tecnische Universität Wien
Theme: 3-scale design
Work: pairs
State: presented in January 2024
The aim of this project was to work with three different scales. Each group had to choose a specific form and design a small, medium, and large object; the large one being a café to be implemented in the University´s courtyard. My partner and I chose a shape inspired by a 70’s chair, as we wanted to create a vintage atmospehre, with the color orange as the predominant one.
We took into account the urban aspect of the project and adapted our cafe to the courtyard in which it had to be placed. We kept the existing geometry of the patio on the left side, and created a new urban space on the right side that could work with what was already there.
Medium scale objects: swing + lounge chair
Small scale object catalogue
The earrings and ring were 3D printed for the final presentation
Social housing in La Palma
School: ETSAM
Theme: social housing
Work: individual
State: presented in May 2023
The goal of this project was to propose alternative housing to all houses that were destroyed by the volcano eruption of La Palma (Spain) in 2021. We were given a plot of land, and we had to design a housing model for 100 families.
As I wanted to have as much free land as possible, I decided to stack the houses in a set of 8 towers, each equipped with common areas on the ground floor and top floor, as well as one home per floor. The stairs and elevator are in a separate tower, connected to the main one through a bridge on each floor.
Section A-A’
5 10
Rooftop section - common space
Sección de cubierta (espacio común) (espacio común)
House section - private space
Sección de vivienda
Axonometría de vivienda, escala 1:150
Ground floor section - common space
Each house had to include a space of 30m2 for an vegetable garden. Since I chose towers, I decided to create vertical green walls attached to the building’s facade.
The design consisted of two rows of squared individual gardens connected to the main structure through metal beams. Two facades were left free to let light into the houses.
The structure is separated from the tower, and each individual square can rotate 360º, which makes it easy for the tennat to plant or collect vegetables.
Detail of the garden wall
Sección longitudinal A-A', escala 1:150
o y e c t o
Construction details
wall attachment
Sports Town, Manchester
School: ETSAM
Theme: social housing
Work: groups + individual
State: presented in May 2022
For this project, each student had to choose a community and design a living space for them in a given plot of land located in Manchester. The urban design and division of the land was made in groups, so three different communities had to live together in shared public spaces.
My community were athletes. I designed four buildings organized around football camps. One facade faced the street, and the other the camp. The houses were under the bleachers needed to watch the matches.
Ruina habitable, São Paulo
School: ETSAM
Theme: Working in Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House
Work: individual
State: presented in December 2022
The excercise consisted in designing a small house next to Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House, in São Paulo. We had to consider the existing house and plot of land, which is a jungle.
The Glass House allows the tenant to experience the jungle through the glass, creating views of the nature that surrounds the house. I wanted to create a different experience, so I designed an habitable ruin, located in the middle of the jungle, that allows the tenant to connect with the jungle in a more direct way.
Construction axonometry
Sections
Territorial Analysis of Olmeda de las Fuentes, Madrid
School: ETSAM
Theme: Territorial analysis
Work: group
State: presented in May 2023
For this class, we had to analyse the town of Olmeda de las Fuentes and its surroundings, located in the south-east of Madrid. Using the software QGIS, my group and I generated a set of maps and studied the ground quialities, flora and fauna, water supply, and urban properties of the town of Olmeda, among other things.
Walden
School: personal project
Theme: dream house
Work: individual
‘Walden’, is a memoir written in the XIX century by Henry David Thoreau. The text contemplates the author’s embrace of a modest lifestyle amidst nature. It serves as both a personal manifesto advocating independence, a social experiment, a journey of spiritual exploration, satire, and to a certain extent, a guide for self-sufficiency.
The idea of a quite life surrounded by nature interested me, and I wondered what I would want to bring with me if I were to live in the woods. This design includes an interior space with a library and an outside terrace to entertain.
Contingencia
School: ETSAM
Theme: concrete house competition
Work: group
State: awarded 2nd place in May 2023
