Architecture and Scenography Portfolio Camila Caiza

P O R T F O L I O CAMILA CAIZA COMPILATION OF WORK

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Table of contents

I. Personal Introduction

Contact and Personal Information

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Curriculum Vitae

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II. Selected Projects [ Scenography ] Multi-layered Atmospheres

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Not a mirror

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The Archetype Experiment

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The Doors Experiment

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[Master Research Project] [Graduation Project] [Installation] [Installation]

[ Architecture ] Performing and Visuals Arts Center

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Arts and Crafts Center: Public Space Rehabilitation

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Agricultural Research and Trade Center

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[Bachelor Thesis Design Project]

I I I . O t h e r Wo r k [Graphic Design, Photography and Spatial Exploration] Selected work at Art Studio PolyLester

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Transforming a concept into Space

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Architecural Skins

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The City + The Dreams

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Education Master in Scenography Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) Utrecht - The Netherlands 2015 - 2017

Architecture Degree Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Quito - Ecuador 2008 - 2014

Ma. Arch. Camila Caiza Duque Personal Information Date of Birth: 18th of March 1991 Nationality: Ecuadorian Visa status: Valid to work in the Netherlands until 2023

Software Skills AutoCAD

Contact: camila.caizaduque@gmail.com www.camilacaiza.com

Adobe Creative Suite:

Address: Amersfoort - The Netherlands

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects KeyShot

Curriculum Vitae

3D Max SketchUp + V-ray Microsoft Office Video Mapping tools: Isadora Resolume Arena

Professional Experience

Awards/Achievements

PolyLester Amsterdam - The Netherlands

Holland Scholarship

January - August 2018 Creative Internship

Dutch Ministry of Education Utrecht - The Netherlands March 2016

Architecture, Design and Scenography

BanEcuador Quito - Ecuador September 2014 - February 2015 Architect Design and Management

Ensusitio Architectural Studio Quito - Ecuador

August 2012 - October 2012 Drafter Design and Drawing

Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Quito - Ecuador

June 2012 - December 2012 Drafter Design and Drawing

Arch. Carlos Páez Quito - Ecuador January 2012 - May 2012 Building Visitor Control of construction works

Arch. Carlos Páez Quito - Ecuador July 2011 - December 2011 Drafter Design and Drawing

Mention of Honor for Outstanding Project “Knowledege Park” Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador Quito - Ecuador 2010 - 2011

Mention of Honor for Outstanding Project “Touristic Center Los Bancos” Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador Quito - Ecuador 2009 - 2010

Mention of Honor for Outstanding Project “Transformable Space” Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador Quito - Ecuador 2008 - 2009

Languages Spanish: Native Speaker English: Professional Proficiency Dutch: A1

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Scenography

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Master Research Project Location: Utrecht - The Netherlands School: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) Date: 2015 - 2017 Tutors: Henny Dorr Tjallien Walma van der Molen

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Atmospheres

This research was triggered by one question: how can the conscious and the unconscious minds generate an experiential atmosphere? Within the frame of this question two main reflections were explored: one referring to the paradoxical way in which an individual experience can become a collective one without losing its personal approach. And second, the multi-layered character of space in which physical encounters performative and filmic, and its possible interaction for the generation of atmospheres.

[ A research about a possible merge between the conscious and the unconscious in space... ]

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Not a mirror

Graduation Project Research: Multi-layered Atmospheres Exhibition: Make Space 2017 Location: Wisselspoor, Utrecht - The Netherlands School: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) Date: June 2017 Tutors: Henny Dorr Tjallien Walma van der Molen

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[V ideo I n stal l atio n ]

This video installation was shown as the final representative part of the Master Research Project ‘Multi-layered Atmospheres’ developed over the course of two years within the frame of the Master in Scenography.

It explores the study of the different consciousness layers and its spatial perception. The visual and conceptual material was collected through two main stages: one related to the study of my own unconscious side through my dreams and the other one connected to an exploration of the city as the stage of the waking hours (the ‘conscious’ side). This experimentation with my dream´s material and the imagery taken from the city, led to a space where the dreaming and the waking hours encounter each other in an attempt to merge the different layers composing ‘reality’.

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PROJECTION SCREENS MADE FROM WHITE TEXTILES

WALL FROM THE PLACE

MATTRESS WITH PROJECTION ON TOP (RED LIGHT ATMOSPHERE)

TRANSLUCENT FABRIC PANELS

WALL FROM THE PLACE 2.00 M

- WHITE ROOM MADE WITH ROLLER BLINDS THAT GO UP AND SHOW THE SKINS OF THE PLACE

ENTRANCE

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THE CITY

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THE DREAMS

FAKE MIRROR INSTALLATION

(OBJECTS + PROJECTION MAPPING)

EXIT

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PANELS MADE FROM OPAQUE FABRIC BLACK COLOR PANELS MADE FROM OPAQUE FABRIC WHITE COLOR

WHITE CURTAINS THAT ROLL UP AND REVEAL SKINS OF THE PLACE

ENTRANCE

‘THE CITY’

‘THE DREAMS’

FROM NO NARRATIVE SPACE TO NARRATIVE SPACE

´WAKING HOURS SPACE´ CONECTED TO THE CONSCIOUS MIND

´DREAMING SPACE´ CONECTED TO THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND

THROUGH THE ARCHITECTURAL SKINS

THE CITY THROUGH VIDEO LAYERS: MAPPING PROJECTION ON TEXTILE

EXPERIENCE THE DREAMING FEELING MATTRESS + TOP PROJECTION

NATURAL LIGHT

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WHITE LIGHT

(Top) General Plan Section (Bottom) Perspective

RED LIGHT ENVIRONMENT

‘THE MERGE’

EXIT

‘NOT A MIRROR’ EFFECT MULTILAYERED SPACE: PHYSICAL + PERFORMATIVE + PSYCHOLOGICAL [CONSCIOUS + UNCONSCIOUS] WHITE LIGHT + RED LIGHT ENVIRONMENT

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The Archetype Experiment

Video Installation Research: Multi-layered Atmospheres Location: Utrecht - The Netherlands School: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) Date: January 2017 Tutors: Henny Dorr Tjallien Walma van der Molen

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(Right) The archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung, 1943, page 24

This installation was developed as part of a spatial and aesthetic exploration related to the concept of the ´Shadow´archetype proposed by Carl Jung.

After some visual experimentation with the collected material from my personal dream´s diary and the imagery collected from the city, I selected one of the dreams that reflects my perception of the ‘Shadow’ archetype concept and the visual material connected to it.

This material was used on different try outs to generate a spatial experience.

Different objects and compositions were explored to create a specific atmosphere that could show the merge of the image from the dream and the material collected from the city.

´The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one´s own shadow. The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well.’

-Carl Jung-

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(Left) Imagery taken from the City of Utrecht (Right) Images taken from different try outs with testing spectators at Fort Blauwkapel, Utrecht

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The Doors

Experiment

Video Installation

The research about ‘Multi-layered Atmospheres’ began with a question regarding the relationship between the introspective world of a human being and how it gets reflected in space. As a way to explore this connection I decided to make videos of my current environment (Utrecht, The Netherlands) as well as videos from my native city (Quito, Ecuador) and connect both of them in a filmic collage.

Research: Multi-layered Atmospheres Location: Utrecht - The Netherlands School: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) Date: May 2016 Tutors: Henny Dorr Tjallien Walma van der Molen

This collage was presented in an installation together with another collage made of pictures of doors.

The collage of doors was the symbolic idea of an entrance to my mind and was also related to a previous study on architectural skins, and the video represented my inner world connected to both my current environment and my thoughts about my country.

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(Left) Printed Collage (Right) Image frames taken from video projected during installation

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Architecture

Performing

Bachelor and Thesis Design Project Location: Machachi, Ecuador School: Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Date: May 2014 Tutor: Manuel Uribe

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and Visual Arts

The performing and visual arts center is located in Machachi, Ecuador.

The concept of the project is based on the strengthening of the city´s identity and its population, but also the development and preservation of the cultural and natural heritage.

The main conflict that the project analyses and pretend to solve is the progressive loss of the rich heritage of the city that is caused by the vulnerable identity of its habitants.

Therefore, the architectonical object was designed based on the statement of “ the enhancement of the city´s cultural and natural heritage in order to encourage the development of the most vulnerable population which would improve their life´s quality.”

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The main strategy used to design the urban plan was to develop a circuit that connects inherited stations represented by different projects. The leading purpose of the project is to provide and educative space for children and disabled people in the specific subject of performative and visual arts.

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Longitudinal Section with a perpective view that shows several main spaces: like the theater, the courtyard, the workshops and the vertical circulation connecting them.

The axis of the architectonical program is the arts school, but is complemented by the public spaces like the theater and the cinema. The program of the project is divided in four areas: educative, exhibition, meeting and health. These areas are connected by an empty space (courtyard) that crosses the building vertically, not only relating all the spaces visually, but also providing light and air to them, which are basic elements in architecture. page 31

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(Top) Longitudinal Section (Left Bottom) Courtyard View (Right Bottom) Dance Workshop View

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SECOND UPPER LEVEL

FIRST UPPER LEVEL

GROUND LEVEL

FIRST UNDERGROUND LEVEL

SECOND UNDERGROUND LEVEL

THIRD UNDERGROUND LEVEL

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(Left) Section Planes showing different levels of the Project (Right Top) Nocturnal View of Projection Square (Right Bottom) Theater View

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(Top) Aerial View (Bottom) Southern Facade

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Arts and Crafts Center: Public

Security + Citizenship: National Workshop 2012 Location: Quito, Ecuador School: Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Date: March 2012 Collaboration with: Mishell Gavilanes Santiago Granda Belén Argudo Tutors: César Pérez Sebastián Calero Alexis Schulman

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The main urban and architectonic strategy used against insecurity during the design process of this academic project was the rehabilitation and improvement of the public space through the generation of an artistic, permeable, welcoming place where the users would be able to enhance their skills through different kinds of artistic and technical workshops, but also to invigorate a public environment where safety is created through a dynamic cohabitation of the space. The place found to develop this project is an abandoned house with a significant historic value.

The proposal is to rehabilitate this space enhancing its spatial heritage, but also to connect it to the city through an open green space where the activities encouraged through the workshops will stimulate a cultural and artistic exchange.

Space Rehabilitation

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A Section

Permeable Boundaries

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General Ground Section

B Section

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Agricultural

Research and

Academic Project

This design project was developed within the frame of an academic workshop focused on the relationship between architecture and place.

The place, in this case, is a small town in the Ecuadorian highlands where the main activity is agricultural production.The program includes educative spaces to encourage agricultural research, spaces for the production of local products and a place of commercialization. The main design strategy is based on maintaining continuous green fields while generating spaces for the research practice: both outdoors and indoors. Therefore, the diagram used to design the architecture was the continuity of both empty spaces and built ones allowing a connection between the different activities and a feeling of openness around the building and the external spaces.

Location: Tumbabiro - Imbabura, Ecuador School: Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Date: May 2012 Tutors: César Pérez Sebastián Calero

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Trade Center

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First Upper level Plane Section

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(Bottom) Images taken from scale model

Rear Facade

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Other Work

[Graphic Design, Photography and Spatial Exploration]

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GABRIEL LESTER HARSHVIR O BERA I

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A L ES T AR FI LM P R O D UCTI O N IN C O- PRODUC T ION W IT H C IRCE F IL MS, L I TTL E R ED CAR D IRECT O R O F PH O T O G RAPH Y NET H ERL AND S B ENI TO STR ANG I O DI R ECTO R O F P H O T O GR A PHY I ND I A HAR S H VI R OBERAI EDITOR GABRIEL L ESTER, LENNAR T D E NEEF SO U ND D ESIG N G AB R I EL L ESTER L INE PRO D U CERS CHANTAL NI SSEN, C HRIS JORNA CO P R OD U CE R S S TI E NE TTE BOSKLOPPER, L ISETTE KELDER, SHONALI MANI PRO D U CER G AB R I EL L ESTER SCREENPL AY G AB R I EL L ESTER D IRECT O R G AB R I EL LE ST E R

Graphic Design - Promotional Poster for the film AEON by Gabriel Lester Technique: Adobe InDesign + Adobe Photoshop

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EVANGELOS GRECOS

A LESTAR FILM PRODUCTION IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH CIRCE FILMS, LITTLE RED CAR DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY NETHERLANDS BENITO STRANGIO DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY INDIA HARSHVIR OBERAI EDITOR GABRIEL LESTER, LENNART DE NEEF SOUND DESIGN GABRIEL LESTER LINE PRODUCERS CHANTAL NISSEN, CHRIS JORNA COPRODUCERS STIENETTE BOSKLOPPER, LISETTE KELDER, SHONALI MANI PRODUCER GABRIEL LESTER SCREENPLAY GABRIEL LESTER DIRECTOR GABRIEL LESTER

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Graphic Design - Promotional Poster for the film AEON by Gabriel Lester Technique: Adobe InDesign + Adobe Photoshop

Smoke Garden Research and Experimentation Process at

PolyLester Studio

Technique: Home made incense, scale models generating different patterns and digital 3D studies using Adobe Photoshop + SketchUP + KeyShot

Graphic Design for the logo of Film Lestar Technique: Adobe Illustrator + Adobe Photoshop + Additional Animation created in Adobe Premiere Pro page 49

T ransfo r mi n g a co n cept i n to Spa ce

A delicate balance by Edward Albee

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The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

[ From a theater text] December 2015

Attempts on her life by Martin Crimp

Six characters in search of an author by Pirandello

About translating a narrative into an abstract space...

Within the frame of fiction, four theater plays were taken, with different characteristics, and by analyzing them, I translated their core reflection into an abstract space represented through a scale model.

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Ar c hi t ec t u ra l S ki n s

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February 2016

About a possible narrative through the skin of the space...

That body that both divides and connects our interior world to the exterior that surrounds us, acts as a filter of thousands of emotions, ideas, thoughts, fears; etc, but also it remains as a trace of the passage of all these sensations going through. In the same way, space acts as an archival of our personal and collective stories. This what can be called ‘the architectural skins’ is a material reflection of the passage of time and can act as a physical representation of our memories. page 53

T he C i ty + T h e Drea m s

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December 2016

About a possible merge between the conscious and the unconscious in space...

As part of the research ´Multilayered Atmospheres´ these photo-collages were developed as an aesthetic study on the possibilities of combining the visual material collected in the city and the narratives taken from the dream´s diary.

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