Fernanda Gómez Seoane
FERNANDA G. SEOANE
+52 55 75634798
ferseoane13@gmail.com
HARD SKILLS
AutoCad
Revit
Inventor
3dsMax
Rhino
Sketchup
Lumion
Adobe Suite
Motion Graphics
QGIS
CNC Milling
SOFT SKILLS
Public Speaking
Critical Thinking
Leadership
Adaptability
Problem-solving
Teamwork
LANGUAGES
EXPERIENCE
CONSTRUCTION DESIGN AND EXISTING SPACE SURVEY LEADER
2022 - current - APRDELESP
- Building surveying
- Planning, conceptualization and detailing of projects
- Coordinate and optimize processes.
- Coordinate work team.
JR. ARCHITECT
2021 -2022 - ÁLVAREZ TELLO ARQUITECTOS
- Conceptualization
- Working Drawings
- Project presentation design
- Technical Drawings
Creation of working and presentation models
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
2020 - GRUPO CRC
- Budget administratrion
ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTSMAN
2019-2020 - D.I. Andrea Salamanca M.
- Furniture design
- Drafting furniture details
INTERNSHIP - INTERIOR DESIGNER
2017 - MOCK Deco
- Furniture design
- Drawing technical specifications
- Rendering production
INTERNSHIP- ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTSMAN
2016 - Engineering Faculty, UNAM
- Building surveying
- Building blueprint drafting
AWARDS
8TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2023 2023 APRDELESP
Winning proposal to represent Mexico at the Biennale di Venzia 2023: Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball Court
HONOURS THESIS
2022 Architecture Faculty, UNAM
Bachelor’s Thesis: “New Soccer Stadium for Tigres FC”
EDUCATION
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Architecture Faculty - Architecture B.A (2016-2021) Mexico City, Mexico
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN Exchange Program - Architecture Faculty (2018-2019) Berlin, Germany
ENP NO.5 JOSÉ VASCONSELOS
Technical Draftsman (2015-2016) Mexico City, Mexico
ADDITIONAL COURSES AND SEMINARS
WORKSHOP FOR THE FORMATION OF THE ASSEMBLY FOR WATER DEFENSE IN MEXICO CITY
Front for the Defense of the Rights of the Peoples and Neighborhoods of Anáhuac (September, 2023)
LABORATORY: MILITANT MEMORIES
La Escuela (April-May, 2023)
COUNTER FORENSIC AUTONOMIES
National Autonomous University of Mexico (April-May, 2023)
MOTION GRAPHICS: FROM CONCEPT TO ANIMATION Crehana (May-July, 2020)
ARCHITECTURAL ANIMATION IN AFTER EFFECTS
Dinámica Arquitectónica (June-August,2020)
TECHNICAL DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Vatru Entertainment Academy (July-August,2020)
THEATER PRODUCTION COURSE
Vatru Entertainment Academy (April-May, 2021)
PRODUCTION DESIGN, ART DIRECTION AND CINEMATROGRAPHIC SCENOGRAPHY COURSE
Bad Bad Bad Architecture (October, 2021)
Born in Mexico City, 1997
During my last two years in university, my perspective significantly expanded, revealing how architecture, through spatial analysis and interdisciplinary approaches, engages with intricate societal challenges. This experience propelled a new sense of purpose, steering my pursuit of architecture towards intersections with diverse disciplines for cultural, societal, and political transformations.
In my professional endeavors, I’ve come to realize the profound influence of architecture, extending beyond the physical structures and encompassing various facets, showcasing its impactful presence in diverse ways. My journey in architecture transitioned from an initial fascination with aesthetics to a deeper recognition of its potential as a catalyst for change.
Blending architectural principles with societal concerns, my aspiration is to craft innovative solutions that surpass traditional design boundaries. I aim to make a substantial impact on society, culture, and politics.
MEXICO PAVILION 18TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA UTOPIAN INFRASTRUCTURE: THE CAMPESINO BASKETBALL COURT
As part of the design and construction team of APRDELESP, I participated in the creation and instalation of the Mexican pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2023.
The pavilion is an immersive space based on a 1:1 scale fragment of the expanded model of the campesino basketball court, an infrastructure that has become repurposed as a privileged space for poly- and plurivalent processes of decolonization in Mexico’s indigenous communities.
Our case study on these basketball courts functions as a laboratory for investigation of the adaptations and transformations that have allowed these spaces to transcend their original purpose, dedicated entirely to recreation and the promotion of sport, and to become instead focal points for the construction of political, social and cultural processes.
The accompanying research for the project delves into how the campesino basketball court, repurposed, is much more than the deconstruction of a Western sporting facility: It is the foundational unit of construction upon which indigenous utopias build cultures of resistance.
It is composed of a fragment of a basketball court, a drop ceiling of perforated paper, a propaganda kiosk, an audiovisual installation, a decolonial jukebox, and an opening activation.
ESTACION MATERIAL VOL. 2
ART FAIR
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 2023
For the second edition of Estación Material hosted at Cerámica Suro, a renowned Guadalajara-based factory, our responsibility was to transform the space into an ideal venue for the art fair. Acknowledging the event’s temporary nature, we prioritized an eco-conscious approach, devising a system that could be easily assembled and disassembled. This unique system not only offered flexibility to exhibitors but also enabled them to personalize their exhibition spaces as their individual galleries within the fair.
The gallery module system utilizes a scaffolding structure for easy assembly and disassembly, incorporating drywall panels fixed onto a wooden plywood framework.
We believe this system, combined with each booth having a surrounding aisle, allows visitors to view multiple galleries simultaneously, blurring the distinction between where one gallery starts and another ends. Moreover, a deliberate effort was made during disassembly to salvage the maximum number of used plywood panels for upcoming editions of the fair.
These plywood panels undergo sanding for reusability, while damaged pieces are repurposed for other applications. Any damaged drywall, while unsuitable for gallery panels, finds use in other wall constructions.
BACHELOR THESIS: TIGRES UANL SOCCER STADIUM
Monterrey, México 2020
Team: Fernanda Gómez, Brenda Franco, Mauricio Báez
Adviser: Juan Giral, Chisel Cruz, Fernando Solís
School: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
With the aim of taking on a a creative urban planning challenge, while also engaging on a demanding architectural project, designing the new soccer stadium for rising mexican club: Tigres UANL, became the focus for my Bachelor Thesis desertation.
The focus of the design was to understand global trends shaping fan experience, while also taking into account how the impact of this type of infrastructure can shape an area and it’s community.
The concept for the project stems from the interaction of cultures that inhabit the surrounding areas of the site. Having to the North and South an area of industrial use, to the West a cluster of neighbourhoods composed of self-built houses, and in the East , the university campus that has the current stadium of the team to whom this new venue would belong.
For the urban aspect of the overall project, we proposed a plan connecting self-built housing, the Autonomous University of Nuevo León and equipment sectors via circulation paths. It prioritizes pedestrian and non-motorized traffic, incorporates vegetation suited for Nuevo León’s climate, and features infrastructure for water management, energy, and waste.
The stadium design comes from the abstraction of lines that represent the communication between these different cultures with the city, in the manner of solids and voids, so that the leading element (the stadium) symbolizes the meeting point of all these mixtures in one place, free but safe.
West facade
LIGHTWAY
URBAN FURNITURE PROTOTYPE
Berlin, Germany 2019
Team: Fernanda Gómez, Louai Mesharrafa
Adviser: Liss C. Werner, Raoul Bunschoten
School: Technische Universität Berlin (Tu Berlin)
The objective of the lab was to devise urban lighting furniture designs that adapt to their environment and function. Additionally, the aim was to create prototypes for testing across the campus, evaluating their impact on the day-to-day experiences of pedestrians.
“ Lightway” as a concept is an adaptable skin that can be adhered into any type of surface, without disrupting the existing environment.
The skin reacts to the presence of the user via sound or by connecting itself to the GPS app on the user’s phone, the reaction consists on the skin lighting up and moving itself in the direction it perceived the user, alas, lighting up the way for the passerby in question.
The skin is made of a thermoplastic elastomer film (TPE). Thermoplastic elastomers combine the mechanical properties of rubber-based materials (e.g. high elasticity, abrasion resistance, and friction) with the good processability and recyclability of thermoplastics.
For the prototype, we constructed a frame resembling an abstract arrow. The frame housed a railway mechanism that, when activated, propelled a cart along the rail. This movement pushed a mass through the Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE), creating the illusion that the “skin” was emerging from a surface.
PASSERBY
Sound sensor is triggered
Position sensor is triggered
Sound Sensor
The sensor is calibrated for antrophony sources only.
WiFi Sensor
The sensor connects itself to the user’s phone and starts collecting data. If a GPS App is being used, it also collects information from that source.
Arduino
ILUMINATION
Data Collection
# of passerby per day, direction of passerby, age group, gender, etc.
Collects the data from both sensors and translates them into a command to the mechanical parts of the installation.
The signal sent from the Arduino activates the LED sheet in order for it to light up.
The signal sent from the Arduino activates the motor in order fo rit to start moving.
THE GUIDE TO NUCLEAR JAPAN
Team: Fernanda Gómez, Carla Rojas, Chiara Sanguin, Vivian Siqueiros
Adviser: David Bauer
School: Technische Universität Berlin (Tu Berlin)
The goal of this research is to present the situation of nuclear energy in Japan, within its urban, technological, political and social context. Japan is a poor fossil fuel country. This is the main reason for which the government had put a great emphasis on the development of the nuclear energy.
The research focused itself into two different power plants, built in between the 60’s and 70’s on different areas in Japan, because they each show the different approaches the government took towards developing “atomic urbanism” and how some of them succeeded more than the others.
The research focused on the Tokai-Mura village, where the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute was established in 1956, and the village of Shimane. These locations were chosen based on three primary criteria considered essential for the construction of a nuclear plant: being a coastal town, having a population of fewer than 200,000 inhabitants, and having a geographic advantage, namely, the absence of geological faults.
Through this research, we identified a pattern related to the peak of nuclear plant construction during the 1970s, commonly known as the “nuclear boom” that Japan experienced during that period. Moreover, we examined the significant impact of the Fukushima meltdown on Japan’s nuclear policies and its overall development
The research has the name guide, in hopes that in the future more people can contribute more chapters that go into different power plants in Japan, so perhaps someday, the guide will be the result of a collective effort to map and research the past and present of nuclear Japan, and perhaps get a hint of what the future will be.
Genkai Sendai
Shimane
Tomari
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Shika
Tsuruga
Mihama
Takahama
Higashidori
Onagawa
Fukushima
Daini
Tokai
Daini
Hamaoka
Ikata
TOKAI POWER PLANT
1961 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1973 CONSTRUCTION OF SECOND unit
mihama POWER PLANT
1970 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1972 CONSTRUCTION OF SECOND unit
1976 CONSTRUCTION of THIRD unit
fukushima POWER PLANT
1971 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1974 CONSTRUCTION of second unit
1976 CONSTRUCTION of third unit
1978 CONSTRUCTION of fourth and fifth unit
1979 CONSTRUCTION of sixth unit
GENKAI POWER PLANT
1971 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1976 CONSTRUCTION of second unit
1988 CONSTRUCTION of THIRD unit
FUGEN POWER PLANT
1972 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
IKATA POWER PLANT
1973 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
takahama POWER PLANT
1974 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1975 CONSTRUCTION of second unit
1982CONSTRUCTION of second unit
1985 CONSTRUCTION of third and fourth unit
1997
sMALL EXPLOSION IN FIRST UNIT
1998 unit one shutdown
1999
cRITICAL ACCIDENT IN second UNIT
1991 failure of tube in generator
2011 unit two shutdown
2004
hOT WATER AND STEAM LEAK IN THE THIRD REACTOR
2009 failure in bypass valves
2011 nuclear meltdowns in 4/6 units
2011
2015
units
The entire plant is shutdown
1993 CONSTRUCTION of fourth unit
1997 tritium leakage
1994 CONSTRUCTION of THIRD unit
2002
Defective pipe causes steam leakage
2002
The entire plant is shutdown
2011 units 1 and 2 are suspended for maintenance
2011
The entire plant is shutdown
2018 UNITS 3 AND 4 ARE RESTARTED AFTER 7 YEARS OUT OF PRODUCTION
2001
COOLANT LEAK IN UNIT 3
2011
2017 UNIT 3 IS RESTARTED
The entire plant is shutdown 2018 UNIT 3 IS SUSPENDED AGAIN.
2012
The entire plant is shutdown
2017
Third and fourth unit are restarted
The chart shows all the nuclear power plants that have been built in Japan in chronological order. All previous accidents that the plants have had are shown too, in order to get a more rounded look of Japan‘s progress and history with nuclear energy.
shimane POWER PLANT
1974 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
hamaoka POWER PLANT
1974 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST AND SECOND unit
SENDAI POWER PLANT
1979 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1982 CONSTRUCTION ofSECOND u nit
1987 CONSTRUCTION of third unit
1989 CONSTRUCTION of second unit
1993 CONSTRUCTION of fourth unit
Kashiwazaki POWER PLANT
1980 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1986 CONSTRUCTION ofSECOND u nit
1989 CONSTRUCTION ofthird u nit
1990 CONSTRUCTION of fourth u nit
1993 CONSTRUCTION of sixth and seventh u nit
1997 steam leakage in unit 7
1999 unit 1 is shutdown
2000 CONSTRUCTION of fifth unit
2001
valve rupture in unit one
2005 steam turbine problems
2010 COmissioning for third unit
2011
Construction for third unit suspended. first unit to be decomissioned
2012 restart of construction for third unit is approved
2011
ONOGAMA POWER PLANT
1980 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit tomari POWER PLANT
1985 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1991 CONSTRUCTION ofSECOND u nit
1991 CONSTRUCTION ofSECOND u nit
1998 CONSTRUCTION of THIRD u nit
2000 worker falls in a tank
2007 fires caused by construction of new unit
2009 CONSTRUCTION of third u nit
shika
POWER PLANT
1989 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
1999
the reactor was in critical state due to error in a procedure
2003 CONSTRUCTION ofSECOND u nit
HigashidOri POWER PLANT
2000 CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST unit
2005 CONSTRUCTION of first unit is finished
2011 third u nit restarts
2013 unit 3 is shut down