CONTACT
+44 7480119586
jack ierosalesq@gmail.com rosales@aaschool.ac.uk
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Ambitious master student passionate and creative, driven to create designs led by context and natural forms. Analysing di erent design methods and learning to use a variety of techniques while discovering how to respond to change. Academic achievments are underpinned by success in diverse settings including projects in China, Europe, North and South America.
PUBLICATIONS/ REFERENCES
A Tale of Two Cities:
Joint International Design Studio 2015 -2020
University of Westminster Catalogue 2018, 2019 & 2020
Archivoice Student Journal Website: 2020
John Zhang
Architect, Senior Lecturer, Studio Leader J.Zhang1@westminster.ac.uk
Nana Biamah- Ofosu
Architect, Studio Leader, Director YAA nana.biamah-ofosu@aaschool.ac.uk
Languages
EXPERIENCE
ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
Ateliers Jean Nouvel (Paris, France) Dec 2022- Aug 2023
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
Ateliers Jean Nouvel (Paris, France) Jun-December 2022
I wasInvolved in many projects ranging Took charge of the UBS Tower in Monaco alongside the project manager. My tasks ranged from 2D plans and sections to detailed 3D revit modeling. was also allowed to go to site multiple times working alonside contractors and local architects on speci c construction details. from large scale (Opera Shenzen) to small scale bu ldings (UBS tower Monaco). Worked on 2d and 3D, modeling and designing speficically on Rhino and Revit
ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
Proano & Proano (Quito Ecuador) Dec-Aug 2021
Involved in des gn process of 16 storey housing building. Focused on appartment and studio layouts as wells as construction detai s and coordinations with engineers on site
ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
Uribe & Schwarzkopf (Quito, Ecuador) Sep -Dec 2020
Worked alongside Safdie Architects and Ateliers Jeanne Nouvel on housing projects in Ecuador Took part of the coordinations between firms and the design process of housing layouts
WORK EXPERIENCE
AO ARCHITECTURE+ Interiors (london UK) Jan 2020
Worked on RIBA stage 4 detail design alongside submiss ons on plann ng applications for protected bu ldings on house refurbishments and extensions.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
Uribe & Schwarzkopf (Qu to, Ecuador) June-Aug 2019
Active involvement in site visits and design development. Undertook process in updating orthographics and model ing in 20 storey high end apartments.
EDUCATION
MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE- ARB/RIBA PART 2
Architectural Association London Sep 2023-Current
1yr Diploma 5 - Nana Biamah Ofosu & Giles Tetey Nartey 2yr Diploma 20- Davide Sacconi, Matteo Costanzo, Gianfr anco Bombaci
MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE
Confluence Institute (Paris, France)
1st Semester; Urban Planning in Los Angeles: “Let us Cultivate Our Garden” 2nd Semester; Public & Commercial: “The Geography Of My Last Emotions”
BA ARCHITECTURE- RIBA PART 1
University of Westminster (London, UK) Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing, China) Autum Semester
First Class Honours. Dissertation:
Dislocation Project: Communal
Tutor: Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Giles Nartey
Location: Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador
“Dislocation” critically examines the process of decolonization in indigenous contexts, notably the revival of smoke cleansing and rituals in the Amazon Rainforest amidst Westernization and resource exploitation. Indigenous communities resist external pressures from profit-driven industries, striving to preserve their cultural heritage, sustainable livelihoods and protection of the geography. Through educational efforts and economic autonomy, they seek to avoid exploitation while sharing their traditions. This project respects their right to maintain cultural opacity, emphasizing the preservation of oral legacies and sharing only what wants to be shared. It signifies Indigenous agency in confronting contemporary challenges and underscores the importance of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage for future generations.
The Geography of My Last Emotions
Project: Public- Commercial
Tutor: Joel Andrianomearisoa
Location: London, United Kingdom
This projects seeks to take a different approach to analyzing a site and project. Starting from a retroinspection on my emotions and self a thought process was created in orden to choose a site, program and design based on my emotional states.
This began through a list of questions from the brief how architecture could be a fragrance, gaze, memory, noise, tradition, literature and emotion. Through this tought process I focused on memory and landscapes of memory and the psychological dogmas on how we create landscape through and from memories as individuals and collectives.
This was applied to my experiences and the cities I have lived in and how my landscapes affect me directly. Projects were design for Quito, London, Beijing and Paris. Through this method series of emotional mapping collaborated to the over all design, program and location of each project for each city.
The purpose of this was to create phenomenological architecture that would not only serve a program but instigate and trigger specific memories that many of us share through our five senses. The purpose was to provide a design directly derived from emotions that would enhance the already exhisting landscape of memories I was connected with through my expiriences there to spark new ones for the users.
Through the analysis of linking emotions to mnemonics in each city, hotspots were created. These emotional hotspots will represent and create the specific memory landscapes. Each color represents an emotion with attachment to the urban fabric, the connections and paths creates are the links to specific built enviroment features in each city and the foundation research for the design.
Sadness Connections
Emotional and Site Mapping
Mapping of emotions felt on site alongside the foot trafic and explored spaces during site analysis.
Design Process
Emotional maps and frequencies used on plans and elevation. There were overlayed with the existing site to begin the carving process of the design space in order to make emotions tangible in architecture.
Downtown Los Angeles Urban Planning: Let us Cultivate Our Garden
Project: Urban Planning
Tutor: Colin Fournier
Location: Downtown LA, USA
Set in the future, Los Angeles is in ruins and people seek to leave and escape the big metropolis in hope of more greenery and space. This project is a controversial project as it seeks to fix and re invigorate the dilapidated spaces. This design seeks to regenerate the spaces using emotion as methods and resources for the built environment.
LA serves as a memory landscape while the new structure represents how hope and kindness can be made tangible in this new society. The utopic idealism of a sustainable city is made palpable through a design that sits in balance with the already existing site and city helping it stand, recover and improve. The juxtaposition of these two represent the hope and possible utopia architecture can represent, while the existing urban fabric is a reminder of harmful human greed and its effects on the environment.
This project explores how to work in harmony with the site with possibilities of expansion as the population grows. The design strategy is applied through biomimicry where the design itself copies the way nature works and grows in order to keep growing and serve the environment. Through the study of Stylaster Californicus a unique coral that grows solely on the California bay a design is derived mimicking its structure and way of growing.
London Panoramic Refugee
London Panoramic Refugee
Project: Housing & Commercial
Project: Housing & Commercial
Tutors: John Zhang, David Porter
Tutors: John Zhang, David Porter
Location: New Cross London
Location: New Cross London
This is a polemical project that challenges the mundane and the norm in social housing provisions. Conceived as a housing project for people in urgent need of shelter the project was inspired by interviews with potential tenants who wanted a place of distinctive identity that they could call home. After a bombing in WW2 the site underwent various reconstructions creating a great architectural diversity that allowed freedom with the design to create a unique organic architectural language. It was imperative to address the social issues on site to provide housing to a wide variety of users ranging from the local public and incoming tenants and create an immediate sense of community.
This is a polemical project that challenges the mundane and the norm in social housing provisions. Conceived as a housing project for people in urgent need of shelter the project was inspired by interviews with potential tenants who wanted a place of distinctive identity that they could call home. After a bombing in WW2 the site underwent various reconstructions creating a great architectural diversity that allowed freedom with the design to create a unique organic architectural language. It was imperative to address the social issues on site to provide housing to a wide variety of users ranging from the local public and incoming tenants and create an immediate sense of community.
This led to a fundamental rethink of how social housing can and should be a places of spatial, material and aesthetic richness. Focusing on the challenges in the dichotomies of the vernacular architecture by embarrassing diversity in a distinct curved tectonic approach that highlights the mixture of architectural styles in Lewisham.
This led to a fundamental rethink of how social housing can and should be a places of spatial, material and aesthetic richness. Focusing on the challenges in the dichotomies of the vernacular architecture by embarrassing diversity in a distinct curved tectonic approach that highlights the mixture of architectural styles in Lewisham.
The voluptuous form is punctured by generous courtyards/ light wells that allow for the creation of dual aspect duplex apartments with panoramic views across south London with continuous balconies that wrap around the entire facade where neighbours can greet each other.
The voluptuous form is punctured by generous courtyards/ light wells that allow for the creation of dual aspect duplex apartments with panoramic views across south London with continuous balconies that wrap around the entire facade where neighbours can greet each other.
Circulations is economised and is every other floor, accompanied by covered outdoor spaces residents can make into their own. At the ground level a library, gallery, a nursery, a gym and a cafe that connects the project with the wider neighbourhood. At the top a greenhouse with panoramic views across the city for the public. The income of these will offset the cost of the building and maintenance in the long run.
Circulations is economised and is every other floor, accompanied by covered outdoor spaces residents can make into their own. At the ground level a library, gallery, a nursery, a gym and a cafe that connects the project with the wider neighbourhood. At the top a greenhouse with panoramic views across the city for the public. The income of these will offset the cost of the building and maintenance in the long run.
Long
The section depicts the ventilation and sun paths through out the year. Through the atriums and double aspect duplexes its guaranteed that every unit will have sunshine through out the entire year maximising comfort. The round nature of the roof and the use of ETFE panels help maximise sunshine and heat within the green roof to reduce energy use. Furthermore circulation every other floor allows for semi private spaces every other floor to be created for residents to make their own.
SUMMER SOLSTICE
SPRING AND FALL EQUINOX
WINTER SOLSTICE
VENTILATION
To create intricacy and relationships in the facade all units have two different balconies. Through environmental studies the facade is formed based of a small balcony that is accessible from the bedrooms at the top of the duplex for personal activities, and a larger balcony in the living area for family activities. These balconies dent on the units that have access to the internal bridges that serve as a shared terrace between 6 units.
The structure mainly consists of steel for further re purposing in the future after the building’s life span. ETFE panels are used in the green roof alongside a steel structure for cheap easy maintenance of the building.
Reweaving Beijing
Reweaving Beijing
Project: Housing & Commercial
Project: Housing & Commercial
Tutors: John Zhang, David Porter
Tutors: John Zhang, David Porter
Location: San Yuan Li, Beijing
Location: San Yuan Li, Beijing
“Reweaving Beijing” is a response to the “Perfect Strangers” brief providing high density housing on the existing site of San Yuan Li in Beijing, China. This project addresses the many challenges on site such as fragmentation of the architecture, small underutilized green spaces, a lack of public realm and the need of housing.
“Reweaving Beijing” is a response to the “Perfect Strangers” brief providing high density housing on the existing site of San Yuan Li in Beijing, China. This project addresses the many challenges on site such as fragmentation of the architecture, small underutilized green spaces, a lack of public realm and the need of housing.
Hosting a residential block, retail spaces, a health and community centre and a market, this site’s architecture was highly disintegrated and in a state of despair. The poor conditions of the housing block, isolated and restricted areas and informal settlements created an uninviting environment that fragmented not only in the urban fabric but the relationships between the users. Through this project a revitalization of the tectonics served in order to restore the community’s and the broader urban relationships.
Hosting a residential block, retail spaces, a health and community centre and a market, this site’s architecture was highly disintegrated and in a state of despair. The poor conditions of the housing block, isolated and restricted areas and informal settlements created an uninviting environment that fragmented not only in the urban fabric but the relationships between the users. Through this project a revitalization of the tectonics served in order to restore the community’s and the broader urban relationships.
This was accomplished by removing the existing buildings to create a large open plan space to be shared by all the public spaces. The tectonic hierarchy was established in order to create different levels of privacy through height. The privacy for the residents is provided within the individual towers that extrude through the public green walkable roof that sits on top of the underground public spaces.
This was accomplished by removing the existing buildings to create a large open plan space to be shared by all the public spaces. The tectonic hierarchy was established in order to create different levels of privacy through height. The privacy for the residents is provided within the individual towers that extrude through the public green walkable roof that sits on top of the underground public spaces.
This approach creates two distinct urban public realms giving back the users the needed space for their activities and a green space for the locals and visitors, revitalizing the space and businesses.
This approach creates two distinct urban public realms giving back the users the needed space for their activities and a green space for the locals and visitors, revitalizing the space and businesses.
This will to only offer larger and more functional spaces to the users but also an influx of new visitors that will improve the life of the site. Furthermore this tectonic strategy can be used on an urban level in Beijing to return the green public realm to the people.
This will to only offer larger and more functional spaces to the users but also an influx of new visitors that will improve the life of the site. Furthermore this tectonic strategy can be used on an urban level in Beijing to return the green public realm to the people.
Perspective View
This drawing depicts how the proposal interacts with the site and the potential of greenery and life it can provide to this neighbourhood and Beijing. This vision can be implemented to other areas in the city to give back a public realm and add greenery to help with Beijing’s pollution.
Structural drawing depicts flexibility. The glass panel spaces on the ground floor can be open closed and removed to make the spaces change upon demand. The green roof landscape is terraced containing various flora to improve Beijing’s pollution. View shows green roofs, green walkable roof and courtyards connecting the tectonics.
