Portfolio

Portfolio

Academic / Professional Costa Rica 2021

Marbella Vasquez Farach

Architecture / Urban Design / Furniture Design

Contents

Urban Mobility, Prospective 2050................................................................... 4-7 Intermodal Urban Station

Graduation Project for the Degree in Architecture

Origami Wall.......................................................................................................8-9 Heterogeneous space systems as configurators of public spaces Inter-Community Workshop (Group Project)

Muerte Ajena..................................................................................................10-11 Appropriation of the bones of an Alien Collective Space - Design Workshop

Communal Laboratory..................................................................................12-13 Civic Center - New Paradigms of Technology “Design Through Making” Workshop

Master Plan...........................................................................................................14 Mixed Use - Río Claro, Costa Rica

Created in collaboration with the Senior Architect at Saballos Arquitectos

Ciento Veintiuno.................................................................................................16 Scuptural Furniture Design Studio

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Urban Mobility, 2050 Prospective Intermodal Urban Station

Graduation Project for the Degree in Architecture September 2019

This project was a prospective project thats takes into account the projections and goals of the local government, municipalities, and private projects. It aims to improve the Costa Rican transportation network by serving as a hub that connects roads with railroads and aerial transportation methods.

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Perception and interaction with the environment

Cover

A diagrid roof with a series of funnels as columns.

Covered in vegetation, they resemble trees, turning the cover into a “forest” and an extension of the La Sabana Metropolitan Park, which is the immediate environment of the intermodal station.

The cover honors the natural elements −sun, rain, and plants− by collecting and holding them.

Seeking efficiency and fluidity.

Level 3 Train Platform

Level 2 Exchange Platform

Hub for the different transport systems within the city.

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Bicycle Path & Parking (Level 1)

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Bus Platform

Car Drop-Off Level 1 Plaza

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1. Servicios Sanitarios 2.Bodega de Basura 3. Cajeros 4. Vending Machines 5. BiciShop 6.Parqueo de Bicicletas 7.Drop Off 8.Parada de Buses 9.Ciclo Vía

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The funnels are rainwater collectors. The water is channeled through pipes and collected in a storage tank, where it is used in the dry season to water the La Sabana Metropolitan Park through drip and gravity irrigation. The water could also be used to meet the needs of the project.

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10. Servicios Sanitarios 11. Lockers 12.Bodega mantenimiento 13. CUARTO DE CONTROL 14. vENDING machines 15. información 16. Charging Center 17.Bodega de basura

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The cover is a diagrid of carbon fiber tubes. Within the triangles of the grid there is a thermoplastic polymer (ETFE) membrane.

Carbon Fiber Union

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Carbon Fiber Pipes Ø 0.10m

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Floor Plants

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Urban Mobility, Prospective 2050

The project highlights the relationship between the city, its citizens, and their transportation. The design is both an efficient and effective transportation hub and a place that invites users to contemplate their natural surroundings and inspires in them feelings of freedom and mindfulness.

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Origami Wall

Heterogeneous space systems as configurators of public spaces Inter-Community Workshop (Group Project) August 2017 (1)

roof

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table

high table

A heterogeneous system is defined as a complex object whose components are related to at least one other component. It consists of ordered modules of pieces that interact with one another. The modules change according to the needs of the user, and the main objective is to attain social interaction within the community. The wall is used as a project site to allow for horizontal modular growth and eliminate the idea of the wall as an element that separates.

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social area

commercial area

preexisting recreational area

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Folding cover system

Cover support Blocking system

Bench structure

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Anchorage to structural frame

(5) swivel support system

Front View (2) Bench Module (3) Isometric Diagram (3) Exploded Isometric Diagram (4) 9

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Muerte Ajena

Appropriation of the bones of an Alien Collective Space - Design Workshop May 2018

This is a story of a waterborn alien that leaves his home in search for a new one. Thirsty, the alien gets distracted by a mostly water-covered planet and drifts away from his group. Lost, he ends up in a terrestrial part of the planet, facing its citizens, who attack the alien. The alien does not fight back, but dies dehydrated on the streets. Its bones lie within a destroyed part of the city that will not recover until years later. When it is decided to restore that part of the city, the citizens decide to honor its history, so the bones of the alien are kept and used as a structure to support a pedestrian bridge with platforms that become a new public space.

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Por encima del hombro miro y apareces sin decirme una palabra No perteneces; ¿qué buscas? ¿Sentido?

Te sumergiste 71 veces en la tierra que vivo 75 veces en la piel que habito Indiferentemente te abandono No fluye No te puedo desencallar No te puedo abrazar Te secas Te mueres ¿Para qué sirve la memoria?

El tiempo consume tu piel y solo encuentro restos de huesos A veces me subes hasta el cielo y me muestras reflejos vacíos Quisiera poder encasillarlos pero soy yo la que queda dentro de ellos Ocupo un momento para parar el tiempo y acobardar mi ego Ahora enséñame que no eres algo que tengo que odiar o amar…

Enséñame que las cosas pasan cuando tienen que pasar y que lo importante es…

El sentido

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Communal Laboratory

Civic Center- New Paradigms of Technology “Design Through Making” Workshop August 2018 “Material is no longer a passive receiver of shape but an active generator of design” Frei Otto Form Follows Material

A makerspace can be a boon to its community, and it can also become a focal point as a new type of civic center. It can be a collective, flexible space that prioritizes technological design in an effort to imagine, collaborate, and create while making the most of new and innovative technology.

I wanted the design of the makerspace to merge technology and architectural design. Beginning with a simple structural grid (these types of grids surround our city in parking lots, buildings, and factories, many of them as dead spaces within the city), I explored the idea of using expandable foam as an active material generator of design. Injecting it into the middle of the model, it grew beyond the limits of the grid. Once it solidified, the foam was used to define the limits of the “cloud”, which is the makerspace within the structural grid. It takes advantage of the dead space in the city and becomes a civic center for the community.

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Smart Space

Workshop, exhibition, lecture, mixed space Innerspace 438m² N.P.T 0 + 0.00MTS

space distribution patterns

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Makerspace

Workshop studio, tech lab, maker equipment (3D printers, laser cutters, CNC machines, soldering irons, sewing machines) N.P.T 0 + 5.00MTS The makerspace becomes a communal laboratory that acts as a civic center for a new technological society.

Thinkerspace

Meeting rooms, virtual library N.P.T 0 + 9.00MTS

The thinkerspace and makerspace programs are located in the cloud; they are spaces to create, learn, explore, and share.

The cloud would be built of a metallic structure wrapped in glass fiber while respecting the shape it took as the foam expanded. This would be a way for us to explore the interface between material and design.

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Floor Plants (1), Isometric View (2), Architectural Section D-D(3) 13

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Master Plan

Mixed Use - Río Claro, Costa Rica Created in collaboration with the Senior Architect at Saballos Arquitectos

A 206,500 m2 residential, industrial, commercial, and educational development project in Río Claro, a Costa Rican town in the province of Puntarenas. The master plan is to be presented to potential investors in both the public sector and the private sector.

Master Plan

Streets and green arenas

Area suitable for construction

Residential: 158 plots (200 m² each) Industrial: 22 plots (1,500 m²- 8,500 m²) Commercial: 28 shops + hotel University: 8,440 m² Adaptable area: plots without a defined use

Bubble Diagram (Total Area) Residential - 52,395 m² Industrial - 66,467 m² Commercial - 69,590 m² University - 24,040 m² Adaptable area - 28,945 m²

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Ciento Veintiuno Sculptural Furniture

Instagram: @cientoveintiuno.cr

The studio fuses the practice of architecture with the search for sculptural form. I design, build, and assemble one-of-a-kind concrete, glass and acrylic pieces that become sculptural tables. The first collection uses the fabric formwork technique. The flexible module is subjected to torsion and tension, leaving the folds and texture etched into the cement. Once dry, the fabric is peeled off and the cement is finished with layers of resin or left raw.

The Triple Twist Fatty Mini (h= 45 cm) in cloud grey, and The Triple Twist Fatty Tall (h= 78.5 cm) in deepblue.

Detail of folds and texture on cement with resin finish.

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The Wave (h= 55 cm ) in golden yellow (1) The Twins nightstands in raw finish (h= 70 cm, 64 cm) (2)

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The Uni coffee table (120 x 55 cm, h= 45 cm)

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The Double Wave (120 x 55 cm, h= 55 cm)

Marbella Vasquez Farach

Architecture / Urban Design / Furniture Design