Architecture Portfolio.
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María Clara Castillo M.
María Clara Castillo
CV
About
I consider myself as a dynamic, creative, responsible and hard working person, my particular interests in architecture are housing and investigation related, I am very passionate about small to medium scales and I feel fascinated about exploring and proposing the spaces for us people to inhabit in our everyday, skilled at communicating ideas orally and graphically, groupwork and problem solving.
Personal interests: literature, philosophy, arts and art history, travel, languages.
Experience
Pasto, Colombia
2019
Freelance architect
Interior design - apartment remodelation
- Architectural proposal of a two-floored penthouse. Currently built.
Bogotá, Colombia
2020
Investigation assistant
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
- Collaboration on the creation of database focused on the study on informal housing in the peripheria of the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
- Analysis of possible areas of intervention and architectonical and budgetary proposal.
Bogotá, Colombia
2021
Internship
Zoom Constructora S.A.
- Elaboration of architectonical and constructive detail plans of apartments and common areas of a two tower residential building project (REVIT)
- Design of customized apartments.
- Quantification and budget charts.
- Economic evaluation of possible new projects for the company.
Pasto, Colombia
2021
Project collaborator
PR Y CG S.A.S
- Architectonical and structural design of Refugio de Aturez, residential project currently under construction.
- Structural evaluation and quantitification.
Occupation: Arch. MSc Student
Nationality: Colombian
Date of birth: 20-03-1999
Phone: +573515038011
Mail: mariaclaracastillo99@gmail.com
Education
Torino, Italy
2021 - Present
Master of Architecture Construction City
Politecnico di Torino
Double degree student at Politecnico di Torino
- Overall average on the program (27.07/30)
Bogotá. Colombia
2021
REVIT Autodesk certification
Naska digital
- International autodesk certification in architectural BIM.
Bogotá, Colombia
2016 - 2021
Architecture studies
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Interest and focus in housing and reaserch courses of architectural development scale.
- Overall average on the career (4.46/5)
- Participation in urbanism and public space workshops
- Social housing reaserch assistant
Pasto, Colombia
2014 - 2016
Languages
Alliance Francaise
Basic knowledge in french language.
Pasto, Colombia
Skills
Modeling
- Autocad
- Rhinoceros
- Revit
Secondary school
Colegio Javeriano
- Leadership courses and participation in cultural activities.
Rendering
- Twinmotion
- Enscape
Adobe suite
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Indesign
Languages
- French, A2
- Italian, B2 (CELI)
- English, C1 (IELTS)
- Spanish, Mother tongue
Produciendo Memoria
Atelier: Social housing - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Year: 2020
Professor: Olga Ceballos
Group: Natalia Castro, Sara Enciso
A social housing proposal that promotes the collective memory
Produciendo memoria is a project that gives a response to the quantitative and qualitative needs of the social housing in Cuidad Bolívar, an informal consolidated district in the city of Bogotá.
The facilities were proposed for the inhabitants of the area and their families, complemented by an elderly housing facility with common and shared areas allowing the integration between the different generations and the creation of community.
Ground floor plan
Roofing plan
First floor plan
Section C-C’
Section D-D’
East elevation South elevation
Apartment typologies
Parque Metropolitano del Agua
Atelier: Movility and public space Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Year: 2019
Professor: Germán Ramírez
Group: Natalia Castro
A metropolitan park along the river: the connector axis of the Sabana de Bogotá
The creation of the park responds to a general mobility and public space infrastructure strategy in a metropolitan scale, in which the Bogotá river works as the connector axis. The Chía-Cajicá segment of the metropolitan park focuses on the preservation and protection of the existent natural wetlands, allowing as well the presence of infrastructure, services and activities such as slow impact tourism and education.
Axonometric detail Pedrestian path
Zoom-in plan
Collective Hostal + Housing
Atelier: Architecture construction city - Politecnico di Torino
Year: 2022
Professor: Giovanni Corbellini
Group: Camila Rios, Felipe Niño
Urban renovation and architecture project in Aosta, Italy
The proposal of the housing complex located in Quartiere Cogne consists, in the first place, on a public space and urban renovation proposal with the aim of revitalize the neighborhod area, leading to an architectural restoration intervention on the existing buildings, providing them with a mixed housing-hostal use,because of the the touristic activities present in the city.
General axonometry of the project
Ground floor plan
Ground floor and first floor plans
Second and third floor plans
Longitudinal section
Elevations
Elevations
Transversal section
Ground floor and first floor plans
Second and third floor plans
Elevations
Constructive details
Leri Cavour Restoration Proposal
Atelier: Architecture restoration - Politecnico di Torino
Year: 2023
Professor: Davide Rolfo, Manuela Mattone
Group: Camila Rios, Felipe Niño
Use proposal and architecture restoration in Grangia Cavour, Trino
The urban and architectural renovation proposal aims to revitalized the abandoned historical farm, Grangia Cavour, also known as Leri Cavour. It is a historical place for the region of Trino because it was one of the most advanced agricultural and experimentation farms, property of Camilo Benso di Cavour. The project seeks to attract tourism and gastro-enologic activities, focusing its development in the culinary school and coworking spaces.
ARCHITECTURAL PROPOSAL
Design strategies
1. CURRENT SITUATION
- The buildings were not completely developed: lack of program and connection with its sorroundings.
- Difference of heights between barns: single level, one level with double height and two levels.
- Presence of vaults in facades and inside of the barns.
Proposal Group 6
Maria C. Castillo s293950
General axonometry
proff. E. Mattone, D. Rolfo, con C.DI Felice, N. Frullo 1 : 100 B-B' 1 1 : 100 A-A' 2 ARCHITECTURE PROPOSAL Sections Tav.8 sections Group 6 Reference plan A-A’ C-C’ C-C’
Ground floor plan
Felipe Niño s294316 Maria C. Castillo s293950 Tav. 7 Group 6 1 : 100 B-B' 1 1 : 100 A-A' 2 1 : 100 D-D' 3 ARCHITECTURE PROPOSAL Sections sections Group 6 Reference plan
First floor plan
First floor plan
Addition/demolition plan - Ground floor
Politecnico di TorinoMSc degree program in Architecture Construction City Atelier Architecture and Restoration. AY 2022-23 proff. E. Mattone, D. Rolfo, con C.DI Felice, N. Frullo Camila Rios s300502 Felipe Niño s294316 Maria C. Castillo s293950 Tav. 9 STRUCTURAL DETAILING Group 6 First floor plan
IO DE REZ
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O p c i o n e s d e d i s e ñ oA p t t i p o 1 D e t a l l e sA p t t i p o 1 Apartment details
C i m e n t a c i ó nz a p a t a s y v i g a s E s t r u c t u r aC a n t i d a d e s Constructive Process
Construction Plans and Details
Residential project - Intership
Project manager: Zoom Constructora S.A. Bogotá - Colombia
Status: Under construction
Year: 2021
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