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MAURICIO VALDA VILLAZON

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Mauricio Valda Villazon, Assoc. AIA

EDUCATION

Master of Architecture University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism Universidad Privada del Valle, Cochabamba, Bolivia

SKILLS

Mauricio.Valda.Villazon@gmail.com (479) 387-2113 2400 Champa St. Apt. 4 Denver, CO 80205 12/2017 12/2005

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HONORS & ACTIVITIES

Freelance Architectural Desingner/Desingner 2008 - Present Mixed-Use Building, Cochabamba, Bolivia (Floor area: 39,118 sq ft) 2010 • Designed the building project Model Making, Norman, Oklahoma 2007 • Built models Villazon House, Cochabamba, Bolivia. (Floor area: 2,853 sq ft) 2006 – 2007 • Designed the house project, elaborated a cost analysis and supervised the construction within budget.

Colcapirua Christian School, Cochabamba, Bolivia. (Floor area: 53,820 sq ft) 2005 • Redesigned the school buildings structure including classrooms, administrative offices, auditorium, coliseum, and faculty housing in collaboration with the architectural team.

Blanco House, Cochabamba, Bolivia. (Floor area: 1,077 sq ft) 2004 • Designed and supervised the house remodeling.

Arampampa Town, Cochabamba, Bolivia 2004 • Elaborated sociological and infrastructure needs study to develop the develop the urban planning of the town to offer the residents with better infrastructure and living conditions.

Guadalupano School , Cochabamba, Bolivia. (Floor area: 43,056 sq ft) 2001 • Supervised the construction of the classrooms and administrative offices.

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OTHER PROJECT DESIGNS

WORK EXPERIENCE

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NCARB # 849681 Drafting and 3D modeling Autodesk AutoCAD Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper Revit Architecture Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Fabrication Model Making Laser Cutting 3D Printing Languages Spanish English Portuguese

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University Housing, (32,292 sq ft) Coffee Shop (1,615 sq ft) Multifunctional Building (182,596 sq ft) Condominium Apartments (117,138 sq ft) Villa Tunari Hotel Resort (43,739 sq ft) Museum of Art (132,442 sq f School of Art (39,531 sq ft) Multifunctional Building (458,740 sq ft) Integral Educational Center (53,820 sq ft) Children’s Park (107,639 sq ft) Convention Center (37,674 sq ft) Convention Center (37,674 sq ft) Convention Center (37,674 sq ft) Convention Center (37,674 sq ft)

Participated in the architectural competition "LOFT BOUTIQHE 2010 Tower in front of golf club", Participated in the architectural competition "TOKYO 2010 Fashion Museum In Omotesando Street", Participated in the architectural competition "GREEN 360 Loft By The Golf Course, Cerro De Camacho", Participated in the architectural competition "PARIS 2009 Dance School For Moulin Rouge", Active member of the Advertisement/Materials Committee for the RLC 06 Conference, Fayetteville, AR, Member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and Scientists (SHPE) during the academic year Contributed with three projects for the architectural student projects exposition at the ExpoCenter, Cochabam ba, Bolivia,

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Pikes Peak Visitor Center

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Evolution Tower

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BLACK BOX on 16th. Street

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CUbe Galleries Variations

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University Housing Univalle

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V - House

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Flow House

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Infinity Tower

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Massing Museum of Art

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Museum of Art

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Villa Tunari Hotel Resort

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School of Art

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Loft by the Golf Course, Cerro de Camacho

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Glacier Table

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Pikes Peak Visitor Center Located at the top of Pikes Peak. The design concept was based on the three different ways to arrive to the top. Those are car, train and by hiking/biking. The idea is for the three path interlace at the top becoming the building, and at the same time the building is interlace with the mountain like a tree would with it roots. From any path that you arrive, you always have the feeling of conquering the top of the mountain.

The whole visitor center give the visitor the experience to explore. Bringing them very peaceful places to admire all the beautiful views.

Vignette

Barr Trail

Cog Rail

Car Trail 2

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Sections

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EVOLUTION TOWER

Variations

Because the world is very diverse and changing and moving in a fast speed, we cannot longer create things that are fixed and instead we need to create buildings that are flexible without losing balance and equilibrium.

Fort this reason, I want to create a building that can have spaces that can change and transform with a flexible functional format. The spaces will be able to change its shape by using different dynamic skins that can open, close and move as needed. The same concept will be used in the outside of the building by using dynamic skins that will open and close allowing to interact with nature. In addition to have moving spaces, the building will be in balance with nature by creating green nucleus along the the building. The idea of this flexible building will also be applied in the !functional aspect by holdings offering its residents housing, work opportunities, and recreational activities.

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Parametric Design Concept

CONCEPT PROCESS

Point of Atraction

Lines

Surface

Grasshopper Script Mauricio Valda Villazon

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BLACK BOX on 16th. Street

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CUbe Galleries Variations The goal of this project was to create three Cube Galleries based on the idea of variation. The galleries are placed across the University of Colorado at Denver’s campus. Each gallery is based responding to its specific site conditions based on the comcept of a cube inside of a cube. Each gallery changes acording to the characteristics of each side, one being open, one being inclose , and one bing semi-inclose.

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CU Denver Gallery

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LSC Lobby Gallery

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Campus Promenade Gallery

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UNIVERSITY HOUSING UNIVALLE This university housing was destined for the “Universidad Privada del Valle” and its students who need the facility. The building is going to be located at the “Chorrillos” university campus.

The first floor is occupied with public areas like the main lobby, reception, administrative offices, dining room, nursery, computer lab, study rooms, TV room, game room, interactive game room, laundry room, and other service areas. The three upper plants are composed of bedrooms, bathrooms, and halls.

Even though this building is a conventional housing with respect to the functional components, the volumetric aspect and the architectural language have been enriched by giving a lot of importance to the circulation areas and developing halls where people can interact and relax.

The geometric forms of the assembly are dynamic, characterizing the solutions of ceilings through a convex structure independent from the remainder of the building and resolved guaranteeing a complete thermal protection.

The pretension is to provide the “Universidad Privada del Valle” with a housing assembly that denotes the strong design of its School of Architecture.

Floor Plans

Section A-A

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Section B-B

Floor Plans

Third Floor

Second Floor

First Floor

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Elevation

South Elevation

West Elevation

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Elevation

North Elevation

East Elevation

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V - HOUSE

Second Floor

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First Floor

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FLOW HOUSE Concept Diagram

Floor Plans

Roof Floor

Second Floor

First Floor

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Elevations and Sections

North Elevation

West Elevation

Section A-A

Section B-B

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INFINITY TOWER Concept

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Plans, Elevations and Section

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MASSING MUSEUM OF ART MAURICIO VALDA VILLAZON

PERSPECTIVE

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PROCESSION, REFLECTIO, THRESHOLD ANALYSIS

PROCESSION scale. 1:32

REFLECTION scale. 1:32

THRESHOLD scale. 1:32

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FLOOR PLANS AND SECTION

FLOOR PLAN LEVEL 2 scale. 1:16

TRASVERSAL SECTION scale. 1:16”

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION scale. 1:16”

ROOF PLAN AND ELEVATION

ROOF PLAN scale. 1:16

LEFT LEFTELEVATION ELEVATION scale. scale.1:16 1:16

FRONT FRONTELEVATION ELEVATION scale. scale.1:16 1:16

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MUSEUM OF ART The assembly harbors eminently cultural functions; the spatial structure is resolved through a great transparent and translucent space, which articulates the volumes that contain the main functions of the museum of art.

The geometry of the transparent bond element is fairly conventional, which contrasts with the other volumes that are of dynamic and unbalancing forms, volumes that attract one to look from the outside and invite to explore the inside One of the volumes present convex covers and a concave lateral wall which has one of the main entrances.

The result of these spaces is fascinating for the users.

Floor Plans

Second Floor

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First Floor

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

Floor Plan and Sections

Basement Floor

Section B-B

Section A-A

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Floor Plans

VILLA TUNARI HOTEL RESORT

Second Floor

Second Floor

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Chapare, a tropical region of Cochabamba, Bolivia, has developed in the last years the local and international tourism. For that reason, this project was proposed.

The proposed solution is an open structure which offers more and better natural ventilation to all the environments as well as allows great visibility of the beautiful landscape.

Due to the tropical and heavy rain environment in that region, a morphology of simple, but at the same time aggressive, ceilings have been proposed. these ceilings permits a thermal isolation by separating the ceilings from the remainder of the volumes.

The volumes components of the hotel take advantage of the wave and incline topography of the place. Halls are offered which articulate all spaces, components, and volumes of the hotel.

Additionally, all the hotel equipment permits the user to enjoy staying in the hotel and not having the need of leaving to cover all their needs like food, laundry, and recreational activities.

Elevations and Sections

North Elevation

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Section A-A

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SCHOOL OF ART

Floor Plans

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First Floor

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Due to the lack of a good infrastructure of the Cochabamba City School of Art, a new infrastructure was proposed that would comply and satisfy all the users’ needs.

The art center basically harbors a school of art, which conjoins different specialties including painting, sculpture and restoration. At the same times, it contains exposition rooms, an auditorium, auxiliary rooms, administrative offices and a library.

The architectural assembly is structured around an external space, which articulates the different volumes.

The volumes have a defined and strong line, using a language of tension that encourages creativity. Likewise, the language of openings is dynamic and a creator of interior light.

A contrast of colors (A play of light and dark) defines the exterior and identifies the circulations developed in the interior of a great central space.

Section and Elevations

Section A-A

Section B-B

Section C-C

West Elevation

North Elevation

East Elevation

South Elevation

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LOFT BY THE GOLFT COURSE, CERRO DE CAMACHO This project was created as an alternative to the typical apartment building in Peru. It is located at one of the most privileged sceneries in Lima (Peruvian Capital), at the mountains of Camacho urbanization, by the golf course “Los Inkas” in the district of Santiago de Surco.

Due to the design parameters, two towers models were developed; tower A (typical) and tower B (corner), emplacing two “A” towers and one “B” tower at the altitude of 224 meters above sea level, and four “A” towers and one “B” tower at the altitude of 248 meters above sea level. Each tower has four apartments, two of them above the ground level and the others two below it. The ground level was destined for parking area and the main entry to the tower.

The volumes have been treated with simple forms. At the same time they are dynamic and different from each other through blinds with different colors that can open and close independently allowing the user control light and privacy.

Every tower has a green roof with grass, plants and photovoltaic solar panels that will provide clean energy turning this complex more ecological friendly.

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Glacier Table - Mauricio Valda Vlillazon This Elegant desing is a thoughtful response To The proporsio, girth and vibrant luminosity of the stacked glass elements. A singular wrap of walnut effortlessly suspends the two 25 lb. ‘ice cubes’ in competing orientations to provide depth, capture reflections, and refract natural light. Natural beeswax was used to finish the wood providing the complement to the aqua hue.

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THANK YOU

Mauricio Valda Villazon