Portfolio_Renzo Saux

RENZO SAUX

architecture design

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born in 1994 architect peruvian currently based in Lima, Peru

The following portfolio presents a brief insight into a compendium of work I have completed throughout my educational and professional career. I have a Bachelor degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Lima and received my professional title as an architect in 2021.

My experience as a professional athlete has taken me across the world, from Latin american urban contexts to highly developed cities in Asia and Europe, where I was able to be not only a competitor, but also an architecture student in fully experiencing his learning path. Getting to know these new scenarios awoke my interest in regards to the relationship between architecture and its public spaces with recreational activities and nature of the surrounding landscape. I strongly believe in the management of shaping the landscape towards making an impact on the way people live their lives, especially on those who are the more vulnerable.

Each selected work arose as a challenge with different needs that enabled me to create my own design process where the main idea is able to merge the user experience, the shape of the project and the landscaping that surrounds it.

MURGA HOUSE

RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN

The Murga house is a housing project within a condominium called Hacienda Murga, which is in the Pisco Valley in the department of Ica, Peru. The immediate context is an agricultural scenario with more than 100 years of operation, where the traditional crops were vines, cotton, citrus and asparagus. The project is surrounded by nature, as it is located between the Pisco River and the Villacurí desert. Its proximity to the sea and its dry climate mean that the house can be used throughout the year. The architectural proposal designed by the office (architect Nicole Futterknecht) meets the client's requirements and the construction parameters of the Hacienda Murga. The landscaping approach complements the architecture of the house, since it creates natural limits, focuses views towards the desert, softens the transitions of the exterior spaces and aligns with the regulations of the condominium itself. The vegetative species used are native to the Pisco Valley, which guarantees harmony and visual synchrony between the landscape and the intervention on the lot.

LOCATION MAP PARAMETERS & REGULATIONS

3 Lot 51 - Murga House

Total area (100%): 4503 m²

Area Occupied (15%): 675.43 m²

2 Vegetation & Living Fence

Trees up to 3 m tall

Living fence up to 1.6 m tall

1 Perimeter Withdrawal

10 m from the front

15 m from the sides

15 m from the back

Total area: 300 m²

PLANTATION SPECIES PROPOSAL

GENERAL NOTES

All species are arranged by the regulations of the urbanization. A fruit tree area was requested by the clients. The living fence must be a maximun of 1.60 m of height.

3 Living Fence

Blue Agave Agave Tequilana

Height: 1.2 m

Qty: 14 u

1 Fruit tree area

Apple Tree

Malus Domestica

Height: 3 m

Qty: 05 u

Peach Tree

Prunus Persica

Height: 3 - 4 m

Qty: 06 u

2 Perimetral Boundary

Orange Tree Citrus

Height: 3 - 4 m

Qty: 06 u

Sauco Tree

Sambucus

Height: 3 - 4 m

Qty: 09 u

Aloe Vera A. V. Barbadensis Miller

Height: 0.8 m

Qty: 39 u

Caribbean Agave

Agave Angustifolia

Height: 1.2 m

Qty: 09 u

Green Phormium

Phormiun Tenax

Height: 1.6 m

Qty: 92 u

Pampas Grass

Cortaderia Seollana

Height: 1.6 m

Qty: 92 u

Golden Ichu

Stipa Ichu

Height: 0.4 - 1.2 m

Qty: 175 u

Purple Fountain Grass

Pennisetum Setacium

Height: 0.4 - 1.2 m

Qty: 65 u

Chinese Fountain Grass

Pennisetum

Height: 0.4 - 1.2 m

Qty: 56 u

Mountain Molle

Schinus Areira

Height: 3 m

Qty: 17 u

Mioporo Tree

Myoporum Laetum

Height: 2 - 2.5 m

Qty: 17 u

Coastal Molle Schinus Molle

Height: 3 m

Qty: 09 u

Blue Palo Verde

Parkinsonia Florida

Height: 4 - 4.5 m

Qty: 05 u

MAIN FACADE LIVING FENCE

Caribbean Agave

Green Phormiun

Aloe Vera

Chinese Fountain Grass

Purple Fountain Grass

Blue Agave

Blue Palo Verde

Mountain Molle

Golden Ichu

Cortaderia

LANDSCAPE PLOT PLAN

Main entrance

Pool

Guest area

Service entrance

HYBRID VORTEX

URBAN INTERVENTION IN AMAUTA VALLEY

Rimac, in its multi-strata condition, is a complex and cultural district in Lima. His characters and ways of inhabiting create different dynamics on various surfaces, reflecting urban spontaneity.

The conception of the project is based on this premise, understanding the multi-layer nature as a combination of fluxes which reach the territory itself as urban commands that encode the surfaces.

It is, then, the surfaces which function as a platform to settle the functional packages in the form of filters, enclosures and textures, which expose the essence of the spatial concepts of each programmatic space, and which respond to the way of inhabiting of the urban modifiers. Likewise, the project is understood under the concept of urban vorticity. The rotation of fluxes around an axis: a spatial axis that can take the variables of mass, void or vertical circulation, generate different vortices in the project that respond to the spatial coding of the program. These vortices are the spatial experience whose eye is defined by the character of its axis and its edges by the encoded filters.

URBAN SITE ANALYSIS

Solar Path & Wind Direction

Land Use

East Sunrise

West Sunset

Wind Direction 10m over the ground

Hybrid Commercial-Residential

High Density Residential

Green Areas

Other Uses

Hybrid Commercial-Financial

Cultural

Public Market

Vehicular Circulation

Pedestrian Circulation

Edges Paths

Hard Edge - no permeability

Soft Edge - condicioned permeability

Project perimeter

Main road

Secondary road

Residential road

High transit sidewalk

Aerial sidewalk

Bikeway

Pedestrian flux

Project ground program

VORTEX AS SPACE

The variable packages for the spatial design are configured by concepts such as permeability, opacity, tension, floor textures and publicity. For each functional stratum, different percentages are worked for the conception of the characteristics of the space. The urban modifiers, that is, the characters, are located throughout the building, since none are exclusive to each stratum. The vortices created are formed by the needs of each strategy, being flexible to any change in fthe flux intensity.

The specific strategies of the project have the spatial eye as a vertical circulation space, structure, store or home. They are different nuclei of each programmatic stratum. The edges - filter behave as transparent enclosures, terraces, gardens as a change in texture or as balconies in the case of housing.

PROJECT STRATEGIES

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION

FFL +59.00

FFL +55.50

FFL +52.00

FFL +48.50

FFL +45.00

FFL +41.50

FFL +38.00

FFL +34.50

FFL +31.00

RESIDENTIAL FLOORS

FFL +26.50

OFFICE FLOORS

FFL +22.00

FFL +17.50

FFL +13.00

FFL +7.00

COMMERCIAL FLOORS

FFL +0.00

Vertical Vortex #05

Vertical Vortex #07 Vertical Vortex #06

PROGRAM FLOOR PLANS

COMMERCIAL FLOOR PLAN

3rd FLOOR FLUXES

VORTEX ECOSYSTEM

PUBLIC CHILDREN'S SPORTS TRAINING CENTER

URBAN INTERVENTION IN AMAUTA VALLEY

Architecture and sports have a multidimensional positive effect on society, and it is that both function as a social tool, a catalyst that strengthens the interaction of people regardless of their origin or condition through the sharing of collective activities in meeting spaces. The research was born from the purpose of instilling sporting values in a marginalized population through architecture. Under this premise, the project ‘Centro Público de Formación Deportiva Infantil’ is proposed in the ‘Valle Amauta’, located in the district of Ate Vitarte, and will seek to fulfill the role of urban, social, educational, and cultural enhancer, not only as a building, but also as a new recreational centrality that articulates the topographic condition of the context, its inhabitants, accessibility routes and land use. The project is proposed as a solution to the quantitative and qualitative deficit of multidisciplinary sports infrastructure in educational institutions and in the urban consolidation of the ‘Valle Amauta’.After the analysis of different theories and successful cases of intervention in vulnerable areas to improve the quality of life through sports buildings, a series of concepts arises that form the basis of project strategies, where the inclined plane is the main design variable. The project is designed under a pattern of slopes and inclined surfaces that distribute the sports spaces, circulation, entrances and public squares on the chosen land in order to encourage physical effort to all its users.

URBAN INTERVENTION

NEW URBAN CLUSTERS

Entrance to Valle Amauta + Children’s Policlinic + District Area 04 Park

Entrance to Huaca Monterrey I + Cultural & Educational Approach + Land Valuation

Entrance to Huaca Monterrey II + Civic & Cultural Approach + Land Valuation

Recreation Area + Community Integration & Civic Training

Public Center for Children's Sports Training

Cultural, Educational & Civic Area IE El Amauta José Carlos Mariátegui

PUBLIC SPACES SYSTEM

Public Spaces in the flat area of the Valley Meeting Points on Slopes

Landscape Treatment

Viewpoints

Limit of the Intervention (Valle Amauta)

RECREATIONAL CLUSTER

The accesses to the project have a previous public square, either at street level or within the building's own land. These areas contain different types of surfaces, whose material and design depend on their function. They are mainly inclined surfaces due to the slope of the land and to their recreational use.

The design strategy of keeping the same surface as a delimiting element of the space generates a continuous language at different scales, since it is applied from the design of the ceilings and interior coverings of the building to the generation of public furniture from the floor and parapets.

On the other hand, the unevenness is used to generate different visuals for internal and external patios and sports spaces. The routes of the building are based on these unevenness, guaranteeing a continuous pedestrian flow that articulates all the recreational activities and that allows their expectation.

1. Sports Hall 01

2. Sports Hall 01

3. Restrooms

4. Martial Arts Gym

5. Inclined Terrace

6. Main Patio

7. Climbing Wall

8. Passage

9. Artistic Gymnastics Hall

CIRCULATION SYSTEM

Public circulation

Semi-public circulation

Auditorium FFL +13.25

Reading Room

Recreation Room

Artistic Gymnastics Hall FFL +8.50

Public Entrance FFL +4.50

Public Entrance FFL +6.50

Table Tennis Gym

Recreation Room FFL +13.25

Community Room FFL +8.50

Computer Room FFL +7.50

Outdoor Patio FFL+6.50

Martial Arts Gym

Public Bleachers

Public Entrance FFL +2.50

Entrance Patio

Sighting platform FFL +4.50

Sports Hall 01 Entrance FFL +/- 0.00

Dance Room FFL +8.50

Generator Set Room FFL+4.75

Surface - route of viewing

PASSABLE ENCLOSUREHABITABLE CIRCULATION

The inner main patio is made up of a flat square between two inclined surfaces. It is in this sector where the essence of the oblique function is shown, where the user can consume the recreational space and interpret it as a continuous physical element that delimits the project environments.

Main Patio

Martial Arts Gym Recreation Room

MODEL MAKING PROJECTS ACADEMIC

Year: 2011 Type: Academic - Conceptual Instructor: Martín Fabbri

THE SHELTER

ORGANIC LANGUAGE FOR SPATIAL COMPOSITION

The organic geometry of the shelter acts as a structure, ornament and spatial composer. On one hand, the plaster allows a very organic language to define enclosures, light entrances and spatial connections. Inside this, there is a metallic structure that is the skeleton of the object. Then, there is a skin that crosses it with hyperbolic paraboloid shapes that, with different measurements, adapt to the organic spaces of the plaster structure.

The shelter has 3 spaces: the upper one; that it is an open space, the horizontal interior; which is a semi-closed and main space, and finally the lower one; which is closed and serves as rest.

Year: 2012 Type: Academic Instructor: Martín Fabbri

DUAL HOUSE

CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO DESIGN LANGUAGES

The houses coexist with each other through an ambiguous relationship. The contrast of both is based on the stereotomic and the tectonic, the private and the exposed, and the way in which they relate to the exterior. However, they are connected by a structural strip, which functions as a vertical façade in one house and extends laterally towards the other house, where it acts as a surface and enclosure. The slogan for this exercise is to represent two traits that are opposite in the designer.

Year: 2012 Type: Academic Instructor: Carlos Pestana

DESERT MUSEUM

TRANSVERSE MIMESIS IN THE DESERT

Located in the coastal desert of Lima, the desert museum is buried in the dunes of the landscape. Part of the project is buried, and another part is exposed to the outside since its layout is designed by the Andean tripartite worldview: Hanan pacha, Kay pacha and Uku pacha. The language for this exercise was based on cross-sectional tapes. The mimesis with the territory is an essential variable, which is why it is read that the museum is part of the dune. In addition, follow the direction of the elevations of the geography of the place. The ribbons expand and contract to form longitudinal spaces of different types, depending on which world of the Andean worldview they belong to.

Year: 2012 Type: Academic Instructor: Carlos Pestana

HOUSE ON THE CLIFF

ABSTRACTION AND CONCEPTUALIZATION OF AN IDEA IN AN ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT

After a site analysis, the concept that was extracted was that of the stone. Following the line of the Andean worldview, the stone means an element that contains energy and is a symbol of reference in the landscape. Therefore, the layout of the spaces in the house resembles the rugged topography of the cliff, expressed as folds. On the other hand, the spaces enclose an interior patio that serves for the recreation of the user and for their ventilation. The essential activities are sleeping, eating, observing and eating.

URBAN HABITAT

COMBINATION OF NATURAL LAYERS TOWARDS ARCHITECTURE

The Urban Habitat was the basis for the development of a school on the Chorrillos boardwalk. The substrata indicated design variables and spatial relationships, which create the building. From the rocky substratum, the structural idea is abstracted, forming a dozen plates that support the levels. From the nebulous layer, the idea of having a circulation suspended in the air is synthesized, so the ramp system is separated from the outside of the school and has direct contact with the outdoors. Finally, from the grass substratum, the idea of textures as a protective element of the building arises, for which a permeable skin is used for the entry of light and ventilation.