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Architecture Portfolio

Arq. Romina Manzaba, MBArch 2023

Interior Design ' Agora CITM

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' Outdoor Patio

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' Photoshop Boards

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' Showroom: Straw Hat

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Urban Design ' Amsterdam ' Urban Intervention ROCAFUERTE-PEDRO CARBO ROAD SECTION

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' Playground

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' Pile project

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BIM Desing ' Retail design

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' Galapagos Power station

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' Wood hangar

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' Lighting simulation

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Interior Design

Agora CITM Barcelona, 2021

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1880 ft² remodeled.

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Futuristic design.

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Gray ceiling and curvilinear semi-hanging LED.

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Modular furniture.

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Interaction canvas.

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Linear yellow ceiling light, accompanied by two LED strips.

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Graphic design that visualizes the CITM identity.

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Visual impact from the outside.

Collaborative design in the Hall renovation of the TR12 educational building in Terrassa, Barcelona, ​​headquarters of the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre CITM, of the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech, Spain.

David Torrens, graphic designer, created an interactive skin that covers the walls of the space, based on the abstract drawings linked to art and technology. The master’s students team from the MBArch-ITA projected changes in the lighting, furniture and the attractive tonality ceiling.

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Design of exterior area for a​​ singlefamily house in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The clients required an uncovered space destined for: a swimming pool, gardens, a rest area and a garage with capacity for two vehicles.

Details - 23x50ft lot dimensions

- Vertical gardens and wood cladding on walls

- Rustic design

- 160ft2 small rectangular swimming pool

Outdoor patio Guayaquil, 2021

Swimming pool

Deck Runway Garage - Porcelain floor - Synthetic deck for rest area

- Facing brick and concrete tiles for planters - Portrait lighting

Floor plan

The application of materials of different colors and textures on a white, uniform and smooth wall, contrasts with the varied vegetation.

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Living room remodeling of a farmhouse, including new sofas and modern style decoration elements.

Photoshop boards 2020

The “Homestyler” platform is used to model the space and the new furniture were projected by photomontage.

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Modernist furniture.

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15x18’ dimensions.

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Durables and diverses weaves were decisive in pleasing a petloving family.

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Highlight the modernity of a living room from the combination of bright profiles and earth colors.

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Two different types of wallpaper, which provide freshness and naturalness to the space.

18’-0” Book case

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Pouf 15’-0” Console

Coffee Table

Sofa

Fireplace

15’-0”

7x10’ rug

Chair Chair

18’-0”

Floor plan Establishing a proposal for a living room, in which two types of areas are differentiated, referring to a reception and transition area, as well as the social area.

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Showroom: Straw Hat Portoviejo, 2019

Drawing and 3D modeling of a toquilla straw hat exhibition room, using the furniture, hats, museography and existing paintings in the “Rosada” heritage house, Portoviejo, Ecuador.

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The hat weaving process is exposed by stages construction.

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Hat historical pictures, the fabric conception and the carludovica palm are exhibited.

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The showroom stage is made of original wood belonging this heritage house.

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Extra-fine hats and audiovisual elements are exhibited to explain their weaving process.

The space is made up of wooden columns and beams, cane and mud-plastered walls, and glass windows with wooden frames.

Around white envelopes and a wooden ceiling, the exhibition elements stand out within the range of earth colors.

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Urban Design

Amsterdam, capital city of the Netherlands, is consolidated as a city founded in 1275, whose beginnings of construction of its urban layout, align and develop a cluster of roads according to a pattern element of this territory: its system of water channels.

Amsterdam Subway system, 2021 Details - 50.5 km of routes.

- Subway is designed following the axes of highways and dense roads.

- System to connect municipalities to the north, southeast and new west, but doesn’t make downtown interconnections.

- Perimeter ring whose routes begin-end in sectors further away from the city.

Downtown Road system Located to the north of the European continent. Its shape responds to the orientation of the water channels.

Amsterdam is recognizable by its “half-moon” shape, surrounded by a moat of water through which the river Amstel would circulate.

Amsterdam Road system NOORD

WESTPOORT

NOORD ISOLATORWEG

SLOTERDIJK CENTRAL

WEESPERPLEIN

NIEW - WEST

LINE 50 LINE 51 LINE 52 LINE 53 LINE 54

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VAN DER MADEWEG

GASPEERPLAS

ZUIDOOST GEIN

Subway system

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Urban Intervention Rocafuerte-Pedro Carbo road section

Guayaquil, 2020 Design of the urban intervention model of the Rocafuerte-Pedro Carbo road section in the downtown of Guayaquil, Ecuador to promote pedestrian mobility, assertive integration with the built physical environment and citizen security levels.

Design Style

- Length 1,4km

- Portable street furniture

- Rustic gardens

- Tactical urbanism

- Colorful sidewalk design

- Food trucks

Intervention areas - Widening of sidewalks - Afforestation - LED Lighting - Remodeling of the public transport station - Facades rehabilitation - Mobility routes - Food stands and mobile libraries

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Design of a “pocket” park for children’s use in Ave. Julián Coronel, in the downtown of Guayaquil, Ecuador.

This public space is located on a 10700ft² lot that is currently considered an urban remnant.

Details - Pocket park

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- 10700ft2 small rectangular area

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The treatment of the floors and the implementation of green walls, water resources and children’s furniture, generate a striking and colorful visual impact for the proposal.

- Bike parking

- Curvilinear Pergola

- Green walls

- Color variety

Playground Guayaquil, 2020

- High relief on walls - Rainbow floor in children’s play area

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Pile Project Montecristi, 2020 Reactivation of the rural image of the Pile parish, Montecristi district, Manabí, Ecuador.

Site declared by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage, for having the finest toquilla straw hat weavers in the world.

Details - Adaptation of 15 km of bikeway.

- Church square remodeling.

- “Hat” monument on the parish access highway.

- Creation of the weave interpretation center, camping area and parking lots.

- Road improvement with stamped concrete, stone texture.

- Houses remodeling, using gardens and art murals on facades.

Entrance

Access road Arena

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Church square

Camping area

Pile Project Montecristi, 2020 Reactivation of the rural image of the Pile parish, Montecristi district, Manabí, Ecuador.

New facades of rustic houses

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BIM Desing

Retail Design Mexico city, 2021

Front view

Retail furniture for the display of DIOR brand products, at the Macys Manhasst FR location, requested from DIAM Mexico international group.

The development of drawings was carried out through Revit software, with material coding, dual measurement system and under strict compliance with the brand’s specifications.

Isometric view

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Galapagos Power Station San Cristobal, 2021

Floor plan Vehicle workshop

Definitive Studies and Designs for the Construction of Three Warehouses for Distribution, Maintenance Workshop and Vehicle Workshop at the San Cristobal Thermal Power Plant, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Modeling of architectural components, internal distribution and design of exterior cladding, in Revit software.

Cross-section Vehicle workshop

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Cross-section

Technical memory - Foundation:

Reinforced concrete

- Structure:

GL24h Wood

- Cover:

Isodeck

- Floors:

Polished concrete

- Cladding:

SWP/2 Wooden board

- Doors:

Steel and wood

- Screens:

OSB board

Front view

Wooden hangar of 16100 ft2, raised in four volumes of roofs, supported by trusses that form opposing crosses.

Whose dynamics allow visualize the convergence of different angles that form the hangar, with a continuous exterior cladding that starts from the lateral envelope towards the roof.

Wood Hangar Barcelona, 2021

Administrative area

Airplane area

Entrance

Floor plan

The intention of the design is to generate skylights and translucent lateral envelopes that allow the light entering these cave-like areas, that will serve as storage space.

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Lighting simulation Portoviejo, 2021

Interior and exterior lighting design of the different spaces that conform the Jaboncillo Archeomuseum, located within the “Portoviejo Research Center”, led by the National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Ecuador.

Interior light proposal, daytime To perform the current and proposed energy simulations, technical information was provided in the DIALux software.

Interior light proposal, night view

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Average illuminance diagram

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Floor plan

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“Make it simple, but significant.”

Arq. Romina Manzaba, MBArch