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WORK SAMPLES AND RESUME

RESUME WORK SAMPLES New City Hall Building in Lalín, Spain

Lalín City Hall .................................................................................................................................... 1 Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)

Institutional Building for the Environmental City of Soria, Spain

Energy Dome .................................................................................................................................... 3 Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)

Winning Entry: International Competition for a Center of Visigothic Culture in Toledo, Spain

The Square and the Cross ........................................................................................................... 5 Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)

Winning Proposal: Yale University First Year Building Project

Building Project House .................................................................................................................. 7 Yale University. Fall 2005 Studio

Museum of Contemporary Art adjacent to Richard Meier’s Museum of Decorative Arts in Frankfurt, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art ..................................................................................................... 8 Yale University. Spring 2008. Richard Meier Studio.

Teaching Museum on the Campus of Wesleyan University

Wesleyan Teaching Museum ...................................................................................................... 9 Yale University. Fall 2006 Studio

Fabrication, Furniture, and Paintings

Piano Stand and Paintings ......................................................................................................... 10 Yale University. Spring 2008 / Independent work

Sara Murado Sara Murado EDUCATION May 2008

August 2003 May 2003

EXPERIENCE Dec. 2011

March 2009July 2010

Oct. 2008Feb. 2009

Oct. 2008 July 2008 Sept. 2003June 2004

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Yale University. New Haven, CT. Masters in Architecture • Summer 2007 seminar in Rome.

Columbia University GSAPP. New York, NY. Introduction to Architecture Summer Studio New York University. New York, NY. BA in Fine Arts (Suma cum laude. Honors). Minor in Studio Art. Major GPA: 3.9. Phi Beta Kappa • Honors Thesis on the use of architectural elements in contemporary sculpture.

• Semester at NYU in Paris, France.

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. New York, NY. Consultant Construction of detailed physical model for immediate entry into competition.

Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos. Madrid, Spain. Design Architect City Hall Building. Lalín, Spain. 65,000 sf. Team member (CA): Produced detailed Construction Documents for curtain wall façade; systems coordination; development of interiors, plans and sections; addressed change orders and met with client and contractor on site. Status: Completed March 2011.

Energy Dome. Soria, Spain. 280,000 sf. New multi-functional institutional complex. Team member (CD): Production of Construction Drawings, plans, sections, interior finishes and façade details; construction of detailed model published in El Croquis. Status: Under construction.

The Square and the Cross. Toledo, Spain. 113,000 sf. Competition for New museum of Visigothic culture, First prize. Team member: Production of competition entry, from concept through DD, massing iterations, material options, light studies and details; presentation graphics. Status: Awarded prize, construction start date TBD. Moneo Brock Studio. Madrid, Spain. Design Architect Leroy West Hotel. New York, NY. Designer (SD): Development and drawing of schematic plans and sections.

Status: Proposal submitted.

Glass Pavilion. Cuenca, Spain. 32,300 sf. Multi-use event space. Team member (CD and CA): Production of Construction Drawings, plans, sections and siting. Status: Completed May 2010. Árgola Arquitectos. Madrid, Spain. Consultant Prepared and translated texts for hospital competition in Jordan, including contract drafts in English and Spanish.

AJOVO. Associação de Jovems Voluntários. Moamba, Mozambique. Volunteer Collaborated on the design and construction of an elderly people´s home and sustainable vegetable garden.

The Architectural League of New York. New York, NY. Program Assistant Performed research for competitions and exhibitions and assisted in program organization.

TEACHING AND JURIES City College of NY, SSA. New York, NY. Guest juror at 4th year undergrad. architecture studio final review.

City College of NY, SSA. New York, NY. Guest juror at 4th year undergrad. architecture studio midterm review.

Compostela Institute. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Guest juror at final review. Summer architecture studio.

Yale School of Architecture. New Haven, CT. Teaching Assistant. “Contemporary Practice” graduate seminar.

Dec. 2011 March 2011 August 2010 Spring 2008

HONORS AND AWARDS 2007 Yale University Retrospecta. Publication of project “Business Incubator in Shanghai.” Critic: Alan Plattus.

2006 Yale Building Project Competition. Member of winning team: Construction of single-family home in New Haven.

2005-2006 Grant of the Fundación Caixa Galicia for graduate studies: full tuition and monthly stipend for academic year.

2004-2005 Fellowship at Antonio Gala Foundation for Young Artists in Córdoba, Spain: academic year painting residency.

SKILLS Languages Software Fabrication

Bilingual in Spanish and English; intermediate French and Portuguese.

Windows, Mac: Adobe Creative Suite; Auto CAD; Rhinoceros; Microsoft Office Suite.

Manual and digital tools, including CNC-mill, water jet, laser cutter, 3D plastic printer, wood and metal shop.

OTHER • Extensive experience as a free-lance translator between English and Spanish. Specialized in art and architecture texts.

• Paintings exhibited in solo, group exhibitions and collections throughout Spain. Painting website: www.saramurado.com.

• Volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build program in Harlem, New York.

• Citizen of Spain and the USA.

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Lalín City Hall

Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)

Team: Luis Díaz-Mauriño, María Langarita, Carlos Martínez de Albornoz, Asa Nakano, Anna Partenheimer, Andrés Regueiro, Sara Murado.

Project location: Lalín, Spain.

Construction completion date: March 2011.

Floor area: 65,000 sq. ft.

Total budget: 15.000.000 Euros.

Responsibilities: Team member (CA). Produced detailed Construction Documents for curtain wall façade. Systems coordination. Development of interiors, plans and sections.

This new city hall building for the small northern Spanish city of Lalín derives from the proposal of an open structure that behaves almost like a mathematical field. The building impacts the local architectural dialogue by connecting to the area’s rich architectural ancient history.

Based on the round houses of the Celtic Galician helmets built during the 1st C. B.C, the City Hall opts for a strategy of dispersion and diffusion, as opposed to one of compactness and limitation: a social and architectural structure that is, finally, devoid of hierarchy.

Celtic ruins at the Castro de Baroña, Spain

Axonometric of the building and photographs during construction

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New City Hall Building in LalĂ­n, Spain 2/2

Section through the lobby

Finished interiors and exteriors

Geometric diagram and plan of the ground floor

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Institutional Building for the Environmental City of Soria, Spain 1/2

Energy Dome

Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)

Team: Marceline Ruckstuhl, Carlos Brage, David Orkand, Elke Gmyrek, Andrés Regueiro, Rubén Arend, Sara Murado.

Project location: Soria, Spain.

Competition date: January 2008. Currently under construction.

Floor area: 280,000 sq. ft.

Total budget: 35,000,000 Euros Responsibilities: Team member (CD). Production of Construction Drawings, plans, sections, interior finishes and façade details. Construction of detailed model published in El Croquis.

This institutional building is part of a larger public initiative to build an “Environmental City” centered on energy efficiency. The Energy Dome derives from the idea of the Big Bang and the geometric efficiency of the sphere. A 43 meter-high semi sphere breaks up into ten modules dedicated to different programmatic areas: a hotel, a conference center, as well as exhibition and administration spaces. The disaggregation of each module responds to the presence of trees and bodies of water that the project aims to keep undisturbed. The complex relies strongly on both active and passive measures for energy efficiency, as well as on the use of local materials such as Soria Pine. The latter determine the building´s architectural choices: most notably, the parietodynamic domed roof packages. These include integrated solar and thermal panels, an air shaft all along their interior surface for summer ventilation and winter heat conservation, and a rain water collection system.

Environmental performance diagram

Typical floor plan

Physical and digital models of full Dome

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Institutional Building for the Environmental City of Soria, Spain 2/2

Model of entire complex

Axonometric of façade and section through sectors

C ÚPULA D E L A E NERGÍA EDIFICIO INSTITUCIONAL DE LA CIUDAD DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE

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PLANTA CONSTRUCTIVA TIPO M A N S I L L A ++ALBORNOZ T U Ñ Ó N ARQUITECTOS

Presentation model

Façade detail

C Ú P U L A D E L A E N E R G Í A EDIFICIO INSTITUCIONAL DE LA CIUDAD DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE

AXONOMETRÍA CONSTRUCTIVA M A N S I L L A ++ALBORNOZ T U Ñ Ó N ARQUITECTOS

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Winning Entry: International Competition for a Center of Visigothic Culture in Toledo, Spain 1/2

The Square and the Cross Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)

Team: Andrés Regueiro, Carlos Albornoz, Marceline Ruckstuhl, Rubén Arend, Mila Moskalenko, Bryony Roberts, Sara Murado.

Project location: Toledo, Spain.

Competition date: June 2010. Construction start date: TBD. Floor area: First phase 34,500 sq. ft. Fourth phase 113,000 sq. ft.

Total budget: 21,000,000 Euros.

Responsibilities: Production of competition entry, from Concept Development through Design Development, including massing iterations, material options, light studies, details, plans and sections. Presentation materials and graphics.

Planned on an archaeologically-sensitive area right outside of Toledo, and adjacent to a university campus, this museum also serves as a center for the interpretation of the Visigothic ruins on the site. Its cellular composition system renders the complex flexible and porous in order to create connections with its context. Its plan is based on the historical growth pattern of the city (with repeated typologies arranged around courtyards), and Visigothic square-plan church architecture.

Environmental performance diagram Rendered view of the entry plaza

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Winning Entry: International Competition for a Center of Visigothic Culture in Toledo, Spain 2/2

Interior light study of a gallery space

Plan of ground level

Diagrams: the city fabric as generator; Visigothic church locations; the ruin as a form; spatial proportions of Visigothic churches Section through plaza, auditorium and exhibition spaces

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Phases of construction

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Winning Proposal: Yale University First Year Building Project

Building Project House Yale University. Fall 2005 Studio

Project location: Henry Street, New Haven, CT. Floor area: 1,500 sq. ft.

Project duration: 4 weeks.

Responsibilities: Full participation in the design of the house and the

Team: Ravi D’Cruz, Minna Colakis, Chris Corbett, Bo Crockett, Yichen Lu, Todd Fenton, Leo Stevens, Claudia Melniciuc, Jamie Chan, Sara Murado.

Critic: Alan Organschi. preparation of proposal materials, and later as part of the student construction crew.

The driving idea behind our team’s design was to center the house on a fully grown tree existing on the property. The conception of the house as a being protected by a “shell” centered the interior living space on the courtyard and its tree. In addition, the house’s main living space was traversed by an integrated cabinetry unit, which the students built at the school’s fabrication and wood shops, and was central to the project.

Exterior views of the finished house

Diagram of cabinetry unit integrating mass-produced and costume-made components Interior photographs of the house and timber framing model

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Museum of Contemporary Art adjacent to Richard Meier’s Museum of Decorative Arts in Frankfurt, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art Yale University. Spring 2008. Richard Meier Studio TA: Judi Shade.

Project location: Frankfurt, Germany.

Project duration: 13 weeks.

Responsibilities: Individual project.

This senior studio project consisted on the design of a 10,000 square-meter museum on Frankfurt’s “museumsufer,” adjacent to Meier’s Museum of Decorative Arts. My solution to the problem took on two major concepts: a response to Meier’s diagram, and the will to design a contemporary art museum that is at once an institution in the traditional sense, but can also behave with the flexibility and porosity of an urban gallery district.

Sectional diagram of path through lobby, gallery spaces and public park

Site and conceptual diagrams

Diagrams of the functions of walls: circulation, exhibition, lighting. Model photos + 14 m. + 10 m. + 6 m. + 2.5 m.

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Longitudinal section through galleries

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Teaching Museum on the Campus of Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University Teaching Museum Yale University. Fall 2006 Studio Critic: Keith Krumwiede Project location: Middletown, CT. Project duration: 13 weeks.

Responsibilities: Individual project.

This project bridges the “town and gown” divide by means of circulation. The most signifying feature of the museum’s program, its open storage display, is conceived as a loop that connects students and town visitors. Beginning and ending at the museum lobby, this loop hosts the display cases of the permanent collection. It also leads visitors through the galleries and is centered on a courtyard aligned with the path running between the pavilions of the adjacent Center for the Arts by Kevin Roche.

Sketch models and final model

Light study of main gallery

Diagram of storage/circulation. Site plan Ground and second level plans

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Detail section of ext. wall

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Fabrication, Furniture and Paintings

Piano Stand

Paintings

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Piano Stand completed at Yale University. Spring 2008

Course: Aluminum Casting Design. Professor: Ed Parker Project duration: 13 weeks.

The Piano Stand project stemmed from the design and production of a series of cast aluminum pieces to be integrated within a larger assembly. The ornate aluminum pieces were inspired by Alvar Aalto’s vase designs and function as joint reinforcements. The rest of the piece is made in solid mahogany, veneered plywood and vacu-formed laminated wiggle board.

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All oil paintings are independent work completed between 2004 and 2011.

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Completed piano stand and fabrication drawings

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Untitled Lands 9 (oil on canvas, 50x70 cm.) 2011 Casas Rurales on wood, 30x20 cm.) 2010 1'-11 (oil " El Bosque de Juan 2'-1 " (oil on wood, 40x60 cm.) 2004 13 16

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