Portfolio Camilo Sepúlveda López

PORT FOLIO

LENGUAGES

Spanish / Native

English / Advanced C1

Italian / Fluent B2

Modeling

Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Autocad, Rhinoceros, SketchUp, Archicad

Rendering

Autodesk Revit, Lumion, VRay for SketchUp

Representation

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Energy performance Design builder

2015

Scholarship for academic exellence

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia

2016-2021

Bachaleor in architecture

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

2021-2023

Laurea Magistrale Architecture for the Sustainability Design

Polytechnic of Turin, Torino, Italy

Vivvidero, Bogotá, Colombia

Bachelor degree internship. Vivvidero is a starup that began as a interdisciplinary team, making brand identity and architecture projects.

CIVICO13, Torino, Italy

Masters degree internship. Architecture design (appartment renovations) and public contests.

BRH+, Torino, Italy

Post graduate internship. Architecture and interior design. Refubrishment of private residences from appartment to villas.

CONTESTS

2017-2019

Solar Decathlon 2019 LAC

Rol: Project Architect, Cali, Colombia

Urban Design: 1st place

Engeneering and construction: 1st place

Energy efficiency: 1st place

Architecture: 2nd place

Electrical energy balance: 2nd place

Innovation: 2nd place

Marketing and communication: 3rd place

General competition: 2nd place

1st place in social habitat category, Bienal of Architecture and Urbanism, Colombia 2020

2019-2020

Ensamble

Contest for the new faculty of music of Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Team of the architect Carlos Hernández 2nd place.

2021-2022

Saint Gobain’s Multiconfort student contest

Student contest for 250 units residency in Warsaw, Poland.

National stage (Italy): 1st place

19.06.2021

Climate Urbanism. Biella 2050

Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto

Curated by Michele Cerruti But, Daniela Ciaffi, Andrea Alessio, Emanuela Saporito, Leonardo Narvaez Martin, Melis Azolp

BIELLA AS A PARK CITY

Solar Decathlon LAC

Ensamble

Multiconfort

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Pag. 18

OFF Hostel

Pag. 24

DM house

Scuola Dovretti

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SOLAR DECATHLON LAC

Year 2019

Type: Social Housing for Latin America and the Caribbean

Site: Cali, Colombia

Software: Revit_Photoshop_Illustrator

Role: Project Architect

URBAN PROPOSAL

After several activities, polls and visits to Cartagena, it was determined that the main dynamics, relations, working and basic needs of El Pozón’s population are in one hand, that the social housing must be understood like a functional artefact that’s spatially extra limited, with a philosophy where dignity comes above rentability. From this perspective we understood and built an option for the future. On the other hand, the location of El Pozón was diagnosed as a deteriorating mangrove ecosystem from uncontrolled urban growth, consequence of informal, self constructed housing.

As an answer a transition is proposed between urban expansion and the fragile ecosystem through a archipielago system, along with the creation of an Urban Boundary for Protection and Control of the swamp. At the same time, we project a reconnection of the human - nature relationship, between the inhabitants and the swamp with sustainable utilization techniques that will allow to regenerate the economic development and balance cycles of renovation of the ecosystem.

Regarding the functionality of the house, the team proposes a progresive contruction of the urban landscape, adapteble to change, growth and a collective housing system.

Progresive urban landscape

ARCHITECTURE

Our design is built around 3 main concepts taken from our experience in El Pozón. The fisrt of them is the inside/outside relation tipical of the caribbean housing: porch and patio. The house its initially conceived like a giant porch (deck) with a central patio that helps with circulation, ventilation and sunning, typical challenges in this region.

The second one is the chasis, a structure that grows within the porch and responds to the need flexibility of the house to adapt to the different needs of each family. We conceive the house like a structure that can be filled according to what each specific family needs, not only regarding a home but also a business. The facades are designed so they can be wooden with local materials and that can be used like walls or doors, expanding the patio and accomplishing full flexibility and permeability. The furniture was design to hold multiple functions in order to optimize space and allow more activities to happen in one place.

The last one is progresivity. We designed a house that was both easy to contruct, as we demostraded in the contest, and can accommodate not one but two families in the given space by the competition, proposing not just progressivity by the moving ceilings that become the base for the next floor in our urban proposal, but also by giving the possibility that two families can be sheltered in one home separated by the patio, creating what we called the bi-house.

Structural assambly

Wooding of exterior facades

Roof - Deck - Interior facade assambly

Finished project, contest stage

ENSAMBLE

Year 2019

Type: Educational building, Faculty of Music of Universidad de los Andes

Site: Bogotá, Colombia

Software: Revit_Photoshop_Illustrator_Autocad

Role: Member of Carlos Hernández´s team

PROPOSAL FOR THE CONTEST

The main issue to resolve in the contest was how to comply with the wide architectonical program provided as a requirement by the University in the given intervention space taking into account the material patrimonial constructions near by and also the symbolic patrimonial connections, symbols and places created over time by the students.

On this matter, our proposal was to first, conceive the ensemble like the building itself, conecting to the buildings in different levels, to the campus by creating different zones that start from the collective imaginary of what the place has been, to the patrimony by a respectful height and materials, to circulation by creating new paths to previously conceived places, to nature, since our proposal not only did not cut off any tree but actually deviates to protect an ancient cypress. Last but not least, to the architectural program, by growing above level 0 to provide natural light and ventilation to classrooms, offices, parks, connections, etc, and bellow level 0 to provide silence and controlled lighting to recording studios, auditoriums, laboratories and so on.

Our team was selected as one of the top 5 projects in the final stage of the competition.

Transversal section of the project, final stage of the contest.

Multiconfort student contest

Year 2022

Type: Student residence units

Site: Warsaw, Poland

Software: Revit_Illustrator_Autocad

Role: Architectural design and representation

Contest proposal

Saint Gobain’s Multiconfort student contest is an annual competion dedicated to international students. In this edition, the scope was to design a student residency of more than 250 apartment units of single and double accomodation with the restoration of an old factory building to implement a social/gathering space.

Our proposal, called Living Gallery started from the prexisting elements on the plot, inlcuding the factory, to create a volume that mimics them, opens up to main axes of connection, increase the permeable area of the plot and reiterpret facade elements to create a common architectural lenguage.

We created a ground floor of services and created gaps on the other floor plans where instead of apartments we placed common areas.

For the single typology, we designed a 18 sqm, 4 m height space equiped with all services and a mezzanine for the bedroom,

For the double typology, we designed a 27 smq that holds a common area on the first floor and two single, independent bedrooms on the second floor.

All construction details where design to comply with thermal and acustic confort and contain resource consuption and environmental footprint.

OFF HOSTEL

Year 2021

Type: Hostel inside a patrimonial town center

Site: Villa de Leyva, Colombia

Software: SketchUp_VRay_Autocad

Role: Interior Design

INTERIOR DESIGN

Off Hostel was delivered to the office as an integrative project: the office was hired not only to do the architectonic design but also the branding, business model and interior design project.

The architecture department was divided in two, one team was asigned to develop the architectural project and the other was asigned to the interior design. As the interior design intern my job was to develop from concept to detail the interior design proposal.

The general concept was Electric Detox, for the client desired not just a buissnes but a rebelious brand to provide a service of wellness within as added value. From this concept, we developed each space of the hostel as a singular atmosphere in relation with the general guideline. From the reception to the restraunt area, bathrooms, stage, wellness room, spa, bath, fire pits, dorms and suites, the space was designed as an experience of wellness.

Moodboars led to collages that led to renders until we arrived at the detail stage in which we designed the illumination, brand applications, furniture and material application constructive plans.

The hostel is now in cosntruction and is expected to be fully operational on the second half of 2022.

Restaurant

Theater

Stage and firepits

Axonometric view of the first floor

The experience was designed as a circuit of activities from personal immertion on the second floor to collective activities in the first one.

Even thought the project is a new construction, it is just meters away from the patrimonial town center, therefore, construction had to respect several conditions to mantain the historic characterics of the town. The challenge was to comply with this requirements while creating a completelly new experience within.

Longitudinal render-section of the project

DM HOUSE Year 2023

Type: Private residency

Site: Sydney, Australia

Software: AutoCad, SketchUp

Role: Internship at BRH+, Torino

This private commision aimed to built a new residency near the coast on an already constructed lot. Both retrofiting and ex-novo construction were considered but at the long run the best option was to demolish and reconstruct the house.

The client was looking for a new approach to Sydney’s immobiliary market through the eyes of italian design. The architectural proposal was developed in three floors, the ground floor and first floor visible from the street line, integrating elements tipically found on similar properties. The team’s task was to develop a preliminary design to obtain the construction permit.

One of the main challenges of this project was to learn and include along the design process the different normative requirements for new constructions.

RL +60,25 m

RL +57,81m

TOW +55,99m

105 KINGS ROAD RESIDENCE 105 KINGS ROAD RESIDENCE

SCUOLA DROVETTI

Year 2020

Type: Educational building, elementary school renovation

Site: Cenisia, Torino

Software: Revit_Photoshop_Illustrator_Autocad

Role: Student

GENERAL IDEA

From the initial survays made in the area of intervention, we got all kinds of information that did not guide us in a single direction but gave us a lot of different possible ideas, and that is where our concept was born.

Deeper underground is the intention of bringing all of those ideas together following the principle of “Feeling the levels”. Our urban proposal is developed in layers that start to interconnect in what we called Green Life: (Pedestrian, meeting zones, nature, parks and alternative energy) with Concrete Reallity (parking zones, carriage ways, hard areas and buildings).

The approach was adopted outside the school building and inside, outlining the direct contact of both. This duplicity allowed us to reorganize the designated use of each room on each floor according to noise and natural ventilation. In order to ensure greater comfort in the various rooms, technical strategies have been planned by modifying the outer envelope of the building with the addition of new wall packages and windows, supported by a new shading system able to adapt to each facade.

Deeper Overground guarantees a performance strategy both from the bioclimatic and energetic point of view.