CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Large-scale Projects

Barcelona, Spain

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (also known by its acronym, CCCB) is one of the most visited exhibition and arts centres in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The Centre has a floor area of 15,000 m², 4,000 of which are exhibition spaces. It also has an auditorium, a bookstore and various multiuse seminar and lecture rooms.

The first step was to measure the whole building: the construction elements, the repeated elements (doors and windows ), the environment etc. We took all the necessary data to make a model that could reproduce the real building. On a second step we started to model moving from simple elements such as basic walls, floors, windows and doors. During the modeling process, we generated specific families for the project, such as arched windows, pillars and beams.

The final result is a proper reproduction of the real bulding, holding all the tipical information of a BIM model.

National School of Control

Lima, Peru

This model has been realized for the Republic of Peru, which needed a BIM model in order to set up the project of the new national school to train the public officials.

The project includes an auditorium and a 10 levels tower (hosting the classrooms) that together make the National School of Control. It has a floor area of approximately 10.000 m² for offices, classrooms, and meeting rooms, and an auditorium for conferences. The building is located in a 5.000 m² area, and it has a 2.900 m² parking in the basement and another 2.160 m² parking located at ground level.

The three disciplines - Architecture, Structure and MEP (Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing) - are fully coordinated and the main objective of the model is error detection and correction. This result was achieved using the clash detective tool in Navisworks for MEP, structural, and electrical coordination.

Dynamo Automation

Barcelona, Rotterdam, Basel

During these years working at A3D Consulting, OMA and Herzog & de Meuron I had the responsibility of leading the computational and parametric sector of the companies, using tools such as Dynamo and Python. Working with these programs has allowed me to solve different problems and improve the work processes of the company.

For instance, I developed some algorithms such as the “BOP routine” (that allows to find the distance between the bottom of pipe and a determined level), the “Change Worksets routine” (that enables to automatically assign the corresponding workset to all the selected elements), or the “Set Plane routine” (that permits to create and set a plane in a 3D view).

These routines, mainly focused on project management, are just some of the definitions that I created. However, I also focused my work on the geometric field, working on adaptive families, surfaces analysys and topographies generation by clouds of points.