TOMAS ZULUAGA ARANGO
TOMÁS ZULUAGA ARANGO
Toronto ON / CA 437-982-9806 tzuluagaarango@gmail.com LinkedIn.com/in/tomaszuluaga
HELLO THERE,
ENGLISH B2
SPANISH C2 native
1998 - 06 - 20
My name is Tomas, a highly creative architect with two years experience as designer. I’ve designed over 10,000+ m2 in architectural and landscape projects. Improving processes based on identified customer needs in order to lead with responsibility and creativity the development of public or private projects.
Experienced in teamwork, resolving disputed items, and managing high-pressure project, as well as strongly committed to environmental care and how my designs make a sustainable contribution to this global issue.
BACHELOR DEGREE
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
focused on architectural, enviromental and landscape design, emphasis on 3D visualization as an artistic expression of spaces...
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana equivalent to a Bachelor degree of Architecture degree from an Ontario university, as determined by World Education Services in Toronto, ON
Organized
Responsabile
Detail - Oriented
Learnable
Decision Maker
Adaptable
Punctual
Creative
Jan, 2016 – Feb, 2022 I AM A... I’VE
Teamworker
Hard Worker Leader and a Receptive person...
STUDIED AT...
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Bachelor of Architecture 2016 - 2022
Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje Construction Assistant Diploma 2016 - 2018
Investigator Assistant
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Jul, 2017 – Jul, 2018
and WORKED AS...
Architectural Visualizator / CA Flora Di Menna Designs Feb, 2024 – May, 2024
Junior Architectectural Designer / COL Nicolas Hermelin Consultores S.A.S Aug, 2022 – Dec, 2022
Junior Architectectural Designer / COL Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Jan, 2022 – May, 2022
Architectural Assistant / COL Prodiamante Azul S.A.S Jul, 2021 – Dec, 2021
Intern Architect / COL Empresas Públicas de Medellín Jan, 2021 – Jul, 2021
Editorial Designer Assistant / COL Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Mar, 2020 – Nov, 2020
Survival Jobs / CA Chef, Line / Prep Cooker, Server, Construction Assistant... 2022 -
PREFERABLY USE...
I’VE COMPETED IN...
Tiny House 4th Edition 2023 / CA Honorable Mention Volume Zero Group: Mariana Arias
Tomas Zuluaga Dec, 2023 – Feb, 2024
over 2 years of experience!
over 3 years of experience
over 3 years of experience
over 2 years of experience
over 2 years of experience
• Visual Communication
• 3D Modeling
• 2D Drawing
• Rendering
• Problem Solving
• Landscape Design
• Editorial Design
• CAD & BIM Proficiency
• Handsketching
• Sustaibanle Design
• Illustration Design
Tomás Zuluaga
TINY HOUSE - FOLD-SCAPE SHELTER
Tiny House Competition 4th Edition 2024
In a world where cities are increasingly unsustainable, mobility is dominated by vehicles, and concrete jungles suffocate our landscapes, there emerges a collective yearning for a more meaningful existence—one that is slower in pace and richer in creativity, all while fostering a deeper connection with our environment. As young citizens, we find ourselves grappling with pressing questions about the future, and it is in this context that a visionary project takes shape.
This project represents an innovative response to the challenges we face, offering a sustainable alternative to conventional living arrangements. It is designed to minimize our ecological footprint while providing all the comforts and conveniences we associate with traditional homes. At its core lies a commitment to environmental stewardship, ensuring that our lifestyle choices are in harmony with the planet we inhabit.
At the heart of this project is a tiny house, ingeniously crafted to adapt to our evolving needs and habits. Through ingenious mechanisms such as rails integrated into its platforms and a pulley system within its walls, the house can fold and expand, revealing additional living spaces and inviting terraces. Each aspect of the design is meticulously thought out, placing a premium on flexibility, comfort, and, above all, our profound connection with the natural world that surrounds us.
1. Rain Water Tank
Washing Area
Bathroom
Corridor
Roof allows rainwater harvesting and mounting
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Exterior Image.. Transportation
Interior Image
LANDSCAPE DESIGN - C.C. SANDIEGO
Medellín - Antioquia, Colombia 2022
San Diego is the first shopping center built in the city of Medellin. Due to its 50th anniversary, the management plans to invest in an architectural and landscaping renovation project focusing on the proximity to nature in a commercial environment that generates the arrival of new customers.
As San Diego’s first shopping center built in the city, it presents a challenge to harmonize architectural styles due to the number of inharmonious additions that have been designed and attached to the original building. The exteriors of the mall are closed and dark, making its facades parking lots and not inviting new customers to enter through its urbanism. We are looking for the vegetation to penetrate the building and return to the concept of open courtyards, the concept with which it was initially designed.
The ecological succession consists in planting endemic species in the place, through different living beings such as insects or birds, will allow to fertilize more the gardens and to let their gradual and natural growth, almost without human intervention.
Previous Urban Situation
Landscape Design Proposal
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Previous Urban Situation
Landscape Design Proposal
Single Family HOUSE - El Higueron
Rionegro - Antioquia, Colombia 2022
The house El Higueron sits in the middle of the dense forest of the mountains of Rionegro, there, a solid and thick volume in solid brick with a large roof is situated. This house was designed for a landscape architect, where the concept was the patina of the Antioquian constructions of the 80s and the thickness of a tectonic element that belongs to the earth.
Design a house for a couple containing 2 bedrooms, 1 study, living room, dining room and kitchen and a space for a maid. This house was to contain considerable thicknesses, as we wanted architectural solidity to be the main concept of the design. A large roof that can avoid the big storms in this municipality and a greenhouse that can serve as a dining room to enjoy the beautiful view offered by the land. All this together with a landscape design that includes pedestrian access and parking.
A rectangular volume in solid brick, with large windows accompanied by a roof that covers little more than the urbanism. After studying the terrain topographically, the urbanism was understood as a terracing of levels.
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Exterior Image
Arrival deck.
Approach Goal.
COLORFUL BOARDWALK - Puerto Girón
Apartadó - Antioquia, Colombia 2022
This place is close to a very fast-flowing river (Rio Leon), which causes flooding during the winter season affecting the economic and social activity of this community. These floods can last for days, even weeks, causing the inhabitants to live in elevated structures, but trapped by the flooding.
Puerto Giron is a town in the city of Turbo, this place has a very important socio-cultural importance for the sector, because it is one of the few communities that has its own council that manages the resources and projects of the community, as dictated by its culture. This town is very far from any kind of civilization, presenting a very high level of precariousness due to the lack of public investment that exists there. about challenge solution
A hexagonal module was created to allow free connection over a free floor plan. This module has different forms of connection, where it generates spaces of coexistence and strengthens the ancestral activities identified in the community. This boardwalk also has docks and covered areas near the river, allowing this approach to the river continues to exist.
SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES - Urb. Valquiria
El Retiro - Antioquia, Colombia 2021
The Urbanization Valquiria is part of a Master Plan called Montesereno, which seeks to create an urbanization of temporary residences with a vocation directly related to the landscape and the environment it offers. The Flora and Fauna in the place are fundamental elements, because it seeks the least possible land occupation, affecting only the “Scars of the landscape”.
As it is a natural conservation area, the area should be occupied as little as possible, positively impacting the sector that was heavily deforested. The land in the past was used for cattle ranching, presenting a very high erosion and contamination rate of the water sources, but with an enormous landscape potential.
The villages were designed with the concept of sustainable villages, the villages are gathered perimetrically, sharing an axis of mobilization that also functions as an axis of reunion. These villas have houses that are built on a cantilevered second level, allowing the first level to occupy only 50% of the total area of the houses.
SECTION Elevation
FACADE Elevation
FIRST FLOOR Plan
PERSPECTIVE Sketch
FACADE Detail
WASHROOM Detail
MINIMUN Extrution
LANDSCAPE Basis
LANDSCAPE Appreciation
VISUAL Openings
GREEN Terrace
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Common Areas
Exterior Image
Viewpoint
Exterior Image
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Interior Images Senior Care Building
Exterior Image Senior Care Building
COMMON AREAS - Urb. Montesereno
El Retiro - Antioquia, Colombia 2021
Montesereno is both a partial plan and an urbanization of single-family houses. This plot has a community concept, where there are buildings for common areas and meeting places for those who live there. The idea is to create a community immersed in the landscapes of Eastern Antioquia, where the fauna and flora are the main players.
Create an element in unevenness that allows to store cars on the terrace and on the first level to have a cafeteria and a reflection room, additionally a soccer field. The idea was to impact the landscape as little as possible, making it invisible to the pedestrian on the street.
A compact element is designed where all its facades are open to the gardens of the site. This is to strengthen the natural concept of the development itself. In addition, the proposed urbanism and landscaping invites to gather in the open spaces, letting the architecture be a great cover of uses but the social activities happen in the environment.
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2024, Toronto
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