Portfolio Marta García

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INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND Sep2013-present: Rotterdam, Netherlands(1 year and a half). Working as an Architect. April2013-August2013: Dublin, Ireland (5 months). Working and studying.Sep2010-July2011: Gdansk, Poland (1 year). Studying Architecture at Gdansk University of Technology.

WORKING EXPERIENCE April2014-present: Architect at KOKON Architecture and Urban planning http://www.kokon.nl Multidisciplinary and international architectural design office based on BIM with Revit and mainly active in housing, residential care and urban planning.

I have been working at kokon for 1 year and during this time I have done different tasks. At first, I was in charge of international competitions, since the first sketch till the final presentation. I have also collaborated in current running projects in differents ways: designing, drawing and making renders. Furthermore, I am attending meetings with clients to explain to them my design.

Sep2013-March2014: Architect intern at WHIM architecture http://www.whim.nl Architectural and urban company with a combination of design and research. Besides competitions, I colaborated actively in a research project which was published in one of the most important magazine in The Netherlands: http://www.architectenweb.nl/aweb/redactie/redactie_detail.asp?iNID=35970 The project “Recyled Park”, in Rotterdam is a research project to retrieve plastic waste from the river, Nieuwe Maas, just before it reaches the North Sea. The plastics are recycled to give new value to the river. Floating platforms will be build from the plastics to get a new green environment; a floating park. http://www.recycledpark.com/index.html

February-April 2012: Competition XXII Iberian Pladur Constructive Solutions. SECOND PRIZE.

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

2005 - 2013: Master of architecture (University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain). Final Project Thesis: “Looking from the Ruin” Arts center in the ruins of Gdansk, Poland. Average grade: 7/10.

2010 - 2011: Academic year in Gdansk University of Technology (Poland). European Community ERASMUS Programme. Average grade: 9/10.

LANGUAGES

Spanish: Native speaker.English: Level C1.French: Level A1.

COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION

April -June 2013: English for Business course in Dublin, Ireland.February 2013: Vray to 3DsMAX course (20 h, ETSAG, University of Alcalá de Henares). October 2011: Illustrator course (60 h, ETSAG). May 2011: AutoCAD 3D course (60 h, Gdansk University of Technology Poland). March 2010: Course-workshop on Strategies for Basic Habitability in Africa (30 h, ETSAG). November 2009: Workshop Alcala´sArchitectureWeek 1.0. March 2009: Course-workshop on Strategies for Basic Habitability in Africa (30 h, ETSAG).

COMPUTER SKILLS

Computer-Assisted Design: Revit, Autocad 2d,3d , Vectorworks.Modelling and rendering: 3DsMAX with Vray , Sketchup, Lumion.Graphic/vectorial edition: Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and Premiere Pro.Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel.

ABOUT ME

Currently working at KOKON Architecture and urban planning. Ability to adapt to multicultural and international environments. One year studying in Poland, 5 months in Dub-lin and one year and a half working in Rotterdam. Hard-working person. Ability to work effectively as a part of a team or individually. Enjoy being creative. I like other artistic fields such as ballet and photography. I´m also a travel enthusiast.

BIOName and Surname: Marta García de DomingoAddress: Oostzeedijk 352A,Rotterdam 3063CD,The NetherlandsTelephone: +0031 626597095Birth place and date: Madrid, 25/07/1987Nationality: SpanishE-mail: [email protected]

The House of Hungarian Music is envisioned as the modern reincar-nation of the primordial Budapestian instrument: the cimbalom. More than any otherz instrument the cimbalom is linked with the Hungari-an musical tradition. Modern interpretations are hard to find, it seems the appearance of the cimbalom has stoppedevolving. For the House of Hungarian Music however, the cimbalom proves to be a grateful source of inspiration. It delivers all necessary resources for a clear, inviting and contemporary design.

The building consists of a closed volume, containing the temporary and the permanent exhibition, which is supported by four legs. Three of the four legs are enclosed by a subtle glass curtain, the fourth leg is free standing. The main interior route in the building sways around the legs and finds its way to the roof, on top of the closed volume. The route makes visitors experience the building in an ever changing per-spective, passing by all the program in a fluent movement.

House of Hungarian MusicBudapest, Hungary

Kokon Architectuur & Stedenbouw B.V.

Looking from the ruinsGdansk, Poland

Final Project Thesis, University Alcalá de Henares

The project is located in an island with many ruins, from the Second World War. It´s a beautiful place since where you can look out the city.

The urban idea is to reactivate the place by two ways. Gateways to communicate the plot with both sides of the city with pedestrian car-acter and perimeter route around the island next to the river.

The main decision of the project is to KEEP THE RUINS as they are. They are improved by analysis of the pathologies and the rehabilitation of them. The final parts of the building turn round in order to look for the best visual to the city. The building is a view platform to the city.

The design, with a new metal structure, enhance the contrast with the old brick walls. The structure is parallel to the ruins, which creates an interesting spaces in between.

There´s a public program where the ruins might be visited as well. The transparency of the facade lets the people have a visual contact with the ruins in every moment, both inside and outside. The building is embedded in the ruins.

The past corrodes without stopping towards the future.

The museum consists of a dome created from two geometric shapes, containing the exhibition areas. The building transforms from ground level to the roof, from a rounded triangle into a circle. The main interi-or route sways around the void in the middle. Visitors experience it in an ever changing perspective, passing by the ‘rotating’ floors.

The facade consists of wooden panels with Pv-cells, pinned with hing-es on the structure. The panels follow the movement of the sun like a sunflower and open like pine cones.During daytime non-paying visitors can visit the shop, café and the multi-purpose hall. On harbour level, a secondary entrance for the public will give access to the centre area, to the multi-purpose hall. Visitors can reach the main hall through the escalators, elevators and stairs. In the 3 corners of the main hall, the tickets counter (with be-hind it the cloakroom and restrooms), the shop and the café are sit-uated. The entrances for the staff and the artefacts are placed on the harbour level on the north-west side. Exhibitions spaces, restaurant and terraces are situated on the upper floors, giving beautiful 360° views to the old city and harbour.

Guggenheim HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland


The city garden is envisioned on the layer of the old roman city. Flow-erbeds, lawns, flower meadows and green walls provide a place where the Plovdiv population can relax and contemplate. The garden functions as a green city lung. Butterflies, birds and insects have their habitat, during spring- and summertime the perfume of fl owers is widely spread. People can sit on the comfortable stairs and play on the lawns. Strategically positioned flower beds help to provide from abuse of the excavations. Structuring element in the design is the former roman agora. A new excavation will connect the excavation to the west of the Post Office and the one in the south and southeast. The shape of the agora will be marked by a footpath which connects the modern and the Roman city layer. This path is paved with concrete labs, which are substituted by glass in two parts. Stairs and slopes con-nect the roman and the modern city.

Plovdiv Central SquarePlovdiv, Bulgaria


Recycled ParkRotterdam, The Netherlands

WHIM Architecture

Recycled park is the proposal to retrieve plastic waste from the river the Nieuwe Maas just before it reaches the North Sea. The plastics are recycled to give new value to the river. From the plastics we will con-struct floating platforms for a new green environment; a floating park.

Plastic waste is a structural problem in open waters. Via rivers a subse-quent part of plastic litter enters our seas and oceans, where it becomes part of the plastic soup. The Nieuwe Maas is an important European river that takes the pollution from the inland to the sea.

The plastic will be given a new value as floating capacity for green en-vironments. Floating parks are a plus for the city of Rotterdam, but will also fulfill an ecological role in the river water. The building blocks are designed in such a way, that not only can grow nature on top, but in the water new life will have its sole for existence as well. The bottom of the platform will have a rough finishing where plants can have enough surface to grow and fish a place to leave their eggs.

It was publisehd in architectenweb. Click on the link below:

Erosion protection profiled foil.For example: Polystyrene (PS)

Impact resistant shell For exam-ple: Polyethylene (PE) or Poly-propylene (PP) with fibers

Improvement ecology; rough structure for attachment organ-ism. For example: molted addi-tional plastics

Floating capacity, lightweight core. For example: Expanded Polystyrene (EPS)

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Plastic fishing machine

In-TubeMadrid, Spain

Pladur Constructive Solutions CompetitionSECOND PRIZE

The Unfinished City, viruses, bacteria, diseases.Analyzing the urbanism of Madrid, the diagnostic shows the following symptoms: contains uninhabited cells, unused, colonize, unchecked, does not work, sick; residual, marginal, disconnected, inhospitable and incohesive the backbone of the city empty. This disease is known as The City Unfinished.

Intube, an antibody reactive dead tissue of the city. Intube, a strategy, a vaccine. We base our treatment at doses of intube, to create antibod-ies diseased tissue with targeted actions at strategic points in order to revitalize their environment to weave the whole. Each pill intube brings a different role, being all together the solution. So we introduce a structuring that allow the flow and relationships, other rechargeable, a generating activity, other production and ancillary.

The reaction to intube is the extension of these cells in a permeable membranes unify all engaged in a well equipment. The porosity of this skin allows coming through the opened and the closed space.Intube, regenerate places.

The interior design for one building, which belongs to a urban plan of 6 buildings, requires special interest.Those buildings are designed for mental disabled people.X1 is one floor building with support program for this kind of neigh-bourhood.Group spaces, invidual spaces and staff room complete the program.The materials for the interior design: -Tarkett vinyl flooring, aged wood look.- Walls and ceiling in wooden cladding boards.- Bathroom floors in tarkett Safetred Aqua.- Bathroom walls in tarkett Aquarelle Wall HFS.- Tough wood furniture.- Positive colours for the lighting.

Interior Design X1Swetterhage, Zoeterwoude, The Netherlands


RendersRotterdam, The Netherlands


Renders have been made by using Vray in 3DSMAX and Lumion. The 3D models comes from Revit and 3DSMAX files. The post-production have been made in Photoshop.

The ROTCHAIR is inspired by the band of the cigar. We want to trans-late the idea of the circular shape of the band, which hugs Habano cigar, into the chair design. Thus, the chair becomes a comfortable, embracing the smoker.

The design simplicity and warmth is similar to the ring of the cigar. In the same way, the chair can become highly sophisticated. The materials are wood and leather, but it could be changed in color and texture.

RotChairRotterdam, The Netherlands

Smoking Chair Design Competition

Project made in the university of Alcalá de Henares. It is based in the idea of creating orders of protection for this natural park in the moun-tains of Madrid. Hand-made model of the area to understand how steep is the place.

UrbanismGuadarrama, Madrid

Edge and transition zone for the park Guadarrama

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