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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name GÁLVEZ GARCÍA, JESÚS

Address JUAN CARLOS I, 6, 4H, 30008, MURCIA, SPAIN

Telephone +34 868912621

Cell phone +34 629982893

E-mail [email protected]

Nationality SPANISH

WORK EXPERIENCE

Dates (from – to) From the 01-10-06 to the 30-06-07 and 01-10-08 to the 31-03-09

Name and address of employer CMMP Arquitectos, C/ Molina de Segura, 3-4ª planta, Murcia, Spain.

Type of business or sector Architecture and Structural Engineering.

Occupation or position held Draftsman and Architect.

Main activities and responsibilities CAD of technical drawings: basic design, systems (plumbing, electrical, structures) Designing construction details, systems (sewage disposal) and pavements.

Dates (from – to) From the 18-09-14 to the Present

Name and address of employer Shoreless Lake School (American School), Camino los Molinos, 30850 Totana, Murcia, Spain

Type of business or sector Education.

Occupation or position held Teacher.

Main activities and responsibilities Fine Arts and Physics.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Dates (from – to) 2001 – 2007 and 2008 – 2014.

Name and type of organization providing education and training Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alicante (Superior Technical School, University of Alicante)

Principal subjects/occupational Project design and artistic subjects, technical and 3D drawing, urbanism, construction, fire protection, HVAC/Plumbing/Electrical/Gas systems, structural design.

Title of qualification awarded MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE. PROFESSIONAL DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE

Dates (from – to) 2007 – 2008.

Name and type of organization providing education and training Technische Universität Wien, Vienna

Principal subjects/occupational Continuation of Architecture Studies as an Erasmus student.

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

MOTHER TONGUE SPANISH

OTHER LANGUAGES ENGLISH (BILINGUAL WITH AMERICAN ACCENT) Reading skills Excellent

Writing skills Excellent

Verbal skills Excellent

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GERMAN

Reading skills B1 degree obtained at the Universität Wien

Writing skills B1

Verbal skills B1

PORTUGUESE

Reading skills C1

Writing skills B1

Verbal skills B1

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Good at Programming and Scripting in Python.

Good with C#

Excellent with Autodesk AutoCAD.

Good with Autodesk Revit.

Excellent with Rhinoceros 3D.

Excellent with Grasshopper Plugin for Rhinoceros 3D and parametric design. Excellent with other Grasshopper plugins (Kangaroo, Karamba, Ladybug, Weavertools, Geco for Ecotect…)

Excellent with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, Lightroom and Acrobat.

Good with Adobe InDesign, Premiere.

Excellent with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Fast typewriter.

ARTISTIC SKILLS AND ABILITIES Parametric Design.

Amateur photographer. Excellent doing photomontages.

Architectural model designs.

Good in freehand representation of objects.

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS, Team work, teaching, empathy, listening.

COMPETENCES AND HOBBIES Organizational skills acquired through the study and practice of architecture, mainly planning and management.

I enjoy learning new things, cooking, doing sports (jogging, hiking…) and reading and watching movies.

RECOGNITIONS Master’s Thesis published in Karamba3D.

College project mentioned in the supplement Paraninfo of the Spanish newspaper Información on the 27th of April of 2010 (available in the portfolio).

ANNEXES Portfolio available at Issuu

http://www.karamba3d.com/applications-of-the-strombus-gigas-sea-snail-in-architecture/

http://issuu.com/spacegrasshopper/docs/portfolio_a3_pages_v3

01. Master’s Thesis

02. Construction IV

03. Design Studio III

04. Construction III

05. Construction II

06. Urbanism

07. Form Analysis07. Form Analysis

08. Technical Drawing

09. Models

10. Photography

This course required the design of a small multistory building, the resolution of all architectural aspects of the design and production of construction documents and specifications; everything needed for the project to be up to Spanish professional standards and being able to be constructed. The design, location, program, and all specifications of the project were voluntary.

The building was located in a plot of land in the town of Murcia, next to the University of Murcia. The program was a conventional mixed program of offices in the ground floor, and residential units for students in the stories above. Also included was an underground parking.

TheThe structure was reinforced concrete structure, with waffled slabs and a reinforced concrete slab as the foundation. Columns were located at 8 by 4.5m or 4.5 by 4.5 (depending on location) and the floor to floor distance was set at 3m.

The façade was done in multicolored prefabricated concrete panels, with the ground floor façade left as exposed reinforced concrete due to the possibility of impact-damage.


02. Construction IV



05. Construction II

06. Urbanism



09. Models

10. Photography

This project involved the creation of a soft-infrastructure around on the oyster and biomimetic principles. The oyster is a marvelous creature with a great degree of benefits for the environment and the community: it is the basic element of the food chain, it contributes to decontaminate the water, it takes part in the creation of natural barriers against water surges and it can be exploited as a food resource or for its pearls.

TheThe infrastructure was placed in the Hudson Bay near Staten Island in New York. This location was chosen since oysters had historically had a rich and important presence there. Hence, the aim was not only to build an infrastructure, but also to bring back the rich heritage oysters had there.

TheThe infrastructure proposed work in a parallel manner to how oysters work. In a broad level, an oyster works by filtering very large amounts of water and “extracting” from it is nutrients and oxygen. During this filtering process it also decontaminates the water since heavy metals and other malicious particles tend to get fixed to the oyster. Hence the oyster works as a natural “scrubber” or water. Later these nutrients are used to grow a protective shell and when the oystersoysters die; its remains contribute to the creation of a natural barrier. This reef protects against surges, and helps create a natural habitat for the next generation of oyster or for other organism.

Parallel to this the proposed infrastructure work by first decontaminating the environment, and then creating a structure and natural habitat. It consisted of three scales at which were different elements of the infrastructure. A successful decontamination of water was deemed as the first step for the implantation of a colony of oysters. Hence at largest scale it was made of a series of tubes which captured gaseous pollutants. From thethe water it scrubbed nitrous oxide through an osmosis process and from the traffic tunnels under the Hudson River it captured the carbon dioxide. These gases along with other “nutrients” were then forwarded to a sequencing element which created nacre in a similar manner oysters create nacre. This was a continued process with the aim of creating a habitable structure for humans.


02. Construction IV



05. Construction II

06. Urbanism



09. Models

10. Photography

In this course we had to complete a series of small assignments. All the projects had to be designed by the students along with all the construction plans, specifications and documentation; all subject to Spanish standards and regulations and with a strong emphasis made on prefabrication by the professors. The first assignment was a done individually and the next two were done with in team mates Manuel Cruz Berenguer Arroyo and Jose Vicente Rodriguez Tortosa.

TheThe first project one required the design of a small kiosk that would be located in the pedestrian waterfront of Alicante. Here I design tented kiosk with a rectangle base and four vertical sides. Each two opposite sides were inclined 63 degrees either inwards or outwards. The way the sides were slopped enabled another kiosk to be laid down next to it and in a compact manner if it was rotated 90 degrees. Hence it was possible to create rows of kiosks with openings to different directions. Due to the emphasis required on prefabrication, the kiosk was made of prefabricated chrome-galvanized steel tubes with either pin-bayonet type joints or rotationrotation enabling joints. The bayonet joint was very convenient since it allowed two pieces to be joined in a similar manner to how lens are joined to cameras. For its on-site construction a rectangle base would be laid down and leveled and then the front and back sides would be joined to the base. For ease of construction these sides would also be laid down on the ground. But then they would be rotated 63 degrees and joined vertically together. Finally the auxiliary supports, corrugated steel façade, membranes and fixtures would be set.

The second project was a prefabricated house of approximately 60m2 located in a sloped terrain in the outskirts of the city of Murcia. The dealings had to be removable and transportable and of minimum elements. As a further characteristic this one was done so that it could be combined as Lego blocks. The structure consisted in tri-articulated arches done in galvanized steel and the foundation was done with small prefabricated cubes where the above-ground structure was inserted in. TheThe façade and also the roof was composed of 4cm thickness corrugated sandwich panel 1mm thick aluminum and the interior was done in OSB panels. As a special feature the façade radiation level was calculated so that no further shadow-casting elements would have to be placed on site. Special attention was placed on the radiation hitting the façade. Also of special notice were the small dome-like windows placed on the roof. Around each of these domes there was a close water circulating system that acted as the climate control unit of the house: when there was a lot of sunshine they would transport the heat away, and at night they would keep the house warm. keep the house warm.

The aim of the third project was to create a refuge for the Western Sahara. Requirements were ease of transport, a swift on-site setup, and built with industrial prefabricated elements. Our project consisted in an experimental origami like façade shaped like a vault and like a crescent in plan. This form was chosen since it was the natural form this origami pattern tended to take, and because it was resistant to wind. Even though there was a natural coherence between the origami pattern and the shape of the building, and as such its structural integrity was sound, we had to use an auxiliary structure of arches so that the origami could be constructed on-site. Once the use of this structure was deemed necessary, we used it to further reinforce the origami structure and to act as its foundation. ThatThat façade was a sandwich panel with two PVDF panels on both and glass wool insulation in the inside. Sheets of several meters of these panels would be rolled up for transport, and once on site they would be undone and joined together with rivets. Some of the squares of the origami pattern were treated as openings and this gave us a lot of design options: they could be place to create wind currents or to better illuminate the inside.

* This project was mentioned in the supplement

“Paraninfo” of the newspaper “Información”


02. Construction IV



05. Construction II

06. Urbanism



09. Models

10. Photography

In this course we had to design a town square along with its construction plans, specifications and documentation, subject to Spanish standards and regulations. The site had been chosen by the professors in an already existing town square in the town of Elche, close to Alicante. The main requirements of the project were:

• Take into account the existence of an underground parking and ensure that everything is perfectly waterproof. •• Design one or two fountains, along with one of two urban gardens. • Maintain all existing accesses, height points, and pedestrian walkways’ continuities.

The pavement was design as a “dissolving” pattern of granite of different shades coming out of the fountain and gardens. The pavement tile was design to be cut in an oblique angle so that it would imprint in the pedestrian both a sense of direction, momentum and rhythm.

ToTo the bottom-right side (as seen in the plan), there was placed a belt-shaped fountain with a garden in its interior. The design of the fountain had an “infinity edge” in its inner side, and because the garden was in its interior, the effect was to create the illusion that the garden sprang out of the water.

ToTo the top-left side (as seen in the plan), a fountain like a typical irrigation canal was placed. At the top side this fountain had a small reserved, from which water flowed downstream until it created a small waterfall on the other end. This design was done in order to show respect for the rich heritage this city had in relation to its irrigation canals dating back to the Muslims. Furthermore it contributed to make the walk through that corridor more pleasant, and the waterfall at its end created a focus point near the center of the town square. near the center of the town square.

As a requirement all constructions plans were hand drawn, some 50 sheets in total, out of which only a selection is shown.


02. Construction IV



05. Construction II

06. Urbanism



09. Models

10. Photography

This course was centered on the town of Villena in the province of Alicante and was done entirely in teams of three except the building proposals (second sheet, last drawings). My team mates were Antonio José Crevillente García and Celia Ortiz de Villajos Sanz. This course assignments were:

• Make an urban analysis of the town of Villena.• Make an urban analysis of the main axis of Villena. • Design an urban proposal to renovate the main axis as well as its surroundings. •• Design an urban development at the south sector of Villena. • Design the interior general layout of some of the buildings of this sector (individually).

For space considerations, of all these assignments only a selection of sheets is shown.

Further urbanism courses were also done is the following years (Urbanism III, IV). However given the ever more technical nature of these courses it was decided to omit them here.

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