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Manuel Devesa Alemany ID: 29207136-B Birthday: 11/08/1985 Av. /Blasco Ibáñez nº8, esc. B, pta. 5. 46010 Valencia (Spain) Cell number: +34 620 974 369 E-mail: [email protected]

ACADEMIC TRAINING

- Architect by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2003-2010). o Medium mark career: 7.80 out of 10.00 o Medium mark projects: 9.00 out of 10.00 o Dissertation mark: 9.00 out of 10.00

- Intensication studied. o Construction and architecture’s technology Architectonic acoustic, structure, construction, competitions and budget calculations.

CAREER SUMMARY

- IDEOGRAM (2011-2012) o CATEDRA BLANCA CEMEX competition_ 1st award (2011) Urban white concrete furniture designs competition.

o ARQLANTIA competition_ 2nd award (2011) Villa competition in Madrid

o NYM_lab exposition. Design of the expositing room at NYM_lab.

- MENIS ARCHITECTS S.L.P (2010-2012) o Luxury residential tower competition_ Agora Garden Design and coordination of the Project with the Taiwanese team. Adaptation of the Project to the Taiwanese regulation. Presenting and defending the nal proposal to clients and press. Private competition between Zaha Hadid and Vincent Callebaut.

o Working Project of torun’s auditorium _ Project management Coordination with the external engineering. Work direction for the local construction team. Study of solution and development. Investigation on creating new materials. Development of constructive systems to the viability of the project.

o Working abroad:

- Tenerife: Managing jobs in the office of Santa Cruz. (Dec. 2010) Visiting the buildings of the office. Coordinating Works with the office of Santa Cruz. Visit to the quarry of Rocasa.

- Lyon: Visiting investigation laboratories of Lafarge. (Nov.2010) Developing a new concrete material in collaboration with Lafarge.

- Shanghai: Expo visit and investigation of the Asian market. (Sep. 2010) Study of current projects in the expo. Investigation of the possibilities in the Asian market. Contact with the director of the Spanish commerce delegation.

- Taiwan: defending presentation of Agora Garden. (Sep. 2010) Exposition of the planned proposal Resolving problems with the local engineering.

- Taiwan: First sight on the Agora Garden competition A. (May 2010) Relation with the promoters of the competition, and the client. Study of the city and the competition zone. - Fuerteventura: Adaptation of Fuerteventura Auditorium. (June 2009) Presentation of the project in the city Hall Study of Fuerteventura’s Island. New concept development for the auditorium.

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o Competitions:

- Disa offices tower, Tenerife. (2012) - Adelantado Market, La Laguna. (2012) - Offices, A Coruña. (2011) - Fundecor Offices, Costa Rica_2nd place. (2011) - Luxury residential tower, Taiwan. (2010) - Lanzarote’s Auditorium_ nalist. (2009) - Taiwan’s Auditorium. (2008) - Torun ‘s Auditorium (Poland) _ 1st place. (2008) - Fuerteventura’s auditorium_ 1st place. (2008)

Collaboration conceiving and building the proposals. Developing the different competitions, and creating images of the last presentation.

- Scholarship PACE. (2008-2009)

o Collaboration with the UPV structure department.

- Practice in the office of Ernesto Fenollosa and Liliana Arguedas (doctors of the Architecture Polytechnic University). (2006-2007)

o Working projects on villas in Almenara. o Structure calculations and developing of constructive details.

- Grant in the department of structure theory and mechanical of continuous mediums of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. (2005-2006)

CCOMPLEMENTARY FORMATION AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL INTERES-TING INFORMATION

- 1st prize of Valencia Community in the chemistry Olympics 2003.

- Courses o English Valencia Polytechnic University (2008-2009). Level B1+1_ Mark: 9 o Workshop apartment tower. (Fernando Menis, 2008). Urban study of the arrival of the Turia’s river. Development of the apartment tower proposal. o Workshop From facts to concerns. (Andrés Jaque, 2005). Urban study on the city of Valencia. Social study of architecture and society. o English in Ireland: Bray language centre (1999-2003). Level Advanced_ marked: Pass with distinction

MEDIA PUBLICATIONS

- Restoration project “Saint Antonio’s hermit”, published in CABDELLS (investigating publication).

University work of restoration of a hermit in the town of Oliva, this is published by CABDELLS, an investigating publication of valencian singular buildings. Their interest actually remains on abandoned buildings

- Small living units competition_ living box_ published in SPHERA (magazine of University). (2004)

LANGUAGES

Comprehension Talking Writing Hearing Reading Oral Oral comprehension interaction capacity English High High High High HighVValencian High High High High Medium - Spanish: native.

KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS

- Office automation: Office, internet, typing. - Autocad: Design in 2D and 3D. - Photoshop: working and creating images. - 3d studio: Modeling and rendering 3D. - Rhinoceros: Modeling in 3D. - Cid cad: Structural calculations

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

- Certain personal traits: friendly, positive and responsible person, that matches easily in group workings. - Driving license B1, own vehicle. - Other hobbies: reading, traveling, practicing sports. - Immediate availability.

- References: Dr. Arch. Ernesto Fenollosa Forner. (Teacher UPV). Dr. Arch. Fernando Martín Menis. Dr. Arch. Sergio Bruns Banegas.(Menis Architects S.L.P)

The Jordanek plot is located between the Torún’s old town, protec-ted by the UNESCO, and the new development area of the city. This is why the Municipality of Torún asked for a building which, inserted into a broader program. This could solve its planning by a ne inte-gration of the cultural and natural landscape.

La parcela de Jordanék se encuentra entre el casco histórico de Torún, protegido por la UNESCO, y el nuevo desarrollo de la ciudad. Por este motivo, el Ayuntamiento de Torun exigía un edicio que, in-serto en un programa más amplio, resolviera su ordenación aten-diendo al delicado entorno paisajístico y cultural.

Jordanék Concert Hall_Menis Architects_Palacio de la Música Jordanék_Menis ArquitectosTorun (Poland)_2008-2012_1st place_under construction_WAF 2010

The Music Hall gives a solution for the fusion between old and new and that is achieved also through the materials which are going to be used for its construction. For the inte-rior, bricks are going to be used as a recall of the facades of the old town. For the exte-rior very clear, almost white concrete is going to be used and in some place it is “broken” by some cracks which reveal the interior coating. The façade reinterprets the traditional handicraft of the bricks and establishes a parallel between the tectonics of the city and the strategic situation of the plot.

El Palacio de la Música resuelve la fusión entre lo nuevo y lo viejo a través del empleo de materiales. El interior es de ladrillo, material tan presente en las fachadas del centro histórico que hasta se dice que es posible tocar el gótico en sus calles. El exterior se re-suelve con hormigón muy claro, casi blanco, y deja aparecer el revestimiento interior en sus huecos, a modo de rasgaduras. La fachada reinterpreta así la tradición artesanal del ladrillo al tiempo que establece un paralelismo entre la tectónica de la ciudad y la situación estratégica de la parcela.

Agoragarden Tower_Menis Architects_Torre Agoragarden_Menis ArquitectosTaipei, Taiwan_2010

This housing project is conceived as a fusion between the nature in the vicinity of the land and the primitive rocks emerging from the ground. As if they had always been there, the two elements of the building create a timeless symbiosis, where volumes and vegetation embrace each other to generate the volume that houses the spacious ats.

EsEste proyecto de viviendas se concibe a partir de una fusión entre la naturaleza presente en las inmediaciones de la parcela y las rocas primigenias que emergen del terreno. Como si siempre hubieran estado allí, ambos elementos crean una simbiosis atemporal, donde los volúmenes pétreos y la vegetación se abrazan la una a la otra para generar el volumen que conna las amplias viviendas.

Cold box Fundecor offices_Menis Architects_Ocinas Fundecor Caja Fría_Menis ArquitectosCosta Rica_2011_Finalist

The project is generated from two basic actions: rstly, the ex-trusion of the bamboo element of 20x20 that emerge from the terrain mimicking with the environment, a nature portion that holds the proposed program. Secondly, it’s practiced an emp-tying in the remaining cube from a tube that generates a living vacuum in its interior, going in different directions and boring through the cube of bamboo the required volume for each space.

El proyecto se genera a partir de dos acciones básicas: en primer lugar, la extrusión de un elemento de bambú de 20x20 que emerge del terreno mimetizándose con el entorno, una porción de naturaleza que alberga el programa propuesto. En segundo lugar, se practica un vaciado en el cubo existente a partir de un tubo que genera un vacio habitable en su interior, recorriéndolo en distintas direcciones y horadando en el cubo de bambú el volumen volumen requerido para cada espacio.

Fuerteventura’s Auditorium_Menis Architects_Auditorio Fuerteventura_Menis ArquitectosFuerteventura, Pájara_2008_1st place_under construction

Lanzarote’s Auditorium_Menis Architects_Auditorio Lanzarote_Menis ArquitectosFuerteventura, Pájara_2008_Finalist

The project of the Auditorium and Congress Center in Arrecife stands out for its architectural uniqueness, becoming a tourist icon and a reference to the island of Lanzarote. The building emphasizes the Canarian landscape, the result of tectonic movements, appea-ring as a loose stone element of the ground embraced by a landsli-de and discovering a large public square.

El proyecto del Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos de Arrecife destaca por su singularidad arquitectónica, convirtiéndose en un icono y una referencia turística para la isla de Lanzarote. El edicio enfatiza los paisajes canarios, fruto de movimientos tectónicos, apareciendo como un elemento pétreo desprendido del terreno y abrazado por un deslizamiento de tierras, descubriendo una gran plaza pública.

2-ELES_IDEOGRAMMadrid_2011_2nd place

A place for living, a space closed as a garden or, why not? Various gardens changing in exible spaces, and also a living room. That can then be completely exterior in summer, as a porch to the garden, with a grand window for reading, looking and admiring the views to the park. A warm space to rest... denitively, a home.

UnUn lugar donde vivir, un espacio vinculado a un jardín o ¿por qué no?... a varios jardines; un espa-cio cambiante, exible, un salón que puede ser completamente exterior en verano, como un porche para el jardín. Un gran ventanal donde leer, donde mirar y admirar las vistas al parque. Un acogedor espacio donde descansar... en deniti-va, un hogar. va, un hogar.

A unitary piece holds the entire house.

Una pieza unitaria que alberga toda la vivienda.

It’s divided in 2 parts according to the pri-vacy of the rooms.

Se divide en 2 partes según la privacidad de las estancias.

Volumes are moved to reach the most possible views.

Se desplazan para tener más vistas posi-bles.

The diagonal park/parcel is marked opening views to main rooms.

Se marca la diagonal parque/parcela abriendo vistas a las estancias prin-cipales

2-ELES_IDEOGRAMMadrid_2011_2nd place

The house comes from two aspects, the program and the urban needs. The urbanism will bring us the keys to implant it in the parcel, while the pro-gram generates the volume: two big pieces that mix creating in the cross the entrance and a space in double height ceiling.

La vivienda parte de una doble vertiente, la pro-gramática y la urbanística. El urbanismo nos dará las claves para la implantación en la parcela, mien-tras que el programa genera el volumen: dos grandes piezas que se entrelazan creando en el cruce de ambas la entrada y un espacio en doble altura.

HALO_IDEOGRAMValencia_2011_1st placeWith this proposal we pretend to get that the bench be-comes a meeting social point to keep a conversation in a group as if it was a dining room table.

Its form has many possibilities, not just the rotation or position generates a new bench but also the grouping allowing to generate new sub-spaces and human scale to environment with no scale, colonizing them.

It was consider a materiality based in a textured and treated concrete. It is proposed to reuse remaining pieces from con-crete ducts, of Ø2m and Ø3m, generating the bench in white concrete in its interior.

HALO is also an ecological project due to we look for energy saving through the utilization of phosphorescent painting.

Moaulay Bousselham, is a sherman’s village, located in Morocco, with a great Dune that marks all the seafront, and raises the urban space from the sea level.

The main objective consist in creating an accommodation for surfers, and making an iconic building. Ability to make “calling effect” that attracts the surfer’s tourism world and increases the income. In order to do that, the main idea of the project comprise “to sink” in the great dune all the volu-mes of the building, that emerge from the dune as the surf boards from a big wave, generating an exterior space in shadow, and fenced in a big beach with no scale that last to the horizon.

Moaulay Bousselham, es un pueblo de pescadores, situada en Marruecos, con una gran duna que marca todo el frente marítimo, y eleva el espacio urbano del lugar respecto al nivel del mar.

ElEl principal objetivo del proyecto consiste en crear un alojamiento para surstas realizando un edicio icónico, capaz de realizar un efecto llamada que atraiga el turismo del mundo del surf a la zona, consiguiendo así una nueva fuente de ingresos. Para ello, la principal idea del proyecto consiste en “hincar” en la gran duna todos los volúmenes del edicio, que emergen de la duna igual que las tablas de surf de una gran ola, generando un espacio exterior en sombra y acotado en una playa sin escala que se extiende hasta el horizonte.

UPV_Surfer’s Hotel, University Project_UPV_Proyecto Universitario, Hotel para Surstas Moulay Bousselham_2004

UPV_Thermal Spa, University Project_UPV_Proyecto Universitario, Centro TermalBenicassim_2004

In a touristic zone like the Benicassim shore, the proposal would be a thermal building with the aim of crea-ting a successful business that brings this coast tourism to the relaxation and the hydrotherapy world.

In relation to water and relaxation world, the building ues along the irregular parcel occupying the whole place, and generating a game of patios that help the complex space to be fully illuminated and with a big connection exterior-interior. The programmatic content of the building is content in series of cylindrical containers of different heights that emerge from the water pool’s roof of the building. Then these containers are connected with the main pools, creating a continuous water circuit; that serves to the water renovation system.

EnEn una zona turística como es la costa de Benicassim, se propone un edicio termal con el n de crear un negocio prospero que atraiga a ese turismo costero al mundo de la relajación y la hidroterapia.

EnEn relación a este mundo de agua y relajación, el edicio uye a lo largo de la irregular parcela ocu-pando la totalidad de la misma, y generando un juego de patios que ayudan a que todo el complejo quede completamente iluminado y con una gran conexión exterior-interior. El contenido programáti-co del edicio queda albergado en una serie de contenedores cilíndricos de diferentes alturas que emer-gen sobre la cubierta inundada del edicio, la cual está conectada con las piscinas principales, formando un circuito de agua continuo; que sirve para el sistema de renovación del agua.

For the university teacher’s children and other employee’s children, come up the need for having a kinder-garten inside the campus raised. To give employees the possibility to leave the children close to their jobs.

Because of them it is created this space, a building resulting from the addition of elements, where everything gets a smaller scale, more appropriated to the children, that as little gnomes do the space own, down of the enormous umbrellas, that not only protect children from sun, but also serve as rain collector, producing a fantasy atmosphere to all the space.

Para hijos de profesores y demás empleados de la universidad surge la necesidad de contar con una guar-dería dentro del campus donde poder dejar a los niños.

Y para ellos se crea este espacio, un edicio resultado de la adición de elementos, donde todo coge una escala más pequeña, más propia de los niños, que como pequeños gnomos hacen suyo el espa-cio, debajo de las enormes sombrillas, que no solo protegen a los pequeños del sol, sino que también sirven de elemento colector de lluvia, produciendo un ambiente de fantasía a todo el espacio.

UPV_Kindergarten University Project_UPV_Proyecto Universitario Escuela infantil Valencia_2005

Situated in a site of a central neighborhood in Valencia’s city, the proposal of an architecture high school, the building forms part of an urban axes of cultural and teaching buildings that pretends to regenerate a whole degraded area.

The proposal dotes to a grid of thin streets, a public space of great spaciousness in base to sink the building in the ground oor. Being illuminated and ventilated through the irregular patios where the light penetrates in, an indirect and controlled way, where the nature grows up, giving to the interior a more pleasing environment.

SituadoSituado en un solar de un barrio céntrico de la ciudad de Valencia, la propuesta de escuela de arqui-tectura, forma parte de un eje urbano de edicios de usos cultural-docente que pretende regenerar toda un área degradada.

La propuesta dota a un entramado de calles estrechas un espacio público de gran amplitud, a base de hundir el edicio en el subsuelo, quedando iluminado y ventilado a base de patios irre-gulares por donde penetra la luz de una manera indirecta y controlada, donde brota la naturale-za dando al interior un ambiente más agradable.

UPV_Architecture High School University Project_UPV_Proyecto Universitario Escuela de Arquitectura Valencia_2005

Dissertation, Contemporary Art Centre_Proyecto Final de Carrera, Centro de Arte ContemporáneoValencia_2009

Beside to the most centered zone of the city of Valencia, in one of the most emblematic squares of the city, it is built this cultural building, a contemporary art centre.

The building is resolve through concrete legs that stands from the urban via level a great crys-tal container which contains the artistic exposition spaces, favoring a better connection between the squares situated at each extreme of the parcel, offering to the city a covered public space.

Junto a la zona más céntrica de la ciudad de valencia, en una de las plazas más emblemáticas de la ciudad, se construye este edicio cultural, un Centro de Arte Contemporáneo.

El edicio se resuelve mediante unas patas de hormigón que elevan respecto del nivel de la vía urbana un gran contenedor de cristal que contiene los espacios de exposición artística, favorecien-do así una mayor conexión entre las plazas que se encuentran a ambos extremos de la parcela, y ofreciendo a la ciudad un espacio público cubierto.

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Estructuralmente, los núcleos de hormigón elevan una gran losa a la última planta, desde la que cuelgan las plantas inferiores a través de los elementos estructurales localizados en la carpintería vertical de la fa-chada.

La fachada sirve de elemento de protección climática, con una doble piel de cristal, que genera una cámara de aire ventilada, y da un aspecto de liviandad al edicio, contrarrestando con la imagen de masividad del hor-migón.

A su vez las carpinterías de esta fachada son regulables facilitando el control de la iluminación natural en el interior de las salas.

Structurally, the concrete nucleus stands a great slab to the last level, from where the inferior plants hung through the structural elements lo-cated in the vertical frame of the facade.

The facade serves as clime protection element, with a double crystal skin, which generates a ventilated air chamber, and gives an aspect of light-ness to the building, contra resting with the concrete’s heaviness image.

Also the frames of the facade are regulated giving facilities to the natu-ral lightning control in the interior of the exhibition halls.


The building is the result of an exhaustive and detailed study of every interior space, by means of drawings, models and renderings.

IIn its interior the spaces followed at different scales for different kinds of installations, loo-king for compression and decompression effects marked also by a lineal way that among the lightning bridges guide and show to the vi-sitant how to walk through the building.

These spaces go out to the exterior becoming the building during the night in a great lamp that illuminates the entire neighborhood, and sharing its artistic installations with the public space.

ElEl edicio es fruto de un estudio exhaustivo y pormenorizado de todos y cada uno de los espacios interiores, mediante dibujos, maque-tas e infografías.

En su interior se suceden los espacios de dife-rentes escalas para distintos tipos de instalacio-nes buscando efectos de compresión y des-compresión marcados a su vez por un recorri-do lineal que a través de unas pasarelas lumíni-cas guían y muestran al visitante como recorrer el edicio.

Esos espacios salen al exterior convirtiéndose durante la noche el edicio en una gran lám-para que ilumina el barrio, y compartiendo sus instalaciones artísticas con el espacio público.



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