architecture portfolio

Application Portfolio 1

albertomanriqueMASTER OF SCIENCE IN

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNApplication Portfolio Columbia University

2012

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Alberto ManriqueCr 11 C # 127 - 19Bogotá, Colombia

(57-1) 274 - 4931(57 ) 310 - 880 53 [email protected]

Co-founder:A l t i p l a n o Estudio de Arquitectura


Contents Project Atributes

ArchitectureIndustrial Design

CompetitionsUniversity WorkProfessional WorkInterventionIndustrial Design


ArchitectureNewark Visitor Center

Competition Fall 2009

Newark Visitor Center

Newark, New Jersey, United States

2009

Design: Alberto Manrique, Pedro Aparicio, Felipe Guerra and Felipe Velasquez

Architecture enables a web of public spaces that stimulate interaction, not only between visitors, but also and most importantly between the city’s inhabitants. It facilitates con-nections between seemingly disconnected places, express and revive historical values, and create spaces for future dynamics. By establishing two main connecting axes, our project intends to serve as a corridor/build-ing, in which its program, allows public space to flow freely through a succession of open sky patios and cultural corridors integrating the different components of the Visitor’s Cen-ter. The use of hard and seemingly rough materials such as weathered steel and concrete con-trast with the grass and softer surfaces. This is directly realted to the disparity that appears between the formerly industrial and now green, artistic and booming character of the city. The belowground level placement of the project intends to keep the visual connection be-tween the Ironbound and the Passaic River. It also generates a controlled public space that stimulates diverse situations of human interactions. The building maintains an un-pretentious attitude at a first glance, non-the less the projects placement permits users to discover its architectural force through their path. The inner walls of the belowground public space provide large spaces for the use of new incoming and local artists. In some of these lower walls glass would be placed, making the soil visible as an ever-present reminder of the ground on which the city was built, and the roots that grew and will keep growing into Newark’s future.

LocationNewark, New Jersey

NVC Competitionnewark visitor´s center


Site Plan

Program Exploded

Interior & Exterior Areas

Intentions, Circulation & Division of Program

By establishing two main connecting axes, our project intends to serve as a corridor/building, in which its program, allows public space to flow freely through a succession of open sky patios and cultural corridors integrating the different components of the Visitor´s Center.


section AA, section BB

Aerial View (rainy day)

section AA

section BB

... architecture and its spaces merge with vision, but also with scent and touch, with silence and sound, luminosity and penumbra, and the trans-parency that can be found while wondering will allow the discovery of unexpected spaces.-Rogelio Salmona


Outside View (winter)

Inside View (expositions)

The below-ground buildings maintain rustic concrete walls that symbolize the base roots of the city: its soil and rocks. Clear glass alows users to visualize further spaces to discover. Rooftops maintain a green continuity between the avenue and the Riverfront Park.


Exterior Perspective

Interior Perspective

The materials of the project evoke an attitude that corresponds to Newark´s history and its new face. Both buildings extrude from the earth dialogue with the city and with its rusted corten steel facades, by representing the industrial process as part of the cities history.


Buena Arquitectura Excelente Pedagogía

*Winner - Andean Region * Winner - Amazonic Region Finalist - Caribbean RegionFinalist - Pacific Region

Colombia

2011

Design: Alberto Manrique, Pedro Aparicio, Felipe Guerra, Felipe Velasquez, MeMa arquitectos, Carlos Balen and Alejandro Quintana

Jury: Giancarlo Mazzanti, Alejandro Sokoloff, Elly Burchardt, Antonio Manrique, Carlos Hernandez

This proyect intended to create four different types of schools that could adapt to the four very distinct regions of Colombia, (Andean, Amazonic, Pacific and Caribbean) that have very differents climates, vegetation, and cultures .

This competition was launched by the goverment as a response to all the damages that flooding has caused during this rainy season. There is a need to construct more than 1,300 new schools that adapt to these four regions. The cultural aspect was very impor-tant while designing each school and the understanding of each topography was consid-ered crucial to define each school.

ArchitectureBuena Arquitectura Excelente Pedagogía

Competition Fall 2011


Given the emergency caused by the heavy rains, we proposed a project that goes a step further. An architecture that char-acterizes itself for assuming the following aspects in a versa-tile, simple and efficient way; transportation, construction, print, culture, climate and the topography of each region.

In that way, we regroup the different functions by using modular prefabricated elements that adjust to the circu-lation, the mobiliary and the public space. This modular prefabricated elements adapt to each regions topography easily and are able to generate spatial relations within the elements, separated from each other by patios or corridors.

The different possibilities that arise between corridors, patios, ramps, stairs, benches, games and others elements stimulate the gathering of people. These characteristics tend to form the identity of an individual, of a social group and an eductaed community. The project assumes as starting point the necessity of conforming architecture from a pedagogical point of view. the academic feature can lean on the architec-tural space as a teaching stategy. In this way the architectural space creates learning situations.

IMAGES TOP: Perspective of one of the patios in the Amazoic school.BOTTOM: Section cutting by the classrooms and corridors.OTHER PAGETOP: Models of each of the four schools.BOTTOM: Section of Amazoic Region School.


section A -A

Andean Region

Pacific Region Amazonic Region

Caribbean Region


IMAGESTOP: One of the patios with a playground in the Andean school enables kids to use the slides to go from class to playgrounds.BELLOW: Section cutting through the middle of the andean school prototype. All four school prototypes have green roofs and solar pannels only when needed given that some some of them don´t have access to electricity.

Section A -A


Urban Patio

Salitre, Bogotá - Colombia

2010

Design: Alberto Manrique

This residential building is located in the occidental part of the city of Bogotá. It is situated between the San Francisco river and the occidental railroad, on a lot which used to have industrial use. The lot has great possibilities given that the San Francisco river which is very important crosses the city through it. The lot also borders the occidental track which is currently on dispute whether it should continue being a railroad or a green corridor.

The neighborhood is surrounded by a very dense aglomeration of neighborhoods with very little green areas. It has all the possibilities due to the empty lots that surround it. The result of the neighborhood is that of very tall buildings with very little city life. The prices have gone up because of its good location and close proximity to important highways.

The lot being too big and very dense it had to bring new things to the community other than being another big residential tower. It had to bring life to the neighborhood and to the rest of the city, specially in a city like Bogotá which lacks parks. The result is a group of big residential towers with large and open green spaces and commercial areas in the first floors. These residential towers also have a great variety of apartments.The building opens up to the east where the sun rises and to an artficial lake placed in the middle which fills itself with water from the San Francisco river.

ArchitectureUrban Patio

Univeristy Work Spring 2010

Model - LocationSalitre, Bogotá


Location: Salitre, BogotáWhile working with a site like this one you first have to understand the surroundings really well, so the project wont be an imposition on the neighbors. Take notice of what the impact is going to be. If it is gong to be helpful or is it just going to be another building on a site.

Since this project is really big it could not be just a residential complex. It had to bring life to the neighborhood. Therefore it planned big green areas and comercial life on the first lev-els. The location is crucial due to the reasonthat it stands between the SanFrancisco river one of the most emblematic in the city and the oc-cidentral railroad. The railroad was one of the main reasons to choose this site. It´s a straight line to the center of the city, and it would take 15 min by bike to get there, instead in a car it would take you over half an hour. This project also intended to boost this old railroad track into a linear park that could unite the city.


Image DescriptionIt is clear that the San Francisco river not only divides the neighborhood physically but it also divides it in terms of use. The northern part of the river is mainly residential while the southern part is mainly ocuppied by factories and very little houses. There are still a few big empty lots whos impact is also big on its surroundings. So any project that is done must create a link between the two sides and take advantage of the railroad that goes to the center of the city.

Top:Mapping the uses on site.

Middle:Sketch

Purpose:Help unite the neighborhood and bring back importance to the San Francisco river and the railroad that enters the city through the south-west.


SITE PLANRIGHT: The San Francisco rivers flows through the center of the lot creating an artificial lake with lots of vegetation, where contem-plation can take place and where birds can come as they do in the close “humedales” around the area. There are bridges that cross over the main lake and the canal, that enable pedestrians to transit easily from place to place.

LAGO PROPUESTO

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SECTION A-ABELOW: The parking space would work under the build-ings and the lake would occupy the majority of the site in the inside, opening itself to the mountains and the morning sun.


Plan and FacadeBlock 1 & 2OPPOSITE: The plan of the block repeats itself continously creating a homogeneous site, with over 20 story buildings and six apartments per story, each block would have over 120 apartments being the ones in the corners duplex.


THIRD LEVEL

SECOND LEVEL

FIRST LEVEL

COMERCE

URBAN CHAIR IN CONCRETE

SUIGE

COMERCE WITH 4.8m. HIGHT.

COMERCE SIGN 60cm.

SLIDING WINDOW

PLACK OF 40 cm.

“PERSIANAS ABATIBLES”, SLIDING ON WOOD

WOOD FLOOR

SECURITY RAILING IN IRON 10cm. DIAMETER

Perspective from the lake.BELLOW: On the center of the site their is an artificial lake that would fill with water from the San Francisco river that passes by. It is also is intended to become a place for the rest of the neighbors to enjoy, cause there are no parks in the surroundings.

Facade SectionComerce & Level 1,2,3RIGHT: The floor plan was intended to be as free in obstacles as possible where the future residents could adapt in as many ways as they liked. The commerce also has a free plan where they could easily join two or more stores.


Amoeba House

Zipaquira - Colombia

2010 - 2011

Design: Alberto Manrique, Joana Barossi, Pedro Aparicio and Felipe Guerra

This house started out as a crazy idea of the owner which had always wanted a house with an amoeba form. He thought that if he gave the project to a known architect his idea would vanish. Therefore he called us, a young firm which wouldn’t mind working with such an idea. Instead we embraced the idea. We reinforced the idea of the house, giving it as many curves as we thought possible, main-taining always the integrity and honesty of such lines. Through out the process we didnt get carried away and miss the basic principles that constitute a house. The house is located on the top of a mountain that overlooks the valley of Zipaquira on one side and the valley of Tabio on the other. Both views are beautiful and since the Zipaquira valley is more populated than the other, we prefered to look over the Tabio valley. An homogenous exterior was created with a modern interior which required lots of thought due to its form. The result was that of several spaces within the house that can appreciate the manipulation of different textures in the articulation of the various surfaces. The patio in the center of the house was to provide more light and withhold a native tree, giving it a warmer sense. As for the surrounding of the house the owners wanted as much native trees as possible. The house blends well with the existing landscape.

ArchitectureAmoeba House

Professional Work 2010-2011


Location (Hilltop overlooking the valley)


Site plan

Plan


Sections A - A, B - B, C - C, and D - D -D.

Perspective ( front view )


Perspective ( south view )

Perspective ( north view )

Perspective ( west view )


Construction - Aerial axis

Construction - Center patio

Construction - Entrance

Constructio - Rooftop (green)

Construction - View from the forest

Construction - View from the bottom


Sotaquira Country House

Sotaquira, Boyaca - Colombia

2009 - 2010

Design & Construction: Alberto Manrique

This house is located on the top of a hillside that overlooks the valley of Sotaquira. The intention was to incorporate the house to the existing stables maintaining the language of the existing construction. Maintaining an homogenous exterior and a modern interior. The result is that of spaces within the house that have different ceilings in the articulation of the various surfaces.

Part of the exercise was to create a courtyard with the rest of the house and give it a warmer feeling. The construction included one master bedroom, three rooms for the kids, a laundry room and a studio were people could hang out, besids the existing living room. On the other side the house needed a place were the incredible view of the house could be appreciated. A place were people could also see how they worked the horses, a family tradition that they like to have while still being comfortable and close to the house itself.

To enclose the house as the owners wanted I proposed an adobe wall. A wall that would blend with the forest that rest at the back of the house, a wall that ended up bringing the existing landscape of the site into the courtyard.

ArchitectureSotaquira Country House

Professional Work 2009 - 2010

Section A - ADetail of the roof in bedroom 1.


Roof plan ( before and after)

Plan (before and after)


East Facade (before and after)

South Facade (before and after)

West Facade (before and after)


Inside the central patio overlooking the bedroom corridor.

Adobe wall


Horses in the central patio.


Kids bedroom Working table in the master bedroom Master bedroom


Main corridor

Studio

Water tank and garden

Detail in stables roof


Bell 134

Bogotá - Colombia

2011 - 2012

Design : Alberto Manrique, Pedro Aparicio, Felipe Guerra and Felipe Velasquez

This residential building is located in the northern part of the city of Bogotá. It is located on a corner which has a street on one side and a pedestrian trail on the other. Initially the lot was made up of four houses in a row that where brought down. The new building will have a nice area with a capacity of 24 small apartments. Due to the city´s regulations it can only have five floors in this part of the city.

The neighborhood used was surrounded by small houses but in the past 30 years due to the lack of space in the city they have been torn down and filled with small residential buildings. Most of them are made out of red brick as in the rest of the city.

The owner wanted to upgrade his building by providing very good finishing therefor we made the apartments as spacious as possible and designed a big patio on the back which would then separate the building from other buildings on the back. All the apartments have different floor plans but the facade remains homogeneous.

As a result we have different spaces within each apartment that enjoy a variety of textures in several surfaces with a patio filled with native trees.

The rooftop has a resting area filled with native plants helping the building to blend in with the mountains of Bogotá.

ArchitectureBell 134

Professional Work 2011 - 2012

Location : Carrera 16 # 134ABogotá, Colombia


Plan floors 2, 3, 4, 5


Main facade

Section A-A


FACADE FROM THE CARRERA 16LEFT: The constructor of the building wanted the building to stand out. Therefore we made the facade in concrete since the rest of the neighborhood is done in brick. The apart-ments in each story are all different sizes, but still cre-ate a uniform facade.

PERSPECTIVE FROM THE CORNER WITH THE PEDESTRIAN STRIP.BELLOW: The build-ing unlike the rest of the neighborhood has no fence making it nicer to the people that walk by. As for the terraces they were dis-placed to give a little more movement to the facade.


Back patio

Rooftop

Kitchen

Bedroom


Patio Apartment

Bogotá, Colombia

2011

Design & Construction: Alberto Manrique, Pedro Aparicio, Felipe Guerra and Felipe Velasquez

This apartment is located in the northen part of Bogotá. It is on the first floor of a residen-tial building. The intention was to give this apartment a completely new look that could be easy to live in, since the ones occupying the apartment would be three young brothers, therefore we needed to create a fresh and modern look. We made the terrace as green as possible, thinking that it was the main view of the three bedrooms. A green wall was pro-posed with a BBQ which they could use in the weekends.

Part of the exercise was to create as much space for storage as possible beacause the three brothers are artists and needed lot of space to place their working materials. The main space of the house joins the living room, the kitchen and the dinning room. The dinning room, but working too, so it had to have an informal look. So we chose a typical picnic table where they could also play or do some work. We chose very light colors for all the materials. All the doors, closets and libraries where done in ivory wood which is very cheap but has the fresh look that we were looking for. The bathroom floors were done in hidraulic tablet which is also very cheap and easy to maintain.

ArchitecturePatio Apartment

Professional Work 2011

Plan (before and after)Concepts and Perspectives


kitchen and dinning area

living room

sectionsA - A, B - B, and C - C


View of the living room integrated with the dinning room and kitchen. The li-brary stands are done in ivory wood.


IMAGES

LEFT: Main bedroom corridor. Detail of the wooden library and wooden floor.

BOTTOM RIGHT: View of the second bedroom overlooking the patio and the green wall. The BBQ if encased within the concrete table.


TOP: The patio has a deck that turns into a bench. At the end of the patio their´s some space for some gravel where plants can be placed.

LEFT: The guest bathroom has (hidraulic) flooring and an antique water basin.

BOTTOM: View of the patio from the working space which prolongs itself into the patio.


Studio Nilo

Nilo - Colombia

2011

Design & Construction : Alberto Manrique

Located in the middle of the warm tropical forest of Nilo, Colombia. The space has only 80m2 and sits on a hill next to a big rock surrounded by trees. It is a small studio with an equally modest program with only one-story. All of the walls where done with “Ambale-ma” bricks, larger than the ones offered in the market.

The access is only possible by foot by a series of steps carved in the mountain, and once at the entrance there is a shalow water tank. The studio has a working space, a TV area/living room and two twin beds, which can be used to sit on as well. The view opens up to the mountains and a lake with an oversized window, that makes the space feel bigger and fresher. The ceiling unfolds creating a cooler environment and throws extra light to the space.

During the day, the large window lets light flood the working space and the living room. At night the illuminated forest lights up the space, creating openness and a sense of inti-macy at the same time.

The studio is considered a shelter that enables the owners to enjoy some television and computer time, within a natural landscape where an outdoor lunches could take place during the weekends. It keeps a casual style and itsflexible spaces permit many guests or a more private mood.

ArchitectureStudio Nilo


Location


Main Plan

Section A-A


View of the studio from the other side of the mountain. Within the warm tropical forest of Nilo, Cun-dinamarca.


West FacadeHorizontal window with a shalow water tank in the entrance surroun-del by gravel.


South facadeThe main room opens up to the ter-race maintaining the same floor so the room grows in size when the slide doors are oppened. Made out of two parts, the window has the normal wooden shutters and coarse linen windows that let the light and air come through keeping the mos-quitoes out during the the after-noon.

Working space


View of the studio from the entrance.

Living room and sofabed in the back.


Overview of the room Working sapce Bathroom


LEFT: View of the entrance from the bathroom. Concrete beams holding the plac that unfolds letting light and air into the room.

OPPOSITE PAGE: (TOP) Rooftop. (LEFT): East facade with girl on the rooftop looking the view. Ambalema brick and wooden shutters. (RIGHT): climbing stairs to the rooftop.


Billiard room / Office / Laundry room

Sotaquira, Boyaca / Colombia

2011

Design & Construction: Alberto Manrique

This proyect is an extension done to a house that had been finished two years earlier. The family had grown and so had the love for the farm, therefore the need for new spaces. The laundry room that the house had before turned itself into another room, so this new space had to provide a new one with a bigger capacity to the now bigger family. The new billiard room had to serve as an alternative space for the owner of the house where he could have some privacy and silence and work as an office space for him.

The space is made up of three spaces that had to feel as a whole. It also had to be con-nected to the rest of the house. Stone as the encasing material when designing this space since it had already been used in the main courtyard.

The interior of this space it is painted all white giving it a more modern look. Still main-taining a farm look given by the wooden beams.

South Facade

ArchitectureBilliard room / Office / Laundry room



INTERIOR IMAGERIGHT: Plan and Section AA over image of the entrance to the office and billiard room. Detail of the pine door and beams under wooden board roof.

EXTERIOR IMAGESBOTTOM RIGHT: A perspective of the room showing the rock walls and the wooden doors. The corridors are also done in the same rock as the walls and also form two levels of seed beds.

BOTTOM LEFT: A perspective of the room overlook-ing the valley of Sotaquira. North facade with the three windows of each individual space. From left to right; laundry room, office and billiard room.


Urban Periscope

Meat Packing District - New York

2011


Instructor: Joaquim MorenoCritic: Urtzi Grau, Cristina Goberna and Mike Jacobs

The site was in one of the west side piers that at the present time work as Department of Sanitation ( Gansevoort Marine Transfer Sation).

At first we where to produce two-dimensional analytical drawings that recorded, thema-tized and mapped at least two aspects of the Station and its environs. The second excer-sise conssited of making a section model, in which we were to show moments of possibili-ties and interests that called our attention. The model also had to show the way we were to approach the site and finally we were to propose something new on the site.

I created an urban periscope that would make connections between the city and the site. A place where people would be able to be at two places at the same time. It would provide a new spiritual experience, a special environment where mirrors disorient and orient with immateriality and light, transforming realtionships between man and landscape. It would be able to transmit information about the site outdoors to viewers indoors and establish a realtionship.

ArchitectureIntroduction to Architecture (Columbia University 2011)

Other 2011

Location

The Gansevoort Marine Transfer Station, New York


Transfer Stations in relation to the rest of Manhattan: TOP: The maps show a digestion study of trash and the city. Mapping the anatomy of the city, while understanding the problem : An ineffficient waste transfer system.- The only thing stable on the site is CHANGE.BOTTOM: understanding the site.


Understanding the cloaca machine.TOP: We were to study and make a new drawing after we had studied and understude the cloaca machine by Wim Delvoye.

Abstraction of the cloacaRIGHT: After doing our own interpretation of the cloaca machine we were to do a new drawing, and (abstraction) of the first drawing.


Using the periscope.Periscope could grab the persicope and experience the multiple views that where going to be seen stand-ing in the site, by changing the transluscent images in the top of the periscope.

(inside view)

(view through the periscope)


Model (bass wood & straws)This model is a section that cuts throught the site . It represents the various possibilities.Tthe bars read as a bar code showing potential places for intervention. While studying rhythm as a sixth sense. Having acustics made a place better than another.

model detail (perspective)

model detail (plan)


sketch of the urban periscope

site plan ( intervention)


Skecth, showing possibili-ties and intentions of the site.Light and space are the key elements that I was looking for in this space, while transform-ing relatinoships between man and landscape. Transmitting information about the site out-doors to the viewers indoors established a new relationship. Using immateriality to create the sensation of being in two places at the same time.


understanding the site

Ps1 MoMa garden sketch

understanding levels and spaces


Section showing entrance to the site.

Section showing intervention in relation to the surroundings.

PIER AS A CITY PERISCOPE

The series of periscopes in the site provide visitors with views in all directions.

Through the periscopes distant places can be seen and brought to the site at the same time.

With an infinite forest surrounding the different periscopes.


models in acrilic cubes

(image)periscopes in site


ODE

ONintervention in

inventoryPieces, fragments of an invented place. The men that organized and mantained dreams behind an open door of an odeón, one day had to close it. Endagame, Fin de partie. Making an inventory of the abandoned material of this inhabited place, filled with inmaterial memory. Picking up wooden beams, metal trusses, dusty desks, trying to make visible the physical potential of the materials, giving them new life, therefor creating perceptiopns, questions and feelings. Creating a small auditorium simulating the structure of a ship parked in space. The story of this enigmatic building, is to be an emblematic space of art and bogotanish culture of what once was the TEATRO POPULAR DE BOGOTÁ.


Altiplano & Danilo VolpatoThe intervention took place in the main space of the art fair ODEON. What was once one of the most embematic theatres in Bogotá. In which Altiplano intervened the main space with the help of the brazilean artist Danilo Volpato.


LEFT: Odeón( Art Fair) Bogotá, Colombia. Art galleries from all over the world where invited to participate.

BOTTOM: (example card) On which the inven-tory was made of all the abandoned material that was found in this old theatre.


OTHER PAGE BOOTOM LEFT: Images of the inventory cards exposed in the main space. Conferences can be held in the new created space .TOP: The main space confined by the hanging wooden beams form added to the concrete beams, form an oval space where conferences can be held.BOTTOM: Booklet made by the art fair showing the intervention done by Altiplano and Danilo Volpato.


Industrial Design13 con 13

Chairs 2011

13 con 13

Bogotá - Colombia

2011


The idea of this chair came up while traveling through the little towns of Colombia .Due to our warm climate people tend to bring out their rocking chairs outside on the street and watch neighbors pass by, when the heat of the day is at its most.

These rocking chairs are made of steel and woven with a plastic material called “tubo”. The colors are varied and the patterns are infinite. This material is very cheap and easy to find which facilitates the process of making them. Fifty meters of “tubo” costs only $1.5 dollars.

Knowing that a comfortable chair should have at the back of the seat an inclination of 104 – 106 degrees, I went on with my design.I named the chair “ 13 con 13” which is the place in Bogotá where this incredible material “tubo” is found.

Sketch


“THE SECRET FOR A PERFECT REST IS THAT THE AN-

GLE OF THE BACK-REST SOULD BE

BETWEEN 104 - 106 DEGREES.”

-CARLOS MOTTA

13 con 13 (aquamarine)

13 con 13 chairs (aquamarine and purple)

architecture portfolio

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web of public spaces

controlled public space

large spaces

spaces merge

visitors cen

discovery of unexpected

cultural corridors

use of new incoming