Architecture Portfolio. Sonia Morales Gómez

this is my portfolio.S o n i a M o r a l e s G ó m e z

Education

Lycée français de Madrid. Baccalauréat sciences

- 2006

ENSA Paris-BellevilleMaster 2 exchangeProject lessons with Cyril Ros and Cyril Hanappe

2013 - 2014

CSIC - Torroja InstituteSeminar “House construction in developing countries: strategies,

2013

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Alcala (Madrid).Master 2Architectural degree with honors Diploma project: Social, ecological and architectural

2006 -

Work and workshops

Indra sistemas.Techical assistance in construction documentation.

January 2011 - June 2013

ENSA PB + Cyril Ros architectUrban rehabilitation project.Study of cambodian habitat and proposal of densification process.

December 2013Siem Reap, Cambodia

Collectif Quatorze.Participative projects development.Urban diagnosis.

May - June 2016 September 2014 - March 2015

ENSA PB + Cyril Hanappe architect Co-conception and co-construction of a collective building for vulnerable communities.

March 2014 - June 2014

Technical skills

Autocad

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Graphics 3D printing 3D modeling BIMMaking

Maker bot

Up!

Netfab

Wood workshop machines

Wood structuresand furniture

Autocad Revit

Rhinoceros

SketchUp

Vray

Languages Spanish

French

English

Japanese

Modern Greek

native bilingual

native bilingual

Professional working proficiency

Limited working proficiency(noken 4. B2 equivalent)

Limited working proficiency

Sonia Morales Gómez

[email protected]

+33 7 68 94 77 86

www.moezstudio.com

architect

I am a young architect who currently lives in Paris. I consider myself as a social person, who loves

teamwork, learning languages and traveling. I understand architecture as a multidisciplinar subject witch must gather differents profiles and act as a catalyst in its environment.

Therefore through my work experience I have been developing tools and methodologies for the development of participative

projects, considering the architect as a “mediator” of the creative process.

I believe in a socially and economically sustainable architecture, that will promote short-cycle and inclusive

economies and that will reveal the local potentialities and character of the site.

Work

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Pink roof p.32

Comunity model p.26

Bucatariap.28

Triangles!p.34

Simultaneous house p.22

Ecosystem restoration p.6

Temporary site reactivation

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Ecosystem restoration. A social catalyst The “social catalyst” respond to the problematic of a site

welcoming many actors but with no interaction between them.

Located in the neighborhood of “Les Murs à Pêches” this project

does not set a new program within the site, but only provides

a new place where to put the existing activities. By doing this,

the goal is to free up many plots witch are now underused

and to create a reference point within the walls fabric. In a

place where one of the main problematic is the segregation

of its inhabitants, the social catalyst intends to create links

between them, to mix the different kind of populations living

there (slums, associations, industrial companies...) and to

generate questioning about the particularity of the site, how

to live together and how to preserve the walls ecosystem.

The project proposes a participative strategy of

setting the building witch puts in touch the authorities

with the inhabtants. In fact the project shows more a

process than a final result. This process incorporate a

rehabilitation method for the walls witch sets and guide

the implementation of the new architecture. Thus, the

process is divided and managed by two different actors:

first the rehabilitation of the walllead by the municipalityand

then the bottom-up process in witch the different

collectivities can “connect” the new self-built architecture

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dialogue with the ruins

minimun landscape alteration

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emphasize the existing basin topography

multiple structures allowing multiple actors

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ephemeral interventionssite activation

site activation

rehabilitation walls fixedephemeral construction ephemeral construction

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Temporary site activation How can we face, as “comunity architects” , the enclosing

of one site? How can we even try to re-activate a place

without counting with its main users and inhabitants? These

were the main problematics of this project. By talking about

“Les Murs à Pêches” we are not referring to an heritage

architecture but to its inhabitants too, setting the key of the

problem as “a dialogue between two elements considerated

very differently by the authorities”. The goal paradoxically

is to reconcile the architecture with the uses people give it.

The project reflects about a spreading action allowing

people empowerment as the same time as it proposes

rehabilitation actions for the walls. The proposition is more

an “infrastructure” or a “support” for dinamisation process,

starting from a “social lab”. This place of learning and

exchanges aims to be the first of several urban pockets

spreading progessively among the neighborhood an re-

opening the enclosed plots providing the site with public space.

The actions setted are always ephemeral understanding

that the goal is not the object itself but the dynamics it

creates. This will ensure the sucess of the whole strategy

much more than the permanence of the architectural object

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SOCIAL LABORATOTY - URBAN TRANSFORMATIONSONIA MORALES / NIKOS PAPADERAKIS ENSA PB / STUDIO AATDD / 22-05-2014

RECONFIGURING THE QUARTER #1 SCALE: THE BIDONVILLE AND THE STREET IN AXONOMETRY > OPENING THE WALLS

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RECONFIGURING THE QUARTER #1 SCALE: THE BIDONVILLE AND THE STREET IN AXONOMETRY > OPENING THE WALLS


RECONFIGURING THE QUARTER #2 SCALE: THE STREET IN AXONOMETRY 2020 > OPENING THE WALLS

URBAN POCKETS AMONG THE STREET AND CREATION OF CONNECTING CORRIDORS


RECONFIGURING THE QUARTER #3 SCALE: THE QUARTER 2020-2030 > OPENING THE WALLS

CREATION OF CONNECTING CORRIDORS / PUBLIC SPACES IN THE CENTER OF BLOCKS

TRANSFORMATION OF BIG STORES INTO ASSOCIATIONS21

Simultaneous house The “simultaneous house” project is an attempt of

introducing mixed programs in an “a priori” residential

house. The work is a reflection as much in a morpholical

way as in a functional one. It’s built as an “aller-retour”

between this two aspects, creating a dialogue between

them. The initial “box” is modeled, carved and composed

playing with the program and with the circulations. Thus,

the result is a composition of differents modules witch can

be assembled or insulate one from another, generating

a flexibility regarding the users. The working of the

functionality allows the introduction of half-public programs

within the house without affecting the privacy of the owner.

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Making the city with its inhabitants

Things are moving around the Bel-

Air neighborhood in Montreuil.: in

10 years the ANRU and a Renewal

Urban Planning have passed by.

How could we show these changes

to its inhabitants? The Planning

Department of the Municipality

wanted a tool in order to understand

and discuss about the renewal of

Bel-Air. The model we worked in,

is a tool for visualizing and debate

the futur of the neighborhood.

The model was milled and printed

using numerical machines in

combination with more traditional

materials such as wood . The

aim was to combine and explore

differents ways of production and

to include the users in the process

of “making”. Thus, 3D impression

workshops were organised during

which teenagers could print

different elements of the model

and thus appropiate it more easiily.

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Bucataria: a collective kitchen Bucataria represents the process of a project from the

perspective of the co-conception and co-construction with

its users. Developped with the architect Cyril Hanappe, during

3 months we worked inside a roma comunity in order to think

with them about witch were their main needs. In order to

ease the conversations, the comunity chose one “comunity

architect” wich would represent the general interest and would

be our main link with them. The program of the Bucataria

only came after several meetings in witch we started to

understand the context and the complexity of the comunity,

and finally agree on co-conceiving a collective kitchen.

This space would allow the comunity to gather on Sundays

and would be used by women to cook during week-ends.

Once the whole community agreed on one final project,

we developped the execution plans, we elaborate a

budget and finally built with them the bucataria. The

construction site lasted 2 weeks and the collective

kitchen is still operating within the settlement.

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Pink Roof. Fixing two existing sanitary blocs. After a diagnosis of construction pathologies in two existing

sanitary blocs in a 40 people slum , the project “Pink roof”

intended not only to fix the problem from the point of

view of the construction, but also to provide some covered

space for others activies related with “washing”. Thus the

initial construction was covered with an additionnal roof

which was intended to prevent humidity damages and to

become a symbol within the site. The color of the new roof

contrast with the vegetation , indicating the washing space.

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Triangles! Installation at “La Nuit Blanche” This installation was exhibited

during “la Nuit blanche” in Paris,

within the abandonned “Lycée

Jean Quarré”. In collaboration with

the artist Fred Le Chevalier, three

triangles modules were set in the

courtyard and served as scenery for

music and theater performances.

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thank you!

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