JOSE R. VIDAL - ARCHITECT

UNGRADUATE PORTFOLIO

Bachelor degree in

architecture European

University of Madrid

(Spain)

EXPERTISEEDUCATION

Adobe: Photoshop,

Illustrator, Rhinoceros,

V-ray, Grasshopper,

Autocad, 3dMax,

sketchup ...

LANGUAGES

Spanish

English

ABOUT ME

I am passionate about architecture, photography, graphic

design or cinema among others. I love cycling my city and

travelling with my friend to find new places. I consider

myself a highly motivated creative good professional. I

really like challenges and I look for the best way of carrying

them out, as I am self demanding and critic about my work.

Furthermore I am able to work as a team and under pressu-

re.

Aged 25 I study fifth year architecture degree and I am

enthusiastic about keep on learning. I am desiring to have

the opportunity to put in practice what I have learned and

continuing to grow as an architect.

Vidalduranjose@gmail.com

(+34) 677202482

Valencia, Spain.

JOSE R. VIDAL DURÁN

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COMPETITIONS

WORK EXPERIENCE

WORKSHOPS EXIBITIONS

- AIC Equip -

- INSERMAN -

- CPUIN -

- CAPUCCI&GIROD -

- Grupo ARANEA -

- Rendering: Master Plan - Rendering: Residencial Building -Rendering: Single Family House

- Rendering: Sabadell bank branch

- Expo-Data: “Cajas Blancas”

- Desert House - Penthouse, Gym & Spa

- Internship

201320152015

2013

2014

20142015

2016

Zhangjiajie - ChinaValencia - Spain

Betera - Spain

Valencia - Spain

Valencia - Spain

Almaroon - DubaiVancouver - Canada

Alicante - Spain

2014 2014

2014

2014

2012 2013

2014

2014

2014

2015

Valencia - Spain

Atacama - Chile

Tarifa - Spain

Valencia - Spain

Valencia - Spain

Belgium - Spain

Japan - Spain

Japan - Spain

- VALENCIA CREA -

- ARQUIDEAS -

- (Re)THINKING -

- INTRAMURS -

- “(Re)Crear ciudad Modus operandi” 1st Prize

- IMOA: International Museum of Astronomy

- Temporary Housing for surfers

-“Cajas Blancas”

- LIES -

- MUR SUR MUR -

- (An)OTHER IDENTITIES -

- URBAN MUTATIONS -

- Laboratory of Ecosocial Inter-Urbanism. Andres Jaque

- International Workshop: Universite Libre de Bruxelles - European University of Madrid- Exibition project

- International Workshop: Chiba University - European University of Madrid -Exibition “Partida de Dalt”

- International Workshop: Chiba University - European University of Madrid

- BAKPAK Architects - - Internship 2016 Seville - Spain

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CEREBRAL HOUSE

CIS - CA

THE LIMIT

PTRSU PROTOTYPE

AIC EQUIP

CAPUCCI&GIROD

ANTENNAE

MINIMUM DWELLING, MODULAR PROSTHESIS PG. 6-9

PG. 10-13

PG. 14-17

PG. 18-21

PG. 22-23

PG. 24

PG. 25

SOCIAL INTEGRATION CENTRE - CASA DEL AGUA

VALENCIA´S HARBOUR VISITOR CENTER

URBAN SOLID WASTE TREATMENT PLANT

RENDERING IMAGES

THREE MONTHS WORK SPERIENCE

ARQUIDEAS COMPETITION

MINIMUM DWELLING, MODULAR PROSTHESIS

CEREBRAL HOUSE

This single-family house is located in New York City.

The objective was to design a residence for a medical student, who was a foreigner, enthusiastic about robotics, with a disability in an arm and a devout Muslim.

The design premises are inspired on the water tanks on the rooftop terraces, and how they are attached to the buildings; and on the modular architecture of Buckminster Fuller.

The distribution of the house is organised like a human brain, which works developing a function that must be carried out in specific areas; voluntary and involuntary actions, primary impulses or strong reflective processes, each action has a reaction in specific areas.

However, this area is not isolated from the rest, it is not an exempt packet, nor the brain a sum of sub-bodies; it works as an ensemble able to reorgani-ze itself according to the necessity. The flexibility and synergy the brain's architecture shows regulates the distribution of the programme and the use of spaces.

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REHABILITACION

CORTEZA MOTORA PRIMARIAAREA DE WERNICHE

comprension del lenguajeAREA DE BROCA

formacion de palabras

CULTO

DRONES

BANOS

SALON

CORTEX PREFRONTALsentimientosmoralvoluntad

LOBULO PARIETALinstalacionesmatematicas orientacion

TALAMOcontrol de vegigaesfinterreacciones involuntarias

HIPOTALAMOpersonalidadreacciones hormonales

CORTEXSOMATOSENSORIAL

tacto olfato oido vista gusto

AREA DE BROCAaprendizage

segundo idioma

CORTEX FRONTALvista

impulsosjuicio

COCINA

ESTUDIO

DORMITORIO

MODULO SALON

MODULO CULTO

MODULO DRONESMODULO BANO

MODULO DORMITORIO

MODULO COCINA

MODULO VIDEOCONFERENCIAS

REHABILITACION

MODULO ESTUDIO

PLANTAS

PUERTAS ESCALERAS

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CIS - CASOCIAL INTEGRATION CENTRE - CASA DEL AGUA (House of Water)

The Casa del Agua is a building located on the former course of the River Turia in Valencia, a garden placed under the city level which crosses down to the sea.

Currently, the house, has fallen into disuse and is abandoned. Previously it was a police station and a memorial centre of the Rovella diversion dam.

With the objective of proposing a reschedule for this building we started a period of meetings with architects and the city hall; mapping process through the gardens using the methods of passive and active observer; mapping process of the actors of nearby districts and on a city scale. During approxi-mately two months the objective was to position the building in its actual context in the city of Valencia.

During the analysis, the river revealed itself as a parallel reality to the city. It is a area where different activities take place, which are different or comple-mentary to the ones on the city.

What stood out from this duality is use the immigrants and tramps give to this garden. Using it as bedroom during night and going to the city during the day to visit the different centres which serve them.

The course of the River Turia crossing Valencia has always been considered as a CRACK which separated the outer walls and inner walls, the inside from the outside of the city. A limit which divided the territory and protected it.

With the expansion of the city, the character of the crack developed and the duality between inside and outside turned into up and down. Transforming the course in a place for shelter and gathering.

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At present time, the contrast between up and down is magnified and divides. The recreational uses have displaced the gathering ones, while shelter increases thanks to elements such as the support network infrastructures which take place along the course.

For this reason in the Casa del Agua a support programme for this network is proposed, in order to create again an area for gathering and promote the social integration of the inhabitants from the crack upwards, towards the city.

Firstly we use the metallic substructure in the form of a matrix, and we develop it along the pre-existing aqueduct, so we create a development system of prefabricated and self-constructed dwellings which vertebrate around a nuclei of installations (the aqueduct).

These dwellings will shelter groups of families with children, during a period of time in which the parents will be formed professionally. In this way the constructive systems permit adaptation to the neces-sities of each family.

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Inside the Casa del Agua, we house a training programme for the parents of the families and their children, as well as for the neighbours of the nearby districts; formed by a nursery, hairdressing, carpentry, languages workshops, a feeding centre, orientation offices and areas for the management of the centre.

If in the residential programme we use the pre-existent space covering our intervention with a canvas, in the interior, we cover the spaces with a textile to make nicer the volume of concrete. This textile envelopes penetrate and connect the different rooms, benefiting the continuity of the programme.

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Desarrollo de la escalera en

Grasshopper.

All of these space is stitched through a landsca-pe stairs that its placed at each floor joining the deferments height , realities, creating a new relationship axis, culminating in the roof, at the same height as the city, working like public square , place for meeting and to interact.

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THE LIMITVALENCIA´S HARBOUR VISITOR CENTER

The objective of this centre for visitors is to transmit my vision of Valencia's port.It is destined to be a point of union between the city and the port activi-ty, which currently are not connected. Taking into account the ideas of Marc Augé about "non-places".

Our client, Valenciaport, after the opening of Valencia towards the sea, orders us a centre which describes the port and attracts the visitors of the city.

During this process, the port has showed itself as a "non-place" away from all human relationship, where the machinery and the goods domain the landscape. An area where an encounter cannot take place, where the economic, spacial and temporal efficiency mark the guidelines to follow.

This confrontation between the city and the port has a marked borderline which limits both realities and prevents their connection.

For this reason my project is centred on the investigation of the borderline, which is formed by a summation of limits that hinder the objective of my building. These limits are physical (walls, fences, dykes, the layover, the water...) as well as emotional (the business attitude of the port, the clash between the uses and activities...). These limits have created in people the idea that the port is an entity which is external to their reality, and even in some cases, an enemy they have to confront.

(1) Subdivisión por zonas y actividades de los muelles del puerto,destacando el trafico de coches, los graneles sólidos y liqidos, astilleros, cruceros y contenedores.

(2) Muestra como estos distintos usos generan paisajes eclécticos en los que el humano es desplazado por las mercancías con las que se trata en cada zona.

(3) Organización de los flujos en el puerto; destacando el marítimo, con un gran canal que articula el trafico y distribuye a los barcos hacia las diferentes dársenas.

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As the building wants to transmit the sensations the port suggests me, everything is structured based on the concept of limit, taking it to the extreme, governing the space, organising the programme, emphasising it, without trying to vanish it. At the same time this limit describes the port, the individual loses its anthropolo-gical quality to "become" the protagonist of the indus-trial space.

This process would give the building the quality of "non-place", but the area of city spaces that limits with the port, confronts this situation, trying to harmonize it, creating a balance between an anthropological place and a "non-place" whose hinge or scale is the abstrac-tion of the limit.

*The collages above represent one of the limits of the port.

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The visitors centre is based on the concept of limit, which is what defines Valencia's port.

Its aim is to dehumanize the individual transforming it into goods, into inhabi-tants of the port, and emulate the path these carry out as they get near and unload on the port.

Once inside the port the LIMIT, like for example the channel beacons, mark our way towards the different docks.

Each dock is dedicated to one of the main activities of the port, however it is always essential to go back to the limit (channel) to change the dock.

The docks are aimed for the contai-ners, the exportations (cars), solid and liquid bulks, shipyards, walkways to access the dock of the route boat, and lastly the cruise passengers, where the connexion with the city is established.

Each dock evokes emotions associa-ted with the goods to which they are aimed, such as weight, scale, volume of the containers; outdoor conditions, roughness and oxide on the docks; or fluency and isolation on the liquids, among others.

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PTRSU PROTOTYPEURBAN SOLID WASTE TREATMENT PLANT

This project is an assignment of the Metropolitan Agency for Waste Treatment to create a proposal for a solid urban waste treatment plant as alternative to the current one, located on the same plot, near the airport and neighbouring an industrial estate on the outskirts of Valencia.

After a period of analysis and study of the cases. The main points of the proposal were sustaina-bility and integration in the environment.

Micro-perforated envelope

Bubble - Cloud

Biofilters

Visitor footbridge Maturation trench

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The a ctual plant is one of the infrastructures which most energy consumes, because it vacuums, that it to say, continuously inhales air to avoid the smells from escaping outside. For this reason we propose a huge bubble of ETFE which covers the whole process,

, in order to reduce the consumption of energy and the smells. This cloud-bubble at the same time, will be covered with a structure which supports a micro-perforated envelope, providing protection from the sun.

Maturation trench

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The shape of the plant will be influenced by the proximi-ty to the airport, the will to continue the orchard, and the intention of creating something noteworthy which attracts the attention on the management model of waste. On the project the treatment plant is separated from the composting plant.

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Inside our plant we had to propose a walkway for visitors so the citizens become aware of the labour carried out.

That is to say, foreseeing that some curious citizen goes there to learn more about the solid urban waste.

The purpose of the proposal is to suggest an alternative to the management model of waste.

Introducing in the city's everyday life sustainability and recycling, proposing a prototype of plant which answers to the necessities of a neighbourhood or district. Promoting the recycling and the use of remaining compost in gardens; as it is done in almost all of Europe.

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AIC EQUIPRENDERING IMAGES/www.aicequip.com/

Master plan in Zhangjiajie - China.22

Single family house in Spain.

Residentil Building in Spain.

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THREE MONTHS WORK SPERIENCE/studiocapucci.com//www.capuccigirod.com/

Desert house in Alamroon - Dubai.24

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Vidalduranjose@gmail.com

(+34) 677202482

Valencia, Spain.