1. JOSE DAVID SAEZ
architect
I was born at the beginning of the summer, June 8th 1985.
I started to walk later than learning to draw. Curious child and sharp observer.
Animated cartoons, Art and Nature, sounds and colours, materiality and abstraction deeply
entered in my veins by creating my first children’s series drawings, caricatures, landscapes
and geometric figures on my house desk which led me to win my first children’s drawing
competitions of the town council.
I love working and am well-travelled. I experiment and enjoy meeting new people and
keeping up to date with current affairs. I am very open-minded and a good listener, taking
into account other people’s opinion and views. I am a good team player, well motivated and
very keen to progress and further myself. I learn from books, magazines, from Internet articles
about Architecture, tutorials, from others, but especially I learn by looking around me, with
my nose up over the skyline.
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2. jose david saez
WORK EXPERIENCE
INTERESTS
QUALITIES
Travels and books.
Museums, Paints, Sculpture, Photography, Sports, knowledge of different Cultures, good
Food and Cooking.
Young architect, motivated in learning, devotion to challenges
Capacity to participate in a multidisciplinary work team
Total schedule availability.
Apply for qualifications, certificates and diplomas in case of interest.
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
October 2003 - January 2012
October 2012
February 2014 - March 2014
February 2014 - March 2014
July 2013 - July 2013
December 2012 - February 2013
July 2010
August 2013
June 2010
COMPUTER
PHYSICAL
EDUCATION
AWARDS
COURSES
SKILLS
Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain
Master’s Degree in Architecture
Final Degree Project: Municipal Library (9,5/10)
Awarded in the 15th Edition of BANCAJA-Polytechnic University of
Valencia AWARDS - best FINAL DEGREE PROJECTS (2011-2012)
Winner with personal Final Degree Project
http://www.upv.es/contenidos/SIEPBANC/info/797313normalc.html
http://www.upv.es/contenidos/SIEPBANC/info/Premiados15.pdf
Post processing and Architectural Illustration | Valencia (Spain)
Photoshop and InDesign
Modelling and Architectural Visualisation | Valencia (Spain)
Sketchup Pro
Practical Course of REVIT | COAMU Murcia (Spain)
Photorealistic computer display of products, buildings and urban
environments | Valencia (Spain)
3Ds Max . Vray . Mental Ray . Quicksilver . Iray
Design and Layout | Valencia (Spain)
Illustrator . InDesign
Seismoresistant analysis and design of buildings | Cartagena
(Murcia, Spain)
Polytechnic University of Cartagena. Engineering College
2nd Prize | “INURBE COMPETITION” Ephemeral Architecture
Regeneration of the public space in Alicante (Doctor Balmis Square) |
Collaboration with EQUIPOPROPIO Studio (Nacho Marí Beneit & Associates:
architects-professors of the Projects’ subject in the Polytechnic University
of Valencia) in an intensive workshop of 20 hours (8 collaborators)
http://equipopropio.tumblr.com/post/18847696789/concurso-inurbe-2010-segundo-
premio-realizado
WINDOWS
Autocad . 3D Studio Max + VRay | Mental ray | Quicksilver | Iray
Sketchup Pro . Photoshop . InDesign . Illustrator . Revit . CE3x
Office: Word . Excel . Power Point
Sketching . Surveying . Plan drafting . Plan drawing . Layouts
Plan cutter machine . Folding plans
August 2014 - December 2014
(4 months)
April 2014 - August 2014
(5 months)
February 2014 - October 2014
(9 months)
July 2011 - August 2011
(2 months)
June 2009 - October 2009
(4 months)
July 2007 - September 2007
(2 months)
June 2006 - September 2006
(3 months)
June 2010
(1 month)
Genneo | San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia | Spain)
Freelance Architectural Assistant | Architectural Illustrator | 3D Modeller
Renovation/conversion project - interior design of a commercial premises for a
children’s clothing store (Maestre Square, San Javier): property surveying and
preparation of the existing drawings of the site. Inclusion of the proposal design through
plans, interior elevations, sections and 3D modelling with Sketchup.
Tecnipila S.L. | Santiago de la Ribera - San Javier (Murcia | Spain)
Freelance Architectural Assistant
Collaboration in the development of the reparcelling project, the land planning project
and the urban project of a large area located beside the 332 National Highway which
belongs to Orihuela town (Alicante | Spain).
A.E.D.L. Town Council | Pilar de la Horadada (Alicante | Spain)
Instructor Architect of technical software
Instructor of 3D design courses with Sketchup Pro.
C2Marq. Studio S.L. | San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia | Spain)
Architectural Student Assistant (Internship)
Dealing with the development of a school building project in Gabon (competition).
C2Marq. Studio S.L. | San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia | Spain)
Architectural Student Assistant (Internship)
Development of Bungalows and residential blocks projects.
Architectural Student Assistant (Internship)
Involvement from the initial to the developed design of dwellings and renovations:
delineation of plans with Autocad, sale plans in colour with Photoshop; construction site
visits.
Equipopropio Studio | Valencia (Spain)
Architectural Student Assistant (Workshop - Collaboration)
Preparation of “INURBE COMPETITION” of Ephemeral Architecture - public space
regeneration in Doctor Balmis Square (Alicante | Spain). 2nd Prize.
Set of 32 duplex housing project, equipped with a community zone of garden,
swimming pool and a play area for children (Lo Pagán / Murcia): scheme and detail
design development, 3D modelling, rendering and realistic illustrations elaboration for
sale’s purposes.
December 2014 - Currently
(10 months)
The Majestic Hotel | Harrogate (North Yorkshire | United Kingdom)
Food & Beverage Assistant
6. A
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The facade is perceived like a great vertical tear in which the different openings of every floor
have the reading of a great window that encompasses an ensemble of blind and fixed wooden
panels (A), fixed windows (C), hopper windows (B) and wooden sliding shutters (D).
This image is reinforced by a great wooden frame which covers the structural floors' edges
(E).
Those fixed and blind wooden panels, which directly separate the exterior from the
interior, are sandwich panels with an interposed expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation board
(A).
All the exterior frames and panels are made of, either solid or plywood, doussie wood which
has been coated with a solution that crystallises inside the wood, hindering the water
absortion but allowing the wood to perspire.
The exterior plywood shutters slide on stainless steel guideways, which are screwed on a
wooden piece that is machined in its bottom face (F). These stainless steel guideways are
replaced in the upper part with solid wood sections (G) because it is not necessary to grease
them like the metallic ones at the bottom, so the friction can be reduced and its dimensional
variation does not become critical.
(H) Inverted roof: sloped concrete topping, bituminous waterproofing membrane,
extruded polystyrene insulation, filter geotextile and gravel.
(I) Varnished Andiroba wooden floorboards, laid onto wooden battens with
polystyrene insulation interposed among them.
(J) Plastered internal partition walls made of hollow bricks.
(K) Exterior cavity wall made of bricks in which the cavity is interrupted at the structure
level (structural floors) and has an interposed insulation.
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1 False ceiling made up of aluminum slats
2 HEB-220
3 Vertical aluminium slats of 25 cm wide
4 Security glass t=6+6 mm
5 Aluminium profile
6 Concrete wall 40 cm thickness
7 Blanket insulation t=40 mm
8 Gravel
9 Waffle slab
10 Geotextile sheet and PVC waterproofing layer
11 Pine batten 50 x 35 mm
12 Plywood board t=15 mm
13 Cement mortar 15 mm
14 Hollow bricks wall 7 cm thick
15 Porcelain tiles 20 x 20 cm
16 Plywood board t=15 mm
18 Pine batten 70 x 20 mm
19 Hollow bricks wall of 1/2 foot thick
20 Gravel 2 cm
21 Continuous cement flooring 10 cm
22 Parquet flooring
23 Topsoil (vegetable soil) 25 cm
24 Compacted fill of variable depth
25 Natural ground
26 Strip footing
DETAIL 3DETAIL 1
13. Urban Intervention
in the Port of
Valencia April 2008
Workteam
José David Sáez Cruz, Alejandro Rodríguez
Sáenz, Jorge Corrales García, Santiago
Vicente Calvo, Eduardo Abarca del Río and
Bernardo Ramírez Sánchez
14.
15. Co Mar 2008
José David Sáez Cruz, Alejandro Rodríguez
Sáenz Jorge Corrales García
aspects
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19. Art Centre "El
Mercat"
El Carmen
Neighbourhood
Valencia February 2010
CollaborationsProject's author Joaquín Juberías Vidal
Tasks carried out: structure plans, constructive
axonometry, constructive section and post processing
of the sections with Photoshop by adding colour and
textures
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24. Public Space
Regeneration of
Doctor Balmis
Square
Alicante
Collaborations
June 2010
2º PRIZE
EQUIPOPROPIO Studio
INURBE COMPETITION
Ephemeral Architecture
Workshop
27. After the Modern Movement, around 1965, New Technologies appeared
within the collection, storage, recovery and transmission of information
and documentation. It caused a series of accelerated changes in the
libraries operations as well as in their social mission, and it obviously had
an impact on the new projects.
The rapid and successive technological changes, like the microforms
inclusion, audiovisual materials, materials in digital format and afterwards
Internet, made that the installations, furniture and the spaces arrangement
have changed several times in the last decades. It is for that reason that
only a 'great flexibility' guarantees the spaces' permanent utility.
In this way, the 'invisible library' typology comes up, whose architectural
objective is to synthesise both real and virtual worlds, whilst meeting the
continuously changeable demands of the technological development.
Thus, in the current world, the library becomes a 'node within a net'
rather than a building aimed at harbouring a collection. Its target is to
collect and provide information, rather than preserving documents.
Therefore, the library turns into something that distances itself from the
books and manuscripts' materiality and gets close to the communication's
energy flow.
In conclusion, the library stops being a huge container and having a
representative image, but starts being something 'immaterial', a type of
architecture which does not interrupt the landscape and both are merged.
So the library becomes 'transparent', like a gesture of an absolute
accessibility.
28.
29. MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
IN BORBOTÓo1
SITE PLAN S_1:750
Borbotó is a borough of Valencia, belonging to Poblados del
Norte district. Like most of the towns of the area, it is an urban
nucleus which lives off of vegetable fields that surround it and
characterise it, by generating a wide range and wealth of
landscapes.
BORBOTÓ
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East Elevation S_1:250
0 1 5 10 20
0 1 5 10 20
Basement floor S_1:300
A1
1_Create an attraction point for the town. Park of
information and social interaction
2_Outdoor spaces articulation. Generate new ways to
approach the public building and to occupy the urban space
3_Disolution of the interior/exterior boundary of the
building
4_Project immateriality. “Invisible library”
5_Gentle transition between vegetable fields and city
PROJECT INTENTIONS After the Modern Movement, around 1965, NEW TECHNOLOGIES appeared within the collection, storage, recovery and transmission of information and documentation. It induced (provoked, caused) a series of accelerated changes in the libraries operations as well as in
their social mission, and it obviously had an impact on the new projects.
The rapid and successive technological changes, like the microforms inclusion, audiovisual materials, materials in DIGITAL format and afterwards Internet, made that the installations, furniture and the spaces arrangement have changed several times in the last
decades. It is for that reason that only a GREAT FLEXIBILITY guarantees the spaces' permanent utility.
In this way, the INVISIBLE LIBRARY typology comes up, whose architectural objective is to synthesise both real and virtual worlds, whilst meeting the continuously changeable demands of the technological development.
Thus, in the current world, the library becomes a NODE WITHIN A NET rather than a building aimed at harbouring a collection. Its target is to collect and provide information, rather than preserving documents. Therefore, the library turns into something that DISTANCES
ITSELF FROM THE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS' MATERIALITY and GETS CLOSE TO THE COMMUNICATION'S ENERGY FLOW.
In conclusion, the library stops being a huge container and having a representative image, but starts being something IMMATERIAL, a type of architecture which does not interrupt the landscape and both are merged. So the library becomes TRANSPARENT, like a gesture of an
absolute accessibility.
A2 A2
A2
A2
A2
A2
A2
A3 A4
B1
C1
C2
C4
BASEMENT FLOOR. level -4,32 m
1956 m²-A_01. Parking space
-A_02. Maintenance and
182 m²
27 m²
mechanical rooms
-A_03. Stairs of public use
-A_04. Emergency fire stairs 35 m²
+A. PARKING AREA
240 m²
70 m²
-B_01. Offices in an open space
-B_02. Files. Books storeroom
-B_03. Toilets 22 m²
+B. ADMINISTRATION AREA
-C_01. Exhibition hall + Events hall's foyer 306 m²
-C_02. Events hall 289 m²
-C_03. Reception/control 15 m²
-C_04. Maintenance room + art works storage room 50 m²
-C_05. Public toilets 20 m²
+C. PUBLIC LEISURE ZONE
B2
B3
C3 C4
C5
306 m²-K_01. Sunken courtyard
-K_02. Sunken courtyard for accesing to the basement
floor from level 0. Outdoor sculpture exhibition 289 m²
+K. OUTDOOR AREAS
K1K2
31. MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
IN BORBOTÓo2
GROUND FLOOR. level 0 m
-D_01. Coffee zone 124 m²
-D_02. Wifi zone 78 m²
-D_03. Kitchen 7 m²
-D_04. Toilets 24 m²
+D. CAFETERIA AREA
68 m²
12 m²
38 m²
122 m²
232 m²
-E_01. Lobby/Hall
-E_02. Reception/Control
-E_03. Maintenance room + toilets
-E_04. Audiovisual library
-E_05. Child library
-E_06. Emergency fire stairs 25 m²
+E. AUDIOVISUAL AND CHILD AREA
136 m²
+F. NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINES LIBRARY
-F_01. Newspaper/magazine library
-F_02. Storeroom 12 m²
0 1 5 10 20
Ground floor S_1/300
North Elevation S_1/250
0 1 5 10 20
TOP VOLUME / BOX
Its facades with northern orientation
are built by white-laquered
aluminium curtain wall with exterior
capping for the mullions to highlight
the rhythm of the building's
modulation. The horizontal joints are
solved by structural silicone
D1
D2
D4
D3
E1
E3
E4 E5
E6
E2
F1
F2
32. Crooss section S_1/250
0 1 5 10 20
0 1 5 10 20
First floor S_1/300
FIRST FLOOR. level +4,32 m
20 m²
282 m²
-G_01. Catalogues query
-G_02. Query area and individual reading
-G_03. Query area and group reading 140 m
+G. ADULTS LIBRARY
68 m²
68 m²
74 m²
-H_01. Classroom for working in groups
-H_02. Classroom/audiovisuals
-H_03. Computer lab
-H_04. Toilets + storeroom 32 m²
+H. MULTIFUNCTIONAL CLASSROOMS
68 m²-I_01. Waiting and query room
-I_02. Study room 280 m²
+I. STUDY AREA
-J_01. Resting terraces/studying outdoors 249 m²
+J. OUTDOOR AREAS
G1
H1
I1
G2 G3
H2
H3
H4
I2
J1
J1
33. MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
IN BORBOTÓo3
South Elevation S_1/250
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S 1/20_DETAIL_FACADE MADE OF PERFORATED PLATE_
IMMATERIALITY
CONCEPT IN ALL THE
ARCHITECTURE
CONCEPTS
o1_STRUCTURE
lightness of the pillars
o2_MATERIALS
light appearance like
glass and metal;
o3_REJECTION OF
COLOUR
We use pure white or
black in punctual
elements to get contrast.
Avoiding the use of
colours is not a way of
dening either feelings or
comfort, but a way of
not imposing them.
o4_TRANSPARENCY
used as a tool for
inserting the building in
the environment, as well
as an element from
where the constructive
process revolves around.
34. Longitudinal section S_1/250
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FACADE DETAIL_1:20 LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1_1:20
FIRST FLOOR_1:20
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22. Branch of the water supply system for the fire sprinklers. 23. False ceiling made up of rectangular panels of 1300x3900mm, t=12mm with interior bee nest of aluminium, pre-lacquered in white finish and acoustic insulation of rockwool on intrados
(t=30mm). 3 mm joints in both directions, continuous appearance. 24. Fastening system for the hidden profiles. Z-shape secondary profiles installed in parallel every 1300 mm to hang the panels. 25. L-shape primary profiles suspended from the slab. 26.
Aluminium Nonius Hangers for the suspension of the primary profiles of the false ceiling. 27. Air conditioning impulsion ducts. 28. Supply plenum of air conditioning. 30. Fire sprinkler. 31. Multisensor detector for fire safety embedded in the ceiling. 32. 220-
mm diameter circular return grille of the air conditioning installation. 33. Technical floor based on floor tiles of 650x650 mm and 33 m thickness with galvanised steel profiled sheets on their bottom face, high density calcium sulphate core, and top finish
of White Thassos marble. 34. Thermal insulation. 35. Suspended luminaire hidden behind the false ceiling of aluminium mesh. 36. False ceiling of profiled sheets of white aluminium expanded mesh and 1,7mm thickness. Tiles of 1300x1300mm and
opened surface of 38%. Fastening system of profiling. 37. Climalit double glazing safety system 4+4/12/4+4 assembled on a curtain wall structure of lacquered in white aluminium profiles including thermal bridging break system, extruded aluminium
horizontal capping and structural silicone to solve the vertical joints. 38. Suspended fire sprinkler and hidden behind the false ceiling. 41. Suspended multisensor detector for fire safety hidden behind the false ceiling. 46. Metallic pillar HEB 220 coated
with chrome plate of 2 mm thickness forming a box and filled with polyurethane for fire protection. 47. Mullions for fastening the facade made up of steel profiles of tubular and hollow section (70.50.4). 48. Vertical profiled sheets of 130 cm wide
made of lacquered-in-white aluminium sheet, engraved with relief and perforated with various diameters. 50. Suspended emergency signs on the ground floor with the direction of evacuation route overprinted on both sides and backlighted by LED.
51. Aluminium profiled sheet for protecting the electrical wiring which supply to the workstations. 52. T and U section profiles for clipping the alumium sheets of the roof along its perimeter. 53. L section profile 40.4 for fastening the aluminium profiled
sheet. 54. Aluminium profiled sheet lacquered in white forming gutters on its edge. 55. Curtain wall’s opaque panel. 56. U-shaped metallic support. 57. Tubular profile 160.120.8 of galvanised steel structurally working as a cantilever to support the
exterior facade. 58. Steel anchor plate of 15mm thick placed on the slab edge for anchoring the facade system to the slab. 59. Galvanised steel rectangular profile with hollow section of 350x100mm, t=4mm. 60. Perforated and lacquered in white
aluminium profiled sheets forming a deck for maintenance access, 225x1300mm every piece. 61. Two welded UPN 140 for supporting the maintenance gangway. 62. Hollow tubular profile 50.2. 63. Beech wood flooring with polymerized surface finish
and glued over a 19 mm thick board of DM wood (in the classrooms area of the first floor). Wood slats of 162 x 1300 mm and t = 14 mm.
EXPERIMENT WITH THE TRANSPARENCY AND THE REFLECTS
TEMPORARY NATURE_A NEW DIMENSION
o1_GLASS_
It is used in the pieces of the ground floor, but they are protected
from the sun by the upper floor volume. The facades facing to the
north in the upper level are alse made of glass.
o2_ALUMINIUM PERFORATED PLATE AND LACQUERED IN WHITE_
Aluminium trays which have been engraved with relief and also
perforated with diferent diameters, so a set of transparency-opacity
and reflections are produced, always changeable according to the
sun trajectory, introducing by this way a new dimension within the
architecture: the time.
o3_BLACK ALUMINIUM REFLECTIVE PLATE_
It is used in the side facades, achieving that the building reflects the
surroundings. So the environment and the library fuse and it tries to
"disappear".
INTERIOR
MATERIALITY
o1_WHITE ALUMINUM
STRETCHED MESH_
It is used in the false ceiling
of the ground floor,
achieving that the upper
volume is perceived as an
entire box with a light filter
appearance.
o2_WHITE THASSOS
MARBLE_
Employed for the
technical flooring in the
interior, excepting the
classrooms area, which
has a beech wood finish.
o3_PARTITION
WALLS MADE OF
PLASTERBOARD
PAINTED IN BLACK_
As punctual
elements for contrasting.
o3
1. Waffle slab of prefabricated concrete forms lightened by Airlite (expan-
ded clay). 2. Sloped and lightened concrete topping. 3. Cement plaster.
4. PVC waterproofing sheet. 5. Extruded polystyrene rigid insulation 5 cm
thick and 100kg/m³ density. 6. Kalzip reinforced polyamide clip with
galvanized steel core. 7. Aluminium sheets lacquered in white of 65 cm
wide. 11. Perimeter wall made of vibro-pressed concrete blocks of
40x20x10. 12. White-laquered aluminium curtain wall with thermal bridging
break, exterior vertical capping for the mullions made of extruded
aluminium and horizontal joints solved by structural silicone. 13. Climalit
double glazing safety system 4+4/12/4+4. 14.
15.
16.
17. Metallic frame made up of tubular
profiles 80.40.4. 19. Extruded aluminium profile for placing the curtain of
the type of roller blind, vinylic fabric and white colour. 20. Embedded
round spotlights for general illumination, for entrances and circulation
areas with flood lens for compact fluorescent lamps. 21. Emergency signs
embedded in false ceiling with the direction of evacuation route
overprinted on both sides and backlighted by LED.
DETAIL
o1
36. To develop the interior design of
the optician's shop it has been tried
to generate a space in which the
customer feels deep into the optical
world, in its most charasteristic
aspects from the most technical,
such as the reflection, to the most
subjective, such as the perception.
From the main entrance to the shop
we perceive a series of geometric
figures which are formed by the
orthogonal metallic bars. This
figures will be disappearing while
we are getting into the shop, with
the aim of attracting the attention
towards the product rather than
into the facilities.
The metallic structures are not just
an installation part, but they also
support other indispensable
elements of the shop such as the
mirrors, the lighting and the
products.
39. 32 Duplex
Houses in Lo
Pagán
Obdulio Miralles Serrano Street
San Pedro del Pinatar
Collaborations
October 2014
GENNEO Studio
Infographics/Modelling
and Rendering
42. Advanced 3Ds Max Course
Realistic
Representation
Advanced 3Ds Max
Course of Illumination
Mental Ray
Sketchup + VRay + Photoshop
Post processing course
Architectural Digital Image
Photoshop
// Interior / Natural Daylight
// Exterior / Natural Daylight // Watercolour Sketchs / Photoshop
// Post processing plans / Photoshop
// Interior / Artificial Light // Digital mockups
// Perspectives for competitions / Sketchup + Photoshop
43. // 32 Duplex houses with a community zone consisted of garden, swimming pool and a play area for children / Lo Pagán (San Pedro del Pinatar)
// Day-Night Render// Gunni & Trentino Museum
Other illustrations made
Sketchup + VRay + Photoshop
