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Joaquim SellasPortfolio

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Contact

Joaquim Sellas Palat

email: joaquimsellasarq@gmail.com

cell phone: (+34) 636684439

Curriculum Vitae

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Life

The mediterranean

Interboundary city between Ceuta and Morocco

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Construction

The cardboard house

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Space

Cerro Artillería urban intervention, Valparaíso

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City

Common Places

Cemetery as a public space

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ABOUT

Full name Joaquim Sellas Palat

ID number 47945575M

Birth November 9th, 1991

Nationality Spanish

EDUCATION

2009 - 2016 Polytechnic University of Catalunya

Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)

Master’s Degree in Architecture (Graduated with Honors)

2014 - 2015 Academic exchange program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Faculty of Architecture (FADEU), Santiago de Chile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2012 - Mas Valentí 1511 4 years Technical advisor On-the-ground surveys, schematic designs, construction supervisor Main works: Mas Valentí 1511 country house hotel refurbishment Contact: Joaquim Sellas Llombart | masvalenti1551@gmail.com

2013 - 2014 Urbanism Laboratory of Barcelona (LUB)

10 Months Research Intern Graphic setup for publications, website maintenance Main works: Publication edition “La ciudad no es una hoja en blanco” Contact: Carles Crosas | carles.crosas@upc.edu

2014 Grup Idea Arquitectura i Enginyeria

1 Month Collaborator Project leading at Cala Millor Hotel Refurbishment competition (2nd Prize) Design, concept development, drawing documentation, presentation documents Main works: Cala Millor Hotel Refurbishment Contact: Miquel Àngel Julià | majulia@grupidea.com

2015 BBATS + Tirado Arquitectos

6 Months Architecture Intern Drawing documentation, physical and digital model making Main works: Urban refurbishment of three elevators in Valparaíso 2 new accesses to Cerro San Cristóbal’s park in Santiago de Chile Contact: Cristóbal Tirado | catirado@bbats-tirado.com

2015 - 2016 Nuklee (Grup Idea’s Spin-off)10 Months Architect

SD, DD, CD phases on several retail and office projects Design, concept development, drawing documentation, building construction sets, construction supervisor Main works: Banc Sabadell London Corporate Office, Compo Expert Spain Headquarters Contact: Miquel Àngel Julià | majulia@nuklee.com

HONORS AND AWARDS

2013 XXIII Concurso Ibérico de Soluciones Constructivas Pladur. Second school prize with Biel Susanna, Hernán Lleida and Marc Subirana

2014 Mobint Scholarship given by Catalonia’s autonomous government to study one year abroad

2016 Graduated with honors at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB, UPC)

2016 Young Talent Architecture Awards Nomination organized by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe

SKILLS

· Autocad · Rhinoceros · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Illustrator ·Adobe Indesign · V-Ray · Sketchup · 3D Printing · Laser Cutting capable · CNC Milling ·Artlantis · Hand drawing · Model making · Adobe Dreamweaver · MS Office

Languages: Catalan (native), Spanish (native), English (fluent), French (basic)

PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

2010 Publication Proyectos I y II. Ejercicios y lecciones. Curso 2009-10 ed. by Elías Torres Two semesters of student works and drawings published pp.13, 114

2013 Exhibition Barcelona Links at the Catalonian Association of Architects (COAC) Six semesters of student works exhibited

Publication Barcelona Links ed. by Josep Parcerisa and Carles Crosas Six semesters of student works published p. 261

2014 Exhibition El camí cap a l’autosuficiència at the Barcelona Building Construmat 2015 Show Selfsuficient student prototypes exhibited

Exhibition Selected student portolios curated by Cultura Etsab at the school lobby

2015 Publication Lugares Comunes: Recoleta - Independencia ed. by Ediciones ARQ Workshop projects published pp.108, 107

Exhibition Uncovered ETSAB curated by Cultura Etsab at West Bund Art Center, Shanghai Student works and school archive exhibited at the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2015

2016 Exhibition Fear of Columns curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe at the school lobby Selected “Fear of Columns” competition entries exhibited

Publication The Mediterranean published project at 3NTA website platform http://www.3nta.com/the-mediterranean-interboundary-city-between-ceuta-and-morocco/

COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION

2009-2010 Foreign Stages Two month cultural and language immersion. San Francisco (2009); Illinois Institute of Techonology, Chicago (2010)

2011-2013 Summer Courses “Arquitecturas de Riesgo”; Arquitectura y Catástrofe” ; “Viajes hacia una arquitectura”organized by CUIMPB and the UPC Department of arch. theory.

2013 Volunteering project with FSL-India. Refurbishment and extension of a primary school Himachal Pradesh Region, India

2015 Workshop “Lugares Comunes” organized by Plan Común, Atelier Bow-Wow and Tsubame Architects at the FADEU UC (Santiago, Chile)

2016 Workshop “Rehabitar. La casa y la calle” organized by Xavier Monteys (Barcelona, Spain)

International Workshop “Integrated Urban Design for Sustainable Metropolitan Region” Organized by: ETSAB, ULB Faculty of Arch. , IUAV and the European Union (Venice, Italy)

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Life

The mediterranean

Interboundary city between Ceuta and MoroccoDiploma project, 2016

Critics: M. Rubert de Ventós, R. Such, A. Muros, R. Torra

Awards and recognitions

Maximum qualification with honorable mentionNominated at the Young Talent Architecture Awards, 2016

This research project could be seen as a new way to understand the mediterranean region and its cultural, geographic and geopolitical phenomenas.

After a diagnosis on the definition of the nowadays mediterranean region, an interboundary city between Ceuta and Morocco is proposed in order to accommodate stateless people and give them the chance to obtain a citizenship.

This city might be understood as a threshold between two continents, two cultures, two countries or two cities. An inhabited wall made by generic prefabricated concrete elements that supports something as complex as life.

A livable infrastructure in the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar that provides a house and a city for those who had to leave their homes escaping from fear.

An inhabited wall

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Geography of the mediterranean sea Plan of the territory and the border

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Ground floor plan Floor plans

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Eastern elevation and longitudinal sections Detail of the domestic spaces and typologies

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Detailed section Detail of the border pass

General view of the model

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The pier: a place to welcome and farewell

The main square: a place for encounter and civic life

The room: a shelter to preserve the singular condition of the individual

The streets: rythm and horizon

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View from the threshold

An abstract shape as a monument

Construction

The cardboard house

Emergency community centerAtelier Juan Ignacio Baixas, 2015

Chile is continuously suffering natural catastrophes, so emergency constructions are needed to provide housing and basic services to the

population after a natural catastrophe has occurred.

Besides that, Chile has some of the biggest timber producers and cardboard industries in the world. An important wood pulp company provided cardboard products to the school of architecture, to develop

emergency prototypes.

The main idea behind this project is to propose an autonomous cardboard structure that could serve as a community center for the affected population. A circular shape provides not only structural rigidness, but also an archetypal space that represents the very notion of community.

Several aspects such as construction easiness and fastness, endurance, cost production and transport where taken into consideration in order to

come up with a strong but synthetic proposal.

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Sequence of the building process Detail of the wood nodes and all their pieces

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1:1 Scale model of the structural basic module The project’s essence: the structure

General view of the model

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Space

Cerro Artillería urban intervention

Valparaíso15 dwellings + public library

Atelier M. Labbé + F. Chateau + T. Batzenschlager, 2014

Despite being one of the most Valparaíso’s visited places, Cerro Artillería shows very poor living conditions in its eastern side because most of its buildings are big, old and overcrowded; its owners are elderly and don’t have enough money to restore them, so they are forced to rent their rooms at a very low price. As a

consequence the social fabric of the neighbourhood has been broken.

The project proposes a new public space: a reinterpretation of the typical Valparaíso’s boulevard, that connects the neighbourhood with the city’s lower level. This new pathway is actually an architectural promenade that frames

different views of the city as it is walked.

New facilities are provided along the boulevard to solve the neighbouhood’s scarcity of housing and public spaces: a residential tower provides 15 new dwellings -a new urban milestone for the city- and a new public library is placed at the highest level of the intervention, defining the boundaries of the

existing urban fabric and providing a new living space for its neighbours.

The project and the city

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Ground floor plan (level +0.00 m) and AA’ section Floor plans (level +24.00 m) and CC’ section

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View of the lower station entrance

View of the new boulevard and the public library

View of the promenade and the residential tower

Relation between the project and the existing urban fabric

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City

Common PlacesCemetery as a public space

Santiago de ChileCoauthors: José Francisco Calbacho, Carlos Jorquera

Workshop with Plan Común + Atelier Bow-wow + Tsubame Architects, 2015

Santiago’s general cemetery is one of the city’s biggest green spaces, but paradoxically, it is placed in the district with the lowest amount of park areas

among the city.

The workshop’s aim was to transform the cemetery into a public park, proposing an archipelago of small size facilities arround the site that could provide basic

services and connect the enclosed area with its surroundings.

Our team had assigned the south-western entrance of the cemetery. We proposed a threshold between the city and the cemetery composed by two elements made of concrete: one the one hand a carpet that connects both sides while it marks the cemetery’s entrance from the street. On the other hand, a thick wall that contains restrooms and a guard cabin. Perpendicularly disposed from the carpet, this wall serves as a waiting/meeting area for visitors

and at the same time hides the graves as seen from the street.

An archipelago of small scale interventions

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Isometric viewFloor plan

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Cars slow down and graves are hidden behind the benchA new meeting point at the cemetery’s west entrance

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