portfolioCarlos GARCÍA-SANCHO

Architect. Master of Science.(Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences,

TU DELFT, 2009)Valladolid (SPAIN) , 16Dec1985

0157 84553808 cgsancho@hotmail.com

EDUCATION2009 Graduated as a Master of Science with Distinction (2nd July) with the project “Alternative Urbanities: Invasive Densities,” as a part of the Urban Asymmetries: Mexico collective project (a team of seven architects and three urbanists), with a degree of 9.50/10.00 cum laude. 2008/2009 Graduation project in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences (track: Architec-ture) at the TU DELFT after joining as a regular student. The graduation project belongs to the DSD Future cities: Urban Asymmetries master program and is located in Ecatepec, Mexico City (Mexico). One month research trip to Mexico in December 2008. On-site collaboration with the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), under the supervision of Ricardo Eibenschutz, and the Municipality of Ecatepec (Municipio de Ecatepec de Morelos).2007/2008 One year stay at the TU DELFT (Delft’s Technical University, The Netherlands) as an exchange student part of the ERASMUS programme. Enrolled for the DSD (Delft School of Design) Future cities: Urban Asymmetries pilot program. Research trip to Istanbul (Turkey) as part of the FILM/VIDEO/CITY Design Workshop in April 2008. 2003/ 2007 Superior Architecture First Cycle at the ETSAB (School of Architecture of Barce-lona) during four years. Graduations of 7.00/ 10.00 in Design Project (3rd year), 8.00/ 10.00 in Urbanism Design Project (2nd year), First Class with Distinction (9.50/10.00, MH) in History and Theory of Art and Architecture (Composició III, 4th year). Great interest on Urbanism and Landscape planning. 2001/ 2003 High school on Science and Tech-nology in Valladolid, Núñez de Arce High School. First Class with Distinction (9.00/ 10.00).

WORK EXPERIENCE 2007 One month stay at Architecture Office Alberto Merinos y asociados (Valladolid), collaborating in the design process for a new school facility. 2007 Six month experience at Architecture Atelier ON-A Arquitectura (Barcelona), hired through the ETSAB Area of educative coopera-tion. Working as a collaborator in the design process for architectural competitions, buildings, and ephemeral architecture. Drawings published in DETAIL magazine. 2005 Experience as a collaborator with teach-ers Marta Bayona and Josep Parcerisa (ETSAB) at the Urbanism and Regional Planning Depart-ment, helping in the production of a new General Urban Planning for Maó (Menorca). One week stay in Maó doing field research and one month collaboration at B+V Arquitectes Associats (Marta Bayona and Albert Valero, Barcelona), member of the architect and designers partner-ship Espai Carolines.

PUBLICATIONS 2010 Coming publication of an Urban Asymmetries book issued by 010 Publishers, Rotterdam (The Netherlands).2009 Special number of ATLANTIS MAGAZINE comprising the Urban Asymmetries master programs’ graduation projects in Mexico City and Santiago de Chile. ATLANTIS is a quarterly journal edited by POLIS, an organization formed by professors and students of Urban Design from the Architecture Department at the TU DELFT.

COMPUTER SKILLS AutoCAD: Proficient in 2D and 3D, intensive use over the last 5 years.Photoshop, Premiere PRO: Proficient, intensive use over the last 5 years.Illustrator, InDesign: Very good.Rhino, 3D Studio MAX: Good, Used at work.Microsoft Office: Proficient.Maya, Vectorworks: Basic knowledge.

LANGUAGE SKILLSEnglish / Advanced Certificate in English (Uni-versity of Cambridge). Grade B. Fluent speaking, excellent writing and comprehension, several stays in the US and UK. French/ Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Française/ A2. Fluent speaking, very good writing and comprehension, several stays in France. German/ Zertifikat Deutsch, GUT (grade B). Good writing and comprehension. One two week stay in Berlin. Catalan/ Certificat A/ Elemental , 9.00 Excel·lent. Fluent speaking, very good writing and compre-hension. Spanish as mother tongue.

OTHER INTERESTS/ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.Several cinema and drama courses. Broad experience in digital video editing for the final exhibition for Marc Bouwmeester’s course: “RDM-IST: Media Mapping”, as well as the Urban Asymmetries presentations, with documentary clips form Ecatepec, Mexico City. From summer 2006, working on small scale fashion design, with the brand for T-shirts&more *ménage à moi*. Catwalk at B_side bar (Barcelona)

HAND DRAWING/ILLUSTRATION

EL DIBUJADOREl dibujador (roughly translated as “the maker of drawings”) draws his whole life from some time ago. He started remembering moments and then drew them, trying to be precise in every detail, capturing everything. Doing so, those moments belonged to him.

El dibujador is a voyeur of his own life.

Ink and watercolour on paper. 2007-2009.More at: www.fotolog.com/eldibujador

ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING/ CAD

DRAWING ARCHITECTUREDrawing is of course a basic tool for architects to express and communicate their ideas. In the Barcelona School (ETSAB) drawing is regarded as one of the basic skills of the architect, dedicating a lot of academical effort in representation of plans, diagrams and technical drawings through vari-ous techniques, including computer aided design (CAD).

2005 Representation of diagramatical sections of the city of Maó (Menorca), published in the actu-alization of the Urban Plan.

2007 Update and fixing of the technical details of the “5 sentidos lounge bar” project in Empuria Brava (Spain), for the publication in DETAIL SPAIN magazine.

2009 Preparation of the panels for the ARCHIPRIX selection (above). The aim is not to show an estatic building, but the processes that build and shape the proposed project, an attempt to repre-sentate a “process-based architecture”.

Axonometric for the ARCHIPRIX SELECTION pannels. AutoCAD, printed and transfered on wood, October 2009, Urban

Asymmetries master group.

TEXTILE/COTTON PRINTING

MÉNAGE À MOI“ménage à moi is a very small t-shirts&more brand which currently sells in some shops in barcelona, rotterdam and valladolid. they are sten-cilled, hand-made cotton printing which makes each clothing unique. we also see it as a way of recycling t-shirts that are blank or have very small prints or stains, making them cooler to wear, keeping the price somewhat low. they have mes-sages or images which will probably make you

the center of attention, which is something that we all secretly love; some of them even make the watcher actively envolved in the message. *mé-nage à moi* is a cult&trash t-shirt collection for egocentric urbans who are not afraid to put art pieces on.”

Images from the t-shirts (left,center). Label, front and back (right).

Stencils and handmade cottonprinting by Carlos García-Sancho.Photographs and design by Carlos García-Sancho. 2006-2009.

More at: www.myspace.com/menage_a_moi_bcn

PHOTOGRAPHY/IMAGE EDITTING.

PHOTOSHOPPINGPhotography interested me in my school years, experimeting with b/w photography and develop-ing. In my proffesional life I have always ran away from the realistic look of “renders“ and computer simulations. Therefore, I always preferred working with Photoshop to add textures and “liveliness” to architectural perspectives. This gave me an en-hanced experience in image editting, which I have later used also in my personal projects.

Images for a footbal stadium competition (top: left and right). On-a arquitectes, Barcelona, 2007.

Image for an Urbanism course project (bottom: left )ETSAB, Barcelona, 2007. Together with Adrià Escolano.Poster for the Urban Asymmetries group final exhibition

(bottom: right )Image editing and design by Carlos García-Sancho.

COLLAGE/ MIXED MEDIA

CUT AND PASTECollage was one of my favourite techniques to build quick images of my projects. The immedi-ateness of the process, and yet the “fake reality” evoked by the photographic textures combined in sketchy but powerful images that worked very well graphically.

2008 Panels after reading Tomas MORE’s “Uto-pia” (above). The island of Utopia is here repre-sented with the imagery of the 20th century mod-ernism. There is a sense of “lost future”, a feeling of despair evoked by the perfection of infrastruc-ture diagrams and the desolated open spaces of the Modernist City, where the grotesque customs of the utopians take place. It reminds us that built utopias tend to enter the realm of the dystopian.

Panels representing the different scales of Thomas MORE’s “Utopia”. The island, the street, the public space.

Collage (non-digital) and ink on paper, September 2008 Urban Asymmetries master group.

VIDEO/ AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA

2003 Cinema workshop with David Prados-Dona, Valladolid.

2003 Short films: “Hechizo”, “Postdata” and “Esto no es un corto” presented at the “Com-pressed Film Festival” notodofilmfest.com

2008 Preparation of the exhibition “RDM-IST media mapping” together with Levan Asabashvili. Editing of video pieces from the raw footage of Istambul shot by the Urban Asymmetries group.

2009 “Urban Asymmetries: Mexico” (above) Ed-iting of five clips including a series of interviews and video shots of the conditions present in the site in Mexico City. These have been used for sev-eral presentations (including the graduation).This media showed as a perfect tool to show the vies and positions of the different “players”, and the conflicts that were generated.

2010 Proyect for the creation of a short docu-mentary including some unused interviews and footage.

Stills from the footage of the site and interviews made at Ecatepec, México City. Digital Video. December-January 2008

Urban Asymmetries master group.

More at: www.youtube.com/urbanasymmetries

MEDIA MAPPINGCinema and video had always interested me. It was only when I arrived to TU Delft that I started using that skills in an architectural discourse. There I had the opportunity to work with Marc Bouwmeester in various courses and workshops.