ArchitecturePortfolioruben ruiz

Ruben Ruiz born 16th September 1982

ruben@ruben-ruiz.com

www.ruben-ruiz.com

2008

Architect by Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia (ETSAV)

Valencia, Spain

ObservatiOn Deck

page 20

shelter fOr artists page 4

hOusing planning page 12

3D analysis anD renDering page 34

cOllabOratiOn at infOrmatiOn baseD architecture page 28

exhibitiOn space fOr ObservatOri 2006 page 24

urban planning

page 16

acaDemic WOrks

cultural center page 8

3D mODelingWOrk experience

in ValenciaShelter for Artists

Ruben Ruiz

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The project proposes a solution for a building in which to lodge 20 artists to improve their formation, by means of the inclusion of class-rooms for theory and practice, workshops and show rooms for the exhibition of their works. Also bedrooms, dining room and zones of leisure are required. It is all about providing a place for the artist to work comfortably, a place to live Art.

The Shelter for Artists is conceived as a large square that subtly gets into the building. The search of the building of meeting the outer space becomes evident that way.

Shelter for Artists in Valencia

in Carpesa, ValenciaCultural Center

Ruben Ruiz

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Cultural Center in Carpesa, Valencia

The Cultural Center is principally focused to lodge activities based on music, it is provided of classrooms for its practice and teaching and an auditorium. The project consists also of a library, show rooms and a restaurant, as well as of an underground parking lot.

The idea is the understanding of the build-ing as a compact block which is digged by

a series of courtyards that provide light and enrich the inner space.

Every element that conforms the program ac-quires higher or lower height depending on the needs that each one of them requires.

Housing Planningin Pinedo, Valencia

Ruben Ruiz

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Housing Planning in Pinedo, Valencia

Design of a housing planning that includes 40 free dwellings and 60 re-lodging dwellings, with the condition of being linked, each one of them, to ‘urban orchards’ due to the char-acteristics and way of life of the re-housed people.

Pinedo is a town surrounded by very hetero-geneous landscapes. The site is placed at an

agricultural lot and, however it is at the same time just a few meters away from the sea. These circumstances provide an uncommon environment at towns dedicated to agricul-ture and condition the decisions to make.

Urban Planningin Sagunto, Valencia

Ruben Ruiz

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Project consisting in the creation of an urban planning that could behave as a nexus be-tween the two towns, Sagunto and Puerto de Sagunto.

The proposal is based on a grid of rectangles (12 x 36 meters) in which housing blocks, green areas and paved zones are fitted, fol-lowing a rhythm of fills and voids.

The scheme of the plan has 3 bands formed by elements of high, medium and low hous-ing density, which are linked to each other by a Main Axis that lodges services like a busi-ness center, shops and schools. This main road also joins both sides of the planning, communicating the housing areas with the main square and the sports area.

Urban Planning in Sagunto, Valencia

in ValenciaObservation Deck

Ruben Ruiz

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Observation Deck in Valencia

Exercise consisting in the design of an Obser-vation Deck in Valencia, at the limit between city and orchards.

The main restraint is to design it using only one material: Reinforced Concrete, formwork with 120 x 240 cm boards.

The intention is to create a visual walk for citizens by means of the use of an only wall

surrounded by a long ramp. The wall is full of openings (made by sliding some panels of formwork) that frame the views for walkers.

in Valencia

Observatori 2006VII International Festival of Artistic Investigation

Ruben Ruiz

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Exhibiton Space Observatori 2006 in Valencia

The assignment was about the design, inside Arquerías’s Hall of the Príncipe Felipe Muse-um, at the City of Arts and Sciences of Valen-cia, of a space for the exhibition of a series of works and artistic installations previously determined, each with some particular needs of space and illumination.

The theme of the exhibition was “The emit-

ters of change”, a reflection on the power of communication came into question, there was a discussion about how communication becomes the energy that changes the world.

It was chosen to endow the set with a dy-namic trait by means of the confrontation of a straight line of walls, keeping on Hall’s axle, and another one with turned walls, so that

they guided the visitor through the exhibition, to the extreme of Arquerías’s Hall.

in AmsterdamInformation Based ArchitectureCollaboration at

Ruben Ruiz

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Collaboration at Information Based Architecture in Amsterdam

This project is a 125 m high information and sightseeing tower in China, at the Shenzen Bay area.

The design is based on the idea that it is pos-sible to create complex volumes by means of the intersection of simple plane elements.

All the external estructure, formed by hori-

zontal and vertical plane elements, is hold by an internal concrete core.

On its lower levels the tower is provided with wide space for exhibitions and meetings, and on higher levels there is a restaurant, a broad-cast studio and wide areas for sightseeing.

Ruben Ruiz

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This project was thought as an answer to the competition for the design of a World Sustain-ability Centre at the Afsluitdijk (Closing Dike) in the North of Holland.

It was planned as a big floating self-sufficient sphere, with a dynamic skin, able to generate solar, hydraulic and wind energy.

Collaboration at Information Based Architecture in Amsterdam

3D Analysis and Modeling

Ruben Ruiz

Page 36

Modeling and rendering of a complex building that would be used as a library and general storage of books.

The exercise included the need of making cuts in order to analyze its circulation system as well as its structure.

For this exercise different tools were used: Autocad, SketchUp and 3DStudio together with VRay renderer.

3D Analysis and Modeling

Ruben Ruiz architect

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