Fernando Lopez-Garcia

Built Works Portfolio 2004-2012

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Fernando Lopez-Garcia Built Works 2004-2012

Design: Fernando Lopez.

Manufactured in Hermosillo, Sonora, MX.

Printed by: author.

Printed on ordinary matte white letter paper.

Typeset in Calibri.

Copyright 2012 Fernando Lopez Architect.

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CONTENTS

BIO

SELECTED BUILT WORKS

- Façade remodel 02, 2007.

- House extension 02, 2006.

- Façade remodel 01, 2005.

- Office interior 01, 2009.

- Two apartments 01, 2007-2008.

- Student apartment 03, 2011.

- Restaurant interior and backyard 01, 2011-2012.

- Gymnasium Façade 01, 2010.

- Stair light detail 01, 2012.

- House extension 03, 2012.

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BIO

Fernando Lopez-Garcia

04/09/1979

Hermosillo, Sonora, México.

Telephone +52 6622157591

Mobile + 52 6621020649

Exchange Student in Finland.

1998-1999

Architecture studies at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. CSN, México.

1999-2004

Urbanism & Architecture studies at the Universistat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

2001-2002

Master in Urban Design & Infrastructure at the University of Arizona, Tucson AZ.

2007-2010

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PRACTICE BUILT WORKS

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Façade Remodel 02 (2007)

One of my first interventions, An existing building which used to be a day care center for children acquired by a local lawyer that wanted to take advantage of location and to give the building, its own identity. This gave me the opportunity to experiment with windows, framing the outside and permitting natural light into the lobby and the corridor inside.

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Isometric view.

Project render.

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House Extension 02 (2005)

Section and plans, finish project and photomontage proposal.

This house between two facades, required and extension and a new façade, a new room was consider with a complete bathroom and new walk in closet for the adjacent room. The frontal window was supposed to be a huge rectangle looking towards two intersecting streets, but because budget reasons we redesign them to look like eyes and the garage as the mouth. I wanted the exterior white, but the clients have not painted the exterior walls, it’s just grey.

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Office interior (2010)

Detail of the 3 lines crossing the spaces

Lines intersecting original elements

The linear graphics reflect the colors of the floor and builds up a further abstraction of spatial qualities with the existing spaces like door openings, windows, etc. With the constantly changing of the trivial like boxes, chairs, boxes, etc., the 3 lines will merge or contrast. The office interior in this subtle way becomes a “moving line”.

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Façade remodel 01 (2005-2006)

Original house and site analysis

Desert vegetation complements offering another color to the black stone detail.

Located in a commercial/residential area, an existing single story house of the 80s was acquired to accommodate and office and house under the same façade. The main idea was to implement two new elements to the façade which will give the office its own character and preserve the house distinctive elements. A lattice square was introduced as the garage and a red cylinder gently divides the house from office entrance.

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Views of the new home and office

Aerial sketches

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Two apartments (2008-2009)

The hidden apartment acces not facing the street and the light well space in the staris.

A clear idea of the design was to create a more indirect visual relation of the frontal door and the busy street. Two olive trees also protect the façade from the afternoon sun. The mirror plan of one apartment was required from the clients so, it’s a symmetric wall of openings only the entrance and rooms are extruded out. The program required full apartment for a small family or young businessmen. To ensure this rent business, the lower level is consider as public and the upper level as private. First floor has a bathroom, kitchen, access to the garage, and service areas. Since the main façade is on the west, I wanted to put a sliver window with glass brick which will eventually impregnate the stairs cube into a light show. This will also benefit the adjacent spaces form natural light.

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Section with the old design sloped roof and the side view towards the apartments

First floor distribution

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Student apartment (2011)

Views of the linear window

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The contaminated view that the previous window offered was replaced with a linear fixed

9ft window that frames the sky. This also provides the opportunity to let the apartment be

free of artificial light during the day and also provides the users to have dynamic view which

is all the time changing not only during the day but during the seasons.

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Restaurant interior and backyard (2011-2012)

New zoning codes enforced the change from residential to commercial in downtown busiest streets, giving young investor the opportunity to

create houses from the 60s into small breakfast restaurant. Consequently the resulting renovation seeks to create contrast between old and new

through finishes. The interior structure – concrete reinforced load bearing brick walls and concrete slabs – have been stripped back. While

intended to be covered and finished whit other material, these poorly crafted elements have left exposed and unfinished in order to express the

true character of the existing building.

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In moments some of the original walls are stripped back in other cases we putted sliver windows.

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Gymnasium Facade (2011)

Another project in Hermosillo, the facade of a periphery gymnasium of the city, I decided to express the façade literally as a face or blank canvas,

so this idea gave the gym its name which is the pulse in an electrocardiogram screen.

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Detail of a façade of the Gymnasium in Hermosillo, 2011.

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Stair light detail 01, (2012) Another detail, but this is witch the use of a LED tape lamp, to give importance to an appartment in the roof a house.

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House extension, 03 (2012-?) This house is located in a residential area with a relative big patio, which gave the owners an opportunity to grow 1.2 mts, about 6 ft kitchen area. The detail of

the corner window frames a future view to a corner garden. It also helps to infiltrate more natural light to the interior.

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Façade remodel 02 The tight budget of this extention is to dialog with the existing façade so glass was used in between the “two styles” the new and the old, the main entrance

was also manipulated, the sculpture arch is based on a Tony Smith scuplture so the acces its no only a enfatic entrance but a scuptural elemento for the house.

facade before intervention.

Views of the House after the interventions.

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