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Jorge Torán | Architect

www.jorgetoran.com

toranjorge@gmail.com

Spain: (+34) 618 892 926

ACADEMIC

2016 - 2017: Master’s degree in Architecture

European University of Valencia (Spain)

2011 - 2016: Bachelor’s degree in Architecture

European University of Madrid (Spain)

EXPERTISE

Autocad / Photoshop / Illustrator / Indesign / Rhinoceros / V-Ray / Grasshopper / 3DS Max / Sketchup / . . .

WORK EXPERIENCE

ARANEA 2016. Internship. Residential Building (Alicante-Spain)

AIC Equip

2015. Rendering: Residential Building in Valencia (Spain)

2015. Rendering: Single-Family Hou-se in Valencia (Spain)

2013. Rendering: Business Area in Zhangjiajie (China)

CPUIN

2014. Expo-Data: “Cajas Blancas” – Intramurs Festival in Valencia-Spain)

CAPUCCI&GIROD

2015. Planning: Residential Building in Vancouver (Canada)

2014. Rendering: Single-Family Hou-se in Almaroon (Dubai)

COMPETITIONS

VALENCIA CREA

2014. (RE)CREAR CIUDAD modus operandi. 1st Prize

ARQUIDEAS

2014. IMOA: International Museum of Astronomy

2013. EMBT: Thalassoterapy Center

(Re)THINKING

2014. Temporary Housing for Surfers

2015. Astronomy Center Red Sand

WORKSHOPS

URBAN MUTATIONS

2015. International Workshop: Chiba University (Japan) – European Univer-sity of Madrid (Spain)

(An)OTHER IDENTITIES

2014. International Workshop: Chiba University (Japan) – European Univer-sity of Madrid (Spain)

MUR SUR MUR

2013. International Workshop: Uni-versité Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)- European University of Madrid (Spain)

LIES

2012. Laboratory of Ecosocial In-ter-Urbanism. Andrés Jaque

TINGLADO Nº2Intermodal station in a rounda-bout (Valencia-Spain)

DASEC (Digital Art and Spatial Ex-perimentation Centre) is centred around spatial exploration through digital intervention and the stimu-lation of new artistic experiences. It’s main objective is to find it’s own id entity in the network of cultural spaces in the city of Valencia, not only in the programming lines, but also regarding content and exhi-bition formats. Far from being a typical museum institution, it is presented as an open place to wan-

TINGLADO Nº2 | Proyect 01

DASECDigital Art and Spatial Experimentation Centre (Valencia-Spain)

DASEC (Digital Art and Spatial Ex-perimentation Centre) is centred around spatial exploration through digital intervention and the stimula-tion of new artistic experiences. It’s main objective is to find it’s own id en-tity in the network of cultural spaces in the city of Valencia, not only in the programming lines, but also regarding content and exhibition formats. Far from being a typical museum institu-tion, it is presented as an open place to wander and to experiment with your senses. DASEC is a place where the user looses spatial notion, where the limits between the interior and the exterior fade and create flows in ever-changing spaces. The project is a reprogrammation of an existing di-sused building. The conceptual evolu-tion of the location is analysed, as well as the interior space and its relation with the exterior. The spatial respon-se’s aim is to strengthen the fragmen-ted interior space and the easing of contrast between the free-standing volume and its surroundings.

DASEC | Proyect 02

A surrounding of metal cylinders is built in order to achieve a new transition landscape between the interior and the exterior.

1st Floor Ground FloorBasement Floor

UNTHER THE CLOUDIntermodal station in a rounda-bout (Valencia-Spain)

Under the Cloud is a project in which the aim is to clear road traffic and give that space to pedestrians. The project is located in a busy roundabout in the city of Valencia, between the Gardens of Turia and a shopping centre. New air roads are designed to go over the previous roundabout and, beneath those roads, is located a playground.

These new roads are composed of big tunnels and obli-que pillars following the length of the tunnel, turning it into a swirling cloud and generating a great diversity of playing areas underneath it. It is designed to be an al-ternative leisure place for the consumer society, a place where one can grow mentally and physically.

UNDER THE CLOUD | Project 03

HOUSE FForest house between the trees (Alicante – Spain)

House F is a detached house located on a mountain slope near Alicante’s shore (Spain). It is located between what used to be two cultivated te-rraced banks and in the middle of a Mediterranean pine wood. The star-ting premises are: not cutting down any trees, the dwelling can’t exceed 200 m2 and it can’t have more than two floors (due to legislation). So, the starting point is a square floor of 8×8m and to divide the house into three floors: basement floor, ground floor and 1st floor, a total of 180 m2. The different slabs fragment the spaces and uses, providing the dwelling a dynamic character, a wide variety of routes and atmospheres of great spatial quality. The house is distributed in a way that the private zones are closer to the ground and the common areas are higher, just like the crowns of the trees seeking the sunlight.

1st Floor

Ground Floor

Basement Floor

BILLBOARD HOUSE | Project 04

We start off with the term “recovery”, which means “the action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost”. This is going to be applied to the landscape, the so-ciety, the energy and the waste.To the landscape because the plot is located in between an industrial estate and the orchard. Both are artifitial: they have been created by mankind.

They become waste because of the “borders” between them.On the social side, knowing the waste selection and differentiation is essential, as it would give society a better understanding of the recycling process in order to change their consumption habits. This way, society would be able to improve the performance of the plant and to reduce the waste rejection, leading to a healthier environment. In order to achieve that, we intend to avoid the conventional plants (in which this whole process is invisible to the eye) and to reveal it to educate society. Regarding energy, the plant’s grea-test consumption at the plant is the continuous extraction of air in order to avoid the odour output. Therefo-re, the aim is to reduce the volume of the construction to optimize the con-sumption

WASTE RECOVERY PLANT

Waste treatment and recovery plant (Valencia – Spain)

WASTE RECOVERY PLANT | Project 05

BILLBOARD HOUSEProsthetic house on a rooftop billboard (New York-USA)

The dwelling is built as a prosthesis inside the urban scenery. It takes up the space in a billboard located on one of the rooftops in Times Squa-re. The base structure is made of a three-dimensional cubic steel truss with 3 meter sides, which enables the design of different rooms and uses that take up these spaces.

The mobile façade allows for the shu-tters to be opened and closed. These simple movements provide the dwe-lling with the open spaces and the visibility required at any time.

BILLBOARD HOUSE | Project 06

Base

Organization

Floors

Facades

Ground Floor

1st Floor

2nd Floor

8 BREAKING WALL BOATNaval unmanned marine device (Metaphysical Space)

8 Breaking Wall Boat is an unman-ned marine device, whose function is making two parallel realities coexist. A metaphysical space is presented in which 8BWB follows a scheduled route to fragment the wall that separates the metropo-litan reality from the rural one. An illusory dimension is presented, in which a river spaces out and brings into conflict the city’s and the coun-try’s banks.We choose the river for it’s symbolisation of existence and the ultimate aim of the project is to bridge the gap between those who are apart.

8BWB has a number of functions to perform in a limited period of time: To create an opaque wall and to gradually increase it’s transparency / To build up a network from bank to bank, to ma-terialize and to make the process visible / To clean the river to avoid impurities and the symbolic division they represent, in or-der to reach transparency and stability.

8BWB | Project 07

THEME PARKAerial tramway park(Coney Island-New York)

THEME PARK | Project 08

01_Pollinator Capsule

02_Swimming Capsule

ANTENNAEInternationa Museum of Astro-nomy – Arquideas competition IMOA 2014

The aim of this astronomy centre is to focus on the human’s most imme-diate and primitive source of vision: the eye. Technological innovation is set aside, as it already holds an im-portant place in the infrastructures on this plateau (Atacama desert, Chile). ANTENNAE alters the visi-tor’s usual routine to concentrate all the activity at nighttime. There-fore, the daytime is the time to rest, as we can only appreciate the light of the stars during the night.

The inverted dome is the centre-piece of the project: it reflects the stars and the person who watches them, who then feels integrated in the sky’s immensity. The dome is built in a hybrid construction, which holds the majority of the uses. The residential modules are located around the construction and serve as accommodation and as observa-tional places

ANTENNAE | Competition 01

ALMAROON | Rendering 01

ALMAROONDesert House (Almaroon-Dubai)

Rendering for:Capucci&Girod Architects

CHINA | Rendering 02

CHINAMaster Plan (Zhangjiajie-China)

Rendering for:AIC Equip

KAUNAS | Rendering 03

KAUNASDesert House (Almaroon-Dubai)

Rendering for:ARANEA

PLEMMIRIO | Rendering 04

PLEMMIRIOFari (Plemmirio-Italy)

Rendering for:Ingiulla&Altomare

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