PROJECT PORTFOLIO

SEBASTIÁN BARAHONA

This is a summary of the projects done, in the academy or for a specified client.

Sebastian Barahona Martínez

ID: CRI 3-450-961

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Nationality: Costa Rican

Birth date: January 25th, 1991

Residence: Pacayas, Cartago, Costa Rica

Contact: Cel. (506)-8894-6898 / (506) 2534-4218

email: sbmbarahona@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

1997 – 2002

Pbro. Juan de Dios Trejos Picado School:

Primary school.

2003 – 2008

Experimental Biligual Jose Figueres Ferrer

Highschool:

Secondary school

2009 – 2015

Universidad Latina: Licensed in Architecture

AWARDS

“Summa Cum Laude” award, to best Academic Performance in the

career of Architecture. Universidad Latina, April 2015

LANGUAGES

English: spoken and written.

Spanish: spoken and written.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet.

Basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, 3D Studio Max

Design.

Advanced knowledge de AutoCAD, Revit Architecture.

OTHERS

2007 – 2008

South Portland Highschool, South Porland, Maine, EEUU: Certificate of

participation and contribution to the school community as an exchange

student. Senior year. AFS (American Field Service) program.

2015

Everblue: Certificate of participation. LEED Green Associate V4 in Spanish

PROJECTS

PROJECT: Residential building

LOCATION: San José, Costa Rica. 8th and 10th Avenues, 13th Street

Academic project

Location (Residences)

Edificios Circuito Judicial

Location (Museum)

Location (Residences)

• As part of an urban intervention in San José City, a number of projects are proposed for the

re-activation of the area. In this case, the residential building is exposed.

• The building is composed by three kinds of residences, for, economically speaking, middle-

class users.

• The main distribution contains 904 sf, which has modifications such as additions and

subtractions, getting an interesting volume in the façade.

– RESIDENCE A: Living room, dining room, kitchen, dos bathrooms, main room and

one secondary bedroom.

– RESIDENCE B: This residence keeps the same components as the residence A,

although this is a two-story apartment, giving some value to the social area, which is

in a double-height space.

– RESIDENCE C: This space is for a single person, or a couple. This apartment has

only one bedroom and one bathroom.

• Each of the apartments contains a balcony area.

description

architectural plan

RESIDENCE A RESIDENCE C

architectural plan

RESIDENCE B

perspectives

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PROJECT: Museum and restaurant

LOCATION: San José, Costa Rica. 10th Avenue, 17th Street

Academic project

Location (Residences)

Edificios Circuito Judicial

Location (Museum)

Location (Residences)

• Another component of this urban intervention was a building to be used during the day and

with a cultural activity such as a museum.

• This museum only exposes national art and represents an important point to the city. Its

objective is to attract people to this side of the city, which is not visited by many people.

• The project has the following areas:

– Storage area

– Bathrooms

– Exhibition areas

– Offices

– Auditory

– Restaurant

description

architectural plan

first floor

architectural plan

second floor

architectural plan

third floor

perspectives

perspectives

PROJECT: High Performance Sports Center

LOCATION: El Roble, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

COLABORATION OF: Erick Buzo Orozco

Academic project

Location

Road to Puntarenas

Route 27

• The objective of this complex is to form the young people of the province of Puntarenas,

looking forward to a high performance in the sports area, without leaving the academic

formation aside.

• For this reason, the complex has a series of building with the following services:

– Administration

– Educational building

– Clinic

– Commercial area

– Lodging

– Stadium

description

architectural plan

master plan

perspectives

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PROJECT: Bus terminal, Universidad Latina

LOCATION: San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica

Academic project

Location

Universidad Latina

Plaza del Sol

Colegio Calasanz

• As an urban intervention, and in colaboration with other partners, it was decided to work in

the Universidad Latina campus, providing it of some areas not appropiate at the moment or

other areas that not exist at all.

• The projects that take part of the intervention are:

– Sports center

– Cultural center

– Media room

– Bus terminal

• The bus terminal is formed with the following areas: spreading areas, food court, study

area, boarding and waiting areas.

description

architectural plan

first floor

architectural plan

second and third floor

perspectives

perspectives

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PROJECT: Central American Art Museum

LOCATION: Barrio La California, San José, Costa Rica. Central Avenue, 27th Street.

Academic project

Location (Museum)

Cine Magaly

Location (Gastronomic

center)

Embajada Nicaragua

• Again, the urban intervention was the topic of the project. In this case, the intervention was

made through two different buildings.

• It was decided to make two cultural projects to this area such as the Central American Art

Museum and a Central American Gastronomic Center, rescuing the art and food of the

whole region and considering the number of nightlife places of La California.

• The Museum has the following spaces:

– Cafeteria

– Storage area

– Exhibition area

– Auditorium

– Library

description

architectural plan

first floor

architectural plan

access plaza (sub 1)

architectural plan

exhibition (sub 2)

architectural plan

exhibition (sub 3)

perspectives

perspectives

perspectives

PROJECT: Central American Gastronomic Center

LOCATION: Barrio La California, San José, Costa Rica. Central Avenue, 25A Street

Academic project

Location (Museum)

Cine Magaly

Location (Gastronomic

center)

Embajada Nicaragua

• In the other hand, the Gastronomic Center is not only for tasting the local food. It is also for

learning how to cook them.

• The areas in this building are:

– Restaurant

– Kitchen

– Restrooms

– Office

– Cooking workshop

– Storage area

description

architectural plan

first floor

architectural plan

second floor

perspectives

perspectives

perspectives

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PROJECT: Calderón Guardia Emergency Tower

LOCATION San José, Costa Rica. 7th Avenue, 19th Street.

Academic project

Antigua Aduana

Location

Central Park Atlantic Station

Calderón Guardia Hospital

• Due to the saturation of the South Tower or Emergency Tower of the Dr. Calderón Guardia

Hospital, there is the need of planning a new building, starting from the fact that the original

building does not exist.

• There are many conditions that have to be considered, being the connection between

spaces and its flows the most important of them, taking care of clean and dirty materials,

for example.

• The areas in this project are the following:

– Reception

– Medical rooms

– Pharmacy

– Food court

– Patients’ dormitories

– OR

– Lounge areas for medical staff

– Offices

description

architectural plan

first floor

architectural plan

second floor

architectural plan

third floor

perspectives

PROJECT: Beach house

LOCATION: Brasilito, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

COLABORATION OF: Eirck Buzo Orozco

Academic project

Brasilito

Location

• The project consists in a vacation house, planned to have groups from eight to twenty

people simultaneously, to be acquired by a specific client and also for renting.

• Four bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms, social area and terrace with swimming pool and BBQ

area.

description

architectural plan

+0.50 m

architectural plan

+1.00 m

architectural plan

+3.80 m

perspectives

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PROJECT: Residence

LOCATION: San Blas, Cartago, Costa Rica

Draft

San Blas Church

Location

• The project is an enlargement of a residence, considering a terrain next to the house, on

the North side of the construction.

• The house would have one more bedroom and social areas, besides a larger garage area.

description

architectural plan

The walls in black are the existing walls.

perspectives

Actual façade

PROJECT: Dr. Roberto Chacón Paut Psychiatric Hospital

LOCATION: San Ramón, Tres Ríos, Cartago, Costa Rica

COLABORATION OF: Erick Buzo Orozco

Graduation project

Location

• The project of the Hospital takes into account the changes in the treatment of the mental

illness, globally, changing the paradigm from confinement of the patients to a satisfactory

rehabilitation, where the patient takes part again of the community, performing all kind of

jobs with normality.

• The intervention involves the buildings reconstruction, demolition and the construction of

new spaces.

• The aim of this project is to give the right spaces to develop the treatments and therapies

that the patients need, in order to be rehabilitated.

• The project has the following spaces:

– Patients buildings (dormitories)

– Maintenance, storage and administrative areas

– Therapy buildings

– External areas

description

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master plan

1. Access

2. Parking lot

3. Plazas

4. Terrace areas

5. Maintenance and Administrative building

6. Gym

7. Social area

8. Occupational therapy

9. Social work

10. Residences

11. General building

12. Acute patients building

13. Dependent patients building

14. Severe patients building

15. Sidewalks

16. River nascent

perspectives

administrative building

perspectives

existent buildings

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gym

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general building

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dependent-patients building

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acute-patients building

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severe-patients building

PROJECT: Cottage

LOCATION: El Convenio, Volcán Turrialba, Costa Rica

Draft

Turrialba Volcano

Location

• The project is born due to the request of a private company, that wants a space of

recreation for the four partners and their families.

• Its location in the high mountains of the country, makes the house to open its views to the

south and west, and keeping a look-out space from where the users can look at the

volcano, currently in activity.

• The areas in this project are:

– Bedrooms

– Bathroom

– Bar

– Living room, dining room and kitchen

– Balcony

description

architectural plan

perspectives

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