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Miguel Aldana

Miguel Aldana

Mexico, MX

 

About 

Space composer, all my life drawing in paper sheets

Employment 

ESTAR, Mexico, MX, CEO

Chief Executive Officer, co-founder

Jul 2014 - current
 

SCGI, Tabasco, MX, QHSE consultant

Independent QHSE consultant and auditor

Mar 2003 - current
 

Education 

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, ES, BArch, Creative Management + City Transformation

This was an international program between two university: UIA in Mexico and UPC in Spain. As Miquel Adria said "the only difference between a Mexico student of this program and a Spain one is the access to the olympic pool".

Nov 2010 - Feb 2012
 

Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Tecamachalco, MX, BArch, Engineer-Architect

This is an old version of the professional program of architecture. IPN was founded during presidential period of Lazaro Cardenas in which an elitist degree was not appropriate for a socialist scope of education.

Sep 1992 - Jun 1997
 

Awards 

XV Tabasco Biennial - Honorable Mention - Housing, Honorable Mention

TABASCO ARCHITECTS COLLEGE
MEMBER OF THE FEDERATION OF ARCHITECTS COLLEGES OF THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC

CALLS ON ALL RESIDENT ARCHITECTS FROM THE STATE OF TABASCO TO PARTICIPATE IN THE

XV TABASCO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL

I. OBJECTIVES
Identify the best architectural works by architects in the state of Tabasco, as well as publications, research and theses.
Recognize their authors. Disseminate the most relevant works to allow, through analysis and criticism, a reflection to make of responsible contemporary architecture and with sustainable solutions.

2021
 

XV Tabasco Biennial - Silver Medal - Education, 2nd Place

TABASCO ARCHITECTS COLLEGE
MEMBER OF THE FEDERATION OF ARCHITECTS COLLEGES OF THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC

CALLS ON ALL RESIDENT ARCHITECTS FROM THE STATE OF TABASCO TO PARTICIPATE IN THE

XV TABASCO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL

I. OBJECTIVES
Identify the best architectural works by architects in the state of Tabasco, as well as publications, research and theses.
Recognize their authors. Disseminate the most relevant works to allow, through analysis and criticism, a reflection to make of responsible contemporary architecture and with sustainable solutions.

2021
 

XVI Mexican Architecture National Biennial - Silver Medal - Education, 2nd Place

Abstract:
Above a rural house a new multipurpose room for technological services, the windows make a terraced viewpoint with Catalan vaults, herringbone walls and structural lattices. This hybrid construction integrates culture with production seeking to make a new modest destination in the site.

Description:
The Hñähñu Multimedia Center project consists of creating a multipurpose room to provide technological services using the upper floor of a rural house. The architecture seeks to create a public place to gather people of different ages around its media activities: cyber café, gaming and cell phone services; the program also includes an apartment with independent access, the ground floor housing was wrapped with a lattice as a base for the building.
This work is located in the Ex Hacienda Ocotzá neighborhood in the community called Julian Villagran, Ixmiquilpan municipality, Hidalgo State. This rural settlement in the Mezquital Valley has an indigenous Hñähñu population (Otomí) and has less than a thousand inhabitants, most of them migrants in the United States.
The concept is a terraced gazebo with curtain walls to take advantage of the views and the climate of the valley, the architecture is domed with semi-circular arches in memory of the colonial remains. Experimental construction systems were developed for Catalan vaults, petatillo walls and lattices armed with concrete nodes; hybrid construction mixes artisan masonry with metal structure to integrate cultural themes into the productive life of the inhabitants, this modest destination seeks to put the laggard community on the map to rescue the old hacienda that has not yet been registered.

2020
 

Tabasco Biennale - Best investigation award, Award

This work of investigation was assigned to Porfirio Aldana and was directed by me, we decided to invite Marcos Mejia (RIP) for the Landscape proposal.

2011
 

Sketch competition, 1st Place

We were supposed to draw a building of Piccioto so I sketched in plastic bags, newspaper, envelops and so... for a presentation I made a notebook with the trash I jus did!

1996
 

Alberto Pani Competition - IPN Internal Selection, 1st Place

I designed a modification of the lower label of a building in my university, they choose my drawings to represent IPN at a famous competition in UNAM - Anyway I didn't get a prize in that secod stage.

1996
 

Areas of Specialization 

Skills