Portfolio Architect Carla Ejarque: where you will be able to see my work during my studies and my firsts jobs as an architect.

1. CARLA EJARQUE
PORTFOLIO

3. INDEX
PROJECTS
01. FIXING THE CORNER, BARCELONA
02. UNDERGROUND THERMAL BATH, BUDAPEST
03. AN ART SPACE AT BARCELONAʼS SEAFRONT
04. DISCOVERING THE STREET, EL RAVAL, BCN
05. HOTEL BUDAPEST
06. HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY, POBLENOU, BCN
07. FIND YOUR HOME IN OUR HOME
08. KLAUZAL SQUARE, BUDAPEST
09. MAKING THEIR LIFES LIVEABLE
10. HOUSING IN RAVAL, BCN
11. REFURBISHING OF A FACTORY IN POBLENOU, BCN
12. CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
URBANISM
13. URBAN STRUCTURES
14. A SQUARE OF SQUARES
15. MAKING AN AVENUE
16. DESIGNING A ROAD
17. RENDERING OF A SQUARE OF BARCELONA
18. THE URBAN STRUCTURE OF BCN
19. CREATING A NEIGHBOURHOOD
JOBS
20. PINEARQ, HOSPITALS
21. ARQ, HOUSING AND HOTELS
22. ARP ARQUITECTES, URBANISM
23. DAUSÀ ARQUITECTES, URBANISM AND HOUSING
ARTS
24. CARLAEJARQUE DRAWINGS
25. CARLAEJARQUE CERAMICS

5. 01
This project has de aim to fulfill the
program asked: housing and day activity
centre on the floor plan and to make a
connection between a big street with
high building with the historic centre of
the neighbourhood.
Thatʼs why instead of designing a big
building, the project is divided based on
the program which spreads throughout
the lot.
Therefore, my design repeats the urban
structure of the neighbourhood but
trying to adapt it to a place that faces a
very transcurrent street.
FIXING THE
CORNER,
BARCELONA
2016-2017

10. 02
This project was de design for a thermal
bath at the hills of Budapest during my
Erasmus there.
Budapest is well known for its thermal
baths so I design a very special one, a
trip to the underground waters that
finishes with great views from the city.
U N D E R G R O U N D
THERMAL BATH,
BUDAPEST
2015-2016

13. 03
We had to design a structure for artists
at the seafront of Barcelona. We thought
about a space where artists can hire the
spaces to create having great views of
the Mediterranean Sea. At the same
time, we kept free space so that citizens
can walk through by walk or by bike and
we provided spaces for the city like a
market.
The idea was to recreate a small town
with its streets, market, green areas, etc,
a town where creativity and art surround
the space.
AN ART SPACE AT
BARCELONAʼS SEA-
FRONT
2016-2017

18. 04
DISCOVERING THE
STREET,
EL RAVAL, BCN
Raval neighbourhood is in the core of
Barcelona and itʼs known for its multi-
culturality and the density of people
and buildings that are coexisting.
For this project we need to build
housing in a site which there are
existing buildings.
My project parts from keeping the
existent building and integrating it
with the new construction. The idea of
this project is to create a mini Raval
within the site. The housing modules
are the buildings themselves so that
each flat will have 4 façades, crossed
ventilation, light and different visuals
between the buildings that make
possible the neighboursʼ interactions
from their balconies.
At the same time, the project aims to
create a vivid ground floor full of
shops and activities for the neigh-
bours.
2014-2015
EXISTENT BUILDING
COMBINATION OF THE THREE MODULES
HOLE
+ LIGHT
+ VENTILATION

20. Module 40sqm
This module is
thought to be
organised as its
owner desires.
The facilities are
placed on the
façade next to
the vestibule so
that the rest of
the space is free
to be arranged.
Module 70sqm
This module is
thought to be
organised as its
owner desires.
The facilities are
placed on the
façade next to
the vestibule so
that the rest of
the space is free
to be arranged.
Module 120sqm
This module is the combination
of the 40sqm and 70 sqm
modules. It is thought to be
organised or for big families or
for people who work at home.
Then one of the modules cand
be the workspace and on of
them will have a doble height.
In that way the project is built in
different heights and the
connections between buildings
are more interesting.

21. HOUSING TYPE FLOOR PLAN

22. GROUND FLOOR 3D PLAN

24. 05
For this exercise we had to study
profoundly the geology and the
gradient to find the best itinerary for our
road. There are different possibilities
and all of them need to be taken into
account before deciding which will be
the final route.
We had to connect point C and Cʼ, which
represent two different towns that need
to be connected.
My aims were to design the shortest
road I could and to try to avoid a slope
over 4%.
All decisions came with a necessary
action like changing the landscape
(adding or subtracting land) or
constructing bridges or retaining walls.
HOTEL BUDAPEST
2015-2016

26. 06
HOUSING FOR THE
ELDERLY,
POBLENOU, BCN
In the core of 22@ neighbourhood, in
Barcelona there is a site where a
housing for the elderly will be
constructed. The project needs to
held a dayʼs center placed on the
ground floor and housing.
This project aims to respect its already
built surroundings and the aesthetics
of the neighbourhood. The building
grows in its height when it faces de
most concurrent street which has tall
buildings and it has two floor height
around the shortest existent construc-
tion.
The public spaces are placed on the
ground floor which create a passage,
the most logistic areas and rooms are
placed on the first floor and the
housing is placed on the tallest part of
the building.
SECTION SOUTH-WEST - VIDAL AND VALENCIANO STREET
ELEVATION SOUTH-EST - PERELLÓ STREET
ELEVATION NORTH-EST - JONQUERA STREET
2013-2014

28. THE MODULE
MODULE FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Jonquera Street
PerellóStreet
Vidal and Valenciano Street

29. 07
The idea of the project is to design a
residential community with different
pieces that create an abstract shape of a
traditional house.
The project is divided in three blocs: the
Ujpest HUB, placed in the new central
Ujpest square, an innovation centre for
young generation and two residential
blocs. This is our target, to offer a place
for this young generation that wants to
come back home.
The three blocks are connected through
the green Ujpest avenue, full of shops,
resting places, parks, and green areas
and which also connects with the
marketplace. Both residential blocks
have private courtyards and public
spaces. Block A has two private
courtyards and two vertical public
gardens; block B has a big public
courtyard opened during the day and
closed at night, then it becomes private.
Finally, block C, the block next to the
metro, is the urban block which leads
you to the rest of the project through
the public space.
COME BACK HOME
FIND YOUR HOME
IN OUR HOME
2015-2016

33. 08
Klauzár ter is situated in the heart of the
VI district of Budapest, a very busy area
full of activities and movement.
Nowadays, people use the square which
means that the functions placed are
working, even though the square is
much closed to itself and it is full of
limits and bad connections. This is why
we want to keep the actual functions but
improving the accessibility and the
visual connections between the different
spaces.
The square is composed by three
platforms and each one contains
different functions, the actual ones and
some new related to the environment of
the district.
KLAUZAL SQUARE,
BUDAPEST
2015-2016
GROUND FLOOR UNDERGROUND FLOOR

35. 09
This task was really important for my
team and we learnt a lot.
This project was part of a bigger project
called: family architects, which consisted
in making liveable peopleʼs apartments
that were struggling.
We walked around El Raval, a neigh-
bourhood with many housing problems
trying to find someone who might get
us in their apartments to make a free
refurbishing plan. It was hard to find
someone who let us in but we manage
to find a building where we could study
three different cases. The team was
formed by 12 people, 3 groups of 4
people would study each case and then
we would think about a solution for the
entire building.
We talked with them, we listened to their
needs and then we design a solution
plan for them that we handed in.
It was the first time that we could really
feel what means designing for the
people.
MAKING THEIR LIFES
LIVEABLE
2014-2015
Dolors is 81 and she has always lived in her flat.
She thinks the neighbourhood has improved but
she doesnʼt like the clear division that Raval has
due to immigration.
She goes outside every day for just 2h with one
girl that takes care of her because she has
problems walking and going down the steep
staircase.
Her flat is really big but she just uses one quarter
of it. he doesnʼt want to live alone so she like the
idea of having a young student living with her.
Yolanda doesnʼt like to say where she lives
because she thinks people might think badly of
her once they know she lives on the street known
as the prostitution street. She is used to the
violence that surrounds the neighbourhood. She
arrived to Spain when she was just 3 and since
her mom died, she takes cares of his father, the
house and her pets.
She would really love to have the flat refurbished.
Azahara is a young student that has lived at Raval
for a year and a half.
She feels comfortable at her flat where she rents
a room, but mostly she spends all day outside.
Sometimes she shares de bedroom with her
boyfriend but they donʼt have a lot of space.
She doesnʼt know any of her neighbours.

36. PLAN FLOOR - DOLORS
PLAN FLOOR - YOLANDA
PLAN FLOOR - AZAHARA
ACTUAL PLAN FLOORS

38. REFURBISHING AZAHARA’S FLAT
SECTION A-A’REFURBISHEDSECTION A-A’TODAY
The bathroom is very small, dark and without
ventilation.
Make the livingroom an open space and get rid
of the spaces she doesn’t use to make space for
the ones she needs.
SECTION B-B’REFURBISHEDSECTION B-B’TODAY
There are many shattered small places that
are not used. A very fragmented flat.
We open the space so it gets more light and it
can be polivalent.
SECTION C-C’REFURBISHEDSECTION C-C’TODAY
Dark bedroom and with lack of ventilation. There is one room without any purpose but it
has a window that faces outside, therefore it
can be a small terrace for the bedroom.

39. REFURBISHING DOLORS’FLAT

40. 10
Raval neighbourhood is in the core of
Barcelona and it is known for its multi-
culturality and the density of people
and buildings that are coexisting.
For this project we need to build
housing in a site which there are
existing buildings, a parking lot and
some ground floor shops.
My project parts from repeating the
existence urban structure: housing
close to each other. The access to
each house has a different corridor or
terrace, like Walden. Therefore, terrac-
es are shared with the rest of the
neighbours.
At the same time, the project aims to
create a vivid ground floor full of
shops and activities for the neigh-
bours and offices.
HOUSING IN RAVAL,
BCN
2014-2015

41. GROUND FLOOR

46. 11
The refurbishment of this factory will
bring a new artistic area in the city, with
studios for artists, a big exposition room
and public space.
The project is structured with to long
bodies that maintain the existing
structure from the old factory and in
between them a new connector has
been built to place the staircase and the
elevator.
Finally, the pavement of the public space
shows the structure of the old buildings
that were at this site.
REFURBISHING OF A
FACTORY IN POBLE-
NOU, BCN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
2012-2013

47. 12
In this exercise from University, I had to
draw the construction details of a past
project of my own (project number 6).
So that I could design and make the
necessary changes of my previous
design and make sure itʼs realistic.
I chose one of my firsts building designs
from college and I realized that from the
idea to the construction of itself you
may need to change some of the initial
aesthetics to achieve the construction
details needs.
CO N S T R U C T I O N
DETAILS
2013-2014

49. 13
This was one of the first urbanistic
projects that I had to do. I had to distin-
guish the different urban structures that
can be found in my town and to choose
a different way for each to be represent-
ed. In that way, I made a urban plan
where all its urban structures can be
identified easily.
So, on this page we have the plan of
Sant Just Desvern, which is a town very
close to Barcelona and on the next page
we have Vilanova i la Geltrú, a 40
minutesʼ drive from Barcelona.
URBAN
STRUCTURES
2013-2014

51. 14
Squares are essential urban spaces
within cites because they are common
places where people gather together,
communicate other public places and
they held special events.
This project is based in a town which
doesnʼt have a proper urbanistic design.
Thatʼs why this exercise aims to bring to
the citizens of the town a place to gather
and a new heart for the town.
The aim of the project is to get a great
and flat space within a very graded
geography. Different ramps may the
connexions for the different spaces
possible.
The connexion of the existence green
with the project is really important too
and it is getting more present around
the natural area that surrounds the
space.
The different designed spaces are
marked and explained on the ground
plan.
A SQUARE OF
SQUARES
Football field
Skate and bikes area
Parking
Market
Green area
Wall of stairs, theater
Polivalent area
Dogs area
Children area

52. 15
Nowadays, our big cities are crowded
with people and therefore, the
surroundings have grown very fast,
having the housing spread without an
urban action that connects these areas.
There is just the right urbanisation to
make sure citizens can access to their
houses but public areas and parks are
still needed.
Thatʼs why this project is based on one
town that has grown that fast that it
doesnʼt have any green areas, just
empty sites.
The exercise consists in designing an
avenue that gather together the citizens
that live along it.
Along this avenue, people will find
different facilities related to sports,
gardening, children, bars, walking areas,
and a bike lane.
MAKING AN
AVENUE
SECTION A-A’
SECTION B-B’
SECTION H-H’
SECTION F-F’
2014-2015

54. 16
For this exercise we had to study
profoundly the geology and the
gradient to find the best itinerary for our
road. There are different possibilities
and all of them need to be taken into
account before deciding which will be
the final route.
We had to connect point C and Cʼ, which
represent two different towns that need
to be connected.
My aims were to design the shortest
road I could and to try to avoid a slope
over 4%.
All decisions came with a necessary
action like changing the landscape
(adding or subtracting land) or
constructing bridges or retaining walls.
DESIGNING A ROAD
2014-2015
2014-1015

56. 17
I had to choose a square I liked from Barcelona and
I built it in 3D with Sketchup. After that, I designed
a sculpture and I place it in the middle of the
square. Then I had ti design the upper floor of the
buildings and finally I had installed the lightning.
Once the entire 3D was built I did the render, one
in daylight and the other at night.
RENDERING OF A SQUARE
OF BARCELONA
2013-1014

57. 18
This task was one of the first urbanistic
tasks I have ever done.
We had to distinct the different urban
structures that coexist in Barcelona and
we had to study them. I learnt quite a lot
and it was a very important task because
we learnt all we have to know about
urbanism and the different calculation
you have to take into account when you
plan a new neighbourhood, for exam-
ple.
Therefore, we had to implement
everything learnt in this task on the
future tasks we were asked.
THE URBAN STRUC-
TURE OF BCN
2012-2013

59. 19
This task was really demanding, we had
to design an entire neighbourhood
giving a specific building coefficient.
Not only did we have to make sure we
built the number of housing regarding
this coefficient but also, we had to think
of the ground floor, green areas and all
the specific facilities that a new neigh-
bourhood must have: school, sports
centre, etc.
Moreover, we had to design the
housing, having had 6 different urban
structures in this new neighbourhood it
was really demanding to design how
was the housing inside too.Neverthe-
less, we could put into practice all the
knowledge learnt throughout the years.
CREATING A NEIGH-
BOURHOOD
2014-2015

63. 20
PINEARQ is an award-winning interna-
tional company, specialized in the devel-
opment of complex facilities for the
health sciences, with presence and
projects in more than 15 countries in
America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Pinearq projects are typified by being
centred on the creation of humanised
high technology spaces. This practice
has been the fruit of continued research
into new methods and involvement in
various teaching programs.
I built the 3d modelling of a hospital in
Arabia Saudi with 6 more people with
Sketchup. Also, I work on plan floors
making them more attractive for
architectonic contests.
PINEARQ,
HOSPITALS
2015-2016

64. 21
At this Studio I oversaw the rendering, and I made more
attractive floor plans and graphics, so that clients would
already imagine themselves living there. As it was a small
studio, I could do different things and I worked aside the main
architect.
ARQ,
HOUSING AND HOTELS
2014-2015

65. 22
23
ARP architects are a couple specialized in urbanism. I was able
to visit the sites with them, so I could see the work from the
beginning. I oversaw the rendering and the section urban
plans.
ARP ARQUITECTES,
URBANISM
2015-2016
Dausà architects is a small studio of my village, Sant Feliu de
LLobregat. I did the rendering for specific projects; I was a
casual worker. My first very first job related to architecture.
DAUSÀ ARQUITECTES,
URBANISM AND HOUSING
2014-2015

66. 24CARLAEJARQUE
DRAWINGS

68. 25
During my Erasmus I discovered pottery
and since then I kept learning and
practising every day. I got obsessed,
with the materials, with the thousands of
techniques you can use and researching
glazes.
I enrolled a contemporary ceramics
bachelor and I bought everything
needed to have a ceramic studio: kiln,
potter wheel and raw materials to make
glazes.
I can say I truly discovered my passion.
CARLAEJARQUE
CERAMICS