Juan Francisco Gil Ballester juanfrancisco@fbarquitectos.com www.fbarquitectos.com/blog +34.615.589.905 Born in 1971 Married with six sons First Certificate English Level Architect by the Technical School of Architecture of Seville in 1998. In 1999 I founded Fortes and Ballester Architects office in C/ Colón 10, San Juan del Puerto (Huelva) Spain, with Samuel Fortes Anillo when we won the competition for the urban planning of Carmen Campus of the University of Huelva. We conducted social housing developments for the Andalucía Goverment, private housing, sport, cultural and industrial buildings. We have also developed urban jobs. Awards In 2012 we received the Award for the Best Building in the XIX Architecture Awards of the Professional Association of Architects of Huelva and in 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2010 the Mention for Best Private Building. Page 1 / 2
Structural Engineering Despite Spanish architects can work as a civil engineering most of them hire this aspect to others engineers. I understand that structures are an intrinsic part of the architectural work and therefore from the beginning of my career I have designed, calculated and conducted all of them. The same goes for the facilities and the energy efficiency of the buildings. Structural Engineering Lecturer During the current year, 2014-2015, I had been hired as a Structures Design and Calculation Lecturer by the University of Huelva, in the Mechanical, Mining and Energetic Engineering Department. Also, in 2014 I worked as a teacher by the EOI Foundation (Ministry of Industry) in a course about Building Innovation. Research In 2013 I published 'New Building Systems' EOI Foundation, ISBN 978-84-15061-47-2 http://www.eoi.es/savia/documento/eoi-80219/nuevos-sistemas-deconstruccion-adaptados-las-necesidades-del-mercado As a result of that research I became an Industrialized and Sustainable Architecture expert. Skills In our office, several years ago, we changed CAD tools from BIM ones, which allow a comprehensive management of the building, creation of infographics and exchanges to other applications. So I work with Allplan, Cinema 4D, Sap2000, VisualFEA (Finite Elements Method), Autocad, Cypecad, Metal3D, Ansys, Presto, Arquímedes, Cype Facilities, Google Sketch-Up + V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Access, and Wordpress Blogging. Page 2 / 2
Juan Francisco Gil Ballester Architect (Structural Engineering) Remarkable works
FOOTBALL FIELD GRANDSTAND WITH CHANGING SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO, HUELVA San Juan del Puerto Town Hall Best Building Award COAH 2012 Galvanized steel frame with screwed joints and steel sheet with concrete slabs.
PRIMARY SCHOOL GYM SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO, HUELVA St. John the Baptist Primary School Award COAH 2009 Concrete frames and light steel frame like Vierendell beams of 12 metres span.
RECEPCION HALL IN SOTO DOLMEN TRIGUEROS, HUELVA Department of Culture of the Andalusian Government Award COAH 2000-2007 Concrete slope walls and slabs made with wooden formwork. INDOOR POOL SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO, HUELVA San Juan del Puerto Town Hall 2010 Concrete frames and laminated timber beams. Concrete walls and slabs in the swimming pool.
HOUSING BUILDING ISLANTILLA, HUELVA AVANCO CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT 2002 Concrete frames and slabs. HOUSING AND UNDERGROUND PARKING BUILDING HUELVA PRASUR, GRUPO PRASA 2005 Concrete frames and concrete walls and slabs in the basement.
SPORTS HALL SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO, HUELVA San Juan del Puerto Town Hall 2004 Steel frames. POOLS COMPLEX SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO, HUELVA San Juan del Puerto Town Hall 2001 Galvanized steel frame with screwed joints and steel sheet and concrete slabs of 6 m protruding length cantilever
CAR PARK BUILDING HUELVA Huelva Town Hall 2002 Two storey tall concrete walls and reticular slabs for a public square. TRUCK REPAIR INDUSTRIAL BUILDING SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO, HUELVA CAMIOSUR 2003 Steel frames and concrete piles foundation.
HOUSING AND UNDERGROUND PARKING BUILDING HUELVA Private Developer 2007 Concrete columns and reticular slabs. Basement building over underground water. CONSTITUTION 1812 BICENTENNIAL MONUMENT CÁDIZ Cádiz Town Hall Competition 2011 Steel tridimensional truss.