Researcher & Doctoral Candidate
Renato D'Alençon Castrillón
dalenconcastrillon@tu-berlin.de
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Curriculum Vitae
Renato D'Alençon Castrillón has been a researcher and lecturer at the Habitat Unit since 2011, and was a guest lecturer between 2008 and 2011. He graduated as an architect from the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, and received a Master of Architecture from Cornell University. He was awarded a Fulbright Grant from 2002 – 2004 to pursue his master's and a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst grant to pursue a PhD Degree in the Technische Universität Berlin, starting 2008. He has taught Design Studios and Building Technology at the Universidad Católica de Chile and has been Guest Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, at the University of Chile and at the Technical University of Berlin, where he currently teaches design studios and research seminars.
His field of scholarly work includes environmental design and performance of buildings. These areas were the focus of his book 'Acondicionamientos' (Ediciones ARQ, Santiago 2008) as well as several articles. The recovery and development of heritage building systems, an area which was the focus of the book 'Eingewanderte Baumeister' (DOM Publishers, Berlin 2013) and a number of other published were the product of his research in the field of construction history and the project Reclaiming Heritage. Habitability in social housing and informal settlements is an area in which he has published several articles, including 'Habitability Parameters and Standards in Dwellings: Contesting technical objectivity in the context of slum management and housing provision in Chile' (In: Alfaro et.al Eds. Lateiname Lateinamerikanische Städte im Wandel. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2011).
He is a founding member of RedINVECA, Network of Chilean Researchers in Germany; a member of HCS, History of Construction Society: and member of WSSET, World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies.
2008 – 2015
Doctorate of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.), TU Berlin
(Thesis) Mechanical Systems / Passive Envelopes: An integrative architectural approach in Germany, 1993-2008. (Supervisors: Prof. Rainer Hascher, Prof. Dr. Peter Herrle).
2002 – 2004
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Cornell University
(Thesis) Some Assembly required: Parts, processes and social housing in Chile. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Val Warke, Prof. Dr. Phoebe Sengers).
1986 – 1993
Licenciatura en Arquitectura y Título de Arquitecto, Escuela de Arquitectura, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
(Thesis) Teatro de Bolsillo en Barrio Lastarria, Santiago. (Supervisor: Prof. Hernán Riesco Grez).
2011 – 2016
Researcher and Lecturer
Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
2008 – 2011
Visiting Lecturer
Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
2002 – 2009
Assistant Professor (Profesor Asistente)
Escuela de Arquitectura, P. Universidad Católica de Chile
1997 – 2002
Instructor
Escuela de Arquitectura, P. Universidad Católica de Chile
2008 – 2015
Doctoral Dissertation
Mechanical Systems / Passive Envelopes: An integrative architectural approach in Germany, 1993-2008. (Supervisors: Prof. Rainer Hascher, Prof. Dr. Peter Herrle).
2012 – 2014
Constructores Inmigrantes
CNCA Fund. Transferencia de Alemania a Chile / Eingewanderte Baumeister: Architekturtransfer zwischen Deutschland und Chile
2009 – 2011
Carriers of Space patterns and Construction Types: German Architecture and Migration in Chile, 1852-1875. CNCA Fund.
2008
PUC - Congreso de Chile: Parameters and Standards for habitability. Propuestas de Políticas Públicas para el Bicentenario 2008. Research responsible
2011 – 2015
Supervision: RECLAIMING HERITAGE. Initiative for post - catastrophe reconstruction with reclaimed materials. Habitat Unit, TU Berlin (International Competition Haiti Ideas Challenge ACSA-USAid, Housing Prize 2011. TIBES Stipendium, Carmen Gómez-Maestro, 2013)
2008 – 2015
Master and Bachelor Thesis Supervisor, Architecture Studios and Research Seminar Courses, Habitat Unit, TU-Berlin
2014
Milan International Architecture Workshop MIAW 2014, Scuola di Architettura e Società, Politecnico di Milano, Milan.
2004 – 2007
Diploma Thesis Supervisor, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile
Lecture Course: Building and Technologies: Integrated Building Systems (Edificación y Tecnologías: Instalaciones y Sistemas Integrales). P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile
2006
Architecture Studio, Fachgebiet Konstruktives Entwerfen u. Klimagerechtes Bauen. Prof. Hascher, TU-Berlin
2005
Architecture Studio, International Chair on Timber (Cátedra Internacional de la Madera 2005), TU-Helsinki (with Arch. Pekka Heikkinen)
Books
with Federico Rota (2015) Heritage and Catastrophe: Prevention, Emergency, Restoration and Transformation in 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake. Universitätsverlag TU-Berlin, Berlin.
with Francisco Prado García (2014) Eingewanderte Baumeister: Architekturtransfer zwischen Deutschland und Chile / Constructores Inmigrantes: Transferencias de Alemania a Chile. DOM Publishers, Berlin.
(2008) Acondicionamientos: Arquitectura y Técnica. Ediciones ARQ, Santiago.
Book contributions
with Francisco Prado (2013) Immigrant Master Builders: Architecture. Transfer between Germany and Chile 1852-1875. In: Falser and Juneja, Kulturerbe und Denkmalpflege transkulturell. Transcript Verlag.
with Catalina Justiniano, Francisca Márquez and Claudia Valderrama (2011) Habitability Parameters and Standards in Dwellings: Contesting technical objectivity in the context of slum management and housing provision in Chile. In: Alfaro P., Imilan, Sánchez, L., Lateinamerikanische Städte im Wandel: Zwischen lokaler Stadtgesellschaft und globalem Einfluss. Lit Verlag.
with Carlos Aguirre, Catalina Justiniano and Francesca Faverio (2007) Participación, habilitación social y auto-construcción: ampliaciones de viviendas sociales dinámicas sin deuda 1906-2006. In: Castillo and Hidalgo, 100 Años de Política de vivienda en Chile. Ediciones Universidad Andrés Bello.
Refereed articles
with Claudio Vásquez and Felipe Encinas (2015, forthcoming) Office Building in Santiago: What are we doing from the point of view of energy consumption? ARQ, (89).
(2011) Fachadas transparentes: sistemas activos y pasivos. Cuadernos de la Técnica 2011, (1).
(2008) El Espacio Acústico. Cuadernos de la Técnica 2008, (2).
with Rodrigo Booth and Felipe Kramm (2006) Reconstrucción en Tarapacá: Terremotos, Emergencia y Patrimonio Construido. Revista de la Construcción 5, (1).
with María P. Rosso, Leonardo Munoz and Marcos Araya (2004) Remodelación Eje La Matriz, Valparaíso, Chile. Escala 199, (40).
with Jorge Iglesis and Leopodo Prat (2002) Edificio Consistorial Municipalidad de Antofagasta. CA: Revista Oficial del Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile, (110).
with Jorge Iglesis and Leopodo Prat (2001) Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias. CA: Revista Oficial del Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile, (104).
Other articles and publications
with Reclaiming Heritage Team (2013) Reconstruction and Incremental Architecture - Reclaiming Heritage. Trialog: Journal for Planning and Building in a Global Context, (112-113).
with Luis Beltrán Del Río (2011) Reclaiming Heritage Project: the Case of Chanco. de / design exchange (88).
(2006) Bautraditionen im Erdbebengebiet. TU-Berlin International (58).
(2006) Minimal Living Unit. Puurakentamisen Studio Santiago de Chilessä. PUU, (1).
(2005) Tres preguntas para arquitectos. ARQ, (61).
Conference proceedings
with Claudio Vásquez and Felipe Encinas (2014) Characterization of a Baseline for Energy Consumption in Office Buildings in Santiago, Chile, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy, Geneva: Fachhochschule Westschweiz.
(2014) Processos habitacionais e qualidade: avaliação e potenciais do Sistema Habitacional Chileno, Proceedings Soluções para urbanização do território do bem, Vitoria: LabTAR UFES.
with Francisco Prado, Daniel Korwan and Johanna Moser (2012) Traces of construction practices following migration: Transverse Gable, Massive Timber and Carpenters Marks in the houses of the 19th Century German settlers in southern Chile, Proceedings 4th International Congress on Construction History, Paris: Picard.
with Francisco Prado and felipe Kramm (2010) Arquitectura alemana en el sur de Chile: Importación y desarrollo de patrones tipológicos espaciales y constructivos, Actas del X Congreso Internacional de Rehabilitación del Patrimonio Arquitectónico: Nuevas perspectivas y dimensiones del patrimonio, Santiago: CICOP Chile.
(2009) Integration of Active and Passive Systems in Glass Façades, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, Aachen: University of Duisburg-Essen.
with Lara Nobel and Jonas Fischer (2009) Migration of Sustainable Construction, Foreign influence and expertise in Chile 1989 – 2004, Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction Histor, Cottbus: Neunplus
with Catalina Justiniano, Francisca Márquez and Claudia Valderrama (2008) Habitability Parameters and Standards: for an extended definition of quality in Housing in Chile, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, Seoul, Korea: KIAE, Korea Institute of Ecological Architecture and Environment.
(2007) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. Santiago, Universidad Católica de Chile.
Conference panel chairs
(2007) 6th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, SET, Santiago.
(2014) Reclaiming Heritage: Haiti, Milan International Architecture Workshop MIAW 2014, Scuola di Architettura e Società, Politecnico di Milano, Milan.
2008 – 2012
DAAD CONICYT Scholarship
awarded for Doctoral Studies at TU-Berlin
2006
CRUCH DAAD Scientific Exchange Program Scholarship 2006
awarded for a stay at TU-Berlin
2002 – 2004
FULBRIGHT MECESUP Scholarship
awarded for Master Studies at Cornell University
WSSET
World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies
HCS
History of Construction Society
ACSA
Association of Collegiate Schools of architecture
RedINVECA
Network of Chilean Researchers in Germany
Reclaiming Heritage
Supervision
EES2015
Red INVECA Symposium on Energy, Efficiency and Sustainability, EES 2015
Curatorial work
Nomad City: Ger Settlements in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Exhibition: 'Weltstadt: who makes the city'. Deutsche Architektur Zentrum DAZ and Goethe Institut, Berlin, 2014 (with Olivia Kümmel and Philipp Misselwitz)