CARME SERRANO
4/77 Blair Street, Bondi Beach NSW 2026, Sydney
AU +61 424 024 963 - EU 659 860 261
hola@carmeserrano.com
Living in Sydney - From Barcelona(Spain)
23 December 1985
Work Experience
March 2017 – Currently
Architect in McGregor Westlake Architects, Sydney.
November 2013 – 2016
Senior Architect in Lusin Architekten office, Berlin. In charge of the design and development of varied projects and coordination of a team in several competitions.
Januay – June 2013
Architect in DesignYougo office, Berlin. Foster’s ex-partners and winners of the Green Good Design Award 2011.
August 2012
Participation in a architecture workshop in Mallorca. Living and working with a team of 9 people in Can Lis of Jorn Utzon, creating a study of experiential maps of the house.
April – September 2011
Internship in the architecture office DesignYougo, Berlin. Foster’s ex-partners and winners of the Green Good Design Award 2011.
October 2010
Participation in a weeklong architecture workshop in Hamburg. Member of a team of 15 people competing against other countries teams, to propose a reconstruction and integration project for the port area of Hamburg.
Summer 2010
Collaborator on a sustainable housing project in Bata, Guinea Equatorial, with the architect Victor Ferrer.
Januay – July 2010
Collaborator on several projects in the architecture office Raimon Salomò Arquitectes, Barcelona.
2010
Teacher of courses on obtaining official title and qualification to woork as a Free Time Supervisor and initiation of the voluntary work. at Adhara School of Education, Barcelona.
2004 – 2009
Substitute Teacher and Instructor of after school activities at the school Escuelas Pías de Sant Antoni, Barcelona.
2003 – 2010
Instructor of summer camps at Colonies Jordi Turull of Escoles Pies of Catalonia. Part of a team of instructores in charge of organizing daily activities for a group of 50 children.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2003 – 2012
Architecture degree at ETSALS, Escola Tècnica i Superior d’Arquitectura La Salle, University Ramón Llull. Barcelona, Spain.
2008 – 2009
Erasmus scholarship (1 year) at the university of architecture Sint- Lucas in Brussels.
2003
Recived official title to work as a Free Time Instructor from the Pere Tarrés training Istitution, Barcelona.
PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
MOTHER TONGUES
SPANISH and CATALAN
OTHER LANGUAGES
ENGLISH Fluent – GERMAN B1
SOCIAL SKILLS
During the Erasmus program in Belgium, and my working time in
Berlin I worked in a multicultural environment and gained experience dealing with different situations.
My participation as a instructor trained me to work in a team and made me comfortable working with people. Working in the different offices has strengthen my teamwork abilities.
The diversity of my work experience has allowed me to interact with the public, train my social skills and develop my aptitude in public relations.
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
In the summer camps I acquired aptitudes for the organization of the activities and coordination of the participants within a
budget.
Leading some of the competitions in Lusin Architekten office experienced me to be productive and efficient within a limited time and deal organizing the work of different people.
The development of real projects made me learn the importance of the organization in the different phases.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Autocad, Microstation, Vectorworks, Photoshop, InDesign, SketchUp, Maxwell, Revit, 3D max, MS office
ARTISTIC SKILLS
5 years at “Memory”, musical theatre school, working artistic aptitudes, acting, dance and music.
2 years of drawing classes at an art school.
Watercolor course.
DRIVING LICENCE
Licenses of driving B1 and motorbyke International.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
HOBBIES: Team Sports, Cinema and Theatre and Traveling.
I enjoy the creative process to develop a project which start with the first sketches and gets extended till the small constructive design. I like the team work, international environment and diversity of interesting jobs that enrich my knowledge and skills.
Architecture is an art with purpose, and the success remain in making a useful design.