PE, founder and director of Pure Expeditions (PE). Born in Madrid (Spain), PE is an adventurer architect, enthusiastic tour and mountain guide, and practitioner of Raja Yoga meditation with more than 20 years of experience, presently living in India.
1. Architecture Experience
PE graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (2000) with an Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part II). Having also completed a AAIntermediate (RIBA Part I) from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, he continued with his doctoral courses and research at Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM).
He has later developed extensive teaching activity in the Area of Architectural Projects. He has been a Projects Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogotá (Colombia), assistant professor for Final Degree Projects at Polytechnic University of Madrid in the area of cooperation, and an invited professor to other national and international Universities like CEPT School of Architecture in Ahmedabad (India).
Within his professional career, highlights are the design work carried out at the Studio of Pierandrei Associati in Milan, disciples of Renzo Piano (2001); the Studio of Andrés Perea (2005-09) in Madrid working in social housing projects and competitions. In 2007 the team won the first prize for the construction of 114 dwellings in Torrejón de Ardóz in Madrid. Pe coordinated all the engineering consultants, and as a project manager, supervised the whole construction process on site. Since then he has worked as an independent freelance architect .
Pedro has been a consultant for several companies in the area of construction, such as the promoter Terraplan and their contractor, The Metropolitan Gardens, in Germany. As a partner of Capital Tower Investments, he has been supervising land purchase and the viability of architectural projects to be developed by Alioth Funds Real Estate in Spain.
2. Teaching Experience
The recession in Europe, allowed PE to further immerse himself in the theoretical realm and abstract world of the ideas, while teaching and supporting students to experiment in Spain and Colombia. He facilitated this methodology, he had learned from Martha LaGuess (Harvard). Together, they would research and experiment with the relationship between ideas and materials, in search for a coherent and continuous order that related both and their parts, the self and the world.
In Bogotá, PE was further integrated in an urban workshop of a prestigious Colombian University, directed by Ioannis. The objective was to work with another team of specialised docents and a large group of students; designing – by teams – the “Utopian City of the Future”.
Pe’s role as a teacher was to facilitate what they called a ‘technology component’ that embraced philosophical issues required for a change of consciousness towards a harmonious society to be constructed. The different components of the workshop included urbanism, ecological, aesthetics, and construction were integrated into the larger collective for this urban design workshop. We started with analysis of the existing urban systems including transport, environmental of the City of Bogota.
We did an analysis of these two issues that generate a new transport and ecological system. Later we super imposed the housing and comercial typologies so that the three systems joined into a one single system – a macro-architecture. A new higher order is plugged into the the existing urban fabric to resolve and articulate the previously fragmented system.
The result was a systemic macro-architecture which integrated both transport and environmental systems to the architecture and housing typologies, thereby connecting at a larger scale the City to other larger scale systems in the territory and the world.
In 2006 till today, PEsuccessfully established an exchange program between Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain and CEPT University of Ahmedabad, India. The exchange program, between India and Spain is first of its type between the two countries. The objective was to initiate and build links and while gaining the forgotten ancestral and spiritual knowledge in the area of academics and architecture. This program has led, to final year projects that are outstanding in their academic level and have also developed into professional.
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3. Research philosophy
As a student in London, we were thought how to think and research. At the Architectural Association (AA), Pe felt blessed to study with amazing teachers Harvard University, their profound knowledge and sense of spirituality led him to the realisation of the spiritual sphere of the soul.
This, was the beginning of an awakening which then developed into a visionary research project, an experimental animation, ‘An Analogy Between Light and Rotation’,
that explored the relationship between: 1. the third eye and the sun, 2. the material and the metaphysical, and 3. the realisation between the part and the whole (1 -Infinite).
Little ‘Crystal’ sees herself in Big ‘Crystal’. The two finally connect, and find to be both the same, at different scales.
Through this exploration, in year 2000, Pe had the ‘vision’ of the galaxy and developed an interior space very similar to the Matrimandir of Auroville, where every one would realise their relationship All.
In the center of this space, which is both a torus and a womb, there was the a blond girl, were in the Matrimandir of Auroville is located nowadays a spherical crystal. She is there, in this central position, in the center of the World, which is also the Center of the Universe, underneath a ray of solar and divine light. She is the relationship between one and all. Who is she and what is her role?
song ‘Believe in Me’ by Blue Solar
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4. Personal and other multidisciplinary interests, as a a Travel Experience Architect and Travel Designer.
PE organised his first mayor expedition to Perú, as a coordinator of the 2012 Spanish Expedition to the Huascarán, the5th highest mountain in South America: The Huascarán (6768m). Since then, he has been working as a guide in the realm of architecture. In 2016 he graduated as a mountain guide from the Mountaineering School of Benasque (MEB), in the heart of the Pyrenees, and then continued working as a guide for Geographica, as the person specialised in South America, specifically in Peru and Colombia.
As an Experience Designer, PE is responsible for the organisation of the different types of tours for those travel agencies, and as an independent freelancer, for Pure Expeditions.
He normally comes personally with the groups as both, guide and a group leader ❤️🙏🏻✨✨
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