Marta Menéndez Suárez, from Oviedo, is a student of project End of Architecture Degree at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra. She has just returned from Amsterdam, where she has done part of her GFP and internship at the Architecture Studio of the University of Navarra. Pass.

 "Being able to do part of the PFG here is a magnificent experience, both professionally and at staff. It is a transition between the student world and the working world that awaits us. In the studio I have met young people, of various nationalities, dynamic, creative and with a lot of enthusiasm to make and build projects in line with the new times. I have dived into the new BIM programs and I have seen and understood their application internship and why they are the future in architecture. I have also actively participated in the interior design design of the low cost line of a well known hotel chain with a worldwide presence", he says.

Every fortnight, the twelve students of the University of Navarra's School of Architecture , who like Marta were in Amsterdam, had a fortnightly meeting with the Projects professor, Luis María Uriarte, at the Bouwkunst Academie, located in the Jewish quarter at the midpoint of a triangle whose vertices are formed by the famous house of the painter Rembrandt, the Portuguese synagogue and the Hermitage Museum. "You can't say that we didn't have a great source of inspiration around us...", says Marta.

"The creation of a generic 'Cultural Babelia' is the basis of our project. The spirit of it pays homage to the Beguines, an ancient association of Christian women active from the 12th century to almost the present day, who dedicated their lives to social and intellectual work. Homage and worship to their spirituality, to their work, to their prayers and to their community life, highlighting their dedication to music, to teaching, to writing, to nursing..., a way of life that has persisted throughout the centuries. Our team has focused on the intellectual side of her work and in her honor we are designing a Media Room /Library Services for the citizens of the city," he says.

"One of the issues that are surprising me the most in the PFG is to see that a project is not something isolated, it is not an experiment, it is something real and therefore requires analyzing the environment, the city and the reason for this action. It raises questions about its location and about the subject of people who will bring it to life, and about their needs. If it will be functional, if it will enrich and contribute to the development of its environment...

In this new conception of project as a whole, I also discover with satisfaction that subjects that were very dry for me at degree program, begin to make sense and bear fruit, and constructive and structural knowledge are revealed as fundamental," he confesses.

International internships

For years, the School has been offering international internships in Amsterdam to the students of project Fin de Degree, which facilitates the approach to the professional world in a global environment. This year, the twelve students of Degree in Architecture have completed internships at Sputnik Architecture, ZZDP ARCHITECTEN, OZ, Pass, Ronald Janssen, MVSA ARCHITECTS, ARCHITECTEN BUREAU K2, NL ARCHITECTS, B+O, ULRICH ARCHITECTUUR and STRUC.