I am an architect with experience in urban design, social infrastructure, and multisectoral coordination in vulnerable and diverse contexts. My work spans public programs, heritage recovery, and participatory projects across Peru’s urban and rural territories. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Human Settlements at KU Leuven, with main focus on sustainability, landscape urbanism, and development policy in the Global South. My practice integrates design, governance, and equity to propose context-sensitive solutions that strengthen communities and their environments.
SELECTED WORKS
HOUSING & URBAN RENEWAL
HUMEDALES DE ITE BRUSSELS CANAL
MY SEEK PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC
Growth, Inequality and Infrastructure
The challenge of intervine with appropiate basic infrastructure. The growth of the population with the lack of planning of our cities and territories at the national level translate into a quantitative and qualitative deficit of schools, housing and public transport that contribute to the socio-economic inequality of the population.
Community and territory
How to contribute and generate community in the territory? How to intervene in built and unbuilt environments where social and economic precariousness prevails? How to take into account the various heterogeneous and intrinsic variables of the place, such as geographical diversity, historical heritage or unplanned urban growth?
Urban and Ecological diseconomy as an opportunity
The city of Lima is one of the cities in Latin America with the highest urban inequality. How can we intervene in these degraded urban areas? Can it be used as a starting point for the implementation of urban planning strategies combined with tactical urbanism projects that contribute to the city?
Modularity and Identity
How to design and develop state projects under a modular proposal as a replicable, scalable and adaptable strategy and in the same time contribute to the identity of the place in a context of geographical and social diversity in Perú?
Living and Housing
In the architecture discipline, the housing problem is one of the most relevant yet, one of the least attended and understood. The housing problem in Lima and Peru is structural and extraordinarily complex and cannot be approached from established prejudices
HCMC: METROPOLITAN PARK
Advanced Master of Human Settlements LANSCAPE URBANISM STUDIO
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2025
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BRUSSELS CANAL
MS.c Human Settlements URBAN FABRIC STUDIO
Brussels, Belgium 2024
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WETLAND OF ITE
SEMILLAS para el Desarrollo Sostenible NGO + Atelier of Architecture
Tacna, Perú 2024
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MODULAR SCHOOLS
National Education Infrastructure Program PRONIED
Amazon Region, Perú 2021/2023
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HOUSING & URBAN RENEWAL
Programme for the Recovery of the Historic Centre of Lima - PROLIMA
Historic center of Lima, Lima, Perú 2020/2021
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05 SAI-GON CENTRAL PARK
METROPOLITAN PARK SYSTEM
Following an intensive fieldwork, the project begins with physically exploring Thanh Da Island’s fragile ecology of aquaculture ponds and low-lying agricultural fields, threatened from rapid urbanization.
Positioned within a 100 x100 km floormap, the design imagined the island as an ecological connector, linking the 3 systems of South Can-Gio mangrove forest, Saigon’s fragmented riverfronts, and peri-urban productive landscapes.
The main idea lies in preserving the core of the island as a metropolitan park by reforesting a mangrove buffer on the periphery - for water retention and remediation and biodiversity reconstruction - and preserving the productive center, with a dyke separating the human and non-human. At the same time, a “barcode” urbanism was introduced in order to integrate development along blue-green corridors and transform the river into a democratized connector through public riverfront spaces and a car-free water transport system. Special focus was given in 2 key areas on the west and north edge, investigating the overlapping of tropical landscape and high density urbanism in a 1:500 scale transect and site plan.
Human Settlements Advanced Master Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Faculty of Engineering Science
Urban diseconomy as an opportunity
Academic Design Studio Year Spring Semester 2025
Scale Metropolitan Location Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Programme Director: Prof. Kelly Shannon
Proffesors: Nhung Pham Team
Antonella Vizcarra
Dimitrios Ziogkas Santiago Ocampo
*Metropolitan park system design. _ developed the historic territorial analysis. _ designing in section. _ drawing. _ 3D, rendering images and presentation. _handmade model.
THANH DA : SITE ANALYSIS
Originally a meander of the Saigon River, this area was transformed into an island following the construction of a canal bypass. Today, it stands as the largest open space on the river’s right bank, characterized by lush garden clusters and serene lotus and fishing ponds. The urban fabric blends a significant 1970s social housing development with historical elements, including a dinh—a communal structure over a century old, deeply rooted in Vietnamese cultural heritage.
WORKFIELD
Photo documentation
Thanh Da
Built vs Unbuilt Boundary
Human vs Non-Human
Riverfront Democratization & Barcode Urbanism
Blue-Green Floodplain Network
PERSPECTIVE SECTION C 1:100
PLAN 1:100
TRANSECT C 1:500
04 BRUSSELS CANAL: FROM INDUSTRY TO LIVING LANDSCAPES
URBAN TISSUE STUDIO
Production was all but erased from the city and left the industrial fabric in desolation for decades. However, today, this industrial fabric, with its rough image and a wide-variety of scales and characters not present elsewhere in the Brussels region, has the capacity to host a new urbanity anchored on its unique spatial structures.
Our vision for the site aims to break the dichotomy between living and productive activities by mediating a gradient of nature, open spaces, public functions and collectivity, bringing a solution to the existing housing problem. This new environment introduces an intermediate scale between the fragmented industrial and housing tissues.
Human Settlements Advanced Master Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Faculty of Engineering Science
Living and housing
Academic Design Studio
Year
Winter Semester 2024
Scale
Urban scale design and planning Location
Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, BE
Programme Director: Prof. Kelly Shannon
Professors: Mircea Munteanu
Thomas Willemse
Annelies De Nijs
Gemma Annear
Team
Antonella Vizcarra Chenyu Yang
Dimitrios Ziogkas
Santiago Ocampo
*Urban design and new ways of living. _ part of the urban and landscape design proposal team. _ drawings. _ 3D, rendering images and presentation.
EXISTING: MAPPING OF THE URBAN FRAGMENTS
During the fieldwork we witnessed the lack of connection between the canal and the city with fences and congested streets working as urban barriers. Consequently, two separate types of Urban fabric were dominant the linear closed Housing block and the large productive Block.
PROPOSAL: CONNECTING THE FRAGMENTS
Facing the discontinuity of urban fabric in large scale, we analyzed the condition inside the blocks where the fight between the PRODUCTIVE and housing fabrics take place.
There, the interaction of the fragments with green private coutyards, intermediate scales, public parks, intermediate functions, open space and temporary uses unexpectedly create opportunity for urban continuity.
SECTION A-A
HOUSING PROPOSAL - TYPE 02 NEED TO BE COLLECTIVE
RETHINKING COLLECTIVE LIVING
GROUNDFLOOR PLAN
KEY PLAN
The proposal envisions a neighborhood where residents, including artists, workers, and students, embrace collective living through two types of communal spaces: open ground-floor areas like gathering spaces and a lilies garden linked to sports and office facilities, and rooftop amenities like a garden, library, and kitchen connected by bridges. Housing typologies range from small studios to large collective apartments, with communal facilities architecturally expressed through multi-height spaces and distinct facades. This is how they NEED to be collective.
LILLIES GARDEN
NEED TO BE COLLECTIVE
LIVE AND WORK COLLECTIVELY
ARCHITECTURAL TYPOPLOGIES
CAN BE COLLECTIVE
WANT TO BE COLLECTIVE
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WETLAND OF ITE
SEMILLAS Association - NGO Living
The aim is to elaborate an integral project for the Ite Wetlands located in southern Peru, the second largest wetland in Latin America. To this end, carried out research on wetlands in the world and related projects, a diagnosis of the territory of Ite and of the wetland area to finally present the first guidelines of the proposal.
This information will serve as a basis to develop the design of a master plan that manages the wetlands in a sustainable way and that takes into account all the actors involved in the architectural proposal.
Professional Experience
Role
Architect and Design
Year
2024
Scale
Large-scale landscape design and public facilities
Location
Tacna, Perú
Team Leader
Marta Maccaglia & Giulia Perri
Team
Antonella Vizcarra
Isabella Gonzáles
Jahir Velezmoro
Jimena Gonzáles
Sofia Scalisi
*Community driven design and technical package. _ participatory workshops with the local community. _fieldwork insights into conceptual and technical design. _development of technical files.
Semillas para el Desarrollo Sostenible Association
C1
C1
C1 FAUNA
ENTRANCE TO THE PROJECT
Illustraition View
Community and Territory
02 MODULAR EMERGENCY SCHOOLS
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF PERU
As part of the national strategies to reduce the educational infrastructure backlog and guarantee basic living conditions, the Ministry of Education through the National Programme of Educational Infrastructure (PRONIED) has been allocating Prefabricated Modules to different urban and rural areas as emergency schools. The prefabricated modular system is a replicable, scalable and flexible solution to geographical diversity. There is a catalogue of versatile prefabricated modules that can be assembled according to pedagogical requirements and bioclimatic conditions, and can be moved quickly. They can replace all or part of a school building.
I have been able to develop emergency schools and complementary educational infrastructures. In addition, I have been able to develop and design Modular Schools in wood, promoting the responsible use and local trade of wood in the Peruvian Amazon.
PRONIED - National Programme of Educational infrastructure
Modularity and identity
Professional Experience
Role
Architect and Co-Leader Project
Year
2021-2023
Scale
Territorial Modular Architecture
Location
Perú
Coordinator Team: Alan Martell Team
Antonella Vizcarra
Alexander Alberca
Angel Galindo
Carlos Herrera
Carol Reque
Elizabeth Zuloaga
Maria Pardini
Oscar Becerra
*Modular emergency schools design and development. _ design of modular wood schools in collaboration with local carpenters and forestry services _coordinated with engineers for prefabrication feasibility and bioclimatic adaptations. _integration of local construction practices into scalable national design guideline _ drawings. _ 3D, rendering images and presentation.
LACK OF SCHOOLS IN PERÚ
STUDENTS WITHOUT BASIC NEEDS
In Peru, more than 4700 educational institutions have deteriorated infrastructure
MODULARES
2'772,296
Students
Modular Schools is a project in the framework of Provisional Facilities, Modular and Integral Modular and Integral for educational institutions in rural areas at the Pre-school and Primary levels. Unidocentes and Multigrados of up to 03 classrooms
2'364,020
Students
ESCUELAS
REPLICABLE + SCALABLE + FLEXIBLE
Modular system solution which takes into account the different
An infrastructure kit is a package of components that a school needs for the development of its activities, adapting to the specific local needs with the same system. A kit includes the prefabricated module, furniture, connectors, equipment and alternative systems for water, sanitation, prefabricated kitchens and energy according to the requirements of each school premises.
SUSTAINABLE
Peru has 74 million hectares of natural forests with different timber species in the Amazon. We are aware of the difficulty of travelling and take advantage of local resources and the benefits of using certified wood as a construction material, promoting the productive development of the territory in a sustainable manner and reinterpreting and revaluing local architecture and knowledge.
Escuelas Modulares Amazonian region
Production Forest
Cross ventilation and floor elevation
Top outlet for hot air and hot air and light intake
CIMENTACIÓN PREFABRICADA
Protection against heavy rainfall
ESTRUCTURA DE MADERA
PANELES DE MADERA
AULA
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HOUSING & URBAN RENEWAL PLAN: HISTORIC CENTER OF LIMA
METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY OF LIMA
As part of the urban renewal strategies for implementing the Master Plan for the Historic Center of Lima, the housing recovery is proposed as a crucial intervention course. It aims to avoid the museification, touristification, and over-commercialization of the urban space and tackle the precarious living conditions in the historic collective housing tissues. Therefore, we proposed a collective housing bank in strategic lots that overpass the 1500m2 to raise the profitability of the projects so it can be attractive to private investment. The proposal includes a commerce socle adjacent to the streets, collective use spaces, and interior public plazas that work as an articulator in between the urban and the housing scale.
Utilizing this invaluable opportunity, I proposed and improved the architectural and urban design methodologies I applied in my thesis and the Historic Center of Lima, a more complex and delicate socio-urban context. This methodology is in constant improvement. The next step for this project consists of finding a way to include the beneficiaries of this housing policy in the process to help co-create their way of living.
PROLIMA - Programme of the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima
Professional Experience
Role
Architect
Year
2020-2021
Scale
Urban scale design
Location
Historic Center of Lima, Lima, Perú
Team Leader:
Sarita Rodriguez
Team
Antonella Vizcarra
Camila Campuzano
Carlos Ramos
Lucia Patiño
Oscar Becerra
Rodrigo Martell
*Housing design and development.
_ urban-housing integration strategies aligned with Lima’s Historic Center Master Plan. _engaged with public institutions to promote public-private housing investment. _feasibility studies and legal-technical coordination. _ drawings. _ 3D, rendering images and presentation.
Most of the resident population lives in slums
Residencial population in the historic center of Lima
Residencial decreased
Historic center of Lima Cercado de Lima Metropolitan Lima
SLUMS | Barrios Altos
MUNICIPAL PROGRAM FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF LIMA
HOUSING AND TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION
Identification of suitable lots for intervention
Physical-legal sanitation
PROMOTION OF INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL HOUSING
Social Housign Market-price housing Compatible local commerce HOW IT WORKS?
Boundary correction
Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Ministry of Culture
Municipality of metropolitan Lima
Peruvian College of Architects
RESULT
COLLECTIVE SPACES
Kindergarten Loundry Multipurpose room
70%
percentage of families in each project benefiting from the housing subsidy of the Techo Propio program of the Monistry of Housing Construction and Sanitation
COMMERCE SOCLE INTERIOR PUBLIC SPACE
Small Scale Commerce Mini Markets Local Restaurants
Centralized Type Patios Endemic vegetation Public Play Ground
Tha Master Plan for the Recovery of the Historical Center of Lima (2019-2029) tackles the urban renewal by structuring axles defined by impor tant avenues and streets in which major transportation and public space projects will be developed. The Housing Recovery Program embraces these, and proposes collective housing projects in each sector.
Module A (loft: 3.75 x 7.5m) 1-2 people
Module B (flat: 7.5 x 7.5m) 3-4 people
Module C (dúplex: 2 x 3.75 x 7.5m) 3-4 people
D (2.25 x 7.5 x 7.5) 5-6 people
The housing modules respond to the contemporary family compositions and are placed in a regular structural grid of 7.5 x 7.5 m (ef ficient for under ground parking spaces) to standarize and to speed up the construction process.
Alfonso
Module
Structuring
Cusco-Emacipación
UNESCO W.H.S. delimited area
Alfonso Ugarte
Callao
Main Square
Andahuaylas
Exposition Park
Colmena
Grau
Huánuco
Ancash
Junin
Rimac River
EXAMPLE OF STRUCTURAL AXLES
COLLECTIVE HOUSING PROJECT BANK
MASTER PLAN PER SECTOR
CUSCO-EMACIPACIÓN
Structuring Axis
Ancash Structuring Axis Master Plan developed for the Collective Housing Project Bank Brochure
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Interior Facade
The project is located in the Barrios Altos neighborhood.
The façade prolongs the horizontal lines from the adjacent monument and consolidates the urban profile of the block.
The building is divided spacially into four housing and commerce blocks articulated by patios with a variety of endemic plant species in a desertic landscape proposal.
Several planters are included in all floors as a passive tool for cooling.
FIRST FLOOR Commerce socle, common shared spaces and housing units
