“La arquitectura es la más creativa e importante expresión de vida: La contiene, la resguarda y la ve pasar mientras deja una huella física y emocional en su historia.”
“Architecture is the most creative and important expression of life: It holds it, guards it and sees it go by as it leaves an emotional and fisical mark in its history.”
Comunidades
Comunities
Paisajes Sociales en Sintonía: Originando Sensaciones. Harmonized Social Landscapes: Originating sensations.
This grad project aims to acknowledge the existing territorial dynamics (sociopolitical, artistic, and natural) within the study area to embrace them and reframe urban life through the perception of the landscape. It seeks to reaffirm how communities today occupy, appropriate, and defend their territories. Thus, the rethinking of the projects proposed by the Territorial Planning Plan is structured from a landscape-perceptual approach, aligning with the actions these communities advocate for and practice daily to improve and increasingly care for their environment. Over time, this approach allows the dynamics of care and protection (both for people and the landscape) to emerge from the appropriation of urban design, where the sensory stimuli of these landscapes imbue the city and its inhabitants with the distinctive Bogotá’s identity.
◦ ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION. Green barriers to isolate the wetland.
◦ CONNECTION OF THE LIVING SYSTEM OF THE WETLAND WITH THE SUDS OF THE PROJECT. Hydrological connection in the project.
◦ CONTROLLED ACCESSIBILITY. Through bridges and walkways that limit access to the sensitive soft areas of the wetland.
◦ USAGE FLEXIBILITY. Intermediate areas along the flows presented as small urban scenarios/stages.
◦ COLORFUL LANDSCAPING AS SIGNAGE. Landscape strips in specific colors that allow for the recognition of the space.
◦ CONNECTIVITY AND SECURITY. Espacios diseñados para la visibilidad y el fácil acceso al entorno urbano circundante.
SOCIAL INTERACTION. Creation of stay areas defined by differences in topographical levels.
VISIBILITY. Provide free surfaces such as pre-existing end walls and new open areas to give visibility to the social processes of the place.
SIGNAGE AND ACCESS. Use of color codes in pathways and buildings proposed in the care system.
◦ BALANCED URBAN PROFILE. Redensification areas in blocks with medium density.
◦ COMMUNITY GREEN AREAS. Strengthening spaces such as gardens and community parks
CHILDHOOD AND ELDERLY CENTER
Passagem do Sodré is a project that pays homage to Cais do Sodré, and, in general, to the architectural typology that has housed the life of the capital of Portugal since ancient times. The project is conceived from the complex idea of passages and passageways that, like galleries and narrow streets, host the dynamics of the place day and night. Therefore, the project focuses on its fundamental flows and connections at all scales, from the close connection to the ferry station to the complex pedestrian connections of the interior and exterior spaces on the site.
Regarding the treatment of public space, the project evokes the passage not only as a connector full of vitality but also as a reminder and allusion to the commercial life that originally gave the neighborhood its name “the salt pier”.
As our concept was the preservation of vital traditions in Lisbon, this heritage building would preserve some of its essence, not only on the outside but on the inside, with a 37% of preservation between circulations and rooms v.s a heritage-adapted transformation of a 63% of the building to host the new uses that would nourish the artistic and cultural concept of this idea of ours.
The traditional conserveira, café-bar, perfumaria and Loja de arte, in union with the galleries and ateliers, will evoke the sensations of the traditional Lisbon passageway
Regarding volumetry, the project seeks to associate itself with its context, both in height compared to the new surrounding buildings and in typology, referencing the typical heritage buildings of the city. Therefore, from the idea of flows, the new building stands with the elegance and complexity of Portuguese ceramics and heritage sloping roofs, as well as the simplicity and concreteness of contemporary forms that have emerged in the place.
Coliving distribution was planned to instigate a sense of communal living inspired by the traditional streets of Lisbon.
with María Paula Díaz, Maria Camila Pedraza and Laura Sofía Benítez.
Urban proposal for “Calle 26“ avenue near Santa Fe neighboorhood in Bogotá, Colombia.
Where Calle 26 is identified as a point of convergence among the different descriptive elements considered for the analysis, positioning itself as a catalyst for our proposed intentions.
COMPREHENSIVE UNIFIED ANALYSIS CALLE 26
Multidimensional description of the important and main characteristics of the Bogotá metropolitan region. Below, we find descriptive cartography that enables the collection of sufficient information about the physical territory at a large scale, to later understand smaller scales.
WORK FLOWS MOBILITY DENSITY
PRODUCTIVE CENTERS
COMPACITY LAND LAW
CULTURAL FACILITIES POPULATION DENSITY V.S FACILITIES
ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE PUBLIC MOBILITY AND MAIN CORRIDORS
HOSPITALITY
OFFICES
HOUSING
CO-LIVING HOUSING
COMMERCE
EDUCATIONAL CULTURAL
Through three projects (slow low-slope pathways, fast high-slope pathways, and gathering spaces) and a series of macro and micro infrastructures, significant local stories are shared. These interventions create an ecological corridor aimed at improving water quality, encouraging the return of native flora and fauna (especially butterflies), and fostering connections with neighboring social practices.
The strips of nature that border Bogotá to the west (Bogotá River) and to the east (the Eastern Hills) have the potential to revitalize the degraded land. Through the transversal bodies of water, they could create threads of green fabrics that rejuvenate the polluted urban core.
Twenty different places, set by the land use plan, each with its own essence, but together creating a uniform strip. In all their scales, like a fractal, strategies are developed to address them.
Walking distance: 1260 m / 1.26 km
Walking time: 25 - 38 mins (2 - 3 km/h)
Running time: 6 - 8 mins (10 - 13 km/h)
