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Ana María Náter López anamnater@gmail.com 787.298.4372
ARCHITECTURE
NEURO-ARCHITECTURE Ashford Community Hospital Location: Condado, Puerto Rico Space, understood as the place we inhabit, affects the mood and mindset of its occupants. There is a discipline in the United States which has recently shown interest in understanding the correlation between human behavioral science and architecture, known as Neuro-Architecture. This is based on the premise that the environment in which we live affects physically and mentally [OL OLHS[O VM O\THU ILPUNZ ;OL Ă„LSK OHZ YHPZLK JVUJLYUZ MVY ZWHJL ^OVZL WYVNYHT PZ [V KPYLJ[ attention to the individual, particularly hospitals and/or health centers. The design of these, particularly the areas of recovery and rehabilitation, must recognize the impact of the spatial quality created by the architecture in patients, visitors and faculty who manage them.
Left: Aerial photo Right: Existing site conditions
This project has the specific objective of creating a health care center which integrates the elements found in the surrounding landscape. The connection between outdoor and indoor spaces were the primary concerns in allocating the programs, in which the medical facilities were incorporated indoor and the spaces for therapy were strategically located in the exteriors to benefit from conditions of the natural context.
The central courtyard’s main purpose is an exterior space with therapeutical benefits that culminates in the ocean making its trajectory a sensorial and therapeutical experience based on the principles of reflexology. The courtyard was designed to be a public space which can be accessed either from the Ashford Presbyterian Hospital or the main street in order to give the community a healing space.
Floorplans
View of building’s entrance
View of interior courtyard
Transversal section
Longitudinal section
South elevation
View of Reflexology Path
SNAKE LAB Snake Research Center
Location: Arizona, United States
This Snake Lab is designed to be a sustainable response to the building’s unique context, the Chaco Canyon Desert in Arizona. The extreme climate makes sustainable design a particular challenge: hot, dry summers and cool dry winters. Therefore, the concept of this design was based on studying the climatological adaptations of a native animal and employ them as design guidelines. In this case, I chose the Sidewinder Snake, due to its distinct sideways movement for which its named after. This type of snake creates pressure points to help them raise most of their bodies, reducing its contact with the hot sand. This phenomenon was incorporated into the design by creating mechanisms which allow the building to “breathe�, such as strategically located openings that function as outdoor patios/ laboratories created around the existing snake habitats and by elevating strategic parts of the building that respond to sun and wind paths.
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COURTYARD HOUSING Building Block Apartments Location: Barcelona, Spain
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Ground level floorplan
Individual unit layouts
Section
Detail of balcony
URBAN SCENARIO Caño Martín Peña
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Following the concept of “Commonwealth Space” as descibed by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, the project entitled to develop new spaces of the “common” for the marginalized sector of El Caño Martin Peña. This particular proposal set out to transform the residual areas around the realignment of the Barbosa Avenue into an area that promotes encounters through space and program. To name a few, new housing units for the relocated residents of “El Caño”, urban gardens, commercial spaces, a new bus terminal and a community center would now reinvigorate what was once considered an abandoned wasteland.
intervention in bridge area bikeways dredging of the body of water
walkways
vehicular routes
recreational areas
housing
commercial infrastructure
Project phases Left: Project phases Right: Masterplan
View of entrance from street
Top left: Transversal section Top right: Longitudinal section Bottom: Longitudinal section
INTERIOR DESIGN
5th Avenue Boutique Sergio Rossi Shoe Boutique Location: Manhattan, New York
Following Sergio Rossi’s vision “... a woman is a sensual idol and her shoes are not just acJLZZVYPLZ I\[ HU L_[LUZPVU VM OLY ILH\[` VULZ [OH[ HYL WLYMLJ[S` Z\P[LK [V OLY ÄN\YL ;OL OLLS gives her energy and momentum – it does not nail her to the ground but elevates her body. For her, the shoe is a medium, a key element of her feminine vitality, and helps to preserve her poise.” The concept of design was created by allowing free and organic movement on the ÄYZ[ ÅVVY [OL ^VTLU»Z ÅVVY [V YLWYLZLU[ MLTPUPUP[` HUK TVYL Z[YHPNO[ SPULZ VU [OL ZLJVUK ÅVVY ^OPJO ILSVUNZ [V [OL TLU»Z ZLJ[PVU ;OL ÅVVYWSHU PZ KP]PKLK PU[V KPMMLYLU[ aVULZ YLWYLZLU[PUN his most iconic shoe collection and the materials chosen for the area responds accordingly to the collection. It helps organize the store while giving it an elegant free movement sequence for the buyer to walk through the store.
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MEETING/BREAK ROOM
MEN’S FLOOR
CASHIER
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MEN’S FLOOR
WOMEN’S FLOOR
Section-Elevation
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Sensorium Culinary School
Location: Culver, California
The concept behind this culinary school is that the food experice goes beyond the palate. The senses play an important role in how the building is experienced, you explore space through `V\Y ZLUZLZ ,HJO Ă…VVY OVSKZ KPMMLYLU[ WYVNYHTZ [OH[ YLZWVUK [V KPMMYLU[ ZLUZVYPHS LSLTLU[Z such as materials, surfaces, light, sound, and plants that are both edible and olfactory.
2nd
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1st
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