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ANGEL A CRISOSTOMO Architecture + Urban Design
NEW ENERGY L ANDSCAPE Re-thinking Energy Infrastructure in the Mekong GSAPP Urban Design Studio III Project in collaboration with Bohong Zhang, Peiqing Wang, Wenjun Zhang This project explores how Can Tho’s energy landscape can shift — from a dependence on hydropower dams and coal power — to localized, low-carbon industries of waste-to-energy, phytoremediation, and water treatment; preserving the health and livelihood of local residents and leap-frogging decades of environmental degradation. New energy landscapes can emerge from existing sites of social and cultural exchange. Design focus is applied on the Van Thoi Tu Pagoda, where three elements that advance a new approach to industrial development are proposed: New Energy industries that utilize biomass and solar technology, Living Machines that utilize phyto-remediation technologies; and an Energy Cooperative, that engages local residents and public/private sectors in developing new infrastructure and public places. Together, these elements create new systems of public exchange and neighborhood that inform a new energy landscape.
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Mapping water, waste, and energy infrastructure in Can Tho The Hau River and its tributaries act as both fresh water source and waste water disposal for industrial scale aquaculture industries and the residential and agricultural communities that have a long history of formation around canals and irrigation systems in the city. These urban systems of water management were investaged with an overlay of residential, commercial, and industrial waste management. How could the city’s landscape and social assets be better engaged to address urban stressors?
Byproducts of Siloed Systems Separate Centralized Foreign-Funded Infrastructure produce more waste and create social, environmental, and economic stresses that could have long-term impact. We propose a strategy that creates relationships between these separate systems.
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Can Tho’s Proposed Land-use Development Masterplan for 2030
A New Approach to the Development Masterplan Can Tho’s Binh Thuy District is being primed for development as a gateway for the proposed Ho Chi Minh – Can Tho Expressway. The masterplan expands industrial development along the Hau River — and creates a commercial center in former agri-residential areas. Spatial analysis reveals that Social and ecological impacts of the proposed masterplan on communities and landscape. Costs of implementation include the resettlement of families, loss of canals to single land-uses and industrialized farming prac-
tices, river bank erosion and increased reliance on foreign investment for key public utilities. Strict euclidean zoning and road based planning place greater social and ecological demands — large swaths of land along the waterfront become socially and ecologically unproductive — privatized for single-use industrial, commercial, and residential development. Existing communities and livelihoods are displaced. Along with them, cultures of living and working with the water could be lost.
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New Inclusive Urban-Rural Development Pattern
De-centralized Infrastructure Incorporate community and landscape in the nexus of energy, waste, and water. Break up components of infrastructure into parts. Identify sites where energy, waste, and water can be incorporated strategically.
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Energy Exchange Sheds Develop energy exchange sheds around existing educational, cultural, health, and recreational sites. Activate publics thru everyday engagement and ritual processes.
Incremental Approach Water treatment and storage, waste management, and energy production integrate to support given population density that develop gradually to match the needs of the shed building social and ecological capital.
New Energy Landscape Work with existing land-uses and cultural fabric to build on traditional knowledge and natural systems. Create vernacular patterns of development and a transitional landscape away from fossil-fuel led extractive development.
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Incorporating Ritual Processes As a prototype, we focused our design on the Van Thoi Tu Pagoda in South Tra-An located at the confluence of a river and a canal. Here, new residential development around the Pagoda (former agricultural land-uses) develop hand in hand with water supply and treatment infrastructure (Living Machines), Phyto-technologies which clean the water, land, and air; and New Energy Infrastructure (Biomass + Solar). We imagine new ritual processes on a neighborhood scale - incorporating new development and energy infrastructure within the Pagoda and its surrounds, creating new ritual processes for water treatment, phyto-remediation, and waste management. Around the pagoda, biomass from waste, agricultural products, and phyto-remediation technology can be utilized at both a domestic and neighborhood scale. Organic waste drop-off sites can be integrated in new community centers supplemented with solar panels that assist in both collecting materials and generating energy. These community centers located at the heart of new neighborhoods can provide spaces for local residents to organize and manage community projects.
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Biomass processing facilities, fish markets, boat charging stations around the Pagoda
Neighborhood Courtyards and Community Center for the Nang Luong Energy Cooperative
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Living Machines We engage the landscape and the community in the processing of water supply, treatment, and storage for residential, commercial, and agro-industrial uses.
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New Energy Infrastructure We utilize hybrid systems of Biomass and Solar energy and engage the landscape and community thru new ritual processes.
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CO-HABITING HABITAT Urban Design Tools and Conditions for Hudson Valley
GSAPP Urban Design Studio II Project in collaboration with Junyu Cao, Shuo Yang, Yanli Zhao According to the 2018 Living Planet Report, the population of known living species have declined by 60% since 1970. This massive and increasing loss of species diversity continue to profoundly impact the balance of our ecosystems and us. Vital ecosystem services including food security, medical treatments, coastal flooding and sea level rise mitigation, among others, are in a constant state of threat — increasing the risks we face as our climate continues to change. How do we galvanize urban design to accommodate non-human life, the wild, the natural? Biodiversity [+] is a community “toolkit” of tactical interventions deployable in various scales, site conditions, and contexts. It’s intended as a resource for local governments, civic groups, and individuals to understand and improve biodiversity in their farms, waterfronts, cities, and regions. The project is a planning and design resource book for local communities to understand and improve biodiversity and reap the benefits of a healthy ecosystem. As a case study, we will deploying some of these interventions in the Hudson Valley to visualize a more locally biodiverse scenario for the Year 2030.
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ECO-METRICS New Methods of Representation for Eco-Footprint and Biocapacity
GSAPP GIS Fall 2019 Project in collaboration with Hsin Yi Chao, Richard Chou First developed by Wackernagel and Rees in 1996; Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity are metrics ubiquitous today in science, policy, and popular discourse. We can often find these metrics applied in a Global Scale or a State Scale — comparing the footprints of countries/ populations with each other or as an advocacy tool communicating the need for the public’s behavior change. Examples can range from the absurd to the serious — e.g. MVRDV’s “Metacity/Datatown” and “Pig Cities”, City of Calgary’s Land use and Planning Policy (2008); while very different, these examples showcase EF’s application in the realm of scenario building. The common usage of these ecological metrics and the interest in its application at local and regional scales call for critical exercises – How can we assess the accuracy and relevance of EF? Can it be used at regional and local scales reliably? How do we test the robustness of the EF as a planning tool? We used the Hudson Valley Region as a case study to test these methods. Through GIS, we developed a methodology to map Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity at a regional scale and explored new methods to represent the relationship and nuances of these ecometrics.
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Bivariate Chloropleth Mapping We developed a GIS methodology to combine EF and BC into a bivariate map, which displays the variables in a single map by combining two sets of color ramps. Data classification and graphic representation of classified data played a big role in the development of the methodology. We tested the method by comparing the ecometrics of Hudson Valley against New York City.
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Regional Relationships A bivariate map can better illustrate relationships in data by combining two distinct features into a single map. This map allowed us to view the regional relationships in the relative performance of Eco Footprint and Biocapacity per capita by sub county within the Hudson Valley.
Bivariate mapping can better used to illustrate the degrees of difference within a given datasets “breaking point”, and when applied at the appropriate scale, can better illustrate geographic and spatial relationships.
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Current methods of representing EF and BC, limit the ability of the maps to communicate the nuances between EF and BC relationships and limit the maps ability to draw meaningful insight on geographic and spatial features, which can only be drawn at less aggregated scales e.g. for regional mapping, at a sub county scale. Hence, aggregated EF and BC applied at large scales do not provide the geographic, spatial, and nuanced representation of data necessary as planning or design tools.
Different Scales For instance, a bivariate map of EF and BC per capita of the United States better illustrates the range of High BC areas within the Mississippi River Basin region. These High BC areas exhibit a range of Low EF - High EF areas. Bivariate EF and BC maps executed at the proper scales, provide better alternatives to single feature univariate maps, and when executed with the right data, be a more useful tool for regional planning and design application.
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NYC PL AYSCAPES! Improving education outcomes by activating public spaces
GSAPP Urban Design Studio I Project in collaboration with Lorena Galvao, Yanli Zhao, Berke Kalemonglu, Aman Duggal Two-thirds of New York school infrastructure dates between 1880 to 1930; while much of the City’s school policies, district boundaries, and school boundaries, have been inherited from the 1960’s. Do these models reflect the social imperatives called for by the 21st Century? How do we move forward? Our Manifesto advocates for an inclusive, accessible, and high-quality education system for New York City by 2040. With just under a million students enrolled in the K-12 Public System, many students fall through the cracks of a heterogeneous network that reinforces social inequality. Statistics and mapping at various scales all indicate that City school districts with the lowest income levels have the lowest rates of attendance and thelowest levels of performance in New York City. Studies conducted by Measure America and the New York Times indicate that segregation in schools persist even after residential segregation has declined. If education is one’s best chance to break from the cycle of poverty, How do we engage these communities into having higher performance levels at schools?
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, East Harlem
Grand Concourse Library, Bronx
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Callahan-Kelly Park, Brooklyn By creating safe play spaces, Playscapes creates dedicated urban public spaces for teenagers to explore, gather, and play in New York City. We intend to create a network of underutilized educational assets. These include museums, libraries, and parks that often already have the city’s activities and programs to offer. We want to develop pockets of playscapes adjacent to these partner institutions to bring their activities and programs out to the street and into the public realm. These playscapes are also intended to collect feedback from the public to further inform the programming of these institutions. Playscapes will coordinate with partner institutions to activate streets, blocks, and neighborhoods surrounding selected sites thru temporary, permanent, or semi-permanent urban design interventions. In order to engage teenagers around the city to participate in these programs, Playscapes will utilize the format of a large gaming framework: a digital treasure hunt that takes kids through a series of educational challenges around the city. The treasure hunt culminates in a city-wide community event at the end of each Summer where participants are awarded borough-wide and city-wide prizes.
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POSTCARDS FROM THE BORDER Urban narratives from the El Paso - Ciudad Juarez Border Region
William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, Columbia GSAPP Project in collaboration with Gabriel Vergara This project explores the use of the Postcard as an urban design tool to investigate the border region of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. We used postcards as a device to capture and generate understandings of spatial and urban systems thru engaged pedestrian experience — collecting conversations and drawing connections between local knowledge, the regions landscape, and the physical and social infrastructures of the US-Mexico Border Region which manifest spatially at multiple scales. The sequence of Postcards collected is the synthesis of a journey along a cross-border transect through the El Paso del Norte Bridge crossing the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo. Postcards were produced on-site (with a phone camera and mobile printer) and stories were collected from conversations with local residents, migrants/new residents, community leaders, academics, shopkeepers, among others. These postcards form the basis for the drawings, videos, and other forms of media that we produced to unpack the unique urban dynamics of these cities that expand public view (i.e. beyond the news cycle) and challenge physical forms of infrastructure.
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BOUNDARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
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LIMITE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS COMISION INTERNACIONAL DE LIMITES Y AGUAS
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STR ANGE FRUIT Production, Politics, and Health in Yakima Valley
GSAPP Urban Design Studio II Project in collaboration with Alexandra Burkhardt and Maria Palomares Where do our apples come from? A simple question that asks us to trace the patterns of production and consumption, the health of our land and waters, and the consequences of social decisions and power structure on the food that we eat. Yakima County in the State of Washington is one of the most intensively farmed and irrigated areas in the United States, and has been America’s largest producer of apples since 1964. The Yakima Valley is also known for its role in the production of plutonium for the Manhattan Project, and uranium during the Cold War. The Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant produced 60,000 nuclear weapons for the US Arsenal, including the bomb detonated over Nagasaki. Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States. Today, it is the focus of a decades-long cleanup operation. This year’s federal budget allocation reaching $2.4 Billion which has the (perhaps ironic) effect of boosting the regional economy, providing 10,000 jobs and support industries to the Yakima towns of Benton, Kennewick, Pasco, and beyond. However, the dispersal of nuclear contaminants has spread far beyond the site; and has been shown to spread for many miles; the food, land, water and air of a multi-state area is at risk.
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WE-MAKE OPEN CAMPUS The Future of Manufacturing in NYC
GSAPP Urban Design Studio I Project in collaboration with Bohong Zhang and Huiwon Hong In the larger context of New York City, manufacturing has been in decline with an average of 8,370 manufacturing jobs lost between 2001-2011. But recent trends indicate a growth of 3,900 jobs (from 2011-2016) created in particular sub-sectors - sub-sectors driven by new technology, new types of manufacturing, and new types of investment. These are the types of businesses that thrive on the creative industries of NYC - with applications in design, fashion, film, 3D printing, high-end fabrication, and food. This sub-sector is comprised mostly of Small to Medium Enterprises (SME’s) that offer premium and customized products and services to individual consumers and local businesses. Market trends in NYC indicate a growing mass of consumers demanding locally made, artisinal prodcuts - particularly in metal and wood fabrication. Internationally, NYC maintains its status as the 3D printing capital of the world. Public and private investment is moving in the direction of developing tech and manufacturing campuses - at Bush Terminal, Sunset Park, Brooklyn Navy Yard, among others. In coming years, how can NYC’s labor market scale up to accomodate growing demand in these sectors?
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MANIL A FORUM Social Infrastructure for Local Residents
University of Santo Tomas, Manila Undergraduate Thesis Project The Manila Forum was conceived as a community space borne from an investigation of Manila’s tourism program. The aim of the project is to deepen the relationship of existing and new residents to the area while introducing its history to tourists and visitors. It’s a venue to share the Manila’s history while providing a space for active discourse and democratic communication of citizens and communities. Spaces include exhibit halls, galleries, a library, tourist center, leasable lecture halls, and leasable commercial units for community enterprises.
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MANIL A ART CENTER Providing space to create in downtown Manila
University of Santo Tomas, Manila Undergraduate Thesis Project The aim of the project was to provide a public space for the production, distribution, and consumption of art in the City of Manila. It was conceived through a series of interviews in the nearby Escolta area (a neglected historical district currently undergoing urban renewal by the Philippine Heritage Society, ICOMOS, and various loca l groups); the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA); and Manila City Hall’s Engineering and Planning Office. Key features of the project include the integration of a Light Rail Transit Station (LRT Line 2 Manila Art Center) at the building’s roof deck, a glass facade facing the old Metropolitan Theatre, and an outdoor public art market.
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AMIR A EVENTS PL ACE Indoor and outdoor experiences for private and community gatherings
Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Design Location: Bacoor City, Philippines Amira is a 5,384-square meter (1.3-acre) leasable events place for community events. It consists of a flexible multi-purpose hall (convertible to two halls through an acoustically treated operable wall partition), two landscaped gardens, generous parking area; which was also conceived to host a neighborhood flea market and an annual Christmas bazaar. Services rendered include architectural, interior design, and landscape design for the project; and weekly site supervision work.
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Columbia University, GSAPP MS Architecture and Urban Design Pratt Institute, GAUD Summer Graduate Immersion Studio University of Santo Tomas BS Architecture
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Architectural Associate / Designer’s Edge Produced high quality As-Built 2D and 3D architectural drawings and BIM models from high definition point cloud survey data. Business Development Manager, Architect / Muhibbah Engineering Malaysia Led Business Development Unit of Muhibbah Engineering Philippines. Developed proposals for New Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Boracay Airport Extension, and Laguna Lake Development Project, among others. Business Development Consultant, Architect / Muhibbah Engineering Malaysia Developed technical reports and project proposals for infrastructure projects in the Philippines and Cambodia. Produced various schematic and feasibility design studies. Independent Work / Angela Crisostomo, UAP Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Design of 4,000 sqm Events Place. Schematic Design and Design Development of 3-Storey Office Building Renovation.Landscape Design of 70 sqm Residential Garden. Masterplan of 1,500-hectare Land Reclamation and Development Project in Manila, Philippines. Jr. Architect / Ayala Land Inc. Masterplan of new townships in the southern regions of the Philippines (Visayas, Mindanao). Masterplan of two neighborhoods in the 620-hectare Anvaya Cove, Golf and Leisure Resort in Morong, Bataan. Schematic and Design Development of 130-hectare Luxury Residential Community, The Courtyards in Imus, Cavite.
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Licensed Architect with the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) since 2014 Authorized for OPT Extension AutoCAD, Sketchup, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop (Proficient) ARCGIS, Adobe Premier, After Effects, Rhino, Revit (User) English (Proficient), Filipino (Native), Spanish (Basic)
a ca d em ic / l e a d e rs h i p SU 2020 New York
Visiting Design Critic Columbia GSAPP, UD Pedestrian Rhetorics Seminar with Prof. David Smiley National University of the Philippines, BS Architecture Thesis Review
SP 2019 New York
FA 2018 New York 2014-2016 Manila
Teaching Assistant / Columbia GSAPP Urban Design Studio III with Kate Orff Contested Sights Seminar with Damon Rich Civic Design Assistant / NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Worked on Community Projects in Van Dyke Houses, Brooklyn Co-founder / Planners Architects Advocates Non-profit empowering architecture, design, and business students to engage urban issues by organizing free workshops and community events in Manila.
awa rd s / p u b l i c at i on s 2019 New York
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William Kinne Fellowship Travel Prize / Awardee Awarded to outstanding postgraduate architecture and planning project proposals at Columbia GSAPP Water Urbanism Can Tho, Vietnam / Editor Publisher: Columbia University GSAPP. Urban Magazine / Contributor / Article: Stories from the Border Publisher: New York, Actar, 2018 Rev It! Makati: Ideas for the Revitalization of Makati City / Writer, Editor, Designer, Publisher: Manila, Ayala Land, Inc., 2014
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A N G E L A CRISOSTOMO angela.crisostomo@columbia.edu