Carlos Huerta Portfolio 2020 by Carlos.huertaf

CARLOS HUERTA PORTFOLIO

PERSONAL INFO B. Arch. Carlos Andres Huerta Fernandez Cel. +5218115164389

EDUCATION 2011

Mount St. Marys College, Shefield, UK (Foreign studies)

2015-2020

UDEM University at Monterrey Mexico.

Carlos96h@gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

Date of birth 29.09.1996

LANGUAGES

2014-2015

Voluntariado Jesuita Veracruz, México. -Volunteer at indigenus comunities of Sierra de Santa Marta.

2016

MTM Taller de arquitectura, Torreón. -Design practitioner and field supervisor

2018

Formal Architects, Monterrey. -Architectural designer and drawer

2019

DICO, Monterrey -Field supervisor for landscape architecture project

ENGLISH (TOEFL IBT:105)

SPANISH

SOFTWARE SKILLS AutoCAD

photoshop

Rhinoceros

indesign

Rhino + grasshopper

revit

3dsmax + vray

sketchup

illustrator

lumion

Summer 2019 Scandurra Studio, Milano -Design team foreign practitioner

WORKSHOPS AND PROJECT PARTICIPATION -Architecture and context workshop by pritzker awarded RCR architectes with Rafael Aranda. -Puli research program (Post urban living innovation). -Volunteer in Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. Restoration of earthquake damaged buildings with heritage. -Collaborative project Rio-Ciudad directed by Former dean of Harvard GSD Prof. Peter Rowe. -Interdisciplinary project: clean air, water and energy directed by Daan Roosegaarde.

STRENGHTS RAPID ADAPTATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING EFFECTIVE GRAPHIC AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION QUALITY IN WORK AND RESULTS

-Editor and collab for published books: Post-Urban sites in Japan and Mexico and Rio Ciudad Monterrey.

CONTESTS AND AWARDS -Top 50 built architecture projects 2016 by ArchDaily. -Scholarship awarded trip to tokio, in colaboration with Chiba University. -First place in the XX Architecture Biennale of Nuevo León. (urban design catgory winner and overall winner) -Finalist to the 36th Alberto J. Pani National prize to architectural composition. -Exceptional Graduation project award and Cum Laude graduation Award at UDEM University.

INDEX

Page 4 to 9....................Void Dynamics Page 10 to 13.................The Voca 7 Page 14 to 17.................Memory landscapes Page 18 to 21................MUTA museum/workshop Page 22 to 25................River-City Page 26 to 29................La Fama community center

VOID DYNAMICS Graduation thesis and project.

The urban planning based on current socioeconomic trends has ended up promoting the occupation of space in a chaotic and disorganized way. As a result urban voids are generated as juxtapositions of various urban models and systems that lack articulation. These urban voids appear within the city of Monterrey as a space of few possibilities. Therefore, this project abandones the notion of urbanism as the instrument that promotes the expansion and assumes new strategies capable of addressing the porosity of the urban fabric while catalyzing the change for urban renewal.

Collaboration with Ana Garrido and Daniel Franco

current state

The approach of the proposal overcomes the intrinsic limitations of urban design. In the sense that it integrates the use of new digital and computer tools, together with the analysis strategies typical of the study of natural systems. Much has been studied about natural territories regarding their systemic behavior, structure and evolution through time. Considering this, there are clearly analogies between their behavior and the city environment. The obsolescence of the architectural object is recognized for the resolution of the spatial problems of a complex system such as the urban one. And instead the potential of the void is addressed based on its importance as the key element of the succession through time. current state 8

evolution proposal

evolution proposal 9

THE VOCA 7

Few places in the world bring together centuries of sociocultural juxtaposition like the Nonoalco Tlatelolco urban complex and its Plaza de las Tres Culturas, where the perigee of pre-Hispanic, colonial and modern Mexico converge. The current signs of decline seem unfair to the housing unit project that Mario Pani planned as a city utopia in the 60s. Abandoned buildings such as the voca 7 recall the history of social transformations that occured in what was once home to more than 80 thousand people.

Collaboration with Ana Garrido and Daniel Franco

The Vocational School No. 7 saw the birth of the historic student mobilizations of 1968 that broke out just a few years after its inauguration. The leaders of the movement of all the Universities congregated in the Voca 7 and as quickly as the movement was formed, it perished in the tragic massacre of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas that aimed to repress the progressive ideas of the students. In 1970 the building was taken from the Polytechnic to house a health center which operated until 2013. Ultimately, the Voca 7 building was abandoned and thus the memory of the once effervescent center of ideas vanished. This project seeks to repurpose the once Vocational School bulding as a hostel for artists looking for an immersive exercise for inspiration. Through this project, the creative legacy of the students of ‘68 is transformed into a criticism of artistic expression, becoming a tragic surrealism of sorts.

The envelope of the hostel brings the memory of what was once the Vocational No. 7, catalyst of the student movements of 1968. The variety of indoor and outdoor spaces of the hostel aim to produce different experiences as sources of inspiration such as feeling exposed, or isolated and even being able to to imagine all that happened on this very same location.

Even though the project is inserted in an intense urban environment, introspection is still possible outdoords as the new gardens surrounded by an open grid structure create a trasitional atmosphere that strongly contrast the bustle of the CDMX.

MEMORY LANDSCAPES First prize in the XX Architecture Biennial of Nuevo León

The foundation of the Adolfo Prieto neighborhood, as well as other developments for the working kind in the 50’s, represents an era driven by the idea of the progress of our neighbor country, the United States. Almost on par with the first American suburban developments, the colony is founded as an attempt to generate the same conditions for our laboring ancestors, thus being one of the first peri-urban projects of Mexico, if not the entire world. Adolfo Prieto is in that sense of great value for collective memory and therefore it is essential to plan the future of these neighborhoods and avoid the extinction of its legacy.

Collaboration with Ana Garrido and Daniel Franco

The foundations on which this proposal is supported are the the stronger forces that we find in the idea of the city, nature and culture, recognizing their role in creating strong, resilient and happy communities. In the memory of the rural inhabitant of Monterrey, these processes of symbiosis with living beings were the habitual way of life used by generations. The evolution towards an industrial city made it more attractive to opt for the disconnection of its roots, replacing these links with automation and mass production that do not correspond to the way of life of the northeastern Mexican. This project suggests that returning to this identity, its colors, traditions and the mutualism with the living environment makes sense in today’s unbearable circumstances. The riparian element that crosses the suburb was fundamental to establish the character of this project, developing wet zones through the manipulation of the topography in order to generate biological and functional processes that promote public life and the reconnection of the citizen with his natural surroundings.

TIPOLOGY 1

TIPOLOGY 2

TIPOLOGY 3

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MUTA MUSEUM WORKSHOP

Collaboration with Ana Garrido

This cultural and arctistic complex seeks to reinforce the creative spirit of La Purisima neighbourhood while encouraging developers to preserve the built heritage within the disctrict. This museum, workshop and gallery integrates new spaces for the growing art community in La Purisima. It also establishes a dialogue with the collective memory of the City by recovering abandoned architectural heritage and integrating the old housing structures to the learning and reflection program of the museum. The new volumes are inteded to be light and transparent to generate a clear contrast with the preexisting heavy ashlar walls. Aditionally the project recognizes the need for spaces designed for children, and thus it integrates interactive learning rooms, children workshops and playfull environments made explicitly for the younger population.

1. conservation of architectural elements with heritage value

2. extrusion of new volumes

3. permeability and transparency layers

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RIVER-CITY Under the instruction of invited Prof. Peter G. Rowe

The Monterrey Metropolitan Area holds the potential to link its urban and natural elements which are currently found in unabalace due to gray infrastructures beign used to replace natural structures such as the Santa Catarina river. Urban voids (often found close to the river) and the river itself are being been considered through this project as opportunities to rebalance the tension between soft/natural and hard/artificial surfaces, while also tackling some of the most urging needs of immediate neighborhoods along this riparian system.

Collaboration with Ana Garrido and Daniel Franco

This project seeks to nourish the Monterrey metropolitan area and solve some of its most important problems through a series of interventions and infrastructures around the Santa Catarina River. Adressing this river has been controversial in the past, due to its strong remindment of catastrofic flooding. A redefinition of the river is necesary in order for Monterrey’s citicens to aknogledge its potential as the sustainable spine ofthe city.

Enviromental solutions, infrastructures, safe public spaces and the revitalization of outdoor life and cultural identity are key for this study and proposal. The programme for a project of this scale becomes so diverse and complex that it demands to fit every use of land and activity to the character of each concrete zone of intervention.

INTEGRATION OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES

VALLE

CENTRO

Ecoduct

TOURISM CENTER

PUBLIC LIBRARY

Ecoduct

COMMERCE CORRIDOR

Water channel Natural trail Light rail stop

Ecoduct

LA FAMA COMMUNITY CENTER

La Fama is a modest neighbourhood situated in the Monterrey metropolitan area. For many of these small communities, being displaced due to gentrification is an ever present concern. For this reason collaboration with the neighbours is vital in the well being of the neighbourhood as it generates a strong sense of belonging and caring for the neighbouhood. The proposal aims to provide spaces for collective practices and to reinforce the cultural identuty of the “La Fama” neighbourhood by creating a community center comprised by a library, a child care centre, an art gallery and an agora. The preexisting condition of the space is an open parking lot which is projected to relocate underground to liberate the street level for pedestrian use. Fragmentation becomes protagonist in this project, as it generates a constant transition between inside and outside perception of space, making it an experience of exploration and appropiation. The porous brick walls are interpeted as part of the identity of La Fama since the use of lattices is present in most of the homes of the neighbourhood.

PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE