Content: 1. Architecture 2. Urban and Social Design 3. Design and conceptualization methodologies
ONE Architecture
Design Illustration
Digital Futures
Discrete Structures Workshop
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2020
The workshop was developed from the use of Rhino and the Grasshopper 3D visual programming language. The workshop addressed the digital modelling logics from material wood explorations based on discrete elements. Through different exercises, the combinatorial possibilities of finite and regular elements have experimented allowed the development of complex geometries, understanding and defining the variables and restrictions that determine them. Finally, a timber-framed pavilion is individually designed from a complex framework technique.
Growth process logic
Top View
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Speculative view // Pavilion
BIM Proyect
Rural Hostel 12
2020
The project focuses on the design of a rural hostel on the outskirts of Madrid. The architecture is composed of three apartment-type housing. That consists of two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, and dining room. And a multipurpose area, bar, and pool. The entire architectural project is designed to be a cabin that allows immersion in a natural environment responding to the climatic conditions and the context characteristics. The architectural project and the construction specifications are developed under the BIM methodology. Exploded axon
3D transverse section
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Finish plan and specs.
Doors and windows details and specs.
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Floor details and specs.
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Perspective View
East View
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Interior view
MAP
Stand INADEM
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Mexico City 2017
Collaborator Designer Creative director
The National Entrepreneur Institute (INADEM) required space for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs to exhibit their products and sell their creative ideas. As well as four sales platforms related to agribusiness, Mezcal production, Textile Industry and Metal-mechanics. This project exposes the possibility of generating creative proposals with the use of reusable resources. In this case, 286 pallets recovered from the commercial and construction sector are used to build the stand. The contrast of two semi-circular ramps shapes the geometry to generate an ambivalent space that would allow public and private space at the same time, this helped that the presentations made inside were protected of noise and external movement and on the other hand, people outside could realize and listen to what it happened inside.
Conceptualization
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Axonometric view
Local 10 + MAP
Collaborator Fabrication Logistics Photography
Lacoste
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Mexico City 2017
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Architecture plan
MAP Concepto Mexicano in collaboration with the office of Monterrey Local 10 designed and built the exhibition “L comme legend L comme Lacoste” for the new collection of Lacoste, exposed in the Palacio de Hierro of Polanco in Mexico City. The showroom was accompanied by symbolic elements of the brand that speak of the importance of tennis player René Lacoste.
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2 Module B
3 Module C
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Collaborator Project coordinator
Doho
Convention and Exposition Center Morelia, Mexico 2015
Located on a site on the planetarium area of Morelia, Mexico in an area undergoing urban and commercial development, this multifunctional building is the venue for trade fairs as well as expositions and entertainment events. The structural system generated the opportunity by which to establish the formal and spatial qualities of the building as well as the functional order, resulting in two free floors with the possibility of several configurations. In the first floor, a central garden was created inside of a glass cube. Given the translucent glass that covers the facades, during the day the building is filled with indirect sunlight, and at night its internal illumination makes it glow, much like a giant urban lantern.
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CECONEXPO Ground Floor
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9. Food Court 10. Terrace 11. Business center 12. Work center 13. Warehouse
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CECONEXPO First Floor
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Axonometric view
Internal view. Lobby
Main facade
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Collaborator Project coordinator
Doho
Polar bear shelter
Morelia, Mexico 2014 The polar bear hostel is located at the Benito Juarez Zoo in the city of Morelia, Mexico. The design concept for the new house of Yupik the polar bear gathers the specific themes of the Arctic and the Inupiat culture. The interior glazed path to the interior of the room offers a view over the landscape, and a minimal frameless armoured glass construction allows the visitor and the bear to observe each other face to face. It is composed of a path of museological intention that aims to transport visitors to the essence of the environment of the north pole.
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Architecture plan
Section A
Section B
Section C
TWO Urban and Social Design
ARQ 911
Reserva La Paz Masterplan Torreón, Coah. Mexico 2021
Ressidential area access axo
Commercial equipment and lineal park axo
Distrit park secction | Landscape and program
Nowadays in Torreón Coahuila’s City exist a trend towards the housing complexes development characterized by being contained within walled private areas. This pattern in housing design has generated that a large part of the city has acquired an arid urban image, with little porous areas and a shortage of green spaces that impact public life and the quality of life of the inhabitants of the place. Also, these characteristics cause a large part of the mobility and displacement through the use of the car. Thus, within this project aimed at generating a master plan for a mixed housing and equipment district, it is decided to propose strategies that transcend its principal objective. In this way, the masterplan strategy empathizes with a vision of a livable, walkable and safe city for citizens. A large linear park is generated that functions as a buffer for the fences of private preserves. And its morphology obey a series of circuits that surround five parks of which three are neighbourhood parks and two are district parks that not only impact the project itself but in much of the city.
mixed use neighborhood park
district park
green circuit residencial area vertical housing overpasses commerce
educational equipment
Master Plan Axonometric
3D Visualization
commercial area
promenade
roundabout
lineal park
complex access
commercial area
landscape proposal axo
corridor
bikeway
bikeaway
corridor
commerce
street
Lineal park
Boulevard
Lineal park Street section
Master plan illustration
ARQ 911
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Distrito Corregidora Testfit Corregidora, Querétaro. Mexico 2020
For the Corregidora’s municipality, it was developed an Urban Test fit for Real estate developers to make feasibility studies and test fit sites for multifamily, townhouses, hotel, retail, medical and educational services and parking. The location of this project has some particular characteristics unlike the other urban areas in the city. The site is in a zone of borders, is located in the limit of Corregidora and Queretaro which is an area with agricultural fields without urban development. But on the other side exists one of the principal streets of the region and lots of urban developments. This gives us the opportunity to make an integral plan not only for the project but this area of the city and communicate better with both municipalities on a bigger scale. The heart of the project is a central park that has more than te 18% of the total area, the parking has not relation with the public areas and the diversity of architecture typologies offer to have different social profiles.
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UIT
Collaborator Project director Design Data collection Methodology
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Municipal urban development program // SEDATU Lázaro Cárdenas, Mich. Mexico 2019
Sustainable development
Life quality
Environment protection
Economic Improvement
Equity and social justice
Efficiency in resource management
The Territorial Intelligence Unit (UIT) is a cell of the Universidad Michoacana dedicated to territorial planning and urban design. Since 2018 he has dedicated himself to the research and generation of instruments with legal provisions to plan and regulate the arrangement of human settlements in the municipal territory of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. This program acts as a spatial organization tool for the current conditions of the land. It allows the generation of future projections that contribute to the mitigation of a large number of urban social and environmental problems. Its purpose is to establish the policies, actions and strategies for the urban development of the municipal territory, by determining the zoning, the destinations and the rules of land use and exploitation, as well as the conservation, improvement and growth actions of the areas natural and population centres. In this way, the updating of integral urban policies with the purpose of sustainable development and social justice was carried out, as well as the mapping of urban-territorial problems and phenomena and the design of strategies that seek to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants and Better functioning of communities.
Analisis
Diagnostic
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Strategic plan
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Mangrove recovery
Filter strips and sustainable food production
Renewable energy and water treatment
Wetlands and improved urban green areas
Natural and urban recovery stages
Urban and natural problems in Lázaro Cárdenas
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Collaborator Design Data collection Photography
IDB
Neighborhood Recovery Pilot Program // IDB
Lázaro Cárdenas,Mich. Mexico MDA 2017-2018
Michoacan, Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas City
Las Palmas neighborhood
Lázaro Cárdenas is one of the most important municipalities in the state of Michoacán, housing one of the principal ports in Latin America. However, the city is perceived as a disorderly entity, with an evident deterioration of the urban image, problems of the legality of the land, essential services of low quality and a condition of social disintegration among its inhabitants, which among other issues, has generated a low appropriation in the public space. Thus, the neighbourhood of Las Palmas was defined by the local authority as a priority attention area, suitable for being addressed in the present Neighborhood Recovery Pilot Program, within the framework of the Advanced Design Master’s (MDA-FAUM) of the UMSNH and the H. City Council of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.
Damaged facilities
Public space in poor conditions
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Lack of urban infraestructure
The objective was to develop a Pilot Program for the Recovery of Neighborhoods, which addresses the urban problem of a specific study area, through holistic design strategies, that promote the appropriation of public space and social cohesion. Through alternatives that favour the integration, inclusion and habitability of green, recreational, sports and cultural areas of public access, generating a whole social dynamic, to promote opportunities and welfare conditions that improve the quality of life of its inhabitants.
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The work established was based on a Michel Godet Methodology, which uses Prospective Planning, as the guiding axis to obtain the diagnosis of complex problems and the generation of agreements between citizens and local authorities, to improve their living conditions. The project proposes the strategic intervention of public use spaces that favour the dynamics of social cohesion, seeking the development of well-being and improvement of the quality of life of the inhabitants of Las Palmas. These dynamics respond to needs detected with the implementation of participatory workshops (based on Michel Godet’s Methodology), which allowed the generation of urban application strategies that would enable universal accessibility and mobility, improve the urban image integrating natural and artificial landscape, reduce the conditions of insecurity in the area, and allow the generation of microclimates that respond to the thermal comfort needs of the inhabitants when using public space, promoting the increase of recreational and sports activities, impacting a large segment of the population of the City of Lázaro Cárdenas Michoacán. The building hosts several different functions, like get-together activities for the local community, shows and entertainment. It will be used for cultural events, local performances, sports and recreative and ludic activities. The complex has been designed to be constructed with local materials that offer thermic comfort, long durability and environmental compatibility. The wooden structure with cross bracing elements provides a new architecture proposal. The South and West facades are designed to be large permeable walls that allow cross ventilation and comfortable temperature inside and protect from atmospheric agents.
Citizen participation workshops
Project validation workshop
Urban trategic plan and project location
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Speculative images of urban strategies
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Sports and recreation area
Public space and green areas
THREE Design and conceptualization methodologies
MDA Material experience program 48
Morelia, Mexico 2019
As Professor of the master’s degree in Advanced Design at the Universidad Michoacana, I have developed experimental workshops focused on material experience and the creative process. The objective of these workshops is to be able to generate alternative methods that potentiate the conceptual-creative stage of the design process that also responds to the context characteristics and know how to use them creatively. Through an empirical practice of an analogous kind, students acquire the ability to develop projects far from the traditional methodological framework of architecture and generate new constructive systems that respond to the nature of the material itself. These were developed through research and interaction (learning by making) with natural materials acquired in the region. The essential part of this process is that the morphological results are the consequence of the understanding of the material, the construction systems work by understanding their natural behaviour. Also, haptic interaction allows the object to acquire an authentic identity and expressiveness.
Rattan rind. Student: José Alfonso Juárez
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Istle root. Students: Carmen E. Ramos and Raúl A. Cuevas
Acacia pods. Student: Sofía Caballero
Mexican pine leafs. Students: Paulina A. Chuela and Victor R. Delgado
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MDA Material experience and performative process Morelia, Mexico 2019
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tule
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fibra
This experiment is based on the need to analyze the different morphological phases of the material from a performative process. In which, a dialogue is generated from the physical interaction between the designer and the material, which results in a series of morphological discoveries as a result of the articulation of hands, mind and materiality. In which the human body becomes an active element of the design process, involving factors such as touch, sensitivity, intuition and spontaneity, also, this method of empirical character allowed to measure the material properties such as its plastic and tectonic capabilities.
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Sample of plastic properties of vegetable fibers — wicker, chuspata and palm leaf —.
These experiments intend to explore with materials that are rarely used in architectural and industrial design processes and that in turn respond to existing natural resources in the immediate context. Therefore, the mechanical qualities — torsion, deformation and flexibility— of three natural fibres such as chuspata, palm leaf and wicker are analyzed, which are natural elements used by local artisans for the manufacture of handicraft objects that generate a minimal impact to the environment. In such a way, due to its characteristics wicker was selected for the experimental design process development.
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Form-finding throug performance
Unlike a design process focused on technical and quantitative issues, it is decided to generate an activity based on the kinesthetic capabilities of the human body, which make the design process a living element endowed with human qualities such as artistic expressiveness. Which, in turn, generate a direct relationship with the mind and stimulate creativity. With a an activity as a physical interaction, we can observe the shape of the material is the result of the hands’ movement. In contrast to the conventional process where the designer imposes the form, here we can discover new ones that we had not imagined before. And at the same time, the interactive process stimulates creativity by increasing the possibilities of creation.
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The body can understand the material limits, and through this dialogue, the designer can comprehend the material properties and discover new ways to use it.
Finally, different shapes were created to research material structure behaviour and geometry. A first basic shape was selected, and with the repetition of similar modules and their interconnection, the form and the structure evolve to more complex ones and offered to generate conceptual speculations in design practice.
Graphic speculations of a complex structure as a result of the material exploration.
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After that, a form-finding phase followed to material behaviour, was carried out, where multiple models to know structural function and shape variation to the material. Here, happens such an exciting aspect, because the results of the exploration offered a new way to conceive forms and structural configurations, where designer prejudges —such as the personal perception of beauty or influences of what is aesthetically acceptable by society and the media — are left out.
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Mool Design with concrete
Morelia, Mexico 2019 Mool Studio was born from the need to create objects that revolve around experimentation and design, between the functional and the ornamental. Due to its sobriety and dynamism, we work with concrete as the base material. Wherefrom alternative design processes and the use of low impact technology, we seek the transformation of the built space into unique and contemporary environments.
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MDA Local materials and craft processes exploration Morelia, Mexico 2018
To create new ways that respond to the Latin american context, a sequence of experimental projects influenced by artisanal processes are developed, which have been generated under the use of natural resources and the ability to transform them into useful objects in a creative way.
Chuspata fiber
Basket made with chuspata
Based on this premise, it is decided to explore the chuspata (a type of water lily used by artisans in the region). That being one of the most undervalued materials within the market and the design field, there is very little knowledge of its properties as a material suitable for the elaboration of objects. Thus, we seek to generate alternatives that can be used under innovative proposals far from the traditional framework and trying to co-relate the interaction between matter, design and experimentation.
The process was divided into different phases dedicated to the understanding of the characteristics of this material under a deconstruction process that allows analyzing its structural and plastic properties.
This experiment was highly enriching since the master craftsman is fully involved in the development of the design process, this not only allows the study of artisanal processes and materiality (learning by making), but also generates an effect of empathy with their environment. This method offers a broader understanding in the human aspect, such as physical interaction as a learning agent, accompanied by elements such as intuition and spontaneity which generate that an experimental prototype becomes an object loaded with artistic expressiveness and identity.
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With the information from the first exploration, it is necessary to test these material qualities of the chuspata, taking it to a larger scale under the development of an object with greater morphological complexity (geometry composed of a Voronoi diagram, digitally manufactured). For this, several collaborative dialogues with a master craftsman, expert handicrafts manufacture with vegetable fibres, are generated to obtain more information about the use of this material in the creation of objects.
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Collaborator Design Fabrication Photography
MDA Emergency Shelter
Morelia, Mexico 2017
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Shelter
This project explores the conceptual design of an emergency shelter prototype with the ability to adapt to any context. In the search, it provides alternative solutions to critical situations caused in natural disaster scenarios and social-political problems.
Unitiy
Community
The develop of this shelter start from a concept of mimesis towards natural systems of coexistence between different living organisms; where Parasite-Host develops a mutually beneficial relationship, thus achieving a symbiosis process. In this way, its final morphology is far from value judgments, which do not encapsulate formal solutions with aesthetic or capricious purposes but are the product of a research process. Furthermore, its operation responds to the sum of elements that interact and inform each other. Consequently, with a collective interaction, it produces a behaviour of complex adaptive systems. Society
Conceptualization proces
The system definition is evolutionary and is accompanied by materials experimentation, in such a way that, during the design and experimentation process, the logic of the materials used in the prototypes can condition its evolutionary process. However, these conditions can enhance the exploration of new construction systems and improve design processes and systems.
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Material exploration, prototyping and fabrication
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Speculative scenarios and construction process
Collaborator Design Fabrication Photography
MDA Tensile Membrane Structure
Technological evolution has permeated almost all sectors of human life, with the design not being an exception since this is often affected by a constant process of change, adaptation and permutation. One of the objectives of this project is to reverse the weighting of high technology on low sophistication technology, in order to work materials and procedures operated by system rules, which suggest randomness in its result. In this way, the use of a material that has allowed the evolution of time and technological development. The concrete is proposed, because despite having been used for several centuries. In contemporary times it continues to be a material whose exploration exposes multiple areas of opportunity, where new design possibilities are generated, in parallel with the exploration of textile membranes exposed to stress (tension and compression forces) and form-finding processes.
Design and construction process
Commonly, architecture as a discipline is often limited by various factors that condition it for its materiality or functionality. This process aims to be a stimulant that allows the design to be explored from a non-linear perspective, through a disruptive process based on collective intelligence. Under this process, the emergency is allowed, understood as those complex phenomena from a system of simple rules
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Morelia, Mexico 2017
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that are part of a random, unpredictable or uncontrollable system. That which emerges without the result being the sum of its parts, it also favours the discovery of new ways to solve problems based on learning by doing and transgressing the design process from a rigid and static perspective. The focus is on the process instead of the result. Because if the process is duly reflected and understood, the result will give way to the emergenceW of the form as a process result. Therefore, aesthetic values have been set aside, to rigorously focus on the values of the materials, their mechanical capabilities, the procedure and the rules. [T M S], is a form-finding project it was developed in a workshop by Pablo Kobayashi and students of the master’s degree in advanced design. The focus of it was on the study of the behaviour of certain materials, which, when altered by various variables, explore their possibilities in their maximum exponent. As a result, concrete structures obtained trough a tensile membrane formwork by an analogue-experimental process.
System operation diagram —tension and compression forces — and concrete coating process
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3D modeling of tensile structure behaviour
Collaborator Design Fabrication Photography
MDA XCS3
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Morelia, Mexico 2017
Exploration of experimental process governed by random variables.
Borders definition
Concrete forces behaviour
In an era where design demands constant exploration and experimentation due to the monotony and standardization of its processes, it is necessary to undertake the search for new creative methods that serve to encourage current ways of doing, through experiential techniques and research. This experimental design program aims to develop a design process that seeks exploration in analogous techniques based on the understanding of materials, their properties, characteristics and limitations. The material behaviour is analyzed as a phenomenon and the control of variables that allow controlling the forces and actions that modify the nature of the final object. Like so, the phenomena analysis that occurs through procedural activities for exploration purposes, which ends in an object that seeks form as a consequence and not as an aesthetic purpose. The XCS3 project is an experimental prototype based on an analogous process, developed with ordinary materials of easy access and low cost —as glass fiber panels, plastic film and concrete — as an answer to the socio-economical conditions of the context.
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Experimental process and final result
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MDA Proto-Brick
Morelia, Mexico 2017
In an era where design demands constant updating and adaptability, due to the rapidity with which the contemporary world moves, it is necessary to undertake the search for new creative methods and processes that serve to encourage experimentation and research. As well, appropriate and innovative designs able to offer solutions to current design problems, to be able to elaborate a product in series under digital design methods with low technology processes. Proto-brick is an experimental design project developed from the exploration and investigation of the operation of polymeric resins for the creation of an element capable of self-assembling and proliferating on the x, y, z and 45º axes. To be able to generate three-dimensional and complex structures from individual components under a simple assembly logic.
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Carlos Perea Education 2020 Master in BIM Technology and Methodology. Autodesk Official 2019 Master’s Degree in Advanced Design Architecture School- UMSNH 2015 Architecture and Graphic Design Architecture School- La Salle University
Lenguages Spanish English (B2)
Contact (+52) 4431820535 cperea.map@gmail.com issuu.com/cperea7