Portfolio Mayra Cristina Gómez 2022

+41 0766059462 crisgo73@hotmail.com

29. 12. 1986

Basel-Landschaft

MAYRA CRISTINA GÓMEZ ESPITIA

I am a Colombian Architect with a solid, ethical and humanistic base.

Through my practice, I seek to propose solutions that act responsibly in the face of the ecological requirements of the current reality, implemen ting bioclimatic premises that imply a reduction in the consumption of resources and generate energy and budget savings for the projects, responding creatively to the territory and customer needs.

EDUCATION

Universität Basel

Currently at the third semester of the master's degree of Critical Urbanism.

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín

2009 - 2014 / Undergraduate Architecture.

2007 - 2009 / Fours Semesters of Statistics.

CESDE

2004 - 2006 / Technical Education in Graphic Design.

SOFTWARES & SKILLS

Architecture Autocad / Sketch up / Revit

Rendering Lumiun / Enscape

Post production and desing InDesing / Photoshop /Illustrator

Bioclimatic Dialux /Ecotect

Audiovisual Premier Pro

Watercolor drawing combined with digital tools

Construction Course of BTC and Guadua (BTC: Compressed Earth Block)

English

Reading: C1 / Listening: C1

/ Speaking: B2 Writing: C1

German In progress. Currently in A1.2 Level

Interests

Rurality, Cities & Transportation Infrastructures

Public Space / Audiovisual Creation

COMPETENCES

Communicative Competence

Coordinating the unSOLAR project, I perfected the following skills:

• Leadership and organization of a big multidisciplinary teams

• Capacity of synthesis and infographic representation of ideas and concepts.

• Audiovisual creation; script and editing process

• Planning and web design (not development)

Organizational / Management Competences

As Architect in charge of property management I developed:

• Excellent domain of real estate acquisition processes with excellent organizational capacity for handling planimetric, cadastral, legal, and social information.

• Skills for mediation between the parties involved in a project

Job Competences

Thanks to the experience gained so far, I can conceive projects holisti cally by analyzing all their components socio-economic, bioclimatic, legal, architectural, and urban, including the creativity to present them.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Fourth place International Solar Decathlon Competition LAC 2015

Representing the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Honorable mention

Public Architecture Competition

Headquarters of the local mayor's office in Teusaquillo (Bogotá)

Organized by the Colombian Society of Architects.

Temporary union AREA4 - LAT Workshop

Architectural Preliminary Competition

Design of prototypes of kindergartens, Bogotá DC. Colombia

Temporary union AREA4 - LAT Workshop

Independent work

• Design of a temporary exhibition space in one of the free floors of the Sabaneta Library

• Design of architectural proposal for a house in the countryside.

• Design of architectural proposal for a small building of six levels with just one open facade.

• Second level extension of a small apartment

• Design and construction of a two-level single-family home prototype

• Extension of a small house (3.20m x 11.65 built area) in a 4-level apartment building with one commercial space.

• Design proposal for a restaurant-bar at Universal Blvd & Destination Pkwy Orlando, Florida

• Video editing work for The Adrs Group S.A.S.

Edu Hábitat Sabaneta

• Inventory of all real estate belonging to the municipality of Sabaneta, Antioquia.

• Property management for the development of road projects. Mediation and negotiation between the community and the organizations in charge of the road projects. Architectural and structural study of the affected buildings by these projects; proposal design for the remaining areas.

• Urban planning design, Tactical urbanism design and accompaniment in the construction of the roads.

• Development of all the architectural proposals required by the company.

Ingeniería Total S.A.S

• Design of architectural proposals for private housing projects. Assistance and tracing of constructions in progress.

• Design and supervision of the advertising pieces of the projects elaborated in the company.

Solar Decathlon Competition

• Design and construction of a prototype house for low-income families in the tropics, implementing solar energy.

• Development of a master plan, on one hectare of land, with a maximum density of 200 housing units.

• Coordination and elaboration of logistical, graphic, and audiovisual guidelines for project communication. Creation and structuring of content and information presented on the official website of the project: www.unsolar.co

Lat Workshop (now LaB)

incursion,

light conditions

choice of materials, acous tics, and

architectural project.

Academic Contest

Workshop 7: Public building

2013 / Finalist / Couple work

The natural history museum is im planted on the hill, creating a direct connection with its natural environment through a public surface that blends into the mountain and from which the six container volumes of the exhibitions emerge, located “under the earth”, like great excavated rocks.

This public platform is connected to the surrounding layout through trails and descends to the National University, joining the educational and cultural program of the sector.

Location and urban proposal, esc 1:1000

The circulation is fragmented with the help of the voids that are configured inside and outside the volumes, creating different heights and light entran ces, allowing a more dynamic relationship between the observer and the exhibition, forcing him to observe from different angles.

Bioclimatic development

Colombian Contest: UVA Orphanage 2014 / First Place / Collaborative work Colectivo 720 + LatWorkshop (now LaB)

The Articulated Life Units or UVA sought to take advantage of the infras tructure spaces for water storage of the EPM tanks — Empresas Públi cas de Medellín: Public Companies of Medellin — as an opportunity to approach the community

Intellectual rights belong to Colectivo 720 and LaB

Bioclimatic Strategies

Natural lighting in the spaces occurs largely thanks to the orientation of the facades and the arrangement of the skylights that allow light access to the most restricted areas.

The spaces where activities of greater visual demand are developed have natural lighting.

The large overhangs generated by the project’s roofs, make the interior spaces have controlled direct solar radiation conditions, which favors both the thermal behavior of the building and the visual comfort of the spaces.

Guidelines are established based on Colombian regulations and international manuals to improve the quality of circu lation areas and thus promote the inclusion of people with some type of mobility restriction.

Through the proper use of materials, it is sought to improve the acoustic conditions in spaces such as the auditorium and the multiple classrooms, evaluating different occupation models, it was possible to identify the surfaces that have the highest absorption coefficient.

Below accessibility and ergonomics analysis

Right up: Study of materials and acoustics in the auditorium.

Right down: Study of ergonomics in the internet cafe.

Solar Decathlon International Contest

Nacional de Colombia

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UNSOLAR is the proposal presented by the National University of Colombia for the Solar Decathlon Compe tition, which was developed over a year and a half by a multidisciplinary team of students and professionals in architecture, engineering, and construction.

The project seeks to meet the needs of a low-income family from the tropics, made up of three adults and two children.

The architectural design of UNSOLAR is based on the reinterpretation of the patio — cen tral courtyard — a typology of large importance in the Colombian architectural tradition.

The patio is conceived as an articulating void through which the exterior is integrated into the interior of the house, providing constant contact with the sun, air, rain and making this element the heart of the house.

The plant is structured from a 3mt x 3mt grid, forming 9 cubes around the patio: each one responds to a strip or life zone, which determines the character of each space.

The northern strip is intended for the social spaces of the house, including a flexible area for the auto nomous management of the family.

The central strip supports the speci fic service spaces, such as; kitchen, bathrooms, and patio, serving as an integrator of technical systems.

The southern strip houses the private areas that can be integrated or divided according to the needs of the family.

The grid that is arranged on the ground plan is reflected in the facades with a modulation strategy specially designed for the construc tion process of the prototype.

The Compressed Earth Block (BTC), works as the modular element from which the façade module of each cube is resolved, determines the assembly process, and provides in ternal thermal insulation properties.

The master plan is proposed to the southeast of Cali, in the area designated for the Navarro Eco-City macro project, which has generated negative perceptions due to the de terioration of the environment cau sed by agriculture and the pollution derived from the Navarro dump.

Faced with this conflict, a recovery strategy for the degraded natural environment is proposed, before any building intervention, to later urbani ze in stages under the parameters of a compact city model with sustaina ble principles.

On a local scale, a density of 160 dwellings per hectare is developed, replicating the concept of patio or central courtyard on a larger scale, which allows offering convergen ce spaces that include economic, social, and environmental aspects, promoting life in community and environmental awareness

A five-story building with a total of ten apartments —two apartments per level— is proposed as the basic grouping unit. The buildings operate self-sufficiently in terms of energy generation, accessibility, and co llective life, so they can be grouped to respond to different densities or conditions without affecting their dynamics.

Circulation

Structure

Technical networks

Solar panels

The street presents certain conditions rooted in the tradition of its inhabitants; we can see how the front gardens res pond to commercial, family, and meeting dynamics that allow a different and unique appropriation of the territory.

These conditions are integrated into the project, maintaining the ways of inhabiting the community space, and making them part of the intervention, thus respecting the desire of the inhabitants to preserve their front gardens as they are.

North side section

Tactile strip

Urban Furniture Strip Cycle route Straight curb Rainwater channel

Tactile strip Urban Furniture Strip Cycle route Straight curb Rainwater channel

South side section

Town planning

Tactical urbanism

2018 / Architect Contractor Edu Hábitat Sabaneta, Colombia

A tactical urban planning proposal is developed to intervene in a problematic and unre solved road intersection in a small area adjacent to a public park — The Four Elements Park. From said theme, the concept of this small-scale spatial improvement is develo ped, which aimed to be very low cost and quickly executed. The proposal is elaborated in the watercolor technique and personalized according to the geometry of the urban mobility elements.

localización

Exhibition space

Temporal “museum”

2019/ Architect Contractor Sabaneta Library, Colombia

In August 2019, the itinerant exhibition “Frida Kahlo, Sus Fotos” arrives in Sabaneta, for which is carried out — in the company of other experts — the architectural and gra phic design of a temporary museum that housed the 241 photographs from the personal archive of this iconic Mexi can artist, along with the work of a collective of Chilean artists, and the Brazilian photographer, Ricardo Stucker.

Right: Original open plan

Below: Distribution of the panels and the rooms for the exhibition

GG House

Two-level single-family home

2019 -2020 / Design and construction support

Independent work

A house to enjoy the garden and its green areas, play with your pet, have a barbecue without disturbing the neighbors and share with the family out doors. That tranquility that the countryside offers, but with the advantages of a home in the city.

TABLE OF AREAS

and dressing

The house has 3 bedrooms each with

separate dining room,

interior void that forms a double

room a greater feeling of spa ciousness.

floor plan,

Section by kitchen and bedrooms Section by stairs and hall.

Mayra Cristina Gómez Espitia