Spring 22' Harvard - Portfolio by cristianbassilva

2009-2021

CRISTIÁN BAS SILVA

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Architect from Chile Master in Landscape Architecture I AP 22’ Harvard University cbas@gsd.harvard.edu +1 857 206 9964 Cambridge, MA

CHARCOAL TREE SECTION HAND DRAWING - HARVARD EXPOSITION Ewa Harabasz - Drawing For Designers Fall 2021 - Distinction

CONTENTS 1.

THE MANGROVES Affordable Housing Building Floodable site near Miami River GSD - OPTION STUDIO Fall 21’ Elizabeth Whittaker & Corey Zehngebot

CARVE IN - CARVE OUT Re-naturalization of Boston’s Seaport District waterfront GSD - CORE STUDIO IV Spring 21’ Belinda Tato

THE GREAT BELT Stormwater purification infrastructure for Boston’s wetlands GSD - CORE STUDIO III Fall 20’ Danielle Choi

CASAS BLACK [Black Houses] Design and construction of 12 houses near the Chilean coast PROFESSIONAL WORK 19’-21’

PARQUE MAITENCILLO [Maitencillo Park] Design of a masterplan for a new gated-community PROFESSIONAL WORK 15’-18’

NEK MATANZAS 4 boutique houses-hotel development in an oceanfront site in Matanzas Beach PROFESSIONAL WORK 17’

PLANETARY LAKE LANDER NASA’S STATION AT THE ANDES Final project and Thesis for Bachelor’s degree UFT [CHILE] FINAL STUDIO 14’ GRAPHITE SELF PORTRAIT - HARVARD EXPOSITION Ewa Harabasz - Drawing For Designers Fall 2021 - Distinction

THE MANGROVES

I-95

NW 17 AVE LIBERTY SQUARE

A 2.24 acre site near the Miami River with an inminent flood threat due to Climate Change. Moreover, in 2001 the Miami River commission started an urban public path project along the river. However, it has never been built. The general guidelines for this project are to create concrete walls that could support this new public path.

DOLPHIN EXPRESSWAY

NW 17 AVE MARLINS STADIUM

PUBLIC PLAZA - MANGROVES

VERTICAL FOREST

This new residential proposal merges landscape and architecture in three different strategies. First, its ground level is lifted to contain a church, a cultural center, and a parking area, as well as two tilted plazas that will let the water in. Both new plazas will have mangroves to create a natural buffer refugee for manatees, threatened by the river’s pollution and boat traffic. This elevated platform will create a new public space, prepared for the tide changes that Miami will experience in the future. Above this new public space, the residences are CLT modular constructed and connected with the landscape by a vertical forest placed in the three structural core elements of the building. In addition to this, the residences are stacked and turned from each floor, letting gardens grow. The building will have a vibrant facade, proper for this tropical climate with these strategies. All this new natural vegetation added to the building will be irrigated from the collection of rainwater from the roof, creating a new cycle that merges landscape and architecture in one project.

ELEVATED GARDENS

STORMWATER COLLECTION

NEW EDGE CONDITION USING MANGROVES AS REFUGEE FOR MANATEES

STORMWATER SHADOW ANALYSIS

MIAMI RIVER

I-95

3.00

APT HIGH 04 NCT 34.40 APT HIGH 04 NPT 31.40 APT LOW 04 NCT 3.00

31.20 APT LOW 04 NPT 28.20

3.00

APT HIGH 03 NCT 28.00 APT HIGH 03 NPT 25.00

3.00

APT LOW 03 NCT 24.80 APT LOW 03 NPT 21.80

3.00

APT HIGH 02 NCT 21.60 APT HIGH 02 NPT 18.60

3.00

APT LOW 02 NCT 18.40 APT LOW 02 NPT 15.40

3.00

APT HIGH NCT 15.20 APT HIGH NPT 12.20

3.00

APT LOW NCT 12.00

APT LOW NPT

3.00

9.00

UPPER PLAZA 6.00 FINISH FLOOR UPPER PLAZA 5.00

4.40

RIVERWALK

2.00

1.00

AGUA -1.00

CARVE IN - CARVE OUT

RE-NATURALIZING SEAPORT’S WATERFRONT Academic | Landscape | Resiliency Boston | Massachusetts | USA *GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN - HARVARD UNIVERSITY FACULTY Belinda Tato

The proposal of a new strategy to protect the waterfront due to the inminent flooding in the future. Many parking lots and obsolete infrastructure in the Seaport district are crucial elements in creating a natural buffer that could prevent the water from coming in. The ‘carve in and carve out’ strategy to get soil from those extended areas and break down the imperviousness of areas like this could save soil extraction away from natural places. The process will be in stages and enable the water to come in slowly in specific areas for public access and vegetation to grow, bringing a new ecosystem to this sterile district. The carved material will be placed as a natural mound near the coastline to create a natural buffer and a new public path. We could break the paradox of oceanfront access in the Seaport District and many other places in the US and protect our city from sea-level rise.

THE GREEN BELT

RE-NATURALIZING SEAPORT’S WATERFRONT Academic | Landscape | Resiliency Boston | Massachusetts | USA *GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN - HARVARD UNIVERSITY FACULTY Danielle Choi

In Massachusetts, many aquifers and wetlands are constantly being polluted by the stormwater in landfills and rail infrastructure. Inorganic chemicals are discharged every rain season in cities like Boston. The proposal of a new modular infrastructure with a simple phytoremediation process and biochar filters in its interior could be used as a public path—a border between nature and the city. The phytoremediation area of the module could evolve into a living nursery as a new buffer between the city and the fragile ecosystem. With time, that new border starts to blur. While the biochar filter will need maintenance in the future, they could become part of the railway system operation as a new preservation process and ecological awareness for the city.

CASAS BLACK

.- WALKING RING CONNECTED TO THE CENTER VOID OF THE HOUSE

*PROJECT PROTOTYPE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT [12 houses $4MM managed] PROJECT TEAM Cristián Bas [head of Architecture] | Macarena Bas [head of Design]

A 1,800 sqft modular eco-friendly prototype with a fast construction process. I was in charge of the whole project development (design, management, construction, and real estate business.) Concrete foundations lifted the volume to encourage ventilation and easy access for utilities. The whole structure and walls separated from the exterior finishes of the house creates an air chamber to increase insulation. We designed an underground grey-water recycle system to reutilize water to irrigate the garden. The house does not need any AC equipement and BIM technology was a key element to develop its efficency. The prototype was built-in in 6 months, and after one and a half years, we were able to sell and build 12 homes.

.- NORTH VIEW

.- STRUCTURAL ESSENTIALS PARTS AND PIECES

.- CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

CORTE X-X DETALLE BAJADA AGUA LLUVIA ESC 1:20

.- CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

.- SEPARATED FACADE DETAIL PINEWOOD 2X3"

TORCH AND FLOP - MEMBRANE

ROOF BRACING PINEWOOD 1X6"

STRUCTURAL OSB 15mm

TORCH AND FLOP - MEMBRANE

LP BEAM I JOIST 24.1cm

24,1

PINEWOOD 2X3"

INSULATION LAYER

17,41

ALUMNIUM MULLION 20x20mm

PINEWOOD 2X5"

LP TECHSHIELD 15mm LP PAINT PANEL R4

LP HOMEWRAP

PINEWOOD 2X2" CEPILLADO

ALUMINIUM LATTICE

WATER DISCHARGE

EXTERIOR HEAT PROTECTION

243,54

252,4

S.I.P PANEL

INTERIOR

PVC TERMOPANEL WINDOW

INSULATION LAYER

WIND COOLER SYSTEM

PINEWOOD 1X4"

INSULATION LAYER 1,5

LP BEAM I JOIST 24.1cm

24,1

.- ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE PLAN VIEW

FLOOR INSULATION LAYER LP TECHSHIELD 15mm STRUCTURAL OSB 15mm

PINEWOOD 2.5X3"

CONCRETE FOUNDATION HUMIDITY BLOCK - WIND VENTILATION

TERRAIN LEVEL

.- BIM MODEL

.- CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

The model served as a guide for project management and as a tool during the construction of the first prototype. Our first experience let us realize that many decisions needed to change for the future success of the project.

.- BIM MODEL

*PRIVATE AWARD WINNER FOR REAL-STATE PROJECT PROPOSAL PROJECT TEAM Cristián Bas [head of Architecture] | Macarena Bas [head of Design]

As the first strategy, the seventeen acres of land, filled with eucalyptus trees that dry out the water resources of its context, will be replaced over time by native species. Second, we proposed a walking ring surrounding the project’s perimeter –to connect every private unit inside this new community. Third, we refurbished an intermittent ravine into a public area for residents as the heart of the project.

.- PRINCIPAL ACCESS GATE

The main access building was designed with the same appearance as ‘Casas Black,’ and the area was defined by diagonal lines that carved in the property to create distance from the public street. Stack stone walls and dark wood finishes were crucial materials to create the soul of the project.

28,15

.- CONCEPT PROPOSAL

.- MASTERPLAN

.- WALKING RING SECTION TYPE

.- NATURE ESSENCE

NEK MATANZAS Professional | Landscape | Hotel Matanzas | O´Higgins Region | Chile

*PRIVATE AWARD WINNER FOR PROJECT PROPOSAL PROJECT TEAM Cristián Bas [head of Architecture] | Macarena Bas [head of Design]

Two oceanfront landowners needed a proposal for a boutique Hotel contained in four cabins and two services areas, it was mandatory to have a clear ocean view. Its facade needed to be continuous for city hall obligations; however, each volume had its way of living the project in a private relationship with the ocean. Everything design in a 17,000 sqf lot.

.- MODELS EVOLVING TO FINAL PROPOSAL

.- ROCKS

.- DECOMPOSITION SCHEME

.- PROPOSAL SCHEME

.- PROJECT DIAGONALS

.- PROJECT MODEL

.- ROCKS VIEW

.- FIRST FLOOR PLAN VIEW

.- SECTION

.- SECOND FLOOR PLAN VIEW

BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH PARK NASA´S PLANETARY LAKE LANDER

.- REASERCH PARK - MASTERPLAN

Laguna Negra’s discovery, around 130 years ago by the first Chilean explorers, is still protected because it is the most extensive water resource of the Chilean capital. Due to climate change, the Glacier has been melting faster than before, transforming many microbiological resources in the lagoon. NASA has been researching that process since 2011 by testing robots and other technological prototypes that will be used in the future Planetary Lake Lander mission to search for life in the moons of Saturn. The proposal is to consolidate the area as a protective research scientific park and construct a modular and sustainable laboratory for the scientist.

.- VIEW FROM THE CAMPING SITE

.- THE FIRST EXPLORERS THAT TRAVELED TO THE UNKNOWN

.- PROJECT SITE MORPHOLOGY

The new lab sets a limit, which defends nature from the Anthropocene. The building features three volumes that emerge from the rocks - like an alien construction. The walls extend to the exterior as they were roots that connect the park with the project’s interior.

.- LAB SCHEMES

“..a light line that reinvent the landscape screen ..” (Careri, F. (2014). Walkscapes (2nd ed.). GG.) .- PROJECT MODELS

The red element is a lifted runway platform that connects the three volumes .- LABORATORY BUILDING SITE PROPOSAL

.- PLAN VIEW

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

BIM development for construction stages to efficiency and transportation

FOUNDATIONS

OBSERVATORY

PILARS

COATING

BEAMS

WINDOWS

Modular, fast assembly, and is capable of producing its energy. ‘The project is a rock that unfolds itself in the territory, colonizing the exterior with walls that approximate landscape.’

.- PROJECT MODEL

.- SECTION A-A´

.- SECTION B-B´

.- SECTION C-C´

.- VIEW FROM BELOW THE CLIFF - THE LABORATORIES EMERGE AS PART OF THE LANDCAPE

.- PROJECT MODELS