TRACES & EXTRUSIONS

TRACES & EXTRUSIONS Miamidesignsummercamp2. 2012

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Miamidesignsummercamp2. 2012 Projects: interventions in a foreign context Archaeological Actions into Merrick´s mind and vision of Coral Gables

TRACES & EXTRUSIONS Miamidesignsummercamp2. 2012

Projects: interventions in a foreign context

Archaeological Actions into Merrick´s mind and vision of Coral Gables 140 hours of intense and inspiring thinking

06.12

MIAMI DESIGN SUMMER CAMP 2 Acknowledgments Introduction Ing. Gerardo Silveyra: Dean of the School of Engineering at ITESM- Campus Chihuahua Ing.Veronica Irigoyen: Director of Center for International Affairs Arq. Miguel Cifuentes: Director Designalter Foundation and principal at Designalter Studio-Miami-Cartagena Christine Rupp: Director of the Coral Gables Museum Arq. Raúl Rodríguez: Adjunct instructor TEC Monterrey and Principal at Arquitectura en Proceso Projects: The 19 visions along US1 as it crosses the city of Coral Gables Arq. Jessica Hernández: Field coordinator and instructor at Designalter Foundation Arq. Luis Carballeda: Director DAF foundation Panama and Ppal. at Salceda & Carballeda Atelier d Architecture-Paris Student Andrés Chávez: Pratt Latin America Arq. Ernest Abuin: Architecture for Humanity Events Guest speakers and design critics Guided visits Testimonials Group

Special thanks to: For their remarkable support: Gerardo Sylveira Director Escuela de Ingeniería ITESM Campus Chihuahua MDAA Arq. Pablo Hernández Quiñones Director de Carrera de Arquitectura Dean, Architecture Program Ing.Veronica Irigoyen Baeza Center of International Affairs . Director ITESM Campus Chihuahua Raúl Rodriguez Adjunct at ITESM campus Chihuahua Ppal. Arquitectura en Proceso For housing the MDSC in such a meaningful space Chrisine Rupp Acting Director, Coral Gables Museum Caroline Parker Director of Programs For lecturing and showing an invaluable support: Ernest Abuin (USA) Adjunct Professor at Miami Dade College Lyle Culver, PHD (USA) MDC Andres Chavez (USA- Colombia) Latin Pratt Rafael Muci (Venezuela) Architect and Artist Carola Bravo (Venezuela) Architect and Artist (Mapismo Projects)

Ing. Arq. Mauricio Flores Herrera Director Academico

For Hosting the group: Marcia Lopes De Mello (Brasil) Juan Damas MDC Andrew Sribyatta Adjunct at MDC & Principal at PIE Alonso Martin Director Instituto Cultural Mexican Consulate Miami Jorge Bernal Yohandel Ruiz RTKL For logistics on transportation and events Pilar Daza Fénix Tours Ana Cristina Enríquez PPD Productions For joining us: William Cary Joye Meyers Miami Beach Historic Preservation & Planning Department Jessica Hernandez (Colombia-USA) Instruction and Logistics Designalter Foundation Miguel Cifuentes (Colombia – USA) Director Designalterstudio

Introduction

Publications about architecture and design typically focus on form rather than process; the ďŹ nal result is given precedence over the laborious search to achieve it.

The text and images you are about to see are a series of lapses of processes of a collective experience. The imagery represents the work that emerged from The Miami Design Summer Camp 2 inspired and promoted by the School of Engineering at the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey campus Chihuahua in Mexico. Under the speciďŹ cations and criteria of the Interdisciplinary Applied Design Studio (IADS) by Designalter Foundation, the pedagogical collaboration pretends to promote the fact that design education, while travelling abroad, is vital. The catalogue aims to provide an insight look at this exceptional learning experience and to inspire others to join such a unique generation of new visionaries.

New Academic Frontiers in South Florida.

Nowadays, the preparation for university students’ needs to be more related with the reality, besides the interactions with different people, cultures and points of view. Solving real problems, proposing alternatives’ solution and interacting with other cultures play an important role in this preparation. In Monterrey Tech, Chihuahua Campus we are convinced that students need to be related with these factors.The workshop developed for a group of students and professors in Miami, Florida was an example.This workshop conduce the students to feel, to live, to learn toward a new experience, to put in practice new ways to acquire knowledge.The experience in South Florida let us stimulate the creativity of our students, prepare them in the team working, learn of other cultures and understand other environments.

Ing. Gerardo Silveyra Director de la Escuela de Ingeniería (Dean, School of Engineering) ITESM campus Chihuahua

Since the commercial trade has become more common and the concept of globalization is a concept of economical need between nations, more than a development decision. Education and particularly Superior Education cannot and should not stay behind. The demands of the accelerated youth y the fast transformation of IT’s oblige us but above all motivate us to maintain the rhythm with the vision of future scenarios of academic opportunities at an International level. International Education has being able to penetrate in places in which governments, diplomacy, politics y peace agreements have failed, is the actual bridge, between cultures, languages, traditions, staying over geography, knocking down paradigms.

The Northern region of Mexico faces a new challenge, the growing uncertainty of a situation that affects all globally, ITESM has managed to stand firm in the circle of International Education.The enemy to defeat now is the discredit provoked by a minority. The success will be achieved through the creation of new and better opportunities of academic, professional and personal growth inside of an environment with a different culture. The survival to this metamorphosis called by the experts,“cultural Shock” enriches the soul, mind and body of students, who motivated by the strength of their own youth will take advantage of every little detail, sometimes without even knowing the importance of their achievements.

It is our purpose to continue establishing platforms and opportunities to our students that allow them to grow at the required speed in the world.

Ing.Verónica Amelia Irigoyen Baeza Center of International Affairs . Director ITESM Campus Chihuahua

The Coral Gables Museum was proud to host the students from the Tecnologico de Monterrey, campus Chihuahua and their Miami Design Summer Camp. Camp Director, Miguel Cifuentes and the students provided a very bright spot in our summer with their beautiful spirit, enthusiasm and willingness to participate in our own summer camp for children.

The students’ work was imaginative and it was amazing to observe their creativity – having been placed in a new environment and given the challenge to create a broad design implementation within the context of Coral Gables.

The Museum celebrates architecture, urban design, planning and sustainable development and the students’ projects displayed engaged all of those elements. We were impressed with the students’ designs and interpretations.

We congratulate you on the success of the Miami Design Summer Camp. You are always welcome at the Coral Gables Museum!

Acting Director

Mobility, in every sense, and internationalization are the two main objectives in the education of an architecture student. Nowadays, the necessity of students of architecture to travel and develop projects in different places pretends to offer different tools for the student to develop in the future, as a professional, allowing the flexibility to position anywhere in the world.

The intention of the Itinerant Workshops of Integrated projects pertaining to the curriculum at the ITESM Campus Chihuahua, a pioneer in promoting this kind of experiences that aim to accomplish the above objectives with the students.

This workshop is hosted and supported by DesignAlter Foundation Miami which offers, besides the opportunity to interact with various Latin American experiences, to understand the geographic importance of the city in order to have the possibilities of intervening in it.

Arquitecto Raúl Rodríguez, Architect Partner at Arquitectura En Proceso Adjunct profesor at Tecnológico de Monterrey campus Chihuahua

Tourism as a mechanism for retrieving spatial experiences.

Tourists (the students) very often forget that their presence in a place holds the secret of the true memory of that community, for they produce the chronicles that ignite and maintain tradition relevant; the life of the instant becomes the chronicle of that experience, of the spatial experience of that particular place and that very sensorial feeling is what constantly activates the design encounters.

Miguel Cifuentes, Architect (Colombia – USA) Director Designalterstudio

There were several actions to reach the result that was exposed at the end of the workshop.

From two chosen words (notions) and a fabrication of a variety of spatial patterns, a concept was developed the first week, a foreign idea. By introducing the intervention site, a first action occurs. Spatially, the "site plan" can be defined as a series of intermittent horizontal and vertical planes.These planes are operated by the impacts of the strokes of each participant.These stamped planes become the intermittent traces of foreign ideas.

Through the implantation site passes the mass transit system. This very one system drags silhouettes and moves contours. With photographs, we realize that this is not just a metro transit system, but the author of a vacuum space.

The second action is to break the bridge of its confinement; students, then, must perceive the empty symbols through photomontages.

The third move is between the program and the design process. The line and silhouette swaying to multiply, accommodate, and rest in a poorly contained and permeable structure.

The intersection of these three movements make the result: the traces of foreign ideas seek refuge in spaces shaped by the passage of symbols, the authors of the newly created vacuums.

Jessica Hernández, Architect Research group Designalter foundation

Antonio Sandoval Fabián Moreno Oleg Casale

Pablo Amores

Federico Matamoros Francisco Escalante Ignacio Ochoa Roberto González Carlos Colomo Alessandra Valenzuela Liliana Martínez Paulina Gutierréz Claudia López Pamela Pazos Alejandra Noble Daniela Ordoñez Alejandra Jalavera Jessica Rodriguez

us 1 as it grosses Coral Gables

The 19 Visions Archaeological Actions into Merrick´s mind and vision of Coral Gables Precedents Getting to know a space - place conceptually can be achieved by a mediation of symbols that in this case become spatial experiences.

An object or a place achieves a concrete reality when our experience of it is total, that is, through all the senses as well as with the active and reflective mind. long time residents enables us to know a place intimately, yet their image may lack sharpness unless we can also see it from the outside and reflect upon our experience. this intervention is a look and a reflection from the outside elaborated by the participants.

The international urban and architectural operation in a foreign context pretends to occupy a series of interstitial spaces in order to activate potential sites for proposing a circuit of elevated and excavated artificial topographies or Miradores Urbanos conceived for contemplating strategic points of the city. said vertical and horizontal platforms are composed by precise and calculated spatial experiences, all focusing in recovering the myth and the mystery of Coral Gables most historical and authentic components.

The main objective is to exhume, recover and honor the hidden urban archaeological elements that compose the city of Coral Gables: the proposed rout of Miradores Urbanos becomes a didactic contemporary trail for learning along US! As it runs through the garden historic city.

WARPED, HORIZONTABILITY COMMUNITY GARDEN The deformation is produced by the intersection of different horizontabilities Alejandro Villalobos

CINEMATOGRAPHIC SET Natural Displacement ConďŹ ned spaces caused by natural displacements Alessandra Valenzuela

CONTEMPLATION FOUNTAIN Assembled Mold Space series of state and assembled Antonio Sandoval

OBSERVATION TOWER Geometrical Crack Activating Urban space through merging experiences Claudia L贸pez Bastidas

IMBRICATE LINES Gourmet Lines Carlos Colomo

CULTURAL CENTER Synetic Grids The synetic void generates a superposition of urban grids Daniela Ordo単ez

ETHNIC MEMORIAL Mythical Ondulations Mythic is an spatial illusion of the many found in Coral Gables Fabian Moreno

URBAN OBSERVATION TOWERS Rhythmic Distortions The connection between hermetic spaces with another object, creates a rhytmic distorrion Federico Matamoros

CYCLING CONNECTION Unexpected Conection A sectionated plane, that when displaced creates voids, that offer an unexpected connection.

Francisco J. Escalante

LANDSCAPE TOWER Model Lansdcaping Kinetic landscapes for observance Ignacio Ochoa Duque

READING SPACES Carved Displacements Spaces carved by displacements and forces Alejandra Jalavera

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE GALLERY Dense Fabric The dense tissue produces spaces with multiple perspectives Jessica RodrĂ­guez

BLURRING LIBRARY Blurring Limits Blurring limits become a labyrinth Liliana Martinez Antill贸n.

EXPRESSIVE SIGNALS CENTER Choerographic Extrapolation Itineraries become a choreography of pauses Alejandra Noble

SHAKEN SILHOUETTE Vertical Park Underwoven connections are the result of unexpected connections Oleg Casale

EVERGLADES CULTURAL PAVILLION Alluding Contours The interconnected spaces represent the union of two planes, two worlds (nature and man) Ian Pablo Amores Muguira

ANTIQUE BOUTIQUE Building Clusters Spatial clustering through suspended excavated borders K. Pamela Pazos

CORAL GABLES BOTANIC GALLERY Calligraphic Incisions Space is a constant thresholds of calligraphic incisions Paulina GutierrĂŠz Pastrana

REFLECTION MEMORIAL Woven Continuum This project offers a series of inďŹ nate illusions that do not have beginning or an end Roberto Gonzalez

Re-urban cycle.

"As we have not found anything that addresses the urgent demographic, now we are doomed to constant Recycling".

R. Koolhaas The transfer of the rural to the city has been one of the constant challenges of urbanism since the industrial revolution.This mobility of rural to urban, from the periphery to the center of our cities today has forced us to be providing the city system a "bypass" to be able to at least temporarily alleviate the problems of urban mobility in the absence of research and consistent policies.

It is imminent that we are facing the end of a cycle where urban indiscriminate occupation of space is destroying our resources, the landscape and leaving our cities vulnerable; this fact invite us to take a step forward towards the new "Urban Re-Cycle ".

This is where we ďŹ nd a wide scope for exploring new urban spatial experiences.

Luis Carballeda, Architect Salceda y Carballeda Atellier d Architecture PanamĂĄ - Paris

For many decades, Latin America has been considered synonymous with modernism in terms of its architecture and urban design. Without a doubt, modernism had its day in the 50’s and 60’s with the likes of Niemeyer, Villanueva, Salmona, to name a few.Today, Latin America is attempting to redefining itself on its own terms. No longer should do they look to the US or Europe for the satisfactory nod of approval by historians and critics. Imbedded in its own unique context that accompanies unique problems, Latin American architects, urban designers, and even sociologists and politicians must conjure up a true self identity that does not reflect that of the exterior. It must bring together the diversity and richness of each place and put it in such a position where it writes its own history. Let's stop looking at the past, let’s look at the future and formulate a plan to rule the world.

Andres Alfonso Chavez, Architect Latin Pratt

The interventions were a reection of archaeological interpretations of George Merrick. The projects relied on historical and contextual stories relating to people of multi races and social standings delineating the stretch along US1 bisecting Coral Gables.The interaction with the students established humanitarian views of the existing areas.

The projects served as beacons to educate the public on the history of Coral Gables and also US1 as well as providing a speciďŹ c community use, from museum to gallery to education center. Most interesting each student brought a sense of his /her culture and wove it in to the experiences they had in Miami which shaped their designs.

Ernest B.Abuin, Architect Ernest74@aol.com M.Arch, M. Des. S B.A.Anthropology Architect, Designer, Preservationist Architecture for Humanity Miami Chapter Coordinator

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2 1. William Cary at the Reinterpreting-Redirecting Harding Town Site Exhibit at Mexican Consulate 2. Final Design Crit 3.Invitaci贸n Exhibit Design Summer Camp 1 at Miami Beach for Mexican Consulate exhibit 4. Speaking about architetcure to the Coral Gables Museum summer camp 5.invitation Coral Gables Art Walk

children

Rafael Muci On His Artistic Take Of Space

RaĂşl Rodrigez On Design Articulation

Luis Carballeda On The Notion Of Urban Recycling

Lyle Culver On Architectural Edcation

Miguel Cifuentes On Concept Development

Jessica Hernandez on Materiality

Christine Rupp At Final Crit

Ernest Abuin on Architecture For Humanity

Carola Bravo On Final Crit

Andres Chavez On Final Crit

Key West and Its Flavor

MAM of Miami

Riding Along The Everglades Natural Park

Architectural OfďŹ ce

Frank Gehry Perfoming Arts Miami

Guest Design Crit At Miami Dade College

Parking Buldg By Herzog & Demouron

Strolling By The Wynwood Art District

Testimonials "Te agradezco mucho las atenciones que tuviste durante todo el curso. La filosofía que nos compartiste me ha hecho reflexionar mucho, creo que la arquitectura la entiendo en un nuevo lenguaje. Es una profesión que me apasiona y pretendo dar lo mejor de mi para poder aportar un poco al universo.

Recomendaré mucho tu curso y espero que año con año hayan más estudiantes.

Seguimos en contacto” Saludos cordiales Ian Pablo Amores Muguira Tec de Monterrey Campus Puebla

"Agradezco muchísimo todo el apoyo que nos diste el mes pasado. Fue un gustazo participar en el taller y estoy apuntado para próximas sesiones! hasta pronto".

Saludos FABIAN MORENO ITESM Campus Chihuahua "Mi experiencia al trabajar con Miguel Cifuentes director de Design Alter Foundation, en el taller promocionado por el departamento de Ingeniería del Tec de Monterrey Campus Chihuahua, fue un despertar ante la arquitectura y el diseño.Antes del taller de verano yo creía saber lo que era la arquitectura, con el transcurso del mes mi visión fue cambiando y al final del taller todas mis creencias sobre qué es hacer arquitectura fueron puestos a juicio. Después de este taller, me doy cuenta que la arquitectura es sentimientos, es experimentar, es entrega, es dejar fluir esa esencia creadora. No se trata de resolver un baño una junta de un muro con cristal. Ha sido la mejor experiencia académica de mi vida; la calidad del material del taller, los personajes invitados, las visitas a despachos, los viajes de fin de semana, combinado con la pasión y la entrega de Miguel hacen de este taller un deleite para cualquier arquitecto o diseñador".

Carlos Colomo Tec de Monterrey Campus Chihuahua "El Curso de Verano impartido por la Fundación Designalter, y promovido por el Tec de Monterrey campus Chihuahua, fue una experiencia muy enriquecedora para mí porque me enseño a ver la Arquitectura desde otro enfoque, al que muy comúnmente se acostumbra a ver, por lo menos en mi contexto.

Fueron muchos factores los que hicieron que este programa fuera único. Principalmente, el tener la oportunidad de intervenir en otro país implica considerar un contexto totalmente diferente y una oportunidad de replantearte los conceptos a los que estás acostumbrado. El segundo aspecto importante, en mi opinión, fue la participación de personas de diferentes lugares, estudiantes, ponentes e instructores, ya que te da la oportunidad de enriquecerte con puntos de vista muy variados, que tarde o temprano siempre te servirán.

El verano en Miami, me deja un crecimiento personal muy grande y las ganas de día a día proponerme y trabajar en ser una mejor profesionista, comprometida con mis ideas y mi carrera."

Paulina Gutiérrez Tec de Monterrey campus Toluca