I am an architect graduated from the Central University of Ecuador, I have work experience in the field of architectural design as well as language translation (English-Spanish) and teaching Spanish. I have worked as an architectural designer for 1 year on a private architecture office, where I had the opportunity to design corporative spaces such as banks, offices, and clinical laboratories. I have also worked for the Embassy of Korea in Ecuador as a translator; and I am currently teaching spanish as well as I am working as an independent architect. I am really passionate about public space design and also designing furniture. My agile, efficient and confident personality has allowed me to successfully work with various clients in diverse work environments. I am an enthusiast of urban dance, clay pottery, photography, photo editing and illustration.
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Design Workshop VI UCE
Social Escadaria Building
Design Workshop VII UCE
St. Clara Paper Market
Design Workshop VIII UCE
Thesis Project
Final career project
Work Projects
Geometrica Architects
Architectural Contests
Microhome & Kaira Looro
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1 ESCADA BUILDING
Interior view
From the flat block to the social area of the project and city visuals
ESCADARIA
BUILDING
The project is located in an unsafe neighborhood in Quito. The main objective is to integrate the architectural object into the urban environment, generating safer and more walkable spaces, which are public and semi-public, but at the same time it manages a level of privacy more appropriate for a home. The volume is originated from a generative axis that follows the visual to “El Panecillo” which is a very important urban element in the city, and towards the San Marcos neighborhood, an in-between space is created and it reinterprets the interior courtyards of the colonial house. In addition, a significant subtraction of volumes is made and it separates the complex into several blocks of housing and facilities.
Calle José Olmedo
Cromática en fachada
Acabado de zócalos Materialidad de cubiertas
to the facilities on the ground floor.
5x5mm Wooden Slat
h: 240mm IPE Girder
Ih: 300mm PE Beam
h: 100mm HEB Girder
h: 240mm IPE Beam
2mm Glass Partition
h:90cm Handrail
Access
Interior yards (Semi-public spaces)
The construction system is hybrid (Concrete columns and steel beams). The columns have a brick coating to generate a uniform sensation and continuity with the brick walls. On the other hand, the steel beams are seen contrasting their dark tones with the warm materiality of brick and wood.
South Facade
Interior yards (Semi-public spaces)
Horizontal Circulation Bridges (connection between blocks).
Main pedestrian access on the top of the hill
3 ST. CLARA MARKET
The current market of Sant Clara de San Millán is one of the built landmarks of the Santa Clara neighborhood and Quito, it is part of the old historical limits of the city. Its historical, social and cultural components are part of the criteria to be taken into account in the design process. Since, due to the processes of urban consolidation, it is a neighborhood that, despite being active, has high levels of urban insecurity. The main goals of the architectonic project are to: 1. Recover the current Santa Clara market and incorporate it into a complex mixed-use architectural program that also includes an industrial function. 2. Implement a paper recycling industry that provides the sector with this product. (Due to the location of Central University of Ecuador, one of the main uses of land is the trade in paper elements and their derivatives.)
CROPS + COMPOSTING URBAN GREENHOUSE
A general volume generates a connection between the two chosen blocks, with squares and platforms inside that are appropriately integrated into the public space that surrounds the project. In other words, there is a direct connection on the ground floor with the streets surrounding the project. This helps to improve pedestrian flow and a more comfortable circulation. On the other hand, the morphology of the blocks allows the corners to be used as opportunity areas where it is easier to design public space that attracts the user to the project, which welcomes them.
South Facade
Facade
CHILDREN
his architectural project addresses an integrated program that unifies the care and development of children and youth with the education of women. The project is implemented at Universidad Central del Ecuador, due to a greater concentration of student mothers, relative to other large centers of higher education in Quito. It is important to point out that childcare tasks are ever-present in woman’s lives and these will often determine their movements around the city. Taking this into account, there is an obvious need for a facility that integrates childcare services locally. This would shorten the distances travelled and therefore the amount of time spent travelling. In addition, the project aims to offer a service to student mothers, as motherhood is one of the main reasons for dropping out of school or interrupting their studies. Thus, students will not only have a space for the care of their children but will also enjoy spaces dedicated to their own care and recreation.
HEIGHT
Ground
Accesovehicular
Accesopeatonal
Cota inicial: 2865 msnm
Second Floor +3.57m
Third Floor +7.48m
South Facade
East Facade
Toddlers Classroom design
Childcare facility
Montessori Method
5 WORK LOJA
PROJECTS
BANK
Banco de Loja is a bank located in El Oro-Machala. The firm was in charge of designing the building with its interior design, including personalized furniture, structure and instalations.
Planta Baja Agencia Bancaria
Ground Floor ATM, Customer support, back office
Masive customer support
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PROJECTS Villagomez Capital is an industry leading provider of lawsuit cash advances, pre-settlement cash, and post-settlement funds for auto accident cases, personal injury lawsuits, and many other areas of litigation. The firm was in charge of the interior design and personalized furniture.
VILLAGOMEZ CAPITAL
CONTESTS
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MICROHOME
WALKING HOUSE
The world is facing a housing crisis. In extremely consolidated cities, where land costs are excessively high, habitability problems are generated, leaving many homeless people. The lack of space and the economic inaccessibility to it are challenges that Walking House aims to address. The project seeks to design for vulnerable population; homeless people and immigrants. By designing for the underprivileged, it also benefits other non-vulnerable social strata, such as digital nomads and backpackers. The Walking House works from a core that contains everything you need to inhabit; self-sustaining systems and home furnishings. It has a rainwater collection system in an elevated tank that is then filtered for consumption, solar panels on the roof for electricity generation and dry toilet. The living space is deployed via a pulley system from the core. This makes it possible to generate social, leisure, work and rest spaces, facilitating diverse activities in a minimum space. Walking House addresses the global housing crisis from an innovative and sustainable perspective, providing a safe and accessible shelter that promotes a dignified life in a functional space.
6 CONTESTS
KAIRA LOORO
SEDHIPU MATERNITY HOME
The objective of Sedhiou Maternity Home as an architectural project is to offer a safe place, comfortable and equipped with what is necessary spatially to be able to meet the needs of mothers in the process of gestation, breastfeeding and in postnatal period. There is a volume from which 3 elements are subtracted that will become patios or interior yards; the intention is to offer more slack to the project in addition to being adequate for optimal ventilation and lighting conditions; as well as offering internal visuals from other areas of the architectural program to these interior courtyards. To have more sanitized or not so busy environments, two circulations have been generated, the main one that will serve as a connecting axis of all spaces to a center that is the entrance or emergency area. Thus, the secondary circulation will be for the exclusive use of medical staff and will connect the spaces that must have more asepsis, such as the surgical area, the delivery area and the observation area for neonates. Motherhood is a process that the mother often goes through alone, which is why the project offers an intermediate and shared area for mothers to share with their family and their child while they are in their postpartum recovery process.
ROOM
1. Rock footing
2. Natural soil
3. Compact soil.
4. Lower base reinforced concrete
5. Broken tiles on cement mortar on compact soil.
6. Foundation of tires with gravel
7. Stabilized Rammed Earth wall.
8. Vertical/ Horizontal reinforzing, 10mm
9. Thermal breeak and insulation
10. Metal sheet
11. Reinforced concrete ring
12. Independent roof metal structure
13. Primary metal beam
14. First layer roof: woven mat
15. Rosewood beams
16. Roof air chamber
17. Roof of corrugated sheet
18. Suspended local Fabrics
19. Bamboo cane window
20. Brick wall
7 PHOTOGRAPHY
QUITO BONITO
Caminano Quito aguantando la respiración
“Caminando Quito aguantando la respiración” stands for: Walking through Quito holding your breath. Although street photography might be dangerous at times, it helps you to realize about the hidden gems your own city has and how they have always been there without you noticing them until you start walking through it. The beauty of these hidden places takes your breath away, places you grew up with and never were conscious of their existence.
Cotopaxi Volcano Ph taken from Cochapanba. Quito, 06/01/2024
Historic Center Ph taken from Itchimbia. Quito, 14/10/2023
“Panecillo” Ph taken from San Roque. Quito, 04/12/2023
Junin y Flores Ph taken from San Marcos. Quito, 07/03/2024
Compañia Ph taken from Sucre Street, Historic Center. Quito, 02/05/2024
La Tola Ph taken from Itchimbia. Quito, 29/09/2023
La Basilica Ph taken from Itchimbia. Quito, 27/09/2023
Balcones Ph taken from Garcia Moreno Street. Quito, 02/02/2024
