Portfolio 2023

PORTFOLIO

FACUNDO SORAIRE

Bachelor of Architecture

National University of Córdoba

Selected works 2019 - 2023

Urban Design - Landscape Architecture

There was a book from Henri Lefebvre that I read some years ago that delves into the right to the city concept. It understand urban space as a social construction, where citizens have the right to participate on this process. Since then, I always try to get closer to this right when designing.

This portfolio showcases my recent work from a variety of scales and approaches. This not only demonstrates my technical and communication skills, but also highlight my commitment to addressing urban challenges in my community for creating equitable and just urban environments.

The works presented in this portfolio (images, plans, drawings, diagrams, etc.) are works carried out by the author entirely or where his participation was crucial during its preparation. Some photographs may have the source at the bottom of the image.

Urban segregation landscape in San Salvador de Jujuy city, 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PALPALA: URBAN INDUSTRY

Urban Regeneration

ENVISIONING LOS HUAICOS

Informal Settlements Integration

REGENERATION DOTS

Stategic Interventions

PLAYA BLANCA IN MOTION

Urban & Water infrastructure

BUFFER LANDSCAPES

Masterplan and Landscape Design

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PALPALA: URBAN INDUSTRY

Landscape and Urban Regeneration

Undergraduate Thesis | Final Project

Palpala | Jujuy, Argentina

Urban Regeneration | Territorial planning, Natural system restoration, urban resilience

Facundo Soraire & Franco Santillan

Javier Giorgis | Advisors: Fernando Díaz Terreno, Román C. Vera AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, Google Earth, Global Mapper Researcher and Urban Design

Best Student Projects 2020 | ArchDaily Argentina

International commerece strategies for productive integration promoted by Biocanic Corridors in South America enable middle to small-size cities create new connections to integrate this network of cities and exchange products. Local econommies benefit form this and communities then recieve investment form goverments. Palpalá is positioned in a strategic geographical situation, is one of the last cities before the Altiplano desert (Arg-Ch) and in the intersection of a North-South historical corridor that links Perú, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina as regional tourist destinations. In addition, its location near to the capital city of Jujuy province provides it with esscencial urban services and facilities. Is crucial to create a plan for this integration, but the que stion is, how?

The last century witnessed how Palpala shift form a rural village to a modern city with national recognition. This was due to the settlement of an metalurgic State Company under the well-known ImportSubstituting Industrialization model in Argentina. This model provided public facilities to enhance and strengthen community relationship with the Company. By the 80’s most of the citizens had a relation with “La Fábrica” as it was called by them. From workers to military employees, entire families, professionals and foreign laborers. After a neoliberalism model that privatized the state enterprise in the 90’s, a profund harm was produced in the society. The new Company reduced its personal to 20% and stop manufacturing most of the products. By 2000, a fragmented and weaken social structure started to percive the effects of the industrial waste and the environmental damage that it caused. Now, the society faces new challenges; to recover that imaginary of the company as a cultural value and to enhance new generations to reconfigure the social and natural structures.

The abandoned infrastructure still worth for all citizens and could be the piece of reconstruction of its community.

The comprehension of an urban system in a Latin American context and the recognition of its primary urban elements guide us in designing strategies for a sustainable intervention. Palpalá City has a significant connection to its industrial history, which made it renaissance as a modern city during the 60’. After a production decrease and the collapse of rooted social structure, the creation of new urban deal define an intervention closely tied to its ecological and cultural context.

TERRITORIAL CORRIDOR SYSTEM

The current Corridor, that links international harbors form Chile to Brazil, presents an unique opportunity to redefine our perspective on obsolete infrastructure Thinking form territorial to urban space and vice versa has allowed us to recognize that the industrial advancements of the past century provide an opportunity not only to address the challenges left by abandoned infrastructure but also to envision a revitalization of our cities from within, rather than continuing the endless expansion.

Urban artifacts as catalysts for community development Workers in the mine. FM (Military Manufactury). Public domain

Altos Hornos Zapla Company visited by tourists, 1960. Public domain

BIOCEANIC CORRIDOR SCHEME

BIOCEANIC CORRIDOR REGIONAL SCALE

The proposal of a Metropolitan Re-structuring Plan will re-organize the city and reconfigure the natural and urban environment by working with layers of Natural Systems, Mobility and Infrastructure System and The vacant areas. All of them interwined will promote new areas of densification, recover the architectural eritage of the city, establish areas for rural production and areas for new industrial production including a Logistic Center for the Bioceanic Corridor.

METROPOLITAN RESTRUCTURING

Old AHZ Company rehabilitation and new Industrial Heritage Park

A PROCESS ON TIME

It is important to be able to create a proposal scheme of intervention. Given that the in context of economic instability and crisis, this proposal could not reach the objectives in the future. At least, some of these projects will be completed and will integrate a system of public interventions from public spaces to regulations.

INDURBAN STRATEGY

The concept of new industries that can coexist within urban envornments is implemented in different scales.

The main purpose is to create a district that can growth under new regulation of land use, promoting the settlement of new technological and knowledge industries. This will generate new employees and frame the market to private investment in the city.

The indurban city combines collective housing, public and private facilities, industries (1st, 2nd and 3th categories).

Pedestrian passages break the 150 x 200 meters block core and work as a transition space between public and private areas

Rio Grande lanscape

City expansion to riverside rural areas

Different typologies of industries in the same block; 2nd Category Industry Piled Industries and Mixed-Groundfloor. All industries can coexsist with the city

Collective Buildings, Social Housing, Mixed use towers (Offices, co-working, start ups) and commercial groundfloors are localized in relation to the publicprivate transition.

CULTURAL-HERITAGE STRATEGY

There is an intangible connection between citizens and these buildings in the city center. They must be integrated to the society and providing public sapces interventions that will contribute to the proposal.

The great axis links the existing buildings and new ones to engance community participation through public spaces. The new programs and the recovery of sidewalks along with the tree plantation is crucial to provide quiality in those spaces.

Regional Modern Movement. civic Center and Zapla Cinema & Theatre. 1948

Altos Hornos Zapla club Stadium. Since 1947

RURURBAN STRATEGY

The relationship between the city and nature, servs as a transition between a monofunctional urban sector and the new strategic reserve area. The proposal involves diverse forms of food production, including community gardens with collective housing, autonomous gardens with grouped housing, and the integration of existing residential fabrics into the new role of the area through expanded plots. The plan envisions a new productive hub culminating in a self-sustaining Metropolitan Market that collaborates with the local inhabitants.

Public facilities integration to the new axis by expanding its open areas to the street creating new public plazas

New sports and administrative programs to strhengthen te existing facilities. It wil lincrease the inhabitat interaction in open spaces.

Public areas in the streams slope contribute to buffer the streams swelling in summer rainy season.

Seasonal mountain river Los Alisos. Dry season

Excluded social dwelling, scarce of complete infrastructure

to generate small producers.

Collective housing buildings on a single productive plot. Community gardens on the ground floor next to the area for colective plantation.

Sustainable production grouped into productive units with social housing within land for productive use. Housing and work in units that are part of the Metropolitan Agricultural Park.

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ENVISIONING LOS HUAICOS

Landscape & Community Resilience

2023

Final Project | Sustainable Cities course

Los Huaicos | San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina

Urban Plan and Landscape Design | Community development, Natural system restoration, urban resilience

Planning and urban designer, team leader and speaker

team with eng. Nahomi Alfaro; archs. Valeria Cari, Maximiliano Sanchez, Noelia Tolaba, Cristian Heredia, Salma Faiad Municipality of S. S. de Jujuy & College of Architects Jujuy

GIS, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Miro, Sketchup

The intervention area is located in the northwest of the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, delimited to the north by the Río Grande, to the south by National Route No. 9, to the west by Barrio Los Molinos, and to the east by Ciudad Cultural y the National University of Jujuy. It predominantly covers the Los Huaicos neighborhood, characterized by its linear development along Bolivia Avenue, an old access road to the Humahuaca ravine. This neighborhood has a discontinuous and irregular topography, highlighted by the huaicos, depressions in the land with water courses that run transversally and a marked south-north slope towards the Rio Grande, with unique vegetation. The intervention focuses on improving public spaces with community participation, meeting places and intersections, addressing the needs of the neighbors and the urgent protection of inhabitants located in risk areas, or near flooding areas, electrical radiation, or proximity to future railway activities. The urgency of protecting the water system, environment, flora and fauna motivates committed action to provide integrative solutions that protect and optimize natural resources, aspiring to build sustainable cities and improve coexistence between man and his habitat to promote a sustainable community development.

The Rio Grande Basin is one of the most important watershed in Jujuy province. It not only serve as a natural resource with an unique lanscape, but also it allocate different communities along the riverside. Understanding the Los Huaicos Minor Basin as part of this interconnected system, is an opportunity to develop a more comprehensive proposal committed with the community itself but also with a particular natural condition with a strong cultural heritage tied to the ‘Rio Grande’.

Natural environment within urban spaces

The Huaicos area consists of distinct sectors (Atalaya, Huaico Chico, Huaico Grande) characterized by significant differences in infrastructure, building topologies, and a lack of connectivity. Families, driven by the desire to preserve or enhance their assets and economic standing, engage in various social activities, sometimes with ilegal occupation of land. Residential use is predominant, lacking centrality and clear spatial structure, contributing to the insufficient provision of services and the dependance of the city center.

Inadequate sewerage contributes to the use of precarious sanitation facilities, impacting citizen health. Informal setllements, including overcrowded and unsuitable conditions, prevail, with limited adherence to institutional regulations. The absence of an urban planning code fosters informal settlements, exacerbated by environmental imbalances from elevated brickyards, posing threats to the population and causing environmental degradation in Huaico furrows.

SITE RECOGNITION AND ANALYSIS

People plays an important role when designing projects for communities. The workshops and labs for discussion prepared an horizontal platform where everyone can talk. In this process, the neighbours shared their experiences and awarness about the site and the proposal. ACTORS

124ha

5107hab

1.91m2

The project management model must include the active participation and organization at various levels of influence of the different actors currently involved in the site belonging to the municipal, provincial and national state, including those community organizations or cooperatives that work on different programs, and to in turn, promote the participation of other actors such as; private, academia, nongovernmental agencies, multilateral and/or international banks, non-profits and last but not least, people. Using concepts such as community-based projects, projects can be created together with neighbors, giving them the possibility of participating in the decision-making and construction of the place where they live daily. The need of citizen participation and community workshops in different stages of the Masterplan will help to achieve better appropriation and validation by the neighbors and permit the project lasts over time.

9760m2

56.11ha

-1.5C°

Social Agents and ONG’s initiatives involvement

Open Table for discussion Neighbours ideas

SECTION A-01 Reconnected National Route and Informal Settlement

SECTION A-02 | Bolivia Ave. as a new multimodal transport roadway + new regulations

SECTION A-03 | Linear Railway park and Station. Landscape observation points

MASTERPLAN FOR LOS HUAICOS

REGENERATION DOTS

Strategic Guideline Plan for San Salvador 3

Pofessional Work

San Salvador de Jujuy | Jujuy, Argentina

Stategic Interventnions | Urban acupuncture, public spaces requalification

+ Horizontal Arquitectos (Puglisi, Bárcena, Cícero) Municipality of San Salvador de Jujuy

GIS, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Miro Researcher and Urban Design & Planning, Speaker

San Savlador de Jujuy is the capital city of Jujuy province and its population is in constant growth causing the city’s expansion with monofunctional residents areas without identiy under a land consumption model.

At this level, is important to regenerate public spaces in this city to foster individuals interaction by densifying policentric cores and thus create a more intense and livable city.

This work consisted on the implementation of a series of strategic interventions throughout the Municipal area, where zonal districts were delimited to concentrate the projects according to the spatial relationships that each of the city’s neighborhoods have.

After a deep analysis of each sector, actions were determined based on three fundamental axes: Socio-cultural integration, reconfiguration of current regulations, adaptation to climate change.

Each analysis has a sector plan that identifies strengths and weaknesses in a global manner to then study a project with a specific context. In that stage, actions will be taken to respond to the problems found or promote existing activities in the sectors.

These interventions aim to explore alternatives, offering conscious and comprehensive solutions for residents. The proposed ideas will be presented to society, and further development will occur through participatory process to validate this interventions.

Human Settlement and boundaries

Natural Preservation Areas

Hydological Risk

INTERVENTION

San Salvadro de Jujuy urban landscape.

References

Natural Conservation Area - Priority Ecological Corridor - Prioriy Conservation

Public Space

Public/Private Facilities

Hydrological System (rivers,streams, canals)

Streams slopes on Risk

Opportunity Area - Urban Surplus Value

Sustainable means of Transportation

Links - Neighbourhoods Connections

Landscape appreciation roads

URBAN OASIS PLAZA

The proposal seeks to create an ‘OASIS’ in a public spaces that is now under developers speculation. The natural flora that is part of the park area and its natural topography helps us to create a retention lagoon that serves as a green infrastructure that will drain naturally the rain water during storm summer season.

This is a current problem that affects people in the lower sector of the neighbourgood and will mitigate flood risks.

Z-02 - Cuyaya + Moreno District

Z-04 - Coronel Arias District

Z-03 - Gorrit + Luján District

Z-05 - S.F. Alaba + Alte. Brown District

Z-08 - Alto Comedero I District

Z-06 - San Pedrito + Malvinas District

Z-09 - Alto Comedero II District

4 Professional Work

PLAYA BLANCA IN MOTION

The Embedded Public Realm

Playa Blanca | Lanzarote, Spain

Urban & Water infrastructure | Private-Public intervention, Urban development, Cilmate Adaptation

Urban and Landscape Designer - Project Leader

+ PLUS Avatar Office | Colaborators: F. Miralles, L. Rinaldi, A. Romero, M. Chiesa, L. Martinez

Municipality of Yaiza, Private Stakeholder

AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Miro, Sketchup

In recent decades Playa Blanca has experienced notable and rapid growth due to the tourism explotation, the development of a wide range of leisure and entertainment, with numerous excursions and sports modalities for practice, urban beaches, shopping centers and pedestrian streets with a large influx of tourists mainly from European and Scandinavian countries. Under this situation, the local government and stakeholders are debating how to create more attractions for tourists.

The commission aims to initiate a private project involving new recreational buildings on a 94-ha plot of land, targeting individuals of high society. To ensure the project’s success, we encourage a dialogue between the private sector and the local government. A consensus was reached to expand the project area and, through new urban regulations, it will incorporate the landscaping of an additional 90-ha of public space. The private sector will contribute to this area by optimizing the construction process and design. This collaboration stands out as a key strength of the project. It not only benefits the stakeholders by allowing new land uses to increase profits but also integrates a new community space for residents. This space will concentrate facilities, commece, and government buildings, transforming it into a new tourist center for visitors to Playa Blanca.

Playa Blanca coastal pedestrian promenade. Source: Official Tourist page

WATER MANAGEMENT

The water strategy is not merely symbolic but a vital component, given the scarcity in the area, integrated into the city’s natural and artificial drainage system.It aims to recover and collect water from different surfaces for park maintenance and use in water features.

This undestrand the recognition of water as a crucial resource for life, emphasizing sustainable and measured use. The system comprises water-collecting surfaces, temporarily storing it until directed to the nearest underground cistern. Once filled, it connects to a main network throughout the Linear Park, aligning with pedestrian routes and sidewalks and linking with larger storage points throughout the walkway. At a major road intersection, the cycle ties into existing stormwater infrastructure, incorporating filtration and purification points before returning the water to the sea.

Still water Pergola

Pedestrian promenade

Yaiza City Hall

BUFFER LANDSCAPES

Public Spaces for Mitigation 5

National competition

Miramar de Anzenuza | Córdoba, Argentina

Master Plan and Landscape Design | Environment natural restoration and risks mitigation

+ Lucía Moresi | Colaborators: Agustina Moya, Juan Reyes Municipality of Miramar & Architects College of Córdoba

AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Miro, Sketchup Urban and Landscape Designer

Understanding Miramar de Ansenuza as part of a larger system is crucial to make a comprehensive proposal that responds to different variables. From a Territorial Scale, where the “Mar Chiquita” lagoon plays an important role within a wetland system that runs through the Northeast region of Argentina; continuing through a Sector Scale that links Miramar with other coastal cities conforming an interconnected economic system, up to the town itself where the seafront and the different environmental risks are mitigated by a green infrastructure and a transition between the urban and the natural environments, combining public spaces with buffer systems and environmental remediation of the existing flora and fauna.

The proposal, on the one hand, addresses growth control and regulations by implementing new normatives wich determined Project Areas and specific project for each one. On the other hand, the plan focus on new regulations for developing the front area of the city within an environmental conservation and tourist strategy. We recognize this intervention as a dynamic border with ecological significance and historical resonance and the urban park as public infrastructure that functions both, as a barrier when flodd happens and as a quality space that contributes to a broader system of interconnected open spaces.

Territorial Environmental Unit - Integration of ecosystems troughout the Northeast region of Argentina

Urban Centers Hierarchy - Miramar with a touristic role and entrance to a ecologic corridor.

Coastal Urban Network - Strategic location, the transition between nature and urban centers.

Action Plan - Interconnected layers

New Coastal Buffer Front - Public spaces and nature as a catalyst border

Recurrent flood in coastal front of the city. Source: Miramar Tourist page

MIRAMAR MASTER PLAN

Miramar has a long history with the great lagoon, as its called as “Mar Chiquita” or Little Sea. In 1978, the unexpected rise of the lagoon level made at least 16 blocks of the city disappear underwaters. Since then, people abandoned houses in front of the coastal and give their back to the ‘sea’. This salty water body and its beaches are visited every year in summer season. The local economy thrives on these tourists flows that are recently more frequently seen walking along the new coastal avenue. Despite being a small town, it has a particular attraction to new visitors thanks to the vast landscape of the lagoon and all the flora and fauna that inhabit on this ecosystem. However, although the local government is investing and promoting a new coastal avenue, it is crucial to plan strategically a proposal for these vacant spaces on the front line of the coast.

Source of the images. Tourist pages of Ansenuza

Coastal landscape view

Flamingos near the beach

“Pirate Ship” & ruins

Historic Viena Hotel URBAN

FACUNDO SORAIRE

PORTFOLIO 2023

National University of Córdoba, Argentina Urban Design - Landscape Architecture