Architecture & Urban Planning Portfolio - Arch. Jessica Cattoni

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JESSICA CATTONI

Nuremberg, Germany.

nationality: Paraguay

email: jessicattoni@gmail.com

Cel: +49 151 42484440

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Motivated by a holistic approach to the practice of my profession, I have collected over the years a wide variety of experiences. Now I aspire to achieve built spaces that represent a sensitive experience for its inhabitants, while relating to their environment in a responsible way.

This portfolio focuses on the two projects in which I had the greatest level of responsibility and impact.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2020 - 2022

2019 - 2020

2019

2018 - 2019

2017

2015 - 2016

2014 - 2015

SKILLS

Creative Cloud

CAD Drawing

BIM

Mapping

Render

3D Model

Microsoft Office

EDUCATION

2012 - 2019

2016

Freelancing | Architecture, Urban Research & Development

Independet | Architect

FADA-UNA | Project’s Auxiliary Teacher

Sergio Ruggeri Arch Office | Design & Executive Project Team

OCA | Executive Project Developer

CIDI FADA | Junior Investigator

Elgue & Associates | Internship

Photoshop - Lightroom - Illustrator - InDesgin

AutoCAD

Revit - ArchiCAD

ArcGIS

Lumion

SketchUp

Word - Excel - PowerPoint

FADA | Universidad Nacional de Asunción

FADU | Universidad de la República exchange semester

LANGUAGES

German

English

Spanish

B2 TELC

109/120 TOEFL iBT Home Edition

Native

Awards & Recognitions

Clinica Elgue | XI BIAU 2019 - BAQ 2016

Private Hospital San Martin | Project Competition

Semeter Projects (4°, 5°, 10°) | Represented the University for the annual Aroztegui Price

CONTENT

Summer House in San Bernardino

Personal contributions to the Project

Design - 50%

Plans - 50%

Sections - 50%

Ambient details - 50%

Construction details - 50%

Construction Direction - 30%

Renders - 100%

Photography - 100%

This house in a summer vacation city was my first job as an independent architect in collaboration with a colleague.

The commission was to design and construct a vacation home for a family with five children of ages 1 to 20.

For this reason, in addition to social spaces being the axis of a vacation home, we emphasized the creation of multiple spaces for hosting guests, from a living room that can be extended to the open plan when needed, to a green-shaded intermediary space, to a terrace lake and sunset view in the distance.

The local climate in summertime made the creation of shaded spaces and crossed ventilation a non-negotiable priority for the design, as well as the preservation of all of the trees.

TERRACE WITH BRICK FLOOR SHADED

The bedrooms are divided in two blocks: The first, located in the first floor accommodates the parents and the younger children on the front of the house,

The second block, located on ground level at the back of the house, takes the form of a open plan with enough space for the two older sons to invite friends over, while keeping a little distance to avoid disturbing other people sleeping.

On the upper floor, brick filters were used for a number of reasons:

- To defend the spaces from the heat of the sun

- To maintain visual permeability to the exterior.

- To generate warm spaces and facades with ever-changing patterns

- Use of inexpensive, locally produced materials

EXTERNAL METALIC STAIRSDETAIL OF ELEMENTS

EXTERNAL METALIC STAIRSELEVATION

Seeing the project from the first lines, through the whole building process until the end, helped me learn a lot about the importance of a multidisciplinary approach with technicians throughout the process to avoid mistakes and be the most efficient as possible on the construction.

UCA Teaching Hospital

Arch. Sergio Ruggeri

2017-2019

Finished Project

Personal contributions to the Project

Design - 15%

Plans - 40%

Sections - 100%

Ambient details - 30%

Construction details - 15%

Research of technical requirements - 15%

IMPLANTATION ON TERRAIN

This project is a high complexity hospital with 50,000m2 of built area, located within the framework of an educational complex of the Catholic University, where the following would be implemented:

A - Faculty of Medicine (already built)

B - University Hospital (developed project)

C - Nursing block (future development)

The campus is located in a highly urbanized area, and because of its complexity, the project required not only the solution of the building itself, but also to foresee the impact it would have on urban traffic flows and the appropriate solutions.

During my 2 years of participation in the project, we were able to clearly define the general design of the building, develop and adjust with precision all the technical spaces through constant consultations of technical and functional requirements, consultancies with suppliers of hospital machinery and experts in hospital buildings at regional level.

In the final stages of the development, I was personally responsible for all sections, floor plans of the south tower, details of various rooms and some construction details, as well as getting the project approved by the Ministry of Public Health.

The created the leaves open the hospital visitors.

tension created between buildings leaves a public open space for students and hospital staff or visitors.

The hospital building is clearly divided into functional blocks.

- On the lower levels (in direct contact with the street and the plaza in between) are the outpatient programs, such as the emergency and diagnostic room.

- The north tower contains the inpatient rooms,

- The curved south tower houses the more complex and specialized procedure programs, such as operating rooms and ICUs, among others.

The whole campus complex is treated not as a unitary and enclosed entity, but as a permeable piece of the urban fabric in which it is implanted. Access can be found on multiple angles and levels with a functional approach, fundamental for a project of this nature.

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DIAGNOSTICS LEVEL WITH ACCESS TO OPEN GREEN SPACE

STREET ACCESS TO THE EMERGENCU LEVEL AND PLAZA

VIEW FROM THE EAST STREET

VIEW OF THE INPACIENT BEDROOMS BLOCK FROM STREET

VIEW FROM THE UPPER TERRACE

VIEW COMING FROM THE STREET THROUGH THE MEDICINE FACULTY - 2

VIEW COMING FROM THE STREET THROUGH THE MEDICINE FACULTY - 1

Personal contributions to the Project

Research - 65%

Maps - 50%

Redaction - 100%

Structure definition - 50%

Calculations - 50%

Axonometries - 0%

Renders - 0%

Other graphics - 30%

Context of location:

1. Guaraní Aquifer - South America

2. Location - Paraguay

3. Location - Context of the Patiño Aquifer Area

4. Mburicao WatershedArea of Asunción

5. The middle watershed of the Mburicao River

6. Maximum recorded precipitationAsunción, 2017

7. Maximum recorded precipitation - Area of Study, 2017

8. Average precipitation events Calendar w/ amount of days and mm

9. Correlation between temperatures and average rainfall perceived per month

Asunción is the capital city of Paraguay. With about 2 million people moving through its streets every day, frequent urban floods put 30% of the country’s population at risk, causing economic losses, health hazards, and even threats to human life.

This research first studies the causes and impacts of urban flooding within an area relevant to the study topic, the Mburicao stream’s urban basin, one of the most severe flooding points in the city.

To get a diagnostic, we carried out the analysis of many characteristics of the site, including the stream profile, the surface of its watershed, the impact of urbanization on the watershed, and the extreme precipitation events predictable for the region through the use of GIS data analysis, consultation with experts, and statistical data analysis.

After getting a better understanding of the natural function of the Mburicao watershed and the impact the urban fabric has had on it, we created a set of Urban Planning Guidelines to reconcile the natural ecosystem with the necessities of urban life.

Each Guideline is focused on different areas that need to be worked on:

1. Fluvial-Urban Ecosystem

2. Sustainable Mobility Infrastructure

3. Public Space

4. Infrastructure for urban water management

and each one comprises layers of Strategies and their corresponding suggested actions, which together would restore the river canal’s capacity to absorb the runoffs, reduce the impact of storm events, improve quality of life, and use resources more efficiently.

10. Analysis of Mburicao River’s Basin Profile

11. Topography Map 12. Mapping of open/ channelized parts of the river.

13. Summary of Prosopal of Guidelines, Strategies, and Actions

GUIDELINE 1 - Fluvial-Urban Ecosystem

Urban streams are a natural and highly effective infrastructure that provide environmental, social and economic services for urbanization, including a high capacity for rainwater drainage, thanks to the conformation of their watersheds.

This research recognizes the need to provide them with certain conditions for their conservation and correct continuous functioning over time, seeking a kind of symbiosis in which natural resources constitute an ally for the optimal functioning of the city.

River enviroment recovery

River enviroment protection

GUIDELINE 2 - Sustainable Movility Infraestructure

A substantial part of the problem of pluvial drainage in urbanization consists of the extended impermeabilization of its territory. This can be seen mainly in the use of impermeable materials in fast and medium traffic streets, and its progressive increase as the lack of quality public transport and the lack of offers of non-motorized means of transport promotes the preference for private cars.

A sustainable mobility plan would not only provide more permeable land but would also bring many other urban benefits to the quality of life of its inhabitants.

GUIDELINE 3 - Public Space

Public spaces play a key environmental role and are places for meeting and interaction, important for the quality of life, social integration, and citizenship building, areas in which the city of Asunción is sorely lacking. Ensuring that all citizens have access to green spaces within walking distance from any location is fundamental to health, as well as the environmental and landscape regeneration of urban ecosystems.

Therefore, we propose the creation of more green spaces based on even geographical distribution, as well as the regeneration of available public spaces that do not meet the requirements to be used as such.

Catalizadores urbanos

GUIDELINE 4 - Infraestructure for urban water management

Drainage management must irrefutably go hand in hand with land use planning, taking the watershed as the basic unit of water management and understanding the natural flow of storm drainage in the territory.

Therefore, the proposed actions were grouped into strategies that meet the challenges of each of these stages:

1. Water Harvesting

2. Water Infiltration in the territory

3. Water Conduction to destiny

Rainwater harvesting

Water Infiltration

Water Conduction