Portfolio 2014

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CONTEST “ESCALA” MAGAZINE. EMERGENCY HOUSING Each year, the “ESCALA” Magazine had made the initiative “CONVIVE” a academic exploration space with real situations.

In 2008 the contest made a intervention in the north zone of Colombia, call “La Mojana”, each year this plain is inundated during winter

by Cauca river, generating serious issues to the people that live there.

This time the competition was divided in 2 phases, the first one on San Marcos' town (small city) and the second one on Achi's town (small village), both with issues relative to flood, health and mobility to the place.

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LA MOJANA, ACHÍ – BOLIVAR (VILLAGE), SAN MARCOS SUCRE (TOWN), 2008 - Colombia

Achí’s town Proposal for rural housing, that responding to floods, prefabricated, easily installed

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Urban Proposal San Marcos Despite being a specific project, this initiative aims to generate extra development of the town, with the creation of an expansion area which the public space design will be focus for.

The water as relevant element (in a bad way) will be the main point of the urban design, generating a change in people's perspective and start to see it as a positive element to the town.

Similarly, was generated an analysis relative to the regional dynamics, in which San Marcos plays milestone role for the regional economic development

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Public Space Proposal

San Marcos, Specific Project Urban Development proposal and general housing design with expansion option according to people’s needs Total area: 71.155 m2 Total houses: 448

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BOUTIQUE HOTEL “The View�

Armenia city, 2009 - Colombia A boutique hotel is like art: hard to define, but you know it when you see it.

To design a boutique hotel on XXI century is much more complex to design one mainstream brand that already has well-established standards to satisfy a broad spectrum of clients. A boutique hotel should offer a unique experience with an individual personality.

The main objective of this project was to generate a perfect cycle of beauty, from the main service aesthetic clinic and additional post-operative services; purpose and design that were defined from a regional and local analysis from society, environmental and morphological of the place.

The design was not only about a hotel, was about a entertainment center compound by 6 specialized areas (trade, art gallery - auditorium, rooms, restaurant, wet area, sports area and cosmetic clinic) generating a direct impact in the local dynamics.

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Plastic Modelst The boutique hotel design was based on plastic models that could give clear language to the project, but also a functional identification, according to use, relevance and functional linkage in the project.

All models were designed from the windows concept which want to potentiate the visual of the place in each activity make there.

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The gym of boutique hotel offer internal and external services, is equipped with: weight room, aerobics, stretching, cardiovascular, indoor cycling, sauna, steam and 6 spas’ room.

It is the articulation point between the clinic, the hotel and the sport area.

MEGA SCHOOL “Los Colorados” Bucaramanga city, 2009 - Colombia 1.

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Services Building CIRE • Library • Auditorium • Management • Teachers’ Room • Labs • Art Room • Nursing Firsts Grades • Class Rooms • Media Aula Cafeteria • Main Room • Agora Second Grades • Class Rooms • Media Aula Bucaramanga city had a deficit of school places, so in 2009 the city launch a contest to design one of their new mega schools, the specifications of the contest required a campus designed as activity center for the community because it is located in a popular area of ​the city periphery; the design responds to this by developing spaces where the community can be trained in arts and crafts, plus to the different spaces of an institution of this size.

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Cafeteria Planimetry

The cafeteria is a dynamic space that can be transformed according to the needs of use.

Fulfills its functions cafeteria, but accompanied by its context can be transformed in the agora or maximum classroom

Planimetry First Building of Classes Rooms

Planimetry Second Building of Classes Rooms

Armenia city, 2009 - Colombia

The Quindío’s University is the most relevant learning center in the state, in 2009 on the 50th anniversary, the main managers decide to take in consideration a ecological reserve that made part of the campus and create a botanic garden, that one will became in a tourism attraction and a relevant research center for the region.

This design should be linked the specific needs of the university and also became in a milestone at local and regional level, with the enough relevance for to be a eco-tourism attraction and serve as a main point for road development of the city​​.

Urban Planimetry

BOTANIC GARDEN “Jaboqui”

Urban and specific design

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