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“God is in the details” Mies van der Rohe
“To be an architect, you have to be two things: optimistic and curious. I like being optimistic. I believe the human spirit is capable of incredible things. The most beautiful buildings, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State, where lifted in times of ruin, depression, pessimism. I wish we could do the same with this world.” Sir. Norman Foster
The posibility of shaping life is my way of understanding the practice. My name is Juliana Currea Correa, I am motivated by the power that an architect has on her hands while designing. It is an honor that I always take with responsibility, because to generate experiences and evocate sensations are my biggest ambitions and do not deserve less effort. The possibility of shaping life is all to me. As a designer, I base my process on five criteria: the understanding of matter, the solidity of a conceptual intention, the fidelity to my own ethic values, the good technical development and the sustainability.
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Covid 19 2020
Recycling Gate Siete de Agosto 2020 Bogotá, Colombia
Kachi 2019 Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Façade CUAN building 2018 Bogotá, Colombia
Other interests 2018-2020
Recycling Gate Siete de Agosto PRSA by its spanish acronym
Recycling in Bogota, and Colombia, is a historically neglected industry, given the disinformation and prejudices towards it. The Recycling Gate Siete de Agosto was born as an architectural response to this social problem and was designed as a space of monumentalized infrastructure that means and dignifies the practice of recycling in the city. Based on the fact that Colombian regulations recognize this labor as a public service with environmental benefits, in which landscapes and scenic beauty stand out. Thus, the primary objective of the proposal is to associate recycling with the environment; with the balance between the natural environment and us, under a built context; because this is precisely what recycling protects. Based on the benefits mentioned above, for its architectural potential. The project is implemented in the Siete de Agosto neighborhood, in the northeast of the city, as a piece of urban impact, but also, with an understanding of the place where it is placed. Achieving to be great, but respectful; propositional, but also mimetic. Likewise, although it is an industrial solution, its resolution is poetic; because it is poiesis that fosters a cultural attitude in those who visit the project. Finally, for the formulation of the proposal, it incorporates: first, a reflection on how to make a monument on the horizontal, always following the postulate of “monumentalize to educate”; and second, a reflection on the temporality at this point of the city, and how the neighborhood is defined as a changing urban framework by the itinerant presence of the different populations it houses throughout the day.
Siete de Agosto neighborhood Bogotá, Colombia Location Infrastructure culture Category 4200m2 Area 2020 Year Autodesk Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere Software used
Aerial view The vocation of the proposal is urban, so it intends to be a new milestone in the city and a lamp that encourages the activation of the area in the hours of the night..
Siete de Agosto’s market square
Site plan The main interest of the project is the public space, where the connection with nature is generated and the proposal takes on its educational role. Is important also to recognize the commitment to exalt the urban landscape through visuals.
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Axonometric view The urban complex is made up of a green heart, an industrial perimeter dedicated to recycling, and two extra pieces for the community (housing and outreach). The concept of bridge arises from the idea of taking a step between waste and its potential new life. While the idea of a gate is given by the location of the project, on the eastern edge of the neighborhood.
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Longitudinal section- Industrial area This image captures the more industrial process of the proposal, however, what stands out are the interactions of the project visitors with the different moments of recycling, making them participants at the same time.
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Outreach area cross section- reception to the citizen Within the technical development it was important to incorporate both recyclable and recycled materials, thinking about the importance of materially signify the activity and the final life of the construction.
Perspectives according to the user The proposal, in general, was thought at all times from the three users that inhabit it: the citizen, the worker, and the collector, with this, each one has a way to relate to the project.
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Temporary housing plan The housing area was raised from the way of life of waste pickers living in street conditions (19%), from where the temporality is extracted as an important aspect, considering that they have up to 12 work hours daily, which could be during the day or night. The result is single-person rooms with common service areas, cataloged according to their orientation and consequent sun protection as daytime or night.
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Imaginaries A transversal point to the approach from the beginning was the temporality and the condition of constant change that the site has, for this reason, in the images the emphasis is on showing this.
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KACHI a villaje at the Salar de Uyuni The Salar de Uyuni is a completely exceptional place for the open salt landscape it offers located in Bolivia. However, in recent years it is experiencing a major exploitation problem due to its growing popularity as a tourist destination and industrial presence. As a result, the fragile natural balance of the place is threatened and, also, a constant flow between the site and the surrounding villages is being consolidated by the supply of employment within the salt flat. The commission is a village for the workers; and the project is born from the premise of perching as a barrier, of being a front edge to the salar with room for 500 families. Consequently, the intention of this village-threshold between that sea of salt and the mainland is to enhance its landscape while serving as a protection for its natural balance. For KACHI, salt is a unique opportunity in architectural terms, for its quality as a material and the landscape it consolidates, that is why it is emphasized in the proposal the exploration of construction with salt. Likewise, the salar means that the project has to understand a coastal condition. Thus, the implantation is linear and covers almost 1km of edge. As for the interior distribution of the village, this part of a comb scheme, where the services are encompassed on the edge overlooking the salt landscape, and the housing is organized perpendicular to it. In this way, materiality and implantation are given directly by the characteristics of the place.
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia Location Urbanism Residential architecture Category 62500m2 Area 2019 Year Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Autocad, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesignRepresentation Honourable Software used
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CESCA + Estudio ROAM
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Site plan The landscape at KACHI is everything, for its richness and uniqueness. So, the implantation speaks of its respectful and protective dialogue of the existing.
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KACHI’s housing main intention is to be sited specific and to respond correctly to the social reality of the place. In general terms, the project has 528 housing units, of which 205 are 117m², 268 of 78m², and 55 of 39m². In keeping with the lifestyle of its inhabitants, it is possible to use them as productive housing in most cases. And also, each house has at least one garden area. As for its construction method, sedimentary rock and salt (local abundant materials) are used as structural materials, starting from a modular system of load-bearing walls. The use of these materials in the façade is equally interesting, as they contribute to the orientation by color contrast.
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In KACHI are understood as Oasis the cisterns that collect rainwater. As for its construction, its structure is similar to that of the houses (although they do not have thermal insulation) and has included an underground tank with two filters, one rock, and one sand, to facilitate the purification of water collected. Returning to the notion of an oasis and its relevance in the management of water, these have large water mirrors that serve as capillary connections within the village.
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Conventions 1. Waterproofing layer with PVC channels as containment 2. Concrete Deck Slab + Standing Mortar 1% 3. Structure of concrete arches and beams 4. Facade in modulated sedimentary stone 5. Wooden window 6. Concrete slab-on-grade plate with a visible salt finish 7. Water tank with double filter
8. Sedimentary stone wall 9. Bilayer shell of (1) salt + binder and (2) outer sedimentary stone finish 10. Post-tensioned concrete prefabricated pieces 11. Modular floating floor 12. Aquatic vegetation on cast concrete plate 13. Lightweight partition + acoustic insulation + downspouts 14. Cyclopean foundation
Illustration The interior of the houses is unique for the materiality of the same, for its high flexibility and constant relationship with the exterior and nature, and finally, for being in itself intimate shelters, but with high contact with the exterior. Exploited axonometric These speak of the great value of the construction within the proposal, which is raised from the place. Upper: Edge Construction Bottom: Cistern
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New facade for CUAN building A ceramic enveloping, that was the assignment. The objective, on the other hand, was to give a new way of life to those who live in the block to intervene within the CUAN. For this proposal, at first, we had the possibility of generating a cantilever over the entire perimeter of the existing building of 1.5m. This would be used to generate different new scenarios, both inside the apartments, and in the common areas. And from this, the idea of community as the center of the project is put forward. The mission was to create an element, but the vision went much further. The block originally had a circulation system organized every three floors, points at which the elevator stops, and the other two floors were connected with 4 stairs, of which, each one communicated to 2 apartments per floor, for a total of 8 dwellings per level. This system was maintained, however, the spatiality and the stay in the circulation space are reinvented to be spaces that encourage the encounter and with this the consolidation of a real community. Thus, the core material of the intervention to generate a new atmosphere is light. And what shapes space is the shadow, which creates a changing game of figures. For this, the enclosure is proposed as a ceramic latticework system, with different densities. This one, in its interior apartments, new vegetation in height, articulating the dialogue in vertical between the house and the common spaces; while in horizontal, this game of light and shade invites to remain.
Antonio Nariño Urban Center CUAN, Bogotá, Colombia Location Renovation Residential architecture Category Area 2018 Year Autodesk Autocad, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator SoftwareRepresentation used
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Juan Felipe Sabogal CESCASabogal + Estudio Co owner ROAM
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General type floor plans- 3 floors distributiondistribución 3 pisos The perimeter transformed the interior in terms of its atmosphere, characterized by figures painted with light and the presence of nature.
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Details and pieces The technical development is one of the most important points of the proposal, for which it was based on commercial ceramic pieces, and based on them, their variations were elaborated, both in clay blocks and glass.
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Collage This created atmosphere is the primary goal of the renovation. Light is the main material and the connection with nature, interior and exterior, are the added values of this new envelope.
Section model This scale model shows a compilation of the entire system, bringing together all the pieces of clay and glass, the climbing plants at the staircases and the windows of metal marquetry.
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FURNITURE DESIGN
The design, in general, interests me always because architecture is design. In the specific case of furniture design, I am motivated to practice it as a complement to architecture, as it is also part of the configuration of the space and place. My experience in this field is limited, however, I have theoretical knowledge in the subject and I have also developed residential furniture technical plans. Software used Rhinoceros 5.0 Autocad SketchUp
EDITORIAL DESIGN
2018-2019
As for editorial design, I consider it a very valuable tool to document and finally show what has been produced. As for my knowledge of the subject, as academic records, I have produced several books and journals. Among them is the result of the analysis carried out for the Recycling Gate Siete de Agosto (PRSA) project, visible in the attached QR link. Software used InDesign
PHOTOGRAPHY
2016- Present
Photography is one of my favorite hobbies for a while now, my knowledge is also limited, but the practice has been quite extensive. I am mainly interested in portraying space and the city, and documenting the poetics I find in them. The images on the right are part of a series of study trips, taken in Barcelona, Copenhagen, and Los Angeles respectively. Software and devices used Canon eos rebel T3 EFS 18-55mm lens Adobe Bridge 2012- Present
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Tactical device for the reactivation of the informal economy - COVID 19 This is a commitment to neighborhood life biosecurity, postconfinement. As a potential reactivation of the informal economy. In the previous normality, street vendors were strategically positioned to capture a larger audience, but with the modification of our routines, these spaces stopped being “the best corner” severely affecting their business opportunities. Thus, what is sought with the proposal is to generate a biosecure space, but that promotes and dynamizes neighborhood life in a focused way, then creating the new version of that previous best corner. The strategy is of a systematic vocation, and parts of the interpretation of multiple courts as a public space module. Its application takes place in Bogota, taking into account the high number of parks of neighborhood-scale with courts of this type in the city and their rootedness on the part of the communities. For this, the intervention is changeable to the extent of the day, with the ability to accommodate different uses: from a fruit and vegetable market in the morning hours to a playground in the afternoon and in the evening, a cinema. The above, from modifications that do not alter the structural order of space and always maintaining the references of physical distancing. As for the materiality of the project, steel tensioners are required, which would be anchored to the structure of the arches of the courts with a bolt-on transition piece equally metallic and textile material to be hanged from the tensioners. Finally, it is proposed that the fabrics be artistically intervened, as an opportunity to commemorate the victims of COVID-19.
Representation
Honourable mention CESCA + Estudio ROAM
Bogotá, Colombia Location Instalation Candidature “with honors” Public space reactivation Honourary Category tuition 71m2 Area
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2020 Year Distinction Autodesk Revit, Adobe Cum laude Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Architecture Adobe InDesign Software used
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market - morning
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General and modular axonometric views Some values of the proposal are the alterability of the modules to accommodate different activities and the guarantee of sectorization of the general space, under the rules of social distancing, without generating limits. Illustration (Opposite page) It speaks of the primary intention of the project: to generate a space that attracts the community and accommodates informal vendors.
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