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PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Mónica María Lastname: Suárez Osorio Place of birth: Medellín, Colombia Nationality: Colombian
SCHOOL EDUCATION >
Colegio Gimnasio Los Pinares, Medellín, COLOMBIA. Elementary and high school
[01. 2009 - 06. 2010]
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EAFIT University, Medellín, COLOMBIA. Product Design Engineering 3 terms
[07. 2010 - to date]
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Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellín, COLOMBIA. Architecture 8th Term
[Proposed Year of Graduation]
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06. 2015
[01. 1995 - 12. 2008]
UNGRADUATE STUDIES
COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION
CONTACT CONTACT Address / City: Calle 16 A Sur # 29 B 20 / Medellín, COLOMBIA Telephone / Cellphone: +57 (4) 352-6812 +57 (320) 6930755 E-mail: m_suarez90@hotmail.com
[10. 2010 - 11. 2010]
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LEXICOM English School, Medellín, COLOMBIA. Advanced English courses
[01. 2011 - 05. 2013]
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National Learning Service (SENA). Basic construction courses
[02. 2013 - 03. 2013]
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Workshop: Laura Spinaldel (BUS architecture) + UPB “Housing that builds future”
[09. 2013 - 12. 2013]
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Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Semester of Exchange
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ACADEMIC HONOURS [2008]
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Honourable Mention for Academic Excellence Colegio Gimnasio Los Pinares, Medellín, COLOMBIA.
[2009]
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Honourable Scholarship for Highest GPA EAFIT Univertisty Product Design Engineering
[2010]
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Honourable Mention for Academic Excellence, Best Architecture Project: Phototropism Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellín, COLOMBIA.
[2011]
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[2012]
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Recognition for High Results at National Level State testing for high education (ICFES).
First place in faculty’s 75th year commemoration Contest with project: “Traffic Jam Living” Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellín, COLOMBIA.
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Honourable Mention for Academic Excellence: History 2 Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellín, COLOMBIA.
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Honourable Mention for Academic Excellence, Best architecture project: Botanic Market Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellín, COLOMBIA.
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People’s Choice Award in the 2012 in the Workplace of the Future Competition with project: Space Without Space Fentress Global Challenge
[2012]
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Honourable Mention for Academic Excellence, Urbanism: City and Territory Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellín, COLOMBIA.
[12. 2013]
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Second Place in “Housing that builds future” Workshop Laura Spinadel (BUS architecture) + UPB
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY [08. 2010]
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[12. 2011]
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Ctrl g (Viviana Peña + Catalina Patiño). Collaboration with the MAM project Carlos Molina Collaboration with Master Degree research “Conexión Río” INDISA (Design Engineering) Playground design for Las Americas Hotel in Cartagena
SKILLS [Languages]
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Spanish: Native Language English: Fluent
[Computer - Aided - Design]
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AutoCAD Architecture 2013
[Graphic Development]
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Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe X-Pro
[3D Modeling & Rendering]
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Rhinoceros 4.0
[Others]
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Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Processing Arduino
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Miguel Angel Betancur Director of International relations at UPB E-mail: miguel.betancur@upb.edu.co Telephone number: +57(4) 3544546
PERSONAL REFERENCES [Study Abroad Advisor ]
CONTACT Address / City: Calle 16 A Sur # 29 B 20 / Medellín, COLOMBIA Telephone / Cellphone: +57 (4) 352-6812 +57 (320) 6930755 E-mail: m_suarez90@hotmail.com
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Alonso VĂŠlez Mechanical Engineer: INDISA E-mail: alonso.velez@indisa.com Cellphone number: +57 (311) 3116170130
[Study Reference ]
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Angela MarĂa Medina Professor in the Department of Construction E-mail: angela.medina@upb.edu.co Cellphone number: +57 (300) 6171763
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1st SEMESTER: PHOTOTROPISM
ACADEMIC PROJECT
Types of Modules
Best architecture project
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PROJECT BRIEF Name: Phototropism Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 07. 2010 - 11. 2010 Description: Landscape Intervention Coordinators: Arch. Edgar Mazo Awards: Honorable Mention for academic excellence, Best architecture project
Módulo 1
Módulo 2
Módulo 3
Pabellón por capas
Pabellón enterrado
Pabellón con jardín de luces
Módulo 1
Módulo 2
A man reacts toward light as any other biological creature. In order to amplify this impulse, three light observatories were placed within the geography of The Eco-tourist Arví Park. The Arví is a large extension of forest located in city border. Its main purpose is to hold back the informal expansion of the city towards the mountains. Because of the need of its preservation, the project intends to disappear in the landscape, generating as less visual impact as
Módulo 3
possible. The paths created to reach the modules are a group of cracks in the earth that allow the walker to be surprised when he finally reaches the end of light. Each module has a changing interior design, which allows emphasizing the quality of the light phenomenon. This is how the user gets to know the versatility of light.
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Best architecture project
ACADEMIC PROJECT
3rd SEMESTER: BOTANICAL MARKET
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PROJECT BRIEF Name: Botanical Market Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 07. 2011 - 11. 2011 Team: Juliana Vélez, Lucas Arango and Mónica Suárez Coordinators: Arch. Carlos Molina Awards: Honorable Mention for academic excellence, Best architecture project
Even though “La Plaza Minorista,” is an important market in downtown Medellín, today its decayed infrastructure and lack of maintenance make it an unpleasant place to visit and merchandise. Aware of this condition, the intervention included strategies of urban renovation that would enhance the quality of exchange center and would recover the natural component of the zone. The renovation consists in three new
iconic buildings, placed in a large public garden that would assist social integration. The main objective is to continue with the commercial intention, in which one of the buildings would be a Botanic Market. The pentagon shape was selected to materialize the new market because its simple form has been shaping a variation of public buildings with different functions for a long time.
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Plan Botanical Market
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ACADEMIC PROJECT
TRAFFIC JAM LIVING
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Pimped up cars
Bar Car
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Country Car
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Pool Car
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Disco car
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Home car
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PROJECT BRIEF Name: Traffic Jam Living Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 10. 2011 Description: Faculty contest Team: Carlos Montoya, Juliana Vélez and Mónica Suárez Awards: Honorable Mention for academic excellence, Best architecture project
The School of architecture of the Pontificia Bolivariana University launched an internal contest that brought together students from diverse semesters in order to think about the city in terms of leisure time.
As a solution, the project closed the main street with a bunch of pimped up cars. Bar cars, disco cars, home cars, pool cars and many other amazing types of cars make up the perfect leisure environment, where the whole fun takes place.
The idea of the project was to transform the negativity, rage and boredom associated with wasting valuable time in a traffic jam, into a fun experience. If we are obliged to live in our cars, why don’t we enjoy doing it?
With all of this, the phenomenon of being locked inside a car for hours is no longer a dull activity, but a very pleasant experience. Now everyone wants to join the traffic Jam!
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2nd place
ACADEMIC PROJECT
WORKSHOP Housing that builds future
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Polgarstrasse SectorB Cumberlandstrasse + Marktgasse
PROJECT BRIEF Name: Housing that builds future Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 02. 2013 Description: Workshop with Laura Spinadel (BUS architecktur & BOA studio) Team: Melisa Arango, Susana Marquez, Juliana Vélez and Mónica Suárez Awards: 2nd place
The architect Laura Spinaldel came from Austria to lead the workshop “Housing that builds future” at Pontificia Bolivariana University. The first part of the workshop consisted in the analysis of a specific project of living architecture, understanding its 2D, 3D and 4D logics. For this task, the building Polgarstrasse Sector B in Vienna was assigned. In the second moment of the workshop, two new buildings
(The Marktrasse and the Cumberlandstrasse) were given, in order to design a functional urban logic that integrated the three different buildings, without changing any of their architectural qualities. Finally, the project generated an adequate, continuous and dynamic public space around the complex of buildings. The disposition of each element enables the pedestrians to walk through the city
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Urban Plan
Polgarstrasse SectorB
Cumberlandstrasse + Marktgasse
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Castilla - Medellín
academic project
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PROJECT BRIEF Name: Food-Holder Building Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 02. 2013 - 05.2013 Description: Social Housing Intervention Coordinator: Arch. Juan Miguel Gómez Team: Mónica Suárez
For this Class Project, the aim was to design a social housing building in Castilla, Medellín. The exploration of the area of intervention indicated an unplanned expansion of the city, a place with prominent geography and a lack of natural landscape. But it also evidenced the diverse, empirical and dynamic circulation between the houses and the street. This last feature gives a special and local value to Castilla. The idea for the project results from the study of the people dynamics in the place assigned for the intervention. The small food shops among the houses, where the places were the more
number of people gathered together to interact. Carolyn Steel1 explained for TED talks how food is the one that shapes our cities and how in the past the food was responsible of gathering people. So, if this concept applies to cities ¿Could it also be used when designing a building? The Food-holder is a housing project that, as it’s name points out, holds the process of food from: the buying, in the ground floor; the preparation, in each flat; the selling, in every floor; and the eating, in common dining tables or in the public central garden.
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Actual Situation N 0
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ITM Parque de Juanes
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Small food shop
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Interior & Common spaces strategies
Private dining room Hidden Kitchen
¿What is the Laundry comes out?
¿What if the dining room comes out?
¿What if the kitchen is shown?
The project of 48 flats, besides being a living solution, it’’s also a place to gather and eat.
Private Laundry Building Circulation
Interactive common spaces
¿What if the Laundry is shared?
A reflection about the use of interior spaces in the traditional house combined with the study of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation, were the key to define the spaces in the Food-Holder. Some areas inside the contemporary houses are barely occupied by their inhabitants.
The general plan on the right, shows how the project is compound of 4 parts connected by common spaces. This divided shape allows the configuration of a central garden and the possibility to adapt the building to the prominent topography.
Base on this, spaces such as dining rooms and laundries are taken away from each flat and moved to common areas. This is how each level of the Food-holder has common spaces where people can gather together.
The diverse types of flats are systematically arranged in order to create interesting solutions of common spaces, such as laundries shared by 4 different flats and dining rooms with exposed kitchens in every single floor.
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Plan
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Public Space Circulation Laundry Laundry Common dining room Private Balcony Private Balcony Eating Flat
Common spaces grouping system
Traditional Flat
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Circulación
There are 3 different types of flats in the Food-Holder; the Eating Flat, that combines a house with a shop or restaurant; the Shared Flat, where 2 people can live and eat together; and the tradicional flat, design for a couple that can cook and sell food. Cocina
Baño
Buitrón
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Grouping System
North Elevation
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NPA: +24.00 m
NPA: +21.00 m
Level 2 NPA: +18.00 m
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Level 1 NPA: +12.00 m
NPA: +9.00 m
Level 0 NPA: +6.00 m
NPA: +3.00 m
Level -1 NPA: -3.00 m
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Terraza
Pérgola en Madera Inmunizada
Restaurante
Cocina
NPA: +18.00 m
Habitación
Habitación
Habitación
Habitación
NPA: +15.00 m
Habitación
Cocina
Habitación
Cocina
NPA: +12.00 m
Habitación
Cocina
Habitación
Cocina
NPA: +9.00 m
Cocina
Habitación
Cocina
Habitación
NPA: +6.00 m
Cocina
Habitación
Cocina
Habitación
NPA: +3.00 m
Habitación
Habitación
Habitación
Habitación
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Cocina
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The image shows the communication between the street and the interior garden.
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PROJECT BRIEF Name: Atlas / Pan-American Highway Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 01. 2012 - 06. 2012 Description: Research for the South American Project (SAP) Chapters: Darien: Cocaine Dream (8) Indian people: Marginal Communities (3) Team: Juliana Vélez and Mónica Suárez
Harvard Graduate School of Design invited our teachers into a research network called SAP (South American Project). Our intention was to propose an interim connection to connect the“Darien GAP” at the PanamaColombia border, establishing interactions between both territories that would consider the delicate situation that exists in this place. To determine the proposal, a great amount of information was researched and organized in a 14-chapter Atlas. Each group of students selected a controversy of the zone where perspectives of diverse actors were
considered. Cocaine has been known as one of the major Colombian problems. The increasing movement of illicit crops to the North-West of the country indicates the conformation of a new headquarter of the coca leaf production and its process. Considering that Chocó is home to a biodiversity hotspot, the endangerment of this place may have global repercussions in the world wild life. Climate conditions in Chocó disable a regular eradication method, which sends out the question: How to save “Darién” from cocaine production?
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The chapter included a series of maps elaborated to explain the problems, which keep gaining strength in this territory as time passes. Here are shown some pages of the Atlas from: [Chapter 3] Indian people: Marginal Communities [Chapter 8] Darien: Cocaine Dream
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Final Exhibition of the research at the Pontificia Bolivariana University [06. 2012]
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I SLOT CASINOS
INVESTIGATion PROJECTS
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PROJECT BRIEF Name: I Slot Casinos Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 07. 2012 - 11. 2012 Coordinators: Arch. Natalia Team: Juliana Vélez, Lucas Arango and Mónica Suárez
Robert Venturi’s investigation about the signage phenomenon gains more pertinence as time goes by. The actual society recognizes symbols as an essential part of the urban landscape. The era of the signs in architecture has begun. The basis of a Strip conformation invades not only Las Vegas, but all the contemporary cities. Based on this, the purpose of the investigation is to analyze and compare Medellin’s casino architecture with the global standard of casino
design. The study consists of three parts: a conceptual chapter with the main notions about exterior and interior casino design, extracted from Venturi’s book and Friedman’s principles respectively; a brief timeline of the evolution of both Strips (Las Vegas’ and Medellin’s) and a compilation of information and valuation of 4 casinos located in Medellín and 2 from Las Vegas.
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Friedman’s Design Principles
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Some pages of the final document of “I Slot Casinos” investigation
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Finalist / People’s Choice Award
GLOBAL COMPETITION
FENTRESS GLOBAL CHALLENGE: SPACE WITHOUT SPACE
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PROJECT BRIEF Name: Space Without Space Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 08. 2012 Description: Fentress Global Challenge Team: Juliana Vélez, Sebastián Vélez and Mónica Suárez Awards: Finalist People’s Choice Award
While designing the workspace of the future we have encountered a space paradox: The crescent wave of telecommunications has enabled the workers to connect themselves to the cloud without requiring physical interaction, which has undermined the value of a working environment. The existence of a network has obliged people to live under a metaphysical state of mind, in which they have to be in two different sensitive planes. Based on these
circumstances, we have decided to approach the architecture project from a virtual sense of space. By creating an interconnected web of actions and places, users can choose their working conditions according to their needs and preferences. Our proposal is to provide spaces with continued availability that generates a flexible working network. But How to do it?
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Finalist / People’s Choice Award
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Flexible working Network diagram
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The network becomes physical as it installs itself in the city. Public spaces are to be conditioned by technological infrastructure, with connections and facilities to make them working environments. Plazas, stations, boulevards, streets... They are all potential offices of the future freelancer. Each person (freelancer) will choose where to work and under what circumstances. Inside, outside, hot, cold, here, there... The user chooses where. Adapting a network inside a
city allows us to use spaces that already exist without building new ones, which lowers the environmental impact that comes with construction. Connecting and qualifying would be less contaminating than creating many new working environments. The network doesn’t pollute, and its physical manifestations are less invasive. We intend to adequate public places making the city the workplace of the future.
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Images of the Litoral Estrella
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LITORAL ESTRELLA / CHILDREN PLAYGROUND
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PROJECT BRIEF Name: Litoral Estrella Location: Medellín, COLOMBIA Period: 08. 2012 - To date Description: Children Playground Company: INDISA Team: Juliana Vélez and Mónica Suárez
The Litoral Estrella, a 1800 m2 of aquatic park for kids, is a design (still in process) for an important hotel in Cartagena City. As to entertain the guest children, the hotel has already made up a group of characters, which include: The star captain, his crew of friends and the Pirates of the Caribbean The concept of the Litoral Estrella lays in the idea of creating the wonderful world of the Star Captain, where the kids would enjoy all of his
dangerous adventures. The Playground reminds of the coast landscape, where water, islands, ships, maritime creatures and more are everywhere. Kids of all ages can come and play with water. While the babies have fun with the sand and shells, the oldest participate in water battle against the pirates and the enormous kraken.
Address / City: Calle 16 A Sur # 29 B 20 / MedellĂn, COLOMBIA Telephone / Cellphone: +57 (4) 352-6812 +57 (320) 6930755 E-mail: m_suarez90@hotmail.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or information storage and retrieval systems - without the prior permission in writing of the publishers. This book was created by MONICA SUAREZ
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