manuela mujica_portfolio 2024

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Academic

[2016-2023] Architecture. FADU, UBA. Bs As, Argentina

[2022] Teaching Assistant. Course: Theory of Architecture professor Roberto Bogani. FADU, UBA [2022] Teaching Assistant. Course: Urban Morphology by professor Roberto Lombardi. FADU, UBA [2022] ‘Habitat and Sustainability’ Workshop. TAU 2022. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Bs As, Argentina [2021] Teacher Training Internship conducted by professor Roberto Lombardi. FADU, UBA [2021] Participation in Lima International Architecture Biennial (BIALIMA 2021). Lima, Peru [2019] Porto Academy. Porto School of Architecture (FAUP). Porto, Portugal

[2014-2015] International Baccalaureate. St Andrew’s Scott’s School. Bs As, Argentina / Cum Laude recognition for high average / Extended essay recognition in International Baccalaureate

Work Experience

[July 2024 - September 2024] Vampire Studio. Barcelona, Spain

Spatial Designer

/ Produced architectural and creative solutions for events and exhibitions

/ In charge of the spatial design and construction for the launch event of the new Google Pixel 9 collection at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela in Madrid in September 2024

[August 2023 - July 2024] Henning Larsen Architects. Copenhagen, Denmark

Architectural Assistant

/ Prepared and produced physical models for competitions and exhibitions / Collaborated with competitions supporting the landscape, urbanism and architecture teams in different phases

Architect / Worked through the complete design process of retail and gastronomic projects / Coordinated with clients, consultants and contractors during construction bidding

[March 2022 - November 2022] Fabrizio Pugliese Arquitectos. Buenos Aires, Argentina

Architect [October 2020 - May 2023] Estudio Ripani. Buenos Aires, Argentina

/ Drafted 2d technical drawings and created 3d models and renders for residential projects mainly / Analyzed building codes, space and site requirements and other technical documents to determine effect on architectural designs

[March 2021 - October 2021] Calm es Simple Product Development Analyst

/ Evaluated existing product designs through comprehensive analysis, contributing insights to enhance functionality and aesthetics / Supported the iterative design process by conducting market research and competitor analysis, ensuring our products remained innovative and competitive in the market.

[July 2020 - December 2020] Doblle Architecture

Archiectural Intern

/ Was in charge of project’s representation tools. Collages, Renderings, Mood Boards

/ Worked creating 2d drawings and 3d models

Competitions

[2021] “Ideas for the Memory Site [Ex CCDTyE Campo de Mayo]”. Space for the Promotion of Human Rights organized by the National Secretary of Human Rights. Bs As, Argentina. Selected work.

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[2021] “20 de Diciembre Sport Club”. Sport facilities for boys and girls in vulnerable situations organized by AUG Norge, Pamigos Foundation and a77 studio. Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Selected work.

/ Read more: https://www.augnorge.org/argentina-20-de-diciembre Volunteer Work

[2024] CPH DOX

[2016-2017] Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art (MAMBA) [2014-2015] Un Techo para mi País

Complementary Training

[2020-2023] “Sin Destino Aparente”/ Reading seminars for critical thinking dictated by art curator Larisa Zmud [2021] Cabinetmaking Seminar dictated by architect Germán Van Peteghem [2019] “Leer para Diseñar” Seminar dictated by designer Diego Valiña (http://www.teoriaypractica.com/lpd/) [2018] 3D Studio Max + Vray course dictated by architect Nicolas Waldman [2018] “critical readings on Mexican art” seminar dictated by prof. James Olmes in the framework of the exhibition “Modern Mexico: Vanguard and Revolution” at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) [2018] “half of an imperfect world” course dictated by writer Luis Chitarroni in retrospect to the literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Latin American boom of the 20th century; at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA)

20 DE DICIEMBRE SPORT CLUB

IN COLLABORATION WITH AUG NORGE / PAMIGOS FOUNDATION / A77 STUDIO

LOCATION

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA TEAM

MICHELLE POSTERNAK

FLORENCIA SCHEANONE

FEDERICO ETCHEPARE

The project for the “2O de diciembre” sport club aims to boost a process of inclusion, support and progress for the community of Rafel Castillo in La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province (Argentina).

The club was founded by Felipe and Norma, a local couple who aspires to bring hope to a neighborhood that suffers from a series of structural problems that can be understood more thoroughly in terms of a generalized climate of state abandonment. In that context, the club becomes an enriching opportunity for adults and children to learn from the values of sports, transforming the club into an authentic and unique kind of shelter for those in need, keeping them out of the streets and making them part of a community. The proposal for the project consists of three volumes that are set around the perimeter of the site, freeing the corners for a more public use. The building is designed in a single floor, respecting the overall scale of the neighbourhood.

The development of the club is conceived in 3 phasses, beginning with a first volume destined for social and educational purposes, with a flexible layout that can be easily adapted to different uses and needs. In this first phase, we aim at consolidating the project by generating an idea of continuity with Felipe and Norma’s home, which is located in the neighboring lot. The volume proposes a transition between the situation of the field and the situation of the building by generating a wide

ROLE

DOCUMENTATION / 3D MODELLING / DESIGN PROCESS

PROJECT TYPE AND SIZE

MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACE, 278 M2

threshold that opens up to both scenes. In this first phase we build the perimeter of the project, with brick walls that generate different situations of transparency where the volumes of following stages will be later built.

The condition of transparency proposed by the different walls presented on this first stage, responds to the uses that will be adopted by these walls in the following stages, leaving the project ready for constant expansion, but aiming to maintain a sense of wholeness in every stage.

In a second stage, along with the growth of the club, the original volume becomes fully educational and a new volume is built to house the social activities that take place in the community. This new volume includes locker rooms, kitchen, bathroom and a big space for gatherings. This building aims to generate a sense of continuity between the field and the sidewalk, by understanding that the club has the potential of becoming a key gathering spot for Rafael Castillos’ community.

The last phase completes the project by building a third volume that includes sanitary equipment, a small buffet and an emergency room plus a series of bedrooms disposed in two strips, with a distribution hall, generating a sense of interiorness in the sector. By dividing the project in phases and giving them a multiplicity of uses, the project seeks to reach a greater number of people in the neighborhood.

GROUND FLOOR PHASE 1

GROUND FLOOR PHASE 3

The project got selected amongst 30 other proposals and is currently undegoing the construction of its first phase. In terms of materialization we favoured the implementation of traditional and local tecnologies and materials. It was encouraged and supported by AUG NORGE together with A77 studio from Buenos Aires University and Pamigos Foundation, aiming to build the infrastructure necessary for the sporting arena and developing a masterplan that contemplates growth as a way of promoting the football school for boys and girls in vulnerable situations, offering them a space of support and fun, training them in different aspects such as; sports habits, motivation, responsibility and promoting healthy habits. More information available: https://www.augnorge.org/argentina-20-de-diciembre

project

TRASH CITY / CIUDAD DESCARTE

ECOSISTEMIC URBANISM / URBAN THESIS PROJECT

LOCATION

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA TEAM MIRANDA GOMEZ COLL MICHELLE POSTERNAK

Let’s start from the following statement: the city has a linear metabolism. A horizontal transport supplies the city and strips it of its waste. The orbit of the urban ecosystem has leaks of matter and energy that is discarded to the surrounding space.

The work seeks to think of new ways of integrating these leaks within the city, as to generate a consistent relationship between the urban dweller, its consumption, and its waste. To think of new ways of reusing what already exists, in all its scales. A fizzy drink can. A bridge. A garbage bag. A disused shed. The coexistence between the city and nature is not an utopia. The work is related to convergence of multiple actors, multiple issues, because system leaks are in multiple directions. And therefore, the ways of operating on these should respond to the same logic. The centralized distribution of waste treatment that runs currently in the City of Buenos Aires and the Conurban sector presents harmful effects for the environment and the population, and is unsustainable over time. By dumping the black trash bags on the sidewalk or in containers, people detach from it in an instant. Waste from 14 million people travel

ROLE

DOCUMENTATION / 3D MODELLING / DESIGN PROCESS

PROJECT TYPE AND SIZE

URBAN THESIS

project conceptual scheme

kilometers of streets and routes until they reach a single common point called Complejo Norte III, a space far from the homes where the bags come from. This misidentification with the own waste creates a vacuum of responsibility for its consequences and knowledge about the possibilities they offer.

The expiration date of the thing that is discarded is not linked to the real expiration of its matter, which does not seem to be in the population’s general thought nor its leaders agenda.

The use of landfills for the treatment of garbage must be replaced. The centralization of this gigantic process outside the city’s walls, without any urban or social planning, exposes it’s unsustainability. It is impossible to locate spaces the size of landfills within a metropolitan area at a ground level, reason why verticality sounds like a possible alternative.

Through an autonomous treatment system by Districts, the project seeks to visibilize the impact of garbage. Linking classification spaces, recycling and decomposition, the Ecosystemic Infrastructural Network is made up of distributed points, within the communes and districts, according to the amount of garbage that each one produces for its autonomous treatment. Each point has its own internal network with various elements: buildings for garbage sorting facilities, recycling, vertical landfill towers, energy treatment, housing for workers and their families, space for diverse uses, among others that vary according to the needs and specific characteristics of each environment.

Taking into account that 80% of waste can be recycled, the remaining 20% of material that cannot be reused or composted can be stored in small degrading capsules. The landfill towers work to store non-recyclable waste, using a system of capsules connected to a methane gas accumulator tank that recirculates the energy produced by the waste of each capsule. Once the filling of the capsule decomposes completely and stops producing gas, the capsule is emptied and filled again with more waste. Through this system, waste treatment frees up space and becomes independent of the large plots of land required for horizontal landfills.

1_housing density

districts

industrial zones

disused land

3_ Comunas (CABA) y Partidos (Provincia)
Vehicular access to the sorting center, collection center, garbage museum and public park.
Recycling plants on disused railway sheds.
Former railway shed for a multi-use building, such as scrap metal fairs; compost area and garden; recycling facilities.
Vertical landfill linked to public park; train tracks in relation to multipurpose building where the cooperatives recover and collect reusable materials.

axonometric overview

Open plan for common use; mixed use space for activities and environmental education. Contemplation towards underground classification facility.

Callao Av. Vehicular access to sorting center; collection center; pedestrian access to lung.
Central public access space; collective garden and composting center, balcony towards the classification processes carried out in the subsoil.
Guido Street. Pedestrian access to recycling center and through street / central space.

By inserting the garbage in the neighborhood fabric, a link is born, non-existent before, between people and their waste. And a conceptual shift of garbage, from a disposable thing to a valuable object. The planning socio-spatial network de-monopolizes the effort and personalizes it according to the specificity and identity of each neighborhood. The reconfiguration ensures great changes for the quality of life, establishes a long-term, cohesive and solid perspective for the future. The Ecosystemic Infrastructural Network aims to fight against the city’s linear metabolsim towards a system of flows of circular matter and energy, where what is consumed and discarded is renewed continuously in a cyclical way, achieving a character of balanced unit; responsible about their expenses and beneficial about their possibilities.

RESEARCH CENTER FOR URBAN HORTICULTURE

ACADEMIC

PROJECT

MANUELA MUJICA

LOCATION

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA TEAM

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT

ROLE

DOCUMENTATION / 3D MODELLING / DESIGN PROCESS

PROJECT TYPE AND SIZE

RESEARCH CENTER

The work aims to produce more ecosystemic urbanity by activating unused spaces to introduce a series of programs that encompass different activities that can work with the problematic leaks produced by the city.

The property is in the former railway maneuvering yard in the Caballito neighborhood, in the city of Bueno Aires. Immersed in a medium-density fabric for residential and commercial use, local businesses, quiet and familiar, the site is surrounded by spaces of great interest and movement of people: Club Ferro, an importart social and sports club, and the Patio de los Lecheros, a great tourist attraction that is located within the property. The terrain is divided by the train tracks that function as a barrier for the pedestrian that the Caballito bridge intends to break. Neighbors demand more green space in the neighborhood.

The project is one of a series of elements introduced as part of a masterplan to turn this terrain into a public green space for the city, where productive and infraestructural activities converge with leisure. A condenser is proposed, agglomerating productive, research and development activities around a public area. The program condenses technological research activities for the optimization of crops and processes for urban agriculture.

PRODUCTION

INVESTIGATION

SOCIAL

SOCIAL orchards site plan

first level + 3.00 mts

DE LOS DESEOS

second level + 6.00 mts

third level + 9.00 mts

CENTRO
setion detail (b-b)

The circulatory elements are a key part of this project, regulating the different levels of privacy of the different layers of the project. A big ramp connects the ground level, where the social part of the programme takes place which includes a bar, dining room, auditorium and space for workshops, with the educational programs located in the first level consisting of workshops and different types of itinerant training, and the investigation labs in the second level. The investigation level and the production level are connected independently by a spatious spiral staircase.

project images
section a-a
section b-b
section

VARIOUS WORKS

Map of trees and public / semi-public green spaces in the district of Barracas, south of Buenos Aires city / Urban Morphology course, 2020
Section cut y material catalogue / Bowali Center for visitors, Kakadu National Park, North Australia / Glenn Murcutt / Academic project, 2021

Was in charge of the design process for the project of a gateway entrance for “La Deseada” gated community, located in the suburbs of the city of Buenos Aires. The project consists in a really lightweight steel structure, which contains different programmatic needs.

axonometric overview

project images
“La Deseada” gateway entrance / 250 m2 / Fabrizio Pugliese Arquitectos, 2022

exhibition rooms and tribute space sector

Reflecting on a memory space involves confronting the question: how can one remember what was not lived in order to keep collective memory alive? This work takes absence as its central concept and aims to reconstruct it. In this context, Campo de Mayo Ex CCDTyE serves as the site of intervention, where the project arises from the idea of implanting a sequence of buildings that assert themselves upon the landscape, highlighting the immovable nature of this memory space.

VOCES
VERDAD
MEMORIA
JUSTICIA
ESPACIO DE HOMENAJE
ACCESO PEATONAL
“Campo de Mayo” Memory Site competition/ Selected project / ongoing construction, 2022 in collaboration with Michelle Posternak, Florencia Scheanone & Federico Etchepare
ground floor plan
project images
sector de ingreso al campito
“campito” entrance

exploded axonometric

exploded axonometric

Was in charge of the project and the construction managment of a pizza restaurant in the neighborhood of Villa Crespo in the city of Buenos Aires. The project aimed to intersect some characteristics of an authentic Argentinan “bodegón” with a more contemporary concept: an open kitchen and a curved bar.

COCINA 4 FUEGOS
MESADA APOYO
TOLDO
“Gordo Chanta” Restaurant / Estudio Ripani, 2022

programatic cross sections

longitudinal section

West Berlin City Entrance competiton / Henning Larsen Architects, 2023

Lageplan 1 : 500

Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage

Privatfinanzierte

Privatfinanzierte Mietwohnungen

Privatfinanzierte Mietwohnungen

Drawings for the Fonrouge builing´s Press Kit / Fabrizio Pugliese Arquitectos, 2022

MODELS

HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS

HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS

HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS

HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS

1_ [OFFICE BUILDING COMPETITION IN SWEDEN]
2_[CERN BUILDING]
3_[ENGHAVE BRYGGE DEVELOPMENT COMPETITION]
4_[REDMOLEN BUILDING FACADE]
5_ [DIAKONHJEMMET SCHOOL]
6_ [SCHOOL CAMPUS COMPETITION]
7_ [GREEN POWER COMPANY HEADQUARTER COMPETITION IN DENMARK]
HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS
HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS 8_ [TOWER COMPETITION IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK]

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