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Mariana Torres Salom達o urban design portfolio
Education Aug/2015 - to date
Aug/2008 - Sep/2013 Aug/2011 - Jul/2012
Languages
Masters in Urban Design University of California at Berkeley MUD Thesis: Sustainability as a strategy for cities with a declining oil economy. The case of Ébano, México On going Bachelor in Architecture, First in class Facultad del Hábitat Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México Thesis : The formation of architectonic thinking Honorary Mention Exchange Program (Architecture) Facultade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Spanish
Native language
Portuguese
Native language
English
Advanced level- 100 points on the TOEFL iBT
Italian
Intermediate level- Six semesters at the Languages Department of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
French
Basic level- One semester at the Languages Department of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Professional and research experience Nov/2013 - Jul/2015
KVR- Arquitectura de Paisaje Landscape project manager Mexico city, Mexico Developed a database for quick work quotation process Created a database for vegetation used in the office projects In charge of several projects that included design, architectonic layout, constructive detail layouts, 3D modeling, vegetation photoshoping, quotations and construction supervision
Fev/2013 - Aug/2013
SUMA - Secretaría de Urbanismo y Medio Ambiente Social Service Morelia, Mexico Developed a mapping system to illustrate territorial growth of several cities in the Michoacan state In charge of an exhibition to showcase the created maps
Jun/2011 - Jul/2011
Mar/2011 - Jun/2011
AMC - Academia Mexicana de Ciencias Summer scientific research program Morelia, Mexico Worked in an infraestructure study of the main plaza of Aranza and Cocucho, Purépecha culture towns in the Michoacan state Cadena arquitectos Project designer San Luis Potosi, Mexico Collaboration with architectonic layout and 3D modeling of diverse projects
Awards and acknowledgments Sep/2015
CONACYT - SENER Sustentabilidad Energética 2015-2016 scholarship for masters degree
Aug/2013
Award for obtainig the highest score in the last semester of the bachelor degree at Facultad del Hábitat of the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
Jul/2013 Aug/2011 - Dec/2011
TOP Brasil - México, scholarship given by Santander y CuMex Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Cultural exchange program CuMex scholarship for international exchange
Resume
Nationalities: México / Brasil e.mail: mariana.torres.salomao@gmail.com 5107089749 mx.linkedin.com/in/mtsalomao issuu.com/marianatorressalomao
Jan/2010 - Dec/2011
San Luis Potosi’s state coordinator of CONEA (National Architecture Students Council)
Aug/2010
Award for obtainig the highest score in the 5th semester at Facultad del Hábitat of the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
Oct/2009
Award “Premio Hábitat 2009” for the best project in the category of level I and II projects of Architecture Bachelor
Published works Sep/2013
Publication of project presented at the “Architecture, habitat, art and design workshop, Enhancement of Aké ruins, Tixkokob, Yucatán”, with the social participation of public and private agencies involved in the preservation of the cultural edified heritage. UADY - p. 300
Courses and workshops Dec/2015
“Guangzhou Island wrokshop”. International joint Urban Design workshop of Guangzhou International Biotech Island withs SCUT and UC-Berkeley
Jun/2014
“Landscape analysis, representation and managment”, imparted by PhD. Luis Felipe Cabrales Barajas. Geography institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Sep/2012
Architecture, habitat, art and design workshop, Enhancement of Aké ruins, Tixkokob, Yucatán”, 8th International heritage preservation seminar. Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico
Jul/2012
“Iconology course” imparted by PhD Pablo Chico Ponce de León. Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Morelia, Mexico
Apr/2011
“8th latinamerican social workshop”, main theme: S.O.S. Social workshop organized by CLEA (Latin-American Architecture Students Council), Quito, Ecuador.
Jul/2010
“Researhc seminar: Spain and Mexico’s world heritage cities: comparative experiences of sustainable planning and mangment”, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Jun/2010
“2nd International workshop: Contemporary architecture insertion in a vernacular context” VI International Seminar of Heritage preservation. Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico
Jan/2010
“Mesoamerican architecture and urbanism” course, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico
Jul/2010 - Aug/2010
“Interpretation of architecture documents seminar” Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico
Jun - Jul of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010
Intensive music summer course at the Conservatorio de las Rosas, A. C., Morelia, Mexico Instruments: Piano and Afro-Latin percussions
Skills and aptitudes Photoshop Illustrator InDesign
Lightroom Autocad Archicad
Sketchup Artlantis ArcGis
Photography Furniture design
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SUSTAINABILITY AS AN URBAN DESIGN STRATEGY FOR CITIES WITH A DECLINING OIL ECONOMY. THE CASE OF ÉBANO, MÉXICO Ébano, San Luis Potosí, Mex. (UC- Berkeley / thesis project- on going)
WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION FOR SEA LEVEL RISE
San Francisco waterfront, Ca. (UC- Berkeley / group project)
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URBAN INFILL FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES INTEGRATING DEVELOPMENT FOR A DIVERSE NEIGBORHOOD Mission district, San Francisco, Ca. (UC- Berkeley / group project)
CONNECTING DOWNTOWN OAKLAND THROUGH UNDERUTILIZED SITES Downtown Oakland, Ca. (UC- Berkeley)
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urban design projects
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THE URBAN EXPANSION OF PARANOA’S VILLAGE Brasilia, Brazil (UNB / group project)
A WALKABLE ISLAND REIMAGINING STREETS OF BIOTECH CITY Guangzhou, China. (UC- Berkeley + SCUT)
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PERCEPTION OF DENSITY AND PLACE ATTACHMENT OF MISSION DISTRICT PERIMETER BLOCKS Mission district, San Francisco, Ca. (UC- Berkeley / group project)
MORELIA’S TERRITORIAL GROWTH 1950 - 2010. CITIES TERRITORIAL GROWTH IN MICHOACAN STATE
Morelia, Mexico (SUMA- Secretaría de urbanismo y medio ambiente)
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SUSTAINABILITY AS AN URBAN DESIGN STRATEGY FOR CITIES WITH A DECLINING OIL ECONOMY. THE CASE OF ÉBANO, MÉXICO Ébano, San Luis Potosí, Mex. (UC- Berkeley / thesis project- on going)
Spanish conquest
Undiscovered oil reserves
Edward I. Doheny buys “Hacienda de Tulio” Firs Mexican oil well
Search started for other oil wells in the country
1853
1900
1906
1450
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200 b.C.
Huasteca culture amatao” town
1521
Site location
Hydrology map
Town data sub-humid warm climate
750 km2 2
13 km Ébano County
Ébano city
40,000
24,500
13,000
Median city
95%
15 heritage buildings
80%
Agriculture
60%
Fishing
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Textile handicrafts
1933
Agriculture the main economic activity 41,529 hab
Gas and oil extraction
Future ?
1925
Creation of Ébano county
2015
Undiscovered of and poza rica oil in Veracruz
1963
First oil well was covered
Ébano starts to be forgotten
Battle during the revolution for train fuel
1915
Town charachter
Oil-cities all over the world have suffered of extensive growth without planning and without thinking of people’s needs; even some of them have experienced abandonment after the end of oil extraction. In a world with an urge to change from fossil fuels energy to renewable sources, the project will study how the town of Ébano, San Luis Potosí can grow in a more sustainable way without the oil economy. The primary purpose of this thesis is to explore how sustainable practices of urban design can transform an oil-industry city in order to generate economic growth without the hydrocarbon extraction.
Common single family houses
Town charachter
Common single family houses
Built form map
Building footprints Topography
Establish a zone of transition between urban and rural area
Block typology Residential + agriculture
Street scape for storm water recollection + public transportation network
Establishing the urban edge
DESIGN STRATEGIES
Strengthen agriculture, livestock Integration of renewable farming and fishing economy sources of energy
Site plan and sea level rise projections
WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION FOR SEA LEVEL RISE
San Francisco waterfront, Ca. (UC- Berkeley / group project)
2
Parcels division and land use Development area 22 acres Number of units 1,710 u Affordable units 428 u Density 77 u/a Unit types Studio + 1bed
684 u
2bed
598 u
3bed
428 u
Residential Retail Office Recreational Parking
Develpment phasing
Current conditions
San Francisco water front is suffering from seasonal flooding as a result of sea level rise. By 2100 sea level will rise about 6 feet. This project focus on answering the rising tide along San Francisco water front and infilling the sites nerby the ferry station that could help afford the costs of the new sea-wall necessary for the sea level rise projections. The infill development concentrate different type of uses from mix-use, residential and office buildings. They provide 30% of affordable housing and are along transit corridors. Also, schools and amenities are reached by walking distance.
Perspective section / Embarcadero street
Existing conditions
Proposed section
Phase 1: sea -wall + street renewal
Phase 2: Infill develpment + waterfront promenade
Variations of water edge / promenade
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URBAN INFILL FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES INTEGRATING DEVELOPMENT FOR A DIVERSE NEIGBORHOOD Mission district, San Francisco, Ca. (UC- Berkeley / group project)
Priority development areas - Bay Area
545 units = 50 du/acre 3 br 55 2 br 204 1 br 138 studio 84 micro 64
10% 38% 25% 15% 12%
Infill development / 11 acres
Ground floor uses and entrances map
This project focuses on the design of underutilized spaces withing the Mission District of San Francisco under the area designated as Priority Development Area for the Bay Area. The zone is close to public transportation, amenities, jobs and schools. The goal of the project is to increase density, provide a mixture of uses, from residential, commercial and light industrial connecting to the exisitng transit and amenities by the re-design of streets.
Section C
Section B
Section A
Perspective B
Detail section 2
Perspective A
Detail section 1
Site Plan
Residential 11,500 new residents Offices 16,700 new jobs Hotel 500 guests Flexible space 30,000 m2 Retail 15,000 m2 Permanent public space 22,700 m2 Temporary public space 10,600 m2 Existing green areas
CONNECTING DOWNTOWN OAKLAND THROUGH UNDERUTILIZED SITES Downtown Oakland, Ca. (UC- Berkeley)
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Existing conditions
Permanent open space
Vacant lots
Ownership
Public open space network
Connecting Downtown Oakland trhough underutilized sites is a project that works with vacant lots and parking surfaces and turns them into new development and permanent and temporary public spaces. The core of the project is the network of open spaces designed to unify and connect the diverse communities along downtown. The proposed uses are residential, offices, flexible spaces, hotels,, permament public open spaces and temporary public open spaces suitable for future development.
Temporary open space
Brasilia, Brazil (UNB / group project)
Linear park perspectives
5
THE URBAN EXPANSION OF PARANOA’S VILLAGE
Linear park section
Linear park avenue
Linear park section
Linear park avenue Commercial avenues Main streets Local streets Green public areas Waste and rain water treatment plant
Site plan
Design premises To guarantee the ocupation with the same social class as the existing city To keep the strong density of the existing city To include vertical residential buildings (maintaining density) To create more green public spaces To integrate the urban street design with the existing one To integrate bikeways in all the main avenues for the expansion and the existing city To guarantee the pedestrian permeability in both the projected and the existing city
To integrate the project with the existing in social and economic terms, unifying them To promote Paranoa’s integration with the rest of Brasilia’s population
Neighborhood park perspective
Water recycling system
To integrate Jane Jacob’s concept of “eyes on the street
Commercial street perspective
Created in 1957, Paranoรก was at the beginning the place where workers of the construction of the new Federal District of Brazil lived. Today the city presents a high rate of self-sufficiency, with a huge amount of inhabitants working at Brasilia, making it a commuting city. It has enviable infrastructure, with almost 100% occupation, diversified commerce and a good urban life. In spite of these great qualities, it also has the typical problems of a nonplanned city that has grown spontaneously, resulting in a low rent population and technological deficiency.
Neighborhood typology
Local street section
Commercial street section
Commercial street
Institutional equipment: health, education, security and entretainment 3 stories max.
Multifamily buildings 3 stories max.
Single family housing 2 stories max.
Affordable Single family housing 2 stories max.
High limits and building uses
Commercial + multifamily buildings 4 stories max.
Commercial buildings + linear park 6 stories max.
Commercial galery buildings + linear park 6 stories max.
Existing street network
Secondary streets
Primary streets
Tertiary streets
Proposed street network
Tram line Bus lines
Proposed public transit network
Bicycle network
A WALKABLE ISLAND REIMAGINING STREETS OF BIOTECH CITY
Guangzhou, China. (UC- Berkeley + SCUT / group project)
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The design proposal looks into retaining and reviving part of the natural topography which existed on the island a decade ago. The existing proposal of the bio-city essentially has flattened most of the hills and the street system results into large blocks reducing walkablity within the island. By retaining the streets what have been built already on the site, the proposal makes an attempt to revive what existed earlier and carefully accomdating the future development.
Master plan
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PERCEPTION OF DENSITY AND PLACE ATTACHMENT OF MISSION DISTRICT PERIMETER BLOCKS Mission district, San Francisco, Ca. (UC- Berkeley / group project)
A perimeter block is a type of city block that has buildings on all sides that ring a central open space. The buildings may be mixed use, and the central space may be shared, private or some combination of shared and private. This project focuses on the hypothesis that Greater urban canopy in perimeter blocks increases attachment and reduces the state of being crowded. The surveys that we recieved and the data that we collected does suggest that greater urban canopy in a perimeter block does seem to reduce the state of being over crowded as Block A and Block C which have high urban canopy in the perimeter block as well as high density, but the residents that replied to the survey greatly underestimated density in their block. Block B has low urban canopy and they seemed to be quite close in guessing the actual density of their block.
Context building footprint
Our research however did not show any connection between urban canopy and place identity, attachment of the block but looking at the word selection that best describes their block, words such as “neighbourhood”, “sense of belonging” and “sociability” seemed to stand out and makes us believe that the identity of the block and why the people are attached to the block is more related to the people living in the block itself.
BLOCK A
19th & Guerrero St.
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100 ft.
Field observations
Lived for 2 years Owner Uses backyard space once a week Lived for 20 years Owner Uses backyard space every day Lived for 7 years Owner Uses backyard space never Lived for 6 years Renter Uses backyard space twice a month Lived for 7 years Owner Uses backyard space never
Area Population Children Number 0
52,298 ft2 286 30
Race/Ethinicity White 82% Asian 11% Others 7% Building footprint
100 ft.
SPOT 1 Traffic (each figure means 50units) Pedestrian
Bicycle Cars
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70,000 Ft Medium
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Noise level 00:00
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100 ft.
Block to buildings 2:1
Urban canopy
SPOT 2 Traffic (each figure means 50units)
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Pedestrian
13,500 Ft High
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Block to canopy 9:1
Bicycle
Backyard space Cars
Noise level 00:00
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40,000 Ft2 High
Block to open space 3.5:1
100 ft.
BLOCK B
Lived for 43 years Renter Uses backyard never
Liberty & Guerrero St.
Lived for 5 years Renter Uses backyard space every day 0
Field observations
0
Lived for 18 years Renter Uses backyard space in summer every day
100 ft.
Area Population Children Number
151,970 ft2 193 22
Race/Ethinicity White 85% Asian 9% Others 6%
100 ft.
SPOT 3 Traffic (each figure means 50units) Pedestrian
Building footprint
Bicycle Cars 0
Noise level 00:00
00:10
00:20
00:30
00:40
00:50
00:60
66,000 Ft Low
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100 ft.
Block to buildings 2:1
Urban canopy
SPOT 4 Traffic (each figure means 50units) Pedestrian Bicycle
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9,000 Ft Medium
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Cars
100 ft.
Block to canopy 9.5:1
Backyard space
Noise level 00:00
00:10
00:20
00:30
00:40
00:50
00:60
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27,000 Ft2 Low
Block to open space 5:1
100 ft.
BLOCK C
Lived for 19 years Owner Uses backyard space every day
21st & Guerrero St.
Lived for 5 years Renter Uses backyard space never 0
100 ft.
Field observations
0
Lived for 40 years Owner Uses backyard space never
Area Population Children Number
149,347 ft2 263 18
Race/Ethinicity White 84% Asian 6% Others 11%
100 ft.
SPOT 5 Traffic (each figure means 50units) Pedestrian
Building footprint
Bicycle Cars 0
72,000 Ft2 High Noise level 00:00
00:10
00:20
00:30
00:40
00:50
00:60
100 ft.
Block to buildings 2:1
Urban canopy
SPOT 6 Traffic (each figure means 50units) 0
Pedestrian
6,000 Ft2 Low
Bicycle
100 ft.
Block to canopy 10:1
Backyard space
Cars
Noise level 00:00
00:10
00:20
00:30
00:40
00:50
00:60
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33,500 Ft2 Medium
Block to open space 4.5:1
100 ft.
The project of the territorial growth of Michoacan’s cities arises in response to register the exponential growth of the cities in the past years in order to create awareness of the necessity of urban planning and desing. The project was done as part of the social service given at the governmental agency (SUMA) and it was presented in the forum: Foro sobre la Problemática Urbana. Hábitat y territorio, perspectivas sobre políticas urbanas hacia el siglo XXI. The aim of the project was to show today’s problem of rapid growth, along with the increase on VMT, road deficiency, low density and rapid population growth.
1980
1950
1990
MORELIA’S TERRITORIAL GROWTH 1950 - 2010. CITIES TERRITORIAL GROWTH IN MICHOACAN STATE
Morelia, Mexico (SUMA- Secretaría de urbanismo y medio ambiente)
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1960
1970
2000
2010
SYMBOLOGY 1950 1960 1970 1980
Delimitation of the actual urban area City fabric Roads Contour lines
1990
Rivers
2000
Lakes
2010
Vacant land