SELECTED WORKS | 2012 - 2019 LANDSCAPE URBANISM + ARCHITECTURE
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CASA DEL NINO 14´ -by the author
Architects are trained in a broad range of skills; they not only design, but also have an important role within society. Being an architect means understanding the community we live in, having the ability to design objects yet to be built, and recognizing our limits, in order to come up with solutions for our surrounding environment.
-The Meaning of Being an Architect (by the author).
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MARIANELLA DE LA GUARDIA arc hi te c tu re
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landscape
ur banism
COMPUTER SKILLS Autodesk Autocad Autodesk Revit Adobe InDesign Arc Map QGIS EDUCATION Present
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Google Sketch Up Rhinoceros 3D Microsoft Office COMPETENCES
Graduate Certificate in Lean 6 Sigma Yellow Belt Florida State University, Panama Canal Branch Panama City, Panama.
2018
Master of Design in Sustainable Urban Enviroments Northeastern University Boston, MA. GPA 3.8/4
2017
Team work
Project Management
Problem solving under pressure
Drawing and painting
Hand Sketching
Arch. Modeling
Graduate Certificate in Project Management Florida State University, Panama Canal Branch Panama City, Panama.
2011 2016
Bachelor of Architecture
2010
Auto Cad Advanced Coursec
ISTHMUS Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño de America Latina y el Caribe. Panama City, Panama. SOFT NET. Panama City, Panama.
LANGUAGES
English (TOEFL IBT 105/120) Spanish (mothertongue)
WORK EXPERIENCE June. 2018 Feb. 2019
Bishop Land Design Designer. Quincy Massachusetts.
-Currently assists in the realization of construction and design of several projects of landscape architecture of the public and private sectors in the US in the states of Michigan and Massachusetts. -Contribution in studies of resilience, environmental impact and sustainability of projects. -Responsible for the drawing of final construction documents in Autocad, modeling in Rhinoceros 3D, and editing plans for the sales presentation in Photoshoop, Illustrator, and Indesign.
Nov. 2016 July 2017
George Moreno and Partners Architect Panama City, Panama.
- Assisted in the management and design of a variety of projects from housing development masterplans on the beaches of Panama, to mix- use buildings in the city. -Responsible for the conceptual design, 3D modeling and overall final presentation and look of projects.
September Dec. 2015
April July. 2015
VOLUNTARY WORK 2011
Samudio Architects Intern Panama City, Panama.
- Assisted in design development of various projects. -Collaborated in the process of the final stages of the project, and elaborated construction sheets in Autocad and Revit.
Loisos + Ubbelohde
Summer Intern San Fransisco Bay Area, USA.
- Responsible for the edition and Presentation of various projects from research to design. - Collaborated in analisis of sustainability, and in creating recommendations for LEED certification. Created simulations Rhinoceros 3D (plug in DIVA).
Fundación Amador ¨Amador Foundation¨ Panama City, Panama.
- In charge of the social network communications of the BioMuseum by Arch. Frank Ghery.
2015Present
Fundación Zero Limite ¨No Limits Foundation¨ Panama City, Panama.
- This foundation, still in formation, aims create awareness and prevent the condition of spina bifida, providing folic acid to potential mothers, since before pregnancy. -Responsible for the creation of presentations and artwork for the Social Media for the organization.
PRESENTATIONS Feb. - 2019 Nov. - 2018 Oct. - 2018 April. - 2018
Tuesday Conference Expositor ¨The Pacific Muck¨. Isthmus. Panama City , Panama. MDES_LARC- Second Year Class Assistant. Northeastern University. Boston , Massachusetts. MDES_LARC - Second Year Midterm Review Juror. Northeastern University. Boston , Massachusetts. Rise 2018 - Research Innovation and Scholarship Expo. Northeastern University. Boston , Massachusetts.
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ACADEMIA SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIROMENTS 2018 Pacific Muck Counter Current East Boston Sea Level Rise -
Stormwater Management
ARCHITECTURE 2016 Sports Campus
COLLABORATIONS Bishop Land Design, Improvements in Lyons Street. Grand Rapids, MI. USA Bussiness Park, George Moreno and Partners. Panama City, Panama. Internship, Loisos + Ubbelohde. San Fransisco, CA. USA.
OTHER Drawings
THE PACIFIC MUCK
Master´s Degree Project
The primary purpose of this study is to study the relationship between urban housing development, geological hazards, and their impacts on resiliency. The project will focus on issues of the ANTHROPOCENE ERA (the current era) the way humans have interacted with the natural landscape, utilizing Juan Diaz sub-district of Panama City as a case study for this worldwide problematic. Juan Diaz being a particularly interesting site since it is at sea level and developed on floodplains, river banks and mangroves-- key ecological areas that once provided protection from storm surges as well as wildlife habitat. The project will be represented first by a series of historical mappings, to understand the original ecological capacity of ecosystems such as mangroves that act as ecological infrastructure, or safeguards. What drove Juan Diaz to destroy these assets and place people’s lives at risk? Interviews with Panamanian officials has already shed light on current trends in construction and the political motivations behind current development plans. Out of this work will come new design strategies that situate low income-housing in safer zones that does not degrade the natural protection provided by the landscape. This acts as a critique to the way urbanization and cities have designed this developments over the last decade and exposes a common problematique we are seeing in various parts of the world.
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The city of Panama is based on a system of river basins or fluvial networks in the framework of an absence of planning of its territory. The growth and development of the city outside of a planning process of the territory, made possible the indiscriminate occupation of large areas of the basins without respecting the easements buffer zones and / or alluvial areas necessary for the proper functioning of this important water system.
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NEW DEVELOPMENTS JUAN DIAZ WATERSHED BOUNDARY INCREASED SEDIMENT LOAD DUE TO EROSION BY CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS
UPPER WATERSHED
MID
INTENSE FILLING OF WETLANDS MID WATERSHED OVERWHELMS RIVER ALREADY AT FULL CAPACITY
WATERSHED
LOW
WATERSHED
SEDIMENTS FLOW DIRECTLY TO THE OCEAN, ENDAGERING SPECIES OF FLORA AND FAUNA
Removal of the vegetation causes quicker discharges due to run-off and severe erosion in the area in the upstream and mid sections of the watershed. Eroded sediment causes decrease of the available discharge profile of the river from upstream to downstream area, creating even more barriers for the run off to discharge onto the ocean.
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J UA N D I A Z WAT E R S H E D
HOUSING ON LANDFILL
HOUSING ON FLOODPLAIN
JUAN DIAZ WATERSHED
HIGHWAY
ROAD RUNOFF
RESIDENTIAL RUNOFF
SEA LEVEL
RAPID RUNOFF FROM NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON HIGHER FILLS
0KM
OCEAN
1KM
MANGROVES
2KM
IN THE EVENT OF EXTREME PRECIPITATION LOWER DEVELOPMENTS GET FLOODED FROM RAPID RUNOFF
3KM
HWY
COSTA SUR
EXCESSIVE SEDIMENT LOAD DUE TO NEW DEVELOPMENT UPLAND DECREASING RIVER CAPACITY
JUAN DIAZ RIVER SECTION
4KM
MTRO PRK
5KM
6KM
CIUDAD RADIAL PEDREGALITO
FLOOD ZONE SEA LEVEL
JUAN DIAZ LONGITUDINALSECTION
The most critical sites are geeting up to 9 meters of water in some areas near the river. Because of the rapid creation of new developments and the complete destruction of natural ecologial protections like mangroves, we see this number increasing each year. There has been no respect to the limits of the soil, and each day new delopments in this area are being approved, ones that will make areas of Juan Diaz unlivable in the near future.
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1990 The natural landscape of the area is what has been the most affected. The area was identified at first by being the beggining edge of mangroves in the Pacific side of the isthmus. Is was characterized by low lying wetlands, low vegetation and idundated areas. Nowadays, with the growth of the urban figure, poor regulations and miss use of the land, 55% of the original mangroves has been destroyed. Mangroves and wetlands work as sponges in the event of flooding, the removal of this critical ecosystems is what converted Juan Diaz the most critical region of country.
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2018 mangroves i n u n d at e d areas diverse trees
The end result of the project will be a new way of visualizing the Juan Diaz Area throught projective futures. More than a formal land use plan, these counter land use scenarios highlight the extreme measures needed to mitigate the challenges resulting from a legacy of irresponsible urban planning. This planning has diminished the Panamanian coastline by eliminating protective landscape features such as mangroves that act as natural flood protection. The project will focus on analyzing and mitigating the critical flood zone areas by creating floodable riverine buffers, mangrove nurseries, and new land use typologies (services, recreation, cultural area).
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THE PAVILLION
MANGROVE NURSERY
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RIVERINE BUFFER AND FLOODABLE AREAS
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COUNTER CURRENT
Master´s Research Studio- 2017
The northeast megalopolis is perceived as one of the most critical urban regions
around the world, yet also threatened by our pollution, and the challenges of future climate change and sea level rise. This megalopolis contains the Great Lakes water basin, which is also the largest group of freshwater in the world, and to home
critical series of fish and organisms. If we continue to ignore that our litter affects not only other species but also ourselves we might be the next species to leave.
The primary goal of this research project is to understand the way that urbaniza-
tion has affected our waterways. How increasing development and changes in land
use have sometimes molded and in other times eliminated currents. What are the different pollutants that come out of this diverse typologies and, by studying selected endangered species, analyze ways in which these impacts could be mitigated?
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COUNTER CURRENT BREAKING THE CYCLE 2%
14%
73%
85%
95%
GOOD GROUD COVER
FAIR GROUD COVER
POOR GROUD COVER
BARE GROUD COVER
CONCRETE | IMPREVIOUS SURFACE
35% EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
10%
20%
RUNOFF
INFILTRATION
30%
RUNOFF
25% SHALLOW
INFILTRATION
NATURAL HABITAT
10% SHALLOW
INFILTRATION
15% DEEP
AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF
INFILTRATION
5% DEEP INFILTRATION
INFILTRATION
10% 20% IMPREVIOUS SURFACE
NATURAL GROUND COVER
RUNOFF
20% SHALLOW 21% DEEP
INFILTRATION
INFILTRATION
55%
RUNOFF
21% SHALLOW 25% DEEP
30% EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
30% 50% IMPREVIOUS SURFACE
50% 80% IMPREVIOUS SURFACE
RESIDENTIAL RUNOFF
INDUSTRIAL RUNOFF SUSPENDED NUTRIENTS WARM SURFACE LAYER ALGAL BLOOM ALGAL DECAY DEAD ZONE
HYDROLOGY
VARIABLES IN STREAM FLOW + DROUGHTS IN DRY SEASON + FLOODS IN RAINY SEASON
DAMS
HABITAT
CHANNELS INVASIVE SPECIES LAND USE
POLLUTION
WATER QUALITY
NITROGEN PHOSPHOROUS SEWAGE PESTICIDES OIL + HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Land Use analysis of the cities in order to understand the contaminants that are affecting the waterways. What is the relatonship between this types of land use and the contaminants that are being shed on the streams? Hoes does this relate to the species that are being endangered?
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CHICAGO
GRAND RAPIDS
RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRIAL PARK AGRICULTURE CSO
BOSTON
BOSTON
GREEN BUFFER BOSTON HARBOR PERMEABLE PAVEMENT
BRACKISH WETLANDS
GREEN BUFFER
RESIDENTIAL
BRACKISH WETLAND
CHARLES RIVER
HABITAT FOR ENDEMIC SPECIES
STORMWATER OUTFALLS DIVERTED TO WATER RESERVOIRS
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HIGH MARSH
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LOW MARSH
MUD FLAT
BRACKISH WETLANDS GREEN INFRAESTRUCTURE GREEN INFR. IN MAJOR ROADS WATER RESERVOIRS
DENSIFY NEIGHBORHOODS
MITIGATION GREEN ROOFS
BOSTON HARBOR
HARBOR WALK
DENSIFY NEIGHBORHOODS TO LIBERATE SPACE
ROADS + GI
URBAN PARK
CENTRAL GREEN INFRAESTRUCTURE ON MAYOR ROADS
RIP RAP
CURRENT ENERGY DIFFUSER
STORMWATER OUTFALLS
DIVERTED TO WATER RESERVOIRS
GREEN INFRAESTRUCTURES + HIGH DENSITY GREEN BUFFER
BRACKISH WETLAND
RESIDENTIAL
BINDING OF SEDIMENTS
MUD FLAT
LOW MARSH
HIGH MARSH
CHARLES RIVER
CHICAGO
INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR ALONG THE RIVER
WACKER DRIVE
RESIDENTIAL AREA
GREEN BUFFER
WATER SLOWED DOWN
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FLOODABLEWETLAND
BINDING OF SEDIMENTS
RIVER AREA
USTRIAL IND A AS RE
KER DR WAC IVE
FLOODABLE WETLAND LANDSCAPE DISCONNECT THE SYSTEM
WATER RESERVOIRS
MITIGATION | SITE ANALYSIS LAKE MI
CHICAGO RIVER
JOLIS CITY
WETLAND AREA
MORRIS CITY
DISCONNECT THE SYSTEM
FUTURE SECTION RELATIONSHIP WITH WATER
MIX RESIDENTIAL COMERCIAL
RIVERWALK + GREEN BUFFER
CHICAGO RIVER
RIVERWALK
WACKER DRIVE RESTORATION | GREEN BUFFER
COMMERCIAL
CSO OUTFALLS DIVERTED TO WATER RESERVOIR
CSO OUTFALLS DIVERTED TO WATER RESERVOIR
WACKER DRIVE SECTION FLOODABLEWETLAND AREA
BINDING OF SEDIMENTS
GREEN BUFFER
HIGHWAY
RESIDENTIAL AREA
WATER SLOWED DOWN
WETLAND AREA
GRAND RAPIDS GREEN INFRAESTRUCTURE IN BETWEEN PARCELS
GRAND RIVER
ZOOM IN AGRICULTURE INTERVENTION PROPOSAL
GR
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D
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RENOVATED LANDSCAPE
P RO PO
GREEN BUFFER AROUND RIVER
VE
R
SE
CAPE DS AN L D
W NE
BOGS
SEDIMENT TRAPPING BUFFER IN BETWEEN PARCELS
AGRICULTURAL RUN OFF
RIPARIAN BUFFER
GREEN INFRAESTRUCTURE ON ROADS TO SLOW DOWN RUNOFF FLOW RIPARIAN BUFFER + MIX USE BUILDINGS
ELIMINATION OF DAMS
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GRAND RAPIDS WHITE WATER PROJECT
U
A
ELIMINATION OF DAMS AND BARRIERS RIPARIAN BUFFER FLOODABLE ALONG RIVER GREEN INFRAST INTERVENTION ON WATERSHED (in between croops and parcel)
FLOODABLE WETLAND AREA (riparian buffer)
MITIGATION | SITE ANALYSIS LEMONT
GEORGETOWN GRAND VILLE
FOREST HILLS
GRAND RAPIDS
WYOMING
MORRIS CITY
FUTURE SECTION COIRLOGS IN BETWEEN PARCELS
FARMLAND
GREEN BUFFER WETLAND
GREEN BUFFER FLOODABLE WETLAND
GRAND RIVER
FARMLAND
BINDING OF SEDIMENTS
STORMWATER DIVERTED TO BOGS
SECTION ANALISIS
FLOODABLE WETLAND AREA
GREEN BUFFER
GREEN BUFFER GRAND RIVER
SIDEWALK + BIKE LANE
MIX RESIDENTIAL COMERCIAL
GREEN ROOFS STORMWATER OUTFALL TO WATER RESERVES
STORMWATER OUTFALL TO WATER RESERVES
URBAN RUN OFF
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT East Boston- 2018
The purpose of the project was to analyze a site affected by coastal flooding in East Boston, and propose systems that would help mitigate the impacts of flooding.
In terms of flooding our site is exposed to climate change impacts including: heat, increased precipitation, stormwater flooding, sea level rise and coastal flooding.
The process that we utilized was to analyze the site at pre-development in order to
understand what is it current absortion rate. After calculating the absortion rate at
pre-development we compared it to the absortion rate after the development of the project, in order to understand how the desing of the project affected its absortion rate of water.
Some of the systems proposed to increase the absortion rate of the site after devel-
opment were: infiltration basins, a bioswale along the coast, retardant vegetation, a green roof and rain gardens.
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3D VIEW SYSTEMS VOLUME ABSORTION
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3D VIEW SYSTEMS CALCULATION ANALYSYS
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REGIONAL VIEW ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -MITIGATION ANALYSIS
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SYSTEMS RAIN GARDENS AND ROOFS
SPORTS CAMPUS
BA Degree Project- 2016
The project will consist of creating a campus-type sports space, with the intention of vitalizing the area between educational centers (USMA, UIP, ULATINA), with the possibility of expansion to UTP (Public University). The intention will be to vitalize the area of these educational centers, where the needs of the students will be solved. At present these three universities are located, one next to other, but at the same time totally segregated, and without any way of connecting. The main objective would be to find a way that students could be mobilized from one institution to another, that is not purely vehicular.
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The project will consist of a public space between these universities, which currently do not have any, and create a connection between them. Within the project it is proposed to create: 1) A master plan: where new uses are proposed within the space, a reorganization of the site, as well as improvement of sidewalks (which are non-existent) and a bike cycle 2)Sports Campus: where meeting spaces for students, with areas qualified for various sports, commercial premises, all with a sports focus
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IMPROVEMENTS IN LYON STREET. -Grand Rapids, MI.
Bishop Land Design- 2019 This project seeks to (re)establish human and ecological connections with the Grand River, Grand Rapids Michigan. The proposed design accommodates a wide range of activities, including pole fishing, a kayak and canoe launch, programmed events, temporary dining on the Gillett Bridge and the implementation of seating unique to downtown Grand Rapids through its representation of the river’s geologic history. The new edge condition will enhance the waterfronts ecological capacity through habitat creation, its ability to mitigate flooding hazards through the incorporation of a planted flood berm, and increase accessibility to the lower walkway. The design will also provide a continuous multi-use trail connection to the existing trail network while also creating a connection with the North. Lyons Edge represents a private-public development opportunity that serves both the interests of public use and private program implementation.
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WATER CYCLE DIADRAM
PROGRAM DIADRAM
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CARBON CYCLE DIADRAM
GROUND PERSPECTIVES
GENERAL SCOPE RENDER
BUSSINESS PARK
George Moreno & Partners- 2017
The project consists of a renovation of a Bussiness area. It will consist of two parts: 1) new masterplan of the site, with a re-design of the landscape and common areas (lobby access, etc.). In this part, we proposed to open the primary entrance of the building to the road, which right now is being obscured by a big fountain, and the people in the vicinity don’t know there is an interior public garden on the project. We re-distributed all the walkways in the garden to create more efficient connections between them, as well as a covered passage. Also, we created covered areas for meeting, as well as a central space for exhibitions and events. The second part of the project was a connection with one of the adjacent towers, as well as the renovation of the terrace of this adjoining tower that nowadays is not being used at all due to the lack of a program. We proposed a gastronomic area, as well as an area for sport and recreation.
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SELECTED WORKS | 2012 - 2019 LANDSCAPE URBANISM + ARCHITECTURE
M D L G