Architect Portfolio - María Paula Vélez

María Paula Vélez

MARÍA PAULA VÉLEZ CONTACT E-mail: mariapvelezm@gmail.com Phone: +31 0618785363 Skype: mariapaulavelezm@hotmail.com Instagram: mariapaulavelez8

LANGUAGES Spanish: native English: high proficiency (IELTS: 7.5) Italian: high proficiency (CILS:C1) French: basic aknowledge (DELF: B1)

ABOUT Architect from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia.

Master in Sustainable architecture from the Politecnico di Torino, Italia.

I think of myself as a disciplined, creative and cooperative individual.

I enjoy the logical, analytic and creative process of solving physical problems through architecture.

I’ve learned purpose is given by the love you put into the things you do, and that achievement is driven by passion.

Architecture is about solving problems through ideas, it is also and mostly made out of passion.

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I think architecture is a direct reflection of human interaction, and that it has the potential of shaping it too. It has the responsibility of corresponding and serving human dynamics. Strengthening the sense of place and identity to the inhabited spaces.

I believe in sustainable development by means of inclusive, innovative, participatory and multidisciplinary processes. In architecture, as the search of functionality and beauty through simple solutions and healthy practices, tightly bound to communities and their sense of belonging.

EDUCATION 2019 2017

2019 2013

MASTER DEGREE IN SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy)

Master degree with emphasis in sustainable design solutions, financial feasibility and management of the architectonic bussines project.

ARCHITECTURE DEGREE

Pontifical Javeriana University (Bogotá, Colombia) Master degree with emphasis in the critical analysis of complex, contemporary built environments. Design thinking approach to problem solving, project conception and development.

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Strong communication and collaboration skills Strong graphic representation skills.

Strong organizational Skills.

Efficient visual, oral and written communication skills.

Critical analysis of the context, towards a problem framing; identifying weaknesses and potentials for the design-solution process.

Formulation of solution-focused strategies and scenarios of change.

Logic prioritization of factors and implementation of requirements in the design process.

DIGITAL SKILLS Photoshop Illustrator In Design Rhino Autocad Revit Archicad Vray Office 3d Max 3

PERSONAL PROJECTS

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RESILIENT HOMES CHALLENGE Competition World Bank 2019 The Wetland Wettlement + The Core House (PoliTO) Cartgena, Colombia

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WATER AGORA Academic project 2018 Bathing Culture and habitational hub Gothenburg, Sweden

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OASIS OF INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT Competition 2017 BID Urban lab Guaymallén, Argentina

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METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE FOR THE STUDY AND INTERVENTION OF THE HISTORIC CENTER OF MOMPOX Academic project 2016 Methodologic heritage consevation guide Mompox, Colombia

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CITY FRAGMENTS : BOGOTA 2030 Academic project: Master Thesis 2019 Masterplan: Urban renewal Bogotá, Colombia

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01 RESILIENT HOME CHALLENGE

Location: Cartagena, Colombia Typology: from emergency housing to urban settlement Competition: Resilient Homes Challenge 2019-World bank

Promoting cooperation and sustainable practices within the community The purpose of our project is to provide first and foremost a safe, sustainable refuge for disaster stricken regions of the world.

More specifically to those facing tropical floodings. The result is a home that can float to avoid the rising waters from seasonal floods and can resist hurricane winds due to a compact design and a pitched roof.

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The permanent settlement developed afterwards is an initiative that embraces water as a landscape regenerator and a social cohesion catalyst. Turning a marginal forgotten costal location in the periphery of a highly touristic city (periodically endangered

with flooding) into a potential setting for economic, social and natural thrive for the local community and the vulnerable displaced population.

Resilient public spaces, with space for cultural and productive activities The urban project seeks sustainability through renewable energy supply (eolic and solar), social tissue generation (natural areas, quality public spaces, residential units with collaborative activities, facilities for local blooming and productive spaces, etc.)

Understanding of the hazard (water) as a potential for development and the cultivation of a sense of belonging, by transforming the exploited landscape with natural richness and new dynamics.

Front Elevation

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FUNCTIONAL SECTION

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MASTER PLAN

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Urban Axonometry

Composting chamber for shared use of the units.

400-600L Capacity

Shared Maintenance shed for yard activities.

Solar powered street lights

8 Private plots in each block + 1 inner (private) yard shared among the 8 plots

600L RC= 7Kw

House expansions, with room for additional residential use, productive and/or commercial activities

Plot=7Kw/day

Crops/ Vegetable Garden

Eolic Turbine: Rated capacity from of about 7Kw would produce between 16.8 - 67.2 Kw/day Making for up to a 120% of the energy needs for the whole residential block. “Front yard�; street-house relating activities

Wetland Settlement residential block

Wetland Settlement community area

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02 WATER AGORA

Location: Gotenburg (Sweden) Typology: Harbor park / water leisure facilities / housing project

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Post-industrial harbor transformation; Frihamnen, Gothenburg.

Where the city comes close to the water, A post-industrial Harbor in Frihamnen

“What would architectural and urban space at the waterfront look like if it were sensitive to the specific characteristics and cultural heritage of a post-industrial harbor site; massing that is not dictated by automobiles and conventional street systems; and spatial solutions that benefit from both the opportunities of real estate and the challenges of climate change?

How would such an urban area work and by what criteria can architecture regenerate development at the waterfront?�

transformed into an entretaiment district, with an essential housing component.

The water Agora seeks an intimate, fun relationship with the water, a harbor park and new habitational district for Gothenburg.

Floating platforms that hold the water facilities, and addapt to the rising water level due to the climat change, and a fixed megastructure that supports the dwelling in the upper part of the project

Axonometric View

Main Elevation

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03 OASIS OF INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT Location: Mendoza, Argentina Typology: Urban renewal-Master plan Competition: BID Urban lab 2017 -Semi finalist

Guymallén in Mendoza, Argentina is calling for an urban renewal proposal for this 26 hectares unused polygon in the pheriphery of the city. Looking for a proposal that embraces the character of the place, revitalizes the existing patrimony left of the old train station, and brings a whole lot of opportunities for the local people.

The addressed problem is this underused urban void in the city. The change in use that left abandoned the old train station, causing its immediate context to deteriorate and the rupture of the urban tissue, turning into a physical barrier that difficults appropriation, connectivity and interaction.

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Architecture for the urban living. goid park bases its conception upon the historical natural

characteristic of Guymallén; The “Oasis”. A natural, fertile ecosystem where

things grow, which is used in the proposal as a great scale Park where innovation and entrepreneurship is harvest. Taking local strengths and potentialities and turning them into opportunities and development for the territory and its inhabitants.

The park works as an open laboratory, where external entities are brought together with entrepreneurs and locals, in order to strenghten and promote research, production, and knowledge, in benefit of the terretory and its inhabitants. All framed under the leisure, public and natural landscape of the park. A “modern Agora” where intelectual and economic exchange is encouraged in a fun natural environment.

Innovation incubators

Playground

Dwelling

Productive and educational uses

Agro industrial uses

Cohesion strategy park circuit Local crops

Quino: Eco-park

Heritage/ Community local uses

Cultural and recreational uses

Sports and entretaiment

GOID PARK: Phase I

Re-activate old infrastructure / Collective nature

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Collective and green spaces

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Program: diversity and innovation

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Connect: cohesion strategy

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Mixed-use territory

General Urban strategies

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Collective mixed-use: Sports facility / Education center

GOID PARK: Phase II - Axonometric view

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04 METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE FOR THE STUDY AND INTERVENTION OF THE HISTORIC CENTER OF MOMPOX Location: Mompox, Colombia Typology: Methodologic Heritage Conservation Guide

Santa cruz de mompox has been World Heritage since 1995, for being a clear example of a way of life in a specific time in human history; that of a Spanish Colony in America (S.XVI-S.XVIII).

Although the isolation has preserved the architectonic patrimony mostly in its outside features, modifications had been made inside the colonial houses, some of which due to lack of resources, misinformation and an abscence of interest from the authorities,had been transforming the patrimony to an unrecognizable state, where all its values begin to desappear.

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The project tackles this problematic by proposing a guide; which considers the patrimonie values

above all when it comes to any kind of intervention, in order to preserve its identity in adaptation processes. the metodologic guide for the patrimony is a guide for successfull decition making when intervening the architectonical patrimony in Mompox’ Center comes from this urgent need of preservation of a irreplaceable identity, of a unique place testominy of a time in human history. The guide proposes a number of strategies with local tecniques and materials, in order to adapt the patrimony to a functional, chaging environment, always taking its values as a priority in order to keep its identity.

Methodological guide for Architectonic Heritage intervation in Mompox, Colombia

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05 CITY FRAGMENTS : BOGOTÁ 2030 Location: Bogotá, Colombia Typology: Urban renewal-Master plan Academic project: Master thesis

Residual spaces derived from large mobility infrastructure are common phenomena in the expanded center of Bogotá in Colombia.

A city that seems to expand over its own control limits, and that appears to have developed as odds and ends of multiple, sometimes alienated, planning decisions, and interventions.

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The urban fragmentation process from the mobility infrastructure, to which this kind of deteriorating phenomena in the city seem to relate to, is the starting point of interest in the investigation. How these urban problematics can be addressed from the field of architeecture, and positively influenced into a more sustainable future for the city; through the urban project (as Solá Morales describes in “La segunda historia

del proyecto urbano”) is the final interest of the analysis and the urban proposal of the dissertation.

Understanding the urban project as a valuable city-making tool, which allows an intermediate scale of approach, with a less rigid, and a more holistic and participative qualities in the process of transformation of the city.

The urban area where two milestones in the mobility infrastructure of Bogotá in Colombia, intersect. And multiple social and economic phenomena collide, is the study area chosen to develop the analysis and formulate the urban project.

Urban phenomena - Axonometric study

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Current situation - Bogotå’s expanded city center 2019

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Master plan Axo - Bogotå’s expanded city center 2030

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The new mobility hub (Estación central del metro de Bogotá) A new vibrant district for creative economy, culture and leisure The Central Cemetery´s linear park The Linear Park Av.

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The re-invented neighborhood of Santa fe The Museum park complex

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Santa Fe’s new urban polygon

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CITY FRAGMENTS ATLAS Infrastructure + Architecture + City The study of the influence of mobility infraestructure in deteriorating urban areas, and its transformation through the strategic formulation of the urban project.

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