MARIA PAULA VEGA GUALDRÓN

Architect Education

Architecture degree

2023

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Senior Highschool

2017

Colegio Agustiniano Ciudad Salitre

Work Experience

Contact

mariapvegag@gmail.com

(+57) 3013370390

Link portfolio https://issuu.com/mpvg

Mentions

“Orden al mérito académico Javeriano”

2023

Academic award

Exhibition at Biennale di Venezia

2020

Project: Wich city for wich future?- Chapinero

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Politécnico di Torino

Postulation - Honorable mention of the degree Work

December 2022

Project: “Ruta de reparación colectiva para la paz y la memoria en la hoya del río Suarez.”

Honorable Mention - Velodrome contest in Bogotá

December 2021

A+3 Architecture

CivilTeknia S.A.S

May - August 2022

Participation on the public space and landscaping manual for the “Hacienda Cauchitos” project located in the city of Ibague.

Design of public space plans, construction of technical sheets, build-up details and support in the post-production area.

MRV Architects

January - July 2022

Design and construction

Drawing and modeling residential projects, furniture design, production of 3D images and support at the graphic design area.

Velodrome contest in Bogotá

December 2021

A+3 Architecture

With Arq. Alberto Aranda and Arq. Nicolás Monje.

Collective

Colombian Society of Architects

2020 - Ongoing

Active member of the student group of the Colombian society of architects (CESCA).

Languages

English B2

Certified by the TOEIC test.

Italian B1

Course at the Istituto Italiano di cultura

Spanish Native

Software Skills

AutoCad

Archicad Revit

Rhinoceros

SketchUp

Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Lightroom

Adobe Bridge

3ds Max

Enscape

Lumion

V-ray

ArcGis Global Mapper Excel M. Project

Collective Reparation Path For Peace And Memory

Located in Santander, Colombia.

December 2022

The senior project proposes an alternative repairing route for peace and memory in the municipalities along the Suárez River, through commemorative public spaces that face the invisibilization of the multiple conflicts that have struck the territory in recent decades.

Understanding the silent violence that transformed the territory is fundamental to the analysis and what leads to a first territorial proposal, the “collective reparation path for peace and memory.” Based on the above, a reflection is generated around the architecture of memory, how this can deal the tragedy of naturalizing the war and let see what happened in the territory.

The collective reparation path contributes to this whole process of recognition, significance and healing for the territory and its inhabitants. Strategic spaces are located that have been the basis for the connection of these sectors that make up the journey and provide spaces for recognition and peace.

Colombia has been the victim, for more than sixty years, of the internal conflict that has generated the increase in numbers in internal displacement, kidnappings, torture, abuses, among others; that have taken the lives of many inhabitants throughout the nation. Similarly, vulnerability, socio-territorial deterioration and lack of State presence and intervention in Colombia’s rural territories have created a habitat with precarious conditions for the population.

Ecorregión Suárez Chicamocha

It contains part of the departments of Santander and Boyacá

General Issue

Forced displacement by violence.

+4.9 Millon people internally and forced displaced +90Thousand missing people

Territory

The concept of “territory” is taken from the author Ovidio Delgado of his book“Space, territory and region: basic concepts for a national project” (Mahecha, O. 1998). Which, is understood as the scenario of social relations and the spatial capacity of different actors to create, appropriate, recreate, different territorialities in those spaces of power and dominion. It is a mutable, unbalanced mobile space; a changing geosocial reality that requires new forms of territorial organization.

They came from the south of Cesar, South of Bolívar, North of Santander and Northeast of Antioquia

From Magdalena Medio Santandereano and Barrancabermeja

Problem

The forgetfulness that has constrained almost to the oblivion of the violent acts that the territory of the river Suarez has suffered.

+27k victims of kidnapping

2.552 massacres between 1980 - 2014

23.161 mass murders

Longitudinal elevations

82% of the victims of the armed conflict were documented on the department.

1. Magdalena river

2. Suárez river

3. Chicamocha river

4. Fonce river

5. Mogoticos river

6. Boyacá Harbor

7. Fúquene reservoir Municipalities adjacent to the Suarez River

Water tributary diagram of the territory. Adapted from ArcGis. Own elaboration. esc 1:250.000

ANALYSIS Hydrographic Social

FARC

Frente 12

Frente 23

Frente 45

The ELN

The BCB

Frente Adonay Ardila Pinilla Frente Guillermo Antonio Vásquez Frente Capitán Palermo

Frente Comuneros Cacique Guanentá Frente Lanceros Vélez y Boyacá

Diagram of social conflicts in the territory. Adapted from Verdadabierta.com. Own elaboration. esc 1:250.000

Protected areas

Integrate Management District

Natural national park

Fauna and Flora Sanctuary

Extractive activities

Mining Titles

Oil Blocks

Undifferentiated erosion

Mass removal phenomenon

Landslides

Diagram of natural areas and extractive activities of the territory. Adapted from the Development of the stage of formulation of the Departmental Planning Plan-POD of Santander. Own elaboration.

Environmental Land-use

Institutional sustainable management for sustainable management of plantations

Natural forest intervened

Secondary natural forest

Transient annual cultivation

Permanent cultivation

Semi-permanent cultivation

Potters with natural pastures

Material Lands

Moorland vegetation

Xerophytic vegetation

Environmental Planning Plan of the territory. Adapted Adapted from the Development of the stage of formulation of the Departmental Planning Plan-POD of Santander. Own elaboration.

Diagnosis Plan Of The Territory

How through architecture can we face the invisibilization of violence?

How can we repair from places and memory?

ACTIONS - REMEMBERING

This action is a sowing for the conservation of the native species of the territory, generating several forests as new lungs along the route.

This action seeks to plant a tree in the name of a person who died as a result of the conflicts that occurred in the territory.

ACTIONS OF - REMINISCE AND CONNECT

Conciliation trails allow to connect with the different actions along the route by means of natural paths.

The range of sensory experiences provides several spaces with different elements and materials that resemble what the victims lived.

This action seeks to give new meaning to those vestiges that are in disuse and allow them to re-articulate to the current and future network of dynamics.

Living shipwrecks arise from propitiating places that denote absence and other negative effects that left a mark on the territory.

Latent paths allow to connect with the different actions along the route generating spaces of permanence and encounter.

This action seeks to situate several informative devices that relate and make visible the conflicts that were experienced.

Linking Actions

Dialog channels generate spaces for re-connection and permanence in a natural environment.

Actions To Foresee

Walking stories emerges as an ephemeral transportable commercial support and spreading to the actions described above.

Spaces for reconnecting and remembering, are those that address the contemplation of memory.

Those passages of memory, are the viewpoints between the treetops, the mountain reliefs or near the river, that allow to contemplate the territory and the landscapes that compose it.

Native conservation are places dedicated to workshops that share the knowledge of the native species of the territory, their origin, conservation and production.

Ancestral teachings are places dedicated to workshops where you can share the knowledge you have of the different artisanal and/or productive techniques of the territory such as pottery vessels, fabrics in fique, the production of organic paper, among others.

Urban Centers Project

May 2020

In this project, an urban intervention was carried out in the city of Bogotá, in the sector of Chapinero. Starting from an urban analysis of the sector and taking production as the basis of the physical spatial transformations that are evidenced, a series of phenomena were identified emerging and are the engine of those changes. Based on the above, a series of intervention strategies were generated at urban and neighborhood level, where a series of catalytic devices were generated that allow the creation of this new identified polyproduction and allows to potentialize new dynamics in the territory.

The sector has a pulviscular production condition, given its size limitation, that is colonizing the sector and is organized around emergent proximities that gravitate around the 7th avenue produced from internal metamorphosis originating a replica of identities of camouflaged landscapes, detected from the condition of use of space and induced by tendential dynamics, adapting to the new requirements of the city and managing to enhance integration with other uses.

Bogotá, Colombia North

Types of production

It seeks to strengthen the current production, to enable the interventions and transformations to achieve a greater character, becoming a center of business, scientific, technological and cultural activity of the city; providing new spaces for the arrival of new productions similar to the current ones, which generate a heterogeneous development and greater competitiveness.

Designing strategic spaces for the development of these new productions that, in the same way, favor the transmission of knowledge to the productive system, where it is necessary that the centers of scientific, technological and creative innovation, be located close to the companies. Likewise, the increase in buildability allows urban renewal projects to contribute to the re-urbanization of all streets in the sector and generate new green areas, equipment and housing that decisively improve the quality of life in the territory.

Based on the general analysis and the vision taken according to the trends of the territory, a master plan is designed to enhance production, complement and support the other services, achieving greater cooperation between them and an improvement in the quality of life of the inhabitants. This, by means of specific interventions, located in strategic places so that they function as axes, catalysts and connectors between the same sector and with the rest of the city.

Habitat Project Sxxi Housing Cooperative

June 2021

The housing cooperative project is located in the west of the city of Bogotá, in the upz Fontibón. In this project an analysis was made of what contemporary and future habitation means and implies. Based on this, we propose a restructuring of the Santander neighborhood, with the implementation of a mixed housing project, 100 street with 22th avenue, where one of the stations of the regiotram project will settle. Coming to propose a post-covid housing cooperative based on a circular, selfsufficient and sustainable economy; using design to help revitalize a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city and to provide its residents with a unique environment that encourages community generation.

We are located in the western periphery of Bogotá, sector of Fontibón where we saw different opportunities since in the future the station of Regiotram of the west will be located, we also appreciate the tourism potential of the sector while being located near to the international airport. This analysis led us to identify certain problems in the quality of the habitation of the users of the sector among which we observed an overcrowding in the houses and a lack of connection to surrounding public spaces, therefore the inhabiting does not satisfy the basic needs of the users.

Bogotá, Colombia West

High population increase

Research Methodology

Tourism potential

Deficit of 2m2 of square public space per inhabitant.

Urban center

Inhabit Biograms

4.80 N

Collage inspired of “Parables for the Virtual Movement-Affect-Sensation”. Own elaboration.

Conformation of the proprioceptive dimension of the Hyper Topological Figure which is that final perception of the user with its habitable environment.

A - Estación de transporte masivo

B Espacio verde cerca a la vivienda

C Acceso a un comercio zonal o local cercano

D Condiciones certificadas de una arquitectura sostenible

E Cercanía a espacios culturales

F Espacios productivos

A Sala/comedor

B Cocina y zona de ropas

C - Terraza

D Estudio

E - Habitación

F Baño

A - Iluminación natural

B - Materialidad

C Conexión con la naturaleza

D Creación de comunidad

E Confort acústico

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