PORTFOLIO by Oscar Malaspina

OSCAR MALASPINA

PORTFOLIO

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OSCAR ULDARICO MALASPINA QUEVEDO August, 24th of 1983 Lima, Perú 41929094 3334923 Architect oscarmalaspina@gmail.com www.oscarmalaspina.blogspot.com +51-1-564-0649 / +51-9934 – 25646 Sta. Bárbara 594. Urb. Sta. Emma, Lima 1 - PERU

provisional office loudspeaker /megafone

URBAN TRIPTYCH

THE INTERVENTION

9:00 am Our collective goal was to generate a space that would gain importance for its utilitarian use. We wanted to build an information exchange spot – bulletin-board like structures to THE INTERVENTION function like “yellow pages” on Our collective goal was to generate a Lima space -that would gain importance which to place offer and demand LOCATION: Peru its utilitarian use. We wanted to TYPE OF PROJECT: for Participative design news. In order to stimulate the build an information exchange spot proyect provisional –office bulletin-board like structures to vendors´ participation, we function like “yellow pages” on loudspeaker /megafone which to place offer and demand DATE: October - 2005 negotiated with them the idea of news. In order to stimulate the having an outside space to vendors´ participation, we TEAM: Elizabeth Añaños negotiated with them the idea of advertise their products. A Claudia Flores having an outside space to + Oscar Malaspina advertise their products. temporary A office was installed at+ the temporary office was installed at the juice stand of the market. juice stand of the market.

DAY 09:00 provisional office loudspeaker /megafone

DAY 01 09:00 am

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STEP 1: CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONTENT

PACHACUTEC

35 km LIMA

STEP 1: CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONTENT

Taking pictures of all the vendors and printing out the background for a “publicity poster” that they would finish by themselves. It would contain the location of their stands in the market and the products they offered. 40 vendors participated, 65% of the people attending that day.

DAY 01 09:00 am

Taking pictures of all the vendors Stand and printing out the backgroundFruit for “Casazola” a “publicity poster” that they would finish by themselves. It would contain the location of their stands in the market and the products they + + offered. 40 vendors participated, 65% of the people attendingBeauty that salon “Mary” day.

Library “Harriet”

Fruit Stand “Casazola” Poultry place “Juanita”

THE INTERVENTION 11:00 am STEP 2: CONSTRUCTION OF THE TRIPTYCH Once that a good rapport was created with the vendors, since they started having expectations about where their “publicity posters” would be placed, inviting them to participate in the construction of the OBJECT was not difficult. Recycle items, which they themselves donated, were used.

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DEMARCATION OF THE OBJECT During the installation spontaneous and interesting processes arose.DAY 01 One of the vendors proposed to11:00 am delimit the ground to define the intervention space in a better way.

demarcation line

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THE INTERVENTION 3:00 pm STEP 4 : PLACEMENT OF THE INFORMATION COLLECTED

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DAY 01 03:00 pm provisional office loudspeaker /megafone

advertising panel

06 THE INTERVENTION 4:30 pm STEP 3: INSTALLATION AND DEMARCATION OF THE OBJECT During the installation spontaneous 05 interesting processes arose. and One of the vendors proposed to delimit the ground to define the intervention space in a better way.

DAY 01 01:00 pm provisional office loudspeaker /megafone

demarcation line

THE INTERVENTION 5:00 pm OBJECT IMPACT The constructed object of great meaningful value for the vendors started operating. Three weeks 07 later, in spite of its vulnerability it is still upright and in good condition. There was even a social demonstration beside it. A year after the TRIPTYCH, it is still being used permanently by the human urban tissue on which it causes an impact. Social sustainability has been confirmed.

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deposit

THE INTERVENTION

signage

DAY 01 04:50 pm

STEP 6: SIGNAGE INSTALLATION AND GENERATED IMPACT The installation of the light post became a reference and a characteristic spot in the zone, suddenly turning into a bus stop.

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COMMUNITY CENTER “CECOAS” LOCATION: TYPE OF PROJECT: DATE: STATUS: TEAM:

Ica - Peru Participative design project 2004 - 2005 stopped due to the earthquake Mariana Leguia Maya Ballen Elizabeth Añaños Rosa Aguirre Oscar Malaspina

drawings done by the community

conceptual section

first floor

second floor

CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

LOCATION: Cajamarca - Peru TYPE OF PROJECT: Thesis YEAR: 2007

section A-A

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main square fountain entry showroom ramp council area and producer’s store meeting room control and security room dairy products’ mini-plant loading and unloading platform machine room conservation and maturation chamber companies’ incubator office convention center rest rooms auditorium corridor projection room library classroom exit bridge cafeteria

section 1-1

section 2-2

section 3-3

first floor

second floor

PARACAS MUSEUM LOCATION: TYPE OF PROJECT: DATE: STATUS:

Ica - Peru Competition winner August 2008 about to begin the construction

OFFICE:

Barclay&Crousse

PROJECT MANAGER:

Oscar Malaspina

COLABORATORS: Rodrigo Apolaya

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4 2

8 6

7 8

first floor

climate control device

detail section

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entry courtyard cafeteria store ticket office courtyard classroom textile workshop restrooms showroom security room storage room office workshop cabinet climate control devices terrace bedroom livingroom

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second floor

STUDENTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SERVICES BUILDING LOCATION: TYPE OF PROJECT: DATE:

Lima - Peru Competition September 2009

OFFICES:

Barclay&Crousse 51-1 Architects

PROJECT MANAGER:

Oscar Malaspina

COLABORATORS:

Rosa Aguirre Rodrigo Apolaya Paulo Shimabukuro Belen Desmaison Juan Chinchay Benjamin Krieguer

Studiying in open spaces...

...noise and weather protected...

...in a defined plaza.

By elevating the study area...

....pedesrian flows are possible...

... facilitating access to services like the cafeteria.

The final resul: A structure that serves as a point of encounter.

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cafeteria store photocopy bank food court kitchen utility room restrooms group studio area personal studio area

first floor

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second floor

TEMPLE OF THE LORD OF LUREN LOCATION: TYPE OF PROJECT: DATE: STATUS:

Ica - Peru Competition winner July 2008 stoped due to political issues

TEAM: PROJECT MANAGER:

Jean Pierre Crousse Sandra Barclay Oscar Malaspina

COLLABORATORS:

Rodrigo Apolaya Jumel Chinchay Claire de Moulin

baptism

pilgrimage

Oscar Malaspina wedding

procession

sunday mass (3 scales)

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ORIGIN square baptistry “andas” storage room sacristy altar nave 1 nave 2 nave 3 PRESENCE square belfry PROPHECY square

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MARINE RESEARCH CENTER LOCATION: TYPE OF PROJECT: DATE:

Ica - Peru Competition June 2010

TEAM: COLLABORATORS:

Elizabeth A単a単os Rodrigo Apolaya Jean Pierre Crousse Daniel Feldman Oscar Malaspina Sebastian Cilloniz Belen Desmaison Stanislas Nadeu Mayra Pe単a

axonometric view

PUBLICATIONS

(2007) COMMUNITY CENTER MARIA MILAGROS URBANIZATION, PISCO (With M. Ballen, M. Leguía, E. Añaños and R. Aguirre) On June 2004, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru or PUCP (for its initials in Spanish engaged the challenge of developing the project for a Community Center on a 1000 sq. meter lot, ceded by the local government to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal or RCC (for its initials in Spanish) and located at the Maria Milagros Urbanization in Pisco. The Social and University Extension Projection Academic Direction (DAP-SEU for its initials in Spanish) was given the assignment of coordinating the process.

programmatic conditions buy because of its privileged location in front of a 3,000 sq. meter lot destined to become a park. Integrating the community’s interests with those of the Community Center was then crucial for avoiding future interest conflicts and thus facilitating neighborhood organization. As a consequence, it became clear that the project should be handled as a public space rather than as a public building and so it was designed through a community work participation process.

Since Pisco does not currently posses a community center providing social services, the project will influence a greater population, therefore introducing a new flow of people from outside the neighborhood. It must therefore generate new urban dynamics around commerce, recreation and complimentary services, not only because of the

Participative work with the RCC and the community carried on from August 2004 to March 2005. A series of dynamics were elaborated (which included questionnaires, drawings, SWOT method and the creation of model-toys) in order to identify their needs and desires, develop a program and design conjointly the building and the

park’s spatial structure. It was important to develop a community vision of the public space that made it possible to create a space of social significance, identity, tolerance and citizenship. As a result of the collaboration in between the PUCP and the RCC, an agreement that gives the project a legal frame and formalizes the compromises assumed by both parties was reached. The project is currently on the fundraising process.

FACULTAD DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO

(2010)

(2009)

ARCHITECTURE, PEDAGOGY AND INNOVATION: GRADUATION PROJECTS. CENTERS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

GRADUATION PROJECT: CENTER OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION FOR THE DAIRY SECTOR IN CAJAMARCA

Peru is one of the countries that assigns less resources to innovation. Its actual economic growth, mainly product of extractive industries, may suffer an abrupt stop if there’s no innovation on the transformation process of prime matters. Peru’s competitivity in the world will hardly improve without adding any complexity to its products, without capacitating its producers and without an articulated and efficient educative system.

Although Peru is a developing country, in the last decade it has shown an impressive rate of economic growth based mainly on the strength of its mining sector. Unfortunately, this unprecedented growth has not contributed significantly to the creation of an inclusive society that can offer equal opportunities to all its members. One of the main reasons for this situation is that public organizations generally manage their resources very poorly. For example, it is often common to see local authorities in different parts of the country promote and finance the design and building of monuments that have no other purpose than to promote the incumbent’s political agenda.

The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru or PUCP (for its initials in Spanish) School of Architecture and Urbanism has taken on the challenge of promoting innovation by making it the subject of its graduation projects (PFC for its Spanish initials) under the specific subject: “Centers of Technological Innovation” (CITE for its Spanish initials), a program created on the year 2000 by the Production Ministry of Peru in order to assist small and medium businesses become more competitive through technological innovation.

The main objective was to demonstrate that innovative pedagogic proposals can be developed within Peruvian educative institutions, forging close bonds between the academic, the professional and the productive spheres, oriented to promote the undertakement of investments that will allow a socially sustainable economic growth for delayed communities. The projects presented within this book are part of the work carried out during the first two years of the PFC workshop. The PUCP’s School of Architecture and Urbanism expects that this book may become a contagious and optimistic testimony in order for similar actions to be undertaken and contribute to overcome Peru’s poverty.

It is precisely in this context that the role of the architect takes a new meaning. He has to be an agent of positive change, a professional who can help his community achieve a better standard of living. One good way to accomplish this goal is by designing and implementing ar-

chitectural works that are not only beautiful, comfortable, and efficient but that also contribute directly to enhance the life of the inhabitants of the area where this work will be located. The architect should be able to find or recognize the optimal conditions (political, economic, cultural and social) in order to conceive the basic idea of a development project. Keeping these ideas in mind, I developed the proposed thesis which is basically a strategy to discover prospective development projects. Therefore, the Center for Technological Innovation for Dairy Industry in Cajamarca is the direct result of the research for optimal conditions through which the project was discovered and not chosen. With the know-how that this center will provide, the region will be able to improve the quality and productivity of its dairy industry, a vital effort in our fight against underdevelopment in Peru.

(2007-2008) DIRECT ARCHITECTURE: URBAN TRIPTYCH

(Work done in the course URBANISM 6 with the Prof. Manuel de Rivero)

The creation, management, and conservation of urban public areas have always been topics of interest and concern within the architectural discipline. Despite the architectural concern for these issues, it is primarily the responsibility of local governments to ensure that their public areas are appropriately maintained and efficiently managed. In many Latin American cities, as well as in the cities of the so-called developed countries, there is great inequality in the development and maintenance of public areas. Policies regarding the management of public spaces fall last on municipal agendas, complete plans for public spaces have been left aside, and public construction investments are often only considered in times and places when they are of political interest. Considering the inefficiency of the local governments, it becomes increasingly vital for the social health of a city to develop new ways in which to participate. Architects may act as

involved members in a community, using their unique points of view to interpret the dynamics of a city, based on its material components. An architect acting as a SOCIAL LEADER not only constructs tangible objects, but also uses them as instruments that CONSTRUCTS SOCIAL PROCESSES. Jamie Lerner, architect and ex-mayor of the city of Curitiba, develops an interesting concept in his book Urban Acupuncture (2003, published by IAAC). Lerner explains that “urban acupuncture” uses a simple “prick” to revitalize and stimulate ailing and exhausted areas of a city and its surroundings, just as traditional acupuncture works on human tissue. However, what happens when the goal is not to heal the “damaged tissue” of a city, but rather to stimulate the growth of the new and fragile developing tissue of a newly settled area? In these situations, what is needed is a catalyst, a “substance” to accelerate and supplement the developmental pro-

cess. From this point of view, the “prick” which generates the RE-GENERATING and RE-VITALIZING RE-ACTION is an ineffective prescription, when what is actually needed is a “substance” to accelerate and stimulate the GENERATING and VITALIZING ACTION. Urban Catalyst is the term that we have coined to define the small interventions that operate on the ACTION field of developing urban tissues. An urban catalyst stimulates and transforms an area by constructing an object in response to the analysis and understanding of an area and the existing dynamics within it. For success in this type of intervention, it is important to not only carry out the construction of the OBJECT, but also to do so in a way that includes the SUBJECT. In this sense, PARTICIPATION becomes and indispensable component in these initiatives. Only in this way can a material intervention, regardless of its esthetic value, have MEANINGFUL VALUE for

the subjects who participate in its construction, thus encouraging them to feel ownership and responsibility over the management of the public space. We decided to take on the challenge of developing a new way in which to participate in the development of a territory by means of an urban catalyst. Acknowledging our ability as architects to act as social leaders, interpreting and creating a city from its material components, and capable of constructing material objects with meaningful value from participatory social construction processes, we set out to an experience which led us to the construction of the URBAN TRIPTYCH in Pachacutec Citadel (Lima – Perú).

(2007) URBAN IMAGINARIES IN LIMA: ¿HOW DO ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS PERCEIVE AND IMAGINE THE CITY? Architecture and urbanism are disciplines that involve a high degree of commitment to the society. Architectural projects and ideas strongly influence the city in all its facets. In the Peruvian situation, the proposal of an intervention is extremely difficult due to the complexity of our society. According to Elio Martuccelli, Peru is a country built over ruins, where past and present “live together”, generating a historical contrast that along with strong social extremes make our country and Lima, an ancient place, with overlapping processes and violent changes in its structure (Martuccelli 2000:13) This complexity is paradoxical to the little useful information available pertaining to our society. The sociologist Julio Mejía Navarrete states that the hegemony

of the studies that develop data classification and descriptive studies of specific social issues does not help us to understand the sociology as capable of understanding and explaining the modes of organization and changes in the Peruvian society (Navarrete 2002: 11). The urban imaginaries topic has not been studied in depth in Peru, therefore it is important to conduct research about it. The use of mixed methodological approaches and the increasing importance that the qualitative variables are achieving give us an overview of how important it is to pay attention to the subjectivities inherent in culture and society. Thus, the study of the urban imaginaries of Limas habitants becomes an important tool for proposing and designing Limas areas.

Furthermore, given the importance that architects and planners have in transforming the city, it is important to have a self-assessment with quantitative and qualitative variables. Keeping this in mind, the urban imaginaries of groups of students that are ending their studies in architecture are studied. This is very important as it will obtain not only quantitative and rational information that will aid in the understanding of the city, but also information about the way in which architecture students imagine the city, think about it, use it and dream it. Therefore, some important factors that will have a big influence in the way that the city will be designed. This research uses as theoretical framework done by Armando Silva in his reflections and analysis

of what he calls urban imaginaries. For this purpose, a questionnaire with open questions about urban imaginaries was created, based on the consulted literature. The questionnaire was taken by two groups on the same day and was then processed using methods of qualitative analysis. The trends were discussed with students from two faculties, who were selected for the purpose of measuring their levels of approximation. Thus, the results make evident and illustrate the contrasts of the differences between the views of two groups of students regarding the city of Lima. The students were ending their degrees with the faculties of architecture from the National University of Engineering and from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

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(2006) ARE WE SHORT OF MONEY TO CARRY OUT PROJECTS? WHAT WE ARE SHORT OF ARE PROJECTS! Who has not heard so many times that in Peru there is no money to work on projects? Or that, while there are many good projects for development, there are not enough funds for their implementation? It only takes observing the figures of mining royalties (the constitutional right that allows local governments to participate in a percentage of revenue and income received by the State for the exploitation of their resources under their jurisdiction) to notice that reality can be seen in a different way: annual revenue generated by the fee has risen from S/.462 million in 2000 to S/.1.732 million in 2005, in other words it has almost quadrupled in five years. This strong economic growth has outstripped the capacity of action of many local and regional governments, which have not known what to do with this money. For example, we have high five-story city halls with tinted windows

in locations where more than 85% of the population has no electricity or drainage, or investment of four hundred thousand soles in a modern bullring, sports concrete fields, plazas and pools, and only three thousand soles investments in the expansion of health centers. Viewed this way, the fundamental problem is not the lack of money, but the lack of good public investment projects. Fortunately there are also good examples: an example of efficient resource management of the mining fee is the one given by the district of Independencia, within the Ancash region. The city council developed an Integral Project of Environmental Management of Solid Waste, with which it has not only managed to reduce pollution, but also commercialize 6.6 tons of compost (inorganic fertilizer) and 3.6 tons of humus (organic fertilizer) per day, as well

as to segregate and market overseas 1.5 tons per day of inorganic recyclable waste, meaning it exports waste to China. This will generate revenues of more than seven hundred and ninety thousand soles a year, while providing valuable jobs for local population. And what is the role of architecture in this context? When thinking about architecture, it is believed to be essentially the aesthetics of buildings, the art of building beach houses, shopping malls, restaurant, etc. However, it is much more than that; architecture is meant to contribute effectively in the development of a city, a community or a town. It not only takes care of tectonic, aesthetic, formal and functional factors, but also of social, economic, environmental, and cultural and even historical and psychological matters. In the concrete case of mining royalties,

the funds are used almost exclusively for works of infrastructure, such as building roads, bridges, electrification and drainage (which are necessary, of course). However, our country also needs to improve its infrastructure in the sectors of education, health, housing, industry, and improve its urban development, which are fields that concern directly to architecture and in which the architects or architecture students can make many significant contributions. Therefore, I consider that this situation is a direct call not only to the College of Architects, the faculties of Architecture, architects and architecture students, but also to faculties and professional colleges of other specialties, to get involved in the elaboration of proposal projects of interdisciplinary development for regional or local governments that benefit from the mining fee.