patricia calvino architect - urban designer
professional projects - academic - competitions
Patricia Calvino - Architect
I am an Architect and Urban Designer interested in urban regeneration through research led design solutions and strategies. I believe good design comes after good discussions, that is why I believe in multidisciplinary teams and participation processes. I am currently member of the CADAP Panel in Tower Hamlets.
WORK EXPERIENCE 2019
Member of the CADAP Panel at Tower Hamlets Member of the design review panel at the Council
2015 Marchpresent
Senior Urban Designer at Levitt Bernstein - London As part of the urban design team, I have been involved in a range of projects including residential and mixed use masterplan, urban strategies and estate regeneration. I have had a leading role in projects such as the Brentwood Town Centre Design Plan and Design Guide and The Manox Factory Residential Masterplan design and Planning Application. I have large experience in local engagement and public consultation with residents and other stakeholders.
2014 May Dec
Architect at DiederenDirrix - Eindhoven During my time at DD I was involved in project development, architecture competitions, feasibility studies and urban strategies.
2013 Set Dec
Architecture event curator at Construint a la Sala -I was part of the curating team for and architecture event for children. http://construintalasala.org/
2011, 2012, 2013
Architecture guide - 48h Open House - Barcelona. Historic and architectonic explanation. Cultural event that take place once a year in Barcelona
2012 Set January
Junior professor/teacher assistant at ETSAV - Polytechnic University of Catalonia BarcelonaTech Architecture professor of a first year students group.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE 2007-13 2010-11 2014 2013
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Architecture master degree UPC-ETSAV MT diploma: EIXPO mark: 9/10 under Carles Llop (etsav) and Pierre Alain Croset (polito) directions. Erasmus grant in Politecnico di Torino - Italy Stadslab Masterclass Eindhoven 2050 International MasterClass exploring the urban future of Eindhoven. Technicity - Ohio State Unniversity - Coursera.org 8 Weeks online course about the use of technology in cities. Designing cities-University of Pennsylvania- PennDesign - Coursera.org 10 Weeks online course about the history, evolution and key principles of urbanism. Urban Course - City for everyone - by Carles Llop International Workshop on mass housing states ECO REHAB 3 Krakow(Poland) With Professor Adolf Sotoca and Professor Xavier Matilla Urban project of reactivation in a suburb of krakow.
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CONTENT RESIDENTIAL MASTERPLAN URBAN STRATEGIES DESIGN COMPETITIONS ACADEMIC PROJECTS PERSONAL PROJECTS
RESIDENTIAL MASTERPLAN
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Masterplan Principles • Activate and improve Rochdale canal with homes • Introduce a legible street network with active frontages to create a safe and well-overlooked environment • Provide a network of green outdoor spaces across the masterplan for the local and wider community • Provide with a wide range of home typologies including houses and apartments to create a mixed community • Provide commercial facilities in key areas for the local and wider community • Encourage sustainable and healthy lifestyle through the provision of cycle and pedestrian priority routes. Proposed Masterplan 1. Improvement of the Canal frontage 2. Provision of high quality outdoor green spaces 3. Traditional residential streets 4. The Industrial Mews
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Cambridge Road Estate Levitt Bernstein 2018 Senior Urban Designer Lead role in masterplanning and competition coordination Design competition where Levitt Bernstein was shortlisted until the last stage. Estate regeneration of a residential estate in Kingston. Masterplan Principles • Re-linking the existing residential estate with its surrounding, and provide a new and clearer street layout with active frontages to create a safe environment • Re-provide green outdoor amenity. This is combined in a large central linear green space which becomes the heart of the neighbourhood. • Provide a variety of non residential uses in key locations across the masterplan. • Provide an appropriate massing that responds to the surrounding context introducing height to the north of the site.
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The Green Spine The central green spine is the main east-west link and it will become the new heart of the neighbourhood, as well as, an amenity space for the local community. The Spine is the transition zone where the higher density area to the north meets the lower density area to the south, and despite having a very strong unique language, it has some elements that help define the different characters and uses happening along its length
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North south section showing the scale transition from south to north
Havering - Waterloo Estate Levitt Bernstein 2017 Urban Designer Lead role in masterplanning and competition coordination
The Waterloo Estate masterplan was part of a 12 sites competition in Havering were Levitt Bernstein and a group of consultants led by Lovells were shortlisted to the last stage. The masterlan proposes a full regeneration of the existing residential estate in Romford providing ca. 2000 units, retail units and community facilities, as well as high quality public realm
Masterplan Principles
• Create a mix-use community with retail and community facilities • Enhance and celebrate St Andrews church • Improve links and connections within the site and to the surrounding context, such as a green link between Cottons Part, St Andrews Church and the Station to the east • Provide high quality amenity space including public and communal outdoor spaces. All dwellings have access to private and semi-private outdoor amenity space • Increase density in key areas such as along Waterloo Rd.
The green link The proposed green link through the Waterloo Estate will connect Romford Station with Cottons Park. This will become the main pedestrian connection and the heart of the new neighbourhood.
Gateways as links to surroundings The key gateways to the neighbourhood become squares with a wide offer of non residential activities at ground floor. These will create new vibrant and welcoming outdoor spaces for local and surroundings neighbours.
Residential character A clear network of residential streets is proposed in order to create a welcoming neighbourhood. Activating the frontages with front doors, access cores and balconies will create a safe and pedestrian friendly environment.
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Levitt Bernstein together with a number of consultants were commissioned to do the Town Centre Design Plan for Brentwood.
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The public document identifies areas for improvement within Brentwood Town Centre. The report includes wider area analysis and strategy to improve the character of the town centre. It also identifies key sites within the town centre with potential to be densified. Levitt Bernstein did the feasibility study for these sites.
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After finishing the report, the Council commissioned Levitt Bernstein to write the Brentwood Town Centre Design Guide, an adopted document that sets out design guides to ensure high quality buildings within the Town Centre.
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Thamesmead public realm strategy Levitt Bernstein 2016 Urban Designer Assisting role on urban strategy Small interventions can have a big impact. This project is a urban design and landscape strategy for Southmere and Parksview, two areas of Thamesmead, London. It includes a number of interventions in the public realm and in key buildings across the two estates which look at improving the permeability and legibility of the area, and therefore, create a safer and more welcoming environment. The strategy identifies key opportunities on each site such as improving links with the surrounding natural assets.
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The Business Academy Bexley
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Key opening next to existing access core to improve legibility and permeability across the neighbourhood
Parkway Primary School
building memories Levitt Bernstein 2016-2017 building memories is a flexible modular structure that can be used as human scale consultation tool or a temporary pavilion. made up of a total of 7 arches, this pavilion was first used as a consultation tool in Bermondsey Spa, for the London Festival of Architecture. Its modular design allows to vary on the number of arches used as well as the position. During the event, each arch had a question printed on it. People would use the holes along the arches to choose an answer to the question. By using colour coded ribbons, after a day the consultation tool ended being a piece of art data.
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DESIGN COMPETITIONS
30art COMMON - Jacob Willson + Patricia Calvino 2017 - ideas competition for a promenade regeneration in Winnipeg - Canada
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30 Articles Park is the promenade of the Human Rights. The Park is divided into 30 segments, representing each of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Each segment will be designed by a local artist or designer who will have to interpret the individual article for that piece of the promenade. The combination of the 30 interventions will create a mosaic of artistic interpretations of the Human Rights along the promenade.
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community holder COMMON - Jacob Willson + Patricia Calvino 2017 ideas competition for the re-use of gas holders structures A community holder is a circular mixed use building. It has a flexible groundfloor that can have multiple uses, such as retail, community facilities or work spaces. On the upper floors every ring has a mix of residential typologies and community facilities such as communal kitchen, living room and washing room as well as outdoor communal spaces. This project proposes the transformation of the former gas holders into a residential building with shared facilities, creating a flexible and sustainable community.
washing room the communal washing room frees the residential unit from this utilities. It can be used by floor neighbours
outdoor communal space the north facing outdoor space has glass panels to create a comfortable area with natural light
outdoor communal space the south facing outdoor space is a completely open space with railings along the elevation for planting. It can be used as an extension of the dining area
residential units There is a mix of 1bed and 2 bed flats on every ring. The flats always have a bedroom, living room and toilette. The internal follow the elevation rhythm based on the old gas holder structure.
communal living and dining shared meeting space. It is flexible in use but allows activities such as eating, reading, indoor workshops...
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Large flexible space to be used by the community. It can have facilities such as leisure centre, working units or parking. It can be naturally illuminated through ceiling lights to the communal courtyard.
Mixed use floor with a range of levels of accessibility. It can have retail facilities or work spaces. It can have facilities, such a leisure centre, used by people in the neighbourhood. It has communal rooms and the internal courtyard to be used by the building neighbours
TYPICAL FLOOR shared access deck access, 1 and 2 bed flats with flexible rooms and indoor and outdoor space including kitchen, dining, living and washing room.
the shelter MAP - Mathilde Duvivier + Alicia Calvino + Patricia Calvino 2017 - Architecture Foundation pavilion competition The Shelter is a direct architectural response to our experience of the site, the current environmental situation and more broadly a reflection on how, as Londoners, we live immersed in a housing crisis. The Shelter is a shared resource which provides a flexible space for the community. The site has three disconnected rooftops at different heights, some isolated pavilions and existing apartments. Our proposal creates a physical and social connection between the neighbours. It is a vertical link between the existing levels and the current outdoor communal areas. Our concerns on the current London housing crisis lead us to design a shelter that responds to communal as well as individual needs. The greenhouse structure is vertically divided in three spaces with various degrees of intimacy and thermal comfort: a community flexible space on the ground floor, a spare bedroom/study on the 1st floor and an allotment-planting area on the roof greenhouse. The Shelter is built with dry construction systems composed by recycled and recyclable materials. The result is a balanced volume that brings everyone together.
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PIEL3 calvino - Alicia Calvino + Patricia Calvino 2018 - Architecture design competition PIEL3 is a social housing design proposal for a central site in Valencia, Spain. The proposed building is a series of skins (pieles in Spanish), that define different spaces. The external skin is a brick wall that defines the perimeter of the building and frames the communal yard, which is inspired on the traditional vernacular architecture. The second skin is a winterhouse-like structure that envolves the building creating spaces with good level of confort for neighbours to dwell The third skin is the box that defines the dwelling. These three skins create three levels of privacy, confort and interaction between the residents. The buildings provides 16 dwellings of 3 types, including 1bed, 2 bed and 3 bed apartment. The ground floor of the proposed building has retail.
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS
nowa huta International Group project 2012 - Krakow - ReSide International workshop tutors: Dr. Adolf Sotoca Regeneration and reactivation of Nowa Hutta Neighbourhood in Krakow. Creation of a vibrant mixed use community. The strategy to achieve so has thee phases: 01- Creation of semiprivate courts through infill development. This will group the existing linear blocks and create different levels of privacy. 02- Improve the public realm, street network and the transport infrastructure. Create a pedestrian and cycle friendly environment with good transport infrastructure that connects with Krakow. 03- Rethink of the old airplane track as a boulevard with non residential uses. A FUTURE PHASE identifies the south west corner as a potential site of development.
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SPACE- CONNECTION OF SINGLE 01 COMMUNITY BLOCKS The visualizations show how the spaces in between buildings can become community areas for people to gather. Through strategic landscape and architectural intervention these outdoor spaces will become welloverlooked and active areas for the local community.
02 CONNECTIONS - URBAN STRUCTURE Introducing new public transport connection like the tram will improve the accessibility of this site. New urban infrastructure will help connect this neighbourhood with Krakow in minutes
03 ACTIVITY AXIS - OLD AIRPORT TRACK
The final phase of this project is to use the former airport land and create a mixed use neighbourhood linked to the existing community. This new area will provide with a wide range of facilities
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The strategic intervention across the masterplan will define different levels of privacy. The diagram to the right is a typical section across the neighbourhood
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eixPO Patricia Calvino 2012/2013 UPC thesis diploma - urban strategy for Turin university campus. Reuse of historical buildings. After a thorough analysis of the italian city, the importance and weight of the university was very obvious. Despite the great influence of its university abroad, there is a lack of connection between the urban and the campus life. This projects looks at opportunities to open the world of academia to the city. Two famous buildings in the Valentino Park were identified as potential sites for university facilities. One of them,the one this project focusses on, is proposed as a mixed use buildings where academics meets the urban life. Torino Exposizione, by Pier Luigi Nervi, will become a reinterpretation of a public square. It will welcome both members of the university as well as citizens. Improve connections and street section
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Torino exposizione will become a mediatheque for students and a place to expose and open to the wider community. The building clearly opens to the park and to the street creating a covered plaza that acts as showcase and meeting point for residents, students and visitors. The underground levels links to the park to the west and
provides with workshop spaces, library and study rooms for students to book. It also provides a cafe spaceunder the rotonda. Through minimal structural intervention this building will come back to live providing a multifunctional space for the university community but also for the Torino residents, creating a new thriving meeting point.
thank you more information available under request
07476302428 patricia.calvino.alvarez@gmail.com