Architectural Urban Design Portfolio Paul Moscoso Riofrio 2018 by Paul Moscoso Riofrio

ARCHITECTURAL URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Paúl Moscoso Riofrío Master of Urban Design 2018 1

RESUME EDUCATION 2016 - 2018 / Pittsburgh - USA

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture Master of Urban Design 2007 - 2014 / Cuenca - Ecuador Universidad de Cuenca, School of Architecture and Urbanism

Bachelor of Architecture

2011 - 2012 / Cuenca - Ecuador Universidad de Cuenca, School of Architecture and Urbanism

Diploma in Management and Preservation of Historic Buildings 2010 - 2012 / Cuenca - Ecuador Universidad de Cuenca Students Rep. Address student issues at school board meetings

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS 2016 - 2018 / Pittsburgh - USA

The Fulbright Program

Study, Master degree. Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University

2010 - 2011 / Cuenca - Ecuador Universidad de Cuenca Teaching assistant. 3rd Year Urbanism Studio

Spring 2018 / Pittsburgh - USA Carnegie Mellon University Teaching assistant. 4th/5th Year Studio: Acupuncture Urbanism

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES INVOLVEMENT

Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 / Pittsburgh USA Carnegie Mellon University Research assistant. Atlas of Commoning research and exhibition

2014 - present / Latin America Huasipichanga Youth Collective Founder and leader. Design-built social projects, inclusive methods for innovation and dynamic social engagement

Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 / Pittsburgh USA Carnegie Mellon University Research assistant. Outreach program for 8-12 graders

2014 - 2016 / Latin America Latin American Council of Students of Architecture. President (2014 - 2015), coordinator and Ecuadorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representative

2014 - 2016 / Cuenca - Ecuador Universidad de Cuenca Research assistant. Historic Urban Landscape research and implementation in the historic center of Cuenca, Ecuador

2011 - 2015 / Tarija - Bolivia, Cuenca Ecuador, Granada - Nicaragua Latin American Council of Students of Architecture. Workshop tutor. Designbuilt projects in low-income communities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

AWARDS

2018 - present / Pittsburgh - USA

January 2017 / Pittsburgh - USA George W. Anderson, Jr. Award, 1st place for “An exceptional level of attention to detail and dedication to beneficially impacting the community”

Studio for Spatial Practice Designer. Multiple tasks regarding

architectural, urban and landscaping design projects in the metropolitan area of Pittsburgh

February 2010 / Cuenca - Ecuador Urbanism Studios competition 1st place for “best design” in New Urban Spaces category

2017 - 2018 / Pittsburgh - USA

STUDIOGRUBER Designer. Assembling and designing an

awarded-winning competition of a pop-up mobile movie theater for downtown Pittsburgh

October 2008 / Cuenca - Ecuador 50th SoA anniversary competition 1st place for “best design” in Studio projects: Restaurant category

2009 - present / Cuenca - Ecuador Moscoso Arquitectos Architecture design advisor. Planning and design of highrise condos and single family houses in various locations of Ecuador

SKILLS

2015 - 2016 / Cuenca - Ecuador Boris Albornoz Arquitectura y Urbanismo Designer. Winning competition design for an old prison turned cultural center and park (inauguration fall 2018)

Adobe CS Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design,

2012 - 2013 / Quito - Ecuador Boris Albornoz Arquitectura y Urbanismo Junior designer. Winning competition design a new a state corporation headquarters and enclosing plaza

GIS ArcMAP, ArcGIS Pro, Carto

Premiere and After Effects

CAD AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, 3DS Studio Max, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks

Office Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point, Apple Keynote

Design Fabrication Lab: Laser cutting,

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES

CNC Milling

2013 - 2014 / Cuenca - Ecuador Ecuadorian Council of Public Participation and Control Project Manager. Monitoring the use of public funds in the construction of the first streetcar system in the city of Cuenca

Shop handmade experience: wood and metalworking

Models building: different kinds of wood, foam, acrylic, cardboard

2011 - 2012 / Susudel - Ecuador vlirCPM - World Heritage City Preservation Management Team leader and co-worker. Plan, maintenance and reconstruction of lowincome historic houses

Hand drawing, sketching, painting,

2011 / Cañar - Ecuador, Ibarra - Ecuador Techo Construction builder. Construction of emerging housing in areas with high inequality income and families without housing

critical thinking, project management, curator and art appreciator, urban nature dweller, planning by design approach, urban history captive, social-political inquiry, communication, enthusiastic practitioner and researcher, adapter, and human.

illustration

Language Spanish (native speaker), English (fluent), German (intermediate)

Soft skills Team player, positive attitude,

Master Thesis

Public Accessibility in Contested Spaces: Imaging a spatially and programmatically diverse approach to the waterfront in the Suburbio of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Period: September 2017 May 2018. Location: Pittsburgh, USA and Guayaquil, Ecuador. Main academic areas: Research, analysis and concept design, 3D and 2D drawings, diagrams, boards, exhibition, public presentation, documentation, graphic design. Position: Urban designer. Coordinator: Stefan Gruber and Jonathan Kline.

The Suburbio is a rabble district located over a waterlogged mangrove swamp on the edge of the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. It first developed as an informal settlement in the 1950s built up by rural immigrants attracted by the promise of jobs and a better life in the city. As new urban residents, the scarcity and harsh living conditions of the site pressed the inhabitants to take an active direct role of reclaiming their rights. The streets and catwalks over the swamps have become a new kind of public spaces which acts as a form of space for sharing and togetherness in the community. In the informal settlements, these common areas represent a counterbalance to the state apparatus and the rampant privatization of land and resources which didnÂ´t benefit the vast majority and put many in a condition of having to fight for survival and self-protection. Today, parts of its waterfront remain in a residuary state, a reminder of the original - no desirable - situation and an opportunity to seek a different approach. The thesis reacts to the local situation and takes the none -utilized waterfront edge as an opportunity to envision a programmatically and diverse spatial approach. The proposal envisions a long-term proposal where the community keeps acting as a decision-maker of their space and the state as a supporter mechanism to transform spaces in favor of the entire community and visitors. This proposal materialized by providing a menu of activities that turn the diverse and thriving informal community activities into assets for the renovation of the water edge. The scenario sees the empty spaces and the streets itself as a reactivation process using local resources and community empowerment. After all, it should be a goal that sewing of the urban fabric can become permanent. The project is seen in the context of global crises and the moment in urbanity that an alternative image of the city and the construction of social space is is mostly challenged and it requires a proper though process from architects, planners, politics, residents.

Inside the community, former bonds quickly reappear in times of threat.

Access the public space involves the bordering families to put their stamp on them.

Informal activities on the water-edge

Mapping the community

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Guayaquil 3,3 milllion�inhabitants 20% Ecuador’s population 25% of Ecuador GPD

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El Salado Mangrove Reserve 13 ft.�intertidal estuary 46% people in flood risk areas 3rd most endanger city per climate change

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In 2015 during the forced eviction, police officers clashed with protesting residents. The state used brute force on innocent people. The process was chaotic, and the contingency plan collapsed. Three years later and the demolished lots remain unused.

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The state has no money!

The organization has more than 100 families associated to push the complete stop of threats to the neighbors.

Eviction and demolitions of private properties have recently triggered some organization inside the community.

The state proposes to clean the water and rebuild the shore for leisure activities. *Ministery of Housing and Urban Development **Ministry of the Environment

New compromise relationship between government and community: Support the River Front Defenders Committee to actively participate in the improvements of the open spaces.

Process diagram: The commoning proposal envision the scenario of commitment and joint work between the state and the community.

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Menu of Communal Programs: An urban designer goal is to propose flexible spaces depending on the location, context, and furthermore to serve the community. These spaces could be subject to appropriation by artists, students, or practically anyone who has a desire over the physical site. The Menu of Commoning proposal tackles the agency of designers from urban acupuncture and placemaking to merge these two paradigms; how to intervene in the place and by whom. In this way, the role of architects and urban designers is to negotiate the programs with the people and translate them spatially in the site.

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Construction and mounting

Exhibition conceptual design

Public presentation or “Final review”

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Master Main Research

“An Atlas of Commoning” Exhibition

Period: September 2017 - March 2018. Location: Pittsburgh, USA and Berlin, Germany. Main academic areas: Research and visualization design, 3D and 2D drawings, diagrams, boards. Position: Researcher and drawing. Team: Paul Moscoso, Ernest Bellamy, Tamara Cartwright, Lu Zhu, Yidan Gong, Chun Zheng Coordinator: Stefan Gruber and ARCH+ Magazine.

The second year of the Master of Urban Design program at Carnegie Mellon is a research team work. This year’s project is a joint effort to comprehend, debate and assemble around the topic of the commons. The result is a publication, and traveling exhibition that aims to recapture and redefine the open and emancipatory space of “us” as a concept. The project focuses on urban commons—here commons are to be understood as a set of practices dealing with the production and management of (material and immaterial) collective resources and spaces in general, rather than with the resources themselves, hence “commoning,” the verb takes center stage. Entitled “An Atlas of Commoning” the exhibition is co-curated and produced with architectural magazine ARCH+ and the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA). After opening in Berlin at the Kunstraum Bethanien Kreuzberg in August 2018, the exhibition will travel to Pittsburgh in 2019 and beyond for 5 to 10 years. As the core exhibition travels, it will expand to be complemented by local examples of commoning from the respective places where it travels. These local cases will be integrated into a growing Atlas of Practices of Commoning, forming a rhizomatic network of seemingly marginal practices that promise to add up to the promise of an alternative city of commons. From the Atlas, the exhibition develops along three investigation axes, each one illustrating the tension inherent in practices of sharing. The resulting axes are Ownership – Access, Production – Reproduction, Right – Solidarity. Artistic works open up further access to the subject and reflect the interrelationship between individual, community, society, and world. Through this interplay of projects and formats, a network of ideas unfolds for a solidly united and emancipatory commons, one that doesn’t bring individuals into line within the community but turns the unique, the different, and the special into decisive qualities of togetherness.

Following page: The poster of “An Atlas of Commoning” Exhibit. First Berlin, then ten more years on the way.

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GEMEINSCHAFFENS Eine Tourneeausstellung des ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in Zusammenarbeit mit ARCH+

23. JUNI – 26. AUGUST 2018

KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG/ BETHANIEN

Mariannenplatz 2 10997 Berlin

Forschungspartner:

Kooperationspartner und Veranstaltungsort:

tägl. 11–20 Uhr Eintritt frei

Abbildungen oben: Manuel Herz, Rights on Carpet, Teppich Ausstellungsansicht, swissnex, San Francisco, USA, 2017 © Manuel Herz Architects links: Roof�ess, Architekturmodell, TU Berlin, 2018 Photo: Simone Gilges © ifa rechts: Prinzessinnengarten, Common Grounds e.V., Nachbarschaftsakademie und Quest – Florian Koehl und Christian Burkhard, Die Laube, Berlin, Germany, 2015�2017 Photo: Marco Clausen © Marco Clausen / Prinzessinnengarten

Design: Heimann + Schwantes

Eröfnung Fr. 22. Juni 2018 19 Uhr Studio 1 / Bethanien

MAKOKO FLOATING SCHOOL Confronting the pitfalls of social experimentation in marginalized communities. Lagos Water Communities. Nigeria

Makoko, Lagos

“We want to focus on a more basic, grassroots approach than the floating school and enable the community to do what they’ve already taken ownership over rather than building a second ‘fancy’ structure.” (from Etomi’s GoFundMe page)

“It was supposed to be innovation, but now we’re being told it was experimentation. The issue is, can you experiment in a community like Makoko knowing things like budget, like social issues, and more importantly knowing that children are involved?” - Papa Omotayo, a Lagos-based architect and friend of Adeyemi’s, said of the floating school a few days after the collapse

The school is a temporary structure that is designed as a catalyst to stimulate and think about different ways of building, to innovate, to address issues of adaptation, climate change and for education.

The money is literally just sitting. Meanwhile, in the school, years pass; and we grow.

Children of the Makoko School

Noah Shemede Head teacher Makoko’s school

Isi Etomi Activist

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Kunlé Adeyemi Architect

TORRE DAVID Governing a vertical slum through nested circles of decision making. Caracas, Venezuela

Originally planned as a bank headquarters, Torre David is a 45-story ruin in the heart of Caracas. After a decade of neglect, it became the makeshift home for a community of 1,000 families living in an extralegal occupation that lasted eight years until their eviction in 2014.

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Formal and informal settlements in the city of Caracas

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Torre David grew from an informal settlement into an organized occupation. Residents founded and ran a church, organized distribution systems for basic utilities, security and maintenance systems, a basketball court as well as shops and service businesses that employed nonresidents as well.

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Textile Workshop

Barber shop

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The leadership structure was based on concentric circles of influence and authority. Democratic discussions and consensus impacted the decision-making apparatus at the president’s level.

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PRINZESSINNENGARTEN Cultivating know-how and

emancipatory power through a community garden. Berlin, Germany honey production

micro school visits economies

bike repair

international connections

food production

art exhibits

nachbarschafts akademie

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film nights

The garden, the neighborhood academy, and the Laube work together to nurture the exchange of know-how and ideas, based on the belief that social, material and mental transformations go hand-in-hand.

Prinzessinnen was not founded with an explicit political agenda. But along with the success of the community garden, the neighborhood has changed and so have the initiativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stakes. The exposure of the project offers opportunities to expand its agency.

One foundational idea for the garden is to provide non-academic training. We believe craftsmanship and hands-on activities bring unique value to the community.

The garden offers many opportunities for learning from one another. Growing vegetables, producing honey or repairing bikes are part of our educational mission.

The garden provides an alternative experience different than a conventional public space. Here, anybody with ideas and initiatives can take part in shaping the gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future.

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KOTTI & CO Fighting for affordable housing in Berlin’s Gecekondu. Germany

Diagram of proposal for a new housing legislation. Low interest loans = low rents

Renter: -2,66 million Euros

State: -3,48 million Euros

To pressure the state for change, we must have proof of our difficulties. Neighbors and professionals work equally to produce quality material to be used as tools of persuasion.

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Berlin State

RENT SUBSIDIES Bank: +2,3 million Euros

Developer: +2,5 million Euros

We do not only fight in the streets, we have researched and thought about proposals that could redefine Berlin's housing market in the long run.

How often has a typical house been paid for after 35 years? Who paid and who received money? Costruction costs in 1977: 2 million Euros Financed with 85 % loans and 15% equity Original rent = 7,60 Euro/m2 Today rent = 13 Euro/m2

We did not choose this fight against rent increases. The fight came to us. We are neighbors that have to engage in politics because the policy makers are ignoring us. Our seemingly individual problems only remain “private” issues if we don’t come together!

We are a community of trainees, retirees, doctor’s assistants, nurses, engineers, and the unemployed. We are German, Turkish, Iranian, Circassian, Afghan and Kurdish. We’ve had to fight racism and social exclusion all our lives. And today we are fighting for our right to stay.

We support Kotti & Co and we share their demands. Our concern for these issues does not stem from a one-sided interest. We interpret the resistance that is being articulated at Kottbusser Tor as reaching far beyond the protests of a particular group.

At the end of May 2012, we set up our protest-house against high rents and displacement, our Gecekondu. Since then we have taken to the streets day and night to protest against the Senate’s housing politics. We‘ve had enough!

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TRANSFORMING MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS THROUGH DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN THE CITY SQUARE EL CAMPO DE CEBADA Madrid, Spain. 2010 - 2018 Since 2011, citizens across Spain have been coming together and taking over local city governments in an attempt to rebuild trust in democratic institutions and return decision-making to the people. These so-called “fearless cities” have given rise to a global, albeit diverse “municipalist movement” committed to expanding the commons, re-municipalizing basic services, and feminizing politics. The occupation of public squares, such as El Campo de Cebada in Madrid, and their transformation into laboratories for self-governance and direct democracy, have been catalytic in mobilizing and unifying citizens to claim their right to the city. But their election into power has also revealed the challenges involved in transforming public institutions from within. these experiments are forging new paths that cut through the traditional divisions that characterize politics, dissolving the dichotomies of public versus private, government institutions versus popular movement, top-down versus bottom-up transformations. Despite their vision of a commons transition, this municipalist program is far from proposing naive wish lists or abstract ideals. Instead it includes tangible goals and concrete steps towards incremental change. As municipalism embraces the messy reality of everyday governance, it resonates with the spatial practice of El Campo de Cebada’s instant city.

When lack of municipal funding halted the reconstruction of La Latina’s public sport center and let a gaping cement hole where a swimming pool once stood, neighbors began claiming the site as a community space. Equipped with colorful paint, recycled materials and gardening tools, they built a new city square. Designed by and for the people, El Campo de Cebada boasts more activities than the keenest urban designer could ever imagine. Tucked away behind a scruffy blue and white corrugated construction fence, skateboarders and urban gardeners, folk dancers and political activists, street furniture hackers and brunching hipsters negotiate the use of this alternative public space. Events and ideas for change are discussed in weekly assemblies, decisions are made by consensus and further administered in dedicated committees. El Campo de Cebada is a lesson in the power of temporary urbanism for city officials, planners and residents alike.

On a theoretical level, municipalism often invokes Murray Bookchin’s “Libertarian Municipalism,” Lefebvre’s “Right to the City,” or Harvey’s “Rebel Cities.” And yet, rather than ready-made formulas, these concepts, methods and languages only acquire meaning when they are tested in the dayto-day decision making of specific political situations. Thus, municipalism, rather than being a means to an end, can only retain its emancipatory powers if it is framed as perpetual, open-ended and transversal method for dispersing power. SG/PMR

Together with the swarming connectivity of social media, the collective experiences in these squares have been key in bringing people together and empowering citizens to take matters into their own hands to shape the city for the common good. Their activities are marked by a radical pragmatist imagination: instead of operating within the framework of conventional reforms,

Campo de la Cebada Research and text for case studies

#Spanis h Revolut ion

15-M Indig nados Democra cy Now! Feminist leaderships

A radical municipal strategy is one that recognizes the municipal scale â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both in terms of the way that people's lives are organized in these spaces and the institutions that govern them â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as a space of contestation.

El Campo de Cebada allows people to do sport, socialize and pursue other projects. The idea was to create an inclusive temporary space where the community could get involved. It became a site for collective action where we could practice direct democracy before taking it to the municipal scale. "Radical Municipalism" is both the practices of self-government and any perspective that advocates for such forms of government. There is no reason to expect a change from the status quo; change is in our hands!

I'm very critical of political parties. I don't think they're needed in the world as it is now. They impede the development of individuals, they encroach on creativity and they impose absurd structures of discipline. Manuela Carmena Mayor of Madrid

I attend political rallies here in the last drawn-out weeks of summer, and hear impassioned calls for change in a country with the second-highest youth unemployment in Europe.

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Field research, Interviewing Kotti & Co leaders

Kotti & Coâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gecekondu case study visit

Collaboration workshop with Arch+ Magazine

Documenting case studies

SoAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibition co-curator and final review presentation

SOCIAL CONTRACT FROM OFFICIAL WEB PAGE

1. The “Kotti & Co” statement on protest at Kottbusser Tor: We are protesting against the high rents at Kottbusser Tor! We are protesting against annual rent increases for social housing units. We are protesting the lack of a cap on social housing rents. We are protesting against the displacement of people who have been living here for decades. We are protesting against indifferent property managers (& house owner) Hermes and GSW and their unwillingness to negotiate. We are protesting against the Berlin Senate’s failure to act when it comes to rental and social housing policies. The city’s Housing Act as it stands now is not solving tenants’ problems! We are protesting against Berlin’s ludicrous social housing system that, for decades now, has distributed millions of euros in public money to property owners. This was done even though a) the properties have long been paid off b) politicians in this city did not secure any regulatory measures to influence developments on the rental housing market. We have no time to lose! We need solutions that will bring immediate results. Words of comfort and understanding can’t since it doesn’t help us pay the rent. We won’t allow the property managers and policy makers to wait out the problem! That’s why we’re protesting at Kotti. We are not the only ones demanding a “right to live in the city.” Changes created by a city government that prioritizes attracting investment are directly affecting the present and future lives of many Berliners. That’s why we are inviting all those who believe that their right to live in the city should not be determined by the marketplace to join in our protest. 2. We’re asking the governing parties: – To reintroduce a rent control at 4 Euro (basic net rent) per square meter for subsidized social housing! – To reduce the economic rents of social housing, introduce clearly defined regulations, and eliminate the profit made from fictitious costs! – To face the complex issue of Berlin’s social housing policy and not always point to state-owned housing or housing under construction. The issue at hand concerns current low-income tenants living in units that were built by private owners on behalf of Berlin’s city government! – To make social housing public! Private owners have benefited long enough from subsidies and the properties in question have long been paid off. Reverse the mistakes of West Berlin’s subsidy policies that have only ever helped investors and property owners. – To organize (in cooperation with the political parties in opposition) a conference on Berlin’s social housing for the fall of 2012. Invite experts on urban and housing politics, citizens’ and tenant initiatives, and academics, lawyers, and economists with the goal to develop a sustainable and tenant-friendly solution. 3. We’re asking property management companies: – To fulfil their jobs of providing affordable housing given that they’ve been receiving state subsidies for years! – To apologies for repeatedly ignoring our invitations (as well as those of the municipality and the senate) to address these issues! – To follow the municipality’s resolution from March 28th 2012 and enter into a dialogue with tenants. – To fulfil a landlord’s responsibilities to maintain

buildings and flats. – To work together to develop a concrete plan (with us and policy makers at the municipal and state level) that will reduce both rents and utility costs. – To look for ways to restructure loans in order to lower fictitious costs! 4. We’re asking the opposition parties “The Greens”, “The Left Party”, and “The Pirates”: – To provide long-term support for our demands in all of the committees. – To help us assess, research and compile information. – And above all, to develop a feasible plan that solves the city’s social housing issues. 5. We expect from the media and the press: – To cover the issues in a sensitive way. We’re not animals in a zoo. Requests for individual interviews will be carefully considered. It will depend on the sensitivity of the interviewer whether or not an interview will take place inside the apartments or not. There are more than enough requests for interviews that want to portray the “Turks in Kreuzberg.” We’re not a cliché. There is no “typical Turkish family,” despite what so many think. We are first and foremost tenants affected by the threat of displacement. It should be our decision if we want to speak about our Turkish, Tunisian, Circassian, German or Afghan backgrounds – and if we do, we will also address racism in Germany. – To provide responsible and continuous coverage beyond the daily political business. – To participate in the discussion of a livable Berlin for everyone, with a special consideration for the issues relevant to Berlin’s tenants. 6. We’re asking the Job Centre Staff: – To stop sending out requests to lower one’s costs of “accommodation” in social housing until solutions are found! – To treat us respectfully and graciously! – To carefully check over the landlord’s utility and operating costs. 7. We’re asking our neighbors, high-income earners and tourists: – To support our camp, help us during the night watch; bring chairs, colors, chalkstone, ideas and cake! Protest along with us! 8. We’re inviting artist and cultural producers: – To support our campaigns, workshops, readings, concerts… – To discuss with us how cultural and housing policies not dominated by the marketplace can look like – and still keep Berlin attractive for everyone. 9. We’re inviting other citizens’ initiatives, “neighborhood” initiatives, tenants, and tenant organizers: – To visit and help us keep the camp vibrant and strong. To help us come up with more political actions. To spread the word about our camp. Come participate!

Kotti & Co

“Remembering

the poet Bertolt Brecht “WE HAVE TO CARE ABOUT OURSELVES OURSELVES” How right Brecht is. Together in solidarity against displacement and exclusion, and promoting the protection of the neighborhood.” – Extract from an invitation by Bizim Kiez stay our Kiez It is a space to encounter different cultures, ages, creeds, etc. Kotti & Co is a horizontal common space where everyone can be heard.

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Cities today rely less on buildings and more on socioeconomic power. The journey from the bottom-up is where I ﬁnd hope today. We need to move from cities of consumption to neighborhoods of production.” - Teddy Cruz, Architect

The common space has become a meeting place between neighbors for recreational activities.

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Kotti & Co is Berlin too. In the sense that: we are here! We have our project; somehow we have to extend it to the rest of the city. We are developing ourselves from the bottom up to the top. - Residents of Kreuzberg

The community sits together in the Gecekondu and organizes different ways to protest and strategies to communicate their activities and determinations. Many of the marches start or end at the place.

Kotti & Co

Research methodology and graphic design of case studies

Urban Design Studio: Urban Systems

Systems Wilkinsburg

Period: January 2017 May 2017. Location: Pittsburgh, PA. Main academic areas: Research and concept design, 3D and 2D drawings, diagrams, boards. Position: Urban designer. Team: Paul Moscoso, Ernest Bellamy, Tamara Cartwright, Lu Zhu, Yidan Gong, Chun Zheng Coordinator: Stefan Gruber and Steve Quick. Link: https://issuu.com/t. maraariel/docs/ wilkinsburgreport_ combined6

The Wilkinsburg System project presents the role of urban systems and systems processes in the context of a large portion of a city. During this project, elements of sustainability were introduced as methods of evaluating their performance. The project began with the premise of envisioning Penn Avenue, the local main street corridor of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, as the catalyst for regenerating this independent borough of 15,000 residents located at the edge of the City of Pittsburgh. Wilkinsburg has been undergoing continuous disinvestment since the 1960s and today is one-half the population of its heyday. The scale of the project quickly expanded to include the full borough to understand the Avenue’s broader context as well as the effects and causes of the disinvestment process. Through analysis of the Borough’s attributes and present-day situation, the project began to see that the problems were not merely physical, but also a combination of social, economic, and environmental factors that led to the Borough’s current condition. From this basis, the proposal envisioned a robust series of actions to bring back this community. Rather than starting from the typical streetscape beautification scenario, the idea is to develop a four-sequence strategy that begins with building the sense of community for all of its stakeholders before introducing strategic and catalytic actions that range from placemaking to create an identity to a network of resident-led programs that strengthen community relationships.

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Bus

Penn

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Envision the future of Wilkinsburg and mapping analysis “It’s important that the M.L.K. Busway transit system serves its commute purpose, but it’s also important to not only think of the users as commuters, but as citizens and people.”

Urban activism postcards and graphic design

Axonometric of Wilkinsburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future Civic Center

Axonometric Wilkinsburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future Transit Oriented Development over the current Busway transit station

Exploring and learning from the community The way forward for Wilkinsburg is through itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community. Using the community as a catalyst for change to occur will always be pivotal for any future healthy development. In recognizing, respecting, and rejuvenating the community, a change in the dynamics of what Wilkinsburg is, will come. White flight 1950s, streetcars shut down 1960s, blight and insecurity

Minority majority borough, tax burden, main streets dilapidating, close down schools

Pop-up interventions, grass-roots seed development, art, thriving social live

Informal Businesses When traditional businesses have difficulty keeping their doors open, the economic situation often leads to development of an Informal economy and the studio found this to true in Wilkinsburg. Jitney services observed at Wood Street and Penn Avenue provide many Wilkinsburg unemployed residents with the ability to make some cash ferrying residents throughout the Wilkinsburg and neighboring Homewood communities. A local soul food business run by a traditional American food kitchen owner, Hosea Ghafoor, has worked with his wife over many years to cook for parties or provide on-demand catering services for other catering businesses located outside Wilkinsburg. Another example is Kontara Morphis, a local dancing competition winner, who started teaching dancing for kids in Homewood. She found low-priced rental space in the St. Stephenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Church and now the majority of her students are from Wilkinsburg families.

Wilkinsburg - MUD 2017

Mapping Informal economies

Oral community stories

URBAN DESIGN STRATEGIES Studio Report Spring 2017

Master of Urban Design Carnegie Mellon University

Urban analysis and mapping Racial Segregation conditions in Wilkinsburg

Design and review of final report

Urban Land Institute Hines Student Competition

Funktown Market Period: January 2017. Location: Chicago, Il. Main academic areas: Project manager, research and concept design, 3D and 2D drawings, diagrams, boards, competition. Position: Urban designer. Team: Ruchika Dhar, Manuel Rodriguez, Fauzan Wassil, Andres Fernandez, Paul Moscoso Coordinator: Paul Moscoso.

DESIGN NARRATIVE "Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences”. - Peter Farb and George Armelagos

Chicago’s industry has had a long-standing relationship with food. The FunkTown Market is an intervention that considers this rich food history and offers a holistic experience to all aspects related. The strategy is to boost the industrial – commercial north branch of the Chicago River corridor, along with the addition of institutions and residential units to the site. In today’s culture, cities and food are exponentially expanding and transforming. People are becoming ignorant of the methods involved in what they consume, leading to unhealthy habits. Along with this, food is being wasted at enormous levels. Socially and economically we need to address certain questions; are we aware of the value of food? From an urban perspective, are people conscious of the risks involved? Can we propose a new way of thinking? Consequently, the intent of the scheme is to strengthen the relation between three facets of food that are essential: Product, Process, and People. A city is symbolized by its energetic music and food identity. The design synthesizes this idea and proposes a site where Chicagoans will not only awake their consciousness on food, but also, work, live and enjoy the space. The Funktown Market is the focal and central point of the project, linking all the other parts of the scheme. The market extends itself into an open plaza as a platform to exchange, expand and engage. The proposal offers offiice spaces for enterprises within the food industry. Laboratories and Research and Development Centers are provided which would work in collaboration with universities. Also, a Convention Center offers space for a variety of uses such as Community Kitchens and Practice Restaurants both open to public and to the advantage of the private tenants. Likewise, the project intends to revive jobs with Manufacturing Facilities. By providing amenities like microbreweries and apiaries, people have the opportunity to engage in food production as well. In addition, mixed-income residential units, a business hotel and a SOHO district (small-offiice-home-ocice) will encompass the proposal. Ultimately, the fundamental idea is to bring together the food producer, the seller, and the consumer. The Waterfront is entirely designed for public use to welcome residents and visitors with an array of integrated spaces such as Open theaters, phytoremediation islands, energy farms, community gardens, as well as public promenades, bike paths, and two pedestrian bridges to promote integrity with the rest of the city. Green spaces include innovative concepts like edible landscapes where anyone can hand pick fresh products and learn about local food. The Home Depot has been retained and reconditioned. A partnership with them will provide shared space for parking. Using the market would be beneficial to their business by increase in revenues by their own sales. Furthermore, the FunkTown Market is strongly focused on building a green and healthy environment to cater to its growing ecosystems. Storm water management, energy production, and waste management center are part of this. TEAM CODE_170007

FINANCIAL NARRATIVE The area around Chicago River has been transforming over the last decade, increasing its value and the demand for residential, commercial and offiice projects. The project has the vision of maintaining Chicago's manufacturing heritage and food history, in conjunction with offiices, a hotel, an innovation center, and mixed-income residences that will provide employment, entertainment, and housing in an environment that promotes innovation while maintaining and respecting the city’s traditions. The total investment is $648 M, which will be financed 24.5% with equity, 40% with debt and the remaining portion with the reinvestment of cash flows. The project will be developed in three phases. The project has an unlevered IRR of 16.91% and a levered IRR of 28.38%, both before taxes. Site A will be used for two five-floor premium offiice buildings (the rrst ooor will be designated for retail), a vve-ooor innovation center, a mix of residence buildings and startup offiices, a hotel, and a one-ooor market. Site B and a portion of Site A will be used for manufacturing facilities. Finally, Site C will consist of six residence buildings of four to six stories height. Partnerships and Acquisitions The project acquires Site A for $125 M, considering precedent transactions around the area. Additionally, it requires an acquisition of 0.53 acres of the Home Depot parking. In exchange, the project offers Home Depot an equity investment of 3.8% and the redevelopment of the current parking lot and the waterfront around the store. Phase I Phase I will require an investment of $253 M for the development of three residential buildings, one offiice building, a retail market, three manufacturing facilities, a leasable area for an institution with a convention center and four underground parking lots, together with the development of a waterfront and landscape. This phase will be financed by $224 M in loan proceeds payable in 15 years with a 4.5% interest rate, initially representing an LTV of 43%, and by $159 M in equity investments from the developer, Home Depot, and outside investors. Phase II Phase II will consist of five offiice buildings, vve residential buildings, two manufacturing facilities, a waste treatment facility, a hotel, and three underground parking lots, along with further development of the waterfront and common areas. This phase will be fully financed by $101 M in loan proceeds payable in 15 years with a 4.5% interest rate. Phase III The final phase will consist of an offiice building, three residential buildings, and an underground parking. It will be fully nnanced by project reinvestment proceeds. Future development The anticipated value of the project in 2028 is $1.2 billion. This calculation does not consider the potential value increase due to the development of surrounding areas such as the Finkl Steel site or the lots next to site C. It is recommended to collaborate with future developers to provide river and road access to the area and to ensure that the project and their plans are aligned to provide value to all the investors.

Narrative board

Manufacturing and food market at the heart of the Chicago River Corridor

Funktown Market Plaza activities

Bird eye view, key facts, and highlights

Conceptual principles and infographics design

Urban section

TEAM CODE_170007 2017 ULI Hines Student Competition

Team Summary Board

1. Summary Pro Forma

Year 0 2017-2018

Totals

Net Operating Income Market-rate Affordable Office - Class A Office - Startup Innovation Center Market-rate Retail Hotel Manufacturing Sites Underground Parking

Rental Housing For-Sale Housing Rental Housing

Total Net Operating Income Development Costs Market-rate

Site plan

Affordable Office - Class A Office - Startup Innovation Center Retail Hotel Manufacturing Underground Parking Land Acquisition Opportunity Cost of Land Total Infrastructure

Rental Housing For-Sale Housing Rental Housing

Total Development Costs Annual Cash Flow Net Operating Income Total Asset Value Total Costs of Sale Total Development Costs

Net Cash Flow

Construction Loan Proceeds Debt Service Other Loans and Grants Leveraged Net Cash Flow Net Present Value Loan to Value Ratio (LVR)

$86,294,181.50 $50,722,210.10 $6,960,913.11 $94,370,405.28 $56,080,926.27 $74,648,449.54 $26,964,781.08 $11,474,918.02 $17,312,427.59 $162,412,300.26

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

$587,241,512.75

$0.00

$83,687,418.47 $23,404,721.08 $11,225,995.92 $61,836,115.66 $52,610,512.09 $47,598,894.18 $18,625,182.31 $14,839,581.65 $21,756,411.58 $69,743,511.26 $130,621,962.99 $53,326,607.42 $49,066,725.36

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

$638,343,639.99

Affordable Office- Class A Office- Startup Innnovation Center Market-rate Retail Hotel Manufacturing Underground parking Total

Rental Housing Market-rate For-Sale Housing Affordable Rental Housing Office/Commercial StartupCommercial Innovation Center Retail Hotel Manufacturing Surface Parking Infrastructure Costs Roads Utilities Pedestrian Roads Demolition Landscaping Waterfront Acquisition Taxes and Fees Total Infrastructure Costs

Total Development Costs

2023

2024

2025

170007

2026

2027

2028

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

$2,825,122.95 $13,136,333.54 $215,583.25 $6,054,455.88 $0.00 $7,628,547.37 $2,236,662.47 $0.00 $1,004,015.93 $10,158,234.96

$3,557,242.45 $0.00 $236,854.13 $6,236,089.56 $0.00 $8,369,843.17 $2,456,779.76 $0.00 $1,034,136.40 $10,648,690.97

$8,416,009.26 $37,585,876.56 $744,749.20 $11,772,682.34 $6,793,809.79 $8,620,938.47 $3,270,866.41 $1,773,993.64 $2,361,364.78 $19,306,177.15

$8,668,489.54 $0.00 $767,091.67 $12,125,862.81 $7,453,990.87 $9,423,213.56 $3,578,825.84 $1,827,213.45 $2,432,205.72 $19,885,362.46

$15,017,428.01 $0.00 $1,194,330.86 $13,294,460.28 $9,999,248.41 $9,705,909.96 $3,686,190.62 $1,882,029.86 $2,505,171.89 $24,479,676.30

$15,467,950.85 $0.00 $1,230,160.79 $14,522,260.32 $10,299,225.86 $9,997,087.26 $3,796,776.34 $1,938,490.75 $2,580,327.05 $25,214,066.59

$15,931,989.38 $0.00 $1,267,065.61 $14,957,928.13 $10,608,202.64 $10,296,999.88 $3,910,679.63 $1,996,645.47 $2,657,736.86 $25,970,488.59

$16,409,949.06 $0.00 $1,305,077.58 $15,406,665.97 $10,926,448.71 $10,605,909.88 $4,028,000.01 $2,056,544.84 $2,737,468.97 $26,749,603.24

$0.00

$43,258,956.34

$32,539,636.44

$100,646,467.59

$66,162,255.92

$81,764,446.19

$85,046,345.81

$87,597,736.19

$90,225,668.27

$10,914,850.84 $2,226,033.43 $1,453,500.90 $17,844,270.10 $0.00 $24,151,163.06 $7,211,679.93 $0.00 $5,559,540.36 $18,869,470.36 $0.00

$14,580,932.49 $9,368,221.75 $2,565,379.88 $13,136,606.64 $20,882,012.97 $0.00 $2,173,335.66 $0.00 $5,319,832.13 $11,443,264.92 $0.00

$15,018,360.46 $9,649,268.41 $2,642,341.28 $13,530,704.84 $21,508,473.36 $0.00 $2,238,535.73 $7,310,138.74 $5,479,427.09 $11,786,562.86 $0.00

$16,047,454.25 $0.00 $1,553,501.45 $0.00 $5,034,495.45 $0.00 $0.00 $7,529,442.91 $0.00 $4,593,270.43 $0.00

$16,528,877.87 $0.00 $1,600,106.50 $0.00 $5,185,530.31 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $4,731,068.55 $0.00

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

$0.00

$23,707,030.54

$0.00

$8,573,901.01

$0.00

$14,326,478.26

$272,068,574.28

$111,937,539.51

$79,469,586.43

$97,737,713.78

$34,758,164.49

$42,372,061.49

$0.00

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $272,068,574.28

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $111,937,539.51

$43,258,956.34 $0.00 $0.00 $79,469,586.43

$32,539,636.44 $0.00 $0.00 $97,737,713.78

$100,646,467.59 $0.00 $0.00 $34,758,164.49

$66,162,255.92 $0.00 $0.00 $42,372,061.49

$81,764,446.19 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

$85,046,345.81 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

$87,597,736.19 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

$90,225,668.27 $1,207,796,958.57 $60,389,847.93 $0.00

$1,096,304,983.41

$0.00

-$272,068,574.28

-$111,937,539.51

-$36,210,630.09

-$65,198,077.34

$65,888,303.10

$23,790,194.43

$81,764,446.19

$85,046,345.81

$87,597,736.19

$1,237,632,778.91

0.28

0.25

0.22

$326,088,213.80 $215,623,819.63 $0.00 $1,206,769,377.58

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

$112,741,966.86 $0.00 $0.00 -$159,326,607.42

$111,937,539.51 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0.43

$36,210,630.09 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0.63

16.91% 28.38%

Total Buildout 345 167 114 129 3326 352,702 170,744 67,438 242,368 223,360 216,808 97,629 59,465 152,010 1,582,523

Unit Cost 212.50 212.50 150.00 238.00 210.00 210.00 180.00 225.00 120.00 19,375.04 Public

($ per s.f.) ($ per s.f.) ($ per s.f.) ($ per s.f.) ($ per s.f.) ($ per s.f.) ($ per s.f.) ($ per s.f.) ($ per s.f.) ($ per space)

$0.00 $38,382,964.87 $0.00 $27,505,338.23

0.82

2021

0 0 0 0

2022

0 0 0 0

$0.00 $37,404,700.23 $0.00 -$13,614,505.81

0.40

Current Site Value (start of Year 0) Projected Site Value (end of Year 10) Year-by-Year Cumulative Absorption 2019 2020

(units) (units) (units) (rooms) (spaces) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.) (s.f.)

$65,198,077.34 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0.68

$0.00

$0.00 $36,426,435.59 $0.00 $45,338,010.60

0.36

$0.00

$0.00 $35,448,170.95 $0.00 $49,598,174.86

$0.00

$0.00 $34,469,906.31 $0.00 $53,127,829.88

$0.00 $33,491,641.67 $0.00 $1,204,141,137.24

0.20

$183,948,570.41 $1,207,796,958.57

2023

2024

2025

2026

2027

2028

95 33 31 0

218 167 84 129

345 167 114 129

96,831 33,572 18,268 141,344 216,808 75,530 87,340

222,418 170,744 49,570 242,368 182,000 216,808 97,629 59,465 152,010

352,702 170,744 67,438 242,368 223,360 216,808 97,629 59,465 152,010

159,326,607 $53,326,607.42 $100,000,000.00 $6,000,000.00

Percent of source 100% 33.5% 62.8% 3.8%

Percent of total 24.6% 8.2% 15.4% 0.9%

Total Costs $130,519,399.85 $39,852,518.93 $19,061,090.69 $89,995,161.98 $78,561,151.56 $69,804,257.80 $37,588,419.01 $22,735,379.72 $37,416,023.82 $69,743,511.26 Private $1,135,396.40 $3,402,424.49 $5,386,034.86 $2,459,315.55 $6,441,608.92 $33,644,369.63 $533,266.07 $52,469,149.86

$648,279,330.55

Financial proforma

2022

Team

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

3. Unit Development and Infrastructure Costs

Development Costs

2021

Full operations

$0.00

Project Buildout by Development Units Rental Housing Market-rate For-Sale Housing Affordable Rental Housing Hotel Underground Parking Rental Housing For-Sale Housing Rental Housing

2020

Phase III

$587,241,512.75 $1,207,796,958.57 $60,389,847.93 $638,343,639.99

2. Multiyear Development Program

Market-rate

2019 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

Phase II

$10,596,942.56 $2,161,197.50 $1,411,165.92 $17,324,534.08 $0.00 $23,447,731.13 $7,001,631.00 $0.00 $5,397,612.00 $18,319,874.14 $130,621,962.99 $53,326,607.42 $2,459,315.55

Unleveraged IRR Before Taxes Leveraged IRR Before Taxes

Project Buildout by Area

Phase I

4. Equity and Financing Sources Equity Sources (total) Developer External Investor HD Partnership

Amount

Financing Sources (total) Phase I loan Phase II loan

$326,088,213.80 $224,679,506.38 $101,408,707.43

100% 68.9% 31.1%

50.3% 34.7% 15.6%

Other sources Project Reinvested Proceeds

$162,864,509.33 $162,864,509.33

100.0% 100.0%

25.1% 25.1%

Total Equity and Financing Sources

$648,279,330.55

100%

Vignettes design of activities by the waterfront

Layout and boards design (shown at real scale 72Â¨x36Â¨)

WINNING ENTRY

Urban Design Studio: Urban Places

City within the City

Main academic areas: Research and concept design, 3D and 2D drawings, diagrams, boards. Position: Urban designer. Team: Paul Moscoso and Chun Zheng.

Diversity along Penn Ave.

Coordinator: Stefan Gruber and Stefani Danes.

The concept of the proposal intends to preserve and strengthen the unique characteristics of the different urban fabrics by pursuing a strategy of defragmentation. It suggests consolidating a medium dense mixed-used urban core around the historic center of East Liberty while maintaining the low density of the residential neighborhood around it. The contrast between these two sections could be seen as city walls contained and densified by the urbanization of a medieval city. This scheme envisions populating with a new denser mixed-use that marks a distinction to a green redeveloped low-rise neighborhood around it, where isolated residential units mix with open spaces. The program embraces and underlines the social and economic diverse corridor by means of juxtaposition and treating each segment according to their own logic. The distinct neighborhoods compose an “exquisite corpse” that one already experiences moving along Penn Avenue.

Contrasting Density

Location: Pittsburgh, PA.

This project aims to redevelop the dilapidating neighborhood of East Liberty within the city of Pittsburgh. It was a collaboration with East Liberty Development, Inc. (ELDI) to design a new neighborhood district for a large area that was cleared in a major urban renewal project in the 1960s. The project zone wraps around East Liberty’s historic “downtown” core, an area which was partially redeveloped for largescale subsidized housing and suburban auto-oriented retail, but much of it has never been more than large parking lots.

Containing Density

Period: September 2016 December 2016.

Conceptual design and diagrams of Penn Ave. redevelopment

Studio models building

Site plan of low density development

Urban section

Analysis: Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s points of attractions

Analysis: Rethinking diverse open spaces

Rendering medium density development

Rendering low density development

Garland Park • Size: 2,77 acres • Features: Covered Pavilion, Community Center (Old Fire Department Building), Multi-purpose sport field

Axonometric view of the intervention

Enright Parklet • Size: 0,92 acre • Features: Pre-K center, rain garden, sitting and chill

Highland-Liberty Park â&#x20AC;˘ Size: 1,14 acre â&#x20AC;˘ Features: Shelters activities, rain garden, community garden

WINNING ENTRY

Studio Gruber

Hiding in Plain Sight Period: May 2017 – October 2017. Location: Beta-testing at Four Gateway Plaza, Pittsburgh. Main academic areas: 3D model, wood/ aluminum assembling, logistics and programming. Position: Junior designer. Team: Stefan Gruber, Paul Moscoso, Nickie Cheung, Rebecca Lefkowitz, Sophie Riedel, Sujan Das Shrestha, Ben Carter, Daragh Byrne, Ben Speiser, Helen Chang, Maranta Dawkins, Stefan Gruber, Lauren Goshinski Coordinator: Stefan Gruber. Link: http://www.betaburgh. com/studiogruber.html

This project is a pedal-powered pop-up movie theater. CitizensVisitors are invited to climb onto a bike and pedal into another reality. Here, rather than passively consuming moving images from the ubiquitous media that is at your fingertips, you need to work out and participate. Pedaling will generate electric power and activate the projection of unique short films, including several historical Pittsburgh-themed pieces. In order to generate sufficient electric power and to activate the projection, participants need to cooperate and become team players. The idea is that “Hiding in Plain Sight” is a public performance that turns passers-by into actors and a necessary piece of the show. The purpose of the piece is to promote strangers into team players encouraging casual encounters and playful interaction among passers-by while raising thought and provoking questions about the nature of public space, our health, and energy consumption. “Hiding in Plain Sight” was activated in the Four Gateway Center Plaza in downtown Pittsburgh for two weeks as a project of BetaBurgh and was free and open to all public. The movie theater, doubling as a bike trailer, will pop-up in different areas of Pittsburgh to activate public spaces, inciting casual encounters among strangers. Hiding in Plain Sight is a project by STUDIOGRUBER, an architecture and urbanism office with specific expertise in the design and activation of public spaces. The projects at the office seek civic engagement and community participation.

Postcards and documenting: Each week a program of short movies curated together with the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Association was screened.

Intervention at Pittsburgh downtown, October 2017

Conceptual drawings for the Beta-burgh competition

Construction process

Conceptual drawings for the Beta-burgh competition

Displaying the intervention in the public space

Pedal-powered pop-up movie theater

Boris Albornoz Arquitectura y Urbanismo

La Libertad Park and Cultural Center Period: May 2015 – April 2016. Location: Cuenca - Ecuador. Main academic areas: 3D model, 2D plans and technical details, coordination of design team. Position: Junior designer. Team: Paul Moscoso, Emilia Gonzalez, Jose Ortiz, Rafael Enriquez, Juan Javier Valdivieso Coordinator: Boris Albornoz. Link: http://www.borisalbornoz. com/proyectos/centro-deservicios-municipales/

The park and cultural center are located in the grounds of the old men’s prison of the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. When the prison was still in use, these spaces had a feeling of insecurity among the residents of the neighborhood. Hence, the ultimate purpose of the design was to generate a new public space that neighbors and visitors can experience as a free and welcoming space. The name of “La Libertad” (Liberty) derives from the contrast of the imprisonment that represented this space in the past. The proposal tries to balance the inequality of public space in the city by providing a 1.5 hectares new park and renovate the former prison building complex. The intervention proposes to drastically modify its repressive and restricted original use to an open building for all artistic and cultural expressions of citizens. The goal that drove the design was that the closed structure of the building (characteristic of the use given as a jail) is transformed into an open structure towards the city, thus opening all the facades with spaces that allow physical connectivity with the exterior. The project will turn into a cultural center and a new space for city services. All the new areas have the intention to be a hub for public events, such as a music room, a multimedia and cinema room, a games room, a free Internet room, offices for public attendance, a public pharmacy, cafeteria, among others.

Watch tower

City offices

1.5 ha of new green space

Cultural Center (old prison)

Bird-eye view of the park and different buildings proposed

Documentation of original conditions (May 2016)

Construction development (last visited January 2018)

Site plan of the park and buildings

Cultural Center section

Cultural Center first floor plan

Cultural Center window construction detailing drawing

Moscoso Arquitectos

Hacienda Elena Period: January 2015 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; December 2016. Location: Santa Ana, Ecuador. Main academic areas: Research and concept design, 3D and 2D drawings, construction coordination. Position: Architect designer and construction. Team: Paul Moscoso, Geronimo Maldonado, Sebastian Rosales Coordinator: Paul Moscoso and Miguel Moscoso

The project consists of the restoration of an abandoned haciendatype house in the countryside of Ecuador. The purpose was to enable a new residence in the old building, which until then was used as a barn. Therefore, due to many years of overuse and lack of maintenance, its physical structure and stability were in dire condition. The initial approach was to reinforce and maintain the integrity of the walls and roof, and moreover to respect the preexisting conditions of the vernacular architecture. As modifiers of the built heritage, the design team decided that every new addition should show the contemporaneity of the materials and forms. Thus, for example, the new residential use, modern spaces like a kitchen or bathrooms were located tangent to the original structure. Ultimately the Hacienda Elena witnesses the desire for architectural design to be respectful of the natural and cultural context and its history. As a space with profoundly family emotional weight, the rehabilitation serves as a mechanism to see architecture as a pursue to revive old sensibilities in life. Traditional techniques are rescued when applied in original spaces, while up-to-date technical and aesthetic demands respond to new additions. The project unifies and harmonizes spaces and uses, trying to generate a dialogue between the past and the present.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=BaP0HRWkqWM

Volumetric study including vertical and horizontal sections

From conceptual design to construction and final stage

Boris Albornoz Arquitectura y Urbanismo

Ministry of Social Development Headquarters Period: September 2010 February 2011. Location: Quito - Ecuador. Main academic areas: Urban design, architecture design. Position: Architecture junior designer. Team: Paul Moscoso, Rafel Enriquez, Victoria Chávez, Pedro Moncayo, Juan Padrón, Karla Saldaña, Mateo Vega, Gerónimo Maldonado Coordinator: Boris Albornoz.

The project aims to solve the dispersion and deficiency of many physical spaces in which ministries and public entities currently operate in Quito, Ecuador. The project contains an 860,000 sqft main building and a ten acres public plaza around the complex.

NG WINNI R T EN Y

The work process was carried out through an office of architects, designers, and several engineers. For a work of this scale, technical studies were developed in great detail and precision. The landscape proposal offers pedestrians and employees vast green areas to use. This verdant comfortable recreational atmosphere is replete with water fountains, park fixtures, and walking paths. Finally, the significant contribution of the design was the implementation of an integrated environmental friendly landscape and urban design study for the project site and surrounding neighborhood. This condition gave an enhancement to work to allow and explode the intervening areas for the common use and not just for the state use.

Link: http://www. borisalbornoz.com/ proyectos/plataformagubernamental-dedesarrollo-social/

Landscaping plan and urban sections

B. Arch Thesis

Chipipe’s Waterfront Rehabilitation Period: November 2012 December 2014. Location: Salinas - Ecuador. Main academic areas: urban design, urban planning. Position: Author. Team: Paul Moscoso and Pedro Moncayo. Institution: Universidad de Cuenca, School of Architecture. Coordinator: PhD. Boris Albornoz.

The project was the result of 14 months-long extensive analysis and urban elements design for the promenade of Chipipe`s beach in Salinas, Ecuador. The proposal`s theoretical framework calls for intervening in waterfronts studying the historical/social context and giving a range of strategies for development. The waterfront transforms a longitudinal axis along the beach from a simple border to a traveling medium to various areas in the city. It aims to break the discontinuity access which currently sets apart the beach, the city, and the private and public entities that block pedestrians paths at both ends of the bay. The idea will enable people to navigate without physical and political obstacles throughout the open spaces. Complementary to the mobility features, a variety of facilities for commercial and services activities are proposed to reactivate the neighborhood from within. At each end of the beach, two large urban facilities are proposed as anchors of the project. The implementation of this elements diversifies and enrich the city life. These new tourist areas will seek to attract new visitors and create/instill a sense of recovery and positive experience of public spaces for the local community.

Link: http://dspace. ucuenca.edu.ec/ handle/123456789/20972

Seminal idea diagram based on Kevin Lynch’s “The Image of the City” principles

Overlooking facilities and waterfront perspectives

Site plan

Academic Research

Historic Urban Landscape Cuenca Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) is considered an innovative modality of heritage conservation. This project aims to understand the implications of HUL in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador as a management tool model.

Period: November 2014 - January 2016. Location: Cuenca - Ecuador.

The project seeks a series of Urban Indicators that make it possible to evaluate, monitor, and control the heritage values that included Cuenca in the category of World Heritage City by UNESCO.

Main academic areas: Historic Urban Landscape. Position: Research assistant

The HUL Cuenca Project overlaps a series of value layers from different natural and anthroposophical condition to define different landscape units. The information obtained from these units becomes abundant, and in fact, unique, considering information that has never before been studied in the case of Cuenca.

Institution: Universidad de Cuenca, School of Architecture Team: Paul Moscoso, Silva Auquilla, Mary Siguencia, Edison Sinchi

The Landscape Units of Cuenca displayed as a series of drawings, and mapping products enable the municipality to take critical actions over the heritage with an objective and visible material as a tool. Architecture and Urbanism turn public policy more actively and democratic once the different disciplines and citizens hand over their points of view of the city in a collective effort to preserve the historical legacy and propose new interventions.

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Coordinator: Julia Rey

51 and urban analysis using GIS generated drawings Mapping

Social Design-Build Collective

Huasipichanga Period: November 2014 - Now Location: Different locations in Ecuador. Main academic areas: Social Collective, designbuild Position: Founding member and team leader. Team: Paul Moscoso, Victoria Chavez, Viviana Cordero, Ana Cristina Chavez, Bernarda Coello, David Alvarez, Carlos Joaquin Aguilar, Carolina Larriva, Jonny Patiño, Lucia Trelles, Pablo Villalta, Maria Vignolo, Ana Liz Gonzalez Link: https://issuu.com/ huasipichanga/docs/ colectivo_huasipichanga_ e73812d058e14c

Huasipichanga is a transdisciplinary collective formed by youngrecently graduated students who are proactive and concerned about social issues with the desire of prompting changes. We intend to create social awareness and promote proactiveness through building acts that inspire others to replicate the actions that will meet the needs of people who coexist in the same public spaces. Although many young people dream of their first work to be different and exciting, traditional society roles pressure them to work in an established way, without the opportunity to choose their own guidelines and working methodologies. So, we want to break the mold and open minds. Stop thinking, “How much am I going to earn in my next work?” Start thinking, “How much can I contribute to society with my new work? and keep thinking; Do I really like what I do? What results do I want to achieve?” Thinking beyond ourselves requires first knowing what others need; then thinking what can you do for them and how. Each person lives totally different experiences and sharing them is what creates true knowledge! That is why Huasipichanga is a space to exchange and change! Why did we choose that name? It comes from the words in Quechua HUASIPICHAI: “housewarming” and Spanish slang PACHANGA: “Party” As in a housewarming party, we seek to initiate a conversation or a mechanism to change between us and the communities with a celebration! In our approach we built a temporary park, a new playground, or a open theater. Under a methodology based on our experiences and specially created under the concept of transdisciplinarity, which is reflected in each of the following steps: 1. Diagnosis: Conduct fieldwork to demonstrate the existing problems and get to know the community organization. 2. Design: Validate possible solutions and determine a project with direct participation of the community. 3. Training volunteers: People who participate in the development of the project take part in every implementation and execution of activities and will are trained with lectures, workshops, and seminars in accordance to the relevant topic. 4. Project execution: All players part of the project implementation depending on its schedule. 5. Conclusions: The results of the project are evaluated for their impact on the different actors and seek optimal strategies for dissemination (publications, exhibitions, etc.)

Huasipichanga 01: One-day Parklet in Cuenca

Huasipichanga works intensively with children to promote their active role in the perception of new public spaces.

Many projects built by Huasipichanga are temporary, it is important to involve everyone from the beginning to the end.

Huasipichanga 02: Playground in Zhaglli

Huasipichanga decided to design and built a playground for the primary school that will serve the entire year, instead of a Christmas celebration which was the principals would initially

By using donated old tires, we reuse materials for the new playfield. Thus, turning the intervention inexpensive and, more important, it teaches the kids about recycling and adapting materials

Huasipichanga 03: Staircase ephemeral theater

A city staircase can be a playhouse, at least for us. Huasipichanga outline an ephemeral space for performances and invite anyone to present or watch the show.

Huasipichanga provided the framework; amateur artist improvised performances and pedestrian turned in the audience. All materials were easy to remove like chalk and paper mache, so the following day the site looks like a simple staircase again.

Latin American Social Workshop

Pampa Tukuyninpa: Local identity, climate adaptation and authentic construction Period: April 2015. Location: Tarija- Bolivia. Main academic areas: Design-build workshop, urban design Position: Tutor. Team: Paul Moscoso, Victoria Chavez, Viviana Cordero, Ana Cristina Chavez, Bernarda Coello, Carlos Joaquin Aguilar, Carolina Larriva, and 20 students from schools of architecture of Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Coordinator: Universidad Catolica Boliviana San Pablo, School of Architecture.

The workshop was located in the Valley of Cinti in southern Bolivia. The idyllic vinery landscape and the strong sense of community of the Cinti inhabitants inspire and motivate the renovation of an empty spot to turning into a public space that acts and articulates in this sociocultural context. The participants first interacted directly alone with the environment and the community for a couple of days. Subsequently, it was possible to identify that all positive factors for an intervention matched on one point: the cemetery. For the community, this is a profoundly spiritual place where old and young congregate many times a week, seated on a natural slope that frames the best views of the valley and captures the uniqueness of the landscape. Through various participative design processes, we were able to conceive a plan where free space is the leading feature. The central access to the cemetery is marked by a Christian cross and circles of cobblestone on the ground, remanents of the symbiosis of Spanish and Indigenous past in the local imaginary. The other perimeter walls of the cemetery were transformed to create a place to sit and approach the viewpoints. The design reinforces this visual property and is completed with the demarcation of the site using bamboo, a local natural material. Finally, we encouraged kids to be “architects of the change” through games we gave the task to imagen their own plaza. As part of the project, the towns people were asked to choose a name for the new park. After much consideration, there was a consensus to call the place, “The plaza for all,” that means “Panpa Tukuyninpa” in Quechua.

Conceptual sketches

View of the Cinti Valley from the cementery

Construction process

Cobblestone plaza and Cross

Urban furniture design and built at the workshop

Sitting area using local materials

Community gathering for the conclusion of the workshop

Latin American Architecture Students Assembly

CLEA Activities and involvements Period: September 2014 October 2015. Location: Different locations, Latin America. Main academic areas: Coordination, project management, leadership. Position: Delegate and coordinator. Team: Paul Moscoso, Yekselly Mendez, Ximena Zenteno, Sara Chavarria, Genesis Merchan Coordinator: Paul Moscoso (president 2014 -15)

CLEA (Spanish for Latin American Architecture Students Assembly) is a non-profit organization comprised of 18 countries in Latin America. It was founded in 1984 with the intention of channeling concerns about Latin American cities and architecture. CLEA`s Assembly is composed of two delegates from each member country who elect a board democratically for a one year term. The main activities developed are the ELEA (Latin American Architecture Students Conference), and the TSL (Latin American Social Workshop). For the 2014-2015 term, I was elected president of the organization. During this period, we worked under the following questions as guidance: 1. Why today’s architecture in Latin America has not achieved constructive processes more respectful with nature and the environment? 2. Why today’s architecture in Latin America does not solve problems of the informal urban dwelling, nor provides enough public spaces for all? 3. Why have Latin Americans architects not addressed the spatial difficulties caused by natural disasters, wars, and violence? 4. Why hasn’t the state been able to recognize the dignity of immigrants and immigrants, or respect the beauty and fragility of our indigenous communities? 5. Why today’s architecture has not yet helped to solve human problems such as fear, loneliness, selfishness, and failure? It was possible to enrich and enhance the perspectives of the last questions when integrating into the discussions and themes of the organized events. The same year of work, CLEA celebrated 30 years of creation; so the commitment was even more significant. The events coordinated and managing where: a general meeting of delegates in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the XXX Latin American Architecture Students Conference in Arequipa, Peru, and the XII Latin American Social Workshop in Tarija, Bolivia. Representing the flagship organization of Latin American students of architecture was a learning experience that gave me the potential to be a leader and manager for a broad group of people and organizations that unite their efforts for the events and activities. It was a position that stood out from the individualism that spreads today’s society for a collective benefit.

CLEA magazine

XI TSL Bolivia logo design

Scenario design

XXX ELEA Peru, main lectures venue

Delegates meeting parallel workshop

XI TSL Nicaragua, local residents have no proper place to sit

Construction of new shelters and urban furniture

Local testing new sites

European Assembly of Students of Architecture

Up to Date Period: August 2017. Location: Fredericia, Denmark. Main academic areas: Concept design, construction. Position: Urban designer, artist. Team: Paul Moscoso and Rita GorjĂŁo Henriques. Coordinator: Denis Plancque and Elena Sofia . Link: ww

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The house we were born in is an embodiment of a dream. All the other houses are but variations of that primordial memory. It exists for each one of us a oneiric house, a house of dreams, that is lost in the shadow. I must now show that the house has the most significant potential for the integration of the thoughts, memories, and dreams of humanity.â&#x20AC;? The goal of the workshop was to produce urban furniture that would add a domestical sense to a chosen public space. By representing the archetypes of the traditional house, like a living room, a kitchen, a garden, a foyer, a laundry, and placed them around the town. Not as a room surrounded but walls, but as frames. Each frame represents an archetype, able to incubate and to hold different activities: living, connecting, producing, disclosing, informing, playing. The visitors would recognize domestic spaces in load-bearing walls, spread in the city, these walls bear, human memories and dreams. Each wall has its own attitude. The project starts with a pre-designed metal frame construction. Each frame hosts a function and a program decided by the participants. After studying the city of Fredericia, participants analyzed necessities and possibilities for the city and its population. In two weeks tutors and participants, have created these frames that gather functions in order to optimize the potential of each spot. Our house space designed: a laundry!

Final stage of the art intervention once in the public space

Construction process

Final stage

BIO Paul completed a Master of Urban Design at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2018. He is a registered architect in Ecuador, where he studied his undergrad as B.Arch. He has lived and studied abroad in Switzerland and Germany. During his undergrad years, he got involved in various programs for leadership with communities throughout Latin America. His work experiences include academic researching in the field of Historic Urban Landscape, professionally operating in architectural designing projects, and urban design consulting. He has also been involved in various multidisciplinary design-build workshops in the Americas and Europe. In his hometown, Cuenca, he co-founded a youth collective that seeks to promote proactive involvements between professionals and impoverished communities. In 2015, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study his master in the USA. During the last two years, his academic involvements have focused in the thriving post-industrial laboratory of the city of Pittsburgh, the notion of commoning, urban planning, ecologic design, art, and placemaking. After graduating, Paul is seeking to complete his Post-Degree Academic Training before moving back to Ecuador. During the summer of 2018, he is volunteering at the Studio for Spatial Practice in Pittsburgh. This work outlines the opportunity to engage in practice with new tools and techniques for representing, understanding, and designing cities.

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