PEDRO BERMUDEZ ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Pedro Bermúdez Torres (Bogotá, 1986) Calle 82 # 6-13 apt.4 Bogotá-Colombia / 2489377 / pedrobog@hotmail.com Education
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA MS. in Architecture and Urban Design : MAUD 2013 Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Bachelor of Architecture, 2009 Thesis : Re-using Urban Structures Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico DF Students Exchange Program, 2007-I
Other Academic Experiences
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rome Drawing in the City of Rome, summer 2012 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Summer Program – Fundamentals of Painting, 2010 Architectural Association – IE school of Architecture, Madrid Re-considering Azca (Madrid business center), Summer Workshop, 2009
Professional Experience
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Research Assistant 08 / 2010 – 07 /2011 Participated in the team responsible for the exhibition casa+casa+casa = ¿ciudad?, German Samper, una investigación en vivienda, presented at the Archivo de Bogota (2012) and Museo de Antioquia (2013). The topic of the exhibition was the research and projects on social housing developed by Samper over the course of 50 years. Rodríguez & Valencia architects, Bogotá, Colombia Architect, 08/ 2009– 06 /2010 Collaborated in the design of a series of the firm’s residential projects. Octubre, Bogotá, Colombia Architect, 2010 Collaborated in the proposal for a landscape and architectural intervention on a historic state in Santandersito, Cundinamarca Luis Restrepo Architects, Summer Intern, 2007 Overlooked the construction of two houses by this renowned Colombian architect.
Languages
Spanish (native) English (fluent) Portuguese (basic, level 1 course taken)
Computer Skills
Architectural Representation : Autocad, Sketchup, Rhino, GIS : Arcmap, ArcGis Graphic Representation : Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design Management : Microsoft office Suite (excel-basic)
Awards and grants
Publications
Colfuturo: Selected as one of the beneficiaries of the 2011 grant-loan program given by this Colombian institution to pursue graduate studies abroad. Angel,Marcela; O’byrne, M.C (ed). Gaviria, Eugenia; Salcedo Juana; Bermúdez, Pedro, Panorama de la vivienda social y el urbanismo en el siglo XX en casa+casa+casa = ¿ciudad?, German Samper, una investigación en vivienda, Bogotà, Uniandes, 2012 Studio worked published in : Romanos, Savina; LLinas ,Messeguer Eduardo (ed), Harvard GSD Elements of Urban Design 2011: Brooklyn, Cambridge, Harvard GSD, 2012
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FEEDS 300 - 600 FAMILIES 80-95 % LESS WATER USAGE
NYC AREAS IN NEED OF FRESH FOOD
NUMBER OF RESIDENTS :1,300 persons, 400 FAMILIES APROX.
FOOD WATER CAMPUS 8 story block
WITH A SINGLE FLOOR OF INTENSIVE AGLICULTURE USE THE BUILDING CAN PROVIDE FOOD FOR ALL ITS RESIDENTS. 3 TOILET FLUSH * DAY = 9 GALLONS / DAY + LAUNDRY AVERAGE 11 GALLONS /DAY
Brooklyn Navy Yards, NY Elements of Urban Design = Harvard GSD, 2011 with Judith Rodriguez Instructor : Anita Berrizbeitia
= 20 GALLONS A DAY USING RE-USABLE WATER THE BLOCK WILL REDUCE ITS WATER CONSUMPTION BY 26,000 GALLONS A DAY + THE GREEN ROOF WILL CONSUME 86-90 % LESS WATER THAN A STANDARD FORM OF AGRICULTURE AND WILL DELIVER FRESH FOOD TO ITS RESIDENTS OR NEIGHBOURS
fresh food and water use reduction
waste water
compost production
center for urban agriculture
re-used water aqueduct for farms , residences + other complimentary uses
sludge RE-USING EXISTING BUILDINGS owls head treatment plant
The presence of The Owls Head waste water treatment plant in the site lead us to think about the water supply system in New York City; reflecting in how water is consumed in the city and in what is done with this one after its consumption. Although the importance of fresh water is widely recognized, what happens to the millions of gallons we use every day is unknown and sometimes even left to chance. This project intends to explore how an urban project within the idea of a campus can be driven by the need of incorporating ways and systems to re-use water in order to reduce the pressure over the fresh water sources as well as the amount of treated water dumped into the sea. The campus proposed is a model of a productive city, where residential activity, agriculture, light industry and complimentary urban services merge in a system that re-uses the treated water from the Owl’s Head plant. The uses of the program were established after noticing the strong relation it exists between water consumption and agriculture, the scarcity of fresh food present in certain areas of NYC, and the need of maintaining activities in this sector of Brooklyn that allow manufacturing. The project is structured as in Alvaro Siza’s Malagueira project through an aerial aqueduct, in this case along the Brooklyn bay and transporting recycled water from the treatment plant. In order to improve the level of cleanness of the treated water a series of modifications are suggested in the Olw’s Head plant. The aqueduct proposed is embedded in an aerial pathway that serves for transporting the crops that are produced in the greenhouses to a recollection center and as a promenade along this productive urban landscape against the city’s skyline. Through re-imagining the cycle of the water treatment process in the city, this intensive and highly technological way of producing agriculture in the city is proposed. Avoiding the way urban agriculture is usually conceived either through the overly utopic or the picturesque, this project explores the possibility of incorporating agriculture as a possible activity in a dense city as New York, in terms of productivity and resources. A mix typology of warehouses, row houses and services is proposed as the supporting structure of an intensive aerial field of hydroponic greenhouses that are fed with recycled water and that are meant to provide the city with fresh food.
The system is conceived to be built incrementally over time.Initially it will consist of the infrastructure for providing fresh recycled water and the buildings for collecting and distributing the crops. Gradually buildings with agricultural uses or light industries can connect to the elevated waterway and use the services provided in the coommon quarters, such as stores, refrigerated rooms or compost centers.
The infraestructure is conceived to become part of the urban life, preserving the industrial character of this brooklyn area. The design proposses to make public and visible the way the process within the campus take place.
Left (top) : Diagram showing the different components of this integrated system of residences, light manufacturing and intensive agriculture. Left (bottom) : Vista of the project showcasing the glasshouse. Right : Axonometric view of the layers of this system set along Brooklyn bay.
Nightime view of the project with the manhattan skyline in the background. The glasshouses become lanterns during night against the ocean. The production of food becomes part of the urban spectacle in a non picturesque way., eu dignissim est. Suspendisse
reference of this ideal american model of urbanisation could gave me clues onto how the territory was organized. I wanted to see how each cuadrangle operated in this piece of the lawrence-andover territory and see if the whole territory was a mat operating in an isotropic manner.Its difficult to find references or measurements to look at the territorial scale and I tought somehow the area selected by Wright served me to see how the uses and functions of a city where ideally dispersed along the land rather than concentrated in a city. Many times broadacre city is referred as a very utopic: model, but rathermilltown than that I think it illustrates very aspirations and ideals of americans regarding the Scenario Lawrence, re-conceived aswell anthe elderly campus land and of the way these ones have shaped their territory. I basically tought, that this area proposed by wright could Harvard GSD, 2012 be used as the “block” of the american territory. The excercise was not really developed and it could have been necesinstructor :Paola sary to compare moreVigano rigurously such things as densities, productivity etc. It was kind of an intuitive thing and a desire to bring wright to this reflection of the american territory. 0km 3km 6km 12km
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When reflecting in the concept of Megalopolis proposed by Gottman in the 50’s one encounters a shift of scale in terms of understanding the territory. The city dissolves into what this one proposes as megalopolis. The main street of the “town” stretches and starts in D.C and finishes in Boston. In this understanding of a regional and continental scale, where the conception of city dissolves and scales shift, it is proposed that some of the small cities, including Lawrence can become campuses. Instead of the recurrent frustration in trying to activate these small aglommerations into centers of a territory that resists to have centers, why not play the same rules of the territory and use the large operations required to assemble a campus to instigate new possibilities in the territory. It is propose here to explore this possibility through the scenario of a campus for the elderly, within Lawrence. Why? 1. Re-using the structures of Lawrence and taking advantage of its campus like condition : Short distances, walkability, a degree of uniformity, a pleasant setting, and its condition of campus or cluster that facilitates the use of services and infrastructure. 2. The elderly population will grow exponentially over the years. While huge villages are created in places like Florida, villages for the elderly could be also created in New England. Tough it might not be as sunny as florida, being in Lawrence might imply for people who has live in New England the opportunity of not leaving to such distant places and being close to family and friends. It is close to the activities, services culture and entertainment offered by what Gottman called “the main street of America”. It has a different character than the resort-like elderly town and the charm of the industrial constructions next to the scenic Merrimack river. In a world where the elderly are going to be more each day, possibilities offered to retire have to be multiple and diverse. 3. In setting a campus for the elderly in the core of Lawrence, two options are presented to its residents : a. Take advantage of the new facilities that the campus offers and establish a symbiotic relation with these one. b. Detach from Lawrence, getting rid of the stigma of belonging to Lawrence and moving freely around the territory establishing new relations.
Right : Image of the process where the site is analyzed in terms of Gottman’s megalopolis and Wright’s Broadacre city. Left : Both images are studies of the tissues and configurations of the Lawrence-Andover area, attempting to understand the forms and patterns that determine the spatial seggregation in this territory.
Map of the region Gottman named Megalopolis highlighting the major cities and urban aglomerrrtions, as well as the milltowns, now small cities, left from the american industrial revolution.
Diagram showing how the milltown area of Lawrence, now underuse and rundown can be re-conceived as a campus. In this case is conceived as a campus for the elderly.
Vignetes ilustrating some of the transformations to happen in Lawrence in order to incorporate news uses. Its portrayed in these ones the integration to the Merrimack River, the re-use of the existing structures and the adaptation of these ones to new uses.
COLONIZING LAST FRONTIERS Harvard GSD, 2012 with Oscar Malaspina instructors: Kelly Doran, Anita Berrizbeitia
The AysĂŠn region in the Chilean Patagonia presents a complex geography where productive valleys are scarce and subject to different and growing pressures from different stakeholders. Among these ones are existing communities, the polemical hydroelectrical project :HidroaysĂŠn and billionaires as Douglas and Christine Tomkins who have acquired vast portions of land in the region. This research-proposal identifies the scarce valleys and different stakes to which these ones are subject and proposes a strategy to reduce the pressure that potential urbanization could have on these ones. The proposal consists in the articulation of a scenic corridor of urbanization along the carretera austral on the southern side of Lake General Carrera. The corridor incorporates existing towns and suggests potential sites where alternative modes of urbanization as terraced or floating buildings could take place. Services needed in the region as schools, medical centers, tourists facilities and workers housing are proposed along these one.
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ARGENTINA Puerto Guadual
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Left : Map of the region emphasizing the valleys, as well as cities and main access points to this region. Right : Drawing showing the relation between urbanization in the area and the topography of these one. It shows the proportion of slopped terrain and water against valleys.
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Perito Moreno > 3590
Strengthening small economies Bogotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Food Networks Seminar, Harvard GSD 2013 Instructor: Toshiko Mori
This seminar proposed to focus on a global problem followed by a project related to these one in a local context. I worked on agriculture and then this lead to me to work in my hometown : BogotĂĄ. The research identifies the main ares of production in the country and how the products are distributed then in the city, It is identified in the research that there is a big tension between small stores (the majority family owned) and large supermarkets that want to take on this part of the businness. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge food terminal serves as the distribution center for the majority of these small stores and food venues along the city, These centralisation makes thre distribution of fresh food inefficient and Corbastos, the terminal, is monopolized by many vendors and even criminal organizations. It is proposed to create more efficient forms of distribution creating new centers that allow a greater access to fresher food and that serve small producers in different ways. The intention is to make visible small producers and retailers to the general public and allow them to have a common infrastructure that strenghtens their businees. These centers would be public spaces where small producers and small retailers may stablish successful alliances and use common services as refrigeration, transportation, production facilities that allow them to be competitive against large supermarkets.
Overview / Agriculture & Food agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel and other products used to sustain human life 36 % of the world work force is employed in agriculture. However this only correspond to 5.9% of the worlds GDP:
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Approximately 12.5 % of the worlds population suffers of hunger and 6% of obesity
Agriculture is responsible for 17-32 % of the worlds greenhouse emissions
10 world corporations are responsible for 19 % of the worlds food sales
goods production / resource consumption Food
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Fresh cut flowers
Agriculture is responsible for 70 % of the worlds fresh water consumption
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Fertilizers and pesticides used for agriculture are major polutants of water sources
In average food travels 1,500miles from the place where it was produced to the supermarket
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Images of the “new food centers” proptotypes located in the borders of the city. Many bogotanos like to go outside the city on sundays to get lunch or a dessert and have access to some “greenery”. These places attempt to become new agoras or rural-urban marketplaces that strenghthen small economies.
Agora : a gathering place; especially: the marketplace in ancient Greece Storage
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SOCIAL HOUSING BOGOTA
Universidad de los Andes, 2006 Instructors: Marcela Angel, Felipe Mesa Along the studio the design for an urban project of about 10 acres in an existent area in Bogotรก and then develop an economic housing project within one sector out of the 4 that had to be proposed in the urban project. The site were the project had to be developed is the Julio Florez, a middle class low-density neighborhood in Bogota. The area for the project was in-between a linear park that covers the city from west to east, the existing neighborhood and a public school. The proposal steams from the intention of articulating the project with its borders through a network of pedestrian paths. The urban form proposed is a result of the intention to blend the project with the existing grid of the city while generating a sensuous border against the linear park . In the case of the housing project, the intention was proposing 4 different housing systems that contributed to offer flexibility regarding use, in order to promote diversity among the users of the project. The buildings have a direct relation with the street, attempting to guarantee a continuum in the neighborhood existing formal structure and assuring a lively urban life.
Diagram showing the different layers of the urban project. Right Page : Model of one of the different housing typologies proposed in the project.
Floorplan of the housing project The buildings are organized around an irregular patio and a large linear corridor that connects the different housing blocks. Many units have direct access form the street in order to provide many points of connection to the street.
System A : Multi-family Units
System B: Productive Units / interior corridor/family houses
System C: Gallery building
System D: House over house
System C: Gallery building
EARTH + SKY / THE SACRED
Universidad de los Andes, 2007 with Ana Ortega instructor :Daniel Bonilla + Juan Pablo ortiz Along this open-ended studio my teammate and I worked in the relation between earth and sky in architecture. The interest in this topic spring when analyzing several buildings for spiritual use and acknowledging that the relation between earth and sky was present in many of them. The study of this relation in architecture as we noticed made of this one a powerful mechanism of establishing a dialogue between humans and the physical world. The images presented correspond to explorations on a building born out of the reflection mentioned above. Land art as well as minimal art were of great influence during the process as well as the texts of Gaston Bachelard.
LEISURE CENTER
Universidad de los Andes 2010 instructor :Daniel Bermudez The brief of this studio was to propose an intervention in a site of Bogota after the analysis of the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conditions and its needs. I choose to work during this studio in the adaptive re-use of Bogotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first slaughterhouse. The building, constructed by an important American engineering firm in 1928, was a crucial building in the modernizing attempts the government of the city did at the beginning of the 20th.century. For years it has remained abandoned and in a state of debris. I proposed to turn this structure into an entertainment complex influenced by the SESCI Pompeia complex of Lina Bo Bardi in Brazil. This use would aid in the need of revitalizing and bringing joy to this one former dramatic place. In Colombia, where society is characterized by so many inequalities, these public entertainment buildings could play an important role in providing peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives with dignity and joy. The project preserves an area with an interesting trace where stockyards were placed turning it into a park and proposes a library in the existing building as well as new buildings for cinemas and sports.
Above left: Detail of the facade of the new building. Above Right : Views of the integration of the different structures in the project. Below : Section of the project showing the cut section of the library and cinemas,