RODRIGO PINTO ARCHITECTURE Porfolio Professional and Academic Works
CONTENTS
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URBAN PARK
URBAN DESIGN + ARCHITECTURE
Public Space
LATENT LANDSCAPES
Urban + Landscape Rehabilitation
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NORTE 327
ARCHITECTURE
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Apartments + Offices
BLUE BONNETS Housing Development
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PEDREGAL #8 Private Residence
RAMS-HORN
Condominium Renovation
URBAN PARK Public Space
Queretaro, Mexico Academic Project
According to the basic needs of this district, the project’s proposal is oriented to provide inhabitants with a sufficient range of activities that offer a better quality of life (health, culture, recreation) and also a chance to acquire knowledge that can be useful for people’s professional development (workshops, libraries). Public spaces are necessary in cities not merely as spaces for leisure but as spaces that provide useful infrastructure for education, socialization, and contribution. The master plan design prioritizes principles like connectivity and permeability. It also enhanced mixed-use zones, versatility, and environmental reforestation. The proposal shows a clear exposition and connection among all the activities in the park. In the present, this lot has different natural paths used by locals; the project itself has many different paths merging all over the place, allowing people to see the park’s offer during everyday walks. In terms of social integration, the goal is to create a sense of community where people get to know each other. To promote “the outside” as a safe place where people can meet their neighbors, breaking down any social-economic wall.
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Images: Left-Park Model Right Top- Park Plan Right Center- Permeability Study, Site Plan Right Bottom- Park Model
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Arts and Crafts
Development Sports + Recreation
Links + Space for Encounter + Multi-use
Context
Main Urban Road Paths (Shortcuts), Improvised Trash Dump
Main Urban Road 6
Community Health Entrepreneurship Jobs Culture Sanitation
Music School
Administration + Library
Arts + Crafts + Plaza
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Museum-Gallery Ground Level
The museum-gallery is the larger building on the site. It aims to evoke the spirit of the park as a group of different scale connections. The building itself is one extra path, a ramp that hosts a large plaza below.
Museum-Gallery First Level
Exterior Perspective 8
Circulation Diagram
Museum Model 9
Municipality 47.2 km2
LATENT LANDSCAPES
232,279 hab Urban
Urband + Landscape Regeneration
47.5%
Valle de Chalco, Mexico Architectural Association Visiting School Post Developement with groundlab.org
52.54%
Valle de Chalco, as many regions in Mexico City, used to be part of a great lake in preHispanic times. Remains of the lake are found on the west border of this land, where agriculture is one of the principal activities. Every year, Valle de Chalco has floods problems because the water level overflows causing several problems to people’s homes.
Urban 47.5%
3.7 km2
S2
This proposal is strengthened by means of the generation of a hybrid drainage system extended throughout its territory with different intensities.
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2010 Flood 16.5%
22.4 km2
The project proposes the use and rethinking of the linear structure of the streets of Chalco. This vital space consolidates it as urban fabric, through the use of its natural ability to collect and distribute water in the territory.
The system regulates -infrastructurally- water during the rainy season, generates -scenicallygreen spaces and linear parks with minimal maintenance and reinforces -socially- existing public spaces, flea markets, trade corridors, pedestrian walk, etc.
Agricultural
Street Area S1
2010 Flood Built Area
5.2 km2 17.16 km2
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Site Condition Chalco Lake
S2
Open Sewage
Water Flow Analysis
Risk Analysis Irrigation
Intensity Sewage
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Urban Fabric Agriculture Water Bodies Urban Agriculture Green Zones Sport Zones Wetlands Urban Infrastructure
Xico Hill
Highway and Canal
Housing beside Chalco Lake
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Proposal: Network of Superficial Drainage
Superficial Canals System Street Integrated to urban sewage network Current situation in Chalco streets Integration between streets and landscapes
Multifunctional Urban Landscapes
Convinience Store Elementary School
Convinience Store
Artifitial Topographies
Elementary School
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Superficial Canals System
Multifunctional Urban Landscapes
Artifitial Topographies
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Chalco Hill
Wetlands Area
Xico Hill
Main Sewage Spine
Proposed Park
“La C
Flood and Contention Zones
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Xico Hill
Highway
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BLUE BONNETS Housing Development
MontrĂŠal, QC, Canada Academic Project
Remaining as an abandoned plot in the city after the hippodrome of Montreal closed its doors, the city has the intention to use these 44 hectares for the existing demand of social housing within the main urban grid of Montreal. This location would provide accessibility to existing public facilities and transportation systems. This proposal describes the vision for a sustainable urban future based on the planned physical and societal introduction of continuous productive urban landscape. The proposal is a design concept advocating the coherent introduction of interlinked productive landscapes into a city as an essential element of sustainable urban agriculture. Central to the concept is the creation of multifunctional open urban green space networks that complement and support the built environment around it.
Blue Bonnets Acces 16
Housing Typology
UA Corridor
UA Corridor
Plan Blue Bonnets Site 17
Original Land
Back Yards (Urban Agriculture Lots)
Shifting Parcels Up and Down
Communal Gardens / Recreation Spaces
Central Green Spine
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Creating Vertical Agriculture
Meters
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NORTE 327 Appartments
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico Design and Construction Comission
The client’s requirement was a mixeduse building that includes offices, apartments and social-recreational spaces. The apartments’ design approach was mainly oriented to their capability of providing comfort with continuous, simple and basic interior spaces. Another key concern was the communication with the exterior (walkside-streetriver-landscape). The volume, formed by nine large boxes with patios allows good illumination and air ventilation; six of these apartments have large terraces located at the building’s front facing the river, where works of sanitation and remediation will rise the social, environmental, and economic value of the area. The offices component is located in the part of the building facing west. There are four small offices oriented to local entrepreneurs who look for a place in the neighborhood. This part of the building also has a large social terrace at the upper level.
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Ground Level
Section
Level 1 and 2
Roof
Exterior Perspective 21
Axonometric
Exterior Perspective 22
Interior
Interior
Exterior Perspective Phase 1 Built
Interior
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PEDREGAL #8 Private Residence
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. Design Comission (Unbuilt)
The project is a single-family house for a young couple and their two sons. The clients have a 90 sq. m lot, in a new residential development, where they plan to build their own house on a small budget. Despite the small area, the design was conceived for having generous outdoor spaces and diversifying activities to clients. From inside the house, at first level, users can appreciate the front and back ends of the lot. It was design pricipal to create an impression of a larger space, to expand the views and gives the illusion of a garden becoming part of the house interior. The general volume proposal is based in a stair form section that allows good ventilation and illumination, and generates appropriate areas for terraces.
Faรงade 24
Ground Level
Level 1
Level 2
Roof Terrace
Front yard
3D Section
Interior
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RAMS-HORN Condominiums Renovation
Vail, CO, USA Internship at Pierce Architects vailarchitects.com West Elevation
The Rams-Horn condominiums were originally built in year 1968, a few steps away from the mountain at sky Village of Vail CO. This commission consisted in expanding the area of existing units and the addition of a fourth level. The exterior design was also renovated into an architectural style according to the context in its prime Village location. Faรงades are composed by heavy timber elements on a background of stucco, stone and wood siding. The shape of the building defines different locations and forms for balconies and niches, providing more light and views.
Exterior Rendering
For this project I worked on the architectural design documents and exterior renderings.
Main Access
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Garden and Units
Rodrigo Pinto rodrigopinto.01@gmail.com 514.581.6755 issuu.com/rodrigopintomonterrosa