A Combination of Sorts

a combination of sorts...

ROLANDO D e s i g n

MADRIGAL

P o r t f o l i o

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BIO Hairline Timeline - 4

DESIGN WORKS K&E-8 Knotting is Perfect - 14 Strawcture- 22 F(r)iction - 30 Articulative Ecologies - 38

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contents

La Uruca San Jose, Costa Rica

Tibas San Jose, Costa Rica

Freeport Long Island, NY, USA

Tibas San Jose, Costa Rica

1986

1988

1990

1991

...IT’S A DESIGNER?!

2014

2005

2005

2004

2003

Belen Heredia, Costa Rica

Belen Heredia, Costa Rica

Fort Lauderdale FL, USA

Miami FL, USA

Hospital Mexico San Jose, Costa Rica

1982 IT’S A BOY...

Hempstead Long Island, NY, USA

1983

THE HAIRLINE TIMELINE

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St. Augustine FL, USA

Queens NY, USA Tibas San Jose, Costa Rica

Queens NY, USA

Long Island NY, USA

1992

1994

1995

1998

2002

2001

2000

1999

Homestead FL, USA

Mankato MN, USA

Key Largo FL, USA

Key Largo FL, USA

I am not an architect, I am a designer who specializes in architecture. During the duration of my architectural studies at Universidad Veritas one of my personal undertakings was attempting to ascertain what my role as an architect should be. My varied interest helped me take notice that that which I found most appealing of any project was not their finality but rather studying the design and thought process behind it and most importantly how this affected its behavior.

At Universidad Veritas one could find themselves at any moment working next to a product design student in the workshops or out on the plaza amidst a film set. Being enthralled by design culture nurtured my interest and allowed me apply design thinking from other disciplines which are typically not associated with architectural practice.

Therefore, much like my life’s trajectory, professionally I am A COMBINATION OF SORTS. -RM

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bio

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design works

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K&E

K&E is a small woodwork company located in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. Inspired by local artisans and rurality the designs for Kurth & Ernst Woodwork focus on handcrafted products developed exclusively from salvaged wood.

Reclaimed wood from trees knocked down by natural phenomena are the primary contributors to the design process. These serve as the primary source of input as their materiality, natural forms, and textures dictate their new use. This permits the material to remain the protagonist even as it is reassigned functionality. www.kurthernstwoodwork.com

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) INSIDE OUT (

TRAP

WOOD: Purple Heart LENGTH: 99.6cm WIDTH: 38cm HEIGHT: 30cm THICKNESS: 5.2cm

WOOD: Purple HearT LENGTH: 100cm WIDTH: 37.3cm HEIGHT: 23cm THICKNESS: 6cm

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_A_

_B_

HIND

BENCHED

_A_

_B_

WOOD: Pochote LENGTH: 136.5cm WIDTH: 80.6cm HEIGHT: 36.3cm THICKNESS: 4cm

WOOD: Pochote LENGTH: 88.9cm WIDTH: 91cm HEIGHT: 37.6cm THICKNESS: 5.6cm

WOOD: Fustic LENGTH: 125cm WIDTH: 45cm HEIGHT: 32.5cm THICKNESS: 5cm

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PLANK CHAIR

WILL

WOOD: Purple Heart LENGTH: 63cm WIDTH: 41cm HEIGHT: 114cm THICKNESS: 6cm

WOOD: Guanacaste LENGTH: 300cm WIDTH: 130cm HEIGHT: 75cm THICKNESS: 6cm

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STONED

GLASS ROOTS

WOOD: Cedar DIAMETER: 111cm WIDTH: 73.5cm HEIGHT: 91cm

WOOD: Javillo LENGTH: 310.55cm WIDTH: 149.09cm HEIGHT: 41.5cm THICKNESS: 19mm

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knotting is perfect

“...and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall�

-Frank Stella-

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PROTOTYPING

Exploration

__________________________________________________Lace_________________________________________________

_____________________________________________Paper Clips__________________________________________________

_________________________________________________Textile ________________________________________________

Performance

Understanding the elastic properties of six pack rings and then utilizing this material along with an interweaving technique as the main structural and geometrical components the objective is to create an adaptable model with transformative properties.

This proposal explores spatiality thru an adaptable suspended system of minimal surfaces generated by the strategically interweaving and overlapping of over 10,000 six pack ring components. The different weaving and overlapping techniques embed the material with intelligence and performance and allow it to reconfigure in real-time to user interaction. The emergent formations under tension can be programed to reconfigure by merely altering its anchor points.

PROTOTYPING

DEVELOPMENT

Geometrical Studies

___________________________________________________________System module

_________________________________________System joint

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Deformation thru tension

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PHASE I

PHASE I I

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______________________________________________________________________________________________________Manipulation of systemic properties

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________deFORMATION PHASE I I I

PHASE I V

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strawcture

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.� - Pythagoras-

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PROTOTYPING

Exploration

_______________________________________________Plastic Joints______________________________________________

____________________________________________Rubber Joints________________________________________________

_____________________________________________Bungy + Plastic Joints _________________________________________

Performance

PROTOTYPING

Parametric design if often related to a rigid, digitalized creation process that responds to certain pre-defined parameters that, under certain circumstances, behave differently.

Starting from a rather basic thought development, Strawcture brings together both human defined parameters and systemized responsive behavior.

As a result of an extensive and systematic research behavior between a simple straw structure and elastic strings, Strawcture demonstrates the fundamental principles behind a manually fabricated parametric design that can adapt and react upon climatic changes such as rainfall.

The system originates from a single, self-sustained and independent module that when multiplied and connected upon themselves, adapt with each other and react in an individual yet holistic manner.

DEVELOPMENT

Geometrical Studies

________________________________________System module ____________________________________System composition

________________________________________________________Inactive behavior

________________________________________________________Active behavior SUSPENSE

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f(r)iction

“The more technique there is, the less there is” -Pablo Picasso-

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PROTOTYPING

Exploration

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Styrofoam

________________________________Styrofoam

___________________________________Plastic

___________________________________Plywood

Performance

PROTOTYPING

Friction is the physical description of the force exerted between two surfaces in contact with each other.

F(r)ICTION utilizes this concept along with an overlapping technique to create an intelligent load bearing system.

While innate the system lies horizontally, however when a load is applied its interlocked members fan out in order to allow a change at the anchor points from 180 degrees to 150 degrees reducing said load more than 5 times over. Essentially as the system opens and its section becomes smaller the system becomes increasingly resistant via the multiplying vectors principle, thus challenging conventional structural logic.

STEP 1

STEP 2

A01 L

STEP 3

A02 L

B01 R

STEP 4

B01 L

B02 R

B02 L

A01 R

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A02 R

PROTOTYPING

Geometrical Studies A01_L A02_L B01_L B02_L

A01_L A02_L B01_L B02_L

B02_R B01_R A02_R A01_R

A01_R A02_R B01_R B02_R

A01_L A02_L B01_L B02_L

A01_L A02_L B01_L B02_L

B02_R B01_R A02_R A01_R

A01_R A02_R B01_R B02_R

A01_L A02_L B01_L B02_L

A01_L A02_L B01_L B02_L

B02_R B01_R A02_R A01_R

A01_R A02_R B01_R B02_R

A01_L A02_L B01_L B02_L

A01_L A02_L B01_L B02_L

A01_R A02_R B01_R B02_R

B02_R B01_R A02_R A01_R 34

B02_R (34 components) B01_R (34 components) A02_R (36 components A01_R (36 components)

A01_L (36 components) A02_L (36 components)

TOTAL HOURS LASER- 18 TOTAL SHEETS OF PLYWOOD- 15 TOTAL NUMBER OF PIECES - 280

B01_L (34 components)

B02_L (34 compo-

B02_R + A01L

B01_R + A02L

1st LAYER

2nd LAYER

A02_R + B01L

A01_R + B02L

3rd LAYER

4th LAYER

(B02_R + A01) + (B01_R + A02)

Layer Overlap

Overlapping Area

((B02_R + A01) + (B01_R + A02)) + ((A02_R + B01L) + (A01_R + B02L))

Layer Overlap

Overlapping Area

Articulative Ecologies MASTER PLAN

Reserva Indigena Quitirrisi

“The cultural dimension involves the effective exercise of cultural rights of indigenous people, expressed in the realization of its various cultural manifestations“ -Carlos Romero Bonifaz-

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NICARAGUA

RUTAS DE INTERCAMBIO

1502

1560

Original territorial lines and trading routes

PANAMA

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NICARAGUA

NICARAGUA

PANAMA

1821

1600’s

PANAMA

NICARAGUA NICARAGUA

NICARAGUA

COSTA RICA

1900’s

Today

Present day territorial lines PANAMA

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PANAMA

The concepts of land and territory that the Huétar Indians keep are the result of their historical and cultural evolution. The product of this process leads to the perception and conception of space. The importance of the relationship between territory and culture lies in that this establishes the groundwork for how the Huétar operate on their territory. The current Quitirrisi Indian Reservation and the evolution of the same, is the result of a set of social, economic, and spiritual relationships of the Huétar people with the non-Indigenous. The deconstruction of their territory is the product of a long process of appropriation and expropriation of space through an imposed cultural transformation.

The confiscation of land, starting midway thru the seventeenth century conquest and continued thru the construction of the Republic of Costa Rica as a nation produced forms of dispossession and inequality which bordered on the senseless abuse of the natural and human resources of the Huétar people. The result of which was the destruction of the cultural and spiritual conditions of the same.

The current definition of territory in Costa Rica, much like the rest of Latin America, is of colonial construction and reflects the asymmetrical relations of societies built to exploit the land and its people. Subsequently, the systems of political and administrative division of the territory were drawn in relation to the interests of the colonial administration in juxtaposition with indigenous systems generating conflicts that persist to this day. The imposed morphology of the Huétar territory is proof of the imbalanced forms of territorial morphology and a reflection of the current state of ethnic and class contradictions in Costa Rican society.

The following maps were produced using the database of the National Museum of Costa Rica and the Universidad de Costa Rica and represent archeological sites of Huétar settlements in the central valley of Costa Rica for three Pre-Columbian epilogues established by Dr. Raquel Ornat starting with the Epilogue Pavas Year Domini 300 years, followed by the Curridabat, and finally the Carthage which ends in the mid-16th century. The first (A) of which demonstrates that 97 % of the Huetar settlements were located in areas with less than 10% slope and their preferred territorial typology. The second (B) demonstrates this same regions current condition, which today houses the central hub of the Greater Metropolitan Area. The aforementioned processes of confiscation separated the Huétar from their original habitat and obligated them to construct new spatial and cultural relations.

(A)

(B)

Current deliniation Quitirrisi Indian Reserve

The current Quitirrisi Indian Reserve boast 73% of its territory above 60% slope and 25% above 120% slope. This territory suffers from a series of extreme geological complications stemming from its physical qualities.

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0-20 = 1,013,972 M2 T/.06 0%

10%

T/.73

20-40 = 4,504,507 M2 T/.10 20%

30%

40%

40-60 = 3,834,689 M2 60-80 = 5,465,451 M2 80-100 = 6,603,919 M2 100-120 = 4,011,715 M2 120+ = 8,235,277 T/.16 T/.20 T/.12 T/.11 T/.25 50%

60%

70%

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80%

90%

100%

110%

120%

120+%

Thru an analysis of the sites Geo-Aptitude, Edafo-Aptitude, Bio-Aptitude and Anthro-Aptitude in conjunction with the utilization of the Comprehensive Guide for the Development and Revision of Land Use of the IFAM it is determined that 67% of the Reserve is at a very high level of environmental fragility and this sector should be divided 70% to the woodland conservation, 20% to 30% agricultural development and the least limiting housing development.

With the remaining 33% of the Reserve, which has high environmental fragility, to be divided as follows 50% agricultural, 30% urbanized, 20% conservation. These sectors will represent the main hubs for the Reserves development.

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475.m2

B25

387.m2

B24

209.m2

B28

234.m2

B29

273.m2

B30

496.m2 A - 09 179. M2

353. M2 A - 10

A - 11 131. M2

322. M2 A - 14

A - 12 217. M2

584. M2 A - 15

A - 13 159. M2

181. M2 A - 19

A - 16 213. M2

240. M2 A - 20

A - 17 235. M2

698. M2 A - 24

A - 18 393. M2

266. M2 A - 21

A - 22 140. M2

667. M2 A - 24

A - 23 100. M2

48. M2

A - 26

A - 25 252. M2

255. M2 A - 27

A - 28 150. M2 A - 30 310. M2

350. M2 A - 29

A - 31 101. M2

112. M2 A - 32

A - 35 134. M2

398. M2 A - 33

A - 36 558. M2

230. M2 A - 34

A - 38 154. M2

145. M2 A - 37

A - 40 225. M2

596. M2 A - 39

A - 43 416. M2

384. M2 A - 41

A - 44 266. M2

112. M2 A - 42

A - 46 255. M2

178. M2 A - 45

A - 48 203. M2 A - 49 935. M2

647. M2 A - 47

A - 51 171. M2

188. M2 A - 50

A - 52 314. M2

433. M2 A - 54

A - 53 81. M2

250. M2 A - 56 19. M2

A - 55 108. M2

A - 58

A - 57 285. M2

621. M2 A - 59

A - 60 378. M2

903. M2 A - 62

A - 61 286. M2

356. M2 A - 63

A - 64 297. M2

498. M2 A - 66

A - 65 284. M2 A - 71 146. M2

260. M2 A - 67

A - 72 275. M2

500. M2 A - 68

A - 74 264. M2

176. M2 A - 73

A - 76 155. M2

139. M2 A - 75

A - 79 297. M2

687. M2 A - 77

A - 80 77. M2

288. M2 A - 78 60. M2

A - 83 105. M2

A - 81

A - 84 465. M2

1,196.m2 D-21

D-17 1,000.m2 D-18 1,036.m2

D-22

D-33 D-34 D-35

D-36 607.m2 D-37 1,969.m2 D-45 522.m2 D-46 2,237.m2 D-48 667.m2

2,716.m2 D-38 458.m2

D-49 731.m2

D-39

D-50 2,648.m2

1,808.m2 D-40

D-53 709.m2

1,088.m2 D-41 335.m2

D-55 595.m2

D-42

D-58 313m2

1,314.m2 D-43 663.m2

D-61 1,223.m2

D-44

D-62 913.m2

1,688.m2 D-47 3110.m2

D-51

316.m2

D-52

612.m2

D-54

473.m2

D-56

316.m2

D-57

821.m2

D-59

417.m2

D-60

452.m2

D-63

714.m2

D-66

929.m2

D-69

D-64 534.m2 D-65 271.m2 D-67 250.m2 D-68 1,059.m2 D-71 750.m2 D-72 257.m2 D-73 414.m2 D-74 570.m2 D-76 420.m2 D-78 302.m2

1,835.m2 D-70 431.m2

D-75

1,656.m2 D-77

528.m2 297.m2

B60 B61 B62

1,447.m2 B72 526.m2

B75

798.m2

B76

1,326.m2 B77 283.m2

B78

166.m2

B79

501.m2

B85

1,873.m2 B86 567.m2

B89

3,816.m2 B90 1,972.m2 B91 2,054.m2 B96 127.m2

B97

152.m2

B98

1,078.m2 B99 368.m2

B102

3,797.m2 B105 1,714.m2 B106 869.m2

B113

17,653m2 B116 5,436.m2 B117 2,662.m2 B118 1,628.m2 B119 1,620.m2 B120 1,054.m2 B122 189.m2

B123

581.m2

B124

115.m2

B129

1,716.m2 B133 3,190.m2 B134 1,291.m2 B137 1,093.m2 B140 244.m2

B141

61.m2

B142

491.m2 999.m2 907.m2

B143 B146 B147 B150

743.m2

B152

218.m2

B155

4,329.m2

E-08

1,909.m2

E-10

562.m2

E-11

864.m2

E-12

795.m2

E-15

6,251.m2

E-18

709.m2

E-21

836.m2

E-23

E-32

387.m2

E-33

779.m2

E-34

1,230.m2

E-38

588.m2

E-39

507.m2

E-41

889.m2

E-43

E-48 E-53 E-55 E-56 E-58

D-89

D-98 1,123.m2

342.m2

D-90

D-99 1,183.m2

373.m2

D-92

D-101 372.m2

D-97 310.m2

D-102 1,508.m2

4,362.m2 D-95

D-104 296.m2

514.m2

D-100

D-106 493.m2

439.m2

D-103

D-108 2,670.m2

504.m2

D-105

D-109 2,280.m2 D-110 3,336.m2 D-113 292.m2 D-115 464m2 D-117 1,053.m2 D-118 322.m2 D-121 414.m2

1,821.m2 D-119

E-31

1,242.m2

E-47

484.m2

D-116

E-30

895.m2

1,679.m2

D-96 3,346.m2

D-112

E-29

3,733.m2

E-45

D-88

1,096.m2 D-114

E-27

1,488.m2

E-44

D-91 654.m2

2,2272.m D-111

E-26

1,215.m2

641.m2

D-93 767.m2

1,536.m2 D-107

E-24

1,085.m2

886.m2

D-84 1,615.m2

4,684.m2 D-94

738.m2

3,048.m2

D-87

D-124

992.m2

234.m2

764.m2

262.m2

B58

1,385.m2 B59

D-82 1,096.m2

567.m2

D-123

B57

163.m2

4,714.m2

D-85

507.m2

B50

606.m2

D-81 1,997.m2

D-86

D-120

B47

182.m2

748.m2

803.m2

488.m2

B46

353.m2

713.m2

535.m2

555.m2

B44

890.m2

D-79 286.m2

D-83 1,979.m2

1,154.m2 D-80

383.m2

B43

155.m2

D-30 540..m2

2,365.m2 D-31 D-32

1,743.m2 B41 373.m2

D-27 7,307.m2

D-29

596.m2

B39

D-26 2,282.m2

1,381.m2 D-28

524.m2

B38

902.m2

D-24 1,662.m2

4,682.m2 D-25

468.m2

517.m2

D-20 938.m2

1,687.m2 D-23

615.m2

B33

3,335.m2 B35

4,071.m2 B151

700.m2

625.m2

B32

228.m2

393.m2

109. M2 A - 82

B31

538.m2

D-122 397.m2 D-125 712.m2

1,465.m2

E-59

813.m2

E-60

411.m2

E-61

1,280.m2

E-63

731.m2

E-65

2,234.m2

E-67

9,235.m2

E-73

692.m2

E-76

966.m2

E-77

1,178.m2

E-78

1,004.m2

E-79

328.m2

E-80

1,666.m2

E-82

539.m2

E-84

726.m2

E-86

808.m2

E-87

909.m2

E-89

1,214.m2

E-90

1,079.m2

E-92

D-127 267.m2

730.m2

E-93

D-128 1,276.m2

1,937.m2

E-95

D-129 186.m2

3,583.m2

E-96

1,782.m2

E-97

624.m2

E-103

D-130 5,786.m2 D-131 233.m2 D-132 353.m2

1,914.m2 G-06

G-07 2,514.m2

2,676.m2 G-08

4,136.m2 G-09 G-10 2,316.m2

3,312.m2 H-04

2,318.m2 G-12

4,276.m2 G-14 G-11 1,933.m2 1,135.m2 G-15

1,266.m2 G-16

G-13 2,203.m2

1,537.m2 H-07

2,959.m2 G-18

1,043.m2 G-21

G-17 2,049.m2

1,953.m2 G-22

G-19 10,343.m2

3,306.m2 G-23

6,074.m2 H-08

1,510.m2 G-24

G-20 2,611.m2

2,778.m2 H-10

The Indian Act of 1977 grants sovereignty over a territory to the ethnic group which occupies it. It evidenced by the HuÊtar’s effective land tenure of less than 16% that currently this law remains theoretical as the great majority of the Reserve remains in private estates. The sole purpose of the Indian Act of 1977 is for the Reserves to act as a tool for the sustainability of the Wlivelihood of the Costa Rican Indian communities. However this is complicated by the lack of access the HuÊtar have to their own territory.

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B21

314.m2

B22

1,510.m2

B23

1,052.m2

B26

223.m2

B27

1,700.m2

B34

706.m2

B36

1,601.m2

B37

117.m2

B40

1,249.m2

B42

786.m2

B45

206.m2

B48

295.m2

B49

75.m2

B51

2,055.m2

B52

192.m2

B53

210.m2

B55

382.m2

B56

193.m2

B63

614.m2

B64

567.m2

B65

142.m2

B67

203.m2

B66

1,035.m2

B68

271.m2

B69

131.m2

B70

1,639.m2

B71

351.m2

B73

576.m2

B74

1,012.m2

B80

937.m2

B81

359.m2

B82

140.m2

B83

5,922.m2

B84

323.m2

B87

466.m2

B88

451.m2

B92

308.m2

B93

357.m2

B94

370.m2

B95

774.m2

1,335.m2 C-31 161.m2 C-32 1,029.m2 C-34 445.m2 C-35 1,078.m2 C-37 628.m2 C-38 683.m2 C-39 1,578.m2 C-40 380.m2 C-41 7,665.m2 C-42 338.m2 C-46 465.m2 C-48 520.m2 C-50 988.m2 C-51 461.m2 C-53 215.m2 C-52 1,023.m2 C-54 371.m2 C-56 298.m2 C-55 879.m2 C-57 1,510.m2 C-58 2,300.m2 C-59 325.m2 C-61 832.m2 C-64 2,414m2 C-67 1,418.m2 C-70 319.m2 C-71 2,559.m2 C-72 231.m2 C-75 3,134.m2 C-76 595.m2 C-77 836.m2 C-78 388.m2 C-80 1,127.m2 C-81 476.m2 C-83 2,714.m2 C-88 961.m2 C-99 1,122.m2 C-101 1,140.m2 C-103 3,052.m2 C-105 1,987.m2 C-106 346.m2 C-108 465.m2 C-109 978.m2 C-110 2,538.m2 C-111 1,847.m2 C-112 1,329.m2 C-114 261.m2 C-116 263.m2 C-118 2,996.m2 C-119 304.m2 C-120 354.m2 C-121 2,107.m2 C-122 399.m2 C-123 28.m2 C-125 177.m2 C-126 300.m2 C-127 261.m2 C-128 997.m2 C-129 238.m2 C-131 2,337.m2 C-149 3,539.m2 C-151 846.m2 C-152 931.m2 C-153 278.m2 C-155 347.m2 C-156 432.m2 C-157 5,648.m2 C-158 871.m2 C-159 413.m2 C-160 603.m2 C-163 2,255.m2 C-165 1,245.m2 C-169 191.m2 C-170 191.m2 C-171 1,105.m2 C-172 236.m2 C-175 399.m2 C-176 248.m2 C-177 975.m2 C-178 212.m2 C-179 859.m2 C-180 358.m2 C-181 536.m2 C-182 711.m2 C-183 377.m2 C-184 193.m2 C-185 221.m2 C-188 1,453.m2 C-193 797.m2 C-195 2,433.m2 C-196 630.m2 C-198

B100 689.m2 B101 1,210.m2 B103 648.m2 B104 408.m2 B107 553.m2 B108 880.m2 B109 2,780.m2 B110 905.m2 B111 512.m2 B112 699.m2 B114 1,475.m2 B115 1,898.m2 B121 5,409.m2 B125 165.m2 B126 762.m2 B127 169.m2 B128 739.m2 B130 393.m2 B131 279.m2 B132 231.m2 B135 435.m2 B136 125.m2 B138 2,380.m2 B139 306.m2 B144 2,516.m2 B145 77.m2 B148 157.m2 B149 161.m2 B153 179.m2 B154 1,579.m2 B157 1,631.m2

E-07 330.m2 E-09 5,581.m2 E-13 855.m2 E-14 2,368.m2 E-16 1,828.m2

C-25 2,921.m2 C-26 836.m2 C-27 165.m2

C-28 2,352.m2

C-29 330.m2 C-30 520.m2 C-33 857.m2 C-36 582.m2

C-43 5,959.m2 C-44 399.m2 C-45 323.m2

C-47 1,356.m2 C-49 828.m2

C-60 1,294.m2 C-62 424.m2

C-63 859.m2

C-65 361.m2

C-66 3,722.m2 C-68 3,422.m2

C-69 380.m2 C-73 217.m2

C-74 1,900.m2

C-79 495.m2

C-82 1,281.m2

C-84 588.m2

C-85 10,537.m2 C-86 431.m2 C-87 721.m2

C-89 436.m2 C-90 225.m2

C-91 419.m2 C-92 460.m2

C-93 851.m2

C-94 2,138.m2 C-95 1,800.m2 C-96 403.m2

C-97 1,004.m2 C-98 462.m2

C-100 376.m2

C-102 11,964.m2

C-104 5,200.m2 C-107 597.m2

C-113 1,650.m2 C-115 261.m2 C-117 285.m2 C-124 713.m2

C-130 2,496.m2

C-132 1,393.m2 C-133 397.m2

C-134 255.m2

C-135 1,381m2 C-136 417.m2

C-137 130.m2

C-138 1,461.m2 C-139 460m2

C-141 8,820.m2

C-142 1,220.m2 C-143 303.m2

C-144 1,098.m2

C-145 2,806.m2 C-147 1,722.m2

C-148 1,328.m2 C-150 291.m2 C-154 262.m2 C-161 757.m2

C-162 7,612.m2 C-164 841.m2

C-166 420.m2

C-167 1,210.m2

C-168 528.m2 C-173 259.m2

C-174 355.m2 C-186 129.m2 C-187 941.m2 C-189 728.m2

C-190 260.m2 C-191 540.m2 C-192 180.m2

C-194 218.m2 C-197 969.m2 C-199 395.m2

C-200 287.m2 C-201 246.m2

C-202 520.m2

2,638.m2 F-10

F-12 2,862.m2

1,403.m2 F-11

F-14 864.m2

1,546.m2 F-13

E-17 9,039.m2 E-19 1,228.m2 E-20 2,347.m2

6,209.m2 F-16

E-22 603.m2 E-25 1,160.m2

3,986.m2 F-20

E-28 1,990.m2 E-35 754.m2

3,147.m2 F-23

E-36 1,163.m2 E-37 559.m2

1,982.m2 F-24

E-40 1,550.m2 E-42 403.m2 E-46 3,537.m2

5,396.m2 F-25

E-49 859.m2

F-15 2,032.m2 F-17 1,724.m2 F-18 1,141.m2 F-19 4,990.m2 F-21 1,856.m2 F-22 1,456.m2 F-28 933.m2

E-50 561.m2

2,320.m2 F-26

E-51 857.m2

F-29 1,061.m2

E-52 861.m2

1,396.m2 F-27

E-54 708.m2

F-33 1,001.m2

E-57 9,843.m2 E-62 2,431.m2

2,152.m2 F-30

E-64 972.m2

F-36 2,415.m2

E-66 711.m2

1,527.m2 F-31

E-68 403.m2 E-69 1,226.m2

1,462.m2 F-32

E-70 419.m2 E-71 799.m2 E-72 572.m2

1,969.m2 F-34

E-74 5,935.m2 E-75 241.m2

1,464.m2 F-35

E-81 703.m2 E-83 1,809.m2

3,246.m2 F-38

E-85 1,063.m2 E-88 2,127.m2

869.m2

E-91 990.m2

E-99 502.m2 E-100 1,273.m2 E-101 737.m2 E-102 549.m2 E-104 1,570.m2

E-107 720.m2

F-41 1,499.m2 F-44 1,412.m2 F-45 2,150.m2 F-47 1,128.m2

5,175.m2 F-42

F-48 2,089.m2

974.m2

F-43

F-49 5,237.m2

629.m2

F-46

F-50 1,457.m2

E-105 3,293.m2 E-106 1,593.m2

F-39 1,093.m2

F-40

E-94 2,207.m2 E-98 389.m2

F-37 2,887.m2

2,502.m2 F-51

F-52 770.m2

5,812.m2 I-03

I-02 2,184.m2

2,428.m2 I-05

I-04 6,468.m2

2,356.m2 I-06

I-07 3,147m2

E-108 433.m2 E-109 3,015.m2

H-05 2,284.m2

H-06 3,568.m2

H-09 2,490.m2

H-11 3,028.m2

The Articulative Ecologies Master Plan operates under the supposition that the HuĂŠtar community have at their disposal Quitirrisi Indian Reserve, as stated by law, in order to raise the discourse of what could be the current state of the HuĂŠtar if they were allowed to truly manage their territories capacity for the production and subsistence of cultural, social and productive systems. The material strategies proposed for this Master Plan seek to return to the Huetar their autonomy in a now evolving urban surrounding.

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HABITATIONAL UNIT

MANANA

HUESOS

a

i O- cenc RZ MA oles ad

TARDE

AG ci OSTO nt ur a OCTUBREcodos

MASCARA

NO

VI

EM mu BREne ca

MANANA

s

s

Traditional healing hut spatial divisions

MESH CONTAINER Melina (Gmelina arborea)

CRANEOS

MASCARA Y CAPARAZON

EM mu BREne ca

ABRILmadurez

FE ni BRER no O-

VI

o

RE MB ros IE PT homb

SE

ENEROgestacion

AG ci OSTO nt ur a

NO

e

MADRUGADA

EBR za EM CI cabe DI

FE ni BRER no O-

OCTUBREcodos

MASCARA

NIVEL ESPIRITUAL

a

i O- cenc RZ MA oles ad

TARDE

JULIOrodilla HUESOS

CRANEOS

MASCARA Y CAPARAZON

ABRILmadurez

ENEROgestacion

o

MA an YOci an o

RE MB ros IE PT homb

SE

EBR za EM CI cabe DI

NIVEL ESPIRITUAL

MA an YOci an o

O- as NI JU dill ro

While there is nearly no evidence of the HuĂŠtar traditional housing structure, the traditional healing hut can serve as input in order to develop a housing unit with cultural significance.

The ranch has a circular floor plan and conical roof. The material used for its construction was traditionally cypress and palm.

The structure was comprised of twelve poles covering a diameter and height of 15 m. Spatially the ranch is composed by 12 invisible internal divisions. These division are used to make a contemporary reinterpretation and serve as the main input for the development of the habitation module.

Structurally the design works as a spatial mesh, with all of the modules structural components including its envelope being farmed at the reserve with only the joints requiring industrial fabrication. The module can be reconfigured in any direction by simple manipulating the of the joint.

NOCHE

MADRUGADA

O- as NI JU dill ro

NOCHE

JULIOrodilla

n

n

Contemporary reinterpretation

SPATIAL MESH Guadua Bamboo

HABITATIONAL UNIT Guadua Bamboo

e

If you are to understand the native land ownership as directly relationship to culture, the degradation of said culture is parallel to the deconstruction of territory. Political systems and administrative territorial division are plotted in relation to capital interests and juxtaposed with indigenous systems of life generating contradictions, conflicts and resulting in the cultural degradation of the HuĂŠtar.

The dispossession of land and territories is the biggest problem the indigenous

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communities of Costa Rica face.

The land and the rights to its resources are of fundamental importance to the HuĂŠtar and form the basis of their livelihood as well as being a source of spiritual, cultural and social identity.

Indigenous peoples have the right to the delimitation and demarcation of their territory. Through a spatial proposal Articulative Ecologies attempts to bring forth the recognition of a moral and legal right that can transform a community in decline to a one that is sustainable both culturally and economically.

It is argued that these new boundaries, challenging the territorial state may be regarded as a reflection of politics expressed in the spatial.

It remains as a final finding, the imperative to consider multiculturalism and social dynamics as task of government and state policy, consider and enabling Different strategies, according to the historical, sociopolitical and cultural realities “aimed at building inclusive societies and an intercultural dialogue which removes racism and discrimination, and where the difference becomes collective wealth “(UNICEF, 2007).

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Master Plan_Indigenous Reserve

a combination of sorts...

ROLANDO D e s i g n

MADRIGAL

P o r t f o l i o

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