Portfolio Sandra Ciro 2020

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I’m an architect 29 years old with seven years of experience in the field of architecture: traveling, learning and working in three different countries.

I’m graduated from the National University of Colombia and I was co-founder of the “Hábitat Sin Fronteras Colombia” Foundation. I involvement in architectural design, research, sustainability, and improvement habitats through the social process.

My commitment as a professional is to make coherent interventions with physical, cultural and economic context, reading geography and society as structure elements. This fundamental subjects make the architecture transcends time, place, and technolog y.

Table of contents Private Projects Cultural - QMM Cultural Center Hospitality - Desert Marina Infrastructure- Tijuana International Airport Housing - Zibatá Housing - Maranta Housing - Ambar Hospitality - Beach & Social Club Puntarena Hospitality - Beach Bar Pearl Island

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Social Projects Educational - Aguaclarita Primary School Minimal House -Refuge Don Alfonso Cultural - La Cinehuerta (The Cinema-Orchad)

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Contests Healthcare - Tepic General Hospital Urban Design - FCU Lineal Park - “Mediaciones” Housing - MESH

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Private Projects

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Architect Sandra Ciro

Cultural

QMM Cultural Center Merida, Mexico.

2018 2 6,200 m [ Under construction] Architecture Firm: Materia - Project leader during Construction Documents and Construction Administration phases.

- Engineering Coordination - Construction Administration

The project sits within the garden premises of a historic 20th century eclectic house in Merida, Yucatan, considered national heritage and currently a museum. The garden regularly hosts social events.

Materiality is defined through prefabricated white concrete using local stone and aggregates. The light color resonates with the character of the city and the house and allows light and shadow to mark the passage of the sun on its surfaces.

The client sought a support structure to social events all kinds of scales with an intimate relationship with the existing building and offering the city new spaces and activities around art.

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Hospitality

Desert Marina Baja California Sur, Mexico.

2018 2 4,300 m [Developing] Architecture Firm: Materia Project leader during Schematic Design and Design Development phases.

Roof plan

The extreme temperature changes and the hurricane’s risk plus the high cost of supplying material to the area were big challenges. The materiality of the project is not just an aesthetic decision, it is the answer to all these challenges.

Rammed earth walls create “thermos mass�, absorb the heat energy, store it during the day and regulate the interior temperature and climate. The stored heat is released at night bringing comfort to the space.

Using the earth of the near environment allows us to create a dialogue with the site and give the user a unique experience of connecting with the memory vernacular architecture.

The project literally arises from the earth, taking advantage of a slope of the land, some pieces are half-buried and as we approach the water the constructions become lighter and permeable, creating prived spaces like a spa and public spaces like restaurants and bars.

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Private Projects

International Hallway

Connector Hallway

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Architect Sandra Ciro

Infrastructure

Tijuana International Airport Tijuana, Mexico.

2017 2 25,647 m [Constructed] Architecture Firm: Lam Arquitectos

The project consists of multiple phases of extensions and remodeling, of which, I participated specifically in International Hallway, Connector Hallway, and Alfa Hall.

Alfa Hall

International Hallway

Part of team in Design Development and Construction Documents phases.

Tijuana Airport is on the Mexico - US borderline, this makes it a building in constant growth and adaptation. The renovation of an existing transport infrastructure presents many challenges and limitations. It was an opportunity to be creative and ingenious.

Connector Hallway

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Housing

Zibatรก

Queretaro, Mexico.

2017 2 14,781 m [Constructed] Architecture Firm: Lam Arquitectos - Team in Design Development and Construction Documents phases.

- Engineering Coordination

The topography forms a gentle hill, leaving its highest part in the center of the property and opening to beautiful views to the south.

The project has two types of housing. single-family homes and a 6-level multifamily housing block, parking above ground level and a pavilion of amenities, outdoor recreational areas, and two hydraulic systems, one for drinking water and the other for rainwater collection, which will be used in the sanitary units of the block and in the maintenance of vegetation.

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Private Projects

MARANTA TORRE 03· ALTERNATIVA DE FACHADA 16.11.30

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Architect Sandra Ciro

Housing

Maranta III Mexico City, Mexico.

2016 2 13,700 m [Constructed] Architecture Firm: Lam Arquitectos Part of team in Construction Documents phase.

The project consists of 5 housing towers, which share a similar exterior language, but a differentiated interior development.

Specifically, tower III has 2 parking basements and 20 apartment levels, where 15 are located different types of housing, between simple, duplex, and Penthouse with footage from 140 to 467m2.

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Housing

Ambar Queretaro, Mexico.

2016 11,823 m2 [Constructed] Architecture Firm: Lam Arquitectos - Part of team in Design Development and Construction Documents phases.

- Engineering Coordination - Construction Administration

This tower with 10 levels above ground and one level below ground has 52 apartments.

On the first level are the public areas of amenities: multipurpose room, gym, bar, library, and pool.

The apartments have the area of ​​rooms facing west, while the public areas will be on the east side with balconies overlooking the lake; and a central core of the building houses the services, separating the two areas.

Type plan

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Proye c to s p r iv a d os

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Hospitality

Beach Social Club Puntarena Buenaventura, Panama.

2013 2 1,600 m [Constructed] Architecture Firm: Bahareque Arquitectura - Part of team in Design Development - Construction Documents.

The project consists of 5 independent structures, each developing a different geometric and structural game. The Social Club is the center of the Puntarena Ocean Village residential development, located in the Buenaventura tourist complex, Panamanian Pacific coast.

A cantilever roof of tree-shaped columns marks the access to the Great Hall, the heart of the project with a free area of ​​600 m2

and a height of 18m, a clay tile roof, and an exclusively bamboo structure. A pergola surrounds the great hall and is the element of conversation between the inside and the outdoor areas.

This project was a great laboratory for experimentation with the material, the landscape, and the construction methods.

Bathrooms Great Hall

Swim-Up Bar

Pergola

Valet Roof

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Beach Social Club Puntarena

Bathrooms

Swim-Up Bar

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Swim-Up Bar

Great Hall

Pergola

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Private Projects

El bar, unico elemento en esta playa se pierde en el paisaje; la bodega y cuartos tĂŠcnicos se enterraron, la pequeĂąa cocina esta recubierta de roca y su cubierta verde empalma con el corte de terreno. El espacio de mesas mira al mar, totalmente abierto a la brisa, pero resguardado del sol; la estructura de bambĂş colombiano semeja ser curva, sin embargo esta construido a partir de tramos rectos que conforman un abanico. La cubierta es de tejas de madera y las uniones se recubrieron con tiras de cuero como elemento decorativo.

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Architect Sandra Ciro

Hospitality

Beach Bar Pearl Island San Jose Island, Panama 2013 2 150 m [Constructed] Architecture Firm: Bahareque Arquitectura - Construction Documents.

- Construction Administration

The bar, the only element built on this beach, is lost in the landscape. The cellar and technical rooms of the pool work underground.

The semi-buried kitchen gives continuity to the land with a garden roof and the space for diners is open to the sea.

The columns are made up of 4 pieces of bamboo 20cm in diameter, the roof is made of wood tiles and the joints made with metal plates and injected concrete was covered with leather straps.

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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRO

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Social Projects

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Social Projects

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Architect Sandra Ciro

Educational

Aguaclarita Primary School Timbiqui, Colombia.

2014 2 560 m [Schematic Design] ONG: Habitat sin Fronteras Field research and co-operative design coordinator.

Project developed in the Guapi indigenous reservation belonging to the Eperãra Siapidaarã ethnic group. It designed as progressive growth linked to the availability of funds.

“Palafitos” architecture is how traditionally this community has adapted to a rainy and waterlogged environment in the middle of a warm humid jungle. The concentric form responds to traditional architecture and socio-political organization, where a central

space represents equality and consensus, also it’s an opportunity for the use of rainwater.

The classroom module has two spaces: The inside space sheltered from the sun and rain but which allows the flow of wind, thanks to permeable enclosures of natural fibers; the outside space is a “tarimba” or terrace, where to do the outdoor classes, maintaining the relationship with traditional knowledge of horticulture and craft work.

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Social Projects

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Architect Sandra Ciro

Minimal House

Refuge “Don Alfonso�

Santa Barbara, Colombia.

2014 2 23.2 m [Constructed] ONG: Habitat sin Fronteras - Leadership in co-operative design.

- Construction documents.

- Construction training.

Located on a sloping and uneven plot, the main objective in this tiny house is to incorporate a basic program for that the habitant, have a healthy space and continues making part of the community.

The project emerged at the end of a bamboo construction workshop, with which a rural community was trained in the use of a material that abounds in the place.

And with that knowledge, the community could improve its housing and create community spaces.

At the end of the course, the community decided to build a tiny house for an elderly neighbor with disabilities, Don Alfonso, and two years later they built a community theater.

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Social Projects

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Cultural

La Cine Huerta (The Cinema- Orchad) Bogota, Colombia.

2013 2 158 m [Constructed] ONG: Habitat sin Fronteras - Leadership in co-operative design.

- Construction documents.

- Construction training.

Some simple bamboo structures and an acrylic cover gives rise to this self-managed urban agriculture space and home of the neighborhood’s children’s film club.

Recycled material such as bricks and rubble was used, and bamboo, a low cost sustainable material.

In the space not only have cinema cycles and urban agriculture workshops been carried out, but it has also hosted a fair economy projects, boxing class, and language courses.

The entire project was carried out in the form of ‘minga’, this is what the union of neighbors for a construction is traditionally called in Colombia.

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Contests

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Contests

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Architect Sandra Ciro

Healthcare

Tepic General Hospital Tepic, Mexico.

2017 2 22,750 m [Second Place] Architecture Firm: Lam Arquitectos - Part of team in Design Development - Grafic representation.

International public tender of great complexity with the participation of other architectural and construction company: Villar Watty Arquitectos (Mexico), AIDHOS (Spain) and Estudio Lamela (Spain). As well as an extensive number of consultants and health sector specialists.

The premises of the design are an organization by functional areas, circulations differentiated by users and flexibility for future growth.

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Architect Sandra Ciro

Urban Design

FCU Lineal Park “Mediaciones” Mexico City, Mexico.

2016 4.6 Km Architecture Firm: Lam Arquitectos Partnership with Estudio Territorios (Colombia) & Pequeña Escala Architecture (Colombia)

Water as an opportunity: Floods and shortages, two of the biggest water problems in Mexico City share the same solution. We propose a better coexistence with rainwater, without dependence on giant hydraulic engineering interventions, allowing water injection to the aquifer.

A resilient infrastructure: The great industrial development of the XX century made talking about infrastructure and landscape to establish a duality.

To counteract this vision we propose a landscape that can operate productively and pedagogical treating rainy waters, and recovering our relationship with water in the landscape.

Unification of the urban fabric: Given its length this park must welcome and enhance the dynamics of each section of the city, and make them partakers of the generality of the route, promoting a mediation of uses between the different sectors involved.

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Housing

Medellin Experimental Social Housing Medellin, Colombia.

2014 2 15,197 m Architecture Firm: XLXS Arquitecture & Urbanism - Part of team in Design Development - Grafic representation.

“Medellin Experimental Social Housing� proposed to house a set of homes, equipment, and shops, taking into account the current multiplicity of families that coexist in the same place (single parents, students, teleworking, classical families, etc.) and their relationship with the city.

In this relationship of neighborhood-city scales, public space articulates this as a space of cohabitation and relationship.

The house has the flexibility of uses and configurations, such as leisure, commercial or productive spaces.

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