Graduate Architecture Portfolio 2020

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VALERIA CEDILLOS Profile

Experience

Currently pursuing a graduate degree in Urban Design. Strong passion for travel, photography, gastronomy, art, and design. Researcher and writer about future speculations of architecture and urban design. Multicultural.

2019-Today

Pratt Institute New York, NY Graduate Research Assistant Nanotectonica Course

2020-Today Pratt Institute New York, NY Graduate Assistant Urban Design Program

Date of Birth: April 10, 1995 Nationality: Nationali USA, Mexico Occupation: Graduate Student Languages: English Native Spanish Native Finnish B1 German A2

01-05 2019

Alvarez Almazan Arquitectos Puebla, Mexico Intern Architect

05-10 2017

HADVD Cd. Juarez, Mexico Intern Architect In

05-08 2016

Facilities Connection El Paso,Tx. Intern Architect

Education Pratt Institute 2019-Today M.S. Architecture and Urban Design Universidad de las Americas Puebla 2014-2019 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

Skills

Technische Universitat Munchen 2017-2018 Academic Exchange Year

All Plan Sketchup Rhino Grasshopper GQIS Keyshot NeoData

Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios 2010-2014 Institu Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) High School Porin Suomalainen Yhteislyseon Lukio 2011-2012 Youth Exchange Program

2020

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00 CV

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01 Urban Catalyst

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02 Bklyn Plastic Hybrid

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03 Material Urbanism

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04 Mobeco

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05 Montage

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08 Haidhausen

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09 CRONE

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10 Resilient Landscape

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11 Sensatium

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12 Vaiven

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01 URBAN CATALYST M.S. Architecture and Urban Design Fall 2019 . Pratt Institute . GAUD Instructor: Oliver Schaper Co- Teacher: Emiljia Landsbergis Collaboration: Victoria Tsukerman

The trend of human civilization is towards urbanization, since cities bring people closer together facilitating ideas, and creating wealth and prosperity. But today, the exponential urban population growth carries with it a series of challenges that cause disruptions in the environment and society. Through site explorations, we got an understanding of the surroundings and with them specific findings. These led to further debates on site specific interventions which will bring together residential, commercial, education, recreation programs though intertwined spaces that play with the limit between public and private. .

The relationships and challenges of the context itself give a broad opportunity for a limitless design, for a proposal that has no specific beginning or end and can grow or regenerate itself like an urban living organism capable of adapting itself it’s current or futue conditions. The system’s joinery consists of a series of additions, subtractions, and infills that have a direct interaction with the existing and create new levels of density.

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02 bklyn plastic hybrid M.S. Architecture and Urban Design Fall 2020 . Pratt Institute . GAUD Instructor: Ferda Kolatan Co- Teacher: Emiljia Landsbergis Collaboration: Victoria Tsukerman

ur proposal is on Washington Ave, located between Flushing Ave and the BQE, which is part of what some people call “the transportation dessertâ€? of Brooklyn. Even though the area is undergoing multiple changes and developments, there is still a lack of connectivity and public life in that speciďŹ c area.

Our design research consisted on new modes of transportation, and through this we came across the idea of completely displacing vehcles and replacing the streets with maneuverable micromobile devices which give opportunity to rethink the public space and street activity. The project consists of a system of altered streetscape and multiple programs joined by hybridization. The street functions as a framed open hyb space, that replaces vehicles with a new generation of maneuverable micromobile devices,transforming the street into an open plaza where there is no rigor or linearity for the mobility of the users. It is an open space where the street extends itself into some of the building that have the integrated system, multiplying the existing public space. The need for public space is vital in our communities, so the project integrates the needs for local and visiting users, making our street an attraction for urban activity and density. .

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03 02 MATERIAL URBANISM M.S. Architecture and Urban Design Fall 2019 . Pratt Institute . GAUD Instructor: Oliver Schaper Co- Teacher: Emiljia Landsbergis Collaboration: Victoria Tsukerman

The most urgent challenge for urban designers is to develop new models for densification.. The search for new forms of densification is driven as much by the urgent necessity to create space and resilient structures for habitation, as by the desire for density itself, an inherently urban condition. The project app approaches densification through the study of urban interiorities at the scale of a city block.

The project takes a material approach to Urban Design.

It ascribes design intelligence to material behaviors in physical urban models, as it is invested in the materiality of the urban condition itself. The project developed from deep material explorations in search of organizational and aesthetic principles and their unplanned expressions. Working primarily with the interaction of city, block, and building the project takes an inclusive approach to media, fostering a continuous transposition between analog and digital material. Material urbanism is promoted as an effective method to engage with the city in crisis. Through it we can critically discuss the notion of context without relying on past conventions of contextualism; and with it we can probe interventions into existing building fabrics and find new forms of densification and resilience. The outcome lies in a series of digital and physical expressions of materiality and densification.

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04 03 M.S. Architecture and Urban Design Fall 2019 . Pratt Institute . GAUD Instructor: Oliver Schaper Co- Teacher: Emiljia Landsbergis Collaboration: Victoria Tsukerman

The trend of human civilization is towards urbanization, since cities bring people closer together facilitating ideas, and creating wealth and prosperity. But today, the exponential urban population growth carries with it a series of challenges that cause disruptions in the environment and society. Through site explorations, we got an understanding of the surroundings and with them specific findings. These led to further debates on site specific interventions which will bring together residential, commercia l, education, recreation programs though intertwined spaces that play with the limit between public and private. The relationships an d challenges of the context itself give a broad opportunity for a limitless design, for a proposal that has no specific beginning or end and can grow or regenerate itself like an urban living organism capable of adapting itself it’s current or futue conditions, in aidential, commercial, education,

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09 08 Design Studio Spring 2017 . UDLAP. Instructor: Armando Reyes Collaboration: Janette Ramirez, Danahe Zheil, Vania Montano

London is a leading global city in art, commerce, music, entertainment, media, tourism, research and development. It is a cultural capital and one of the most visited cities of the world, and located in the heart of the city is Hyde Park. This park is a place for everyone, locals and tourists, and provides in its area vast recreational spaces. CRONE, was born ar after a broad research of the site and its users.

The dynamic spaces of the project where designed to create a maximum experience between the project and the users.

The project’s design evolved from elements like the city’s history, technology, and creativity. The design is guided by the conviction of respecting the existing natural environment, creating a balance between knowledge and culture through entertainment and innovation. The project is adapted to the actual global society, by implementing new advances in technology in each space. The building is made up of dif different spaces which explore creativity and technology like laboratories, libraries, theatres, workshops, and galleries. All these spaces come together through a tubular skeleton which is not only the main structure, but also works as a

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09 10 RESILIENT LANDSCAPE REMKA Workshop Fall 2018 . UDLAP + TUM. Collaboration: Daniela Gutierrez, Paola Avendano, Angela Oveido, Ana Paula Yanez

During a 5-day workshop, we got to study the case of Tochimilco, one of the towns in the state of Puebla which had strong damages after the earthquakes in 2018. It is a small town with amazing phenomena occurring in every street.

The vital element of the area is water, which can be found besides almost every street having ha the main role in the memory of residents. The proposal starts by creating a route which follows the water into the three sites. The route begins in the Town Square, which will be revitalized as center point for events, meetings, and politics acting as the town’s identity. The route continues on the se second phase which is a local Marketplace with small agriculture fields, where both locals and tourists can enjoy the local produce increasing the local economy and interaction. The route ends after walking up a hill through a lookout which explores the local natural landscape, and the seasonal vegetation in the local Church.

The space between the Lookout and the Church is meant to create a sense of peace and reflection, through the noise created by water due to the downfall of the hill. Once on top of the hill, the landscape views allow users the full experience and memory of the town, its landscape, culture, and people.

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11 Design Studio 1 Fall 2014 . UDLAP .

Instructor: Horacio Cinto

The pavillion is designed to create a maximun experience where all of the senses are activated to the highest. Each wing is divided in two, having a total of four different exhibition rooms. The route interferes with the sidewalk as an open invitation for users.

The volume respects that natural environment, en not taking away existing trees and adapting its form to the site.

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12 Pabellon MEXTROPOLI 2019 Fall 2018 Collaboration: Daniela Gutierrez, Eduardo Gutierrez

Located in the heart of Mexico City, Vaiven stretches through La Alameda Central creating an urban canopy that functions as an urban space. The materials used search to create a unique experience for the user, in which there are moments of deep reexion of the present, past, and future of the site.

The pavillion is a passage connecting people Th from all around the city in one place, ďŹ nding connections among them and interacting through experience.

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