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VALENTINA SCHMIDT
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Valentina Schmidt
Nationality: Chile| e-mail: valentinaschmidt@gmail.com 510 282 4790
EDUCATION 2016 - AUG 2017 2004 - 2010 2008 2004 - 2008
University of California at Berkeley College of Environemental design Master in Urban design University of Chile Professional degree of Architect, obtained with maximum distinction Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, France Architectural studies exchange program F.A.U. Universidad de Chile (Architecture and Urbanism Faculty, University of Chile) Bachelor in Architecture
PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2013 - 2016
Dupla Urban design and planning, Santiago, Chile Position: Architect. Description:
• Participation in development of urban design projects, Master plans in Santiago and other Chilean cities, as also participation on metropolitan scale parks. • Collaborated in the design preparation of drawings for client’s approval. • Produced schematic and construction drawings for master plans. • Developed projects from schematic design to construction documents. • Coordinated the work of general contractor, consultants and other professionals during the phases of design documents and administration
2012
University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Position: Architecture and Urbanism Faculty Undergraduate School Director Assistant Description:
• Coordinated and assisted academic projects of the school direction: international competition, faculty professor evaluation program and curricular modernization. •Coordinated and exhibited seminars and internships, student’s projects of Architecture, Design and Geography
2011- 2012
TNG Consultants Position: Architect. Description:
•Participated in development on urban administration projects, transportation research programs, and consulting for public and private enterprises such as Metro S.A. (subway management) and Transantiago (public transport system)
2009
SURTIERRA Consultants Position: Architect.
Description: Architecture and rehabilitation of national patrimonial projects, focused primarily on government tenders for conservation of heritage buildings, churches and equipment buildings in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. • Developed projects from schematic design to construction documents.
2009
Raimundo Lira Arquitects Position: Architect Description: Professional practice.
• Produced schematic and construction drawings for buildings and offices. •Participated in several project phases: schematic design, construction documents and construction administration.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 2012
Universidad de Chile School of Architecture and Urbanism Position: Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Urbanism III The objective of the course was offering theoretical and practical knowledge about theoretical models and work fields of urban design. • Prepared and assisted classes. • Evaluated students’ presentations
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2015 2012
2010 2009 2008
Co- editor of the book” Ephemeral Urbanism: The landscape of Temporary Cities “, Harvard Graduate School of Design Co- investigator TNG Consulting report “Evaluation of the terminal infrastructure and bus Deposits of the urban locomotion of Santiago, and integral improvement plan”. Ministerio de Transporte y Telecomunicaciones (Transport Ministry, Government of Chile) Principal investigator in report of Architectural professional degree project “Investigation Center Los Molles and Conservation Park” Universidad de Chile Principal Investigator in the work report “Logics, Processes and Efficient Systems for office buildings development” F.A.U. University of Chile Co- investigator Seminary report “Recomendaciones de diseño vivienda social en Coyhaique: investigación y estudio de las variables locales que influyen en el diseño de un vivienda social: Tomo 1: Investigación y metodología (Volume 1 : Investigation and methodology ) Tomo 2. Recomendaciones de diseño. (Volume 2: Design Recommendations) Tomo 3: Análisis y evaluación de sistemas constructivos” (Volume 3: Analysis and evaluation of building systems) .F.A.U. Universidad de Chile)
AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2016
CONICYT Becas- Chile Scholarship for a master degree
2015-2016
Selected for Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship 2015-2016, for Master studies
2010-2011
Selected as the Student Speaker for the graduation speech of 2010 Promotion F.A.U. University of Chile
2010
Medal of Honor best student of the promotion “Professor Mario Recordón Burnier 2010”. 2010 F.A.U. University of Chile
2008
Student Exchange Scholarship, F.A.U., U. de Chile. Exemption from payment for 1 semester in the Ècole d’Architecture Paris Belleville
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CONTENTS
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REVITALIZING LASALLE STREET CORRIDOR CENTRAL CITY, NEW ORLEANS
THESIS PROJECT. MASTER IN URBAN DESING UC BERKELEY
SAN FRANCISCO RAILYARD REDEVELOPMENT SOMA, SAN FRANCISCO
STUDIO PROJECT SPRING SEMESTER MASTER IN URBAN DESIGN UC BERKELEY
OLD OAK COMMON DEVELOPMENT “UNDERSTANDING DENSITY” LONDON, ENGLAND STUDIO PROJECT SPRING SEMESTER
MASTER IN URBAN DESIGN UC BERKELEY
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, RESILIENCE BY DESIGN CITY OF MARTINEZ, CA
STUDIO PROJECT SPRING SEMESTER
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MASTER IN URBAN DESIGN UC BERKELEY
RESILIENCE BY DESIGN CITY OF ALVISO, CA
STUDIO PROJECT SPRING SEMESTER
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MASTER IN URBAN DESIGN UC BERKELEY
PUMPÏN PARK MASTER PLAN VALPARAÍSO, CHILE
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PORFESSIONAL WORK URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING FIRM
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PARK PUQUÉN LOS MOLLES VILLAGE, CHILE FINAL THESIS PROJECT
ARCHITECTURAL DEGREE UNIVERSITY OF CHILE
RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER PUQUÉN LOS MOLLES VILLAGE, CHILE FINAL THESIS PROJECT
ARCHITECTURAL DEGREE UNIVERSITY OF CHILE
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REVITALIZING LASALLE STREET CORRIDOR CENTRAL CITY, NEW ORLEANS THESIS PROJECT. ON GOING Academic Work Design Stage : 2017 Institution : UC Berkeley Imagine, Remember, Reflect and React. This project is about the Process of reveal the invisible city and make it readable. The importance of heritage is not only the cultural manifestation itself, but rather the wealth of knowledge and skills that is transmitted over generations. relevant to preserve and enrich the essence of the community. Historic La Salle Street, richly layered with historic places and events is also a street on the verge of a renaissance. This once vital hub of commercial and cultural activity has suffered from decades of population loss and disinvestment, exacerbated by the 2005 levee failures that left empty
buildings and vacant lots. Recently, public, private and philanthropic investments have poured into the area, and the population is growing, but the risk of losing the core of the community is always possible. This site has reflected and helped to define one of the first African American experience in New Orleans. In a segregated location that could have been defined by those limitations, there was instead a flowering activity, community activism and celebration of traditions. The new economic pressures not also threat this community but also the essence of New Orleans heritage. The urban design response should acknowledge the importance of the past and design spaces for new histories to be written. Historic La Salle Street, between Jackson and Louisiana Avenues in Central City, is a street on the verge of a renaissance. This once vital hub of commercial and cultural activity has suffered from decades of population loss and disinvestment, exacerbated by the 2005 levee failures, left empty buildings and vacant lots. Recently, public, private and philanthropic investments have poured into the area, and the population is growing. Although approximately 10,200 people now live within a half-mile of LaSalle Street, the neighborhood is still challenged with blight and underserved by retail and services to satisfy daily needs. To fulfill community needs and highlight the corridor’s history, is necessary propose a coordinated and incremental development along LaSalle Street. This redevelopment should be sensible to new changes in terms of gentrification and displacement of local commerce and population.
French quarter Central Buisness City Central city district
Garden District
S Broad Street
St.Charles Ave Magazine Street
Start of the parade Stop of the parade Pause or tribute Finish of the parade
ROUTES SECOND LINE PARADES
Design strategy 1: Redesign section of the street Park intervention
S2
DESIGN STRATEGIES
S1 Canal intervention -Incorporate traces of history Make visible the invisible
Dew Drop Inn Old jazz building
Design strategy 2: Redesign edges of the street Infill Increase density Actual density: between 20du/ac to 36du/ac Proposal: 50 du/ac
New housing: 13 ac 680 new du % of increasing 25% ( 2.700 actual dwellings) Amenities and populations needs
Amenities and populations needs
Business incubator
Business incubator
Section 1
Crump’s Market
Dew Drop Inn Old jazz building
MGI Cultural Campus
Sport Center
SCLC Interpretative Site
Health center Allie Williams
Market on LaSalle
This project will revitalize the LaSalle Street corridor and 1) Preserve the cultural and historical significance of the area, improving living conditions without losing the value of intangible heritage, integrating this principle in the urban design. 2) Leverage existing investment in the neighborhood
property owners who are committed to keeping capital circulating within the community, and 4) Emphasize the relationship between housing infill and commercial corridors—one cannot exist without the other and each can be regarded as an essential part of a whole that can help create a viable, sustainable community hub.
3) Create an economically inclusive development by working with local
Health center Allie Williams
Crump’s Market
Section 2
New housing
SCLC Interpretative Site
Crump’s Market Revitalization of local commerce
Dew Drop Inn Revitalization of local commerce and jazz heritage
Design strategy 3: Phasing The strategy of intervention is in phases, the idea is plan an incremental change, starting with a detonator project and continue with the intervention progressively, the strategy should recommend a way to proceed in each steep. Moreover, the strategy should propose flexible spaces, that can create a context for memory of the place, livable intangible heritage, but also for the everyday activities. Based the intervention in community programs and public opens spaces that can be use in different occasions-Retail support first phase, report more real community programs and local owners -Second stage community programs connection between to commercial corridors, -Second redevelopment of the neighborhood, complement housing and retail
MGI Cultural Campus Enhance traditions and intangible culture Finally, the intention of this project is to propose different stations that tell the story of the place, with the continuity of the canal as a connector. The idea is to design each station in terms of the relationship of the public space with building, that could be an amenity, a civic building, retail or housing, how this places can change and be flexible depending on the context and the need. These spaces should be a Combination of spaces that communicate and idea, that can have a daily use and also places to celebrate
Hide in a disguise, a mask
Design strategy 4: Flexible public space Use of memory of Indians gras indians story to intervine the park Walls of water tht reflect the masks of Mardi grass Indians Lines in the pavment that represent the walk od fame of Mardi gras Indians 38 LINES, 38 TRIBES IN NOLA
SAN FRANCISCO RAILYARD REDEVELOPMENT SOMA, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Academic Work Design Stage : 2017 Institution : UC Berkeley
The project start with the assumptions of Demolishing the Freeway 280 in Soma neighborhood, San Francisco, between 6th and 16th street, and reconnect Mission Bay with the rest of the city, and urban repair that is divided in 3 scales. Recycling as a strategy in the context, create connections in the immediate environment and create design guidelines in the site.
Strategies in context Recycling _Recycling material Build a park around the creek Transforming the landscape and topography that not only create a new shape and use for the park but also they work as levees for future problems in SLR and Storm water management. The project also proposes the recycling of Mission Boulevard as part of the china creek, to prevent SLR in this area. Understand and use connections from SOMA to Mission Bay to intensify the Pedestrian and traffic networks in this area. Create a pedestrian hub inspired in the rail structure that cross the 3 blocks of the project, to include the traces that shape the identity of the place and create another option to the pedestrian network. Reusing King Street and 7th Street to build a new Boulevard instead of the freeway, from 4th street to 16th street. Strategies in immediate environment _Connections Continue the Road circulations_ Traffic directions Disperse the volume of cars in F280. _ Create links between open spaces, forming a network that connect the project with the existing park. Incrementing the % of open public spaces in SOMA and Mission Bay. Bicycle routes_ Incorporate programs and create new routes Strategies in site_ Guidelines Trace of railyards Estimate Maximum volume, Amount of sunlight. Inclusion of the railroad in the shape of the project. Incorporate context height. Propose a Low height inside each block. Infill outside the site. Proposal of the volume Diversity of Typologies. Townhouses. Midrise stacked flats. Stacked Hight rise flats (over 8 stories, level podium garage). Office building
Strategies in context Recycling _Recycling material
Demolishing the Freeway 280 and
Transformed in park Image of the stretegies in the context
Reconnect Mission Bay with the rest of the city
Create pedestrian hub
DESIGN STRATEGIES Rail yard in site
Get the ligth permeate the buildings
Create the form inspired in the rail yards
Master Plan
Strategies in site_Guidelines
Create the form inspired in the rail yards
5_Infill outside the site
Incorporate context height and Propose a Low height inside each block
Proposal of the volume
Townhouses 2 stories
Stacked Hight rise flats
( front loaded)
(over 8 stories, 1level podium garage)
Townhouses 4 stories
Office buildings
( Tuck under- Mide block lane)
Mid rise stacked flats (under 8 stories,1 level podium garage, double aspect flats)
Proposal of the volume Diversity of Typologies. Townhouses. Midrise stacked flats. Stacked Hight rise flats (over 8 stories, level podium garage). Office building
Section 1
Section 2
N Section 1 Intersection Boulevard
Section 2 Redesign the street New Boulevard 110 ft
Master plan
Section 3 Redesign the street New Boulevard 150 ft
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250 150
Section 4
Section 3
300
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Section 4 Tuck under- Mide block lane
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Perspective Neighborhood Hythe road
OLD OAK COMMON DEVELOPMENT UNDERSTANDING DENSITY LONDON, ENGLAND Academic Work Design Stage : 2017 Institution : UC Berkeley - Cambrigde University • Crossrail in London is currently the largest infrastructure project in Europe. When complete in 2018 it will not only connect destinations such as Heathrow Airport with the West End, the City of London and Canary Wharf but also provide access to some of the most deprived parts of the city along the Thames Gateway and Lea Valley, opening up opportunities for improved access to jobs and housing. Greater London’s population is expedcted to grow from the current 8.5 million to over 10 million by midcentury.
The Old Oak Common site is the large brownfield site wich will have a major transit hub with a new crossrail station connecting with a new station between Crossrail and HS2 •The development potential is to build a new mixed-use , mixed-income transit-oriented community. Regeneration site for 24,000 new dwellings and 55,000 new jobs in commercial and retail development are planned overall. •50% new housing to be affordable •Strategic location for access to Central London, Heathrow Airport, The Midlands and North. Opportunity to create an environmentally sustainable mixed-use community The objective of the proposal is to explore the spatial implications of the housing and employment goals set for the site near the HS2 and Crossrail transit connection. By representing the average densities necessary to achieve those targets, the goal was reshape the volumes centered around transit centers which then step down the skyline towards the surrounding neighborhoods. The recommended scheme shows a 25% reduction in the program in order to create a new city center that connects a large number of housing and jobs to transit, and parks like Wormwood Scrubs and the Grand Union Canal. Also another goal was propose design guidelines base on a pallet of different densities, creating diverse qualities and characters of neighborhoods that respond to their context, landscape and livability
DENSITY STRATEGY
-25%
100% density, uniform distribution
100% density, hill distribution
75% density, hill distribution
24,000 homes 55,000 jobs
24,000 homes 55,000 jobs
18,000 homes 42,000 jobs
Perspective master plan 75% density
BLOCK PLAN
CIRCULATION PLAN
TRANSIT PLAN
OPEN SPACE PLAN
Perspective Neighborhood Hythe road
Perspective Neighborhood Old Oak Common North
Perspective Neighb
borhood Old Oak Common South
First strategy Perspective Short-term intervention Relocate the refineries, restoring the coast in a Park
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, RESILIENCE BY DESIGN CITY OF MARTINEZ Contra Costa County, California,
Academic Work Design Stage : 2016 Institution : UC Berkeley Fall studio Professor Supervision: Peter Bosselmann The studio topic was to be a precursor to a design competition to be launched in early 2017: San Francisco Bay Area, Resilience by Design. The competition is organized by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). The design of the transition zone requires a balance between engineering solutions that protect the functions of communities, and the repair or reconstruction of ecological systems. Cities around San Francisco Bay are discussing adaptation strategies with built-in redundancies. The existing conditions of city of Martinez are that, most of the tidal marsh in this segment has been diked, and several
cities, numerous industrial plants, and a military facility sit on or near the shoreline. However, many tidal marshes remain, especially near Martinez. Although most of these are degraded, some have significant populations of soft bird’s-beak and salt marsh harvest mouse. In the near term, when sea-level rise rates will still be relatively low, immediate actions to enhance the existing bay lands can provide ecological benefits that maximize resilience in this segment. Opportunities to partner with the industrial and residential communities along the shoreline might be pursued to create habitat bayward of flood-protection levees through horizontal levees, living shorelines, or other green infrastructure Such strategies introduce multiple and overlapping designs to create redundancy in the defense against flooding. Wherever available space permits, redundancy is preferred over a single line of defense. According to FEMA there is a 100-year creek flood that covers Martinez’s downtown, due the overflow of Alhambra river. Therefore, the design strategies are focus in preventing this problem and also complement and reinforce the marsh ecosystems to prevent the consequences of SLR. The first strategy is in short term restoring the tidal marsh, reconnecting the coast with ecological boundaries. And in the long term it will be necessary relocate the refineries, restoring the coast in a big protected park of marshland, The second stretegy is Removing the obstacles along the creek, creating bridges across the creek in the city, creating continuity along the creek. The third strategy it was allow more space to overflow of river, Creating floodplains from empty and underutilized lots. The forth strategy is to Capturing upland overflow of water, Creating retention ponds, outside the flood plain The strategies in downtown are create Less density along the creek and more density outside the flood plain, Connecting the city with the marshland, Improving the downtown public spaces, Enhance the quality of life by focusing on human-river interactions
Actual conditions
100-year creek flood
First strategy Perspective Short-term intervention Restoring the tidal marsh, reconnecting the coast with ecological boundaries
DESIGN STRATEGIES
1) Short-term intervention_Restoration and pres
Strategies in dowtown Martinez: Less density along the creek and more density outside the flood plain
Reparian vegetation Willows sausals Reparian forest
Connecting the city with the marshland Improving the downtown public spaces
New channels Tidal marsh
Res eel
hance the quality of life by focusing on human-river interactions
ADAPTABLE SQUARE
PEDESTRIAN STREET
VISUAL CONTINUITY
2 ) Removing the obstacles along the creek
Elevating the station
Creating causeway
Boardwalk an attached to t
servation of tidal marsh
Protective buffer-levees
store lgrass beds Connection with historic sloughs
and platform the station
Connection with historic sloughs
Connection with historic sloughs
3 ) Allow more space to overflow of river Creating floodplains from empty and underutilized lots
4 ) Capturing upland overflow of water Creating retention ponds, outside the flood plain
New living levees and marshes
Restored old train station and elevated railroad View from West
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, RESILIENCE BY DESIGN ALVISO ARCHIPELAGO
ADAPTATION BY DESIGN Academic Work Design Stage : 2016 Institution : UC Berkeley Fall studio Professor Supervision: Peter Bosselmann First settlements for a new port for the products and people of the Santa Clara Valley. Confront different decays, like for example, the construction of the railroad port became obsolete Close of the Bayside Canning company, Then in the seventies the increase in the population was produce for the new jobs in Silicon Valley and then a decline in population due economic decay of the town. On the others site in the natural history of the south bay. Started with a tidal prism, The it was a process of Sedimentation od the soil, , Alviso subsided as much as six feet, due the Flourishing farming Area during 1940’s. For this and for the lack of protection several floodings during the 50’s and 70’s. By the 1980’s the water table had returned to its original level, and subsid-
ence stopped. But Alviso had already sunk; Today Alviso ranges from one foot below sea level to fifteen feet above sea level. Alviso is one of the oldest towns in the Bay area and has specific physical and cultural characteristics. It is also one of the most vulnerable areas around the Bay due to its low-‐income population and subsided land. The main goals are 1. Protection: To protect the city From sea level rise and river flood 2. Preservation: To preserve the historic characteristics of the town 3. Revitalization: To revitalize the town without displacing the current residents 4. Destination: Alviso as a destination/Economic development Design Strategies 1.Shoreline • Connecting the rivers with the ponds to provide more space for the overflow of the river • Creating mounds in the salt ponds, to capture sediment, to gradually transform the salt ponds to salt marsh, to act as a secondary levee 2.UrbanContext.Creating Levees, forming an Archipelago, Sedimentation supply for the building of the new Levee system Open gates to the existing levee: to provide more space to the overflow of the river, Causeways, New system of levees that control the amount of water Long-‐term-Relocation of the temporary buildings to expand the river 3.InnerCity. Infill Development to Enhance the city center with respecting the scale of the important historic buildings and also create New Development With protection of Alviso and provision of train as a transportation system, new development for more population is needed To protect the low-income residents from displacement 30% of the new residential units will be affordable housing. With new development and enhancement of the touristic characteristics of Alviso, There is a need for more commercial and mixed--‐use areas. This also will provide new Job Opportunities for the local community.
ALVISO
DESIGN STRATEGIES
1) Preservation of the historic buildings, Providing a train station on the existing railroad
2) New Development-ÂResidential and commercial
3) Creation of Levees around Alviso
To protect the historic and new development from SLR and river flood, Creation of elevated areas as refuges in case of emergency. In walking distances
Creation of ponds tocollect thesurface water
Master plan
PUMPÏN PARK MASTER PLAN VALPARAÍSO CITY Professional Work DUPLA URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING Design Stage : 2012-2014 Construction Stage : 2015-2016 Architects: Julio Poblete Constanza Sateler Project Manager Architect: Valentina Schmidt Design team: Natalia Collarte Maite Moreno
The requirements for this project was to design a master plan for a 10 hectares site, at O`Higgins hill, in Valaparaíso city. The property is located within the old neighborhood of Chile Tabacos company workers, a residential area currently affected by real states transformation. Within the site it is also Pumpïn Garden, founded on 1891, considered a part of Valparaíso story. Then the project must maintain the identity of this place, conserving landscaping attributes and offering a revitalizing program as part of the new development, so recovering the gard en was a mandatory of this project Project site has different slopes, from 0º to 40º, so it was considered 5 different types of buildings that satisfy the profitability expectation of the owner but also respect the urban shape. The requirement and the Project site were interesting challenges that generate discussion about the concept, uses mix, recovering, building types and transit system, pointing to a single strategy
Creation of ponds tocollect thesurface water
S1
S2
S3
Master plan
Layers of design strategies
Building typology
Streets Public spaces
Low height building / 2- 4 floors
Green Areas
Population density
Medium height building / 5-7 floors
Low density Medium density High density
Medium high building / 10-11 floors
Main boulevard street
Perspective to Pumpin garden
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PARK PUQUÉN LOS MOLLES VILLAGE Academic Work Design Stage : 2009-2010 Final project: Architecture degree Institution : Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU) Universidad de Chile Professor Supervision: Emilio Duhart Review Comission: Gabriela Manzi Martin Duran Ignacio Salinas
The project strategy is based on a master plan of the park that involves three different users with their three different scales. The architectonic intention is not only to highlight the existing landscape with programmatic viewpoints of the coast, cliffs and native vegetation landscapes, but also to decide on the main materials that will be used for the project; stone and mud. In order to systemize the project, different layers will be placed one on top of the other. This will produce a network that will form interventions in the park, creating 7 strategic stations that will mark out the footpath. One of these stations is Los Molles Investigation and Extension Center, a building that will be incorporated into the natural landscape through revitalization and mimesis with the land. The project site analyst plans to design seven strategical points, where there will be important viewpoints and traditional places that will represent the different stations of the park footpath.
ROUTE SIGNS INTERPRETIVE WALKING TRAILS
VEHICULAR PATH CANOPY ROUTE
BICYCLE PATH
KAYAK ROUTE
STATIONS SIGNS ACCESS
ROOF SHADE
NATURAL VIEWPOINTS
MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE
STATIONS Main Access and Parking
Natural viewpoint
Roof shade
TRAILS Interpretative walking trails and vehicular path
Walking trails to the beach
1) Access and first viewpoint - viewpoint Plaza craftsmen + - Parking - Housing -Canopy 2) Natural caves and tunnels - Caving Station - Place of algae collection local activities - Viewpoint
3) Puquen and island of Wolves - Main Path + direction signs - Viewing-point to the island 4) Penguin observator - Bathrooms - Viewing-point to the island 5) Access to “Brava� beach -Baths Equipment - Path beach
6) Maitencillo Beach and fossils - Equipment baths - Rest and equipment exploration of fossils and algae
7) Natural swimming pools - Path swimming pools
Site Analysis reasearch Layers of information
Productive activities
Heritage and touristic attractions
Existing roads and trails
Vegetation density
Soil fragility and slopes
RESEARCH AND
EXTENSION CENTER PUQUÉN LOS MOLLES VILLAGE Academic Work Design Stage : 2009-2010 Final project: Architecture degree Institution : Architecture and Urbanism Faculty (FAU) Universidad de Chile Professor Supervision: Emilio Duhart Review Comission: Gabriela Manzi Martin Duran Ignacio Salinas
CIEM Environmental education and investigation center The project has three fundamental bases: 1)Revitalize and protect 2)Mixture of architecture within natural landscaping 3) Investigation focus The project intent is to develop an eco-touristic complex that allows the conservation of the natural and cultural patrimony of Los Molles, providing a touristic service based on responsibility with the environment and programmatic diversity, focused on education, training and recreation. This complex has been projected to include the implementation of an investigation center that is headed by a biologist, who provides assistance in learning about and coming to understand the environmental values of the PuquĂŠn area. It is equipped with amenities, and a cafeteria, and touristic services are provided. The project has three main areas: the first one is also the main one that articulates and gives structure to the rest of the program; it is the area that groups the public units with free access. The second area is the investigation space, where biologists and investigators can teach visitors. The last area includes common services, such as restrooms, nursery, hospitality for scientist and storages.
1 Site Layout scheme
Section scheme 1 Section scheme 2
2 An intervention in landscape
3 Dimension and disposition of the program
4 Volume lengthens
5 Openings of natural light