Ana Rodriguez - Architectural Portfolio

ANA RODRIGUEZ ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista

Part 2 Architect , Urban Designer MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Nationality: Venezuelan Date of birth: 26/07/1991

149 D Juction Road, Tufnell Park N19 5PX London

+ 44 7508184835 acrb.267@gmail.com

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-cristina-rodríguez-bautista-109489a4 Issuu https://issuu.com/acrb.267 EDUCATION 2017 - 2018 Bartlett School of Architecture.UCL. Distinction.

PROFESSIONAL 2018

MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities.

2017 Universidad Simon Bolivar. Caracas- Venezuela.

Project Managment Training.

2016 Universidad Central de Venezuela.Caracas- Venezuela.

Participation stategies applied to urban design

2016-2017

PUBLICATIONS

2015 Thesis Investigation. Universidad Simon Bolivar.

Caracas- Venezuela.

FROM LIMIT TO LINKING SPACES THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GALINDO METROPOLITAN CIVIC CENTRE.

CONTEST

2016 SEE Contest. Proposal for a Metropolitan Park in Santiago. Chile.

COMMUNIA

Collaboration with AV Arquitectura y Urbanismo.

7th Steel Contest for architecture students.

Universidad Simon Bolivar. Caracas- Venezuela.

INSTERTITIAL DWELLINGS

AV Arquitectura y Urbanismo. Caracas- Venezuela.

Architect and Urban Designer www.anavargas.net Assistant Architect www.trazandoespacios.org

Politecnico di Milano. Milan- Italy.

Bachelor in Architecture (5 years full programme)

Architect https://hugodalton.com

2016-2017 Trazando Espacios Publicos NGO. Caracas- Venezuela.

VCA Obras. CA Caracas- Venezuela.

Year abroad, Architecture School. .

2009-2015 Universidad Simon Bolivar. Caracas- Venezuela.

Hugo Dalton Fine Art Ltd . London - UK.

Assistant Architect @vcarquitectura

2013-2014 Universidad Simon Bolivar. Caracas- Venezuela.

Design Studio Teaching Assistant

ABILITIES AutoCAD AutoCAD 3D Rhino Grasshopper Archicad Revit Sketchup QGIS Gephi Ucinet DepthMap Illustrator Photoshop Lightroom InDesign SPSS

LANGUAGES Spanish

English Italian

OTHERS Volunteering Trazando Espacios Publicos NGO. www.trazandoespacios.org

Techo Venezuela.

www.techo.org/venezuela/

INDEX

VENICE STREET NETWORK CULTURAL FINDINGS NORMALISED ANGULAR CHOICE

> 1.3 1.3 - 1.1

r=n CULTURAL MESSAGES CULTURAL ATTRACTORS

CULTURAL GRAFFITI FLOORING STICKERS POST BOX EXTERNAL PIPES

1 : 10000 m.

ARTWORKS GALLERIES MUSEUMS THEATHERS CINEMAS INFORMATION CENTRES

1. ROLLING THE CITY Tracing the skater’s network of practice in London

2. URBAN MESSAGES

A platform for interaction in Venice

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3. LIVERPOOL STREET AREA Analytical Exploration of the Built Environment.

City of London

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4. EL SABOR STAIRCASES José Félix Ribas. Petare Caracas - Venezuela. http://trazandoespacios.org/en/

5. QUETEPE ALLEY Cumaná Historic Centre. Sucre - Venezuela. http://trazandoespacios.org/en/

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6. MAPPING EL HATILLO El Calvario - El Hatillo - Caracas - Venezuela. http://trazandoespacios.org/en/

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7. FROM LIMIT TO LINKING SPACES Galindo Metropolitan Centre.

Caracas - Venezuela.

8. INSTERSTITIAL DWELLINGS Alternative housing in slopes locations.

Caracas - Venezuela.

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9. MESUCA SPORTS AND CULTURAL CENTRE Caracas - Venezuela.

ROLLING THE CITY Tracing the skater’s network of practice in London

Institution: Dissertation - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2018 Software : Gephi, QGIS, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

TWO MODE NETWORK

Illustrates the relationship between skaters and skateparks. Eighty skaters were interviewed and with the data collected the popularity among London’s skateparks and its users was stablished. The use of Social Netwrok Analysis helped in the creation of the network (SNA).

The Two Mode Network shows the Undercroft as the most popular location to the skateboarding practice in London.

SKATEPARKS INFRASTRUCURE

ROLLING THE CITY Tracing the movement patterns of London’s’ skaters and their election of a location for their sports practice have been the motivation for the development of this research. Skating in London has a historical and worldwide famous spot underneath the Southbank Centre. Nevertheless, the existence of sixty-one skateparks in the city raised the initial research question of how the skateboarding phenomena is spatially shaped in London. The combination of space syntax techniques with social network analysis gave as main output which skateparks are chosen by the members of the skater community.

The study of the spatial practices of skaters in London from the metropolitan scale, the identification of the most popular skatepark, the preferred shared location and the final mapping of the interaction and performance of the skateparks users correspond the main finding of this dissertation. This study thus offers a model for the rigorous evaluation of the popularity of any location frequented by a specified social group.

Furthermore, the main contribution of this dissertation is the proposal of a method towards the construction of the skater’s social network of practice driven by the answers of the users of the space.

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ROLLING THE CITY Tracing the skater’s network of practice in London

Institution: Dissertation - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2018 Software : Gephi, QGIS, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

NETWORK FILTERED BY DEGREE

NETWORK FILTERED BY DEGREE ONE MODE NETWORK - SKATEPARKS - SKATEPARKS NETWORK

NETWORK FILTERED BY DEGREE

According to the One Mode Network, the preferred shared location to the skateboard practice is Mile - End. The Undercroft most popular location according to the Two - Mode Network represents the second shared location among the skaters community.

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ROLLING THE CITY Tracing the skater’s network of practice in London

Institution: Dissertation - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2018 Software : Gephi, QGIS, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

80 SKATERS WERE INTERVIEWED

NETWORK FILTERED BY DEGREE

MAIN QUESTIONS

ONE MODE NETWORK - SKATERS - SKATERS NETWORK

GENDER - AGE - PROFESSION WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? WHAT OTHER SKATEPARKS DO YOU OFTEN VISIT?

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ROLLING THE CITY Tracing the skater’s network of practice in London

Institution: Dissertation - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2018 Software : Gephi, QGIS, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

DISTANCE FROM SKATERS HOUSES TO INTERVIEWS LOCATIONS

DISTANCE FROM SKATERS HOUSES TO NOMINATED LOCATIONS

THE AIM WAS THE VERIFICATION OF LONGER TRAVEL DISTANCES ASSOCIATED WITH MORE ACCESIBLE LOCATIONS

TRAVEL DISTANCES MAPPED AND CORRELATED WITH SPACES SYNTAX VALUES OF LONDON’S SKATEPARKS

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ROLLING THE CITY Tracing the skater’s network of practice in London

Institution: Dissertation - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2018 Software : Gephi, QGIS, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

ANALYSIS AND MAPPING OF THE SKATERS TRACES IN MILE - END

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URBAN MESSAGES A platform for interaction in Venice

Institution: E-merging Design Research - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2018 Software : Depthmap, QGIS, Autocad, Rhino, Lumion, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

Campi network

Recycling bins in Campi network

Back -side interactive board Kiosks Market Stall Platforms

Exchange of goods and ideas

Section. Market Stall Platforms

VENICE STREET NETWORK CULTURAL FINDINGS NORMALISED ANGULAR CHOICE

> 1.3 1.3 - 1.1

r=n CULTURAL MESSAGES CULTURAL ATTRACTORS

CULTURAL GRAFFITI FLOORING STICKERS POST BOX EXTERNAL PIPES

1 : 10000 m.

ARTWORKS GALLERIES MUSEUMS THEATHERS CINEMAS INFORMATION CENTRES

Market platfoms

Campo Santo Stefano

Section. Market Stall Platforms Campo Santo Stefano, Venice

The aim of this project is to provide physical spaces for the spread of locals and tourists voice. Currently, diverse types of messages are spread in the city street network and the main purpose to address is how to aware people of them. As a general strategy, the mapping of Venice’s streets messages overlapped with space syntax analysis were the steps used in order to achieve the location of three physical social devices that would improve interaction among people as well as the visibility and reachability of the messages.

MAPPING VENICE CULTURAL MESSAGES VENICE - ITALY

MARKET PLATFORMS Venice’s cultural messages are currently spread around the city as overlayed stickers or posters; this is the fact that proves their lack of visibility. Hence the main purpose the cultural devices pursue is to integrate the current message’s network and to improve their visibility.

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URBAN MESSAGES A platform for interaction in Venice

Institution: E-merging Design Research - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2018 Software : Depthmap, QGIS, Autocad, Rhino, Lumion, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

VENICE CHANNELS

ECOLOGICAL FINDINGS NORMALISED ANGULAR CHOICE

> 1.4 1.00 - 1.4 0.48 - 1.00 0.00 - 0.48

r=n VAPORETTI STATIONS ANTI GRANDI NAVI MESSAGES

1 : 10000 m.

AN ECOLOGICAL FESTIVITY Venice’s ecological messages protest against big cruises and the population decline of some fauna because of the current pollution of water.

MAPPING VENICE ECOLOGICAL MESSAGES

The proposal of recycling the infrastructure used in La Festa del Redentore on midJuly for closing the Giudecca channel, and proposing on the 22nd of April an Ecological Parade, which celebrates Earth’s Day. The new Venetian festivity will consist on a bridge in Giudecca channel and three ecological platforms launched from the Grand Canal.

VENICE - ITALY

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URBAN MESSAGES A platform for interaction in Venice

Institution: E-merging Design Research - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2018 Software : Depthmap, QGIS, Autocad, Rhino, Lumion, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

Head Wells

Modular

Roundtable

VENICE STREET NETWORK POLITICAL FINDINGS NORMALISED ANGULAR CHOICE

r = 400m COMMUNIST GRAFFITI

1.3 - 1.65 1.15 - 1.3

POLITICAL MESSAGES

ANTI FASCIMS ANTI TOURIST ANTI NAZI

UNIVERSITIES AND ACCADEMIAS POLITICAL PARTIES

1 : 10000 m.

CIVIC CENTRES

DIPLOMATIC ROUNDTABLES

Venice’s political messages are shown as graffiti and posters concentrated around Dorsoduro, where the main two Venetian Universities are located. This landuse had been taken as the place to propose in their internal courtyards some roundtables around the water wells.

MAPPING VENICE POLITICAL MESSAGES

The three proposals work as the interface for social interaction, exchange of ideas, goods and infrastructure for Venice. The three proposals would enhance ecological, cultural and political issues, but the most important output is the promotion of citizenship, where locals and tourist interact and can spread their thoughts freely.

VENICE - ITALY Ana Rodriguez

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LIVERPOOL STREET AREA Analytical Exploration of the Built Environment

Institution: Methodology and Analytical Design - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista , Mariam Amer, Fanel Contreras, Natalia Shavkunova, Ziyao Yang Role : Design Researher Year : 2017 Software : Depthmap, QGIS, Autocad, Rhino, Lumion, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

PROJECT BRIEF AND INTRODUCTION This research project is conducted on Liverpool Street Area, located in the North East side of the City of London. With important connection routes, transport hubs and one of London’s major railway and underground stations in its centre, Liverpool Street Area is a part of the dynamic heart of the City and its historic and contemporary status as one of the world’s leading financial and business communities (“Area Enhancement Strategy”-City of London Website, 2018). The area encompasses a diverse mixture of high-rise offices and historic buildings. In addition, it is characterized by high pedestrian flows brought to it by Liverpool and Moorgate stations located in centre and the west side of the area respectively.

OBJECTIVES AND AIMS The aim of this project is to develop an evidence-based research and an analytical exploration of Liverpool Street Area. Through a comprehensive understanding of the history, existing spatial structure and morphology, findings on the area were compared to the Area Enhancement Strategy (AES). Further suggestions and strategic design proposals to enhance the built environment in the area were established accordingly.

RESEARCH STRUCTURE Our analytical exploration of Liverpool street Area was formulated around three different scales (i.e. Macro, Meso and Micro), allowing us to have a better understanding of the area dynamics in itself and how it works in the larger context of the city of London. The following questions, research methodologies and design proposal are a product of an iterative process constantly evaluating and developing our understanding of the potentials and challenges that the Liverpool Street Area faces.

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LIVERPOOL STREET AREA Analytical Exploration of the Built Environment

Institution: Methodology and Analytical Design - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista , Mariam Amer, Fanel Contreras, Natalia Shavkunova, Ziyao Yang Role : Design Researher Year : 2017 Software : Depthmap, QGIS, Autocad, Rhino, Lumion, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

MACRO SCALE How has Liverpool Street Area evolved historically and what kind of role does it play in the context of the City of London in terms of spatial networks and morphology?

Before the intervention.

After the intervention.

Before the intervention.

After the intervention.

Before the intervention.

After the intervention.

MESO SCALE How does the conservation area of Bishopgate coexist in terms of social and spatial relationships with and the new developments?

MICRO SCALE Can Public Space around Devonshire Complex work as an interface for the distinct spatial uses and social groups?

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LIVERPOOL STREET AREA Analytical Exploration of the Built Environment

Institution: Methodology and Analytical Design - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. MSc. Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista , Mariam Amer, Fanel Contreras, Natalia Shavkunova, Ziyao Yang Role : Design Researher Year : 2017 Software : Depthmap, QGIS, Autocad, Rhino, Lumion, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

MACRO

MESO

LIVERPOOL STREET AREA - LANDMARKS AND DESTINATIONS

CURRENT SITUATION

MICRO

GATE COUNTING - CARS PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION IN THE HOT SPOTS DISCOVERED

PROPOSAL - CONNECTION OF INNER ALLEYS

WITH THE GATE COUNTING

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PROPOSAL - SPATIAL NETWORK BETWEEN

NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND CONSERVATION AREA

EL SABOR STAIRCASES José Félix Ribas. Petare - Caracas - Venezuela

http://trazandoespacios.org/en/ Institution: Trazando Espacios Públicos - PROFESSIONAL WORK Team: Ana Vargas, Gabriela Puppio, Raquel Portillo, Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Part 2 Architect and Volunteer Year : 2016 Software : Autocad, Rhino, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Participatory Design Tools

Volunteers working in the transformation of the staircases.

© Helena Acedo

Before

© Helena Acedo

After

© Helena Acedo

Collaboration with the design of the intervention, as well as a volunteer during the construction day.

Trazando Espacios is a non-profit organization that teaches and builds citizenship by transforming public spaces with participatory design tools. El Sabor Staircases was built with 200 volunteer who illustrated a Venezuelan children’s book “Blue and Red” in 275-step stairway.

The volunteers were community memebers as well as an external NGO which sponsored the project.

In five hours the book was written and illustrated up the stairway. All the constructers and participants were excited about the work they have done and the transformation they did in a comminity. From this moment on, the effort of going up and down the stairs to the plaza was made more pleasant with art and literature.

Volunteers working in the transformation of the staircases.

© Helena Acedo

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QUETEPE ALLEY Cumaná Historic Centre. Sucre - Venezuela

http://trazandoespacios.org/en/ Institution: Trazando Espacios Públicos - PROFESSIONAL WORK Team: Ana Vargas, Gabriela Puppio, Raquel Portillo, Diana Ruiz, Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Part 2 Architect and Volunteer Year : 2016 Software : Autocad, Rhino, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Participatory Design Tools

Workshop participants choosing with the community the place to transform.

© Diana Ruiz Hueck

Before

© Diana Ruiz Hueck

After

© Diana Ruiz Hueck

Collaboration with the design of the intervention, as well as a volunteer during the construction day. The project was sponsored by The Cumana Historic Centre Foundation and the Inter-American Development Bank.

The program taught participants to see their community from a new perspective, using photography and design methods to image a change in a public space in their community. “The Quetepe Alley”, was the chosen place by the community as the place to the intervention. During the last stage of the workshops, the students proposed planters, benches and colorful pennants across the alley. The workshop finished with the construction and inauguration of the renovated public space.

Workshop participants choosing with the community the place to transform.

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© Diana Ruiz Hueck

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MAPPING EL HATILLO El Calavario - El Hatillo. Caracas - Venezuela

http://trazandoespacios.org/en/ Institution: Trazando Espacios Públicos - PROFESSIONAL WORK Team: Ana Vargas, Gabriela Puppio, Raquel Portillo, Eliana Ramirez, Jennifer Pacheco, Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Part 2 Architect and Volunteer Year : 2016 Software : Autocad, Rhino, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop , Participatory Design Tools

© Mariana Cardozo

Participants mapping what they had seen in El Calvario. © Mariana Cardozo

Collaboration with the design of the intervention, as well as a volunteer during the event day. The project was sponsored by The El Hatillo Council in the framework of a cultural event run once a year. Mapping el Hatillo consisted on asking visitors to observe and identify places with tourist potential along the route, and then tell us their experience.

In this way, participants of all ages individually or in family returned with lots of energy, full of anecdotes and eager to comment on their favorite places. Then they left their contribution by filling in the comment card and identifying these places in a large fabric with thread and needle.

© Mariana Cardozo

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FROM LIMIT TO LINKING SPACES Galindo Metropolitan Centre. Caracas - Venezuela

Institution: Dissertation - BArch - Universidad Simon Bolivar - Caracas - Venezuela (5 years full programme) Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2015 Software : Autocad, Revit, Lumion Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

Galindo Metropolitan Civic Centre was conceived as an infrastructure, which responds to the dematerialization of limits between the planned city and the biggest slum in Latin America (Petare). North Perate was the chosen territory, because of the massive transportation confluence already planned by the Caracas Metro Company and the potential of 7Ha to become an exchanger node of multiple uses.The prososal of an urban strategy in the choosen territory which integrates the planned city with the biggest slum in Latin America, would enhance and ensure connecticity in terms of public transportation and of public space.

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FROM LIMIT TO LINKING SPACES Galindo Metropolitan Centre. Caracas - Venezuela

Institution: Dissertation - BArch - Universidad Simon Bolivar - Caracas - Venezuela (5 years full programme) Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista Role : Design Researher Year : 2015 Software : Autocad, Revit, Lumion Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

In order to prove the dematerialization of the limit, the architectural answer was a building that fights against the deficiencies of the fragmented sectors, understanding the building as a MIXED CONTAINER, with a variety of uses that provide culture, commerce, sports and public transportation. Offering the citizens a diversity of spaces that promote citizenship.The building acts as an exchanger node, from the mass mobility to the exchange of goods and services among citizens. Additionaly, because of its strategic location respond to the city with the proposal of a series of public spaces that serves as transition among the various uses.

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INTERSTITIAL DWELLINGS Alternative Housing in Slopes Locations. Caracas - Venezuela

Institution: Urban Design Studio - BArch - Universidad Simon Bolivar - Caracas - Venezuela (5 years full programme) Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista , Ana Ayala de Leรณn, Eva Ramos Melo Role : Design Researher Year : 2014 Software : Autocad, Rhino, Lumion Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

Caracas, Venezuelan capital city is known because almost the half of its population lives in slums. The 23 de Enero complex, was conceived as a social policy of public housing in Caracas in which the government built 53 superblocks in the mid fifties. But after 50 years of their construction the void terraces among the buildings started to become invaded.

We took this problem as an opportunity to develop a new urban solution on the invaded terraces; the proposal of several steel buildings interconnected with public space is what we called INTERSTITIAL DWELLINGS. The main purpose of the contest was to develop an interesting steel building, which solves a housing solution as well.

The building structure consists on an principal built up column which can be repeated several times to form the main aisle, they work as a sailboat mast, where the apartments are supported by tensors on both sides of the aisle.

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INTERSTITIAL DWELLINGS Alternative Housing in Slopes Locations. Caracas - Venezuela

Institution: Urban Design Studio - BArch - Universidad Simon Bolivar - Caracas - Venezuela (5 years full programme) Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista , Ana Ayala de Leรณn, Eva Ramos Melo Role : Design Researher Year : 2014 Software : Autocad, Rhino, Lumion Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

The main purpose of the contest was to develop a challenging steel building, which solves a housing solution as well.

The building structure consists on an principal built up column which can be repeated several times to form the main aisle.

The main aisle works as a sailboat mast, where the apartments are supported by tensors on both sides of it.The proposal was honoured with a mention in the contes with the second position.

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MESUCA SPORTS AND CULTURAL CENTRE Mesuca. Caracas - Venezuela

Institution: Urban Design Studio - BArch - Universidad Simon Bolivar - Caracas - Venezuela (5 years full programme) Team: Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista, Olianna Gonzalez, Grace Morazzani, Sofia Saturno Role : Design Researher Year : 2014 Software : Autocad, Rhino, Lumion Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

Mesuca, a district in Petare, the biggest slum in Latin America, is known because of the shortage of services and public space. The proposal of a Sports and Cultural Center which overlaps them would provide a better quality of life for citizens as well as brings Caracas a new way to provide services to slums.

Mesuca Sports and Cultural Center was conceived as a part of an urban restructuration in the heart of Petare, the biggest slum in Latin America.

The proposal of a circuit with four hotspots and the development of fourth was the result of this course.

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