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Venice Studio - 2025 OMA Studio
Humanitarian Architecture - 2021 Econova Institute of Architecture and Engineering
RCR Summer Workshop - 2020
Taught by R. Aranda, C. Pigem, R. Vilalta and A. Ortega
Space Syntax Workshop - 2019
Taught by Msc. Sofía Hoch
Curriculum Vitae
Rica
Participated in concept and schematic design in shopping centres, retail, aviation, government, sports (stadium) and high rise residential projects. Co-operated with London, New York, Dubai, Bogota and Austin offices. Participated in site visits- locally and abroad. Work developed mainly with Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, and Adobe Suite.
Delivered conceptual design for commercial and residential projects. 3D modelling, mainly with SketchUp to high level of detailing. Supervised graphic design for presentations and developed typologic, operational and programmatic diagrams.
Worked on urban commercial and residential project design in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Co-edited concept booklet for commercial project. Designed luxurious residences (of approximately 500m2) for sites with complex topographical conditions.
Drew as built plans and designed adaptive reuse project from a former Coffee Processing Plant into a commercial space. Digitalized original plans, organized and designed presentations for international conferences in Argentina and Spain.
Unit 8 - Repurposing La Galera With professor Víctor Murillo
Unit 5 - Elements of dwelling With professors Daniel Hidalgo and Juan Diego Cárdenas
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant - 2021 Universidad Véritas - San José, Costa Rica
Teaching Assistant - 2020 Universidad Véritas - San José, Costa Rica
Gensler Regional - Competition With Carlos Fernando Caro, Alex Fernández and Uli Peinado
docexdoce Latin America - Special Edition Competition With Jorge Barzuna
Facade design for Edilex - Competition With Alejandra Fernández and Daniela Rumoroso
I am a passionate architect who strongly believes how design has the potential to improve and shape
is convenient for mixed-use projects since my professional background and my interests fluctuate
developments can give to urban spaces. I would bring fresh insights that I have learned during my
environments where contemporary needs, mainly socially and economically
First Place -
Cities and Urban Design 2019-2022 | COLOMBIA
Footprint Area: 3Ha
Access from park. Property of Gensler© Mixed-use development adjacent to a major city park, comprising a theatre, cinema, hotel, two residential towers, and two office towers. The project aimed to replace a street with an open public space, enhancing urban life through high-quality design. I contributed to
3D modelling (facades, cinema, parking, and storefronts) and client presentations/renderings. This experience deepened my understanding of large-scale, multiuse projects and the complexity of interdisciplinary collaboration.
The project consisted in the expansion of a high-end mall featuring a new food court, food hall, bowling alley, and retail spaces. The design aimed to create a central anchor and dynamic circulation using locally sourced materials. I was responsible for client presentations, 3D modelling (garden wall, food hall, and food court), and exploring shopping centre typologies through sectional design. I also managed team coordination and client communication throughout the project.
The project was worked in collaboration between Rafael de la Hoz Arquitectos and Gensler (Austin, London, and Costa Rica offices) for the expansion and upgrade of Real Betis Stadium in Seville. At Gensler, I analysed and optimised stadium sectors including access routes, restrooms, service stations, and seating areas. I conducted visual
and accessibility studies, developing a booklet detailing access times, routes, and turnstile distribution, which I also translated from English to Spanish.
PROF. CARLOS UMAÑA & WALTER LEONE
GRADUATION PROJECT (HONORS THESIS)
2020 | ALAJUELA, COSTA RICA
48´000m²
More than 25% of shopping malls were to close in the United States by 2022. In Costa Rica, the massive closure of malls began in the 2010s (a delay compared to the United States, which began in 1990s). There are more than 1’400’000m2 of shopping malls in the Great Metropolitan Area (Costa Rica), so it is urgent to find alternative uses for them before they become empty. Since the mall is defined as an enclosed, private, guarded, exclusive and impermeable space, the questions arise: can a space designed for a particular use become its own antithesis?
To carry out the project and answer this question, I studied the International Mall of Alajuela, a building that once housed the most important commercial space in the province and can now described as a postmodern ruin.
These ruins have contaminated the context in such a way that it can be categorized as a Terrain Vague (de Solá Morales). Therefore, the damaged fabric must be regenerated. This property activated the main entrance to the city since 1993, and was completely displaced by the arrival of the City Mall in 2017 -at just 50m away.
Being left as a ghost mall, the project seeks to turn it into its antithesis, and make it an urban generator capable of maximizing relationships with its context. To achieve this, I first had to define the mall through its program and the spacial features it had.
closed, private, guarded, exclusive, impermeable
Then I defined what its anthisesis meant.
open, public, free, inclusive, permeable
Consequently I decided to eliminate the parts of the building that gave it introverted characteristics and deprived it of its surroundings.
By operating directly on the building, it was possible to open it up to the public realm.
To make these changes to the site, Rem Koolhaas’ free section and the programmatic strips of the Parc de la Villette were studied.
By applying these concepts, a programmatic instability that
facilitates urban accidents was generated. This allows spontaneous activities to occur without being completely manipulated by the architect, thus allowing the building to respond to urban needs and the times of the city. All this is facilitated through mechanisms that allow it to mutate over time.
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DANA VÍQUEZ
SCALE: M
Hotel Nimbu, in Playas del Coco designed around the concept of the window, framing views between the beach and a nearby mangrove. The layout centres on a triple-height lobby that organizes circulation along this main axis. Groundfloor rooms “float” above an artificial mangrove, preserving the natural ecosystem, while elevated corridors on the upper floors immerse guests in the surrounding vegetation.
PROF. ELENA PASCOLO & JORGE FIORI
AA Housing & Urbanism MArch 2024-2025 | EAST TILBURY, UNITED KINGDOM 10 Ha
The design reinterprets the rowhouse and shed typologies to foster social interaction and communal food production.
Shared structural bays and open volumes create flexible spaces and varied privacy levels, while rooftop and exterior areas support collective activities. The proposal also considers implementation through local cooperatives, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), and public partnerships, using the East Tilbury site as a prototype for resilient, community-based urban agriculture.
Scale: XL
This project addresses food security by proposing a sustainable growth model for Green Belt communities vulnerable to future flooding. It integrates agroecological practices inspired by Dutch systems—combining renewable energy, automation, and efficient land use—to promote community self-reliance. Passive strategies such as rainwater collection, solar energy, and local materials enhance sustainability.
The goal for this 56-hour competition was to think of new ways to reuse the fuselage of abandoned aircrafts. The competition’s requirements were an image and a text explaining each teams searches. In our case, we explored how these objects could maintain their purpose as a structure capable of transporting migrants through international borders. I was in charge of most parts of the image and part of the text.
The aircraft no longer flies.
How do we preserve its capacity to transport if it remains static?
The democratization of its parts is proposed in order to maintain its character as a mediator between nations separated by imaginary limits. These spaces question the border, promoting migratory flows through walls conceived to be inaccessible.
This workshop consisted in a 10day collaboration exercise between the AA and the Brno University of Technology. Radical modes of living were proposed by flooding an area of the city and simultaneously giving
use to abandoned industrial facilities by making them habitable. In an international team of 11 members, my tasks mainly consisted in exploring the potential of a common housing typology in Czechia, such as the Pavlac. The proposal sought to offer community spaces while bringing the cities past as an example of radical living where water and more than human life constantly forms part of the built environment.
