Antonia Medina Abell - Architecture & Urban Design Portfolio

PORTFOLIO ANTONIA MEDINA ABELL

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We are proposing an industrial working waterfront that will agglomerate two vital segments of the Hudson Valley’s agricultural operations: processing and distribution. This will become one of a series of hubs that integrates diverse and intermodal operations, modeling the transition towards a less carbon-intensive transportation infrastructure for the Hudson Valley.

We are also proposing a network of ports along the Hudson River that consolidate all the intermediary processes and mark a return to using waterways as the primary mode of transportation.

This would reduce the carbon emissions of agricultural transportation by about 60% while also providing jobs, increasing production and reducing transportation costs.

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Fall Studio: Good(s) Shift Revitalizing the Port of Newburgh Type: Urban Design Location: Newburgh, New Windsor, NY. Team: Hugo Bovea, Tal Fuerst, Antonia Medina Abell , Sharvari Raje Faculty: Kaja KĂźhl, David Smiley, Justin Moore, Liz McEnaney

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Daylighting Neve Sha’anan builds on the efforts of its community to propose a path to residency and civic participation through a Neve Sha’anan Action Lab that will mediate between the Municipality and the neighborhood for future development, to empower its community and celebrate ecology.

Neve Sha’anan is a liminal neighborhood located between the ancient city of Jaffa and the wealthier north Tel Aviv. It is home to migrant workers and asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, who reside in a transitional state. Their “in-betweenness” is deemed as negative by the city that is unable to meet their needs. Our project aims to empower the neighborhood by daylighting its marginalized community and its buried assets, such as the neighboring Ayalon River, which was concretized to build a highway.

Neve Sha’anan Action Lab is an incremental initiative that connects residents and municipal stakeholders to create empowering public spaces. This public-private partnership supports the migrant workers and asylum seekers of Neve Sha’anan to actively participate as stewards in their neighborhood, gaining social credits and serving as an operational and maintenance workforce for the entire city.

This collaborative proposal will empower locals and newcomers in a grassroots- public/private partnership. The climate stewards will transform Levinsky Street into an urban ecological corridor through Soil Rebuilding, Tree planting and ultimately, by recovering the Ayalon River. The space will be transformed into an expanded floodplain for the winter, while the rest of the year will serve as a public water sensitive infrastructure for Tel Aviv Yafo. Through the Action Lab, the Neve Sha’anan community will render Tel Aviv-Yafo into a resilient and more equitable city.

Neve Sha’anan Action Lab is an incremental initiative that builds on the existing efforts of the community. It connects residents and municipal stakeholders to create empowering public spaces.

GSAPP WORK GSAPP WORK Fall Studio: Good(s) Shift Spring Studio: Revitalizing the Port of Newburgh Daylighting Neve Sha'anan

Type: Urban Design Location: Newburgh, New Windsor, NY. Type:

Urban Design Team: HugoSha'anan, Bovea, TalTel Fuerst, Location: Neve Aviv, Antonia Israel. Medina Abell , Sharvari Raje Team: Candelaria Mas Pohmajevic, Antonia Medina Abell , Faculty: Kaja Kühl,Shekhawat, David Smiley, Justin Moore, Liz McEnaney

Niharika Shailee Shah.

Faculty: Kate Orff, Lee Altman, Sari Klauss, Julia Watson, Dilip

Da Cunha, Adriana Chavez, Geeta Mehta.

Inspired by Israeli PVC shutters, we propose modular structures that provide shade, program and shelter to the community.

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EMPOWERING SOUTH TEL AVIV-YAFO THROUGH COLLABORATIVE DESIGN

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NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION LAB

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1. DAYLIGHTING PEOPLE

In-between space

intervention on Yesod-ha Ma’ala St.

Neve Sha’anan market intervention on HaGdud Haivri St.

It includes community-built pods and seating areas for neighborhood gatherings, small business expansions and gardens. This proposal creates opportunities for activities otherwise hidden behind building facades to become part of the daily street life of Neve Sha’anan.

Through this marketplace, migrant workers and asylum seekers are able to capitalize on their skill and market local “Made in Neve Sha’anan” products, in turn, promising a path to recognition and stability.

1. IN-BETWEEN

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2. DAYLIGHTING NEIGHBOFHOOD

3. SHELTER

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3. DAYLIGHTING ECOLOGY

A transitional shelter is built by the community in Levinsky Park.

The shelter park holds soft landscape for water infiltration.

The community will build the shelter structure providing shade and fair jobs to the migrant workers. It includes facilities such as public kitchens, restrooms, spaces for mental health counseling, job training and an identification center.

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Type: GHGRP. GIS Research Project Location: New York State, USA. Team: Mary Allen, Claudia Kleffmann, Antonia Medina Abell Faculty: Leah Mesterlin, Carsten Rodin.

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For Leah Mesterlin’s class Geographical Information Systems, we delved into the context of the Green New Deal and questions of its implementation. The GND (passed in 2019 in the House of Representatives) proposed decarbonizing the economy, bringing overdue justice to the most vulnerable people. We asked: who are these vulnerable people?

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WHAT IS IT? The SVI is an index that weights a variety of subjects with the objective of predicting how self-reliant these communities will be in case of disaster, natural or man-made.

WHAT DOES IT MEASURE?

Source: SVI 2016 Documentation, page 3. Available in: https://svi.cdc. gov/data-and-tools-download.html.

Accessed on November 19, 2019.

WHY DOES IT MATTER? Planners and officials ofter use the SVI as a base to begin identifying vulnerable communities, this report ask if the SVI is the best starting point towards determining the frontline vulnerable communities that the Green New Deal asks to define.

SVI: SOCIAL VULNERABILITY INDEX NYS BY CENSUS TRACT [A HIGHER SCORE INDICATES MORE VULNERABILITY]

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When zooming into these counties the largest source of emissions is from energy production facilities. These industries were taken into consideration when developing a new high carbon vulnerability index.

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Data obtained by the EPA Greenhouse Gas Report show Onondaga, Nassau, and Niagara county as the highest polluting counties in New York State.

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For this phase we wanted to identify the job types and density within New York State, for which we worked with Census Data. As a result we obtained different layers for the different categories of occupation and displayed them individually showing the job density.

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Taking an initial look, it would appear that the Social Vulnerability Index has some relationship to the emitter sources. The further findings contrast this initial assumption.

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We identified the GNDs frontline communities as largely undefined, and does not include people who hold what are now called “high-carbon jobs”.

However, the emphasis on decarbonizing and creating a “just transition”implies that some jobs will be lost in this process, as we move, for example, from fossil fuel sourced energy to cleaner, renewable sources. This made us wonder, are these jobs located and measured? Who are the people holding them and are they vulnerable in other aspects as well? And finally, does there need to be a new index to measure socio-economic vulnerability for communities that depend on high carbon industries, as we transition to a carbonless economy?

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SOCIAL VULNERABILITY INDEX (SVI)

To assign a weight for the ranking model that would reflect how much each industry contributes to the overall GHG emissions, we assigned them to the different categories shown in the pie chart: Energy, Agriculture, Land Use & Forestry, Transport, Industry, Residential & Commercial, Waste and Other Sources.

Yet, according to the descriptions for each of these categories, we had to place some of the Census Labels in more than one category since they include many types of industry.

With this methodology we established a specific weight for each layer that we would then rank with GIS geoprocessing.

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CONCLUSIONS The New York State analysis did not produce overlapping results of the Social Vulnerability Index and the High Carbon Vulnerability Index. The resulting HCVI and the SVI only intersected high vulnerability in 4% of the area of study. Therefore the Social Vulnerability Index cannot be used to reliably predict areas vulnerable to high carbon job loss. This finding suggests a need for further investigation towards defining frontline communities as outlined in the Green New Deal.

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After obtaining the final weighted version of our Carbon Vulnerability Map, we made a side-by-side comparison with the SVI map.

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This report was limited by the ability of adequate data. The limited spatial data available on green house gas emissions forced this study to rely on census data of industry and occupation. The current categorization of industries is broad, and could be misrepresenting the high carbon job vulnerability. Due to the recent passing of legislation like the Green New Deal, and the Climate Leadership and Protection Act, more accurate information will be needed to identify vulnerability to protect frontline communities as both documents have written.

Additionally better definitions of high carbon jobs should be developed to better understand the complete definition of vulnerability in a Green New Deal Era.

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To conduct our research, we used ArcMap, existing databases and created our own, cleaning CSV tables and geocoding addresses too. Finally, we developed our own “Carbon Vulnerability Index” and compared it to compared the existing Social Vulnerability Index. Our findings indicated a 4% overlap in the categories for New York State, indicating that high carbon jobs are not currently though of as vulnerable.

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PARTNERSHIP STREETSCAPE PARTNERSHIP PARTNERSHIP STREETSCAPE & EDUCATION & EDUCATION INTERVENTION & EDUCATION INTERVENTION PARTNERSHIPsponsored STREETSCAPE PARTNERSHIP by local partners and industries PARTNERSHIP STREETSCAPE sponsored by local partners and industries sponsored by local partners and industrieshard-framework for engagement hard-framework for engagement & EDUCATION & INTERVENTION EDUCATION & EDUCATION INTERVENTION sponsored by local partners and industries hard-framework for engagement sponsored by local partners and industries

With the recent resurgence of the industrial waterfront in Sunset Park, there is a growing unbalance between the residents and industry. Residents resist the new industry, and in some cases, their educational attainment excludes them from taking advantage of these changes.

Our proposal aims to make Sunset Park residents a vital part of the new development. Using streetscape intervention and underused educational and community spaces, Framework will offer programs that give people new tools to thrive in these upcoming industries. Additionally, Framework will create temporal spaces that will bring more visibility to the educational programs, while offering new and changing open spaces in the neighborhood.

GSAPP WORK Summer Studio: Framework Balancing Growth and Opportunity in Sunset Park Type: Location: Team: Faculty:

Urban Design Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY. YouChiao (Joy) Wu, Mary Allen, Antonia Medina Abell Nans Voron, Tricia Martin.

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STREETSCAPE SYNERGY SYNERGY INTERVENTION STREETSCAPE hard-framework engagement future flexibleforactivities SYNERGY flexible activities SYNERGY future INTERVENTION future flexible activities hard-framework for engagement future flexible activities

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FRAMEWORK Balancing Growth and Opportunity in Sunset Park

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With the recent resurgence of the industrial waterfront in Sunset Park, there is a growing unbalance between the residents and industry. Residents resist the new industry, and in some cases, their educational attainment excludes them from taking advantage of these changes.

Our proposal aims to make Sunset Park residents a vital part of the new development. Using streetscape intervention and underused educational and community spaces, Framework will offer programs that give people new tools to thrive in these upcoming industries. Additionally, Framework will create temporal spaces that will bring more visibility to the educational programs, while offering new and changing open spaces in the neighborhood.

SECTION of waterfront interventions

The FRAMEWORK network in Sunset Park.

Antonia Medina MaryAllen You-Chiao Wu m5535@columbia.edu mea2201@columbia.edu yw3411@columbia.edu

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Banners, Info, Event Posters

FRAMEWORK: A network of residents, industry opportunities, events.

Commercial, open space bringing people out to exposure at waterfront industry Hands-on course, recreation, event

Film industry as one of the pilot project Release ground floor for public use

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Movie Screening

Banners, Info, Event Posters Commercial, open space bringing people out to connect with watefront industries.

Hand-on courses, recreation, events Pilot projects with film, garment and food industries

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Movie Screening

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This film focuses on Sunset Park through the lens of the activities and identities that allow for this heterogeneous neighborhood to stay vibrant and special: to be a resident, a business, a community during an afternoon summer or a visitor in the park that gives the neighborhood its name. It also addresses some of the current challenges of the place, such as rising rents, competition with big business chains and stores closing. It includes interviews to people with these perspectives and clips about the overall neighborhood feel.

The movie was the final project for Reading New York Urbanism, dictated by Cassim Shepard during the Summer Semester of the GSAPP AUD program.

My role included conducting interviews, filming b-roll, assembling the storyboard and crafting the narrative, editing videos in AdobeAfter Effects and Premiere and adding subtitles.

The movie was selected for showcase in the Columbia University Films Showcase, Spring 2020.

GSAPP WORK Reading New York Urbanisms: Live - Work - Play [Screenshots] Type: Location: Duration: Team:

Video Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY. 2018 Niharika Shekhawat - Chris (Hao-Tong) Zheng Antonia Medina Abell

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MONOTYPES 2013 - Made in the Studio of visual artist Alfonso Fernรกndez, Santiago, Chile.

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This project comprises the renovation of a 1925 masonry building, which used to house a restaurant, and its conversion into a micro-brewery (located in the basement) and restaurant building in Nappanee, IN.

The floor plans were developed in the beginning

by Jeff Anglemyer, the architect in charge of the project, and later by me. All drawings were made by me. The south elevation of the building, shown here in renderings and line drawings, had to be demolished and replaced because of safety issues.

The main purpose for the new elevations, which I developed, was to study the masonry work in the old building and translate some of it into the new faรงade.

The patterns in the old brick work were redrawn and replicated into the new faรงade. This was done in a conscious effort to respond to the urban condition of a downtown building and maintain some continuity in the landscape of this street, as well as responding to the new program requirements. This building has been there for almost a hundred years, and in as small town like this one every intervention is highly noticeable, so it becomes even more important to study the details of a building in order to make an informed intervention.

PROFESSIONAL WORK Ruhe 152: Brewery and Restaurant.

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Commercial Nappanee, IN, USA. 2018 Arkos Design.

Jeff Anglemyer (Architect) Sally Anglemyer (Interior Designer) Antonia Medina Abell (Architectural Designer) 10,702 sq.ft.

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SOURCE: Compilation based on BiblioCAD, Plano Santiago de Chile.

Z-1A Desarrollo histórico de las manzanas de la población Juan García Ballesteros, hoy Barrio Italia. Su forma alargada proviene de la división agrícola de la trama de la comuna.

La subdivisión de los predios de interés pertenece a la segunda etapa.

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This new regulation compromises the diversity in the booming Barrio Italia (which has become a fashionable neighborhood like Palermo Viejo in Buenos Aires or Santa Caterina in Barcelona), because these regulations

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La subdivisión de los predios de interés pertenece a la segunda etapa.

Desarrollo histórico de las manzanas de la población Juan García Ballesteros, hoy Barrio Italia. Su forma alargada proviene de la división agrícola de la trama de la comuna.

La subdivisión de los predios de interés pertenece a la segunda etapa.

FUENTE: PALMER, Montserrat. Providencia y la ciudad jardín.

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THESIS PROJECT Perforated block in Barrio Italia, Santiago de Chile.

Mixed use 2015-2016 Luis Eduardo Bresciani, José Di Girolamo.

2641.5 (563 of commercial space, 22 apartments).

(28,430 sq.ft. total) PERFIL CALLE SALVADOR E. 1:250

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ciudades. p.214.

Type: Term: Teachers: Square Meters:

Aplicación en las manzanas del Barrio Italia.

SOURCE: Author.

OFFICES

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STUDIOS - ART GALLERIES

NEIGHBORHOOD

SCHOOLS

BARRIO ITALIA

RESTAURANTS - CAFES

COURTYARDS

BODY SHOPS - STORAGE

Aplicación en las manzanasLEVANTAMIENTO del Barrio Italia.

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Examples of businesses that go through one street to the other, connecting opposite sides of one block.

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BOUTIQUES

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BOUTIQUES

OTHER BLOCKS’ CORES

COURTYARDS - GALLERIAS

PROJECT

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SAÍRELAG Y SOITAPPATIOS Y GALERÍAS

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manzanas excesivamente largas. Esto permite más combinaciones de uso y conecta lugares geográficamente cercanos pero bloqueados por una frontera (manzana).

FUENTE: JACOBS, JANE. Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades. p.214.

Aplicación en las manzanas del Barrio Italia.

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REGULATIONS IN PLACE:

DESIGN PRINCIPLES PROPOSED: Property Area: 1184,2 m2

Density:

Percentage of occupation: Ground level: 0,6 - 710,5 m2 Stories: 0,6 - 710,5 m2 Front yard: 3 metros.

Separation distance: zero.

Setbacks: 70° (Ordenanza Gral de Urbanismo y Construc- ciones, 2016,Chile)

1. Start from the street inwards.

Row house style, no front yard.

Average family size: 3,7 hab/hogar (INE 2002) Minimun standard of 20 m2/resident Average dwelling in Providencia: 74 m2/resident (allows combination of large and small dwellings)

Property Line= Edification Line

Growth towards the inside

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ESQUEMA DE JANE JACOBS

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This diagram by Jane Jacobs (left) shows the need to multiply the walkable perimeter of the streets and open new sidewalks to connect excessively long blocks.

Muestra la necesidad de multiplicar el perímetro disponible y abrir caminos para conectar manzanas excesivamente largas. Esto permite más combinaciones de uso y conecta lugares geográficamente cercanos pero bloqueados por una frontera (manzana).

PATIOS Y GALERÍAS

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FUENTE: JACOBS, JANE. Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades. p.214.

3.Relocate businesses and preexisting activities

(art gallery).

Aplicación en las manzanas del Barrio Italia.

4.Division into two separate layers: the civic ground (street, commerce, gallery) and the private ground (common areas and apartments).

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This allows for more activities to occur in the same place, and links sites that despite being geografically close, are separated by a border (the block itself).

It should be noted that the proposed section, making 100 metres the maximum walkable distance, corrresponds with the block sizes in downtown Santiago, one of the busiests and most walkable places in the city.

5.Different typologies to capture diversity.

6.Access and circulation areas are open and permeable. Gardens come out of the building as a meeting point between the commercial gallery in level zero and apartments in level +1.

SOURCE: Compilation based on Ilustre Municipalidad de Providencia, Plan Regulador Comunal (2007) and Ilustre Municipalidad de Providencia, Plan Regulador Comunal (2015).

(1) SOURCE: Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. p.214.

(2) SOURCE: Author.

These guidelines could be applied in several sites (see mint green sites in page 9) in the neighborhood, creating a development plan that could be adopted by the Municipality.

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FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL 0.0 NOT TO SCALE

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION 3 NOT TO SCALE

FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL +1 NOT TO SCALE

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SECTION D-D' NOT TO SCALE

SECTION C-C' NOT TO SCALE

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1 NOT TO SCALE

The entryways and circulations to the apartments are spaces in between spaces . They are open and permeable. A hallway is also a balcony; circulations are courtyards; apartments are accessed through the terrace, as if they were front yards.

Courtyards and terraces hang from the building out, as meeting points between the commercial groundlevel and the apartments in level +1.

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APARTMENT TYPE A

APARTMENT TYPE B

98 m2 = 1,055 sq.ft.

DUPLEX, THREE BEDROOMS, BALCONY AND OUTSIDE TERRACE

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83 m2 = 894 sq.ft.

DUPLEX, TWO BEDROOMS, BALCONY AND OUTSIDE TERRACE

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APARTMENT TYPE C 53 m2 = 570 sq.ft.

ONE BEDROOM, TERRACE

APARTMENT TYPE D

100 m2 = 1,076 sq.ft.

PENTHOUSE, TWO BEDROOMS, OUTSIDE TERRACE

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DETALLES

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Román Díaz street has witnessed the changes in the borough of Providencia over time. Therefore, its urban pattern is has become disorganized, with 15-story buildings coexisting right next to 2-story row houses. This masterplan proposes a new order for this street, using vegetation as a starting point, and maintaining all buildings higher than 8 stories, for practical reasons.

This allows a new interpretation of the 15-story buildings in the intersection with Avenida Providencia as a threshold to the sheltered condition in the inner street, near the plaza. The threshold is replicated on the south side as well, in the entrance from Avenida Eliodoro Yáñez. The rest of the high density buildings (max. 10 stories) are organized around the plaza that articulates the turning point in the street.

Row houses are proposed for the rest of the lots (6 stories).

These three heights allow clear relationships with the vegetation: on the ground level, there’s the trunks and the shadow, foliage is the protagonist until the 6th story, crowns become the most relevant view at the 10th story, and the 15th allows for views of Santiago’s landscape and the Andes mountain range.

The building is developed based on this masterplan, proposing a 15-story tower with setbacks on every side (because of the Building Code and the allowable mass that can be built in that area). The maximum height is oriented towards the major intersection of, to mark the threshold.

The tower is comprised of a central core that contains all circulations, and six petals (apartments). These are separated from the core to provide each with natural light, ventilation and privacy, so their connection to the core is always a window. Each petal is structurally independent from the rest.

Thresholds - Existing(15 stories) Existing high density buildings.

Neighborhood.

Thresholds - Proposed (15 stories)

ADVANCED STUDIO II

Single building - Proposed (10 stories)

High Density Building in Providencia, Santiago.

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Row houses/apartments - Proposed (6 stories)

Residential.

Fall Semester 2014 Sebastián Gray- José Rosas - Francisco Vergara 3883 m2 + underground parking, divided in 34 units of 90-120 m2 each.

(41,796 sq.ft., divided in 34 units of 970-1290 sq.ft.)

Existing building in that lot.

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MASTERPLAN NOT TO SCALE

WEST ELEVATION

SECTION

SOUTH ELEVATION

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PERFORATE

OPEN

EVEN FLOOR PLANS

CIRCULATE

ODD FLOOR PLANS

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SETBACK

SECTION B-B’

SECTION A-A’

DUPLEX FLOOR PLANS 120 m2 = 1290 sq.ft.

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The southwest apartment was developed in more detail than the rest. This is a 120 m2 duplex, with two bedrooms than can be turned into three and a room downstairs for a library/dining room.

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A custom set of bookcases was developed for this apartment. These are movable and when aligned, close off a room. When against the wall, the main living area becomes bigger.

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NEEDS

SOCIAL LIFE

MAX. BUILT FORM ALLOWED BY CODE NORTH SOUTH

SOURCE: Drawing

by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Jaguará Building.

This project was in a mid-density historical neighborhood, located north of the most iconic park in downtown Santiago: the Parque Forestal. This park is also home to the National Museum of Beaux Arts, which can be seen among the trees when the fall foliage falls. By contrast, the block to be intervened is eroded and in need of renewal. The chosen site was interesting because of its narrowness: 7 meters wide (roughly equivalent to 23 ft).

The starting point for the project, beyond the site requirements, was an example assigned to each student without an evident connection to the site.

Mine was the Jaguara Building in São Paulo, by Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1984). The principles extracted from this building had to do with the way Mendes da Rocha handled the views and the ceiling heights, raising the floor to achieve an openness in relation to the city. This principle was applied to the social aspects of the program, giving thema taller ceiling and lowering it where activities were related to solitude or sleep (located in the back side of the building).

PROCESS PRIVATE/PUBLIC ORIENTATION AND OPENESS SOURCE: Section of Jaguará Building by Paulo Mendes da Rocha.

Redrawn in CAD by me.

CONTEXT

ADVANCED STUDIO III Mid Density Building in a Historic Neighborhood.

Type: Term: Teachers: Square Meters:

Residential.

Spring Semester 2014 José Domingo Peñafiel, Ignacio Alcalde.

723,9 m2, divided in 6 units of 75-106 m2 each.

(7,793 sq.ft. divided in 6 units of 807-1,140 sq.ft. each)

NEEDS

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APARTMENT TYPES

A1= 70 m2 (754 sq.ft)

A2

B= 88 m2 (947 sq.ft)

C= 75 m2 (807 sq.ft)

FLOOR PLANS

AXONOMETRIC

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In 2015, while working on my Final Project, I started to develop a personal project on the side. This was the moment when smartphones were becoming a real competition to small digital cameras, and finally capable of taking photos with as many megapixels as DSLR cameras. They were also much more common than one or two years earlier. Besides, photo editing apps were slowly becoming more and more popular.

I started to wonder if these apps could be used to create new images rather than just snapping photos, and how expressive these cellphone-created images could be, given all the constraints. One of the most difficult ones was using fingers for editing the photos instead of a mouse or keyboard and the accuracy that they provide. I also questioned how the simplicity of these editing apps made people relinquish control in the creation of a certain “look� for their photos.

Consequently, I started taking photos with my iPhone, using the commute between my house and the university (which included walking, taking the bus, then the subway, and walking again) as the place where the base layer for this research would be captured. Over time, I also developed a se ries of rules to guide the process of making each one of these collages. These rules are:

1. Each collage is made from two or more photos thematically related.

2. The photos used in each collage are taken in the same route.

3. Every photo is taken and edited using a smartphone only.

4. Only digital editing is allowed (physical copies are all the same).

5. Only free versions of the editing apps are used (because they offer fewer features).

6. The format is square (because it relates to Instagram, my original idea was to upload each of

these to an Instagram profile, and idea I finally abandoned after reading the Terms and

Conditions, in which they stated that by uploading images, they assumed authorship

rights were waived).

After accumulating several collages, the next phase was about experimenting with different printing formats and mediums, including silk. One of the major issues was that the final versions were very small (about 10x10 inches in 300 dpi), although bigger results were achieved by printing in highgloss paper. I worked actively on this project until 2017, although I do not consider it over yet.

South Bend, IN, USA

PERSONAL WORKS 2015-ONGOING

About art, technology and social networks, walking in the city.

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Indianapolis, IN, USA

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PORTFOLIO ANTONIA MEDINA ABELL B. Architecture M.S. Architecture and Urban Design

Santiago de Chile. Artwork based on photograph by Santiagoadicto