Germania German _ Portfolio 2019

The following publication aims to put in evidence my academic and professional experience through my years as an architect and urbanist.

Laura Germania German German Architect - Master in Strategic Urban Planning

London, United Kingdom germaniagerman3@gmail.com +34647809233

Strategic Map for the Region of the Randstad, The Netherlands - Collaboration of the EMU TUDelft (January 2018)

TUDelft Delft, The Netherlands European Master in Urbanism - EMU Specialized in Regional Strategic Planning 2017 - 2018 The studio attempted to develop a strategy for the future of the Randstad region towards automation. It was achieved through site studies and the production of maps (using GIS and space Syntax); identifying patterns on social, environmental and economic trends of the Netherlands and proposing different scenarios. To finish every student had to present a personal project to be implemented in a city scale.

Polytechnic University of Catalonia Barcelona, Spain European Master in Urbanism - EMU 2016 - 2017

Master Architect in Urbanism and Strategic Planning

Laura Germania German German Los Mochis, Mexico. germaniagerman3@gmail.com +52 33 10475232 Spanish English Italian Portuguese Catalan

Native / Advanced Advanced Elementary Basic Understanding Basic Understanding

Analysis and design of the Agrarian Reservoir located in the Pla de Sant Jordi, Mallorca.

Development of a sustainable proposal for Sant Jordi in order to provide long-term resilience towards the lack of water, and economic viability to continue with the agricultural profession that is the identity of the area, now threaten by the tourism in the island.

The regeneration of the industrial tissue of the C-245 in Gava, Villadecans and Sant Boi. A diagnosis of the industrial tissue located on the west of Barcelona, now adjacent to the municipalities of Gava, Viladecans and Sant Boi. Proposing the transformation of the highway that connects all the elements, the C-245, in order to catalyze the change of scale and the regeneration of the industrial park. http://www.emurbanism.eu

Techonology Institute of Monterrey Guadalajara, Mexico Architecture Bachelor 2010 - 2015

International Experience Chicago, United States of America Summer 2012 Illinois Institute of Technology

- It has come a time where the architect can no longer afford the luxury of working in the name of beauty and design. The XXI’s architect must be capable of granting well-being to society, through the tools that the city has to offer.

To achieve this goal, we must engage with multidisciplinary teams that give us a wider and better understanding, in order to be able to imprint every project with a sense of identity and proper solutions. -

The Urban Pavilions Workshop by Paul Pettigrew The development of 4 different urban pavilions in Mexico and USA based on the site study and recognition of the identity of the area; followed by the design proposal with multicultural groups.

Turin, Italy September 2013 - May 2014 Polytechnic University of Turin Acquirement of restoration and urban regeneration theory and intervention tools in order to integrate historic buildings and urban plazas, to fill the current needs and typologies without damaging their original concept and patrimonial value.

ACADEMY

Confronting Informality Delft, The Netherlands

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Organization of the symposium in order to promote the new Sustainable Development Goals of

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UN-Habitat Collaboration between students from the Urbanism department and Dr. Roberto Rocco,

InDesign

Senior Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning at TUDelft. www.confrontinginformality.org

3D Max + Vray

31th May 2018

Sustainable Collective Housing Symposium Workshop Guadalajara, Mexico

Photoshop

Illustrator

Evaluation exercises based on the ETSABS concepts of ‘The XXI’s Century Housing Laboratory ’ in

Autocad

Barcelona, implemented in several housing complexes in Guadalajara by the integration of teams with different members of the Guadalajara

Sketchup + Thea Rendering

municipality, the INFONAVIT, professionals and professors. Followed by the development of a design proposal in different scales (urban, complex,

Microsoft Software

dwelling unit) to improve each score. http://laboratoriovivienda21.com/congreso3/index.php/presentation 11th – 15th April 2018

Graphics Interpretation and Representation

IMPLAN

Oral Communication

Los Mochis, Mexico Senior urban consultant of the urban planning institute of the municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa.

Research/interpretation of data, consultancy services and development of governmental programs.

Concept Development Site Study / Multi-Scale Approach Long-Term vision / Short-Term Actions

July 2018 - Now www.implanahome.gob.mx

UAD University Los Mochis, Mexico

Multidisciplinary Groups Construction Management Hand Drawing

Teacher of the architecture career. Responsable of the university urban planning division. Theoretical urban classes and urban project atelier.

November 2018 - Now

Attention and Comprehension Networking

http://www.uadlobos.mx/mochis.html

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Automation and the Changing Landscape of Work A Strategy for The Metropolitan Region Rotterdam-The Hague European Master in Urbanism - TUDelft

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Automation Open Agriculture

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Automation High Concentration of Companies Vulnerable to Automation ( > 50 ) High Concentration of Jobs Vulnerable to Automation ( > 100 )

Low Accesibility Areas Through Collective Transport Systems.

Polarized Landscape Black Box

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Adding the ‘Automation Factor’ to the Existing Vulnerabilities of the Area.

Taking into account a future where automation its embraced and there is no change in the consumption of natural resources, nor regulations for the multifunctional economic cluster, a terrible scenario its foreseen.

The following diagnosis was made using the software tools of GIS to make a SWOT analysis. Identifying the areas where threats and opportunities where together, made also evident the link between the weakness-

es and strengths. In this case, being Pijnacker and Nootdorp an open agriculture and glasshouses based economy; with a monofunctional, low-density residential area, was identified as highly vulnerable to become a 'Black Box' -a place where only machines work and there is no urbanity and public spaces for the community to enjoy-, and to lead to a depletion of resources.

Residential Urban Nuclei Multimodal Station // Regional Plug-in Vulnerable Glasshouses

Key Concepts - Strategic Map for the Region of Pijnaker and Nootdorp, The Netherlands.

The strategic plan for the Pijnacker and Nootdorp areas directly involves Zoetermeer and Delft as the anchor nuclei municipalities. In order to regenerate these mono-functional residential communities, the need for a vibrant connection to the anchor cities was required.

This resilience, towards the implementation of automation in the agricultural area, and the massive job losses that this will provoke, will be achieved through the implementation of the obsolete small glasshouses

regeneration project, as stepping-stones that will link the existing economic and residential centralities with the former oblivious areas.

The greenhouse regeneration will consist in a projection of a mix-use typology, such as retail, housing, showrooms and ateliers; developed along the current powerful corridors, acting as a gear in order to catalyze its surroundings and continue with the transformation in other obsolete areas.

Circular Economy of the Oostland The pilot project aims to pursue a model of ‘circular economy’, based on an economical, energetic and environmental shift of the region. In a scenario where we embrace automation as a tool in order to help humanity produce efficient infrastructure and sustainable processes to obtain natural resources, we can imagine an environmental, friendly and flexible Waste Treatment Plant. This new urban equipment will be able to merge into the urban or productive landscape, without being invasive with the natural environment; open to collaboration from ecological resilience research groups and technology development companies/schools which will always seek after making the emissions of the facility less invasive to the atmosphere. In this facility, the organic waste will be processed in order to transform it to electricity, heating, and biogas. The commitment to recycling its a personal choice in the Netherlands, incentivized by your values.

Envisioning that its a program that needs a more efficient infrastructure and processes, I propose the merge of automation and waste collection. The process has to change in order to be more accessible and therefore more attractive.

ENVAC it's a company that develops an Underground Vacuum Waste Collection System that consists in a network of underground pipelines that use airflow to transport the waste collected in the bins that are above ground to the waste collection station located on the outskirts of the development where its kept in different sealed containers until full. Later, one center or incinerator facility. They have different solutions for categories such as hospital waste, airport waste and food catering waste, but the most impressive of all its the way they adapt the solution to small-scale dwelling buildings and a large scale of surrounding public spaces, a solution implemented on Stockholm Royal (Sea Port and Hammarby Sjöstad – NDS).

The Waste Management Center The Recyclables Workshop Space will be open to the public as a way to give the opportunity for the craftsman and creative to have the necessary machines and tools to produce their own merchandise, catalyzing the ‘handmade production’, making it more competent versus the automated mass production. At the nucleus of the Center, you can find the Retail Shops area and the Public Space performing a role of a Showroom in which you will find the direct link from the exhibition process to the final product.

The Waste Management Center represents an agora, a public good that aims to equally provide the tools necessary to contra rest the effects of automation in the region such as an economic shift towards recyclable elements, environmental resilience and the energy shift towards renewable sources. The presented project can be a pilot and be replicated in the territory aiming to pursue a different identity in each so can complement the others and not compete.

The Project’s Timetable Representation.

Projecting the City - Reconquering Lost Paths A Strategy for the C-245 Road in Barcelona, Spain.

Collaboration with the European Master in Urbanism - UPC

Relate and Connect - Developing Networks Between Gava-Villadecans Weaknesses and Potentials

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- The axis as a barrier between the east and the west - Discontinuous relationship between existing urban facilities - Mono functional residential areas with poor urbanity

- Located between two water ways - The horizontal connections with Villadecans - The presence of a existing green network

Project: Will consist in a serie of interventions on the public space and an intervention polygon destinated to mix use (retail and dwelling).

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Access Establish a preference for a continuous pedestrian itinerary across the backbone axis of the project.

Provide a vehicular continuity around the perimeter with accesses and parking.

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Permeability Integrate the existing public spaces to the proposal in order to maintain identity and develop an integral network.

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The transversal axis projected will develop as a magnet a strong connection between the two municipalities and the C245 street.

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Intervention Polygon The intervention polygon will be developed as a 'flagship project', able to catalyze the transformation of the urban space. Acting as a vibrant mix use building with gardens and commerce on the ground floor in order to give continuity and vibrancy to the itinerary and to become an encounter point between the two municipalities and the public spaces and urban facilities that they share.

With some changes in the existing land use to facilitate the change from residential high density to mix use of commercial activities from the neighborhood craftsman or services, we can give the residences of the area and their families an opportunity to rent a commercial space and be able to have their own store in the middle of a vibrant and magnetic plaza.

One of the proposals for the green netwok of public spaces

Projecting the Territory - Infiltrations in the Territory Regeneration of the ‘Pla de Sant Jordi’ in Mallorca, Spain.

Collaboration with the European Master in Urbanism - UPC, Joaquin Sabate and Julian Galindo and the municipality of Mallorca.

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A New Itinerary of Confronted Realities The Project aims to develop a new itinerary for the inhabitants and tourists of Mallorca, along one of the ancient food producers in the island, the Pla of Saint Jordi. Charged with a responsible and sustainable sense of identity, this route will aim to enhance the dichotomy and relation between its old patrimony and culture versus its current landscape and infrastructures.

The encounter of old water infrastructures and new ones, the contrast between Mallorca seashore and the rural area, the patrimony of the old ruins of Sant Jordi and the current settlement, the old agricultural techniques and the evolution to the new ones, etc.

It will translate in a trial through history, being able to see the evolution, from vernacular techniques to efficient processes.

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Confronted Realities: Develop a link between the new water infraestructures and the old ones (the patrimony of Safreches).

Project: Create awareness of the diverse processes of water purification using an interactive canvas filled with recreational, sportive and social public spaces.

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Filter and Infiltrate: Use the refined waters of the EMAYA (water treatment company) for diverse activities.

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Improving Rural Tourism As agriculture becomes less and less rentable in comparison to the tourism services in Mallorca, I propose to create a new itinerary of rural tourism, which will aim to re-incentivize the agricultural economy of San Jordi and have the benefits of the tourism boom of the island. Giving a strong sense of identity to the community by restoring the patrimony of the safrech windmills water collection systems to irrigate water to the fields and later infiltrate the soil. The implementation of this project in the long term and on a big scale will be indispensable in order to contra rest the existing lack of supply of irrigation water on the subsoil due to the current exploitation of resources with extensive monotype crops agriculture.

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The new sustainable long-term water treatment and collection, enhancing the revitalization of the cultural patrimony of Safreches.

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Irrigation Agriculture

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Soil Infiltration

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Architectural Studio Recopilation of Work Tec de Monterrey - Guadalajara, Jalisco

Master Thesis Social Housing: The key to fight urban poverty and inequality in Mexico

Post Revolution and Reconstruction

Industrialization and Urban Development

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Cristero War

1º Contest Housing for Workers Juan Legarreta

2º CIAM L’Habitation Minimum Frankfurt, Germany.

Short-term loans governmental or parastatal companies Buy or build

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2nd World Wide War

Proclamation of the Mexican Constitution 1917

Institute of Civil Pensions and Retirement 1925

1950

Consolidation of FONHAPO Mexico Declares War 1942

to Germany, Italy and Japan Law of Rent Protection was issued.

Creation of BNHUOP 1933

The National Bank Of Mortgages for Urban and Public Infrastructure, now called BANOBRAS.

‘The Great Depression’ 1929 Stock market crisis of United States of America, reflected in Mexico’s economy.

Constitution of IMSS 1943 The Mexican Institute of Social Security.

Corporation in charge of the new ‘wellbeing’ laws Services only provided for formal employees.

Federal Fund for popular housing for people with good credit history

IMSS developes the tripartite program.

1956

The implementation of this program left complexes such as Unity Independencia (1960).

Administrated by rent Payment could exceed 25% of family income

The creation of the Fund for popular housing (FHP) 1949 Implemented

by BNHUOP

INVI is created 1954 Attention to the lower income groups of rural areas and urban centers of provinces.

Promoting coordination between municipal governments Acquire, administered and transferred governmental housing park

Consolidation of ISSSTE 1959 Social services for parastatal company workers.

Financial Program for Housing (PFV) 1964

Constitu of SAHO 1976

Generate dwellings with the intermediation of private investment capital.

Reduce the expenses of the public budget.

This organism was integrated by FOVI and FOGA, founded in 1963. Financing credits through private banks.

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Creation of INDECO 1964 National Instituted for the Development of Rural Communities and Popular Housing.

Offered technical help, assessment and promotion of housing subsidies Auto-construction: an integral approach for communities.

National Institute Fund for the Promotion of Housing (INFONAVIT)

Expedite credits Tripartite support program Mandatory accessible to every employee.

Entities for the Promotion of Housing 1972

The creation of different user-oriented housing fun from the government, su FOVISSSTE for parastata workers and FOVIMI for army.

Neoliberalism

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The New ‘Sectorial Housing Program’.

Creation of SEDUE 1982 The Secretary of Urban Development and Ecology Replaced SAHOP.

Publication of the Federal Law Of Dwelling 1983

Historic Crisis Devaluation of the National Coin.

Creation of SEDESOL 1992 ‘Fight poverty through housing and access to public community spaces’

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The PAN party arrives to Presidency 2000

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by Fox’s government to orientate the ‘housing’ goals towards the same result in different levels of governance.

New National Development Plan 2007 The agrarian, territorial and Urban Development

New Constitutional Housing Law. 2006 Credit supply for the economically vulnerable Sustainability Collaboration between public-private.

Development of CONAVI Earthquake of Mexico City 1985 Changed the approach of housing; from integral and environmental to state of emergency.

Turn high density complexes in a reflection of vulnerability and insecurity

Creation of Governmental Entities 2001 The main goal was to decentralize and coordinate the different governance levels of policies and housing programs.

PIB Growth Rate Per Capita %

Legally validation of housing as an institutional right Series of recommendations International treaties

Creation of DUIS Program

2020

Illustration of housing policies in Mexico through time.

The following graphic represents a socio-economical-political-environmental study of the housing policies in Mexico from 1900 to 2018. The timeline aims to represent the relation between the creation of the most representative governmental organisms and their approaches to housing were directly related to social, economic and political affairs at that time.

By appreciating the direct connection between these elements, one may infer that the housing policies in Mexico evolve from being a social support program to a financial one how this affected the constitutional right of housing and turned it into business.

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Master Plan - Ground Floor The Complex aimed to host student residences and commercial activities around a public plaza, which provided an encounter point between residents and the general users. This project strategically connects one of the most important commercial centers and universities in Guadalajara providing a synergic open front to the street with garden entrances that invite the pedestrian and a clear distinction between more private areas using the existing topography of the area until the private entrances of the students residence.

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The Urban Garden The area was a former part of a forest inside the city, now reclaimed by dwelling, office and closed shopping malls units. The concept of the steel columns resembling a tree aimed to project what was once there and to fill the area with a sense of transparency and tranquility. Introducing to the area a different mix use typology of building, where more than 30% of the area was donated to the municipality as a public space and still was able to create a rentable commercial and student residences unit.

Hoping that this type of architecture will be followed for the area instead of the enclosed typologies that isolate the community.

‘ The Multimodal Station’ for Guadalajara, Jalisco.

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Easy, secure and cheap way to use the public transport.

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Teaching a sense of respect and caution among drivers, pedestrians and bike users.

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Providing spaces for the regional commerce in the area.

The Integral Development of a Soft and Hard Infraestructure The controversy of developing a multimodal centrality in an area with a strong income disparity between the members of the community, makes the project an intermediary between the opportunities that a new infrastructure will provide and the one in charge of the sensibilization and equality in the area. The Multimodal station was developed in two main projects: the soft and the hard. The soft projects where the ones who involved community support such as

pedestrian and bike education programs, imparted in the public spaces of the station. The hard: consisted of the market and the different commerce units, the parking spaces and the development of the train station.

A proper reconstruction of the vial urban signs, a designated line for each transport and a profound respect for the pedestrian will make this project successful and likely to be implemented in other stations.

Juice Station and Sandwich Bar

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Hot or cold bar as required with functional spaces to prepare fast food. (Grab and Go) - 2 Chefs per table - The kitchen will change every season - Always using organic and fresh products - If you dont bring a container we will have to adquire one in the store.

Private and public spaces for all the different users and vehicles along the facilities, forcing them to interact and respect each other

Organic products from the region bulk sale can be taken home in recyclable containers.

Comercialization of organic, regional products in the food court section like: Beans, Onion, Dry Chile, Agave, Honey, etc.

Restricted vertical access Elevators.

Examples of 50 SQM commerce.

Located on the 2nd floor after the swivels on the transfer areas of the train.

Boarding Area Departures and Arrivals

The library has the biggest commerce area on the ground floor, its location has a direct connection with the school behind the complex in order for the students to enjoy the free Wi-fi terrace.

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The Integral Development of a Soft and Hard Infraestructure The Multimodal station is not a single project, its part of the programs offered by the station, planned to redefine the public transport network in the city of Guadalajara as a pilot project. The strategic location allows users to access, exchange, depart or exit the wide net of buses, trains and bike programs that will be held inside and outside of the perimeter.

The different programs that will be offered, aim to be used as part of the station

as stakeholders and investors; such as the parking company and the franchise, or community stores that will be available for rent. The program has a 24 hours time schedule, in order to assure that the multimodal station is always open and has a use during the night; therefore it will never be empty and encounters will always be produced, between arrivals, departures, buyers, and sellers, giving a sense of safety.

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