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Gian Franco Valverde Espinoza

URBAN DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

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About me A passionate urbanist who creates peopleoriented spaces and places for memorable experiences. I believe in team collaboration that seeks a transformative approach across design, planning, and architecture.

I’m interested in interdisciplinary design methods to articulate complex built forms, inclusive urban policies and place-lead public spaces to delineate tomorrow’s cities. I continuously update with global phenomenons such as 20-minute neighborhoods, incremental urbanism, temporary & tactical urbanism, affordable living, and health & transport research.

My best skill is the proficient use of hand-drawing techniques to communicate conceptual ideas and provocative design narratives.

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Awards Short-listed at Melbourne Affordable Housing Competition 2021 Project: “Staying Grounded” Group: Bhuvnesh Mundhara Institution: BeeBreeders.com Finalist at Our Future Cities 2020 Interdisciplinary competition Project: “Eco-transition-system” Group: Bhuvnesh M., Saurabha I., Pranil C. Institution: Our Future Cities.Org The Henry and Rachael Ackman Traveling Scholarships, 2019; and Melbourne Global Scholars Award, 2019 Institution: The University of Melbourne

Work

Skills Soft

Hatch and RobertsDay integration advance the planning, design and development of urban environments worldwide Melbourne (AUS), September 2021- April 2022 | 8 months

Leading transport engineering firm in France and international consultant in sustainable mobility, energy transition and living environment | Lima, Peru. (2017- 2018)

Urban Designer • Graphic support for urban design proposals in Australia and Canada.

• Desktop analysis using QGIS to support planning application across sites in Melbourne.

• Hand-drawing design to represent preliminary concept ideas for urban street projects.

• High-quality graphic support for plans and diagrams in urban design reports.

• Masterplanning for residential and transit-oriented developments following “20-minute neighbourhood” principles.

Architect • Urban design development for a MRT feasibility project Lima’s Metro Line 3, Peru • Preliminary urban design concept for a MRT feasibility project Trujillo’s Tramway line, Peru • Architecture project and implementation for new 27 tramway stations in Cuenca, Ecuador

SOFT SKILLS Problem-solving Decision-making

Capabilities Leadership

Research oriented Analytical Thinking

collaborative

Multi-scalar Resilient Hand-drawing communication Grade -

Intuitive Thinking Curiosity

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Research Technical Urban design, planning and Landscape Arch. office Melbourne (AUS), 2019-2021| 2 years

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Informal Urbanism Research Hub The University of Melbourne, Australia. (Nov 2019 - Nov 2020)

AutoCAD

InDesign

Sketch UP

Urban Designer • Assisting in the production of awarded proposals in Landscape Arch. and Urban design.

• Elaboration of illustrative plans for urban design guidelines and development frameworks.

• Urban analysis using QGIS and Onemap software for planning development applications.

• High-level concept design for site understanding and diagram-thinking ideas.

• Masterplanning for residential yield plan and indicative land budget in urban growth corridors.

Urban Design Research Assistant My role provided support in the analysis of urban morphology to identify informal trading patterns along major transport corridors in different high-density cities in South Asia such as Manila ,Jakarta, and Dhaka.

Elaboration of street view data analysis, mapping transit corridors and work progress meetings with the team and senior academic researches at Melbourne School of Design.

Graphic

Rhino & Grasshopper Design

Illustrator Cityengine Photoshop

Space syntax QGIS

Mapping

New Normal Share Short-listed at Melbourne Affordable Housing Competition 2021 Team: Bhuvnesh Mundhara Institution: BeeBreeders.com

Watch Guest speaker at the Goetheinstitute Indonesian The City in-Between Reflections and Outlooks on Urban Informality Panel 1 Presentation: Thesis work Bina Ruang, Develop the space

Read Artwork published in an article at “The Conversation” magazine We can’t let coronavirus kill our cities. Here’s how we can save urban life Collaboration with Dr Kim Dovey , Dr Jonathan Daly and Dr. Quentin Stevens

Contents 01.

Staying Grounded : Delivering a housing affordable system on railway land International Competition, 2021 Melbourne, Australia

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The Urban Void

Street Concept Design Work experience, 2020 Melbourne,PLACE Australia

URBAIN Academic,VOID 2014 Toulouse, France

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ENSA- International studies 2014-II

Site : L’isle sur tarn, Midi-Pyrénées, FRANCIA. Program: Media library.

Area: 1080 m2.

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The share void. The resulting mass of the building rises for opening the public space with his context and to complement it.

The proyect is a media library , where the building is located next to his neighbor to shape the forme of the context square and to share ” the patio “ (comun space) with the community. it develops a vertical special scale that provide a link between the church and the main plaza of the small city. One void that saturates the narrow layout of the streets , where the public means a new space for contemporary identity and the context remains steady in time.

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The West Urban Carpet Academic, 2018 Melbourne, Australia

Bina Braga: Develop the space Academic, 2018 Bandung, Indonesia

The Monash Boulevards Urban Design framework Work experience, 2021 Melbourne, Australia

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Staying Grounded

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Why is there a need for affordable housing system?

To achieve an affordable housing system, architecture needs to collaborate with other related disciplines. This project aims to achieve a strategic and holistic approach towards “affordable livelihood” in conjunction with “20 min neighbourhood” (Plan Melbourne).

VicTrack amounts for the largest vacant public land in Victoria which can be utilised for a greater purpose, like access to “housing for all”. Working together with councils, private partners and broder community, this system provides the process towards achieveing the largest affordable housing development in Australia.

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The Urban Void Le vide urbaine is a academic proposal for the muncipality of L’isle sur tarm in the south of France.

The goverment required a new architecture symbol for the town to revitalise the tourism activity and attract more students to the region.

The proposed media library and urban space results ENSAInternational studies 2014-II ENSAInternationa l studies 2014-II as the ideal programme for the site.

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Program: Media library.

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Area:Area: 10801080 m2. m2.

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Program: Media library.

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The West Urban Carpet #MUD STUDIO The proposal transforms Little Bourke Street into a Civic Carpet that integrates laneways and private arcades into an extend a soft network of green and open spaces within the block precinct.

It promotes a liveable and distinctive streetscape experience by introducing a set of urban codes that outlines the built form considerations, public realm & movement, open space ,and communal facilties to be provided by new developments. If its successfully applied, the precinct will provide high-quality laneway interfaces, pedestrian-friendly streets, vertical green spaces and retrofit significant historic buildings.

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Testing Scenarios

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View to Langs lane. Designated pedestrian lanes with permeable ground-floor interfaces through small shopsenhance the street character of Melbourne’s famous laneways.

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The civic carpet in Little Bourke St. A proposed “shared zone” with pedestrian-friendly pavement and design features enhance a sense of place and welcome the community and visitors to explore

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Building controls. Built form setbacks and upper-level interface requirements to new mixed-use developments ensure activation in the public level, increase passive surveillance and attractiveness. Introducing Air-transfer rights allow new developments to benefit from extra-floor heights within the precinct.

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The vertical green carpet. A new high-open space network combines available rooftop areas from private and public ownership along Little Bourke St increasing the access to green open space per dwelling in dense areas like Melbourne CBD.

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Bina Ruang

#MUD THESIS STUDIO The thesis aims to deliver a comprehensive Development Framework that offers an opportunity to set up new spatial arrangements through design guidelines. This “best design standards”secures community benefits within future private development on vulnerable sites.

The document provides clear built form guidelines, public realm and funding schemes, and community infrastructure supply to be applicable before the design stage, during and after the construction encouraging an affordable building density which offers a slight transformation of kampung’s low-rise and high-dense environments.

Pilot projects

Goal: Create a network of incremental co-development process Action: Apply and evaluate the development framework according to master plan and new opportunity developments.

Key Stakeholders RWs alliance, Kelurahan leader, and external parties (big and small developers) 11

Visualisations

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New outdoor spaces for community well-being Development contribution supplies communiWhat is the common benefit? ty infrastructure like children-care or common This scenario suits better kampung’s future development due spaces to facilitate places for community events

to a gradual fine-density approach that allows dwellings to co-design infill processes and secure P.P.P funding to long-term common infra-structure.

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Testing Scenarios

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Framing a flexible layout capacity for incremental process How? Diverse lot sizes and land occupancy formats.

Affordable long-term lease for working-living.

Exponential growth of affordable living and working How? Incremental infill density according to household income.

Ground-level shop typologies intensify public use of space.

Strengthening social capital and place-attachment How? Co-development built character.

Hybrid form suits kampung’s socio-economic practices.

A replicable affordable development model to other lots.

Creating common spaces with stakeholders participation How? Co-funding participation to secure PUS. Co-design community facilities and strategic lo-cations.

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RACV Food Precinct The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) Limited.

Melbourne, Australia Team Group Peter Crick, Senior Principal Urban Designer Katie Murphy, Principal Town Planner

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Little Collins Street

Vision The City of Melbourne in align with the world’s response to COVID-19 announced a program to launch creative ideas to bring “New York -style” on-street dining to Melbourne’s famous “Little Streets”. This fast-track planning program aims to support eateries by boosting their trading capacity outdoors.

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Local Town Center Proposed Main street, 2020 Team Group Mark Walker, Associate Urban Designer

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Sutton Street - Urban Renewal Precinct Proposed lanewayscapes, 2020 Team Group Mark Walker, Associate Urban Designer

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The Monash Boulevards UDF Client City of Monash. Melbourne , Australia Team Group Michael Natoli, Director Urban Designer Nathan Collins, Associate Urban Designer Challengue Deliver a comprehensive spatial morphology analysis and recommendations to assess the residential development capacity across two boulevards of 16.5km long.

Outcome The local council was greatly satisfied with the quality of the work outcome as a result of the accurate and proportionate response to the six site precincts which will inform the amendments to the General Residential and Neighborhood Residential zoning in the Victorian planning scheme.

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How to develop a preferred density?

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In both boulevards lot widths supports medium density development but lot consolidation will have a need to achieve apartment development. There are serveral key location sites that can suit high density development and where typologies 4 & 5 can be introduced.

Dandenong Road has small sections where lot width will provide a constraint to any medium density development.

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