Laura Otalora Portfolio in Architecture

2021

Architecture Portfolio

Laura Otalora

Laura Otálora Work Experience April 2021

Junior Architect Eva de Klerk Amsterdam, The Netherlands

March2020/ March 2021

2017-2018

Intern OFFICE WINHOV

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Intern for SEBASTIAN SERNA ARCHITECTURE Bogotá-Colombia

2017-2018

Intern for EL TALLER DE S Bogotá-Colombia

2017

Member of “Architecture Eco-incremental Lab seedbed of investigation”

Educational background 2018-2021

Master degree in sustainability design Politecnico di Torino, Italy Graduated

2013-2021

Bachelor architecture Pontificial Xavierian University Bogotá, Colombia

2001- 2013

Bachelor degree Colegio Refous Bogotá, Colombia

Software Skills

Autocad Photoshop Illustrator In design Sketch up Revit Rhino Vectorworks V-ray

Languages Spanish Native English C1 Italian French

Contact

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Contents

Academic Projects Green Core

Urban design.

Lyon,France

Common space

Social Housing.

Cartagena Colombia

Metodologic guide.

Residential + heritage Mompóx, Colombia

Global Cities Social housing.

Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

Work Experience Eva de Klerk

YSY HOUSE Tokyo, Japan

Office Winhov Saint Nicolaas Kloster

Amsterdam,The Netherlands

Novosibirsk

Russia

Leidsche Rijn

The Netherlands

Sebastian Serna

Casa Taller

Bogotá, Colombia

Taller de S

Pasajes Residenciales

Bogotá, Colombia

Green Core Lyon, France

Italy, 2019.

Lyon is mostly known as an economic center with many corporate headquarters and bustling financial, a city rich in historical and architectural heritage.

In the heart of the city of Lyon, the confluence district emerges as one of the most significant urban projects in Europe, a space for modern architecture and futuristic design.

This urban utopia presents a vital challenge dedicated to those who live in the city. A survey made on the Confluence shows the perfection of design always depends on its relationship with the most critical factor at the time of development: the inhabitants.

The Confluence holds a variety of equipment and housing, and despite being well-positioned, is a zone of passage and recreation that doesn`t generate an accurate appropriation of the urban space.

Academic project

Urban design

The idea of a project was born from creating an innovation district in La Confluence through incurring in actions related to sustainability and urban agriculture. The heart of the project is developed as a series of programmed green spaces and buildings that surrounds them.

Politecnico di Torino.

GC:

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The idea of a new city development that links this important node with the rest of Lyon generates a variety of opportunities. Always from the perspective of how inhabitants would live this place with historic and natural character and a point of strategic content.

The opportunity of the Confluence lies in demonstrating what the people living in the area require, evaluating what happens and generate a participation system that links the architecture with its main protagonist.

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Urban Belt Concentrate strategically the construction development along the perimeter of the site.

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Break Break the boundaries to enhance porosity.

Academic project

Green core

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Mix use

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Manage many parts strongly tied together and open to the public with the sense of hybridation.

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Inner Green Core Preserve the heart of the development for ope, green space and public programs.

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Divide and Characterize Produce diferent spatial qualities that altogether enhances the public space.

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Connections and Nodes A intricate network of pedestrian and bicycle paths.

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Overcome urban limits Create a link along the west area. criss-cross the site at diferent levels.

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Recover and enhance Recovering the Marchè du Gros as a storic industrial building.

Re-establish the connection with the existing neighborhood.

Master plan

Academic project

Green core

Permaculture Node

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Business + Services hub.

Cultural passage.

Productive housing.

• Co-working areas • Seedbed projects • Health and care services

• Cultural node • link west zone • Pedestrian path

• Commerce first floor.

• Productive housing.

The project consists in a combination of public spaces, commerce, culture, housing, offices, and leisure, spaces that generate life in the abandoned areas of la Confluence.

In order to accommodate this dynamic mix of people and lifestyle, the proposal provides a series of diverse buildings wich each separately hold different typologies with varied densities.

Forest Gardening

Common Space

Academic project

Urban design

Politecnico di Torino.

Italy, 2019.

Cartagena, Colombia

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CS: This project aims to propose a new development of social housing in Cartagena.

The project relies on a range of strategies that aim to privilege interaction (inside and outside) and flexibility.

Always in line with a resilience principle.

Cartagena de Indias is located on the northern coast of Colombia.

In this territory collides different models of the city, the historic medieval town and the contemporary expansions demarcated by the social reality of Latin American.

Cartagena brings together two opposite faces of Latin America reality. On the one hand, the city of tall buildings, where commercial complexes and beautiful apartments emerge daily, and on the other, the formation of informal territories that are increasingly adding more to the expansion and occupation of the land.

The informal occupation of the territory has manifested itself as a process of growth along waterfronts, having a

direct impact on the deterioration of the ecological structure of the region, but also establishing precarious and insecure social and living conditions.

Academic project

Common space

¶ The complex is divided into four independent blocks that are connected by an elevated circulation. All the apartments are organized around patios and green spaces seaking to promote the social interactions and the apropiation of the public spaces

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First Floor

Second Floor

¶ The threshold between private and public becomes diffuse in this complex in order to integrate and restore the collective sense of the inhabitants.

Third Floor

House type

Academic project

Common space

¶ Each apartment is structured as a duplex (60 m2) provided with a patio or a balcony

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Elevated street Create an elevated communal street that links all the blocks

Collective Spaces Enhance community appropiation.

Flexible

Multipurpose space

Ensure domestic privacy and allows natural cross ventilation

Endemic Garden Endemic Vegetation

Flood resilent.

Colombia,2016 Javeriana University Heritage + housing

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Metodologic guide of residential Patrimony Interventions at the historical Center of Mompox,Colombia

MG: This guide proposes some strategies with local techniques and materials in order to adapt the patrimony to a functional, changing environment.

Always thinking of its values as a priority in order to keep its identity.

Mompox has been World Heritage since 1995 for being a clear example of a way of life in a specific time in human history. Due to the isolated location of Mompox, the city center has preserved the architectonic patrimony.

However, features and modifications had occurred in the colonial houses. The lack of resources, misinformation, and the absence of interest from the local authorities had transformed the housing heritage into an unrecognizable state.

Typological study for the guide

#1 House Type

Academic project

Metodologic guide

#5 House Type

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#2 House Type

#3 House Type

#4 House Type

Guide application model

*Aditions

Work experience Eva de Klerk

Amsterdam, The Netherlands April 2021

YSY house Tokyo, Japan

Office Winhov

Amsterdam, The Netherlands March 2020 - March 2021

St Nicolaas Kloster

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Novosibirsk Russia

Leidsche Rijn

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sebastian Serna Bogotá, Colombia

Casa taller

Bogotá, Colombia

Taller de s Bogotá, Colombia 22

Pasajes Residenciales Bogotá, Colombia

Plaster Model 2015

Los Mártires Esc 1:1000

Eva de Klerk

Amsterdam, The Netherlands April 2021

YSY house Tokio, Japan

Eva de Klerk

Design competition

Tokyo, 2021.

Programatic proposal for the Y and SY towers in the Yarakucho district, at city center of Tokyo.

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Tasks : Programmatic design by floor, renders, and conceptual ideas.

©Eva de klerk

©Eva de klerk

Office Winhov

Amsterdam, The Netherlands March 2020 - March 2021

St Nicolaas Kloster Beatrix park, Amsterdam

Renovation of Kapel and Convict complex into the new annex of the conservatorium of Amsterdarm.

Work experience

Office Winhov

Amsterdam, 2020.

Tasks : Facades studies, concert hall design studies.music room design studies. 3d model printing.

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© Office Winhov

© Office Winhov

Kapel en Convict begane grond

1:300

© Office Winhov

Office Winhov

Amsterdam, The Netherlands March 2020 - March 2021

Novosibirsk Russia.

Work Experience

Office Winhov

Amsterdam, 2020.

Tasks : Materials facades studies, render’s production.

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© Office Winhov

© Office Winhov

© Office Winhov

Leidsche Rijn Tasks : Helped the competition team on sections drawings.

© Office Winhov

© Office Winhov

Sebastian Serna Bogotá, Colombia 2017- 2018

Casa Taller

Colombia, 2018.

Bogotá, Colombia Finished 2018

Biennale Colombiana Nominated Work House renovation, transformation of a single house into an office and two apartments.

© Sebastian Serna Architect.

Work experience

Renovation

Sebastian Serna

Tasks : Design assitant, elaboration of floorplans, sections and detail drawings.

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© Sebastian Serna Architect.

© Sebastian Serna Architect.

© Sebastian Serna Architect.

Taller de s Bogotá, Colombia 2017

Pasajes Residenciales

Awards Colombia Biennale of Architecture winner social Housing category

© Taller de s

MCHAP Competition Nominated Work

I worked on the production of graphic visualizations, image making and comunication.

© Taller de s

Work experience

Housing

Taller de s

Colombia, 2017

Bogota, Colombia Finished 2017

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© Taller de s

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