Portfolio Marc Samaniego

PORTFOLIO Marc Samaniego

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Office studio projects Independent projects Activism & Social projects Journalism & Cultural promotion Research & Academic experiences

“Development of society occurs only where citizens play a conscious and active role.”

PORTFOLIO Marc Samaniego

I am an architect with seven years of professional experience settled in Lima. I aim to contribute to improve the quality of life in cities by innovative development projects which involve communities.

My passion for understanding life within the city as well as my drive to comprehend its physical and social construction through architecture and urban planning has led me through a series of interlaced paths encompassing participation-based design and construction, journalism, cultural promotion, politics and education.

The city is a battlefield of ideas and interests in constant evolution and revolution. To be truly prepared to act in it with transcendence, it is essential to learn to interact, listen and understand as many actors as possible.

Whether from a private office, a NGO, a journal, a university or from the State, I have been involved in projects, from different fronts, whose main objective is to build a more just and free society.

The transformation of collective space cannot be anything other than a collective action.

EDUCATION

RUTA ALTERNA Co-founder / 2017 - Present

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ Architecture and Urban Planning Faculty Architect / 2004 - 2013

BRIGADAS EN FRONTERA - PLAN SELVA Construction Lead Worker / 2016

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

NGO RUWASUNCHIS Volunteer Teacher / 2014 - 2015

PRECIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS Senior Architect / 2019 - Present

JOURNALISM

INDEPENDENT ARCHITECT Designer and developer of architecture projects 2016 - 2019

REVISTA ARKINKA Editor & Event Coordinator 2014 - 2016

INGESA Project Leader / 2015

RESEARCH & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY OF LIMA Junior Architect / 2014 51-1 ARQUITECTOS Junior Architect / 2012 – 2013

ACTIVISM & SOCIAL PROJECTS AULA - ESPACIOS PARA EL APRENDIZAJE Workshop Coordinator / 2017 - Present

PERUVIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Consultant / 2017 PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ Architecture and Urban Planning Faculty Teaching Assistant of Peruvian Arch. of the 19th-20th c.

2014 - 2015 UNIVERSIDAD DE CIENCIAS Y ARTES DE AMÉRICA LATINA Architecture Faculty Teaching Assistant of Design Studio 3 / 2017

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OFFICE STUDIO PROJECTS 51-1 Arquitectos

PLAM 2035

INGESA

Huancayo

Santa Cruz

PCM

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS Manchay

Charco

Ispacas

Palillos

AULA Safe Way to School

AULA Shanusi

RUTA ALTERNA

ACTIVISM & SOCIAL PROJECTS ChiquiArquitectos

Brigadas en Frontera

ARKINKA Magazine

ARKINKA Conferences

AULA 3x1

JOURNALISM & CULTURAL PROMOTION ARQUIMAÑAS Blog

ARKINKA Tours

RESEARCH & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES PUCP

PUCP

MINEDU

UCAL

1. Office studio projects

Infrastructure Guidelines Urban Planning Architectural Design

Presidency of the Council of Ministers Special Project for the Bicentennial of Peru's Independence Senior Architect 2019-2020

• Propose Infrastructure and Ecology Guidelines for the implementation and operation of Cultural Parks that will be built in each of the 26 regions of the country in the framework of the celebration of the Bicentennial Independence of Peru (2021-2024).

• Coordinate with an interdisciplinary team the conceptualization of spaces and programs that the project will offer citizens.

• Develop the criteria for selecting land and coordinate with politicians and urban planners of municipalities to identify the most suitable land for each project.

PLAM 2035 The Metropolitan Plan of Urban Development of Lima and Callao Junior Architect 2014

• Mapping and proposals of uses for the management of undeveloped land around the metropolitan area.

• Researched for innovative propositions for Open Space and Ecological Infrastructure.

• The PLAM 2035 poses an understanding of the eco-systemic structure and an updated state of the art of urban, environmental, socioeconomic and cultural reality of the metropolis of Lima, that makes it possible to establish a framework of strategic proposals to achieve appropriate land use planning for sustainable development.

• The Open Space and Ecological Infrastructure Strategy, seeks to articulate urban ecosystems and open spaces into an integral metropolitan system that provides access to recreation and healthy environments to different social groups; increases the amount of public green spaces; allows the protection of metropolitan water bodies; the conservation and sustainable use of agricultural land; creates a system of green corridors that allow the regeneration of urban ecosystems and increase biodiversity; contribute to the preservation of archeological heritage; and articulates public open spaces with sustainable mobility.

51-1 Arquitectos Member of SUPERSUDACA Junior Architect 2012-2013

• Collaborated with developers to design a tourist and residential complex. DCO Ica - Luxury Hotel and Homes is located on a 20 hectares site between the desert and the countryside in Ica, Peru.

• Developed a proposal for a figeen-floor’s office building in Lima.

• Led the design of two houses. One in the hills of Lima and one on a cliff in Barranquilla, Colombia.

• Collaborated in the urban installation “Chairs on white” in the Nuit Blanche art festival edition in the streets of Lima.

2. Independent projects

Community Buildings Residential Buildings Learning Spaces Public Spaces

Church & Square of Santa Cruz Cañete, Lima, Peru 2016 – Partially built M. Samaniego, C. Restrepo

The 2007 Earthquake devastated several public buildings in southern Peru. The disaster is also the opportunity to rethink the traditional typology of the Church. The project offers flexible ritual and social spaces articulated by a space open to the public in the shade. The adjacent Square seeks to intensify community relations.

Charco Community Center Condesuyos, Arequipa, Peru 2018-2019 - Built M. Samaniego

Section The Community of Charco needed to rebuild its communal center, since it had been destroyed by the earthquake of 2001. Faced with this, the new building decided to clearly expose its structural elements to provide a pedagogy of seism resistance construction. On the other hand, the expression of the walls of the pink ashlar (a peculiar volcanic stone) give value to a local building material that is unfortunately being abandoned.

The land assigned to the building is relatively small and uneven. However, this condition is exploited to get the Community room to expand along the land, placing the public restrooms under the stand; and without losing with it, the required access from the street to both spaces.

This new building, in addition to offering functional meeting and celebration spaces, seeks to strengthen community bonds by integrating into the public space of the street. The stands, benches and planters that surround the building offer pleasant spaces in the shade for the socialization of the neighbors. Likewise, an atrium generates a larger meeting space in front of the entrance of the Community room and the staircase that connects the levels of offices and workshops.

Ispacas Community Center Condesuyos, Arequipa, Peru 2018-2019 - Built M. Samaniego

The mining boom in the region is reflected in the rapid transformation of the town of Ispacas. Old ashlar houses are being replaced by 3- or 4- story buildings that offer lodgings to mine workers. The Community of Ispacas has seen the opportunity to build a building that offers a Community room and offices in the first two levels, but also a hotel on the upper floors as a commitment to economic demand.

On the main front of the building there is a double height Atrium with a grandstand that allows to extend meetings or social events abroad, involving the community more openly. On the second level, a direct access from the street leads to the reception of the offices and hotel.

The building expresses its structural elements and uses the pink ashlar (a peculiar volcanic stone) to enhance this local building material that is sadly not using more in new buildings. The volumetry of the walls seeks to highlight this material, at the same time that it directs the windows of the hotel rooms towards the valley and the sunlight of the agernoon.

3. Activism & Social projects

Learning Spaces Public Spaces Community Buildings Participation-based Design & Construction Cicling culture

Park of Independencia & Community Center of Puerto Perú AULA – Learning Spaces Alto Amazonas, Loreto, Perú 2019 -2020 - Built

AULA – Learning Spaces is a social entrepreneurship that seeks to improve educational infrastructure in vulnerable areas of Peru through projects that promote children and community participation in design workshops.

Safe Way to School AULA – Learning Spaces Workshop Coordinator Miraflores, Lima, Perú 2017 - Built Camino Seguro al Cole (Safe Way to School) is a project requested by the Municipality of Miraflores developed together with Ocupa Tu Calle to promote the empowerment of children in the city.

Through participatory workshops with children from neighborhood schools, an urban intervention was achieved to improve road safety.

3x1 Stairs, Open Classroom & Multipurpose Space AULA – Learning Spaces Villa El Salvador, Lima, Perú 2017 - Built

It is not strange that some schools in Peru are built progressively thanks to collections or community work by parents. Villa de Jesus School is an example of this. In view of a future addition of classrooms on the second floor, we are commissioned to an apparently conventional project: stairs.

The imminent vocation of the stairs as a meeting space persuades us to rethink this ordinary element. By stretching the stands a tribune is created an Open Classroom - to exhibit, act, meet and play.

The amplitude, height and lighting of the space under the staircase allows it to be used as an office, library or study area.

The mural, conceived as part of the project and involving the children in its execution, codifies the tripartite relation of space (x, y, z), colors (C,Y,M) and proportions (1x, 2x, 3x). Moreover it celebrates that architecture can offer three functions having as commission only one.

BRIGADAS EN FRONTERA - PLAN SELVA Peruvian Ministry of Education Construction Lead Worker Nuevo Libertad, Loreto, Perú 2016 - Built Brigadas en Frontera (BeF) is a strategy that seeks to provide water and sanitation alternatives for school premises in the most remote rural areas of the Amazon.

First Prize in the category of "Social Habitat and Development" in the XX Biennial of Architecture of Quito 2016.

• Led a construction team made of architecture students and residents for alternative wood bathrooms in Nuevo Libertad village.

RUTA ALTERNA Citizen collective that promotes the design of safe spaces for urban cycling Co-founder 2017 - Proposal In an historic and active district such as Barranco, the introduction of a comprehensive network of bikeways is the opportunity to restructure the priorities of mobility systems and articulate public and cultural spaces for the enjoyment of neighbors and visitors.

The project starts with a workshop in which urban mobility professionals, cultural actors, university students of different careers and neighbors participate. At the end of it, the Ruta Alterna team elaborates a proposal that offers the Municipality as a citizen proposal.

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Bajada Armendáriz Bajada de Baños Costa Verde Malecon – Pedro de Osma Grau Lima – 28 de Julio El Sol – Heraud Pierola – Balta Saenz Peña – Raimondi

4. Journalism & Cultural promotion

Edition Articles Interviews Tours Conferences

ARKINKA Journal of architecture, design and building founded in 1995 Editor & Event Coordinator 2014-2016

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Selected topics and edited the content of thirty-three monthly editions.

Conceptualized the layout and proof-read the manuscripts.

Published articles in print and digital editions.

Research for monographs and interviewed prominent professionals.

Organized international guided-tours for architects.

Organized and hosted conferences.

5. Research & Academic experiences

Consultant Assistant Teacher Research Project Final Year Project

Peruvian Ministery of Education Independent Consultant 2017

• Evaluation of actual student residences from the most isolated areas in the Amazon Rainforest and the Andes Mountains. By reviewing international best practices, I proposed Infrastructure Guidelines for new Student Residences to the Peruvian Government.

Organizational chart for New Student Residences

Organizational chart of the residential area

Architectural scheme of a communal bedroom

UCAL Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de América Latina Teaching Assistant Design Studio 3 Professor: David Barragán (Al borde) 2017 This is a participatory architecture and construction workshop where the academy has the great ambition to train not only future professionals, but agents of change in the city. A comprehensive work methodology is proposed that is given thanks to the cooperation of different institutions and community participation, fundamental for the sustainability of the project.

• Direction of the collective construction of a Community Centre in coordination with the community leaders of Nuevo Amanecer and the managers of NGO Cesal.

• Evaluated the work of the students in class and in the construction.

City on Violent Landscapes: Urban habilitation strategies of the sand quarries of Southeast of Lima Research Project 2011

The topic developed dealt with the regeneration of mining remnants in urban land. In effect, the city of Lima has expanded widely over the territory that includes natural and artificial landscapes. This research focuses on the regeneration of the soil used for the extraction of sand in urban land for residential use. The work comparatively analyzes cases in both formal and informal city. This research have a meticulous analysis, including cartography and testimonies of citizens. The research was 40,000 words long.

Breakwater & Bathing-place: Landscape and Public Space Regeneration on the artificial coastline of Lima Final Year Project 2011

Marc Alberto Samaniego De Rycker Architect CONTACT: marc.sdr@gmail.com +0051 994 997 325 +0051 01636 5939 San Ignacio de Loyola 356, dpto. 301 15074 - Miraflores - Lima - Perú