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P O R T F O L I O MARIA PAULA VEGA GUALDRÓN Architecture 2018-2023

Author: Maria Paula Vega Gualdrón Bogotá D.C, Colombia 2023 All rights reserved.

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MARIA PAULA VEGA GUALDRÓN

MENTIONS “Orden al mérito académico Javeriano”

ARCHITECT

EDUCATION Architecture degree

2023 Academic award CONTACT mariapvegag@gmail.com

2023 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

(+57) 3013370390

Senior Highschool

https://issuu.com/mpvg

Link portfolio

2017 Colegio Agustiniano Ciudad Salitre

Exhibition at Biennale di Venezia

2020 Project: Wich city for wich future?- Chapinero Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Politécnico di Torino Postulation - Honorable mention of the degree Work

December 2022 Project: “Ruta de reparación colectiva para la paz y la memoria en la hoya del río Suarez.”

Honorable Mention - Velodrome contest in Bogotá

WORK EXPERIENCE CivilTeknia S.A.S

May - August 2022 Participation on the public space and landscaping manual for the “Hacienda Cauchitos” project located in the city of Ibague.

Design of public space plans, construction of technical sheets, build-up details and support in the post-production area.

MRV Architects

January - July 2022 Design and construction Drawing and modeling residential projects, furniture design, production of 3D images and support at the graphic design area.

Velodrome contest in Bogotá

December 2021 A+3 Architecture With Arq. Alberto Aranda and Arq. Nicolás Monje.

December 2021 A+3 Architecture

COLLECTIVE Colombian Society of Architects

2020 - Ongoing Active member of the student group of the Colombian society of architects (CESCA).

LANGUAGES English B2

Certified by the TOEIC test.

Italian B1

Course at the Istituto Italiano di cultura Spanish

Native

SOFTWARE SKILLS

AutoCad Archicad Revit Rhinoceros SketchUp

Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Lightroom Adobe Bridge

3ds Max Enscape Lumion V-ray

ArcGis Global Mapper Excel M. Project

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COLLETIVE REPARATION PATH FOR PEACE AND MEMORY 2022 Senior project

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HABITAT PROJECT SXXI HOUSING COOPERATIVE

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PEOPLE´S HOUSING PROJECT INTERWOVEN NEIGHBOURHOOD 2021 Académic project

2021 Academic project

URBAN CENTERS PROJECT 2020 Exhibited at the Venice Biennale Academic project

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OTHER PROJECTS 2022 - 2023 Work field - Velodrome contest in Bogotá - Residential complex - Public space and landscaping manual for the “Hacienda Cauchitos” project

COLLECTIVE REPARATION PATH FOR PEACE AND MEMORY Located in Santander, Colombia.

Designed by Maria Paula Vega G. December 2022

The senior project proposes an alternative repairing route for peace and memory in the municipalities along the Suárez River, through commemorative public spaces that face the invisibilization of the multiple conflicts that have struck the territory in recent decades.

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Understanding the silent violence that transformed the territory is fundamental to the analysis and what leads to a first territorial proposal, the “collective reparation path for peace and memory.” Based on the above, a reflection is generated around the architecture of memory, how this can deal the tragedy of naturalizing the war and let see what happened in the territory.

The collective reparation path contributes to this whole process of recognition, significance and healing for the territory and its inhabitants.

Strategic spaces are located that have been the basis for the connection of these sectors that make up the journey and provide spaces for recognition and peace.

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OVERALL PICTURE LOCATION

T E R R I T OR Y Ecorregión Suárez Chicamocha It contains part of the departments of Santander and Boyacá

GENERAL ISSUE Forced displacement by violence.

60% 40%

They came from the south of Cesar, South of Bolívar, North of Santander and Northeast of Antioquia From Magdalena Medio Santandereano and Barrancabermeja

The concept of “territory” is taken from the author Ovidio Delgado of his book“Space, territory and region: basic concepts for a national project” (Mahecha, O. 1998). Which, is understood as the scenario of social relations and the spatial capacity of different actors to create, appropriate, recreate, different territorialities in those spaces of power and dominion. It is a mutable, unbalanced mobile space; a changing geosocial reality that requires new forms of territorial organization.

+4.9 Millon people internally and forced displaced

+90Thousand missing people +27k victims of kidnapping 2.552 massacres between 1980 - 2014 23.161 mass murders

Cover of the book “Space, territory and region: basic concepts for a national project.” Ovidio Delgado Mahecha.

Longitudinal elevations

PROBLEM The forgetfulness that has constrained almost to the oblivion of the violent acts that the territory of the river Suarez has suffered.

Colombia has been the victim, for more than sixty years, of the internal conflict that has generated the increase in numbers in internal displacement, kidnappings, torture, abuses, among others; that have taken the lives of many inhabitants throughout the nation. Similarly, vulnerability, socio-territorial deterioration and lack of State presence and intervention in Colombia’s rural territories have created a habitat with precarious conditions for the population.

82% of the victims of the armed conflict were documented on the department.

Figura No. 33. Sección longitudinal 1 del territorio. Adaptada de Google Earth. Elaboración propia.

Longitudinal section 2 of the territory. Adapted from Google Earth. Own elaboration.

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TERRITORY ANALYSIS Hydrographic

Environmental

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1. Magdalena river 2. Suárez river 3. Chicamocha river 4. Fonce river 5. Mogoticos river 6. Boyacá Harbor 7. Fúquene reservoir Municipalities adjacent to the Suarez River

Water tributary diagram of the territory. Adapted from ArcGis. Own elaboration.

Protected areas Integrate Management District Natural national park Fauna and Flora Sanctuary

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The ELN

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Diagram of natural areas and extractive activities of the territory. Adapted from the Development of the stage of formulation of the Departmental Planning Plan-POD of Santander. Own elaboration.

Land-use

Institutional sustainable management sustainable management of plantations

Frente 12 Frente 23 Frente 45 Frente Adonay Ardila Pinilla Frente Guillermo Antonio Vásquez Frente Capitán Palermo

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Frente Comuneros Cacique Guanentá Frente Lanceros Vélez y Boyacá

Diagram of social conflicts in the territory. Adapted from Verdadabierta.com. Own elaboration.

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Mass removal phenomenon Landslides

Social

FARC

Extractive activities Mining Titles Oil Blocks Undifferentiated erosion

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Natural forest intervened Secondary natural forest Transient annual cultivation Permanent cultivation Semi-permanent cultivation Potters with natural pastures Material Lands Moorland vegetation Xerophytic vegetation

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Environmental Planning Plan of the territory. Adapted Adapted from the Development of the stage of formulation of the Departmental Planning Plan-POD of Santander. Own elaboration.

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DIAGNOSIS PLAN OF THE TERRITORY How through architecture can we face the invisibilization of violence?

How can we repair from places and memory?

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Characterization of south municipalities to intervene. Own elaboration.

Characterization of north municipalities to intervene. Own elaboration.

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CATALOGUE OF INTERVENTIONS

ACTIONS - REMEMBERING This action is a sowing for the conservation of the native species of the territory, generating several forests as new lungs along the route.

ACTIONS OF - REMINISCE AND CONNECT

This action seeks to plant a tree in the name of a person who died as a result of the conflicts that occurred in the territory.

The range of sensory experiences provides several spaces with different elements and materials that resemble what the victims lived.

Conciliation trails allow to connect with the different actions along the route by means of natural paths.

This action seeks to give new meaning to those vestiges that are in disuse and allow them to re-articulate to the current and future network of dynamics.

Living shipwrecks arise from propitiating places that denote absence and other negative effects that left a mark on the territory.

Latent paths allow to connect with the different actions along the route generating spaces of permanence and encounter.

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This action seeks to situate several informative devices that relate and make visible the conflicts that were experienced.

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CATALOGUE OF INTERVENTIONS

LINKING ACTIONS

ACTIONS TO FORESEE

Dialog channels generate spaces for re-connection and permanence in a natural environment.

Walking stories emerges as an ephemeral transportable commercial support and spreading to the actions described above.

Spaces for reconnecting and remembering, are those that address the contemplation of memory.

Native conservation are places dedicated to workshops that share the knowledge of the native species of the territory, their origin, conservation and production.

Those passages of memory, are the viewpoints between the treetops, the mountain reliefs or near the river, that allow to contemplate the territory and the landscapes that compose it.

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Ancestral teachings are places dedicated to workshops where you can share the knowledge you have of the different artisanal and/or productive techniques of the territory such as pottery vessels, fabrics in fique, the production of organic paper, among others.

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Imaginary project of the viewpoint of memory in the municipality of San José de Pare. Own elaboration.

Imaginary project of the revitalization of fragments in the municipality of San Gil. Own elaboration.

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URBAN CENTERS PROJECT Located in Bogotá, Colombia.

Designed by Emely Roldán , Miguel Angel Triana and Maria Paula Vega G. May 2020

In this project, an urban intervention was carried out in the city of Bogotá, in the sector of Chapinero. Starting from an urban analysis of the sector and taking production as the basis of the physical spatial transformations that are evidenced, a series of phenomena were identified emerging and are the engine of those changes. Based on the above, a series of intervention strategies were generated at urban and neighborhood level, where a series of catalytic devices were generated that allow the creation of this new identified polyproduction and allows to potentialize new dynamics in the territory.

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OVERALL PICTURE I N D U S T R I A L

North East

C R E A T I V E

Locality of Chapinero UPZT: Pardo Rubio

Types of production

C U L T U R A L

Nolli plan of Chapinero Central . Own elaboration

Bogotá, Colombia

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LOCATION

E C O N O M I C

The sector has a pulviscular production condition, given its size limitation, that is colonizing the sector and is organized around emergent proximities that gravitate around the 7th avenue produced from internal metamorphosis originating a replica of identities of camouflaged landscapes, detected from the condition of use of space and induced by tendential dynamics, adapting to the new requirements of the city and managing to enhance integration with other uses.

Collage exterior facades

Interior spatiality collage

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FUTURE VISION COLLAGE POLYPRODUCTIVE DISTRICT

It seeks to strengthen the current production, to enable the interventions and transformations to achieve a greater character, becoming a center of business, scientific, technological and cultural activity of the city; providing new spaces for the arrival of new productions similar to the current ones, which generate a heterogeneous development and greater competitiveness.

Designing strategic spaces for the development of these new productions that, in the same way, favor the transmission of knowledge to the productive system, where it is necessary that the centers of scientific, technological and creative innovation, be located close to the companies. Likewise, the increase in buildability allows urban renewal projects to contribute to the re-urbanization of all streets in the sector and generate new green areas, equipment and housing that decisively improve the quality of life in the territory.

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Based on the general analysis and the vision taken according to the trends of the territory, a master plan is designed to enhance production, complement and support the other services, achieving greater cooperation between them and an improvement in the quality of life of the inhabitants. This, by means of specific interventions, located in strategic places so that they function as axes, catalysts and connectors between the same sector and with the rest of the city.

Progressive axonometric view . Own elaboration

Nolli plan of Chapinero Central . Own elaboration

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MASTER PLAN

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HABITAT PROJECT SXXI HOUSING COOPERATIVE Located in Bogotá, Colombia.

Designed by Laura Nova, Jesús Orjuela and Maria Paula Vega G. June 2021

The housing cooperative project is located in the west of the city of Bogotá, in the upz Fontibón. In this project an analysis was made of what contemporary and future habitation means and implies. Based on this, we propose a restructuring of the Santander neighborhood, with the implementation of a mixed housing project, 100 street with 22th avenue, where one of the stations of the regiotram project will settle. Coming to propose a post-covid housing cooperative based on a circular, selfsufficient and sustainable economy; using design to help revitalize a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city and to provide its residents with a unique environment that encourages community generation.

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OVERALL PICTURE LOCATION

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Bogotá, Colombia West High population increase

Tourism potential

Deficit of 2m2 of square public space per inhabitant.

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Urban center

INHABIT BIOGRAMS Conformation of the proprioceptive dimension of the Hyper Topological Figure which is that final perception of the user with its habitable environment.

We are located in the western periphery of Bogotá, sector of Fontibón where we saw different opportunities since in the future the station of Regiotram of the west will be located, we also appreciate the tourism potential of the sector while being located near to the international airport. This analysis led us to identify certain problems in the quality of the habitation of the users of the sector among which we observed an overcrowding in the houses and a lack of connection to surrounding public spaces, therefore the inhabiting does not satisfy the basic needs of the users.

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Conexión Urbana

Collage inspired of “Parables for the Virtual Movement-Affect-Sensation”. Own elaboration.

A - Estación de transporte masivo B - Espacio verde cerca a la vivienda C - Acceso a un comercio zonal o local cercano D - Condiciones certificadas de una arquitectura sostenible E - Cercanía a espacios culturales F - Espacios productivos

Relevancia espacial 3.67 4.80 4.33 4.46 4.13 3.41

A - Sala/comedor B - Cocina y zona de ropas C - Terraza D - Estudio E - Habitación F - Baño

Neuro arquitectura 4.25 4.18 3.40 3.80 4.40 3.95

A - Iluminación natural B - Materialidad C - Conexión con la naturaleza D - Creación de comunidad E - Confort acústico F - Adaptabilidad de los espacios

4.80 3.96 4.11 3.45 4.11 4.21

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DIAGNOSIS AND PROPOSAL Urban synthesis

PROJECT FORMULATION

Allowed height 8 floors with respect to the road Occupation rate 0,7 with respect to the roadand lot

Urban Proposal environmental connection, dissipation of activities and with road network

Building typology Tipe C - Continuous Insulation between buildings Continuous and 3m recoil starting from 2nd floor Uses Main dwelling Secondary Trade Complementary: Commercial zonal, offices, institutional and industry.

Parking Owners - 1 per dwelling Visitors - 1 in 3 dwellings

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PLANT PLANS

First floor

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Second level

Third level

Fourth level

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North section in perspective

Fifth level

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Roof level

Western section in perspective

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Construction detail on a sectioned axonometry . Own elaboration.

Construction detail on a sectioned axonometry . Own elaboration.

PEOPLE’S HOUSING PROJECT INTERWOVEN NEIGHBOURHOOD Located in Bogotá, Colombia.

Designed by Jesús Orjuela, Juan Granados and Maria Paula Vega G. November 2021

The popular housing project consists of analyzing the dynamics of selfbuilt neighborhoods, understanding the popular neighborhood as an urban ecosystem consisting of housing organisms that is in a constant mutation process by the dialectical relationship between territory and social dynamics. Taking into account the above, a territorial proposal is developed in the Caracoli and Santa Viviana neighborhoods to respond to this accelerated growth, urban disconnection and housing deficit. Similarly, a proposal is proposed on a smaller scale that responds to the precarious conditions under which it is found.

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OVERALL PICTURE LOCATION

TYPES AND TIMES OF MUTATION

USOS

ESTRUCTURA

ESPACIOS

ACABADOS

Bogotá, Colombia North East

Locality of Ciudad Bolívar Neighborhood: Santa Viviana, Caracolí and la isla

Self-built housing

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Study polygon West elevation The popular neighborhood is an urban ecosystem made up of housing organisms that is in a constant process of mutation due to the dialectical relationship between the territory and social dynamics.

The houses are constantly changing, since it´s owners of these increase their height in flats with the purpose of hybridizing the housing with spaces with commercial, industrial, endowment or artistic cultural spaces, that allows to make more economic profit from the housing.

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Caracolí

Santa Viviana

SANTA VIVIANA

Progressive axonometry mutation of a residence

SOACHA

CARACOLÍ N

Percentage of slope by area

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INTERVENTION

MASTER PLAN

Morphology

1. Transect

Uses

2. Neighbourhood

Moments

Activities

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Master plan . Own elaboration

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3. Urban tissue

4. Urban compactness

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1. RELATION BETWEEN BLOCKS

2. INTEGRATE ISOLATES SPACES

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INTERVENTION CRITERIA 4. GENERATE PUBLIC SPACE.

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Prospects of the project Interwoven neighbourhood. Own elaboratio.

Vision and parameters of design Interwoven neighbourhood. Own elaboratio.

OTHER PROJECTS Work field Designed by Maria Paula Vega G. 2022

Compilation of several projects that I made during the pre-professional practices in MRV Architects and other works including the competition for the Bogota velodrome during the year 2022. Developing in the area of residential housing design, single and multi-family, educational equipment design, layout and editing of books, landscape projects, construction details, guidelines for the design of public space, furniture modeling and postproduction of images.

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VELODROME CONTEST IN BOGOTÁ December 2021 A+3 Architecture With Arq. Alberto Aranda and Arq. Nicolás Monje.

SHEET 1

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SHEET 2

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RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX IN IBAGUE, COLOMBIA.

SHEET 3

April 2022 MRV Architects With Arq. Mauricio Rojas.

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There is a variation of the towers of Villavicencio in the format of duplex houses, where there are two houses in height and twelve along the land, generating a total of forty-eight houses. The house located on the first floor has 135m2, on the first floor of 60m2 and a second floor of 75m2. In the second house has the basement invested in the plants and also with a total of 135m2. Both consist of kitchen, living room, dining room, cellar space, stairs, three alcoves, three bathrooms and two terraces.

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MANUAL OF PUBLIC SPACE AND LANDSCAPING

Some pages drawn from the manual. Chapter details of boulevard and roads

Design guidelines for the project “Hacienda Cauchitos” August 2022 CivilTeknia S.A.S, 2 Latitudes and Contacto Urbinco.

With Arq. Paula A. Restrepo.

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Some pages drawn from the manual. Chapter technical and constructive details

Some pages drawn from the manual. Chapter technical and constructive details

POST PRODUCTION OF RENDERS IMAGES FOR A CONTEST IN CHILE February 2023 MRV Architects With Arq. Mauricio Rojas.

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