Sam Aguirre. 2021 Architecture portfolio.

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ARCHITECTURE

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S A M AGUIRRE 2018 - 2020 selected projects

SAMANTHA AGUIRRE JUÁREZ 13359 Berlin, Deutschland.

+49 0176 7414 8367 portamento.arq@gmail.com

website: https://aguirresam.wixsite.com/samaguirre

EDUCATION 2020Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart Masters in Architecture. (exchange student)

Architecture student in the process of obtaining her degree. Her subjects of focus are the design of architectural-urban projects from a sociological perspective and the conservation of the architectural heritage.

2020 Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, Federal Government of Mexico

She obtained a diploma in Cultural Management where she presented a project for the conservation of Mexican architectural-urban heritage with a focus on the preservation of leisure culture in public space.

2015 - 2021 National Autonomous University of Mexico

Diploma in Cultural Management. Focused in heritage conservation and leisure culture.

Bachelors in Architecture. (expected August 2021)

INTERNSHIPS

SOFTWARE SKILLS

2020-

Design

2020

2019

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Internship - Seminarist and teaching assistance.

Taught three workshops about the design of architecture portfolios.

Currently assist the professors in the architectural project design workshop.

Código Comunicación | Mexico City

Internship - Multimedia content design, event photography Photographed social events carried out by this company of public image and strategic positioning dealing directly with the customers. Took responsibility recording and editting the audiovisual material for client delivery. Produced the editorial design and the graphic content for the company’s social media.

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Internship - Research assistance Assisted in an urban research project focused on public space in San José, Costa Rica producing urban mappings and collecting data.

EXPERIENCE 2019

20182019

2017

University Museum of Contemporary Art | Mexico City

Lumion InDesign Illustrator Photoshop Lightroom Premiere Pro In learning process 3dsMax Rhino

National Museum of Architecture | Mexico City

After Effects

Enscape

Voluntary job - Curatorship and multimedia content designer "La otra modernidad" a Carlos Leduc’s architectural work exhibit.

Dreamweaver

Voluntary job - Mounting and dismantling of museography "La otra modernidad" a Carlos Leduc’s architectural work exhibit.

Pro Tools

Atom

Mexico City

Voluntary social work Provided architectural assistance after the September 19th earthquake that struck Mexico. Damage assessment, data collection, and support for the affected community.

Scholarship holder

“Legacy Santander scolarship” Selected project

Design competition by Auditivos Urquieta

Designed an architectural renovation of one of Auditivos Urquieta properties in Mexico City.

2019

Sketchup

Vectorworks

One of the 20 emerging artists selected in Mexico by Santander Bank.

2020

Autocad

Voluntary job- Special event assistant Helped with the assembly of art pieces that were part of the exhibition “restablecer memorias” by Ai Weiwei.

ACHIEVEMENTS 2020

Revit

Selected photographer

Photography contest by Culturans

Photography contest for the “MEXICO CITYROOM-PEKIN” cultural pavilion designed by Culturans in the Beijing Design Week 2019.

LANGUAGES and INTERESTS Spanish (Native) English (Fluent C1) German (B1) Portuguese (B1) Bassist, guitarist and self-taught music composer. Freelance photographer.

Freelance archviz. Hand drafting/ modelling. Cultural Heritage history research. Urban Sociology.

heritage preservation an intervention for “bacardi factory” (state of mexico) a rehabilitation for “la cubana” (mexico city)

“la otra mirada” exhibit mexico city _2018

national museum of geolo mexico city _2019

herita of “st huasc _2020

urban scale

table of contents.

In my profession what I find most relevant is the transdisciplinary and multiscalar work under a social and humanistic approach. I faithfully believe that in any circumstance of life the process is more important than the final result, and that this result can always become in a beginning.

“Hasta que la dignidad se haga costumbre” -Jacinta Francisco Marcial

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age categorization ta. maria regla” ca, hidalgo 0

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e projects modal transfer centrum “Taxqueña (mexico city 2018)

otumara’s urban regeneration + housing master plan lagos, nigeria stuttgart, germany _2020

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housing a house for a writer (mexico city 2016) a housing extension (mexico city 2016) a housing complex (queretaro 2017)

Moctezuma 105 mexico city 2020

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medium scale a library with a coffe house (mexico city 2016) an ecological hostel (mexico city 2017) an apartment building (mexico city 2017) a train station for Izamal (yucatán 2019)

research

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otumara. urban regeneration+ housing master plan.

“Informal settlements are not a problem, they are the solution to a problem: the lack of shelter within an unequal system.”

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Entwerfen + städtebau Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart 2020 328,500 m2 collective work

The city of Lagos is an important economic center of Nigeria, generating about 10% of the country’s GDP. It has been ranked as one of the most expensive cities in the world in terms of minimum wage/cost of living. In some parts of Lagos, residents have one of the highest standards of living in Africa.

At the same time, a considerable proportion of inhabitants live in slums.

The aim of this work was to find one of the many possible answers that could contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the inhabitants of the urban community of Otumara, one of the slums in the heart of Lagos.

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urban context Lagos is one of Africa’s megacities. It is the most populous city in Nigeria and its financial center. Within the African context, Lagos has the fourth highest GDP in Africa and is home to one of the largest and busiest seaports on the continent.

Lagos is one of the cities with the highest annual population growth in the world.

Lagos Population 2020 14,368,332

Growth Rate 3.26%

project location Otumara, Lagos Founded in the late 1970s, Otumara is considered one of the poorest informal settlements within the urban area of Lagos. The community still has a very traditional way of life where a monarchy with strong religious roots prevails.

Being a marginal neighborhood, it is disjointed from its immediate context, lacking basic public and social infrastructure, in addition to a deficit of services and equipment that prevents the full development of its inhabitants.

Otumara Population 2020 12,000 aprox.

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master plan phase 1 Understanding Urban systems.

Research.

phase 2 Reading Urban systems. Future scenarios development.

phase 3 Designing Urban systems. Concept and urban design.

project structure

Six Focus Topics To develop a comprehensive masterplan students from Germany and Nigeria divided themselves in six focus groups.

Consisting of the three urban metabolisms: water, waste and energy. As well as: housing, mobility and public life.

Reaching the phase of designing a new Otumara is only possible through the knowledge gained in the previous phases of the studio: First, in-depth research about all

the topics in various scales to understand the urban systems.

Second, reading the urban systems and developing cocepts through future scenario planning.

water

housing

by Catherine Greiner

by Vivienne Meyer Sam Aguirre

waste

mobility

by Aylin Büyükleyla Chukwudumebi Asem

by Linda Heiss Boluwatife Soremi

energy

public life

by Eva Ho Chukwudumebi Asem

by Adeposi Adeogun Boluwatife Soremi

final urban master plan

mobility hubs.

Credits: Adeogun, Heiss.

material recovery center.

Credits: Büyükleyla, Asem.

water & sanitation hub.

Credits: Greiner.

community hub.

Credits: Ho.

Generall visions and values for Otumara’s master plan.

pathways within clusters.

Credits: Adeogun, Soremi.

women center.

Credits: Ho.

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Legibility Spatial legibility as the possibility of organizing the given environment within an coherent pattern and connect it to the wider urban fabric.

Sufficiency Creating a condition or quality of being adequate or sufficient while making optimal use of the available resources.

Identity Identity of an urban place is the total of both physical and socialdistinctive features that is unique to it. Sense of belonging are central to perceived urban identity.

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Set up community savings groups.

Identify new waste collection points & provide waste bins.

Volunteers to collect plastic bag waste for road paving Material Recovery.

Illustrate typical paving stone fabrication - training & education.

Upgrade current water vendors (digitap, filtration & treatments).

Introduce & promote new mobility vehicles.

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implementability timeline

Introduce Solar Kiosks.

Provide Public toilets to improve sanitation.

Set up new water & sanitation hubs.

Introduce ‘Plant a Tree Initiative’.

Acquire fabrication site & commence fabrication of paving stones.

Part one construction of community hub.

year 1-3

Installation of solar flood lights in public spaces.

Set up small scale biogas testing.

Start up construction for temporary community house.

Construction of mobility hub.

Construction of secondary school.

Occupant of first compoud move to community house.

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Connecting road construction begins.

House demolition & start of construction.

Swales and drainages fully incorporated.

Installation of solar street lighting on streets.

4 year 3-5

Integrated boreholes & water treatment for individual compounds.

Installation of solar panels on the roofs.

Upgrade of existing connector roads.

Occupants move into new compound.

Compound B joins in the newly constructed compound.

Introduce biogas to new compound.

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Renaturalizing the canal.

Replenishing the lagoon. year 5-15

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housing proposal total area (dense Otumara)

building footprint (average Otumara)

1 house 60-120 inhabitans

170.500 sqm

300 sqm including 16 rooms á 15 sqm

1 room 4 - 8 inhabitants

Overcrowding is a problem that brings with it exponential consequences; the lack of decent housing deteriorates social well-being and degenerates the community fabric.

In the housing proposal, a main issue has been to provide a greater amount of m2 to each member of the community to promote the full development of the individual, both personal and collective.

overview typologies

AREA 5 No intervention _coverage 60% built space _hight: 1-4 storey buildings

AREA 4 High Buildings in the North _coverage 50% built space _hight: max. 5 storey buildi

AREA 5

POTENTIAL

UNDER PRESSURE

BUILDINGS WHICH ARE MEANT TO BE PRESERVED

OVERUSE OF INFRASTRUCTURE OLD DAMAGED HOUSING STRUCTURES

LAKE “NAME”

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decreasing building height and compounds size

increasing flood

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INTERVENTION

AREA 3

EXISTING

AREA 2

decreasing density

AREA 1

decreasing vulnerability

AREA 3 Dense Central Area _coverage 50% built space _hight: max. 4 storey buildings

AREA 1 Living with _coverage 3 _hight: max _flood prote on stilts

+ large free water

AREA 2 Small compounds with M Pathway to Allow Drainag Small Buildings to Allow tural Windflow _coverage: 50% built space _hight: max. 3 storey buildi _flood protection: buildings higher foundations + swails through the courtyards

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intervention 2-5 storey buildings 30-50% coverage

1 storey buildings 40-80% coverage

12,000 inhabitants

2.5 - 5 sqm/person

examplary cluster

+50% inhabitants

+ private space + public space

18,000 inhabitants

min 6.75 sqm/person

floorplan and section of the examplary cluster

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view of a cluster yard from one of the rooms.

Otumara as a progressive and connected community where the residents feel a sense of belonging and a security of tenure while enhancing an optimal use of their avaiable resources.

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MGMT proposal main actors involved in the housing interventions

Chiefs

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AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria

loans small projects (existing housing improvements)

small projects (public kitchens, sanitation)

loans

large projects

commissions German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

(new houses)

loans

SAVING GROUP (private) N500 week (1.08 eur)

loans

supports KFW Bank

SAVING GROUP (community) N500 week (1.08 eur)

supports

RESIDENTS

Nigerian Slum and Informal Settlement Federation Slum Dwellers International Justice and Empower Initiative Nigeria

finance training and construction

EXPERTS (Residents/external) organizing Nigerian Slum and Informal Settlement Federation

Justice and Empower Initiative Nigeria

conducting

construction of houses training & workshops participating

WORKERS RESIDENTS

timeline

PRESENT

INMEDIATE ACTION

MIDDLE TERM

SHORT TERM 1 month

dwellers are highly dependent on the landlords, no long-term security of tenure and affordability.

adressing landlords and residents with new housing upgrading ideas

landlords owns the land.

introduction to finance possibilities identification of suitable empty spots for construction of temporary homes participatory workshops for future hosuing

construction of temporary shelters for around 1000 people that can be used suring implementation of hubs and new houses. (in total 34 rooms á 5 storeys, every person having 6,75 sqm)

start construc of community including mate construction s training centre

resettlement of peo from most press Area 1 in tempo homes

implementability

PRESENT dwellers are highly dependent on the landlords, no longterm security of tenure ans affordability

LAND

land is owned by various landlords

new housing development demands re-structuring of existing land plots

external institution buys land from landlords

landlord owns land and house

HOUSES dwellers pay rent to landlords

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external institution provides loan for the construction of the new houses through saving groups for large projects

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LONG TERM 2 months

24 months (12 bimesters)

ction hub erial site/

construction of new homees for the people being resetled in their former areas (as far as possible)

each bimester resetlement of people into temporary home + constructing around 180 rooms distributed on two storeys.

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while staying in the temporary homes, the people help constructing their new places.

total construction of 2000 rooms for all former residents (distributed on 2 storeys with the possibility to be increased to 3-5 storeys).

150 rooms for the former landlords (on 1 storey with the possibility to increase to 5 storeys).

residents can incrementally upgrade their houses + infrastructure.

Such as: increasing the living area through more storeys, implementing private kitchens or else.

LONG TERM

future ownership concept long-term security of tenure and affordability through Land Association

dwellers can own their houses and a share of the land land is in the hand of all residents of Otumara represented through the Land Association

dwellers pay back the loan in form of rent

new dwellers pay rent to landlords

if loan is paid, dwellers own their space + a share of the land

dwellers have the possibility to own the space after they pay an initial commitment fee (5%) the remaining balance is spread over 10 years.

landlords get land in the northern part of Otumara as a compensation + houses foundations which they can upgrade to 5 storeys.

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Moctezuma a housing rehabilitation.

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selected design Auditivos Urquieta 2020 95 m2 individual work

Moctezuma is a rehabilitation project for an apartment located in the heart of one of the most important historical neighborhoods of Mexico City, “barrio del Carmen” in Coyoacán. The apartment is located on the ground floor of a building on Moctezuma street built in the 70’s.

This project consisted in the redesign of one of the properties of the company “auditivos Urquieta”, a company based in Mexico City.

After his search for an architect/ designer who could take on the project, we have found each other.

As they liked my initial proposal, therefore they started the design of a preliminary architectural project that included an interior design.

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re-designing

The most important condition for the design of the proposal was the non-intervention in the structure of the apartment. Rigid concrete frames are the structural system of the building, however due to its age it is a risk to intervene certain walls responsible for the spatiality of the apartment.

On the negative side, the rigidity in the spatiality of the apartment could diminish a fluid adaptation of the space based on the client’s requirements.

In order to solve this, a couple of solutions have been proposed.

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question.

solution.

a. Just one bathroom in the whole apartment, integrated to the main bedroom.

a. Main bathroom in what was formerly the “maid’s quarters”.

b. Old-school useless deep closets, one in each bedroom.

b. Removal of the dividing wall of the closets to make room for a private bathroom.

c. Parcial lack of natural light in the main room.

c. Redefinition of the openings in the kitchen.

d. Insufficient kitchen space

d. Removal of the kitchen’s dividing wall.

living room perspective

furniture design

As part of the design proposal, unique pieces of furniture were designed for some spaces.

kitchen For the kitchen a peninsula was designed.

It includes shelves, a food rack and a breakfast table.

living room and berooms

windows

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shelf closet

dining room perspective

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architecture faculty National Autonomus University of Mexico 2018 individual work

National Museum of Geology a historical heritage research project + architecture photography This project arises from the need to catalog the building that houses the National Museum of Geology as a building with artistic heritage value in Mexico City. Immovable heritage is divided into two categories in Mexico; heritage of historical value and heritage of artistic value, being the building of the National Museum of Geology part of the second category.

A historic building is classified with artistic value if it was built after the beginning of the 20th century. At the national level, the catalogue of assets of artistic value is incomplete and deficient.

Therefore, it was my task to complement it.

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examplary catalogue card

Both print and digital sources were used to conduct this research. With the information obtained, a “catalog card”was created; this element was meant to be included in the national catalog of properties with artistic value, a task in charge of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature.

Having this information available on a digital platform facilitates the work of safeguarding national historical heritage.

The following is an extract of the information gathered about the building. the building Of undoubted urban, architectonic and historic value the Museum of Geology was one of the first enclosures created for the exhibition of modern objects in Latin America.

This building is located in Jaime Torres Bodet Street #17 in the, also historical, neighborhood of Santa María la Ribera. It was designed and built in the years between 1890 and

1906 by the architect Carlos Herrera López and the engineer Guadalupe Aguilera Serrano. The building was originally created for being the home of the National Geological Institute.

It was inaugurated on September 6th in 1906 and it wasn’t until 1929 that it became one of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México museums.

On the main façade one can appreciate how the masonry is composed of drip stones, protruding cords, skirting boards and projections that accompany a rustic cushioning that goes from the ground floor to the semi-basement.

Jamb stones frame the high openings and semicircular arches on the upper floor. Underneath the

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cords there are motifs in the form of a reticular band that surrounds the whole building, as well as fossil motifs in half-relief accompanied by small rosettes in half-relief. In the semi-basement there are reduced openings framed by Ionic columns.

On the upper floor the cornice of the architrave is decorated in stone.

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A staircase that occupies a third part of the façade leads to the access portico. The façade of the portico has medallions with natural motifs in the tympanums, these same medallions with small variations are found inside the portico at both ends.

The main hall is the most striking and complex space in the building.

Upon entering you are greeted by huge wooden doors with carved iron handles plated in gold plate, the floor is filled with mosaics like pastiches and wavy scrolls imported from Italy.

A central dome and an incredible helical-shaped iron staircase made in Leipzig, Germany envelop the user in a panoptic view full of beauty.

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architecture faculty unam national institute of fine arts 2017-2018 exhibition collective work

the other modernity An exhibit about the work of Carlos Leduc Montaño.

Carlos Leduc was a Mexican architect whose work belonged to the rationalist modernist movement.

His work has been of vital relevance in the historical process of modernist architecture in Mexico. Although he was never a popular architect nor did he get the recognition he deserved, it is well known that the architect’s contributions are still valid even today in architectural practice as well as in academia.

The process of this exhibition has been developed over years of planning, management, research, development and assembly by teachers and students of the Carlos Leduc Montaño Workshop.

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The exhibit took place at the National Museum of Architecture, which is located at the upper floor of the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, the most important art venue in Mexico.

I took the responsibility of documenting and post-producing the audiovisual material included in the exhibition mainly.

I conducted interviews and produced five short films as part of the didactic content of the exhibition. On the other hand, I supported various activities around the exhibition, from making models to the assembly and disassembly of the exhibition itself within the enclosure.

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architecture faculty National Autonomus University of Mexico 2020 individual work/ collective work

Santa maría regla Documentation and classification of an historic property. + Heritage management plan.

Santa María Regla was a metals melting “hacienda” built and founded in the 17th century and located in the magical town of Huasca de Ocampo in the State of Hidalgo.

The Hacienda became the most important center in New Spain for the processing and purification of gold and silver extracted from the mines of Real del Monte. It had a great capacity when processing exponential quantities of metals considering it had 4 large smelting furnaces and one larger special furnace.

Currently the Ex hacienda does not have any type of designation or cataloguing; there is where my task begins.

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the cataloging

The phases of the work of cataloguing a heritage property are: on-site research and documentation

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classification and cataloguing >

It is of great relevance the work of cataloguing a heritage property as important as this one. Since it is a private property, there is very little information about it. And the information obtained is scattered in various written sources. One of the biggest challenges in conducting this research work was the extraction of truthful information by comparing the few written and digital sources avaiable.

Preeliminary research.

The information that helped to develop this work was extracted mainly from written sources from general collections on Viceregal Mexican architecture and urbanism. Collections avaiable in the architecture faculty archive, from the authors C. Chanfón, Guadalupe Salazar and Gérard Sidaner. on-site research and documentation.

Subsequently, the site was visited in order to document both visually and textually the actual current condition of the hacienda and to make the “catalogue cards”.

In addition, a couple of interviews were conducted to reaffirm or disprove the information acquired in the previous stage. The photographs that can be seen throughout the document were taken during the fieldwork.

classification and cataloguing In order to classify and catalogue the intangible property, it is necessary to create “catalogue cards”. Within which we find diverse information that highlights the most relevant qualities of the property for its correct classification within the national catalog. The “catalogue cards” classifies into subcategories each of the architectural elements that make up the typology of a foundry “hacienda”. name of the building name of the card Identity information categorization characterization blueprint observations

current pictures chronology Each element within this “card” has the same relevance. However, two are the ones that directly seek to guide the proper classification of the immovable property, “characterization” and “identification”. The first one describes the formal constructive characteristics of the object, and the last one classifies its typological particularities. Ten architectural elements were classified into “cataloguing cards”, they are represented in the next page.

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This cataloguing work is a project that requires further research and efforts to become part of the “national catalogue of historic properties” of Mexico. The private nature of the “hacienda” hinders the freedom to investigate and gather information, political and economic overtones are always part of the game.

Today the “hacienda” is owned by an anonymous investor and has been established as a hotel and social events venue. Within its immediate context the “hacienda” is an element with high value, the locality where it is located is named after it. The population recognizes the “hacienda” as part of their socio-cultural heritage, therefore I personally consider that the fair thing to do with the people would be to allow them to continue to be part of the history of the hacienda. Therefore, in addition to a cataloguing, a “cultural management” plan has been proposed as well.

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the heritage management plan The fundamental idea behind proposing a cultural heritage management project is to enhance the value of the “Hacienda” as an asset of national cultural character.

In this way, it seeks to enhance the link between the Mexican population and its culture and to foster in the population the idea of the appropriation of the historical space built on Mexican land by Mexicans as an innate right.

Because Mexican culture belongs to the Mexican people before it belongs to the world.

Having said this, the stages proposed within the project are as follows.

1 introduction/stablishment In this first stage, the recognition of the history of the “hacienda” is proposed. A stage in which all the knowledge obtained in the cataloguing work is poured; it is then that the “catalogue cards” are used as instruments of collection and organization of the material to be legally processed and later disseminated. > 2 control, legal Reviewing the Federal Law on Monuments and Archaelogical Sites, we find it essential to comply with the breakdown of the following categories: Related to its artistical and historic value, to the preservation and modification and to its permanency within a historical village considered urban heritage. >

3 planning As a planning method, a scheme with 6 strategic lines is developed with different terms of action: a. Short-term; conservation, sustainable turism, dissemination. b. Mid-term; inclusive historical site, mobility point, legal cataloguing. c. Long-term; inscription as a mixed national heritage property.

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4 dissemination/ linkage Recognition of its heritage values and linkage with the community in a progressive way, starting with the immediate context until it has a national resonance. In this sense, dissemination becomes the main tool to achieve the sustainable management of heritage and permanently ensure its conservation and habilitation.

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Sam Aguirre 2021