Valeria Rabelo Cabal Portfolio

VALERIA RABELO CABAL

PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE | URBAN DESIGN | ARCH VIZ

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VALERIA RABELO CABAL Architect | Msc. Sustainable Urban Design

SKILLS Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk 3dsmax + Vray Autodesk Revit Adobe (Ps, Id, Ai) Rhinoceros Sketchup ArcGis

I’m a dedicated and curious architect with years of experience working in both architecture and developers offices with a Masters Degree in Sustainable Urban Design.

I’m always eager and interested in keep learning and exchanging ideas as a team in order to make things work more efficiently.

I seek to create meaningful and functioning architecture and urban spaces for everyone.

WORK EXPERIENCE 2023-

Gustavino | Server | Malmö

2023-

ARCA Investments | Consultant Architect | Remote Planning and design of agricultural and tourism projects.

2022-

Hamdan Asociados | Consultant Architect | Remote Design and 3D visualization of residential projects.

2021-2023

Estudio Artz | Part Time Architect and 3d Designer | Remote 3D modelling and visualization. Creation of architectural packages.

2020-2021

Grupo FORET | Project Manager | Mérida Neighborhood and municipal developments design and planning, 3d modeling, landscape design and architectural plans.

2017-2021

Freelancer 3d Designer| Remote 3D modelling and visualization.

2018-2020

CONTACT INFO

Taller Mexicano de Arquitectura | Junior Architect, Project Manager | Mérida Residential, hospitality and urban developments design and architectural packages.

2017

Älggatan 36b, 216 15 Malmö, SE +46 72-3874371 valeriarabelocabal@gmail.com

2015

URBANUM | Junior Architect | Mérida Residential, tourism and landscape design and architectural packages.

INNEDIT | Intern | Mérida Investigation and research with I+D+i projects.

LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeria-rabelo-cabal/ Languages Spanish Native English Fluent Swedish Learning

CO N T E N TS MSc Sustainable Urban Design Professional Head Architect

Professional Junior Architect

Bachelor in Architecture

EDUCATION 2021-2023

Lund University. Sweden Msc. Sustainable Urban Design

2018-2019

Universidad Anáhuac Mayab. México Postgradute in Project Administration

2014-2015

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. Spain Master in Creativity and Architectural Expression

2011-2017

Universidad Anáhuac Mayab. México Bachelor in Architecture

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CHÚUKA’AN: ACTIVATING PUBLIC SPACES

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HARVESTING COMMUNITIES

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PORTO DEVELOPMENT

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KURI GARCIA RESIDENCE

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BOUTIQUE HOTEL

Arch Viz

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MIXED USE ACCESIBILITY COMMUNITY

CHÚUKA’AN:

ACTIVATING PUBLIC SPACES IN GRID SETTLEMENTS

PUBLIC LIFE

Master Thesis on Proposal in the Southeast of Mérida, Yucatán, México Msc. Sustainable Urban Design 2023

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MOBILITY & TRANSPORT Implement a new route for the IEtram highlighting important key points throughout the area.

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URBAN STREETSCAPE Reform the current streetscape, prioritizing pedestrian lifestyle and mixed use environments.

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

01. Chúuka’an: Activating Public Spaces in grid settlements

PHASING

Over the years, Mérida has experienced remarkable growth in economic, social, and spatial dimensions. As the safest city in Mexico, it has attracted a significant influx of migrants to the peninsula. The government and society have capitalized on this opportunity, positioning Mérida prominently on the map. The city has attracted substantial private investment, both nationally and internationally, and is now a leading city in sustainable future design in the country.

Major projects such as the Mayan Train, the IE Tram (the first 100% electric transport route in the southeast of the country), and numerous commercial developments have spurred migration. This has led to a surge in housing developments promising an unparalleled quality of life, irrespective of the area, users, proximity, and more importantly, the disorganized urban sprawl it is creating.

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This Master’s degree project seeks to reconnect the older neighborhoods of Mérida, which are currently facing marginalization and abandonment, with new modes of transport. The goal is to initiate a new sustainable lifestyle in a neighborhood with reduced car usage, mixed-use housing, and commerce. This approach aims to fulfill the promise of the “best quality of life” and demonstrate that significant investments can be made in this area while inclusively catering to all citizens.

PEDESTRIAN SUPER BLOCKS Reprioritize users and neighborhood pedestrians, privatizing small streets creating safe microenvironments.

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5 HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY Rescue the current mayan ruins and create an agroecological park open to community, connecting living, nature and leisure.

Transport through the city

Main transport and Transport through the area communication

Human connections

4 PERMEABLE ACCESIBLE SPACES Open and turn the sports unit into a public blended sports area, making it a key point in the city.

6 MIXED LIVING Create mixed used neighborhood, new in the city, that combines all sustainable ways of living.

CONCEPT MASTER PLAN

By implementing a new IE tram route, we promote green mobility, clearing the street of usual car dependacy, creating opportunities for local commerces to grow within the neighborhood, be connected to the users and creating a safe environment for pedestrians, giving life back to the streets.

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

01. Chúuka’an: Activating Public Spaces in grid settlements

MOBILITY AND URBAN STREETSCAPE

REDEFINING URBAN STREETSCAPE Prioritizing pedestrians and green mobility, gives the users a more welcoming experience, by framing the new commercial street with mixed use buildings, that resonates with the users, mobility and location.

The new Ie tram route would reconnect the unattended southeast of the city with the city center and the peripheral ring. This area is of highly importance due to the sports unit and universities nearby, but given poorly urban planning the area is now neglected.

MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT By creating mobility nodes, creates the possibility of outdoor meeting spaces, enhancing community and contrasting the dorm roof effect and non livable residential areas.

CONCEPT COLLAGE

Open up the space for people. Creating new permeable environments for users, by rehabilitating the sports center to become a new central node, serving as an open multi use community center.

Making streets for people again, not cars.

Creating reverse superblocks to enhance community life, and block car traffic in closed neighborhoods.

Opening the edges of the sports center, creating new permeable ephimeral areas suited for a variety of users. This area will be directly connected to the city by the IE tram.

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

01. Chúuka’an: Activating Public Spaces in grid settlements

PERMEABLE AND ACCESIBLE SPACES

CONCEPT COLLAGE

Connect the neglected already existing park to the neighborhood and the city.

Propose a new use for parks.

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

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HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY

MASTER PLAN

Rehabilitate the existing mayan ruins and create an agroecological park, enhancing community bonds and activities, where people meet nature, surrounded by the hectic city life to promote a new balanced way of living.

MASTER PLAN

Propose a new mixed use living area instead of promoting unused parking spaces.

Currently there’s a shopping mall, with a parking lot that takes 50% of the land space.

Preserve the only existing trees located in the parking lot area and create a flow of communication between the main pedestrian street, the park and the sports center, directly connected to main transport hubs.

Propose a new way of commercial spaces, with pedestrian access and easy communication with the surroundings. With the use of hierarchy and courtyards we give privacy when needed.

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

01. Chúuka’an: Activating Public Spaces in grid settlements

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MIXED LIVING

With apartment buildings on top we romote a nex way of mixed living, connected to everything to make daily life in the grid city more sustainable and community focused.

MASTER PLAN

PARKLAND

FARMLAND

WETLAND

The existing tall trees serve both as wind protection for the residential area, and a boundary for the wetland.

Mantaining the existing spaces as natural as they are gives the project a more sensible sense with the environment.

Creating multi purpose outdoor areas, where residents and visitors can enjoy the nice environment, created with wind protection and with the most sun intake. These areas also serve as a buffer zone betweeen living spaces and public spaces, making the connection more enjoyable

Take advantage of the area’s soil, creating small diverse farming lots, where direct and nearby residents can have their own sens e of community and product cycle. Nearby the kindergarden and the elderly home, teaches the children about sustainability and gives the elderly a different outdoor activity

Connecting the existing pond to the surroundings woods, creating a wetland that serves as a buffer zone betweeen public and semi private spaces. Makes you feel the difference when leaving the node to entering the residential area. P

rovides to the farmland and serves as a rainwater collector.

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HARVESTING COMMUNITIES Master Plan of Proposal for Bjärred, Sweden.

Team work with Joakim Andén, Juliette Labonne Msc Sustainable Urban Design 2022

This project entailed the development of a new neighborhood on a currently vacant land situated in the north of Bjärred, intersecting with Borgeby. The land is presently utilized for agricultural purposes, and our intention was to preserve some of the site’s natural characteristics and uses. We aimed to promote agriculture while addressing both the geographical location and the needs of the local population.

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

02. Harvesting communities

WOODLAND

Situated amidst one of the most residential neighborhoods, the area also necessitates a proper urban hub that could benefit daily commuters to Lund. Our concept was to bolster agricultural living with a modern urban hub that promoted sustainable mobility. This hub would serve as a solution for all car commuters and provide a safe, organized area for all bus users, including workers, students, etc.

While the majority of Bjarred’s alternative lifestyle - community

residents own private houses with gardens, we sought to introduce living. This concept focuses on integration, agriculture, and well-being.

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ANALYSIS /STRATEGYNT

Connecting the surrounding to the site

Connecting the greenery and water

Dividing into three different plots

A radial answer

AXONOMETRY

Activate the central area, by creating several connection spaces, like a bus stop/small station with access to services and leisure activities, such as restaurants, small coffee shops, gym, grocery shops and even small offices or retail.

Building blocks that give wind protection and enclose the area with easy access between the street and the residential area with connections north-south /est-west.

User hierarchy, by giving the most used activity the loation of easy access, main connection, and the more private-public areas a more courtyard zone.

ECOVILLAGES These ecovillages have the concept of a growing community, with two apartment units per building, plenty outdoor areas, which include some farming lots where they can grow their own produce in a more sustainable way, with comunal kitchen and co living areas.

These building blocks protect from high wind speeds with an irregular layout that forces the wind and pathways to surround the buildings protect the inner courtyards.

The stream and farmland lots are oriented north to south, to minimize wind tunnels.

ORGANIZED HOUSING By locating our main residential buildings next to the existing woodlands, the tall trees serve as a wind protection for the buildings and the coutyards.

The layout is designed to maximize the sun intake with central courtyards and a height difference between buildings to prevent dark spots.

The main circulation is next to the tallest buildings, so the pathways are also protected from the high winds coming from the west

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

02. Harvesting communities

THE NODE

PORTO RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Head Architect. Grupo FORET Chabihau, Yucatán 2020 As the sole architect in this development office, my responsibilities encompassed the design of all our lotification plans, ranging from 10 to 100 hectares. These plans included landscape design, legal plans, and both marketing drawings and renderings.

Observing the ease of the land buying and selling process, I noticed a prevalent disregard for the land itself, with the focus primarily on the quantity of land that could be bought and sold. The necessity for greenery and public spaces often got lost in this process. Consequently, my intention was to enhance these public spaces and underscore their daily use necessity, especially in residential neighborhoods.

Given that the developers’ primary focus was land sales, it was imperative that the public areas were as cost-effective as possible. We began creating urban furniture from leftover concrete and children’s playgrounds with colorful, durable, and low-maintenance materials such as concrete and loose rock.

Working on numerous projects in this capacity underscored the importance of public spaces and pedestrian lanes, elements often overlooked in urban planning. It highlighted the significance of sustainable urbanism and its necessity in my city. This realization prompted my decision to further my studies with a Master’s degree in Sustainable Urban Design.

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

03. Porto Development Project

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KURI GARCIA RESIDENCE Junior Architect, Taller Mexicano de Arquitectura Mérida, Yucatán, México 2017 One of my initial projects at the Taller Mexicano de Arquitectura office was a single-family residence located in a private residential area north of Mérida. As a junior architect, I was an integral part of the design process and was responsible for the architectural package. This included plans, sections, facades, and detailed drawings of the kitchen, bathrooms, and specific furniture items such as closets and kitchen countertops.

The project necessitated direct collaboration with structural, electrical, and water resource engineers to ensure the project functioned as a cohesive unit. This teamwork facilitated a smooth design process and enabled the construction phase to adhere closely to the design.

The project comprised a two-story family home with two small bedrooms and a master bedroom.

The design emphasized open floor spaces, including the kitchen, living room, and dining room.

Despite the limited outdoor area, the terrace and pool were seamlessly integrated with a small garden through the use of metal beams that framed the spaces and allowed for ample sunlight

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

04. Kuri Garcia Residence

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Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

04. Kuri Garcia Residence

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The project’s intention is to preserve the site’s natural state as much as possible, breaking away from the city’s urban concept of repetitive housing units devoid of vegetation. The plan is to accommodate a boutique hotel with over 20 suites and various meeting rooms, by creating intimate spaces that open up to nature and close off from urban sprawl. This design ensures privacy and comfort for the users while keeping the rest of the lot as green and public as possible.

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BOUTIQUE HOTEL Bachelor’s Thesis Project in Architecture Mérida, Yucatán, México 2016 Mérida, situated in the southeast of Mexico, is grappling with an environmental crisis due to construction and development activities that disregard environmental regulations.

The northern part of the city is densely populated with standalone residential homes, encircled by some of the city’s largest commercial and hospitality buildings. These structures, however, show little regard for the surrounding natural environment, transforming this area into a concrete expanse of uniform rowhouses.

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Boutique Hotel

In Mérida, outdoor temperatures can soar up to 45 degrees Celsius, exacerbated by the lack of trees and the prevalence of concrete. A double ceiling feature is proposed to facilitate wind circulation and shield against solar heat, ensuring the interior remains as cool as possible without relying on air conditioning, unlike most of the city. This feature also creates natural shadows and privacy in the courtyards.

Crossed Ventilation in bugalows

With the emergence of new neighborhoods and the introduction of commercial, business, and hospitality uses, there is a noticeable shortage of hotels in the area, particularly those catering to business needs. More importantly, there is a dearth of public green spaces, and the site in question is one of the last undeveloped green lots in the area.

The proposed concept involves the creation of individual hotel suite bungalows, enveloped by nature to provide a stark contrast to the prevalent concrete surfaces in the neighborhood. This is achieved by elevating the bungalows and pathways to prevent the obstruction of concrete and allow the site’s flora and fauna to flourish.

Elevated pathways preserving landscape and topography

Pathways leading to shaded bungalows in the forest

Master plan

CONCEPT MASTER PLAN

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

05. Boutique Hotel

The hotel complex is composed of several structures, with the reception and main hall serving as the primary edifice. This building stands as the tallest among all, characterized by its double-height ceilings and apertures that open towards the courtyard and verdant spaces, instilling a sense of tranquility and serenity.

Constructed with local materials such as Chukum and concrete, the structure presents a robust and sturdy appearance, akin to a monolith amidst the lush greenery.

The building also employs a double ceiling design, where the elevated false ceiling, supported by the structure, opens towards the east to maximize sunlight and wind exposure without causing overheating. The high ceilings also serve a functional purpose, as the natural warm air rises and exits through the north openings or the ceiling, leaving only cool breeze within the lobby.

Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio.

ARCH VIZ

ARCH VIZ Upon completing my Bachelor’s degree and during my tenure as a junior architect, I developed a keen interest in renderings and visualization. This prompted me to undertake various courses to enhance my skills and embark on a career as a 3D visualizer.

The projects showcased here represent my learning journey, from 3D modeling to post-production. The scope of these projects ranges from visualization assignments to interior design tasks, where I was commissioned by a private client for remodeling projects. I was responsible for designing and presenting the project.

While working as Head architect I was resposible for all 3d renderings of our projects, which only helped me develop my skills further with exterior and urban scape renderings.

The software utilized for these projects includes 3ds Max, AutoCAD 3D, or SketchUp for modeling, with rendering accomplished using 3ds Max and post-production

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