Sustainable Design
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ARCHITECTURE
"Protagonistas" from the National Park of Fairs celebrate the opening of the new services infrastructures and amenities at the Park. Managua, 2018. Photographs by MEFCCA
"Maining Train", Opening Day at first Bonanza's public park. Photograph by HEMCO 2012
Cultural Center 3D model made by community leaders Photograph by Taller Plural
"Protagonistas" from the National Park of Fairs celebrate the opening of the new services infrastructures and amenities at the Park. Managua, 2018. Photographs by MEFCCA
Credits: Forest and Field Landscape Architecture
This report seeks to reframe terminology used to describe shelter from the sun’s radiation, articulate the nuances of outdoor human comfort in the Canadian urban context, including the need for shade for skin cancer prevention, and identify concerns in the reduction of solar exposure on existing urban greenspaces, including public parks, recreation spaces and natural environments, by the introduction of new tall buildings that overshadow these spaces and environments. Credits: FFLA
This analisis was done for the Architectural design proposal for "La Colina 110" Historic centre and Library.
One-day Introductory Workshop on the Bio-intensive Cultivation Method, field day. Facilitated by John Wyss, Fatima Sandino and Ligia Saballo
This report seeks to reframe terminology used to describe shelter from the sun’s radiation, articulate the nuances of outdoor human comfort in the Canadian urban context, including the need for shade for skin cancer prevention, and identify concerns in the reduction of solar exposure on existing urban greenspaces, including public parks, recreation spaces and natural environments, by the introduction of new tall buildings that overshadow these spaces and environments. Credits: FFLA
PUBLIC
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Working for 8+ years in the public sector, as diplomat and director of a national administration, I got involved in a really open range of projects that requires empathy and better understanding of the needs and desires of the user of each space, as well a high level of commitment, budget management and problem solving skills.
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Since 2007, with a group of professionals and students I co-founded Taller Plural (Transdisciplinary professional collective) and we started delivering participatory design and self-construction workshop in urban and rural communities across Nicaragua, working with local governments, NGO, local leaders-organizations, and social responsibility of companies operating at local/national level.
COMMERCIAL
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Working as a lead Architect, landscape designer and consultant, I had been involved in different interesting projects for different size of business. From a façade and interior design improvements to Master Plan and Design the biggest Business Cluster in Nicaragua.
My approach for commercial architecture is to take it as an opportunity to demonstrate that business development can perfectly match with social and cultural identity.
Let’s check some examples of my journey…
HOUSING & COMMUNAL
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The social architecture has been my first and more constant concern in my professional practice. I strongly work to be a vehicle between people needs and desires to honest architecture in practice.
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Housing projects allows me to learn, think, develop and apply and evolve great ideas in a controlled scale to deliver what the clients/users requires base on their budget and expectations.
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Each project, no matter the scale, requires me to be self-critic, innovative and proactive with every step of the design-construction process.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
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According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), “the increased construction activities and urbanization will increase waste which will eventually destroy natural resources and wild life habitats over 70% of land surface from now up to 2032.”
Technically, sustainability is a matter of tree pillars: Economic, Social and Environmental. Architecture now days could play a really relevant role from the design process to the execution and management of any project, reducing the environmental impact, resolving social issues and generating economic opportunities in different ways.
My commitment as a professional has been to be technically and ethically engage to be one of the so many professionals requires to evolve the infrastructure industry towards a really sustainable practice.