Lima experienced an explosive population growth during the last century. Its population went from 600 thousand people in 1940 to nearly 9.5 million people nowadays. Former agriculture fields between the coast and the beginning of the Andes mountains were quickly filled with urban developments. Neither the public sector nor the private housing market provided decent […]
This proposal aims at structuring an green-blue-gray matrix along the Carretera Real, or Royal Road, together with the urban areas of four small towns of the Baix Llobregat in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, the farm land, and the existing ecological corridors in the area. A mobility and urban renewal approach was combined with the […]
Analysis and proposal for the Lea river valley in London. The work developed as part of a research by design studio at TU Delft, in collaboration with Ricardo Avella, and guided by Birgit Hausleitner and Taneha Kuzniecow. The work consisted of two parts. The first one included a layered analysis of the urban development of […]
Student-led event sponsored by the Chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy at the Department of Urbanism, TU Delft University of Technology. The symposium happens once a year and gathers experts, policy-makers, practitioners, and others to discuss informal urbanisation, its political, economic and environmental implications and the tools to tackle it. In its 2018 edition, Confronting […]
International workshop on social housing developed at the PUCP university in Lima. The workshop had three parts, including a series of conferences and presentations by experts, a seminar on social housing policy, and a design studio, in which students, guided by experts, developed design proposal for specific areas in the Ate neighborhood in Lima. The […]
Project on recycled plastics developed in UPM University in 2010. The work was developed under a scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education. The project was based on the work in a design studio at the architecture school of ETSA Madrid. Different material pieces, based on recycled plastic bags were developed and tested in the […]