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Cabo Hurricane Fund + CAPA Lab

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hurricane Odile

!!!On September 13, 2014, it appeared as if Hurricane Odile would miss Los Cabos and the popular resort town will experience only some wind and rain overnight. However, at the last minute the storm veered to the East and the night of September 14, Hurricane Odile strongly hit a largely unprepared Cabo San Lucas directly as a powerful Category 3 Hurricane, the strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in the Baja Peninsula of Mexico.!Hurricane Odile struck with sustained winds of up to 125 mph, causing major damage to the city, the resorts, and the infrastructure of the entire state of Baja California Sur. An estimated 92% of the State's population was left without power or water, the biggest electrical disaster in the history of Mexico, according to the Mexican Electric Company (CFE). 30,000 tourists were in the Baja during the storm, but all returned home safely except those who (bless their hearts) opted to stay behind to help. Hurricane Odile was estimated to deliver nearly $1 Billion dollars (12 Billion Pesos) in economic losses.!CAPA Lab joins the efforts of Cabo Hurricane Fund to bring a new and sustainable start to those hard working families who are integral part of the social fabric of Los Cabos and that lost their homes (and almost everything) during Hurricane Odile.The prototype home that we envision is the amalgamation of our thinking and knowledge about sustainable development and living, it seeks to convey a sense of future growth, hope and social integration, which through this unfortunate event could emerge as a new forces among the people of Los Cabos.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CAPA Lab !!!CAPA Lab is a think-do-tank lab based on a collective of Architects, Urbanists, Landscape Artists, Designers, Permaculture Experts, Biologists, etc. with the aim to generate urban proposals for the area of Baja California Sur peninsula composed mainly within the ring of the route 1 that surrounds Los Cabos and La Paz municipalities.!// La Paz + Todos Santos + Cabo San Lucas + San Jose del Cabo + East Cape. //!CAPA Lab emerges from independent professionals part of the civil society and acts as a project manager- planning, participating and coordinating- with a focus on develop viable actions tightly related to the landscape, territory, art, architecture, culture, history and society of the Southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula.!CAPA Lab is a flexible work structure which grows or shrink in order to give the best results and solutions to the projects it focuses on. It is co-directed by M.Arch. Gonzalo Elizarraras and M.Arch. Mariano Arias-Diez.!!!

CAPA Lab co-directors !Gonzalo Elizarraras is a Mexican Architect with a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). A very detail oriented profesional who pays as much attention in the process of development of the project as he does of the final result, his work take inspiration from some of his passions like traveling, cultures, languages, people and nature. !Prior to start his own practice he collaborated with architectural offices like Josep Lluis Mateo (Barcelona), EMBT / Miralles Tagliabue (Barcelona) and FR-EE / Fernando Romero (Mexico City).!In 2006 Gonzalo opens his own firm in Mexico and two years later opening a German branch of the office in Berlin, Germany. His practice always involves nature, sustainability, landscape, permaculture as a basic integration for projects. An experienced profesional in both design and construction, he is also skilled in different types of projects from residential to comercial or urban scale.Currently Gonzalo leads the work of his office fabrikg based in San Jose del Cabo México, teaches and is co-founder of the collective CAPA Lab, a think-do-tank which generates new alternatives for the sustainable development of the Los Cabos to La Paz area in Baja California Sur.!Mariano Arias-Diez is a Mexican-Spaniard Architect who leads the design teams at a10studio. His focus on materials, technology and sustainability is supported through a model of working that combines practice, teaching and research. The environmental aspect of his practice is always present in his work, realizing that the best solutions, materials and processes in design are always attached to an environmental conscious as also innovative thinking. Quality in every component is what creates the positive experience of the projects he works with.!He studied architecture in Mexico City, Barcelona, London & New York City, and holds a Master in Advanced Architecture from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) in Barcelona, Spain.!Prior to founding a10studio he worked at international architecture offices like: Rojkind Arquitectos (Mexico), Vicente Guallart Architects (Barcelona), Willy Muller Arquitectos (Barcelona), & Sadar Vuga Arhitekti (Slovenia).!He lives in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, but works internationally. Besides running his practice under a10studio, he writes for architecture and design blogs, its involved in academic teaching, and is co-founder of the collective CAPA Lab, a think-do-tank which generates new alternatives for the sustainable development of the Los Cabos to La Paz area in Baja California Sur.!

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Credits:!!

Project : Casa O Architectural Project: CAPA Lab

Location: Los Cabos, B.C.S, Mexico Architect In Charge: Mariano Arias-Diez, Gonzalo Elizarrarás

Project Manager: Carlos Espino Area: 550 ft2

Year: 2015 Design Team: Mariano Arias-Diez, Gonzalo Elizarrarás, Carlos Espino, Eduardo Manriquez, Antonio Rico

Project Coordination/Funding: Cabo Hurricane Fund. !

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