manuela guzman architecture portfolio
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Academic and Professional Portfolio of Manuela Guzman. Master in architecture of urban design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Bachelor in Architecture from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.TRANSCRIPT
MANUELA GUZMANA r c h i t e c t u r e P o r t f o l i o
Master in Urban Design candidate 2014 from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Architecture Bachelor from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, 2007. Experienced in developing design of residential, insti-tutional and cultural buildings. Interested in exploring architecture design and its relationship to people and public spaces.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2008 - 2014
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3. REESCALING INFRASTRUCTURE 5. URBAN INFILL
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4. TRANSMILENIO: MODIFYING URBAN PERCEPTIONuniversidad de los andes
2. MEMORY PEACE AND RECONCILIATION CENTERJuan Pablo ortiz arquitectos
elements of urban desiGn chicaGo Grid: in search of neW ParadiGms
bucaramanGa, colombia
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Urban planning and urban design study for the Metropolitan area of Bucaramanga. AMB Growth defines a new urban quality of dense urban nodes dispersed in the hilly geography of the Andes mountain chain. Under the planning project of the AMB the landscape takes visual relevance and multiple types of urban spaces can coexist separated by large areas of green space. The study also goes in to more detail speculating a possible neighbourhood project in which the urban nodes concept is explored at the scale of the city project.
AMB GROW THSchematic Design for a Mixed-Use new Neighborhood
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Independent ConsultantClient: Urbanas SA.Team: Manuela Guzmán, Pablo Roquero
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analysis of bucaramanGa’s metroPolitan area reGulationamb Growth - Professional Portfolio - 2013
As a test of the outcome of the dense urban node metropolitan plan, the study selects a site for testing the concept at the scale of the neighbourhood. In this 100 Ha site a proposal of two types of urban spaces was done: A dense mixed use neighbourhood with a gridded layout versus an activated green space where high-rises and free typology buildings are dispersed. This two urban typologies responds to the uses and users of the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga. The high-rise area functions as a metropolitan landmark representing uses that can be access by car such as a shopping center, business buildings and hotels. The rectangular block layout provides the uses and the open spaces that new residents of all ages can enjoy as pedestrians. The AMB node is an example of what other nodes of the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga can become.
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centro de manzana: espacio comunal
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amb Growth - Professional Portfolio - 2013
amb Growth - Professional Portfolio - 2013
amb Growth - Professional Portfolio - 2013
CENTER OF MEMORY PEACE AND REC ONCILIATION2009+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Cultural Center in Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan Pablo Ortiz Arquitectos. Bogotá, Colombia.Role: Design development and details; coordinated technical and architectural designs.Design: Juan Pablo OrtizDesign Team: Jose Vallejo (JV). Santiago Fonseca (SF). Manuela Guzmán (MG).
In May 2009, Juan Pablo Ortiz Arquitectos won the contest to design The Centre of Memory, Peace and Reconciliation. The centre’s purpose was to com-memorate the thousands who have died in Colombian conflicts since its independence 200 years ago.
The memorial will be in an old part of Bogotá’s first cemetery and will serve as the main entrance to a park that is part of the master plan for Bogota. Inorder to maintain the landscape of the park, the building is mostly underground and is a junction for the park paths.
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A unique feature of the construction process is that it invites citizen participation. People are urged to con-tribute their own soil as one of the materials that will be used to create the building’s façade.
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NJ environmental innovation center, aims to increase connectivity through several strategies using educa-tion, research and entrepreneurship as a catalyst to revitalize the Lincoln Tunnel surroundings. To link Weehawken promontory to the waterfront, the project identifies three key points, mobility, ecology and urban fabric that provide the framework for our urban design. These three tenets connect to each other and to a larger scale territory, tying the city and the landscape together.
REESCALING INFR ASTRUCTUREAcademic Campus in New Jersey
Harvard Graduate School of DesignCourse: Elements Of Urban DesignInstructors: Felipe Correa, Ginés Garrido, Robert Lane, Lynda Pollack.Team: Claire Doussard, Manuela Guzmán.
the hudson river shore-line betWeen manhattan and neW Jersey is over transformation. While the amount of man-made shoreline decreases the amount of GreensPace increases. a comParison betWeen the man-made square meters built since 1810 until 2012 exemPlifies such condition.
elements of urban design - academic Portfolio - 2012
hudson river shoreline analysis
The Lincoln Tunnel’s helix provides a critical frame to the urban fabric, and more generally a geometry that rules the urban landscape. That is why Growing Con-nections’ campus, an environmental and agronomy oriented university, intends to re configure this system thanks to its integration under and through the existing infrastructure. Research terraces connect the campus and the helix to the cliff, creating a new urban system and rethinking the role of the landscape.
The project also provides additional pathways avail-able for pedestrians and cyclists. They connect the cliff to the waterfront, but also Weehawken and Hobo-ken neighborhoods thanks to a suspended pathway through the campus and the helix itself. Moreover, several footbridges, connection towers and the helix itself offer people more than access alone. They also provide an urban experience and high quality spaces that they find enjoyable to use.
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The last key point explores environmental and ecologi-cal factors that seems critical to the place. The identi-fied ecosystems determined several sub landscape spaces and ecological connections that establish a common dialogue between the city, the cliff and the waterfront. They also procure several use opportuni-ties related to productivity, research, education and recreation.
The project also provides additional pathways available for pedestrians and cyclists. They connect the cliff to the waterfront, but also Weehawken and Hobo-ken neighborhoods thanks to a suspended pathway through the campus and the helix itself. Moreover, several footbridges, connection towers and the helix itself offer people more than access alone. They also provide an urban experience and high quality spaces that they find enjoyable to use.
But the Growing connections’ design is not just about connectivity. It also reflects the delicate interweaving of social, economic, physical connection and procures sustainable assets for the surrounding urban communi-ties.
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TR ANSMILENIO: MODIFYING URBAN PERCEPTION2008+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Thesis of Bachelor in Architecture
Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia
Bogotá is on the way to change its public transport system. Since 2002 the city has been building Trans-milenio, a massive transport system based on buses that circulate through independent lanes with closed stations in the middle of each of two lanes.
This project explores possibilities of enlarging the urban benefits that Transmilenio can bring to the city in its new line on the seventh street, one of the main streets in Bogotá.
Course: Graduation Project Instructors: Lorenzo Castro, Camilo Salazar.Team: Manuela Guzmán.
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architecture bachelron thesis - academic Portfolio - 2008
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The main hypothesis of this project supports the idea that a new public transport system can modify people’s perception of urban space. The theoretical frame is based on urban projects from the Baroque period and the analysis of the books “City Planning According to Artistic Principles” (Camilo Sitte, 1889) and “The Concise Townscape” (Cullen Gordon, 1961). The project applies some of the composition principles analyzed in these books. It emphasizes and reveals hidden parts of the city; it displays architecture and public space based on people’s perception of urban space.
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architecture bachelron thesis - academic Portfolio - 2008
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In contrast to the dense neighborhoods, a simple build-ing was proposed to facilitate the transition between the station and the neighborhood.
Compact neighbourhoods: Building
A small park results from giving public access to private greenspaces inside square centers. Such parks reveal the form of the city with a large amount of greenspace that can be used. It also gives the pos-sibility of a wider view of the city’s landscape.
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The stairs emphasize the rising of the big mountain that surrounds Bogotá’s east side. They make the connection between people, neighborhood, road and landscape.
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architecture bachelron thesis - academic Portfolio - 2008
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The system that complements every station has three elements: a commercial building, a stair and a park. Each part reveals significant urban elements from Bogotá: compact neighborhoods, urban greenspace and mountains.
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architecture bachelron thesis - academic Portfolio - 2008
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architecture bachelron thesis - academic Portfolio - 2008
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Urban Infill establishes the framework for a new neighborhood in the southern loop that looks to expand the favorable qualities identified in the north to under-served and overlooked neighborhoods in the south and west. The new neighborhood is located on the remains of a rail yard that historically created a bottleneck for city growth to the south. Infill development has resulted in disconnected inward-looking residential areas, and we see an opportunity to leverage the new neighborhoods proximity to downtown, its riverfront location, and defining main arterial boulevard to establish a vibrant multi-use node within the city.
URBAN INFILLStrategy to re-align Chicago’s North and South Sides
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Harvard Graduate School of DesignCourse: Chicago Grid: In Search For New ParadigmsInstructors: Joan BusquetsTeam: Karina Gilbert, Manuela Guzmán.
PoPulation shift hyPothesized urban valuesPoPulation barriersPoPulation density
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concentric zone theory
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chicago Grid - academic Portfolio - 2013
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In response to the lack of usable open space with under-served city neighborhoods, issues of sustainability and newly identified values of urban living, the project rethinks block and district qualities and proposes model units to be used to establish, revitalize or expand existing neighborhoods. When appropriated to the site, the model provides an intermediary between “urban” Chicago and a new recreational park along the river by creating mid-block public space that slowly dissolves into the city and, reversely, building and uses that dissolve into the park. The continuous public space accommodates sub-surface parking needs of the block while mitigating elevation changes of the site to create a subtle rolling topography as one moves towards the river. The model also provides a new urban boulevard, currently non-exist and in Chicago, as a tool to re-invigorate an existing axis that can accumulate and expand over time.
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The new neighborhood is further bolstered by extending the loop and adding a commuter station to reinforce the accessibility of the new urban boulevard. By re-scaling the loop, the project allows Chicago to experience a larger downtown that is not only commercial and provides riders with new view of the city as the line travels above the park and is freed from it’s inner-block confines.
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Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, US
Arias Serna Saravia, Bogotá, Colombia
Urbanas S.A, Bucaramanga, Colombia
Zoffnas Program, Cambridge, MA. US
Juan Pablo Ortiz Arquitectos, Bogotá, Colombia
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Project Architect. Handled the design of three different houses of a residential complex in the country side near Bogotá(545m2, 465m2, 412m2) . Collaborated in designing the executive project of a hotel in Cartagena. (6000 m2).
Identification of a suitable area for Bucaramanga´s metropolitan area growth. Design the schematic phase of a new mixed used neighborhood. Bucaramanga, Colombia. (162Ha.: Build. 131Ha.: Park).
Research Assistant. Evaluate one of the case studies candidates of the international competition of Infrastructure 360 of the IDB. Use of Envision Manual to evaluate the sustainable level of La Chira Wastewater treatment Plant and Marine Outfall.
Architect. Handled development and details; coordinated technical and architectural designs for cultural and institutional projects such as Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconciliación. (4.723m2), and Archivo general de la nación de Mexico (29.400m2) México City, México.
Research Assistant and Assistant Editor. Assisted in bibliography collection for the research group: Construccion de lo Publico. Assisted in two international seminar logistics; collaborated in the edition of the book: Viajes por la Ciudad.
Software: ArchGIS, Revit, Autocad, Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Photoshop, Rhinoceros.Language: Native Spanish; fluent in English and Portuguese.
Escola da Cidade, Sao Paulo, BrazilInternational Exchange
Bachelor in Architecture, Cum Laude; Minor in Music Thesis Advisors: Lorenzo Castro, Camilo SalazarHonorable Mention for the thesis: “Transmilenio:Modifying Urban Perception”
Master of Architecture in Urban Design
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
09 / 2012 ∙ 06 / 2014
02 / 2006 ∙ 08 /2006
06 / 2011 ∙ 05 /2012
06 / 2013 ∙ 09 /2013
09 / 2013 ∙ 12 /2013
04 / 2009 ∙ 04 /2011
01 / 2004 ∙ 12 /2007
01 / 2003 ∙ 03 / 2008
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