Academic Projects María Clara Restrepo Tirado

Architecture

Architecture Faculty 5 years Bachelor Degree Architecture with major in Urban and Regional Planning,

2003 – 2007. Review over the last 3 projects designed during the program of BA in Architecture, from 2003 to 2008 in the National University of Colombia. The program included 8

workshops of architectural and urban design, in which according to the teachers methods and different approaches, projects were developed in teams, attending

specially the conditions of emplacement, physical settlement, feasibility and sustainability of the proposals.

+ Urban intervention and housing development - VI workshop(2005 II )

+ Urban and public building development – VII workshop (2006 I )

+ Urban and Public building development – VIII workshop( 2006 II )

PART I.

URBAN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT . VI WORKSHOPJorge E Naranjo – María C Restrepo

Professors: Arch. Juan J Escobar – Arch. Jorge M Isaza – Arch. Juan C Castañeda

Integral design, both urban + architectonic, scales from 1:2000 up to 1:50

*MVRDV

First experimental approach to the building settlement: empty, sub-used,urban green, ex industrial area, with strong tendency to be transformedinto residential and services area because of its centrality, and closeness toother residential areas and green parks; Also influenced by transportcorridors: the new public buses infrastructure (METROPLUS) and one ofthe main road arteries of the city: cra. 65.

The adjacency to Nutibara Hill determines the scale and vocation of thenew neighborhood: a new urban centrality of metropolitan importance. Theurban configuration, shapes and programs to develop on the site, aredetermined by the designers based on the specific needs of the community,taken from surveys and research about the target of public who would beinhabiting the projects: middle income families and workers.

The urban design proposes to connect the new neighborhood and greenexisting spaces with the rest of the city to obtain the metropolitanimportance, without imposing morphologies or cutting the existingdynamics. Differentiated blocks of medium high highlight the barrier qualityof the site, between the industrial and residential areas surrounding. Onemain axis crosses the entire site, delimitating spaces in sectionscorresponding to time table of development, in 3 sections of project .

Variety and innovation are the principles that determine the search in thehousing blocks, clusters and sets of buildings, in order to offer the city, notonly the site, high urban quality spaces, such as interior small parksconnected on the ground floor with the main passerella connecting the holeproject.

+ living organism structure + permeable urban barrier + concient community + changing composition

Differentiated types of apartments are located in a “shuffle way”, offeringvaried facades, on the street and interiors. The ground floor is open andpublic, occupied with commercial and working spaces. This atmosphere onthe ground floor determines the aim of the entire project: to recreate a city,to offer a compact, dense and populated city. Its made to be a busy areaduring the day, relaxed ambient on the residential zones during the night,and livable determined areas to enjoy during the night.

POR QUE NO SOMOS ÁREA, SOMOS VOLUMEN

POR QUE TODOS SOMOS DISTINTOS

PARA HACER LA CASA COMO UNO QUIERA

APARTAMENTOS SIMPLEX PARA 1 2 Y 3 PERSONAS

APARTAMENTOS DÚPLEX PARA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Y 9 PERSONAS

ESPACIO MÍNIMO :: 140M3 ( 56M2 X 3M )

The basic principles of the project - in-all-scales - are also explicitly exposedon the varied dwelling proposals: the layout and disposal of the spaces,reflect the desire of freedom and privacy in the ritual of inhabiting, givingthe opportunity to middle income citizens to differ from the surroundingsociety that tries so hard to “mass produce cities” , and creating flexiblespaces for the new kind of families, diverging from the traditional ones.

Each owner/inhabitant can/should choose the color and the typology ofdwelling that matches his lifestyle/position-in-life declaring himself as apresent human being to the world, more than a number on a buzzer.It’s a political stance to invite citizens to declare their presence, andimportance in their diversity.+ ESPACIO PARA LOS QUE QUIEREN + ESPACIO JOVEN +ACABADOS LIMPIOS + SIN JERARQUÍAS + FLEXIBILIDAD

URBAN REGENERATION + PUBLIC BUILDING DEVELOPMENT . VII WORKSHOP Luisa M Estrada Gil – María C Restrepo Tirado

Professors: Arq. Diego López - Arq. Camilo Castro – Arq. Alba M Bedoya – Arq. Luis F Dapena

* Project selected for national exhibition of academic architecture “XXI Salón de Octubre UN , Bogotá, 2006”

http://www.unalmed.edu.co/mediateca/exposicionvirtual/trabajosestudiantes_t7_luisaestrada.html

Intervention area is an inhabited green strip, including protection land of awater course, immerse in a dense and problematic neighborhood (BarrioAntioquia) in the west-south Medellin. The urban environment include theurban airport for national flights Aeropuerto Olaya Herrera, and theinfluence of relevant road corridors of the city: calles 10 to 30, and carrera65. The proposal must include a regeneration urban project and socialinclusion projects for the large young population of the area..

The urban proposal seeks to connect and articulate the existing strategicpublic and green spaces, with the public transport stations (Metro Pobladoand MetroPlus calle 30). The new projected areas would create a link alsowith the main centrality of the city: the Medellin river, and the so calledCerros Tutelares ( Guardian urban hills) as recreation and leisure centers. Itwill also look up for the recovery and highlight of important urbanmilestones such as the airport and the carrera 65 as structural urban axe.

RECREARTE + PROYECTO PEDAGÓGICO CENTRO INTEGRAL DE LA CULTURA Y EL OCIO

The intervention and integral improvement of 120 km2., will influence a keyarea of the city. It highlights the importance in landscape of the multiplewater courses of the valley, determining the protection of La Guayabalacreek as a main principle, respecting its land, elevating the ground floor topass over and entering of the buildings, connecting the exterior and interioractivities and dynamics, with the pedestrian flow. The ground floor andopen spaces provide commercial and informational units.

The complex would offer also public housing and retail office spaces,searching for an integral urban rehab, starting by the improvement of thisarea as center.The developed building of the project consist of a public center foreducation, professional training, recreation and leisure, for the communityand the city.

The original box shaped buildings evolve into a set of juxtaposedcontainers, crossed by an structure of platforms and catwalks penetratingand connecting the different spaces, equal to the open urban scheme,proposing external and internal (nature, park and build) as a one and onlyspace. The appearance of the building talks about double skins, translucentspaces, varied and dual sights, smooth atmospheres of quite and tranquilplace, as an oasis in the polluted urban environment.

The floating divisions between spaces, the colorful and enlighten facadesand the incorporation of vegetation inside the building – also visible fromthe outside, makes the building a brand new aesthetic for the city and theneighborhood.

The building, accommodating mainly two different but not opposed activities:education and recreation, must find a way to function for both users andneeds. So it functions as two interconnected modules, transparent butcarefully soundproofed, that can be easily walked through. The buildingincludes also a library, study rooms, computers and systems rooms,cafeteria, children playground and on the top, an auditorium/Theater.

PUBLIC BUILDING DEVELOPMENT . VIII WORKSHOPLuisa M Estrada Gil– Maria C Restrepo Tirado

Proffesors: Arq. Cristina Vélez – Arq. Pedro P Peláez

Integral desing of a center for leisure and water related sports, in the Aburrá valley.

The project is settled literally on the river Medellín, framed in an attempt bythe municipality to recover and use the river as the center of the citydynamics. The meandering but channeled river, on the north of the valleypresents islands used as rubbish dump, that summed to the populatedparks of the area and the massive presence of children, suggest the need tointegrate all this components, offering an alternative for free time,demonstrating the city how to use river land and exposing the need to

recover this land for the improvement of life quality in the entire city.The emplacement on the bed of the river allows the sightseeing of the cityfrom an unique perspective, specially of the urbanized center and south,and both slopes. The project presents itself as an artificial island, fromwhere the river quality and dignity are highlighted, at the same time thatoffers public open spaces to the most degraded communities in the northof the city.

Physical efficient connections between the opposed and pronounced slopesof the valley are scarce and limited to the Metro bridge. The building it selfwould work as a bridge, to inhabit and enjoy, connecting the metro stationwith the main roads and other buildings and facilities. The project first aimis to commit the city with the recovery and cleaning of the river Medellín.The quality of livability of the open spaces and the water, determine thesuccess or failure of this project. The existing institution Mi Rio would be in

charge of managing and developing the projects of cleaning the water andsurroundings to make possible the use and enjoy of the river itself, besidessocial work to educate and sensitize the community to protect the river, incooperation with Metro de Medellin institution. The building stands as acentrality for the confluence of the surrounding neighborhoods, and wouldbe a recreational space, for water related sports, leisure and health, thatbecomes an excuse to inhabit this compulsory building in a valley city.

The building stands out as a container and protector of public activities thatredraws the limits between the urban skyline, sports and other indooractivities.The water accompanies the walk through out the route along the buildingand therefore along this fraction of river. The wide open terraces arestrategic elements where the main activities are made, enjoying the yearlong spring time of the city. Pools, courts, green areas, benches are placed.

in the terraces, becoming this the best places to perform any outdooractivity. On the inside of the building, other water sports can be carried outin special covered pools, gym and play rooms. The program is completedwith restaurants, cafeteria and other facilities on the top terraces.On the south side, artificial sand beaches and sun terraces are adapted toenjoy the river water and natural environment, when possible.

Academic Projects Maria Clara Restrepo TiradoUrban Planning and Policy Design

Architecture and Society Faculty Laurea Specialistica - MSc. Urban Planning and Policy Design2008-2010.

Review over the 3 projects completed during MSc Urban Planning and Policy Design,in the proposed workshops, regarding the subjects of urban design and planning, the implementation of policies and territorial strategies to understand urban phenomena of contemporary cities and improve degraded environments.

+ Urban Policies Lab (I 2008 - 2009)

+ Urban Planning and Design Lab (II 2008-2009)

+ Urban Policies Lab: Spatial Development Studio (I 2009 – 2010)

PART II.

Alternative Accommodations for EXPO(strategic planning for EXPO2015)

C Taner (Urban Plannerr, Turkey) – E Moro (Sociologist, Italy)

A Sengupta (Architect, India) - MC Restrepo (Architect, Colombia)

Professors: A. Balducci – A Bruzzese - G. Rabaiotti - P Cottino

This lab introduced complex concepts such as policies – both public andprivate – strategic planning, role and shapes of design in planningprocesses. The proximity of the EXPO 2015 taking place in the city ofMilano set the perfect timing to bring up the discussion of the significanceof large events in developing cities, helping the creation of “city brand” forthe territorial marketing and the excuse for urban transformation andregeneration.

The projects could develop freely over the urban consequences of EXPO fora city like Milano . Both urban design proposes and policies to face andovercome the arrival of universal crowd (29 million people) were made.This specific project decided to face the matter of accommodation forvisitors: the city lack of enough hotels and spaces to lodge, but mainly theissue behind the sustainability of the new building proposals and future ofthis spaces after 2015.

Filling the gaps in policies , decisions, Urban and territorial management:

How to cop w ith the Centripetal Force of EXPO

Urban coherenceWhat after 2015?The future MilanoLet’s not waste money on something the city doesn't really need ! Archistars mega projects ?

•CityLife project for Milano; •Isozaki-Hadid-Libeskind-Maggiora, 2007.

“The pasta buildings: lo dritto, lo storto e lo curvo”

It was clear the solutions should innovate and involve the community, to beable to create a Win Win situation, where all the involved (territory,investors and visitors) could benefit.Scanning the territory: taking in account the existent opportunities onregional and local scale: old non- productive farms, abandoned green areasand parks, existing hotel infrastructure linked with normal transport networkand new routes to cover the new needs.

1. The solutions must be valid for the three main recipients: Visitors, Territory andwill be based on the principal of sustainable development. (NEGOCIO REDONDO)

2. The solutions will give special and original accommodations for the people comingto MilanoEXPO 2015, by filling the gaps in the accommodation plans. (FILLING THEGAP)

3. The solutions will involve the local community with the visitors, bringing themcloser in order to learn from each other. (MORE THAN A BED )

4. The solutions will provide for the visitors to have an experience not only of theEXPO but also the city and the region. (UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCES)

5. The solutions will involve the accommodations already existing infrastructure andpublic transportation systems.(REUSING FOR DURING, DESIGNING FOR POST)

6. The solutions will help to restore the infrastructure [buildings, railways, roads] inbad conditions. (REUSING FOR DURING, DESIGNING FOR POST)

7. The solutions will help to educate the tourist, creating a conscience of the territorythey are visiting, not only for the time in Italy but to expand the conscientioustourism in the World. (CONCIENTIOUS TOURISM)

8. The solutions will look up for the cooperation between the different municipalities[north Italy], creating bridges by the “accommodation” process. (PARTNERSHIP)

9. The solutions will exalt the production of natural and balanced food, to help theexpansion of good eating habits among the world population. (SLOW FOODCOMMUNITIES)

10. The solutions will exalt the bioclimatic design and low energy consumptionprojects, for buildings and all systems related to the MilanoEXPO

DESIGN FOR POST, RE-USE FOR DURING

TEMPORARY CITY? USE / LEAVE vs ENJOY / LIVE

MORE THAN A BED

NEGOCIO REDONDO

RURAL SUBURBAN URBAN

RE-USING, RE-STORING, RE-DESIGNINGAbandoned and sub used areas for new functions

TEMPORARY HOUSING

Castellazzo di Bollate • accessibility• other projects• visibility

Villas and Cascinas to involve1. Mulino Sant’Elena, Pregnana2. Cascina Favaglia, Cornaredo3. Corte Stretcieu, Settimo Milanese4. Villa Ricotti, Arese5. Villa Burba, Rho6. Villa Schleiber, Rho

In suburban – peripheral areas, there are a big amount of abandonedbuildings and sub used lands, caused by the general de industrialization.Reusing and restoring these buildings and lands, make less damage to theenvironment than constructing new.The old cascinas (farms) are very important part of the material andimmaterial heritage of north Italy, and are also very accurate places wherevisitors of expo about food, can learn about processes and life styles.

Temporary Housing is an opportunity, more than a policy, to involvearchitecture and design students, all the interested people in the city ofMilan and the surroundings, and international community to propose ideasfor ecological, disposable and recyclable housing, both for short termvisitors and long term visitors, such as press and staff.The new residences must be located in strategic, visible and recognizableplaces of the city, and could become new landmarks, as students housing.

HOSPITALITY WEBSITE TOOL

“ In this webpage we'll help you to make the choice of accommodation foryour stay in Milan., choosing from many available and reliable places, thatwill ensure you an UNFORGETABLE EXPERIENCE in expo2015.Everyone can join this social network! Local owners of hotels, hostels, orany person who wants to accommodate people, same as expected visitorsand other interested . “

www.alternativeaccommodations.com

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Which group would you place yourself? What’s your budget per night?

Staff

Families

Yougster

Elders

Business

€ 0 – 20?

€ 20 – 50?

€ 50 – 100?

€ 100 - … ?

This proposal is based on the already existing web-communities availablefor free and special accommodation, using the social networks as the maintool to link and involving residents with visitors. It will consist on promotingthis kind of interchange, making it public through mass media andadvertising, so people can get to know this options, still reserved for a shortsocial group. This will create a growing culture of alternativism, andhopefully promote tolerance and interchange.

Collecting Collective Spaces from Treviglio to Milano(moving towards livability)

S Zor (Architect,Turkey) - I Akkaya (UPlanner, Turkey) - G Romagnoli (UPlanner, Italy) - S Crosta (UPlanner, Italy)

A Favini (UPlanner, Italy) – M Carnicelli (UPlanner, Italy) - MC Restrepo (Architect, Colombia)

Professors: P Gabellini - M Bolocan G - B Bonfantini - A Longo - A Di Giovanni

1. 2.

1. CONSIDERING SEVERAL IN BETWEEN

2. SAMPLING EXERCISEWATER ‘LINKED’ SPACES

RAILWAY ‘LINKED’ SPACES

The BLACK AND WHITE forces are two very different dynamics present over the territory in between Treviglio and Milano, and they appear CO-LIVING, one next to the other:PRIVATE/PUBLIC GLOBAL/LOCAL AGRICULTURE/INDUSTRY/RESIDENCENATURE/ARTEFACTS URBANITY/RURALITY PRESERVATION/RENOVATIONTo improve livability it is necessary to REthink about the relations between this two logics and the places where they MEET EACH OTHER.

WAKE UP TERRITORY !

ROADWAY ‘LINKED’ SPACESCITY MADE BY PARTSAGRICULTURAL SURFACESSPECIAL ELEMENTS (WATER SURFACES)

Signs of sickness over the territory

+ Strong presence of the “Car culture” [gas stations, drive thru, McD,large parking lots]+ The invasion of “shopping world” [ sex shops and commercial centers]and the culture of the “dormitory city” in the peripheries.+ Strong big infrastructures “cutting” the fluxes and stopping

the permeability [over the south park – PASM]+ Centralization of public spaces. Culture of the uses of public

space linked to tradition and religion (churches, parks)+ HIGH PRIVATIZATION OF THE SPACE+ Unbalanced development of new projects+ High presence of dismissed areas: buildings in the urban

cores, agricultural infrastructures oldfarms.

+ Problems of violence, insecurity[in the urban cores and roads]

Identification – Memory - Appropriation – Integration - Permeability Consciousness - Alternative – Common - Awareness

NEW CONFIGURATIONS INTO THE EXISTING SPACE + GIVING NEW VALUES TO THE TERRITORY AND ITS PLACES

How to project over collective spaces between Treviglio and Milano ?

_ using the memories and perceptions of the inhabitants _ Interpreting the existing elements and systems _ giving a legible and unitarian image _ finding continuities and discontinuities in the fluxes_ identifying the hierarchies: horizontally and vertically

RE READING the traces RE VERSING the logic of the territoryRE USING the existing and subused [ land and structures ]RE STORING the abandoned infrastructures and memoriesRE CONVERTING the physical spaces and dynamics into COLLECTIVE ones.

PARCO LAMBRO

MIOPARCO

MOLGORE

RIOVALLE

ADDA

“ The continuity of an “urban park”, a frontier for the city. Mix of differentkind of facilities for metropolitan scale. According to the well definedvocation of the river`s surrounding areas, the park supports the sportiveactivities, the leisure and relax, pedestrian, familiar areas. “

Landscaping and green space intervention: SCENARIOS OF SUBURBAN LIFE.

“ The park will be an answer to the specific need of the territory of analternative sub center for the night life and culture for the inhabitants. It isan opportunities for the contemporary and traditional dynamics and culturesto meet, relate and connect. The park will make visible the growing youngpopulation and will give them the spaces to develop identity and identifywith the territory.”

Regenerating Turati 40/BollateRedefinit ion of a Contratto di Quartiere

S Zor (Architect,Turkey) - S Aghabeglou (Architect,Iran) - D DeNuzzo (UPlanner, Italy) - M Reissner (UPlanner, Italy)

M Urbano (UPlanner, Italy) - P Verga (UPlanner, Italy) - MC Restrepo (Architect, Colombia)

Professors: G Paqui – S Armondi – P Briata – P Savoldi

BollateThe approach to the settlement of the building, exposes the main problemsin the conception of the CDQ, involved with the project’s territory and itsreality. The social and urban isolation converts Turati40 into a sort ofenclave even if it’s just a few meters from the historical center.The main proposal to fight this problem is to develop and reinforce the linkswith the surrounding economic dynamics, extending the projectual vision ofthe CDQ to a wider context.

“Contratto di Quartiere” is a program promoted by the Lombardia Regionand open to Municipalities through a competitive call, to restore andrenovate, problematic social housing complexes. The main idea of the callis to work with communities, through an integrated system of material andimmaterial actions, regarding the physical requalification, social cohesion,security and economic spheres.

Turati 40

ECONOMY BASED VISIONING: BOLLATE, GRAPHIC DESING/PRINTING HUB

SOCIALLY BASED VISIONING: SIGNIFICATION OF COMMON PUBLIC SPACESENVIRONMENTALLY BASED VISIONING: TURATI40: THE GREEN NEIGHBORHOOD

FUNCTIONALLY BASED VISIONING: DECONSTRUCTION OF A MEANING

PROPOSED SCENARIOS FOR THE FUTURE OF TURATI40

The closeness to the Bovisa University pole, made clear the posibility ofbringing together Bollate and Bovisa, and at the same time Turat40 andinternational students, an already on-going idea that has changed thedynamics on other neighborhoods of Milan. All the scenarios revolve aroundthe issue of social + constructive restoration specially of the public andcommon spaces, bringing new functions and opening the debate for theuses of internal and external spaces.

In a mixing of processes, ideas, desired scenarios and possible solutionsfor the problematic found in Turati40, visioning was made in order toclarify and settle the main objectives of the new CDQ.The first topic was the need to create stable and sustainable economicaldevelopment, that will lead to improve both quality of life and thecollective imaginarium over this neighborhood.

Main Building

New residentialdevelopment

Existing parks

Existing parks

New market area and covered footbridge

at the piloties floor there will be working+living units and exposition spaces.In the surroundings of T40 will be developed a hub for graphics and design,made of studios, shops, incubators and printing services, and also some newresidences.”

New CDQ introduction.

“… new centrality for Bollate will grow in and around Turati40 by thecreation of many new activities. The main building will be connected tothe urban framework through a functional covered footbridge made tohost the weekly market and many kinds of events, and will be added ofnew functions: on the roof a museum of Brutalism architecture integratedwith a Research Laboratory for the development of urban social-housingperipheries;

An ambitious urban project as this CdQ requires the arrangement of anstructure able to provide, with efficiency, direction and coordination of allinitiatives and actions. The management structure is simple and there areonly few responsible, in order to favor communication and collaborationbetween different actors/actions. To avoid the backward steps in the project,a set of sustainable actions has been designed to provide continuity to theproject goals, even after their implementation:

“ The municipality, throughout the management structure will control theeffectiveness and efficiency of those actions, after the projectimplementation, in order to face possible critical outcomes. The museumcommittee as well as the periphery lab will provide a continuous serviceinside the social housing building, while the graphic hub will guaranteemainly the economical and productive function. Both activities are strictlyrelated with the social renewal goals, providing continuity to the projectdevelopment. “