Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
17 October 2022

Ministry of the Make!, 2022

Collaborators: Sander van Venetie, Jessica McCormack, Holly Dyas and Jannegien Luursema together with The Independent School for the City.

Project origin: Hellevoetsluis & Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Exhibition: Showcased at the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

The Ministry of Make! is calling on a hundred design teams to use their collective knowledge and imagination to come up with new designs for the Netherlands. With this, the Ministry of Make! wants to contribute to the radical renovation of the Netherlands. Each team is asked to conduct research into the development of 10,000 climate-proof homes at one of the 100 selected test locations of 4 km2 using a Test Kit containing everything necessary to build a model.

 

 

 

The model will eventually be united with the other 99 Test Kits to from an enormous scale model that shows the magnitude of the upcoming reconstruction of the Netherlands. The models will be exhibited from 14 October – 13 November during the 10th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, in an old natural gas container in Rotterdam. 

 

Industrial Legacy of KW
24 September 2021

Industrial Legacy of KW

Adaptive Reuse: Industrial Legacy of Kitchener-Waterloo, 2022

Project Origin: Ontario, Canada

Grant: Region of Waterloo Arts Fund

Since the early 1800 Kitchener, also know as “The Industrial City”, was a manufacturing hub playing a central role for industry and progress. Waterloo, located north of Kitchener, grew simultaneously as a white collar city. As the cities evolved into their modern state, the factories once located at the edge of the city limits were embedded into its present-day urban fabric.

Its current iteration has seen a shift from the manufacturing to the technological industries, however, the buildings where this progress has taken place, in some cases, hasn’t changed. The influx of new population, while refreshing for the region, dilutes its humble, but assertive beginnings.

With this in mind, the project aims to consolidate the industrial legacy buildings in the Kitchener-Waterloo into a physical catalogue. This project includes architectural photography, a visual analysis of the industrial typologies, as well as diagrams of the buildings with the original factory facades. In addition, an analysis of the urban development through mapmaking, and how the industrial legacy has shaped the identity and legibility of the urban area is included. Kitchener-Waterloo has seen rapid transformation and urban renewal though adaptive reuse. The undertaking of the this project will help illustrate the uniqueness of KW, and spread among the community the value of keeping its industrial legacy as a part of the urban fabric.

 

 


Mexico Monotonous Housing
29 March 2019

Monotonous Housing

On the variety ​of Housing typologies for urban regeneration, 2019

Project origin: Mexico City, Mexico

Exhibition: Currently showcased at GSD Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge Massachusetts

Housing plays a fundamental role in urban regeneration; besides being the critical mass of any urban strategy, It is a primordial space for human development.

The piece questions Mexico’s lack of affordable housing dedicated to diverse sectors of the population. It also reflects on the value of each presented housing type and their potential as an urban regenerator.

Ultimately, the proposal questions current public policies who promote a mono-functional housing model and underlines the absence of incentives for the development and creation of new housing typologies.

Housing types:

Multifamiliar/ Family housing

Interés social/ Social housing

Progresiva/ Incremental housing

Colectiva-vecindad / Collective housing

Unifamiliar/ Single family housing

Description: 2.5 X 5 cm Polymer clay

Digital Fabrication as a driver of urban transformation
25 November 2015

Digital Fabrication as a driver of urban transformation, 2015

Author name: Nayeli Galindo

Collaborators: Christina Voutsa, Ivo Barros

Project origin: London, UK

Exhibition: Showcased at the Triennale di Milano XXI

The project aims to rethink typologically the challenges arising from the combination of industrial with living environments. It shows a set of urban interventions, which encourage architecture as urbanism, to drive change and test the potential of Digital Fabrication industry as urban transformer.