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1. MIRADOR 22. PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTION 5 3. DROPLET GARDEN 64. WILD LIFE CROSSING PATH 95. OBSERVATION TOWER 126. SCENOGRAPHY IN THE MAMM 167. PROJECT FOR A POOL 198. ORCHARD 229. ALLUVIAL VALLEY 23

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10. INSTALLATION IN PUBLIC SPACE LAB 2611. S-M.A.O MODEL WORKSHOP AND EXHIBITION 3012. BOGOTA FLOODING WORKSHOP 3313. RESTREPORAMA 35

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14. EL JARILLON 4115. TOWARDS THE HILL 4316. BOGOTA HILLS BIRD GUIDE 45

The definition of the landscape concept is adhered to the action of observation of the landscape, which implies the bilateral equation between the landscape’s inhabitant (the observer) end the terrain observed (the landscape). Landscape is built at the same time it is conceived, acquires multiple possibilities of existence and refuses to establish itself in a hermetic definition: the landscape is a geographic space, but is also a temporal, social and political space.

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1.MIRADOR

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The project is set to be located on the main square of Lima, in the historic center of the city. It consists on very long stairs that cross through the plaza, forming a spiral that reaches a 25m height. On the highest point of the stairs, a lighthouse constantly spinning at a low pace, projects the old perimeter of the city on the facades of the buildings that surround the plaza. From the top of the stairs it is possible to watch the projection of the mountains and the sea that surround Lima, but that are no longer visible, behind the new skyline of buildings.

Medium: installation/architecture: Centro Abierto 2012, international Competition.

Year: 2012

Dimensions: (H x W x D): 25 x 30 x 15 mt

Place: Lima, Peru

Support: scaffoldings, stairs and lighthouse

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2. PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTION page:5

A project that was ment to be site specific changes location and moves to the public space. All of the pretentions behind a work of art are susceptible of being transformed by the most simple but inevitable forces of all: experience. This is perhaps what makes art so random and powerful at the same time.

Medium: installation/ sculpture: filling an entire space with sand

Year: 2012

Dimensions: (H x W x D): 3 x 10x 3.5 m; 10 m3 of sand, old truck tires

Place: The inside and outside of M.I.A.M.I. an independent art exhibition space in Bogota.

Support: building/street

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3. DROPLET GARDEN, 2013 CHINA JINZHOU WORLD LANDSCAPE ART EXPOSITION

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The project was created for an international landscape competition. The requirements of the competition meant that the competitors developed a garden based on the natural characteristics of their own places of origin. The design team (3 architects + 1 artist + 1 botanic), all Colombian, proposed a garden inspired on the variety and irregularity of the Colombian topography. The plant species that were selected to build the project belonged to genres and species of Chinese plants affiliated to Colombian species, so the entire garden had a configuration of two places of origin in different extremes of the world.

Medium: landscape architecture - competition (winner) / project realized with Diana Wiesner.

Year: 2011

Dimensions: 3000 m2

Place: Jinzhou, China

Support: earth, plants, concrete, wood, stone, water.

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4.WILDLIFE CROSSING PATH, TWO PROPOSALS

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The proposals for a wildlife crossing project located on the Oil Perforation area of Caño Limon, Arauca. The project consisted on designing a hanging bridge/crossing path for small animals such as porky pines, ant eating bears and monkeys between two areas of wild forest that were separated by the construction of a main road and a train rail. The project is planned to cover a trajectory of approximately 200m and reach a maximum height of 15 m approx. using sustainable materials for construction and seeking the conservation of the forests in their original conditions. The materials specified for the construction of the project were reforestation wood and metallic cords that support the weight of the animals. For the development of this project, the proposals were based on the natural behavior of the native species of the area, their sizes and displacement habits.

Medium: landscape intervention

Year: 2012

Dimensions: 180 linear m

Place: Caño Limon, Arauca, Colombia

Support: wooden structure and steel wire

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5.OBSERVATION TOWER, TWO PROPOSALS

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The project proposals have special interest in the development of architectural and landscape structures that can articu-late the natural environment of Arauca with the oil industry of the region, giving priority to the conservation and protection of the natural species, the water reservoirs and the entire ecosystem. The project consisted in the design proposal and development for an observation tower located on the Oil Perforation zone of Caño Limon, Arauca. It has the objective of becoming a natural site for the area, for recreational and pedagogical uses. Both of the proposals for the project are thought to be sustainable regarding the use of ecological materials and planning: recycled oil pipelines and reforestation wooden pieces. From the viewpoint of both the towers, it is possible to see the infinite extension of flat land that reaches Venezuela.

Medium: landscape architecture

Year: 2011

Dimensions: 30m2; 25 m high

Place: Caño Limon, Arauca, Colombia

Support: Recycled oil pipeline, wood

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6. SCENOGRAPHY FOR THE ALTERNATIVE USES FESTIVAL IN THE MODERN ART MUSEUM OF MEDELLIN

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The Alternative Uses Festival is an initiative of exhibition and interaction of different proposes of food, design, art and architecture that believe in recycling and alternative uses and materials as a production base for a sustainable lifestyle. The spirit of the entire project is based on bricolage and on the interpretation of uses hidden in things. The proposal was based on industrial scaffoldings which are normally employed for construction work, and that would eventually return to its regular use; and on wooden crafts to build an organic food market, the crafts functioned both as the structure for the market and as the display devices for the food.

Medium: installation/stands: 20 stands for de design exhibition held in the festival and 1 organic food market.

Year: 2011

Dimensions: (H x W x D): 3 x 1.4 x 40 m for the stands, 137 wooden crates for the market

Place: Alternative Uses Festival, MAMM, Modern Art Museum of Medellin, Colombia

Support: wooden crates and scaffoldings

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7. PROJECT FOR A POOL

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The pool is based on its surrounding landscape. La Calera is a suburbia area of Bogota located in the middle of the mountains. Its hills and valleys seem to vanish the proximity of the city and create an incredible perspective of nature and solitude. The proposal is based on maintaining the original topography of the surroundings by designing underground facilities and services. The geometrical forms that the design suggests allude to a direct dialogue with the nature of this place.

Medium: landscape architecture- private competition (winner)

Year: 2012

Dimensions: 1100 m2

Place: La Calera, Colombia

Support: earth, plants, concrete, wood, stone, water, plants, glass, construction materials.

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8.ORCHARD

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The project of this small orchard is located in the area of the hills of Bogota, surrounded by nature and an incredible view. The orchard is for the use of a family and it intends to create a domestic space outside the limits of the house that can incentive the gardening practice.

Medium: landscape architecture/ carpentry: landscape intervention

Year: 2011

Dimensions: (H x W x D): 4 x 4 x4 m

Place: La Calera, Colombia

Support: wood

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9.ALLUVIAL VALLEY

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Valdivia is a small touristic city on the south of Chile. It is surrounded by an immense wetland ecosystem on one side, the mountains on another and the river that limits with the ocean. In 2010, after the earthquake on Chile, its harbor was destroyed and this competition was open for design proposals. The project proposes to imagine the urban growth of Valdivia through the sustainable development of its natural environment. Development and growth do not have to be synonym of separation of nature and men: different typologies of public space blend into the wetland ecosystem that constantly transforms the water of the city and of the river. People are invited to appropriate the public space of the city and make it their own.

Medium: landscape architecture/ public competition

Year: 2012

Dimensions: 2 km

Place: Valdivia, Chile

Support: wetland artificial system

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Creating a temporal space of interaction between different people responds to an interest towards collectivity and spontaneity. Creation is sometimes the result of a moment or a coincidence of circumstances between mutual interests. Collective work can be the motor of large scale public projects. Many individualities together form multiplicity. The assortment of projects presented here is varied in shape and kind. They have their origin in the collective and independent ambitions of generating alternative projects from scratch and in the belief for trans-disciplinary practice as a powerful medium. Here, intentions prove to be strong enough to turn into exchanging and learning platforms.

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10. INSTALLATION IN PUBLIC SPACE LAB

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The laboratory is a project executed less than a month ago but conceived about a year ago. This exchange platform proposed to bring two subjects of discussion to a space of collective creation: public space and artistic installation. For 3 weeks, 30 people from different backgrounds and fields of studies developed 4 collective proposals for installation projects. The workshop had special guests that each day addressed a subject of relation to the laboratory. At the end of the workshop process, the groups installed their projects in public space. The entire project never seized to be an experiment but the results of the laboratory went beyond any expectations. This is the first version of this project that raised questions about the relation of the public space of Bogota and how it could grow closer to their inhabitants.

Medium: production and organization/workshop and public installation exhibition/ project realized with the architecture collective Posiciones de Emergencia, winner of the National Competition: Laboratorios 2011, of El Banco de la Republica and the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation.

Year: 2012

Dimensions: 30 people, 3 weeks, 4 installation projects

Place: El Parqueadero, Banco de la Republica Contemporary Art Museum,Bogota, Colombia

Support: room, benches, tables, people, public space, diverse kind of materials

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11. S-M.A.O MODEL WORKSHOP AND EXHIBITION

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The work of the Spanish architecture studio S.M.A.O. has its origin in a plastic exploration for geometries and materials. We invited the architects to Bogota and based on their projects, created a space to use models as exploration mediums of their work.

Medium: production and organization of the workshop of models of the projects of Architecture studio S.M.A.O. from Spain / project realized with the architecture collective Posiciones de Emergencia

Year: 2010

Dimensions: 20 people, 4 models, 1 week

Place: Bogota, Colombia

Support: room, tables, chairs, people, card board, glue, cutting blades.

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12. BOGOTA FLOODING WORKSHOP

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In 2011, Colombia went through the worst winter crisis of its history: During several months, the incessant rain devastated towns all over the country. Thousands of people were affected and hundreds of questions about what to do were raised. This workshop was proposed to discuss this natural phenomenon that doesn’t seem to be stopping and that is changing the way we conceive the world and our relation with nature and climate. As special guests, we invited the architecture collective from Ecuador, Al Borde.

Medium: production and organization of flooding workshop with Ecuadorian Architects guests, AlBorde / project realized with the architecture collective Posiciones de Emergencia

Year: 2011

Dimensions: 17 people

Place: Bogota, Colombia

Support: room, tables, chairs, people

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13.RESTREPORAMA

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Carlos E. Restrepo Park is located in one of Bogota’s most traditional commercial neighborhoods, El Rest repo. The neighborhood is characterized for its high density of population during the weekdays, and the use that homeless people make of public areas as domestic facilities. All of this has deteriorated the neighborhood. RESTREPORAMA is a winning project of a district competition called Love for Bogota. The project proposes the improvement and recuperation of the public park Carlos E. Restrepo, through mechanisms of socialization and community interaction. During 3 months, design campaigns that gave people information about their park, that pointed its problems and that proposed new approaches to public space through cultural devices, were developed in a collective group of 9 people of different disciplinary fields. RESTREPORAMA concluded with a huge art installation built between the collective organizer and the neighbors of El Restrepo.

Medium: installation/information design: project for the recuperation of public space through methods of socialization and community creation.

Year: 2011

Dimensions: 4830m2

Place: Bogota, Colombia

Support: Carlos E. Restrepo Public Park, El Restrepo neighborhood, Bogota

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Editorial projects: some, still in process.

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14. EL JARILLON

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The flooding workshop resulted in the publication of a handmade fanzine that compiled the doubts and ideas that a group of 20 people had about the flooding emergency in Colombia in drawings, images, sentences and annotations. We published 99 editions and sold out on the first night.

Medium: illustration/writing/edition of the fanzine / collective work with the participants of the flooding workshop and that were self-named Los Hidrologicos / project realized with the architecture collective Posiciones de Emergencia

Year: 2011

Dimensions: 99 booklet editions

Place: Bogota, Colombia

Support: paper, ink, photocopies

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A project for an album book for children about the secret life of the hills. The book uses images as a narrative resource and onomatopoeias for short texts that accompany the illustrations. The narrative of the book is about a boy that goes up the hills of Bogota. Through scale alteration the boy merges with the environment, which changes according to the altitude of the mountain.

Medium: illustration/writing

Year: 2011

Dimensions: 20 pages of 20 x 10 cm

Place: Bogota, Colombia

Support: paper, ink, digital color.

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15. TOWARDS THE HILL

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16. BOGOTA HILLS BIRD GUIDE

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A project of illustration and design of a portable bird-observation-guide composed of 20 different postcards of bird species from the hills of Bogota. The illustrations and the design of the postcards are accompanied by the information gathered in collaboration with a biologist. The postcards do not resemble other bird observation guides; its character is more informal and is intended for amateur bird lovers who seek alternative methods of observation than those exclusively scientific.

Medium: Illustration and design

Year: 2012

Dimensions: 20 postcards of 20 different bird species

Place: Bogota, Colombia

Support: paper, ink, digital design

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Bogota, Colombia

2012