CV

Monica Hernandez Truitt Work Experience

Education

Exhibitions/ Lectures

Academic and Research

Awards

Selected CollaborativePublications

Programs

Languages

Balmori Associates Designer / Business Development / Marketing Jan 2008 - current New YorkLifeform Ltd. Designer / Business Development / Marketing Sep 2005 - Nov 2007 New YorkStudio Gaia Designer / Marketing Jul 2004 - Jul 2005 New YorkTonantzin Tlalli Institute Design team for non-profit project Sep 2002 – Mar 2003 Oaxaca, MexicoLudens Designer Dec 2001 – Jun 2002 Mexico CityHiguera + Sanchez Design Internship Apr 2003 – Jun 2003 Mexico CityPascal Arquitectos Design Internship Jul 2000 – Jun 2001 Mexico CityW Hotels Guest Relations Jun 2003- Jan 2004 Mexico City

Masters in Landscape Design with Honors, Columbia University, New York 2010Undergraduate Degree in Architecture, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City 2003

Van Allen Institute, portfolio part of permanent library. 2010. New York.Dome Colonies X ‘Nooks’ Exhibition, at X Initiative Dia Foundation. Collaboration with Fritz Haeg and Diana Balmori 2009. New York.‘Constantly Variable’ Exhibition. Collaboration with Thomas Navin Architect, The Common Room. 2009. New York.‘Making Public Places’ Twitter Forum. Collaboration with Diana Balmori. 2009. New York.ConFlux City ‘Making Public Places THE HUB’, festival of Urban Interventions. Collaboration with Balmori Associates. 2009.New York.StoreFront for Art and Architecture ‘Postopolis’ Lecture series. Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd. 2007. New York.Good Experience, ‘Gel Conference’, The Equitable Center. 2005.New York.Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico ‘Youth in Architecture’. 1999. Mexico City.

Invited Jury for Columbia University’s Landscape Design Masters Final studio project. 2011- current. New York.Architecture for Humanity Competition, ‘Classroom Open Architecture Challenge’ Competition Jury. 2009TEDx Manhattan 2012. ‘Changing the Way we Eat’. Attendee. New York.‘TerreFarm 2010’, Experimental Lab for new prototypes for urban farming workshop with TerreForm1. New York.Certificate in Permaculture Design - Tri-State Food Not Lawns. 2007. New York.Associate Member American Institute of Architects (AAIA). 2005 - current. New York.

Best Social Service Project Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City and Delegation Cuajimalpa, Finalist .2002. Mexico CityOutstanding Architecture Projects Universidad Iberoamericana, Winner .1998. Mexico CityOutstanding Technical Drawing Universidad Iberoamericana, Winner. 1999. Mexico City

‘Futurescapes’ – Designers for Tomorrow’s outdoor Spaces. Tim Richardson. 2011. Collaboration with Balmori Associates“Safer Passage: Five Design Teams Competed to Help Animals Cross the Road”, Linda Mcintyre, Architecture Landscape Magazine, 2011. Collaboration with Balmori Associates.‘Post-It Landscape’ Blog based on Diana Balmori’s book “A Landscape Manifesto.“ 2010. Collaboration with Balmori Associates.‘MAKING PUBLIC PLACES’ BLURB booklet- 2009. Collaboration with Balmori Associates.‘Tra fiume e città. Paesaggi, progetti, principi di Balmori Diana’- Publication. 2009. Collaboration with Balmori Associates‘Collection, New Ideas - Library 2.0’ Korea, Bob Magazine - Publication. 2006. Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd.‘ATK Monografias’ - Publication. 2006. Collaboration with Pascal Arquitectos.Other collaborative publications include publications in: New York Times, Fast Company, Village Voice, Architects Newspaper, Perspective Maga-zine (Korea), “ Bizkaia” ( Spain), LA Landscape Architecture China, MARU magazine ( Korea ) ,BOB Magazine ( Korea ) Abitare, Arquine ( Mexico ) Competitions Magazine, Domes architecture ( Greece), Interior+Design Magazine( Russia ), Metropolis, Arquitectura Viva ( Spain), Manhattan Magazine, Europaconcorsi, Architecture Record, and various blogs including : Inhabitat, Urban Omnibus, Landscape and Urbanism, Architectr, Core77, Design Boom and others.

AutoCad, Adobe Suite, 3-D Max, Rhino

Fluent in Spanish and English, basic French and Italian

Barn in the Forest, NY model

Building an Urban Livingroom , NY

ARI childrens shelving system

LIST OF PROJECTS

WITH BALMORI ASSOCIATES, NEW YORK

University of Iowa, Hancher Auditorium ReplacementIowa city, Iowa Concept Design for Campus Master Plan and Landscape Design for New auditorium using flood prevention strategies.

V.I.O.L. São PauloSan Paulo, BrazilRendering, Planting Design and Selection. Concept Design through Design DevelopmentLandscape Design for commercial headquarters that on a site with native Mata Atlantica Rainforest.

New Bauhaus Museum Competition Weimar, GermanyCompetition design team Manager

Modular Crossing System / Arc Wildlife Crossing CompetitionDenver, CoSubmission of RFQ, and competition team. Finalist.

Botanical Research Institute of TexasFort Worth, TXDetailing for Construction Documents for a research institute and education facility that opened in 2011.

Campa de Los InglesesBilbao, SpainDesign of various Park elements, including paving and plant selection for an urban park that recently opened in 2012.

United States Institute of PeaceWashington, DC2 year Construction administration for the landscape design of this project headed by Moshe Safdie Archi-tects.

City Tech campus CUNYBrooklyn, NYConcept and Schematic Design package for Landscape Design of the Brooklyn campus -currently under con-struction.

Bedford HouseBedford Corners, New York DD set for the landscape design of this residential project in upstate New York.

Hudson Yards Park & Boulevard CompetitionNew York , NY Submission of RFQ, Competition design team w/ WORK ac. Finalist

Cajasol SevillaIsla De La Cartuja, Seville, SpainDesign Development detailingDesign of green roof, and irrigation system for this mixed use commercial tower.

Building an Urban Living RoomNew York, NYProposal for Urban design for Public Space in the Meat Packing District

“Nooks” For Dome Colony X in The San Gabriel’sNew York, NY Furniture and art installation in a gallery.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Competition Washington DCcompetition team. Finalist.

Bogota Convention Center Competition Bogota, ColombiaSubmission of RFQ and competition team. w/ Zaha Hadid Architects. Finalist.

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtExterior Renovation CompetitionNew York, NYCompetition team. Finalist.

UB Solar Park CompetitionBuffalo, NYSubmission of RFQ and competition team. Finalist.

Amman Performing Arts Center CompetitionAmman, Jordan Competition design teamw/ Zaha Hadid Architects. Winner.

WITH INSTITUTO TONANTZIN TLALLI , MEXICO CITY

Rural Permaculture Center Oaxaca, Mexico 2002 - 2003Designer for Masterplan and Sustainable Architecture, Volunteer Farmer

WITH HIGUERA + SANCHEZMEXICO CITY

Casa Covadonga CompetitionMéxico City, MéxicoCompetition team.

WITH LIFEFORM LTD, NEW YORK

69 Bank StreetNew York, NYPermitting, DD set and Construction Administration for the Architecture and Landscape Design of this residen-tial roof garden in West Village.

163 Montrose BuildingBrooklyn, New YorkPermitting and Business Development.

N7 Modern BuildingBrooklyn, New YorkArchitectural Design and Business Development

Pataya Bay CondominiumsPataya Bay, ThailandRendering and Business Development

Bezalel Academy CompetitionJerusalemCompetition team.

Library 2.0 CompetitionHelsinki, DenmarkCompetition team. Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorwayCompetition team.

WITH STUDIO GAIA, NEW YORK

W HotelMiami and Costa RicaConcept designs for Interior Design

Disney TokyoTokyo, JapanConcept designs for Interior Design

Alliance Capital BuildingNew York, NYGraphic Design for cafeteria

WITH PASCAL ARQUITECTOS, MEXICO CITY

Sheraton Centro Histórico México City, MéxicoConcept designs for Interior Design

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

ARCHITECTURE

Library 2.O Competition Helsinger, Denmark, 2007Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd – Competition Design TeamLibrary 2.0 is a model that reflects a transformation from the outdated, one directional library service into an evolving center of knowledge in a constant dialogue with the information it receives. This flow of information from the user to the library and back, allows for an evolving project to be formed and transformed by the community where it is placed. It is a library that seeks to challenge the social identity of the archetypal library to become an open cultural forum providing an interactive, non-hierarchical exchange of information dissolving the boundaries between author-reader and the information.

Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, 2007Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd – Competition Design TeamAn installation system of intertwining wood poles, metal piping wraps and an open meditation space becomes the de-sign for this Tsunami Memorial. The structure reacts to the elements and forces of the site capturing nature’s choreog-raphy. The memorial is dedicated to embrace the perpetual cycle of nature and life. Constantly regenerating according to ongoing natural changes and natural forces, the installation symbolically represents the hopeful and optimistic spirit of life.

ARCHITECTURE

Bezalel Academy CompetitionJerusalem, 2007Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd – Competition Design TeamThe Bezalel Academy design proposed is based on the understanding of Jerusalem and its urban elements and behaviors. A tectonic analysis of a typical Jerusalem Alley way reveals conditions such as a frame, entrance, connection, mysterious gateway, passage and bridge. These elements were used to compose the playfields. Several design decisions for the main buildings and landscaping were taking considering sustainable solutions and proposing a more responsible and environmentally friendly approach to architecture. The façade of the build-ing is designed as a stone envelope combined with Low E glass panels that improves energy conservation and reduces heat gain. Rain water is allowed to permeate the soil in almost half of the 2,200 M2 public plaza. The further use of permeable pavement will allow rainwater to infiltrate the soil at a more natural rate

Lifeform Ltd, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, Isreal , Design TeamA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

frame

entrance

bridge

hall

mysterious passage

ascending

hovering

nesting

primary elements composition in playfields analysis of alley vocabulary

view into playfield with exhibition space

construction of sound issolating AC enclosure with ipe wood strips

Interior view

sections

plaza

elevations

areal view

competitions / design team

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, IsrealDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

Lifeform Ltd, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, Isreal , Design TeamA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

frame

entrance

bridge

hall

mysterious passage

ascending

hovering

nesting

primary elements composition in playfields analysis of alley vocabulary

view into playfield with exhibition space

construction of sound issolating AC enclosure with ipe wood strips

Interior view

sections

plaza

elevations

areal view

competitions / design team

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, IsrealDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

Lifeform Ltd, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, Isreal , Design TeamA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

frame

entrance

bridge

hall

mysterious passage

ascending

hovering

nesting

primary elements composition in playfields analysis of alley vocabulary

view into playfield with exhibition space

construction of sound issolating AC enclosure with ipe wood strips

Interior view

sections

plaza

elevations

areal view

competitions / design team

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, IsrealDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

Lifeform Ltd, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, Isreal , Design TeamA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

frame

entrance

bridge

hall

mysterious passage

ascending

hovering

nesting

primary elements composition in playfields analysis of alley vocabulary

view into playfield with exhibition space

construction of sound issolating AC enclosure with ipe wood strips

Interior view

sections

plaza

elevations

areal view

competitions / design team

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, IsrealDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURELIFEFORM LTD

SITE SPECIFIC

Lifeform Ltd, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design CompetitionJerusalem City, Isreal , Design TeamA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

frame

entrance

bridge

hall

mysterious passage

ascending

hovering

nesting

primary elements composition in playfields analysis of alley vocabulary

view into playfield with exhibition space

Interior view

sections

plaza

elevations

areal view

competitions / design team

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, IsrealDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza .Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city.

ARCHITECTURE

SITE SPECIFIC

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

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project development / visualization WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NYProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

Pataya Bay Condominiums Patay Bay, ThailandProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdThis development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes aseries of outdoor pools, courts and luxury amenities.Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

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N7 ModernBrooklyn, New York, 2007Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd. - Architectural Design and Business DevelopmentN7 is a nine loft unit condominium in the North side of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Its glass facade references the surrounding condition through reflection and interaction and a system of apertures reveals glimpses of interior spaces and highlights various internal elements while preserving the privacy of tenants. Each of the facade windows extends beyond the floor planes, emphasizing community and potential relations between building inhabitants. By utilizing ideas of porosity and permeability, the building enhances its surroundings through improved air quality and light. Environmental friendly materials such as concrete aerated walls, Dura board partitions, and a low emission glass are used to contribute to a healthy, comfortable and sustainable living environment.

SITE SPECIFIC

SITE SPECIFIC

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

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living area

project development / visualization WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NYProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

Pataya Bay Condominiums Patay Bay, ThailandProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdThis development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes aseries of outdoor pools, courts and luxury amenities.Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NYProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

SITE SPECIFIC

SITE SPECIFIC

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NYProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

Pataya Bay Condominiums Patay Bay, ThailandProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdThis development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes aseries of outdoor pools, courts and luxury amenities.Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

Pataya Bay Condominiums Pataya Bay, ThailandProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdThis development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes a series of outdoor pools, courts and luxury amenities.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURE / PROJECT DEVELOPMENTLIFEFORM LTD

Roebling ResidenceBrooklyn, New York, 2006Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd.- Permitting and Business DevelopmentRoebling Residence combines two bi-level villas with notably deep and long interiors. The building accommodates the urban lifestyle of its tenants by providing comfortable and spa-cious double height interiors that respond to the occupants’ changing needs.

163 MontroseBrooklyn, New York, 2006 - 2007Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd. - Permitting and Business Development163 Montrose design is focused in the relation between an existing structure and the intro-duction of new architectural elements, resulting in a three stories apartment building where old and new becomes a visionary understanding of urban living. The existing structure is pre-served and acts as a host for the new architecture. The building becomes the perfect choice for a fresh lifestyle in the up and coming Bushwick area, a vibrant place for a new young creative community.

ARCHITECTURE

SITE SPECIFIC

SITE SPECIFIC

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NYProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

Pataya Bay Condominiums Patay Bay, ThailandProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdThis development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes aseries of outdoor pools, courts and luxury amenities.Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

SITE SPECIFIC

SITE SPECIFIC

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NYProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

Pataya Bay Condominiums Patay Bay, ThailandProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdThis development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes aseries of outdoor pools, courts and luxury amenities.Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NYProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

SITE SPECIFIC

SITE SPECIFIC

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NYProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

Pataya Bay Condominiums Patay Bay, ThailandProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdThis development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes aseries of outdoor pools, courts and luxury amenities.Lifeform Ltd, Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, Project Visualization This development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes luxury amenities.

Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area.

areal view

lobbybathroom

kitchen

building

living area

project development / visualization

Pataya Bay Condominiums Pataya Bay, ThailandProject Visualization, and Development. Collaboration with Lifeform LtdThis development spreads along a narrow lot in the Pataya Bay of Thailand and includes a series of outdoor pools, courts and luxury amenities.

WORK EXPERIENCE / ARCHITECTURE / PROJECT DEVELOPMENTLIFEFORM LTD

Pataya Bay CondominiumsPatay Bay, Thailand, 2007Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd.- Rendering and Business Development A client’s request for the development of a site in Pataya Bay, Thailand, became the opportunity to design a sophisticated 50-story tower of luxury residences defined by a contempo-rary beachfront lifestyle. The development has a mix units that can be combined, as well as six exceptional duplex penthouses with private pools and fourteen four-bedrooms private villas with private island and pools.

Arc Wildlife Crossing Competition / FinalistDenver, Colorado, 2010 - 2011Collaboration with Balmori Associates, Studio MDA, and Knippers Helbig - Submission of RFQ, Competition Design Team ManagerAs a result of a successful RFQ that I submitted, Balmori Associates was chosen as one of 5 finalists for the ARC Wildlife Crossing Competition. As part of the competition team we analyzed and researched how animals cross roads. Whether we provide the means to ease these movements or not, they occur with great frequency. Resulting collisions with vehicles represent a safety hazard for travelers, a significant financial burden, and a threat to the vi-ability of species populations located in landscapes dissected by roads. The Modular Crossing System applied on the bridge utilizes the surrounding landscape in order to create a new shape inspired by nature. The design uses a low tech system of layering wood planes to create an easily modifiable shape. The main focus was the sustainability of the bridge. By the massive use of wood - which is a change of paradigm - a low quality wood can be used (for example the beetle killed blue pine of Colorado). Quick installation time and small interference with the ongoing traffic are key. Most of the bridge is prefabricated in the shop. The pieces, maxi-mized to the biggest allowable transportation size, will be assembled at the bridge location next to the street. These bigger pieces (arches) are still light enough to be handled with a crane. So the interference with the traffic is minimized to the moving hours of the crane. The crane could rest on the street during these hours. No scaffolding. Would be needed making it very quick, and very efficient to build.

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Hudson Yards Park & Boulevard Competition / FinalistNew York, Ny, 2008Collaboration with Balmori Associates and WORK ac - Submission of RFQ, Com-petition design team Hudson Yards linear park runs parallel to the Hudson River Park, while connecting the major transportation and cultural hubs of 34th and 42nd streets. The Wild West Side and Low Line Park is where Central Park meets Times Square in an explo-sion of ecological and programmatic exuberance. It is a park of movement that creates an urban leisure infrastructure by joining multiple pieces of program. The diversity and program grow organically out of the New York City grid, giving form and intensity the park. The Park as a new kind of linear park- one that is a hyper programmed response to its surrounding development.

V.O.I.L. Headquarters Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009 - CurrentCollaboration with Balmori Associates – Rendering, Planting Design and Selec-tion. Concept Design through Design DevelopmentThis design for headquarters building preserves the Mata Atlantica forest in Brazil and uses this as the driving idea behind the landscape character. Only 9% of this uniquely Brazilian ecosystem remains and this project celebrates its biodiversity and spatial richness in the urban landscape. The landscape follows the spatial rhythm and patterns of the forest as it weaves across the site and through two towers that make up the program. Circulation, lobbies and gardens are shaped and defined by the use of its visitors and users.

J.K. ENTRANCE GARDEN SECTIONPELLI CLARKE PELLI | BALMORI ASSOCAITES | ATERLIER TEN

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Cajasol Sevilla Seville, Spain, 2009Collaboration with Balmori Associates - Design Development detailing The central idea behind the landscape design for Caja Sol Sevilla is to create a shad-ed and cool path, with sounds and vapors of water, and variations in the degree of shade and shadows. The project is located in the south of the Isla of Cartuja, and is composed of a central square and two terraces on commercial podiums. The square is defined by the podiums that run north-south, which concentrate pedes-trian activity and protected the plaza from the sun.

The City University Of New York ( CUNY ) City Tech Academic BuildingBrooklyn, Ny 2009Collaboration with Balmori Associates – Concept and Schematic Design packageFor the new LEED CUNY City Tech Academic Building we created a landscape that forms a continuous surface from the sidewalk entrance through the lobby to a garden courtyard. The idea is to enliven the public spaces and create a sense of the garden throughout.

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New Hancher Auditorium and Campus Masterplan University Of Iowa, 2011- CurrentCollaboration with Balmori Associates – Concept Design With it’s water level rising and falling throughout the year, the Iowa River and surrounding landscape undergo constant dynamic change throughout the year while creating endemic habitats for flora, fauna, and humans alike. Since the 2008 floods devastated the Hancher auditorium in the University of Iowa, Balmori along with Pelli Clark Pelli was given the task to redesign a new auditorium and surrounding landscape that would stand the 500 year flood. We created a master plan for the Art Campus that provided the area with new currents of connectivity, creativity, and environmental performance. The area of study, the northern portion of the art campus, is an important moment within the campus plan representing the most northern anchor to the university and directly adjacent to Iowa City Park. Central to our plan is the idea of creating a new pedestrian bridge that is embedded in the landscape connecting an intimate riverfront garden on the east side to a series of landforms on the west that can be used for outdoor performance, temporary art exhibitions, recreational opportuni-ties, educational opportunities, and water treatment areas. By creating significant areas of treatment and infiltration the stormwater collected on site can be cleaned and diverted into sculpted depressions that allow slow ground water infiltration and promote flood prevention strategies.

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Sustainability has been particularly thought through by planning a number of simple and efficient passive and active systems to minimise the energy consumption impact. A high thermal proof building envelope is achieved with light concrete blocks insulated on the outside with a black clay finish surface for long durability. Windows are the strictly necessary to provide generous natural light where needed. Horizontal structure and few columns will be made in reinforced concrete to to acheive long column free spans.The landscape design has also been developed with much attention and will act as a crown to marry the building to the city on different levels, creating a new characterised and interactive urban space for Weimar. Finally a signal mast at the main east pedestrian plaza will alway indicate the presence of the new "Urban System" open and accessible to the public at all times.

New Bauhaus Museum Weimar

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The new building for Weimar Bauhaus Museum has been thought considering a wide range of aspects. First of all it is a Public building, very accessible from many very different directions and bound to the surrounding environment in many ways. It responds to the brief's functional requirements and takes inspiration from the urban texture of Weimar which recalls some radical nature elements or some artist's vision - and creates a small Urban System that blurs into the fabric of the city trying to extend it rather than stand alone like another monumental presence. It opens to the park and to the city center redefining this pivotal point of Weimar. The intention is to aggregate in the urban territory and not only in the building itself thus keeping a very recognisable architectural presence.The respect of the site caracteristics and limitations such as the contaminated soil and the intention to expand the brief to kindergarden and more exibition has been all taken into account.

The scheme geometry and orientation optimize the benefits of local climate. The building is more open to the south for better winter solar gain. Skylights and windows will various types make will ensure the right amount of natural light in the different spaces.

By preserving the majority of the existing mature trees and vegetation on the south and adding more we will help the benefit from the microclimate in summer with solar gain and air temperature mitigation, in winter with maximum solar gain.

A simple low depth fluid geothermal system with supply temperature and humidity air control for the entire building. The Water pump will be located underground in the heart of the scheme and air treatment units on the roof directly above for best and simplest air distribution.

Rain will be collected from roofs to a basement tank and then filtered to supply the majority of building requirements. A constructed wetlands system can be installed in the adjacency of contaminated soil to help the cleaning process.

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New Bauhaus Museum Competition Weimar, Germany 2011Collaboration with Balmori Associates and Tomasso Fantonni and Hummustudio - Competi-tion Design Team ManagerThe new building for Weimar Bauhaus Museum was designed to be accessible from many dif-ferent directions and bound to the surrounding environment in many ways. It responds to the brief’s functional requirements and takes inspiration from the urban texture of Weimar which recalls some radical nature elements or some artist’s vision - and creates a small Urban System that blurs into the fabric of the city trying to extend it rather than stand-alone like another monumental presence. It opens to the park and to the city center redefining this pivotal point of Weimar. The intention is to aggregate in the urban territory and not only in the building itself thus keeping a very recognizable architectural presence. The landscape design has also been developed with much attention and will act as a crown to marry the building to the city on different levels, creating a new characterized and interactive urban space for Weimar. Final-ly a signal mast at the main east pedestrian plaza will indicate the presence of the new “Urban System” open and accessible to the public at all times.

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Pasaia Bay Masterplan Competition / FinalistPasaia, Spain 2010Collaboration with Balmori Associates and S333 - Submission of RFQ, Competition design teamThe Bay of Pasaia was once an attractive, natural estuary for the River Oiastzun but over time the waterfront areas have been transformed into large man-made sites for shipyards, warehouses and for the storage of materials and goods. Titled ‘Revealing the Water’, the masterplan is premised on breaking down this artificial land, returning the waterfront sites to their natural state.

Amman Performing Arts Center Competition / WinnerAmann, Jordan, 2009Collaboration with Balmori Associates and Zaha Hadid Architects - Competition design teamLocated in the heart of the Jordanian capital of Amman, this new venue for the performing arts in is an initiative of Darat King Abdullah II to create a place to house all performing arts. Conceived a s a complex to become the mayor venue for theater, music, and dance performance in Amman and Jordan, it will become a vital element of cultural life in the area, and a catalyst of education

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Barn in the ForestUpstate New York, 2010Design proposal for Columbia University Landscape Design Master’s programThis modern house designed by Angela Patterson is one of four barn-like structures that have been adapted to become modern homes. The project proposes that if the house is readapted farm structure then other aspects of the agricultural language could also be readapted and transformed into a contemporary language. By blending an agricultural model into the for-est the landscape is transformed. Fences, water, fences and trails and the idea of cycles are turned into a pool, stonewalls, and a mobile gallery that follows the sun. The crop squares are reinterpreted into incisions on the land that have been planted as native grass fields, meadows, and fern terraces. Edibles are also introduced into them to enhance this idea. One of the most emblematic elements of the house is that is split in two by a thin ramp that cuts into the forest. This ramp is elongated in each direction creating a spine which organizes the entire program. It creates access into the house and give the owner an opportunity to walk the entire property.

Bedford HouseBedford Corners, NY, 2009- 2011Collaboration with Balmori Associates and Joel Sanders Architect - Schematic Design pack-age, Construction Administration, PublicityFor this renovation of a 1950’s house in the town of Bedford, we created a scheme that weaves interior and exterior as well as Main House and Pool House together by juxtaposing materials, surface, and planting. Inside the house’s cedar-clad darker perimeter shell is a re-fined folded surface made of custom concrete, exterior pavers, and drywall. This internal sur-face links the multi-leveled interior space and extends the inside out to the Pool House in the back, where it exposes itself fully as a dramatic folded concrete structure. Linking architecture to landscape is a stacked bluestone wall that brackets the Pool House in the lush surrounding landscape. I created the SD drawing set that ultimately became the set that was used for the construction of the landscape.

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69 Bank Street New York, NY, 2007Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd. - Permitting, DD set and Construction AdministrationI was assigned as project architect for the Drawing and Construction Administration of this Roof Garden created for a family of 6 in the West Village. This rooftop gar-den with Japanese accents in the West Village provides an ecological retreat and unique outdoor space. The roof works to moderate heat gain, as well as to provide sound insulation, neutralize pollutants and reduce storm water runoff. Black stone, undulating woven bamboo, a circulating pond and bridge, and lush vegetation cre-ate a meditative and tranquil atmosphere for repose and gathering.

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Lifeform Ltd, 69 Bank Street Roofdeck Garden Project West Village , Manhattan NY , Project ArchitectManagement and supervision of Roofdeck Garden with Japanese accents created for a family of 6 in the West Village.

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construction of sound issolating AC enclosure with ipe wood strips

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Lifeform Ltd, 69 Bank Street Roofdeck Garden Project West Village , Manhattan NY , Project ArchitectManagement and supervision of Roofdeck Garden with Japanese accents created for a family of 6 in the West Village.

view of stage

construction of sound issolating AC enclosure with ipe wood strips

floorplan

ipe bridge and japanese pond

white pine used as focal point in garden

stone and iris moss in landscape

project architect

United States Institute Of Peace Washington, DC, 2009 – 2010 - Construction AdministrationCollaboration with Balmori Associates and Moshe Safdie Architects - Construc-tion AdministrationUSIP is the independent, nonpartisan conflict management center created by Congress to prevent and mitigate international conflict without resorting to violence. Balmori Associates along with Moshe Safdie designed the institute, and I was in put in the construction administration for the project in the last two years of construction. The Peace Institute’s landscape is designed as a garden; a garden that surrounds a circular foyer for groups to gather at the front of the Peace and Education Center.

GREATREQUEST FORPROPOSALS

NATIONAL GREAT RIvER PARkMASTER PLAN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

Natural ,Urban, Connected

BALMORI ASSOCIATES + CONwAy & SChULTE ARChITECTS + CREATIvE CONCERN +

DAvID FIShER + MARTIN & MILDRED FRIEDMAN +

UNIvERSITy OF ARkANSAS COMMUNITy DESIGN CENTER +

EMMONS AND OLIvIER RESOURCE INC + ITERIS +

MAxFIELD RESEARCh INC + hESS ROISE & COMPANy +

DAvIS LANGDON + ECONOMIC AND PLANNING SySTEMS

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RFQ and RFP submissions2009 - currentCollaboration with Balmori Associates With Balmori Associates I have put together and submitted over 100 RFQs, PPQs and RFP submittals which have resulted on a large number of successful shortlists and new projects for the firm. I have put together teams that included firms such as Zaha Hadid Architects, BIG, WORKac, Allied works, SHOP architects, ARUP, Buro Happold as well as other architects, engineers, and specialty consultants such as lighting and public outreach. My tasks required me to find provocative proposals, to reach out to firms that we would like to team up with and to gather qualifications, fees and key strategies from each of the players. Along with the directors of the firm and members of the team we develop design intents for the site that are incorporated into the submission. We look at key projects that illustrate that intention, and I put together everything into a cohesive document. Depending on the requirements of the RFQ, sometimes I also need to submit forms that are included in appendixes.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / MARKETING

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / MARKETING

Press / Awards / Publications / Brochures / Printed Marketing Material2004 - currentCollaboration with Studio Gaia, Lifeform LTD, and Balmori Associates While doing marketing for three different firms, I have created various press re-leases, graphic, media and marketing material. I helped organize exhibitions in gal-leries, events and conferences. I developed a marketing brochure for Balmori As-sociates. I created graphic presentations for W Hotel in Miami, the W Hotel Costa Rica, Disney Tokyo, and de-signed the signage and branding of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Alliance Capital building on 55th street. I submitted winning awards from WAN Urban Design awards 2011, to the James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design in 2005.SITE SPECIFIC

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WORK EXPERIENCE / INTERIOR DESIGN

Pascal ArquitectosMexico City, DrafterPascal Arquitectos is an internationally recognized firm with luxury residential projects. As a drafter in the firm I worked on Design Development drawings and Construc-tion Details for the interiors of Sheraton Hotel of downtown Mexico City. This project was the first project done in 40 years in Mexico Ciy’s Historical downtown, and my drawings have been featured in several publications. www.pascalarquitectos.com

Higuera + SanchezMexico City , InternshipA competition to remodel the interiors of an old Girl’s School into modern apartments.

drafting

Marketing New York, NY Marketing director, Collaboration with Balmori Associates, Lifeform LTD, and Studio GaiaAs a marketing director in various firms I created press releases, graphic, media and marketing material. I helped organize exhibitions such as “New York Now Exhibition” for the AIA in the Center for Architecture, events and conferences such as the “Gel Conference” in which I was required to lead a group of entrepreneurs to our projects in the city. I created graphic presentations for W Hotel in Miami, the W Hotel Costa Rica, Disney Tokyo, and de-signed the signage and branding of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Alliance Capital building on 55th street. During my I submitted the follow-ing winning awards: James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design for “Solea”; 2005, Best Hotel Design Worldwide ‘Golden Key award for excellence in Hospitality Design’ by Interior Design Magazine and HOTELS magazine for the “W Hotel Mexico City” 2004 and “W Hotel Seoul” 2005.

Sheraton Centro Historico Historical Center, Mexico CityDesign Team, Collaboration with Pascal ArchitectosDesign Development drawings and Construction Details for the interiors of Sheraton Hotel of downtown Mexico City.

Studio GaiaNew York, Designer / Marketing Director 07.04 - 07.05Studio Gaia is one of the most influential hospitality design firms. As a marketing director I created digital presentations, attended media requests, created press re-leases, press kits, graphic and marketing material. My job required some public relation work, such as representing the firm at exhibitions, “New York Now Exhibition” for the AIA in the Center for Architecture, events and conferences such as the “Gel Conference” in 2005 in which I was required to lead a group of entrepreneurs to our projects in the city. As a designer, I created graphic presentations for W Hotel in Miami, the W Hotel Costa Rica, Disney Tokyo, and designed the signage and branding of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Alliance Capital building on 55th street. During my I submitted the following winning awards: James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design for “Solea”; 2005, Best Hotel Design Worldwide ‘Golden Key award for excellence in Hospitality Design’ by Interior Design Magazine and HOTELS magazine for the “W Hotel Mexico City” 2004 and “W Hotel Seoul” 2005. www.studiogaia.com

Solea Restaurant W Hotel Mexico / Cornerstone Management Mexico City, Office ManagerOversaw operations and administration of new restaurant ‘Solea’. Also assisted in image branding and restaurant styling, as well as all menu translations. www.soleamexico.com

marketing / office management

Studio GaiaNew York, Designer / Marketing Director 07.04 - 07.05Studio Gaia is one of the most influential hospitality design firms. As a marketing director I created digital presentations, attended media requests, created press re-leases, press kits, graphic and marketing material. My job required some public relation work, such as representing the firm at exhibitions, “New York Now Exhibition” for the AIA in the Center for Architecture, events and conferences such as the “Gel Conference” in 2005 in which I was required to lead a group of entrepreneurs to our projects in the city. As a designer, I created graphic presentations for W Hotel in Miami, the W Hotel Costa Rica, Disney Tokyo, and designed the signage and branding of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Alliance Capital building on 55th street. During my I submitted the following winning awards: James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design for “Solea”; 2005, Best Hotel Design Worldwide ‘Golden Key award for excellence in Hospitality Design’ by Interior Design Magazine and HOTELS magazine for the “W Hotel Mexico City” 2004 and “W Hotel Seoul” 2005. www.studiogaia.com

Solea Restaurant W Hotel Mexico / Cornerstone Management Mexico City, Office ManagerOversaw operations and administration of new restaurant ‘Solea’. Also assisted in image branding and restaurant styling, as well as all menu translations. www.soleamexico.com

marketing / office management

Studio GaiaNew York, Designer / Marketing Director 07.04 - 07.05Studio Gaia is one of the most influential hospitality design firms. As a marketing director I created digital presentations, attended media requests, created press re-leases, press kits, graphic and marketing material. My job required some public relation work, such as representing the firm at exhibitions, “New York Now Exhibition” for the AIA in the Center for Architecture, events and conferences such as the “Gel Conference” in 2005 in which I was required to lead a group of entrepreneurs to our projects in the city. As a designer, I created graphic presentations for W Hotel in Miami, the W Hotel Costa Rica, Disney Tokyo, and designed the signage and branding of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Alliance Capital building on 55th street. During my I submitted the following winning awards: James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design for “Solea”; 2005, Best Hotel Design Worldwide ‘Golden Key award for excellence in Hospitality Design’ by Interior Design Magazine and HOTELS magazine for the “W Hotel Mexico City” 2004 and “W Hotel Seoul” 2005. www.studiogaia.com

Solea Restaurant W Hotel Mexico / Cornerstone Management Mexico City, Office ManagerOversaw operations and administration of new restaurant ‘Solea’. Also assisted in image branding and restaurant styling, as well as all menu translations. www.soleamexico.com

marketing / office management

Studio GaiaNew York, Designer / Marketing Director 07.04 - 07.05Studio Gaia is one of the most influential hospitality design firms. As a marketing director I created digital presentations, attended media requests, created press re-leases, press kits, graphic and marketing material. My job required some public relation work, such as representing the firm at exhibitions, “New York Now Exhibition” for the AIA in the Center for Architecture, events and conferences such as the “Gel Conference” in 2005 in which I was required to lead a group of entrepreneurs to our projects in the city. As a designer, I created graphic presentations for W Hotel in Miami, the W Hotel Costa Rica, Disney Tokyo, and designed the signage and branding of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Alliance Capital building on 55th street. During my I submitted the following winning awards: James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design for “Solea”; 2005, Best Hotel Design Worldwide ‘Golden Key award for excellence in Hospitality Design’ by Interior Design Magazine and HOTELS magazine for the “W Hotel Mexico City” 2004 and “W Hotel Seoul” 2005. www.studiogaia.com

Solea Restaurant W Hotel Mexico / Cornerstone Management Mexico City, Office ManagerOversaw operations and administration of new restaurant ‘Solea’. Also assisted in image branding and restaurant styling, as well as all menu translations. www.soleamexico.com

marketing / office management

SITE SPECIFIC

WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS

Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdA memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” CompetitionHelsinger , Denmark, Design Team An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

Lifeform Ltd, Tsunami Memorial CompetitionNorway, Design Team A memorial to remember the hundreds that died in the tsunami uses water vapor to create memory and space

Publication in BOB magazine

childrens area

picnic area

view from public plaza

section of memorial

view from ocean

competitions / design team

Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition Helsinger , DenmarkDesign Team, Collaboration with Lifeform LtdAn interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community.

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE & CULTURE

IWAN BAAN CALENDAR190,000 miles with the globetrotting architectural photographer

THE BEST OF 2011Leading critics and curators pick their cultural highlights of the year

DESIGN FESTIVALSYoung designers present new products in Vienna, Eindhoven and Berlin

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CITY'S SPECTACULAR NEW W. SIDE STORYBy TOM TOPOUSIS September 22, 2008

BIG IDEAS: Proposals for the new West Side boulevard include Work Architecture's fanciful hills and...

Here's the first look at designs for a spectacular new boulevard and park planned for Manhattan's far West Side, where Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a new business district more than twice the size of the World Trade Center complex.

From fanciful images of hills, trails and plantings to a park filled with enormous evergreen trees and rock outcrops, the proposals from five teams of architects vying to design the park and boulevard will go before the public beginning today.

The project, part of the Hudson Yards redevelopment, will create four acres of park space down the middle of a boulevard stretching from 33rd to 42nd Streets, between 10th and 11th Avenues, and linking up with a massive new office and residential project planned for the West Side rail yard just to the south of the new avenue.

"We are thrilled by the quality of the designs," said Ann Weisbrod, president of the Hudson Yards Development Corp., which is overseeing construction of the project and the financing of an extension of the No. 7 subway line to a new station at 11th Avenue and 34th Street.

The winning design will be selected in early October, Weisbrod said. Construction of the first phase of the project, from 33rd to 36th streets, is expected be completed at the same time as the subway extension in 2013.

The now low-rise neighborhood was rezoned by the City Council several years ago to allow for up to 24 million square feet of office space and 13,500 new units of housing, along with hotels and retail development.

The entire project - construction of the subway, boulevard, plaza and other infrastructure work - is being paid for with $3 billion in bonds.

"This is the extension of Midtown, the preeminent business district in the world," said Weisbrod.

The designs will be on public display at the Center for Architecture, at 536 La Guardia Place, from Sept. 25 through the end of October.

tom.topousis@nypost.com

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09222008/news/regionalnews/citys_spectacular_new_w__side_story_130215.htm

Water (Works) is a public park and a ecological infrastructure that is formally shaped by the flow of water. The park is a sophisticated network of ecological processes that weaves linear public space with natural and experimental technologies. Water (Works) is a working model of the park as an urban regenerator and prototype for future development. It is a public amenity embedded within a purifying infrastructure.

The Park of The Light is designed as a fundamental change of infrastructures, from a hard infrastructure of an ancient port to a soft one of living systems, producing a beautiful green belt in the middle of the water. This living system cleans the water, protects against the wind, and provides an inviting setting for visitors and residents. The park creates a remarkable postcard image of Las Palmas for the ships who anchor to his edge.

PARQUE DE LA LUZ CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN

MAGOK WATER ( WORKS) SEOUL, KOREA

Competition entrySTATUS

SIZE 30 Acres

DESIGN TEAM Balmori Associates, Inc.

Competition winner, 2005STATUS

SIZE 4,000 acres

DESIGN TEAM Balmori Associates, Inc. Pelli Clarke Pelli

MASTERPLAN, COMPETITION WINNER

The Solaire 19th Floor Garden_The first ‘green’ residential

high-rise in the United States, winner of the 2004 Green Roof Award of Excellence,

Battery Park City, NY

10UP ON THE ROOF:THE

NEW SOCIAL MEETING

PLACE

10THINGS LANDSCAPE CAN DO FOR

THE CITYwww.balmori.com

SILVERCUP STUDIOS LONG ISLAND CITY, NY The largest green roof ever installed in New York City and the first to monitor scien-tific data, the Silvercup green roof has been designed by Balmori Associates as the first of a series of green roofs planned for Long Island City over the next decade. Balmori Associates conceived of and is implement-ing this plan for the neighborhood, dubbed “Long Island (Green) City.” EarthPledge, a non-profit organization devoted to identifying and promoting technologies for sustainabil-ity, has installed the Silvercup roof research station.

Completed 2005STATUS

SIZE 35,000 square ft.

DESIGN TEAM Balmori Associates, Inc. Shalat Architects, P.C.Greener by Design

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BALMORI ASSOCIATES RE-ENERGIZES THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO WITH THEIR PROPOSALPUBLIC POWER PARK

EXHIBIT OF ARTISTS’ CONCEPTS

IN THE NEWS: LET THE SUN SHINE !

Solar Installation on UB’s North CampusApril 2010

Buffalo, NY - Last month the university of Buffalo with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) sent out an invitation to 20 artists to compete for the design of a new ‘Solar Park’, approximately six acres with the largest solar installation on any college or university campus in New York State and one of the largest on any campus in the United States. The installation was required to use 5,000 solar panels within a landscape to produce energy for the student housing. Balmori Associates with their proposal of “Public Power Park” was chosen as one of three finalists along with Walter Hood and Vito Acconci.

Construction of the winning design is expected to begin in August.

Balmori’s proposal addresses the nature of technological infrastructure, where nature and technology intersect and proposes a new kind of public space, one that is a programmed response to producing power, and powering public space.

More information:http://www.buffalo.edu/news/11217

VIEW, FLINT ROAD & SERVICE CENTER // NEW GATEWAY PASSAGE TO CAMPUS

The university will be holding a public exhibit with the three final designs to celebrate Earth Day. The exhibit, “UB Solar: The Art of Power,” will be open to the public April 23 noon to 10 p.mApril 24 and 25 noon to 5 p.mIt will held in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Clifton Hall in the campus.

VIEW, FLINT ROAD & SERVICE CENTER // NEW GATEWAY PASSAGE TO CAMPUS

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / MARKETING

Social Media and Blogs2009 - CurrentCollaboration with Balmori Associates

Facebook / Twitter / Website I launched the Balmori Associates Facebook page and titter account that has over 1000 fol-lowers and help design the new website with interactive features.

Building and Urban Living Room - Creating a temporary media platform for public space The project of the Urban Living Room began in the neighborhood of the Meatpacking District in New York. This historical neighborhood has undergone various transformations with the decline of industrial uses: The Highline Park opened a new Whitney Museum of American Art will open in 2012.. In the summer of 2009 the Meatpacking District Initiative commissioned Balmori Associates to propose a new design for the public spaces that the DOT (Depart-ment Of Transportation) had previously assigned for pedestrian use. Using a non traditional method, we set up an online forum with live video feed and though twitter using the site and invited the public along with landscape architect Erik de Jong, and 40 Dutch students to dis-cuss urban public space.. We extended the conversation to the neighborhood of our office by participating in New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, “Conflux City 2009”, and we also made a video that could be shown in various online blogs. In June of 2010 Balmori Associates took the Urban Living Room to Rome and provided the organization “Civico Zero / Save The Children Italia” with guidelines for the construction of an Urban Living Room.

POST-IT Landscape Blog – an alternative marketing strategy for ‘ A Landscape Manifesto’ book“A Landscape Manifesto’ is a new book by Diana Balmori that presents her theory and practice of urban landscape design as an art that spans the divide between culture and nature. .This Manifesto - consisting of 25 points - advocates a new language for landscape, reflecting the shift in our understanding of nature and how it interacts with “the city”. We wanted to show that A Landscape Manifesto was much more than just a book to read and we intended to spark a conversation about the infinitely changeable nature of our world, and how we might affect positive transformation where we live, work, sleep and play. A starting point for discus-sion, Post-It Landscape blog invited you to submit a post it with a manifesto point and share it with the public.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / MARKETING

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Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN WHERE IT ALL BEGAN ...

Rural Permaculture Center Oaxaca, Mexico 2002 - 2003Collaboration with Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli –Designer for Masterplan and Sustainable Architecture, Volunteer Farmer This project was a sustainable livelihood demonstration / learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City in Mexico. The project called for residential prototypes that used natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dining area, a dormitory, as well as earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, solar ovens, rocket stoves, drip-line irrigation sprinkler system, water well, and herb gardens. Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-Columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that com-prises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). According to the United Nations Oaxaca is also considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world.

SITE SPECIFIC

The project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

Detail of material in campsite

study of native plants

work in studio with study model

work with the community

study model

local plants work on site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

The project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

Detail of material in campsite

study of native plants

work in studio with study model

work with the community

study model

local plants work on site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

The project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

Detail of material in campsite

study of native plants

work in studio with study model

work with the community

study model

local plants work on site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

The project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

Detail of material in campsite

study of native plants

work in studio with study model

work with the community

study model

local plants work on site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

The project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

Detail of material in campsite

study of native plants

work in studio with study model

work with the community

study model

local plants work on site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterThe project for the construction of ITT, a sustainable livelihood demonstration/learning center about an hour from Oaxaca City, started in July of 2002. On site there is a residential prototype that uses natural construction, an office building/visitors reception area, a kitchen/dinning area, a dormitory, earthworks, photovoltaic (PV) energy, a water tank, a solar oven, rocket stoves, a drip-line irrigation/sprinkler system, water well, and mandala garden.Oaxaca is one of three states in Mexico where the rural population still outnumbers the urban population. With its centralized colonial-era capital city, nearby pre-columbian archeological sites and numerous indigenous communities, the region is an area of great geographical and biological diversity that comprises high mountain cloud forests, tropical rainforests, arid central valleys and the Pacific Coast. Oaxaca’s population is roughly 40% under the age of 15. Oaxaca’s migration patterns suggest a substantial employment drain to other Mexican states, the US and Canada (60% of Oaxaca’s working age population). Oaxaca is considered to contain one of the most eroded landscapes in the world according to the United Nations, which made it an ideal ground to apply permaculture.

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

SITE SPECIFIC SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

SITE SPECIFIC

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

The Site

groundwork

Mater Plan for site

Dry tropical landscape of Oaxaca

Earth movement for water systems

volunteer work

Aereal view of site

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

MONICA HERNANDEZ PONTONPORTFOLIO

VOLUNTEER WORK

Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli, Permaculture CenterOaxaca, Mexico , Architect / Designer / Volunteer 09.02 – 03.03Aided in the design and creation of the first Permaculture center in Mexico in the rural outskirts of Oaxaca. The master planning included design systems to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics. Was part of a 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Lawton with whom we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard. www.grupedsac.org

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

The 4 month master planning stage was followed by a 6 month implementation stage onsite. The master planning design included insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming, architecture, agro forestry and economics (known as Permaculture practices). As a part of an international 11 person team, under the instructions of Permaculturist Goeff Law-ton we designed various projects for water systems, and sustainable constructions. During my stay I constructed on site a tool shed using alternative construction methods and transporter pellets from a nearby junkyard.

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

SITE SPECIFIC

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

cross ventilation studies

water catchment constructions foundation work final project constructed by Coop Himemblau

study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard

Lead Designer for the Construction of a tool shed made with alternative buidling methods and recycled plastic pallets

VOLUNTEER WORK

VOLUNTEER WORK

cross ventilation studieswater

Constructions on site included tecnics of rammed earth and strawbale

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

“NOOKS” For Dome Colony X in the Saint Gabriels New York, NY, 2010Collaboration with Balmori Associates and Fritz Haeg - DesignerThe piece that we produced for the “Dome Colony in the San Gabriel’s“, for Fritz Haeg’s two month long exhibition at the X Initiative Art Space was a way of playing with seating and plant-ing. Envisioned as dynamic space and furniture piece; in form, it is a garden that engages the Colony. It is not only designed for visitors to move and play with, it is a social community space that invites them to linger, and just be. Using this as a premise the units allow you to make nooks where one person can be alone, or some can be for two or a large group. We named the experiment “nooks” for this reason. The secondary idea grafted on this was if plants could be incorporated into the system. This time they are shown conceptually by providing paper flowers that people can plant in the space. The Garden narrates a story of landscape taking over and expanding over the Public Space, therefore changing the way that the space is per-ceived and read by the user. The users that “plant” flowers in it, transform it with time.

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

ReNEWable Times Square Competition New York, NY, 2010Collaboration with Maura Rockcastle, Jeremy Wyatt Linzee, Ivan Hernandez Quintela, and Emilie Lucie Baltz - Competition design team Manager“Corn Is The Color Of My Cab” The premise of our design recognizes that the vision for the pedestrian areas is inextricably woven with art and the design of public space- each needs the other to succeed and in turn something new is created through strengthening the connec-tion between these parts. It is ultimately a story of corn that set the course and form of the Broadway Corridor we know now- from trail to farm to street to city. It begins with the Lenape Indians, the first inhabitant of Times Square, whose main crop was corn, and goes forward to the delirious intensity of crowds, images, lights and traffic of today. This visual connection is intended to create consciousness about how corn makes up the majority of the signage in Times Square and the crisis of our native crops. Through the iconic yellow color of the New York cab - the most easily seen from afar, we allow the corn kernels to create a pixilated grid on the ground that is seen as topography from above. If we were to allow the yellow paint to make something that we see every day suddenly disappear, taxis would be the neutral condi-tion, in the same way that corn has faded into the background of our everyday objects.

CORN IS THE COLOR OF MY CAB

prepared byMonica Hernandez, Jeremy Wyatt Linzee, Emilie Lucie Baltz,

Maura Rockcastle and Ivan Hernandez Quintela

forThe reNEWable Times Square RFP

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

“Eat Your Vegetables” Edible JELL-O Flash Cards for Kids New York, NY,2010Collaboration with Robert Truitt and Ngoc Mihn Ngo - DesignerThis project takes a critical look at the digital age, consumerism and the empowerment of education that are influencing children today, It takes an iconic everyday object like the iphone and transforms it physically and programmatically into an edible JELL-O flashcard that teaches kids to eat vegetables. Hoping that as a result of a positive association with the JELL-O, the project will allow them to try vegetables that they would otherwise never try. The mold itself is a case from an old iphone model. With the recent release of the new iphone, and society’s desire to always have the latest technology, we predict that thousands of these cases will become useless to the users that have bought the new phone. So the mold is now a found object, reused and given a new purpose. The JELL-O molded into this is meant to question the role of technology. The JELL-O not only becomes a medium but a vehicle for giving kids a healthy helping of vegetables ( mixed with fruit). The card’s protective screen holds the name and image of the vegetable as it appears in a garden so that the child can have a positive association with it and begin to identify it. We will be creating a “carrot “flash card and a “beet” flashcard.

beetbeet

carrot carrot

peel

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peel

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PUBLIC PLACES

EAT YOURVEGETA-BLES! EDIBLE JELL-OFLASHCARDSFOR CHILDREN

JELL-O flavors are created by pastry chef Robert Truitt. Food shot by photographer Ngoc Mihn Ngo and overall object created of architect Monica Hernandez

USING RECYCLED OLD iPHONE CASES AS MOLDS,AND LEFT OVER VEGETABLES FROM A NEW YORK RESTAURANT

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Living ChandelierBrooklyn, NY 2010Collaboration with Terreform1 through TerreFarm - DesignerTerreFarm Design+Grow Summer Lab is a one week workshop that takes place at the Met-ropolitan Exchange Building in Brooklyn, NY. Every year 35 students and professionals from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning, art, media and science are chosen to create new prototypes for Urban agriculture. TerreFarm Lab seeks to re-think the city, in both its forms and its life, by reflecting new levels of sustainability. During the lab three projects were created to replace an old skylight with a Living Chandelier or hanging garden that can produce food. Using found materials prototypes were made and fabricated by hand using basic tools. A green house was build on top of the skylight to give it more height. An white electrical cable net was woven and filled hung from the top to be filled with plants that could hang from its pockets. Bladders out of marine shrink wrap plastic were assembled in an organic fashion to hold lettuces and leafy plants that could be connected via tubes to another water bag. A line of lightweight mirrors weighed with construction plumbs dangle down and reflect the sun light. The projects hang from a polley system that can regulate their height and allow for maintenance and harvesting.

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN