EDUCATION
2018 - 2020 > Master OF Landscape Architecture Environmental Planning > UC Berkeley
In 2018 the Chilean government awarded me the opportunity to study abroad and I chose UC Berkeley for its unique socio-ecological perspective. There I have improved and acquired new knowledge in areas of my interest: climate change, new typological infrastructures, water treatment hybrid-facilities and environmental design thinking. The focus of my research concentration has been urban coastal adaptations strategies to extreme climatic conditions, specifically groundwater emergence due to sea level rise. My final thesis research involved building interdisciplinary spaces to create cross-functional dialogues between an international panel of experts from different fields and professions (Design, Science, Engineering and Public Policy).
As a grad-student in the LAEP Program at Berkeley I was challenged by a rigorous curriculum that constantly emphasizes the importance of integrating social, natural and regulatory factors into planning decision making process. Here, I had the opportunity to travel and address issues across diverse groups, building collaborative relationship with co-workers, clients and members of a greater scientific community. It contributed to my skills in how to resolve and develop design solutions that integrate environmental and urban problems. I am particularly interested in promoting community involvement and citizen participation, regarding environmental and social issues to restore a healthy relationship within our environment.
Interviews Dissected by Disciplines, MLA-EP Final Thesis, 2019-20201 > DIALOGUE AS RESEARCH
CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CROSS-DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE TO INFORM DESIGN PROCESSES, POLICY AND INTERVENTIONS RELATED TO GROUNDWATER EMERGENCE DUE TO SEA-LEVEL RISE IN COASTAL PLAIN LANDSCAPES
Big O project, Greater Bays: Adapting to rapid change, Interdisciplinar Seminar, Fall 20182 > THE BIG O
INFRASTRUCTURAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRODUCE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DEMOCRACY
Exploded axonometric, Hard Habitats Seminar, Spring 2019 (Project Team: Molly Butcher, Jordan Cayanan, Diego Romero Evans)3 > INTERTIDIAL LANDSCAPES
ANTICIPATORY DESIGN STRATEGY TO ADDRESS GROUNDWATER EMERGENCE DUE TO SEA LEVEL RISE, ECOLOGICAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SPACES FOR UNREPRESENTED SOCIAL MINORITIES IN ALAMEDA/OAKLAND CITIES
Detail Map San Leandro Bay, Independent Studies in LAEP, Spring 20194 > PRELIMINARY RAPID ASSESMENT
EVALUATION MAPPING PROCESS TO ESTIMATE VULNERABILITIES CAUSED BY SEA LEVEL RISE DRIVEN GROUNDWATER INUNDATION IN COASTAL FLOOD PLAINS. SITE: ALAMEDA/OAKLAND
2002 - 2008 > Bachelor OF architecture & MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE > Universidad finis terraE
Highly complexity architecture programs whit social impact, Quinchao Commune, System of 9 Islands at Chiloé Big Island, X Region, ChileThe final thesis architecture studio settled, as a thematic framework, the development of projects that could handle highly complex programs, scale, and that had at the same time relevance and contribution to both discipline and society. The proposed theoretical framework established the theme should emerge from the relationship between architectural program and landscape as ecosystem. The project would propose a specific interaction between some basic social need and a generic problem associated with a dynamic climatic condition within the landscape. In this sense, the subject chosen for this research thesis and subsequent design project was the architecture as health and the local geographical context was the physical condition of archipelago, as it presented three interesting questions:
The first was how to provide a good public health service in a physical
Repetitive Rural Basic Health Care Unit, 2018 context geographically disconnected from the continent (common condition in the extreme south of Chile)?
The second was related on how the design proposal should be generic, repeatable and flexible to be emplaced in different sites?
The third was how the design strategy in both scales (regional/local) should adapt to the dynamic tidal fluctuations?
The specific case chosen was the creation and materialization of the systemic model or public health care network in the Chiloé archipelago, cataloged with national priority by the Ministry of Health (MINSAL). The proposal was to take as a basis condition the MINSAL proposal for the archipelago, which has 46 isles.
The health plan consisted in designing a system of transfer and
Model, 2018mobilization of patients (land, water –Surgeon Videla II ship– and air routes) and in the materialization of 4 stages of interaction with the patient. Two of them were already built and running: Regional Base Hospital_ Puerto Montt City and Commune Hospital Base_ Castro City. There were two others, Local Hospital and Rural Preliminary Basic Health Care Unit, that were not ready and this is exactly where my project would focus.
After a land registry and field study –information gathering with local communities– the correct place to realize the project was the commune of Quinchao, which had a total of 9 Islands within its administration. Thus the strategy was to place the Local Base Hospital in the city of Achao and complementarily a typological Rural Basic Health Care Unit model was developed to be built on the remaining 8 smaller islands.