Integration of urban population

This project consists of a collective research on the development of Athens and the current processes that take place in the city. Following from this the project proposes a strategy for development of a city centre neighbourhood. The focus of this strategy, urban plan and building are to connect individual and collective initiatives and needs...

Corredor de Agua Urbano

Graduation thesis investigating the interrelation between water infrastructure, landscape and public space in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The project was developed as part of the DSD Urban Asymmetries Ciudad Juarez Studio.

Material Bank

Organisation “Material Bank” acts as a mediating organisation between individual inhabitants or their groups; outside (non Riberas) sources, other projects inside the strategy, local workers and producers, becoming a point of exchange of materials, labor, information and money. Developing over time from scrap buying and information point to...

Architecture as Pedagogy: An Architectural project towards Social,Economical and environmental improvements of the Riberas Del Bravo District in the border city of Cuidad Juarez

This project is based on the research of the Studio which looked at the phenomenon of abandoned housing in Mexico, focusing on the Border City of Juarez where there is the highest percentage of vacated, foreclosed, abandoned and vandalized (social) housing. The main problems was identified as the flawed process of housing production and...

Urban Asymmetries Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: Designing A Transferium ...... A point of Exchange

The MSc. graduation project dealt with understanding the implications of Neo liberal policies on the city of Juarez which lies on the US - Mexico border. In 2009 Ciudad Juarez was rated as “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones” due to high crime rates, femisides, homicides, corruption, drug trafficking and multiple...

Health care clinic Riveras del Bravo, Ciudad Juarez

The problem statement concerns the emerging phenomenon of abandoned housing. It is estimated that more than 5 million houses are standing empty throughout the country. Ciudad Juarez is an ideal case study with one of the highest levels of abandonment estimated between 25 and 30%. The reasons for this are multiple and point towards a complex mesh...

Green stitching of urban fragments: Re-intensification an re-qualification of the Villa Sur Park in Santiago de Chile

The Urban Asymmetries studio is an intensive, theoretically and empirically driven research and design studio that aims at the understanding of Neo-Liberal processes and conditions that produce uneven developements in contemporary urban environments. This urban-architectural landscape project is situated in the notorious (barrio) neighbourhood...