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Every project is designed as a response to the context's complexities and priorities of the most disadvantaged. The outcomes become sustainable thanks to a meaningful participatory process. Solutions come from those who need them. My role as a professional is to adapt smart technical solutions to their needs. Politics of gender, place, class, caste, environment always arise; projects become opportunities to adress them in favour of the least advantaged and future generations.

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Report and guide for innovation and entrepreneurship applied to architecture and urban planning in low-income urban communities. Download guide

Post tsunami reconstruction

Post tsunami reconstruction

Participatory design and construction of 97 homes with families affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami (dec 2004)

Water and sanitation in Ecuador

Water and sanitation in Ecuador

52 water and sanitation construction works in rural communities, intertwinned with improvements in governance, capacity building and higiene education. http://www.mdgfund.org/es/node/522. Watch video

Social housing in Guayaquil

Social housing in Guayaquil

Bamboo houses designed in partnership with the Unversity of Manchester and the NGO Hogar de Cristo. Image by Aida Rodríguez-Vega

Saigon High Tech Park

Saigon High Tech Park

Urban design for Saigon High Tech Park

Research - informal settlements

Research - informal settlements

Research project with Ecuador's national government to localize and characterize all informal settlements of Ecuador

Slum regularization in Guayaquil

Slum regularization in Guayaquil

Urban plan for regularization purposes of an informal settlement, part of a comprehensive project including social development, basic services and housing

Parc Riu Llobregat, Barcelona

Parc Riu Llobregat, Barcelona

Master plan for the natural rehabilitation of 50km of Llobregat River in the metropolitan area of Barcelona

Permaculture in Ecuador

Permaculture in Ecuador

Permaculture project in rural communities with UN-Habitat and Cuba's FANJ. Download Guide

WASH education campaign

WASH education campaign

Education campaign on water and sanitation, with the UN and Ecuador's national government. Dowload workbook

Research - slum upgrading

Research - slum upgrading

Action-research in Pune, India, in partnership with local women collectives and the NGO SPARC. Image by URBANOUVEAU.com. Dowload published article

Research - International Development

Research - International Development

Research project for Spain's International Development Cooperation Agency projects aimed at descentralization and strengthening of local governments. Download report

Gender and water

Gender and water

Gender mainstreaming in MDG Fund water and sanitation programme in Ecuador. Case studies published by GWA, UN-Habitat and SIWI. Download report

Interquorum: Ponta do Leal

Interquorum: Ponta do Leal

Article published in journal, in its special number about Habitat III, together with Antonio Nunes, about the right to the city. Download journal

MSc at the University College London

MSc at the University College London

Development Planning Unit. Download my dissertation on community-led urban development in Mumbai

Accra

Accra

UCL MSc fieldtrip to Accra, Ghana, where I was leader of a team of MSc students. Research and proposal development for the Municipal Government. Download report

Water provision - reconstruction

Water provision - reconstruction

Water provision project using solar panels to pump water, with Torino's University and Auroville's CSR

Youth clubs in Ecuador

Youth clubs in Ecuador

Organization of youth clubs for environmental conservation pruposes. Watch video

Flood-proof streets

Flood-proof streets

Design and construction of low-cost flood-proof streets for tsunami-hit villages in South India

Eco-school

Eco-school

100% sustainable school designed and built for a tsunami-hit community in South India

Seaside eco-house

Seaside eco-house

Energy-efficient house in Mallorca, using local natural materials and mediterranean natural landscaping

Rural eco-house

Rural eco-house

Rehabilitation of a rural house in Mallorca using environment-friendly technology

Vietnam Airlines headquarters

Vietnam Airlines headquarters

First Prize in design competition of Vietnam Airlines' new headquarters in Hanoi

Apartments in Hanoi

Apartments in Hanoi

Design of an apartment building in an extremely narrow plot in Hanoi

Heritage rehabilitation

Heritage rehabilitation

Rehabilitation of old carport to adapt the Café Murada, in Palma de Mallorca

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