Marcelo López–Dinardi

Tag: 2008

  • CIUDADLAB: UTOPIA IN MOSCOW

    CIUDADLAB: UTOPIA IN MOSCOW

    As with every CIUDADLAB research and exhibition project, we pick a different destination in an attempt to broaden the frame of reference from which we imagine the city. During the year 2008, choosing Moscow seemed to sense Russia’s renewed presence in the geopolitical game as we experienced the beginning of a renewed “Cold War.” Beyond Moscow’s exoticism with respect to a Western minded group, three theoretical frameworks established possible lines of comparison and analysis: Imagined City, Ideological City and Unfinished City. Through site visits, documentation and interviews, we looked to a heavily ideological city, and the traces of an unfinished imaginary world. The clash…

  • ROUNDTABLE SERIES

    ROUNDTABLE SERIES

    The Roundtable Discussion Series began as a complement to the first CIUDADLAB course offered at ArqPoli in 2005. The conversations were conducted with the idea of bringing to the school multi-disciplinary issues pertinent to our discipline. The invited panelists came from a wide spectrum and fields, provoking more than mere conversations, but vivid debates that nurtured the students’ concerns and understanding of the career’s scope.  – Suburban City: Mutation and Variation of the Dispersed Model – Method, Concept, Matter: the Re-education of Architecture – Leisure and Business: the New Geographies of Public Space – The Neoliberal Landscape: the Territory Economics…

  • FLMM NEW VISITORS CENTER

    FLMM NEW VISITORS CENTER

    The project, the new Visitors Center and Museum for the Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, situates itself as a mediator and threshold between a large semi-urban forest and a historic site grouping the former home and small buildings of the owners, where the house of the first elected governor of Puerto Rico is located. A bold two-pieces volume resembles and occupied the space of a natural border that existed before, while providing a threshold welcoming flows through the building to the site and the forest. View it published in Divisare and ArchDaily. Project Lead Designer for Toro Ferrer Arquitectos, 2006-2013. AIA…

  • HOUSE O

    HOUSE O

    The house was conceived as a large open interior/exterior space in between the front and back gardens of the elongated site. Two less permeable volumes contain the private and support areas. Formal public living areas are covered with a high roof to create a continuous environment with the gardens and outdoors. Project Lead Designer for Toro Ferrer Arquitectos, Lead Project Manager and Construction Administrator, 2006-2011.