portfolioCarlos GARCÍA-SANCHO

Architect. Master of Science.(Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences,

TU DELFT, 2009)Valladolid (SPAIN) , 16Dec1985

0157 84553808 cgsancho@hotmail.com

EDUCATION2009 Graduated as a Master of Science with Distinction (2nd July) with the project “Alternative Urbanities: Invasive Densities,” as a part of the Urban Asymmetries: Mexico collective project (a team of seven architects and three urbanists), with a degree of 9.50/10.00 cum laude. 2008/2009 Graduation project in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences (track: Architec-ture) at the TU DELFT after joining as a regular student. The graduation project belongs to the DSD Future cities: Urban Asymmetries master program and is located in Ecatepec, Mexico City (Mexico). One month research trip to Mexico in December 2008. On-site collaboration with the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), under the supervision of Ricardo Eibenschutz, and the Municipality of Ecatepec (Municipio de Ecatepec de Morelos).2007/2008 One year stay at the TU DELFT (Delft’s Technical University, The Netherlands) as an exchange student part of the ERASMUS programme. Enrolled for the DSD (Delft School of Design) Future cities: Urban Asymmetries pilot program. Research trip to Istanbul (Turkey) as part of the FILM/VIDEO/CITY Design Workshop in April 2008. 2003/ 2007 Superior Architecture First Cycle at the ETSAB (School of Architecture of Barce-lona) during four years. Graduations of 7.00/ 10.00 in Design Project (3rd year), 8.00/ 10.00 in Urbanism Design Project (2nd year), First Class with Distinction (9.50/10.00, MH) in History and Theory of Art and Architecture (Composició III, 4th year). Great interest on Urbanism and Land-scape planning. 2001/ 2003 High school on Science and Tech-nology in Valladolid, Núñez de Arce High School. First Class with Distinction (9.00/ 10.00).

WORK EXPERIENCE 2010 Eva Grubinger Studio(Berlin)Collaboration in art projects.2010 Media 62(Berlin)Collaboration in graphic design projects.2007 One month stay at Architecture Office Alberto Merinos y asociados (Valladolid), col-laborating in the design process for a new school facility. 2007 Six month experience at Architecture Atelier ON-A Arquitectura (Barcelona), hired through the ETSAB Area of educative coopera-tion. Working as a collaborator in the design process for architectural competitions, buildings, and ephemeral architecture. Drawings published in DETAIL magazine. 2005 Experience as a collaborator with teach-ers Marta Bayona and Josep Parcerisa (ETSAB) at the Urbanism and Regional Planning Depart-ment, helping in the production of a new General Urban Planning for Maó (Menorca). One week stay in Maó doing field research and one month collaboration at B+V Arquitectes Associats (Marta Bayona and Albert Valero, Barcelona), member of the architect and designers partner-ship Espai Carolines.

PUBLICATIONS 2010 Coming publication of an Urban Asym-metries book issued by 010 Publishers, Rot-terdam (The Netherlands).2009 Special number of ATLANTIS MAGAZINE comprising the Urban Asymmetries master programs’ graduation projects in Mexico City and Santiago de Chile. ATLANTIS is a quarterly journal edited by POLIS, an organization formed by professors and students of Urban Design from the Architecture Department at the TU DELFT.

COMPUTER SKILLS AutoCAD: Proficient in 2D and 3D, intensive use over the last 5 years.Photoshop, Premiere PRO: Proficient, intensive use over the last 5 years.Illustrator, InDesign: Very good.Rhino, 3D Studio MAX: Good, Used at work.Microsoft Office: Proficient.Maya, Vectorworks: Basic knowledge.

LANGUAGE SKILLSEnglish / Advanced Certificate in English (Uni-versity of Cambridge). Grade B. Fluent speaking, excellent writing and comprehension, several stays in the US and UK. French/ Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Française/ A2. Fluent speaking, very good writing and com-prehension, several stays in France. German/ Zertifikat Deutsch, GUT (grade B). Good writing and comprehension. One two week stay in Berlin. Catalan/ Certificat A/ Elemental , 9.00 Excel·lent. Fluent speaking, very good writing and compre-hension. Spanish as mother tongue.

OTHER INTERESTS/ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.Several cinema and drama courses. Broad experience in digital video editing for the final exhibition for Marc Bouwmeester’s course: “RDM-IST: Media Mapping”, as well as the Urban Asymmetries presentations, with documentary clips form Ecatepec, Mexico City. From summer 2006, working on small scale fashion design, with the brand for T-shirts&more *ménage à moi*. Catwalk at B_side bar (Barcelona)

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The URBAN ASYMMETRIES studio is an intensive theoretically and empirically driven research and design studio that aims at the understanding of the processes and conditions that produce uneven (or asymmetrical)development in contemporary urban environments. For our collective graduation project we have analyzed the social and material consequences of the advancement of neoliberal policies and practices in Mexico City. As a group of master students from extremely diverse international backgrounds, it is important for us to stress the fact that we see this research as a case study, a first step to enable ourselves to approach similar or related conditions in our own countries and realities in the future.

In our opinion, this project embodies exactly what our generation of urbanists and architects will have to address the world over - the real future of the city. Mike Davis describes the future of the city in his book Planet of Slums:

“The cities of the future, rather than being made out of glass and steel as envisioned by earlier generations of urbanists, are instead largely constructed out of crude brick, straw, recycled plastic, cement blocks, and scrap wood. Instead of cities of light soaring toward heaven, much of the twenty-first-century urban world squats in squalor, surrounded by pollution, excrement and decay.”

PROJECT AND RESEARCH TEAM:Levan Asabashvili [GE]Bai Yan [CN]Silvia Bizzarri [IT]Carlos García-Sancho [ES]Tania Guerrero [MX]Tomi Jaskari [FI]Tom Kolnaar [NL]Phillip Lühl [NA]Willem van de Ven [NL]Siebe M Voogt [NL]Taufan ter Weel [NL]Idan Zveibil [IS]

URBANASYMMETRIES: MEXICODSD Future Cities Master Program, TU Delft

PROJECT LED BY:Miguel Robles-Durán I Heidi SohnProject location:Ecatepec, Ciudad de México, MÉXICOcitizens@urbanasymmetries.orgwww.urbanasymmetries.org

ABOVE: Condition of Urban Asymmetry in a municipality of Mexico (courtesy of José Castillo).

Stills from the videos shot on site in Ecatepec, Mexico City, which were part of the UA presentations. www.youtube.com/urbanasymmetries

+ Municipality of Ecatepec (Mexico City): 3 million inh

+ Project Site

+ Mexico City: 28 million inh

ECATEPEC DE MORELOS, POP. 3 MILLIONEcatepec is one of the largest peripheral municipality of Mexico City’s metropolitan area, located within the Estado de Mexico. During the last decade several private developments has appeared in Ecatepec as new way of urbanization. They are mainly based in a mono-functional, ready made urban planning, focused mainly on single family housing units, grouped within separated gated communities which have a strong dependency on centralized commerce and lack any modes of production. Most of these plans are often approved at the state level and the municipality has to maintain and regulate them afterwards.

A handful of large-scale private development companies in Mexico have the de-facto monopoly on planning and construction of the formal city, geared solely towards short-term profit maximization, while leaving the public (Municipality) with the long-term consequences of their socially and materially unsustainable developments.

+ Separation wall.

Initial collective strategy. Current situation (LEFT) and final phase (RIGHT) panels from the NAI Urban Emergenc(i)es exhibition, June 2008, Rotterdam.

+ Las Americas housing development(14 000 swellings)

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+ Jardines de Morelosneighbourhood.

+ El Caracol(Old evaporation plant)

+ Power lines

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+ Toll road

+ Gran Canal(Open sewage)

+ Project: Reconnecting the socialby Levan Asabashvili [GE] and Tom Kolnaar [NL]

+ Project: Making wastelands productiveby Taufan ter Weel [NL] and Tania Guerrero [MX]

+ Project: Proposing Alternative urbanitiesby Carlos García-Sancho [ESP], Phillip Lühl [NA] and Siebe M. Voogt [NL]

(THIS PAGE) The three architectural graduation projects’ location, by teams. “Making wastelands productive’ explored the possibility of giving a new use to the federal land under the power lines. “Reconnecting the social” tried to react to the wall that segregated the two conditions through densification processes. “Proposing alternative urbanities” seeked the creation of a new framework which could enable a different way of urbanization for Mexico City. (NEXT PAGE) Diagrams representing the current situation (left) and the alternative plan (right).

CURRENT URBAN PLANThe site is situated in the border between the Las Americas housing development and El Caracol. In the current conditions the 90 ha wasteland between these two is unsuitable for the construction of housing and is zoned as “light industry” (mostly storage and logistics). CASAS ARA, the owners of this strip of land however, wish to change the land use to residential. Nevertheless, this seems unlikely to happen in a near future, as the current municipal government of Ecatepec has stated its opposition to allow further development of extensive residential developments like Las Americas.Several plans exist that propose to flood the un-built areas of the former Texcoco lake including El Caracol. These proposals come both from private architects and from academic researchers, grouped under the umbrella of the “Lake Recovery Program.” However, none of these considers restoring the productive role El Caracol once had. Because of the future implementation of this plan, El Caracol is protected by Federal Laws, under the supervision of CONAGUA.

LAS AMÉRICAS 42 000 in

MALLLAS AMERICAS

Alternative urban proposal: 1. Recovery of El Caracol (green)2. Urbanization of adjacent wasteland 3. Invasive Densities (red)

PROPOSING ALTERNATIVE URBANITIESOur proposal is to make El Caracol productive again by means of water-based agriculture with related processing and trading facilities along its border. There are three arguments for this strategy. First of all, by making El Caracol productive, the environmental conditions are improved. This will allow to urbanize the wasteland in order to propose an alternative model for urbanization with 14 000 housing units, approximately the same as Las Americas, as well as mixed use facilities.Secondly, the revenues generated by the production and secondary economies that are enabled within the housing projects form the economic base for development of the rest of the area as well as a sustainable source of income for the inhabitants. Ultimately, the introduction of local means of production decreases the parasitic relation between the periphery and the central parts of Mexico City.

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INVASIVE DENSITIES: 50 DWELLINGS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD FACILITIESCarlos GARCÍA-SANCHO

Existing LAS AMERICAS fabric

AGRICULTURAL FACILITIES + 110

DWELLINGSPhillip LÜHL

(THIS PAGE) The housing program in the proposed “new urbanities” is interwoven with productive spaces at all times. These complex programs confront each other and neccessitate some form of negotiation between all the stakeholders. (NEXT PAGE) An alternative model for urbanization needs for a new model of financing, different from the credit-based private developments (left). As an example, an alternative economic model is shown, in this case, re-using excessive public space in a statal initiative to provide social housing: the invasive densities strategy (right).

NEW ECONOMIC MODELSWhen proposing an alternative pattern of urbanization in the context of Ecatepec, it becomes clear that the design projects have to be backed up by an alternative model of financing that takes into account other variables other than profit margins. It should consider its insertion in the existing city, and look for strategies that ensure their sustainability in the long term. In that sense, the existing models of urbanization (left) are lacking a cohesive view on the city they are creating and its sustainment in a long-term basis. Developments like Las Américas have a “parasitic” condition towards the surrounding city, but also towards the Federal funding institutions, building large quantities of housing with very low-quality standards. Thus, a massive profit is made out of the contingency of middle-low formal workers in need of a dwelling.

MARKET FACILITY + 85 DWELLINGSSiebe M VOOGT

INVASIVE DENSITIES

The production of ‘social interest housing’ (vivienda de interés social) in large parts of the peripheral municipalities of the Metropolitan Zone of the City of Mexico (ZMCM) creates extensive patches of low rise fabric financed with the help of the governmental housing structures. Ecatepec de Morelos is one of the municipalities that faces the problem of managing and sustaining these fabrics, which have been built by large construction companies, even though the official position of the government is to not authorize any more of these developments. Through a new funding structure, VISOMEX, the Municipality re-gains the agency to plan their social housing developments. The Invasive Densities program tries to infiltrate in Las Americas fabric, providing housing and neighbourhood facilities and ensuring a minimum density on one squate meter built per square meter of land, proposing a different model of urbanity.

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