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Alberto Orozco-Morales

Alberto Orozco-Morales

San Diego, CA, US

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Urban Tango

The idea of a new performance center, combined with an educational training institute and a high rise living apartment building granted us to a totally new philosophy in understanding the growth of cities and how they develop isolated from nature. We thought about this idea of why we need to think sustainable, and why we need to start designing buildings that are significantly more sustainable in design and application. The used of meta-diagrams based on what is happening, not just in San Diego, but also in most of the cities. Population is growing, so space is getting crowded and there is not enough space for nature. Massive buildings are over- whelming most of the space in city blocks, and in cities nature is isolated from what once was its territory. Times change, and cities grow; population overwhelms the space. Similarly, buildings overwhelm the nature; what once was green now becomes grizzly and gloomy. What once was dynamic is now static and without any sense.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: San Diego, CA, US
My Role: Designer
Additional Credits: Bihn Lam