AD Arquitectura Urbana

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AD ARQUITECTURA URBANA is an Office of Urban Architecture, based in Madrid, which develops architecture projects and masterplans with sustainability criteria.

The office plans urban transformations that are committed to rehabilitation and designs urban and territorial sustainability strategies with projects for innovation at different scales: architecture, urban planning, territory and landscape.

The office´s work is focused on projects with a customized design of solutions and contribution of technical rigor an aesthetic criteria: art at all scales. For this, energy efficiency and welfase criteria are incorporated.

Currently, the office works on plans and projects for public administrations and private clients.

In 2017, AD ARQUITECTURA URBANA received the First Prize of the International Project Competition for the Urban and Space Planning of the Old Central Hospital of Asturias (HUCA) in Cristo-Buenavista, in Oviedo, with the project HUCAMP! The Campa de Todos, with Juan Tur and Daniel Cortizo.

The designs of AD ARQUITECTURA URBANA have been included in the collective exhibition William Morris: a creator by nature selected at the Havana Design Biennial 2019 and who has toured Thammasat University Design School (Thailand), Department of Design Faculty of Fine Arts of Yarmouk University (Jordan) and the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (Duitama).

The work of AD ARQUITECTURA URBANA has been published in specialized media such as Arquitectura Viva, Plataforma Arquitectura, Ciudad Sostenible, Planur-e and in publications such as El País or El Mundo.

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Alexandra Delgado

Alexandra Delgado founded AD Arquitectura Urbana in 2005. Her work brings a vision of sustainability to architectural and urban design; her professional practice shows the interrelationships between different disciplines to generate transformation processes based on innovation.

Alexandra Delgado is the Director of the Advanced Planning Workshop of the Master in Architecture of the Nebrija University. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of La Sapienza-Roma, IAUV University of Venice, ECLAC of the United Nations in Santiago, Chile, or in academic programs organized by the Harbin Institute of Technology and TEC Monterrey.

Alexandra received a PhD in Architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquiectura de Madrid, where she also receives her M. Arch. She has received the Bernd Steinacher Scholarship to young urban planners and researchers and has been responsible for the Platform of Urban and Territorial Sustainability of Observatory on Sustainability in Spain rated Best Practice Short List worldwide in the framework of the 8th United Nations International Best Practice Contest 2010.

Her books Evolution and crisis of the Metropolitan Region of Madrid: A critical review of urban planning (2013) and Natural, cultural and landscape heritage: Keys to territorial sustainability, with coordination and lead authorship (OSE, 2009) stand out in their participation in more than forty chapters and articles in national and international journals.

Her research work has been included in publications like Springer or Thomson Reuters Aranzadi.

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Karla Monserrath Ulloa

Karla Monserrath Ulloa Chacha (Cuenca, Ecuador, 1997) is an architect from the School of Architecture of the Universidad del Azuay (2020), where she obtained her degree by developing research on sustainable mobility and territory with a gender approach. She also holds a Master's degree in Urban and Territorial Planning with a specialization in Urban Studies from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2023) for her research on housing rights and socio-spatial justice with a feminist perspective.

Parallel to the development of her professional practice in urban planning and bioclimatic architecture, she has published academic articles and has been a speaker at various urban planning conferences. Among them, her participation in the Foro Iberoamericano de Ciudades (Querétaro, 2023), Semana de la Movilidad (Quito, 2021) and the 10th Encuentro de Diseño Urbano (Santiago de Chile, 2020).

With the aim of projecting more equitable and sustainable cities, through complementary training, she has delved into topics such as Public Space and Healthy Neighborhoods (UPM, 2022), Climate Change (Universidad de Chile, 2021) and Feminist Urbanism (Universidad de Chile, 2020).

She is now part of the AD Arquitectura Urbana team, with the vision of promoting social equity, environmental awareness and habitability through architectural, urban and territorial design.

Emma Ferreira

Emma Ferreira, (Pau, France, 2003), has a degree in spatial design from the Cantau Baccalaureate in Bayonne (2023) where she obtained her diploma studying the health of cities. Vegetation, its advantages and its inclusion in schools have been an objective to follow in their courses. She is currently pursuing another bachelor's degree in urban planning, spatial planning and territorial development before beginning his official master's studies in 2024.

Its main interests are in the projection of cities with greater green infrastructure and with an ecological conception of minimal impact on the environment and its inhabitants. It is committed to revegetation strategies on buildings, offices, schools, among others, so as not to spread over the soil and thus create long-lasting spaces and contribute to human health.

Before returning to her studies, she has decided to be part of AD Arquitectura Urbana with the Erasmus program. Its objective is to learn more about the urban planning profession and learn more and more in the area of territorial planning.

Luisa Lobo-Guerrero Esguerra

Luisa Lobo-Guerrero Esguerra (Bogotá, Colombia, 1999) is an urban planner graduated from the Polytechnic University of Turin (2022), where she obtained her degree in territorial, urban, landscape and environmental planning with a focus on citizen participation. She is currently completing a master's degree in territorial and urban planning with emphasis on the global urban agenda.

Throughout her studies, she has participated in different exchange programs in European cities, which has strengthened her interest in social and economic equity and cultural freedom at different scales. His main interest lies in citizen participation, empowerment and the development of a sense of belonging as the main axes of urbanism.

Currently, she is part of the AD Arquitectura team in order to develop her curricular practices of the master's program in an environment where it is possible to embrace diverse realities and scales through her projects.

Luis de Frutos Lope

Luis de Frutos Lope (Madrid, 1993) is an architect and industrial design engineer from the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (2011-2018). He has done internships in important architecture studios such as Cano Lasso Arquitectos, Walk-al or Gonzalo de la Hoz, among others.

He has been an external collaborator at AD Arquitectura Urbana since 2020 working on architectural projects and urban planning.

He is interested in architecture and design as an expression of passion influenced by some factors that try to culminate in an optimal solution where design contributes to improve the city, the landscape and the environment.

His passion as a designer stands out at the same time as his passion for new construction systems that lead to an improvement in the environment. He is focused on creating spaces with minimum impact reaching thermal and spatial comfort in an approach to ecological design.