Karla Fentanes
- Site : www.kfsustentabilidad.com
- Adresse : Av. Perú 486, El Retiro 29040 Tuxtla Gutierrez
Presentation of the career and professional structure
Dra. Arq. Karla Fentanes Gutiérrez Zamora
www.kfsustentabilidad.com
Born in Chiapas, the poorest isolated state of México within adverse environment, marked by social inequalities and machismo, but fortunately gifted by exceptional strength and huge heard formed myself acting with a big sense of intuition and clarity.
Emigrated from my city to study Architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana of México City more than 1,000 km from home, with a scholarship, when the Zapatismo* has started. Six years later, I obtained another scholarship from the Mexican government, to obtain a doctorate in Sustainability at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña in Barcelona, graduated on 2004 with an excellent cum laude. After 10 years working in housing and urbanism in Spain, I returned to Chiapas with an extremely deteriorated social and also economic reality. Those circumstances motivated me deeply to be a part of the change toward a better future for my people, especially women who still confronted in very disadvantaged situations.
Being the daughter in a traditionally family run construction business breaking the classical roll and my responsibility as a women Architect confronted myself the need to demonstrate dairy my professional capacity. My mission is implementing a new city model replacing the dispersed toward the compact one, accessible housing for all, social community and local public life.
My other objectives are formation and education in order being able to refer to a high quality network, designing emblematic projects with high sustainable performance for private companies and governmental institutions. Firstly, always looking to achieve the highest international standards, secondly, beat harsh reality full of corruption, abuse of power and opportunism.
The heritage value of Mexican people and the privileged environment is the biggest plus I can work with.
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NESTLE- SOCIAL BLOCK
The Social Block was made in 2010-2011 for the Nestlé-Chiapa de Corzo factory. It is an architectural element that emerges from the earth, preserving the vegetal layer on its roof and embracing the pre-existing trees to make the most bioclimatic benefits that these provide to the building and to the comfort of the users.
In 1,656 m2 built, it houses spaces for training, relaxing and recreating for the factory employees. The architectural design is based on sustainable strategies. We apply passive and hybrid strategies to reduce the energy consume of cooling, produce a Closed Water Cycle and use construction materials of recycled origin, non-polluting, low CO2 emission in their manufacture until the end of its Live Cycle Building. Likewise, it considers the management of users' public transport, promoting the use of bicycles, shared cars and public transport.
The Social Block is the result of great teamwork, full of professional people, to achieve the client's objective to make a sustainable building, in not common situation because the fabric used to contract men and enginniers. Fortunately, the result exceed it, achieving the LEED certification PLATINUM seal, and becoming the first building in Latin America with that seal (. And the government of the state give us the mention of Premio Chiapas 2013, the same one that received Rosario Castellanos on 1958, the feminist icon of contemporary literature in México.
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