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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CITYCAFE
The CITYCAFE is a group of buildings around 3,000 m2 for research, develop and transfer technology of coffee sciences, located on isolated area with no potable water neither sewer system connection. The coffee production represents a huge opportunity of development for the people of Chiapas. A group of agronomist researchers demands to federal government of Mexico the project and the financial resources to build it. The architectural project has been finished on 2016 but the construction stars until 2018 because of political and corruption problems. The construction becomes a dramatically chapter of corruption and opportunism where we stands on not been abused and respect the architectural project. Now a days, the construction seems to arrive to the end by the presence of new Secretary of Public Buildings, a woman with integrity and ethics. The sustainable architectural design is based on a prefabricated construction system with low consume of water during the construction, a great inertial thermic to reduce the great fluctuation of temperature between day and night and autonomy water system with closed cycle.
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