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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ELITE RESIDENCIAL
The Metropolitan area of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, capitol of Chiapas, on last 20 years has grown in chaotic way. There is no planning, a lot of immigration from rural communities and illegal invasions of the territory by poorest people. The urban extension of the city produced also by housing development for rich people in closed communities looking for exclusivity and security. The high ecological cost, excessive traffic and unconnected people of this dispersed city model have to change to compact city. So we designed a housing building of 6 levels called ELITE RESIDENCIAL on 2016, located in centered area and very well connected with infrastructure, commercial areas, educational, religious and cultural equipment, government offices, urban parks and public transportation, looking to value the experience of pedestrian and high quality community neighborhood. This avant-garde project has slowly changed the market preferences. In 9,940 m2 the building is integrated by 43 apartments around 145 m2 each one, social areas, pools and Jacuzzi. The sustainable architectural design is based on prefabricated construction system with low consume of water during the construction and a bioclimatic strategies to increase the natural refrigeration for each apartment and natural daylighting en every spaces of the building.
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