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Paisajes de cementación y biografías no autorizadas III
Escuela de Arquitectura, LCI Veritas
23/apr/2024
Collective research direction
w/ Luis Alejandro S. Rivera (Assistant)
Paisajes de cementación y biografías no autorizadas II
Escuela de Arquitectura, LCI Veritas
12/dic/2023
Collective research direction, Installation
w/ Ximena Astorga and Luis Alejandro S. Rivera (Assistants)
Paisajes de cementación y biografías no autorizadas I
Escuela de Arquitectura, LCI Veritas
22/ago/2023
Collective research direction, Installation
w/ Ximena Astorga and Lucía Blanco (Assistants)
The three preparatory iterations of Paisajes de Cementación y biografías no autorizadas (Landscapes of Cementation and Unauthorized Biographies) articulate an initial ecological and political theoretical framework of the special environment produced by the clouds of stone and cement dust released by the Holcim Costa Rica cement plant in Aguacaliente, Cartago. This framework, in turn, offers a perspective on the cement and aggregates industry in the country, in light of the activities of one of the largest actors in the construction materials sector—not only in Costa Rica, but worldwide. The collective research project Paisajes de cementación y biografías no autorizadas examines the sectoral influence of large actors within the architects’ guild, as well as their political muscle within and beyond organizations, public institutions, and research institutes in the country (e.g., the Costa Rican Chamber of Construction, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, and the National Laboratory for Materials and Structural Models). The initial outcomes of student research (digital models and animations, photographs, documentary and plant samples, transcriptions, photogrammetry files, maps, and code for particle dispersion simulation) constitute a first collective and cumulative repository of preparatory documents and preliminary observations to be openly processed by collectives of students, political activists, neighborhood groups, litigants, or independent researchers, whether or not they align with the conceptual interests of the eHTC coordination or the courses in which they were developed.