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Gabriel
Arboleda
Ph.D. Program in Architecture
College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley
370 Wurster Hall - Berkeley, CA 94720-1800
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Extensive field experience with
urban and rural communities of Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia and
other developing countries. Work centered on areas of sustainable
building, technology transfer and ethno-technologies, as well as
participatory building and planning processes. Trained as an architect
and planner at the doctoral level (in progress), in prestigious
United States and Latin American schools.
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EXPERIENCE
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2005 – 2006
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Coastal Hurricane Resistant Housing
Houma – Louisiana
Participated
in the preliminary planning process for the development of the "Lift
House," an approach to hurricane resistant structures that combines
affordability with sturdiness and ease of construction.
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2004 – 2006
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Participatory Community Design
San Cayetano Istepeque – El
Salvador
Facilitated
a participatory design project to develop a new neighborhood with
a displaced community that was settling on abandoned railroad property.
This project was implemented through a partnership between MIT's
Special Interest Group in Urban Settlement (SIGUS), Irish NGO Trocaire,
local foundations REDES and Bálsamo, and families of the community.
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2004
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Environmental Sustainability
Cambridge – Massachusetts
Winner
in the developmental/social category
of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition warm-up round. The
winning
project was the Com-portable,
a portable, biodegradable composting
toilet that becomes compost itself
after use. This idea aims to alleviate health, contamination
and low water availability issues
that afflict the world's underprivileged
communities.
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2004
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Community Development Planning
Vientiane – Laos
Assisted
the community of Nong Duang Thong in the design of a new development
plan related to the road built by Village Focus International. This
project was part of a partnership between MIT Public Service Center,
SIGUS and Oxford Brookes University.
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2002 – 2007
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Development Instruction
Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Berkeley, California
Teaching
assistant for several classes on the topic of development, planning,
low-income housing and environmental design at both MIT and UC Berkeley.
Among these, 4.237 – The New Practitioner: Dialogue Tools and
Techniques (MIT), ED4 – Introduction to Environmental Design
(Berkeley), and CP 115 – Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes
in the new Millennium (Berkeley – Fall 2007).
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2002
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Community Participatory Infrastructure
Planning
Quito – Ecuador
Consulted
pro-bono for Ecuadorian Emergency
Social Investment Fund (FISE), on
implementing an "ethno-engineering"
methodology for infrastructure building
using a community participatory approach.
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1998 – 2001
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Settlement Development Planning
San Lorenzo – Coast
of Ecuador
Assisted
in the implementation of a development
plan, stressing environmental and
economic solutions, for the San Martín
settlement. This was a Kellogg Foundation
project managed through CIBT (Tropical Forest Research
Center – Spanish initials).
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1997
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Environmental Knowledge Exchange
San Pablo – Ecuadorian
Amazon
Promoted
a series of knowledge exchange workshops with the Secoya (Sieco_pai),
with the goal of implementing environmentally and culturally sensitive
building and planning systems for this changing indigenous community.
This was a project developed in collaboration with Malibu, California's
Earth Ways Foundation.
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1996
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Sustainable Rural Development
Buenaventura – Colombia
Co-designed
and implemented a sustainable, productive system that involved farming,
residues disposal and building in the community of Santa Helena.
This project was established through Arcadia, a self-established
NGO.
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EDUCATION
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2005 - 2007
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University of California,
Berkeley
Ph.D. in Architecture
Major field
of study: Environmental Design in Developing Countries
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2002 - 2004
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Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Master of Science in Architecture
Studies (SMArchS)
Area of
study: Architecture and Urbanism
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1992 - 1998
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Universidad del Valle - Colombia
Arquitecto (BA)
Thesis studio
course: Culture and Spatial Order
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