luis pena torres

Thinking on how to present my work to you, made me though about: what characterizes me as an architect? how do I understand our profession? how do I approach to design projects? In this sense and trying to answer to the previous questions, I'm in- terested in all the multiple aspects of architecture but specially in the ones that have a stronger impact to the public and the social sphere in positive ways. I belive that this themes bring several points that can easily become relevant within the reading, vision, strategy and answer that a buil- ding or project can make towards society. Once identi�ed this issues within a project, my ambition is to de�ne and enrich each design, by putting in action every �eld in archi- tecture that could help me to produce a powerful and precise proposal. One that one can trust by its logics and potentiality. Content -taking actions, a built project by Hypothesis Atelier, my own practice founded by young architects including myself. -tableaus, a selection of fragments from my own accademic projects which faces some of the recurrent themes that I have found signi�cant during my personal research. An inhabited wall The intention is to create a place of culture, where you can share and exchange. A new reference point for Le Grand Lahou, Ivory Coast. With very few information given to us from the remote village in consideration, the hypothesys was to develope a multifunctional space. We started from the available material, the concrete brick, in this case, used it to de�ne the wall as an element of excahnge rather than a mere separation element. We storngly tried to react on the use of local materials and crafting local know-how by operating an interchange of knowledge with the local workers and volunteers involved in the construction of the project. The idea was to transmit a vision of self-construction and a curiosity to reconsider the actual diffusion along the village of the neo-bourgeois suburban house typology. This was my �rst built own project which was develop in my association with a collegue and a ONG aside from my studies.