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Juan Pablo Moya Álvarez  -  Architect, 30.
Heredia, Costa Rica

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Space is never static, architecture either. This vision always seemed a powerful tool to impact on people's happiness.

There is a constant friction between beings and feelings and that is where the magic happen: making it appear that architecture is absent in this exchange, but at the same time containing everything with a lightness and vibration that maintains the intonation with the environment, the shapes and the cultures. 

January 1993.  Juan Pablo was a quiet child with great influence of his grandfather in his first years of life. With him, he acquired a taste for drawing, craftsmanship and empirical construction. Values and basic passions in his personality and interests for life.

It was in architecture where all his passions flowed. In 2011, he began his undergraduate studies at the University of Costa Rica, an institution worthy of the Costa Rican state, where he developed his intrigue for airports, public transport, citizens' rights, and the powerful idea of ​​attracting capital to his country.

Since 2016, he has worked for one of the most prestigious design studios in his country, where he has focused on the design of around 50 luxury homes, mainly in the center, and the central and northern pacific of the country.

In 2018, he founded BE architects as an initiative that seeks to be critical of the ways of living, moving and attracting capital in Costa Rica.

At the same time, he works at the University of Costa Rica as a consultant architect, developing works of great benefit for higher education.

Due to the urgent needs of Costa Rica in the 21st century, his professional career now focuses on specialization in public transportation, large scale works and tactical urbanism, as a way to diversify his taste for architecture and for the specific design, and combine it with actions that promote the construction of green Costa Rica as expected.

Education 

2000 - 2005

Escuela Cleto González Víquez

2006 - 2010

Colegio Santa María de Guadalupe

2011 - 2018

Universidad de Costa Rica

Degree in Architecture

Awards 

2013

Eco-Ride winner. 

Project: Huella Cero. 

Universidad de Costa Rica.

San José, Costa Rica.

2014

Metalco Prize winner

Project: Pacific´s Eye

Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura

San José, Costa Rica. 

2015

BID UrbanLab Semifinalist

Project: Respiradero Urbano: Curundú Panamá

Interamerican Development Bank

Washington DC, United States

2016

Honorable Mention. Landscaping proposal

Project: PARQ3, Los Guido. 

Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura

San José, Costa Rica. 

2019

Outstanding Citymaker Scolarship

BarcelonaLab 2019

Citymakers.es

Barcelona, Spain. 

Work Experience

2019 - Present

Citymakers Costa Rica | Coordinator  

www.citymakers.es

2018 - Present

University of Costa Rica | Architect designer

www.ucr.ac.cr

2016 - Present

Alianz Estudio | Architect designer

www.alianzestudio.com

2015 - 2016

Parq | Intern

www.parqcr.com

2015 - 2018

Movete por tu ciudad | Intern

www.moveteportuciudad.com

Seminaries

2019

Juan Santamaría: ¿Impulsor o represor del desarrollo socioeconómico regional?

Congreso de Arquitectura, Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitectos. 

San José, Costa Rica. 

2018

SJO: Aeropuerto + Ciudad. Hacia una región accesible en medio de entornos saturados.   Semana Arqui-Civil. Escuela de Ingeniería Civil, Universidad de CR. 

San José, Costa Rica. 

2016

Accesibilidad en lo urbano-marginal: caso Los Guido. 

Sincronías Comunitarias.

Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá. Colombia. 

Specialization

2022

Professional master's degree in Architecture and Construction

Universidad de Costa Rica

San José, Costa Rica

2022

Inspection and administration of construction works

Federated College of Engineers and Architects

San José, Costa Rica.

2021

Barcelona Citymakers Lab 2021 | Urbanism

Citymakers.es

Barcelona, Cataluña. España.

2020

RCR Summer Workshop 2020 | Landscape an architecture

RCR Arquitectes + RCR Bunka Fundació Privada

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona

Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña

Olot, Cataluña. España.

2020

Barcelona Citymakers Lab 2019 | Urbanism

Citymakers.es

Barcelona, Cataluña. España.

Contact Me

(+506) 6042 5522

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