Portfolio 2004-2013

Oliver Olivo Batista
Works Portfolio

Construction Manager & Design Associate
Arch. Emilio Olivo Batista
Chief Architect
Client: Bianco Restaurant
January 2006
Santiago, DR.
While still a student of architecture, I
had the opportunity to develop this proj-
ect commissioned by a group of friends
who were interested in investing in the
restaurant industry. They had a low
budget and so they wanted to start off
with a small project. They bought a
process
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property in Santiago with a 140 square
meter house, built in the 1970s.My
brother, who is an architect, was leading
the project while I was his design part-
ner and for the ﬁrst time ever, a
construction manager. Being still at
school, I learned to organize myself and
.
combine my class schedule with the
other jobs that I had to in order to be able
to run the project The main idea was to
use the house as the service area of the
restaurant and with a lighted wall cover-
ing the façade, hide it from the street
while at the same time illuminating
the guest area. This decision helped us
save money by avoiding any modiﬁca-
tions to its original structure and also
allowed us to expose the guests to the
street, offering a more open sensation.
The whole process lasted 2 months.
Bianco Restaurant
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Architect Designer
Collaborators:
Arch. Arturo Berastaín
Arch. Jose Maria Pantaleón
Client: Bar Boutique
December 2010
Santo Domingo, DR.
The objective of this project was to trans-
form the area where a bakery used to
stand and transform it into a bar, adding a
restroom for the guests.The interior
space was 24 square meters with an
additional outdoor area with tables
placed on the sidewalk.
Small spaces are always a big challenge
especially when you need to recondition
or renovate the space and give it another
use.
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In this project I was once again dealing
with the same equation: small budget
and clients with high standards I had to
avoid any big alterations to keep the
budget down andwork with some sceno-
graphic approaches using textures, light-
ing and colors.Another challenge was that
the façade needed to blend in with the
urban landscape and complement the
the restaurants on either side of the bar.
My idea was to embrace the façade of the
bar with a more welcoming and humane
feeling using a contemporary architecture
style. I thought about the composition of
the three façades as a whole part of the
urban look. Finally, we planted creeping
vines, which would eventually scale the
façade elements through the lattices and
block the southwestern sunset and cool
the interior. The client was very pleased
with the ﬁnal result.
ﬁnal result
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Bar Boutique

Oliver Olivo Batista - Architect
Client: RoofTec Store
November 2011
Santo Domingo, DR.
Sometimes we face simple challenges
that we don’t not know how we will
overcome. This was the case with this
project and the transformation of a
space that was a real architectonic mess.
After starting the process of cleaning
and recovering the assigned space,
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the ideas started to flourish, the process
was flowing smoothly and everything
was coming together. The assignment
was to build a showroom and an office
for a construction materials sales com-
pany . The space was renovated locating
the office in the center and surrounding
it with the showroom on the perimeter. I
used non-expensive solutions like Ikea
lamps and industrial palettes as furni-
ture. During this process, I suggested
that the owner change the corporate
identity by improving the logo and
selecting new colors. .
The resulting coherence between the
architecture and the refreshed corpo-
rate identity gives the company a more
professional look in the market.
Rooftec
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Creative Director &
Account Executive
Juan Felipe Zapata - Graphic Designer
Laboratorio 1919 - Taller Creativo
2001-2008
Santiago, DR.
During my senior year, my friend, a skilled
young designer, and I started a small
business in the graphic design area work-
ing with several local companies from
Santiago and designing advertisement
for events, clubs and event promoters.We
created a signiﬁcant list of clients who .
Graphic Design
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called us directly with design
requests.After receiving a call from a
client, we will send them a form
where they will express their needs
and email it back to me. We made
ourselves available at all hours and
often helped clients produce the
material they needed in a hurry.
My partner and I collaborated remotely,
often brainstorming via Skype. After
generating several ideas, the client
received an email with different options
and they would give us their opinion and
chose their favorite solution. We spent
around 7 years working together and
growing our business.
Even today, some of the clients are still
professionally linked to us.
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Corporate Identity

In addition to our interest in graphic
design, we wanted to experiment with
new formats. We had the opportunity to
produce some small projects that needed
to be constructed and built in an indus-
trial workshop. We executed the entire
process,rom graphic design to
Design
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Creative Director &
Account Executive
Juan Felipe Zapata - Graphic Designer
Moisés Rodríguez - Producer
Laboratorio 1919 - Taller Creativo
2002-2008
Santiago, DR.

creating the products in the construction
workshop. While learning at the work-
shop, my design ideas started changing
and became more consistent because
now I had to think ahead about the the
object I was going to build. And of course
for an architecture student, this was a .
very educational experience Here I’m
showing two small projects: the graduate
frames for two senior classes that, at the
time, were very innovative proposals. The
most important thing I gained from this
was ‘learning from the process’ and
starting to understand how the design
and the production process correlate.
Others
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Photographer
Amateur and Comissioned Photography
2006-2012
Santo Domingo, Santiago, New York,
Barcelona and other cities.
Photography
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Photography
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2006-2012

Photography
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2006-2012

Photography
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2006-2012

Oliver Olivo Batista - Project Manager
Paolat de la Cruz - Graphic Designer
Zoilo Pimentel - Creative
Ainek Abreu - Fashion Designer
Client: D’Clase Corporation
2006-2007
Santiago, DR.
‘Quvel: where strange things happen.’ In
2006, I was in charge of creating a cloth-
ing brand. By ‘create’ I mean designing
everything from scratch: the name, the
story behind the name and the details
printed on the clothing.I had the opportu-
nity to manage this process of creation
Production & Collaboration
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with an excellent team of young
professionals.The goal was to develop a
Dominican clothing brand intended for
national and international consumers. We
came up with the idea of a ‘place’ named
‘Quvel’ where a lot of strange things
happened.These weird events were the
core of the economic activity of this
imaginary world and inspired the people
of Quvelto manufacture the clothes.
Nobody knows where Quvel is located,
nobody even knows how to ﬁnd it, but
whenever a person desires to wear a
special piece of clothing, someone from
Quvel will deliver it to that person. The
brand was created and approved by the
clients and with it, the production of
samples began; however, the economic
recession of 2008 stopped any possibility
of production. The company will try to
relaunch the project in 2013.
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Quvel

Team Coordinator/Photographer
link: http://iswimwithmarcos.com/
Marcos Díaz Foundation
April-October 2010
Santo Domingo, DR.-Multiple Countries
‘A life changing experience’. In April 2010, I
was invited to participate in what became
the most signiﬁcant experience of my life.
I traveled around the world coordinating
a team whose goal was to connect the
ﬁve continents by open water swimming
with one of the most important athletes
Santo Domingo-Miami-Los Angeles-Brisbane-Port Moresby-Vanimo-Jayapura-Bali-Jakarta-Singapur-
Dubai-Cairo-Luxor-Alejandría-Amman-Aqaba-Nueva York- Casablanca-Rabat-Madrid-Tarifa-Chicago-
Anchorage-Nome-Wales-Little Diomede-Big Diomede-Washington DC
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of the Dominican Republicand one of the
best open water swimmers in the world:
Marcos Díaz. Our purpose was to create
awareness for the United Nations Millen-
nium Development Goals by unifying the
continents.I had the opportunity to meet
outstanding people from many different
countries and organizations and also
visited many unique places as part of our
tour.One of my responsibilities was docu-
menting this experience through photos
and videos. During this time I realized and
conﬁrmed what I wanted to do in life: to
communicate through audiovisual media.
The people I met, the landscapes I saw,
the sightseeing, the precious moments I
shared with the team, our efforts and
Marco’s achievements were a life chang-
ing experience for me and transformed
my perspective towards the things I want
to do and achieve in the future.
Swim Across The Continents With The United Nations
For The Millennium Development Goals
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Coordinator/Author
DEVELOPING IDEA/WORK IN PROGRESS
Collaborators:
Raúl Yunén
Mariano Corral
2010
Santo Domingo, DR.
Let’s say, for a moment, that we could ﬁght
poverty through tourism: that’s precisely
the intention of this project. My idea for
Microcomm is to use professional exper-
tise to prepare local residents to manage
and sell their own community’s touristic
assets. Rather than selling products
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directly to tourists,Microcomm would
create a high-quality structure and help
develop local touristic products, beneﬁt-
ting the people from the selected com-
munities by providing sustenance and
also protecting and preserving their
resources for the future. For example,
in a touristic micrommunity we could
have all kinds of people doing at least one
task to develop and sell their touristic
assets; young men in charge of market-
ing online, others as specialized tourist
guides, or a group of mothers making
different foods with distinctive
ingredients from the area. A group of
people running successful small busi-
nesses renting horses, bikes, or offering
accommodation to tourists would beneﬁt
the community they live in.
Microcomm : Touristic Microcommunities
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This is a map of the Dominican Republic, showing hypothetical tour-
ism attractions and points of interest around different small commu-
nities that will help guide selection of target communities and the
operative system of the micro-communities network.

After I completed the ﬁrst half of my
master’s degree in Barcelona, Spain
“Intelligent Coast: New Tourism Strate-
gies New Land Structures”, I was selected
from amongst 14 people to collaborate in
a study commissioned by the govern-
ment of the Island of Ibiza, Spain.
Planning
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Architect/Urbanist
Collaborator
Directors: Silvia Banchinni & Luis Falcón
Intelligent Coast Ofﬁce
http://www.intelligentcoast.com/
2008-2009
Barcelona, Spain.

For more than 50 years, the island of Ibiza
has been well-known throughout Europe
for its touristic importance, being the
perfect vacation getaway for most of the
of the European jet set. It is also notorious
as a destination for its world famous
clubs and DJ’s. However, Ibiza is affected
by seasonal slumps in tourist visits and
for the last few years has seen a decrease
in overall tourist visits. The government
of the island was starting to re-think its
touristic model in order to make it more
competitive and sustainable. They were
looking for ideas for the entire island and
also a series of speciﬁc projects in the
renowned area of Platja d’en Bossa. Due
to the island’s size and the ﬂow of tourist
movement around the island, our crew
started analyzing the entire island: its
urban, natural, and touristic systems,
international competitors, local and
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Action Plan for Playa d’en Bossa, Ibiza. Spain

more than half a million tourists in
August and around ten thousand tourists
in January of the same year. This
seasonal alteration is not sustainable. If
they want to be successful they need to
work on developing new touristic prod-
ucts that last the whole year.
foreign population, estimation of human
flows, and points of interest among other
things. Ibiza, like many touristic destina-
tions, is affected by seasonal patterns of
tourism flows, common in tourist areas
that offer sun and beach as their main
attraction. In 2007, the island received
Oliver Olivo Batista - Architect/Urbanist
Collaborator
Directors: Silvia Banchinni & Luis Falcón
Intelligent Coast Office
http://www.intelligentcoast.com/
2008-2009
Barcelona, Spain.
Planning
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Our team’s proposal was to create new
non-seasonal products based on natural
resources, salt production, cultural heri-
tage and the music industry and articu-
late it with their main touristic
products.At the same time, as part of the
commission, we suggested a series of
speciﬁc projects such as the Ibiza Music
Cluster,which is now running with great
success and other infrastructure devel-
opments in the area of Platja d’en Bossa
shown in the map above. For me, this was
a great experience in which I had the
chance to put in practice the acquired
skills from my Master’s degree in Tourism
Planning.
Sensibilitza: Consultation for the Drafting of a Regional
Action Plan for Playa d’en Bossa, Ibiza. Spain
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During my three years as a Planning Ana-
lyst in the Ministry of Tourism of the
Dominican Republic, I had the opportu-
nity to work and cooperate on several
planning and infrastructure projects. One
of these projects was the Plan de Orde-
namiento Territorial Turístico (POTT),
Planning
Oliver Olivo Batista - Collaborator
Maribel Villalona - Executive Director
Ariosto Montisano - Project Manager
Jorge Ventura - Coordinator
Carla Quiñones - Project Manager
Ministry of Tourism of Dominican Republic
2009-2012
Santo Domingo, DR.
POTT - Miches
Tourism Planning in
DominicanRepublic
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or Touristic Land Ordinance. I had the
chance to participate as a consultant
working with the project managers of
each POTT. I was able to bring my knowl-
edge of tourism territorial strategy to this
project, deﬁning the structure of the
touristic products of each POTT based on
the potential of each region and the
international tourism trends improving
the territory’s competitiveness versus
similar destinations inside and out of our
country. In tourism, planning decisions
are determined by the ﬂow of people
over the territory, connecting different
attractions. The territory is the most
important touristic asset, and that is why
it is essential for planners to understand
the the character of the various points of
interest.
Ministry of Tourism: Tourism Land Ordenance
POTT - Pedernales
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Road signs are very important for tourism
development, specially the type of tour-
ism that generates more proﬁts for the
local people. In 2010, the Ministry of Tour-
ism of the Dominican Republic started a
national plan of road signs to indicate to
tourists where to go and let them know
Planning
Elia Martinez - Collaborator
2010-2012
Santo Domingo, DR.
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their current location. I was appointed
Project Manager and we started mapping
the whole country with the speciﬁc loca-
tion of each sign. We later visited each
place and discussed if we needed to
make a location adjustment. Afterwards,
we worked on designing the content to
be placed on each sign and sent it to the
fabrication workshop where the produc-
tion process started. Consequently, we
installed each unit in the selected loca-
tion. Currently, we have two phases out of
seven of the entire project already
installed: the Samaná Peninsula and the
East Coast of Punta Cana. After conclud-
ing my three years working for the Minis-
try of Tourism, the contractor’s company
made me an offer to keep running this
project with them until it was completed.
So far we have plans to install approxi-
mately 550 signs all over the country.
Ministry of Tourism: National Plan for Tourism Sign
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2010-2012
Santo Domingo, DR.
The Dominican Republic has approxi-
mately 1570 kilometers of coastline with
almost 500 kilometers of sandy beaches.
Tourism, especially beach tourism, is
extremely important for the economy of
the Dominican Republic, representing
about 18% of the GDP and around 25% of
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overall jobs in 2011. As a part of its Touris-
tic Territorial Planning, the beaches of
this country were studied and classiﬁed
by a group of scientists with the intention
of protecting the beach system resources
from a high level of degradation that has
already affected some areas. After a one
year investigation in which researchers
and members of our team examined 108
out of 220 beaches,the Ministry of Tour-
ism created the National Plan for Beach
Management with the objective of
protecting and offering high quality
beaches for the tourism industry.
Ever since I was doing my Master’s degree
abroad, I have wanted to put to use all the
new, innovative ideas I developed there to
beneﬁt my country.I was presented with
the opportunity to work with the the
Director of Menorca’s Beach Manage-
ment Plan, a former professor from the
Ministry of Tourism: National Plan for Beach Management
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master’s program a geographer special-
ized in coast and beach management. We
started our collaboration by researching
and classifying more than half of the
Dominican beaches to create a proposal
for an intervention and protection strat-
egy for our beach systems.
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2010-2012
Santo Domingo, DR.

The results of this research gave us an
exact diagnostic of the main problems
that are affecting our beaches and gave
us an idea of how to overcome these
difficulties and preserve other beaches
that have not yet been affected by devel-
oping better management tactics for the
future.With this project we confirmed the
high level of responsibility that humanity
has in protecting our natural resources.
More than 60% of the problems identi-
fied in this study, are related to the
improper use of and administration by
the tourism industry of the beaches and
the lack of information in the local popu-
lation. This research could form the basis
of a multimedia awareness campaign
about proper beach management that
would greatly benefit the Dominican
Republic.
Ministry of Tourism: National Plan for Beach Management
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Sustaining
Karina Peña - Sustaining
PUCMM
Arq. Eduardo Sánchez-Thesis advisor
link: ciudadliquida.blogspot.com
2007
Santiago, DR.
As an undergraduate, my partner and I
developed a thesis on rescuing the urban
system of a city by recovering its main
natural resource. Yaque del Norte river
snakes through the center of the city of
Santiago de los Caballeros for almost 11
kilometers connecting the entire city
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through its hydrologic system.One can
say that each citizen is linked to the river
system by a distance not farther than 3
kilometers. Our plan was shaped around
the idea of recovering a city through the
intervention of its urban hydrological
system transforming it into green paths
and corridors and high quality spaces
throughout the city.Our project was
inspired by the Brazilian architect Jaime
Lerner and his theory of healing the
diseases of a city through “urban
acupuncture”. We chose eleven points on
the riverbank for major intervention,
connecting them through green path-
ways, and urban parks that would support
the life of numerous people living in the
city.The project would affect different
aspects of citizens’ lives such as educa-
tion, health, security, leisure, environ-
ment, commerce, transport and tourism.
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Liquid City: Undergraduate Architecture Thesis

Oliver Olivo Batista - Sustaining
Karina Peña - Sustaining
PUCMM
Arq. Eduardo Sánchez-Thesis advisor
link: ciudadliquida.blogspot.com
2006-2007
Santiago, DR.
More than creating an urban project, we
were aiming to generate some kind of
re-birth of the city by working to improve
the quality of life of the people, recover-
ing the city’s natural system and how it
interacts with them. Two years later,
Santiago’s City Hall and the Ministry of
Environment of the Dominican Republic
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attempted to develop a similar project
with the collaboration of Jaime Lerner.
Both my partner and I were invited by the
Mayor to share our ideas with Mr. Lerner’s
team.
Liquid City: Undergraduate Architecture Thesis
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Teacher Coordinator
Audelín Henríquez - Associate teacher
School of Architecture
PUCMM
2010-2011
Santo Domingo, DR.
Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in
Santo Domingo, for which I’m very thank-
ful because I have had excellent students
in these last three years. One of the main
concepts of my advanced design work-
shop class is to analyze the urban context
and produce solutions for each case ,
One of the most satisfactory experiences
in my life has been having the opportu-
nity to guide and become a part of the
creation and discovery process of a group
of young people. Since August 2009, I
have been part of the faculty of the
School of Architecture at the Pontiﬁcia
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study. Because of my background and
the Dominican Republic’s focus on tour-
ismwe focus on touristic areas and their
particular complexities. I also encourage
my students to travel to other cities and
get to know new places pertaining to
their country’s geography and try to
convince them of the importance of
knowing other local realitie One quality
that distinguishes my classes is the incor-
poration of information and techniques
that architecture students usually do not
use such as economics, marketing, infor-
mation and communication technologies,
photo and ﬁlmmaking, all of which
enhance my students’ analyses and help
them ﬁnd innovative solutions.
As a Teacher: Design Workshop 8
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Oliver Olivo Batista - Teacher
PUCMM
2012
Santo Domingo, DR.
The landscape and its evolution on a
territory has a lot to tell about the reasons
that determined the shape and form of
its structure. Making timelines maybe is
one of the most interesting ways to
analyze a site and much more if we can
add historical information to the graphics.
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Other way to understand the the territory
is by using photo and video to classify the
different types of landscape of a region to
protect and make categories of land-
scape and deﬁne the range of interven-
tion of each type. All this knowing that the
landscape/territory is the most
important asset for tourism develop-
ment and its represents the cultural value
of the people who live in it. In this
example my students used photography
to analyze and classify the landscape of
Punta Cana in order to produce a series of
urban interventions
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Oliver Olivo Batista -Teacher
PUCMM
2012
Santo Domingo, DR.
Another approach to understand territo-
ries and the differences or similarities
between them, is by comparing them
using different ﬁelds of information from
the most generic to the most complex.
With this procedure we can understand
many of the things that happen between
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different countries or cultures.In this
case, we compared information on
different Caribbean countries with the
purpose of understanding the lack of
integration among them. This investiga-
tive and graphic exercise gave us a lot of
quick information that helped us under
cultural heritage and environment.stand
why it is easier and cheaper to ﬂy from
Santo Domingo to New York than from
one island to another as well as other
facts and information related to geogra-
phy, geology, tourism, commerce, The
two-week project addressed the gap in
the students’ knowledge about other
Caribbean countries and enabled them to
make afﬁrmations and comparisons
about their geographic region.
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Oliver Olivo Batista - teacher
PUCMM
2011
Santo Domingo, DR.
With this exercise I challenged students
to combine historical information and
graphic skills to design the Dominican
Republic pavilion in line with the require-
ments of a speciﬁc World Fair or Exposi-
tion. The purpose of this activity was to
enhance the students’ creativity by trans
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Comercio
Navegación
Guerra
Esclavitud
Exploración
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forming historic facts into an architec-
tural piece.I gave each student one
segment of approximately 30 years of
Dominican history since colonization.
They had to acclimatize to the period and
define it in five or six key words that
represented the most important attri
butes of their assigned era.After that,
each word had to be transformed in
graphic schemes that the student
designed after a process of sketching.
When the students were satisfied with
their sketches, they designed and mod-
eled their Dominican Pavilion.
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