“I read territory as a living system: I identify convergences of processes, gradients of metabolic continuity, and zones where a precise intervention can restore what the system still holds.”
A graduate of Fundación Universitaria Jorge Tadeo Lozano, with a Master's in Landscape Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (with an emphasis on Landscape Ecology and Urban Metabolism). Eight years of practice across environmental consultancy, public space and landscape projects in Colombia, Spain and the United States — and, since 2023, my own methodological research.
The methodological system I am developing — the PICM — identifies which processes lose continuity, where, and to what degree. The ICM assesses the metabolic state of each ecotope. The AMA act on the cause of the interruption, not on the visible flow.
“My research starts from the hypothesis that territories are not ecologically inactive, but rather contain metabolic ecotopes: territorial units where processes operate with varying degrees of continuity — and where that degree determines the system's capacity to generate flows across scales.”
In transit toward Bilbao, 2026 — where the margins of the Nervión and its industrial metabolism in transformation open a new field of territorial observation. Research by doing. Observe to understand. Represent to activate.
LC.ES is not a portfolio. It is the epistemological framework from which all of my work operates: the interface between territorial research, situated practice and multi-scalar representation. The complete chain — from planetary context through to the production of knowledge.
Fragmented territories are not ecologically inactive. They contain metabolic ecotopes with varying degrees of process continuity — active, latent, interrupted, degraded, or with regenerative potential. That degree of continuity determines the system's capacity to generate flows across scales.
A non-negotiable ten-phase sequence: territorial survey → LC.ES Matrix (P1–P6 × scales) → reading and mapping → convergences → ecotope delimitation → IBI → PIM → AMA → CMA. The intervention zone is not chosen: it emerges from the analysis.
Ten equally weighted metrics across three dimensions: Ecological, Metabolic and Socio-ecological. It does not measure whether flows exist — it measures whether the processes are capable of generating them. It yields four states: Active · Latent · Interrupted · Degraded.
Metabolic reading S01–S09 using public data (IDEAM, IGAC, IDECA, SDP). Detection of convergences and delimitation of ecotopes. Design of the strategic AMA for the zone of greatest metabolic density. Operational window: Jun–Dec 2026.
The Nervión as an industrial metabolism in transformation. Applying the PICM with European data confirms the method's replicability beyond the Latin American context. Bogotá builds the evidence; Bilbao builds the academic legitimacy.
A cycle of talks and workshops where the research is translated into territorial pedagogical practice. First lecture presented at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, 2026. A platform for dissemination and territorial appropriation of the LC.ES system.
The PICM's first pilot territory. Metabolic reading across nine layers (S01–S09) using IDEAM, IGAC, IDECA and SDP data. Identification of convergences, delimitation of ecotopes, ICM calculation and AMA intervention design. Operational window: Jun–Dec 2026.
The margins of the Nervión as a territory of metabolic reading in a European context. Industrial metabolism in post-productive transition. Applying the PICM with European data sources confirms the method's replicability outside the Latin American context. Territorial basis of the PhD.
Selection of the next site of practice will follow the ICM criteria: maximum density of metabolic convergences with the greatest potential for activation through AMA intervention.