OPEN TO PUBLIC
Graduated from the School of Architecture (ETSA) at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), I complemented my academic training with international stays at TU Delft (the Netherlands) and the School of Architecture and Design of the PUC Valparaíso (Chile). I obtained my professional qualification in 2021 with the Master’s Thesis “La Creu Coberta: post-industrial eco-neighborhood in Valencia 20XX”, graduating with Honors and receiving both the 1st Prize from the Housing Innovation Chair and a Diploma for the top 10 academic records.
Since 2017, I have collaborated with ábalosllopis architects (Valencia), contributing to projects and competitions such as the First Prize for the New Civic Center in Moralzarzal (2017) and the New Auditorium of Almería (2019). In 2021, I co-founded the CLAB collective alongside Mar Monfort and Alicia Marco. That same year, we were selected as one of five emerging creative teams to develop the project “Valencia 360” for the City Council, Las Naves Cultural Center, and the World Design Capital 2022 commission. Our work in CLAB has focused on the activation of public space through temporary interventions combining artistic installation, urban design and social engagement from participatory and ecological approaches.
Since 2024, I have combined my work in CLAB with my role as a researcher at the Department of Architectural Design at UPV, where I am currently pursuing a PhD entitled: “Privately-Owned Public Spaces in Western Urban Contexts. Limitations and Opportunities for the Sustainability of the Contemporary City”, supervised by Débora Domingo (Department of Architectural Design) and Jordi Peris (INGENIO, CSIC-UPV), and funded through the Predoctoral Research Fellowship Program. Recently, I have been awarded with the 11th Arquia Foundation and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando 2025 Fellowship for Research in New York.
OPEN TO PUBLIC explores how Privately-Owned Public Spaces (POPS), increasingly common in global cities like London, are reshaping urban life, publicness, and democracy. Originating in New York City’s 1961 Zoning Resolution, these spaces were conceived as a negotiation between private development rights and public amenities. Although technically open to the public, POPS are regulated by private actors who restrict access, uses, and expression, raising urgent questions about the future of spatial justice. This project investigates how POPS reflect and reproduce the contradictions of the neoliberal city: between openness and control, inclusion and exclusion, ecological promise and extractive logic.
The proposal unfolds across three interconnected strands:
-Critical Atlas: A visual research output mapping and classifying London’s POPS through spatial, regulatory, and socio-political lenses. Using counter-cartography, field observation and open data, the atlas reveals unequal geographies and hidden governance structures shaping access, surveillance, and ecological design.
-Public Essay: A reflective publication situating POPS within broader urban theory, including debates on enclosure, commoning, climate adaptation, and the privatization of public goods. Through case studies and visual storytelling, it aims to raise public awareness and contribute to spatial justice discourse.
-Strategic Toolkit: A participatory, speculative toolkit for communities, designers and local institutions. It reimagines POPS as infrastructures for democratic and ecological regeneration, offering strategies for reclaiming and reprogramming them.
By bridging spatial analysis, critical writing and participatory design, OPEN TO PUBLIC aims to empower citizens and institutions to rethink how publicness is produced and governed in the contemporary city. The project aspires to evolve in dialogue with local contexts, and to expand its scope through collaborations within the LINA network.