Daniel Otero Peña
Assistant
Daniel Otero Peña is an architect and urban designer with extensive experience in landscape research, GIS mapping, resource-sensitive planning, and teaching. He is a PhD candidate in urban and landscape planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies (LOCI) at UCLouvain, where he also teaches architectural design to graduate and undergraduate students. His research, within the Landscape, Architecture, and Built Environment (LAB) research institute, explores the spatial dimension of urban metabolism and its applications in landscape infrastructure design, speculative cartography, and its relation with open space networks.
In addition to his academic activities, he has developed his independent professional practice and collaborates regularly as a consultant in urban and landscape design projects. In Caracas, he co-founded and directed the architecture collective adjkm, a multidisciplinary office specialized in the design of cultural facilities and urban speculations. Daniel has taught and led architectural design studios at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and has been invited as a design critic and external tutor in various known institutions such as KULeuven, ULB La Cambre Horta, ESA Paris, Politecnico di Torino, PUCP Lima, and Universidad Simón Bolívar, among others.
2022-2024
LTARC2046 Societies and Territories Research Seminar (Master).
LTARC2231 Master Thesis Architectural Design Studio (Atelier TFE).
LTARC201 Architectural Design Studio (BAC 2).
LTARC1122 Architectural Drawing and Representation: Initiation (BAC 1).2020-2022
LTARC2046 Societies and Territories Research Seminar (Master).
LTARC2231 Master Thesis Architectural Design Studio (Atelier TFE).
LTARC301 Architectural Design Studio (BAC 3).
LTARC1124 Architectural Drawing and Representation: Confirmation (BAC 2).
LTARC1122 Architectural Drawing and Representation: Initiation (BAC 1).2018-2020
LTARC2231 Master Thesis Design Studio (Atelier TFE).
LTARC301 Architectural Design Studio (BAC 2 and 3).
PhD Research
The Spatial Dimension of Urban Metabolism. Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities.
Tutors: Daniela Perrotti and Pierre Vanderstraeten.Research Projects
GWG Green With Grey / GMG Groen Met Grijs. Ecological analysis for the desealing of industrial platforms in Flanders.
Team: Latitud Platform, UCLouvain and KULeuvenRepresentative of the scientific body at the Louvain Research Institute for Landscape, Architecture, and Built Environment (LAB) Board of Directors.
2023
Nalumu, Dorothy Julian ; Otero Peña, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela. Leveraging the No Net Land Take Policy through Ecological Connectivity Analysis: The Role of Industrial Platforms in Flanders, Belgium. In: Sustainability, Vol. 15, no. 22, p. 16103 (2023). doi:10.3390/su152216103.
2022
Otero Pena, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Mohareb, Eugene. Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 26, no. 4, p. 1333-1349 (2022). doi:10.1111/jiec.13261.
2020
Perrotti, Daniela ; Katherine Hyde ; Otero Pena, Daniel. Can water systems foster commoning practices? Analysing leverages for self-organization in urban water commons as social–ecological systems.. In: Sustainability Science, Vol. 15, no. 3, p. 781–795 (2020). doi:10.1007/s11625-020-00782-1.
2023
Perrotti, Daniela ; Moosavi, Sareh ; Otero Peña, Daniel. Urban Metabolism research can leverage resource-sensitive planning and design of open spaces and green infrastructure.. In: Moulin, I and Vitalis, L, Ré-imaginer des architectures en prenant soin des milieux habités. Europan C17A "Villes Vivantes", Europan France: Paris, 2023, p. 121-128. 978-2-9572443-5-5.
2020
Jolein Bergers ; Rafael Carmago Consolmagno ; Stefania D’Altiero ; Elena Ferrari ; Sylvie Nguyen ; Otero Pena, Daniel. Urban Agriculture COOP’s on a Shared Landscape. In: B. Declève, G. Grulois, R. de Lestrange, A. Bortolotti, C. Sanchez Trenado (eds), Designing Brussels Ecosystems, Metrolab Brussels, 2020.
2023
Otero Peña, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela. The spatial dimension of urban metabolism. A design atlas of resource-sensitive urban archetypes. . EDRA54 Environment and Health: Global/Local Challenges and Actions (Mexico City, Mexico., du 20/06/2023 au 23/06/2023).
2023
Otero Peña, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela. The spatial dimension of urban metabolism. A design atlas of resource-sensitive urban archetypes.. 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE2023) of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. (Leiden, Netherlands., du 02/07/2023 au 05/07/2023).
2022
Otero Pena, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Vanderstraeten, Pierre. A bottom-up, context sensitive, and spatially explicit Urban Metabolism analysis. Alternative resource governance systems in Brussels.. Conference on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development (UCLouvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, du 24/11/2022 au 25/11/2022).
2022
Otero Pena, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Vanderstraeten, Pierre. Bottom-up, context sensitive, and practice-based Urban Metabolism methodological approach using GIS and Social Network Analysis in Brussels . Metabolism studies: Materiality and relationality in the anthropocene (Université de Lyon, du 28/06/2022 au 30/06/2022).
2020
Otero Pena, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Eugene Mohareb. Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: resource flows and stocks, geography, and informality in Mexico City. International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference ISIE Americas 2020-Industrial Ecology for Resilient & Sustainable Cities (Online, du 06/07/2020 au 08/07/2020).
2023
Nalumu, Dorothy Julian ; Otero Peña, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela. Ecological Connectivity Analysis:, 2023 (Soumis).