Arly's Blog

  The last year, an assistant of a course showed me a website called DIVISARE ( https://divisare.com/ ) to search for references and projects of interest. The site is a sort of blog with a minimalist look that has categories like projects, designers, photographers and books, which contain a huge amount of neat sub-categories to find whatever you can think of. For example, the one I use the most is “projects”, where you can search for ideas by type of construction, location, materials, etc. I visit it several times a week, at least three or four days a week because I really enjoy learning about different projects and every time I have doubts I go in to read. What I like most about this website is that it is very well organized and it’s so simple that it’s very easy to look anything. Besides, the person who recommended it to me told me that the information that appears on it is generally reliable and the projects are usually by very good architects.

A few days ago, a report appeared on TV that showed and talked about the problem of overcrowding that exists in some places in Santiago. And although it was something I already knew; I was shocked to see such harsh numbers and images. The notion that there are families of 10 people living in 30 square meters or 7 children sleeping in the same room left me thinking a lot and definitely I think that this is how my major -architecture- affects the world or being more honest: how it does great harm to the world.  Even though most of the time my field is also guilty of a lot of waste and environmental damage, I think that the biggest change it can make is more related to people. How? Trying, as much as possible, to make the quality of life of those who live in the places that we make be better collectively and spatially. And truly in the future I would love to contribute ideas, no matter how small, to make this happen.

I'm a big fan of taking pictures of everything that exists at the same time as me. My gallery is full of pictures of my family, food, skies, plants and my dog, but particularly this picture means a lot to me because Trinidad and Vicente, my nephews, are the most important persons in my world. For me it represents and shows many things that make me feel enormous peace. The warm light, my mom's plants, the blue wall of my old house are just some examples. This photo was taken in last year’s winter, just a few days before my hamster Hulk, who Trinidad was feeding with lettuce just in that moment, passed away. And not only that makes it special, also remembering how much those two little kids respected and loved that little critter. Being sit on the floor sunbathing with these 3 was without a doubt one of the best scenes of my 2020 and I really miss it so much!

One of my favorites preparations without a doubt are cinnamon rolls. If you don't know what it's, well.... It consists of a sweet dough "stuffed" with cinnamon powder, butter and brown sugar that is rolled up and usually has toppings or a sugar or cream cheese icing. They're easy to made but require a little time and patience the first times that you prepare them because the dough has yeast in it, which means that you have to wait for the yeast to activate and the dough to rise.  It's one of my favorite dishes because I love sweet things especially in winter (literally, a cup of tea and a cinnamon roll can fix anything). Besides, a while ago I made them for the first time and my family really loved the result and then I made more for my "fau" friends and for some reason it became in something that represents me. In fact, my friends always send me a picture when they saw or eat one. But obviously, like any cake or sweet preparation with a lot of sugar...

Well, certainly technology has changed our lives in many aspects. That is the reason why I think that I have many options to put in my top 3 (at least 8 objects to consider). However, how important is to me my computer doesn't compare with anything (not even with my cellphone). I got a new computer literally like a week ago, but before that I got one for a long time. And honestly since I was a kid I used to share everything (EVERYTHING) with my siblings, so when I get my own computer was... amazing! And probably that word's too weak to describe that feeling. Nowadays I use it for everything: to listen to music, edit photos, to watch series on Netflix, make photomontages, study, connect with my friends and family by zoom and an infinite etc., so it is on all day every day. I love the sound of the keys when I’m typing and I love it for the versatility of course, because I really can do anything on it. Even though my eyesight tires easily when I use it, I guess that without it...

When I was a child, I used to draw very often and the memory of myself drawing the layout of my dream house when I was about 8 years old is clear yet: a house with five rooms and a huge kitchen. So, I guess that want to be an architect was on me since then.  However, by my teen years I had been thinking that I had no talent for it so being a geologist turned into the only option until I was 16 years old. After that age, for some reason I convinced myself that studying civil engineering was the best for me because my math scores and I entered to study it (spoiler: it wasn't). Finally, I decided to choose my dream job overall and I left the career that I hated from the day one. Now I'm studying architecture and despite the tiredness and stress I love it, definitely was a good decision. I made incredible friends, I've learned a lot and I've been know many professionals that I admire now. What I miss the most of the face-to-face classes is being with my partners in the ...

Hello everyone! My name is Arly and I'm a 22 years old girl from Santiago de Chile. I've born and lived most part of my life here but also I lived for 5 years in Spain in a small town called Ripollet (I'll leave you a photo). Living there, I learned to speak catalan but over the years I've been forgetting some words.  About my family, well... We are a big one. I'm the third of four siblings: my two older siblings are engineers and my younger sister is a talented manicurist. I have two nephews of 6 and 2 years old and I really love them both so so much. Otherwise, my parents got divorced so now I live with my mom and we're very close. And last but not least we adopted a dog two months ago that we named Floki.  I started studying Architecture in 2019 after spending a year studying civil engineering (worst experience ever 😫) and I really like what I'm doing now. Some of the things that I enjoy the most are cooking and listening to music, especially Bruno Mars ...