I am Carolina Tinoco, a Franco-Venezuelan professional dedicated to ecological transition and social innovation. My work is driven by a passion for enhancing the quality of life through conscious creation and purposeful design, always infused with an artistic dimension. My career spans sustainable architecture, urban design, eco-design, art, and well-being. Here you will find information about my projects, services, and how we can collaborate to go beyond sustainability and regenerate our future.
FEATURED PROJECTS
ARCHITECTURE
Jungle Mambo Project.
Ojochal Costa Rica. 2024 - Present
Jungle Mambo is a unique blend of Parisian atelier charm and jungle lushness, embodying my core values. This cost-effective, dual-space living-working environment is flexible, adaptable, functional, and fun, merging artistic and organic influences. Inspired by my passion for music, it creates playful and soulful spaces like a DJ mixing eclectic sounds.
Key design elements include high ceilings, abundant natural light, integration of nature, an open and flexible layout, and bioclimatic principles. The organic form, inspired by a coconut, is simple and compact, immersed in jungle trees with a panoramic view. It achieves an indoor-outdoor balance with no walls, fostering seamless exterior-interior harmony.
Landscape & Environment:
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Climate-responsive architecture adapted to tropical conditions
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Sustainable and regenerative practices
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Interdisciplinary laboratory for architecture, design, and art
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Tropical edible garden enhancing biodiversity, well-being, and creative lifestyles
MI H, Residential.
Perez Zeledon, Mountain. Costa Rica 2024-Present
A Vision of Spiritual and Sustainable Living. Mi Hogar is designed to create a unique, spiritually-oriented space that fosters personal development and well-being in a peaceful, off-grid mountain environment. Driven by my lifelong pursuit of personal growth, this project blends practices and ancestral teachings to inspire spirituality as a creative act.
Holistic Experience:
The design utilizes sacred geometry, specifically the Merkaba double pyramid, to infuse spaces with spiritual energy, creating a harmonious environment and connection with the cosmos. This unique space combines spiritual growth, sustainable living, and community well-being.
Self-Sustaining Design:
The entire project is designed to be self-sustaining, utilizing solar energy and water harvesting, bioclimatic architecture, and eco-design principles. It emphasizes integration with nature, biodiversity attraction, and preservation, standing as a testament to co-creating transformative spaces that nurture the mind, body, and spirit, inspiring and supporting personal evolution and well-being.
PUBLICATION
Languages Available: English and Spanish
Authors: Nelly Guinand and Carolina Tinoco
Description: This comprehensive guide is designed for teachers, parents, and children. It offers practical steps, inspirational stories, and engaging games to educate and motivate children about environmental stewardship. We aim to raise, facilitate, and accelerate environmental awareness, education, and action, promoting an eco-culture.
Call to Action: Join us in forging a path toward an eco-culture and regenerative future. By purchasing this book, you not only support us, but you also have the opportunity to become an active collaborator to expand the program or a tax-deductible sponsor!
Purchase Link: Available on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9XP1SXJ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_HQE8CC0WQ0QHXRF421ND
New Guide:Save the Planet by ECODAR
Language Available: English
Compiled by: Prof. Caroline Malakas and Viola Edward of Loaniglobal
Overview: A bestseller featuring top international individuals known for their high moral standards, integrity, and genuine desire to help others. I'm honored to be considered a leader and expert in our field, and selected to contribute alongside Josefina Baldo and Federico Villanueva.
Featured Work: Our article, "AMHABITAT: Pathbreaking Methodologies for Non-Controlled Urban Settlements Towards Empowering Solutions," highlights our work at Asociación AMHABITAT in Venezuela. We empower communities in non-controlled urban settlements by integrating them into the urban fabric and improving living conditions. Our programs and methodologies, have successfully uplifted these areas through professional and community collaboration, promoting sustainability and community governance.
Purchase Link: Buy on Amazon
Book: Expert World Leaders: Reaching Beyond Boundaries Vol 1
SUSTAINABLE & REGENERATIVE DESIGN CONSULTING
Market place NY 2024
Sustainability and Regeneration Meets Profitability. Throughout my career, I’ve integrated sustainable and regenerative practices into various sectors. This revolutionary app addresses the challenge of aligning these practices with profitability, making sustainability and regeneration economically viable for the building, construction, architecture, and design industries.
Consulting Le French Design 2019-2023 Paris
Consulting on sustainabilty for the Paris based organization. Carola’s work includes research on sustainable design for multiple projects, most recently for the series Cahiers d'inspiration (2022), the survey 100 French Projects (2021) on designers starting their transition towards sustainability and Le French Design 2059 on the cardinal values of french design. Her contributions to the organization include the Study "Disruption towards Sustainable Design", interviews, talks & workshops.
Curation
A survey on the mutations of the contemporary living environment consisting of 33 French design pieces -projects. The selection included designers, manufacturers, and editors moving towards more environmentally friendly creations and production models. These prototypes were selected because of their future-proof thinking, translating into reality sustainable ideas and providing answers to the challenges of a new responsible art of living.
Public Speaking
Exhibition DesignxDurablexDesirable The art of Responsible Living ! Le French Design Paris 2023
Fab Mumbai 2024
Grateful to be a speaker and part of the event @fabconclave Future of Architecture and Building in Mumbai. Considered disrupters and foward-thinkers I was among like-minded professionals committed to addressing global challenges. The theme mindfully selected by the curator Sarita Vijayan @saritaviyajan L.I.F.E Looking inward for the environment not only resonated deeply with me but it allowed me to bridge my professional and personal life intertwining creativity and holistic practices. My presentation was about Creating Conscious Impact. Social Innovation ,Ecological Transition and Spiritual Journey.
Among the speakers:
Adi Cohen - Life-centered Architecture Way of Being
Iman Ansari- Disruptive Interactions
Carolina Tinoco -Creating Conscious Impact. Regenerating ourselves and the planet.
Ferdinand Ludwig- Architecture
Nripal Adhikary-Reinvestigating how we built things
Aseem Inam- Co-Designing Publics
Melissa Sterry- Panarchistic Architecture: Precepts of a Paradigm
Mike Tonkin & Anna Liu- The Nature of Place
We interconnected perfectly thanks to the impeccable curation and meaningful works of all the speakers. It deeply touched me and gave me hope that we can design a better world and give FIFE an chance !
