Anyela de las Traviesas

Anyela de las Traviesas is a graduate student working towards her Master’s Degree in Architecture at Florida International University. She was born and raised in Cuba and moved to Miami when she was 15 years old.

During her time as an FIU student, Anyela has participated in two projects funded by the National Science Foundation, one of which allowed her to travel to Japan to collaborate with students and researchers from Kyushu University to study green walls and sustainability practices in the city of Fukuoka. She’s also received a Director’s Choice Award for her project ‘Through Time’, for which she worked with FIU students Maryson Winklaar, George Lopez, and Dairon Riesgo, proposing a sustainable floating community in Biscayne Bay.

Her interests in architecture are in the fields of public design and sustainability since she’s always had a passion for the natural world and the complexities of human psychology and how people respond to different spaces.

Her thesis project focuses on the edge condition between the Everglades and Miami’s suburbia, proposing a habitable barrier that will stop further development into the Everglades and forcing the suburbs to consider densification.