Led by David Gouverneur and David Maestros, the Medellín Studio was an uniquely interdisciplinary studio offered by the Landscape Architecture department at PennDesign. Over the course of the studio, I collaborated with Anooshey Rahim (a dual MLA and MArch student) to develop our project, "La Ladera" (the hillside). Together, we examined and created an urban framework for a self-constructed city in Medellín, Colombia that not only addressed design solutions for the built form, but also integrated economic, social, and environmental systems to better integrate the rural and urban communities.