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design / research portfolio
architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism
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Workshop Instructor Boston Architectural College Maria Arquero & Emilio Ontiveros
Student work: Mark Rego
Mapping as inquiry
The city is a complex device where many
interests -social, economic, politic, spatial, etc-
overlap. The combination of all these factors in
different contexts usually renders intricate
pictures, and challenges any future design
intervention.
This workshop presents an analytical
framework to operate at very different scales in
increasingly complex environments,
transcending the traditional disciplinary
divisions. Bringing together diverse analytical
and evaluative approaches, this workshop
provides a set of tools to better comprehend
and interpret the surroundings where to
intervene. The explored mapping tactics are
structured on a scalar logic, and revised
through practical exercises. The course is
structured on four parts. For every scale there is
first an introductory presentation regarding the
theories and work of the best specialists at that
dimension, including some indispensable
readings. After a first exercise, there is a more
practical second lecture, dealing specifically
with representation and analytical issues, as
useful references for the students
Ian Mc Harg and Richard T.T. Forman show
how to unveil values and possibilities of any
given territory at the large scale. Considering
the milieu from environmental points of view,
their methods are able to get a large picture to
often find the guidelines of a solid basis,
something that should never be missing in a
coherent project.
At the middle scale, the approaches developed
by Kevin Lynch and Jan Gehl depict urban
fragments from a social and interpretative
angle, considering the collective image of the
city and their inhabitants’ interaction. This scalar
and conceptual jump takes into account
people’s own perspective, minding the abstract
gap present in usual maps and figures.
The disciplinary approach to urban morphology
-as observed in Manuel de Solá-Morales’ work -
pays attention to the specific city systems and
objects, as well as to their mutual relations. This
can be done isolating objective and rational
data that can be compared on a systematic
basis, across different city tissues.
Arriving at the residential scale, Roger
Sherwood explains how only a small number of
basic housing types are logical, while Alexander
Klein provides some graphic lines of attack and
categories from which to judge the plan of a
dwelling unit.
The site chosen to test these different
approaches is North Allston. Students will
engage four short exercises and one final
proposal that will incorporate a set of operative
diagrams taking further previous analysis. By
sharpening the students’ analytical and
representational abilities, the workshop is
conceived as an instrumental basis for incoming
studios.
Klein: Evaluation Principles Evaluation Principles after Klein
Professional Works P-01
Student work: Adam Settino
Studio Instructor Boston Architectural College Maria Arquero & Emilio Ontiveros
Professional Works P-02
Housing Hybrids
Housing Hybrids is a mixture between a
Workshop and a Studio. It deals with the ABCs
of residential design –Apartment, Building and
City- and tries to deliver a clear and distinct
understanding of housing tactics and types at
three different scales.
Housing Hybrids first presents an alphabet of
fundamental housing examples and then
requests students to build their own vocabulary
and grammar combining them.
Housing Hybrids directs the students across the
scales of the City, the Building, and the
Apartment through an ABC process:
A. Analyze two examples of each scale with
attention to their design features.
B. Blend those features into a new housing
product at the given scale.
C. Combine the new housing item into the
previous scale mix.
Repeat the process at the next scale.
With every scale change, students also change
their previous set of two examples, of which,
only one may coincide with anyone else’s.
This process eases the interactive aspect of the
class and provokes students to learn by
developing different blending strategies.
The aim of this experimental studio is two fold:
-to provide the students with a library of basic
residential examples: they would learn about
them through exposure, analysis and proposal.
-to train the students to find and use other
projects’ features as references for their own
designs and to do so in a flexible way, being
able to acknowledge -as well as to overcome-
the differences in authorship and scale.
Focusing on the students’ conceptual abilities,
this specific studio is envisaged as an active
foundation for following courses.
The site chosen to test these approaches is
North Allston, Massachusetts. The area offers
very different districts: the extension of Harvard
premises with educational, residential and
sports facilities; a large tract of single-family
units with a few neighbourhood services, some
retail and offices, open areas for leisure and
large scale infrastructure borders.
Students engage three exercises –one in every
scale- each time incorporating different sets of
housing examples and taking further previous
analysis. Common to every scale is the
requirement to understand the basic patterns of
circulation, open spaces, and built structures
and their different program possibilities for the
users.
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Student work: Raymond Gonzalez
Student work: Blas Betancourt
Student work: Mark Rego Student work: George Gomez + Ryan Wills
Social Housing in Europe (VSE)
France, Germany & The Netherlands since WW2
The following work enjoyed a bigger budget and
involved some journeys to the countries subject of
study. Apart from previous tasks, I was in charge to
interview different faculty and professionals in several
places in the Netherlands, as well as in Paris and in
Hamburg. After my stay abroad, I presented a report to
the local faculty. The material gathered, including
transcripts, videos, pictures and some publications
proof useful for the Group. Once again, I was
commissioned part of the investigation, this time
dealing with the typological differences in the three
countries over the last sixty years. I considered time
lapses of 15 years in relation to economic and political
issues and presented two different case-studies from
each country and period.
Professional Works P-03
Researcher Research Group on Social Housing Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid
Small dwellings (VR)
This study related to the recent political decision of the
Spanish Government on launching a social housing program
to suit the contemporary trend towards reduced households.
The work was commissioned by a developer as a way to
better understand the opportunities out of that new program.
My tasks included assisting the faculty involved at every
stage of the project. First, searching, compiling and
suggesting bibliography and images to illustrate the different
parts of the study. Then reviewing, proofreading and editing
all texts and most images in the complete research and in
part of the book. Acknowledging my work, I was also
commissioned a portion of the study, which resulted in two
chapters on the book. My topic referred to the different types
of small dwellings. I structured the subject first, explaining the
specificity of the contemporary small dwelling as oppose to
that of the modern minimum dwelling and other examples:
and then, relating the actual types with their influence in the
building and in the city scales. One unit, two different arrangements: Central service core and services adjacent to the corridor.
Two individual apartments and equivalent transformed dwelling for a couple. Free University, Berlin.
Research Group on Social Housing
After a selection process within the UPM, I first was
awarded a scholarship to join the Research Group on
Social Housing as a junior researcher. The following
year, after a second selection process, I was appointed
as a PhD researcher. The Research Group involved
several teachers from different departments: urban
design & planning, structures, design, building services
and construction. During my stay, the group was
commissioned two studies on social housing, the first
dealt with small dwellings and the following with
European modern residential structures. Both of these
works were first edited as research papers and then
published as books.
Professional Collaboration. Architect Rubio & Alvarez-Sala architects
Sacyr-Vallehermoso Tower. Madrid
Final Phase Project
This project, winner of an international
competition, gathers different programs of
hotel and offices fitting all into a simple plan
based on three circles and a triangle.
The intersection of these geometries generate
three vertical strips that divide the tower in
three segments. This gaskets serve for both
fire regulations and to lighten the tower, which
façade is made from a double skin of glass
and aluminum flakes.
Urban Renovation Plan. Burgos
Preliminary Proposals
The intervention develops new urban tissues
reacting both to the new station of the high
speed train and the dismantling of the former
railways.
The strategies on the three areas to develop
are based on knitting the previously separated
sides of the railway between them and
together with the rest of the city. These new
spaces will become logistic axis with
sequences of different uses along the winding
secondary streets.
Dwellings in Vallecas. Madrid
Final phase project.
This project, in the new extension of Vallecas,
develops ¾ parts of a city block, with 177
dwellings ranging from one to four bedrooms.
There is a specific attention to mechanisms of
scale in the building. Horizontally, its divided
into three different material strips to avoid its
monolothism. Besides, some various levels
holes ease the contact between the inside
and the outside of the block
Towers. Saragossa and Madrid.
Competitions
Making the most of its previous high rise
experience, the office takes part in different
competitions with a similar subject.
The image shows a double tower with a
vegetation façade, as was presented in a
competition for a plot close to the new High
Speed Train Station of Saragossa.
Following a similar approach, the office wins a
competition for the refurbishment of a big
Hotel in Plaza de España, Madrid. This
project is a complex mix of commercial areas,
a new hotel, dwellings and office space.
Professional Works P-04
Professional Collaboration. Regional Planner and Designer PAU Lander. Madrid
Trends of growth in Madrid region
This commission from the Region of Madrid
elaborates on different approaches to Urban
Planning and Design by activating alternative yet
operative forms to look at the territory.
The research reacts to that indiscriminate
contemporary occupation of land, typical of both
infrastructures and those large pieces such as
commercial malls, office cities, university
complexes, etc. Instead, it elaborates on a more
synthetic reading, assigning much more value to
pre-existent conditions.
The work focuses on the most recent urban
fringes of Madrid Region, distinguishing five
areas of growth in relation to the capital.
This first large-scale approach questions the new
urban spots, and the different systems of
infrastructures in which they are inserted.
After broadly identifying and delimiting those
borders of growth, the research then takes a
closer look at the non built space: the nature
elements, the landscape, etc.
In contrast to the previous phase, on this
intermediate scale, topography, water, and flora
play a mayor role. In fact those features drive the
whole research with the objective to unveil
different factors able to establish keys for the
development of future policies. The work is a
document open to the exploration of these areas,
which may trigger very diverse developments.
Nevertheless, given its specific approach, most of
the interventions are directed to recompose,
reconstruct, or restructure pieces at the regional
scale with valuable landscape elements.
A set of basic generic rules –regarding
landscape, infrastructure and mobility, etc.- acts
like a starting structure, involving a methodology
that is not rigid but continuously adapted to the
specificity of the different territories, with different
degrees of freedom.
Professional Works P-05
Professional Collaboration. Architect Burgos & Garrido Architects
Theatre in Casas Ibañez. Albacete
First & second phase of project development
This project, winner in a national competition,
is divided into pieces in order to keep three
old pines as valuable pre-existing features.
The different pavilions embrace an open
space that acts like an exterior hall from which
all accesses are provided: goods, rehearsal,
administration, and the general public.
This exterior room, under the shadow of he
existing pines, establishes a link to the
previous street, widening it while conferring a
spatial dignity to the entrance.
180 Dwellings in Carabanchel. Madrid
Typological Study
The site is placed in a new area for residential
development in the outskirts of Madrid. The
aim of the project is to develop a structure to
accommodate a large mixture of rented and
owned dwellings. Despite the rigid building
regulations, the proposed housing typologies
enjoy a spatial flexibility that is carefully
studied to suit most of the residents’ needs.
Every dwelling is cross ventilated and double
oriented, ensuring the living room remains on
the sunny side.
The building fills the perimeter, leaving a large
shared garden to the interior of the city block.
Dwellings & Golf Club. Madrid
Competition tender
This project, located in the North of Madrid,
benefits from a magnificent environment.The
residential program is located in a cornise,
over the golf course, to enjoy the best views
and accesses.
There are several dwelling types ranging from
one to three-room apartments, which all fit in
different small housing blocks, never higher
than 4-storeys. The open spaces are carefully
designed to integrate the housing within the
landscape.
56 Dwellings. San Sebastián. Madrid
First phase of project development
This assignment, currently under construction,
came as a result of the previous residential
project for Moscatelares.
The residential program consists of three
blocks, 5 storey-high, that houses large, three
and four-room apartments. The open areas
include extensive gardens, a swimming pool
and some other sports facilities Professional Works P-06
Introduction: Location and Explanation
Zoom over the different areas
This research project about the forms of
urban tourist resorts is part of the Territorial
Plan of the West Costa del Sol.
Our task is to develop a presentation to
communicate in an orderly way some
examples of different forms of tourist growth.
To fulfill this, we isolate some areas and
study them in detail.
The presentation is conceived in a flexible
way so that it may be exhibited in panels,
become a publication, or be shown as a
PowerPoint presentation.
Comparative Matrix
Urban Morphology
Urban Structure, Parcel Structure,Edification
After pointing out the different case studies in
a Map of the “Costa del Sol”, a graphic index
or a contents chart presents the whole study.
In this grid all chosen locations are shown at
the same scale. This eases the comparison
among different aspects such as the street
system, parcels, and the building structure.
These analyses are backed with an aerial
picture of every zone which help to identify
the actual town and to read the information.
Analytic Files
(Example 05 Casablanca Residential District)
Urban Morphology Analysis
There is a file for every studied location. It
gathers those three aspects mentioned
above, as well as different combinations
among them.
By doing this, we aim to observe some
different and yet traditional urban relations:
streets to parcels, parcels to buildings, and
streets to buildings.
Eventually, some synthetic plans deliver a
number of relevant conclusions drawn from
the analytical process and adding some data
such as the building heights and uses.
Professional Collaboration: Ontiveros & Arquero Architects J. M. Ezquiaga
Tourist Morphologies
Professional Works P-07
85 Dwellings in Moscatelares. Madrid
Competition tender.
This a development of five blocks in two
separate plots. All dwellings are double-
orientation units with façades in 90º. Their
wet core elements are adjacent to a large
courtyard in which the stairs and elevator
are located. The dwellings on basement
ground have all their own gardens while
the penthouses have large terraces.
Dwellings and Municipal Center. Murcia
Second phase of project development
Oriented towards the views of the old
fortification, this project rehabilitates an
area in the town center. Some separated
housing blocks fill the existing gaps while
a simple pavilion, the municipal center,
connect through its section the different
levels of the plot, providing the town with a
garden and a garage
Auditorium and Conservatory. Menorca
Competition, Mention of Honor
This project deals with an extensive
program (including a radio station, offices,
a small hotel and a public garage) on a
rather difficult site. The proposal suggests
a set of courtyards and light boxes that in
a controlled fragmentation characterizes
both the urban image and the interior of
each relevant space.
170 Social Dwellings. Madrid
First & second phase project development
A large housing project that, while keeping
to a continuous general solution, manages
to provide different scales in response to
surrounding considerations and adequate
solar orientations. Among the 20 different
types of dwellings, there are two- storey
dwellings and basement dwellings with
large terraces.
58 ecological dwellings. Albacete
Winner of Competion. Under construction
This project layout aims to achieve the
best orientation: three square blocks
parallel to the front side, an inner garden,
and a larger longitudinal block at the back.
The design of these cross-ventilated
dwellings takes into account the weather
considerations, from the elaborated
façades to the solar heating system
Professional Collaboration. Architect Burgos & Garrido Architects
Professional Works P-08
Professional Collaboration. Urban Designer Ontiveros & Bisbal
Professional Works P-09
6000 dwellings in Sanya. China.
Intoduction
Sanya is the second biggest city of Hainan, a
Chinese island close to Vietnam. Recently,
the local Port Authority decided to refurbish
part of the city and launched an international
contest. The proposal of the Spanish office
‘I3’ was among the few chosen to go on a 2nd
Phase. ‘I3’ asked us to present a quick
proposal for an 80-Ha area close to Sanya’s
west coast.
Site Analysis
Subject schemes are developed to study and
understand the territory. In this site, two rivers
merge into a bigger one. The water level on
the ground is high and the zone periodically
suffers from flooding. The main networks split
in two: the former main road and a small train
track run along the sea shore while the
motorway and the main train line stay further
away from the coast. There are large swamps
and agricultural areas together with
wastelands and seafood farms. Built-up areas
concentrate around the nodes of the road
network, ignoring both the rivers and the sea.
Some constructions are arranged north-south,
the best solar orientation.
Proposal
To show some continuity and coherence with
the First Phase work, “City of Water”, in which
the water system plays a major role, we
develop that concept into detail giving it a
precise form. This is achieved by turning the
merging of the two rivers into a great river-
lake and arranging consequently a channel-
and-road system, the green areas, etc. The
6000 dwellings, a civic and cultural centre, the
big department stores and the foreseen and
land consuming golf and yacht club, are
placed on several islands and different lake-
coast interventions on solid ground.
Dwelling Types
Our urban pattern investigation searches for a
controlled variety, ensuring sights, ventilation
and shadows, all of these, needs for a holiday
resort in this tropical climate. The different
housing types result from their specific
location, in relation with the water and the
residential density of their surroundings.
Disperse low density areas are close to the
future yacht and golf club, higher residential
densities (100 D/Ha.) are placed to the south,
near the big department stores.
Professional Collaboration. Urban Designer The Andalusian Landscape. BDMO and Daniel Zarza
Presentation
Daniel Zarza, Urban teacher at Madrid
and now professor at Alcalá de Henares,
was given an UE grant to develop a
investigation about the Andalusian
Landscape. He asked us to help him with
it, and a quick and pragmatic way to begin
that collaboration was to prepare a Power
Point Presentation to show the first
developments of his work.
Matrix of Landscapes
The first and general work approach was
to reduce the subject’s complexity by
structuring the Andalusian landscapes into
a controlled matrix of only 9 different
types. The structuring categories were
based on the geographical characteristics
–mountain, prairie or coast- and the
predominant human activities of the sites:
natural (no activity), rural or urban. On our
search for valid scale approximations we
began with the Coast sites: Doñana, a
natural reserve park; El Ejido, the biggest
vegetable producing area in Europe, and
Costa del Sol an important holiday resort.
1:50.000
Available as a rough and large scale
landscape map, the approx.1:50.000
aerial photographs delivered by the
Andalusian Government served as first
basis. These high resolution pictures
avoid other representation filters, and
help learning to concentrate just on the
visible aspects. On the other hand, these
realistic images don’t tell all the truth but
just show a momentary aspect of the real
thing. All in all, it is a good exercise to
draw what you see, not what you know.
1:10.000
On each location, some spots are
designated relevant and therefore
explained in a more detailed way. Those
zooms show typical patterns, specific
points were some patterns coincide, etc. A
standard 1:10.000 cartography is the used
base, therefore this representation carry
inoculated urban filters and conventional
assumptions. Although this pull us apart
from a certain landscape understanding,
at the same time, it helps us to distinguish
issues that may turn out to be operative
Professional works P-10
Competitions
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Competitions
90 Social dwellings. Vicálvaro. Competition Ná architects (Castillo, Durántez, Negueruela & Ontiveros)
Competitions C-01
Integration of two neighborhoods, Sanlucar, Cadiz. Competition Bisbal, Perez, Zarza, Castillo & Ontiveros
The project enhances and gives continuity to the rests of the vegetation cornice, which lies on the geological shift that historically separated both neighborhoods
The multi-scalar proposal specifically address the central area of Sanlucar with the renovation and rehabilitation of small squares, wine cellars and warehouses.
This new public landscape connects major city milestones and provides great views between the two parts of the town and beyond, towards the Guadalquivir
Competitions C-02
Retail, offices and dwellings, Saragossa. Competition (runner up) Bisbal, Perez, Castillo & Ontiveros
Texture and constructive view of the façade
Section showing retail space and parking
View from the public space between the building complex (to the left) and the new station for the High Speed Train
Typical floor: to the left the office block
Plans of the two level dwellings
Ground floor: specific circulations for retail space and accesses to office and dwellings
Performance of both the offices and dwelling façades
Competitions C-03
97 social dwellings. Vallecas(runner up) Ná architects (Castillo, Durántez, Negueruela & Ontiveros)
Front elevation showing the horizontal block and the emerging towers
Open space between social dwellings and existent block
The project strategies react to the site’s urban regulations, which neither address the distinct spaces nor the condition of the buildings around the plot.
Typical floor of the towers
Typical floor of the block
Ground Floor
Corner view, the highest tower reacting to the large space in front.
Competitions C-04
Rehabilitation of a former industrial area into a new residential development, Moreda, Asturias. Spain
A diverse set of strategies acts as an informing departure kit for the project, including bioclimatic diagrams, situationist references, and a landscape layer cake.
The renovated area would enjoy a much more open and kind character, being plenty of vegetation and with new public facilities such as a socio-cultural centre
The intervention is subject to evolution, and the renovation begins by opening new entrances and paths to improve accessibility and to ease new opportunities
Europan 9. Competition Castillo, Perea, Promewongse & Ontiveros
Competitions C-05
Several residential types form a catalog for the former industrial complex. The one above maintains the structure of a shed to house dwellings and workshops
A small amount of apartments are newly developed in terms of volume. However they make use of the existent infrastructure and respond to their surroundings
Some dwellings are develop not from the industrial structures but from the space in between. Here, the chutes give the access structure to new housing
Rehabilitation of a former industrial area into a new residential development, Moreda, Asturias. Spain
Europan 9. Competition Castillo, Perea, Promewongse & Ontiveros
Competitions C-06
420 dwellings in Valdebebas. Competition (runner up) Ignacio Bisbal, Elisa Perez & Emilio Ontiveros
Combination of elements -rooms, entrances, storage, etc- create diversity
The project react to the plot: a strip of land between a road along a large forest park to the north and a development of single family houses to the south
Close up look: dwellings group so that main façades avoid close confrontation
Image of an inner courtyard, conceived as a semipublic landscaped playground, connected visually with the large park and physically with the rest of courtyards
Competitions C-07
43 dwellings in barajas, Madrid
3th Floor
Above: Inner view of a large dwelling showing the linear arrangement. Below: diverse street views of the building and as an abstract volume
4th floor
Close up look: dwellings group so that main façades avoid close confrontation
2nd Floor Site plan showing the perimeter position
Ground Floor
Site plan: the plot’s perimeter position
43 Dwelling in Barajas, Madrid. Competition. Clara Vélez & Emilio Ontiveros
Competitions C-08
‘18 dwellings for young & elder people’, Competition. Runner-up Ontiveros & Arquero Architects
Competitions C-09
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Academic works
Workshop D.Eberle (Baumschlager/Eberle)
Three Projects in three days
Workshop J. Herreros (Ábalos/Herreros)
Contour Conditions:
Urban Environment & Collective Dwelling
Workshop F. V Dongen (Architecten Cie.)
Evolution through time: Three stage project
The task in this brainstorming workshop is to
develop a project each day and to explain it
to the rest of the class. This way, every one
learns from each other’s design.
Although in Madrid, all projects have very
different locations and therefore site, public
space and scale play a very important role in
discussing them. Moreover, among the
projects some are former public housing
contests and thus can be tested against the
real winners.
Given these features and the little time to
elaborate on the actual designs, every class
result into an enjoyable frenetic critic session
Individual proposal for operative strategies
to approach the problem of urban housing
progressive homogenization:
-Encourage Complexity in the formal system
Urban blocks should differ in shape reacting
accordingly to their location
-Focus on Density growths
Housing complexes should be more dense
and respond to urban density indicators
-Emphasize Programmatic diversity
Buildings should host different activities
compatible with their location and density
-Instigate Typological variety
Different dwellings derived from basic plan
and section types, offer more opportunities
This group work develops a urban block in
Ijburg island, a terrain reclaimed to the sea
close to Amsterdam. The task was to think
the project over time and thus deal with
concepts such as flexibility and evolution.
Our proposal includes an elaborated system
of circulations, providing both a device to
enjoy the unique landscape of this artificial
island, as well as an infrastructure able to
accommodate changes in time.
We then evaluate the project’s changing
stages through three categories: free space/
density, different uses, and economic value.
Master in Collective Housing Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid MCH 01/02
Academic works A- 01
Workshop Jose Morales
Dwelling open air spaces
Workshop Felix Claus (Claus &Kaan)
A building instead Coderch’s building
Workshop Jacob van Rijs (MvRdV)
Mapping Madrid’s new residential outskirts
This workshop represents a opportunity to
research about the different combinations of
open air spaces in contemporary housing.
Terraces, loggias, galleries, courtyards, etc.
bring landscape inside the dwelling by
providing a space or room with views, light,
fresh air, etc.
A configuration chartt -developed after a
SANAA’s scheme- gathers and presents
projects from architects Schmidt; Le
Corbusier; Candilis, Josic & Woods;
Terragni; Baumgarten; Aalto; Lyon; Van
Dongen; Neutelings; Gazeau; MVRDV,
Gigon+Guyer; Burkhalter+Sumi; as well as
one own design featuring three such spaces
In the 1960s Coderch came to Madrid to
build “el edificio Girasol” a well known
residential complex in one of the most
expensive corners of the city, close to the
world famous fashion stores.
In this context, the task is to built a housing
block consuming all the available floor area.
Some of the proposals respond developing
as many units as possible giving the land’s
high value. As an alternative, this project
proposes less dwellings insisting in the
luxurious character of the area. It mixes
some stores, large terraced penthouses and
double height lofts suitable for fashion
designers, photographers and the likes.
Madrid city is growing very rapidly, although
at a slower pace than its outskirts. The
metropolitan residential belt, currently under
development is thought to host roughly half a
million new inhabitants in the next 10 years.
Unfortunately, the urban design of these new
areas seem much less important than their
immediate economic revenues. They do not
take into account the pre-existing periphery
landscapes, and try to resemble some 19th
century grid model with larger courtyard
blocks and even larger streets, resulting into
schematic and homogeneous zones, as
shown in this mix research-report.
Master in Collective Housing Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid MCH 02/02
Academic works A- 02
PhD 1st Course Tuition Period Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid [MArquero & EOntiveros]
Recent Public Housing Developments. Madrid
Prof. L. Moya
This program is developed in three different phases:
First, the course director delivers as an introduction, a
panorama on the last 15 years of public residential
interventions in Madrid.
Then, everyone in the class chooses an example within these
types of development and studies it in depth. This is worked
on different scales: first that of the city or of the district, then
that of the development itself, and last, that of the dwelling.
The project is also approached from diverse points of view in
each of these scales: orientation and relation to the urban
tissues, access and programmatic issues, the structure and
the construction, etc.
Eventually, the PhD students present their research. Thanks to
the relative small size of the class on this subject, every
housing example can be discussed not only by the presenter
and the professor but also by all other students. This makes
every presentation interactive, allowing students to participate
and turning it into an enjoyable critic review.
Along the course there were some visits to some of the most
representative examples of these new residential
developments.
Protecting the Urban Heritage and the Natural Environment
Prof. J. Fariña
The course explains the protection levels, as well as the
different legal dispositions, concerning the Natural and Urban
Heritage.
To consider a landscape as heritage, there must be a previous
evaluation. The work first explores and then evaluates two
landscapes: the surroundings of Barajas’ airport and the area
of the future airport in Campo Real.
The evaluation is developed from work on the field. Data of
each visited spot is gathered and stored in files. All files
include a description, a catalog of landscape elements,
photographs, and a small video. Raw data undergoes a
statistical process which then is transformed into a
characterization of the visual landscape of each zone,
providing a basis for the evaluation.
Urgent and Self-Developed Urbanism
Profs. F. Colavidas & J. Salas
Dealing with the basic habitat in developing countries, this
program addresses some general considerations among
which the most important are usually the basics such as
choosing an adequate location and developing the area with
some degree of flexibility but with a tight budget.
Our work is a contemporary research on some of the 1950s
interventions on the periphery of Madrid. Despite the very low
budgets and their temporary condition, many of these projects
still stand up. Some even have been refurbished and remain
a consolidated part of the city fabric. These facts and the
quality of both their urban and architectural design give them
an exemplary role.
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Design and Construction of New Urban Territories
Prof. L.F.A. Teixidor
“La Hoya de Villalba” is located in the northern outskirts of
Madrid. This course proposes its study under 4 general aspects:
infrastructures, patterns, centralities and voids.
Developing on the issue of voids, the first work presents some
examples of urban projects in which the non-urbanized space
play the most important role. Afterwards the research focuses
on the site itself. The voids of “La Hoya” are classified according
to their different sizes and characters.
To evaluate the specific values of these areas we consider them
at the same time in both a positive and a negative way:
On the one hand, the voids are considered valuable as a
reservoir of the non-urbanized space in a remarkable
environment. On the other hand, there is the dry void, where no
lake or river is to be found, which has less ecological value than
wetter spaces.
The final conclusion, a hierarchy of protected spaces, is drawn
from the crisscross of the two considerations at different scales.
Constructing the Landscape.
Shaping the outward appearance. Prof. Darío Gazapo
In this course, the approach to the subject of landscape is some
combination between the previous experience at the ETH Zurich
and a personal interpretation of the issues addressed in class.
The academic program introduces several ways of approaching
the landscape, which can be grouped under two main sets,
being the idea of process a common denominator to all of them.
The first group of themes deals with location of/in the place:
coming and going, maps, geometry, and landscape structure are
some of the names of these approaches.
The second group deals with a more individual view or
perception such as inner landscape, landscape of memory,
unconscious landscape, un-programming landscapes and
deconstructing of landscape.
Privacy and Posturban Territories
Prof. Ramón López de Lucio
Gated communities deliver a characteristic landscape. This work
looks at some of these developments, set along the N-VI, a
highway to the Northwest of Madrid.
To fulfill this case study research, we follow a specifically
designed protocol to gather the data. This helps establishing
comparisons and drawing conclusions
Each community is described through a series of files that
include the most relevant data, aerial photographs and some
aspects in which we are particularly interested: limits, street
system, open spaces and singular elements.
Accesses, Boulevards and Closure mechanisms conform the
ABC of landscape for these developments. The research
questions whether communities keep or challenge their original
aspirations to exclusivity, luxury,security and contact with nature .
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PhD 1st Course Tuition Period Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid [MArquero & EOntiveros]
more city, more landscape, more airport?
Developing a “V” layout, our landscape project for
Zurich airport proposes a functional extension of
two of the existing runways, making public the
third one in the middle.
This way we keep the airport fully operational,
allowing at the same time. On the one hand, a
new city growth in the southern area, following
the urban push of that side.
On the other, a challenging landscape, holding
together the existing natural areas and that newly
accessible runway.
Finally we suggest the creation of a temporary
landscape to make people aware of the
consequences that a new parallel runway would
have on its surroundings.
Since its opening, every major change in the
airport has involved a transformation of its
surroundings. Our hypothesis, ‘landing run
traces’, aims to explore this inextricable relation
between runways and landscape.
From an everyday use point of view, the proposal
deals with both the airport’s mechanism and the
people in its surroundings. On the one hand, two
runways are more than enough to cope with
Zurich’s current and future traffic flow –Gatwick
deals with twice as much traffic with just one land
runway. On the other, we have acknowledged the
intensity in which citizens use this area, not only
to work and live, but also for recreational
purposes.
Considering the urban and natural context, the
surroundings of the airport constitute possibly
Switzerland’s fastest growing conurbation over
the last 50 years, but they still keep some areas
of great biodiversity value. The plan supports the
urban character of the airport, as the stimulus of
what would be the Swiss fourth biggest city if
detached from Zurich.
As far as nature is concerned, the project
improves both the existing conditions and their
public enjoyment connecting previously isolated
areas.
The design brings up matters of time and
evolution. It questions the need of a planned
future expansion by the means of a temporary
and interactive landscape performance.
landing run traces. Design Concentration MAS LA ETH Zurich [MArquero & EOntiveros]
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landing run traces. Design Concentration MAS LA ETH Zurich [MArquero & EOntiveros]
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landing run traces. Design Concentration MAS LA ETH Zurich [MArquero & EOntiveros]
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landing run traces. Design Concentration MAS LA ETH Zurich [MArquero & EOntiveros]
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Airport Matrix is an approach to explore and
understand the landscape around Zurich
airport. It is conceived to provide us with a
quick and objective idea of the basic structure
of the area, assuming that a territory can be
understood studying a representative small
portion of it.
The method is based on the development of a
matrix (a system of homogenously distributed
points) that takes as a departure grid the
1/25000 cartography covering the airport’s
area. The matrix uses every two crossings of
this grid to get a system of 24 points, which
are 2km away from each other. These 24
points are like a roll of film, that once
developed will give us an unprejudiced idea
about this territory.
In every point we gather a 360º photo and
video panorama, a picture from the spot’s
ground texture and some surrounding or
approach photographs, all these included in
every file.
Each file collects also a series of data
concerning land uses and some landscape
elements. Our sources include a brief
historical analysis based on cartography,
which relates the significant steps in the
development of the airport to its impact on the
surroundings.
As a result of combining field visits with data
analysis, the method tries to convey a precise
approach to the landscape of the airport. We
look for the specific characteristic that makes
every place unique, the different and/or
shared landscape elements that give to every
place its identity and renders it recognisable.
Looking at the visual clues –panorama, video
and pictures- we focus on the opening or
closeness of the landscape regarding the
horizon line, the vegetal structures, the soil
texture and composition, the water system
and other natural or cultural traces of the site.
Besides these visible layers, video collects
audio, which constitute an entirely different
system of traces. Working out this
soundscape will certainly bring up new
possibilities.
Airport Matrix. Urban Nature concentration MASLA ETHZurich [MArquero & EOntiveros]
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Airport Matrix. Urban Nature concentration MASLA ETHZurich [MArquero & EOntiveros]
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Lessons from the Randstad. BDMO (Bisbal, Delgado, Malo & Ontiveros)
Randstad Matrix
This is a preliminary approach conceived
to provide a quick unprejudiced idea of the
Randstad Holland territory. Such area, the
most populated in the most dense country
of Europe, is conformed as a metropolitan
belt –Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam
and Utrecht- which spreads around an
open space known as the Greenheart.
The Matrix consists of a 30-point grid,
based on a 1/25000 national cartography,
which regularly covers all the study area.
In each of those points a series of pictures
(North, East, West, South) are taken and
specific information is gathered. This
enriching process of learning by discovery
eventually produces a series of statistics
on housing, land use and infrastructures,
and elements of the landscape.
Files
Case study areas are designed and
analysed in files as a way to organise the
information. Through progressive zooms,
this multidisciplinary work studies
residential developments, recreational and
commercial areas, city centres, etc. The
approach starts at a urban scale where
the plot is first located and then explained
through data, schemes, street sections
and pictures.
The next step is a close and detailed look
at a smaller scale. In the case of a
residential structure –see right- the zoom
stops first at the building itself, and then at
the different dwelling types. Pictures,
plans and schemes are again the used
tools. These, together with brief
descriptions, try to help understanding
each item at a glance.
Lessons
As a result of the work done, different
combinations of data and theory can be
arranged into “lessons”. Thus, a certain
subject is pointed out and didactically
developed in a way that tends to be
suitable for a classroom, a workshop or a
conference.
The example –see right- shows part of the
Lesson Madrid-Randstad, that compares
both regions side by side. Again, this is
done through a progressive zoom from
the big territorial scale, to the detailed
plans of both areas’ typical housing types.
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Program Arrangement
The use and layout of the different work spaces are set
upon their proximity to the orchards. The ground floor, in
open contact with the terrain, is left for practical and
heavy works involving machinery or sample collection.
The first floor, public and representative, houses an
exhibition hall, a conference room, practical and
theoretical classrooms and a cafeteria. The library, the
investigation laboratories and offices are on third floor.
An interior greenhouse packs the building’s east end.
Graduation Project. Academic Year 2002 Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid
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Agricultural Research Laboratories
Boadilla del Monte, Madrid.
In the west of Madrid, Boadilla del Monte is a town which
major features are being one of the few compact villages
in a spreading suburban area, and having a 1764 palace
complex. The agricultural laboratories are placed across
a small river, opposite and parallel to the palace stepped
gardens. Continuing that tapestry of green carpets, the
experimentation fields are located in the most fertile
terrains, close to the water. On the other hand, the
building is set along an east-west axis, like a contention
wall against the southern hills. The relation established
between the palace, the labs, and their green open
spaces help creating a threshold between the compact
town to the west and the preserved mountains to the east.
Eco•Logical Wrapping
The different façades and the roof share a common
threshold-enclosure, which changes responding to different
factors: interior program requirements, light conditions based
on orientation, sights, etc. The north side of the building gets
great views over the palace gardens and the
experimentation fields. An intense constant flow of people
comes in and out through that façade. Thanks to the
moderate local climate, a simple double glass beneath the
threshold allows enjoying the views without sacrificing
comfort. In contrast, the southern façade deals with a hard
and changing sunlight, unsuitable for laboratories. Inner
circulations are placed along that side which is deepened by
filters and shadowed by plants climbing up to a vegetal
roof.Agricultural Research Laboratories
Design Studios Sequence Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid
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Projects I (4th course)
Arts School & Gallery. Arevalo
this scholar complex houses a small
museum, an auditorium, some classrooms, a
cafeteria, and both students and teachers
rooms. The gallery is the main space and
embraces the rest of the program in a
stepped section towards the town’s river.
Eleven Row Houses. Madrid
The different types of these large single-
family houses are either two or three storeys
high and they all feature a back garden and
an ample courtyard. This open space is the
heart of the house and determines the
arrangement of the living and service areas
Projects II (5th course)
Temporary Housing for Immigrants
Matching a stepped section towards the
river and a filtered façade provides views
with privacy
Arts and Crafts’ School. Berlin
Students’ rooms and relation spaces enjoy
the light and views over the southern square
Carpenter's Shop
Shelves in a shed inserted in the city fabric
Supermarket and Offices Complex
A slim glazed block rises from the garage
below splitting the plot in two different
scaled spaces
Projects III (6th course)
Residential Lodging for Atlethes
Temporary housing and diverse sport
facilities for both individuals and groups.
Open façades and terraces help enjoying
the views of an extensive green site, close
to a river in the outskirts of Madrid. The
modern requirements of light and ventilation
are present in the different typologies, which
vary from the lower fingers, close to the river,
to the 4 storey row houses on the back side,
along the entrance road.
Agricultural Laboratories
A complex program inside a simple and
rigorously modulated building. Small,
controlled experimentation fields in
courtyards and roofs add a landscape feeling
to a highly technical environment.
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