architect and urban designer portfolio - xiana mendez

Portfolio

Projects up to 2014*

*Lastest samples of work on request

ARCHITECT + URBAN DESIGNER

Xiana Mndez Moldes

Name: Xiana Mndez Moldes

Profession: Architecture and Urban Design

Location: Manchester. United Kingdom

e-mail: [email protected]

Architecture

Urban design

Research

Architecture

RECIMIL RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD - Social housing from 1954

Conceptual sketch for the Recimils urban strategy

Conceptual diagrams of Recimil location

1032 houses: 10 typologies from 40 to 140 m2 - 70% of the houses empty.Associated Market and school abandoned too

THEORY:

The university thesis project was based on the idea of the revitalization and connection of key derelict areas within the territory of Ferrol, in Galicia. The main objec-tive was to re-activate a territory which, due to several factors, is progressively being abandoned by promoting and stablishing new uses.

Based on the principles of a sustainable urbanism, some wasted/derelict spaces were identified. Places as collap-se buildings or empty sites, or even smaller areas within the urban fabric were identified as place-making oppor-tunities.

Through minor interventions, this initiative aims to create collective spaces with permanent and short live activities covering most of the needs and promoting linkages along the entire territory, rather than focusing the activities within the main city.

An urban strategy was set to create a network, phy-sical or conceptual, across the entire area which will connect these new recovered spaces in between them and the exising ones. Those areas where more than two networks coexist will become poles of attraction. There will be just one physical alignment, the public transport, which will sew the other functional lines.

The identity of places and the feeling of belonging to a co-llectivity will be promoted by the repetition of common elements as street furniture, planting palette or pave-ments. People will have the possibility to move through a continuous landscape, characterized by collectivity and dynamism, which connects different activities, interests and needs while keeping the identity of each location.

SEWING FERROL

Thesis project / Urban strategy

Existing facade

Existing urban fabric

PRACTICE: RECIMIL NEIGHBOURHOOD

To translate the theory into practice, one of the poles of at-traction identified within the territory has been designed, to construction detail, as a paradigm on the urban proposal.

Two main derelict spaces have been identified within the city centre. A residential neighbourhood, from 1954, adjacent to an Universtiy campus and known as Recimil, and a military headquarter to the north of the neighbourhood.

Following the actual needs of the University of Ferrol, which is suffering a lack of space, the proposal was to extend the Uni-versity facilities across the derelict headquarters to the north of Recimil.

By locating the new educational facilities at the north, the semi-derelict residential neighbourhood of Recimil, falling in between the two campuses, will become a key feature/lo-cation. On the other hand, the students lifestyle and related activities will become the tool to bring to life this historical neighbourhood.

The neighbourhood will receive a high amount of temporary and permanent users. It will become a key urban element which articulates the University areas while providing a place where educational and cultural activities can be practiced and where private and public uses are mixed.

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Urban proposal

University final project

Location: Ferrol, Spain.

Programme: Urban strategy, maserplanning and com-munity building.

RECIMIL

Existing University campus

City centre

Derelict headquarters

2 houses per floor3 floors per module1 staircase per module

CURRENT LAYOUT

Introduction of lifts

Introduction of liftsIntermediate and share spaces for neighbours

PROPOSALS WITHIN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Private housingStudents housingCommunity buildingsCity corridorUniversity corridor

Architectural thesis project

The rational urban morphoflogy of the actual neighbourhood (1954) has been identified as one of the reasons for its decay. Circulations, safety issues, monotony and lack of diversity are pro-blems derivated from its design.

The key elements of the proposal are listed below:

- Implementing the networks (explained within the theory) which will connect this area with the whole territory.

- Introducing new uses, by modules, which are to be combined with the residential one.

- Breaking the longitudinal alignments to create a more permeable neighbourhood.

- Modifying the repetitive aesthetics of the faca-des to promote dynamism and diversity.

- Improve the habitat conditions of the existing housing.

The alignment of the longitudinal pieces and their flat facades are broken by intoducing new features within the existing housings. Some examples are vertical elements as the lifts and horizontal featu-res as hanging rooms and voids creating common terraces.

Within the urban proposal the thesis project con-sists on developing to detail design a community building part of the whole strategy for Recimil.

University Project / Personal work

Key elements as planting and street furniture have been carefully selected and designed to promote the identity of Recimil. Singular species of street tree will be repeated along the streets of the neigh-bourhood creating a common landscape. The tree seleceted wil be a colourful and aromatic fruit tree to promote the interaction with neighbours.

TO UNIVERSITY

TO UNIVERSITY

PLAZA

Voids within the existing blocks as terracesHanging rooms

Vertical elements as lifts

Proposals on existing housing modules

- Treatment on facades - second skin- Elevators- Spaces in between

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proposal

public gardenprivate garden

01. Neighbourhood wing

02. University wing

03. Crossing element on upper levels to allow circulations

8 modules of housingcul de sac

LIBRARY

COFFEE

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A group of eight housing modules settled in cul de sac has been chosen as the paradigm of the urban layout in Recimil. The design proposed will reflect an strategy which could be apply across different modules within the neighborhood.

The project is developed following the design criteria ex-tracted from the large scale strategy. The proposal aims to maintain the original plan but creating a permeable community building in four directions.

The programme of uses is destinated to students, east wing, and neighbours, west wing of the building. Both wings will be connected through a common room, the li-brary, which becomes a key element of the proposal. The coffeshop will also provide a common area for external users.

classrooms

Wall structure as main feature supporting functional boxes

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circulations on ground floor

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Proposal to include elevators on housings

GROUND FLOOR

Library articulating both longitudinal pieces - neighbourhood and university

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Social and educational building in Recimil

Architectural design

1. Main entrance to neighbourhood centre

2. Security check control

3. Exterior circulation to purblic terrace

4. Foyer

5. Utility service core including toilets and lift

6. Interior common area - gathering salon

7. Reading area

8. Patio on under ground floor

9. Bar and restaurant

10. Universtity centre: control access

11. Public courtyard

12. Library

As menton before, circulations, safety issues, monotony and lack of diversity are problems derivated from the original la-yout of the neighbourhood.

The proposed building intends to achieve a continuous tran-sition between private and public spaces, breaking the boun-daries between interior and exterior. The main objective is providing dynamism and breaking the repetition to achieve atractive urban sceneries while promoting new uses for users beyond the Recimil area.

Existing housing

Conceptual model

Coffee shop - transveral spaces breaking alignments to enrich the spaces in-between

The several community buildings and student housings pro-posed along the neighbourhood will be design to react against the monotony and continuity of the existing residential units following similar principles as per the proposed educational and social building.

Hanging volumes, voids, terraces and patios will become key architectural features within the proposals. They will break the rational alignment and will bring permeability and a mi-xed of uses.


Library

Study rooms

Breaking uniformity - new street

Library

No lineality - the wallsupporting volumes

Permeability in four directions

DESIGN PROCESS

DETAIL A

DETAIL C

DETAIL B

DETAIL D

The construction system has been standarized to allow future interventions following the same strategy.

The main structural body will consist of a core thick concrete wall where prefabricated cases, consisting of wood facade panels with a metallic structure, will be attached to.

Technical drawings

SEWING

Social and educational building in Recimil

Cubierta metlica:

Chapa metalica

Lamina impermeabilizante de PVC

Fieltro geotextil como capa separadora

Capa de mortero de cemento

Aislamiento termico de poliestireno extruido DANOPREN e_70 mm.

Soporte de hormigon aligerado con arlita formador de pendiente 2%

Cerramiento de paneles pefabricados de madera:

Revestimiento de lamas SILVERWOOD: lamas de cedro rojo (1.5mm + 120 mm)clavadas sobre una subestructura de rastreles

Rastreles de madera maciza 60 x 50 mm.

Tablero de viruta orientada e:20 mm.

Lamina impermeable de PVC

Tablero de viruta orientada e:20 mm.

Entramado de madera de cedro rojo

Sistema de aislamiento formado por una capa rigida de poliestireno ex-truido DANOPREN de e:70 mm.

Barrera de vapor bituminosa

Sistema de acabado interior KNAUFF: Tablero de carton yeso + acabado interior

Estructura aulario:

Cercha lateral formada con perfiles HEB_220 en las tiras inferior y su-perior y HEB_200 en los montantes y diagonales.

Vigas y pilares HEB_200

Ventana:

Viga HEB_ 200

Celosias de madera practicables

Ventana de carpinteria de madera batiente en eje horizontal MARVIN con vidrio climalit 8+8+8

DETAIL A

DETAIL B

DETAIL C

DETAIL D

Cubierta transitable:

Capa de proteccion: Capa de mortero (50 mm) + pavimento exterior anti-deslizante IDECK de madera_ tarima de espesor 19 mm, ancho 100 mm, longitud 300 mm atornillada a una subestructura de listones de madera.

Lamina impermeable de PVC + Fieltro geotextil como capa separadora

Soporte de hormigon aligerado con arlita _sobre forjado de chapa colabo-rante, pendiente 2%

Aislamiento termico poliestireno extruido DANOPREN_ 70 mm sobre barrera de vapor s/CTE_HS

Muro de hormigon armado e: 30mm

Anclaje vigas IPE_200 mediante pasadores metalicos

Viga IPE_200

Detail of facade

Forjado interior

Acabado pavimento de hormigon pulido

Aislamiento termico poliestireno extruido DANOPREN e_30 mm.

Forjado de chapa colaborante ACERALIA_ espesor chapa_ 1mm altura_ 60 mm. + 50 mm. hormigon armado

Calefaccion por suelo radiante embebido en mortero de cemento

Apoyo sobre correas metalicas IPE_200

Falso techo de carton yeso

Zapata aislada:

Armado muro

Capa protectora_ lamina geotextil

Lamina drenante de polietileno nodulado s/CTE_HS

Capa protectora antipunzonamiento s/ CTE_HS

Impermeabilizacion a base de imprimacion asfaltica

Tubo drenante s/CTE_HS

Armado inferior zapata

Hormigon de limpieza e_100 mm.

Anclaje pilar metalico sobre sobre placa de apoyo y anclaje en hormigon

Solera de hormigon de retraccion moderada

Capa filtrante_ 150 mm. arena s/CTE_HS

Lamina de polietileno s/CTE_HS

Encachado de grava

Subbase compactada

Viga de atado


This project is a rejection of style, fashion, tectonics, and signature.

It is about the creation of space, illusion, and void.

It is the triumph of space over architecture.

A haven for opportunity, a place without restrictions, a white canvas that is free to change or to remain the same.

The Architecture Foundation will not be bound by style, fashion, name, or time.

It will be atemporal, universal, whatever it is wished to be, for as long as it is wished to be.

The faade offers one option only: an entry.

The foundation is a spatial connection. It brings you from the street into the secret garden.

The void is illusory, the perspective magically changes, the space expands, it grows and it changes; architecture disap-pears, and only space is left.

The void generates the building. The void is the connection between all the functions of the foundation.

t is able to enlarge each programme. It will always be open, public.

Front and back facade look the same, but only one is real. The other is an illusion. Nothing matters besides the void.

STAR Strategies + Architecture

Crdoba Architecture FoundationCultural

Responsabilities: design, graphics and model

International competition.

Location: Crdoba, Spain.

Programme: Exhibition rooms, bookshop, caf, adminis-tration offices, archeological museum

Surface: 1226 m (building)

Ranking: Short listed+ Selected for publication

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Basement 2: Archaeological site

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Architectural competition

the street

the street

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THE PROJECT:

As shown in the diagram to the right, the project is originated from three elements: programme, void, and circulation.

The circulations occupy a small appendix, which will include storage area as well.

The programme as the negative of the void, is pure space. The void as the positive is the street.

Autonomy: each function can be connected and work as one entity. They can also be completely independent and never meet up with.

The facade will be atemporal. It will work as a white canvas which can reflect the contents ocurring in the Architectural foundation.

Pictures of Model

1. Archaeological site

2. Archaeological information area

3. Library

4. Coffee shop

5. Street and terrace

6. Exhibition area 1

7. Exhibition area 2

8. Offices

9. Multi use area - auditorium, reading area...

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street

Autonomy of programme

The facade

Three elements

multi use area

exhibition area 1 and multi use area

Exhibition area 2 and multi use area

library and archeaological site

flexible facade

Project developed with STAR Strategies + Architecture / All images courtesy of STAR

Auditorium Ciutat d ElxCultural and public square

Responsabilities: design, graphics and model

International competition.

Location: Elche, Spain.

Programme: Auditorium, social centre, public roof and square

Ranking: Short listed


The plot given is located within a dense built environment in the city centre of Elche.

Within this context the main driver of the proposal was to create an open space for the neighbourhood while achieving a continuous permeability between this and the community building requested within the project description, which in-cluded an auditorium and social centre.

To achieve this, the building was located as a longitudinal pie-ce along the northern boundary of the plot following the exis-ting urban fabric. As shown in the diagrams to the right, this location allowed us to create a large square facing south while defining a new urban block and street to the north.

Rather than defining a longitudinal piece with a connected in-terior programme, the decision made was to take advantage of having a continuous relation with the square. The propo-sal divided the programme of uses trasnversely so most of the rooms could work independently and have direct access to the public space.

The frontage facing the square will become a main feature of the building. A tradiditional flat element, will contain now its own programme combining circulations and temporary exhi-bitions areas as shown in the model.

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SQUARE CIRCULATIONS AND EXHIBITONS ON MAIN FACADE ROOF GARDEN WITH PLAY AREAS AND OUTDOOR CINEMA

VOLUMETRIC DIAGRAM:


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The building can work as one...

...or completely independent

The circulation can work independetly as exhibition space

The circulation connects the square with the public roof

Detail of facade facing the square and including its own programme with exhibitions and cirulations

Public Hall

Pictures of Model

Masterplan and Tower in LeinelMix-use tower and public space

Responsabilities: model maker and graphic support

EUROPAN 9: International competition.Location: Leinel, Vantaa, Finland

Programme: Mix-use tower and public space

Tower: restaurant, housing, gym and offices

Public space: park, day nursery, train platform, square, leinel station, parking.

Surface: 4Ha

The aim of this competitions was creating a small city around from Leinel Tower. The proposal placed common functions such as a residents club, a gym with saunas, and a panoramic restaurant, within the tower, with public ones as a train station and an urban plaza.

We wanted to encourage co-working, so we plan a number of meeting rooms to be used by students and workers. A number of special apartments with care facilities are planned for elderly people. An underground shuttle service will collect the inhabi-tants of Leinel to take them to the station in winter.

The Urban Plaza in front of Leinel Tower is diagonally split over two levels. The top level is placed at the height of the rai-lway platforms, becoming a perfect display of culture and per-formances, and transforming each passenger into a spectator. This allows for the parallel use of the Plaza and 150% usage of the surface, as we can place the day nursery and parking garage under the elevated part.

The slight inclination of the urban plaza (3%) allows the place-ment of cafes and markets; at the same time, it collects the peo-ple coming from Leinel at 0.00 and leads them smoothly to the station at +4.70.

Where the two levels of the Plaza meet, we placed a transpor-tation hub for people coming from the parking area. The main entrance to the tower is positioned at this level so residents can access the station directly.

Following the Plaza we design the orthogonal park, where natu-re is planned in a grid, contrasting with the surrounding forest.

Running parallel to the Park and the Plaza and ending at the tra-in platform a covered passage will protect the passengers and cyclists from Leinel during the winter.


Pictures of ModelArchitectural competition


Urban design

From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1960s this avenue was an elegant elevated Paseo Salon where the inhabitants of Elche enjoyed walking. It formed the main connection between the Railway Station and the City centre. With the prominence of the car in the 1960s, the elevated Paseo was demolished and transformed into a three lane road. This, together with the displacement of the railway station (at the north), damaged the character of the Paseo as a civic public space.

After studying the current traffic patterns in the area, we propose res-tricting vehicular access to public transportation and bicycles.

Once the Paseo is free of cars not only do we improve the sequence of public spaces on the North-South axis, the spaces between the city and the new Mirador+Station, but we also link the two parks that are currently disconnected on the East-West axis. Both parks are former palm huertos. This operation will unlock the enormous potential of the area as a public space right in the centre of the city. The construction of the Mirador-Station to the North of the Paseo will frame the views and will relocate the station in its former location.

We propose to keep the Paseo as a hard surface so it may host a lar-ge number of events, which would be impossible in a green area. Mo-reover, due to the dry weather of Elche, a green Paseo would require a significant amount of maintenance.

We have minimized the Paseos design to avoid compromising its po-tential. This design will only affect the surface; we have created a great carpet of tiles representing a pixelated aerial view of the Palmeral. This large mosaic will be visible from the wheel as an enormous piece of ur-ban art.

STAR Strategies + Architecture

Paseo de la EstacinPublic Realm

Responsabilities: design, construction drawings, specifi-cations and tender documents

Preliminary and detail design

Location: Elche, Spain.

Programme: Public Space Sequence: Promenade area + New square + Green zones

Surface: 15.000 m

Status: Approved + tender (on hold for construction)

Client: City of Elche

Estimated construction Cost: 3,5 Mill. Financed by Spa-nish Central Government


Responsabilities: design, graphics, report writing, cons-truction drawings and specifications. Interdisciplinary coordination with in-house and offshore teams, liaison with the client and stakeholders and resource and cost planning.

Concept, preliminary and detail design

Location: Doha, Qatar

Programme: Streetscape design and associated infras-tructure

Area: 20.000 hectares divided in 35 schemes

Status: On going

Client: Public Works Authority of Qatar

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Contract 2: Doha WestMasterplanning

Doha West schemes area, 20.000ha

DW002: 563ha

DW02O: 348ha

DW019: 597ha

SCHEMES OF DOHA WEST: Initial diagram analysis

DW044: 597ha

Project developed with Atkins / All images courtesy of Atkins

The Qatar National Vision 2030 and 2022 Worldcup are the main drivers of the development the country is expe-riencing.

Within a high number or projects, the Public Works Authority of the State of Qatar has launched a Programme of works which aims to improve the urban scene in the city of Doha.

Within this programme, Atkins has been assigned as the Design Consultant in charge of the concept, detailed design and construction supervision in Doha West, with an approximate area of 20,000ha. The scope of works covers from the provision of roads and utilities to urban design and landscape, managed by a multi-disciplinary team.

As part of the urban design department we are facing a massive challenge: bringing up the public realm of a partially undeveloped area which shows lack of sensitivity in their existing designs. Our work usually involves a zoom-in on the public realm to understand and respond to the daily needs of the final user.

Doha West has been divided by 35 schemes (to date) in order to allow the design consultant to deliver in a controlled programme. Each sche-me is assigned to a core team of engineers, architects, environmental specialists and urban planners, in between others.

One of the major success in the development of a project of this comple-xity is the achievement of quality and cost-effectiveness by adopting a simplified design approach based on design solution packages.

URBAN STRATEGY DIAGRAMS EXAMPLES OF STREETSCAPE PROPOSALS AT CONCEPT

Contract 2: Doha WestMasterplanning and streestcape

Concept design

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Playable space typologies

Greeen areas typologies

Activities

Pedestrian connections

Retail strategy

Public squares

Major link

The scope of works of the urban design team includes defining the urban strategy for each scheme and the de-sign, from concept to detail, of the streetscape and public realm.

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Sikka

Clerodendrum inerme as shrub

Azadirachta indica creating groups of trees at singular areas

Resting and gathering area

Hard patterned median combining different sizes of gravel mulch

Schinus molle

Furniture strip with seating areas and cycle storage

Albizia Lebbeck

Enhance cycle routes

Planting and furniture strips

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Clerodendrum inerme as shrub

Azadirachta indica creating groups of trees at singular areas

Resting and gathering area

Hard patterned median combining different sizes of gravel mulch

Schinus molle

Furniture strip with seating areas and cycle storage

Albizia Lebbeck

Urban strategies

Cycle routes studies and strategies

Pedestrian routes

Character areas analysis

Playable space strategy

Place-making

Traffic calming solutions

Street furniture strategy and design

Technical drawings

Softlandscape and irrigation

Besboke planter and seating

Treatment at junctions with sikka

Xeroscape landscape

KEY AREAS


Contract 2: Doha WestStreetscape design


Due to the nature of this project, its size, overseas production and multidisciplinarity, significant time and cost saving techniques have been implemented within the team.

These techniques include a modular design system which allows a semi-automated production of design for those areas defined by a common design strategy.

The design effort is given to those key areas considered as public realm enhancement opportuni-ties, unique areas within each of the schemes.

Diferent streetscape elements are designed as standard typologies and they are applied thtoug-hout the schemes. Their combination, based on the particular context, result in an unique design for each project area.

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In one of the schemes Atkins has been instructed by the client to evaluate an existing concept design proposal for 14 Sahats and elaborate a new design new for those areas according to a better understanding of water requirements and availability within the Middle East.

Sahats

Mosques

Preliminary design proposals for some of the Sahats

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Contract 2: Doha WestPublic Realm design

PUBLIC REALM WITHIN DW020

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The main objectives are to improve accessibility to the Mosque and enhance the character and pedestrian experience of this important community facility.

There is an opportunity to create gathering areas resulting from the existing road layout and the chicanes around the mos-ques access.

The seating become a key element working as sculptural ele-ments and variying in size and layout, they are located along with colorful plants and shade trees.

Natural stone paving incorporating geometric patterns and lighting features, with an intensive soft landscape treatment that includes date palms to the entrances, will help to enhance and maximize the character of the mosques within each neigh-

bourhood.

MOSQUES

Preliminary design proposal

Concept design proposal

Contract 2: Doha WestStreetscape detail design

Detail design

Due to the nature of this project, its size, overseas pro-duction and multidisciplinary charater, significant time and cost saving techniques have been implemented within the team.

These techniques include a modular design system which allows a semi-automated production of design for those areas which follow a common design strategy.

The design effort is given to those key areas conside-red as public realm enhancement opportunities, unique areas within each of the schemes. DETAIL LAYOUT EXAMPLE: DW068. 2.100 ha.

Research projects

Selected works produced through the Masters degree in the School of Architecture in Madrid.

Large Scale was chosen as the main area of study within the Research Programme as a route to start the PhD.

Teacher: Juan Carlos Sancho

Teacher: Emilio Tun + Luis Mansilla

Teacher: Juan Miguel Hernandez de Len

Teacher: Federico Soriano

The Architecture of the city of the future in the context of the twentieth century cinema has been chosen as the main topic for this essay. The text is focused on the current situation of the in-dividual and his future relations with the city.

Designers can not predict how things are going to work in a fu-ture; however, our duty is to presume how something could be used. The cinema is proposed as a tool to experiment, reveal and sometimes anticipate what designers can not predict.

Instability, movement and change define individual con-ditions in the 21st century. A dynamic condition charac-terized by networks where people, information, money, cultures, resources and knowledge are traveling fast.

In this context one of the characteristics that defines mo-dern activity is mutability; architecture should respond to the complex relationships between spaces and uses, scene and script, type and programme. The contempo-rary place is associated with situations, uses and users, objectives and experiences. This instability requires from the place its conversion as a structure able to support ephemeral, intermittent or permanent events providing answers to users.

Following this, in February 2010 Led Action Facade has been set up in Madrid. This project presents a scenario built and rebuilt continuously through a programmed surface that creates a mutable and unexpected space. Its analysis allows us to predict a concept of hybrid place between the limit of statics and dynamics, physics and virtual, collective and individual, public and private, rea-lity and fiction.

city, cinema, analysis, experience, individual

place, instability, flexibility, mutability, facade, leds

place, instability, flexibility, mutability, facade, leds

Action Led Facade, Madrid

Contradiction usually induces interest. From the perspective of the protagonist of the film Smoke (Wayne Wang and Paul Aus-ter), the research proposes an approach to the city from the point of view of the metropolitan experience in terms of a perceptual transformation of individuals.

It is remarkable to take a look back to early 20th century and re-cover concepts which attempt to describe the experience of the user. It is necessary to go back to Germany to see the research legacy of Georg Simmel, who detects a blas attitude, and Walter Benjamin, that takes from Baudelaire the figure of the flaneur.

The stroller is dissolved in the crowd with an indolent and de-fensive attitude, he becomes a detective looking for encoura-gement and trying to resist from falling into the indifference. What would be the trigger that causes the image that takes out the individual from the crowd to the surface to make him a fla-neur? Through the proactive capacity of art, architecture and culture, it would be possible to introduce the factor of intrigue, the non-coded and unexpected, associated with a new type of statement re-coder.

The Kaiten Sushi Project has been presented at the Sushi dinner at ETSA Madrid. The main objective of the dinner was to pre-sent an object defined as seclusivo. This concept comes from the biology and defines the ability of realizing more than one action at the same time.

Starting from two basic concepts of the japanese tradition, the Kaiten sushi game represents an object completely seclusivo which reinterpretates the classical kaiten table (eat) and the Go (play), a traditionally japanese game.

The Kaiten sushi table is made by three pivoting mobile rings. Each rings hosts a different category, first two are images and the third one is made of information.

Like the normal kaiten table, every time you want to eat a new sushi piece you need to rotate a ring. The three rings, with their rotation, combine random images and informations.

city, perception, shock, indifference, flaneur, blas

Research articles Master in Advance Architectural design

Approach to the future city through cinema

CIRCO Magazine: Intermitent place

Walter Benjamin. The intruder of the crowd

Kaiten sushiResearch

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Teacher: Javier Maroto + lvaro Soto

A space is developed under several self-imposed premises res-ponding to the design of an economic, fast-assembled and easy-transportable shelter following Origamis technique.

Based on the design of the joint the structure is produced, crea-ting a foldable and modular design easily adaptable to the diffe-rent situations required.

Triangular panels of ALUCOBOND:

1. Plastic core of polyethylen tyoe LDPE

2. 0.5mm aluminium sheet

Construction and structure system

1. 2.

Low budget, foldable, transportable and fast assem-bly

shelter, catastrophe, assembly, foldable, origami

Approach to the future city through cinemaPasos

Research projects carried out during the Master Degree / Personal work

Research work awarded and successfully approved as main to-pic for the PhD.

Article published in different University Magazines.

Final DissertationMaster in Advance Architectural design

Research

Tutor: Dario Gazapo de Aguilera

The driver of this research has emerged from the revision of different publications and articles from George Simmel; more precisely from those studying the transformation of human be-haviours induced by the metropolitan environment.

Within this theoretical framework, the target is to explore in depth the way individuals adapt to the contemporary city and how both their experience and perception of the environment are modified. Understanding what defines individuals attitude within their urban context, their capacity to disconnect from a wide range of attractions to select just some stimulus and the role that urban design and architecture play in this behaviour are key objectives within this research.

Lets ignore temporarily the aesthetics and concentrate just on our social and ethical duties as designers. Lets achieve sustai-nable cities and places dedicated to strengthen individuals ex-perience, awaking their interest and commitment in the urban environment.

individual, city, behaviour, perception, attention, adaptation

Research (In)sensitivility towards worth vualue of things

The individuals experience in the city through the readings of Georg Simmel.

The blas person -although the concept of such a person is rarely fully realized- has completely lost the feeling for value differences.

The Philosophy of Money. Georg Simmel

We are suffering from a new form of mass distraction or so it would seem. The cause of this mal dpoque does not reduce to an external chaos distracting our minds from much more important and necessary chores: it corresponds to a structural transformation, a new regime of attention (and inattention)

Loose Coexistence. Elie During

By crafting our surrounding we craft ourselves

Lukas Ebensperger

Research projects carried out during the Master Degree / Personal work

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