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ANA MEDINA GAVILANES
MASTER IN
COLLECTIVE HOUSING
2012
ANA MEDINA GAVILANES
ANA MEDINA GAVILANES
MCH 2012 PORTAFOLIO
ETSAM-UPM
The following publication is a resume, an archive
recording non-linear process of RESEARCH and
EXPERIMENT of selected works made during the Master
in Collective Housing edition 7th in Escuela Técnica
Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM).
AM
na
edina architect
Ana Medina Gavilanes
Quito - Ecuador
1985
Architect
ANA MEDINA
MADRID
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Preface
Hrovje NJIRIC WORKSHOP
Landscape and Residential URBAN DESIGN SPECIALITY
Anne LACATON WORKSHOP
Low Cost & EMERGENCY HOUSING SPECIALITY
Dietmar EBERLE WORKSHOP
Juan HERREROS WORKSHOP
Andrea DEPLAZES WORKSHOP
Energy & SUSTAINABILITY SPECIALITY
BURGOS & GARRIDO WORKSHOP
Wiel ARETS WORKSHOP
PREFACE
Housing is not only a place to live in, it is a
complete environment where each person develops his
own world. The Master in Collective Housing evolves
all the topics related to this studio. Concepts,
strategies, models, exercises, all these tools allow
us to have a complete and deeply knowledge in housing to use in different societies, realities, and
places. The continuous information and dynamic used
in this program from the different workshops and
specialties, give us the approaches to the term
inhabit. The ideas, studios, and exercises thought
in this Master LAB face the lack of housing research
to the changes produced in our societies in the last
century. As a final result, there is a publication
that shows all the opportunities that housing could
have in any place at any time.
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Hrovje NJIRIC
+
Nerea CALVILLO
5 days workshop
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Theme
ORDINARY LUXURY
Workshop Leader
Hrvoje Njiric
Assistant
Nerea Calvillo
Team
Nicola Acquafreda_Italy
Bianca Barducci_Italy
Ana Medina_Ecuador
The first approach was a romantic view of living
spaces, LUXURY as quality to define frames, to
design freedom. Our understood of luxury is not a
condition for rich people; it is about a condition of
THINKING.
Therefore, the character of places gives
identity to have a UNIQUE feeling into the space,
to look for the essence, to understand what is a space
for.
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luxury
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LUXURY
movement - dancing
BATHROOM
What is a bathroom for?
Toilette
Washbasin
Bidet
Shower
Bath tub
How
Who
Look in the mirror
Naked
Sleep
Sing
Masturbate
clean
intimacy
the bathroom is
probable the
only place where
we can be alone
Light
The bath as a temple,
the bath as a dance floor
Synchronized
Pause - intensity
int
The rain is the
entrance to the
personal-secret
space
Plan
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Plan
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BEDROOM
LIVING ROOM
filter - mistery - clarity
stay - open
more than create (imagine) spaces, is the capacity
of imagine the quality of life
entrance
dressing
l i g h t
l
i g h t
dressing
entrance
l i g h t
d r e s s i n g
e n t r a n c e
e n t r a n c e
d
g
l r ie sgs ih n t
plan
KITCHEN
cooking
+
eating
+
sharing
section
KITCHEN
+
DINING
ROOM
plan
section
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tttrrtransluxury
aarnnslluuxxuurrryyy
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luxury for a transgender prostitute
as
. splitting private life & work
. enjoy the management of his/her
lifestyle
. the control of space
outdoor sex
voyeur
darkroom
workspace
sauna
dress
gloryhole
sex machines
lap dance
big bed
steam shower
make up
sleep
private space
rest
relax
body care
collections
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Private space
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Working space
plan
plan
Trans luxury apartment
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Transection A-A’
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Master in Collective Housing 2012_SPECIALITY
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Landscape & residential
URBAN DESIGN SPECIALITY
*
Bernardo YNZENGA
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Urban DESIGN_SPECIALITY_MCH2012
Theme
VALLECAS INTERVENTION
Speciality Leader
Bernardo Ynzenga
Team
Nicola Acquafreda_Italy
Bianca Barducci_Italy
Diana Espinosa_Ecuador
Ana Medina_Ecuador
Matteo Pacce_Italy
View the city as a SYSTEM. We are introduced in a
Urban Residential project where residential components
and city projects are not indenpendent nor neutral.In
this direction, we need to PROVIDE organization,
use, perception, entertainment and appropiation to
both, domestic scale and city space. The theory and
practice will project the joint as a collective
proposal, the stage,
a city.
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VALLECAS,
a place to prepare
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LINK
as
common ground
urban tissue
grid / network
topology
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sistem 1
sistem 2
sistem 3
references
congosto, madrid 110x30m blocks and
streets 7m wide
barcelona 110x110m blocks and streets 20m wide
refrigerated city, cordoba
ecological reconfiguration,
philadelphia
manhattan, new york 250x60m blocks and
streets 16-25m wide
toledo
the strip, las vegas
gran via, madrid
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vallecas, madrid
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Our group was evolved in the design of a link located in the south-east area of
Madrid called Vallecas.
This place is a mirror of the most recent urban development here in Spain:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Huge amount of new blocks
Large streets crossing the area
The use of the ground floor belongs to the dwellings
The relation between the buildings and the streets is not related to the
urban scale
Low density
Consumption of soil
The commercial activities are located mainly in the malls
Public spaces are huge in relation to the private plots, so they are
empty and unkempt.
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Lenght
28
Building Height Street Width
Barcelona
Rambla de Sant Joseph 1.6 km
12 m
30 m
Roma
Via del Corso
1.7 km
15 m
10 m
Los Angeles
Sunset Bulevard
4.8 km
6 m
30 m
New York
Broadway
3.5 km
18 m
20 m
Density Level
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100
30
100
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a) 23 floors
84
100
30
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12
2a) 23 foors
84
30
12 43
12
12
70
70
62
12 34 12
b) 12 floors
70
12 34 12
12 34 12
a+b) 12 floors
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53
53
112
112
12 17 12
112
12 17 12
12 17 12
a+c) 7 floors
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44
134
44
134
134
d) 3 floors
12 8 12
a+d) 3 floors
84
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62
c) 7 floors
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12 8 12
12 8 12
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Buildings
Tower
24x24m
75m high
368 people
3000 m2 = 0,30 ha
1 tower+ 1 bars
1960 people/ha
Bar 1
12x50m
37m high
220 people
Bar 2
12x90m
22m high
240 people
4500 m2 = 0,45 ha
2 bars
1066 people/ha
Plots
1
a
a= 100m
b= 30m
b
a
2
a= 100m
b= 45m
b
a
3
a= 100m
b= 75m
b
30
7500 m2 = 0,75 ha
2 bars + 1 bar + 1 tower
1424 people/ha
LINK
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: building a SEGMENT OF CITY
M40
0,4 km
Vallecas
M45
4,7 km
Congosto
Vallecas
M50
Vallecas
Existing streets
Railway
Metro Station
Railway Station
Existent Tissues:
Boundaries
Connections
-the urban tissue of the
Congosto development
is compact and dense, it defines
rectangular blocks 115x28 mt
-the urban tissue of the
new Vallecas development is
regular and defines sqare
blocks 75x75 mt
the is defined as a
straight stripe
that will be broken
to allows connections
and to create a
dynamic city model
CITY-NATURE
The link is
between the
end of the city blocks
and the nature, so is
going to be a permeable
tissue in the EAST-WEST
axis
New streets
the Speed
Metro ligera:
the Stops
the Density
PEDESTRIAN+CYCLE
CAR+CYCLE
is decreasing, going along
the shape and
the use of the streets
the solid back bone
of the Metro ligero work as ‘magnets’
that attracts density and activities
is polarized
in compact
clusters
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LAYERS
Nodes.
Pedestrian Path
VALLECAS DISTRICT
Buildings
Cars lane
Blocks
Vallecas district is the symbol of the
dehumanization of the contemporary city: low
density, tissue and function omogeneity,
wrong proportion and undefined spaces.
The project area is a stripe located in the
West side of Vallecas, where the urban
tissue meets the nature, and it runs from
the M40
(North) to the M50 (South).
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The project is a LINK and it is meant to be
a SEGMENT OF a CITY characterized by
INTENSE ACTIVITIES, DENSITY, SPEED,
DIVERTSITY.
The high density is concentraded in
clustered mixed use building. The plot size
variation, the different uses of the
buildings and the
dominance of collectivity over territory
create a mixed used urban environment.
LINK plan for Vallecas
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MODEL PICTURE
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our purpose is to activate the neighborhood by designing a
segment of a new city. The main features of our proposal is the
creation of two types of connections: a longitudinal from the
M40 to the M50 and a transversal trough new typologies of
blocks. Along the first one, we concentrate some magnetic points
that attract people and activities, these points are in one
side, stops of a new tramway and in the other side, a pedestrian
path. Therefore, in order to link the new piece of city and the
existing one we decided to consider the length of the “Vallecas
plot” and create different plot sizes (100m x 30/45/75m).
Moreover, not all the streets in-between are for cars but most
of them are pedestrian. The building’s typologies are two: tower
and apartment block. They are different in height, length, and
depth due to the necessity to improve the variety in use,
density, and image. Inside the plot, the area is semipublic and
the ground floor is a system of different uses that could infect
upper and downer floors of the buildings. The streets designed
are narrower than the existing ones and they are thought not
only for cars but for different users and uses.
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public equipment
public equipment
public equipment
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
bike line + pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + tram line + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + bike line + equipment + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
a
pedestrian + tram line + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
bike line + pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
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a
magnetism
section a-a
public equipment
pedestrian + tram line+ pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
bike line + pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + bike line + equipment + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
bike line + pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + tram line + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + bike line + equipment + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
green park
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
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public equipment
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main street
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c
section c-c
pedestrian + vehicle +
tram line + pedestrian
b
pedestrian + bike line +
equipment + pedestrian
c
pedestrian + vehicle +
tram line + pedestrian
b
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + bike line +
vehicle + pedestrian
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section b-b
public equipment
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + bike line +
equipment + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian
pedestrian + bike line +
equipment + pedestrian
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public space
public equipment
public equipment
semi public space
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master plan
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Master in Collective Housing 2012_WORKSHOP
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Anne LACATON
+
Diego García SETIEN
5 days workshop
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Theme
PLUS
Workshop Leader
Anne Lacaton
Assistant
Diego García Setién
Team
Pramitha Bale_India
Jesus Barranco_Spain
Linda Delmedico_Italy
Addler Edizalde_Mexico
Marco Mazzotta_Italy
Ana Medina_Ecuador
Ana Redondo_Spain
THREE contexts, ONE strategy, PLUS is the topic
of the workshop. It faces three different situations
of a built environment, each of them refers to a
different context and problem, which need to be
reflected as different exercises. These 3 cases will
have different TACTICS deployed but finally
complementary. This period of crisis, opens the way of
changing something, taking TIME to think, to be
clear with the aims and the priorities, and also to
give more value to our work.
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SESEÑA, Madrid
THE GHOST TOWN
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area: 72.68 km2
inhabitants:
18.504 (2011)
density: 254.6
hab/km2
foundation: XII
century
Awfull. The big amount of empty dwellings,
appears as a very disturbing disaster.
According to its scale and to this totally
unknown situation, it is an opportunity for
open and innovative ideas, to critique this way
of thinking urban planning as well as
architecture,
sweet home
SESEÑA
you need to live as a
society
5 cores
- sesena viejo
- la estación
- sesena nuevo
- valle grande
- EL QUIÑON: urban
development
7500 built dwellings
(13500 plan dwellings)
called “manhattan” madrid
made specially for young
people
5.100 of 13.000 dwellings
are built
supossed to live there
30.000 people
we need markets
here you can eat
here you can make
up
here you can sleep
here you can drink
here you can
practice sports
island
let´s go inside!
HORTALEZA, Madrid
social
1300 unhealth dwellings
650 families need to be removed
mantain the buildings as a
component of memory
change the social image
passive action of authoritie
the social movement
asks for answers, the
politicians “promised”
to resolve this unfair
situation
borders should embrace
this “island” which
needs to be re-used
memory is important,
to preserve and
reinforce the actual
situation, activate
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madrid rio
rehabilitation
international prices
4.2 km of the M30 underground
direct link with both sides of
the city
reactivated the area, but
the façades of buildings
need to be changed
is it the façade or also the
borders?
in this situation, it is necesary
to work on the walls, the windows,
the openings and the voids, to make
it part of madrid rio as a whole
prjoect and not as different
pieces.
it is important the
floor,
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ground
in connection with the
street.
A.Lacaton workshop
Madrid Rio
Student: MarcoMazzotta
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madrid rio
The opportunity that the buildings on the border of Madrid Rio’s project
are enormous.
The facade will have an importance
of interface between the linear park and the buildings. As the
project works with subproject, I think that also the buildings in the
surrounding should work in the same way, creating their own identity in
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relation with the project and why not, working in the same natural condi_
tion. The facade of the buildings could be an extention of the park with
the topic of the “green” that could have different functions according to the
need of the user (could be used for sun protection, for planting vegetable
etc.) or simply they can have the same rule as the graffiti of the street,
art in this context, not in terms of artwork or decoration but in terms
of identification of iconic element among this long linear park.
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A
B1
ACCESS
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CULTURAL
COMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
C
B
B2
Z1
Z1
STRATEGY OF GROUNDFLOOR USE
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BANDS
GREEN AREA
CIRCULATION
CIRCULATION
GREEN AREA
PARKING AREA
SEMI-PRIVAT GARDEN
PRIVAT STREET
PRIVAT GARDEN
GR
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ST
PARQUE DE MANZANARES
DE
MADRID RIO
STREET
PE
PEDESTRIAN STREET
MA RIVE
DR R
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CO RIO
ME
RC
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AR
ST
EA
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PA EET
RK
AR
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EN AR
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GRE
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STUDY POSSIBILITIES
strategic sections
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
50
AFTER
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A
B
C
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HOUSING BLOCK1
block type
ACTIVITIES
original block
erasing dwelling on the first floor
+
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outdoor spaces
housing spaces addition
2
1
Dwelling typology
before 103 sqm
after 137 sqm
actual situation
moving the dwelling to the topfloor
erasing old facade
3
+
new interaction
DWELLINGS
BLOCK 1 ACTUAL SITUATION
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proposal1
proposal2
proposal3
proposal4
proposal5
proposal6
block type
proposal7
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HOUSING BLOCK2
ACTIVITIES
block type
original block
erasing dwelling on the first floor
moving the dwelling to the topfloor
housing spaces addition
1
Dwelling typology
before 75 sqm
after 90 sqm
protection
+
actual situation
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outdoor spaces
2
space flexibility
erasing old facade
3
housing extencion
+
new interaction
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block type
2
1
original type
proposal2
activities
3
proposal1
proposal3
proposal4
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HOUSING BLOCK1
D2
D
D1
Section_Facade type2
Section_Facade type1
D2
D1
HOUSING BLOCK2
D3
D4
Section_Facade type4
Section_Facade type3
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D3
D4
Master in Collective Housing 2012_SPECIALITY
04
Low cost & EMERGENCY
HOUSING
*
María Teresa DINIZ
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Theme
REDEVELOPMENT OF FAVELAS,
SAO PAULO-BRAZIL
Speciality Leader
María Teresa Diniz
Team
Bianca Barducci_Italy
Pramitha Bale_India
Ana Medina_Ecuador
This approach is based on a real FAVELA in Sao
Paulo, Brazil. The studio was combined with theory,
real cases studios and design PROCESS.The social
impact is very important for the studio, and the need
to improve the quality of life of people.
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Redevelopment of
Favelas
Sao Paulo-Brazil
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ANALYSIS
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ANALYSIS
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FAMILY HOUSES
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FAMILY HOUSES
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B
A
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765
1
1
765
760
780
785
785
760
785
780
780
785
2
770
775
2
775
765
780
785
775
765
770
780
785
780
A
B
section 1
section 2
section 3
section 4
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master plan
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DESIGN CONCEPT
SECTION A-A
SECTION B-B
SECTION D-D
SECTION E-E
SECTION C-C
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NEW HOUSES DEVELOPMENT
300 FAMILIES RELOCATED
PLOT AREA 31.500 sqm
F.A.R. 2,5
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foot-bridge
apartment 1 - 51m2
foot-bridge
N+3.50
apartment 1 - 50m2
N+4.00
N+3.00
apartment 2 - 52.5m2
common terrace 36m2
N±0.00
N+0.54
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
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THREE FLOORS HIGH BLOCK
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CLUSTER HOUSING
FIVE FLOORS HIGH BLOCK
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Master in Collective Housing 2012_WORKSHOP
05
Dietmar EBERLE
+
Victor OLMOS
5 days workshop
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Theme
FROM CITY TO HOUSE
Workshop Leader
Dietmar Eberle
Assistant
Victor Olmos
Team
Ana Medina_Ecuador
How do people’s life easier? How to answer this
SIMPLE
question? The strategies to create buildings
are focused on the differences of QUALITIES (in
us) for designing. The theory approach is for this
workshop the method of research. We develop three
studios in different places in Madrid, which their own
and different
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CONDITIONS.
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ROSALES
The conditions of the place emphasises the corner.
Two elements, memory and technology - solid and light - the
architectonic element should be higher than the surrounding, it
enriches the quality of the public, semi-public, and private
space.
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VALLECAS
Vallecas typical block shape
Perimeter - buildings
Inner public space
Block
Division
Work in the center
Plan
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Section
CENTRO
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REGULAR PLAN
SECTION 7
FAÇADE
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SECTION 6
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F
REGULAR PLAN
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FAÇADE
PUBLIC
SECTION
PRIVATE
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PLAN
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Searching a geometrical organization
through materiality gives importance to
regulation.
Proportion
Input - output - optimize this issue
conforms architecture.
Fragmentation - joint, memory, work
facing different edges. A bridge
connects both sides, this horizontal
element fells down in a vertical one,
dissapearing while reaching the ground
floor. The green is the new quality for
the entire space.
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Master in Collective Housing 2012_WORKSHOP
06
Juan HERREROS
+
María Auxiliadora GALVEZ
7 days workshop
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Theme
CONTAINERS RE-VISITED
Workshop Leader
Juan Herreros
Assistant
María Auxiliadora Gálvez
Team
Vito Burdi_Italy
Javier García_Spain
Ana Medina_Ecuador
Matteo Pace_Italy
This workshop revises the classical designing techniques used in contemporary collective housing in some
“AREAS
OF OPPORTUNITY”
of our cities. This
strategy is a tool that gives DIFFERENT opportunities in the current demand of regeneration and
requalification of the current urban model. These
areas, where the existing city is bravely reworked to
keep the zone alive with the new citizens and their
new ways of
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LIVING.
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EDIFICIO ESPAÑA
MADRID
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Edificio España is an old hybrid building that was active until 2006 and now
awaits an uncertain future, it is empty and was its interior walls have been
demolished.
These buildings are big enough to offer a wide range of possiblities to be
transformed –not because of their capacity to absorb large-scale and complex
programs- but because they can influence the surroundings, contributing to
build the urban fabric.
TYPICAL FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR
BASAMENT FLOOR 2
ramp 1
stairs 3
elevators
COLUMNS
1
area = 4682 m2
vertical circulation area = 48.27 m2
circulation percent = 1%
20x20
34X34
40X40
40X70
60X60
80X80
TOTAL
10
16
102
9
81
16
234
ramp 0
stairs 16
elevators
28
area = 4704 m2
vertical circulation area = 442.13 m2
circulation percent = 9.4%
ramp 0
stairs 9
elevators
18
circulation overage
10am
2pm
ramp
1
stairs
3
elevators 1
area = 4682 m2
vertical circulation area = 48.27 m2
circulation percent = 1%
aprox. facade area = 7850m2
aprox. window area = 2663m2
ramp
0
stairs
9
elevators
overage floor/top
high = 2.92m
e slab = 0.40m
window overage = 33.92%
18
area = 4678 m2
vertical circulation area = 219.93 m2
circulation percent = 4.7%
20x20
34X34
40X40
40X70
60X60
80X80
TOTAL
10
16
102
9
81
16
234
ramp
0
stairs
16
elevators
spain building circulation
overage = 5%
FRONTAL FACADE
= 5%
area = 4678 m2
vertical circulation area = 219.93 m2
circulation percent = 4.7%
28
area = 4704 m2
vertical circulation area = 442.13 m2
circulation percent = 9.4%
northest sidewalk
street maestro guerrero
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TRANSVERSAL SECTION
southwest
footpath
gran vía
plaza
españa
Juan HERREROS_WORKSHOP_MCH2012
gran via & around..
'La Gran Via is the arena in which are playing two forms of
planetary simultaneity:
colonialismVScosmopolitanism
The first creates an 'us' looking in awe at the 'other', the second
takes us into the
difference.
'La Gran Via is the gathering of corporate, generic,
diaphanous: from the expansive, with back of a fragmented
economy, cosmopolitan, specific and Domestic:
Endangered
.
rock
big mountain in the city center
monumental
wall for pedestrian scale,rational..
empty
but elevators & stairs
conexion
24/7 place
by 3 different metro lines
noise
gran via st.
8-line street and square
reference
for the southern city
ancient
ruins of a better time
contrast
full street & empty building
1st impressions
379.093
m3
building total volume
24.000
m2
plaza espana square surface
2007
when the building went empty
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number of lifts
>95%
asked thinks is well comunicated
by metro
<30min
to puerta del sur,pza. castilla, ..
18min
walking
needed to go all gran via
47%
neighbours think that is NOISY
65.000
m2
main facade (south) surface
12th
highest building in madrid
350.000.000eu
paid by Banco Santander
1953
construction year
286
hab/Ha
pop. density of the city center
baseline data
recycling
space uses
hybrid
3Dexperience
connexion
facade
ungravity
targets
secondary connectivity
emptiness inside a massive structure
voids
non private space carved from the solid
independent shapes
kind of zoomorphic shapes giving different programs
newidentity
voids
elevators
creation of a new ave. crossing the building
system of escalators and lifts connecting the voids
publicspace
density
carved avenue
solid
density
let's increase the density
program
the void makes to grow the massivity
strategies
implication
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rock
"What gives value to a clay cup is the vacuum
between the walls."
Lao-tsé (570 aC-490 aC)
callao
pza. leganitos
red de
san luis
c/alcala
pza. de los
mostenses
plaza
del carmen
plaza sto.
domingo
considering the building as a solid object we have to fill
the gaps and understand it as one piece with a simple
and recognizable
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callao
pza. leganitos
red de
san luis
c/alcala
zoning of uses
1953
pza. de los
mostenses
plaza
del carmen
carved continuos way
plaza sto.
domingo
Gran Via
Inauguración
inauguration
:
Orientation
:
Width of lane :
Distritc
:
Neighbourhood :
: 1924-1929
1,3 km
SW-NW
25-35 m
Center
Palacio/Universidad, Sol/Justicia,
pza. espana
entrance:
6
4
8
8
8
red de
san luis
c/alcala
plaza
del carmen
Width = 8m
Height = 6m
Inclination= 5 %
plaza sto.
domingo
horizontal connections
Width = 7m
Height = 4m
Inclination= 0 %
vertical connections
4
callao
pza. de los
mostenses
Width = 7m
Height = 4-12m
Inclination= 60-100 %
leisure
widening of way
stretch 3
cinemas
theaters
night clubs
american
cafes
2012
boulevar stretch 2
department
stores
insurance
companies
headquarters
hotels
luxury av.
stretch 1
casinos
boutiques
jewelries
car dealers
cafes
mix of uses
the fast changes of current lifestyle force the buildings to
adapt theirselves to those changes appearing, suddenly,
different uses in spaces non intendet for it.
Giving different qualities to the public space
becomes the perfect space for each use.
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spaces qualification
here
width x length height
orientation
facade
connexion
your
suggestions
possibilities of occupation of space
33.510 m3
Ø30m sphere
40m x 25m
volume
35m
congress
planetarium
circus
theater
store
disco
49.350 m3
s
5.704 m3
30m x 15m
10m
9m x 15m
7,5m x 15m
25m x 30m (29º)
5m
20m x 30m
s
pool
library
court
forest
boring office
16.200 m3
12m
s
15x7,5m (ellipse) x 40m length
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cinema
6.280 m3
s
half pipe
fashion week
wind test
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vertical circulation
time/distance
pza. espana
pza. de
pza. de los la luna
mostenses
plaza sto.
domingo
secondary connectivity
callao
red de
san luis
c/alcala
vazquez
de mella
plaza
del carmen
faster secondary circulation connecting
different pieces
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incision
typical floor
old - new building
section old - new building
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void
spacial connectivity
Juan HERREROS_WORKSHOP_MCH2012
pza. espana
pza. de
pza. de los la luna
mostenses
callao
red de
san luis
c/alcala
vazquez
de mella
void appearence
97m
plaza sto.
domingo
plaza
del carmen
62m
void carved out
from the solid
plan organization
spaces defined strictly according to their own
logic, independent of each other, of the
external envelope and the clasical obstacles of
architecture, even, partly gravity.
32m
97m
62m
32m
16m
16m
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façade osmosis
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architectonic references
theoric references
Damien Hirst
Paris Library. OMA
gordon matta
clark
acatama mine (chile)
Netherlands Embassy. OMA
Down Town Athletic Club
Hamburg Philarmonic. Herzog&DeMeuron
gran via building
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generic space
living
union of generic spaces
non linear relationship
section
housing section
section
housing typolgies
housing typolgies
direction of spaces
public - private
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plan sketch - spacial
net connection
housing typolgies
Master in Collective Housing 2012_WORKSHOP
07
Andrea DEPLAZES
+
Fernando ALTOZANO
5 days workshop
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Theme
DEEP PLAN HOUSES
Workshop Leader
Andrea Deplazes
Assistant
Fernando Altozano
Team
Addler Lozano_Mexico
Ana Medina_Ecuador
The different TYPOLOGIES of dwellings depth is
the base of this studio, which tryes to understand the
special
CONDITIONS
that each typology has. 6, 9,
12, 15, 18, 21, 24 m depth are the only rule that we
have for this research.
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21 m depth
We have to reach 100sqm, with 21m
depth, our maximum wide is 4.76sqm.
There are some special conditions in
this depth, which the dwellings have
to face,light and the narrow
distance are the main ones.
first plan typ.
section a typ.
section b typ.
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21 m depth
The studio of the depth shows not so
many different opportunities, the
distribution of the inner space is
related to the shape of the external
space. In this case, the exterior form
guides the interior distribution.
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21
unit
P
1
2
3
V
+
Bike/moto Parking
One bedroom unit
Two bedrooms unit
Three bedrooms unit
Void
void
t1
t2
t3
t4
floor 20
floor 40
floor 60
floor 20
floor 40
floor 60
t5
t6
t7
platform
void
floor 0
platform +
distribution
floor 0
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circulation
floor 0
in-between
floors
floor 20
floor 40
floor 60
floor 2
floor 3
floor 4
floor 5
floor 6
floor 7
floor 8 (...)
floor 22
floor 23
floor 24
floor 25
floor 26
floor 27
floor 28 (...)
floor 42
floor 43
floor 44
floor 45
floor 46
floor 47
floor 48 (...)
system
first air
floor 0
system
second air
floor 21
system
third air
floor 41
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P
1
2
3
V
Bike/moto Parking
One bedroom unit
Two bedrooms unit
Three bedrooms unit
Void
floor 20
floor 40
platform
floor 60
floor 49
floor 50
floor 51
floor 52 (...)
floor 60
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plan 1
plan 2
plan 3
plan 4
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plan 5
plan 6
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Master in Collective Housing 2012_SPECIALITY
08
Energy & SUSTAINABILITY
SPECIALITY
*
Javier García GERMAN
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Theme
ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Speciality Leader
Javier García Germán
Team
Ana Medina_Ecuador
Architecture, lends itself admirably to
EXAMINA-
TION
in sustainable terms. Energy that accumulates
as information is one of the main tools that we need
to take into account while designing. We will see
several CONCEPTS and STRATEGIES managed by
different people in different places, time, and
projects, these studios will help us to understand and
plan an architectonic project. This studio refers to
an existing building, according to the new conditions
of the new place, we will project a sustainable
building.
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EDIFICIO JARAGUA
Sao Paulo-Brazil
1984
Paulo Mendez da Rocha
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green areas
exterior walls
dining room
garden
living room
vehicle entrance
lobby, hall
water mirror
pedestrian entrance
kitchen
vehicle entrance
shape
O
2
5
structure
vertical circulation
1Om
SITE PLAN
laundry
bedroom
bedroom
bedroom
shape
bedroom
TYPICAL FLOOR
48º
27º
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SECTION
transparency
wind
sun
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POSITION AND EXTERNAL SHAPE in relation with climate
ABU DHABI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Proportions
Proportions (wind - sun)
Proportions (2:3)
Section
Existing (Sao Paulo)
Proportions (1:2)
Proposal orientation (Abu Dhabi)
Proportions (1:3)
June
8:00
13:00
18:00
Proportions (1:3)
December
8:00
13:00
18:00
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PASSIVE SYSTEMS
ABU DHABI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The buildable volume
proposed in the
regulation impedes the
cross venting and the
appropiate sun
exposure.
Systems are configured in
centralized net, sensors are
arranged to get real data of working
according to a protocol.
The tenants enter the building. They
are informed and involved with the
aim of generating a new
sustainability culture.
The building starts to deal the real
climate and use vicissitudes and data
obtained is analyzed.
Regulation is modified
and a volume with the
shape of square is
proposed to guarantee and
optimum orientation. An
internal courtyard makes
possible the open-ended
dwellings.
The excavation of the
parking area is reused to
generate topography
(microclimate and
acoustics). It is placed
perpendicular to the urban
axis. The ecological print
is brought back in the
vegetal roof.
The building is raised to
allow the passing of the
wind and the people flow
from the square.
The work with the
environment creates
microclimate that avoids
the “heat island” effect.
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The north side of the
building envelops is
understood as a layer that
accumulates or rejects
solar radiation depending
on the seasun of the year.
The north side of the
building envelope protects
from or collects fresh wind
coming from the south.
The houses have open-ended
arrangament.
The building starts to work at an
urban scale.
The houses are placed
between two collector and
protector layers (north and
south).
For optimizing systems and
strategies, the building could be a
model (not a type) which could be
reproduced.
The north envelope is
specialized with a blinds
constructive solution. The
south envelope is
specialized with a
constructive solution of
polycarbonate panels.
Energy & SUSTAINABILITY_SPECIALITY_MCH2012
These two specialized
layers, the building can be
protected or collect energy
throughout the whole year.
The excavation casting will enable to
generate topography with the trees
planting and shade.
The building is complemented
with volumes wich make venting
easier and enable to enrich the
volume with public spaces.
An air-land exchange system is arranged
with an array net of underground piping
at an average depth of 6m, collector
inlets take the air from the trees
shade area.
A commercial area is arranged
in the ground floor (mix
uses).
The commercial area is
partially perforated.
The naturally cooled air is mechanically
impelled through the vent fans.
This systems led to the dwellings by
means of a piping vertical. The net is
arranged in columns that pass through
the heart of the dwellings and
distribute the air though an inside
systme of grilles and vent strikes.
The basements partial
perforated makes the
venting and the people
flow easier through the
public space.
The north envelope collects radiation
from the solar galleries without
letting it to pass into the building,
and an air flow that is impelled to
the cold areas of the house, while at
night keeps a good temperature.
In summer, the blinds system protects
the glazed galleries from the solar
radiation.
In summer, during the nights, the
underground piping system is off and
the building is directly vented
through the facade.
In summer, during the day, the natural
evaporating of the ecological roof
dissipates the incident radiation.
The photovoltaic and thermosolar panels
are arranged in the most exposed areas,
integrated in the north facade and the
roof.
The air extration is supported by a
natural system of solar chimneys.
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first model
june
8:00
december
13:00
18:00
8:00
13:00
18:00
13:00
18:00
second model
june
8:00
december
13:00
18:00
8:00
ABU DHABI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
MATERIALITY
Blinding concrete
Cavity wall
Cold storage
Exterior layer
Interior layer
Cavity wall
Thermal insulation window
Aerated concrete
Breathe taking water insulation coat
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Thermal insulation windows
Double glazing windows
Low emissivity glass
Ventilated façade
THERMODYNAMIC CONCEPT
Energy & SUSTAINABILITY_SPECIALITY_MCH2012
ABU DHABI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
High of stories: for ventilating
and refresh therefore, the use
of air conditioned could minimize.
Through window´s system heating
Free ground floor allows air
The green roof dissipates
Water and vegetation increases energy system
decreases,and with a lower use of
to enter into the courtyard.
the incident radiation.
between inner-outdoor spaces.
air conditioned, the
It also refreshes the floor of
building
reaches an internal comfort .
the stories.
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
ABU DHABI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
FLOOR TYPE 2
b
a
a
b
dwellings
vertical circulation
horizontal circulation
FLOOR TYPE 2
a-a
b-b
seven different typologies
of dwellings
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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
ABU DHABI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
entrance parking
GROUND FLOOR
SITE PLAN
FLOOR TYPE 1
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Master in Collective Housing 2012_WORKSHOP
09
Francisco BURGOS &
Ginés GARRIDO
+
Javier MALO
5 days workshop
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Theme
LANDSCAPE
Workshop Leader
Ginés Garrido & Francisco Burgos
Assistant
Javier Malo
Team
Giacomo Caputo_Italy
Addler Edizalde_Mexico
Ana Medina_Ecuador
The workshop started with the visit to Madrid Rio
Park, where the urban mobility, equipment, connection,
reactivation and new routes are USED as the main
tools for this kind of projects. Colmenar Viejo is the
place to study, a town near mountains and Madrid
located in the north, the
TION
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MOBILITY
and
CONNEC-
will be the decisive factors to project.
BURGOS & GARRIDO_WORKSHOP_MCH2012
band
aid
BAND-AID
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highway - trainway - bikeline
green areas
CONTEXT
actual situation
built areas
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Before the construction of highways and trainways,
this area was an unique space. The actual panorama
is two different situations, one, a built side and the
other, a non- used green space; it is very difficult to
cross to the other side.
disconnection
ANALYSIS
marked points
disconnection
These mark points show areas
where
interesting
happened
are
but
separated,
things
unfortunately
disconnected,
isolated.
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DISCONNECTION
LESS HIGHWAYS
MORE BICYCLE PATHS
LESS CARS
MORE PEDESTRIAN
MORE PEOPLE WALKING
WAYS TO MAKE CITY
healing the city = band aid
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band aid
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hill platform
landing stage platform
BAND-AID
protected forest
SITE PLAN
estacion de cercanias
el goloso
parque regional “cuenca alta del
manzanares”
military quarter
staple platforms
universidad autonoma de madrid
psychiatric hospital
madrid
old people residence
high school
m40
harbor platform
elementary school
operacion chamartin
parque de valdelatas
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1 SEW UP different areas
2 CONTINUITY of paths
3 CONCENTRATION of funtion
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¿WHY PLATFORM?
¿WHY PLATFORM?
1 HILL
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working with TOPOGRAPHY
2 LANDING STAGE
3 STAPLE
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SEPARATED PATH BIKERS AND PEDESTRIAN
BICYCLES
PEDESTRIAN
RUNNERS
PEDESTRIAN
RUNNERS
PEDESTRIAN
BICYCLES
BICYCLES
PEDESTRIAN
BICYCLES
BICYCLES
PEDESTRIAN
RUNNERS
URBAN PATH
GREEN PATH
URBAN PATH
GREEN PATH
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URBAN PATH
GREEN PATH
pedestrian - bike paths
inside the platforms
intersection of levels
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walking - biking (living) in platforms
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Master in Collective Housing 2012_WORKSHOP
10
Wiel ARETS
+
Lena WIEMER
5 days workshop
127
Wiel ARETS_WORKSHOP_MCH2012
Theme
TOKYO UTOPIA 2085
Workshop Leader
Wiel Arets
Assistant
Lena Wiemer
Team
Ana Medina_Ecuador
The global and local societies and their metropolitan
areas will change because of current developments. We
will focus on
TOKYO
as 'battle-ground', and its
ability to function as an example for a new
UTOPIAN
SOCIETY.
We will challenge the idea of a supermodern-metropolis and how it could stimulate a new
LIVE/LIFE, production
COMMON place.
Utopia in which
of working are
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and new ways
i s l a n d s
h o m o g e n e o u s
i s l a n d s
h o m o g e n e o u s
h o m o g e n e o u s
i s l a n d s
Wiel ARETS_WORKSHOP_MCH2012
AGENDA
- Waking up
- Fair of reality
- Look back to history
- Memory
- Identity
- Living its old-new culture
- Process to the future
- Give the stage in 2085
- Strategy: everything is
resolved, so, the world would
be for people having concerns
about their identity, there
would be an identity crisis in
Japan. They have many light
periods in their history;
however, their obedience makes
them having this crisis.
Samurai, fansab, music, beauty,
bulling, happiness, homogeneity, difference, wars, proud,
sex, west, island, identity.
MAKE ISLANDS OF IDENTITY, TIME,
MEMORY, but connected.
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MANIFESTO HOMOGENEOUS ISLANDS
I WOKE UP in an unknown place where I had never been before, I was afraid so, I tried to remember what happened for so long, I thought I
was in my aeroar talking with my friend and after, I was not sure, I could not remember. I realized that for the moment I would not
have been able to remember, then I decided to go out.
What I have seen was incredible, actually, I thought it would have been worse that my reality, especially because I remembered some
stories from my grand mother. I was flying in my aeroar and what I saw first were shining points everywhere, the sky was full of tiny
transparent cables that drove solar energy to every human body, that was the reason why everybody was shining in the sky. Suddenly, a
cable put into my stomach and I started to be brilliant, SHINING like the sun, but what was more surprising was to feel that quantity of
energy surrounding my entire body, I felt powerful and invincible, I felt alive, however, there were also people in aeroar but they were
not shining, of course, they were grush .
I felt curious because when I looked around, nobody was laughing, even smiling, in fact, every person I saw was almost
one, their facial expressions, their clothing, the structure of their body, women and men, children and teenagers, all
same. Then I compared them with the building spread over the land, were the same, the same aspect, the same order, the
it was like the buildings were copy of people, or people be COPY of buildings, as a serial production like the aeroar.
I felt scared of asking anything to anybody, my first impression was to be distanced or avoiding any visual contact, I
for other place and I went to the lower level.
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a copy of another
of them were the
same repetition,
For this reason,
decided to look
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When I the ground, I decided to walk. Abruptly, I could have look at one wall screen ad, I was totally paralyzed when I read it, it said
Tokyo.
How could I have been in Tokyo? I knew I was not in my place, I knew I was far from home, but being in Tokyo was not an option, it was
not possible, Tokyo was on the other side of my place. I felt more afraid than I was before, I wanted to be in contact with somebody
from home, but at the same time, I was so curious to discover how was that city, that alpha-city of the world. Then, many images came to
my mind, Tokyo´s sounds, crow, bay, everything I have seen in my wall screen at home but all I had in my mind was different from what I
was looking or listening. I kept on walking afraid, but as the time went out, I felt more comfortable with Tokyo.
While I was walking, I saw many groups of people walking around, adults, young, old people, teenagers, everybody were walking by the
sidewalks in groups or alone, but something was different from the upper levels, they were really smiling, laughing, fighting, showing
human expressions the whole time, in that moment I decided not to go in any specific direction, just walked around. The more I walked
on, the more I liked that place, even it was the same everywhere as buildings or people BEHAVIOR, I liked it more than the upper level.
For sure it was due to the opened places, the empty area, the void above the surface, the weather, everything was nice, even the wall
screen ads. After walking so long, the streets changed into water, I noticed it was Tokyo´s bay, the big bay but I could not have seen
it, there were buildings, islands as parks, actually the bay was an extension of the city, it was in fact Tokyo city, the only difference was that the streets were canals, as the disappeared Venice. It was not a bay anymore, so I did not know where the city finished,
or where the sea started.
I kept on walking towards the “bay-city”, through the sidewalks, which were solid, and unexpectedly there appeared a hundred of samurais
in front of me. They were FIGHTING among them, they were killing each other, I was petrified, my entire body was paralyzed, I could not
move one centimeter, it was like Tokugawa´s age, I really felt their energy and spirit, their clothing, their hair, their swords, the
amazing sound of their swords and something very impressive was that their bodies were shining too, they were real people back to three
hundred years. Then, a lady appeared in front of me and started to talk so quick and fast but obviously, I did not understand any word
she said, I thought she was angry due to my non-reaction and she leaved me, after thinking a while, I decided to leave that place too.
Ten minutes later, I was wandering why I leaved that battle, why I did it, and I tried to go back but it was impossible, I lost the
path. I was so upset with myself for loosing that amazing experience that until now I regret.
I entered into a kind of building, but in fact, it was some kind of STRUCTURE connected to others similar. I realized that these
structures were made for a specific action or ATMOSPHERE, they did not belong to anybody, actually it belonged to everybody. Every
structure of the city was made for this, there were a capsule for each activity for each one as sleeping, eating, working, jumping, any
activity that people could do, it was astonishing because nobody needed to have one only space for living, they could live everywhere
and did anything at anytime they wanted. When I went downstairs, I wanted to find a place to rest, I asked some people but no one
understood what I said, however, they were kindly with me but in fact I did not received any help. So I walked again and a fansub group
appeared in front of me, its impression was marvelous, everybody was dressing those colorful attractive sensual clothes that I remembered the samurais battle and I decided not to loose again an opportunity like that, I followed them. They were shouting, singing,
dancing and after walking a while, they met hundred of others fansub. You really could do anything at any moment.
So, Tokyo did not need housing, its society was so diverse that anybody could chose how to live, and this shining item for each one
could reflect their history, their memory, it was a brilliant society of the world, or, it was a society that shouts out for recognition. This understanding depends on Tokyo society, their honor, their history, their customs, and their lives.
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After I was completely adapted to this Tokyo, I realized that it is important to look back to the history in order to have memory. This
platform will not be about Tokyo´s but Japan, which has been a country of monoculture. Japan has ONE race origin, long history of an
ISLAND country, impartially secure and stable treasuring of their cultural development without experiencing invasion or colonization by
other countries, and the causes that form their present situation, HOMOGENEITY.
To arrive to this point it might be least effective to change the JAPANESE HEART OF CULTURE, which General Douglas MacArthur occupied
for several years. Moreover, the Emperor´s family is originated from invaders from Korea, and ruled all over Japan settling shrines as
military bases to control population. Even though these facts are ancient, they might be the initiation of this tendency in Japan to
OBEY authorities. However, Japanese people belong to a culture, which is not the topic for this discussion, it will be their IDENTITY
CRISIS; this statement is based in the lack of tradition they have in order to thing individually, they think as a member of some group
or organization that they belong to.
This mono-racial country that has one language standardized by the mass media, shows that unique opinions are contrary to what their
holders hesitate in order to express themselves, knowing subsequent discrimination from others. Moreover, self-sacrifice for the common
benefit is a characteristic key of the highly educated and should be one of the most important virtues of responsible leaders. But, big
knowledge often comes by egoistic personality, further, recent tendency with materialistic prosperity which is called an age of
satiation might be a hotbed for hedonism.
Back to the past, it is necessary to say that the long time of isolation that Japan had in Tokugawa shogunate had kept them from the
exterior world, reinforcing this isolation as a tendency. The shogun close trading except a small amount with China and Holland, and
rejected immigration due to the fear of Christianity propagation. Whether the poor shogun´s tendency for foreign language might have
come from its closely society, its grammar differences, or education system, it is a fact that Japan absorbs foreign ideas or information in translation. On the other hand, there is a great level of traditional culture accumulation that could not be translated into
other languages.
Now, bullying or hikikomori effect shows the lack of originality there is. Their traditional education places too much emphasis on
listening to teachers and not having a discussion. Teachers have the answer and students memorize it, so they do not have the necessity
for thinking by themselves. Then, their education creates similar Japanese student always taking about yesterday´s Tv animation or
PlayStation 3, when a student does not watch the same program, he might lose a topic, and could be bullied; their present education must
reinforce their identity crisis. And what would happen in the future, they might have failed to introduce free culture in the field of
sexual expression. Fortunately or unfortunately, Japan was the only victim of a two nuclear bombs, so they have a strong responsibility
to lead their peaceful future. They have grown up from disaster and poverty after war because they are proud of being studios and
industrious. After having this sight to history, it is demonstrated they have an identity crisis.
But identity is the RELATIONSHIP that maintains only with ONESELF, so, how a society without clear identity for so much time could find
one without having the tools necessary to do it? Then, there will be necessary to find the essence in order that this fact is possible.
The way would be to reach the eternity, the supremacy, the own, not stolen identity? There is a HORIZON where they separate or join the
divine and the mundane, where the man must find his way to reach his identity. Crown, understanding, wisdom, severity, kindness,
brilliance, eternity, beauty, foundation and finally kingdom, they are the necessary points to have for managing this supremacy personal
point. Nevertheless, each one will be able to remain in any part of the way, some will be able to CHOOSE the first one or only the half
of the way, whereas others will want to come at any expense to the superiority. The supreme or low identity will depend in a DECISION
AND PERSONAL ACTION, to what it might call X-DIVINE SYSTEM.
For it, it is necessary to realize homogeneous islands where every individual will be able to choose his way to come to his identity if
it wants it or not. These ISLANDS will be in different levels, on and underground and sea, and also they will be connected by means of
cables of light of the Sun that will be the ways chosen by every person.
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ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA
Department of Architectural Projects
Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos
Master´s Degree Director / Director del Máster: José María de Lapuerta