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JOSE ANTONIO GRAS architect | urban designer

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JOSE ANTONIO GRAS ARCHITECT | URBAN DESIGNER | RESEARCHER

PERSONAL DATA

FORMACIÓN PROFESIONAL

Jose Antonio Gras Iñigo

2016 (May-July)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE / RESEARCH:

02/10/1988 Callosa de Segura, Alicante (Spain)

Área de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio EPS Universidad de Alicante

2015-currently

25A Lingfield Road, London, SW19 4QD 07759 367181 (UK) // 0034 670 027 564 (Spain)

Architect

jose.antonio.gras@gmail.com

Independent researcher

Design and management of the exhibition of Urbanism 5 Course in Altea + layout, design and publication of the book of results and exhibition

New urban paradigms through the application of technology in the city (Smart Cities) as a tool for participation and generation of knowledge (Smart Citizens)

jagras88 ///// Architecture as a tool of political and social transformation Architect by the University of Alicante, in 2011 I study for a year at the T.U. Kaiserslautern (Germany) where I can expand my way of understanding the profession in different perspectives and geographical, social and cultural contexts. During my career as a student I have the opportunity to participate in several national and international workshops and courses in which I develop my interest in ecological architecture and sustainable movement, which is understood as creative, complex and inclusive.

I am interested in innovation, research and architectural experimentation in terms of edification, city and territory as well as their relationship with the agents and actors that take part into any context of reality. I understand architecture as a tool for political and social transformation where it is essential to ensure a holistic approach of sustainability and to exercise it as an attitude.

Identified with open source movement and free knowledge, I am convinced that architectural design processes must be based both on virtual platforms as analog, using the fundamental role that technology and digital tools may have in order to an optimal working of multidisciplinary teams of research and design.

https://es.linkedin.com/in/jose-antonio-gras-iñigo-12367a3b

www.connectedscapes.com

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EDUCATION 2016-2018 City & Urbanism (Long-distance part-time Master’s degree) Universitat Oberta de Catalunya A crosscutting and holistic approach to the city from its multiple dimensions, offering tools of analysis and intervention for the design of comprehensive policies that respond to the increasing complexity of needs in cities

2015-ongoing Freelance Architect

2015 (February-November)

Independent professional

Gentrification processes in Russafa, Valencia Participating member

2015-ongoing PLAYstudio Design Architect (specific collaborations) Research, design process and illustration of different projects and competitions 2013-currently

2006-2014

Architect, Editor and Social Manager

Architecture & Urban Planning (MArch USA equivalent)

Sustainable development projects, Content Editor, Social and SEO/SEM Manager

Final Degree Project qualified with Excellent (9/10) 2011-2012 Architektur (Exchange Programme MArch) Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany) Recipient of Erasmus Scolarship

Multidisciplinary and independent social, cultural and urban research network “Recuperem la ciutat” 2013-2014 University of Alicante Participating member

More Than Green (www.morethangreen.es/en)

University of Alicante

Technopolitical tools on urban sustainability

Research project “Viceversos Socioarquitectónicos: procesos participativos en Sociología y Arquitectura” within the program Redes de Investigación en Docencia Universitaria

JOSE ANTONIO GRAS ARCHITECT | URBAN DESIGNER | RESEARCHER

RESEARCH AND OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS

Gras, J.A. (2016). ALC.Políticas Regenerativas. Available at: http://www.urbanlivinglab. net/politicas-regenerativas/

Capdevila, I.; Iborra, V.; Gras, J.A.; Miron, S. (2016). “Forus LABing”. In Europan Europe (Ed.), Europan 13 results, (pp. 174-175). ISBN: 978-2-914296-30-4

Capdevila, I.; Iborra, V.; Gras, J.A.; Miron, S. (2015). “Forus LABing”. In Europan Norway (Ed.), Adaptable City 2. Book of Results, (pp. 110-117). ISBN: 978-82-92960-06-6 Research network Recuperem la ciutat: Jover, G., Quiñonero, J. (monoDestudio); Gras, J. A. (More Than Green); Benlloch, L., López, M. (LaDula); Fernández, B. (URBS); Cámara, C.; Salvaje, L.; Puche, E. (Trazeo); Serrano, S.; Mas, A.; Miquel, M.; De Jesús, J.; Prokopljevic, J. “Tematización y ciudad marca. Hacia una definición de conceptos, efectos y estrategias de acción.” In Universidad de Almería (Ed.), URBS. Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales Vol 5, No 2 (2015): Turismo, tematización de la ciudad y urbanismo contrahegemónico, (pp. 225-239). ISSN: 2014-2714 Iborra V., Capdevila I., Cervantes J., Gras J. A., Mora V. (2015). “Sustainability indicators.

How to transform a technical tool in an educational experience?”. In Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Ed.), 6th European Conference On Energy Efficiency And Sustainability In Architecture And Planning, (pp. 85-91). ISBN: 97884-9082-182-4 Carrasco, J.; Francés, F.; Torres, J.Ma; Nieto, E.; Abellán, A.; Mesa, M.; Canzio, I.; Jesús Olivares, J.; Capdevila, I.; Canto, A.; Amorós, V.; Gras, J.A.; Espinar, E.; Escribano, A.; Castillo, B.; Penalva, C.; Brunetti, A.; de Gracia, P. (2014). Red 87: “Viceversos Socioarquitectónicos: Tentativas metodológicas para ampliar márgenes disciplinares en Arquitectura y Sociología”. In Universidad de Alicante (Ed.), Investigación y Propuestas Innovadoras de Redes UA para la Mejora Docente, (pp. 1612-1623). ISBN: 978-84617-3914-1

Gras, J.A.; Oltra, F.J.; Durá, A.M.; Marco, M.E.; Bachle, J.M.; Carrillo, M.; Moreno, D.F.; Hernández, M.E. (2013). La Murada / El Rincón de Bonanza. In UNE (Ed.), Foro Estratégico Orihuela 2030: desarrollo, aplicación y mejora de la metodología de trabajo “EPC” en la ciudad de Orihuela, (pp. 382-415). ISBN: 978-84-9717-311-7 Gras, J.A.; López, P.; Segura, Adrián. (2011). “Tubular Rain”. In Taller Cerámico - UA (Ed.), Taller Cerámico 11 Ascer Grupo 24, (pp. 72-73). ISBN: 978-84-695-8678-5 Students of Winter Workshop 08/09. (2009). “Mapping Gaza”. In América Editorial (Ed.), magazine Pasajes Arquitectura nº105, (pp. 37-39). ISBN: 978-1-56250-105-1

MAIN AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS

MAIN WORKSHOPS

COMPETENCES

2016

2016 Course on Designing Cities. University of Pennsylvania (May-July)

LANGUAGES:

Forum on internationalization: EUROPAN 13. Invited speaker in Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Alicante. Description of the proposal Forus LABing, 1st Prize Europan 13.

2015 FORUS LABing *1st PRIZE Europan 13 in Stavanger, Norway PUBLISHED IN: *December’15: Europan Norway Book of Results *January’16: Divisare *May’16: Europan 13 Catalogue *June’16: Afasia Archzine The City as Habitat: city and technology. Invited speaker in Roca Gallery, Madrid. Lecture on Smart Cities in the workshop “Technology and City”, 4th meeting within the cycle “La Ciudad como Hábitat” organized by ASA. 2014 Centros Europeos de Empresas Innovadoras, CEEI. Invited speaker in MiB#tea space, Elche.

Broadened sustainability.

2011 Exhibition Projects III UA. The Building, Alicante.

Public exhibition of selected projects.

2010 Future Environments, Future Generations.

Participating member and final conference in Camon Alicante, technological space of interaction and creation. Research and mediation workshop on urban design involving Primary Education students, organized by PLAYstudio.

Spanish

native

2016 Course on Civic Design. Institute of Architecture of Madrid COAM (March-July)

Catalan

high-level

English

fluent

2015 Basic course on Digital Marketing (SEM, SEO and e-commerce). IAB Spain & Google

German

basic

2015 Workshop Grasshopper + basic 3Dprinting (20h)

TECHNICAL COMPETENCES:

2013 International workshop “MORE THAN GREEN International Summer Course (by the sea): Urban design and sustainable architecture” (50h) 2013 Workshop “Thinking Grasshopper”, medium-level (20h) 2012 International Workshop “Sustainable solutions in already built environments” (50h) 2012 Workshop on model building “Loos3”. Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany) 2011 International Workshop “Crakow-Alicante: flooding emergency housing” (20h) 2010 Workshop “Future Environments, Future Generations”. Camon Project, Alicante (40h) 2010 Workshop “Shoot Architecture: Creative workshop on production, edition and post-production of architecture videos”. University of Alicante (20h) 2010 Workshop “Rhino advanced. 3D modeling and render in architecture”.

University of Alicante (40h) 2009 Workshop “Mapping Gaza”, University of Alicante (20h)

Autocad Rhinoceros Vray Grasshopper Sketchup Archicad/Revit Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Premiere Adobe InDesign Adobe Lightroom CE3X GIS Drawing/illustration Photography Graphic design Infographics Web design

Mac OS X Windows 7/8

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RESEARCH EXPERIMENTAL

URBANISM #furusetmaking: from public space to a PLACE

The LABORATORY of LOST (objects) & FOUND (domesticities)

[with PLAYstudio + Ana Melgarejo]

[with PLAYstudio + Francisco Colom]

//OPEN COMPETITION

//OPEN COMPETITION

(FutureBuilt / Trygve Lies plass, 2015)

(Oslo Architecture Triennale, 2015)

Proposal for urban, social and cultural regeneration from a square in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Oslo, within the Nordic program FutureBuilt.

Proposal developed for the Oslo Architecture Triennale “Afterbelonging” para cuestionar el concepto de identidad y el sentido de pertenencia en el aeropuerto de Gardermoen.

FORUS LABing ALC.REGENERATIVE POLITICS //FINAL PROJECT DEGREE

(9/10 University of Alicante, 2014) *published on More Than Green, UrbanLivingLab Ephemeral proposals for a participatory public space. Alicante’s neighborhood San Anton as an incubator of ideas and collaborative initiatives.

NEW ECOLOGIES. Connectedscapes: recreational spaces //PROJECTS III (University of Alicante, 2011) Protoblock and prototype of programmatic connection infrastructure based on social exchanges generated from the logic of pedestrian movement in Barcelona.

[with PLAYstudio + Simona Miron]

//EUROPAN 13

(1st prize in Europan 13 Norway / Stavanger, 2015) *published on: - Europan Norway Book of Results (December 2015) - Divisare (January 2016) - Europan 13 Catalogue (May 2016) - Afasia Archzine (Juny 2016) Experimental process based on a strategic logic “middle-out”, with the aim of transforming Forus into a new urban paradigm through a new model of society and promoted by a new economic model.

Parcial Development Plan in Elda [with Francisco López, Álvaro Picó y Juan José Martínez]

//URBANISM III (University of Alicante, 2011) Detailed planning of a residential area on the banks of the river Vinalopo, Elda.

GREENING Elda [with Francisco López, Álvaro Picó y Juan José Martínez]

//URBANISM III (University of Alicante, 2010) Assessment of environmental sustainability in Elda and development of a new planning proposal.

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[ #DES ]

CONSTRUCTION INTERIOR DESIGN

DESIGN OSTENDlab

DRK Areal

[with PLAYstudio + Ana Melgarejo]

//BAUKONSTRUKTION III, GRÖSSER ENTWURF

//OPEN COMPETITION

(Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2012)

(Oostende, Belgium, 2016)

Appartment building for seniors and associated services and design of public space.

Design of a walkway that gives a new image as landmark to the waterfront of Ostend, Belgium.

Knoeckel, Schmidt und Cie.

Tubular Rain

//BAUKONSTRUKTION II, GRÖSSER ENTWURF

[with Pablo López y Adrián Segura]

(Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2012)

Refurbishment of a former paper factory in Lambrecht and design of new residential buildings.

PMKTL [with Javier Estevan, David Cazorla and Elisa Abad]

//OPEN COMPETITION (Cátedra Cerámica ASCER, Alicante, 2012) *published in Taller Cerámico 11 Ascer. Taller Cerámico UA (ed.)

Design of a ceramic piece with application in building facades.

//OPEN COMPETITION

Enjoying the views

(Paris, 2012)

//CONSTRUCTION III

Design of a building that hosts programs of restaurant type sampler and tasting.

(University of Alicante, 2010) Design of a portable beach wardrobe for Costa Blanca.

Residential block in Elda //URBANISM III (University of Alicante, 2011) Typological residential development and definition of bioclimatic strategies.

Wave Module [with Antonio Gomis y Pablo Ballesta]

//CONSTRUCTION III (University of Alicante, 2010) Design of a tourist information module in Benacantil mountain, Alicante.

#RES The LABORATORY of LOST (objects) & FOUND (domesticities) Oslo Architecture Triennale 2015. OSLO Proposal delivered to the Oslo Architecture Triennale EVERYDAY OBJECTS are ARCHITECTURAL DEVICES capable of DYNAMIZING the space and QUESTIONING the architecture they inhabit.

We take the LOST OBJECTS of Oslo Airport as our main working material.

The IDENTITY of the airport lies in the PASSENGERS who simultaneously inhabit it at a given time.

The SENSE OF BELONGING is built on the experience of DOMESTICITY. Oslo Airport takes its geographic context as an IDENTITY THEME. The local nature of its construction materials (wood) and the Nordic landscape in which it is inserted (pine forests) represent today the most palpable manifestation of the identity of the airport. This local personality was born with the design of the airport and remains unchanged from the time of its construction. Its development capacity is zero (DEAD IDENTITY).

However, we believe that the airport does not develop its identity in response to the nostalgic recreation of images associated with the geogra-

phic point where it stands but, above all, to the passengers who simultaneously inhabit the airport at a given time. This user is extremely heterogeneous and changing. Therefore, the identity of the airport cannot dismiss its intercultural condition, but must strengthen its dynamic condition (LIVING IDENTITY).

Paradoxically, the complex nature of the user is voided by the logics of the airport. The architecture, technologies and protocols of the airport are extremely accurate, rigid and dictatorial. It is determined exclusively by non-negotiable quantitative information (flight numbers, passport numbers, arrival and departure timetables, amount of suitcases, luggage weight, nationality, seat numbers, etc.). Thus, the airport acts as an ABSOLUTIST DEVICE that is unable to recognize its own subjective and intercultural condition. Besides the airport blocks the manifestation of any casual everyday event, and therefore any approach to DOMESTICITY. The architecture and logics of the airport are unable to absorb the indeterminate.

Failure to recognize domestic situations makes the airport an uncomfortable place that strongly denies any idea of BELONGING. The waiting time turns into a formality to be overcome and the airport experience into something undesirable. [with PLAYstudio (Ivรกn Capdevila + Vicente Iborra) and Francisco Colom]

#RES ALC.REGENERATIVE POLITICS Ephemeral proposals for a participatory public space 2014. ALICANTE Final Degree Project qualified as Excellent (9/10).

University of Alicante.

Published on: Urban Living Lab, More Than Green 1st PART: Quantitative and qualitative analysis to cultural, social and economic levels.

The intention is to propose different intervention in public space that trigger a series of actions and conflicts that regenerate themselves in others. It begins with an analysis of Alicanteregarding voids in the urban fabric, due to the process of commodification that the city has undergone in recent decades and its model of development based on geographic expansion, being San Anton neighborhood the greatest exponent of this: location and relationship of San Antón’s particularities both urban and sociocultural; exact pinpoints of urban voids (lots, vacant locals and empty housing); and collection of testimonies of various neighbors, recording 45 interviews in the interest of finding out the main needs.

The parametrization of these locations allows to determine the influence areas of agents and actors interviewed. After that, we do a more contextual approach to try to find out and describe the behaviors and experiences both daily as identity, by selecting a number of situations within three groups: urban situations which take place in the public space; domestic situations, in the private sector; and hybrid situations, where the border between public and private relationship is diluted. It is important

to note that it does not consist of a person or particular family, but groups of belonging.

These interviewees reproduce in their behaviour the behaviours of the groups to which they belong, so what matters is study the behaviour of these individuals as representatives of groups and, from there, to design proposals with a solid and proven base that has greater probability of acceptance.

2nd PART: ephemeral proposals of social upheaval for the revitalization of public spaces: The project’s conceptual strategy is based on temporality, in the ephemeral, looking at temporary U.S. stores in late 90s that changed in short periods of time but changing the exclusivity of the product at that time for citizen inclusion. By temporality is achieved transform new spatial configuration and create novelty continuously, working as urban attractor and keeping the urban live of the neighborhood.

From all the experiences, testimonies and urban, domesctic and hybrid situations registered, it is extracted the main premise that allows to design 5 prototypes, shaped in a more realistic ways in some cases or metaphorical in others. What matters is the strategy of each prototype and the social impact generated, not so much its shape or its materialization.

In short, instead of the prevailing rational urbanism since the last century, it is to seek a contextual and inclusive urban planning, in which citizen is not treated as a customer.

3rd PART: promoting real initiatives in the neighborhood for testing collaborative design processes and networks of citizen participation: Simultaneously to all of the above, during the year and along with three partners I founded the collective RETHINKING SAN ANTON to carry out actions that would allow us to test the ability of empowerment and management which would have the neighbors in a more participatory public space. First we created a campaign to capture attention through posters, waving neighbors making them believe they were going to build facilities in the neighborhood and levaing clear below that would not carry out if we do not do intensely together. This resulted in an event in which we explain to residents our intentions, leaving an open micro free speech so that they express their complaints, opinions and proposals.

We came to the conclusion that the chair could be an identity element of San Antón, so further action was to paint custom chairs among all neighbors for public use.

Today and as a result, neighbors are rehabilitating a private lot for public use which has been called “Jardín de la Esperanza” (“Garden of Hope”).

#RES NEW ECOLOGIES Connectedscapes: recreational spaces 2010/2011. BARCELONA Projects III. University of Alicante.

L’Eixample, Barcelona. Sants-Montjuïc area. Road traffic gives prominence to pedestrians, creating city through social exchanges generated from its logic of displacement. Programmatic connection infrastructures are built to enable and enhance this logic, taking as a basis the characteristics, activity and mobility of the ‘Gent Gran’ (senior people).

Starting with the development of a protoblock under the parameter of pedestrian flows and an analysis of mobility and displacement by social biases, the scale is increased to an urban prototype of four blocks of l’Eixample with different morphologies. The main strategy is to generate attractors that serve as a programmatic connection points and to enhance in this sense key corners of the traditional chamfers of Barcelona, emptying on the ground floor or in height to emphasize this hiperconexion of interior spaces of the blocks.

#URB #furusetmaking from public space to a PLACE 2015. FURUSET, OSLO Open competition within the Nordic program FutureBuilt.

We propose a place identity process by transforming Trygve Lies plass into a commonplace where people from Furuset meet and recognize themselves.

We understand that IDENTITY is the main binding agent in the social environment. It is constructed by superimposing multiple collective (cultural) and individual identities (subjectivities).

Thus, Trygve Lies plass must be designed not only as a MEETING PLACE but also as a SPACE OF UNCERTAINTY. In short, we propose a comfortable and full equipped space where users themselves invent the way to use it. [with PLAYstudio (Ivรกn Capdevila + Vicente Iborra) and Ana Melgarejo]

#URB FORUS LABing EUROPAN 13 NORWAY 2015. STAVANGER, NORWAY *Project awarded with 1st Prize in Europan 13. **Published in various print and digital media like Europan 13 Catalogue, Divisare, More Than Green, etc.

We understand that economic innovation can not be an end in itself but a means to the urban and social innovation. Our goal, therefore is to propose a new model of society linked to a new urban model and promoted by a new economic model.

This ideology will structure the project.

Therefore, as F. Ascher raises in his Les nouveaux principes de l’urbanisme (2004) we do not propose the construction of a result but a kind of “middle-out” experimental process, which we call FORUS LAB, where Top-Down and Bottom-Up

strategies intermingle. This suggests a horizontal approach, by means of networks, with a wide range of actors-mediators where processes are constantly renegotiated in an exercise that can be more inclusive and diverse in order to make conflicts visible. It is conceived as a comprehensive urban strategy -social, cultural, economic, and environmental- that will run in parallel to the process of change of the economic model in the region (20-30 years). It is structured into 3 groups of operations linked to 3 phases in time: Fase 1 / Project site / Forus Hub Fase 2 / Strategic site / Cluster_0 Fase 3 / Conurbation / Innovation Axis The production model chosen to encourage innovation is the laboratory, since it allows the intersection between public participation and executive decision. [with PLAYstudio (Ivรกn Capdevila + Vicente Iborra) and Simona Mirรณn]

#URB PARCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN ELDA Detailed planning of a residential area 2011. ELDA Urbanism III. University of Alicante.

Sector devevloped at the south of the Vinalopó river as it passes through Elda, acting as a hinge between the expansion of the west bank of the river and the downtown of the city, adjacent to the railway line. The river as landmark currently missed, it is considered that it should serve, as in other cities, to concentrate clearances and endowments as well as connecting the green areas now fragmented in Elda. In addition, the intention is to sew the current existing rift between the west and the rest of Elda.

The main strategies of the proposal are: topographic discretization trays as methodology; enhancement of visual relationships between landmarks; the river as definitor of the urban fronts; streamlining of territorial connections; urban equipments as attractors of the urban movement; and add services and public spaces to the residential use. [with Francisco López, Álvaro Picó and Juan José Martínez]

#URB GREENING ELDA Assessment of environmental sustainability in Elda and proposal 2010. ELDA Urbanism III. University of Alicante.

In San Francisco de Sales district in Elda we have a neighborhood with 3 differents areas in terms of morphology, tipology and urban criteria. They are ordered along a north-south axis generating a graduation in terms of building density, compactness and relationship between public space for pedestrians and spaces dedicated to vehicles. Therefore, there is an imbalance in the land use and the number of inhabitants per square meter.

The aims to develop the proposal are: weaving the three areas which were distinguished from the analysis, the union of the district with the rest of the city, and enhancement of public spaces as economic generators in a devalued neighborhood empowerment. It also introduces a central axis as a green corridor, so that accompany the pedestrian paths introducing shaded areas along the shaft and bicycle path. [with Francisco López, Álvaro Picó and Juan José Martínez]

#CON DRK AREAL Wohnhaus für Senioren und zugehörige Dienste 2012. KAISERSLAUTERN (GERMANY) Grösser Entwurf.

T.U. Kaiserslautern.

Apartment building for seniors with a range of associated services.

Instead of include all uses in one building, one chooses to build two separate buildings but connected by walkways in height, so that the whole behaves as if it were a single building.

There are two levels of public space: Ground floor and first floor. On the ground floor, creating a plaza between the new building and existing buildings. On the first floor public space is south facing, so enjoys the sun throughout the day. It has taken great care to surround the entire building and leisure parks for the enjoyment of the elderly.

The housing building has interior corridors that cross the building from north to south, connecting the various public spaces and square with the rest of the city. All the dwellings have at least three orientations. The service building accommodates a garage for four ambulances, reading and entertainment rooms, lecture rooms, offices and a meeting room.

#CON KNOECKEL, SCHMIDT UND CIE. Rehabilitation von einer Papierfabrik in Lambrecht 2012. LAMBRECHT (GERMANY) GrĂśsser Entwurf.

T.U. Kaiserslautern.

It consists of the rehabilitation of an old abandoned paper factory, some of its buildings almost in ruins.

It is proposed to reuse and rehabilitate the buildings in better shape and with greater space flexibility such as public facilities, while the creation of new building will host residential program. In this sense, there are three different housing typologies that remain in common the rigid core of wet rooms and all dwellings’ stays are overturned to the exterior.

The morphology of the new building is to be the more environmentally friendly as possible with the place in which it is inserted, with similar elevations to the existing factory facades and the same number of floors. The main orientation of the dwellings is North-South, also seeking the best sight of the forest that surrounds the entire complex.

#CON PMKTL Paris Market Lab, a new experience for the senses...

2012. PARIS ArchMedium competition This is mainly a restaurant type sampler and tasting, with the aim of attracting citizens to make use of the rest of the building.

The conception of this building arises from the search of the maximum flexibility possible to accommodate both culinary and educational activities. From this, it emerges great dynamic spaces in plan view and section, mixing floors at different heights with hollows and corridors that connect different levels on the perimeter facing the Saint Germain market. These levels are distributed radially and in slope around the kitchens, remaining as a neuralgic center of the building.

The building envelope is composed of a curtain wall of glass and perforated metal plate that closes the building to the outside and, at the same time, allows visual permeability (from the inside) and light. [with Javier Estevan, David Cazorla y Elisa Abad]

#CON RESIDENTIAL BLOCK IN ELDA Typological residential development and bioclimatic strategies 2011. ELDA Urbanism III. University of Alicante.

Building typology based on criteria of flexibility and sustainability: diaphanous interns dwellings (except hard core), facilitating cross-ventilation that allows the natural renewal of air without forced ventilation systems and all rooms overturned to the street, thus dispensing with courtyards.

#CON WAVE MODULE Design of a tourist information module in Benacantil, Alicante 2011. ALICANTE Construction III. University of Alicante.

It is a prefabricated building located on the slopes of Benacantil mountain in Alicante. This building will be a module of tourist information about Santa Barbara’s castle.

It consists of five modules supported and screwed on foot pillar adjustable height anchored in precast concrete footings. By combining these modules we obtain a linear interior space for its use as an information module.

The cover of the modules forms a curve that solves the drainage of water by geometry.

The modules are built in factory and coupled each other ‘in situ’, allowing to make a respectful intervention with the natural environment. Spaces are perfectly reconfigurable according to user demands and perfect lighting conditions thanks to the orientation and morphology of the pieces. [with Antonio Gomis Puche y Pablo Ballesta Selma]

#DES OSTENDlab from a walkway on the beach to a floating bridge 2016. OOSTENDE, BELGIUM Open competition How could we build a new walkway upon the sand of Oostende’s beach between the winter shadows and the high tide’s line?

This is the main question posed by this contest that tries to solve the problem of bringing urban life to the seafront area in Oostende.

In the same way that MARINE PIERS at the beginning of the XX century represented an infrastructural innovation that allowed tourists to stroll over the sea, we propose to move the new walkway inside the sea by taking advantage of the existing docks. In this way, locals and tourists could make the most of daylight hours far from the buildings’ shadows during the winter.

By building a floating walkway, the contact area between water and sand remains free, allowing locals and tourist to stroll in winter at the same time the winter wanders, now over the water. [with PLAYstudio (Iván Capdevila + Vicente Iborra) and Ana Melgarejo]

#DES TUBULAR RAIN Ceramic system innovation 2011. UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE *Published in Taller Cerรกmico 09 catalog, Ediciรณn Ascer. [with Pablo Lรณpez and Adriรกn Segura]

#DES ENJOYING THE VIEWS Portable beach wardrobe for Costa Blanca 2010. GUARDAMAR DEL SEGURA Construction III. University of Alicante.

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