something alvaro’s portfolio
PE DRA YES!
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say hi_
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THE BLACK RECTANGLE MEANS A CHANGE OF PROJECT {MESS MAGAZINE STYLE}
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INDEX {workshops} 7. I stole Mariana’s Façade 6. Blurring Boundaries 5. Cave Study Houses 4. Un-locked in the periphery 3. Exploring layouts 2. HomeSwap w1. Nets {specialties} D. San Diego C. Eyja Ljossins B. Bienvenido A. Atmospheres 5
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i stole Mariana’s façade
I STOLE | 2020 | MADRID{ES} intervening scales in the tissue, with Dietmar Eberle {BaumschlagerEberle} MARIANA’S FAÇADE team: Mariana Sandoval, José Ignacio Valdez, Mariam Ghaznavi
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portfolio | 2020
i stole Mariana’s façade
An approach to three different scales and times in the city of Madrid from three different issues of project. The exercise consists in the use and interpretation of the work of others, in order to integrate volumetry, structure and façade in one of these options, presenting the info in a reasonable, canonical and clear way.
STOLE ARIANA’S ÇADE
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portfolio | 2020
blurring boundaries
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portfolio | 2020
BLURRING BOUNDARIES
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blurring boundaries
BLURRING | 2020 | MADRID{ES} seeking for a city re-balance, with Andrea Deplazes {MCH co-director} BOUNDARIES team: Malena Ramos, Pitu Cachau, Miguel Valle
ANALYSIS_WHAT TO BALANCE
EXISTING FLOOR PLAN
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portfolio | 2020
blurring boundaries
Different layers of history overlap onto each other, creating some situations of imbalance in the city. Our scientific approach seeks to find the right number in a case study of isolated block in a park. By these addition, substraction, bottom-up and top-down operations, we give back to Madrid a new Nolli, a balance of quality, intensity and density.
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BLURRING BLURRING BOUNDARIES BOUNDARIES portfolio | 2020
NEW FLOOR PLAN
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blurring boundaries
ABOUT THE EXISTING
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portfolio | 2020
blurring boundaries
ABOUT THE PROCESS
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NEW GROUNDFLOOR PLAN NEW NOLLI: USING THE PUBLIC/ PRIVATE NICHES
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cave study houses
CAVE STUDY | 2020 | BARCELONA {ES} An urban hybrid prototype, with Coll+Leclerc Arquitectos HOUSES team: Valia Anagnostopolou, Juan Felipe Quiñonez NAKED SHIGERU
NAKED ÁLVARO
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N-ed VALIA
SEA RANCHED CHARLES
SEA RANCHED JUAN FELIPE
fluid space reconfigurable natural light
different scales reprogrammable transitional spaces
double height multi-conditions wooden construction
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REFS
100sqm PROTOTYPES portfolio | 2020
cave study houses
A project consisting in the insertion of previously developed prototypes on top of a metro station for the consequent development of a hybrid; a superposition of housing landscapes with collective spaces for both private and public uses.
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We have three references and a ‘non-empty site’ in Barcelona; a 20x20x20 cube on top of the Fontana metro station, with only two open façades facing South. Our main concern is about light, about ventilation, about how to deal with such a deep dimension. We learnt from Naked, N and Sea Ranch houses that we can atomise the space to introduce these features in the center of the building. By breaking into pieces the conventional layers, we blur the limits between public and private, both in horizontal and vertical, so as to locate the collective/common programme in the in-betweens, in this cavernous patio. We foster the movement, the meeting, the mix of uses, and create a changing environment that can lead to a new sense of community in the vertical neighbourhood. The inner volumetry is the outcome of stacking CLT braced boxes; three boxes, three dimensions, so three ways of living, cohabitating like in Walden 7. We are based on our reference prototypes and, by a 90º rotation of the layout in each level, we always have a roof/terrace to throw out some furniture and start taking up the corners. The boxes connect in every direction, sometimes by staircases in the façade, some others by a platform or even a bridge; everything happens in the cave, naturally ventilated and illuminated. Either way, to make it work, we paid a special attention to the perimeter, which gained a certain size to host services
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and act as a buffer zone, our wild card. We use this 1,50 meters to receive the main staircase and elevator, as well as balconies to create a climatic space for the units facing south; it is also the correct dimension to manage a setback that lets us take some air from party walls. This means we respect the game of boxes moving to the border everything, and activating the façade differently in a dialogue with the metro entrance and streets arriving. This relation with the existing is also present in the structural matter. We reinforce the structure of the metro station and complement it with a couple of supports in the perimeter. This decision guarantees the correct transition of forces, resting the new building on a triangular structure flying over the station’s rooftop, that becomes an open collective green space to relocate the cafeteria we removed from the ground floor to build the ramp that connects both first public storeys. We want the people to move freely and conquer every corner, so a wide ramp to reach the coworking storey, through the transitional green space, is key. The façades also express this movement by accordion translucent filters and lattices that wrap the volume; the big collective voids of the cave, in turn, trim this surface, so the cave often reveals its secrets and inhabitant’s activities. It is about , to sum up, the modern expression of the crazy new types of humans in Barcelona, but in the end, the human back to the cave.
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cave study houses
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CAVE STUDY HOUSES
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cave study houses
machine
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portfolio | 2020
cave study houses
CAVE STUDY HOUSES
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this was fontana mix, an overlap based on john cage ‘58
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professors at school once told me Architecture is like pizza, you only need a few ingredients to make a good one_ i like pizza
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portfolio | 2020
un-locked in the periphery
UN-LOCKED | 2020 | MADRID {ES} re-usable urban ecosystems, with Alison Brooks {A.Brooks Archs.} IN THE PERIPHERY team: Juan Felipe Quiñones, Manuel Muñoz, Steven Jacovic
CONCEPT_WHY?
climate buffer
acoustic buffer
expand liveable space
peripherical activities
exterior installation of shafts
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portfolio | 2020
animated façade
interchangeable plug-ins
façade reflecting neighbourhood
un-locked in the periphery
Post pandemic considerations create the reality in which we need to evolve the way we use our spaces. Renovation to this iconic building within Madrid, Torres Colรณn, which originally challenged structural norms, now informs a solution toward the way we support each other as a system of connected communities engaged with each other.
ROOFTOP PLAN the pod workshop
INTERCHANGEABLE PODS: the catalogue
OPT 1 FOR COMMON HUMANS
OPT 2 FOR STRESSED PEOPLE
OPT 3 FOR LITTLE CHEFS
OPT 4 FOR DUPLEX GUYS
OPT 5 FOR THE ROLLING STONES
OPT 6 FOR THE INTELLECTUALS
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
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exploring layouts
EXPLORING | 2020 | ZAGREB {HR} overcoming clichés in housing, with Hrvoje Njiric {Njiric+arhitekti} LAYOUTS team: Juan Cruz Barrionuevo, Mariana Sandoval
The THICK plan NEGOTIATION AND PATIOS
EXPLORING LAYOUTS
The REGULAR plan SHARING CELLS
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exploring layouts
A critique of usual shortcomings in housing market, we were asked to tackle and rework long-established clichĂŠs, turning them into new qualities. The thick, the reversible, the open, the petrified, the irregular...how to deal?
The PETRIFIED plan HOUSE IN A HOUSE
The OPEN plan FLEXIBLE NEIGHBOURHOOD
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portfolio | 2020
exploring layouts
The THICK plan NEGOTIATION AND PATIOS
EXPLORING LAYOUTS
The REGULAR plan SHARING CELLS
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portfolio | 2020
exploring layouts
The PETRIFIED plan HOUSE IN A HOUSE
The OPEN plan FLEXIBLE NEIGHBOURHOOD
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portfolio | 2020
homeswap
HOMESWAP | 2020 | ROTTERDAM {NL} the future of affordable housing, with Jacob van Rijs {MVRDV} team: Pitu Cachau, Valia Anagnostopolou, Luis Miguel Rivera, Nourhan Rabah
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VIP SERVICES: special conditions {the craving}, pay extra to book these spaces!
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portfolio | 2020
homeswap
An investigation around the possibility of saving rent through a system of “home2share�, by paying the cells of space that the user reserves. Then, the remnants are made available for people from outside for (by hour) rental.
8AM: The user is in his private space No use of the shared space...for now
6PM: The user is back, he needs a living Still free shared space for others to reserve
11AM: The user left the building to work Outsiders rent the shared space as office
9PM: The user organises a party with friends Outsiders can still rent for their own stuff
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nets
NETS | 2020 | MADRID {ES} living together_who are you?, with Amann+Cรกnovas+Maruri {Tas Extremas} KAFKA team: Malena Ramos, Audrey Umara, Elisa Cecconi, Alejo Maldonado, Fofo de la Torre.
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DIAGRAM_private/public through space
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portfolio | 2020
nets
We need a programme, concepts, ambitions, a diagram of functions, ways to use it, different activities happening, a map of qualities, amounts of light or noise required, spaces connected. Levels of privacy. Sharing? Alone but connected? The relation between human and technology. A co-living space, through the eyes of Kafka.
WHO ARE U COVID-19; your thoughts?
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nets LEVELS VEGETATION CONNECTIONS NODES TECH DOMESTICITY RESULT_PIXEL PLAN
WHO ARE U NETS
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PROCESS OF THE DREAM
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RULES OF THE DREAM
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sociology
SAN DIEGO | 2020 | MADRID {ES} research project in Vallecas, with Jesús Leal and Daniel Sorando SOCIOLOGY, ECONOMY & POLITICS team: Juanjo Sánchez-Aedo, Carlos Ballesteros.
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Map and table on the price per sqm. comparing districts + S.Diego
Map and table on the building ages comparing districts + S. Diego
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Map and table on the average net area comparing districts + S.Diego
to understand what’s going on in the most vulnerable neighbourhood of Madrid. RED COLOUR Ranked 1st position
portfolio | 2020
sociology
A research based on the available data around the social and building situation of the nighbourhood of San Diego. We seek to encourage the regeneration of San Diego from the municipal administration to promote the improvement of the housing and business spaces for the development of social protection, employment, culture and excellence.
1968 First neighborhood association is created 1974 M30 highway starts working 1976 “Hijos del Agobio”emerges as a opposition
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Fig. 13.14. Maps on the accessibility and existence of lift comparing districts + San Diego
Map and table on the building condition comparing districts + S.Diego
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SWOT ANALYSIS after consulting the neighbourhood’s Association, Mapas del Kas, TXP, Paisaje Transversal, Fravn, ProVivienda, puentedevallecas.wordpress) and media. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
PUBLIC SPACE
MOBILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
STRENGTHS Popular activities with great recognition in the city of Madrid. Marked commercial axis, liable to support some neighbourhood’s interventions related to housing. Existence of big parcs and concatenation of green spaces in the district to which a possible new internal network in San Diego can attach. Existence of a wide associative tissue and self-managed spaces for socio-cultural activities. Existence of mixed types and ages in the housing fabric.
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WEAKNESSES Lack of diversity in the productive spaces, evidence of concentration of night-time activities. Lack of common areas and green spaces, that contrasts with the high density of San Diego. Lack of quality and accessibility in the design of the pedestrian itineraries, no public parking; situation of isolation. Lack of public local facilities related to sports and education, meant to be a real risk of social vulnerability. Residential vulnerability related to the obsolescence, overcrowded conditions and accessibility/habitability problem.
OPPORTUNITIES No consolidated and empty parcels with potential to activate new economies and activities.
THREATS Progressive and continuous closure and obsolescence of shops and businesses areas.
Existence of a network of quiet streets, target to offset the lack of public (green) spaces.
Irregular and problematic dump and management of waste and infestations.
Dense network of streets with the correct pre-conditions to foster mobility alternatives and the pedestrian connectivity over the M-30 and the railway.
Isolation of areas with no easy access to public transport and increase of private vehicles.
Interesting associative and participative tissue to boost the cohabitation and interculturality. Existence of public initiatives of subsidised housing (still in development), rental aids and renovation programmes.
Existence of critical points with cohabitation problems in the public space. Great number of owners without the economical capacity to improve their housing conditions. Tenants with no capacity to face rental increase as a possible result of renovations.
BUSINESS MODEL BANKS, FUNDS AND PRIVATE OWNERS We can purchase these properties or sign a contract to rent the space for a cooperative strategy in collaboration with the San Diego’s neighbours associations and private sponsors. A. SPACES from... to take up to revitalise to reuse we are... SAN DIEGO_ HOUSING ENTITY OF MANAGEMENT (of the interactions in the proposal) we need...
B. FUNDING from... to renovate to build to promote COMPENSATION
MUNICIPALITY - VALLECAS REVIVAL - UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT - PROFESSIONAL TRAINING - EMPLOYMENT AND CULTURE - PROTECTION OF THE NEIGHBOURS’ RIGHTS - MINIMISING THE RISK OF GENTRIFICATION.
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c. ENTREPRENEURS d. HISTORICAL NEIGHBOURS
UNIVERSITIES - ATRACTING THE TALENT FROM THE REST OF SPAIN THANKS TO THE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS OF HOUSING (UNDER - FOSTER THE EXCELENCE - REPUTATION FOR THE INSTITUTION
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FOUNDATIONS COMPANIES - ACCESS TO THE BEST GRADED AND MOST TALENTED RECIPIENTS OF THE PROGRAMME - PRIORITY TO HIRE THEM FOR THEIR TEAMS AND PRACTICES.
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To be enroled in a course or training in a university of the programme, with no age limit
They must get better grades and work for the community, to get better renting conditions.
The business must have its registered name in San Diego
They must hire people from the programme and the neighbourhood, to get better renting conditions. They can get better renting conditions if they work for the community and participate in the organised activities
To be born in San Diego or have been living for more than 8 years, with provable unfavourable economic situation
bonus: bonus for the people bringing culture to the neighbourhood in summer and occupying the spaces (students housing) that are left, empty. the professionals that pass the the programme have priority, even at the end of their studies, to be hired for the works in the neighbouhood.
portfolio | 2020
sociology
PROPOSAL OBJECTIVE: ENCOURAGE THE REGENERATION OF SAN DIEGO FROM THE MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE HOUSING AND BUSINESS SPACES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL PROTECTION, THE EMPLOYMENT, THE CULTURE AND THE EXCELLENCE. Along the same lines, and based on this SWOT diagnosis we make, we can distinguish some different issues coming from four different fields: the economic activity, the public space, the mobility and the public services, that converge in the main issue of housing in San Diego. Thus, we decide to reduce our intervention to ten specific steps, all of them related direct or indirectly to the residential core of the proposal, represented in the drawing below, and supported by an experimental business model describe in a diagram. Our aim is to operate in the urban tissue through diverse acupuncture interventions and define a global strategy of development for the neighbourhood grounded on three key elements: the spaces, the funding and the people we need for its success; in order to reach a sustainable outcome that would work as an alternative for the Gentrification common processes. For that purpose, the participant entities provide the programme with the resources and, in any case, receive a proportional compensation through talent, excellence and money terms. Therefore, this must be a public business able to be self-sufficient in time, through its enlargement and settling; an initiative that can be liable to spread around other neighbourhoods with the same principles in a different condition. San Diego in particular is a great starting point to propose a group of these accurate interventions in a selected “pixel� of the urban fabric. In broad strokes, we renovate the tissue, we try to fill with homes and businesses the empty spaces with an affordable rent, we qualify the urban participative spaces, we seek to throw the neighbours into the streets and finally connect again our case study to the city. In some words, it is about a double-scaled approach: the small and definite step in which the beneficiary works to build again the community feeling; and the global and economic overview, in which we search for the coordination of the agents and the balance of a business model that could be the backbone for innovative, exceptional, integrative and realistic proposals from now on.
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We want to achive a collaborative housing with a clear mix of people.
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The diversity in retail will help the small businesses and the local economy.
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Housing should be located on top of the ground level so this can be public.
10. REINFORCE WALKABILITY AND SAFETY DURING NIGHTS
The uni use building inside the city does not fit the actual society and economy.
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Let´s use every single square meter possible so we take advantage of the “dencity”.
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Public spaces should be a reaction to society but also give back something to it.
1. NE W COL MIXED L HOUECTIVE / SING 8. WORK Generating a system of THE URBAN BARRIERS green spaces will have a positive feedback on how the neighbourhood is seen form the 9. MAIN BUS outside.
LINE THROUGH THE CENTRAL AXIS
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Erasing the limits with the city the neighbourhood will be taken into account as a friendlier place to be.
2. D EXISIVERSIT TIN YI AT S G RETAN TRE I ET L Better urban conections with the city centre as a way of bringing the neighbourhood closer to Madrid.
SAN DIEGO The easier the conections, the better quality of life will people perceive.
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VALUES: THE FIFTH BEETLE_Sociology, Economy and Politics. Master in Collective Housing 2020 “IT IS INTERESTING TO KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO JUST TO HAVE THE PLEASURE TO NOT DO IT” – DAVID BORRAS, motorcycles manufacturer. In normal conditions, perhaps, I would start the essay quoting a bunch of sentences of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, or maybe, the article 47 or the Spanish Constitution; or in a better case, I would make reference to the change of paradigm that the COVID19 means. It will not be so, I prefer to begin this couple of pages referring to what a fisher in Menorca once told me: “Things are not done and thrown out but changed from one place to the other”. From this starting point, if Polanyi says the patterns of social integration are based on reciprocity, redistribution and market, we probably understand that everything deals with the principle of balance, of changing from one place to the other. And if welfare is the state of a person whose conditions provide himself satisfaction, happiness and relief, the balance should appear in the fields that disturb his satisfaction, happiness and relief. In Spain, until today, it seems to be much simpler to confront the un-reliefs of life when we have the relief of a home; even more when it is in ownership. In general, this is something we soak up from the family, from the Latin-Rim regime that Liebfried highlights when he nuances the conservative classification of Esping-Andersen. Nevertheless, in the common search of a roof without the appropriate intervention of the government, the gentrification and segregation tend to be the natural outcomes, says Esping-Andersen again; both are situations of imbalance. This is also the way it works with housing, through policies that expect to obtain an average of seven by the addition of sevens, when perhaps we can reach the same average by the addition of fives and nines; this is named variance. With this sentence, what I want to say is that maybe the future of housing goes through the action in favour of general results in the existing by acupuncture, and the promotion of fives in between nines, until we get this latitude that Bolt would call of (de)segregation and social mixing. However, for this to happen, there must be a real disposition from the housing policies to control the market of nines by the clever insertion and management of fives, and most importantly, the intention to give the opportunity for everyone to get at least to the five. With this numeric metaphor, I must say, I do not want to stigmatise categories but signal that, in effect, there are different ways to get to heterogeneous, mixed and integrating outcomes through an alternative {mathematical} formula, easy to follow. Therefore, in the moment we need everybody to reach a five {the desirable pass}, an unexpected form shows up in the housing scenery, that suits quite well with the numbers, that is the education. The wish and right of a minimum pass is explained by Tosi quite well laying on the table the issue of listing social categories with no social perspective, because “social measures end up benefiting strata immediately above those for whom the measures were intended as a priority”. So we suspect that they did not even get the pass, the right. The fact of the matter is that we get the right with education, and so reaching the state of balance and welfare maybe depends on education policies first, then on housing. But before running to fast with this idea, I must clarify that I do not talk about education as an accumulation of knowledge, but as a personal training destined to develop an intellectual, moral and affective capacity: the possibility of deciding, integrating, respecting and sharing in and environment of fives, sevens and nines. Bjarke Ingels, a Danish Architect, would say {if he was Sociologist} that the binary logic of financialization and housing policies as the way to reach the welfare state are not enough to contain this more complex reality. Perhaps, we should add a training; the education as a vector to understand, imagine and adapt to the change of paradigm the housing is going to confront, not only to become again a real right, but also to meet the needs that the new types of household and the COVID19 crisis lay on the table. “THE USE IS THE FIRST STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABILITY” – JOSEP RICARD, Architect. The Latin-Rim is hot-blooded; he generally fights throughout his entire life to reach someday the middle-high class and purchase a house in a good neighbourhood in the centre or the suburbs, as Leal and Sorando would slip into the conversation. It belongs to his memory; he tends to accumulate, to find the balance by the ownership and develop a welfare state based on the family solidarity. But the fact is that the more resources are accumulated, the less resources go around to lift up the strata with no family support, and therefore it turns into more than difficult to 54 get the pass that could guarantee their participation in the equation. With such short means {and/or bad managed} the government seems to try the integration of the barely passing fives and sixes with very little investments in social housing somewhere in the South of Madrid, whereas the failings do not even have the chance to apply for it. portfolio | 2020
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Tosi himself introduced a pair of lines of research in Housing Sociale: the degrees of flexibility, an innovative governance and the financial mix; the future seems to talk about the capacity of adaptation, collaboration and cooperation that replace the rigid Latin-Rim dream, maybe with the right of use, for instance. Recently Rem Koolhaas, in the 2020 virtual Architecture Week of Milan, said “I hope people after this will still maintain a certain degree of modesty”. And this is also what Arbaci highlights: from now on the housing self-promotion and cooperative drifts play an important role -even these Latin-Rims collectors are invited to-, able to support a public long-term initiative of acupuncture that settle, for good, housing as the main factor of social balance. If I should paraphrase again Bolt: “more social contacts and social cohesion, shared norms and values, social solidarity, control and network {…}, increase the chance to create sustainable communities”. But all of this is possible by leaving the binary logic, lifting up the more vulnerable categories. The more we approach the real technology revolution, the more the future looks like a scene of the Hunger Games; the more global/universal the problems are, the bigger and more conscious the discipline that confront them should be, and therefore Architecture stops having a housing issue to start having a social, political and urban issue. “AN ASEPTIC WINDOW CAUSES A STERILE EXISTENCE” – VICTOR LOPEZ COTELO, Architect. Probably the question that Leal would pose at this point of the mental process would be how do we design housing that can survive to the changes of ideology, a flexible housing that blurs the limits of public and private; and I would add: how do we design housing able to have an effect on its social environment? I talk about an Architecture that goes beyond the fact of giving a roof; the Architect, as it happens in Trabensol or Laborda, filters, interprets and integrates. Thus, housing becomes respectful and integrating, adapted to a respectful and integrating individual that enjoys his right of use. Housing as a primary right, not for whose owns it, but for whose enjoys it. For that reason, the search of the balance, the average, the redistribution and the welfare comes as a logical consequence of the type of housing that breaks with what it is part of the memory, that enters the city, reinterprets the concept of private and goes back to an essence. Because the impact that all of that has in the humankind would be going back to basics, optimising; COVID19 has said something about it and perhaps it is enough with a comfortable bed, a big table, a great window and some space to pretend we do yoga. To understand all of these ideas, the efforts must be double: on the one hand, the policies, as Melnikov would say, “should take off their marble dresses, remove their make-up and reveal themselves as they are, naked, like young and graceful goddesses”; they should make more flexible the possibilities of action in the existing housing stock and introduce fives in decent liveability conditions in between the nines, and set up the distant areas to offer alternatives to the nines in between the fives. On the other hand, the education should start to give the option to every stratum to take decisions and respect the others’, generating a social mix that produces more opportunities for productive contact between different types of people {Bolt again}. There is not a shade of doubt that it is about a long-term process, perhaps unconceivable in Spain until the disappearance of the silent and baby-boom generations {today’s grand-parents and elder parents}, that are the current vectors of the most rooted lifestyles of our culture -Esping-Andersen would add “connected to church and strong agricultural bias”- . But we can still see the light with the first generation of the digitalisation, named millennials, that perceives somehow better the importance of balanced policies, conducive to an essential and universal welfare state. CONCLUSION This is why, and I conclude, the impact that every actor in the housing scene should tend to a collective welfare state that includes the education and participation as a guarantee for the flexibility and integrity of the solutions. Either way, we cannot try to play against the market in its game, but we can try to hack it through progressive and punctual measures that empower the weakest categories and ensure the strongest. We must try to build city from the social, not seeking to reproduce somewhere else’s model, but letting our own agreed decisions grow little by little. This way we will be able to build stable and sustainable communities in which a common decision-making freedom shows a feeling of belonging through a common identity; so the Airbnb guests would be never more than 55 that, welcomed guests in our places. An African proverb says: “If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together”. Enough “random {not}random” quoting for today. portfolio | 2020
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EYJA LJOSSINS | 2020 | REYKJAVIK {IS} moving Illa Llum to extreme climates, with ARUP + AECOM CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY team: Juan Esteban Duque, Audrey Umara, Carlos Ballesteros.
A housing project located in Barcelona...
...moved to extremely different conditions of climate and people...
E 56 ...now sitting in Reykjavik. portfolio | 2020
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We had to select a city and a specific site where to re-locate our Illa de la Llum. The new context required us to re-conceptualize the building’s design strategies related to external envelope, structure, services, construction systems and materials, and search for an appropriate solution which allows to re-idustrialize the building process, always related to the available resources in the new location.
So it is important to set a bunch of solutions to plug the project in its new place, needs, users and time: 8 TIPS FOR REYKJAVIK
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BIENVENIDO | 2020 | SANTO DOMINGO {DO} urban regeneration and seed housing, with Sonia Molina LOW-COST & EMERGENCY team: Virginia Cid, MªJosé Rodríguez de Vera, José Ignacio Valdez
URBAN FABRIC
HOUSING
Consolidated that can be improved Degraded that can be consolidated Degraded of high vulnerab. that can be consolidated Degraded of high vulnerab. that can´t be consolidated
To be assisted - humanitarian support To be relocated in 1st phase To be relocated in 2nd phase To be controlled/improved in 3rd phase
_WEAKNESSES AND OPPORTUNITIES From a physical and social analysis, it was detected that Bienvenido has four areas with different conditions. Two of them present high vulnerability to floodings and landslides, so it is proposed a progressive relocation of houses according to the level of urgency while in some cases it is only needed a structure control and introduction of improvements to mitigate the risk. The other zones are considered to be areas of opportunity where to relocate the houses, foresee future growth and consolidate the neighborhood. 25
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STREET LIGHTING
GREEN AREAS
ROADS
Existing posts New posts - 1st phase New posts - 2nd phase
Silviculture park Urban orchads
Main roads Secondary roads to be improved Pedestrian walks ---
PUBLIC BUILDINGS Gym / Sport center
Recycle / reuse space
Library & WiFi access
Educational space
Atelier of construction
Community center Emergency shelter
_URBAN STRATEGY The proposal consists in the generation of an axis system with secure, accesible main roads and new buildings for the community to enhance social cohesion as well as education, to provide all public services and generate more employment. The vulnerable existing zones that can´t be consolidated are reused as green areas with an important economic and natural value for the neighbors to discourage new settlements and boost urban regeneration.
SANITATION
GARBAGE MANAGEMENT
Private connection Main sewage drain Septic tank and filter - future biodigestor
Clean spot - recollection of garbage
_SERVICES The existing projects regards sanitation and garbage made up by NGOS working in Bienvenido are incoporated to the proposal. The new input are biodigestors by block to be feed by the sewage drain and organic garbage to generate biogas. The objective of it is to reduce contamination, improve the health conditions of neighbours and reduce the money spent in buying gas while promoting conciousness and commitment. Onother change is the incoporation of gray water reuse in the seed bathroom to minimize water consumption.
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This is a precarious urban area in Bienvenido, a slum of Santo Domingo, in which we had to develop strategies to upgrade the conditions of the inhabitants, provinding urban and housing solutions. We needed to settle up to 3000 people, giving access to basic facilities and suitable shelter, responding to people’s needs and capacities.
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Rectangular plots
Square plots
_PROGRESSIVE HOUSING _DESIGN AND CONSOLIDATION OF URBAN AREAS Available land in existing blocks and proposed blocks is fractioned in new plots so as to relocate vulnerable houses and organize future growth of the neighborhood. The size of the plots vary according the morphology of the block, oscillating between 180m2 - 200m2 (data taken from existent divisions analysis). New houses are located 3m backwards the front line of the plot and where possible, sidewalks are incorporated in order to improve the street as public and interaction space.
One flexible and customizable solution for all situations: NEW/RELOCATED HOUSES, IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTANT ONES AND EMERGENCY SHELTERS. It consists of a SEED made up by one or more modules which can continuosly grow and be adapted to the family´s needs and desires. According to the type of the plot and the location of the seed, the house can grow in different directions and offer various ways of living. The objective is to provide with the SEED basic conditions to enhance the family quility of life
BIENVENID
Modulo semilla A 15,7 m²
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Modulo semilla B 13,7 m²
Modulo semilla A Extension 1 25,7 m²
Modulo semilla A Extension 2 40,6 m²
Modulo semilla B Extension 1 26,8 m²
Modulo semilla B Extension 2 69,8 m²
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Modulo semilla A Extension 2 59,4 m²
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energy
ATMOSPHERES | 2020 | AKABLI {DZ} thermodynamics & everyday life, with Javier GªGermán {ToTEM} ENERGY & SUSTAINABILITY team: Alejo Maldonado, Fofo de la Torre
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The typical houses in Akabli have a horizontal development around a patio and sits one next to each other to take profit of the compactness to protect inhabitants from extreme temperatures and wind flows. We decide to work in the complete opposite direction, as we think that decisions like reducing the footprint or orient the unit towards somewhere are better for the thermodynamic behavior of the system. This is the result of the implementation of 12 useful tips to optimize the relation of spaces, air flows and pre-existence conditions that we take profit. urban fabric
akabli our existing scheme
topography sand barriers
other similar schemes
vegetation
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Servant spaces as niches and thermal buffers
Research for vertical nomadism
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Orientation lets the sunlight go deep in the space also in winter
Big collective served spaces VS. small individual servant corners
The morphology of the unit in section allows for two different situations depending on the season
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MCH PORTFOLIO by Álvaro Pedrayes Santos Published by: Álvaro Pedrayes Santos Copyright Álvaro Pedrayes Santos. 2020 Original ideas and works produced by MCH 2020 alumni. Transcriptions, editing, proofreading, indexing, book design and typesetting by the author. Printed in Madrid, IARTE. November 2020
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