Andrés Conejero Conesa - Architecture Portfolio by Andrés Conejero Conesa

AndrĂŠs Conejero Conesa

Architecture Projects

Education 2018-2019

Master of Architecture, NAAB-Accredited, Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM). Master Thesis Project: Auroville Urban Axis, Auroville, India.

2012-2017

Bachelor of Architecture, NAAB-Accredited, Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM). Bachelor Thesis: The Corporate Campus: Influence on Urban Structure and Land Market. San Francisco Bay Area, Madrid Metropolitan Area.

Professional Experience November

2018-Current

Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain. Intern, Education and Research Units (Think Tank). Anupama Kundoo Architects, Auroville, India.

2018-2019 February-March

2015-2017

Researcher, New Collective Housing Methodologies in Southeastern India. 2018

Workshop Participant, International Studio on Urban Densification. Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), Madrid, Spain. Prof.: Luis Fernรกndez-Galiano (2017) Prof.: Justo F. Isasi (2015-2016)

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS Master of Architecture Thesis Project Master of Architecture, NAAB-Accredited, Madrid School of Architecture Professor: Anupama Kundoo, Luis Díaz-Mauriño Subject: Collective Housing, Urban Infrastructure Location: Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India Year: February 2018 - January 2019

1. Original plan for the city of Auroville, by French architect Roger Anger. 2. Workers at construction site in Auroville, March 2018. 3. Masterplan proposed by Anupama Kundoo Architects for the development of new collective housing and urban facilities. 4. Proposed plan for the new complex, obtained throguh the fragmentation of the previous masterplan.

Auroville Urban Axis is a project for collective housing and urban infrastructure in the city of Auroville, to the southeast of India. High housing demand has driven to the proposal of an ambitious new building able to solve current issues and motivate the creation of new developments. Through the incorporation of tradition and technology, the building aspires to become city and home, graduating spaces from collective towards individual, and from urban towards residential. It means the transgression of an outright masterplan, looking forward to adapting to the existing and becoming the bridge between current reality and the desired future for the city. The project is materialized in a book whose pages are the color of the earth in Auroville.

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

To the southeast of India, in the region of Tamil Nadu, the scorching sun light passes through the atmosphere of suspended orange dust and forces the population to shelter under the dense vegetation of the jungle, from which palm trees emerge as minarets that set the horizon. The most characteristic native tree species is Banyan, a tree whose branches grow aerial roots that, when reaching the ground, are regrowned creating new trunks and converting the tree into a hypostyle room in which wild animals and sacred cows shelter. Twice a year, the monsoon floods the mud roads and forces the inhabitants to protect themselves under the roofs of their cabins, which rise on four supports to avoid flooding.The vaults are a usual architectural resource

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

Initial Purpose The objective of the project is the construction of spaces of urban qualities in the clearings of the forest, structuring the pre-existence and the new architecture to motivate the development of the city.

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

Main Public Spaces Along the proposed axis, the urban space manifests itself in different ways, depending on the size of the clearing between the vegetation and its location regarding the original footprint of the city.

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

Housing Module The residential module is the result of the combination of tradition and technology, mainly influenced by the traditional hut in this land. The module has got a lower public space and an upper private level.

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

Architecture as a System The housing module is repeated along the plates that create terrace streets on both sides of the residential units. The building becomes infrastructure for life in the city.

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

Bulls in India, Le Corbusier, 1951 Creative process of construction detail of vault supported on bridge beam

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

Details of post-tensioned concrete vault

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

Belvedere located at the end of the new axis

AUROVILLE URBAN AXIS

THE CORPORATE CAMPUS Bachelor of Architecture Thesis Bachelor of Architecture, NAAB-Accredited, Madrid School of Architecture Professor: Jaime Armengot Paradinas Subject: Architecture Typologies, Urban Structure Year: 2017 - 2018

OBJETIVO

During the last few years we have seen a kind of business headquarters characteristic to the North American urban model, but hitherto unknown in Europe: the corporate city, proliferating in the outskirts of Madrid. It is a large building complex that houses a large 0 500 1000m part of the work force of a company. The lack of documents that classify the existing examples in the city of Madrid, as well as the interest to analyze them and the will to understand their operation and repercussion, motivate the realization of this investigation, based on the comparison with the North American cases. The historical evolution of the type, as well as the specific examples, provide the necessary opportunities to address the values that â&#x20AC;&#x2039;â&#x20AC;&#x2039; govern these buildings, such as the motivation that leads to their construction, their time scale or the relationship they establish with the environment. The analysis is materialized in a qualitative framework capable of grouping the different problems to which the corporate cities are subjected, elaborated by means of the abstraction of the historical and current American examples for their later application in the Madrid cases. The intention is to place the corporate cities of Spain in the current debate that revolves around the defense of the compact city against spread models, and understand the many factors that participate in this reflection, from economy or politics , to urbanism and architecture.

1. Interstate 280 passing through the city of Cupertino, in the conurbation of Silicon Valley, California. To the right of the highway, You can see the newly opened Apple headquarters, in the shape of a ring. The Bay Area of San Francisco is at the center of the debate about the future of cities and corporate headquarters. Source: commons.wikimedia. org

L A S C I U D A D E S C O R P O R A T I VA S Influencia en la Estructura Urbana y el Mercado del Suelo

2. Satellite view of Las Tablas and Sanchinarro neighborhoods, separated by the A-1 highway. In the upper part of the image, next to the M-40 motorway, you can see Telefรณnica Headquarters, and in the lower part, next to the A-1, BBVA Headquarters; two of the big corporate cities of Madrid. Source: Google Earth 3. Plan of the new Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, designed by Foster+Partners, on the cover of the thesis.

ANDRร S CONEJERO CONESA Alumno JAIME ARMENGOT PARADINAS Tutor

MNEBHI PALACE COURTYARD Professor: Antonio Mas-Guindal Subject: Heritage, Museum Location: Marrakesh, Morocco Year: 2017

The new roof for the courtyard of the Mnebhi Palace, current Museum of Marrakech, is projected, after carrying out a study of different types of possible structural solutions: structure of parallel elements, radial structure and annular structure. The roof finally chosen for the project is supported by an annular structure that allows the geometrization of its elements looking for its characterization as Arab architecture.

1. Exterior finish of the roof proposed for the courtyard of the palace. 2. Description of the annular structure that covers the patio. 3. Section of the patio with the new roof, characterized by its geometry reminiscent of Arab architecture and the lantern on top. Next page. Study of three types of patio covering structures: structure of parallel elements, radial structure and annular structure.

MNEBHI PALACE COURTYARD

AZOGUEJO SQUARE REARRANGEMENT Professor: JosĂŠ Ignacio Linazasoro, Eduardo Pesquera Subject: Heritage, Housing, Urban Infrastructure Location: Azoguejo Square, Segovia, Spain Year: 2016

Proposal for the rearrangement of Azoguejo Square, Segovia, by inserting a building capable of articulating the space of the square with San Juan Street, Santo Domingo de GuzmĂĄn Street, Gascos Street and the Via Roma. The building is transition from the level where the aqueduct is located to the lower level of the city, drowned after the construction of the new Azoguejo Square. It includes public space materialized in staircases and ramps, a volume destined to urban facilities in front of the aqueduct, and four houses that act as a retaining wall of the elevated ground of the Via Roma in its meeting with Azoguejo Square.

AZOGUEJO SQUARE REARRANGEMENT

1. Floor 0. Access floor from Gascos Street and parking. 2. Plant 1. Lower floor of the houses. 3. Floor 2. Upper floor of the houses. 4. Floor 3. Access to Azoguejo Square, opposite to the Roman Aqueduct, and volume destined to urban facilities. 5. Roof plan with sections superimposed on each section line in plan. Next page. Rearrangement of Azoguejo Square and its connection with Gascos Street. Section of the square superimposed on the section line in plan.

AZOGUEJO SQUARE REARRANGEMENT

CHAPEL OF SAINT FRUTOS Professor: JosĂŠ Ignacio Linazasoro, Eduardo Pesquera Subject: Heritage, Religious Architecture Location: River DuratĂłn, Segovia, Spain Year: 2016

The intervention in the Chapel of Saint Frutos becomes the contemporary interpretation of the architectural type of cloister contributed by the abbey. A surrounding corridor that touches the edges of the pre-existence encloses a space devoid of vertical support elements, which nevertheless reproduces a small ambulatory marked by a barrel vault on each of the ends, which support a rectangular central ring through which the space opens to the sky.

1. Section AA’, showing the meditation space project. 2. Section BB’, showing the accesses to the central space of the project. 3. Section CC’, showing the corridor surrounding the central space. 4. Plan of the heritage set of the Chapel of Saint Frutos with the intervention of the new space of meditation, located in the old courtyard of the abbey. 5. Project section superimposed on the section line in plan. Next page. Axonometric of the intervention and the preexistence, and sectioned axonometric of the meditation space project.

CHAPEL OF SAINT FRUTOS

TORCELLO MOSAIC MUSEUM Professor: JosĂŠ Ignacio Linazasoro, Eduardo Pesquera Subject: Heritage, Museum Location: Torcello Island, Venice Lagoon, Italy Year: 2016

The Torcello Mosaic Museum project is included in the heritage set of the Santa Fosca chapel and the Santa MarĂa Asunta basilica, on the island that houses the first historical settlements of the Venice Lagoon. It emerges as a revision of the system used by Louis I. Kahn at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, and becomes the contemporary extension of a historic architecture of arches and sculptural columns that support the roofs over the space to be covered. The system of vaults covers a division of spaces as chapels, among which the mosaic chamber stands out, the central space of the project. Finally, the space opens to the horizon of confusing boundaries between water and land of the lagoon.

1. Plan of the heritage set of the basilica of Torcello with the project of Mosaic Museum. 2. Plan of the set and section of the museum and the mosaic chamber. 3. Elements of configuration of the new architectural piece of the set. Next page. 540x390mm board for the explanation of the project, with a location plan, a cross section and a perspective section with exposed Byzantine mosaics. Presented to contest for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

PROGETTO FLAMINIO Professor: Emilio TuĂąĂłn Subject: Heritage, Housing, Museum Location: Via Flaminia, Rome, Italy Year: 2015

The project includes intervention in the existing, rehabilitation of the degraded, demolition of the residual and volumes of new construction. In the first place, two theaters are projected in the interstices of the old quarters of Via Flaminia, to proceed then to the realization of a project of total transformation of the block composed of said military equipment. The original buildings are conserved at the ends of the plot, creating a transition framework between the city and the new complex. Delimited by the framework a series of architectural objects organized according to their museum, educational or residential program is developed; that form an urban atmosphere parallel to the existing one in Via Flaminia.

1. First proposal for the theater, which has a cylindrical envelope that relates the project to the historical architecture of the city of Rome. 2. Second proposal for the theater, which describes a broken geometry that adapts to the interstitial space of the pre-existence. 3. Axonometric of the museum and residential complex in Via Flaminia. Next page. Plant at ground floor of the projected set.

PROGETTO FLAMINIO

REGIONAL CENTER FOR DIGITAL AND MUSICAL CULTURE Professor: Emilio TuĂąĂłn Subject: Cultural Center, Media Library Location: Don Benito, Badajoz, Spain Year: 2015

In a residual plot between medians in the center of Don Benito, a cultural and media center is proposed, characterized by fragmentation in plan, which allows adaptation to the complicated shape of the space. The courtyards articulate the programmatic volumes, and in the physical center of the complex there is the digital temple, a building that stands out from the profile of the project to compete with the height of the contiguous religious temple.

1. Floor 1. Second floor of the central space of the media library, digital temple. 2. Floor 2. Development in height of the central space of the media library. 3. Floor 0. Set of patios and volumes for the regional center of digital and musical culture. 4. Section of the set, with the digital temple in the middle.

MADRID RIVERFRONT TOWERS Professor: Alberto Campo Baeza Subject: High-Rise, Mixed-Use Location: Madrid, Spain Year: 2014

Proposal of an indeterminate number of towers along the Madrid River Park, on the tunnels of the M-30 motorway, which creates a new cornice on the banks of River Manzanares, parallel to the cornice of the Royal Palace. The project has structural and constructive emphasis due to the complicated location of the towers over the tunnel. The lower structure rises 15 floors above the street level as legs, and from the 16th floor, two packages of 15 floors are separated by a technical plant, reaching 45 floors in total and 135m in height.

1. Basement. The building leans on both sides of the M-30 motorway tunnel, which runs under Madrid RĂo Park. 2. Type floor plan of housing or office. 3. Constructive section of the meeting of the tower with the level of street, where the structure saves the walk and the motorway tunnel. 4. Constructive section of the meeting of the upper structure with the legs that divide the efforts to allow the central space occupied by the tunnel. 5. Summary board of the project submitted to the competition for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Bienniale.