2016
COMPOSTELAs 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS: COMPOSTELAs 2016 Introduction Project: Brañas do Sar General information Section 1_Team A 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Michel Kramer Sairah Sanchez David Dolores Chadwick Cullen Chih Wei Su Manuel Montalvo
Section 2_ Team B 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Daniel Rodriguez Julio Leiva Jake Quist Rosina Diaz Feng Ziyuan
Section 3_ Team C 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Huang Ruisong Marisol Barba Dapnhie D´Costa Nellyn Cordova Omar Bagasi Moises Robles
INTRODUCTION
The CA institute is an educational institution based in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. CA institute develops educational programs, and proposes the city of Santiago de Compostela as a core element of the education of an architect. In recognition of the unique value of the city´s historic center, Santiago de Compostela was declared a World Interest City by the UNESCO in 1993. The city is also home to an important number of contemporary architectural masterpieces, designed by leading architects –Eisenman, Gallego, Grassi, Hejduk, Kleiheus, Noguerol, Siza, Viaplana, etc.CA institute leverages the city of Santiago de Compostela as an architectural laboratory - first to learn from its excellent historical and contemporary architectural tradition, and, second, to reflect on its urban complexity. As a living example, the city allows students to interact with and learn from architectural experiences. To develop a tectonic sense of architecture, CA institute´s publications, lectures, congresses and courses always include visits to contemporary projects, located in or near the city and throughout Galicia.
Carlos Seoane Director CA institute.
Final Review 2016.
Project BraĂąas do Sar
BraĂąas do Sar.
Section 1
Section 2
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Model
Project Brañas do Sar: Section 1-TEAM A
Michael Kramer. USA, 1992. Westwood College BS Interior Design NewSchool of Architecture + Design M Arch.
Location: Section 1_BraĂąas do Sar
Views The new path. Cutting open into the sloping site, this landscaped void provides a continuation and a formal connection between the settled outskirts of the historical city of Santiago de Compostela and BraĂąas do Sar that was originally envisioned by people of santiago. Providing this void between the past and the present gives a chance for time to set the tone of the dialogue between these two entities. As a result of scattered planted conditions, the gardens and the landscape elements will create unique experiences depending on certain times of the season. The open yet sheltered void aims to continue and reflect the containment of movement and life within the sheltered and open streets of Santiago.
Michael Kramer
Sairah Sanchez USA, 1993. New School of Architecture and Design, San Diego.
Conceptual Drawings Location: Section 1_BraĂąas do Sar
Model What is the Site?.. What can we find there?.. Why do we go there?.. During all the time I was thinking about making some kind of path – or paths, which will connect the city of Santiago with the Eiserman’s building, but then I realized that there is no point to make these paths in one special way. The site is a perfect place for a park, where people can make their own choice and go wherever they want; find their own “special places”. Then I found some viewpoints on the Site and decided to make there these small esplanades, where people can go and find the best view. There are situated small granite pavilions, where people can hide during the rain. These pavilions you can’t see neither from the top nor from the bottom of the hill. They are hidden and suddenly you can find one of them, and reach your view by climbing on one of them. So this is not the real connection between the city and the building, you can go anyway, but you are not really motivated to reach any special place. Esplanades with their pavilions disappear the same way they appear. You can find them, or not, you can go somewhere you want fast and strait, or you can have a nice long quiet walk; anyway – it is a decision, which you make by yourself.
Sairah Sanchez
Chih Wei, Su China, 1988. Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C. Jun. 2014 Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Affairs and Environmental Planning Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan 2010.
Conceptual Drawing Location: Section 1_BraĂąas do Sar
Model Concept_In the project, this is an opportunity, in a theoretical way to test how architecture can be confronted to cultural values. My initial idea was creating a place where provide people a quiet and introverted environment to do non-religion meditate. The project will facilitate people to engage the unique experience of river sound, bird sound, the air flow, and the changes of light and shadow. Site Selection_Selection of an effective transversal system of base units which are form active and act as a mediator between the site and the program goals. It is highly likely that the most provocative site choice would be mostly cover by trees, an extremely isolated space, where could be found. However, it should be recognized that one true challenge of developing a medatative pavillion concept is to work without program in mind. Performative Measures_The goal of the architecture to facilitate specific human performance around the identitied need of a medatative space of the city. This should be evaluated based on formal, material, physical and psychological terms. The project will generated in Santiago de Compostela, a historical city in global terms, and participants are prevented from the provocation of living in contemporary terms, with updated cultural values.
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David Dolores USA, 1991. New School of Architecture and Design, San Diego.
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Section In an eort to revitalize and attract pedestrians to the Rio Sar Valley my project focuses on Galician tradition of fresh water shing. History shows that rivers in Galicia were used for three main purposes Irrigation, power(grain mills), and Fishing(food source). Known as the “country of a thousand rivers” Galicia is a sherman’s paradise. The Rio Sar is inhabited by brown trout, a very popular gaming sh. By promoting shing as a sport it is possible to bring life and tradition back to the Rio Sar Valley. Reason With deeper pools of water brown trout have the opportunity to mature within the area by providing ample space and coverage. Bigger sh will help promote shing in this location and attract more people to use the natural spaces located along the river.
David Dolores
RAIL ROAD
Manuel Montalvo. Mexico, 1992. New School of Architecture & Design, San Diego.
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FARMING
ACTIVITIES
LIFE
Community
Family HERITAGE
CONCEPT DIAGRAMS
Concept diagrams
Location: Section 1_Brañas do Sar
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Section The concept is to work with the po¬tential and materials founded on the site The site is located between the two cites. The City of Culture and histocial centre of Santiago de Compostela. The goal is to make connections both physical and visual. The key point is to work with the materials on the site, history and potential. The large area of 300000 sq m. requires variety of uses, both public and private. The upper part of the slope has never been cultivated because of steep hill and rock right below the surface. My proposal is to move this remaining soil to the lower part and provide enough soil for a trees to grow. The trees are situated in a ring creating a vi¬sual barrier a shade between the public space terraces curved in the rock and private agriculture below. People who wish to access the city of culture or just to walk the dog have to take the closest path between the fields (compression), then to pass the bar¬rier of oaks (revealing), and appear below the terraces. They can take number of stairs leading up, they can fol¬low the path trited in the wild grass or find their own. When the soil is too wet they can walk on the wide edges of the terraces and experience the massivness of the rock, the textures, colours, smell.. If someone follows the terrace edge long enough it will reveal him totally different experience. The path SECTION stays the same but the surroundings change to massive natural rock. Manuel Montalvo
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Chad Cullen. USA, 1989. New School of Architecture & Design, San Diego.
Model Location: Section 1_BraĂąas do Sar
Perspective What I learned in the Compostela Summer Program The Compostela Program, above all, was a way for me to see how the attitude of architecture differs from the United States. I used to believe that the egos of Le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe theorizing changing the world was almost silly, or purely a construct of the mind and some sort of hubris. Being in Compostela, in some ways changed that for me (similar to my experience in the Rome program). Seeing in Compostela the history and tradition of architecture gave me a different perspective on the role of the architect in a historical perspective and how that role has evolved in Europe verse in America. In Spain and in Europe in general the architect was the one who facilitated the creation and evolution of culture, and created the built environment where people gathered, prayed, and enjoyed civic life. This is similar to the American architects role but more and more we are responsible for creating the unnoticed. I feel that the architect has more of a role in society in Europe where as the architect here bends to the will of developers and ever increasing code-regulation. In the process of this a lot of freedom and insight is limited, or to the very least, challenged. I really enjoyed the lectures and the emphasis on landscape in the Compostela program. Designing in and with landscape is one of my preferred areas of study at NewSchool and it was great to be able to dive further into the subject. I liked the position by some of the lecturers that involved landscape and identity. Then this notion was enhanced by theories of haw to study the parallel between landscape and identity and how we can design in this premise with references to both contemporary and historical contexts. Chad Cullen
Project Brañas do Sar: Section 2-TEAM B
Daniel Rodríguez USA, 1994. New School of Architecture & Design, San Diego.
Location: Section 2_Brañas do Sar
Plan The idea for this project was to bring the site together and build a comminuty space. The purpose of the playground is to connect the main entrance with the other two public spaces. IDEA The idea is to incorporate natural elements into a playground, allowing families to interect more with the site. By having a cafe infront of the playground,its following the culture of coee breaks. It is not only a place for people who are walking to take a break but also for anyone who is taking their break. The coe and playground become the entrance of the path next to the river. People walking in can get ready for their adventure at the cafe while their kids play
Daniel Rodriguez
Julio Leiva Mexico, 1991. New School of Architecture.
Location: Section 2_BraĂąas do Sar
Plan AQUEOUS TERRACING GALLERY The idea for this project was to translate the site conditions into an architectural abstracted landscape. The program was determined by the potential users and cultural history of Santiago de Compostela. The design intent is to create moments for recreation, learning and connection to the natural surroundings, having water as the main element. The concept was represented through the water flow and site terraces. The program is a small gallery space, cafĂŠ, seating area and restrooms. The main design elements were water, pathways and materiality. This project was catered to potential users such as: locals, pilgrims and tourists.
Julio Leiva
Jacob (Jake) Quist Canada, 1990. Grant McEwan University, Psychology Major.
Location: Section 2_BraĂąas do Sar
View The project is dealing with the surrounding areas to the City of Culture mainly with the street that surrounds Gaias hill. The street and specially the sidewalks are redisigned with the intention of becoming a place to stay, a place to enter different spaces excavated inside the mountain. Spaces that will contain different type of services for the people that will come to visit the CdC -commercial, culture-
Jake Quist
Rosina Diaz Mexico, 1993. New School of Architecture and Design, San Diego.
Site Plan Location: Section 2_BraĂąas do Sar
Perspective GOAL: The project introduces a a new path on the west of the site in unused farmland. The proposal creates a relationship with Ciudad de la Cultura, and Bosque de Galicia (both new projects) to link the new side of the city and the old. CONCEPT: The path uses the concept of water. Thinking of runoff water from the surrounding topography, the project redirects abundance of water from rain onto the introduced infrastructure towards the existing river. It collects water for local needs. This gives advantage to the community to utilize the water for different needs depending on the time of the year. USER: The project creates spaces that welcomes locals, pilgrims and tourists. PROGRAM: The program holds a path that continues the path of Bosque de Galicia into the site. It has an auditorium for educational and recreational purposes. It has a shading structure and sitting areas that serve as a rest stop. A water system that exposes the predominant precensce of water in the area and aids the existing water system to bring water into the river as well as collecting water for any needs the community might encounter. Concluding the program is a welcoming introduction to the site proposal from the west towards the different projects on the site.
Rosina Diaz
Feng Ziyuan China, 1994 Huazhong University of Science and Technology .
View Location: Section 2_BraĂąas do Sar
General plan Students were asked to come up with a site intervention on a large sloped hill between the new City of Culture designed by Peter Eisenmen and the Old City of Santiago de Compostela that would act as a connector between the two. The proposal for my intervention included activating the existing space by creating a field condition that allows the site to grow organically overtime. Due to the heavy amounts of rainfall in Santiago I interpreted the site as a potential water drainage system. Taking the simple idea of water flowing down to the river, situated at the bottom of this terrain, I decided to channel the rain water down in small canals. These canals are paired with a walkway so the visitor is always surrounded by water. Throughout the progression from either direction, the areas around the path and canal are developed as public plazas where the water is either collected in a pool, used as irrigation or directed to the river. Using the process of triangulation, the site slopes are exaggerated to create valley and peak conditions to manage the water. Manipulation of these triangles then creates all kinds of opportunities to create various public spaces such as shelter spaces, pools, plazas, planting zones and irrigation field.
Feng Ziyuan
Project Brañas do Sar: Section 3-TEAM C
Huang Ruisong China, 1993. Huazhong University of Science & Technology.
Concep Drawing Location: Section 3_BraĂąas do Sar
Model Located at the entrance of Santiago de Compostela, this project seeks the opportunity of a new camino route with natural environment. In this project, a meeting point for pilgrims and a series of stairs are created to guide pilgrims onto this new route. In this new route, pilgrims can get rid of the busy road and enjoy the beautiful natural scenery of compostela.
Huang Ruisong
Marisol Barba Mexico, 1988. Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design, California State University, CA 2011 Masters of Architecture Newschool of Architecture and Design, San Diego.
Conceptual Drawing Location: Section 3_BraĂąas do Sar
Model This projectis a simple and compact building, on the top of the park. It uses the mysteriousquality of its location to revealitsmonolithic prÊsence, as a strongelementdisapearing in the trees. It reactswith the urbancontext of the Northstreet to findits position inside the garden. The courtyard on the streetsideleads to the privateartist’sspaces. On the otherside, the building intergrates an existingpaththatleads to the public entrance. The exhibition spaces are located on the top floorwhichprovides a view point above the trees.
Marisol Barba
Daphnie D´Costa USA, 1992. University of San Agustín, PH New School of Architecture and Design
Location: Section 3_Brañas do Sar
Section Tipe - model I joined the Compostela 2016 summer program to dive in deeper with Western European Architecture and to be exposed with hands on craftsmanship, history and culture. I work well in team and as an individual, I made sure everyone has an equal share of assignment given. My strongest suit is doing research and conceptual planning phase.
Daphnie D´Costa
Nellyn Cordova Mexico, 1986. B. Arch, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 2015. A.A.S. Architectural Civil, Northern New Mexico College, Espanola, NM. 2006.
Image Idea Location: Section 3_BraĂąas do Sar
Model The project is sited in Boneval Park, where Alvaro Siza’s design forms a relationship with the existing ruins in order to evoke an experience of procession as the outdoor space steps up the slope of the hill. Through spending time at the site, I closely studied how the paths, terraced levels and ruins create progressively dynamic spaces within the fortified walls of the park. My parti focused on activating these moments while granting access to the artist complex for the public.
Nellyn Cordova
Omar Bagasi Saudi Arabia, 1986. King Saud University, Bachelor of Architecture and Building Science.
Site plan Location: Section 3_BraĂąas do Sar
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Omar Bagasi
Moises Robles USA, 1989 Bakersfield College, Architectural Engineering, 2012. Cal State University Bakersfield, Engineering, 2012.
Location: Section 3_BraĂąas do Sar
Model-plan The fabric of Santiago is much like many old cities in Spain and central Europe. The architecture reflects its culture through the use of stone and old styles of construction. Santiago’s architecture includes Roman and Gothic as well as pieces of modern architecture such as the Culture Center of Galicia by Peter Eisenman. Roads in such cities are much smaller and less wide and therefore create a different scale in relation to person/road/structures/built environment as well as buildings in relations to other buildings. Weather in Santiago can be hot and partly humid, however around 300 days out of the year are normally made up of rain and overcast climate. The climate for the region is temperate oceanic and therefore the weather was not much of a surprise. My project therefore deals with creating an effective circulation and promoting access: Parque do Costura. Parque do Costura deals with the stitching of discontinuity. Within the site location, located south east of the city center, the project intervention stiches the north and south of the center of the site which currently lacks continuity as well as promote east to west circulation by means of pedestrian and cyclist through paths. Circulation in this site is most important due to it having so many factors of discontinuity which need to be addressed: inaccessibility to the site, train tracks, rivers, and a lack of closed loop roads and paths. My integration plans to build roads and paths for pedestrians as well as cyclists, which intertwine, change in height, create rest stops, and mirror the topography of the region that is so often referenced for its natural beauty. Moises Robles
Final Review 2016.
SKETCHING PLAZAS: a. b. c. d.
Plaza Quintana Plaza Platerías Processional Cloister, Pinario Monastery “Paradise” staircase, Bonaval convent
Sketching class professors: Oscar Fuertes, Xulio Turnes. TOURS: 1. School of Journalism, Architect: Siza 2. Bus Station. Architect: Viaplana 3. Bonaval Park, Architects: Siza, López Cotelo, Ábalo y Alonso 4. City of Culture, Architect: Eisenman 5. CGAC, Museum of Contemporary Art. Architect: Siza 6. Trisca Social Center, Architect: Hejduk 7. The Cathedral TRIPS: 8. Fine Arts Museum, Coruña. Architect: Manuel Gallego 9. Abanca Foundation, Coruña. Architect: Grimshaw 10. Hercules Tower, Coruña, Roman lighthouse 11-15. Leça swimming pool, Boa Nova restaurant, Viana do Castelo Library by Siza and Casa da Musica by Rem Koolhaas Tour and trips professors: T. Berger, C.Fabregat, O. Fuertes, C. Seoane. LECTURES: a. Pablo Gallego, Xurso Souto, Pulpiño, Architect & musicians. A journey through… 19292009. “Galicia as a contemporary condition: scale and complexity, landscape and tourism” b. María Lopez Sández Linguist, “Landscape as a Cultural Creation: the Paradox of the English Garden” c. Guadalupe Jimenez, Anthropologist, “An emotional/affective approach to urbanism and landscape” d. Carlos Otero, Archaeologist, “Ancient Monuments. Building the traditional landscape” e. Pablo Alonso, Anthropologist. “What makes up the public space? Ugliness -”Feismo”- in the Camino” f. Felipe Criado, Archaeologist. “Archaeology of a landscape”.
San MartĂn Pinario. Final Review 2016
ISBN: Deposito Legal: Edita: Fundación Compostela Arquitectura
Students: 2016 Michel Kramer Sairah Sanchez David Dolores Chadwick Cullen Chih Wei Su Manuel Montalvo Daniel Rodriguez Julio Leiva Jake Quist Rosina Diaz Feng Ziyuan Huang Ruisong Marisol Barba Dapnhie D´Costa Nellyn Cordova Omar Bagasi Moises Robles
Director: Carlos Seoane Assistant: Daniel R. Seoane Coordinator: Oscar Fuertes Faculty: Tatiana Berger. Architect, professor at NSAD Carmen Fabregat. Architect & sociologist. Oscar Fuertes. Phd. in Architecture. Pablo Gallego. Phd. in Architecture, professor at UDC Maria Sieira. Architect, professor at Pratt Inst. Carlos Seoane. Architect, professor at UDC. Lecturers: Pablo Alonso Cristina S. Carretero Felipe Criado, María Lopez Sandez, Carlos Otero Edite Rosa, Guest Lecturers: X. Estevez A. Siza. Visits: Eisenman, Hejduk, Gallego, Grassi, Grinshaw, Koolhaas, Rossi, Viaplana Siza.
Photographs by Tono Mejuto