DGS-Portfolio by Diego Garcia-Setien

diego garcia-setien portfolio 2016

Practice GaSSz Architects Associated is an architecture office directed by Diego García-Setién (PhD Arch.) and Silvia Sánchez (March.) Their designs have been defined as ‘Architectural-technical objects with a tendency towards naturalization’ which aim to redefine the contemporary public space and help to configure a new cityscape for the 21st century, addressing intertwined issues related to ecology, industry and technology. His work is characterized by an ecosystem approach applied to Architectural design, which is understood as the place to integrate multiple, different and complex realms into an eco-techno-system that mediates between humans and their expanded environment. His projects usually address environmental, social and energy issues and put them to work trying to close programatic and performative cycles. During his career and holding different principal positions, Diego Garcia-Setien has collaborated and partnered with many other architects, engineers, ecologists, designers, archaeologists, paleontologists, artists, botanists, curators, photographers or historians among others. He has also taught together with more than 30 architectural design professors in five different Universities. This continued collaborative work experience has forged his strong managerial skills and leadership which he also puts in practice in the academic context at his studios. He has participated in more than 60 projects, half of which were Architecture Competitions (Recognized 18 times). He has worked in full-mission commissions and has experienced every phase of design and the building process, from its conceptualization and technical development of the construction documents to on-site building management and works direction. His work include projects of very diverse scales, ranging from urban guerrilla actions trying to raise awareness about environmental facts (Park-e-ing) to urban design and master plans defining phases of a longer term project (Batallones); programs: from public space design (ETSAM) to archaeological & paleontological Visitor Centers (Collado Mediano), Collective housing (Vallecas), office (INM), cultural and educational (Getafe, Miraflores), or industrial buildings (Bodegas Lacuesta); challenges: from the design of strategies to climatically condition an open-air space (AZCA), to the design of a workspace where Biomimicry and Life principles are applied to design (BM Center).; durabilities: from temporary landscapes and architectures designed for a short life of 1 month, (America’s Cup Valencia) to residential buildings made to last 50 years or more (NM house). Some of his institutional clients include The Biomimicry Center, Arizona State University, Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, and also a longer list of private clients (see Projects detailed relation below). Among his most relevant works are the internationally awarded Bioclimatic EcoBoulevard, especially noted for its innovative ecological approach, its natural-artificial interplay, and its reversible strategy and environmental performance. Other notable projects and works include the NM house, which was soon acknowledged with the Opera Prima Award [COAM, 2007], and the Madrid Fair set of temporary pavilions for the Municipality, or the Eco-Techno-Hub of Miraflores, an project which has been also internationally awarded (SARA NY 2015, Unfinished, Bienale di Venezia 2016) which was also selected to be part of the Spanish Pavilion exhibition at the XV Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Bienale di Venezia 2016.

Impact & Dissemination Projects by GaSSz associates have received international recognition, including the 1st Prize in the Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architects (2007), the 1st Prize in the Arquia Proxima for Young Architects (2008), the 1st Prize in the II ENOR Architecture Awards (2006), the Silver Prize from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Design-Europe (2008), the Acknowledgement Prize from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Design-Europe (2006), or the Opera Prima Award, for his first built work (2007) from the Madrid Architects Association COAM. Other merits include a Silver Award of Honor by the Society of American Architects of New York (2015), a Honorable Mention by the Spanish Pavilion for the Bienale di Venezia 2016, and a Runner-Up place at the Mies Van der Rohe Awards in 2007 or the Spanish Bienale 2009 (see Awards detailed relation below). His work has been presented internationally in multiple lectures. They have been part of 2 monographic exhibits (COAM, COAC), and part of collective exhibitions at the Bienale di Venezia, the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, the Gallery of the Spanish Ministry of Public Works (MOPU), several Architects Associations (Barcelona, Madrid, Alicante, Girona), several European and American Universities, Museums as the Benaki of Athens, the MUVIM and the IVAM in Valencia, in Galeries such as the Royal Institute British Architecture of London, the Galeria Spazio FMG di Milano, EL Croquis Gallery in El Escorial, AEDES Galerie in BerlĂn, and also at the International Exhibition of Zaragozaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;08, among others (see Exhibits detailed relation below). Some of them have also been mentioned in Doctoral Thesis (Mestre, N. UPM) collected in a monograph book (Monoespacios 8) and included in more than 35 specialized books in Architecture. They have also been internationally published in some of the most prestigious and specialized Architectural press, such as Architectural Review (UK), Bauwelt (Ge) Lotus International (It), Domus (It), A+U (Jp), a+t (Sp), Arquitectura Viva (Sp), YAP (Tk), Architecture & Design (In), A10 (NL)Dialogue (Tw), Arkitekten (Dk), Azure (Can), PLOT (Arg), a+a (Ch), Surface (US), Detail (Sp, Ge), Tectonica (Sp), Metalocus (Sp), Pasajes (Sp), AV projects (Sp) or Exit (Sp) among others (see Publications detailed relation below).

Awards 2016 2015 2009 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2005

Honorable Mention. UNFINISHED COMPETITION. BIENALE DI VENEZIA 2016. EcoTechnoHub Silver Award of Honor. 2015 SARA NY DESIGN AWARDS. EcoTechnoHub Shortlisted. MIES VAN DER ROHE EUROPEAN AWARDS. Ecoboulevard Shortlisted. X BIENAL OF SPANISH ARCHITECTURE. Ecoboulevard Shortlisted. X BIENAL OF SPANISH ARCHITECTURE. NM House Shortlisted. III ENOR ARCHITECTURE AWARDS. NM House First prize. ARQUIA/PROXIMA AWARDS FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTS. Ecoboulevard Silver Award Europe. HOLCIM AWARDS. FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION. Maribor Shortlisted. UNITED NATIONS ‘BEST PRACTICES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’. Ecoboulevard First Prize. OPERA PRIMA AWARDS. COLEGIO OFICIAL DE ARQUITECTOS DE MADRID. NM House First Prize. ASPRIMA AWARDS 2008. Ecoboulevard First Prize. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW .EMERGENT ARCHITECTURE 2007, LONDON. Ecoboulevard Runner-up. MIES VAN DER ROHE EUROPEAN AWARDS. Ecoboulevard Runner-up. ATEG AWARDS 2007. Ecoboulevard Shortlisted. ZUMTOBEL GROUP SUSTAINABILITY & HUMANITY IN BUILT ENVIRONMENT. Ecoboulevard Honors Award. ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION & EES’S ENVIRONMENTAL TECTONICS . Ecoboulevard First Prize (Center Spain). II ENOR ARCHITECTURE AWARDS. Ecoboulevard Honorable Mention. ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM AWARDS MADRID CITY COUNCIL. Ecoboulevard Shortlisted. 9ª YOUNG SPANISH ARCHITECTS EXHIBIT. FOUNDATION A. CAMUÑAS. Ecoboulevard Honorable Mention. ASPRIMA AWARDS 2006. Ecoboulevard Acknowledgement Prize. HOLCIM FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION. Ecoboulevard

Exhibits 2016 2016 2012 2012 2010 2010 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2005 2004

BIENNALE VENEZIA, SPANISH PAVILION. EXHIBITION OF THE ‘UNFINISHED’ COMPETITION PROJECTS CLESA INTL. COMPETITION FOR ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS. ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS, MADRID RESULTS OF STUDENT RESIDENCE COMPETITION FOR UNILEON. COLEGIO ARQUITECTOS DE LEÓN. 35+ CONSTRUYENDO EN DEMOCRACIA. (2005-07) MOPU GALLERY MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS, MADRID 35+ CONSTRUYENDO EN DEMOCRACIA. (2005-07) BENAKI MUSEUM, ATHENS LOADING 2010. III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ARCHITECTURE ‘CONSTRUTEC’. MADRID ORÍGENES Y DESACUERDOS. ARQUÍA-PRÓXIMA. MUVIM MUSEUM, VALENCIA BIENALE DI VENEZIA. ITALY PAVILION. GIARDINI, VENEZIA ZARAGOZAKYOTO. SPANISH PAVILION IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ZARAGOZA 2008. NEW URBAN ECOLOGIES. GALERÍA SPAZIO FMG. MILANO, ITALY CONSTRUIR, HABITAR, PENSAR. IVAM MUSEUM OF VALENCIA 100% CRUDO. FOUNDATION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS OF MADRID ¿CÓMO? ECO-BULEVAR DE VALLECAS. ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS OF MADRID EL CROQUIS GALLERY. EL ESCORIAL ECO-BULEVAR DE VALLECAS. ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS OF BARCELONA EUROPEAN AWARDS MIES VAN DER ROHE 2007. MOPU GALLERY MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS, MADRID EUROPEAN AWARDS MIES VAN DER ROHE 2007. ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS OF BARCELONA 25 ANIVERSARIO EMVS. ROYAL INSTITUTE BRITISH ARCHITECTURE OF LONDON 25 ANIVERSARIO EMVS. AEDES GALERIE IN BERLÍN 25 ANIVERSARIO EMVS. MADRID ARQUITECTURA Y NATURALEZA. ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS OF GIRONA IX PREMIOS JÓVENES ARQUITECTOS A CAMUÑAS. MUSEUM OF THE CITY, MADRID FRESHMADRID. TRAVELING EXHIBITION (MADRID, BRUSELAS, MONTEVIDEO, BOGOTÁ) EUROPAN 8. MOPU GALLERY MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS, MADRID MONOESPACIOS 8. ECOSISTEMA URBANO. COA MADRID. ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS, MADRID OBRA RECIENTE. B. TATO, J.L VALLEJO Y D. Gª-SETIÉN. ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS, MADRID COMPETITION BULEVAR DE VALLECAS. ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE

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BIOMIMICRY CENTER AT THE DESIGN SCHOOL (ASU) REHABILITATION OF CLESA FACTORY MADRID PENTHOUSE FULL REMODELING IN MAJADAHONDA YOUTH CENTER IN REINOSA ECO-TECH –NO HUB IN AN OLD WATER TR. PLANT ECO-TECH CENTRE’ IN ALHONDIGA PARK STUDENT RESIDENCE FOR UNIVERSIDAD DE LEÓN GREENHOUSE FOR ENERGY NATIONAL MUSEUM PAVILION FOR MADRID BOOK FAIR’10. RETIRO PARK. LA PEREGRINA ENVIRONMENT PONTEVEDRA HOUSING EUROPAN X IN VIENA AUSTRIA EMVS PUBLIC HOUSING IN VALLECAS MADRID SUSTAINABILITY R+D+I CENTRE BADAJOZ PAVILION FOR MADRID BOOK FAIR ’09. RETIRO PARK. SHELTER FOR ROMAN ARCHEAOLOGICAL SITE SHELTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, ROMAN TRACK PILOT BUILDING SUSTAINABILITY CENTRE FOR UPM PAVILION FOR MADRID CHRISTMAS ’08. CIBELES SQ. PAVILION JUNTA EXTREMADURA. AR&PA FAIR. OFFICE BUILDING ‘CASAMAYOR PUBLIC PARK. TRES CANTOS FACADE REHABILITACTION CONDE DUQUE 22 EMVS PUBLIC HOUSING IN VICÁLVARO TEMPORARY FAIR AND YEAR EVENTS ICEX PAVILION FOR MADRID BOOK FAIR’08. RETIRO PARK PAVILION FOR ‘PARADORES’. FITUR FAIR ’08 MUSEOGRAPHY FOR ARCHENA MUSEUM. MUSEOGRAPHY OF XVII c. MILITARY TOWER ‘NAVIDAD’ NM HOUSE IN CONCRETE. PANTANO DE SAN JUAN,

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THESIS PRESENTATION ROOM A & B. ETSAM, UPM OFFICE BUILDING ‘I.N. DE METEOROLOGÍA’ CMT COACo ARCHITECTS ASSOC. HEADQUARTERS EDITIONS AND EXHIBITIONS ea! COAM TWO SHELTERS FOR PALEONTOLOGICAL SITE BIOCLIMATIC ECOBOULEVARD (2nd PHASE) VALLECAS TEMPORARY PUBLIC SPACES AMERICA’S CUP’07 MUSEOGRÁPHY JEWISH ARCHEAOLOGICAL SITE ‘WI-FIRONA’ GREEN WIFI AREA ‘ESPACIO DISPONIBLE’. PUBLIC SPACE ETSAM (UPM) EXHIBITION MONOESPACIOS 8 [ecosistema urbano] PUBLIC HOUSING IN VIRGEN DE LA ENCINA OFFICES FOR ‘CMT’ (1ª PHASE). RETIRO PARK. EXHIBITION HALL AND MUSEOGRAPHY REALE PARK-e-ING’ URBAN PARK IN 5 DAYS. EUROPAN 8. TEMPORARY HOUSING IN MARIBOR IES SON FANGOS, PALMA DE MALLORCA PUBLIC URBAN PARK ‘WATER PARK EXPO’08’ ‘ECO-MOBILIARIO’. FURNITURE FOR EXPO’08 SZ HOUSE BETWEEN 2 TREES. TORRELODONES BIOCLIMATIC ECOBOULEVARD (1ST PHASE) VALLECAS MUSEALIZACIÓN ‘TORRE HOMENAJE’ BIOCLIMATIC ECOBOULEVARD IN VALLECAS EMVS PUBLIC HOUSING IN VALLECAS MADRID METEOROLOGY MUSEUM. RETIRO PARK CONGRESS PALACE AND EXHIBITION HALL CINEMACLUB AND THEATRE PROJECT FOR WINERY ‘MTZ. LACUESTA’ HARO ‘SERVOMANIFESTO’ FOR THE IUAV VENEZIA NEW HEADQUARTERS FUND. MIES VAN DER ROHE LARCOVI HOUSING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

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Diego García-Setién Terol [Madrid, 1974]

PhD. Architect from the Polytechnic University of Madrid [UPM] in 2016. MArch +BArch. from ETSAM, Public School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid [UPM] in 2000 Registered Architect, member of Architects Association COAM-CSCAE [#14.687] Founder, Partner and Principal of GaSSz Architects [2007-present] Founder, Partner and Principal of ecosistema urbano architects [2000-2007] Awarded practice includes: EcoBoulevard & Air-Trees (Vallecas) noted for its innovative sustainable environmental design, its reversible strategy and its smart performance, as well as for its interplay of artificial-natural realms, making use of renewable energy and recyclable materials and social programs. NM house, a summer and weekend house for a coffee industrialist, awarded “for its innovative character .. the interesting treatment of the concrete, surface and for giving prominence to the constructive system“ (Opera Prima Awards. Jury’s fault record. Architect’s Assoc. June 2008).

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Contemporary practice aiming to produce innovative Architecture projects and develop concepts of impermanence, reversibility and sustainability, from an eco-systemic approach. Among other notable projects and works acknowledged in Arch. Competitions are the Honorable Mention at the ‘UnFinished’ Projects Competition, set by the Spanish Pavilion at the Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia 2016, the 2nd Prize in the competition for Student Residence for The University of Leon (2011), or the 1st Prize in the VIII Europan Competition for 100 temporary housing and open venues in Maribor, Slovenja (2008). Other public commissions include the recently developed Eco-Techno-Hub, a facility for environmental eduaction in Miraflores, or the shelter for a roman Archaeological-site in Collado Mediano, both in Madrid Region.

Assistant Professor (TT) in Arizona State University. García-Setién has combined practice and academic activity, teaching Architectural Design Studio since his graduation, first as a Teaching Assistant teacher and since 2007, holding different and simultaneous positions of Faculty Associate at the ETSAM (Polytechnic University of Madrid), the ESAyT (UCJC), the EPS (CEU-San Pablo University) or the EU Vasco de Gama-PARQ (Coimbra, Portugal). Since 2006 he has taught as an Assistant professor at the international Master in Collective Housing, together with figures like Anne Lacaton (FR), Andrea Deplazes (CH), or Fritz van Dongen (NL). He has been invited as a lecturer and Studio reviewer at the AA (London), UofA (Tucson) and many other national schools of Architecture, and participated as peer reviewer and Jury member for student and professional competitions.

Prizes & Awards García-Setién’s practice has received prestigious acknowledgments, including the Architectural Review Award for Emerging Architects (2007), the Silver Prize from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable DesignEurope (2008), the Acknowledgement Prize from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Design-Europe (2006), a Runner-up in the Mies Van der Rohe Awards in 2007, or the Opera Prima Award, to his first built work (2007) from the Madrid Architects Association. His work has been exhibited internationally and published worldwide in specialized media.

Theory & Research Research activity include published articles in indexed reviews such as ‘Tectonica,’ or ‘Arquitectura’,(Avery Index) and conference papers. In 2002 he received a 4-yearscholarship as a Doctorate Researcher in Architectural Design, which has recently concluded in a Doctoral Thesis on Architecture as a technical Object & Technology Transfer’. He participated as a researcher in two State Research Programs: ‘INVISO’ and ‘CENIT’, funded by the Ministry of Industry and the CSIC.

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Garcia-Setien’s work has been included in more than 30 books and catalogues, one of them the Monography ‘Monoespacios 8’, edited by the Architect’s Association of Madrid (COAM).

Works have been exhibited in national and International Institutions as the Spanish Ministry of Public Works (MOPU), Valencia Modernity Museum (MUVIM), Valencia Modern Art Museum (IVAM), Zaragoza International Exhibition’08, Architects Associations of Madrid, León, Barcelona, Gerona, Alicante, and El Croquis headquarters in El Escorial. Monographic exhibits on his works have been held by the Architect’s Association of Madrid and Barcelona. It has also been part of Collective Exhibitions, like Freshmadrid, or the EMVS aniversary exhibition, travelling abroad to London, Brussels, Venezia, Bogotá, Montevideo, or the “Arquitectura Española 1975-2010, 35+” exhibition, which travelled to the Benaki Museum of Athens or the Leventis Museum of Nicosia (Chipre).

García-Setién has been a collaborator and adviser for ‘Tectonica Monographies on architecture, technology and construction’ since 2002 to present. His work is focused on the technical analysis doing critical research of ‘cutting edge’ contemporary works of architecture, producing new graphical tridimensional information about them, offering new collective knowledge. The review also includes critical articles and technical texts on the published projects. Tectonica review has received several awards along its trajectory, including the Santiago Amón Award in 1998, by the Architect’s Association of Madrid, the Innovation Award 2001, by the Regional Government of Madrid, and the FIERA Award 2013, by the IV International Fair of Editorials and Architectural Reviews.

International Reviews Works published in more than 40 of the most important specialized international architecture Reviews as: Architectural Review (UK), Architectural Record (US), Lotus International, (IT), Domus, (IT), Detail (GE), Bauwelt, (GE), A10 (NL), a+u (JP), Area, (IT), Summa (AG), Plot (AG), Architecture + (DB), Architettura naturale (IT), Yap (TK), Tasarim (TK),Arkitekten (DN), Dialogue (TW), Design (TW), Residence (NW), Covjek (CR), Interior digest (RUS), Surface (US), Architecture + Design (IN), Wa.Ing (CHI), Codigo (MX), Arquitetura e Arte (PT) Arquitetura e vida (PT), Espaço & Design (PT), Architetcture (FR), Sun & Wind Energy (GE), Futurarc (SING), Public Landscape (HK) , Azure (CAN), L’Arca (IT), Europ’a (BG)... National Reviews Publication in more than 40 prestigious spanish architectural reviews, among which: a+t , Detail España, Arquitectura, Arquitectos, Tectonica, AV Monografías, Arquitectura Viva, Metalocus, Exit, Habitat Futura, Arte y Cemento, Pasajes, Diseñart, Infodomus, Via construcción...

Articles & Lectures Up to 20 articles and papers have been published for diferent prestigious reviews, books and congresses. Lectures have been given at most of the Spanish Architecture Schools, for both graduate or postgraduate programs, and also in public cultural Institutions like the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) , at most of the national Architect’s Association foundations, the Valencia Modernity Museum (MUVIM), or the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona.

Research Member of ProLab Research Group at the Architectural Design Department of the ETS Architecture School in Madrid. His research activity includes the recent cofoundation of the ‘CoLaboratorio Fab Lab UPM’, held at the Polytechnical University of Madrid, a Digital fabrication laboratory linket to the MIT network (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His work as a researcher and teacher has already become part of 4 books.

OEUVRE IN COVERS OF INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIZED ARCHITECTURAL REVIEWS 2004-2013

OEUVRE PUBLISHED IN SPECIALIZED ARCHITECTURE BOOKS 2004-2013

ANALYSIS AND CRITIC TECTONICA REVIEW MONOGRAPHIES ON ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION

Issues 15-19, 25-41 (2002-13) Themes: 15. Ceramic 16. Curtain wall 17. Complex Geometries 18. Restoration 19. Plastic 25. Concrete 26. Services 27. Stone 28. Energy I 29. Steel II 31. Energy II 32. Light envelopes 33. Rehabilitation 34. Roofs 35. Ventilation 36. Fabric 37. Acustic isolation 38. Industrialization 39. nterior finishings 40. Alterred structures 41. Fire protection

ANALYSIS AND CRITIC TECTONICA REVIEW MONOGRAPHIES ON ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION

Issues 15-19, 25-41 (2002-13)

Researched Works: Kaufmann. LCTower Mias. 22@ offices Barcelona M. Gallego. Museum Santiago H arquitectes. Student residence Moneo-Brock Columbia Garcia Solera. Kindergarden BAAS. Medical center Barcelona Ferrater. Roca Gallery Aires Mateus. Farol Caruso St John. Nottingham C. Ferrater. Barcelona MP tower Eckert&Eckert. Berlín offices A4sc. Eldery housing Mallorca Miralles EMBT. Vigo University Kengo Kuma. Tokyo house Manuel Herz. House A. Bonet. La Ricarda house Bearth & Deplazes. Museum B. Tobías. Sportscenter Zaragoza Batle&Roig. MIlleniumTower M. Fuksas. Tower in Wien …

CoLaboratorio Publications MADRID, 2009-2014

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ECOBOULEVARD PAU DE VALLECAS MADRID 2004-07 A pilot project, cofinanced by the European Union. The climatic conditioning of an open public space was the challenge that made this pioneering project posible. It was defined as a recycling operation of a conventional public urban space. Three Air Trees were installed on the existing street, ofering better environmental conditions to citizens. More than 300 new trees are planted, on a regular grid, over the field, even on the road tracks, for pedestrians to appropriate some of the carâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s space. Other superficial interventions like painting or filling up the road tracks were practiced, in order to broaden the public space. Within 30 years, the boulevard will be a forest of well-grown trees, as the most sustainable solution to condition this open space. During this time, the Air Trees will emulate the forest effects, being dismantled after they are unnecessary.

ECOBOULEVARD PAU DE VALLECAS MADRID 2004-07

ECOBOULEVARD PAU DE VALLECAS MADRID 2004-07 The objective is to create an inviting atmosphere to encourage activities in the public space of an area suffering from ‘planning sickness’. Every cylinder aims to work as a big shading tree, regulating the atmosphere of the spaces that it contains thrugh evapotranspiration and shade, to host a variety of collective activities. ‘Air trees’ havr their own bioclimatic strategy: for this one, the structure is dressed with a thermal screen in the outside, while the inside is covered with climbing vines. PV panels and climatic sensors, together with water atomizers regulate temperature and humidity iconditions in the space below, resulting in a sustainable stimulator of public life.

ECOBOULEVARD PAU DE VALLECAS MADRID 2004-07

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The ludic treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is a variant of the first one, characterized by having an internal and external vegetation wall, for enclosing a large sandbox for children to play within, and receives intermittent generation of a refreshing cloud of atomized water. To the outside, the climbing plant species coexist with the lighting system in form of spikes of fiber optics. The autonomy with which the air trees funtion makes them objects of an exportable nature, as they can be reinstalled in similar locations which are requiring the generation of urban activity, such as new developments or urban extensions, degraded parks or squares.

ECOBOULEVARD PAU DE VALLECAS MADRID 2004-07

ECOBOULEVARD PAU DE VALLECAS MADRID 2004-07 The third tree â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The media treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, try to go a step further, to the reprogramming of the public space of the boulevard. In its interior, an anti-reflective textile wall, will serve as a screen in which audiovisual contents could be projected. It is protected from direct solar radiation by means of a ventilated double-layer textile cover. Its vegetal exterior is mixed with LED screens, in which the information obtained by the different sensors of T, H, wind speed and direction, etc., placed in the three structures that characterize the boulevard dumps. The cylinders are to serve as catalysts of public life, thereby improving the generally poor quality of public space in enlargements of this kind.

ECOBOULEVARD PAU DE VALLECAS MADRID 2004-07

EXHIBITION ‘MONOESPACIOS’ ECOSISTEMA URBANO COAM FOUNDATION, MADRID* Monograph exhibiton about ecosistema urbano’s works and projects at the Architects Association in Madrid. Conisted in the arrangement of the exhibition stands, forming 3 circles, A showcase for a model equipped with fiber optic tines, connected to a projector with color filters, and a window for a built-in video player. A soft floor of chipped rubber was installed too, transforming the visitor’s experience in this dark space.

NM HOUSE SAN MARTĂ?N DE VALDEIGLESIAS MADRID 2005-07 Over a pine forest lies this small weekend house for a coffee industrialist. The cubic envelope folds and deforms itself in order to meet sun movement, to attend regulations and program needs. A mezanine floor surrounds a double height space and the ground floor opens up towards the views. A little pool lies agains the rock ravine, solving the limits of profitable garden space. Formwork is built with OSB, which is also used for the interior finishing of walls. Its texture and quality makes this technical object blend with its surrounding tree cork and rock lichens.

NM HOUSE SAN MARTÍN DE VALDEIGLESIAS MADRID 2005-07

RE-Home DuplexPenthouse MAJADAHONDA, MADRID 280 m2 After a partial demolition, a new layout is proposed. The lower floor is an open plan organized around a central 'cabinetâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC; containing a toilet, a pantry and multiple storage spaces, while the upper floor contains the bedrooms organized around a common central space. Reinforcement of thermal insulation and cold/heat radiant floor, along with the installation of new windows, greatly improved the houseÂ´s energy efficiency.

PAVILION BOOK FAIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;10 RETIRO PARK, MADRID, 2010 The book fair pavilion hosts a space to commemorate the 100 aniversary of Gran VĂa street in Madrid, a place once characterized by its numerous cinemas and theatres. The project offers a new passthrough open space which recalls this famous madrilenian street, by folding its walls to produce an optical effect.Red curtains and black fabric is used to intensify this cinematic experience.

PAVILION BOOK FAIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;10 RETIRO PARK, MADRID, 2010

PAVILION BOOK FAIR’09 RETIRO PARK, MADRID, 2009 The book fair pavilion commemorates the turn-of-thecentury Literary cafés, typically dark cultural interiors of Madrid city center. The Retiro Park is also a very pleasent ‘inner space’ to be, in the middle of the city. The chance is taken to mingle this two interior spaces, the result beeing a green house with a veiled café atmosphere, producing a lightfull and fresh space where culture is promoted.among children and adults. A concerned reflection on reversibility and sustainability of fair stands, led us recycling materials and systems.

PAVILION BOOK FAIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;09 RETIRO PARK, MADRID, 2009

PAVILION CHRISTMAS ‘08 AYUNTAMIENTO DE MADRID PLAZA DE CIBELES, 2008 The pavilion hosts a traditional Christmas instalation for the city town hall. Visited mainly by children, the pavilion evoques the structure of a rural construction, as the one that suppossedly sheltered baby J.C, and uses the same ‘fake’ materials as the ones used for the above mentioned traditional installation ‘Belén’: cork simulate rocks,and moss simulate lawn. We used other ‘fake’ artifitial materials from industry: synthetic grass, and OSB boards, which amusingly recall the same moss and cork simulacres.

CHRISTMAS FAIR PAVILION MADRID CITY COUNCIL PLAZA DE CIBELES, MADRID, 2008

‘AVAILABLE SPACE’ SOFT PUBLIC SPACE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL MADRID, 2007 Guerrilla-like intervention on a public space of Madrid’s public School of Architecture. Phase I: Epoxi red paint to set the ‘complaint advertisement’ Phase II: Old asphalt pavement is substituted by a porous and ecological pavement. New decidous trees plantation instead of old evergreen arizonica bushes, provide pasive conditioning for the summer (shadow) or winter (sun). New fixed-on ground furniture, consiting on 3 soft rubber bumps where people can gather laying, siting or standing.

‘AVAILABLE SPACE’ SOFT PUBLIC SPACE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL MADRID, 2007

PARKeING. EPHEMERAL PUBLIC SPACE ALCALÁ DE HENARES, 2004 At the Unesco preserved city center of Alcalá de Henares, we found a big vacant plot, used as a parking lot. We then knew that transforming this place into a park had been an electoral promise, used by politicians since decades. We had 400€ budget to build a park in a parking in 5 days. We cleared up a small area of 300sqm. around three existing tress, poured some recycled asphalt gravel, and planted ten new trees; settled some public benches for gatherings, and offered some flowers to the neighbors. If they cared about it, they would maintain it from then on. The urban action had some impact on the regional TV daily news.

Wi-FiRONA. GLOCAL PUBLIC SPACE GIRONA, 2006 In the cathedral sq. of Gironaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s city center, we settled a natural grass mat, a perimeter signed with photovoltaic traffic lamps, and contracted a Wi-fi line, to create a GLOCAL public space

P R O J E C T S

BioMIMICRY CENTER ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TEMPE, ARIZONA (EEUU)

A 2000 sf. room is remodeled to house the new Arizona State Biomimetics Center. Aiming to become an exemple of how Biomimicry can be applied to design . Capable of hosting different earning, research, training and dissemination activities. After dismantling the existing elements following a policy of zero-waste, a short but varied series of elements are introduced to solve every requirement through multifunctionality : translucent fins wrap the ceiling and walls providing light and acoustic comfort. A set of 'DeserTables' serve as a plant and human activity support and represent 4 different biomes of the Sonoran Desert. Region.Fiber optic is used to bring natural light to the living plants inside the space.

BioMIMICRY CENTER ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TEMPE, ARIZONA (EEUU)

ECOTECHNO HUB ON AN OLD WATER TREATMENT PLANT MIRAFLORES , 2012-14 An existing water treatment plant is emptied to create 2 new spaces: an underground exhibition hall, and a luminous covered but open space. Only an umbrella structure is added to support the roof and stairs, founding its roots on the existing structure. Its exterior cable wall serves for the plants to climb, extending the currrent use of the place, as a nursery for regional reforestation plans. A whole sustainable strategy is developed, including environmental systemas for water and renewable energies.

ECOTECHNO HUB ON AN OLD WATER TREATMENT PLANT MIRAFLORES , 2012-14

ECO-TECH CENTRE ALHONDIGA URBAN PARK GETAFE 2012 Two existing buildings (a house and a industrial shed) were incorporated into this new environmental center, where urban orchards, workshop rooms, greenhouses or a butterfly house all stand under the same roof and same enclosure, likely a plastic and light greenhouse, which keeps a continuous ridge, while admitting variation of diferent ground levels along its main axis. Renewable energy issues and social agenda shaped this recycling strategy.

ECO-TECH CENTRE PARQUE DE LA ALHONDIGA GETAFE 2012

SHELTER ARCHEAOLOGICAL SITE COLLADO MEDIANO, 2009-11 A shelter was needed for this roman archeaological site, in order to protect its ruins from atmospherical conditions and also to give it a security enclosure. The modularity of the light tensile structure is set after the ruinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s geometry, contributing to visualize the original volumne of the roman construction.

SHELTER ARCHEAOLOGICAL SITE COLLADO MEDIANO, 2009-11

SHELTER PALEONTOLOGICAL SITE CERRO BATALLONES, 2006-07 After delivery of a Master Plan for the future Archeaological Park of Batallones, two structures were designed to shelter the first two of a total of 9 sites. Two steel structures surround and fit to the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perimeter, making the cohabitance of both archeaologists and visitors posible, splitting them in two diferent levels. A retractable tensioned fabric cover is used to suit to diferent paleontological campaigns along the year.

SHELTER PALEONTOLOGICAL SITE CERRO BATALLONES, 2006-07

NEW HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY TENERIFE, 2007 The building stands in front of an 8m tall vegetated ravine. Together with the green-wrap over the roof and facades, they create a complete ‘environmental shelter’ for the offices, which is part of an overall bioclimatic strategy to meet sustainability.

LORCA SINAGOGUE ARCHEAOLOGICALSITE LORCA, MURCIA 2005 Given a blind and dark container, we proposed to use 3 elements: A wooden deck to provide the visitors path, being able to adapt itself to level and dimensional changes. A new ceiling to unify the intervention, and to be used a a tool to interpret the archeaological site. Artificial light, as an essential museographical and architectonical resource.

METEOROLOGY MUSEUM EL RETIRO PARK MADRID 2002 Rehabilitattion of an old royal hunting pavilion (XIXc.) to become a small Meteorology Museum. The old flat roof is substitued for a skylightperiscope-kaleidoscopeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, creating a unique exteriorinterior relation. This crystal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like piece recalls the old magical apparatus , which were once installed on the roof, like an optical telescope or a geodesic observatory, recovering the tradition of scientifical buildings in El Retiro Park.

METEOROLOGY MUSEUM EL RETIRO PARK MADRID 2002

C O M P E T I T I O N S

CLESA FACTORY OF CULTURAL INNOVATION FUENCARRAL, MADRID, 2015 It is proposed that CLESA becomes a new player and counterpart to homologous centers in Madrid, emerged form an industrial past: the citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laboratory MediaLabPrado in Atocha, the space for artistic production of Matadero de Madrid in Legazpi, or the Center for cultural innovation proposed for Boetticher in Villaverde, all located in the south of the city. CLESA could become the northern representative of this network of 'cultural innovation..

REINOSA YOUTH CENTER REINOSA, 2014 Inspired by the galleries organization of the old market existing on the site, the project offers a new folded roof over a new ‘public square’. Built with wood and steel, the space can support simultaneous activities between a set of serviced ‘locker walls’. Passive heating and cooling techniques are implemented in order to puntually condition the interior spaces.

REINOSA YOUTH CENTER REINOSA, 2014

GREENHOUSE ENERGY NATIONAL MUSEUM PONFERRADA, LEĂ&#x201C;N 2012 A small greenhouse built for natural plants, but also for artificial extinguished species (fossils). A greenhouse is a weather machine and this is how is was worked out. Given the shape and volume in the brief, the work focused on how the envelope and the environmental systems could be integrated to the maximum efficience. Skylights were shaped parametrically, according to the needed amount of sun radiation and ventilation.

STUDENT RESIDENCE UNIVERSITY OF LEON LEON, 2011 The industrialized building allows for diferents ways of life: individual graduate students, postgraduate students, researchers with a familyâ&#x20AC;Ś All of them have the posibility to live accordingly to their special needs. The building is set as an industrialized system where 3d, 2d and linear elements coexist. The emptied central spine allows to connect the diferent levels and communal spaces in a richer and complex way.

STUDENT RESIDENCE UNIVERSITY OF LEON LEON, 2011

SUSTAINABILITY CENTRE BADAJOZ, 2009 An office building dedicated to administrate environmental issues like water management. in the region. The 3 parts of the program are enclosed in a continuous envelope which tries to put everyone under the same roof. (education, laboratories, offices, exhibitionsâ&#x20AC;Ś). Industrialization and bioclimatic strategies are practiced, and energy efficient technology is implemented in order to make it an ecological-demostrative building.

160 PUBLIC HOUSING FOR YOUNGSTERS MADRID SPAIN 2009 This fully industrialized housing building included apartments for young users and it would have been constructed using a light structure, 3d service modules, together with planar an linear elements, in order to mass produce the basic standards, and then to let the inhabitant customize its usage. The courtyard is characterized by the green ivy walls enclosing the corridors to access the dwellings.

160 PUBLIC HOUSING FOR YOUNGSTERS MADRID SPAIN 2009

VOLKSPARTERRE EUROPA X, VIENA WIEN, AUSTRIA 2009 The new housing site, formerly occupied by a pig farm, is a big void surrounded by three diferent landscape grain: garden lots, cementery, and suburban houses. We propose to take techniques from the royal barroque palaces, like gardening and topiary artwork with hedges and trees, in order to develope a green infrastructure: The ‘Volksparterre’ within a ‘mutant hedge’. Social and environmental sustainability strategies include incoporating green wastes from the surrounding parks, for composting, or a new flower-garden-based business to feed a new flower market

VOLKSPARTERRE EUROPA X, VIENA WIEN, AUSTRIA 2009

‘FOG’ ENVIRONMENTAL RESETTING OF LA PELEGRINA PONTEVEDRA, SPAIN 2008 The surroundings of this medieval church, famous for pilgrims on the Santiago’s Way, had been developed without care in modern times. The commission asked for solutions to this aesthetic problem, which was turned here into an environmental problem. The proposal focuses on Santiago’s way and also on a particular feature and phenomena of the gallician landscape: a néboa (fog, mist, haze) using it to magicaly make disappear whatever was not wished,

PAVILION BOOK FAIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 RETIRO PARK, MADRID 2008 The book fair pavilion opens its roof in diferent manners, as if covered by the book pages. These openings offer the visitors a pleasant cenital light, and also some selected views of the centenary tree tops surrounding the pavilion, which was to be settled in the middle of Madridâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central El Retiro Park.

‘99 SUITCASES’’PAVILION PARADORES DE TURISMO FITUR FAIR, MADRID 2008 The pavilion represented a well known hotel corporation for a tourism fair. We proposed to set 99 suitcases (one for each of the hotels by the chain) in a matrix pattern, occupying the whole pavilion space. Suitcases were equiped with audiovisual devices showing information about each of the hotels. A floating roof defines the pavilion setting and supports a giant graphic of a map which helps locating the hotels in the spanish geography.

RECYCLING AZCA’S FINANTIAL DISTRICT PUBLIC SPACE MADRID, 2006 The proposal to recycle Azca’s public space, tries to reactivate commercial and business activity, currently in decay. New commercial covered but open streets are prompted in order to connect every public space. Environmental conditioning is provided through the implementation of some devices like the umbrella EFTE roofs orthe ‘wind towers’ and solar chimeneys’ able to temper the exterior air, meeting confort standards for a public open space. Solar and wind energy devices integrated in these structures, would provide light and mechanical energy to move air when needed.

EPHEMERAL PUBLIC SPACES FOR AMERICA’S CUP VALENCIA, 2006 The need was for two temporary public spaces for the visitors of the America’s Cup, held at Valencia’s Port. The project included two type of spaces from where the public could watch the sailing competition. The first one was linked to the Yatchs Port and the second one, related to the Port’s exit, on a parking lot. Since the requirement was for reversible solutions, the proposal included one big scaffolding for the fist site, and a vegetated park, planted on an artifitial topography in the second case.

EPHEMERAL PUBLIC SPACES FOR AMERICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CUP VALENCIA, 2006

TEMPORARY HOUSING ON A LANDFILL. EUROPAN 8 MARIBOR, SLOVENIA 2005 100 new temporary houses on an old sealed landfill. A new artifitial topography was proposed in order to have a reliable ground on which to build temporary bioclimatic houses, in a reversible and sustainable way. The topography and the houses surround several venues, where diferent activities (concerts, fairs, sport games, marketsâ&#x20AC;Ś) could be developed.

TEMPORARY HOUSING ON A LANDFILL. EUROPAN 8 MARIBOR, SLOVENIA 2005

WATER PARK FOR INTERNATIONAL EXPOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;2008 ZARAGOZA, SPAIN 2005 The project deals with the inmaterial and the invisible, a kind of substance not usually managed by architects. We pose architecture as energy management, water, sun and wind become the main characters to organize the park, being able to radically transform landscape conditions, modifying water levels, by controledly flooding certain areas. A distributed network of some technical objects, runs a complex environmental, social and hydraulic system that includes processes like energy generation, water treatment, irrigation, flooding, or ludic activities. The park as a purifying plant for the International Expo, converting wastes in resources.

WATER PARK FOR INTERNATIONAL EXPOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;2008 ZARAGOZA, SPAIN 2005

WATER PARK FURNITURE INTERNATIONAL EXPOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 ZARAGOZA, SPAIN 2005 By assembling diferent families of urban furniture, (bench, umbrella, fountain, light, fence, board) we contribute to create higher and more intensive gathering places, which could help to define the public space of Expoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;08. The proposal aims to deal with sustainability aspects, promoting the use of recycled or recyclable materials and self-sufficient energy devices.

COLLECTIVE HIGH DENSITY HOUSING VALLECAS, MADRID, 2003 The high density housing block was configured as a porous lattice wall, where the communal and collective spaces for the neighbors were blended with the private dwelling spaces. It served also to introduce the issue of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;thermal facadeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, made out of vertical fabric canopies superposed. Special fabric technology, was transfered from the greenhouse industry, allowing for an effective higrothermal pasive conditioning of the dwellings. The ligh, reversible and exportable character of this solution was to be tested afterwards, for the Ecoboulevard project, in this same district.

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