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FRAN LATORRE NAVARRO 1
Portfolio. Fran Latorre Navarro
VALENCIA|PARIS•2012/2016 CONTESTS 4·Laic Chapel, Arquia 8·Central Park Summer Pavilion, Arquideas 12·A tower to fly... Arquia UNIVERSITY PROJECTS 14·City Council 20·Youth Center 22·Urban Regeneration 26·Urban Agriculture Park
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ABOUT ME
The limit of the city is defined by a line, a boundary. This limit becomes diffuse when we move away from the tangible reality and we start thinking about the age of the city:
Graduated in Architecture License at the ETSAVUniversitat Politécnica de València (Valencia, Spain). With a competent, effective and resourceful way of working and a strong passion for architecture. Some of my main interests are music, cinema, and scenography.
Which limit separates the city from nature? Cultivated fields and walls: before; Industry and highways: now. In any case, modified landscapes that isolate us from the nature. From the outdoors space. The construction of the limit is been the key of the relation that architecture establishes with the exterior. It’s morphology, as well as the elements that form it describe in a single plane, or in just a line, the way of understanding architecrure and the city. Constructing the limit between indoor and outdoor spaces could be a possible definition of architecture.
After my academic formation in Valencia, where I acquire wide knowledge of construction, structures, technical, and project design skills, I made an academic exchange with the Architecture School of Paris-La Villette, where I learned new ways of facing architecture complexity. I started to be interested in scenography and in project development’s participative process. It was the perfect complement for my education as future architect. My goal is to continue developing myself throughout architecture’s opportunities. Always eager to meet new challenges and to learn from new experiences that can build up my education as an individual and as a professional.
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Laic Chapel, Barcelona. ARQUIA CONTEST 2016. WINNER
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The chapel is understood as a device, that allows to leave behind the sensory pollution produced by the city. The path proposed is not focused on a specific spot, as there is no required worship. A circular-semiburied space is developed, for the arrival to be gently announced. Sensitive references will fade away. The user will go through a process that will make his mind go blank. The access tunnel will erase all the visual references to the city. The temperature will stop being too high or too low to become gradually comfortable. The smell of wet soil will replace the polluted emissions from the cars. The verticality of the buildings will disappear in the wavy lines of the walls. The visitor will start to believe he has crossed the border when he reaches the skylight-where the only image he has of the exterior are the trees and the sky. Th noise will let the silence conquer the space.
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roof
ramp
walls
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chapel
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walls 3d model
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Summer Pavilion, New York. ARQUIDEAS CONTEST 2016.
The skin of the pavilion consist of two layers: the outer one is made out of plastic polycarbonate panels and the inner one, a green facade, hold by the wooden structure. The plastic panel as a rain protection, collecting water in several points for the correct and sustainable manteinance of the vegetal one, which is filtering the sun and manteining the inside humidity in the optimal level and lowering the temperature.
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house plan.
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What would a kid do, when asked to draw a house? - The first image would be a gabled house with chimney, no matter if the kid is from Harlem, China or the Upper East Side. In MY HOUSE IN SHEEP MEADOW, we offer the opportunity to enjoy the advantages of suburban lifestyle in the heart of Manhattan, by bringing a low density house model to Central Park. With the Balloon Frame construction we rescue the history of colonial american architecture and remind the essence of a place to live connected to the nature. Every space you can find there is a metaphor to the different rooms a classic american house would have. - For example: the kitchen area can be used for an open cafe place, a restaurant or charity cooking events. Â Central Park is the oasis of Manhattan, the nature in the middle of the grid, the escape to all the stress and tension happening in New York.
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A tower to fly... Aleph. ARQUIA CONTEST 2015.
The tower is conceived as a metaphor of life. The design is based on a text written by J. L. Borges: The Inmortal. We were asked to create a character that will inhabit the tower. In this case the character was Argos, the inmortal man. Argos found the tower in the middle of the forest. Its shape and texture would atract him to touch it, to get inside. The tower was hard to climb, as hard as life is hard to live. The first step was a ramp, easy to accomplish, just as childhood is. Teenage step was represented with many ways to choose, but just one correct. Adulthood was a steep stairway. When Argos got into the wide room, he could feel the ground he felt before getting into the tower. He disappeared.
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scheme of emptinesses
exploded-axonometry.
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City Council. Benaguacil, Valencia. University Project 2014.
This project is located at the main square of Benaguacil. Its situation in between two big urban voids, which still respect the old medieval town plan, offers the opportunity to restructure the public space. As it is the center of the cultural and commercial life of Benaguacil, this square has crucial facilities such as the Church, the Post office and the City Council itself. Historically the square has been used for different cultural events such as religious ceremonies and festivals. These events took place under a wooden roof located in the current spot of the developed building. And that is why the public space is included in the design of the building itself by letting the street cross the ground floor from it. This way the design of the building encourages the public life around. The limit is not constructed.
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4th. floor
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square plan.
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structure model
1.Concrete wall. 2.Projected Polyurethane Isolation. e. 40mm. 3.Plywood . e. 30mm. 4.Continuous concrete pavement. 5.Plot, raised floor. 6.Metallic cross beam. 7.Instalations ducts. 8.Concrete. 9.Metallic beam fill. 10.Beam. Prevalesa. 35cm.
floor structure system
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Youth Center. Benaguacil, Valencia. Unicersity Project 2013.
interior view.
entrance perspective.
The building is situated in the main square of the village. The location is placed in between two existing buildings. The design strategy consists of two different structural systems: prestressed beams for the main uses will allow the open plan, in the outdoor part of the building; the administration program, more private, is solved with a metallic system of columns and beams. This makes possible the existence of a patio. The open plan in the entrance creates a space richness that invites the user to come in. In addition, the building is not aligned with the street facades. This decision has been taken to create an in-between space as an atmosphere before the building. The limit, this time, was created with an open plan. It is reduced to a glass line that divides interior and exterior.
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1.Lighting. Erco Light. ref. L005. 2.Prestressed beams. H shape. 3. Instalations ducts. 4.Plot, raised floor. 5.Wooden cross beam. 50x25mm. 6.Wood floor. e. 30mm
structure 3D model.
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Urban Regeneration, Quartier Voltaire, Àsnieres-sur-Seine. Paris. University Project. ENSA Paris-La Villette 2015
Context: Voltaire Neighborhood is located next to the second ring of Paris’ Banlieue. Its position between Gennevilliers and Asnières-surSeine makes it to be perceived as a boundary. Surrounded by different types of constructions: from 80’s towers to current office buildings, is one of the only places where isolated houses still exist. It represent a great opportunity to recover town’s identity.
Empty lot.
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Garage.
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Thought an analysis of neighborhood’s buildings, there is shown that many of the abandoned constructions we placed in a strategic location: blocking important axes or being disseminated across different points. That will allow to develop a regeneration process including activities asked by the citizens and new constructions. Erasing the limits by constructing new ways of discover the neighborhood. Furthermore, its proximity to the Gabriel Peri station brings the opportunity to connect easily with Grand Paris. Â
Empty lots Existing activities Abandoned buildings Old Garage. Catalytic role
Cultural activities Potencial Headquarters active use.
Potencial pasive use.
Shared space. Buildings to renovate. Flexible- Parking Housing Potential Culture Center
Underground and bus station. Gabriel Peri
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Project proposal: Alternative acces to Gennevilliers’ Green area
Street Occupation
Cultural and associative activities
Recovered Building. Arrangement of Recovered Building Potential use. Potential use. public spaces
New isolated housing
TEMPORALITY: Stage#1
Stage#2
Stage#3
Stage#4
The aim is to prove that just opening some doors and demolishing some walls, urban space will be totally reconfigured.
The second stage is based on the abandoned buildings in order to locate the neighborhood’s regeneration activities.
Third stage’s aim is to restrict car’s in main neighborhood streets. This process will permit a better use for the inhabitants.
Last stage consists of new axes proposal which allows a better urban permeability.
Public, cultural activities. The aim is use mixing.
This process shall be done in two steps:
There is the possibility of build two new constructions.
-First, car’s restriction, without change street’s morphology.
-A flexible parking will be able to be transformed in the future.
-Second, street’s quality im improvement for the users.
-A building whose activity is related to a Grand Paris level, in order to attract new users to the neighborhood.
OPEN GREEN SPACES TO PUBLIC.
In this 1st stage we can find the following steps:
-to make easy the acces to vegetal areas
ABANDONED BUILDINGS’ RENOVATION
One of the most important buildings is the garage. The renovation of garage’s space must be understood as the liberation of neighborhood axes. Now this space is blocking the neighborhood, taking it’s urban live away. From now, this building is going to became in a exchange place, connecting and giving quality to the city.
PEDESTRIAN SPACE
Current state. -total aperture of spaces with a minimal intervention
NEW BUILDINGS PROPOSAL
Car’s restriction. Final state.
- Buildings aperture towards surrounding space
- Aperture of alternative axes. -New buildings implementation.
- Spaces’ arrangement. Always with a flexible intervention, adaptable to the changing uses which are going to be set up in the 2nd stage.
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- Possible sinergies created from new uses.
- Pedestrian colonization.
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Recovered Building. Potential use.
Arrangement of public spaces
Future uses building
Isolated housing Related to Gabriel Peri station
longitudinal section.
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Urban Agriculture Park. Valencia. University Project 2012. The city of Valencia establishes a rare relation within the huerta. There is a direct contact between the cultivated nature and the city. In many cases this limit is just a path. Nevertheless, this limit represents a barrier and sometimess been perceived as residual. The project is based on treating and constructing this limit to developed the use and the relation between the citizens and the huerta. The principal aim is to urbanize and treat the edge in order to obtain a balance inbetween urban and rural life. The geometry of the pedestrian walks attends to preexisting elements. In that way, the limit gets blurred and invites to get into it. The treatment, the construction of the limit, has the effect of a better use of this border.
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