EXTERNAL REFERENCE ARCHITECTS. URBAN DESIGN by NACHO TORIBIO

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Contents 1. X R E F _ P R O F I L E 2. U R B A N _ D E S I G N

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PROFILE

External Reference Architects External Reference Architects Nacho Toribio Carmelo Zappulla Plaza Real 18, 2º 2ª 08023 Barcelona T. +34 93 318 86 01 nacho@externalreference.com carmelo@externalreference.com

Awarded by New Italian Blood as the best Young Italian Architects of 2011, External Reference is an architectural office involved in design and research in the fields of interior design, architecture, and landscape design. More of a professionals net than an office Externalreference is constantly questioning conventional configurations and solutions in order to engage, speculate and innovate. Externalreference notices that there is a big connection between evolvement of architecture projects and business models and believes in sustainable development, balance between architecture, innovative strategy and business improvement. Directed by Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla External Reference offers a broad range of design strategies with the aim of pushing the boundaries towards new outcomes. Looking for the unexpected the office team works on external factors as client needs, budget limits, sustainability as driving forces for the design. Realized and under construction projects have been developed in Spain, Korea, Italy, UK, Germany, France and Russia.

External Reference won several prizes participating in international competition including first prize for the Spanish Pavilion’s exhibition space, the ONU-Art Consensus exhibition, the project Le corti di Buenos Aires, Milano and developed the winning proposal for the Toulouse Aerospace Campus in collaboration with Foreign Office Architects. External Reference’s projects have been exhibited in the Venice’s 12th International Architecture Exhibition Biennale and Eme3. Interested in the materialization of the projects the office team is constantly researching through lecturing and teaching at IED, Instituto Europeo di Design, Barcelona, ELISAVA and UIC, Universidad Internacional de Cataluña in Barcelona; NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano and in collaboration with Welsh School of Architecture Cardiff University. Most of the relevant projects are published in several magazines including Il Sole 24 ore, Pasajes de Arquitectura, Metalocus, Via Construcción, Future, Disey Magazine, Magazine-La Vanguardia, Blueprint, Materia.

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URBANISM

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Opole OPOLE 2012 Type of project: Urban design Project: Opole Location: Opole, Poland Status: Competition Handing over date of project: September 2011 Built up area: 2.000 m2 Project team: Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla Collaborators: Bartlomiej Poteralski, Gabriela Jervis

The aim of the competition is to revitalise the downtown by giving a new outlook to these small plazas. Through the sun diagram study, the areas with the optimal sunlight have been identified so as to concentrate all the public activities of the plazas.

becomes a place to relax, where a ring of seats contains the green area without excluding the view on Swietego Sebastiana Church. To conclude, sun creates “space for life”, green isolates, water provokes sounds and relax, and trees projects shadows.T

Hence, the several aspects of the project (circulation, vegetation, concert area, outdoor bars) were shaped following these sunny zones. Maly Rynek plaza should be the “living room” of the city. Its core is an open-air stage for concerts surrounded by a sequence of rings for seating, water and green which isolate from the city. The amphitheatre is created by lifting up the borders of the plaza and makes a few steps to take a seat. This comprehensive concept helps to make an intimate space and makes people focus on the core of the plaza where music concerts, art exhibitions can be held. The wall, which separates the abbey from the site, is designed as a green buffer area between public and private spaces. Swietego Sebastiana Plaza is a negative version of Maly Rynek. Here the green occupies the center, and not the perimeter. Moreover, it

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CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

Rimed RIMED 2011

Type of project: Research centre Project: Rimed Location: Palermo, Italy Status: Competition Handing over date of project: March 2011 Client: Rimed Foundation Built up area: 25.000 m2 Project team: Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla with M. Tepedino, Pinearq, Steam, Studio Montanari and Partners, SM Ingegneria, Vamir

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street revival

Future station FUTURE STATION 2011 Type of project: Urbanism Project: Future station Location: Palermo, Italy Status: Consulting Handing over date of project: 2011 Built up area: 1500-2000mÂ˛ Project team: Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla with M. Tepedino

Start from the bottom is a strategy to revive the existing built environment for harnessing the reappropriation of the street as a social space, and domestic production. In Palermo, a few blocks from the old town, away from the shopping centers and markets, the lower floors are abandoned and have no sale value. In our project, in our view, the street becomes a pedestrian and the city will finance the renovation of the ground floor for those who want to convert buildings into offices and shops. In addition, public space can be occupied in part by the modules that increase the surface area of the premises and patios that bring light to the underground floors. The modernization of the road and the lower floors would attract more investments in buildings and thus encourage the repopulation of the area. Start from the bottom is a pilot project that can be accomplished in other city streets.

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cemetery

Vespella de Gaià VESPELLA DE GAIÀ 2007 Type of project: Cemetery Project: Vespella de Gaia Location: Tarragona, Spain Status: Competition Delivery: April 2007 Client: Tarragona Built up area: 50.000 m2 Project team: Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla with E. Rovira, M. Tepedino Collaborators: Giuliana Di Mauro, Chiara Gortani, Tatyana Voskresenskaya

What kind of relationship do we want to establish between living and dead people? Every culture, from its very foundation, has defined its own way of reacting to the consequences of death. The departed represents the object of prayer and devotion to living people and the way his or her body is preserved vary according to different cultures. In our culture, possibly because of the influence of Catholicism, the most common way of preserving a dead body is its burying in the earth. We can find interesting ancestral references in the Etruscan tradition, whereby the tombs were considered as houses for the dead and built in a cylindrical shape covered by land and vegetation. Another key point for funeral architecture is the way natural light is treated. The light coming from the ceiling represents not only the natural illumination of the space, but also the connection between life and afterlife, and at the same time it works as a sun-clock introducing the time factor inside the space. The Pantheon in Rome is an obvious reference.

For all the mentioned reasons, we described two main strategies: The first one employs crater type tombs: 1-Craters with a cluster of tombs on the floor 2- Craters in which the center is occupied by a columbarium. Through excavations we generated a series of craters where the visitors reach a lower level and find themselves isolated from the surroundings, in a situation of deep intimacy with the dead. Only the sky can be seen from the inside of the crater. The second strategy is based on the introduction of built objects, a series of micropantheons hosting family tombs. These objects could be considered either as small tholos or as a big funerary amphora. Besides these two main elements, we designed the cemetery church, following the same generative rules and introducing, as an exception, the possibility of merging volumes. In this way we managed to generate singularity in this clustering system. The result of the operation is transforming a cemetery into a landscape for meditation and contemplation.

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new waterfront

Mondello MONDELLO 2007 Type of project: Landscape design Project: Mondello Location: Mondello, Italy Status: Competition Handing over date: May 2007 Client: Palermo Townhall Lenght: 1,5 km Project team: Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla with M. Tepedino, E.Rovira, F. Librizzi

WHAT IS THE TOPOGRAPHY IDLENESS? Topography of idleness is the Mondello to the city of entertainment! Through all its operations on the nature of the rocks is generated and alters the morphology of the coastline to the square forming a geology artificial enhances all structures related to the relaxation and creates connections at various levels. The EQUATION The project consists of an interface paradigm that combines a coastline with some multifunctional recreation units. As a result, we obtain two systems: 1. Coastline: hinge between the city and the sea 2. Units: the theater, the parking lot of dunes and water dock with the square. COAST LINE The proposed solution, leads to the formation of a walk continues, a topography deep able to engulf the services to beach level, and walk over the whole surface to the sea. THEATRE The new band walking / living area that extends for the entire waterfront is characterized by exceptional points. A large plaque building /

beach / pier, houses inside the first information centers, and an outdoor movie theater. PARKING dune Triangular block between Via and Via Mondello Teti is transformed into a landscape of dunes green houses an underground car park and businesses spontaneous. PIAZZA MONDELLO Slope The steep slope is resolved through the generation of horizontal terraces carved out of the chute Statements Commending the powerful drive of the square entirely topography of its base we just remove and the additions and restore the original conditions. On the west side is the expected extension of the square on the roof of the bar and Renato set up two flights of stairs connecting. Paving It consists of limestone circular discs and white cement. On some of them are expected at higher levels: Ombracoli, Lighting, Speaker of water Seats

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offices

Aerospace Campus

collaboration with FOA

1st prize

AEROSPACE CAMPUS 2008 Type of project: Masterplan, offices Project: Aerospace campus Location: Toulouse, France Status: Competition, 1st Prize Handing over date: March, 2008 Client: Le Grand Toulouse Built up area: 193.700 m2 Project team: Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla with M. Tepedino Collaborators: Giuliana Di Mauro, Chiara Gortani, Tatyana Voskresenskay Constructor: AEDES S.L. Building cost: 950.000.000 â&#x201A;Ź

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tuusulanjärvi lake project

Lakescape Lakescape 2009 Type of project: Landscape and urban design Project: Lakescape Location: Järvenpää, Finland Status: Delivered Handing over date: July, 2009 Client: City of Järvenpää Built up area: 10.000 m2 Project team: Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla with M. Tepedino Collaborators: C. Gortan, T. Voskresenskaya

Between the urban landscape and LAKESCAPE scales

What if we repeat this fractal structure on our site?

Urbanism in Finland seems necessary but, what kind of urban project is feasible in a picturesque agricultural landscape with the strong presence of the Tuusulanjärvi Lake? With the belief that every place should be seen as a landscape, either natural or artificial, the proposal considers the landscape no longer as a neutral background in which artificial architectonic objects are placed. Architecture, infrastructure and services are going to integrate all the natural elements and utilizing them in defining a new urban area creating a new landscape in which the boundaries between artificial and natural are blurred.

Our proposal is to form a territory of coexistence between nature and artificiality. At the same time it incorporates all the natural conditions geometric, topographic and construction aspects, searching for an environmental sustainability and a formal complexity which reacts to the new values of our society.

The landscape is becoming artificial! Finland is a country with many lakes in which water and land live together in harmony. Its structure naturally encompasses the two elements in keeping with the landscape creating the fascinating Lake District which makes Finland unique in the world. Googling Finland; zooming; and zooming again, water seems to be at one with the land in a fractal structure where autosimilarity conditions are repeated continuously.

The proposal is inspired from the interpretation of the basic elements of the site, the water, the field, the trees and from their organization and transformation in urban strips. These unconventional strips generate a complex bundling of waterways, housing, landscape and land-water management. Instead of a deterministic geometric law, this growing pattern has the force of a system of variable relations, of a flexible tissue that manages and adapts itself, but also imposes and changes according to the external conditions. It allows formal coherence, and it is able to configure singularities, variations or declinations.

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the sustainable city

Magok lakepark MAGOK LAKEPARK 2008 Type of project: Masterplan,Landscape design Project: Magok Lakepark Location: Seoul, Korea Status: Competition Handing over date of project: June, 2008 Client: Seoul Metropolitan Government Built up area: 1.170.000 m2 Project team: Nacho Toribio,Carmelo Zappulla with Esther Rovira, Massimo Tepedino, Cristian Suau, Phil Henshaw, Kevin Hong, Tudor Vlasceanu Collaborators: Marina Cella, Santiago Marresa, Young-soon AHN, Indre grybauskiene, Ji Yang Kim, Pedro Viana, Mara Norite, Matt Bell, Pedro Brandao Budget: 102.300.000 $

Beginning of the 21st century has already indicated the tremendous levels of change in urban Korea. Development with many external cultural influences has accelerated to the levels unseen before. This raises a number of interrelated questions, such as: - How are urban parks in Korea changing? - What are the sustainable paths towards the development of an urban leisure space in Seoul: mixed use or urban disorder? - How can we identify and manifest Korean values into an urban waterfront? - What is the formation and attitude of a urban wetland? - How an urban wetland can become a park?

creations of land manipulation both consider the requirements of promoting waterfront ecology with leisure and park amenities. They perform environmentally through water terracing and an informality of leisure space through a substantial wetlands network. With so much transport and services infrastructures currently being implemented into the site, we looked to take a direct and pragmatic approach to utilizing the given networks. We acknowledge and highlight the importance of local, national and international transport links as fundamental in the design of such a strategic urban structure.

Our proposal is to form a territory of co-existence between nature and artificiality. From its largest context as the first site of the Han River Renaissance Project to its desires to transform the area of Magok, a strong identity strategy is proposed through waterscapes, transport structures and building types. Underlying the strategy and form throughout the site is the development of eco-formations. These

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BARCELONA

External Reference Architects SCP Nacho Toribio, Carmelo Zappulla Europe Plaza Real 18, 2º 2ª 08023 Barcelona T. +34 93 318 86 01 nacho@externalreference.com carmelo@externalreference.com www.externalreference.com

EXTERNAL REFERENCE ARCHITECTS. URBAN DESIGN

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Opole

Magok lakepark

Lakescape

Vespella de Gaià

Future station

Mondello

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