ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO_2019

Some ideas by Magdalena Ruiz

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Architecture differs from the other fine arts especially because of the moral responsability it carries within itself. Through these years I have learned that both new edification and restoration cannot be understood as solitary entities. Architecture should always respond to the place, historical context, so much as to the required function of the specific program.

For me, a building has to fulfil two fundamental requirements: Being habitable and inhabited but, at the same time, it has to acomplish an embelliment of the site instead of occupied it selfishly.

“The objective of architecture is to make visible what we could be”

Alain de Botton - The architecture of happiness

Longyearbyen is located at 78º latitude, at an exceptional location near the sea-front, which looks towards Adventfjorden and the arctic mountains (Moskushamn). People of Longyearbyen will eventually need more housing as some of the old houses located in avalanche areas are to be torn down.

It is challenging to propose new architectural solutions in the Arctic as they challenge not only the geophysical conditions but also they disturb the biodiversity and the natural environment. Finding a solution that questions the real need of humans to inhabit such a destination has been tough. To give a valid solution to all challenges and connect all concepts, our attitude looks towards leaving the least possible foot-print on the site, being positive than in a near future, Svalbard will be using renewable energy for the inhabitants in it.

Therefore, we decided to propose a project that would inspire the future that needs the community of Longyearbyen: Create an extension of the actual university of UNIS, another “arm” that will offer accommodation for students and researches leaving most of the site untouched as we concentrate all the suggested program in one building.

The materiality of the project will be selected according to the carbon neutral parameters. The majority of the angled roof will be covered with PV panels to meet the needs of electricity in the summer.

Biogas will be generated, by mixing the organic waste and the brownwater collected from the vacuum toilets, to meet some of the electricity requirements in the winter.

Even though the philosophy of the project was based upon the thought that the land should be left untouched, following environmentally friendly solutions could help improve the future development of Arctic regions.

PROGRAM

The program will include mixed use facilities. Including housing and public programs.

CO-housing:

- Units for two people

- Units for couples

- Units for single people

- Spare rooms

- Common bathrooms, universaly adapted, used in case of emergency and used by visitors in the spare rooms

- Shared kitechen, living room and dining area

public program:

- FAB LAB Workshops, where inhabitants can find an area to repear broken appliences, furniture, cars, pots, plates etc.

- Greenhouse, used as garden and interior sitting area.

- Sports hall / Gymnasium

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UNITS

DOUBLE ROOM 27,27 m2 7

The more technical subjects of the degree, such as Structures, Construction and Installations, have made me understand the complexity of architectural production. To understand that a space occupies a three-dimensional volume, with a particular materiality and shape, which directly influences the energetic behaviour of the room. At the same time, I have learned that even though they have their own rules and logic, if you implement them in the creative process since the beginning, rather than using them as an independent field, you can come up with very good ideas and solutions.

It is irrefutable that architecture responds to the technological moment of a society. The new advances in materials, computing and technology should be used as tools to search and experiment new roles of how Architecture can improve the way we all live. Parametric design, 3D printers or innovation in old materials, such as wood as a structural material may open a window for new design opportunities.

ENVELOPE OF A WOOD RESIDENTIAL TOWER

place................................................................................Lleida, Catalunya, Spain

year........................................................................................................................2017

program...................#housing #CLT #structure #highrise #core #wood

Architecture becomes real, is when when each space, and the parts that delimit that space take on dimensions in the three-dimensional plane, materiality, weight, function...The assignment in this case was to retake one design of yours (a residential tower in Lleida) and to develope the execute project, including constructive details of the façade and envelope, roof, foundations and interior of a housing building.

My partner and I wanted to make a step forward and explore prefabricated wood structures to demonstrate that concrete and steel, materials that emerged from the Modern Movement, are no longer the only ambassadors of contemporany architecture. Wood can also conquer high-rise buildings and be used as the new building material in the city.

C01 - Forjado.

C02 - MORTERO de regularización de la capa de penientes (C01).

C03 - LÁMINA GEOTÉXTIL cada 2200 x 1500 mm, solapada una sobre otra 10 cm, como capa separadora para protección entre materiales, fijación lastrada.

C04 - LÁMINA BITUMINOSA, solapada una sobre otra 10 cm, como capa de impermeabilización de la cubierta, fijación lastrada.

C05 - LANA DE ROCA cada 1200 x 1000 mm para aislamiento ( λ = 0,038 W/m·K), fijación lastrada.

En base al seguimiento del curso de construcción en seco, decididmos ir un paso más allá y resolver n proyecto de viviendas plurifamiliares con una estructura de pilares y forjados de paneles de madera con apoyo en un núcleo de escaleras y ascensores de hormigón armado A pesar de no ser un sistem

F05

F16 - PILAR DE MADERA LAMINADA (glulam columns), con función estructural, fijación entre plantas a partir de conectores de acero

F17 - CAPA DE GRAVA

F18 - ZAPATA DE HORMIGÓN, creación de una solera para evitar el contacto del los muros de madera de la planta baja con el terreno.

F19 -ZÓCALO ENLUCIDO

F01 - CHAPA DE ALUMINIO, para remate del antepecho de cubierta, dimensiones varias, esp 0,5 mm, fijación atornillada a subestructura de panel.

F02 - FIBRA LAMINADA DE MADERA DE ?????, para revestimiento como acabado de fachada y barrera de estanqueidad al agua, esp 8 mm, fijación atornillada a F03.

F03 - PLACA DE REVESTIMIENTO DE YESO MATE DE FIBRA DE VIDRIO, esp 51 mm, portante del panel y capa intermedia para fijación de F02 y F04, unión atornillada.

F04 - LANA DE ROCA, para aislamiento térmico, esp 152 mm, fijación atornillada a F03.

F05 - BASTIDOR DE ACERO, para sujección y recubrimiento del panel, acabado con capa de pintura de zinc contra la corrosión.

F06 - BARRERA DE VAPOR, para evitar condensaciones intersticiales en el interior del edificio, instalada después de la colocación del panel.

F07 - CHAPA METÁLICA 22GA, para anclar el forjado CLT con el panel, esp 350 mm de longitud, fijación atornillada.

F08 - ANCLAJE DE RETENCIÓN DE ACERO, sistema de unión entre los paneles prefabricados , alineado con la línea de la mitad del forjado CLT.

F09 - TIRA DE SILICONA A TRAVÉS DE LAS JUNTAS DE LOS PANELES ANTES DE INSTALAR EL PANEL SUPERIOR.

F10 - MORTERO DE CEMENTO, para el anclaje de los tornillos de la placa F13 del panel, esp 35 mm.

F11 - CORREDERA MÓVIL DE LAMAS HORIZONTALES DE MADERA DE ALERCE, control de la luz y las prestaciones térmicas del espacio intermedio de la galería, posibilitando su inserción dentro del panel fijo a través de unos rieles de aluminio.

F12 - PANEL PREFABRICADO EGO_CLTtm, de alerce européo, esp 81 mm, fijación atornillada a base de tirafondos al forjado, también de CLT, transmitancia térmica de 0,130 W/mK.

F13 - ANCLAJE DE SUJECIÓN DE ACERO, para la sujeción del panel a tracción, atornillada al forjado por dos tornillos y al F10.

F14 - LANA MINERAL, para la desolidarización acústica entre plantas.

F15 - PILAR DE MADERA LAMINADA (glulam columns), con función estructural, fijación entre plantas a partir de conectores de acero

Cota superior del zócalo a 30 cm

Education in landscape architecture is both project- and design-based. It provides an understanding of the spatial relationship between city, landscapes, and territories, and focuses on what lies between the landscape’s history, present and future.

In the last few years, after my stay as an exchange student in Norway and having studied a thematic study of landscape, I have been able to deepen my knowledge in other directions, considering not only the urban scale, but also the interactions between this and nature, and how we can integrate our human settlements, architecture, with the landscape around us.

COASTAL MAPPING

place........................................................................................ Vesterålen, Norway

year........................................................................................................................2019

program........................#rural #mapping #ArcGis #landscape #fisheries

Norwegian fishing industry has a very important role in the global market and shapes the economy, settlements and lives of the people living further north. For years, architecture and urbanism discussions have been around The City, which is normal since the tendency nowadays is that cities are constantly growing. This has led the countryside and rural areas empty, and the profound transformations and challenges occurring there, overlooked by our profession.

“Coastal mapping” is the result of an investigation that focusses in the rural areas of the North Atlantic Coast in Norway and how the fishery industry have had spatial consequences shaping through the years buildings and communities all over the area. The study was conducted at Vesterålen,, one of the central areas for winter fishing for cod (skrei); The emphasis is on describing the situation today of the differente settlements patterns and discussing development opportunities. Available statistics and visual material are processed using GIS tools.

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GAINING RESILIENCE

place...............................................................Vilassar de Mar, Catalunya, Spain

year........................................................................................................................2020

program.........................#flood #urbanism #waterinfiltration #resilience

#biodiversity #coastalline #tram #posidonia

Especies de palmeras existentes mantenidas en el proyecto Especies de pinos incorporadas al proyecto para combatir la erosión de la primera línea del paseo y ofrecer sombra

"Ombú", función ornamental, para ofrecer un paseo longitudinal con sombra y combatir la erosión del terreno árboles que aguantan la salinidad marina colocación: límite entre el paseo y la escollera/primera línea frente al mar

usos: de sombra y control de la erosión como la segunda barrera vegetal del proyecto. espacios: recorrido lineal del paseo sin resultar forzoso, espacios agradables con sombra y aumento de la biodiversidad.

Alt max 20m ( En condiciones excepcionales puede llegar a exceder los 55 metros

Through the last years, the Maresme coast in Catalunya has been prone to flooding, erosion and deterioration of human infrastructure due to increasingly common squalls and storms. The project reconsiders the relationship between the urban nucleus and the sea. The main mobility network, a rail that runs along the seafront since 1848, is replaced by a tram that gives more space and enables the integration between land and sea. This scenario allows new opportunities for the small towns in the Maresme to improve their connection with the environment and the biodiversity of the area. The result is a series of actions from the sea, till the reconsideration of the seaside promenade of Vilassar de Mar, designing more public spaces and an infiltration and water collection by creating more permeable areas.

árboles usados en la zona urbana colocación: en el paseo peatonal y en las plazas y espacios públicos usos: ofrecer sombra en verano y primavera, como sistema de drenaje y remarcación de los ejes transversales. espacios: Plantas florales, de hoja cáduca que ofrecen personalidad y ornamentación a las plazas públicas, recreando la conexión transversal entre la zona urbana y el mar.

The city creates life, creates conflict, creates exchange and generates landscapes. In this urban project, the cities and municipalities of the Maresme coast are rethinking their new centrality in reference to the infrastructures and the landscape that surrounds them. Therefore, the challenge was to change the mobility between municipalities and reconsider the role of the seafront in the new metropolitan scenario. The constant urbanization and human infrastructure of the Maresme, with the consequential stop of sedimental deposits by the torrential channels, has rigidize and simplified the coast. We should not think about the littoral as a perpetual line, but as a dynamic system that changes over time. If we continue to be reckless, the seafront and human activity with it will be more and more vulnerable to climatic phenomena and climate change.

Our philosophy towards the project was, therefore, to design resilient landscapes that expand the diversity of spaces and situations between sea and land and increases the biodiversity of the area.

flora marina y costera: colocación: en la zona del mercado repoblar al máximo la población de herbáreas en el mar y recrear espacios de dunas y vegetación en la playa que conecta Vilassar con Premiá. usos: combatir la erosión de los sedimentos, proteger la primera línea costera y aumentar la biodiversidad de los ecosistemas, aumentando la resiliencia de las playas del maresme. espacios: Plantas florales mediterráneas, espacios "vivos" marítimos, plantas arbustivas, playa más natural con el acceso de la la pasarela de madera intermunicipal.

Pino piñonero/ Pinus pinea Pino carrasco/ Pinus halepensis Pino marítimo/ Pinus pinaster

Posidonia/Posidonia Oceánica Seba/Cymodocea nodosa

analysis; nature systems

homo sapiens systems

Parada de tranvia en frente del mercado para fomentar la actividad de ambos municipios, de Premiá de Mar y Vilassar de Mar. El tranvía permite también la llegada a la playa sin necesidad de un medio de transporte privado, ya que la intención es fomentar el transporte privado.

Dar continuidad a la Riera de Vilassar. En cada intersección con el paseo y un eje transversal de Vilassar quisimos implementar punto de “quedada” para los habitantes, de esta manera el paseo posee discontinuidades y no se caracteriza por ser lineal.

Nos situamos en el espigón como refugio para situar una piscina que nos sirva de unión con el eje proyectual de la riera de Cabrils. A través de la piscina intentamos dar a los usuarios otra visión más de un frente marítimo, más a un “paisaje idílico” que a un paseo propiamente dicho.

Plaza del Ayuntamiento Para reactivar y fomentar la actividad de la plaza creamos unas escaleras donde los usuarios se pueden sentar a comer o descansar con vistas al mar. Punto central del espacio público donde situamos la parada del tranvía y punto de préstamo de libros. Utilizamos la parada del tranvia como intercambiador de movilidad, con un aparcamiento de bicicletas. Y colocamos el préstamo de libros para dar a los habitantes otro tipo de actividad, más de “quedada” que de paso.

Plaza Pau Vila Continuidad de la plaza pública hacia unas escaleras anchas para que los usuarios puedan quedarse a descansar o estar.

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