David Cárdenas
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He is Architect, and future Editor. Illustrator for fun and cyclist for love.
ARCHITECTURE FIRM
Ignacio Alvarez-Monteserín Lahoz Architect, illustrator and graphic consultant. Bachelor of Architectural degree at Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid (2008) Professional development in architecture studies: Vidal and Richard Rogers Partnership related + (2006-2007), architects Allende (2005), Temperaturas Extremas (2009) and Andres Perea architects. Specialized in the 3d imaging ,in 2006 co-directed study Malla, and in 2010 he created and directed Poliedro study (www.poliedroestudio.com) He works in a collective way as part of studies Leon11 Apodaca study, FOR an the collective Zoohaus. Carlsberg Seeds: communications and graphic display specialist with background in architecture.
Jaime López Architect Education: Bachelor of Architectural degree at Alcalá de Henares University, Madrid (2010)
Bachelor of Architectural degree at University of Alicante (2010) whit the project “La Mancha, re-drawing the work of architect in 6 scales” Assistant professor in University of Alicante in 2011. Since member of Studio Leon11 since 2007. Since 2004 have collaborated punctually with varied studios in Berlin and Madrid.
Beatriz Crespo Specialist Conservation,Restoration and Management of Built Heritage. Architect for Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM) since 2006. León11 member since 2010. Experience Branding for Heineken Spain. Professional Member Group of Made In, First Prize winner of the Maritime Museum and Cultural Center and Music in Kaoshiung,Taiwan.2010-2011 Co-author of the 3rd Prize Contest REHABILITATION the “OLD PALACE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF ZAMORA, SPAIN” with Apodaca study(2009) DIRECTOR OF PROJECT AND MANAGEMENT for the Study of Architecture ACM URBEX, S. L. P (2007-2009) MANAGEMENT coordinator and drafting the Study of Architecture in Temperaturas Extremas S.L.P. (2006-2007) Carlsberg Seeds: Technical capacity to solve construction, legal and administrative problems Knowledge of European legislation relating to architectural and urban heritage. Rehabilitation project experience related to the Architectural Heritage.
Carlsberg Seeds: Innovative vision of the figure of the architects as Projects and Process Managger. Architect as producer and manager, not as artist.
Javier Gutiérrez Rodríguez Architect and graphic designer Bachelor of Architectural degree at Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid (2008) He is part of the Architecture team Leon11 since 2006. He combines working at Leon11 with collaborations with other architectural studios, developing several cultural projects from concept to details. He also works as a freelance at graphic assistance to other studios (3d, competitions...) Carlsberg Seeds: experience at technical development in cultural projects.
María Mallo Zurdo Laura Martín Domínguez Is an expert in structural design, concept design and illustration 2d, modeling and rigging in 3d audiovisual production.
Multidisciplinar Architect specialized on resarching new metholodyes of concepts and creative management
Working as a freelance since 2007 up to now, focus on architectural 3D imaging. Active member of Leon 11 multidisciplinary group since 2009 in Madrid.
Architect since 2007 by the University of Alcalá with a rating of outstanding. Collegiate since May 2008. Partnership Grant from the Ministry of Education and Science (2006-2007) with the PP. Graphic Expression of ETSAGUA. Master in audiovisual production with Autodesk Maya. Cice (2010-2011) Has an experience of 5 years (2006-2011) working in developing architectural blueprints and implementation.
MASTER`S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE from the Polytechnic University of Madrid at the School of Architecture (E.T.S.A.M), Madrid, Spain in 2006 and current researching architect on it. Degree on “Art design applied to sculpture”by the school “La Palma”in Madrid. Co-founder of the collective Leon11 in 2006. Her role in the team is dedicated on researching and monitoring of architecture projects, design and communication. Member of the Multidisciplinar collective Zoohaus. She develops its professional carrier submerged into the field of architecture applied to sculpture, teaching, researching and management.
Carlsberg Seeds: Graphic design experienced specialist, complemented by architectural knowledge and project management skills.
Carlsberg Seeds: She can bring a vision of space from two points of view, cinema and architecture.
Carlsberg Seeds: Creative process specialist, in balance between technique and arts, with leadership skills.
Related Experience and professional development at different Architecture Firms: - Verdasco Arquitectos. Madrid (2003-2006) - Allende Arquitectos. Madrid (2006-2007)
Ana Peñalba Estébanez
Jorge López Hidalgo
Francisco Mateos Cano
Architect Designer / Master degree in creative processes and sustainable architecture
Technique Collaborator especialized in the management of structures, installations and constructive processes.
Bachelor of Architectural degree at Polytechnic University of Madrid (2011).
MASTER`S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE from the Polytechnic University of Madrid at the School of Architecture (E.T.S.A.M), Madrid, Spain in 2006. Co-founder of the researching Laboratory Leon11 in 2005 and member of the collective “Zoohaus” While working in Leon11 she has collaborated for the development of several projects in Madrid, Prague, New York and Paris, working for many international and prestigious architects. Interested on the experimentation for new ways to understand architecture, she aims to “reinvent”and “profesionalize”concepts regarding to “Creative Sustainability”to build up new typologies to experience space.
He studies in the Polytechnic University of Madrid, at the School of Architecture (E.T.S.A.M) in Spain. He is part of the Architecture team Leon11 since 2006. His role in the team is related to several fields, working from projects of traditional architecture till management of urban spaces. While working in Leon11 he has collaborated with other architects, he is involved in teaching projects and works as technique and informatic adviser.
He is the last member in taking part of the team. With a strong conscience of technical complexity of spatial processes, he has done a deep research in parametric architecture and processing. As a very active member of the group, he offers the capacity of assuming and synthesizing complex programs so as to coordinate and improve the architectonic and social proposal.
Luis Marcos Nieto Specialist in Restoration and Intervention on Historic Buildings. From Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM). Professional training with the firm: 10x10 Office. Member of Leon 11 and Made In, First Prize winner of the Maritime Museum and Cultural Center and Music in Kaoshiung, Taiwan. Carlsberg Seeds: Great concern for set design, world of exhibitions and art museums.
Manuel Alvarez-Monteserin Lahoz
Beatriz Pachón She is a specialist leading and managing groups to develop architecture and artistic projects and in international relations with consultancies. She was graduated in 2008 in Architecture at the Polytechnic niversity of Madrid and specialised in structures. After collaborating for several years with different architects decided to fund its own Architecture Office in 2010, Made In Architects, with Manuel Alvarez Monteserín. In its short career Made In has won the First Prize in the Kaohsiung Maritime Culture and Popular Music Center International Competition, leading a twenty people team and collaborating with International Consultancies such as ARUP, Theatre Projects Consultants, Xu Acoustics, BOMA, Old Farmer Landscape Architecture and the taiwanese office HOY Architects. Nowadays Beatriz Pachón works in different projects while Kaohsiung Maritime Culture and Popular Music Center is in Schematic Design stage. Carlsberg Seeds: She will help to make grow the Carlsberg harvest.
Specialist in Net art, architecture design and Intuitive process. MASTER`S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE from the Polytechnic University of Madrid at the School of Architecture (E.T.S.A.M), Madrid, Spain in 2006. Co-founder of Leon11 in 2005, co-founder of the collective “Zoohaus” founder of manu-facturas and co-founder of Made In Architects. He develops its professional carrier submerged into the field of architecture applied to international competitions, sustainably urbanise, teaching, net art and illustration. Carlsberg Seeds: Creative vision of the architecture design.
Juanito Jones Thinking things from behind [or how to use your bio as a a minimanifesto] How do you define yourself in a hyper-fast-changing world like ours? When you are being re-defined each second. Because of this and in the hyperconnected world we live in, he is betting on being defined as a collector. Collecting Experiences: during his life he has almost been a busker and first violinist in an orchestra, a golf player and a long distance runner, an aeronautical engineer and a paper engineer, a magazine and video editor, a researcher and explorer, an oulipo member and a translator, a carpenter and an architect, an ecologist, an actor and a cartoon... Carlsberg Seeds: Completing the self-referential phrase from Socrates: “all I know is that I know nothing”with a “but I know how and where to get that knowledge from”
Carlsberg Seeds: A parametric view of processes, added with a joyful working team capacity.
Lys Villalba Rubio Master´s Degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid at the School of Architecture with the Final Degree Project: “Architectural tools for the re-activation of degraded places and it`s application in Vigo´s Port “Winning an Honorable Mention in the Veteco-Asefave PFC Prize 08, Accesit Prize in IDOM_ACXT 08 PFC Prize, Mention Prize Iguzzini-Pasajes Competition 07-09 and being selected by the Architecture School of Madrid for representing the University in the Masters degree National Prizes 07/08. Professional experience as an architect working in international architecture offices as Foreign Office Architects in London, UK (2003-2004), Herzog and de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland (2004-2005) and Izaskun Chinchilla Architects in Madrid, Spain (2006-2008). Professional experience as freelance working as a part of Leon11 and Zoohaus platform since 2006, developing the investigation project “Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0”in construction workshops arround Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Spain until nowadays. Experience in contemporary architecture research, working in the editorial AV/Arquitectura Viva magazine in Madrid. Carlsberg Seeds: Experience working in similar Rehabilitation International Competitions as Matadero Madrid buildings 8, 9, 15 and 16, Tabakalera Building in San Sebastian or Azucarera Building in León and working in Execution and Construction Architecture Teams for Cultural Centres as Flamenco´s City in Jerez de la Frontera or Oscar Dominguez Museum in Tenerife and leading the Juan Pedro Sanz Almendro Museum Design Development and Execution Phase (with María Carmona and Zuloark) in Murcia. Precission and propositive imaginative work.
LEON11
PORTFOLIO
- International Competition for the construction of the future “Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Pop Music Center” - Leon11 co-founder of the “INTELIGENCIAS COLECTIVAS 2.0”project by Zoohaus. - Design and construction of the installation “The Viewpoint which was a Mountain” - Competition “Casa del Mediterraneo” - Competition for the rehabilitation of the Diputation Building of Zamora. - Ideas Competition for the Re-Organization and new Urban Planning of “La Marina” - Schematic Design and Execution Plans for the construction of Informative Stands for the University Autonoma of Madrid. - European competition Europan 10: Europan X - Design and construction of the “Wish Piggybank” - International Competition “City intentions” - Competition for the Reorganization and Restructuring of two parks if the city of Santoña. - Competition “Cultural Center”in Soto de la Marina, Santander - Thyssenkrupp Competition. “ELEVATOR TOWER”= Experimental Elevator Laboratory Tower in Dubai. - Competition for the construction of a “Young Welcome Center” - International Competition for the construction of an “Icon Viewpoint for the city” - Refurnished of the Loft “Almond House” - International Competition Villa de Medios, “Medio pueblo es” - Competition “J5”addressed to young architects. - Competition for the construction of a “Religious Center”in Alcala de Henares - Competitions organized by “EMV”for the construction of new housing typologies in Vicalvaro-La Catalana - Competition for a local “kinder-garden”called Escoleta Son Dameto d’Alt
- Competition for the “Re-envisioning the Urban Edge.South Street Seaport”in New York city - International Competition “Toftegårds Plads Syd”in Copenhaguen, Denmark. - International Competition to build up a “San Chinarro Market” - International competition Vores By, Carlsberg - “Time will tell” Competition for the extension of the Airport Parking in Asturias, Spain - Networking Ideas Competition organized by the Biennal Iberoamerican of architecture and Urban planning. - AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION - WEB SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT - AUDIOVISUAL POSPRODUCTION & SPECIAL EFFECTS - NEW TECHNIQUES OF GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION INVESTIGATION
PROJECT NAME: International Competition for the construction of the future “Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Pop Music Center” YEAR: 2010
CONTEST: The objective of the project is to lead Kaohsiung City becoming the gate to marine culture nation, Taiwan. The site is located in the Port of Kaohsiung with approximately 11.89 hectares measure. Facility planning is based on functions of pop music exhibition and performance center, and possess also the functions of close linkage with the industrial chain and talent cultivation for the pop music industry. Its purpose is to create and shape the blue ocean of aesthetics economy and pop industry of southern Taiwan. TEAM: Architects involved in the 1st phase: Leon11 (Manuel Alvarez-Monteserin, Beatriz Pachon, Jorge Lopez) + Gyra + Corona y P.Amaral arquitectos + Javier Simó + Antonio Alejandro + Lain Satrustegui + Sara Perez + Guiomar Contreras Incorporations for the 2nd phase: Leon 11 (Maria Mallo, Ignacio Alvarez-Monteserín, Jaime Lopez, Beatriz Crespo, Javier Gutierrez, Alicia Domingo, Laura Martin, Ismael García Abad, Luis Marcos y Pablo Salvador) + the architects Tere Santás and Angel J.Abruña Infography: Leon 11 (Manuel A.Monteserin, Ignacio A.Monteserin, Javier Gutierrez, Maria Mallo, Jaime López, Pablo Salvador) Local Partner: Hoy Architects International consultings: Acustic Consultant: Xu acoustic, Paris. Structures Consultant: BOMA, Barcelona. Scenography Consultant: Theatre Projects Consultants, Londres. Instalations Consultant: ARUP, Hong Kong. COUNTRY: kaohsiung, Taiwan JURY PRIZE: 1st prize METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH / EXPERIENCE: In this project our goal was to experience “Formal combinations”. Due to the number of people who was involved on the team for this competition, we created the biggest “ Networking structure” never made in Leon11. This strategy of work made possible to visualize the use of many different types of architecture and methods in the same frame of work. There were constantly a “dialogue of geometries” that built up a weft of architectures. PUBLICATIONS: Published in the main international blogs, one of the most prestigious newspaper ABC, Weekly magazzine Tiempo, Magazzine AV proyectos, Magazzine Future, Magazzine DD, Magazzine DB. WEB SITE: http://www.kpop.com.tw/html/index_e.html
PROJECT NAME: Leon11 coofunder of the Project “INTELIGENCIAS COLECTIVAS 2.0” from Zoohaus. YEAR: 2010
Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0. Project, South America 2010 CONTEST: Development of a web-based database, in order to catalog non-standard constructive intelligent solutions, and diverse workshops with universities, cultural centres and entities fabricating prototypes from October to December 2010. + Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 Lecture at FAU, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. + Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 Lecture at PEI, Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Argentina. + Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 CHILE FAU, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. + Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 Lecture at Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru. + Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 LIMA Escuelab, Lima, Peru. /Escuelab Light Sign in Lima. /Playground in Jicamarca. /Composting Toilet in Cantagallo. + Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 Lecture at PEI, Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia. + Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 PALOMINO, Colombia. /Mobile Grandstand. /House of Culture. /Cooking Car. /Civil Defense Office. + Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 MEDELLÍN, Colombia
TEAM: Zoohaus: (Leon11 + zuloark + pez + zira02) COUNTRY: Medellin, Colombia. Palomino, Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia. Lima, Peru. Santiago, Chile. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Montevideo, Uruguay. Gijón, Spain. Madrid, Spain. San Sebastian, Spain. Project Auto-produced / Auto-administrated: This project is still ongoing. We have received grants and funding from many different organizations who are interested in cooperation and future innovation. Funding SIC from AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development). Spanish Ministery of External Affairs. Funding of Mobility from “El Matadero”(Spanish Cultural Centre). Funding for Art Production from “La Laboral”(Spanish Cultural Centre). METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH / EXPERIENCE: “Collective Intelligences” Every region of the world has its own variety of construction techniques. The coexistence of different degrees of industrialization and development allows the mixing of semi-industrial products with old and enduring techniques that remain valid in non-standard environments. Thus, many constructive solutions without a proper architectural planning pervade, generating a very wide range of procedures which are based in a popular and inherited wisdom, but also revised and combined with a great deal of improvisation in terms of new materials and techniques. Teamwork strategy: This is an open database, anyone in the world can upload, comment or download stuff from the website. WEB SITE: http://www.inteligenciascolectivas.org/
PROJECT NAME: Design and construction of the installation “The Viewpoint which was a Mountain” YEAR: 2010
Assignment: Monte do Gozo, a little hill five kilometres away from the city of Santiago de Compostela is the last stage of “St. James’ Way” the pilgrimage route, starting from all over Europe, to the Cathedral of Santiago. Throughout history this has been the first time you could set eye contact with the Cathedral. A few years ago a crop of Eucaliptus trees grew in between the city and the hill blocking that view. The aim project was to reestablish the visual contact the pilgrims had for years, so ¿how do we make a hill grow? The viewpoint had 3 timebased conditions: it had to be designed in 7 days, it had to be built in 7 days and it had to live for 120 days. The main structure was built with RMDs demountable Superslim System, the floor is made out of artificial grass [remember you are in the hill!] and the permeable enclosure was built with the water bottles from the promoter of the project: NGO “ kg de Ayuda para Educación” The bottles contain messages written by latinamerican children explaining which profession they would like to practice in the future. The funds collected selling these bottles will be adressed to fund the schools were they study. Team: leon11 (Maria Mallo, Lys Villalba, Beatriz Crespo, Ignacio A.Monteserin) Country: Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain Developer: Direct comission coming from the Fundation IUVE cooperation. Methodology of Research/Experience: “Management Methods” This project let us investigate in coordination, methodologies and basis that make possible a balanced management where the budget is minimum and social repercussions are essential. Team work strategy: Being completely involved in the project, we were literally building the project with our hands. This fact was a really nice experience, it was possible due to the shortage of sources and our timeavailability. With it, we learnt to use our position and make the most of it.
PROJECT NAME: Competition “Casa del Mediterraneo” YEAR: 2009
Contest: Ideas competition for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the railway station in Alicante. The objective is to re-activate the building and turn it into the new hub of the Mediterranean area, dedicated to spreading out the culture and villages of the Mediterranean coast. Team: Zoohaus (leon11 + zuloark + zira02) Country: Alicante, Spain Jury Prize: Honorable Award Methodology of Research/Experience: Programatic experiment trying to show the different “scenarios” cwhich ould take place into the same building: the urban-indoor beach, mobile theatre, container offices, etc. Teamwork strategy: Each one of as enounces diferent oniric situations that would like to witness in the future in that specific place. Publications: DD Magazine Porfolio Issue Visit website: http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/search/label/mediterraneo
PROJECT NAME: Competition for the rehabilitation of the Diputation Building of Zamora. YEAR: 2009
Contest: The aim is to get back the original building by removing all the addings made on the 60th from last century. A place to play representations and institutional activities in the main floor, and the rest of the building is used for cultural issues compatible with administrative uses. Team: leon11 (Jorge Lopez, Laura Martin, Beatriz Crespo, Ignacio Álvarez-Monteserín) + Apocada Estudio (Natalia Blanco Guiard, Javier Aguirre Tejedor) Country: Zamora, Spain Jury Prize: 3rd prize Methodology of Research/Experience: “MicroSurgery” The proposal focused on a comprehensive analysis of the construction aspects: functional, artistic and social construction to take advantage of its possibilities in order to maintain the historical essence of the spaces at the same time it virtually transformed to suit a current use. Teamwork strategy: Very small team so everything was settled by consensus. Visit website: http://www.diputaciondezamora.es/index.asp?MP=8&MS=16&MN=2&TR=C&IDR=265&r=1 600*900
PROJECT NAME: Ideas Competition for the Re-Organization and new Urban Planning of “La Marina” YEAR: 2009
Contest: The aim is to get back the original building by removing all the addings made on the 60th from last century. A place to play representations and institutional activities in the main floor, and the rest of the building is used for cultural issues compatible with administrative uses. Team: leon11 (Jorge Lopez, Laura Martin, Beatriz Crespo, Ignacio Álvarez-Monteserín) + Apocada Estudio (Natalia Blanco Guiard, Javier Aguirre Tejedor) Country: Zamora, Spain Jury Prize: 3rd prize Methodology of Research/Experience: “MicroSurgery” The proposal focused on a comprehensive analysis of the construction aspects: functional, artistic and social construction to take advantage of its possibilities in order to maintain the historical essence of the spaces at the same time it virtually transformed to suit a current use. Teamwork strategy: Very small team so everything was settled by consensus. Visit website: http://www.diputaciondezamora.es/index.asp?MP=8&MS=16&MN=2&TR=C&IDR=265&r=16 00*900
PROJECT NAME: Schematic Design and Execution Plans for the construction of Informative Stands for the University Autonoma of Madrid. YEAR: 2009
Contest: The goal of the stands were to orientate and help people on the school campus, showing an innovative design based on sustainable and bioclimatic concepts. Team: leon11 (Maria Mallo, Manuel Álvarez-Monteserin, Jorge López) + GYRA + TTU engineers Country: Madrid, Spain Developer: Direct mission given from the University Autonoma of Madrid to TTU engineers. Methodology of Experimentation/Experience: We developed a research about materials and a clear functional architecture. We went into communication and the influences established between the architectonic object and its immediate surroundings. How to modify the environment just with a singular object. Team work strategy: There were no distinction between draftsmen and architects. Decisions were made by the whole team. As there were many different professionals included in the team, emerged a rare sensitivity in detailed design projects.
PROJECT NAME: PROJECT NAME: European competition Europan 10: Europan X YEAR: 2009
Contest: European competition dedicated to the research of the “future of European city planning” The transformation of sites is a source of new ideas for solving spatial problems in specific urban contexts, but it also provides thematic answers to more generic questions about the evolution of European cities within the new paradigm and new values of sustainability. Master planning competition –Regeneration –Revitalization –Colonization for the future of cities. On this edition of Europan, we made and experimented, being part of the collective of the collectives Zoohaus we worked in 5 different sites with the same strategy but different proposals, aiming to show that general concepts and ideals of how building cities should be the same. Then, depending on the city, the formal result will be different, but the goals of how to get a social, material and political sustainable city can be a common between all the European cities. +Category: “Territorial / Urban” Site: Graz, Puntigam, Austria. +Category: “Urban / Architectural” Site: Nyon, Les plantaz, Switzerland. +Category: “Designing Public space” Site: Riga, Latvia. +Category: “Urban design / Landscape architecture” Site: Tallin, Estonia. +Category: “Urban development” Site: Valverde, Islas Canarias, Spain. +Category: “Urban / Architectural” Site: Vardo, Norway Team: Zoohaus (leon11 + zuloark + Pezestudio + zira02) Country: 6 different sites and categories. Methodology of Experimentation/Experience: “Investigation about the future of city planning” Teamwork strategy: The work was divided between macroteamwork an microteamwork. The macroteamwork, involving all agents, decided the general strategy, the different sites and the specific proposals. The microteamwork, involving 5 or 6 persons per team, developed the designs. Publications: DD Magazine Portfolio issue Seeds for Carlsberg: “To be able not just to build a constructive object but a concept and solid theory that leads innovative projects”
PROJECT NAME: Design and construction of the “Wish Piggybank” YEAR: 2009
Contest: The “Wish Piggybank”is an artistic project submitted at the 6th edition of “Madrid Abierto”by german artist Susanne Bosch. “Madrid Abierto”is an open call to select artists to ephemeral constructions in order to stimulate public spaces, thinking through contemporary art about our cultural, social and political environment. The piggybank was installed in the center of Madrid for four months with the purpose of getting the maximum amount of out-of-currency money by citizen participation in order to invest on the quality of life of its neighborhood. Each person participating with a donation had the right to write a wish about his idea to improve the neighborhood. Team: Zoohaus (leon11 + zuloark + Pezestudio + zira02) Country: Madrid, Spain Developer: Susanne Bosh with the approval of “Madrid Abierto” gave the mission of building up the “piggybank”installed in la Latina (Madrid) to Zoohaus. Methodology of Research/Experience: “The life of a Critical Object in Public Space” Teamwork strategy: We had to babysit the piggybank for four months: as these months passed by the piggybank got damaged and we had to repair it. The reparation team, built by pairs, went every week to repair the piggybank and wrote a report on a blog so the whole team knew what state the piggybank was in. Publications: Visit website: http://huchadedeseos.wordpress.com/ http://fundacion.arquia.es/proxima/pub_realizacion_detalle.aspx?id=2887
PROJECT NAME: International Competition “City intentions” YEAR: 2009
Contest: The goal of the competition was to build a space for thinking the city as a cultural fact. An old jail was presented as the site to work on. The challenge was to think about the possible activities and spaces to activate this building in order to re-invent a new concept-tool to improve and benefit citizenship. Team: leon11 (Juanito Jones, Maria Mallo, Lys Villalba, Ignacio Álvarez-Monteserin) Country: Talca, Chile Methodology of Research/Experience: “Scenography of Descontextualization” Prisons in Chile are situated inside the reticular urban weave, but under the new program of Penitentiary Infrastructure new prisons are being built on the outskirts of urban centers, therefore leaving the empty plots of the old prisons. That generate areas of opportunities for the city, that site must be a place to promote and propel the public actions required in each place. The procedure is simple, an analysis of the demands and necessities provided by citizens, institutions and organizations; the old building turns into a dynamic center where neighbors and prisoners suggest, organize and develop the needs. Team work strategy: A rapid-fire competition done in two days: all the team had a brainstorming session one afternoon and designed and produced the competition documents in the other day and a half. Each person of the team worked in the area he was superskillful. Publications: Intenciones de Ciudad. Arquitectura, Cultura y Territorios. [Catalog], DD Magazine Portfolio issue
PROJECT NAME: Competition for the Reorganization and Restructuring on the park of the city hall of Santoña. YEAR: 2009
Contest: To get suitable landscape sustainability in order to recuperate and conservate public spaces, natural areas, historical patrimony and accessibility. Team: leon11 (Lys Villalba, Juanito Jones, Ignacio Álvarez-Monteserin) + Zoohaus + Miguel Cabrillo Country: Santoña, Cantabria, Spain. Methodology of Research/Experience: “From Darwin to Pokemon” The goal of this proposal was to develop a catalog of controversial urban furniture with the intention to give the administration the tools to situate these devices in urban contexts [in this case, two parks] and create urban parliamentary situations. This catalog is born through the constant evolution of a support element [a recycled glass recycling container]. Teamwork strategy: The container was given to each member of the team with only one premise: to develop controversial urban furniture through witty and clever designs. Publications: DD Magazine Portfolio issue
PROJECT NAME: Competition “Cultural Center�in Soto de la Marina, Santander YEAR: 2009
Contest: The Soto de la Marina City Council announces a competition to build a Cultural Center and a Mayor Square. It will be placed in a border between the town and the country. Team: Leon11 (Jorge Lopez +Ignacio A-Monteserin)+ Apodaca estudio (Javier Aguirre+Natalia Blanco) Country: Soto de la Marina,Santander, Spain Methodology of Research/Experience: We care about urban strategies to work in that specific border and how the programmes built it. Team work strategy: In this project we use the consensus to make decisions. Visit website: http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2009/05/volver_14.html
PROJECT NAME: Thyssenkrupp Competition. “ELEVATOR TOWER” Experimental Elevator Laboratory Tower in Dubai. YEAR: 2009
Contest: International Competition for the design of an iconic tower to promote the new image of Dubai which is located in the Zaabeel Park in the center of the city of Dubai. The tower will serve to promote tourism and recreation, scientific and cultural aspects of the city. The structure covers 170m2 high with the following activities: Cafeteria, Parking, Library and Conference rooms. Team: leon11 (Ana Peñalba, Maria Mallo, Ignacio Álvarez-Monteserin, Jorge López, Javier Gutierrez, Lys Villalba) + Elisa Fernández. Country: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Methodology of Research/Experience: Investigation about “Vertical Movements” “Architecture in Movement” A representative tower of a modern city in a continues evolution, can not be an static milestone , traditional icon of perpetual values. The symbol of a city with these features has to be a place for innovation and changing image. This hub has to be an advanced laboratory where inventions of engineering, architecture and technology are tested. This is a constant updated tower . It is an alive tower.To aim the movement and variability of the tower we propose a dinamic structure able to adaptate itself to the needed shape. The image of the elevator tower is a symbol of the most advanced technologies. Shows its internal mechanisms to amazed dubaities with the new possibilities that technology can bring us to live in the new skyscrapers. New systems of vertical displacement, new types of movements, and new unexplored programs. Progress in these areas will be tested in the tower in view of all citizens as a major research center capable of generating a new and surprising landscape. Team work strategy: Because of the goal we had for this project: to investigate on new typologies of “architecture in movement” the freedom and independance of proposals were very open. For this competition each of us took a different role that it was essential for the total building. To make work all the roles together in order to build up the final tower, there were several conditions. We divided the team in 5 areas: The first one worked on the structure of the tower. The condition for this team was to think of a structure able to assume the movement of the pieces. The second one was dedicated to develop new typologies of “mechanical devices”related to vertical displacements and activities conteiners. The third one, was the team on charge of study in a tehcnical contest all the typologies proposed, in order to create several files with the characteristics and descriptions of those elements. The fourth one, was defining the final image of the tower. And the fifth one, studied and develped all the conceptual base through the one all the project got sense. Making the distribution of task, working in a independienly way, but at the same time together, allowed us to be much more efficient and to pull out a complex proposal defined by many strategies. Publications: Damdi Magazine, Korea. “Panel Layout for competition”2010, Future Magazine nº 18 Visit website: http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2009/05/volver.html
PROJECT NAME: Competition for the construction of a “Young Welcome Center” YEAR: 2009
Contest: It is required the construction of a new building that respect the urban environment that is surrounded (because is really close to the Cathedral of Burgos) to create new services and activites for young people and revitalize the area where is located. Traveling “Around the Day in Eighty Worlds” and reusing three industrial silos (traditionally used as grain stores in the local agriculture), we propose filling them with the program, designing a technologicall dividing fence, givind the city two public spaces; an artificil wheat crop as a vegetal square and a public square in the highest level of the building, with an independence access, from where visitors could sight the Cathedral silhouette and Burgos city centre roofs. Team: Leon11 + Zira02 + Zuloark Country: Burgos, Spain Methodology of Research/Experience: “to build not just a building but a new emblematic atracctorreceptor place” Team work strategy: Like if we were d’Artagnan and the three musketeers we worked “one for all and all for one”developed 80 different worlds, each of us in one speciality, from urban historically context research to the technically details of the proposal. Publications: Damdi Magazine, Korea. “Portfolio”2010, Visit website: http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2009/05/consulado-joven-en-burgos-volver.html
PROJECT NAME: International Competition for the construction of an “Icon Viewpoint for the city” YEAR: 2009
Contest: The Elche City Council announces an ideas competition to build a viewpoint to watch the Oasis that surrounds the city. The goal is to raise a regeneration strategy for the palm grove which hosted cultural programs, business, research, gastronomy, etc. Team: leon11 + Elisa Fernandez + Salvador Perez Arroyo Country: Elche, Alicante, Spain Methodology of Research/Experience: “To build networks architectures” The challenge of this competition was to propose a project were not just buildings could build a project but a system of architectures that would work as a network could build activities. The research and experience we got here was about “influences”of minimal objects. It helped us to understand architecture not as a object but as a strategy of urban connections. With this researching we aimed to get a more balanced downtown where activities that happened in a place could re-activate others being far from each other. We think this kind of strategies will assure more sustainable and human cities. Teamwork strategy: There was a specialist in each field of the project but all of the woorked together in the whole.
PROJECT NAME: Refurnished of the Loft “Almond House” YEAR: 2008
Contest: This apartment is located in the central neighborhood of La Latina, Madrid, Spain. From every window you can see different churches, and it background are the mountains. Team: leon11 (Maria Mallo) Country: C/ Almendro, La Latina, Madrid, Spain Developer: Personal user: Maria Mallo Methodology of Research/Experience: “Understand processes as final products” This is an unfinished apartment, it is a construction in the process. Since my budget for this project was over, I made everything with my hands, according to my knowledge. The next step I have planned is a handrail for the first floor, made in forging. It will have horizontal plates comming out of the structure to house books. It suddenly will become into a table, which rotates around the bed, and it will have also a couple of steps for sitting on it to enjoy the views from the large window. I will even place a small area made of wood outside, where I can either put plants, or sleep outside under the stars ... Team work strategy: One person, with a big emotional and technical support; Publications: DD Magazine Interior Issue
PROJECT NAME: International Competition Villa de Medios, “Medio pueblo es” YEAR: 2008
Contest: The city of Madrid is a candidate to host the Olympic Games in 2016. This competition call new ideas to build a small city which host the journalist during the Olympic Games. In this contest the city of Madrid is developing a social, cultural, sportive, economical and sustainable strategy to make of Madrid a symbol of a innovative and qualified city. Team: Zoohaus (leon11 + Zira02 + Joann Ludorikow) Country: Madrid, Spain Jury Prize: 2nd prize Methodology of Research/Experience: “Removable Architecture” The project is thought to serve for the Olympic Games. It implies that once they finish our proposal will be transported to another city where the same needs are required. Along several meetings between us, we developed and compiled a list of opportunities offered by the competition to the citizens of Madrid. We decide to work on three areas of action: A. Urban proposal on the periphery of cities. We strive to develop a new criteria for future urban Master Plans. B. Human scale proposal. We strive to recuperate through this competition the city human scale and the kind of life in small cities. To get this, we propose to “cut”and “carry”to the plot of the competition some of the public spaces that already exists on downtown of Madrid. C. Madrid in the future. We propose through the reuse of the new buildings we fabricated, new sporting opportunities and housing areas on the public spaces of the city. Publications: DD Magazine Portfolio Issue
PROJECT NAME: Competition “J5”addressed to young architects. YEAR: 2008
Contest: The competition call young architects to re-think and reinvent new housing typologies in Andalucía, Spain. Team: Zoohaus (leon11 + Zira02 + Luis Aguilar Benavides + Fernando Serrano-Suñer) Country: Sanlucar de Barrameda, Cadiz, Spain Jury Prize: Honorable Award Methodology of Research/Experience: The developing or two different dwellings proposals: -The first one, in a narrow site with a little street facade, the dwellings are organized around a courtyard that creates an internal special space. The proposal allows the changeable configuration of the surfaces, according the number of inhabitants in each house. -In the second proposal, regarding the cathegory “investigation dwellings”we propose a system that wants to work with the “good things of living in the south of Spain”in developments of architectonic strategies concerning social, ecologhical, technologhical, typologhical and programatic issues. Publications: Damdi Magazine, Korea. “Portfolio”2010, Visit website: http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2008/12/volver.html http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2008/12/volver_29.html
PROJECT NAME: Competition for the construction of a “Religious Center”in Alcala de Henares YEAR: 2008
Contest: This competition aims to get new ideas about the conception of religious spaces. Team: Leon11 + Hector Montero Docarragal + Cristina Rebolo Country: Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain Methodology of Research/Experience: “Double means –Double uses” Thoughts about how buildings can have the capacity of host more than one activity to make them more sustainable. The intention on this project is to create a public space where to enjoy new experiences and not just a church. An open space where the symbolism is given by the court rather than religious elements. Team work strategy: A few days talking gave us the main goals of the project. The production period took only three days. But the idea remained in time: we use competitions as a way to face future projects. Publications: Visit website:http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2008/10/volver_21.html
PROJECT NAME: Competitions organized by “EMV”for the construction of new housing typologies in Vicalvaro-La Catalana YEAR: 2008
Contest: Competition for the construction of 90 dwellings for the Spanish Enterprise of Public Residential buildings. Team: Zoohaus (leon11 + zira02 + zuloark) Country: Madrid, Spain Methodology of Research/Experience: In the distance, it seems like this competition is a very first approach to “inteligencias colectivas”concepts: learning from anonymous architecture. A strong idea gave us the possibility to study different housing cases: “we wanted to use some existing dwelling typologies to generate a new building” There is some of the copyleft concept there. We didn´t have to squeeze our heads trying to draw the newest dwelilngs. We have fantastic housing examples in our cities: you only have to improve them a little. Team work strategy: Two competitions were developed at the same time. We were one team with two different roles. One half of the team thought about the proposal and the other entered as a production team. It changed to the opposite on the other competition (Escoleta San Dameto d`Alt) Visit website: http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2008/08/volver.html
PROJECT NAME: Competition for a local “kinder-garden”called Escoleta Son Dameto d’Alt YEAR: 2008
Contest: Proposal for a kindergarden in the outskirts of the city of Palma in Mallorca. Team: leon11 + zira02 + zuloark Country: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Methodology of Research/Experience: what if each classroom could have an exterior space, covered when it rains? what if each garden is configurated as a different imaginative world shared by all ages? what if we have a inhabited closet, where toilets, wardrobes and games hide inside? what if there are a magical installations, hanged from the ceiling? The kinder-garden proposal should be thought from a flexible and modular system of construction in order to get changeable conditions. Publications: Damdi Magazine, Korea. “Portfolio”2010, Damdi Magazine, Korea. “Panel Layout for competition”2010 Visit website: http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2008/08/2008-concurso-para-una-guarderia-en.html
PROJECT NAME: Competition for the “Re-envisioning the Urban Edge.South Street Seaport”in New York city YEAR: 2008
Contest: This ideas competition has two general goals: an anchoring of this neighborhood with its rich history and an envisioning of its future edge condition. Candidates are asked to consider ways to ground this rapidly changing community as well as to reforge connections, both material and metaphoric, with the contemporary Manhattan urban fabric. The principal element of the program is a Community Center/Galleries for the Seamen’s Church Institute, to be constructed on a new pier over the water. Team: leon11 Country: New York City, United States Jury Prize: Honorable Award Methodology of Research/Experience: “Collage city, Sampler city” As the result of the crash between the totally designed city (order representative), cities made of conglomerate symbols (accepted and necessary for a new auto-recognition of society), and the ambiguous city (made of spaces emptied of meaning, in which indetermination and chaos is present) emerges the collage as an intermediate solution. The city as a sampler or collage, capable of mixing elements from several times or periods, in which wishes will be the critical factor, able to bestow the contemporary man into a public space more open and humanized. Publications: ENYA (Emerging New York Architects) Visit website: http://www.aiany.org/committees/emerging/competition/ENYAcompetitions/SSS/awards.htmlpara-una-guarderia-en.html
PROJECT NAME: International Competition “Toftegårds Plads Syd”in Copenhaguen, Denmark. YEAR: 2008
Contest: Toftegårds Plads Syd (Toftegård Square South) has remained largely unused for several years. In its current form it far from reflects the fact that it is one of the most important and most distinctive gateways to Copenhagen. The City of Copenhagen launches a competition to obtain ideas for the creation of a lively, human and vibrant urban space of high architectural quality. Candidates should introduce proposals for new buildings, various types of coverings and other structures in the square. The new square must be part of the ongoing development that will turn the southern part of the Valby district into one of the most interesting areas in Copenhagen. Team: leon11 + guests Country: Copenhagen, Denmark Methodology of Research/Experience: A square is probably one of the favourite icons of neighbourhood, it should be adptable so that everybody can say: “I love this place” So we tried to ask all this wishes as many people as possible. Team work strategy: How do we reach that goal? Asking questions, and after that, we tried to answer them with a multidisciplinary team focused on different areas.
PROJECT NAME: International Competition to build up a “San Chinarro Market” YEAR: 2008
Contest: “A market to make the city grow”Ideas competition for the construction of the new Market in San Chinarro in a 8 hectares site in Madrid, Spain. Team: Leon11 + Elisa Fernandez Country: Madrid, Spain Jury Prize: Honorable Award Methodology of Research/Experience: “To re-activate surroundings of cities through public space” The bet in this project is to multiply the required program with public facilities because we understand that the neighbor will need them in a close future. We study the several kinds of market and what they offer to the neighborhood . Also we want experiment whit various food elaboration process. We want to create a market where the costumers could buy and live it by several ways. We propose a market that work as a multidisciplinary center and Urban regenerator. A center for self-employer people, a drive-in shopping area, hills in the roof with seeds for having lunch outdoors… Team work strategy: A few days talking gave us the main goals of the project. The production period took only three days and we didn´t made an aesthetics decisions together. Who draw the plann design it. Visit website: http://estudioleon11.blogspot.com/2008/08/marzo-2008-concurso-para-el-mercado-de.html
PROJECT NAME: International competition Vores By, Carlsberg - “Time will tell” YEAR: 2008
Contest: The Carlsberg Industry invites architects to participate in a international ideas competition, to propose the new conceptual urban plan for the old beer factory of 33 hectares placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. Identity, citylife, urban form, sustainability and realisation are the key elements in this competition. Consequently entrants are encouraged to form multidisciplinary teams of architects, planners, landscape architects, city builders, engineers, sociologists.... Team: leon11 + aArquitectos Country: Copenhagen, Denmark Jury Prize: 2nd prize Methodology of Research/Experience:”To understand Master planning through a conceptual basement” On this project, we established four important roles of architecture that were applied as the methodology to make up urbanism. We called each concept “frame” The experience here, was to understand “synergy processes”and realize about the importance of develop an idea from different points of view, to understand the final result as a total. Teamwork strategy: Because we decide to work with four different concepts, we decided to divide our team in 4 sub-teams for each concept. We made the experiment of working “independiently” That created an amazing result where the “aesthetic design”were completly different for each frame. We discovered that this huge difference of design is not a problem at all and, that actually shows how differences and multi-visions makes projects much more rich and “real” Publications: DD Damdi Magazine, Korea. “Advanced Public Design”2009, Damdi Magazine, Korea. “Panel Layout for competition”2010, Future Magazine nº 14, Pasajes Magazinenº 91 Comment from the jury released in the publication Vores By 2007, pg 46:
“The entry called “Time will tell”represents a very special, unique and creative approach to the site. As the heading suggests, “Time will tell”is driven by a process-oriented approach to urban development and takes its starting point in a division of the area into four fringe zones called “frames”and a central area that is left open for wider interpretation and development through exercises in consistency and relations at three levels: cellar level, ground level and between structures. The first frame –Arts and Crafts –uses a basic structure of straight streets as the starting point for a more organic urban structure defined by user involvement. The frame illustrates a kind or artistic architectural laboratory developing over time. The second frame –Wheeled Tracks –uses the infrastructure to create form instead of function as intermediary spaces, and it links Carlsberg to Vesterbro both functionally and in terms of infrastructure. The third frame –Travolator –takes its starting point in the railway track area and Enghave Station and, with new programmes and connections, links the area to Copenhaguen and Valby within a greater context. The four frame –Nature Sphere –reaches out to the Sondermarken district, creating an organically structured area with spaces for structures reserved for Carlsberg’s use of natural energy sources. The four frames represent a cornucopia of extremely far-fetched but also emphatically innovative thinking, and the structural concept illustrated in this entry is greatly realistic in its simplicity. The central area is left open to interpretation, and a kind of (in)dependent place game is introduced that is built upon a basic structure of lines, surfaces and grids. This openness in the highly challenging centre of the project represents the biggest problem with this entry. The area as a whole is not visualized in the entry, and it is also difficult to see any relationship with the existing buildings in the area, just as there is no response to some of the key requirements set out in the competition brief. “Time Will tell”provides a breathtaking and amazing wealth of ideas that deserve further discussion, treatment and decision-making if Carlsberg wants an area that functions as a discovery centre for evolutionary sustainable urban development focusing on the generation of city life in an international contest.”
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PROJECT NAME: Competition for the extension of the Airport Parking in Asturias, Spain YEAR: 2008
Contest: Aena want to ejecute the extension of the airport parking in two phases. It should stay operative permanently and should have less enviromental impact as possible. Team: leon11 + Zira02 + Eptisa engineers Country: Asturias, Spain Jury Prize: 1st prize Methodology of Research/Experience: The project although having very big dimensions looks for minor visual contamination because of the great value of the landscape in the surroundings. The result is obtained at the street level, lifting the building and allowing the air and landscape to get in. Team work strategy: We divide the development of the project in two parts: architectural design and support with the engineers. Both parts were complement and to enrich each other along the process.
PROJECT NAME: Networking Ideas Competition organized by the Biennal Iberoamerican of architecture and Urban planning. YEAR: 2004
Contest: The competition aims to promote the debate and consideration about the impact that the architecture has over the configuration of cities because of its capacity to transform its urban environment. Taking advantage of this quality, candidates must use it to help social cohesion and citizens integration. Team: Leon11 Country: South America Jury Prize: Honorable Award Methodology of Research/Experience: This is our first project developed as a collective, even before we had a name. A collective structure was set in a natural way, and emerged the need to question everything which we considered architectonically preestablished. We made a research in “subsidized spatial units”, proposing in a naive but honest way, new solutions to the housing needs in those days. We circumvent the brief and made a website although they didn´t asked for it. At last, they liked it so much that contracted us the exposition. When you does what you really believe you have to do, the result is better than if you only do what you are asked for. Team work strategy: Research lines were established and every one developed the most interesting point for each one.
AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION COMPUTER GRAPHICS Inside leon11 there is a professional network devoted to audiovisual production, infography and computerized representation.
Auditorium of Malaga Competition, Spain. Architect Federico Soriano. 1st prize.
Housing Competition Toledo, Spain. Architects Temperaturas Extremas. 2nd prize.
WEB SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT The web is a support to showt a project in different levels of complexity, letting each user deepen at whichever level he chooses to. We explore the web as a place where information is not static and unidirectional but where a great exchange of knowledge happens. These ideas motor the different projects we have developed: +Interface for Freshmadrid (www.freshmadrid.es) +Colective Work Platform Zoohaus (www.zoohaus.net)
AUDIOVISUAL POSPRODUCTION
NEW TECHNIQUES OF GRAPHIC
& SPECIAL EFFECTS
REPRESENTATION RESEARCH
Real imagen and 3d image integration in videoclips and short films.
Investigation and development of the www.equipoactimel.com promotion by Danone. We developed a series of models; these models would ineract with users and between them using augmented reality technology. Application of parametric analisis with Grasshopper for the gerenarion of membrane/textile structures.
Project “SUZIEDADES” The web is a support to showt a project in different levels of complexity, letting each user deepen at whichever level he chooses to. We explore the web as a place where information is not static and unidirectional but where a great exchange of knowledge happens. These ideas motor the different projects we have developed: +Interface for Freshmadrid (www.freshmadrid.es) +Colective Work Platform Zoohaus (www.zoohaus.net)
Contest: Suziedades Project consists in a group of professionals from different areas who want and need to tell stories through animation. It goes ahead through the efforts of all its members, who participate as volunteers with the idea of pushing through a short film. Team: leon11 (Jaime López, Pablo Salvador, Ignacio AlvarezMonteserin, Laura Martin, Gael Domínguez) + Bajocero (Jota Aronak, Silvia Velasco, Lucky, Neox, Monano, Juan”Gainzarain” + Omomo (Antonio Guerreo, Mariam, de Warner, Pedro García) + Japy Jack Internet diffusion : We are following three methods our blog, facebook and through crowdfunding in www.volanda.com Project Auto-produced / Auto-administrated; We have been working for three years on the project, with the idea of doing an animated series, our next step was to try to find funding with crowdfunding sistem, we are currently seeking investors or co-producers. Methodology of Research/Experience: “Methodologies to work from the distance” Teamwork strategy: We are working on an open system where all user adds the hours our have in a week, we use a lot of free sistems: dropbox, google docs, wave and blog... Publications: DD magazine and many recognized festivals and international blogs 2009, 2010 www.mundosdigitales.org 2010 http://www.3dwire.es/ 2011 Hub Madrid http://madrid.the-hub.net/public/ 2011 Universidad Francisco Vitoria: http://www.ufv.es/ 2011 Primer Festival de crowdfunding, comunidad de Madrid http://compartirdonagustet.net/ca/quisom/el-festival/i-festivalcrowdfunding-madrid/ Visit website: http://proyecto-sucio.blogspot.com/