Booklet - Master's of Integrated Architectural Projects by Martin Sevillano

2014 BOOKLET

MASTER’S OF INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS MARTIN SEVILLANO

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MASTER’S OF IN INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS What is it? MADRID PROGRAM AN ATLAS FOR A DUPLICATED REALITY Analysis Fictitious map Apparent map Imaginary map SOCIETY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURES Suppression of emic spaces Inverse boulevard SUSTAINABILITY Movie & Poster URBAN PROSTHETICS Hypertube Program Analysis Modeling & Rendering SHARED SPACES Proposal DEFORMATION & CONFORMATION PROFESSIONAL SKILLS FACADES TRANSVERSAL WORKSHOP PROFESSIONAL VISITS MADRID SHANGHAI PROGRAM ARCHITECTURE DESIGN & RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TONGJI UNIVERSITY Zhanjiang Analysis Volumes, Area Studies & Masterplan Super Tower typical plan Site Plan Residence plans PANGAEA ARCHITECTURE N.O.A. PROFESSIONAL VISITS SHANGHAI

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SAN DIEGO PROGRAM NORTH PORT OF SD PACIFIC HIGHWAY FLOATING ORCA Proposal Analysis References & User Exp. Future uses & Construction PROFESSIONAL VISITS SAN DIEGO

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PARTICIPANTS

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WHAT IS ...? The field of contemporary architecture is currently undergoing an accelerated period of globalization. New professionals entering the field need to have received specialized training in order to work on multidisciplinary and international teams that are increasingly more complex. The integration and coordination of the different professional profiles-architects, sociologists, sustainability experts, communication experts, customers, politicians etc- in these multidisciplinary teams is something required nowadays. To take advantage of the important business opportunities on offer in international markets, companies in the field are in need of architects that possess the necessary knowledge and hands-on skills to successfully progress in their professional careers. This professional development is related to the skills of adaption to other cultures, skills of team work, and skills of management of groups of diverse professional profiles integrated in a team. Once the student completes the Tri-Continental Master’s Degree in Integrated Advanced Architectural Projects design he/ she will hold an official european degree. The objective of the Tri-Continental Master’s Degree in Integrated Architectural Projects offered by the School of Architecture at Universidad Europea is to respond to this demand by complementing study with academic and professional training at three international universities located on different continents with different cultural

backgrounds. Students will carry out specific assignments throughout the Master’s program coordinated by each host city that comprise a variety of complementary, architectural paradigms. The Master’s program offers its students a platform, which in the space of one year, combines the knowledge, experience and abilities of an architect with an international perspective and sound theoretical and hands-on knowledge, something that the traditional approach to architecture cannot offer. Upon conclusion of the Master’s program, the extensive exposure of its students to inter-cultural contexts within favorable economic conditions, including the networks of personal contacts they will have created with important figures in the international professional community, will provide graduates with access to top level positions in any international engineering company or architecture studio, within both the public and private sectors. Today, there is no other graduate program available in Spain that achieves as much as this Tri-Continental Master’s Degree in Integrated Projects design from the School of Architecture at Universidad Europea . This program has been designed, developed and taught by prominent professionals and specialists with real-life experience of the international market and architectural projects,with the additional support of highly prestigious university institutions and businesses.

MADRID

DESIGN WORKSHOP SOCIETY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURES TECHNICAL INTEGRATED SYSTEMS IN ARCHITECTURE COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS IN ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPING

SHANGHAI

PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP FIELD WORK

SAN DIEGO

MASTER’S THESIS

U.E.M.

60 ECTS

T.J.A.D. N.S.A.D.

MADRI

Spain: UEM (Universidad Europea de Madrid. School of Architecture, Madrid) Universidad Europea de Madrid is one of the most prestigious private institutions in Spain. It is a m School of Architecture offers a strong international profile with the goal of connecting our students excellence.

ESPAÑA: UEM FUNDAMENTALS OF INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS Theory-based sessions are structured into complementary workshops in which the students learn to integrate the technological, sociology, cultural, communication, sustainability and contextual parameters that are part of the complexity of architectural and urban planning projects. The learning process is structured around a series of short-term assignments within the framework of a common concept through which the students carryout a variety of different project strategies.

Module 1-Design workshop. 12 ECTS During the project workshops, students will engage in work methodologies aimed at developing creative strategies that are useful for turning spatial concepts into realities, with the most appropriate tectonic systems, and taking into account the characteristics of the environment where projects are to be located. The projects will encompass all facets of building, from

interior design to urban planning. Students will explore various means of expression, with particular emphasis on advanced digital tools. One of the main objectives of the architectural design workshop is to bring students into contact with the professional reality they will face after finishing the Master’s Degree. For this reason, the productive dynamics encourage both individual work and the cooperation of work groups.

Module 2-Society and contemporary cultures. 6 ECTS Much of what architects do is carried out through teamwork, either in partnership with other professionals or through dialogue with the customer. The courses within this academic area will improve students’ capacity for analysis as well as their communication skills, a key factor for professional success.

Module 3-Technical Integrated Systems in Architecture. 6 ECTS Through the study of real architectural

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member of the Laureate International Universities Group, world leader in higher education. The s’ education with the professional world, for which it has already become a reference of academic

cases, students will learn to coordinate the technological systems of a building (structure, installations, construction) in relation to the spatial ideas of a project, and for different types of architecture.

Module 4-Communication and marketing. 6 ECTS Much of what architects do is carried out through teamwork, either in partnership with other professionals or through dialogue with the customer. The courses within this academic area will improve students’ capacity for analysis as well as their communication skills, a key factor for professional success.

Module 5-Sustainable Systems in Architecture and Landscape. 6 ECTS

Faculty Carlos Arroyo, Ignacio Borrego, , Archie Campbell, Francisco Casas y Beatriz Villanueva, Enrique Encabo e Inmaculada Esteban, José Luis Esteban Penelas, Juan Fernández Andrino, Ángel Luis Fernández, Ignacio Fernández Solla, Uriel Fogué, David Franco, , Edgar González, Javier Hernández, , Juan Laguna, María Langarita y Víctor Navarro, Alberto Martínez del Castillo y Beatriz Matos, , Ricardo Montoro, Fuensanta Nieto, Pablo Gil, Andrés Jaque, Pedro Pablo Arroyo, Néstor Montenegro, Izaskun Chinchilla, Paz Martín, Martín Ocampo, , Fernando Ochoa, Rocío Pina y Carmelo Rodríguez Cedillo, Pablo Rica, Mara Sánchez, , Lina Toro.

The main objective of this area is to study the variety of contextual relationships of architectural and urban planning projects as systems of spatial creation at different territorial levels to improve environmental and sustainability aspects of our environment

AN ATLAS FOR A DUPLICATED REALITY (N. MONTENEGRO & T. GELABERT)

In this workshop we focused on how to look at a certain location or area of study under three different perspectives. “Fictitious, imaginary and apparent.” We can’t describe an object describing the object itself, we have to describe its surroundings. The area of study was Madrid Río. Madrid Río is the name of the redeveloped area of Madrid’s Manzanares River. It covers 649 hectares of parkland divided into six districts with numerous environmental, sporting, leisure and cultural facilities. Here you can bike along the green Madrid Río cycle network, walk or run across the 17 new footbridges, lie in the shade of over 25,000 newly planted trees, exercise in skate parks, basketball courts or BMX tracks or take your children to one of the new 17 playgrounds.

It’s based upon five pillars: The recuperation of the river, the Salón de

Pinos (a Pine Hall featuring 8,000 pine trees), the expansion and creation of green and blue areas, a zone for sports and leisure and the urban development of the area. The scale is so enormous that it is difficult to think of another city that has implemented such an urban regeneration operation which has totally transformed the life quality of local residents and become a first class tourism attraction. In one of the most popular districts of Madrid Río, the Arganzuela Park, the main attraction is water thanks to a city beach proposed by children taking part in the Madrid Río Children and Young People contest held in 2005. The beach area comprises three ovalshaped waterside enclosures with different uses. One has a shallow pool of water where people can lie and cool off, another features jets of water rising to different heights with differing effects, and the third has a pool with clouds of spray. Around the three water zones, there are lawns for people to sunbathe with sun loungers and chairs for the comfort of visitors. The movement analysis was one

of the highlights on the Madrid Rio study taking place on the first week of the workshop, in January 2014. On a one-hour run tour through the green corridors of Madrid Rio, we experienced how the project had changed Madrid to a more balanced and sustainable city. Besides the visual improvement, the study tour took us to experience the revitalization of the city of Madrid, the extension of the green spaces, urban renewal on the low-income west side of the river and much more. Using mobile apps that nowadays help us keep track of our running path via GPS, calorie consumption, speed, pace and even altitude, we created a database

WEST BOUND

EAST BOUND After the whole data is collected we create an average pace for both running paths, east and west of the river. Then combine them following the direction of the river for easy and fast visualization combining not only the visualization with colors, but the information of the pace every few meters.

acording to the information that people shared on line. There are several apps that provide those services, some of the most common ones are “runtastic”, “Run Keeper”, “endomondo” and “Nike+”. We decided to focus on endomondo for the database since the information was more precise and more and complete, and it was shared to anyone on line. Then elaborated a table with information about several runners to extract random data to compare. (next page)

Rough sketch of the diagram.

ANALYSIS MADRID RIO: RUNNING

RUNNERS IN MADRID RIO Name

Age

Gender

Distance

Peace

TIme

Martin S.

25 Male

4,30

5,11

25,44

Martin S.

25 Male

4,60

6,18

29,26

Daniel O.

29 Male

5,02

4,32

24,46

Juande

51 Male Female

Anonimo

Martin S. Daniel O.

11,36

1,24

25,34

Juande

11,36

3,21

35,06

Anonimo

43 Male

11,36

4,40

48,46

Luiku

51 Male

11,36

4,59

50,53

Alex S.

Luiku Alex S.

29 Male

11,36

5,04

52,51

Anonimo

11,36

4,57

54,39

Anonimo

11,36

4,53

55,32 Francisco G.

Victor C.

41 Male

11,36

5,15

56,17

Francisco G.

46 Male

11,36

5,11

56,19

Daniel M.

34 Male

11,36

4,23

57,07

Victor C.

Daniel M. Borja O. Guillermo B.

Anonimo

11,36

5,11

57,30

Borja O.

33 Male

11,36

6,06

63,51

Guillermo B.

25 Male

5,39

4,41

24,48

Diego S.

Antonio F.

23 Male

5,39

5,06

29,43

Natharet R.

Diego S.

36 Male

5,39

5,43

48,00

David C.

Natharet R.

26 Female

5,39

10,45

59,59

David C.

27 Male

8,18

5,43

48,30

Javier A.

32 Male

4,47

6,01

27,15

6,67

3,49

19,08

8,69

4,96

43,05

Female

Madrid Rio

34 Male

Distance

Antonio F.

Javier A.

Male

12,00

13%

Female

Unknown

9,00 6,00

13%

Madrid Rio

David C.

Javier A.

Diego S.

Antonio F.

Natharet R.

Borja O.

Guillermo B.

Anonimo

Daniel M.

Victor C.

Anonimo

Francisco G.

Anonimo

Luiku

Alex S.

Anonimo

Juande

Anonimo

Martin S.

Daniel O.

0,00

Martin S.

3,00

Peace

TIme

74%

52,5

Madrid Rio

Javier A.

David C.

Natharet R.

Diego S.

Antonio F.

Guillermo B.

Borja O.

Anonimo

Daniel M.

Francisco G.

Victor C.

Anonimo

Alex S.

Luiku

Anonimo

Juande

Daniel O.

Martin S.

17,5

FICTITIOUS

Out of the same collection of data we also extract calorie consumption which can be used to elaborate our next diagram. The number of calories burnt while running represented by food. That is, what kind of food could you eat to match the calories burnt at a certain point.

The diagram later on evolved to an energy diagram, which remind us to the diagrams of energy efficiency shown on many home appliances, such as refrigerators, ovens and washing machines. It shows on the left a line that circles around the amount of calories and increases in width as the number of calories increases and also colors are added. The warmer the color is, the greater the number of calories. In order to make the reading of the diagram as clear as possible itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also added the number of meters you have to run, how much time should be completed in, and what food equals the amount of calories.

It started as a line showing roughly the trace of the river, with drawings of the food matching the amount of calories burnt. The food chosen was; Mustard, a peach, medium popcorn, a bowl of yogurt with fruit, an icecream cone with two scoops, one chicken sandwich, a slice of chocolate cake, two slices of pepperoni pizza and a Big Mac Menu.

APPARENT

The next diagram created would have to show a different way to show information, this time as an imaginary map. For this specific case we wanted to show not only the runners data, but another activity to be able to compare. We decided to use swimming as a second activity, since the river is the dominant part of the park. The “Manzanares river” along “Madrid Rio” park, is divided by locks, to elevate the level of the water, those locks create four pools with a total length of 4,204.7 meters.

Considering that a runner runs at an average speed of 10 km/h and burns an average of 82.4 Cal/km. And a swimmer swims at an average speed of 8.78 km/h burns about 66 Cal/km We compare the amount of calories burnt by a runner following the river stream with a swimmer that swims south and north. That’s how we end up with different spots with same amount of calories burnt, that connected to each other with a color code line that clearly shows the calorie consumption.

IMAGINARY

SOCIETY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURES (F. CASAS & B. VILLANUEVA)

Two Things we’ve learn in this workshop; Physical and psychological aspects of the public space that leads to one big question; Has the cities or public spaces changed since the Ancient Rome? And new ways of building/transforming the existing spaces, which we called Smart Growth. There are some formal strategies to achieve this according to a few well known architects: -Structure and enclosure separated. Le Corbusier, Dom-ino. -Transparency and material disappearance, vanishing by using the reflection of light through shines and reflections: Mies van der Rohe. -Folding mechanisms: Koolhaas. -Emptiness and filling operations in three-dimensional, bodily and empty elements. Ricola (Herzog & de Meuron) And all this because modern architecture attacked the traditional box made of walls substituting mass by volume, “a volume that is perceived

like something immaterial, weightless, like an space limited geometrically” Hitchcock, Johnson 1932 The International Style.” The traditional box of walls was structure and enclosure (walls) at the same time was broken in its higher resistance point: corners, by Frank Ll. Wright and G. Rietveld. Or it was replaced for a structural system with an independent enclosure by Le Corbusier, who called it Dom-ino system: free plan within a structure of slabs and concrete pillars. exterior facades and interior walls independent of the structure Free plan architectures create a predominant horizontal space with boundaries defined by two levels: floor and ceiling. Free plan architectures create a predominant horizontal space with boundaries defined by two levels: floor and ceiling. Free plan architectures create a predominant horizontal space with boundaries defined by two levels: floor and ceiling. The achievement of a fully clear, open, unobstructed spatial plan is the most obsessive aim of 20st Century.

This goal crashed with two impediments: First, an structural reason: the unavoidable presence of pillars, beams and frameworks in the interior of the buildings. Second, a functional one, the need for horizontal floors where to perform normal activities on a day-to-day basis and the need for verticals walls to isolate spaces interiorly and also of the exterior. Wright broke the walled-box placing walls in such a way that they offered as less resistance to spatial continuity as possible: the minimum resistance to fluent space. He also integrated vertical structural elements within the walls and finally used cantilevered horizontal structural elements extended beyond the vertical to express independence and freedom between them. Le Corbusier turned the vertical structure into a pillar reticle (network, reticulation). Facades were separated from structure but kept their condition as planar enclosures. Kahn made a remarkable contribution to the evolution of space in the 20th century as he highlighted the value of single rooms as basic spatial units and the building itself as a discontinuous group of spaces, which is an idea against the modernity continuous space and the horizontal fluency.

To achieve that, Kahn has to transform one of the paradigms of modernity which was the geometrical grid as net and support for the placement and measure of modern space and also for the structure itself. The transformation of Argyropelecus olfersi into Sternoptyx diaphana by applying a 70° shear mapping. There are many options when it comes to transforming space; Fractal Geometry: Minkowskim Koch and Peano curves. Old architecture vs modern architecture: massiveness vs lightness. Reduction to purely geometric and immaterial elements. Searching of the maximum freedom in terms of form but emulating nature in its apparently inform condition. Toyo Ito mixes the idea of a structure containing space with the lightness and textile of Le Ricolais in the sense of “the string/rope where you can actually get in”. Ito says that these strings are like void columns, tubes, like trees. They do not only bear the building but also contain staircases, elevators,... heating/cooling/conditioning air installations, technical devices, etc... Besides, they allow natural light enter the building and the bottom part takes water from the underground.

For OMA is literally, an exercise of three-dimensional cutting and bending of the slabs of a free plan structure building. In some buildings, they will achieve the goal undertaken here: the elimination of discontinuity between floor, ramps and stairs, even between floor and walls (Educatorium Utrecht). And Dom-ino floors stacked and crossed by a grid of pillars become here a continuous band, strip, ribbon that spreads out or is deployed and bended in the space, in an attempt of deleting boundaries between horizontal and changing of levels. Theres also some material strategies to take into account: -New experiences through color and light. -Material Experience not only visual but also tactile, auditory, olfactory. -Handling of glass as solid consistency. Mortise and embedding operations. -Buildings translucent, vaporous and enigmatic presences. Five senses: smell, touch, sight, hearing, taste -Phenomenology, also related to atmosphere.

SUPPRESSION OF EMIC SPACES As an exercise, we thought of a space, known by everyone. In this case Manhattan.

Manhattan is the perfect example, as any other major city in the world, of a plague of “emic spaces”, “phagic spaces” and “no-place spaces” This are What we tried in this case is to layer all the information we know about a city, when everything is layered, we can see what are the spaces left behind and what spaces should just merge with each other in order to provide continuity to the city and its walkable space.

INVERSE BOULEVARD Also, as an additional exercise, we were proposed to design innovative ways to deal with today’s big city problems, new urbanism proposals or simple ideas to apply to a designated conflict area.

NYC

The suppression of emic spaces.!

! As society evolves and we ﬁnd new ways to coexist with new infrastructures, more population and a lack of basic needs, that we try tu ﬁght by designing a total new urban planning.

The solution that I present is nothing that hasn't been don before, but then way to approach it is. ! The “layering” of certain information is crucial to ﬁnd new information about the city or area we’re working on.  Let’s say we want to know how to improve the “ecosystem” of parks existing in a city. It might be enough to create a layer in which the parks are highlighted, but by highlighting the parks we just have a clear idea of where the parks are and where there’s a lack of “green”.  Filling the grid with green dots, not paying much attention to the connection in between them, which is as important.   By making parks randomly placed in a city just so you can meet the requirements of green spaces is when you start creating those emit spaces, spaces that you don’t feel confortable in because of the disconnection with everything else…

El Retiro, Central Park, Golden Gate Park, Hyde Park, are all well known park for being huge connecting areas in the city, are meeting points, parts of the city in the city in which you feel away from all the crowd, away from everything else…  But, what happens with the small parks created to fulﬁll the requirements of green spaces?  Those small places to gather that become forgotten? parks that are not more a park because a park is only a park if serves a purpose?  That’s why the parks, as any other school, library, museum should be interconnected one another.  Layering gives us a lot more information that just empty spots, but how to connect spaces.  How can a little park be forgotten when right next to it there’s a path of trees and grass that leads you to the next one, or a museum which exposition is divided half and half in accesible buildings close to each other, all of the above obviously concocted with the proper public transport, whether is subway, bus or train.

That’s why not just layering to discover the lack of infrastructure but connecting is the key to get rid of emic spaces, those spaces that “disconnect” the city and create insecure, dark, and conﬂictive spaces visible in every city.

FROM THIS

TO THIS

.TRAFFIC .PARKS .SUBWAY .SCHOOLS & HOSPITALS

Inverse Boulevard !

! ! ! The objective of a competition called “Europan 12 Germany Mannheim” was to create a boulevard to interconnect Mannheim’s north and south areas, very different but located next to each other. Many projects were proposed but one specially had never be done before.

Kawahara Krause Architect’s project was an interesting approach. Instead of getting rid of a huge transit route “B38” they design an inverse boulevard to connect Mannheim's north and south areas while retaining their distinct personalities by stitching both patches together.!

The new building structure of the inverse boulevard is characterized by a permeable layout between north and south, that stimulates the crossing of the street and therefore connects both sides of the street. The crossing of the B38 on street level is facilitated by the separated direction lanes. With a new trafﬁc system replacing ordinary trafﬁc lights, pedestrians and bikes are allowed to cross on the full length of

the “islands” that are created as a middle of the inverse boulevard  The inverse boulevard features hybrid buildings. Usages with a focus on businesses that represent the 'Engineers’ mile' are completed with a huge variety of public and commercial use, especially on the ground ﬂoor levels as to stimulate urban life in the public areas between the buildings.!

A series of new public buildings on both sides of the street attract people from the areas in the north and south, stimulating the traversing of the street and therefore connecting the areas.!

That is the ideal project to connect areas of the city that once where next to each other but because of the need of highways are today separate as if different worlds.

We also became familiar with criteria for mass housing solution proposed in a Greek letter. In which a list of questions was made in order to fulfill the needs of a family in a convenient space. It is divided in 6 sections that we are pointing out along with an example of questions mentioned on those sections. 1. Family Interaction-Social Criteria. 1.1. Can the family adapt the house to various ways of living or is it just a box? 1.2. Are there specific spaces provided in the house which are moulded to fit a purpose, or are they the result of a structural system? 2. Group Interaction- Social Criteria 2.1. Are there open spaces where groups can meet? Are these so arranged that they can be maintained by the inhabitants themselves? 2.2. Is there a suitable place, adjacent to the house, where 5-11 year olds can play? 3. The Neighborhood-Social Criteria 3.1. Is the scale of the house related to the size of the community? Is the size of the community related to a comfortable walking distance? 3.2. Can the number of houses provided support shops at natural pressure points in the layout?

4. Water, Waste, Energy-Environmental Criteria 4.1. Has the ecological impact of the scheme on the neighbouring areas been considered? 4.2. Is the method of disposal of solid and liquid wastes chosen only as an extension of the existing patterns or has adequate thought been given to the particular needs of the community and the area, including the possibilities of recycling the wastes? 5. Micro-Climate-Environmental Criteria 5.1. Is there adequate protection from the weather in the open spaces and the house? 5.2. Are the houses oriented to gain maximum benefit of the sun, breeze and rain or does the house merely exclude the weather? 6. Finance and Management 6.1. Type of land tenure/ ownership of house is a critical factor in deterring the involvement in the housing process of the individual families as well as the agency sponsoring the development. Has this been fully considered in sitting up a development philosophy which can generate a self-maintaining housing system? 6.2. How is the housing area connected to the work centres of the inhabitants? Especially in low-income communities the proximity of the house to areas having employment potential is of prime importance.

SUSTAINABILITY (U. FOGUÉ & M. JERÉZ) And here we are, exploring our different options, while finding out since when “sustainability” has been around. As the class starts we can already tell that it’ll be different to any other workshop. Ok, it is certainly sustainability, but, what is the approach that should be taken in order for humans to understand the real mean of “sustainability”? That, in fact was the firs thing that had to be done. Find out what was sustainability for each one of us, and find out, not only that we all had different concepts, but that all of them were true. For U. Fogué was simply a cultural change, for M. Jeréz a balance that is always in continuous transformation, for me a mutual respect between nature and progress. But the words that most people use where the following: Resources, actions, nature, future generations, coexistence, art, past, relation human - non human, environment, innovation, balance, network, cultural change. Same thing happens when as architects we decide to take part in sustainability, we all do different things.

SCAR-CITY The architecture of the imaginaries of sustainability. Let’s look back to Olympic religious formulations, when everything was owned by gods. There was a god of war, a god of seas, a god of the sun... This spacial conception creates a well known story. The story about the Minotaur’s labyrinth. The minotaur was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man son of Pasiphaë, who due to a curse from Poseidon experienced lust for and mate with a white bull sent by Poseidon. In order to actually copulate with the bull, she had the Athenian artificer Daedalus construct a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering, within which she was able to satisfy her strong desire.

T he Minotaur dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete. The metaphors in this story are: - The labyrinth is an agreement. Architecture and technology. - The Minotaur is Nature, seeing as a monster. - The fake cow with Pasiphaë inside is a cyborg. “You can fall in the same trap that you build to content nature.” “Trying to Dominate Nature will imply a punishment.”

“THERE’S NO FICTION WITHOUT REALITY AND THERE’S NO REALITY WITHOUT FICTION.” Now analyzing the different approaches we’ll be able to understand more deeply what does it really mean to different people. 1. Anthropocentric approach Traditional ethic. Denial of the problem (empathy) Contractual-ism against hierarchy. Discourse ethics: Represent future generations by analogy (We have to understand the present to understand the future) 2. Biocentrism Animality; Extension of humanitarian conditions to animals (civil

rights, cruelty, sentient beings) Respect for life. 3. Ecocentrism (Biotic community as a whole) Is divided into two different groups: 3.1 The Natural Contract The environment itself is a third agent as important as the others. Holistic consideration of nature. Neighborhood based, not individuals. Strategic partnership Multiple scales (time and space) Collective ethics 3.2 Deep Ecology Biological egalitarianism Human self-realization Nature = Immanent divinity (even anti-human) 4. Ecofeminism Equality feminism: Critics to eco-ethics, not in real society. States that social contracts are not distributed equally since women have a privileged connection with nature due to their ability to create life. Men > Violence > Domination of women and nature. Essentialist: Based on the deconstruction of dualism man/woman or woman/ nature. If women are dedicated to care, public space is inhabited by men Empowering the woman is empowering the nature

MOVIE & POSTER Now that all of the different approaches are clear, we start an exercise to fully understand each one of them submerging ourselves in one of those categories. My group decided to go with “The Natural Contract” and after answering a few questions, we proceed to create a movie that will explain perfectly the concept itself.

island realizes that there has to be a control, a contract between him and nature to coexist. When everything is back where it was a new group of people arrive to the island and the nightmare starts over again. Although the only way to stop them is to let them see by themselves what consequences are. The Natural Contract

! ! A philosophy that recognizes the whole ecosystem, as central in importance, as a neighborhood instead of individuals. And attempts to redress the imbalance created by anthropocentrism.!

Our movie’s plot was simple, a shipwreck takes a man to an unexplored island with resources that he’ll soon enough start taken advantage of without control. Later on, when he basically reduces to dust all the natural resources of the

I LAND CONTRACT

desertification

STOP !!!!

DIAGRAM

URBAN PROSTHETICS

TACTICAL URBANISM / POP-UP URBANISM

(PKMN [PACMAN])

Starting from the beginning we’ll analyze what the concept is. Prosthetic: Device, either external or implanted,that substitutes for or supplements a missing or a defective part of the body. Tactical: of or relating to small-scale actions serving a larger purpose Pop-up: Appear suddenly or unexpectedly. the widespread application of the so-called Preventive Urbanism, also defined by Catalina Gayá as Antipersonnel Urbanism, meets a way of managing certain public spaces in our cities as a repressive practice that’s becoming dangerously common and that proposes to “Put chairs instead of benches so that the homeless cannot use them to lay down or to sleep, to replace stairs and steps by ramps so that anybody can use them to sit down and to close some streets by putting fences on them so any potential conflict is expelled” and that “Senses permanence on public spaces as a problem that in case it was a problem, won’t be solved at

all by removing urban furniture. Preventive urbanism presupposes crime and disease, but it’s nothing more than a way to displace the problem.” So, let’s face it! The logic of restriction and the limitation of certain ways of having access to public spaces by certain citizens contrast with the sometimes disproportionate proliferation of elements of urban furniture that spread over urban landscape of our cities. “Benches and bins as the most commonly known elements of urban furniture are today sharing the street spaces with fountains, planters, playgrounds, bollards, flagpoles, handrails, elevators, escalators, telephone booths, all kinds of kiosks and pavilions , traffic lights and signs, sanitary cabins, vending machines and delivery systems, countless billboards, trash cans and containers, all varieties of electrical closets, air ducts and grills, bus shelters, canopies, bike parkings, mail boxes… all of them astonishingly large in number and sometimes reaching usual and allowed rates of one element each two and a half linear meters” Urban Prosthetics places its investigation between these two opposite ends, by means of the design and construction of implants and prosthetic prototypes, we will work on the generation of intermediate situations

and we will do a research on the possibilities of amplification of elements considered as urban furniture as well as on the ways in which there prototypes are able to produce (or not) an enrichment and improvement of public spaces on a bet for heterogeneity of uses, users and situations. Concerning the methodology we bet for design thinking strategies focused on do-it-yourself production as a possible way to have a realistic approach to fast and low cost prototyping, a process that will allow ourselves to adopt a strong attitude towards a context of work in progress, and that will allow ourselves to understand our interventions as evolutionary micro-infrastructures able to be tested and evaluated; we consider there inputs as essential when working on a sphere of experimentation and design innovation. The workshop will be contextualized on a particular public space placed in the neighborhood of Tetuán in madrid and it will be oriented towards real collaboration with a specific community of potential users for this specific space. Technical Urbanism was based on learning experience methodologies. And this is the reason why we met in different places throughout the workshop. We had some sessions at the European University but also in other alternative places downtown Madrid, depending on the specific phase we were focused on.

First Phase / Context We got to understand and know first-hand the socio-cultural context in which we are working in. At the same time we were able to create parallelism and systematics of work transferable to the reality and the environment where each one of us came from. We made the “Tetuan Landscape” trail through all the urban interventions contained in the global platform, in addition we met with some of the project’s authors. We visited the work plot and had the first collective experience at Hypertube. After that, “PKMN” and “Taller de Casquería” did a short lecture about Hypertube and some other works. In order to “bring our minds together” we did an intense collective brainstorming session using design thinking methodologies with the name “From furniture to amplified-furniture”. During this session we discussed hot topics like how can we amplify the capacities of standard furniture or if we could achieve changes in big cities with small infrastructure. This way, we tried to find out strategies to colonize, amplify, parasite, complement the existing city with a flexible and evolving urban approaching. We worked in three different ways according to the relationship with the Hypertube structure:

- Intervention within the existing structure. - Intervention supported by the existing structure. - Intervention independent from the existing structure. Second Phase / Ideas We brought all our ideas together, corrected, discussed and modify the proposals. We took the first step closer to the prototype making some models. And in order to explain the proposal we created a user guide on how to assemble the final furniture and an estimated budget. After that we evaluated the proposals and all together chose which was the most suitable project for being built 1:1 scale. We evaluated the projects based on three parameters: Concept / technic viability /budget

TETUAN

User Journey Map

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3 PM Moms

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Design Parameters

Multipurpose Furniture Both sitting and exercising purpose

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Our final model was based on a modular construction made with recyclable materials that represent letters forming the word “TETUAN”. We used laser-cut museum board and glue to create a scale prototype.

The modules created can be used as benches, tables, bleachers, shading... There are multiple uses. The uses are intended for teenagers, kids or adults. We did though, left some uses behind to create something solid, instead of a multipurpose prototype that hadn’t been thought properly.

SHARED SPACES MADRID

(C. ARROLLO)

At a very beginning in this workshop, we started analyzing the shared spaces along the city, then each one of us, focused on one. And explained more about those specific “shared spaces” I personally focused on public restrooms. In some countries, such as China, restrooms are located all over the city and they’re there to use it by anyone, anytime. Now, what about the restrooms located in public parkings in Madrid? It’s sure a public space... But are we allowed to use them without being using the parking? Well... Clearly not. The restrooms are normally located close to the cash so that people working at the parking will see you. And. Some other parkings on the other hand, open 24 hours a day and the restrooms are located far away from the cash, and with even secondary entries that made them as public as public can be. The workers are forced though to close those entries at night so that people or homeless wont use them without being spotted.

Here are two examples of both situations. One located in Vazquez de Mella Square and the Other one in Plaza del Rey.

Plaza Vazquez de Mella

Plaza del Rey

Then, later on, after analyzing these places, we started thinking about a different space. Spaces that could be improved and public where we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think public spaces exist.

Our idea was to rethink the use of square meters inside new apartments by creating a new model of shared housing. More appropriate for students specially.

-By rearrange the existing spaces in

the house we can create a better use of space, accommodating up to 8 people in a regular family house. -Layering commercial and private use is also a great chance of getting the most out of shared spaces. -Sliding the floors on top of each other allows us to create balconies that are great for shared spaces.

Then, to go from one floor to the next one, we created something different than the usual staircase... A second level within the same floor that provides, not only rest areas, with couches, but a more open space that connects both floors giving the impression that is just a few steps and an area to gather, rather than a simple staircase.

DEFORMATION CONFORMATION AND CODIFICATION (I. BORREGO) ties such as hardness, porosity, transparency, temperature, store “damage” produced by external agents but do not modify its structure or composition.

An object is more than just material. It is actually not only just a reality with certain characteristics, but a sponge that absolves and memorizes everything that’s happened to it. This vision of matter and its circumstances give us new values, new fields to be explored and exploded. Matter is exposed to all kinds of alterations and natural stress that happens either intentionally or on purpose. Among all the on purpose alterations we find two: The ones that have as a result a product, and the ones that use matter as a temporary environment. In order to classify all the examples analyzed, we created three different groups based on the origin of its nature: Matter and deformation (Incidental information), matter and conformation (instrumental information) and matter and content (encoded information). And we’ll prove that every kind of information stored in matter can be found in any of these categories. In the first category are included all materials that because of its proper-

In the second category fall all the objects that show traces of any modification to reach the state of a piece that will soon be part of a construction due to technological procedures. The third category on the other hand is neither showing instrumental or incidental information but instead carries a message to be read. To read this message is required most of the times linguistic or cultural education

1.07 - How others drink.

this is a close picture of an ant drinking water out of a drop." Due to different size, the gravity and the density of water there’s no way an ant would get wet the same way we, humans, do."

Read more: " http://yogladyzs.tumblr.com/post/3691842426/moviendo-grandesmasas-de-agua#disqus_thread "

" " " examples given are part of The " " exercise for which we had to the " " select pictures and decide what " " the preview categories are the of " " pictures in. " " " " " " " " "2.03 - Wooden fabric.  " " "The image is the process of transformation of wood into the beard and "fabric of the clothes of the original sculpture of “Moises” by Miguel "Ángel. Used in March of 2014 as one of the “fallas” in Valencia, Spain." "Created for the city hall square, this wonderful sculpture is 20 meters

1.07 - Atraction" A closer look to a drop, an ant and their interaction.

The world seen by an ant, and it’s drinking process.

high and over 8 tons." Artist: Manuel García

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Read more: " http://ciberfallas.com/un-moises-digno-del-propio-miguel-angelpreside-la-falla-del-ayuntamiento-2014/"

" " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " "3.02 - Bright Communication.  " " "The map on the right shows The vast array of cell phone towers across "the U.S. that enable almost anyone to communicate or connect to the "internet, wirelessly."

2.03 - Assembly" Closer look to the “falla” Moises de Miguel Ángel created by the artist Manuel García, Valencia, Spain.

The process of fabrication of the beard and fabric of a sculpture, using wet wooden sticks.

Nowadays, we all use our phones to not just communicate with others but to access the internet anywhere, anytime.  This is a Satellite map that shows the location, and the number of spots as well as the range those towers have."

Read more: " http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161488/Secret-corpse-ﬂightspizza-boy-delivery-routes-daily-commute-Stunning-aerial-imagesreveal-seen-America.html"

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3.02 - Falsiﬁcation" Fake representation of cell phone towers and it’s range.

Communication is condensed in the U.S. basically on the east coast, middle-east of the country and west coast.

PROFESIONAL SKILLS:

Perfect Your Pitch and improve your communication Skills for Better Business

(F. RODRIGUEZ, E. GONZÁLEZ & D. BELTRAO)

This is about delivering the right mix of practical ideas, humorous real-life experience, audience interaction and valuable content to give new approach to building and maintaining your future professional networks: Learning how to execute the “Pitch” of an architectural project doing oral presentations with proper delivery technique and using written and audiovisual supporting materials. It’s about thinking Relationships and Conversations. Here’s what can happen when you learn to perfect your pitch and make professional networking a priority in your life and organization: better career management, accelerated business growth and more positive influence in the world! This highly engaging program is designed to bolster confidence, enthusiasm, and most importantly, results from networking efforts. Participants will learn to embrace a more positive attitude and take bolder action when it comes to networking so that they get results and enjoy the process. They will also be trained on a practical way for polishing their elevator pitch content and delivery

to help them start more conversations. It is all about striving to be more Memorable, Reliable, Authentic, Believable and Engaging when you introduce yourself to others. This program will show participants how networking can advance their individual careers more easily.

The “Pitching” Concept Objective: Speak with firmness to either sell services or sell yourself. It has to be clear who you are, what you do and what do you expect Content: Elements, information and body language. 90% Pitching is a “sales presentation”, there has to be a idea behind the project and the way you sell it is basically the pitching itself. You have to remember you are a BRAND, all we sell at the end is smoke, illusions, with a nice packaging… that’s what marketing is. During the pitching, there’s approximately a 70% of communication, and a 90% of all cognition occurs in the subconscious mind. That’s why it all should be attractive. There are emotional factors: - Curiosity - Empowerment - Sense of possibility - Trust - Reassurance And also cognitive factors: - Thinking - Reasoning - Logic - Attention - Decision-making

10% The best way we can compare communication is with an iceberg. Most of it is invisible. It’s not all about what comes out of your mouth. If you feel positive, the reaction will be positive. If on the contrary you are negative, the reaction will be like ways. “Information is degraded naturally” WHAT I SAY WHAT OTHERS UNDERSTAND

Words get lost , feelings not, so make people feel. The unnability to control emotions make people stupid. The control of emotions is the key of success. Kinds of intelligence: - Logical (Mathematical) - Linguistics - Musical - Spacial (Architecture) - Kinesthetic - Interpersonal (Emotional) - Intrapersonal (Emotional)

There are six basic a motions (surprise, anger, sadness, contempt and fear) The emotions are triggered by facts, once you are aware of those feelings you can take over control.

EMOTIONS

FEELINGS

FACTS

CONTROL Professionalism: Logical business Reasonable time Don’t loose attention Personality: Passion Networking is really important, and nowadays it’s really easy to use the tools given to us, to make it happen at the speed of sound. Is very useful when it comes to share with others, is helpful, there’s a big chance you’ll make new relations and it all leads to favors. 1. Self awareness (self confidence) 2. Self management (self control) 3. Empathy (be a good listener, take notes) 4. Relationship management (influence) Self control provides: Trustworthiness Conscientiousness Adaptability Drive and Motivation

Finally, these are the keys for a good pitch: Environment aware Good behavior Skills Believes Values Identity We also learned that presentation is as important as the speech. Not inly there has to be powerful images, but also the right font could reinforce the message, right size and rich visualization instead of too much text. The transmitter is always the Architect in this case. Bus there are several mediums: Internet, magazines, drawings, images, videos, models... As well as several receptors: Clients, constructors, press, publications, colleagues, administration...

When it comes to presentations there’s 5 w’s we can’t ever forget: What, who, where, why and when. And according to this we’ll go with either portraits, charts, maps, time lines, flowcharts or variable plots. When it comes to presenting, we will have to set the theme, decide if the outline will be open or closed, always show enthusiasm and passion, make numbers meaningful, make it visually simple, and rehearse. We had also a great guess that talked to us about personal branding, Ms. Beltrao. She showed us how important is create a brand that is not only useful and reliable but visible. Today we have tools like “linked in” that help us do so. It is very important though to be authentic, different, to have brand associations and be actively part in groups.

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FACADE DESIGNS XXI CENTURY

(I. FERNANDEZ)

Two thing should be considered prior to designing a facade; what is it that we want, what are the architectural requirements and what is the structural performance. A facade is a barrier, protects from falling, keeps the temperature and provides shelter, protection. It is also a filter for light, air, view, temperature. And of curse, also provides a message, an image, identity. Types of facades: Load bearing / non load bearing Opaque / Transparent Lightweight / Heavy weight (â&#x2030;Ľ150 kg/m2) Prefabricated / Built on site Passive / Active But besides the different types of facades, nowadays almost every new one built is non load bearing, transparent, lightweight, prefab, and passive. The reason why now almost every facade is a thin facade is simple; more inner space, which means more profitable projects. Every square meter counts.

Types of opaque facades: Brickwork Prefab: GRC Sandwich panels Rain-screen Cladding: EIFS External insulated facade Plastic facades: Polycarbonate Acrylic Glass facades: Curtain walls (always aluminum): Stick System Unit system Structural glazing Bolted glass Types of glass: Annealed glass Heat-strengthened glass Tempered glass Coated glass Tinted Printed Conflicts on facades: Design vs Performance Materials vs Durability and maintenance Image vs cost and build ability

Solutions: Integrated design Design together with facade experts from day one. Today and due to the constant evolution of new ways of construction the glass used in high-rise buildings is called “sentry glass” stronger than any glass ever made thanks to polyvinyl-butil (PVB) adhesive in between glass layers. Used already in the “The Ledge” Sears Towers, Chicago. Acrylic plastic interlaced with glass is also a technic already used for the Tokyo subway stations. There’s also a new material called “Kal Wall” or “GRP” which is basically glass reinforced plastic but is only available translucent.

Above there’s a picture of Nobelia, a tower being built in Rwanda with a unique facade that cools the building well enough to the point that air conditioning is not necessary. It also stores cold air within its slabs that is released slowly during the day.

TRANSVERSAL WORKSHOP. TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP (J. PENELAS & V. SOLER)

The project for this Master will consist in developing one of the cellular cities (referred to as hyper-clusters) that compose the Meta-city, continuing the work that was presented for the Biennial. We therefore present a project of extremely high novelty, and situated in the international avant-garde (realized for the first time) and of a transcontinental scale, titled: META EURASIAN DIAGONAL. Consisting of a continuous fluctuating city, it is supported by the super infrastructures of communication that flow across China, connecting it to Europe. This Mega-city is born in Lisbon, and terminates in Shanghai. The mode of projecting this city is at the forefront of Architecture and Urban design, using computational and parametric systems, and taking as its basis the logics of cellular growth, generating what we denominate SUPER-URBANISM. We present a New System of Thinking and Urban Projection for the 21st Century Cities... in this Era of Super modernity.

We thought of ways to create a city from scratch with the possibility to expand itself as it needs to. There are several proposal such as the hyper-cluster cellular city as shown underneath. We thought about creating a pattern that could be easily reproduced and grow as it needs to.

M.E.D.: The Meta-Eurasian Diagonal: A New Megacity for the 21st Century Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why in a first instance we thought about the NDA helix shape. Which axis could move around as it needs to and grow bigger or smaller when needed. Then a different approach after a few fails, we came up with the idea of triangles.

One of the most basic shapes and definitely the more stable. All of the other shapes had to be composed by the basic triangle. There are infinite possibilities, a main road could cross the entire city from start to end without affecting the pattern and the gaps that sometimes end up with could be for public spaces or parks as shown at the bottom of this page.

PROFESIONALS VISITS (MADRID, SPAIN)

Professional visit 1 - Rubio & Alvarez Sala Architects 13/01/2014 Calle de Lagasca 21, Madrid Web: rubioalvarezsala.com/contacto/ Professional visit 2 - Gabriel Allende 27/01/2014 Calle del Marqués de Villamejor 5, Madrid Web: www.allendearquitectos.com/inicio.html Professional visit 3 - EL CROQUIS 03/02/2014 Avenida de los Reyes Católicos 9 El Escorial Web: www.elcroquis.es Professional Visit 4 - Rafael de la Hoz 10/02/2014 Paseo de la Castellana 82, Madrid Web: www.rafaeldelahoz.com/ Professional visit 5 - Fündc Architects 8/02/2014 Paseo de los Jacintos 5, Madrid Web: www.fundc.com

Professional visit 6 - Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;undo 27/02/2014 Calle del Prado 21, Madrid Web: www.nundo.org Professional Visit 7 - RCR Architects 08/03/2014 Calle del Jurista Joan Pere Fontanella, 26, Girona Web: www.rcrarquitectes.es Professional Visit 8 - Medialab-Prado 21/03/2014 Calle de la Alameda 15, Madrid Web: medialab-prado.es Professional Visit 9 - Ecosistema Urbano 27/03/2014 Calle de Estanislao Figueras 6, Madrid Web: www.ecosistemaurbano.com Professional visit 10 - SĂĄnchez-Madridejos Architecture 28/03/2014 Calle de Santa Leonor 61, Madrid Web: www.sancho-madridejos.com

SHANG

China: TJAD (Architectural Design and Research Instituteof Tongji University, Shanghai) Founded in 1958, TJAD is one of the main design groups in Chinawith the most extensive range design projects. The Institute has 993 professionals including 112 first class architects and 146

China: TJAD INTERNSHIPS (12 ECTS ) Module VI. Professional internship A selection of specialized internships will allow students to experience the different stages of architectural project development in real-life situations, using representative works in Shanghai. During this period, the working methodology for those taking part in this Master’s program will be that of collaborating in multidisciplinary teams: Development of technical documentation: • Pre-projects, basic projects, execution projects • Works plans • Media publications Field work: • Meetings with internal teams • Project management • Site visits

Relations with external project agents: • Client presentations • Meetings with technical consultants • Visits to suppliers Portfolio: Some of the Architects that collaborate with TJAD and some of the projects developed at TJAD: Shanghai Jiading Poly Grand Theatre (Tadao Ando), Shanghai International Automobile Museum (IFB DR. BRASCHEL AG), Shanghai Natural History Museum (Perkins + Will), Theme Pavilion of Expo Shanghai, Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Center (AR. D. D.), Pavilion of Future of Expo Shanghai, Teaching and Research Complex of Tongji University, Sino-French Center of Tongji University, Langham Hotel in Xintiandi Shanghai (KPF), Shanghai Oriental Sports Center Diving Pool (GMP),

GHAI(PVG) APRIL, MAY, JUNE 2014

e of disciplines available in the country, there by allowing students to carry out a wide variety of first-class structural engineers. Both professions receive certification by the State.

Nantong Stadium, Shanghai International Design Center (Tadao Ando), TJAD New Office Building, Renovation of N.3 on the Bund (Michael graves & Association, WHL-Archasia), Renovation of N.18 on the Bund (Kokaistudios), ICBC Southern Data Center (JWDA), Hongqiao Meihua Town (Wood + Zapata), Shanghai Baihui Garden (RTKL), Xintiandi Plaza (Wood + Zapata, Nikken Sekkei), Shanghai Tower (Gensler), Landscape Design of UBPA-Expo Shanghai, Novartis Shanghai Garden Phase I (Kengo Kuma, Sergison Bates, Diener + Diener, Alejandro Aravena.

Faculty: Jieming Ding, Zoe Zhou, Xiangning Li.

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN & RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TONGJI UNIVERSITY

At the Architecture design and research institute of Tongji University we were placed in different departments helping existing groups to work on a project and help them with both design and scheme design at some point. My team was working on a mix-use project called “Zhanjiang” on the south coast of China. It was on the latest stages of concept design and I participated on the design of the facade.

CONCEPT DESIGN OF ZHANJIANG MIXED-USE PROJECT

Location

Circulation

PANGAEA ARCHITECTURE

(F. Almeida, C. Curiel, D. de la Fuente, S. Kanai, M. Lopez, A. Ordehi, V. Patricio, M. Sevillano & M. Shirane) traveling pavilionâ&#x20AC;? that could easily be dissembled and placed on a different city every few weeks bringing the Amazonia closer to everyone, accesible, reachable and with accurate information that will allow to understand how important it is to preserve it.

Pangaea is an Architectural Studio created by 9 international professionals while studying the Tricontinental Master Degree in Integrated Architectural Projects. While in China we participated in a project called NOA. The idea is simple. While creating a permanent observatory in the Amazonia, we indirectly increase tourism and so damage the Amazonia. Our idea is to establish a permanent school with the Amazonia for locals and experts from where the analysis and control of the biosphere would be accurate and precise. At the same time there will be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;

WE HAVE PLACED THE NATURE RESTORATION SCHOOL IN AN ALREADY URBANIZED AREA NEAR MANAOS CITY. THIS LOCATION IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE BY BOAT OR BY CAR, WITHOUT AFFECTING NEW NATURAL ZONES. THE LOCATION NEAR A BIG CITY INSTEAD OF AN ISOLATED POINT MAKES A CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND A REDUCTION OF RESOURCES IN NEW INFRASTRUCTURE AS IT ALREADY HAS IT.

A STRUCTURE OF BOLTED METAL PLATFORMS IS INSTALLED IN THE RIVERSIDE. AS NENUFAR PLANTS FLOATING OVER THE WATER, MODULES CONTAINING CLASSROOMS AND SLEEPING AREAS ARE PLACED OVER THE PLATFORMS. ITS CONSTRUCTION USES VERNACULAR TECHNIQUES TO INVOLVE LOCAL PEOPLE COLLABORATION IN THE PROCESS.

PROFESIONALS VISITS (SHANGHAI, CHINA)

Professional Visit 1 - Nihon Sekkei Office 23/04/2014 Yan’an West Road No.2201, Shanghai International Trade Centre Metro: Yil Road Web: www.nihonsekkei.co.jp/en/ Professional Visit 2 - Scenic Architecture 16/05/2014 365 Xinhua Road, shanghai Metro: Jiao Tong University (L10) Web: http://www.scenicarchitecture.com/ Professional Visit 3 - Gensler 23/05/2014 222 Hu Bin Road, Shanghai Metro: Laoximen / Xintiandi (L10) Web: http://www.gensler.com Professional Visit 4 - BAU (Brearly Architects & Urbanists) 26/05/2014 Baoqing Road Hunan Road Residential District, Xuhui, Shanghai Metro: Changshu Road (L1, L7) Web: www.bau.com.au Professional Visit 5 - ArchiUnion 27/05/2014 军工路1436号 Metro: Nenjiang Road (L Light Blue) Web: http://www.archi-union.com/ Professional Visit 6 & 7 - MVRDV & Enclave 28/05/2014 No 668 Huai An Lu, Jing An Qu, Shanghai, China Metro: Changping Road (L7) Web: http://www.enclave.com.cn/ Web: http://www.mvrdv.nl/

Professional Visit 8 - Neri&Hu 06/06/2014 No88 yuqing road shanghai china 200030 Metro: Jiatong University (L10) Web: http://en.neriandhu.com/ Professional Visit 9 - Atelier Deshaus 13/06/2014 No570 West Huaihai Road (C3-202, Red Town) Metro: Hongqiao Road (L10) Web: www.deshaus.com Professional Visit 10 - ARUP Shanghai 18/06/2014 Huaihai Plaza 1045 Huaihai Road (M) Shanghai Metro: South Shaanxi Road (L10) Web: www.arup.com Professional Visit 11 - Pro Form Architects 19/06/2014 Bldg 1, Lane 2539ďź&#x152;Songhuajiang Road Metro: Tongji University Chinese Address: Web: http://www.pro-form-arch.com Professional Visit 12 - Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects 20/06/2014 No.7, Lane 281, Wuyuan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai Metro: East Nanjing Road (L10) Web: http://www.alya.cn/

SAN DIE

USA: NSAD (NewSchool of Architecture + Design, San Diego) NSAD is one of the Centers of Excellence for international universities in the Laureate Group in th exchange studies, including joint degree program opportunities. The NewSchool of Architecture

USA: NSAD MASTER’S THESIS The Master’s Thesis will be a synthesis linking the knowledge and skills acquired during the preceding theoretical and hands-on phases as part of a common theme. Under the supervision of a team coordinated by the professors, the students will have to undertake a comprehensive, real-life interest project for the city in which they are based, from the preliminary contextual study and fact-finding to the presentation made to the corresponding client,developer or planning office. Pre-production: • Context research and analysis • Creative process methodology • Individual work and group dynamics

Production: • Urban and architectural strategies • Full technological integration • Professional document formats Post-production: • Project management planning • Marketing material • Public exhibition of the project at Universidad Europea

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he field of architecture, art and design. It offers an international setting in which faculty and students + Design, located in San Diego, California, is a leader in architectural education.

Content: The graduation project of the first and second edition involved carrying out a complex project in real circumstances and with important implications in the city of San Diego. The I.D.E.A. District is a 93-acre area undergoing development in San Diegoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East Village, promoted by a cross-disciplinary work group that includes real estate developers, politicians, urban planners and architects. One of the aims of this initiative is to implement mixed education and production programs in this area of the city, thus helping to establish a new center of innovative thinking and creation in art, design, and architecture. The district is a living laboratory that fosters creative energy and collaboration in innovation, design, education and the arts.

Faculty: Michael Stepner, Frank Wolden.

NORTH PORT OF SAN DIEGO (M. STEPNER & F. WOLDEN)

Once we got there, first, we had to become familiar with the area, so we created three groups to divide the north port of San Diego and went to the areas and looked around for any ideas that could help revitalize it or improve it any way. Our area was the interstate I-5 from the airport to the river, south of fiesta island and the Pacific highway that runs parallel to the first one. Out of all the things that I had seen or learned before, a linear park such as the one in “Madrid Rio” seemed like a really good idea. A pedestrian street with stores, restaurants, and any kind of activities could also attract new people to the potential neighborhoods and since the city of San Diego is purely mad for cars, it wouldn’t be crazy to make underground paths for pedestrians, in order lo interfere with traffic as least as possible. It’s all about services. There’s no way a new area can be developed if there’’s no services that come with it. That’s why the more services we can provide, the better.

Analyzing the public transportation we realize that almost no buses have stops on that area, since they always use the highway to go north, when the commuting time is about the same and the service would be more complete if that was the case. On the other hand, the trolley goes straight trough “Five Points” and has two stops, not to mention that it also connects that area with old town and the regional train system. The plan showed here is a rough plan of the area with new housing units, new roads, new train tracks, suppression of a lane that connected pacific highway with Five Points and total friendly integration of the trolley tracks with the neighborhood.

Madrid Rio Spain

CICLYING ROUTES 3 FITNESS AREAS 5 VIEW POINTS 5 LEISURE AREAS 7 HISTORICAL LOCATIONS 7 URBAN PARKS 13 SPORT FACILITIES 17 CHILDREN’S PLAY AREAS

382,000 SQFT RETAIL & ENTRETAINMENT 284 APARTMENTS 97 TOWNHOUSES 230 ROOM MID-RISE HOTEL 15 SCREEN MOVIE THEATER 1,900+ PARKING SPACES ADJACENT TO BAY AREA’S 1ST IKEA

Wu Jiao Chang Shanghai

Bay St. Emeryvil e California

ANNUAL CARBON EMISSIONS REDUCTION OF 2,543 TONS INTEGRATION OF THREE AREA FUNCTIONS AND JOINT DEVELOPMENT 39 PARKING GUIDANCE SCREENS 8 DRIVING GUIDANCE SCREENS 6,838 PARKING PLACES DIFERENT MOTOR VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIAN LAYERS

San Diego - California

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Alternative Routes and Stops.

We were told as a group to think about some of the ideas that we had to either improve or give a different profile to the area of study and we elaborated a list with the ideas we had that will later on be implemented in our projects. Good Urban Improvements. Improve the streets; bike & pedestrians Shaded sidewalks New sizes of roads Use right way for social housing Add and remove streets Promote beach lifestyle; pop up restaurants and public non commercial Light shows Multi-Tiered transit system More trolley lines Car free airport Rain Gardens Piers along the bay Squares, plazas, “Ramblas” Big ideas Switch Highway - Green Corridor New airport - Beach Green Corridor Cultural District (Network) Non stop, walkable riverside linear park (transforming highway) Pacific Highway - corridor to beach New town / Old town Bay to bay Water park Revitalize wildlife Green trolley Follies - Beach Remove construction height limit

Iconic ideas Outdoor theater - extravagant art piece Post Office - Cultural building Seawater swimming pool Moving the Marines offices to enlarge the pond Mission Beach - Ocean’s Beach connecting bridge Sky tram Bike transit center Biggest beach in the world

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NOISE CONTOURS From a historical perspective the beginning of an emphasis on aircraft noise compatibility planning started with the passing of the Airport Safety and Noise Abatement (ASNA) Act of 1979. This act gave the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) the authority to issue regulations on noise compatibility planning and provide a means for federal funding for projects dedicated to improving the noise environment around an airport. These regulations became the impetus for publishing Title 14 of the Code of Regulations (CFR) Part 150. In 1990 the passage of the Airport Noise and Capacity Act (ANCA) established a national policy on aircraft noise with an emphasis on a phase out of the noisier aircraft types. ANCA also instructed FAA to develop plans or programs that addressed reviewing any noise and access restrictions for different aircraft types. As a result, Title 14 CFR Part 150 “Airport Noise Compatibility Planning”1 sets forth standards for airport operators to use in documenting noise exposure in the airport environs and establishing programs to minimize noise-related land use incompatibilities. While participation in this program by an airport is strictly voluntary, over 250 airports have participated in this program which assists in standardizing noise analysis at a national level. Participation does provide access to federal funding for implementing any FAA-approved measure. A formal submission to the FAA under Part 150 includes two principal elements: (1) the Noise Exposure Maps (NEMs) and (2) the Noise Compatibility Program (NCP). This volume presents the updated NEMs documentation for San Diego International Airport, as required by the specific provisions of Part 150 Subpart B, Section 150.21, and Appendix A. A separate volume, “San Diego International Airport Part 150 Update Noise Exposure Maps Appendices”, includes the Appendices referenced in the NEMs documentation. This chapter provides an historical perspective of the Part 150 at San Diego International Airport (Section 1.1), a brief summary of the location and setting (Section 1.2), an introduction to 14 CFR Part 150 (Section 1.3), a summary of project organization (Section 1.4), and a completed copy of the FAA NEM review checklist (Section 1.5).

ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION The Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB) was created in 1975 by the passage of California Senate Bill 101 and came into existence on January 1, 1976. In 1984, the Governor signed Senate Bill 1736, which expanded the MTD Board of Directors from 8 to 15 members. In 2002, Senate Bill 1703 merged MTDB’s long-range planning, financial programming, project development and construction functions into the regional metropolitan planning organization, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG). In 2005, MTDB changed its name to the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). The Area of jurisdiction is About 570 square miles of the urbanized areas of San Diego County as well as the rural parts of East County, 3240 total square miles, serving approximately 3 million people in San Diego County. MTS provides bus and rail services directly or by contract with private operators. MTS coordinates all its services and determines the routing, stops, frequencies and hours of operation. Light Rail Light rail service is operated by SDTI on four lines (the Blue, Orange, Green and Silver Lines) with a total of 53 stations and 102.6 miles of rail. Bus 93 fixed bus routes and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) complementary paratransit service (MTS Access). Fixed route bus service include local, urban, express, premium express and rural routes. MTS is responsible for the service planning, scheduling, and performance monitoring of all MTS transit services. Service adjustments occur three times per year and as needed to improve efficiency and customer service. Approximately $243 million annual operating budget; $94 million comes from fares. Fare revenue accounts for 40% of annual operating cost, one of the highest fare box recovery ratios among similar transit systems (FY12). MTS generates 88 million annual passenger trips or 285,000 trips each weekday. MTS provides approximately 1.9 million hours of service across 24 million miles each year (FY12).

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NEIGHBORHOODS The city of San Diego recognizes 52 individual areas as Community Planning Areas.[42] Within a given planning area there may be several distinct neighborhoods. Altogether the city contains more than 100 identified neighborhoods. Downtown San Diego is located on San Diego Bay. Balboa Park encompasses several mesas and canyons to the northeast, surrounded by older, dense urban communities including Hillcrest and North Park. To the east and southeast lie City Heights, the College Area, and Southeast San Diego. To the north lies Mission Valley and Interstate 8. The communities north of the valley and freeway, and south of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, include Clairemont, Kearny Mesa, Tierrasanta, and Navajo. Stretching north from Miramar are the northern suburbs of Mira Mesa, Scripps Ranch, Rancho Peñasquitos, and Rancho Bernardo. The far northeast portion of the city encompasses Lake Hodges and the San Pasqual Valley, which holds an agricultural preserve. Carmel Valley and Del Mar Heights occupy the northwest corner of the city. To their south are Torrey Pines State Reserve and the business center of the Golden Triangle. Further south are the beach and coastal communities of La Jolla, Pacific Beach, and Ocean Beach. Point Loma occupies the peninsula across San Diego Bay from downtown. The communities of South San Diego, such as San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, are located next to the Mexico – United States border, and are physically separated from the rest of the city by the cities of National City and Chula Vista. A narrow strip of land at the bottom of San Diego Bay connects these southern neighborhoods with the rest of the city.

KEY: Land Use Existing Commercial Industrial Institutional Military Commercial Open Space Residential

DENSITY The city had a population of 1,307,402 according to the 2010 census, distributed over a land area of 372.1 square miles (963.7 km2). The urban area of San Diego extends beyond the administrative city limits and had a total population of 2,956,746, making it the third-largest urban area in the state, after that of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Francisco metropolitan area. They, along with the Riverside–San Bernardino, form those metropolitan areas in California larger than the San Diego metropolitan area, with a total population of 3,095,313 at the 2010 census. As of the Census of 2010, there were 1,307,402 people living in the city of San Diego.[82] That represents a population increase of just under 7% from the 1,223,400 people, 450,691 households, and 271,315 families reported in 2000.[83] The estimated city population in 2009 was 1,306,300. The population density was 3,771.9 people per square mile (1,456.4/km2). The racial makeup of San Diego was 45.1% White, 6.7% African American, 0.6% Native American, 15.9% Asian (5.9% Filipino, 2.7% Chinese, 2.5% Vietnamese, 1.3% Indian, 1.0% Korean, 0.7% Japanese, 0.4% Laotian, 0.3% Cambodian, 0.1% Thai). 0.5% Pacific Islander (0.2% Guamanian, 0.1% Samoan.

KEY: Land Use Proposed Med Density Residential Med High Density Residential Very High Density Residential Commercial

Commercial - Visitor Industrial Park Light Industrial Multiple Use Institutional Transportation Related Commercial Canal Alignment

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As shown in the picture above, the areas that are part of this intervention will be the highlighted. First, neighborhood in blue, train tracks and trolley tracks in purple, interstate 5 - Pacific Highway connections in green and Spawars headquarters in red.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION When the whole area is both analyzed and understood, each one of us chooses an area to focus on, and develop a plan ,more specific. I personally took special interest in the new rental car facility, the importance of the spaces left behind when it opens, the proximity to the airport, and the Washington St. Axis with the trolley station in it.

PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION

I propose a new station where Washington and Pacific collide. If the new rental car center provides a shuttle every five minutes, it becomes a perfect way to get there, not only for who lives north of the 5i but to commuters that arrive by train, bus, trolley and car. What follows up is the proposal, analysis and construction details.

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REFERENCE

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PROFESIONALS VISITS (SAN DIEGO, USA)

Professional Visit 1 - Hector Perez (La Esquina) 05/08/2014 2222 Logan Ave. San Diego Ca. 92113 Web: http://www.hectormperez.com/la-esquina/ Professional Visit 2 - Ted Smith 05/08/2014 1910 State St. San Diego Ca, 92101 Web: http://www.sdarchitecture.org/category/tags/ted-smith Professional Visit 3 - RNT Architects 14/08/2014 363 Fifth Ave. Suite 202 San Diego Ca. 92101 Web: www.rntarchitects.com Professional Visit 4 - Peter Maisen 19/08/2014 1088 Third Ave. San Diego Ca. 92101 Web: www.wrsc.org Professional Visit 5 - Teddy Cruz 19/08/2014 9500 Gilman Dr. San Diego Ca. 92093 Web: http://www.politicalequator.com Professional Visit 6 - Safdie Rabines 02/09/2014 925 Fort Stockton Dr. San Diego Ca. 92103 Web: http://www.safdierabines.com/

Professional Visit 7 - Denari architects 18/09/2014 11914 Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90066 Web: http://denari.co/ Professional Visit 8 - XTen architects 18/09/2014 10315 Jefferson Blvd. Culver City, California 90232 Web: http://xtenarchitecture.com/ Professional Visit 9 - Eric Owen Moos 18/09/2014 8557 Higuera Street Culver City, CA 90232 Web: http://ericowenmoss.com/ Professional Visit 10 - Clive Wilkinson Architects 18/09/2014 6116 Washington Boulevard, Culver city, CA 90232 Web: http://www.clivewilkinson.com/ Professional Visit 11 - UCLA citylab 19/09/2014 1317 Perloff hall, Rm B215 Los Angels, CA 900951467 Web: http://www.citylab.aud.ucla.edu Professional Visit 12 - Morphosis 19/09/2014 3440 Wesley Street / Culver City, CA 90232 Web: http://www.morphosis.com/

PARTICIPANTS

(SPAIN, ECUADOR, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC & JAPAN) “After these nine months together I have thank all of you that made this possible. It’s been a great journey, with amazing company and unforgettable experiences.”

Francisco Almeida Cesar Curiel David de La Fuente Setsuko Kanai Miguel López Alejandra Ordehi Vera Patricio Martin Sevillano Masakazu Shirane

TRI-UEM 2014

MARTIN SEVILLANO

CO N TACT Martin Sevillano

martin.sevillano@gmail.com

+1 (310)951-3322 / +34 628303823 ED UCATI O N UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID, SPAIN (2006 - 2011)

Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Architecture  “Arquitectura Técnica”

VIA UNIVERSITY, DENMARK (2011 - 2012)

Bachelor’s Degree of Architectural Technology and Construction Management  “Constructing Architect”

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IN BERKELEY, USA (2013)

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“Post-Graduate Curse in Architectural Design”

UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID, SPAIN (2013 - 2014)

Master’s Degree in Integrated Architectural Projects.

PRO FES S I O N AL EXPERI ENC E STUDIO ASSISTANT — 2011

“C. Pascual” Bustarviejo, Madrid - January to July 2011 VOLUNTEER AT “CANSTRUCTION” - 2013

Event organized by “RIM Architects”, San Francisco, USA - September 2013 JUNIOR DESIGNER AT “ TONGJI ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN GROUP” - 2014

Colaboration with mayor Local Design Institute “Tongji Architectural and Design Group”, Shanghai, China - March - July 2014

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