Portfolio (English version) l Miguel P. Menudo

Qualified architect specialising in contemporary design and urban design.

During my academic stage I have been part of different schools of architecture, acquiring the fundamental knowledge for the practice of the profession, learning progressively and implementing my skills course by course.

After that, with the necessary determination, motivation and willingness to work, I seek to develop professionally in the field of architecture.

As professional profile prevails the mastery of integral design, overview in the different phases of the project, representation of the proposal and BIM methodology.

Excellence, perseverance, leadership, cooperativism and rigour for details are the key to my work.

As a personal projection, my objective is to design and architectural representation.

CONTENTS

POLITEAMA

Performing arts venues

Rehabilitation and renovation Architectural Design Studio

(RE)VIVIR LA INDUSTRIA

Design of service spaces and dwellings

Refurbishment and new construction

Final Degree Project (PFC)

CENTRO TERAPÉUTICO

Technological and environmental design Rooftop addition

Construction and Susteinability Design Studio

IDENTITY

Rebuilding Urban design Urban Design Studio

ÁREAS DE ACTIVACIÓN Y TRANSFORMACIÓN URBANA EN MILÁN: EL CASO DE ESTUDIO "ÁREA CITYLIFE" Research

Final Degree Thesis (TFG)

HOMELESSNESS IN BARCELONA:AN AR(CH)TISTIC RETHINKING OF SOCIAL ISSUES

Research and intervention

Master's Thesis (TFM)

Rehabilitation and renovation

Performing arts venues

Como (Lombardy), Italy

In collaboration with Javier J.Borona

POLITEAMA

Architectural Design Studio

Located in Como, the Politeama theatre is a historic abandoned theatre.

This reconstruction project aims to bring it back to life and make it attractive not only as an auditorium but also as a community centre for local and foreign people visiting this city.

The new design follows two main directions: firstly, to evoke the tragic history of the building and, secondly, to create a renovated space that can easily adapt to the needs of the auditorium.

On the one hand, we intend to maintain the aesthetic essence of the building that all the inhabitants remember, while at the same time its interior appears completely renovated, providing a multitude of different sensations for all the users who visit the project.

6 Thus, with all these starting premises, the aim is to carry out the best intervention to satisfy, not only the wishes of those who impose the new programme, but also of each person who comes to Politeama and can enjoy its facilities.

Location

Beyond the purely aesthetic and functional aspects of the project, we intend to make the new Politeama regain strength and importance in the local society, to make it once again a point of reference in the city, not only for its new function, but also as a meeting place where culture, education and art unite the population.

However, we cannot forget the thousands of tourists who visit Como and its surroundings, attracted by its incomparable landscapes as well as its unique buildings. Therefore, part of this project also tries to integrate them,

creating a greater value even in the local community.

Taking advantage of the free space left on its plot by the old theatre, it is proposed to create a new leisure area next to the building, culminating in an access area to the project's facilities, both for the user of the proposed music school and for those attending a performance on the main stage.

In the same way it will be possible to enjoy the coffee shop, the restaurants that are open every day for Como residents and tourists, and the spaces fitted out to cover the needs of the offices.

PREVIOUS

Ground floor plan First floor plan

Second floor plan

Programme

Current state pictures

Transversal section

10 Teatro Restaurante Entrada Hotel

PROGRAMME

1. Square

2. Hall

3. Rehearsal room

Storage

Classroom

Toilet

Locker

Gallery_Exhibitions

Cafeteria

Storage

Seating area

12. Dressing room

Kitchen

Forklift

Box

Offices

Restaurant

Technical room

PROGRAMME

1. Square

2. Hall

Rehearsal room

Storage

Classroom

Toilet

Locker

Gallery_Exhibitions

Cafeteria

Storage

Seating area

12. Dressing room

Kitchen

Forklift

Box

Offices

Restaurant

Technical room

PROGRAMME

1. Square

2. Hall

Rehearsal room

Storage

Classroom

Toilet

Locker

Gallery_Exhibitions

Cafeteria

Storage

Seating area

Dressing room

Kitchen

Forklift

Box

Offices

Restaurant

Technical room

Refurbishment

New floor plan

Design of service space and dwellings

Seville, Spain

(RE)VIVIR LA INDUSTRIA

Final Degree Project (PFC)

The following project is part of the epigrade "30 dwellings linked to work spaces" and therefore, the programme to be developed will be the joint creation of residential and work spaces in an interrelation that addresses the formal development of the proposal, as well as the treatment of the free spaces that the project on the plot allows us to develop.

Located on the abandoned site of the extension of the Artillery Park in Seville, the aim is to create a global identity that has repercussions on each of the spaces and areas planned.

The aim is to create an identity based on values such as scales or hierarchies, giving new life to a historic

industrial complex of some relevance in the urban environment.

By means of the relationships between the buildings and their surroundings, their own and general itineraries and the creation of a series of open spaces that consolidate the proposal, different degrees of privacy are generated that allow the correct development of the different activities planned.

This set of issues will be treated as cornerstones in the development of the proposal, seeking to ensure that the end user finds optimal personal, social and working conditions within a framework whose key words are "urban life, attraction, identity and security".

VIDA URBANA

CONCENTRACIÓN DIVERSIDAD

Con la calle Con espacios libres

Grados de privacidad

Entre interior/exterior Galería habitable Diseñar Fabricar Negociar Sociales

Personales

RELACIONES

ATRACCIÓN

Habitantes Caminos Edificaciones

Acceso desde calle

Edificación relevante Sol-Sombra Circulación y actividad Anchura/Altura Libre circulación

Grado de privacidad Física

Entre usuarios

IDENTIDAD

ACTIVIDADES

ESCALA

SEGURIDAD

CONJUNTO CONEXIÓN

CONFORT i

ACCESIBILIDAD

SEGURIDAD

Humana Jerarquía Relación de espacios Aperturas Histórico Industrial Interpretación personal En el territorio Material

Entradas/Salidas Usos Tipológica Programática Horaria Biológica Física Meteorológica Crimen Estructural Térmico Doble altura Distancia social Flexibilidad espacial Proximidad de usos

CURRENT STATE.

The process of industrialisation of the city has left its mark in the form of a series of buildings with an industrial past, most of which are now obsolete and uninhabited in the midst of a purely residential area.

Today, the extension of the Artillery Park is made up of a series of abandoned warehouses, as well as a series of housing units for workers in the form of terraced houses on one or two floors, semi-detached, detached or detached with a courtyard, depending on the social/employment status of the tenant.

On the one hand, the passage of time is noticeable over the whole complex, but in certain points it has a special beauty, such as the vegetation that has taken over the place and is perceptible from certain openings under the play of light, and on the other, we have purely architectural elements such as limits, openings, materiality, structures that are perceptible to maintain, recover and enhance.

FORMAL

As part of the programme, the creation of 26 dwellings is proposed, the result of a profound reflection on the fundamentals of current habitation, strengthened by the situation of health crisis that has been installed in our times.

These comprise a range of 16 dwellings expressly dedicated to workers as a temporary residence for up to 2 users, as well as 10 new dwellings in which the free and intermediate spaces will be of great importance.

Design of work spaces that make use of the existing buildings and that, together with the rest areas, allow the relaunch of activity in the field of creation. Specifically, the programme consists of spaces for the development of 4 start-up companies that have in common digital manufacturing as a methodology for medical advances.

LEISURE AND RECREATION

A balance must be found between work, leisure and leisure at work.... In this way, open spaces and landscaped leisure and recreational areas of public and semi-public use and domain will be proposed, allowing openness and permeability on an urban scale.

In the same way, it will promote a certain degree of privacy in them, enhancing the project and giving it greater sensibility and cohesion as a whole.

26 DWELLINGS LINKED TO WORKSPACES

Roof additions

Technological and environmental design

Milan (Lombardy), Italy

CENTRO TERAPÉUTICO

Construction and Susteinability Design Studio

The aim of this project is to improve the design skills needed to manage the relationships between materials, techniques and building systems while taking into account energy, environmental and functional requirements as well as constraints due to building regulations and their situation.

The aim for this is to transfer a design methodology based on the knowledge of various options to respond to the user's demand by embracing the potentials

and constraints of the context. As buildings are responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO₂ emissions in the EU, one of the challenges is the transformation and renovation of the built environment.

30 This project involves both modernisation and a new volumetric addition to the rooftop of an existing multi-family residential building dating back to the post-WWII reconstruction period.

The rooftop extension project is intended to be an extension of the existing psychology studio located on the ground floor of the building.

Furthermore, the ambition is to create continuity between the existing building and the two adjoining buildings, both on the right and left side, and to emphasise the visual connection to the front park.

The concept is based on two types of relationship: working with separate elements on the north elevation and creating continuity on the south elevation. For this purpose, two levels and doubleheight areas will be arranged.

In addition, one of the objectives was to underline the singularities of the therapeutic studios, which are here set up as a unique element, thanks to the relationship between full and empty spaces.

The use of wood in the exterior and interior, as well as other materials and colour palette in the finishes is very relevant for the patient's perception of the place.

Lower floor plan S 1:100

Upper floor plan S 1:100

North

Rebuilding Urban Design_Stefano Boeri Amatrice (Lazio), Italy

IDENTITY

Deconstrucción y Reordenación

Urban Design Studio

On 24 August 2016, a first violent shock of magnitude 6.0 hit a large area along the Tronto valley, between the municipalities of Accumoli and Arquata del Tronto.

To understand the complex dynamics investing in the territory affected by the earthquake, it is necessary to produce a new mapping able to read the violent discontinuity produced by the earthquake, not only as a catastrophic event but as an acceleration of the social: cultural, demographic, economic

processes that were already underway before August 2016.

After the emergency phase and the resulting long interim temporality, it is necessary to decide and implement a particular vision of reconstruction.

40 The aim of the project is to develop a project vision that proposes a hypothesis on the reconstruction of the territory affected by the earthquake in central Italy in 2016.

IDENTITY

Our approach to each phase of the reconstruction process is linked not only to the reconstruction of the Amatrice material, but also to the creation of a network of relationships and social dynamics, which allow the identification of a person in the region. When comparing the creation of a completely new social structure, we prefer to maintain a balance between tradition and modernity.

Based on these concepts, we have developed a strategy that is developed in three points that can also be considered as three levels. This strategy works on different scales and in different periods, but they cooperate strongly with each other.

We summarise the strategy with three key words: work, people and buildings.

WORK

In the process of the town's renaissance, it is necessary to offer people jobs that will sustain their basic cost of living. Moreover, a stable economic structure is what we need to attract new investments and workers to dynamise Amatrice.

Analysing the pre-terrestrial economy, it turned out that the main activity carried out in these areas is characterised by gastronomic tourism and small-scale agriculture.

The choice of an agriculture 2.0 is based on the fact that, with our approach, we do not want to revolutionise life in Amatrice. Our approach is to strengthen this network, consolidating it and making it more efficient. The connection between all the surrounding farmlands will thus create a network that will help the fractions to get closer to the city centre.

PEOPLE

The second step, after creating a stable economic system, is to rebuild an energetic community. By definition "community" is determined by a group of people with a strong sense of belonging to a place.

This step may be necessary to lay the foundations of a society. By establishing the potential to populate the future Amatrice, we will generally have three types of people: the student, the tourist and the family. After determining the type, our aim is to create a safe and pleasant environment, where families can raise their children in close contact with nature. An environment that has the characteristics of a classic traditional Italian village but that guarantees the services of a modern city at the same time.

This is why we try to work in small neighbourhoods, surrounded by services and public spaces, where people can meet, organise events, share experiences close to home. In these places the community of Amatrice will be reborn during the reconstruction process.

BUILDING

Based on a stable economic structure and a consolidated social community, we start the final step, the process of reconstructing material buildings.

By analysing the spaces of the historical fabric, we reinterpret the atmosphere of traditional Amatrice. Starting from the ground figure of the road, we analysed the spaces and proportions of ancient Amatrice. Following this study, a process of deconstruction and recombination of volumes has been developed, with the intention of maintaining the identity of an Italian village, meanwhile creating a new type of space that you can find in modern cities.

Working through these two approaches, we have combined the elements, thus creating a new urban fabric that recalls the identity of the old Amatrice but within a new form.

work people investment

Zero km restaurant

Using implements from the agricultural sector to sell products within their restaurants.

Paths

Network of paths connecting Amatrice with natural parks, which can create a new type of tourism connected to hikers, for children and adults.

Broadband internet

The new market is the online market. Every person can sell or buy whatever he wants online, that's why we need a good connection with the network, in order to have workers who can manage your online site.

Meeting Room

A place where the young farmer can meet new customers and suppliers, a place where people can create business relationships.

Research Space

Spaces dedicated to researching a new form of agricultural use. In that way, they should be connected to the university around Amatrice.

Local network

Farmland network

Intelligent conections

Local stations

Cultivation field

Intelligent stations

Small devices placed in the cultivated land to monitor.

Meeting rooms

New spaces added to existing housing to allow the customer to directly visit the production on site and discuss with the manufacturer.

Cloud network

Wireless connection for data sharing. Direct connection to the headquarters in Amatrice.

Research Centre

Where all data are collected from secondary stations on farmland.

The data are catalogued and analysed by university students. The research activity will also allow a restocking of Amatrice from a juvenile age group.

Local and international market

Every week a market will be held for the sale of products grown in the area.

An online platform is created where all farmers in the Cratere area can sell their products online, without having to go through a third party or do it themselves, thus ensuring direct contact between the farmers and the customer.

Inheritance and attraction

An "articulation" formed by a large green public space is used to connect the old and new parts of Amatrice. In the green ensemble we place the most important function of our town, the schools. In this area the new generation will grow, and they will be the future of Amatrice, not only as people but as a community.

This part is an "articulation", but also the centre between the two new parts of the town, a centre that connects two parts, but also will be a strong landmark that reminds us of the power of the earthquake. The two parts of the city are connected infrastructurally and functionally, while still retaining a certain degree of independence of each part.

Essential infrastructure and public spaces are located in the "old city" to maintain the tensions between the two parts. New spaces in the old part are designed with more openness and porosity to increase interaction between people inside and outside the houses

WORK

The first step will be to recreate a community, so we start with the people and their first needs.

In the first three years we need a reason to ask people to come back, so we start with services: school, churches and sports areas. This kind of place allows people to stay together, we can't think of rebuilding a village without a community of people who want to live in it.

Finishing with the cleaning of the ruins in order to guarantee the normal life of the residents, our project will maintain the current state of emergency houses and at the same time, start to rebuild the town centre and create a new residential area.

PEOPLE

Completing some infrastructural constructions such as schools, sports centre, library and some governmental spaces.

TOURIST

Tourists looking for a break from the city and wanting to explore the beauty of the large rocky parks, all accompanied by gastronomic tourism.

AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS

Students looking for a wellconnected urban network to enable them in the development of agriculture and innovation.

NEW GENERATIONS

Attracting the new generation to a town that offers the same service as a city, but remains in contact with nature.

To bring more vitality to Amatrice, start building an agricultural research centre, the original residents start moving out of temporary houses to the new town centre and residential area.

The tourism system of Amatrice starts to function normally and some of the temporary houses will be used as an agricultural experience centre.

FAMILIES

People who would like to see their children grow up in a safe environment in contact with nature

BUILDINGS

The agricultural research centre will become the experimental laboratory for universities that have a College of Agriculture.

This will attract young blood to live here. The original resident will start his new life and do his work on the farmland in an intelligent way.

BUILDINGS

Deconstruction and recombination

GROUND

The original figure-ground relationship of the district was governed by streets, i.e. solid building blocks were constructed in the spaces divided by streets.

In our design, more porous urban blocks will be introduced between streets, semi-public or with public courtyards within each block. This will increase the fluidity of movement for residents throughout the district, with large pedestrian spaces between each new block type. This path allows you to see how the people live.

VOLUME

We investigate the scale, proportion and elevations of the original streets. Then, we apply the characteristics of the above factors in accordance with the new programmes.

The new volume design will remind the original city as the key space characteristics of the city will be largely preserved, recalling local people's memory of the pre-earthquake image of the place.

Different types of spaces New places

In red, road traffic; In yellow, pedestrian flow

Pathways and points of interest

Housing typology

Relationship between the new flat type and the pedestrian walkway within the block.

Market

The public block is very flexible, a market is organised every week, where farmers from the area can sell their goods.

Open theatre

We used a structural framework to recreate a new space, where we can host public events. This space was to think inside a symbol of memory, thus highlighting the birth of Amatrice. A strong contrast between memory and a new scenario of life.

Structural frame

This structure has the shape of the old building. Amatrice is now an operational space where people can stay together. This element is also an emblem of the earthquake as a memorial to its victims.

AREAS OF ACTIVATION AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN MILAN: THE CASE STUDY "CITYLIFE AREA".

Research Final Degree Thesis (Seville, Spain)

ABSTRACT.

This research studies the urban transformations of Milan in the form of large urban activation projects and their consequences for the present and future of the city, first from a general theoretical framework, analysing the landscape of dispersion of these operations over the whole territory, and then focusing on the case study of the CityLife area that takes shape in the well-known Fiera district, seeking to form a critical view of the resulting processes.

Through a study in line with the historical chronology of the place, from its appearance in the cartographies of the city as a result of its growth and expansion due to the effect of the Industrial Revolution, and passing through the urban and formal analysis of the transformations that took place in the area in question over practically a hundred years, from its conformation as the Plaza de Armas, its subsequent conversion into the trade fair site that was of great importance for the development of the city, to its displacement towards the outside of this area due to the effect of the Industrial Revolution, The project was then put out to private international competition, and a series of proposals were also analysed in order to conclude on their suitability, especially the winning proposal, which was built, taking it as a reliable example of the line of transformation and change in the urban structure of Milan.

KEYWORDS.

Urban activation, Fiera Milano, transformation, historical layout, mega-operations, CityLife.

HOMELESSNESS IN BARCELONA:AN AR(CH)TISTIC RETHINKING OF SOCIAL ISSUES

Research and intervention

Master's thesis (Barcelona, Spain)

ABSTRACT.

With the participation in the European programme Cultures d’Avenir for master’s degree students from different artistic fields, which aims to rethink the future of social problems that concern us today, a process begins with the documentation and representation of the course of the experience as well as the approach to homelessness from an artistic perspective as a working tool for an approach to this reality that allows us to rethink it in architectural terms and study the relationship between homeless people and architecture, and which, together with the support of the literature written on the subject, and the study of this phenomenon in the city of Barcelona through the formal and spatial analysis of places frequented by these people as well as the resources available to them, culminates in proposals in the form of architectural projects that seek to propose solutions and implement spaces that improve the living conditions of the homeless people discussed in the course of this document, focusing on the strategies proposed as a result of the knowledge acquired during the study of the subject matter dealt with.

KEYWORDS.

Homelessness, homeless people, architecture, inclusion, societal issues, spaces improvement