Architect and Urban designer Portfolio - Xiana Mendez

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Xiana MĂŠndez Moldes ARCHITECT + URBAN DESIGNER

Portfolio Projects up to 2014*

*Lastest samples of work on request



Architecture Urban design Research

Name: Xiana MĂŠndez Moldes Profession: Architecture and Urban Design Location: Manchester. United Kingdom e-mail: xianam2@gmail.com



Architecture


SEWING FERROL Thesis project / Urban strategy Urban proposal University final project Location: Ferrol, Spain. Programme: Urban strategy, maserplanning and community building.

THEORY:

Conceptual sketch for the Recimil´s urban strategy

The university thesis project was based on the idea of the revitalization and connection of key derelict areas within the territory of Ferrol, in Galicia. The main objective was to re-activate a territory which, due to several factors, is progressively being abandoned by promoting and stablishing new uses. Based on the principles of a sustainable urbanism, some wasted/derelict spaces were identified. Places as collapse buildings or empty sites, or even smaller areas within the urban fabric were identified as place-making opportunities. Through minor interventions, this initiative aims to create collective spaces with permanent and short live activities covering most of the needs and promoting linkages along the entire territory, rather than focusing the activities within the main city. An urban strategy was set to create a network, physical or conceptual, across the entire area which will connect these new ´recovered´ spaces in between them and the exising ones. Those areas where more than two networks coexist will become poles of attraction. There will be just one physical alignment, the public transport, which will ´sew the other functional lines. The identity of places and the feeling of belonging to a collectivity will be promoted by the repetition of common elements as street furniture, planting palette or pavements. People will have the possibility to move through a continuous landscape, characterized by collectivity and dynamism, which connects different activities, interests and needs while keeping the identity of each location.

Derelict headquarters

RECIMIL

City centre Existing University campus Conceptual diagrams of Recimil location

RECIMIL RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD - Social housing from 1954 1032 houses: 10 typologies from 40 to 140 m2 - 70% of the houses empty. Associated Market and school abandoned too PRACTICE: RECIMIL NEIGHBOURHOOD To translate the theory into practice, one of the poles of attraction identified within the territory has been designed, to construction detail, as a paradigm on the urban proposal. Two main derelict spaces have been identified within the city centre. A residential neighbourhood, from 1954, adjacent to an Universtiy campus and known as Recimil, and a military headquarter to the north of the neighbourhood. Following the actual needs of the University of Ferrol, which is suffering a lack of space, the proposal was to extend the University facilities across the derelict headquarters to the north of Recimil. By locating the new educational facilities at the north, the semi-derelict residential neighbourhood of Recimil, falling in between the two campuses, will become a key feature/location. On the other hand, the students lifestyle and related activities will become the tool to bring to life this historical neighbourhood. The neighbourhood will receive a high amount of temporary and permanent users. It will become a key urban element which articulates the University areas while providing a place where educational and cultural activities can be practiced and where private and public uses are mixed.

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Existing urban fabric

Existing facade


University Project / Personal work

Vertical elements as lifts Hanging rooms

PROPOSALS WITHIN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Intermediate and share spaces for neighbours Introduction of lifts

The rational urban morphoflogy of the actual neighbourhood (1954) has been identified as one of the reasons for its decay. Circulations, safety issues, monotony and lack of diversity are problems derivated from its design. The key elements of the proposal are listed below: - Implementing the networks (explained within the theory) which will connect this area with the whole territory. - Introducing new uses, by modules, which are to be combined with the residential one. - Breaking the longitudinal alignments to create a more permeable neighbourhood. - Modifying the repetitive aesthetics of the facades to promote dynamism and diversity. - Improve the habitat conditions of the existing housing.

Voids within the existing blocks as terraces

Proposals on existing housing modules - Treatment on facades - second skin - Elevators - Spaces in between

The alignment of the longitudinal pieces and their flat facades are broken by intoducing new features within the existing housings. Some examples are vertical elements as the lifts and horizontal features as hanging rooms and voids creating common terraces. Introduction of lifts

Key elements as planting and street furniture have been carefully selected and designed to promote the identity of Recimil. Singular species of street tree will be repeated along the streets of the neighbourhood creating a common landscape. The tree seleceted wil be a colourful and aromatic fruit tree to promote the interaction with neighbours. TO UNIVERSITY

CURRENT LAYOUT 2 houses per floor 3 floors per module 1 staircase per module

PLAZA Within the urban proposal the thesis project consists on developing to detail design a community building part of the whole strategy for Recimil. Architectural thesis project Private housing Students housing Community buildings City corridor University corridor

TO UNIVERSITY


SEWING Social and educational building in Recimil classrooms

Architectural design A group of eight housing modules settled in “cul de sac� has been chosen as the paradigm of the urban layout in Recimil. The design proposed will reflect an strategy which could be apply across different modules within the neighborhood.

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The project is developed following the design criteria extracted from the large scale strategy. The proposal aims to maintain the original plan but creating a permeable community building in four directions.

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The programme of uses is destinated to students, east wing, and neighbours, west wing of the building. Both wings will be connected through a common room, the library, which becomes a key element of the proposal. The coffeshop will also provide a common area for external users.

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original 8 modules of housing cul de sac

A Wall structure as main feature supporting functional boxes Library articulating both longitudinal pieces - neighbourhood and university

Proposal to include elevators on housings

circulations on ground floor

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University Project / Personal work

DESIGN PROCESS Library

As menton before, circulations, safety issues, monotony and lack of diversity are problems derivated from the original layout of the neighbourhood.

Conceptual model

The proposed building intends to achieve a continuous transition between private and public spaces, breaking the boundaries between interior and exterior. The main objective is providing dynamism and breaking the repetition to achieve atractive urban sceneries while promoting new uses for users beyond the Recimil area.

Existing housing Breaking uniformity - new street

The several community buildings and student housings proposed along the neighbourhood will be design to react against the monotony and continuity of the existing residential units following similar principles as per the proposed educational and social building. Hanging volumes, voids, terraces and patios will become key architectural features within the proposals. They will break the rational alignment and will bring permeability and a mixed of uses.

No lineality - ´the wall´supporting volumes

Study rooms Permeability in four directions

Coffee shop - transveral spaces breaking alignments to enrich the spaces in-between

1. Main entrance to neighbourhood centre 2. Security check control 3. Exterior circulation to purblic terrace 4. Foyer 5. Utility service core including toilets and lift 6. Interior common area - gathering salon 7. Reading area 8. Patio on under ground floor 9. Bar and restaurant 10. Universtity centre: control access 11. Public courtyard 12. Library

Library


SEWING Social and educational building in Recimil Technical drawings The construction system has been standarized to allow future interventions following the same strategy. The main structural body will consist of a core thick concrete wall where prefabricated cases, consisting of wood facade panels with a metallic structure, will be attached to.

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University Project / Personal work

DETAIL A

Cubierta metรกlica:

Cubierta transitable:

DETAIL C

Capa de proteccion: Capa de mortero (50 mm) + pavimento exterior antideslizante IDECK de madera_ tarima de espesor 19 mm, ancho 100 mm, longitud 300 mm atornillada a una subestructura de listones de madera.

Chapa metalica Lamina impermeabilizante de PVC Fieltro geotextil como capa separadora

Lamina impermeable de PVC + Fieltro geotextil como capa separadora

Capa de mortero de cemento Aislamiento termico de poliestireno extruido DANOPREN e_70 mm. Soporte de hormigon aligerado con arlita formador de pendiente 2%

Soporte de hormigon aligerado con arlita _sobre forjado de chapa colaborante, pendiente 2% Aislamiento termico poliestireno extruido DANOPREN_ 70 mm sobre barrera de vapor s/CTE_HS Muro de hormigon armado e: 30mm

Cerramiento de paneles pefabricados de madera:

Anclaje vigas IPE_200 mediante pasadores metalicos

Revestimiento de lamas SILVERWOOD: lamas de cedro rojo (1.5mm + 120 mm)clavadas sobre una subestructura de rastreles

Viga IPE_200

Rastreles de madera maciza 60 x 50 mm. Tablero de viruta orientada e:20 mm. DETAIL B

Lamina impermeable de PVC Tablero de viruta orientada e:20 mm. Entramado de madera de cedro rojo Sistema de aislamiento formado por una capa rigida de poliestireno extruido DANOPREN de e:70 mm. Barrera de vapor bituminosa Sistema de acabado interior KNAUFF: Tablero de carton yeso + acabado interior

Zapata aislada: Armado muro

Estructura aulario:

Capa protectora_ lamina geotextil

Cercha lateral formada con perfiles HEB_220 en las tiras inferior y superior y HEB_200 en los montantes y diagonales.

Lamina drenante de polietileno nodulado s/CTE_HS Capa protectora antipunzonamiento s/ CTE_HS

Vigas y pilares HEB_200

Impermeabilizacion a base de imprimacion asfaltica Ventana:

Tubo drenante s/CTE_HS

Viga HEB_ 200

Armado inferior zapata

Celosias de madera practicables

Hormigon de limpieza e_100 mm.

Ventana de carpinteria de madera batiente en eje horizontal MARVIN con vidrio climalit 8+8+8

Anclaje pilar metalico sobre sobre placa de apoyo y anclaje en hormigon Solera de hormigon de retraccion moderada Capa filtrante_ 150 mm. arena s/CTE_HS Lamina de polietileno s/CTE_HS Encachado de grava Subbase compactada Viga de atado

DETAIL D

Forjado interior Acabado pavimento de hormigon pulido Aislamiento termico poliestireno extruido DANOPREN e_30 mm. Forjado de chapa colaborante ACERALIA_ espesor chapa_ 1mm altura_ 60 mm. + 50 mm. hormigon armado Calefaccion por suelo radiante embebido en mortero de cemento Apoyo sobre correas metalicas IPE_200 Detail of facade

Falso techo de carton yeso


Córdoba Architecture Foundation Cultural Architectural competition Responsabilities: design, graphics and model

International competition. Location: Córdoba, Spain. Programme: Exhibition rooms, bookshop, café, administration offices, archeological museum Surface: 1226 m² (building) Ranking: Short listed+ Selected for publication

“This project is a rejection of style, fashion, tectonics, and signature.

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It is about the creation of space, illusion, and void.

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It is the triumph of space over architecture. A haven for opportunity, a place without restrictions, a white canvas that is free to change or to remain the same. The Architecture Foundation will not be bound by style, fashion, name, or time. It will be atemporal, universal, whatever it is wished to be, for as long as it is wished to be.

Basement 2: Archaeological site

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The façade offers one option only: an entry.

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The foundation is a spatial connection. It brings you from the street into the secret garden. The void is illusory, the perspective magically changes, the space expands, it grows and it changes; architecture disappears, and only space is left. The void generates the building. The void is the connection between all the functions of the foundation.

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t is able to enlarge each programme. It will always be open, public.

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Front and back facade look the same, but only one is real. The other is an illusion. Nothing matters besides the void.” STAR Strategies + Architecture

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Roof plan

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Project developed with STAR Strategies + Architecture / All images courtesy of STAR

THE PROJECT:

Three elements

Pictures of Model

As shown in the diagram to the right, the project is originated from three elements: programme, void, and circulation. The circulations occupy a small appendix, which will include storage area as well.

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The programme as the negative of the void, is pure space. The void as the positive is the street. Autonomy: each function can be connected and work as one entity. They can also be completely independent and never meet up with. The facade will be atemporal. It will work as a white canvas which can reflect the contents ocurring in the Architectural foundation.

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Autonomy of programme flexible facade

street

library and archeaological site

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exhibition area 1 and multi use area

The facade

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1. Archaeological site 2. Archaeological information area 3. Library 4. Coffee shop 5. Street and terrace 6. Exhibition area 1 7. Exhibition area 2 8. Offices 9. Multi use area - auditorium, reading area...

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Exhibition area 2 and multi use area


Auditorium Ciutat d’ Elx Cultural and public square Architectural competition Responsabilities: design, graphics and model

International competition. Location: Elche, Spain. Programme: Auditorium, social centre, public roof and square Ranking: Short listed

The plot given is located within a dense built environment in the city centre of Elche.

NORTH

Within this context the main driver of the proposal was to create an open space for the neighbourhood while achieving a continuous permeability between this and the community building requested within the project description, which included an auditorium and social centre. SOUTH

To achieve this, the building was located as a longitudinal piece along the northern boundary of the plot following the existing urban fabric. As shown in the diagrams to the right, this location allowed us to create a large square facing south while defining a new urban block and street to the north. Rather than defining a longitudinal piece with a connected interior programme, the decision made was to take advantage of having a continuous relation with the square. The proposal divided the programme of uses trasnversely so most of the rooms could work independently and have direct access to the public space. The frontage facing the square will become a main feature of the building. A tradiditional flat element, will contain now its own programme combining circulations and temporary exhibitions areas as shown in the model.

SQUARE

CIRCULATIONS AND EXHIBITONS ON MAIN FACADE

ROOF GARDEN WITH PLAY AREAS AND OUTDOOR CINEMA


Project developed with STAR Strategies + Architecture / All images courtesy of STAR

VOLUMETRIC DIAGRAM:

Detail of facade facing the square and including its own programme with exhibitions and cirulations

The building can work as one... ...or completely independent The circulation can work independetly as exhibition space The circulation connects the square with the public roof

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EAST

Pictures of Model Public Hall

WEST SOUTH


Masterplan and Tower in Leinelä Mix-use tower and public space Architectural competition Responsabilities: model maker and graphic support

EUROPAN 9: International competition. Location: Leinelä, Vantaa, Finland Programme: Mix-use tower and public space Tower: restaurant, housing, gym and offices Public space: park, day nursery, train platform, square, leinelä station, parking. Surface: 4Ha The aim of this competitions was creating a small city around from Leinelä Tower. The proposal placed common functions such as a residents’ club, a gym with saunas, and a panoramic restaurant, within the tower, with public ones as a train station and an urban plaza. We wanted to encourage co-working, so we plan a number of meeting rooms to be used by students and workers. A number of special apartments with care facilities are planned for elderly people. An underground shuttle service will collect the inhabitants of Leinelä to take them to the station in winter. The Urban Plaza in front of Leinelä Tower is diagonally split over two levels. The top level is placed at the height of the railway platforms, becoming a perfect display of culture and performances, and transforming each passenger into a spectator. This allows for the parallel use of the Plaza and 150% usage of the surface, as we can place the day nursery and parking garage under the elevated part. The slight inclination of the urban plaza (3%) allows the placement of cafes and markets; at the same time, it collects the people coming from Leinelä at ±0.00 and leads them smoothly to the station at +4.70. Where the two levels of the Plaza meet, we placed a transportation hub for people coming from the parking area. The main entrance to the tower is positioned at this level so residents can access the station directly. Following the Plaza we design the orthogonal park, where nature is planned in a grid, contrasting with the surrounding forest. Running parallel to the Park and the Plaza and ending at the train platform a covered passage will protect the passengers and cyclists from Leinelä during the winter.


Project developed with STAR Strategies + Architecture / All images courtesy of STAR

Pictures of Model



Urban design


Paseo de la Estación Public Realm Preliminary and detail design Responsabilities: design, construction drawings, specifications and tender documents

Preliminary and detail design Location: Elche, Spain. Programme: Public Space Sequence: Promenade area + New square + Green zones Surface: 15.000 m² Status: Approved + tender (on hold for construction) Client: City of Elche Estimated construction Cost: € 3,5 Mill. Financed by Spanish Central Government

“From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1960s this avenue was an elegant elevated Paseo Salon where the inhabitants of Elche enjoyed walking. It formed the main connection between the Railway Station and the City centre. With the prominence of the car in the 1960s, the elevated Paseo was demolished and transformed into a three lane road. This, together with the displacement of the railway station (at the north), damaged the character of the Paseo as a civic public space. After studying the current traffic patterns in the area, we propose restricting vehicular access to public transportation and bicycles. Once the Paseo is free of cars not only do we improve the sequence of public spaces on the North-South axis, the spaces between the city and the new Mirador+Station, but we also link the two parks that are currently disconnected on the East-West axis. Both parks are former palm huertos. This operation will unlock the enormous potential of the area as a public space right in the centre of the city. The construction of the Mirador-Station to the North of the Paseo will frame the views and will relocate the station in its former location. We propose to keep the Paseo as a “hard” surface so it may host a large number of events, which would be impossible in a green area. Moreover, due to the dry weather of Elche, a green Paseo would require a significant amount of maintenance. We have minimized the Paseo’s design to avoid compromising its potential. This design will only affect the surface; we have created a great carpet of tiles representing a pixelated aerial view of the Palmeral. This large mosaic will be visible from the wheel as an enormous piece of urban art.” STAR Strategies + Architecture


Project developed with STAR Strategies + Architecture / All images courtesy of STAR


Contract 2: Doha West Masterplanning Responsabilities: design, graphics, report writing, construction drawings and specifications. Interdisciplinary coordination with in-house and offshore teams, liaison with the client and stakeholders and resource and cost planning.

Concept, preliminary and detail design Location: Doha, Qatar

DW062

Programme: Streetscape design and associated infrastructure Area: 20.000 hectares divided in 35 schemes Status: On going Client: Public Works Authority of Qatar

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Project developed with Atkins / All images courtesy of Atkins

The Qatar National Vision 2030 and 2022 Worldcup are the main drivers of the development the country is experiencing.

SCHEMES OF DOHA WEST: Initial diagram analysis

Within a high number or projects, the Public Works Authority of the State of Qatar has launched a Programme of works which aims to improve the urban scene in the city of Doha.

DW019: 597ha

Within this programme, Atkins has been assigned as the Design Consultant in charge of the concept, detailed design and construction supervision in Doha West, with an approximate area of 20,000ha. The scope of works covers from the provision of roads and utilities to urban design and landscape, managed by a multi-disciplinary team. As part of the urban design department we are facing a massive challenge: bringing up the public realm of a partially undeveloped area which shows lack of sensitivity in their existing designs. Our work usually involves a zoom-in on the public realm to understand and respond to the daily needs of the final user.

Doha West has been divided by 35 schemes (to date) in order to allow the design consultant to deliver in a controlled programme. Each scheme is assigned to a core team of engineers, architects, environmental specialists and urban planners, in between others.

DW044: 597ha

One of the major success in the development of a project of this complexity is the achievement of quality and cost-effectiveness by adopting a simplified design approach based on design solution packages.

DW02O: 348ha

Doha West schemes area, 20.000ha

DW002: 563ha


Contract 2: Doha West Masterplanning and streestcape Concept design The scope of works of the urban design team includes defining the urban strategy for each scheme and the design, from concept to detail, of the streetscape and public realm. URBAN STRATEGY DIAGRAMS

EXAMPLES OF STREETSCAPE PROPOSALS AT CONCEPT

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Pedestrian connections

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Public squares

Retail strategy

Enhance cycle routes

Recreational cycle route


Project developed with Atkins / All images courtesy of Atkins

KEY AREAS Urban strategies Cycle routes studies and strategies Pedestrian routes Character areas analysis Playable space strategy Place-making Traffic calming solutions Street furniture strategy and design Technical drawings Softlandscape and irrigation

Clerodendrum inerme as shrub Xeroscape landscape

Sikka

Resting and gathering area Besboke planter and seating

Azadirachta indica creating groups of trees at singular areas

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Furniture strip with seating areas and cycle storage

Albizia Lebbeck

Treatment at junctions with sikka

Schinus molle


Contract 2: Doha West Streetscape design Preliminary and detail design

ROAD CORRIDORS

Due to the nature of this project, its size, overseas production and multidisciplinarity, significant time and cost saving techniques have been implemented within the team. These techniques include a modular design system which allows a semi-automated production of design for those areas defined by a common design strategy. The design effort is given to those key areas considered as public realm enhancement opportunities, unique areas within each of the schemes. Diferent streetscape elements are designed as standard typologies and they are applied thtoughout the schemes. Their combination, based on the particular context, result in an unique design for each project area.

PRELIMINARY DESIGN

ROAD CORRIDOR TYPE 3

JUNCTION TYPE 1 ROAD CORRIDOR TYPE 1

PEDESTRIAN ALLEYWAYS JUNCTION TYPE 2

JUNCTION TYPE 3 CORNER SPACE TYPE 1

ROAD CORRIDOR TYPE 2

SIKKA TYPE 1


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Project developed with Atkins / All images courtesy of Atkins

CORNER SPACES

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Contract 2: Doha West Public Realm design Concept, preliminary and detail design PUBLIC REALM WITHIN DW020 SAHATS

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Project developed with Atkins / All images courtesy of Atkins

MOSQUES C

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SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION

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In addition to the hazards/risks normally associated with the types of work detailed on this drawing, note the following specific residual risks (Reference shall also be made to the design hazard log).

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Natural stone paving incorporating geometric patterns and N lighting features, with an intensive soft landscape treatment that includes date palms to the entrances, will help to enhance A and maximize the character of the mosques within each neigh-

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5th Floor, Faisal Tower #2 West Bay PO Box 23103 Doha, Qatar +974 4495 1601 (Project) +974 4435 1612 (Main office)

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WS Atkins & Partners Overseas D-Ring Road P O Box 24656 Doha - State of Qatar

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+974 44061600 Telephone +974 44669587 Fax Email: office.qatar@atkinsglobal.com

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GEC-DOHA-WEST-DW020 ROADS & INFRASTRUCTURE IN MEBAIREEK (ZONE 81) Project Code: Status:

PRELIMINARY DESIGN

SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION Drawing Title:

HIGHWAYS ROAD LAYOUT Construction AND SETTING OUT PLAN None Maintenance / Cleaning SHEET 10 OF 19

FOR CONTINUATION REFER TO SHEET No: 11

In addition to the hazards/risks normally associated with the types of work detailed on this drawing, note the following specific residual risks (Reference shall also be made to the design hazard log).

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WS Atkins & Partners Overseas D-Ring Road P O Box 24656 Doha - State of Qatar

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GEC-DOHA-WEST-DW020 ROADS & INFRASTRUCTURE

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Contract 2: Doha West Streetscape detail design Detail design Due to the nature of this project, its size, overseas production and multidisciplinary charater, significant time and cost saving techniques have been implemented within the team. These techniques include a modular design system which allows a semi-automated production of design for those areas which follow a common design strategy. The design effort is given to those key areas considered as public realm enhancement opportunities, unique areas within each of the schemes.

DETAIL LAYOUT EXAMPLE: DW068. 2.100 ha.


Project developed with Atkins / All images courtesy of Atkins



Research projects


Research articles Master in Advance Architectural design Research Selected works produced through the Masters degree in the School of Architecture in Madrid. Large Scale was chosen as the main area of study within the Research Programme as a route to start the PhD.

Approach to the future city through cinema Teacher: Juan Carlos Sancho city, cinema, analysis, experience, individual

Kaiten sushi Teacher: Federico Soriano place, instability, flexibility, mutability, facade, leds

The Architecture of the city of the future in the context of the twentieth century cinema has been chosen as the main topic for this essay. The text is focused on the current situation of the individual and his future relations with the city.

The Kaiten Sushi Project has been presented at the Sushi dinner at ETSA Madrid. The main objective of the dinner was to present an object defined as “seclusivo”. This concept comes from the biology and defines the ability of realizing more than one action at the same time.

Designers can not predict how things are going to work in a future; however, our duty is to presume how something could be used. The cinema is proposed as a tool to experiment, reveal and sometimes anticipate what designers can not predict.

Starting from two basic concepts of the japanese tradition, the Kaiten sushi game represents an object completely “seclusivo” which reinterpretates the classical kaiten table (eat) and the “Go” (play), a traditionally japanese game. The Kaiten sushi table is made by three pivoting mobile rings. Each rings hosts a different category, first two are images and the third one is made of “information”. Like the normal kaiten table, every time you want to eat a new sushi piece you need to rotate a ring. The three rings, with their rotation, combine random images and informations.

CIRCO Magazine: Intermitent place Teacher: Emilio Tuñón + Luis Mansilla place, instability, flexibility, mutability, facade, leds Instability, movement and change define individual conditions in the 21st century. A dynamic condition characterized by networks where people, information, money, cultures, resources and knowledge are traveling fast. In this context one of the characteristics that defines modern activity is mutability; architecture should respond to the complex relationships between spaces and uses, scene and script, type and programme. The contemporary place is associated with situations, uses and users, objectives and experiences. This instability requires from the place its conversion as a structure able to support ephemeral, intermittent or permanent events providing answers to users. Following this, in February 2010 Led Action Facade has been set up in Madrid. This project presents a scenario built and rebuilt continuously through a programmed surface that creates a mutable and unexpected space. Its analysis allows us to predict a concept of hybrid place between the limit of statics and dynamics, physics and virtual, collective and individual, public and private, reality and fiction.

Walter Benjamin. The intruder of the crowd Teacher: Juan Miguel Hernandez de León city, perception, shock, indifference, flaneur, blasé Contradiction usually induces interest. From the perspective of the protagonist of the film Smoke (Wayne Wang and Paul Auster), the research proposes an approach to the city from the point of view of the metropolitan experience in terms of a perceptual transformation of individuals. It is remarkable to take a look back to early 20th century and recover concepts which attempt to describe the experience of the user. It is necessary to go back to Germany to see the research legacy of Georg Simmel, who detects a blasé attitude, and Walter Benjamin, that takes from Baudelaire the figure of the flaneur.

Action Led Facade, Madrid

The stroller is dissolved in the crowd with an indolent and defensive attitude, he becomes a detective looking for encouragement and trying to resist from falling into the indifference. What would be the trigger that causes the image that takes out the individual from the crowd to the surface to make him a flaneur? Through the proactive capacity of art, architecture and culture, it would be possible to introduce the factor of intrigue, the non-coded and unexpected, associated with a new type of statement re-coder.


Research projects carried out during the Master Degree / Personal work

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Approach to the future city through cinema Teacher: Javier Maroto + à lvaro Soto shelter, catastrophe, assembly, foldable, origami A space is developed under several self-imposed premises responding to the design of an economic, fast-assembled and easytransportable shelter following Origami’s technique. Based on the design of the joint the structure is produced, creating a foldable and modular design easily adaptable to the different situations required.

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Final Dissertation Master in Advance Architectural design Research Research work awarded and successfully approved as main topic for the PhD. Article published in different University Magazines.


Research projects carried out during the Master Degree / Personal work

(In)sensitivility towards worth vualue of things The individual’s experience in the city through the readings of Georg Simmel. Tutor: Dario Gazapo de Aguilera individual, city, behaviour, perception, attention, adaptation The driver of this research has emerged from the revision of different publications and articles from George Simmel; more precisely from those studying the transformation of human behaviours induced by the metropolitan environment. Within this theoretical framework, the target is to explore in depth the way individuals adapt to the contemporary city and how both their experience and perception of the environment are modified. Understanding what defines individuals’ attitude within their urban context, their capacity to disconnect from a wide range of attractions to select just some stimulus and the role that urban design and architecture play in this behaviour are key objectives within this research. Let’s ignore temporarily the aesthetics and concentrate just on our social and ethical duties as designers. Let’s achieve sustainable cities and places dedicated to strengthen individuals’ experience, awaking their interest and commitment in the urban environment.

“By crafting our surrounding we craft ourselves” Lukas Ebensperger

“We are suffering from a new form of “mass distraction” or so it would seem. The cause of this mal d´époque does not reduce to an external chaos distracting our minds from much more important and necessary chores: it corresponds to a structural transformation, a new regime of attention (and inattention)” Loose Coexistence. Elie During “The blasé person -although the concept of such a person is rarely fully realized- has completely lost the feeling for value differences.” The Philosophy of Money. Georg Simmel


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