2. MCH PORTFOLIO
Master of Collective Housing
ANDRONIKI FAIDRA PETROU
2022
Selected work from project workshops and specialties
produced during the Master of Advanced Studies in
Collective Housing, concerning and exploring the rela-
tionship between housing and society, energ, politics,
economy, landscape and the city.
3. Architecture Master's of Advanced Studies UPM/ETH in Collective Housing
Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH of Zurich
The Master of Architecture in Collective Housing, MCH, is a postgraduate full-time interna-
tional professional program of advanced architecture design in cities and housing presented by
Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). After thir-
teen editions, it is rated as one of the best architecture master’s programs by architects and experts.
MCH has always committed to the highest level of excellence combining teachers of international
prestige and a thorough participant selection process in order to make the best out of this course.
The program consists of 600 hours (60 ECTS). Each credit is associated to 25 personal study-
ing-working hours. Participants will develop their design skills through an intensive series of one-
week workshops and complete their theoretical knowledge in specialty seminars.
PETROU ANDRONIKI FAIDRA
4. WORKSHOPS CONTENTS
SPECIALTIES
Zurich ´22 _ Analogue file from personal archive
TRAIL OF LIVING GOOD CONDITIONS OF LIVING
ANNE LACATON
EXPOSING THE CORALLA CORALLA FUTURA
ALISON BROOKS
PATCH OF FJAKA ORDINARINESS AND LIFE
HRVOJE NJIRIK
200 100 50 10 5 3 DESIGN TRIALS IN 3 PLOTS
DIETMAR EBERLE
STAIRWALL DESIGN WITH MINIMUM DIMENSIONS
ANDREA DEPLAZES
BEE GUESTHOUSE DOMESTIC FRAGMENTS
ELLI MOSAYEBI
CITY IN A BLOCK PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION
AMANNCANOVASMARURI
INHABITING THE THRESHOLD CLIMATE & METABOLISM
JAVIER GARCÍA GERMAN
FROM PARIS TO RIO CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY
IGNACIO FERNANDES
THE NATURAL CITY URBAN DESIGN & CITY SCIENCES
JOSE MARIA ESQUIAGA
STRUCTURING THE VOID LOW COST & EMERGENCY HOUSING
CHRISTIANE MUNIZ FERNANDO VIEGAS
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5. TRAILS OF LIVING
GOOD CONDITIONS OF LIVING
Design scenarios of residential and mixed- use programs at the SBB complex
WORKSHOP LEADER
Anne Lacaton
(LACATON & VASSAL)
WORKSHOP ASSISTANT
Diego García Satien
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Carolina Basilis (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
Ana Victoria Ottenwalden (PANAMA CITY)
Sebastian Worm (CHILE)
Christian Haro (PERU)
DURATION
10 DAYS
6. HOUSING & REUSE
A solution for good conditions of life
SBB Workshops | Neugasse Kreis 5, Zurich
The Workshop
This project is the second of one of the five-days workshops, organised by MCH
Master’s programm of Collective Housing. The purpose of this workshop is the
reuse and redesign of the SBB main train station, in order to incorporate in our
design residential, public and communal uses. Urban housing conditions can
offer similar qualities of living conditions to those of a villa, an individual house
with a garden:
private access, relationship to outdoor spaces, undefined spaces, or relation be-
tween public-private. Houses should be simple, generou, affordable, intelligently
built, pleasant, flexible, open to appropriation, plausible (possible for everybody),
and the housing shall include a variety of typologies. Design innovative housing
“typologies”, open to flexibility, to self-intervention, adaptable to a wide range of
inhabitants. Create a mixed-use neighbourhood, providing different functions,
private and public, different levels of facilities and public use.
Urban Ground Floor Plan
Moriyama House
ICA - PERU
MIRALLES COLAGE
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7. The project
Collective Spaces are incubators of human
interactions were its spatial values make
possible to create bonds within a commu-
nity. These spatial values can be seen as
a shade under the tree, an intermediate
space between dwellings or even on a com-
mon circulation inside a housing building.
Starting with an existing Train Infrastruc-
ture, we propose to open it to the city based
on the principle of respecting what has
been functioning on site by maintaining
the industrial structure and by not touching
the existing buildings inside the complex.
The proportions and the previous func-
tion of the Depot G as a link space for
trains, encourage us to renovate it and
create a link space for social interac-
tions within people living on the housing
blocks as well as nearby neighborhoods.
The intervention allows the development of
communal activities for people, enables the
use of cultural, educational and commercial
activitiesforthecityandfinallyestablishesnew
housing with adequate spatial values that al-
low flexibility and its transformation over time.
The spatial qualitiesalongsidetheprojectgen-
erate transitions between old and new, public
and private, collective and individual becom-
ing a symbol of transition of human relations.
The whole proposal is made up from tran-
sitions such as the public groundfloor the
comunal buffer and the private dwellings
The parallel placement of the blocks al-
lows different views towards the buildings,
the city and the proposed public space.
The orientation of the blocks favors the use
of the west and east sides for dwellings
The housing blocks are placed as a
skirt over the proposed public space.
Mezannine Floor
Longitunal Section
URBAN STRATEGIES
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8. Ground Level
Vegetation Program Access Public Spaces
Ground Floor and Mezannine
Public Activities
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10. 10 QUALITIES OF INHABITING
Generosity
is an attitude towards all ways of life.
It is the main ‘stakeholder’ of luxury, liberty and fairness.
The attempt to create a spatial and vital maximum is the core-concept of the ‘villa’.
Multiplying space, much more generous than the standard, as large as possible and with-
in the same economic resources
converts generosity into accessibility and provides the opportunity of ‘escape’ for every-
one.
Freespace and extra-space
has no defined function, it is free in its usage.
As an equivalent to the programmed space and in addition to the traditional space, ex-
tra-space decompresses space
enabling the user to fully inhabit.
Freespace acts as a mediator.
Free from standards, it loosens norms, and creates new ways of inhabiting.
Capacity of appropriation
Architecture needs to imply the capacity of free interpretation, which is central in order to
appropriate space and to invent
infinite situations of use. This allows life-long evolution of the space and its users.
Transparency
Maximum well-being is connected to the essential relation with the environment, nature,
climate, light, air, and view.
Porosity fosters relations, the interaction with the outside, the invitation of sun and wind.
Transparency allows to exchange, to relate to the vis-à-vis, to retrieve the horizon, to touch,
and to be in touch.
Inside Outside continuity
Continuous floors prolong the inside towards the outside by embodying a sense of emo-
tional and visual escape, freeing
the movement and spirit.
Movement
is free, driven by fluidity and no constraints.
From outside towards inside, between spaces, from inside towards outside ...
It generates a constant ‘escape’.
Open Structure
offers flexibility to host any function, without privileging a specific program.
Industrial construction techniques provide conditions for free and extreme spaciousness,
which is capable for
transformation.
Private Outdoor Space
such as a balcony, terrace, or winter garden relates to the environment, and offers a sort of
garden like in a house, while being on one’s own, in peace.
Space of Transitions
from private to public space, from intimacy to the social involvement, from enclosed to
open space
– promotes essential relationships, incorporates the possibility of collective sharing and
unexpected encounters.
Pleasure and imagination
By superimposing two situations or temporalities of use, or by stretching the social and
spatial opportunities, architecture
can be poetic and joyful, beyond the functional.
Detailed Section
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16. EXPOSING THE CORALLA
CORALLA FUTURA
Transforming the coralla archetype for designing artists’ ateliers
WORKSHOP LEADER
Alison Brooks
(ALISON BROOKS ARCHITECTS)
WORKSHOP ASSISTANT
Alejandro de Miguel Solano
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Carolina Basilis (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
Tita Campino (CHILE)
Ishan Goyal (INDIA)
DURATION
5 DAYS
17. CORALLA FUTURA ESTA ES UNA PLAZA
Transformation of the Coralla Archetype
Lavapies | Calle D. Fourquet 24, Madrid
The Workshop
In this Workshop we will prove the sustainable city is a diverse city - socially, eco-
nomically, architecturally and ecologically. We will re-conceive urban housing
a place of production, creativity and work, a necessary and resurgent cultural con-
dition.
A new vision of home as place of production is not only enabled by the digital/
service economy – with our post-covid understanding of ‘work from home’, or the
place where an individual’s daily life can be monetised via social media - but it is
also by a renewed societal interest in making, in artisanal products, in the
wider value of urban art communities as a form of social capital. There is an urgent
need for the contemporary city to support low-carbon. Toward a circular
economy, single use buildings for housing must be replaced with a new hybridity.
In the historic/contemporary European city, as exemplified by Madrid,
housing must be designed to serve as a platform for sustainable collective life, to
enables creative communities to flourish.
Aerial Site View
Welcome Sign
Playground
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18. The project
The principal idea of
our design is the reshaping and revealing of the corallaW. At the point of the
intervention, there was already a public garden which was self-created by the people of the neigh-
borhood. Our main goal is to keep as much of the garden as we can and to cover a small part of
the ground floor, having the smallest possible footprint on the ground. In parallel, our aim is to
separate the public from the private part of the plot, leaving the space between the buildings free
for the community activities of the artists. The main entrances to the private part are located in the
north-west and south-east parts, while the entrance from the garden is made indirectly through
the semi-public cultural activities. The design of the building follows the archetypal corallas design,
with the stairwell in the middle, the apartment entrances in the corridor and the communal art
space hub in the middle of the blocks.
CORALLA
Spanish "corridor house" model evolved as a synthesis of the traditional Castilian noble
house (heir to the Roman domus, with
the courtyard as the axis of the building and a structure of wooden bays on its outer
perimeter) and the Andalusian Parapet that will provide the
future corrala with the model of coexistence, without planning or infrastructure, some-
times forming dead ends that created a social space that will
later be repeated in the Hispanic corral.
SITE STRATEGIES
CORALLA
+ PUBLIC GARDEN
EXISTING URBAN
GARDEN
PRESERVING THE BIGGEST PART OF THE EXISTING PUBLIC GARDEN
Respect to the existing DIY Garden
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19. CREATION OF THE CORALLA - BUILDINGS AROUND THE HUB AND MINIMUM FOOTPRINT
DIFFERENTIATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTRANCES _ COMMUNAL SPACE FOR ARTISTS
SEPERATING THE PRIVATE FROM THE PUBLIC AREAS CONNECTING THEM WITH AN INTERMEDIATE AREA ON THE GROUND FLOOR
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
Seperation between the Private from the Public
Creation of a communal hub for the artists
Ground FLoor Plan
PUBLIC / COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES
Coralla creation and minimum footprint
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22. LOFT TYPOLOGY - 3D view
LOFT TYPOLOGY - Plan
LOFT TYPOLOGY
105 SQM
Artists are people who spend a lot of time in their studios and ateliers. Therefore, it was
very important for us to incorporate their working areas, studios and exposition rooms in
the same patterns where their house is.
Both in the North and the West block of the Exposed Coralla the LOFT TYPOLOGIES are
being situated, which contain 2 stages. On the first stage, where the entrance is, there are
the living areas, the kitchen, the bathroom and the working areas. On the second, smaller
stage, there is the sleeping area for one or two people.
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23. STUDIO TYPOLOGY - 3D view
STUDIO TYPOLOGY - Plan
STUDIO TYPOLOGY
65 SQM
The public Garden is the one of the most important urban elements of this neighbor-
hood. The main goal of the project is to create a unique relationship between the hous-
ing blocks, the communal areas and the public existing garden. The most interesting
way to do that is to create a different facade towards the garden. Therefore, the east block
of the Exposed Coralla contains a different typology, the one of the STUDIO TYPOLOGY,
which has one big space, making the living and the sleeping area as well. The humid ar-
eas are situated near the corridor alongside with the entrance. In every studio apartment,
there is a balcony with a view to the garden.
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25. PATCH OF FJAKA
Ordinariness and Life Urban Sprawl in Kila
Low-cost housing, on affordable and innovative solutions to the basic need for
a
small-sized housing within a specific Mediterranean context of the city of Split
in Croatia.
WORKSHOP LEADER
Hrvoje Njirik
(NJIRIK+ ARHITEKTI)
WORKSHOP ASSISTANT
Esperanza Campaña
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Andrew Georges (LEBANON)
Francisco Heredia (ARGENTINA)
Anastasia Lizardou (GREECE)
Felipe Santamaría (GREECE)
DURATION
5 DAYS
26. ORDINARINESS AND LIFE FJAKA SITUATIONS
Mediterranean Sprawl Housing in Kila
Kila | Mejaši District, Split
The Workshop
The workshop is designed to challenge and seek creativity with ideas and concepts
in architectural
design of collective living spaces. It aims to promote well-tempered solutions to
housing, coming up
with affordable and sustainable units with limited size and budget to meet de-
mands in housing market
even on a such a troubled location as Kila. The assignment gives an opportunity to
think about social,
cultural and environmental effects in sustainable design within defined parame-
ters.
The task is focused on low-cost housing, on affordable and innovative solutions to
the basic need for a
small-sized housing within a specific Mediterranean context of the city of Split in
Croatia.
Sometimes we face the task to design and situate a dwelling or a group of dwell-
ings into a predefined
contour.
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PATCH OF FJAKA - Hrvoje Njirik
‘‘ Our basic argument is that there isn't any such thing
as a building. A building properly conceived is several
layers of longevity of built components.”
Frank Duffy
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PATCH OF FJAKA - Hrvoje Njirik
URBAN- TO - RURAL
The urban-to-rural transition zone is constantly widening and blurring due
to urban sprawl and
the increasing trends of suburbanization and de-
urbanization that it entails. Lefebvre ascribes modern urban sprawl to the
ominous, but meaningful,
neologism: the Rurban. By the term ¨rurban areas¨ we define former rural
areas, which have a temporal distance from the city center, corresponding
to areas that belong to the urban fabric, thus forming
spatial complexes of daily activity that produce a territory that is neither a
city nor a village.
The Project
The general idea behind the project is based on the three main social groups of the city, which were
created earlier and aims at their revival and symbiosis in an urban-agricultural neighborhood.
The design of the complex of houses, public, green and communal spaces was inspired by the recog-
nition of the patterns that exist in the surrounding area and was the result of their organization with
the aim of creating empty spaces that the residents could use and inhabit in any way they want so to
revive the well-known concept of the Mediterranean peoples ‘‘FJAKA’’, which defines the quality and
opportunity of the people to do nothing (DOLCE FAR NIENTE)
After pointing the different patches in the neighborhood we created a catalogue of different sizes
and shapes of spaces which could be incorporated in the plot as parkings areas, paths and plat-
forms as well as private gardens
FJAKA
Older Generations -
- Near to retirement -
- Still active -
- Traditionally working on fiels -
- Rooted in the city -
- Younger Generations
- ‘‘Vlaji’’ immigrants
- Active population
- Uprooted from the city
- Might have big families
Analysis of the surroundings
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PATCH OF FJAKA - Hrvoje Njirik
The Project
The design outcome was a patch of patterns and shapes, based on the existing catalogue which
would have different characters and uses , with the majority of these being vacant spaces for appro-
priation and for doing nothing.
The whole project was organised while respecting the urban barrier and plot of the existing house
inside the plot as well as adapting to the existing terrain of the area.
Masterplan
FJAKA as Parking Spaces
FJAKA as Parths & Platforms
FJAKA as Private Garden
CATALOGUE OF SPACES
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Basic Typology Plan
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Transversal Section of the terrain and housing
Transversal Section of the terrain
Plan Permutation 01
Plan Permutation 02
34. Feels like home
200 100 50 10 5 | Volume - Structure - Facade
3 Trials in 3 different plots
WORKSHOP LEADER
Dietmar Eberle
(BAUMSCHLAGER EBERLE ARCHITEKTEN)
WORKSHOP ASSISTANT
Alberto Nicolau
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
DURATION
5 DAYS
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FEELS LIKE HOME - Dietmal Eberle
200 100 50 10 5
Volume - Structure - Facade
La Latina - Plaza de Espagna - Madrid Rio, Madrid
Site 01
La Latina Neighborhood
Site 02
Plaza de España Neighborhood
Site 03
Rio Manzanares Neighborhood
The Workshop
The structure of this specific workshop was very unique. The work was individual
and each day we had to work on a different plot and on a different stage of design
The challenge of every day, was to finish with a specific task in one of the three lo-
cations.
When its days task was finished we had to choose a project from a collegue and
move on to the next task
Tasks
TASK 01
General volumetric approach
TASK 02
Structure
TASK 03
Structure
TASK 03
General development of the project
Locations
LOCATION 01
Madrid Historic Center
constructed in 16th century
LOCATION 02
Central location that was
developed in the 19th cen-
tury
LOCATION 03
Area ner the river where
newer housing have been
developed nowadays
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TASK 01 - Volumetric Approach
LOCATION - La Latina Neighborhood
TASK 02 - Structural Approach
LOCATION - Plaza de España Neighborhood
Site Plan
Site Plan
Physical Model
Physical Model
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TASK 03 - Facade Approach
LOCATION - Rio Manzanares Neighborhood
TASK 04 - Detailed Developement
LOCATION - La Latina Neighborhood
Plan - Section - Facade
Site Plan
South View
Structure
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FEELS LIKE HOME - Dietmal Eberle
FEELS LIKE HOME
Final Approach
The Project
The final project was based around the intimacy of people and the sense of neighborhood within
the housing block.
The basic idea proposes the division of the area into two parts, by placing two blocks which are
joined by a narrow street that joins the southern and northern parts of the neighborhood.
The ground floor remains free with public uses, while the upper floors consist only of residences.
the road between the buildings narrows in the middle, while it widens towards the edges of the
plot.
The main material of the work is brick, with the aim of better harmonizing with the old town of
Madrid
Site 3D View View of the entrance
3D Model of Stucture
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FEELS LIKE HOME - Dietmal Eberle
The Entrance from the South
Typical Floorplan
40. Stairwall
Working & Living Structures
Working & Living attached to the ground floor and parallel
WORKSHOP LEADER
Andrea Deplazes
(BEARTH & DEPLAZES)
WORKSHOP ASSISTANT
Nuria Muruais
Fernando Altozano
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Bettina Kagelmacher (CHILE)
Gaurav Ghordia (INDIA)
DURATION
5 DAYS
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STAIRWALL - Andrea Deplazes
LIVING + WORKING
Working and Living attached to the groundfloor and parallel
El Pomplenou, Barcelona
The Workshop
Teams in this specific workshop aim to discover and experiment with the dimen-
sions within a building, in such a way as to better combine living and working
within one project.
Each group was assigned a different way of connecting home with work. Our
team was assigned the connection of these two on the ground and in parallel. In
other words, we had to find a way to combine the residential and work areas in
the same building, in such a way that they are connected in parallel, have access
to the ground and keep the smallest possible distance from each other
.
As an area of study and intervention, we were given one of the well-known build-
ing blocks of Barcelona, with the aim of shaping and integrating our design idea,
creating different patterns and entrances to it.
Living + Working
From the mass wall to the stair wall
Trying to create the minimum possible distance between living and working
spaces, we took as a basis the characteristic element of horizontal union, the
wall, and the characteristic element of vertical union, the staircase, and tried to
combine them in the best possible way.
Therefore our goal was to turn the mass wall into a stair wall, giving it the mini-
mum possible width (1m) so that it could be used practically by a person.
Regarding the separation and union of the working and living spaces, our goal
was to unite them vertically, creating a continuity and a diagonal relationship
between them
Typical Housing Fabric in Pomblenou
FROM THE MASS WALL TO THE STAIR WALL
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PARALLEL SPACES AND SEQUENCES
in plan and section
NIches and Sequences
Unit Plan - LEVEL 1 (0,00 - 1,50)
Unit Plan - LEVEL 2 (3,00 - 4,50)
The Levels
Each residential unit extends over four different levels, each of which is 1.5 meters
from the next.
Consequently, the apartment has 4 levels but essentially two floors.
The two intermediate levels contain the space for sharing, while the two extremes
(the upper and lower) constitute the work space.
In all the flat areas, the staircase wall (STAIRWALL) contains recessesniches or
projections so that the spaces inside the apartment can be shaped more correctly
and ergonomically
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THE STAIRWALL
Section 01
Section 02
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STAIRWALL - Andrea Deplazes
Section of Unit Compination
Unit Compination
COMMON WORKING AREA
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STAIRWALL - Andrea Deplazes
Unit Compination
COMMON PATIO
Unit Compination
COMMON LIVING AREAS & PATIO
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Unit Compination
COMMON STAIRCASE
3D printing model
3D printing model
CLUSTER
47. Bee Guesthouse
Domestic Fragments
Accomodating Guests - Collecting - Niche
WORKSHOP LEADER
Elli Mosayebi
(EMI ARCHITEKTEN)
WORKSHOP ASSISTANT
Álvaro M. Fidalgo
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Isabela Piñeda (PHILIPPINES)
Karol DIaz (COLOMBIA)
DURATION
5 DAYS
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BEE GUESTHOUSE - Elli Mosayebi
DOMESTIC FRAGMENTS
Design of a housing fragment based on the words
COLLECTING - ACCOMMODATING GUESTS - NICHE
Location based on the climate
The Workshop
The groups had to work on a domestic fragment of a house, based on random
words that describe the basic design elements of the work as well as the climate
of the assumed area in which the work could be placed.
Each team should choose 3 words and a climate. The choice of the 3 words was
random. We had to choose one word for an architectural element and two words
for activities.
The final words of our team were
Space : NICHE
Activities : ACCOMMODATING GUESTS COLLECTING
The Climate
Mild climate with cold, heat and humidity that do not experi-
ence many differences, between 2 degrees Celcius in WInter
and 28 degrees in Summer, it is not vry warm though. Instead,
the seasons can be clearly distinguished, with great color
changig landscape: reddish autums, snowy winters, and very
green and flowery springs.
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BEE GUESTHOUSE - Elli Mosayebi
The Project
This picture describes exactly the idea we want to incorporate in our project.
Based on the climate we have chosen and trying to use our three words, we want
to create a hotel for flora and fauna, trying to save and use the sun and the water
as much as we possibly can.
Our flora collectors are going to attract many flying species and especially bees.
Our real guests are the bees, one of the most interesting and endangered species.
Based on the random words´ selection our project is being analysed as following :
NICHES - are being used as recesses in the walls for
COLLECTING - Water and Sun in order to achieve
ACCOMMODATING GUESTS - Flora and fauna and especially BEES
THE BEE GUESTHOUSE
Cluster Design Concept
COLLECTION OF THE SUN
Cluster Plan
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THE BEE GUESTHOUSE
Structural Detail
COLLECTION OF WATER IN THE CURVED NICHES
Floorplan
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THE BEE GUESTHOUSE
Floorplan Persian Miniature swwhowing the concept
52. City in a Block
Production - Reproduction
Architectural recharge of ETSAM’s North Wing
WORKSHOP LEADER
Andrés Canovas - Nicolas Maruri - Atxu Amann
(AMANNCANOVASMARURI)
WORKSHOP ASSISTANT
Gabriel Wajnerman
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Gaurav Ghordia (INDIA)
Juanita Gómez (COLOMBIA)
Joachin Ipince (PERU)
DURATION
5 DAYS
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CITY IN A BLOCK - AmannCanovasMaruri
Incorporate the urban spaces inside the housing block
PRODUCTION & REPRODUCTION
Architectural recharge of ETSAM’s North Wing
ETSAM University, Madrid
The Workshop
This project is the first of one of the five-days workshops, organised by MCH Master’s pro-
gramm of Collective Housing.
The purpose of this workshop is a project and research exercise, to re-think one of the ET-
SAM Pavilions on its four floors as a container for effective use of work and domesticity.
The proposal must accomodate both places for daily, individual and collective work and for
living during stays
of 3, 6 and 12 months for a group of 150 students and researchers.
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CITY IN A BLOCK - AmannCanovasMaruri
The Building
The disconnect
THE LOST CONNECTION BETWEEN THE OUTDOORS
The Connection
OPENING UP THE OUTDOOR SPACES FOR PUBLIC USE
The Workshop
After this intervention in the building, the students and researchers who will stay inside it
will spend most of their day there.
In order for these people to develop the relationships and spatial experiences they would
develop, our idea is to identify the spatial relationships observed in cities, and incorporate
them to the original design idea of
our project. osis of all the researched on a building scale.
Our goal is to unite the west and east sides of the campus and break the boundaries of
private and public life..
The union of the north and south sides is achieved by freeing up the ground floor and add-
ing planting and landscape design.
Our goal is to incorporate the patterns of the city into the building to create a complexity of
spatial and social relationships.
The main element of our intervention is the street, which starts from the central point of
the campus and ends on the opposite side of the ground floor. walking on the main road,
the traffic is interrupted by the public spaces and the residential pattern.
The union of the north and south sides is achieved by freeing up the ground floor and add-
ing planting and landscape design.
Our goal is to incorporate the patterns of the city into the building to create a complexity of
spatial and social relationships.
The main element of our intervention is the street, which starts from the central point of
the campus and ends on the opposite side of the ground floor. walking on the main road,
the traffic is interrupted by the public spaces and the residential pattern.
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The STreet
STREET AS A SPINE TO THE CITY
Parks & Plaza
THE PUBLIC JUNTIONS TO STRENGTHEN THE LIFE IN A CITY
The Neighborhood
REINFORCING THE IDEA OF COMMUNITY
City in a block
AXONOMETRIC OF THE PROJECT
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Longitudinal Section of the project
Materiality and Systems
CLT TIMBER WOOD
RED CORTEN METAL
CONCRETE
Different Positions for summer and winter
WINTER SUMMER
Materiality and Systems
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Public and Private
BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES OF RPIVATE AND PUBLIC SPACES
Transversal Section
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All residential units are individual and flexible, connected by a moving and rolling mechanism to a metal
structure that is placed inside the existing shell of the building.
The residential unit is made of wood, the main load-bearing structure of the building is made of concrete,
while the main support structure of the units is made of metal. the units have the ability to move up, down,
right and left, depending on the season, with the result of creating different climatic situations and spatial
relationships.
Typology of a basic unit
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Typology of two level studio Typology 2 of studio
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Typology 3 of studio
61. Inhabiting the threshold
Climatic Typologies - Body, Climate, Architecture
Climatic Housing Prototypes in Barceloneta
Specialty Professor
Javier García Germán
(TOTEM ARQUITECTOS ASOCIADOS)
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Paloma Allende F. (ARGENTINA)
Francisco Heredia (ARGENTINA)
Jorge Sanchez Bajo (SPAIN)
DURATION
9 DAYS
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Barcelona and its surroundings Barcelona and its beaches
CLIMATE, TYPOLOGIES AND ARCHITECTURE
Climatic Housing Prototypes
Barceloneta Beach, Barcelona
The Specialty
The workshop is part of a design specialty named Climatic Typologies : Body,Climate,Archi-
tecture.
The module focuses on climatic questions and on
the metabolic dimension of architecture, with the objective of finding design strategies
which
bridge the void between quantitative and qualitative approaches. The module is formed
by a seminar and a workshop. The idea of integrating seminar and
workshop is to introduce a series theoretical concepts and, simultaneously, to learn how to
nest them in the design process, thus reinforcing the practical-theoretical approach of this
module.
The main issue of the project is the creation of a climatic prototype, which will then be
combined in plan and section, resulting in the creation of a residential building, with
shared spaces, designed appropriately for the climate of Barcelona and specifically for the
beach front of the city.
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Barceloneta
Beach
Somorrostro
Beach
Nova Icària
Beach
Bogatell
Beach
Mar Bella
Beach
Llevant
Beach
Wind in Barcelona
(CHARTS)
Human Body in different seasons in Barcelona
Everyday life in the Mediterannean Beach
NAKED SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER
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The Barraca
The main issue of the workshop was based on the creation of a climatic prototype based on exam-
ples of traditional architecture of the area.
Apart from all the others, the choice of Barakas is not accidental. It is one of the first Spanish resi-
dential archetypes in front of the sea, and in general a typical example of Mediterranean architecture.
They are traditionally characterized by a narrow floor plan, with a small view towards the sea, and
hand-made materials, with the aim of achieving the ideal climatic conditions in the interior both in
summer and in winter.
THE BARRACAS ARCHETYPE THE BARRACAS ARCHETYPE
Barcelona Map in 1961
(9.919 BARRACAS)
Barracas
Barracas Evolution
Axonometric view of a Barraco
Barracas Construction Analysis
LAND
DEMILITATION
FENCED
PLOT
BUILT
ACCOMMODATION
APPROPRIATION OUTDOOR
SPACE
EXTENDED
HOUSE
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THE BARRACAS ARCHETYPE THE BARRACAS ARCHETYPE
Plan and Elevation of a Barraco
Thermodynamic View of a Barraco
WINTER
SUMMER
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The Idea
The idea of
our proposal revolves around the thresholds.
The layout of the prototype consists of different kinds of filters and boundaries which create different spatial
and climatic conditions for the people who live within it. the orientation of the prototypes is west-east, with
most of the filters being in this orientation so as to allow the breeze from the beach inside the house.
In the middle of the prototype is placed a wooden box with the most private spaces, while the south side is
the only fixed side of the prototype with the wet spaces and the patios being placed there. In the rest of the
space, the most public uses are organized during the day.
The materiality of the project is based on a metabolic pattern and activity with materials from around the
region.
The foundation, the exposed walls, the structure and the core is constructed by REUSED CONCRETE
Furnitures, structural elements, furniture and carpentery elements are constructed by CLT TIMPER WOOD
Prefab soil panels, tapial blovks, soil paint, saulo flooring, tiles floorinf and sirewall are constructed by RAMMED
EARTH
Climatic Analysis of Situations on the Beach
Climatic Sections of Barcelonetta
SUMMER
WINTER
SUMMER
WINTER
Barcelona’s Industrial Network
Timber Sources
(FOREST AND DUMPS PLANTS)
Rammed Earth Sources
(QUARRIES)
Recycling Cencrete Sources
(DUMPS PLANTS)
MATERIAL METABOLISM
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Prototype Floorplan
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THE PROTOTYPE THE PROTOTYPE
Prototype Section
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THE PROTOTYPE THE PROTOTYPE
Thermodynamic Axonometric Diagram in Summer
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THE PROTOTYPE THE PROTOTYPE
Thermodynamic Axonometric Diagram in Winter
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AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM THE CLUSTER
General Plan of the 2nd floor
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Thermodynamic Diagrams of the cluster
(SUMMER)
Third Floor Floorplan
Thermodynamic Diagrams of the cluster
(WINTER)
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76. From Paris to Rio
Construction & Technology
Relocating and Restructuring a housing project from Paris to Rio
Specialty Professor
Ignacio Fernández Solla
(ARUP)
David Rutter GUEST
(ARUP)
Archie Campbel GUEST
(ARUP)
Diego García-Setién GUEST
(GASSZ ARQUITECTOS)
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Alexander De Rungs (MEXICO)
Alexia Valtadorou (GREECE)
Nayanatara Tampi (INDIA)
Flavia Fernandez (BRASIL)
DURATION
10 DAYS
77. Masterplan of the existing building
CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY
Relocating and Restructuring a housing project from Paris to Rio
Rio de Janeiro
The Specialty
This project is part of one of the master’s designing specialties, included theory lectures and a de-
sign project. The structure of the course consists of four different topics related to construction and
technology. The four different subjects are Industrialization,Facade,Services and Structure.
Working around these specific four topics, the task of the work concerns the research of a hous-
ing project, its analysis and its reconstruction and transfer to a completely hot or completely cold
climate.
In our case, the base project was the building of Monmartre WIndergarden, a social housing project
in Paris designed by Kempe Thill Studio and Fres Architectes and the purpose of the work was the
reconstruction and revision of the facade, structure and service system of this project, as well as
the industrialization of the construction, so that it can be placed in the warm climate of the Rio de
Janeiro in Brasil.
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Location Comparison
(URBAN)
Location Comparison
(NEIGHBORHOOD)
78. The Project
Following the basic idea of
the work in paris, which consists of two identical buildings and an
empty space in the middle, with one building having a side view for climatic reasons, we kept the
shape of one of the two buildings with the slanted view and we duplicate it by moving it exactly
opposite keeping the empty space in the middle.
The whole construction has been created in such a way that all wet spaces are kept in the center
and the construction is done in the best possible, economical and fast way, with the least carbon
dioxide footprint.
Industrialization
The construction of the ground floor and the movement core consists of reinforced concrete and
houses public uses and parking on the second floor of the building is made of wood.
The elements of the load-bearing structure are wooden beams and columns, the floors are made of
wooden panels 3x4m and the facade cladding is made of wooden construction and shading panels.
The materiality of the project consist CLT Timber Wall for the structural walls, the partitions, the
frames and the floor panels.
The core and the foundation are constructed from concrete and the facade envelope is made from
steel.
All the materials are being industrialized from quarries and plot that are near Rio de Janeiro.
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General Strategies
PRELIMINARY RESEARCH
Original Monmartre Building Adaptation to the plot Public park and amenities
Cross and central ventilation strategy
North and sount orientatio
Material Logistic & Industrialization
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General Groundfloor Plan
General Section
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EXCAVATION AND
WATER TANK
PRE CAST CONCRETE
PARKING AND COMMERCIAL
CONCRETE CORE AND
BEAM GRID
1.2M THK CONCRETE
BASE SLAB
ADJUSTABLE LOUVRE
FACADE (OUTER)
INTERNAL WINDOWS FACADE
CLT STRUCTURAL WALL GRID
0.2M THK
SECONDARY PLUMBING WALLS
0.15M THK
CLT SLABS
3MX12MX0.2M THK
1.5M BALCONY
LIGHTWEIGHT SLAB
SOLAR PANEL
TERRACE LAYER
Diagram of the CLT Core and the CLT Structural Walls
Diagram of the CLT partitions
THE STRUCTURE
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Diagram of the humid areas
Diagram of the CLT Panels for the flooring
Diagram HVAC System
Diagram of the CLT Balconies
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Section of HVAC System Plan of Solar Panels
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Section of Water Tank System Plan of Water Tanks
85. Exploded Axonometric Diagram of the facade envelope
Detailed Section of the facade envelope
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86. Trickle vent system
Sylomer
Angle bracket
Insulation
Exterior finishing
CLT slab
Impact insulation layer
Concrete
Floor finishing
Wooden frame
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4. Hollow steel beam 5x5 cm
5. Hollow steel beam 8x10 cm
6. Impact insulation layer
7. Concrete
8. Floor finishing
9. Gutter grate
10. Membrane
11. Wooden deck
12. Wooden window frame
13. Rotating wooden louver
14. Horizontal metal railing
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Detailed Axonometric Diagram for the facade envelope (1:20) Detailed Section of the facade (1:05)
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INTERNAL FACADE PANELS = 43
EXTERNAL FACADE PANELS = 97
NO. OF TRANSPORTATION UNITS = 3
CLT SHEAR WALLS = 26
SECONDARY WALLS = 17
RCC SHEAR WALLS = 14
NO. OF TRANSPORTATION UNITS = 3
CLT SLABS = 19
BALCONY SLABS = 31
RCC STAIRCASE SLABS = 3
NO. OF TRANSPORTATION UNITS = 3
NUMBER OF PARTS
CLT FLOOR X1
TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION
TIME PERIOD
TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS
NO OVERLAP OF CONTRUCTION TIMES
OVERLAP OF CONSTRUCTION TIMES
FABRICATION DONE OFFSITE
ASSEMBLED AND FIXED ON SITE
OVERLAP OF CONSTRUCTION TIMES
FABRICATION DONE OFFSITE
PARTIAL ASSEMBLY OFF SITE
FIXED ON SITE
TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS
TIME PERIOD TIME PERIOD
2D FLATPACK CONSTRUCTION 3D MODULAR CONSTRUCTION
Industrialization of the Construction
(CLT AND CONCRETE FLOOR)
Number of Parts (CLT FLOOR)
Number of Parts (PRECAST RCC FLOOR)
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Shading Diagrams
(FACADE LOUVERS)
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90. The Natural City
Urban Design & City Sciences
New Masterplan for Campamento in Madrid
Specialty Professor
José María Esquiaga
(ESQUIAGA ARQUITECTURA)
Gemma Peribañez
Julia Landaburu
(ARUP)
Susana Isabel
(ARUP)
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Andrés Solano (PERU)
Felipe Santamaria (COLOMBIA)
Borja Martínez Alcalá (SPAIN)
DURATION
11 DAYS
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URBAN DESIGN & CITY SCIENCES
Masterplan Regeneration, Housing Blocks and Public Centrality in the South of Madrid
Campamento, Madrid
The Specialty
The New District is located southeast of the city of Madrid, and constitutes the most important
piece to complete this area of the city, whit almost 200 Ha + 600 Ha.
The district has to be a fine-grained, mixed and lively place, at the same time it has the potential
for a globally exemplary sustainable project that takes limited resources into account.
Around
10,000 apartments are planned, rented and owned, for cooperatives and building associations,
of which a half are subsidized apartments.
The social infrastructure with primary school and day care centers as well as new offers for local
supply, sport and culture will also find their place here. In addition, locating workspaces to
house a number at least greater than 10,000 jobs will be a chance.
The Specialty
The road A5, one of the most important access to Madrid from the west of the metropolitan
area, and other residential sectors not connected in arounds, makes necessary a proposal for
local and metropolitan integration.
Close to the New District, a large green area of around 1,700 hectares called Casa de Campo, are
expected to be fully integrated in the city, which invite for leisure and sports use.
We will work in the urban scale as a tool that challenges people to choose a more sustainable,
more social, more livable future as a chance for the future. We will work in the value of urban
density to prevent the land-consuming sprawl of Madrid city and its peripheries.
Landscape on Manzanares riverside, Carlos de Haes, 1857
(IDEA REFERENCE)
The forest as a resilient system surrounding the city
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The Natural City
The city of Madrid is a very typical example of a metropolis with a special green plan. the whole
city is surrounded by greenery and parks and the relationship between city and park is very strong.
Although green is a large part of the city, their coexistence is not strengthened throughout the city.
In order to strengthen the relationship between urban and green, our idea was to create a green
natural city in the urban environment of southern Madrid.
The Osmosis
In the attempt to reshape the relationship between the city and the green, the purpose of our de-
sign was to include the green in the city and the city in the green.
Following the process of osmosis as our main urban idea, we wanted to erase the heavy boundaries
between the city and the parks both by integrating the park into the city and by integrating the city
into the greenery of the parks.
The value of the existing
Erase the limits between city and nature
(OSMOSIS)
Nature in the City - City in the Nature
(OSMOSIS)
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From the plain city to the natural city
Preserving and enhancing existing green and water ecosystem
(ECOSYSTEM)
The Ecosystem
Given the special relationship between the city and the green, and knowing that nature works dif-
ferently in different seasons, the ecosystem and the change of colors and atmospheres in the city is
a very basic feature of our design.
We intend to design a master plan that will change in color and shape depending on the season.
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Connections
(CONTINUING THE URBAN GRID AND CONNECTING WEST-EAST)
New Centrality
(RE USING EXISTING IMPORTANT BUILDINGS TO ENHANCE THE CREATION OF A NEW
HUB IN THE NORTH)
FOREST AS A RESILIENT SYSTEM
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NATURAL SYSTEMS ANTRHOPIC SYSTEMS
Enhancing the vegetation system
(NEW NATURAL INJECTIONS – BUFFER ZONE - FOREST)
Road System Grid
Enhancing the water infastructure system
(NEW RESERVOIRS - SYSTEM OF CREEKS - NEIGHBORHOOD RESERVOIRS)
Public Central Hub and mixed uses
Organized new green areas
(SEMI-PRIVATE & PRIVATE GARDENS)
New figure-ground
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NATURAL
VALLEY
ORGANIC
CITY
COURTYARD
CITY
MODERN
CITY
General Masterplan
The Masterplan
The Masterplan of the Campamento aims at the best possible connection of the southern part of the city
with the center, which paradoxically is not too far from the area.
One of the strongest characteristics of the area is that it is a very large gap between areas with different regu-
lation and density.
In addition to the NATURAL CITY, our goal was to create a set of different areas with different characteristics
and densities, both at the masterplan level and at the elevation level.
Therefore, the main roads divide the area into four sub-areas with different characteristics, referring to differ-
ent social groups.
The four different regions contain different kind of vegetation, so that the atmosphere and the colors of each
of them would be changing depending on the season.
WINTER - AUTUMN
SUMMER - SPRING
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MODERN CITY
It is the region that is on the south-east part of Campamento, being built in the trace and footprint of the
railway. The figure ground is more linear, and the spaces between the buildings as well as the heights of the
buildings are all the same. The modern city is the ideal neighborhood for families, as it is connected with the
playground netwrork that we created in the central park t of the masterplan, in relationship with the system of
schools.
Sections of Modern City
System of regions
The Organic City
The Modern City
The Courtyard City
The Natural Valley
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NATURAL VALLEY
Continuing the forest, the natural valley contains most of the green of the area, accompanied with public infa-
structure for different activities for all the residents of Campamento. The main idea behind the Natural valley is
to create a different big park after Casa de Campo.
Sections of Natural Valley
System of equipment and services
School and safe
walkway network
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ORGANIC CITY
The region near the natural valley is the one that has the most disorganized and organic figureground. The
heights of the buildings there are smaller than the other regions and the relationship with the forest is ac-
complised not only by the green semi-private and public areas, but also with the green facades and the water
infastructure. The organic cities is most ideal for students, especially because of its position, as it is the one
that is near the University Campus.
Sections of the Organic City
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COURTYARD CITY
This region is the one with the more open and big spaces near the buildings. All the buildings are high con-
taining mixed uses of residential, offices and commercial uses. It is the business district of the Neighborhood
Sections of the Courtyard
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System of Roads
TYPE B
connect the district, minor commercial activities, bars, restaurants, small stores
TYPE C
between neighborhoods and withing the district, only minor commercial stores like
bread, laundry
TYPE A
connecting to other parts of the city, main commercial activities, shopping center, cultural activ-
ities, hardware stores, big restaurants
103. Structuring the Void
Low Cost & Emergecy Housing
Constructing public spaces in a slum city
Specialty Professor
Christiane Muniz
(UNA MUNIZVIEGAS ARQ ASSOCIADOS)
CFernando Viegas
(UNA MUNIZVIEGAS ARQ ASSOCIADOS)
TEAM
Androniki Faidra Petrou (GREECE)
Suzane Kteich (LEBANON)
Bettina Kagelmacher (CHILE)
Isabella Pineda (PHILIPPINES)
DURATION
8 DAYS
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LOW COST & EMERGENCY HOUSING
Constructing public spaces in a slum city
Chacara Florida, Sao Paolo
The Specialty
Three fourths of the world’s dwellings have been built without the presence of an architect or under
any normative rule. This specialty seminar analyses the essential shelter conditions under emergen-
cy conditions.
The specialty proposes a speculation about the relationship between the urban structure of the city,
which sits on a site that once featured watercourses and small hills - the contrast with the housing
historical situation, a kind of tragic project to push away poor immigrant people.
We will direct our gaze towards the peripheral neighborhoods of this city, working to better know
this reality and to understand how we could add our knoledge to this places.
The project is about dissolving the rigid limits between architecture, landscape and urbanism in the
vulnerable housing context, and it is about Sao Paulo and its urban waters.
A deep investigation on the urban structure of the city is proposed, in order to connect the occu-
pation of the borders of the small streams with the possibility of cleaning waters and create new
housing, as well as the same time understanding the existing relations and necessities on this areas.
Structuring the void
In slum cities, like the one of Chacara Florida, there are some regions that are too dense and in all
the other land there is just void.
In the specific slum city, the voids are a lot, and the appropriation of the space is very common.
Our idea is to give the opportunity to the voids to be constructed by the minimum infastructure
and equipment, as well as to create organised public spaces for the different activities of the people
living there, and especially for the children, in order to enhance school and playing activities.
The region we chose contains a very stiff and rigid cliff which seperates two very important public
infastructures of the region.
Our project aims to connect these public infastructures with each other as well as to create a sam-
ple and a pattern of public equipment, in order to be used in the slum of Chacara Florida
Masterplan of Chacara Florida and Selected Site
The site the local public festivities
(CHACARA FLORIDA)
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DESIGN STRATEGIES STRUCTURING THE VOID
A - Preserving the natural state of the terrain Transitional Space
B - Creating the connection through the site United Space
C - Defining the space with different vegetation Empty Space
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Public Space as a part of ‘‘The solution’’
‘‘ Concentrated povetry, segregation and other geographic inequalities mean that the potential
benefits of public space are not shared equally by everyone and the right to the city is rarely enjoyed
by all.
Place making can either reinforce these disparities or intentially work to break them down.’’
Masterplan of the site plan
The 4 Design Axis
01. ENVIRONMENT
Chacara Florida is an urban settlement that has rela-
tions with different physical and natural aspects of the
territory - the approach with the river, the green spaces
and native vegetation.
However these areas has been compromised with im-
proper disposal of waste and sewage.
Embracing the Nature
02. COLLECTIVE SPACES
The neighborhood of Chacara Florida has a limited col-
lective spaces. The hace some existent spaces as places
to collective relations and social interactions.
This axis works in the sense of improve the existent
spaces and for implementation and consolidation of
new spaces
Enhancing the shared spaces
03. INCOME GENERATION
In this axis, we propose different ideas for the families
to generate income through local business
Learning new skills
04. CULTURE - SENSE OF BELONGING
The local population has their own lifestyle and tradi-
tion that affect in the feelinf of belongingin their area.
Fostering the traditions
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1st Floor Plan
Section 01 - Large Size Festivity
Ground Floor Plan
Section 02 - Medium Size Festivity
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Axonometric view of the structure
&
views of the infastructure
109. I’ve always appreciated music because songs have this incredible ability and quality to
bring back memories and help you relive moments.
Just like songs, this book reminds me how lucky I was to have had the opportunity to be
part of this group of people.
Each of its pages reminds me to appreciate teamwork and reminisce about the incredi-
bly tiring but happy moments of this master.
This booklet is dedicated to my family and my close friends who support me constantly
and unconditionally, but mostly to all the lovely people in this photo who were the main
factors in this extremely intense and unforgettable year.
To my international MCH friends and family
yours,
Androkini
(*)
MCH
PORTFOLIO by Androniki Faidra Petrou
Published by : Androniki Faidra Petrou
Copyright Androniki Faidra Petrou, 2022
Original ideas and works produced by MCH 2022 Alumni
Transcriptions, project editing, proofreading, indexing, book design and typsetting by
the author
Printed in A4 print-in-design, Chania, November 2022
* MCH name for Androniki Faidra Petrou