Carolina Martín_MCH2019_Spain

MASTER IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING
UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
CAROLINA MARTIN PEÑUELA
ARCHITECT

Carolina Martín Portfolio, September 2019
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Students of the MCH 2019 Edition:
Ravin Abourjeily | Lebanon
Santiago Ardila González | Colombia
Ignacio Castro Zumbado | Costa Rica
Carolina Cueva Zúñiga | Ecuador
Aakash Gajjar | India
Jiayin Han | China
Carolina Martín Peñuela | Spain
Alejandra Martínez Gómez | Costa Rica/Canada
Beltrán Moreno Manso | Spain
Karla Ortiz Rubio Salcedo | Mexico
Iñaky Pérez López | Mexico
Ramón Puñet Corvillo | Spain
Yolanda de Rueda Renero | Mexico
Daniela Rullier Dávila | Perú
Marielle Samayoa Escobar | Guatemala
Elena Sanfeliu Puig-Pey | Spain
Binal Shah | India
Magali de Souza Schwenkow | Brazil/Austria
Juan José David Vasquez | Colombia
In 2006, the polytechnic university
of Madrid presented the first edition
of the Masters Degree in Collective
Housing, a postgraduate professional
program of advances architecture
design, focussed on housing, city
and energy studies. The value of this
unique program lies on its excellence
and practice-oriented synthesis of
design with integrated disciplines and
theoretical issues.
In 2016, UPM and ETH Zurich joined
forces to offer the first UPM / ETH
Diploma: “Masters of Advanced
Studies UPM/ETH in Collective
Housing”. ETH Zurich, the most
prestigious technology university in the
world, signed an agreement with UPM
that officially recognises MCH as one
of its MAS programs, validating this
master with the same recognition than
existing further postgraduate courses
offered at ETH Zurich.
From 2017 on, every year’s program is
co-designed with UPM-ETH professors:
a unique, excellent and comprehensive
course of further education on the
subject of Housing.
After 13 editions, it has been rated
as the 3rd
best architecture master’s
program by architects and experts in
the BAM Ranking.

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About the MCH
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alone but Connected
Collective Housing for Solos
Fabricating Happiness
Cooperative Housing for a Mixed Community in Croatia
Home Office
Housing and Office Building for Flexible Use
Inhabiting the Dark
Reuse of Industrial Structures for Collective Housing in Paris
Blend In
Architecture Interventions in 3 Different Historical Contexts
Interwoven Connections
24 m Deep Building
Vertical Retiro
Mixed use Development in Madrid
City of Patios
Urban design & Landscape in Madrid
Al Mafraq
Low-cost & Emergency housing in Jordan
The Lamba House
Sustainable Housing in Madagascar
Prefabricated Homes
Prefabricated Modular Systems in Singapur
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AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank all the people who made possible the
2019 edition of the Master in Collective Housing, specially
the directors Prof. Jose María de Lapuerta and Prof. Andrea
Deplazes, who have always shown a strong commitment to
achieve the excellence in the master.
I would like to thank as well the Workshop Leaders Atxu Amman,
Andrés Canovas, Hrvoje Njiric, Jacob van Rijs, Anne Lacaton,
Dietmar Eberle, Andrea Deplazes, Alison Brooks who were able
to teach us many valuable things in a very short period of time.
The Workshop Assistants were crutial in the development
and organisation of each of the workshops, so I would like to
acknowledge to Gabriel Wajnerman, Esperanza Campaña,
Ignacio Borrego, Diego García-Setién, Victor Ebergenyi and
Fernando Altozano their enourmous dedication.
I would also like to thank the Module Coordinators Alejandro de
Miguel, Jesús Leal, Sacha Menz, Jose María Ezquiaga, Ignacio
Fernandez-Solla, Carmen Espegel, Javier García-German, Belén
Gesto, Fernando León and Fernando Altozano, who prepared
excellent courses and prepared very interesting lectures,
bringing new knowledge into our architectural training.
Furthermore, I would like to thank all the Guest Lecturers coming
from firms such as Gigon Guyer, Verstas Architects, West 8, H
Arquitectes, Arenas Basabe Palacios, Rotor Deconstruction,
Hamonic + Masson, Peter Ebner and friends, Gines Garrido,
Morales de Giles Arquitectos and Carles Oliver who managed
to share with us very interesting ideas based on their experience.
As well as more academic lecturers like the ones of Daniel
Movilla, Esperanza Campaña, Diego García-Setién, Javier
Arpa Fernandez and Gustavo Romanillos who taught us very
fascinating investigations they had developed on a PhD.
I would also like thank the MCH manager Rosario Segado and
the MCH executive assistant Oscar Rodriguez Perales for their
dedication and support on a daily basis.
And finally, I would like to thank all my colleagues and friends,
who not only shared with me their knowledge and culture, but
as well created a sociable and enjoyable environment, fostering
always solidarity and teamwork.

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INTRODUCTIONABOUT THE MCH
The Master in Collective Housing is a truly intense course. The
study program delves into some of the most important subjects
that concern the cities and housing currently.
On the one hand the Specialities offered the opportunity to
research and develop the projects during several weeks while
meeting some of the most relevant lecturers on those matters.
On the other hand, the Workshops taught you how to make
important decisions efficiently and develop a project in 5 days
along with some of the most recognised architects in the world.
Being able to discuss and work hand in hand both with the
Workshop Leaders and with their Assistant Professors is one of
the most enriching experiences of this master.
The combination of Architects coming from so many diverse
backgrounds, ages and experience makes the experience
much more appealing, preparing you to work in an increasingly
globalised world.
The trip to Zurich in this master was a highlight. Having the
opportunity to be in the ETH facilities, and to visit so many
outstanding housing projects along with some of the authors of
these, was a memorable experience.
I would say that this master gives you the opportunity to widen
your knowledge in many diverse subjects regarding collective
housing and the city; it gives you the opportunity to design
and discuss with some of the most important Architects across
the globe; and it teaches you to work with people from many
different cultures creating bonds that I believe will endure over
time.
This portfolio comprises projects developed during the Master
in Collective Housing (MCH) a postgraduate program offered
by the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM) and by the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
Most of the projects were developed during workshops
that lasted 5 days and were led by renowned architects who
proposed what was the architectural theme we were to address
during the week and the method to develop, teaching us their
way of understanding architecture.
The main program through the master has been always
housing and mixed-use buildings. But housing thought from a
contemporary point of view, learning from the knowledge of the
architectural tradition and at the same time exploring new ways
of living and designing the cities of the future.

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FABRICATING HAPINNESS
Workshop Assistant | Esperanza Campaña
Guest Jurors | Juan Elvira
Team | Juan José David
Topic | Minimum Housing for a Mixed Community
Location | Dugopolje, Croatia
Workshop duration | 5 days
“The aim of the workshop is to foster students’
understanding that housing is deeply embedded in
its immediate and broader context. Therefore, it is
necessary to regard collective residential typologies in
relation to urbanistic issues.
In terms of architecture, it makes sense to observe
the ever-changing social transformations and market
trends when designing households. It does not matter
if the floor plan is slim or deep...
These two aspects will mark our research – actual lack
of territory and current housing demands.
Dugopolje business-park in Croatia will be our test-
bed. Obscured by the planning bureaucracy and
suffocated by the market economy, this satellite
of the City of Split offers a perfect exercise on how
an urban sprawl could be regenerated as a lively
neighbourhood, functioning 24/7 and promoting
specific public space in its own right.
The workshop headline comes from the speech of
the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who
spoke herself in favour of an emotional approach
– whatever we do, even politics. Finally, this exercise
should raise awareness that all our efforts will be,
sooner or later, measured by how much love and
passion we put in our labours.”
HRVOJE NJIRIÇ

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THREE DIFFERENT SITIES IN DUGOPOLJE
The architectural process starts by analysing the sites peculiarities, aiming to
give a tailormade response with the proposal. We had to analyse three sites
with different morphologies and boundary conditions and propose different
strategies to suit each of them.
Building family homes is no longer sustainable, we have to offer other housing
models.
Co-housing and cooperative housing can adapt better in many aspects to the
current demands on housing. The in-between spaces are what make housing
into co-housing.
We studied what those common spaces meant, how flexible should they be,
how would they relate with the private ones...
Certain functions could overlap, corridors could transform into working spaces,
into meeting points... the architect should only design the infrastructure for the
user to decide and appropriate the space depending on their necessities.
ONE PRIVACY LEVEL TWO PRIVACY LEVELS THREE PRIVACY LEVELS
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TARGET GROUP OF RESIDENTS
To avoid segregation, we decide to make a very heterogeneous group by
mixing people of very different educational background, income and age.
GROUND FLOOR
On the North-east boundary, the site is bounded by the land fields and orchards, while
on its South boundary you can find a very industrial area with several companies and
factories nearby.
We propose to extend the green mat and the orchards in the ground floor to cover the
entire base of our proposal. The architecture will be built on stilts over this ground.
The ground floor will have a parking, a gym, a cafeteria, a bike store, a laundry room and
several meeting points for the community.
By having some public uses open to the public located in the more industrial façade,
we would stimulate social relation not only between the users but as well between the
entire neighbourhood.
PEOPLE WITH LOW INCOME/ UNEMPLOYED
(40-60 years old)
As these would be affordable dwellings, they could be the perfect fit for low-
income or unemployed people. These last ones could even get a new job as land
workers or by taking care of the elders in the community.
FARMERS/ LAND WORKERS/ PEOPLE WORKING IN THE AREA
(40-60 years old)
As the area has many industrial buildings and lands to cultivate, these dwellings
could also be very convenient for people that are working in the surroundings.
STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS
(20-40 years old)
Students and researchers of the Universities of Agricultural Studies, of
Natural and Technological Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Nutrition.
SENIORS/ RETIRED PEOPLE
(60-80 years old)
People that would rather leave behind the hustle and bustle of the city for their
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FIRST FLOOR
The cooperative and communal space would be a continuous band that will adapt to
the site´s geometry, becoming wider and narrower when collective uses are required.
We aimed for modularity, repetition, prototypical qualities and repeating pieces with the
mentioned connecting tissue acting as a central space of interaction.
SECOND FLOOR
All the different units would be accessed from this collective band, promoting always
the social interaction between users. The dwellings’ design and disposition would be
located in such way to encourage the neighbours’ communication and solidarity.
We understood the building as a process that is not finished, that could grow depending
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DUPLEX TYPOLOGY FLEXIBLE TYPOLOGY
MINIMUM TYPOLOGY
VARIETY OF TYPOLOGIES
This dwelling would be ideal
for long-term students and
researchers.
They would have their basic
necessities within the dwellings,
and some additional uses in the
communal space.
This dwelling would be ideal for elderly and retired people.
If would offer the possibility to rent one of its rooms to a
student for a short-term. This could promote as well the
solidarity and knowledge transfer between people of
different ages.
This typology could be ideal for
middle age people. The space
is designed to be used in a
flexible way. The studio could be
used as a working space or as an
additional bedroom
Temporality of use would be an extra ingredient to our formula, and one of the units
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HOME OFFICE
Workshop Assistant | Ignacio Borrego
Team | Karla Ortiz, Aakash Gajjar
Topic | Housing and Office Building for Flexible Use
“The separation between living and working, once a
dogma of modern urbanism, has become more and
more obsolete in the modern society where this division
is fading.
We can combine live and work in different scales; we can
plan a neighbourhood where residential units share the
area with working blocks; or we can force that combination
in the same buildings, or by creating new typologies under
the concept of Home office, where living and working can
happen in the same space.
Our research in this course will focus on a smaller scale
but aims to have the overview of the whole picture of the
design of our future environment.
The aim is to look for new generic types that are able to host
housing, offices or both at the same time. Structures that
design spaces for contemporary inhabitants and advance
the needs of the future ones. How to deal with flexibility?
Working spaces can become living spaces or vice versa.
Combing it with character, adding a quality that defines
the space whatever is happening inside.
The goal is to analyse and design a set of decontextualized
types of home office buildings that can become a reference
catalogue for specific interventions in contemporary cities.
Our case Study will consist in 6 Types included in a 2.500m2
square plot with sides of 50m x 50m and an edificability
of 2.500m2 or a volume of 8.000 m3. These 6 types are
classified according to their form factor (compactness-
porosity), and their height (short-tall). These dimensional
restrictions will have an influence on the amount of vertical
and horizontal circulations, and on the quality of the spaces
to have views and natural ventilation.”
JACOB VAN RIJS

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Study Cases:
SC 1: Tower (15mx15m, H=33m)
SC 2: Cube (20mx20m, H=20m)
SC 3: Plate (50mx50m, H=1 floor)
SC4: Thin slab (6mx50m, H=25m)
SC5: Slab (15mx33m, H=15m)
SC6: Fat slab (25mx50m, H=2 floors)
The aim is to define a flexible system which,
with a minimum amount of resources, can
attain the greatest potential with the fewest
constraints. Defining an infrastructure able to
adapt to different layouts may involve greater
initial effort. But it is also offset by greater
adaptability for users and their changing needs
over time.
The volume under study is the fat slab. Having
to resolve a 25m deep block without any inner
patio could challenge several aspects that
make a dwelling a good one.
We propose to increase the amount of light in
the inner spaces, to enhance cross ventilation,
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An open building is that in which the architect gives to its users
the maximum freedom of decision inside the space.
The first step is to decide which elements will be fixed (the
support), decision by the architects; and which will not be fixed
(the infill), allowing flexibility to the user.
A flexible space needs to be generic and big enough to work.
A minimal space must be specific. That is why we decided to
allocate in the concrete ribs the bathrooms, kitchens and all the
services required for these.
The rest of the space could be partitioned with a lightweight
construction dividing every module, if the building was to have
a residential use; or living it as an open space if the building
was to have an office or amenities use.
Theproposedstructuralsystemcouldbeinfiniteintwodirections,
in the vertical and in the horizontal direction. The system could
continue repeating based on the users and the city’s needs.
SUPPORT STRUCTURAL SUPPORT
POSSIBLE TRANSFORMATIONS
LIGHT-WEIGHT CONSTRUCTIONS
ADDITIONS BASED ON USE
STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRY
STRUCTURE
JACOB VAN RIJS & IGNACIO BORREGO
WORKSHOP 04 - HOME OFFICE
Aakash Gajjar
Carolina Martín
Karla Ortiz Rubio

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COMMUNAL USES RESIDENTIAL OFFICE CIRCULATION
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CROSS SECTION
SCHEMATIC SECTION OF USES
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FLEXIBLE DISTRIBUTION OF USES
30% RESIDENTIAL - 30% OFFICE - 30% AMENITIES/COMMUNAL

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FLEXIBLE DISTRIBUTION OF USES
100% RESIDENTIAL - VARIETY OF DWELLING TYPOLOGIES
90m2
DWELLING WITH SMALL HOME OFFICE 80m2
DWELLING 140m2
DWELLING WITH LARGE HOME OFFICE 54m2
STUDIO/OFFICE CIRCULATION

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The proposed 10,000 sq.m project is composed by
3 more volumetries/projects developed amongst our
colleagues.
Each of the projects,due to their volumetric constraints,
has been developed very differently in terms of access
and circulation.
The aim was to place the connecting volumes in such
way that all these circulations would interlock with each
other, creating a continuous pedestrain promenade.
One could walk through the building as who walks
through different neighbourhoods. Finding along its
path different users, uses, typologies and topologies.
FAT SLAB
(25m x 50m, H =2 floors)
CUBE
(20m x 20m, H =20m)
THIN SLAB
(6m x 50m, H =25m)
SLAB
(15m x 33m, H =15m)

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INHABITING THE DARK
Workshop Assistant | Diego García-Setién
Guest Jurors | Momoyo Kaijima, Jose Maria de Lapuerta
Team | Yolanda de Rueda, Juan José David
Topic | Reuse of Industrial Structures for Collective Housing
Location | Paris
POST-INDUSTRIAL LIFE
“We will explore the potential reuse of obsolete industrial facilities turned
into a mixed-use and dwelling structure, in the context of the Master in
Collective Housing. The choosen site is the ‘Magasins Généraux
du Pantin’ -also called ‘Batiment des douanes’- a double warehouse
complex belonging to Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP)
located in the northeast of the city, settled on the right bank of the Canal
de l´’Ourcq.
GOOD QUALITIES OF LIFE
The workshop topic will emphasize on the optimal conditions to live in
the city, in a public space, in the neighborhood, in a collective space
with the close community, and in the individual space. The city should
provide exceptional quality of life by offering a large range of facilities,
proximities, and pleasures, as well as a large variety of typologies to fit
different needs, expectations and ways of life.
The aim is to work on urban housing conditions offering similar qualities
of living conditions of an individual house with a garden in a suburb:
private access, relationship to outdoor spaces, undefined spaces, or
relation between public-private.Houses should be simple, generous,
affordable, intelligently built, pleasant, flexible, open to appropriation,
plausible, 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. Support or infrastructure:
involves the primary spatial organization of the structure, accesses,
circulation, services. Represents what is more durable in a housing
building and,and less open to change.Infill: include all that is contingent
and subject to more frequent transformation: partitions, fittings, interior
finishes, individual mechanical equipment…
DESIGN BY FRAGMENTS
Developing the project by fragments, from images and situations.
These will speak about individual space, about program, about life,
about movement, about community space, about public space, about
the city, about the relationship with the exterior, the sky, the city, the
trees… about relationships between people.These attentively observed
and analyzed images will become catalysts for the project, to define
some architectural intentions. Used as space generators, these images
will become an instrument for research, and the project’s driving force.”
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The reuse of our existing buildings is one the biggest challenges we face nowadays.
As architects, it is our responsibility to, whenever it’s possible, readapt an obsolete
structure to be able to respond to the society’s changing necessities and consequently,
to elongate our buildings’ lifespan.
This process starts from the comprehension of the historic building. By extracting its
positive values, our aim is to treat the existing element as a precious layer of time. The
new proposal should have a tolerant and respectful attitude towards it, enhancing the
coexistence of both architectures. It is important to preserve these different layers in
order to create an architecture which is tied to its past, responding to its present and
adaptable to its future.
We propose to give a step forward from obsolescence to vitality,to transfigure the space
based on the everyday scenes, as an overlap of fragments that express different ways
of life. The Magasins Généraux a Pantin has the quality of offering spaces with different
heights, which allows the building to host diverse uses with a minimal intervention in
the existing structure. This given value gave us an specific location for housing in the
building that required a study of depth and light for optimal use.
To study living in depth in existing structures the proposal will be to COMPARE THE
CONVENTIONAL WITH AN INNOVATIVE WAY OF LIVING; the conventional requires
the building to be transformed more than the innovative. The new proposal is to inhabit
the building in an ephemeral way by having movable partitions that can adapt to the
users.
Good building conditions will be met by creating spaces that are generous enough
to enable flexibility of uses or seasonal transformations. But above all, users will have
spatial freedom, the inhabitants will be able to accommodate their space the way it
best responds to their necessities. We understand the building as living organism,
readaptable and chameleonic over time, as a constant result of the users’ requirements.
MANIFESTO FOR INHABITING THE MAGASINS GÉNÉRAUX A PANTIN
GIVEN VALUES
Juan Jose David + Yolanda De Rueda + Carolina Martin ANNE LACATON + DIEGO GARCÍA-SETIÉN
GIVEN VALUES
Luminosity and height
Level 1
4.9 m
GIVEN VALUES
Level 2-4
3.4
Appropiate scale for living
GIVEN VALUES
Level 5
4.3
Double height
DOUBLE HEIGHT
APPROPRIATE SCALE FOR LIVING
LEVEL 5
LEVELS 2-4
LEVELS 0-1
LUMINOSITY AND HEIGHT
4.0 m
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PUBLIC GROUND
Ground Floor & First Floor
PUBLIC GROUND
Ground Floor & First Floor
LEVEL 0-1: INHABITING THE DARK LEVEL 2-4: APPROPRIATE SCALE FOR LIVING
Juan Jose David + Yolanda De Rueda + Carolina Martin ANNE
4 FLOOR
COLUMHEIGHT
3 FLOOR
2 FLOOR
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LIVING CASE STUDY
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2 FLOOR
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2 FLOOR
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LIVING CASE STUDY
Level 2-4
We saw the opportunity to confront with deep and generous spaces, normally
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In the traditional approach to the design we propose a double envelope that
acts as a thermal insulator.
All the humid spaces will be packed in one or several perimeters of the
dwelling in order to leave the rest of the space as flexible as possible for future
transformation.
This scheme proposes to intervene in the existing architecture by breaking the
slab to generate two courtyards. The aim is that all the dwellings can have as
much natural light and cross ventilation as possible.
With this proposal the private space maximises and there are very little common
spaces.
With the innovative proposal the aim was to avoid designing standard dwellings
inside such a structure, but to search for the best way to reuse the industrial
building.
We decided to reuse the infrastructure without demolishing and to build as
minimum as possible, just what was strictly necessary. Sustainability goes hand
in hand with flexibility and the ability of the building to be reused in the future
for a different use.
The idea was to create spaces with everything that was already there,cohabitating
with the existing structure.
In this case, there are no perforations proposed to the existing building. We
enhance the fact that the central part of the building will be the darkest place
and allocate uses that one would rather do in the darkness.
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ACCES AND CONNECTIONS
Living Spaces
ACCES AND CONNECTIONS
Living Spaces
LIGHT STUDIES LIGHT STUDIES
TRADITIONAL APPROACH INNOVATIVE APPROACH
HUMID SPACES HUMID SPACES
DWELLINGS DWELLINGS
COMMUNAL SPACE COMMUNAL SPACE
ACCESS AND CIRCULATIONS ACCESS AND CIRCULATIONS

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TRADITIONAL VS INNOVATIVE
Living Spaces
Kitchen
Collective
Space
Glass
Partitions
Humid Spaces
Permanent
Partitions Ephemeral
Partitions
Light Opening
Ephemeral
Partitions
Columns
TRADITIONAL VS INNOVATIVE
Living Spaces
Kitchen
Collective
Space
Glass
Partitions
Humid Spaces
Permanent
Partitions Ephemeral
Partitions
Light Opening
Ephemeral
Partitions
Columns
AXONOMETEY TRADITIONAL APPROACH AXONOMETRY INNOVATIVE APPROACH

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PRIVATE
DARKNESS
PERMANENT
COLLECTIVE
LIGHT
FLEXIBLE
LIVING USES ANALYSIS ORGANIZATION OF USES
TRADITIONAL VS. INNOVATIVE
The traditional ditribution of uses has an outcome of a fixed space for specific
uses. The innovative one makes the uses as the main generators of space. Some
uses could be fixed, some temporal, other could overlap. Things could change
from one day to another based of the necessities. Having shared uses would
also increase the number of things you could do as you can enjoy greater areas
for these additional uses. Sharing these uses also reduces the cost of living and
encourages social relationships and solidarity.

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TRADITIONAL DWELLING INNOVATIVE DWELLING

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PRIVATE VS COLLECTIVE
Common Spaces
Juan Jose David + Yolanda De Rueda + Carolina Martin
PERMANENT VS EPHEMERAL
Dwellings
PRIVATE VS COLLECTIVE
Common Spaces
PERMANENT VS EPHEMERAL
Dwellings
DWELLINGSCOMMON SPACES
PERMANENT VS. FLEXIBLEPRIVATE VS. COLLECTIVE

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BLEND IN
Workshop Assistant | Victor Ebergenyi
Team | Individual
Topic | Architecture Interventions in 3 Different Historical Contexts
Location | Madrid
DIETMAR EBERLE
Architecture is finding and discovering the things you have,
understanding the site deeply. To choose specific conditions
and to decide whether to react to them or to use them. These
decisions will have an impact in the surrounding.
The direction of the street is the longer lasting part of a city.
Therefore, the relation of the building and the public space is
a key decision as it will be a long-term decision.
In the 21st century, the most important thing of a project is the
contribution of the building to the public space. How does
the building serve to the needs and necessities of the people
passing by each day.
Internal surfaces of a building such as walls, lighting,
decoration, floors or doors have a lifespan of 10 years. Its
function or internal distribution, along with the building
technology, partitions, furniture and floor height could have
a lifespan of 20 years. The building envelope such as the
facade material, the roof, the windows or the shading would
have a lifespan of 50 years. The structure of the building,
including its load-bearing elements, escape routes, its vertical
shafts and the ceilings could have a lifespan of 100 years. The
contribution of the building to the public space will have the
longest lifespan, 100-200 years, as this one affects directly on
the infrastructure, the roads, the use of the ground floor, the
building’s volume and the visual axis.
The workshop’s purpose was to analyse three different sites
in Madrid: a XVIth century site, a XIXth century site and a XXth
century site. Giving a volumetric response through a model
the first day, making a structural proposal the second day and
developing an envelope proposal the third day. rather do in
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XIXCENTURYSITE
XIX CENTURY SITE
My first approach was to analyse the site and to make a reading
of the existing facades, with the aim of intervening in the site
giving an adequate response in relation to its surroundings.
Pursuing the idea of giving something back to the city, we
made the building permeable in the ground floor, so that the
passer-by could enter and stay in the internal courtyard.
The biggest challenge in the site was the different heights
that each of the surrounding buildings had. It was decided to
leave the heterogeneous dividing wall untouched, creating a
vertical garden growing over it.
The east facade will respond to the street’s height and
morphology, while the west facade will overhang large
terraces to tie up with the dividing wall and would be related
to the smaller height of the neighbouring building.
DAY 01: XIXth CENTURY SITE
SITE ANALYSIS AND VOLUME PROPOSAL

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DAY 02: XXth CENTURY SITE
STRUCTURAL PROPOSAL
The XXth century site is an area in Madrid which is not
very consolidated yet. There weren’t many surrounding
conditions, therefore the aim was to design a structure
that could be used to generate different volumes. This
structure should as well be as open as possible, genera-
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The XIXth century site was the one with greater conditionings
surrounding it. The site was in front of an old nun monastery, facing
an urban square and surrounded by buildings of multiple heights.
When analysing the facades, what was very common in these was the
use of the brick material and the constant repetition of 1 meter wide
openings.
The project tries to give an adequate response to the site by building
in height only covering the blind walls of the monastery. Having a
respectful approach with the existing openings of the monastery, the
new project creates a low-rise element separated from it, and gives to
the city a public courtyard from where one could access the monastery
or to the dwellings.
There is a reinterpretation of the traditional openings in the area.
Maintaining their scale in some of them, i bigger opening is
introduced to play a game with the traditional one, breaking with the
homogeneity of the neighbouring facades.
The direction of the street is the longer lasting decision in an urban
project. The adjacent streets are not aligned currently, so the project
creates a subtle bend in its facade to sew up these two fragments.
DAYS 03-04: XIXth CENTURY SITE
ENVELOPE AND FINAL PROPOSAL

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There is a strong ceramic tradition in Spain and specially in the site. Most of the
buildings in the context have a brick facade.
Therefore, the proposed envelope would be a precast brick cladded system,
which will, punctually, transform into a brick lattice where air-tightness is not
required.
FACADE DETAILSBRICK LATTICE
GROUND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
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STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRY
The structural support would be composed by very strong
concrete cores and columns all along the facades, liberating the
floor plans so that they can have multiple distributions.

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4.16m
24m 100m2
MODULE AND ACCESS STRATEGY
INITIAL CONSTRAINTS
100m2
dwellings in a 24m deep block
Due to the initial restrictions of the exercise of having a 24m deep
dwelling and a 100m2 area, our first challenge was how to get
light into the central part of the dwelling.
To accomplish this, we took advantage of two strategies. One
was to make double height spaces in order to get the light in as
further as possible, and the other was to introduce an outdoor
terrace, that would increase the facade surface of the dwelling
and increase as well its light.
MODULES INTERWOVEN
Access and circulation, understood as an element to serve the
dwellings, would be allocated in the darkest area of the block.
Typically,in dwellings with this depth there is normally a core giving
access to two dwellings. Our aim was to make the circulation more
efficient so we proposed two take out 1 core per every two. As
shown in the diagram in the right, the access to the dwellings in
the middle would be across a corridor that is coming through the
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MODULE REPETITION
MODULE REPETITIONDESIGN DEVELOPMENT
TYPOLOGY 01
The proposed interwoven dwellings would always have a
single-height fixed area containing the humid spaces, the
alcoves, and the terrace. The double height open space
would have a flexible distribution.This one could have several
uses only separated by furniture, or one single double aspect
space that could be adapted to multiple uses.
By organizing the block with a radial configuration,
we avoided having corner dwellings and therefore,
different hierarchies in the typologies. The internal
courtyard’s dimension is 48m, two times the depth of
the block which is 24m.
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ACCESS AND CIRCULATION
HUMID AND NIGHT SPACES
FIXED SPACES
LONG SECTION THROUGH DWELLINGS
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This system could be infinite in its vertical dimension. The problem would then
be to get enough light in the courtyard for the lower dwellings. We propose
to make big openings in strategic places that would bring light into the lower
floors.These spaces could have common uses for the residents or public spaces
for the citizens. All of them would be accessed through cores and some would
be connected between them through ramps crossing the courtyard.

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EXTERNAL VIEW OF THE TOWER INTERNAL VIEW OF THE COURTYARD

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VERTICAL RETIRO
Workshop Assistant | Alejandro de Miguel
Team | Alejandra Martinez, Marielle Samayoa
Topic | Mixed-use Development
Location | Madrid
ALISON BROOKS
“El Buen Retiro Park is one of the largest in the city of
Madrid. Surrounded by the present day city, the park
stands as a reflection of the country’s history.
Once a Royal Retreat site, it was opened to the public
in the late 19th century. Currently a place of leisure
and relaxation, it attracts citizens and tourists alike.
The proposed site for the project sits in a privileged
high point, adjacent to the outer boundary of the
park on its south side, overlooking both the park and
the city. The project is an opportunity to dwell on the
leitmotiv of the park and its meaning as the name of El
Buen Retiro in Spanish can simultaneously refer to the
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“The park is a free, communal territory where known
and unknown activities take place. It is a communal
public space accessible to all ages and demographics.
The park provides various leisure and art-based
entertainments including galleries, performances,
monuments, restaurants, sports grounds, a library,
orchards and gardens; a kind of ‘ideal city’. It’s edges
are primarily defined by the architecture of the 19th
century city.
Largely disconnected from the life of the park, the
surrounding architecture acts as backdrop, screen,
symbol, investment, (passive/retirement). Can this
‘boundary architecture’ assume a new role (agent)
that contributes to the life of the park, the city and its
urban communities? (active/advancement)
The Retirement to an Active Urban Life The latest
medical advancements prolong life expectancy;
the lack of major wars in Europe and the inclusion
of women in the workforce have contributed to a
decline in fertility rates. These and other factors have
resulted in a general ‘ageing of the population’ of the
wealthiest countries in Europe.
Although following this European trend, the Spanish
ageing phenomenon is extreme. The share of the
population aged 65+ currently stands at 17% in
Spain, equal to over 7 million people. Projections by
the Spanish National Statistics Office (INE) suggest
that the 65+ citizens will make up more than a 30%
of the country’s population by 2030. The forecast by
the United Nations sets Spain as the world’s oldest
country in the world by 2050. At the same time there
is a growing awareness of the need for ‘healthy
ageing’ where the traditional notion of ‘retirement’ is
supplanted by the goal of active lifestyles, community
participation and life-long learning.
This exercise will develop new models for urban
dwelling for people over retirement age. It will
consider the requirements of this pressing social class
to challenge the inaccurate, wasteful and damaging
perceptions associated with older age. Senior citizens
need places to do, learn, live and love as much as
younger populations.
Freed from a work routine and the expectation of ‘a
quiet retirement’ the world is theirs to re-discover and
to actively contribute to. Older people are now more
connected to wider society through better health,
social media and the gradual removal of historically
imposed social barriers. How can the form, use and
organization of urban housing respond to this new
condition?
The Seclusion in an Ideal Society Life in solitude
has been a constant in human history as a way to
increase self-awareness and concentration through
contemplation or prayer, avoiding the distractions and
norms of urban and societal life.”

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RESULTS:GROUP05
URBAN SCALE
El Retiro is one of the most popular destinations in
Madrid. Historically, used only by the crown for a
reatreat-recreational use, nowadays, the public park
hosts millions of visitors per year. The essence of the
park hasn’t changed throughout the years, stressing
the importance of having a big open space in a dense
city, especially in modern times where the urban life
is more likely to be hectic and stressful. Having the
site located on the back side of El Retiro and also
near Atocha Station (attracting daily several visitors
into the city), it’s almost unconcievable to not use the
site strategically and civically to sew the city back
together, challenging its existing topography. Our
project aims to be sensible to the urban approach
for both the city and Retiro, yet reinforces the
importance of activating big open spaces with bold
moves. The way El Retiro, our project and the city
can connect is not only through place-making but also
through framing views, and adding distinct material
expressions and daring architectural gestures.
To understand the site, it was important to localize
the nearby urban equipments, especially because
of its peculiar location. The site area lacks nearby
and basic urban services such as supermarkets,
hospitals, art galleries, and other educational
institutions that can activate the site and bring
more people, especially the neighbors of El Pacífico
and Atocha into El Retiro. As a result, it was an
immediate decision to create a grand market hall
that would attach to el Retiro, creating a piazza in
between itself and the residential bar building.
[Fig 01] URBAN ANALISIS
[Fig 02] AXONOMETRY OF THE PROPOSAL
Group members:
Carol Martín
Alejandra Martínez
Marielle Samayoa
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RESULTS:GROUP05
URBAN SCALE
into the city), it’s almost unconcievable to not use the
site strategically and civically to sew the city back
moves. The way El Retiro, our project and the city
can connect is not only through place-making but also
To understand the site, it was important to localize
the nearby urban equipments, especially because
of its peculiar location. The site area lacks nearby
and basic urban services such as supermarkets,
hospitals, art galleries, and other educational
institutions that can activate the site and bring
more people, especially the neighbors of El Pacífico
and Atocha into El Retiro. As a result, it was an
immediate decision to create a grand market hall
that would attach to el Retiro, creating a piazza in
between itself and the residential bar building.
[Fig 01] URBAN ANALISIS
[Fig 02] AXONOMETRY OF THE PROPOSAL
Group members:
Carol Martín
Alejandra Martínez
Marielle Samayoa
URBAN ANALISIS
AXONOMETRY OF THE PROPOSAL
into the city), it’s almost unconceivable to not use
the site strategically and civically to sew the city back
moves. The way El Retiro, our project and the city can
connect is not only through place-making but also
To understand the site,it was important to localize the
nearby urban equipment, especially because of its
peculiar location. The site area lacks nearby and basic
urban services such as supermarkets, hospitals, art
galleries, and other educational institutions that can
activate the site and bring more people, especially
the neighbours of El Pacífico and Atocha into El
Retiro. As a result, it was an immediate decision to
create a grand market hall that would attach to el
Retiro, creating a piazza in between itself and the
residential bar building.
URBAN SCALE

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[Fig 03] URBAN STRATEGY DIAGRAMS
[Fig 04] GROUND FLOOR
El Retiro
Site
Public Institution
Market Hall
Resid
and MPiazza
The site as is is entirely enclosed by the Retiro Wall and the complex topography of the
hill of El Pacífico. From the Retiro side, there is an existing orchard while on the city side
single family houses are ordered back to back with a large dwelling block to the right side
and an Elementary school to the left.
The block is closed as an urban block and the street extends to connect the neighborhoods.
From el Retiro, a large canopy extends, simulating existing landscape, and lands on top of
an workshop building in the Orchards, stitching the workshop-cultivating use to a market
that sits on the site.
On the opposite side, a thin and tall residential building rises to house 100 dwellings
for elder and young citizens as the backdrop to the park and the city. The building block
onnected with the new market hall through a large piazza.
The residential building massing is hovering over the city a
spaces in the ground floor. Large city windows are punched thro
the city with el Retiro and vice versa. The large openings house
residents and sky gardens as “Mini-Retiros“.
Urban Strategy Diagrams
Ground Floor Plan
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El Retiro
Site
Madrid - Atocha
Public Institution
Market Hall
Residential
and Mixed UsePiazza
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spaces in the ground floor. Large city windows are punched through the massing to connect
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Site
Madrid - Atocha
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Market Hall
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URBAN SCALE
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Site
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Public Institution
Market Hall
Residential
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Retiro Fragments
El Retiro is one of the most popular destinations in Madrid. Historically, used only by the crown for a reatreat-recreational use, the now public park hosts
millions of visitors per year. The essence of the park hasn’t changed throughout the years, stressing the importance of a big open space, especially nowadays
when the urban life if more likely to be hectic. Having the site on the back of the park and also near Atocha Station (also attracting several visitors into the
city) it’s almost inevitable to not conceive how the use of the site and architecture can sew the city back together, challenging its existing topography. This
project aims to be sensible to the urban approach for both the city and Retiro, yet reinforces the importance of activating big open spaces with bold spaces. The
way El Retiro park, the new project and the city can connect is not only through place-making but also through views and material expressions and gestures.
To understand the site, it was important to localize the nearby urban equipments, especially because of its location. The site area lacks nearby and basic
urban services such as supermarkets, hospitals, art galleries, and other educational institutions that can activate the site and bring more people, especially
the neighbors of El Pacífico and Atocha into El Retiro.
Ground Floor Plan
1:300
El Retiro
Site
Madrid - Atocha
Public Institution
Market Hall
Residential
and Mixed UsePiazza
etiro Fragments
etiro is one of the most popular destinations in Madrid. Historically, used only by the crown for a reatreat-recreational use, the now public park hosts
ions of visitors per year. The essence of the park hasn’t changed throughout the years, stressing the importance of a big open space, especially nowadays
n the urban life if more likely to be hectic. Having the site on the back of the park and also near Atocha Station (also attracting several visitors into the
it’s almost inevitable to not conceive how the use of the site and architecture can sew the city back together, challenging its existing topography. This
ect aims to be sensible to the urban approach for both the city and Retiro, yet reinforces the importance of activating big open spaces with bold spaces. The
El Retiro park, the new project and the city can connect is not only through place-making but also through views and material expressions and gestures.
ite as is is entirely enclosed by the Retiro Wall and the complex topography of the
f El Pacífico. From the Retiro side, there is an existing orchard while on the city side
e family houses are ordered back to back with a large dwelling block to the right side
n Elementary school to the left.
ban Strategy Diagrams
nderstand the site, it was important to localize the nearby urban equipments, especially because of its location. The site area lacks nearby and basic
n services such as supermarkets, hospitals, art galleries, and other educational institutions that can activate the site and bring more people, especially
eighbors of El Pacífico and Atocha into El Retiro.
The site as is entirely enclosed by
the Retiro Wall and the complex
topography of the hill of El Pacífico.
From the Retiro side, there is an
existing orchard while on the
city side single family houses are
ordered back to back with a large
dwelling block to the right side and
an Elementary school to the left.
The block is closed as an urban
block and the street extends to
connect the neighbourhoods.
From el Retiro, a large canopy
extends, simulating existing
landscape, and lands on top of a
workshop building in the Orchards,
stitching the workshop-cultivating
use to a market that sits on the site.
On the opposite side, a thin and tall
residential building rises to house
100 dwellings for elder and young
citizens as the backdrop to the park
and the city. The building block
connected with the new market hall
through a large piazza.
The residential building massing
is hovering over the city and site,
adding public use spaces in the
ground floor. Large city windows
are punched through the massing
to connect the city with el Retiro
and vice versa. The large openings
house common spaces within the
residents and sky gardens as
“Mini-Retiros“.

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TRATEGYDIAGRAMS
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Site
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The residential building or bar, as we call it, has
essentially, two distinct conditions on each face,
either facing El Retiro or facing Atocha. Inside the
park, the building appears as a backdrop with 8 floors
high and large openings (holes) in the massing that
allow for continuous views into the city. On the urban
side (Atocha) the building stands tall in comparison
to its neighbouring context.
The building massing is a large bar o beam that
appears to be floating due to its transparent ground
floor that hosts retail, community or gallery-type uses.
If the ground floor is opened, it may also appear as
an extended yet covered space from the adjoining
piazza.
Essentially,our project also contains another building,
though not residential, yet equally important since it
acts as the stitcher to the park and hence the site: the
market hall. Both the market hall and the residential
bar building extend at similar lengths within the site,
facing each other in amicable dialogue creating a
piazza in between.The piazza can also be interpreted
as a mediator between both structures that are quite
distinct in their architecture and use. The market
hall, though quite traditional in plan and facade, has
a parametric roof that performs as another kind of
landscape, referencing the neighbouring vaulted
wintergradens and orchid infrastructure. On the
other hand, the building’s facade strategy relies on
the large massing openings that connect el Retiro to
Madrid CIty and vice versa. The rest of the facade is
perforated metallic panel. The organic pattern of the
panel is a motif of El Retiro and how the building is a
backdrop to the latter.
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thecitywithelRetiroandviceversa.Thelargeopenings
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[Fig 09] THE BUILDING AS A BACKDROP FROM EL RETIRO
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THE BUILDING AS A BACKDROP FROM EL RETIRO
VIEW INSIDE THE PIAZZA
The typical residential typology is based on one
core serving two units. One units is 70 m2 while the
other unit is 100m2. The way the interior distribution
is arranged allows for loggias to change, creating a
dinamic facade and complementing the city windows.
Typology Plan
1:100 Facade Strategy Testing
1:100
The strategy to the facade relies on the large massing openings that connect el
Retiro to Madrid Cty and vice versa. The idea is to make the building appear as if it’s
a floating beam on the site, accentuating it’s large openings while the residential
units have a private facade with a perforated metallic panel. The pattern of the
perforated metallic panel is a motif of El Retiro and how the building is a backdrop
to the latter.
Elevation from El Retiro and Piazza
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to the latter.
to the latter.
Facade Strategy Testing
1:100
Facade Strategy Testing
1:100
FACADE STUDIES
The strategy to the facade relies on the large massing openings that connect el Retiro to Madrid
Cty and vice versa. The idea is to make the building appear as if it’s a floating beam on the site,
accentuating its large openings while the residential units have a private facade with a perforated
metallic panel. The pattern of the perforated metallic panel is a motif of El Retiro and how the
building is a backdrop to the latter.
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The bar building is composed of sets of two units per
core or three units per core at the ends of the bar.
This way, corridors are avoided and rentability can be
optimized. The typical domestic set of two units is
composed of typologies of 100 m2 and 70 m2 with
two or one bedroom respectively.
The units are distributed in a user-friendly manner
for both the elder and the young users: open social,
living and kitchen area extending from one edge to
the other, while the bedrooms are placed opposite
from each other, profiting from both north and
south facades. Generally, the unit typologies are
quite generous and practical, avoiding to create fully
compact spaces yet simultaneously, not exceeding
dimensions that are typically given to high-end
housing.
The way the interior distribution is arranged in both
typologies allows for loggias’ location to change
in the facade, breaking from a repetitive and
stacking effect. This creates dynamism in the facade,
complementing the city holes or windows.
Though the building is essentially a densified housing
bar, the intention is to have the large openings as
community spaces, or “mini Retiros“ so that the
elderly and young residents can enjoy a large space
as an extension to their living unit. Additionally, the
piazza below serves as a larger public extension and
as well incentivates and promotes a more social,
healthier and even exciting quality of life.
The typical residential typology
is based on one core serving two
units. One unit is 70 m2 while the
other unit is 100m2. The way the
interior distribution is arranged
allows for loggias to change,
creating a dynamic facade and
complementing the city windows.
DOMESTIC SCALE
[Fig 11] TYPOLOGY PLAN
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LOGY PLAN
The strategy to the facade relies on the large massing openings
that connect el Retiro to Madrid Cty and vice versa. The idea is
to make the building appear as if it’s a floating beam on the site,
accentuating it’s large openings while the residential units have
a private facade with a perforated metallic panel. The pattern of
the perforated metallic panel is a motif of El Retiro and how the
building is a backdrop to the latter.
The typical residential typology is based on one core serving two
units. One units is 70 m2 while the other unit is 100m2. The way
the interior distribution is arranged allows for loggias to change,
creating a dinamic facade and complementing the city windows.

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ALONE BUT CONNECTED
Workshop Assistant | Gabriel Wajnerman
Guest Jurors | Silvia Bronchales
Team | Santiago Ardila, Carolina Cueva, Binal Shah
Topic | Collective Housing for Solos
Location | Madrid
“Living alone is a free choice; far from loneliness
and neglect it may reflect the degree of progress
of a society in relation to the exercise of individual
freedom and ability of emancipation and autonomy.
Most of the European population who lives alone at
present consists of three homogeneous groups that
correspond to emancipated young professionals,
separated or divorced adults and senior widowers,
mostly women. None of them have a common way
of life, nor have different needs from other users, but
a specific form of establishing relations with a world
that has qualified them as a state of emergency. They
have become forced to get adapted to their specific
conditions and variously inhabit domestic spaces that
mostly respond to past patterns, whose regulated
organizations have the family as a reference.
Housing is no longer a space, but a mental time. The
genderrevolutioninthesixtiesandlatertheemergence
of the information society have contributed to
dissolve the boundaries of the house. Domesticity has
expanded the city through new micro_equipments
and domestic timespace develops in the network,
establishing new relationships with others and with
objects, blurring the classic dualities of insideoutside,
privatepublic, day _night and workleisure.
Activities joined to the body care, the nutrition, the
leisure, the work, sex and relationships of any kind are
resolved indifferently both in urban environments or
residential areas, physical or virtual ones, expanding
and reducing the boundaries of the house up to the
almost physical disappearance. The study and analysis
of those who live by their own allows to incorporate
all possible segment convivial groups and to map
a variety of domesticities enough to define the
foundations of contemporary living and to cast doubt
on the validity of the last century bourgeois house,
as an existing typology and model throughout the
residential law.”
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HUMAN IDENTITY
Humanae is a work in progress by Angelica Daas who intends to deploy a chromatic
range of the different human skin colours. There is no previous selection of participants
and there are no classifications relating to nationality, gender, age, race, social class or
religion. This taxonomy adopts the format of the PANTONE® Guide, which gives the
sample a degree of hierarchical horizontality that diluted the false preeminence of some
races over others in terms of skin colour. The presentation of the range of colour shades
induce the viewer to reflect on one of the dual meanings containing the word identity:
that associated with equality.
The brief of the workshop was to design a collective housing for people that for one
reason or another wanted to live solos.
Each of my colleagues had to develop one of the Pantone characters and present them
to the rest of classmates. To understand each of the characters we were going to give
shelter it was important to know why were they alone, how many hours were they at
home, which were the home rituals they repeated every day, which were the essential
objects for them, if they were social, if they were friends of technology, if they had any
relationship with nature, what meant pleasure for them, or what would they do if they
had a power failure.
Having all these elements on top of the table we started analysing the space that would
best suit each of our users and how could we promote the relationships amongst them.
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Bed
RoomLiving
Room
Kitchen
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Studio
1. Waldo Jones
Garden
Living
Room
Kitchen
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Pet
Room
2. Amanda Rizzo
Garden
Living
Room
Kitchen
Bath
Room
3. Jan 4. Maria Jose
Living
Room
Kitchen
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Garden
Bed
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Library
Bed
Room
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Room
Kitchen
5. Ricky Sharma
Terrace
Living
Room
Kitchen
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Bath
Room
Medi-
tation
6. Eva Lynch
Garden
Living
Room
Bath
Room
7. Angel 8. Aleksandra Mitrovic
Living
Room
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Bath
Room
Studio
Living
Bed
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Bath
Room
9. Francisco Sosa 10. Clarice Brown 11. Chenoa
Living
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Bath
Room
Terrace
Medi-
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Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Dance
Space
Maximum Circulation
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Room
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Bath
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Studio
1. Waldo Jones
Garden
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Kitchen
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Bath
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Room
2. Amanda Rizzo
Garden
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Kitchen
Bath
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Kitchen
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Library
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5. Ricky Sharma
Terrace
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Room
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6. Eva Lynch
Living
Room
Bath
Room
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Room
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Bath
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RoomLiving
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Bath
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1. Waldo Jones
Garden
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Kitchen
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Bath
Room
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2. Amanda Rizzo
Garden
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Room
Kitchen
Bath
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3. Jan
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Library
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Bath
Room
Kitchen
5. Ricky Sharma
Terrace
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tation
6. Eva Lynch
Garden
Living
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Bath
Room
7. Angel 8. A
Living
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Living
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Bath
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Terrace
Medi-
tation
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Room
Kitchen
Bed
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Dance
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Garden
1. Waldo Jones
SPACES
2. Amanda
3. Jan
4. Maria Jose
5. Ricky Sharma
6. Eva
7. Ángel
8. Aleksandra Mitrovic
9. Francisco Sosa
10. Clarice Brown
11. Chenoa
12. Fernando
13. Takumi Kobayashi
14. Emma Ponce
15. CJ
16. Renato Luna
17. Tahoe Jergens
18. Sophia Brown
19. Anne Muller
UNIT SIZE
DIVISION
26%
31%
Small units
Big units
Living room
Kitchen
Bedroom
Bathroom
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Studio
Garden
Terrace
Medium units
0-3 hours 3-6 hours 6-9 hours 9< hours
42%
AVERAGE SPACE
DIVISION
SPACES
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Kitchen
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Bathroom
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Terrace
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Kitchen
Bedroom
Bathroom
Meditation
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01. WALDO JONES
WALDO JONES
RICKY EVA ANGEL
CHENOACLARICEFRANCISCO
MARIA JOSÉ ALEKSANDRA
USES ANALYSIS
CONNECTING PERSONALITIES
USES DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO PERSONALITY
02. AMANDA
AMANDA
03. JAN
JAN
04. MARIA JOSÉ
05. RICKY SHARMA
06. EVA
07. ANGEL
08. ALEKSANDRA
09. FRANCISCO
10. CLARICE
11. CHENOA
12. FERNANDO
13. TAKUMI
14. EMMA
15. CJ
16. RENATO
17. TAHOE
18. SOPHIA
19. ANNE
Living room
Kitchen
Bedroom
Bathroom
Meditation
Studio
Garden
Terrace
0-3 hours 3-6 hours 6-9 hours >9 hours
Very Social Social Solitary Depressed
Based on their stories, we analysed how large should the spaces be for
each of our user to develop their activities on a daily basis, and how many
hours they spent in these spaces.
We made a classification based on how social or introverted each of them was. This
helped us to distribute them in a way in which we could promote relationships between
people based on their way of life and on how they could complement or help each
other. This would help us creating flexible or specific common spaces for the users.
We analysed as well how would these uses be distributed within each dwelling.
Which were the most used spaces? Which was the circulation space that was used
the most? Which spaces should be more private? Which spaces they wouldn´t
mind sharing?
Bed
RoomLiving
Room
Kitchen
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Studio
1. Waldo Jones
Garden
Living
Room
Kitchen
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Pet
Room
2. Amanda Rizzo
Garden
Living
Room
Kitchen
Bath
Room
Living
Room
Kitchen
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Garden
Bed
Room
Library
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Kitchen
5. Ricky Sharma
Terrace
Living
Room
Kitchen
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Medi-
tation
6. Eva Lynch
Garden
Living
Room
Bath
Room
Living
Room
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Studio
Living
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Living
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Terrace
Medi-
tation
Living
Room
Kitchen
Bed
Room
Bath
Room
Dance
Space
Garden
Maximum Circulation
Minimum CirculationMINIMUM CIRCULATION PER DAY
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SOCIAL ATMOSPHERE NATURAL ATMOSPHERENATURAL ATMOSPHERE
INTERMEDIATE SPACES
POROSITY
COLLECTIVE SOLIDARITY
TECHNOLOGICAL ATMOSPHERE
The project began rooted to a long staircase, as if it were a tree trunk
with each of its branches landing into different atmospheres.
We focused on the relationship between the body, the machine and
nature. Therefore, in our building you will find a Social atmosphere,
a Nature atmosphere and a Technological atmosphere. Depending
on one’s personality you would rather live in one place or another,
generating smaller communities and shared spaces inside the
wider community. The aim is that the communal spaces could be
transformed and modified, and would be spread across the building
to promote social interaction.
We will bring as well urban uses into the building reactivating its life
and bringing money into the community. These will be located in
the main facade of the Gran Via. A gym linked to the ground floor,
an open gallery space and a cafeteria with a direct connection to the
hotel restaurant that currently exist across the road.
The building tries to be responsive to the city as well by liberating its
ground floor and connecting the park on its rear facade to the city.
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PANTONE 479 C
THE MCH TEAM
PANTONE 162 C
PANTONE 729 C
PANTONE 721 C
GROUND FLOOR
We thought that is was very important that the place would adapt to the user.The instinct
of use should be more important than the rules of use. The best dwellings are those that
generate opportunities, those in which the user can intervene upon them.
Architecture is not shaped by space, but by time. The space is a consequence of time.
SIXTH FLOORSEVENTH FLOOR
RESTAURANT
TERRACE AND
CONNECTION TO
HOTEL
SOCIAL
ATMOSPHERE
SOCIAL
ATMOSPHERE
CAFETERIA
TERRACE
URBAN
GARDEN
ENTRANCE FROM
GRAN VIA
ENTRANCE FROM
SQUARE
NATURE
ATMOSPHERE
NATURE
ATMOSPHERE
TECNOLOGY
ATMOSPHERE
TECNOLOGY
ATMOSPHERE
VIEWPOINT
EXHIBITION
TERRACE

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CITY OF PATIOS
Guest Jurors | Pierfrancesco Maran, Jose Mª de Lapuerta,
Salvador Rueda, Daniel Ibañez
Team | Ravin Abourjeily, Daniela Rullier, Elena Sanfeliu
Topic | Urban design & Landscape
Location | Madrid
Speciality duration | 20 days
The problems of the current cities amongst others are the expansion of these
without previous urban planning, the mobility models based on private transport,
the gentrification and social segregation,an explosive growth of cities,the impact
of new technologies, and the increasing energy consumption.
The most sustainable urban strategy is the one that is dense, continuous and
compact. To redesign the city and readapt it with the necessities of the car. Trying
to find which is the urban logic, and not the economic logic.
The proposed site for this Speciality in Urban Design are the empty plots around
the Chamartin Station in Madrid. This area is part of the current masterplan of
Castellana Nuevo Norte that will take place very soon in Madrid.
The main problems that we have discovered when analysing the area are that the
station is unstructured and has no connection to La Castellana and that the area
has been designed mainly for the hard mobility finding roads at multiple heights
creating barriers and disorientation for pedestrians.
The station is currently in really bad conditions but has the potential of being a
great attractor for the area as it is the best point of accessibility by public transport
to Madrid and to the airport.
The railroad barrier,the M-30 barrier and the multiple scalextrics in the area,create
a total disconnection between the neighbourhoods that were built around the
90s when Madrid started expanding to the North.
We believe that the most sustainable urban model has to be compact in
its morphology, complex (mixed in uses and biodiverse in its organization),
metabolically efficient, and socially cohesive. Any project in architecture, but
most importantly in the bigger scale of urban design, should be resilient. The
urbanization process should set a stage for a series of transformation processes
to take part over time.
The new urban inserts should have a prothesis strategy. They should blend with
the city with something that is similar in kind, but not necessarily in form.
Economy without ecology cannot exist. Therefore, our aim is to create a that
enhances circular metabolism.
JOSE Mª EZQUIAGA, GEMMA PERIBAÑEZ & BERNARDO YNZENGA

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PUBLIC TRANSPORT
All the current metro stations are less than 50m away from any point
on our site.
Due to its good connections to the public transport we propose to
create a pedestrian city. Enhancing soft mobility as opposed to the
hard mobility that currently dominates the area. All the soft mobility
will take place in the ground floor and all the hard mobility will be
destined to the underground floor.
VEHICULAR ACCESS
We propose a pedestrian neighbourhood. At ground floor there will
only be the possibility of walking and cycling
All the existing high-density roads, currently at ground level, would
be replaced by underground tunnels in order to give back the
city to the pedestrians. The entire site would be accessible by car
on the underground level with pedestrian connections along the
intervention.
NODES
We generated a sequence of nodes of activity that in some way will
unify and connect the whole intervention.
Enhance the connections with a central spine N-S and tying this one
to its adjacent neighbourhoods E-W
Commercial, cultural and public institutions will be allocated in
the nodes along the main axis in a scattered manner to avoid
segregation.
BLOCKS
The proposed blocks will work as superblocks. Working as smaller
scale neighbourhoods, containing a mixed use of residential,
offices, retail and services.
PLAZAS
Currently there are no public plazas between the station and the city.
We propose to create two public plazas as entrances to the stations
and a continuous public ribbon connecting the diverse smaller
squares.
PEDESTRIAN NETWORKS & PLAZAS
Transversal connectivity is as important as the longitudinal ones to
promote the reactivation of the contiguous neighbourhoods.
The existing site has no visual or functional connections. We
propose to generate these connections across the park and from
the architectural topography.
VOIDS
We propose to create public spaces that people can colonize, with
multiple uses that could change over time. By working with very
different scales the range of possibilities expands.
VOLUMES
These are proposed to create an heterogeneous fabric made of
rational modules.
Density as opposed to open architecture generate safer places.
Currently there is no sense of safety in many of the areas around
the station. By omitting barriers, increasing connections and
increasing visibility, we increase safety.
EXISTING PARKS
The site is in a central location but has an important barrier that
doesn´t promote the urban integration.
The amount of greenery in the area in very minor with the exception
of two small parks behind the four skyscrapers.
PROPOSED PARK
We propose to solve the great barrier generated by the train railway
by building a slab over it and creating a park on top.
This park will restore the connections between neighbourhoods
around. It’ll be a green infrastructure for the people with cycling and
hiking routes.
The park as a buffer for the city, reducing the acoustic levels and
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Our main idea was to create a very sustainable and dense city. We therefore took as
references the morphology of some Arab cities as Aleppo or Marrakech.
Working from the bigger scale or the urban morphology to the smaller scale of the
internal patios we realized how many different activities could take place in the proposed
public spaces.
The area is currently designed for the hard mobility, so the proposal tries to react to this
by focussing on the soft mobility of the city.
The creation of the N-S social street connecting the public plazas has the aim of
decentralizing spaces and spreading the cultural and commercial uses throughout.
The railway tracks are nowadays an urban barrier. The aim is to sew up the urban fabric
by bringing a huge green lung to the city with pedestrian connections to the adjacent
neighbourhoods.
We believe that urban green spaces are essential for the city to operate correctly.
Therefore, we propose to bring to the citizens a park that looks familiar to them.
The Mountain Range of Guadarrama is a Protected National Park in the outskirts of
Madrid. It contains 8 different ecosystems and a huge variety of fauna and flora. Our
proposal offers a smaller taste of the Guadarrama in the heart of Madrid, bringing to the
city autochtonous species as the climates are very similar.
Hiking and cycling routes around the park will take you to important view points to the
city of Madrid.
Image Courtesy of the Book: Traditional Domestic Architecture
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MARKET
SERVICES COMMERCIAL/ CULTURAL
EDUCATIONAL
TERTIARY
OFFICES
RESIDENTIAL
S, M, L, XL are the only
4 different modules we
have used throughout
the proposal.
These sizes correspond
to sunlight and scale
conditions.
The variety of these
semiprivate plazas of
different scales allows
them to be used for
many different purposes.
The drawing in the right
shows the mixed-use
squares in other to avoid
segregation and create
a safer environment.
The market if proposed
at the northern part of
the site to use it as a
connection node if the
future masterplan of
Castellana Nuevo Norte
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AL MAFRAQ
JORDAN REFUGEE CAMP
Jury | Belén Gesto, Sonia Molina
Team | Ramon Puñet, Marielle Samayoa
Topic | Low-cost & Emergency housing
Location | Al-Mafraq
The UN Refugee Agency.19 june 2018
“Wars, violence and persecution uprooted record
numbers of men, women and children worldwide last
year, making a new global deal on refugees more critical
than ever, according to a UNHCR report published today.
The UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends study
found 68.5 million people had been driven from their
homes across the world at the end of 2017, more people
than the population of Thailand.
Refugees who have fled their countries to escape conflict
and persecution accounted for 25.4 million. This is 2.9
million more than in 2016, also the biggest increase
UNHCR has ever seen in a single year.
New displacement is also growing, with 16.2 million
people displaced during 2017 itself, either for the first
time or repeatedly. That is an average of one person
displaced every two seconds. And overwhelmingly, it is
developing countries that are most affected.
The number of asylum-seekers awaiting the outcome of
their applications for refugee status had risen by about
300,000, to 3.1 million, by the end of December 2017.
People displaced inside their own country accounted for
40 million of the total, slightly fewer than the 40.3 million
in 2016.”
BELÉN GESTO, SONIA MOLINA
https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2018/6/5b222c494/forced-displacement-record-685-million.html

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International Federation of red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. World
Disasters Report 2018
“In 2015, the world pledged to ‘leave no one behind’ as part of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.
But millions of people are left behind in humanitarian crises. Precise figures remain
elusive (given measuring need is an inexact art),but the UN Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs’ Global Humanitarian Overview (OCHA, 2018a) estimates that
some 134 million people will require humanitarian assistance worldwide in 2018. It
further estimates that around 97.4 million people would be selected for international
assistance under the joint humanitarian response plans, leaving a 27% gap which
would only be partially met by domestic authorities or other organizations including
the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Looking at several major
operations from 2017, in some cases fewer than half of the people estimated to be in
need were actually known to be reached by internationally supported humanitarian
assistance.”
https://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/10/B-WDR-2018-EN-LR.pdf
Shelter approach in Humanitarian Aid
“Shelter is essential for the physical protection and privacy of people affected
by displacement,allowing them to lead lives in a safe, supportive and culturally
appropriate setting.
We seek to protect rights and save lives by providing timely shelter interventions
to meet both immediate and temporary needs, promoting durable solutions and
enabling families to access social services and livelihood options.
Shelter activities should aim to facilitate both the physical and social needs of targeted
beneficiaries in all phases of a crisis and across a range of settlement options beyond
the household, including: Housing and Shelter programmes should not focus solely
on the delivery of shelter as a physical product but should also include a range of
wider social and settlement related considerations which enhance and complement
the impact of individual shelter solutions.
Appropriate strategies and activities should be defined based on a contextual
analysis such as scale, climate, culture, available materials and skills, logistics, funding,
legislation and policies, and needs.”
Jordan is home to many Syrian refugees in present day due to its geographic
location from the area of conflict. Za’atari, one of the biggest refugee camps in
the world, located in Mafraq District, is now the fifth largest city in Jordan. As Syria
continues its civil war, Syrians are forced to flee and seek for a safe place. Conditions
in refugee camps haven’t improved at all, as hygiene, sanitation and a proper living
space are not truly implemented for these settlements. The latter is due to the idea
that the population has to be immediately displaced.This proposal seeks to provide
dignity in design: a shelter that is more apt to its climate, more comfortable to live,
easier to build and dismantle and more affordable as well. (It’s made from local
materials and built without the use of water or skilled labor).

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2. WAREHOUSE
3. DISTRICUTION CENTER
AND ADMINITRATION
4. MARKET
5. NURSERY
6. SCHOOL
7. MEDICAL CENTER
8. FEEDING CENTER
9. COMMERCIAL AREA
10.STORAGE/CHANGING/SHOWERS
SOCIAL AND
COMMERCIAL
AREA
SOCIAL AND
COMMERCIAL
AREA
EDUCATION AND
CHILDCARE AREA
SPORTS AREA
ADMINISTRATIVE AREA
HEALTH/MEDICAL AREA
1
1
2
2
3
3
45
6
7
8
9
10
PHASE 1
2,500 PEOPLE
24 COMMUNITIES
PHASE 3
5,000 PEOPLE
47 COMMUNITIES
PHASE 2
3,700 PEOPLE
35 COMMUNITIES
ADMINISTRATIVE AREA
REFUGEE CAMP PHASES

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SHELTER UNIT ASSEMBLY 3x3m
GALVANIZED SCAFFOLDING:
4 vertical, 11 horizontal, 2 diagonal,
20 parts
FRAMEWORK
WALL SYSTEM
FLOOR + ROOF SYSTEM
STEEL NET:
8X150x150mm
72 m2
CHICKEN MESH:
72 m2
GRAVEL +
SAND FILL:
7.2 m3
PVC TUBES
WINDOWS:
4 pcs
150mm
PLYWOOD
DOOR:
1 u
1x2.10m
POLYPROPENE
FLOOR EF:
.50m2
u
9m2
PLASTIC
WATER TANK:
60L + filtro
RAIN WATER COLLECTION
ALUMINUM
FLATSHEET:
1u folded 9m2
4u 2.7m2
HEMP TEXTILE
used for curtains or
decoration

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10 PEOPLE HOUSEHOLD
7 PEOPLE HOUSEHOLD
5 PEOPLE HOUSEHOLD
2.5 PEOPLE HOUSEHOLD
16 HOUSEHOLD COMMUNITY
Syrian refugees coming into Jordan are usually Gov. assisted refugees (GAR),arriving in
2-12 people (family) per household. 60% are children of 14 years or younger.
FAMILY SIZE DISTRIBUTION

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THERMAL COMFORT STRATEGY DETAIL ROOF ASSEMBLY DETAIL

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PREFABRICATED HOMES
Speciality Team | David Rutter (Arup), Archie Campbell (Arup), Diego Garcia-Setién
Team | Beltrán Moreno, Elena Sanfeliu, Jiayin Han
Topic | Pefabricated Modular Systems
Location | Singapur
“A set of collective housing case studies, built in
different world climates, have been selected for this
Construction & Technology Workshop at the MCH’19.
The building will be re-located in a different place and
economic context:
In this case the new location had to be tropical, wet
climate zone (A)*. Our team choose Singapur for its
economic context and technological possibilities.
These new context will require to re-conceptualize
the building’s design strategies regarding envelope,
structure and services. Students will also need to
reconsider construction systems and materials, and
search for an appropriate solution which allows them
to Re-industrialize the building process, always related
to the available resources in the new location.
The workshop goals are amongst others to test how
the architecture can be adapted to very different
conditions, comparing the results with the original
building, and drawing valuable conclusions which
could be potentially applied to future projects.”
IGNACIO FERNANDEZ-SOLLA (ARUP)

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7.20 7.20 7.20 7.20 7.20 7.20 7.20 7.20 7.20
7.20 7.20
3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.30 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60 3.60
7.20 21.60 7.20
7.20
18.00 7.20 10.80 10.80 7.20 18.00
7.20
In Singapore, as in many other places, time is money. Therefore, it was really important
in our proposal to have a very fast an efficient construction, with very few elements to
be decided on site and reducing to the minimum any possible errors. It was decided
to work with prefabricated modular systems. In the basement, the structural system will
consist of a piling wall with a waterproofed strategy and a concrete slab standing on piles
due to the unstable ground. The ground and first floor will also be built with concrete
slabs in order to create a very stable plinth to receive the prefabricated elements. The
whole building will be braced by the concrete cores, providing side and frontal stability.

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MODULAR PREFABRICATED SYSTEM
TYPOLOGY 01
TYPOLOGY 01 TYPOLOGY 02 TYPOLOGY 03
TYPOLOGY 02 TYPOLOGY 03

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MODULAR PREFABRICATED SYSTEM: INSTALLATION PROCESS FLEXIBLE FLOOR PLANS
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN: SMALL TYPOLOGIES
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN: MIX OF TYPOLOGIES
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN: LARGE TYPOLOGIES

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BUILDING SERVICES STRATEGIES

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BUILDING ENVELOPE REAR FACADEBUILDING ENVELOPE MAIN FACADE

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16
15 9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
12
14
14
17
17
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
9
10
11
11
13
8
10
12
15
15
t 2 cm
ol 10cm
rier
e 10cm
anel
rd wall 1,5cm
luminium ceiling
ng
ng sheet
ing timber shutters
ring
lasterboard ceiling 1,5cm
ty glass
ailing
16
15 9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
12
14
14
17
17
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
9
10
11
11
13
8
10
12
15
15
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Fibrocement 2 cm
cavity wall
mineral wool 10cm
Vapour Barrier
steel frame 10cm
insulation panel
plasterboard wall 1,5cm
9 drainage
10 joints
11 suspended aluminium ceiling
12 ceramic tiling
13 waterproofing sheet
14 sliding folding timber shutters
15 Timber flooring
8 suspended plasterboard ceiling 1,5cm
16 low emissivity glass
17 aluminium railing
7
9
9
10
11
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Fibrocement 2 cm
cavity wall
mineral wool 10cm
Vapour Barrier
steel frame 10cm
insulation panel
plasterboard wall 1,5cm
9 drainage
10 joints
11 suspended aluminium ceiling
12 ceramic tiling
13 waterproofing sheet
14 sliding folding timber shutters
15 Timber flooring
8 suspended plasterboard ceiling 1,5cm
16 low emissivity glass
17 aluminium railing
REAR FACADE DETAIL FRONT FACADE DETAIL

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THE LAMBA HOUSE
Guest Jurors | Roger Tudó, Emiliano Lopez
Team | Alejandra Martinez
Topic | Sustainable Housing. Thermodynamics in Everyday Life
Location | Madagascar
“The idea of integrating a seminar and workshop is to
introduce a series of ideas and concepts and, simultaneously,
to learn how to introduce them in a given design process,
thus reinforcing the practical approach of this module.
This workshop departs from the structural connection that
exists between the climate of a given location and the
culture unfolded by its inhabitants. This question which has
been rarely addressed by architects, underpins a wide array
of questions which connect climate to social patterns, local
lifestyles, how people dress themselves or how is architecture
inhabited.
From this perspective, a thermodynamic approach to
architecture needs to explore the interactions between
the local climate, the spatial and material particularities of
architecture, and the lifestyle of its users.
Contrary to mainstream practice which deploys a top-
down approach which proceeds from outdoor massing to
indoor space, this studio explores the potential to conceive
architecture from the interior. The objective is to design a
building starting from the particular atmospheres demanded
by its users. As a result, departing from the specific ambient
conditions needed by
users, students will define the set of sources and sinks
required to induce specific atmospheric situations.
Climatic typologies will be a useful tool as it offers the
possibility to bridge the gulf between local climate and
specific everyday life patterns. Climatic typologies show
how architecture can interact between a given climate and
the way people live and socialize, offering the potential to
connect the spatial and material lineaments with the specific
physiological and psychological behaviors, bridging the
gulf between the thermodynamic processes induced by
architecture and the quotidian behavior of its inhabitants.
Starting from quotidian situations the studio will proceed
defining interior space, and through gradual steps will
explore consecutive architectural scales: first a domestic
space and later a collective housing program. The workshop
will be developed in groups of two students, and each group
will work in a different climatic location across the planet.”
JAVIER GARCÍA-GERMÁN

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EVAPORATION
WIND TEMP: 24-38º
RELATIVE HUM.: <70%
WIND TEMP: 15º
RELATIVE HUM.: 40%
BODY TEMP: 36.5ºBODY TEMP: 36.5º
The lamda is the traditional cloth that the Malagasy
people use all year round. In winter it keeps them
warm and at the same time allows for some
ventilation.
The lamda is also worn in the rainy season as it
protects from the sun rays, lets the breeze come
through and traps the humidity.
DRY SEASON (WINTER)
ANALYSIS OF SOURCES AND SINKS OF TRADITIONAL HOUSING AND CLOTHING
RAINY SEASON (SUMMER)

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