Final Master Work

1. a compilation of
a compilation of
a compilation of
MASTER IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING
A n a V i c t o r i a O t t e n w a l d e r C h a n g
i d e a s
p r o j e c t s
r e f l e c t i o n s
2022

2. This booklet is a compilation of some of
the workshops and specialties completed
between march and october of 2022, as
part of the 15th edition of the MCH.
As a personal process, during the
making of this booklet, certain analysis,
introspections or as I prefer to call it,
reflections, were made.
As a result, I decided to categorize and
explain the projects according to its
support qualities, understanding its
meaning as the merge of both, the
structural and the programatic layer of a
certain project.
The Master of Advanced Studies in
Collective Housing is a postgraduate
professional program of advanced
architecture design focused on housing,
city and energy studies presented by
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
(UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH).
Currently, it is rated as the 3rd best
architecture master’s program in the
world.

3. W O R K S H O P S S P E C I A LT I E S
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Housing & Reuse
Anne Lacaton & Diego García-Setién
The Mediterranean is not a Myth
Javier García-Germán
Domestic Fragments
Elli Mosayebi & Álvaro M. Fidalgo
Caracol, a Shelter for Women
Archie Campbell, David Castro,
Diego García-Setién, Ignacio Solla
Ordinariness and Life
Hvroje Njiric & Esperanza Campaña Campamento Belongs to La Latina
José María Ezquiaga & Gemma Peribáñez
Scaffolding Corrala
Alison Brooks & Alejandro de Miguel Solano
Everyday Architecture
Dietmar Eberle & Alberto Nicolau
selected selected
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46 152
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a compillation of...
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Its easy to think that anything new is always better without even questioning
it. However, nowadays, the context in which we live gives us clear signs that
perhaps new is not necessarily better, but that the best is to be found in
the reflection, the understanding and the answers of what already exists.
The concept of something new, implicitly attributed to the best, is not
consistent when the novelty implies a greater use of resources, energy and
human capital. Sacrificing sustainability, in the name of something new.
Anne Lacaton’s workshop was emphatic in questioning what its
conceived as new and the practice of starting from the blank paper,
reminding us that the real role of the architects lies in the search for
innovative solutions from the opportunities of what its consider “the
existent”. These paradigms, antagonistic to the new, can be architectural
elements that are able to start building communities, neighborhoods
or cities and should not be dismissed out of neglect or disuse.
As practice of this idea the exercise was the reuse of a past train station in
Zurich, obsolete infrastructure within its program, but with opportunities
for re-conditioning it with a collective housing program. The complex was
conformed by a historical administratoin building, two large sheds (former
station platforms) and an existing housing building.
Team:
Androniki Petrou, Carolina Basilis, Christian Haro, Sebastián Worm
Housing & Reuse: A Solution for Good Conditions of Life
Lead professor: Anne Lacaton
Building Recharge
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Assistant profesor: Diego García-Setién

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The proposal conceives the relationship of the station between the public and
the private, by incorporating new architectural programs and circulations that
relate directly to its conditions . The latter is key as the main axis which blurs
the boundary between what is existing and what is proposed, functioning as
a transition between the different uses of the building, conecting the public
space, the communal spaces and the housing units.
The project consists of a structure that intertwines with the existing one,
merging both systems in their aesthetics, but not in their resistance,
understanding the modularity and sequence of the old station. This
allows the creation of a support system that is able to accommodate
various housing typologies, flexible according to the needs of users, not
only in terms of housing units, but also in its vertical distribution by levels.
The result is a system referenced to the existing building, which adjusts to
the current living conditions, allowing flexibility of uses. Considering the
parameters, the scale, the support and the dimensioning, heterogeneity is
achieved as a whole seeking the new and ever-changing by redefining the
existing.
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Collective Spaces are incubators of human interactions were its spatial values
make possible to create bonds withing a community. These spatial values can be
seen as a shade under the tree, an intermediate space between dwellings or even
on a common circulation inside a housing building.
Starting with an existing Train Infrastructure, 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 function of the Depot G as a link space for
trains, encourage us to renovate it and create a link space for social interactions
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 activities for the city and
finally establishes new housing with adequate spatial values that allow flexibility
and its transformation over time.
The spatial qualities alongside the project generate transitions between old and
new, public and private, collective and individual becoming a symbol of transition
of human relations.
M A N I F E S T O
B u i l d i n g R e c h a r g e

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|a|
existing buildings & infrastructure
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existing pits as vegetation rails
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orientation maximazing sun exposure
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Depot G as link space
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housing program through verticalization
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transition from public to private
General Strategies
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Existent Infrastructure + Integrated New Program
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Site Plan
Transversal Section
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...covered with metallic mesh...
...with built-in wooden furniture...
...with a floating floating bench...
...f illed with vegetation...
...f illed as a walkway...
...as a big tree pot...
Multiple Uses of the Existing Train Pits
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Alternative Uses of Main Central Space
B u i l d i n g R e c h a r g e
Activity: Concert
Capacity: 150 people
Activity: Book Club
Capacity: 100 people
Activity: Exhibition
Capacity: 120 people
Activity: Open Air Cine-
ma Capacity: 150 people

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Ground Floor Level
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Mezzanine Level
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 1 B u i l d i n g R e c h a r g e

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Buffer Level
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 1 B u i l d i n g R e c h a r g e

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Housing Blocks Level
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Typologies
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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 1
Housing Block 01 | Level 01
Housing Block 01 | Transversal Section
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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 1 B u i l d i n g R e c h a r g e

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...the spatial qualities alongside the project generate transitions between old and new, public and private,
collective and individual, becoming a symbol of transition of human relations....
B u i l d i n g R e c h a r g e

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Starting a design process from 3 words is without any doubt, a challenge.
This workshop started with a thought process, in which the different
actors, influenced by their culture and semantics, shared different
meanings of what these 3 words meant to them. A thorough analysis
of simple terms, but that at the same time, offer a variety of meanings.
The traced paper and the tale were configuring a story, where each word
acquired protagonism from the beginning to the end. The narrative gives
consistency to the object, it is able to identify it, approach it and question it
if necessary. Our story began in Laos, in the origin of its community and
in the daily circumstances that surround it; from the start, the questions
became part of the story, part of the project: what are the activities
they engage in, in what places, how are the spaces used, what is their
permeability, is there privacy, what is the impact of the climate, among
other questions that acquired consistency as we progressed in the proposal.
The origin, centered in a vernacular architecture, focused on the place and
in the act of doing, allowing us to visualize the richness that exists in the
simplicity, in the daily act and in its generational reiteration. This resulted in
an architectural proposal centered in what is considered local with techniques
and materials that contributes to the identity that defines the community.
The final result assumes that in the local and vernacular, lies part of our own
story, of our origin. The imposition of the foreign into a place fades the history,
therefore fading our story, our way of experiencing the world, even our way
of designing. Without forcing it, all the discussions we had as a group came
to the same conclusion: the answer to the problem lies in the identity of the
inhabitants. So yes, even better, the Vernacular Way.
Team:
Felipe Santamaría, Nancy Mandhan
Domestic Fragments
Lead professor: Elli Mosayebi
Better, the Vernacular Way
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 2
Assistant profesor: Álvaro M. Fidalgo

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 2
After a draw, the words we were given
were washing, thinking and armchair.
The main challenge of the exercise was
to achieve the correct translation of
these actions and this particular object
into a three-dimensional space whose
characteristics and qualities responded
in a specific and accurate way to its
main idea. The interpretation of the
actions given was in our judgment,
always taking into account a specific
scenario or context so that both the
narrative and the design would go hand
in hand.
V E R B O F A C T I V I T I E S
& S PAT I A L E L E M E N T S
B e t t e r, t h e Ve r n a c u l a r Wa y

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 2
All this narrative had to go along with a
specific climate that would best fit the
story we wanted to tell through these
actions and this object. As a team, we
chose the following climatic conditions.
“Climate with little thermal oscillation
and pleasant temperatures. Cool and
dry winds in winter, however in summer
wind changes direction and produces
hot and humidity with torrential rains.”
C L I M AT E
B e t t e r, t h e Ve r n a c u l a r Wa y

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 2 B e t t e r, t h e Ve r n a c u l a r Wa y

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Slabs Joinery Detail
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 2
Roof Structure & Pipe Detail
B e t t e r, t h e Ve r n a c u l a r Wa y

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 2
Handrail / Clothesline Detail
Internal Corridor View
B e t t e r, t h e Ve r n a c u l a r Wa y

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 2 B e t t e r, t h e Ve r n a c u l a r Wa y

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Prior to modern architecture, public space had been approached from different
perspectives in relation to collective housing. From not being part of it, but
rather private, to being completely public and meaningless. Nowadays, the
relationship of the street, the square, the park as an extension of the dwelling
is unquestionable. Hrvoje Njiric’s workshop was an opportunity to suture a
problem of public space in the neighborhood of Kira, in Split, Croatia, by means
of a housing complex. Both programs, housing and public space, overlapped
forming different layers on the site.
The work accomplished, which included two daily submissions, made possible
a constant update of the proposals, where all the possibilities or operations that
would determine the adequate development of the subject were discussed
and approached in a dynamic way. In our case, the proposal focused on
understanding the context, the existing dwellings, its intermediate spaces
and courtyards, which articulated an urban structure enriched with interstices
and common spaces. The existing spatial configuration was key in the design
of the typologies, which tried to emulate this “imperfect” character, yet full of
richness in their communal spaces, without the planning that often rigidifies
and reduces all possible design operations.
However, once the housing problem had been solved, the question remained
as to how this new housing complex would contribute to the connections of
its surroundings through public space. Therefore, in order to increase the value
of the proposal, a walkable roof was proposed, a shell that wraps around the
houses that not only provides privacy in the lower part, but also expands the
public space in the upper part of the building. This operation allowed us to
maintain the space of the land as the center of the urban complex, blending in
with the existing topography of the site.
This exercise allowed us to reflect on the dissolution of the limits between
housing and urban space, its integration and the exploration of the qualities of
the envelope, not only as a vertical wall that relates the interior and exterior of
the building, but also as a shell that covers everything and from its capillarity,
allows us to dilute the border between the public and the private.
Team:
Borja Martínez-Alcalá, Karol Díaz, Suzane Kteich.
Ordinariness and Life
Lead professor: Hvroje Njiric
Public Space as Main
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 3
Assistant profesor: Esperanza Campaña

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 3
Site View of Kila, Croatia
As found
Volumetric Abstraction
The task is focused on social 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.
The sprawl condition of the existing dwellings in the immediate context set
the premises for the implantation of the proposal. The project works in layers,
understanding not only their different functions but also their transformations
over time.
The project is percieved as a big shell that acts not only as a roof that
in its bottom part unifies the housing units creating intermediate
spaces that encourage community activities, but also in its upper part it
functions as a public space for the nearby dwellings in the neighborhood.
This radical gesture, a shell as a roof, blends in with the pronounced topography
of the site and reinforces the integration of the proposed housing units in the
existing urban fabric.
P R O J E C T D E S C R I P T I O N
P u b l i c S p a c e a s M a i n

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|e| shell : can last for 30-50 years
|d| scenery : changes every 5 years
|c| grid
|b| topography
|a| site : eternal
social group #1
social group #2
Shearing Layers
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 3
Shell as Roof, Roof as a Public Space
P u b l i c S p a c e a s M a i n

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 3 P u b l i c S p a c e a s M a i n

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 3 P u b l i c S p a c e a s M a i n

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 3 P u b l i c S p a c e a s M a i n

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It is inevitable that in the eyes of architects, the recognition of the place makes
them see multiple possibilities, which from different perspectives try to improve
their dynamics through an architectural object. Our approach is usually visualizing
the built object, often limiting our perspective, in front of the impulse to design.
The Allison Brooks workshop confronted us with a site where, although there
were no architectural elements to modify, there was a neighborhood dynamic
in which the community, through their own organization, had given meaning to
the space without a built project, using it for their communal good. It is unusual
to find these enclaves in large cities, especially in the city of Madrid which is highly
densified.
My first impression, precisely, questioned both visions: On the one hand, the
eagerness to design, and at the same time, the non-intervention as an action
against the space naturally colonized by its inhabitants. In my case, this second
position took on an essential meaning, the resistance of the neighbors and their
insistence that without architecture the space was more alive than in other
squares, parks or public spaces in the city.
Our team’s proposal agreed that the best intervention was a silent, almost
imperceptible one that would protect this space of resistance, maintaining the
existing activities, and at the same time generating a scaffolding system for the
façade, which would not only serve as an envelope for the housing program, but
also as a front and protector of the neighborhood park. This main support, which
served as protection and shelter for the public and existing activities of the park,
was also intended, with minimal intervention, to be a blank sheet on which the
neighborhood could act and modify according to the needs of the time.
The project presented at the workshop, under the motto “work in progress...”,
tried to detach itself from the architectural object as the only possible strategy in
the programmatic solutions of the inhabitants and to learn from the minimum,
when it is reasonable or not the intervention of the place, putting in value the
pre-existence, in this case not material, but alive, human and collective of the
inhabitant.
Team:
Andrés Solano, Borja Martínez-Alcalá, Joaquín Ipince
Scaffolding Corrala
Lead professor: Alison Brooks
Let’s leave it as it is, as a work in progress...
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4
Assistant profesor: Alejandro de Miguel Solano

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4
To design in a space like ‘Esto Es Una Plaza’, a dynamic urban space in a dense
and small neighbourhood supporting an active community, implies being very
thoughtful on how to integrate the Architecture in the existing environment.
In order to intervene adequately, we believe it is necessary to study in depth the
different layers of history present in plot and the neighbourhood of Lavapies. From
the Corrala, as an archetype of traditional dense housing from the 19th century
to the physical presence of a century old silver factory present in the site and the
more contemporary community appropiation of its abandoned remnants. Our
intervention is one more layer of its history and we need to understand the role it
needs to play, the respect for the existing and the opportunities this present for
Architecture.
The Corrala is a high-density typology, which has historically pushed the
boundaries of the small dwelling typology, as well as maximized the functions
of shared courtyards for circulation, lighting, ventilation, shared uses, and
community life. While the Corrala has taken liveability conditions to an extreme
and many times has failed, we believe it presents many conditions of interest.
The shared courtyard with interior balconies is a distribution space that has
the potential to integrate public space with the dwellings in a subtle, day-to-
day use. The galleries can be interpreted as an interlude between interior and
exterior spatiality. The structure, with its simplicity in organisation and material
sense (with a solid base and lightweight frame) can serve as a flexible support for
different and new activities.
The public space as a support for a community should continue to exist in the
project at street level and maintaining the main pre-existing vegetation. The
thick brick wall that encloses the wall has been there for more than a hundred
years and it should also stay in place. Finally and most importantly, the activities
that bring neighbours together should be preserved and used to activate the
project’s common spaces. Some of which have great potential to give the project
a unique character.
M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T
L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .

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Street View of La Corrala de Tribulete
National Monument in 1977
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Side View of La Corrala Tribulete
Author: Igor Romero
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Plan of Madrid, 1874
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4
Existent Historic Wall
Source: Marivi Ibarrola, 1983
L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .

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Organisational Plan
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4
Plot 1: 377 m2
Plot 2: 1 760 m2
Historical Wall: 105 lm
S I T E C O N D I T I O N S
L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .

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intervene only 15% of Plot 2
intervene 100% of Plot 1
+ give back extra communal area
keep the park as it is
keep the trees
keep the historical wall
S I T E S T R AT E G I E S
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4 L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .
Circulation Diagram

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Housing Access
Shop
Services
Apt
Apt
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Ground Floor
Existing Community Park
Park Access
L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4
Apt
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Housing Common Spaces
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Typical Floor
Communal Spaces
L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4 L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .
Transversal Section

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4 L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .
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Housing Units Detailed Section
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4
Housing Facade Detail
L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4 L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 4 L e t ’ s l e a v e i t a s i t i s , a s a w o r k i n p r o g r e s s . . .

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Unlike other workshops, where the points of view and perspectives opened
up architectural possibilities and variations throughout the team proposals,
Dietmar Eberle’s exercise was carried out on an individual approach.
During the process of the commission, three plots, with completely differente
scales, qualities and contexts, were analyzed and dimensioned. Nevertheless,
the diversity of scales, projecting from well-defined sites to completely open
spaces, made it difficult to address the specific architectural problem of one
or the other, which resulted in not having the necessary reflection, to be
discarded.
The final proposal presented, a site in the neighborhood of La Latina that had
been previously studied, understanding its scale, the front of the property, its
depth, connection with the other buildings and interior courtyards, tried to
incorporate the housing subject and its density increase. Given more time, I
would appreciated goin in depth about aspects like the depth of the housing
typologies, their relationship with the exterior, its changes through time,
among others.
In my opinion, although during the development of this workshop the
practical and functional intervention was addressed in different design
options, I am left with the desire to have had the time to delve into the
concept of “the infilling housing”.
Everyday Architecture
Lead professor: Dietmar Eberle
The Inf ill Housing
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 5
Assistant profesor: Alberto Nicolau

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 5
Exploded Axonometric
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shell
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partition walls
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post & beam structure
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inmediate context
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implantation
T h e I n f i l l H o u s i n g
Typical Floor Plan

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Front Facade Detail
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 5
Detailed Section
T h e I n f i l l H o u s i n g

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 5 T h e I n f i l l H o u s i n g

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The workshop departs from the design of a prototype, located on the coast of
Barcelona, capable of maintaining its climatic qualities in winter as well as in
summer. Initially, this thermodynamic diagram, as we used to call it, had to
work as a living space built with materials taking into account its sustainable
metabolism. Once this prototype was perfected, it had to be repeated in the
way that all the thermodynamic concepts used would be replicated to form a
commune.
The action of repeating this thermodynamic diagram aims to optimize and
enhance its climatic qualities by leveraging the climatic advantages of being
placed together. Seen from a collective activity point of view, the commune
had to house not only living spaces, but also community gathering spaces for
recreation as well as spaces for possible economic activity. The operation of
replication or repetition is only successful if the porosity between the different
diagrams is maintained, allowing constant cross ventilation, natural lighting
to all units and exposure to exterior views. These not only ensured the climatic
quality of all the spaces, but also the comfort qualities in all their atmospheres.
The development of this exercise transcended different scales: from the
prototype to the commune, from the individual to the collective, where
each design decision responded to a specific climate condition and human
interaction with the built space. The result was a climatic commune, a
repetition of prototypes, capable of hosting a symbiotic community among its
own diagrams.
Team:
Andrew Georges, Carolina Basilis, Gaurav Chordia, Isabella Pineda.
The Mediterranean is not a Myth
Lead professor: Javier García-Germán
Prototype Repetition
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This workshop departs from the structural connection that exists between the
climate of a given location and the culture unfolded by its inhabitants. 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.
The objective was 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, defining a set of sources and sinks required to induce specific
atmospheric situations.
We started exploring the climate of the Mediterranean coast and the human
physiological adaptation to this climatic situation, then we had to design an
indoor climate room applying all the knowledge from the previous exercise.
Finally, we implemented all these strategies on a much larger scale that
could accommodate a comune showing how collective housing can adapt to
climatically-inflected inhabitation patterns.
A S S I G N M E N T
R e f l e c t i o n , 0 6 P r o t o t y p e R e p e t i t i o n

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 6
Thermodynamic Diagram of Indoor Situation
P r o t o t y p e R e p e t i t i o n
Thermodynamic Diagram of Outoor Situation

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R e f l e c t i o n , 0 6
¡HOLA!
EXTRACTION
ROTATION
WINTER & SUMMER SPACES
ELEVATION
USES
OPEN SPACE
PROTOTYPE
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Commune Design Process
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MAIN DIAGRAM
VARIATIONS
SCALE
POROSITY
MASSING
Commune View from Southwest
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AF TERNOON SUN
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Schiographical Analysis of the Built Form
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Internal Views of the Commune Ground Floor View of the Commune
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The workshop hypothesised what happens when an existing collective
housing building (Caracol Building by Estudio Herreros) is relocated to
another place, with a completely opposite climate, while changing its
user for a specific social group. As a team, all from different countries and
climates, we approached the development of the proposal in an extreme cold
climate, specifically in Finland. This meant a challenge for all of us, as we felt
unfamiliar to the thermal conditions found in countries with this particularity.
The climate requirement and the choice of Finland as a location was chosen
on the basis of the following premises: It is one of the coldest countries in
the world where the lowest temperatures reach -50° Celsius in the north; At
user level, it has one of the highest rates of gender violence against women,
understaing the need for s safe space to alocate thsi victims; and in terms of
programmatic possibilities, it maintains a large number of operations linked
to the technology sector which are constantly looking for young people to
work in the sector. These conditions determined the choice of the Nordic
country for the location of the Caracol Building, so that it could function as
a shelter and rehabilitation centre for women victims of gender violence.
The constructive approach of the building was developed using
industrialised and prefabricated systems. The modulation and partitioning
of the building’s elements was carried out taking into account the current
dimensions and characteristics of the Caracol building, while making the
necessary modifications to the industrialised system and the breakdown
in order to achieve maximum efficiency. As a result, the building was
designed with cross-laminated timber (CLT), a material produced in the
local Finnish industry, with the advantage of being fast in construction and
assembly as well as requiring less manpower, having a significant impact
on sustainability in all phases of the project from design to execution.
The industrialized support system, a “Colder, Exploded, Caracol”, proved to be
an incubator of safe and secure spaces for the intended user, the women. For
me, there would never have been enough time to develop all the topics that
were discussed, but it would have been a total pleasure to be able to do so.
Team:
Cristhian Haro, Ishan Goyal, Paloma Allende
Caracol, a Shelter for Women
Lead professors:
Archie Campbell, David Castro, Diego García-Setién, Ignacio Solla
Colder, Exploded, Caracol
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Caracol Building by Estudio Herreros
C o l d e r, E x p l o d e d , C a r a c o l
The exercise aims to understand the following: the relationship between the
construction system of a building and the climate in which it is located and the
possibilities of industrialization with the resources available in a specific context
and the environmental implications that such management may have.
The collective housing project, Edificio Caracol by Estudio Herreros, was taken
as a reference to analyze the general strategies under which it was conceived,
the proposed construction system, the materials used and the programmatic
organization of the building.
As a next operation, it was decided not only to relocate the building and to
experiment the transformation of the building’s initial qualities from a hot climate
to a cold climate, but also to transform it into a fully industrialized construction
true to the climatic, economic and social conditions of the new location.
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CARACOL BUILDING IN BARCELONA
NEW LOCATION IN FINLAND
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2. 2D Slab Panel
3. 2D Wood Trussers
4. Custom Wood Railling
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2. Concrete Layer / Radiant Heating
System
3. Acoustic Panel
4. CLT Solid Panel
5. Wood Trussers
6. False Ceiling
7. Wood Railling
8. Service Core / CLT 2D Panels
9. Wall Wood Finish
10. Drywall Wooden Structure
11. Wood Bench
12. Interior Wood Finish
13. Laminated Wood Structure
14. Mineral Wool Insulation
15. Exterior Panel
16. Control Layers
17. Extra Mineral Wool Insulation
18. Steel Structure
19. GRC Panels
20. Custom Windows
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Unit Type A
existent proposed
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2D Facade Panel Detail
GRC Panel in elevation
Aluminum Framework
External Mineral Wool Insulation Layer
Internal Mineral Wool Insulation Layer
Triple Glazed Glazing
Metal Coping
GRC Panel
Control Layers
Exterior CLT Panel
CLT Load Bearing Wall Panel
Interior Finish
Anchor Metal Plate
Timber Floor Truss
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Connection Detail of Timber Floor Truss with Service Core Module & Precast Column
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Prefab CLT Service core 3D module
Floor Adhesive
Radiant Floor Heating Tube
CLT Panel
Floor Finish
Concrete Toping
Acoustic Insulation
Timber Floor Truss
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drinking water system
sewage system
facilities ducts
rainwater collection system
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The workshop was based on the analysis and development of the Campamento
neighbourhood, located in a sector of a former military base. The site, well
connected to the rest of Madrid, is crossed by the A5 motorway, which creates an
edge limiting the relationship with the adjacent neighbourhood of La Latina.
The aim of the proposal was to provide housing and mixed-use buildings in the
neighbourhood,inordertoenhancethecharacteristicsofthesitebyrefurbishing
and planning infrastructure that would encourage the development of the site.
As a design strategy, a mapping of all the perimeters that articulated the
development of the buildings of the military base was carried out, proposing
the implementation in these traces of the pre-existing, in which collective
housing, mixed-use equipment, green areas and recreational spaces,
among others, were incorporated. At the same time, the continuity of the
axes that intersect the edge of the A5 between Campamento and La Latina
is studied, suggesting the connection of both neighbourhoods by means
of different road and urban operations, mostly by undergrounding the A5
motorway. In addition to these operations, a green corridor is being created
to connect different natural parks in the metropolitan area of Madrid.
On a macro-urban scale, the proposal proposes the enhancement of the pre-
existence of the military base, reinterpreting its block layout and supporting the
design of the new buildings and their programmes of use. The development
of this exercise allowed us to investigate the timeline of the changes that occur
on a territory, and how the footprint of other urban uses can be studied and
reinterpreted, generating a mixture between the construction of the current
neighbourhood and its past, as well as the preliminary relations that existed
between the territories adjacent to it.
Team:
Anastasia Lizardou, Andrew Georges, Jorge Sánchez
Campamento Belongs to La Latina
Lead professor: José María Ezquiaga
Military Memory Reuse
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Metropolitan Area of Madrid
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between various types of nodes
well conected but with a heavy border
good access to the rest of the city
Findings, Diagnose, Analysis
health and education capacity
sports centers but no cultural facilities
between three unconnected parks
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Population
Population by nationality
Percentage of population by age
Percentage of population by gender
Demographics
Business by activities
Business by proximity
Census 2020 Information
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respect & reuse of existing footprints
highway as a link between latina and campamento
cultural hub and energy supply
General Strategies
continuity of main axes and urban morphology
highway as a infrastructural spine
connecting green corridor
General Strategies
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Learning From Army Buildings - Infills And Voids
strongly delimitated plot
linear and around courtyard
green around buildings
axial continuous access by car
Re Interpretation Of The Army Group Of Buildings
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...Campamento now belongs to La Latina
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...using the memory footprints in many different ways...
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NEW WEST EXTENSION
HOUSING
5-6 stories
67.237 sqm
SOUTH EXTENSION
MIXED USES
Commercial GF & Housing
3-5 stories
156.524 sqm
CULTURAL HUB & ENERGY FACILITIES
40.000 sqm
EAST EXTENSION
MIXED USE
Commercial GF & Housing
3-5 stories
83.723 sqm
GREEN CORRIDOR
PUBLIC SPACE
40.000 sqm
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