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MCH2022

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“ Architecture is measured against the past,
you build in the present,
and try to imagine the future” .
Richard Rogers

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¿What else could housing be?

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The Master of Architecture in Collective Housing, is a postgraduate full-time
international professional program of advanced architecture design in cities
and housing presented by Universidad Politectnica de Madrid (UPM) and
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

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The MCH has a clear focus on housing projects, not to teach
us through experience what an ideal dwelling should look like,
but to allow us to experiment, and to test new ideas around
housing. MCH is a quest, and this book represents a year of
experimentation and iterations.
Through a series of 8 projects, which face the challenge
of creating habitable spaces, we deepen into further
interrogatives, added values, or a specific conditions that
confers to each project a particular quality of its own. The
collaborative experimentation in each process reveals cultural
and intellectual practices as diverse as the results. The
compiled projects should be taken as departure points and not
as final results; they are ideas in experimentation that continue
investigating our initial question: what else could housing be?

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¿What else could housing be?

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Index
01.
02.
03.
04.
05.
06.
07.
08. A Dialogue with the City / Eberle Workshop
A Framework for the Future / UD CS
An Urban Interlude / Low Cost Emergency
A Space for Interventions / Brooks Workshop
A Political Negotiation / Mosayebi Workshop
A Collective Task / Njiric Workshop
A Sequence of Layers Over Time / Lacaton Workshop
A Climatic Reinterpretation / Construction Technology 10-25
26-49
50-57
58-75
76-83
84-99
100-115
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A Climatic
Reinterpretation
Elevation 2400 m
Location
Specialty Leader
Atacama, Chile
I. Fernández Solla
Temperature 1 - 28° C
Area 2000 m2
Architecture must always take as one of its starting points an
attempt to respond appropriately to the climatic conditions.
In order to provide comfort to users in each space, to optimize
energetic needs, and to achieve an appropriate integration in
each context.
This project explores a radical climatic adaptation, by proposing
to bring the Caracol building by Herreros studio from Barcelona to
theAtacamadesertinChile.Thearidclimate,extremetemperature
variations, and the vast sandy landscape define a proposal that
seeks to accommodate the astronomers of Atacama’s Extremely
Large Telescope.
How does the project react to it’s new location? By acknowledging
a bioclimatic response, while studying materials, textures and
forms that establish a dialogue with it’s new landscape.
Construction Technology
S.01
A Climatic Reinterpretation

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A Framework
For the Future
Elevation 600 m
Location
Specialty Leader
Madrid, Spain
J.M Ezquiaga
Area 2250000 m2
The Campamento district in the south-east of the city of Madrid
is undergoing a process of redevelopment due to a change of
land use over multiple extensive areas. This process represents
a possibility for large-scale contemporary urban development,
with hundreds of hectares in considerable proximity to the city
centre.
As a starting point, the territory, demographics and history of this
area are analysed in order to establish potential opportunities
and propose an urban infrastructure capable of receiving more
than 10,000 new homes, generating 10,000 new jobs, as well as
promoting spaces for sports, leisure, culture, commerce, and
integrating into a transport network.
However, the project seeks to make the most of this opportunity
by imagining what a future city could be like, capable of hosting
a century of development in infrastructure, energy and transport
technologies. Integrating future activities with the traditional
urban lifestyle, and thus establishing an exercise in urban
exploration.
Urban Design City Sciences
S.02
A Framework for the Future

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How future cities are being shaped?
Thenewsustainablecityprojects beingdevelopedaremoreoften
than not abstract projections, with no specific relationship to their
pre-existing environment. They are clean-slate, self-absorbed
projects, capable of being relocated anywhere in the world
because they are not characteristic of any locality. India, China,
JapanandSaudiArabiaseemtobedrivingthisapproachtothecity.
It is clear that this logic of intervention does not correspond
at all to a city like Madrid, loaded with an improtant historical
heritage in its territory and architecture, and proud of its history.
An intervention of this type in Madrid must engage in dialogue
with the adjacent neighbourhoods, with the urban lifestyle and
traditions of the city. An intervention in Madrid must look forward
to the future while remembering the past at the same time.

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Amaravati, India.
Norman Foster
NBBJ
Bjarke Ingels
NEOM
NEOM
Net City, China.
Woven City, Japan.
The Line, Saudi Arabia.
Oxagon, Saudi Arabia.

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6 Minutes City
500 m
Neighborhood
Connectivity
Neighborhood
Network
Traditional
Dispersed Neighborhood
Compact
Mixed Use Neighborhood
Mixed Use
Neighborhood Overlaping
Work
Work
Leisure
Leisure
Living
Living
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network
Secondary
pederestian streets
Secondary
pederestian streets
Main Street
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UndergroundVehicular
infraestructure
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infraestructure

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1. Transport Network
2. Land Use
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Commerce
Residential
Urb Farming
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The intervention for Campamento took as its starting point
developing diferentiated neighbourhoods with distinct
characteristics to allow for a better coupling with the pre-existing
urbanfabric. Disconnectedurbanareas,underusedpublicspaces,
and existing urban equipment are all taken as opportunities to
propose a connection between the memory of each location and
the proposed intervention.
As a result of this analysis, five neighbourhoods with different
characters are proposed: urban farming, culture and crafts,
industrial, sports, and commercial - finnancial.

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Characterised by its integration between urban area and landscape. Its
predominant use is agricultural production within the city. It is a neighbourhood
of technological innovation and productive supply.
Cultural and Sports
Urban Density
Housing
Natural
Commercial Tech
Energy Production
Urban Farmming Neighborhood

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Cultural and Sports
Urban Density
Housing
Natural
Commercial Tech
Energy Production
Characterised by a smaller scale urban fabric related to older neighborhoods,
and a mixed use between housing, productive atiers and cultural facilities.
Functions as articulator between past and future.
Culture and Crafts Neighborhood

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Cultural and Sports
Urban Density
Housing
Natural
Commercial Tech
Energy Production
Characterised by its synergic interaction with urban farming, it is comformed
by larger blocks and concentration of larger services and shops, capable of
developing industrial networks in the area.
Industrial Neighborhood

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Cultural and Sports
Urban Density
Housing
Natural
Commercial Tech
Energy Production
Characterised by a use focused on sports, leisure and cultural programmes, it
articulates different areas of Campamento with the Aluche Municipal Sports
Centre. The development also provides smaller scale cultural and sports
facilities.
Sports Neighborhood

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Characterised by it’s financial and commercial use, it works in synergy with the
developmentandinnovationoftheurbanfarmingareas,andwiththeresidential
character of the cultural crafts neighborhood.
Cultural and Sports
Urban Density
Housing
Natural
Commercial Tech
Energy Production
Commercial - Financial Neighborhood

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Underground
Photovoltaics
Energy Storage
Electric Bus
STAGE 1
The Sustainable City (2020 - 2030)

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round Tunnel
Metro Line
Geothermal System
Atmospheric Sensor
Smart Traffic Lights
Smart Lighting
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Facades
CO2 Capture Bio - Fuels
Ecosystem Sensor
Internet of Things
AI Micro Mobility
STAGE 2
The Smart City (2030 - 2050)

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Controlled Airspace
Urban Data Central
Water Sensor
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Robotic Public
Services
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The Autonomous City (2050 - 2100)

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Urban Aerial Mobility
Smart Pavement
Ultra Speed
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An Urban
Interlude
Elevation 760 m
Location
Specialty Leader
Sao Paulo, Brazil
C. Muniz
Area 25000 m2
The Campamento district in the south-east of the city of Madrid
is undergoing a process of redevelopment due to a change of
land use over multiple extensive areas. This process represents
a possibility for large-scale contemporary urban development,
with hundreds of hectares in considerable proximity to the city
centre.
As a starting point, the territory, demographics and history of this
area are analysed in order to establish potential opportunities
and propose an urban infrastructure capable of receiving more
than 10,000 new homes, generating 10,000 new jobs, as well as
promoting spaces for sports, leisure, culture, commerce, and
integrating into a transport network.
However, the project seeks to make the most of this opportunity
by imagining what a future city could be like, capable of hosting
a century of development in infrastructure, energy and transport
technologies. Integrating future activities with the traditional
urban lifestyle, and thus establishing an exercise in urban
exploration.
Low Cost and Emergency Housing
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An Urban Interlude

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In a favela such as Chacara Florida, most of the housing has
been built informally, often on land that does not have basic
services such as water, sewage or electricity. For this reason,
the infrastructure proposed for a project of these characteristics
should be seen as an extension or complement to the housing,
providing uses that many lack.
Public infrastructure stations with toilets, community kitchens
and trading markets complement a network of public spaces that
encourage healthy urban communities.

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A Space
For Interventions
Elevation 600 m
Location
Workshop Leader
Madrid, Spain
A. Brooks
Area 780 m2
Each city has its own way of living, its own historical heritage,
faces a particular climate, and has material resources local to the
region. Those conditioning factors have meant that in many cities
the architectural response configures an optimal archetype. In
Madrid’s pre industrial age this used to be the corrala, a narrow,
elongatedtypology,4to7storeyshighandwithverysmalldwellings.
The challenge of this project was to intervene in a neighbourhood
where this outdated typology is quite common, and to analyse if
it’s design could be purposely adapted to contemporary needs.
The second challenge of the project was to intervene on the
grounds of the community project, Esto Es Una Plaza, a collective
that maintains the care of a collective space.
The intervention creates a housing proposal that reinterprets
the corrala, taking advantage of the leanness to occupy the
minimum necessary of the land, while proposing a scaffolding
façade facing the street that fulfils two functions: to allow Esto Es
Una Plaza to occupy this space in a way that is integrated into
the project, and to define a scale that relates to the urban profile.
The Future Corrala
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A Space for Interventions

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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 former shared
bathrooms in the courtyards at street level can today be extended
to more varied uses such as kitchens, laundries, workshops,
workspaces, among others. 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.

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Intervening in a space like ‘Esto Es Una Plaza’, an active urban
void in a dense and small neighbourhood, which also supports
a community and fulfils multiple public functions, implies solving
both the architecture and the public space in an integrated
manner.
In order to intervene adequately, we believe it is necessary to
analyse and interpret the architecture of the Corrala, as well as
the needs and activities of the community that currently occupies
the space, to see what opportunities they present.

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The public space as a support for a community should continue
to exist in the project, as far as possible at street level and
maintaining the main pre-existing vegetation. 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.

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A Political
Negotiation
Elevation 600 m
Location
Workshop Leader
Linth, Switzerland
E. Mosayebi
Temperature -15 - 25° C
Area XXX m2
Every architectural project has a political dimension. It expresses
a set of values in relation to those who and how occupy its
spaces. Architecture behaves politically through the situations
and activities it permits or restricts. In this project, the political
dimension of architecture is taken to the extremes, by setting up
the habitable space as a metaphor to a board game where you
win or lose area.
Theinfrastructureisdesignedinsuchawaythatthespacescanbe
constantly varied, can be opened or closed, extended and spread
out, or reduced to a minimum. Each level becomes a space for
political negotiation, where users finally determine how much
space they want to occupy for themselves, how much space is
free and how much they are willing to share.
Thestructureallowsnetworkpointstobeplacedalmostanywhere
on the board, the furniture forces negotiation situations between
users, while everyday objects become territorial markers. Around
the game of occupation, the perimetral circulation corridor
creates a space of truce, a ‘time out’.
Domestic Fragments
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A Political Negotiation

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A Collective
Task
Elevation 40 m
Location
Workshop Leader
Split, Croatia
H. Njiric
Area 4000 m2
Architecture can often explore it’s social dimension with
participatory approaches during the design, construction and
management stages of the buildings. In this project, the intention
to propose low-cost housing for the community of shipbuilders in
the Croatian port city of Split took as its starting point the use of
their knowledge as a collective endeavour.
The shipyard builders have skills in woodworking, metal welding
and electrical work. If we take a closer look at how ships are
usually built, we can see that it is a long-term process in which
sections are often stacked next to each other. The project is
based on this construction logic as an initial structure into which
different parts of the dwellings can be stacked, like sections of a
ship. In this way,the construction system aims to make the most
of the capacity of collective work to create a complex of dwellings.
Ordinariness and Life
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The craft of shipbuilding has been systematically worked out,
from ancient times to the present day, as a process of stacking
frames, or its parallel in architecture: working in sections.
Whether in wood or steel, frames are often stacked within a
system and joined together by secondary elements. Shipbuilding
is a long term collaborative process in multiples stages.

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Initial Idea: Building like Shipyards
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1. 15 cm concrete plinth
2. 20 cm CLT slabs
3. Polish finished CLT
4. I-section 20 xcm x 15 cm
5. Steel frame of I-section 30 cm x 15 cm
6. Dry wall 15 cm
7. Wooden framed windows
8. Drywall internal partition 10 cm
9. Internal 10 cm core wall with tiling
10. Temporary canvas shading
11. Solar panels fit into frame
12.Framework
13. Timber stud frame
14. Insulation infill layer
15. Moisture resistant gymsum board
16. Tiling finish
17. Particle board layer
18. Gypsum panel
19. Water resistant paint coating
20. Resin polish finish (up to each user)
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A Sequence of
Layers Over Time
Elevation 400 m
Location
Workshop Leader
Zurich, Switzerland
A. Lacaton
Area 20 000 m2
One of architecture’s greatest challenges is to design on a pre-
existing stratum with different characteristics to contemporary
ones. Interestingly, in the effort to adopt strategies in favour of
urban sustainability, it will happen more and more frequently
that new projects will take a pre-existence as a starting point.
Thisisthecaseoftheprojectproposedforaformerrailwayfactory
in Zurich to incorporate a large housing complex. The former
factory, located within a district that is currently transforming its
industrial character into a mixed-use neighbourhood attracting
new young residents, has an industrial plant on the first level, a
historical legacy of industrial culture.
The proposal uses the unique character of the first industrial
plant to propose a system of units that can take different uses,
from housing to workspaces. While the residential buildings
are located above the industrial buildings, leaving a separation
distance between the two. In this case, construction is built over
the pre-existing buildings, avoiding affecting them as little as
possible.
Housing and Reuse
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A Sequence of Layers Over Time

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The only constant in contemporary society is change
Globalization, pandemics, isolation, disruptive technologies, and
economic crisis constantly force people to adapt to daily changes.
For cities and housing to meet the expectations of an ever-
changing society, they should share the same adaptative capacity
as their users through time.
Housing should allow flexibility and adaptiveness, to become
an extension of who we are and how we live, thus reflecting our
identity and hosting our needs.
Housing shouldn´t feel temporary, it should be flexible enough
to keep the pace with us, as we constantly change, grow, and
develop. Housing should give freedom for intimacy without
isolating inhabitants. It should provide comfort for the ways of
living of different individuals, as well as it should reinforce the
collectiveness and connection with its surroundings.

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Housing - Industrial Complex

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Ground Floor - Units in Industrial Park

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Ground Floor Units - Industrial Park

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A Dialogue
With the City
Elevation 600 m
Location
Workshop Leader
Madrid, Spain
D. Eberle
Area 650 m2
Intervening in an ancient European city requires establishing a
relationship with different stages of its history. In the same block,
memory and tradition dialogue with contemporary lifestyles.
Architecture, in a similar way, brings together buildings from
different centuries, each one being a reflection of its era in terms
of values, construction system, materiality and spatiality.
This proposal for a corner building near the centre of Madrid seeks
to test contemporary typology in contrast to the old buildings: a
mobile façade that reflects the dynamism of the residents’ use.
A system that aims to show through architecture the vibrant
attitude of the younger generations.
Mobile wooden panels framed in a lightweight metal structure
move through a system of rails fixed to the slabs to allow freedom
of configurations. The balcony space can either appear as an
open or contained space depending on the user.
City of Growth
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A Dialogue With the City

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A Climatic
Reinterpration
Specialty /
Construction Technology
Teachers /
Ignacio Fernández-Solla
Archie Campbell
David Castro
Diego García-Setién
Team /
Andrés Solano
Jorge Sánchez
Bettina Kagelmacher
An Urban
Interlude
Specialty /
Low Cost Emergency Housing
Teachers /
Cristiane Muniz
Fernando Viegas
Team /
Felipe Santamaría
Carolina Basilis
Nayanatara Tampi
A Framework for
The Future
Specialty /
Urban Design City Sciences
Teachers /
Jose María Ezquiaga
Gemma Peribáñez
Julia Landáburu
Susana Isabel
Team /
Alexandre De Rungs
Cristhian Haro
Teresita Campino
Francisco Heredia
A Space for
Interventions
Workshop /
The Future Corrala
Teachers /
Allison Brooks
Alejandro De Miguel
Team /
Ana Victoria Ottenwalder
Andrés Solano
Borja Martínez-Alcalá

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A Political
Intervention
Workshop /
Domestic Fragments
Teachers /
Eli Mosayebi
Alvaro M. Fidalgo
Team /
Andrew Georges
Jorge Sánchez
A Sequence of
Layers Over Time
Workshop /
Housing and Reuse
Teachers /
Anne Lacaton
Diego García-Setién
Team /
Felipe Santamaría
Paloma Allende
Suzanne Kteich
A Collective
Task
Workshop /
Ordinariness and Life
Teachers /
Hrvoje Njiric
Esperanza Campaña
Team /
Nayanatara Tampi
Flavia Guimaraes
Cristhian Haro
Isabella Pineda
A Dialogue With
The City
Workshop /
City of Growth
Teachers /
Dietmar Eberle
Team /
Individual

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