Final master work

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something
PE
DRA
YES!
2020
alvaro’s portfolio

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say hi_
2020

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THE BLACK RECTANGLE MEANS A CHANGE OF PROJECT
{MESS MAGAZINE STYLE}

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INDEX
{workshops}
7. I stole Mariana’s Façade
6. Blurring Boundaries
5. Cave Study Houses
4. Un-locked in the periphery
3. Exploring layouts
2. HomeSwap
w1. Nets
{specialties}
D. San Diego
C. Eyja Ljossins
B. Bienvenido
A. Atmospheres
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MCH

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MCH
WO
RK-
SHOP
{S}

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i stole Mariana’s façade
I STOLE | 2020 | MADRID{ES} intervening scales in the tissue, with Dietmar Eberle {BaumschlagerEberle}
MARIANA’S FAÇADE team: Mariana Sandoval, José Ignacio Valdez, Mariam Ghaznavi
STRUCTURE LAYOUT
I S
MA
FAÇ

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An approach to three different scales and times in the city of Madrid from three different issues of project. The exer-
cise consists in the use and interpretation of the work of others, in order to integrate volumetry, structure and façade
in one of these options, presenting the info in a reasonable, canonical and clear way.
portfolio | 2020
i stole Mariana’s façade
ELEVATION
FLOOR PLANCROSS SECTION
STOLE
ARIANA’S
ÇADE

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portfolio | 2020
blurring boundaries

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BLURRING
BOUNDARIES

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blurring boundaries
BLURRING | 2020 | MADRID{ES} seeking for a city re-balance, with Andrea Deplazes {MCH co-director}
BOUNDARIES team: Malena Ramos, Pitu Cachau, Miguel Valle
EXISTING FLOOR PLAN
ANALYSIS_WHAT TO BALANCE

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Different layers of history overlap onto each other, creating some situations of imbalance in the city. Our scientific
approach seeks to find the right number in a case study of isolated block in a park. By these addition, substraction,
bottom-up and top-down operations, we give back to Madrid a new Nolli, a balance of quality, intensity and density.
NEW FLOOR PLAN
1. 2. 3.
4. 5.
BLURRING
BOUNDARIESportfolio | 2020
blurring boundaries
BLURRING
BOUNDARIES
INTERVENTION_STEPS

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blurring boundaries
ABOUT THE EXISTING

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blurring boundaries
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BLURRING
BOUNDARIES
ABOUT THE PROCESS

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NEW GROUNDFLOOR PLAN
NEW NOLLI:
USING THE PUBLIC/
PRIVATE NICHES

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portfolio | 2020
cave study houses
CAVE STUDY | 2020 | BARCELONA {ES} An urban hybrid prototype, with Coll+Leclerc Arquitectos
HOUSES team: Valia Anagnostopolou, Juan Felipe Quiñonez
NAKED SHIGERU
fluid space
reconfigurable
natural light
N-ed SOU
different scales
reprogrammable
transitional
spaces
SEA RANCHED CHARLES
double height
multi-conditions
wooden construction
NAKED ÁLVARO
N-ed VALIA
SEA RANCHED JUAN FELIPE
REFS 100sqm PROTOTYPES

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S
portfolio | 2020
cave study houses
A project consisting in the insertion of previously developed prototypes on top of a metro station for the consequent de-
velopment of a hybrid; a superposition of housing landscapes with collective spaces for both private and public uses.
CAVE
STUDY
HOUSES
We have three references and a ‘non-empty site’ in Barce-
lona; a 20x20x20 cube on top of the Fontana metro station,
with only two open façades facing South. Our main con-
cern is about light, about ventilation, about how to deal with
such a deep dimension. We learnt from Naked, N and Sea
Ranch houses that we can atomise the space to introduce
these features in the center of the building. By breaking into
pieces the conventional layers, we blur the limits between
public and private, both in horizontal and vertical, so as
to locate the collective/common programme in the in-be-
tweens, in this cavernous patio. We foster the movement,
the meeting, the mix of uses, and create a changing envi-
ronment that can lead to a new sense of community in the
vertical neighbourhood.
The inner volumetry is the outcome of stacking CLT braced
boxes; three boxes, three dimensions, so three ways of li-
ving, cohabitating like in Walden 7. We are based on our
reference prototypes and, by a 90º rotation of the layout in
each level, we always have a roof/terrace to throw out some
furniture and start taking up the corners. The boxes connect
in every direction, sometimes by staircases in the façade,
some others by a platform or even a bridge; everything ha-
ppens in the cave, naturally ventilated and illuminated.
Either way, to make it work, we paid a special attention to
the perimeter, which gained a certain size to host services
and act as a buffer zone, our wild card. We use this 1,50
meters to receive the main staircase and elevator, as well
as balconies to create a climatic space for the units facing
south; it is also the correct dimension to manage a setback
that lets us take some air from party walls. This means we
respect the game of boxes moving to the border everything,
and activating the façade differently in a dialogue with the
metro entrance and streets arriving. This relation with the
existing is also present in the structural matter. We reinforce
the structure of the metro station and complement it with a
couple of supports in the perimeter. This decision guaran-
tees the correct transition of forces, resting the new building
on a triangular structure flying over the station’s rooftop,
that becomes an open collective green space to relocate
the cafeteria we removed from the ground floor to build the
ramp that connects both first public storeys.
We want the people to move freely and conquer every cor-
ner, so a wide ramp to reach the coworking storey, throu-
gh the transitional green space, is key. The façades also
express this movement by accordion translucent filters and
lattices that wrap the volume; the big collective voids of the
cave, in turn, trim this surface, so the cave often reveals its
secrets and inhabitant’s activities.
It is about , to sum up, the modern expression of the crazy
new types of humans in Barcelona, but in the end, the hu-
man back to the cave.
NAKED N SEA RANCH CAVE

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cave study houses
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PUBLIC SPACE
SEMI-PUBLIC SPACE
COMMON SPACE
PRIVATE SPACE

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cave study houses
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CAVE
STUDY
HOUSES

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cave study houses
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machine

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cave study houses
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CAVE
STUDY
HOUSES

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this was fontana mix, an overlap
based on john cage ‘58

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pping system

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professors at
school once told
me Architecture is
like pizza, you only
need a few
ingredients to make
a good one_
i like pizza

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MCH

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un-locked in the periphery
UN-LOCKED | 2020 | MADRID {ES} re-usable urban ecosystems, with Alison Brooks {A.Brooks Archs.}
IN THE PERIPHERY team: Juan Felipe Quiñones, Manuel Muñoz, Steven Jacovic
UN-LOCKED
IN THE
PERIPHERY
climate
buffer
acoustic
buffer
expand liveable
space
peripherical
activities
exterior installation
of shafts
animated
façade
interchangeable
plug-ins
façade
reflecting
neighbourhood
CONCEPT_WHY?

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un-locked in the periphery
OPT 1
FOR COMMON
HUMANS
OPT 2
FOR STRESSED
PEOPLE
OPT 3
FOR LITTLE CHEFS
OPT 4
FOR DUPLEX GUYS
OPT 5
FOR THE ROLLING
STONES
OPT 6
FOR THE
INTELLECTUALS
INTERCHANGEABLE PODS:
the catalogue
ROOFTOP PLAN
the pod workshop
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
Post pandemic considerations create the reality in which we need to evolve the way we use our spaces. Renova-
tion to this iconic building within Madrid, Torres Colón, which originally challenged structural norms, now informs a
solution toward the way we support each other as a system of connected communities engaged with each other.

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exploring layouts
EXPLORING | 2020 | ZAGREB {HR} overcoming clichés in housing, with Hrvoje Njiric {Njiric+arhitekti}
LAYOUTS team: Juan Cruz Barrionuevo, Mariana Sandoval
2.00
EXPLORING
LAYOUTS
The THICK
plan
NEGOTIATION
AND PATIOS
The REGULAR
plan
SHARING
CELLS

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exploring layouts
A critique of usual shortcomings in housing market, we were asked to tackle and rework long-established clichés,
turning them into new qualities. The thick, the reversible, the open, the petrified, the irregular...how to deal?
The PETRIFIED
plan
HOUSE IN A
HOUSE
The OPEN
plan
FLEXIBLE
NEIGHBOURHOOD

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exploring layouts
EXPLORING
LAYOUTS
The THICK
plan
NEGOTIATION
AND PATIOS
The REGULAR
plan
SHARING
CELLS

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exploring layouts
The PETRIFIED
plan
HOUSE IN A
HOUSE
The OPEN
plan
FLEXIBLE
NEIGHBOURHOOD

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homeswap
HOMESWAP | 2020 | ROTTERDAM {NL} the future of affordable housing, with Jacob van Rijs {MVRDV}
team: Pitu Cachau, Valia Anagnostopolou, Luis Miguel Rivera, Nourhan Rabah
+ + +1 2 3
HOMESWAP
0. basic module
GROWING SYSTEM: from only one module to infinity
VIP SERVICES: special conditions {the craving}, pay extra to book these spaces!
VIP

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homeswap
An investigation around the possibility of saving rent through a system of “home2share”, by paying the cells of space
that the user reserves. Then, the remnants are made available for people from outside for (by hour) rental.
8AM: The user is in his private space
No use of the shared space...for now
11AM: The user left the building to work
Outsiders rent the shared space as office
6PM: The user is back, he needs a living
Still free shared space for others to reserve
9PM: The user organises a party with friends
Outsiders can still rent for their own stuff
VIP

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nets
NETS | 2020 | MADRID {ES} living together_who are you?, with Amann+Cánovas+Maruri {Tas
Extremas}
KAFKA team: Malena Ramos, Audrey Umara, Elisa Cecconi, Alejo Maldonado, Fofo de la Torre.
W
DIAGRAM_private/public through time
DIAGRAM_private/public through space

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nets
We need a programme, concepts, ambitions, a diagram of functions, ways to use it, different activities happening, a
map of qualities, amounts of light or noise required, spaces connected. Levels of privacy. Sharing? Alone but con-
nected? The relation between human and technology. A co-living space, through the eyes of Kafka.
WHO ARE U
COVID-19; your thoughts?
COVID-19; your context?

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W
N
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nets
MONCLOA
CREATE THE NETWORK

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WHO ARE U
NETS
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nets
DEFINE THE PLAN
LEVELS
VEGETATION
CONNECTIONS
NODES
TECH
DOMESTICITY
RESULT_PIXEL PLAN

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nets
PROCESS OF THE DREAM
THIS IS THE CROSS SECTION

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nets
RULES OF THE DREAM

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nets

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nets
WHO ARE U
NETS

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SPE
CIAL
TIE
{S}
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1800
1800 Vallekas Bridge is built
1850 the very first draft of san diego
was done due to the railway passage
14501202
1919 METRO Starts operations
1923 METRO Vallecas station opens
1924 Rayo Vallecano soccer team starts
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sociology
SAN DIEGO | 2020 | MADRID {ES} research project in Vallecas, with Jesús Leal and Daniel Sorando
SOCIOLOGY, ECONOMY & POLITICS team: Juanjo Sánchez-Aedo, Carlos Ballesteros.
Map and table on the price per sqm. comparing districts + S.Diego Map and table on the average net area comparing districts + S.DiegoMap and table on the building ages comparing districts + S. Diego
to understand what’s going on in the most vul-
nerable neighbourhood of Madrid.
RED COLOUR
Ranked 1st position

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1970 1990
2000
1950
1953
1948 Ciudad de los Muchachos School
1950 Vallecas part of Madrid officialy
1953 Bristol Movie Teather opens
1957 Shanties are prohibited
1980 Heroin reaches the streets
1986 Rock music emerge as a movement
2004 Atocha terrorist attack affects the city
2005 San Diego becomes official before
the municipality
2018 Save The Children foundation
opens a headquarters
1968 First neighborhood association is created
1974 M30 highway starts working
1976 “Hijos del Agobio”emerges as a opposition
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sociology
A research based on the available data around the social and building situation of the nighbourhood of San Diego.
We seek to encourage the regeneration of San Diego from the municipal administration to promote the improvement
of the housing and business spaces for the development of social protection, employment, culture and excellence.
SAN DIEGO
Map and table on the building condition comparing districts + S.Diego
Fig. 13.14. Maps on the accessibility and existence of lift comparing districts + San Diego

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SWOT ANALYSIS after consulting the neighbourhood’s Association, Mapas del Kas, TXP, Paisaje Transversal, Fravn, ProVivienda, puentedevallecas.wordpress) and media.
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY PUBLIC SPACE MOBILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC SERVICES HOUSING
STRENGTHS
Popular activities with great recognition in the city of
Madrid. Marked commercial axis, liable to support some
neighbourhood’s interventions related to housing.
Existence of big parcs and concatenation of green spaces
in the district to which a possible new internal network in
San Diego can attach.
Existence of a wide associative tissue and self-managed
spaces for socio-cultural activities.
Existence of mixed types and ages in the housing fabric.
WEAKNESSES
Lack of diversity in the productive spaces, evidence of
concentration of night-time activities.
Lack of common areas and green spaces, that contrasts with
the high density of San Diego.
Lack of quality and accessibility in the design of the
pedestrian itineraries, no public parking; situation of isolation.
Lack of public local facilities related to sports and education,
meant to be a real risk of social vulnerability.
Residential vulnerability related to the obsolescence,
overcrowded conditions and accessibility/habitability problem.
OPPORTUNITIES
No consolidated and empty parcels with potential to
activate new economies and activities.
Existence of a network of quiet streets, target to offset the
lack of public (green) spaces.
Dense network of streets with the correct pre-conditions to
foster mobility alternatives and the pedestrian connectivity
over the M-30 and the railway.
Interesting associative and participative tissue to boost the
cohabitation and interculturality.
Existence of public initiatives of subsidised housing (still
in development), rental aids and renovation programmes.
THREATS
Progressive and continuous closure and obsolescence of
shops and businesses areas.
Irregular and problematic dump and management of waste
and infestations.
Isolation of areas with no easy access to public transport
and increase of private vehicles.
Existence of critical points with cohabitation problems in the
public space.
Great number of owners without the economical capacity to
improve their housing conditions. Tenants with no capacity
to face rental increase as a possible result of renovations.
SAN DIEGO_
HOUSING ENTITY
OF MANAGEMENT
(of the interactions
in the proposal)
A. SPACES
to take up
to revitalise
to reuse
B. FUNDING
to renovate
to build
to promote
COMPENSATION
C. PEOPLE
to fill
to match
to collaborate
we need...
from...
from...
BANKS, FUNDS AND PRIVATE OWNERS
MUNICIPALITY UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATIONS
COMPANIES
We can purchase these properties or sign a contract to rent the space for a cooperative strategy
in collaboration with the San Diego’s neighbours associations and private sponsors.
- VALLECAS REVIVAL
- UNIVERSITY
DEVELOPMENT
- PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
- EMPLOYMENT AND
CULTURE
- PROTECTION OF THE
NEIGHBOURS’ RIGHTS
- MINIMISING THE RISK OF
GENTRIFICATION.
- ATRACTING THE TALENT
FROM THE REST OF SPAIN
THANKS TO THE
FAVOURABLE
CONDITIONS
OF HOUSING (UNDER
- FOSTER THE EXCELENCE
- REPUTATION FOR THE
INSTITUTION
- ACCESS TO THE BEST
GRADED AND MOST
TALENTED RECIPIENTS
OF THE PROGRAMME
- PRIORITY TO HIRE
THEM FOR THEIR
TEAMS AND
PRACTICES.
a. UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS
b. PROFESSIONAL
TRAINING
STUDENTS
c. ENTREPRENEURS
d. HISTORICAL
NEIGHBOURS
REQUIREMENTS AGREEMENT
To be enroled in a course or
training in a university of the
programme, with no age limit
The business must have its
registered name in San
Diego
To be born in San Diego or
have been living for more
than 8 years, with provable
unfavourable economic situation
They must get better grades
and work for the community,
to get better renting conditions.
They must hire people from
the programme and the
neighbourhood, to get better
renting conditions.
They can get better renting
conditions if they work for the
community and participate in
the organised activities
bonus: bonus for the people bringing culture to the neighbourhood in summer and occupying the spaces (students housing) that are left, empty.
the professionals that pass the the programme have priority, even at the end of their studies, to be hired for the works in the neighbouhood.
we are...
BUSINESS MODEL

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PROPOSAL
OBJECTIVE: ENCOURAGE THE REGENERATION OF SAN DIEGO FROM THE
MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE HOUSING
AND BUSINESS SPACES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL PROTECTION,
THE EMPLOYMENT, THE CULTURE AND THE EXCELLENCE.
Along the same lines, and based on this SWOT diagnosis we make, we can distinguish some
different issues coming from four different fields: the economic activity, the public space, the
mobility and the public services, that converge in the main issue of housing in San Diego.
Thus, we decide to reduce our intervention to ten specific steps, all of them related direct
or indirectly to the residential core of the proposal, represented in the drawing below, and
supported by an experimental business model describe in a diagram.
Our aim is to operate in the urban tissue through diverse acupuncture interventions and define
a global strategy of development for the neighbourhood grounded on three key elements: the
spaces, the funding and the people we need for its success; in order to reach a sustainable
outcome that would work as an alternative for the Gentrification common processes.
For that purpose, the participant entities provide the programme with the resources and,
in any case, receive a proportional compensation through talent, excellence and money
terms. Therefore, this must be a public business able to be self-sufficient in time, through its
enlargementandsettling;aninitiativethatcanbeliabletospreadaroundotherneighbourhoods
with the same principles in a different condition.
San Diego in particular is a great starting point to propose a group of these accurate
interventions in a selected “pixel” of the urban fabric. In broad strokes, we renovate the tissue,
we try to fill with homes and businesses the empty spaces with an affordable rent, we qualify
the urban participative spaces, we seek to throw the neighbours into the streets and finally
connect again our case study to the city.
In some words, it is about a double-scaled approach: the small and definite step in which
the beneficiary works to build again the community feeling; and the global and economic
overview, in which we search for the coordination of the agents and the balance of a business
model that could be the backbone for innovative, exceptional, integrative and realistic
proposals from now on.
SAN DIEGO

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P
3. HOUSING FROM A
CERTAIN LEVEL
4. MIXED-USES IN
EXISTING BUILDINGS
7. SYSTEM OF
GREEN URBAN
SPACES
10. REINFORCE
WALKABILITY
AND SAFETY
DURING NIGHTS
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sociology
We want to achive a
collaborative housing with a
clear mix of people.
The diversity in retail will help
the small businesses and the
local economy.
Housing should be located
on top of the ground level so
this can be public.
The uni use building inside
the city does not fit the actual
society and economy.
Let´s use every single
square meter possible so
we take advantage of the
“dencity”.

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1. NEW MIXED /
COLLECTIVEHOUSING
6. SOCIO-
PRODUCTIVE
SPACES
2. DIVERSITY IN
EXISTING RETAIL
AT STREET
5. USE OF EMPTY
APARTMENTS
9. MAIN BUS
LINE THROUGH
THE CENTRAL
AXIS
8. WORK
THE URBAN
BARRIERS
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sociology
Public spaces should be a
reaction to society but also give
back something to it.
Generating a system of
green spaces will have a
positive feedback on how the
neighbourhood is seen form the
outside.
Erasing the limits with the city
the neighbourhood will be taken
into account as a friendlier place
to be.
Better urban conections with the
city centre as a way of bringing
the neighbourhood closer to
Madrid.
The easier the conections, the
better quality of life will people
perceive.
SAN DIEGO
DETAILED PROPOSALS

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SAN DIEGO
ACTUALLY, THIS IS SAN DIEGO

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sociology
VALUES: THE FIFTH BEETLE_Sociology, Economy and Politics. Master in Collective Housing 2020
“IT IS INTERESTING TO KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO JUST TO HAVE THE PLEASURE TO NOT DO IT” – DAVID
BORRAS, motorcycles manufacturer.
In normal conditions, perhaps, I would start the essay quoting a bunch of sentences of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights of 1948, or maybe, the article 47 or the Spanish Constitution; or in a better case, I would make
reference to the change of paradigm that the COVID19 means. It will not be so, I prefer to begin this couple of
pages referring to what a fisher in Menorca once told me: “Things are not done and thrown out but changed from
one place to the other”.
From this starting point, if Polanyi says the patterns of social integration are based on reciprocity, redistribution
and market, we probably understand that everything deals with the principle of balance, of changing from one
place to the other. And if welfare is the state of a person whose conditions provide himself satisfaction, happiness
and relief, the balance should appear in the fields that disturb his satisfaction, happiness and relief. In Spain, until
today, it seems to be much simpler to confront the un-reliefs of life when we have the relief of a home; even more
when it is in ownership. In general, this is something we soak up from the family, from the Latin-Rim regime that
Liebfried highlights when he nuances the conservative classification of Esping-Andersen.
Nevertheless, in the common search of a roof without the appropriate intervention of the government, the gen-
trification and segregation tend to be the natural outcomes, says Esping-Andersen again; both are situations of
imbalance. This is also the way it works with housing, through policies that expect to obtain an average of seven
by the addition of sevens, when perhaps we can reach the same average by the addition of fives and nines; this is
named variance. With this sentence, what I want to say is that maybe the future of housing goes through the action
in favour of general results in the existing by acupuncture, and the promotion of fives in between nines, until we
get this latitude that Bolt would call of (de)segregation and social mixing.
However, for this to happen, there must be a real disposition from the housing policies to control the market of ni-
nes by the clever insertion and management of fives, and most importantly, the intention to give the opportunity for
everyone to get at least to the five. With this numeric metaphor, I must say, I do not want to stigmatise categories
but signal that, in effect, there are different ways to get to heterogeneous, mixed and integrating outcomes throu-
gh an alternative {mathematical} formula, easy to follow. Therefore, in the moment we need everybody to reach
a five {the desirable pass}, an unexpected form shows up in the housing scenery, that suits quite well with the
numbers, that is the education. The wish and right of a minimum pass is explained by Tosi quite well laying on the
table the issue of listing social categories with no social perspective, because “social measures end up benefiting
strata immediately above those for whom the measures were intended as a priority”. So we suspect that they did
not even get the pass, the right. The fact of the matter is that we get the right with education, and so reaching the
state of balance and welfare maybe depends on education policies first, then on housing.
But before running to fast with this idea, I must clarify that I do not talk about education as an accumulation of
knowledge, but as a personal training destined to develop an intellectual, moral and affective capacity: the possi-
bility of deciding, integrating, respecting and sharing in and environment of fives, sevens and nines. Bjarke Ingels,
a Danish Architect, would say {if he was Sociologist} that the binary logic of financialization and housing policies
as the way to reach the welfare state are not enough to contain this more complex reality. Perhaps, we should add
a training; the education as a vector to understand, imagine and adapt to the change of paradigm the housing is
going to confront, not only to become again a real right, but also to meet the needs that the new types of house-
hold and the COVID19 crisis lay on the table.
“THE USE IS THE FIRST STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABILITY” – JOSEP RICARD, Architect.
The Latin-Rim is hot-blooded; he generally fights throughout his entire life to reach someday the middle-high class
and purchase a house in a good neighbourhood in the centre or the suburbs, as Leal and Sorando would slip
into the conversation. It belongs to his memory; he tends to accumulate, to find the balance by the ownership and
develop a welfare state based on the family solidarity. But the fact is that the more resources are accumulated, the
less resources go around to lift up the strata with no family support, and therefore it turns into more than difficult
to get the pass that could guarantee their participation in the equation. With such short means {and/or bad mana-
ged} the government seems to try the integration of the barely passing fives and sixes with very little investments
in social housing somewhere in the South of Madrid, whereas the failings do not even have the chance to apply
for it.

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Tosi himself introduced a pair of lines of research in Housing Sociale: the degrees of flexibility, an innovative go-
vernance and the financial mix; the future seems to talk about the capacity of adaptation, collaboration and coo-
peration that replace the rigid Latin-Rim dream, maybe with the right of use, for instance. Recently Rem Koolhaas,
in the 2020 virtual Architecture Week of Milan, said “I hope people after this will still maintain a certain degree of
modesty”. And this is also what Arbaci highlights: from now on the housing self-promotion and cooperative drifts
play an important role -even these Latin-Rims collectors are invited to-, able to support a public long-term initiative
of acupuncture that settle, for good, housing as the main factor of social balance. If I should paraphrase again
Bolt: “more social contacts and social cohesion, shared norms and values, social solidarity, control and network
{…}, increase the chance to create sustainable communities”.
But all of this is possible by leaving the binary logic, lifting up the more vulnerable categories. The more we
approach the real technology revolution, the more the future looks like a scene of the Hunger Games; the more
global/universal the problems are, the bigger and more conscious the discipline that confront them should be,
and therefore Architecture stops having a housing issue to start having a social, political and urban issue.
“AN ASEPTIC WINDOW CAUSES A STERILE EXISTENCE” – VICTOR LOPEZ COTELO, Architect.
Probably the question that Leal would pose at this point of the mental process would be how do we design hou-
sing that can survive to the changes of ideology, a flexible housing that blurs the limits of public and private; and
I would add: how do we design housing able to have an effect on its social environment? I talk about an Architec-
ture that goes beyond the fact of giving a roof; the Architect, as it happens in Trabensol or Laborda, filters, inter-
prets and integrates. Thus, housing becomes respectful and integrating, adapted to a respectful and integrating
individual that enjoys his right of use. Housing as a primary right, not for whose owns it, but for whose enjoys it.
For that reason, the search of the balance, the average, the redistribution and the welfare comes as a logical con-
sequence of the type of housing that breaks with what it is part of the memory, that enters the city, reinterprets the
concept of private and goes back to an essence. Because the impact that all of that has in the humankind would
be going back to basics, optimising; COVID19 has said something about it and perhaps it is enough with a com-
fortable bed, a big table, a great window and some space to pretend we do yoga.
To understand all of these ideas, the efforts must be double: on the one hand, the policies, as Melnikov would
say, “should take off their marble dresses, remove their make-up and reveal themselves as they are, naked, like
young and graceful goddesses”; they should make more flexible the possibilities of action in the existing housing
stock and introduce fives in decent liveability conditions in between the nines, and set up the distant areas to offer
alternatives to the nines in between the fives. On the other hand, the education should start to give the option to
every stratum to take decisions and respect the others’, generating a social mix that produces more opportunities
for productive contact between different types of people {Bolt again}.
There is not a shade of doubt that it is about a long-term process, perhaps unconceivable in Spain until the di-
sappearance of the silent and baby-boom generations {today’s grand-parents and elder parents}, that are the
current vectors of the most rooted lifestyles of our culture -Esping-Andersen would add “connected to church
and strong agricultural bias”- . But we can still see the light with the first generation of the digitalisation, named
millennials, that perceives somehow better the importance of balanced policies, conducive to an essential and
universal welfare state.
CONCLUSION
This is why, and I conclude, the impact that every actor in the housing scene should tend to a collective welfare
state that includes the education and participation as a guarantee for the flexibility and integrity of the solutions.
Either way, we cannot try to play against the market in its game, but we can try to hack it through progressive and
punctual measures that empower the weakest categories and ensure the strongest. We must try to build city from
the social, not seeking to reproduce somewhere else’s model, but letting our own agreed decisions grow little by
little. This way we will be able to build stable and sustainable communities in which a common decision-making
freedom shows a feeling of belonging through a common identity; so the Airbnb guests would be never more than
that, welcomed guests in our places.
An African proverb says: “If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together”. Enough “random
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EYJA LJOSSINS | 2020 | REYKJAVIK {IS} moving Illa Llum to extreme climates, with ARUP + AECOM
CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY team: Juan Esteban Duque, Audrey Umara, Carlos Ballesteros.
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A housing project located in Barcelona...
...moved to extremely different conditions of climate and people...
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We had to select a city and a specific site where to re-locate our Illa de la Llum. The new context required us
to re-conceptualize the building’s design strategies related to external envelope, structure, services, construction
systems and materials, and search for an appropriate solution which allows to re-idustrialize the building process,
always related to the available resources in the new location.
EYJA
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love running, riding
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28*
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25C*
30*
29*27*
low cost
portfolio | 2020
BIENVENIDO | 2020 | SANTO DOMINGO {DO} urban regeneration and seed housing, with Sonia Molina
LOW-COST & EMERGENCY team: Virginia Cid, MªJosé Rodríguez de Vera, José Ignacio Valdez
URBAN FABRIC HOUSING
Consolidated that can be improved
Degraded that can be consolidated
Degraded of high vulnerab. that can be consolidated
Degraded of high vulnerab. that can´t be consolidated
To be assisted - humanitarian support
To be relocated in 1st phase
To be relocated in 2nd phase
To be controlled/improved in 3rd phase
_WEAKNESSES AND OPPORTUNITIES
From a physical and social analysis, it was detected that Bienvenido has four areas
with different conditions. Two of them present high vulnerability to floodings and
landslides, so it is proposed a progressive relocation of houses according to the level
of urgency while in some cases it is only needed a structure control and introduction
of improvements to mitigate the risk. The other zones are considered to be areas of
opportunity where to relocate the houses, foresee future growth and consolidate the
neighborhood.
STREET LIGHTING GREEN AREAS
Existing posts
New posts - 1st phase
New posts - 2nd phase
ROADS
Silviculture park
Urban orchads
Main roads
Secondary roads to be improved
Pedestrian walks ---
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Gym / Sport center
Educational space
Recycle / reuse space
Atelier of construction
Library & WiFi access
Community center
Emergency shelter
_URBAN STRATEGY
The proposal consists in the generation of an axis system with secure, accesible
main roads and new buildings for the community to enhance social cohesion as well
as education, to provide all public services and generate more employment. The
vulnerable existing zones that can´t be consolidated are reused as green areas with
an important economic and natural value for the neighbors to discourage new settle-
ments and boost urban regeneration.
SANITATION GARBAGE MANAGEMENT
Private connection
Main sewage drain
Septic tank and filter - future biodigestor
Clean spot - recollection of garbage
_SERVICES
The existing projects regards sanitation and garbage made up by NGOS working in
Bienvenido are incoporated to the proposal. The new input are biodigestors by block
to be feed by the sewage drain and organic garbage to generate biogas. The objec-
tive of it is to reduce contamination, improve the health conditions of neighbours and
reduce the money spent in buying gas while promoting conciousness and commit-
ment. Onother change is the incoporation of gray water reuse in the seed bathroom
to minimize water consumption.
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This is a precarious urban area in Bienvenido, a slum of Santo Domingo, in which we had to develop strategies to
upgrade the conditions of the inhabitants, provinding urban and housing solutions. We needed to settle up to 3000
people, giving access to basic facilities and suitable shelter, responding to people’s needs and capacities.
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Modulo semilla A
15,7 m²
Modulo semilla A
Extension 1
25,7 m²
Modulo semilla A
Extension 2
40,6 m²
Modulo semilla A
Extension 2
59,4 m²
Modulo semilla B
13,7 m²
Modulo semilla B
Extension 1
26,8 m²
Modulo semilla B
Extension 2
69,8 m²
low cost
portfolio | 2020
Rectangular plots Square plots
_DESIGN AND CONSOLIDATION OF URBAN AREAS
Available land in existing blocks and proposed blocks is fractioned
in new plots so as to relocate vulnerable houses and organize future
growth of the neighborhood. The size of the plots vary according the
morphology of the block, oscillating between 180m2 - 200m2 (data
taken from existent divisions analysis). New houses are located 3m
backwards the front line of the plot and where possible, sidewalks
are incorporated in order to improve the street as public and inte-
raction space.
_PROGRESSIVE HOUSING
One flexible and customizable solution for all situations: NEW/RELOCA-
TED HOUSES, IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTANT ONES AND EMERGEN-
CY SHELTERS. It consists of a SEED made up by one or more modules
which can continuosly grow and be adapted to the family´s needs and
desires. According to the type of the plot and the location of the seed,
the house can grow in different directions and offer various ways of li-
ving.
The objective is to provide with the SEED basic conditions to enhance
the family quility of life
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ATMOSPHERES | 2020 | AKABLI {DZ} thermodynamics & everyday life, with Javier GªGermán {ToTEM}
ENERGY & SUSTAINABILITY team: Alejo Maldonado, Fofo de la Torre
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The typical houses in Akabli have a horizontal development around a patio and sits one next to each other to take
profit of the compactness to protect inhabitants from extreme temperatures and wind flows. We decide to work in
the complete opposite direction, as we think that decisions like reducing the footprint or orient the unit towards
somewhere are better for the thermodynamic behavior of the system. This is the result of the implementation of 12
useful tips to optimize the relation of spaces, air flows and pre-existence conditions that we take profit.
akabli
urban fabric
topography
sand barriers
vegetation
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Building tall for
stack ventilation
Deep openings for
privacy and shading
Double skin for
insulation
Dome roof to reduce sun-exposed
surfaces and facing south to use
radiation in winter for heat gain
Small footprint allows for
wind flows
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Takes profit of the qanats
to control the humidity
Orientation lets the sunlight go
deep in the space also in winter
Servant spaces as niches
and thermal buffers
Research for vertical
nomadism
Big collective served spa-
ces VS. small individual
servant corners
The morphology of the unit in section
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MCH
PORTFOLIO by Álvaro Pedrayes Santos
Published by:
Álvaro Pedrayes Santos
Copyright Álvaro Pedrayes Santos. 2020
Original ideas and works produced by
MCH 2020 alumni. Transcriptions, editing,
proofreading, indexing, book design and
typesetting by the author.
Printed in Madrid, IARTE. November 2020

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