Rosario Pastore, MCH2018, Argentina

Index
Collective Farming 6-21
Workshop |Hrvoje Njiric
The Cloud 22-33
Workshop |Felix Claus
24 HS 34-47
Workshop |Amann-Cánovas-Maruri
The Curtain Wall 48-59
Workshop |Cino Zucchi
6M - Urban Fix 60-71
Workshop |Andrea Deplazes
The Landmark 72-83
Workshop |Dietmar Eberle
The Living Wall 84-93
Workshop |Annette Gigon
Wild Landscape 94-111
Workshop |Anne Lacaton
The Root Garden 112-121
Workshop |Alison Brooks
Palenque 122-139
Energy & Sustainability |Javier García-Germán
Wetlands 140-155
Landscape |Ginés Garrido
Avenida del Arco 156-165
Urban Design |José María Ezquiaga
Vertix Diagonal 166-187
Construction & Technology |Ignacio Fernández Solla
Urban Exchangers 188-193
City Sciences |Alejandro De Miguel
The Master of Advanced Studies in Collective Housing is a postgraduate professional pro-
gram of advanced architecture design focused on housing, city and energy studies. The va-
lue of this unique program lies in its excellence and practice-oriented synthesis of design
with integrated disciplines and theoretical issues of dwelling and housing.
MCH is directed by Prof. Andrea Deplazes (ETH) and Prof. José María de Lapuerta (UPM)

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Inhabiting the Countryside
Since architects in the last century have
been mostly focused on the city, a concern
on inhabiting the countryside has remained
very limited. Statistically, 50% of the world
population still lives in the rural conditions
and thus it is relevant to focus on these is-
sues as well. Furthermore, we can trace an
exodus of urban population toward the rural
alternatives, motivated by radically different
living conditions, by the economy of giving
over their city dwellings to tourists and by
the possibility to pursue the dream of an Ar-
cadian welfare. We shall take this notion as a
point of departure.
The village of El Atazar, 50 km north of Ma-
drid. Protected by nature and legislation, it
has to be maintained carefully – in terms of
size and density.
The farmers have embraced the cutting-edge
technologies to cultivate and produce, the
new settlers have imported a number of
typical urban activities to the countryside.
Landscapes are digitally monitored and
maintained, combined with industrial plants
popping out everywhere and changing the
perception of the territory. The land costs
have reached new peaks and therefore our
planning has to be driven by these circum-
stances. This is why we shall try to investi-
gate to what extent dense collective housing
schemes could be introduced into a typical
single-family house environment.
Collective Farming took the concept of slow
living and proposed not only a new style of
life also a new way of thinking typologies in
terms of humans, animals, vegetables, fruits,
seasons, time, etc.
Collective farming gives the opportunitty to
be your own boss, but working in a collec-
tive, shareing all the tools that are expensive
but extremly neccesary for your farm buiss-
ness.
The typologies are according to the agricul-
ture and Livestock and the comunal spaces
are big winter gardens were the inhabitants
can storage the shared tools, the products
and also can be use as meeting point.
Workshop
Collective Farming
agriculture|livestock|housing
Workshop leader Hrvoje Njiric
Teamwork Rosario Pastore
Location El Atazar, Spain
Duration 5 days

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Collective Farming
MADRID
3.182.981
inhabitants
fast living
1H 20MIN
CAR
2H 30 MIN
PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION
WATER
RESERVOIR
RE-POPULATION
SLOWING DOWN
temporary
all the time
OPEN CITY
CO-CITY
95 inhabitants
SLOW CITTY
SOCIOCRACY
SELF-DETERMINATION
HAPPINESS
BE YOUR OWN BOSS
WORKING FOR YOURSELF
MARKET PLACE
open air cinema
drinks
food
markets
meetingpoint
playground
SHARING
cars
machines
space
indoor
outdoor
facilities
public
semi public
private
infraestructure
activities
organization
dwelling + working
WAY OF
LIVING
NO ghost - city
building together
living together
FLEXIBILITY
collective
NOBODY OWNS
HUMANS
ANIMALS
VEGETATION
tourist
living
costumers
sheep- horses -pigs
chicken- etc.
apple - orange -
lemon - tomate -
potatoe- etc.
people of all ages
mixed use
interaction
overlapping
disapearing in
landscape
horizontal
vertical
connection
expansion
winter spring summer autumn
ANDREA BRANZZI
agronica
archizoom
exterior is interior
QUALITY OF
URBAN LIFE
1548 1647 1656 1670 1768 1855 1928 1950 1992 1994 1996 1998 1999 2001 2003 2004 2025 2050
DAY NIGHT
24 15 17 14 212 200 135 88 86 92 96 95 89 101 101 105 150 200
YEAR
INHABITANTS
SLOW LIVING
fast living
MADRID
3.182.981
inhabitants
fast living
1H 20MIN
CAR
2H 30 MIN
PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION
WATER
RESERVOIR
RE-POPULATION
SLOWING DOWN
temporary
all the time
OPEN CITY
CO-CITY
95 inhabitants
SLOW CITTY
SOCIOCRACY
SELF-DETERMINATION
HAPPINESS
BE YOUR OWN BOSS
WORKING FOR YOURSELF
MARKET PLACE
open air cinema
drinks
food
markets
meetingpoint
playground
SHARING
cars
machines
space
indoor
outdoor
facilities
public
semi public
private
infraestructure
activities
organization
dwelling + working
WAY OF
LIVING
NO ghost - city
building together
living together
FLEXIBILITY
collective
NOBODY OWNS
HUMANS
ANIMALS
VEGETATION
tourist
living
costumers
sheep- horses -pigs
chicken- etc.
apple - orange -
lemon - tomate -
potatoe- etc.
people of all ages
mixed use
interaction
overlapping
disapearing in
landscape
horizontal
vertical
connection
expansion
winter spring summer autumn
ANDREA BRANZZI
agronica
archizoom
exterior is interior
QUALITY OF
URBAN LIFE
1548 1647 1656 1670 1768 1855 1928 1950 1992 1994 1996 1998 1999 2001 2003 2004 2025 2050
DAY NIGHT
24 15 17 14 212 200 135 88 86 92 96 95 89 101 101 105 150 200
YEAR
INHABITANTS
SLOW LIVING
fast living
Conceptual image
Collective Farming

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Typological concept
Collective Farming
OVERLAYERING
animals humans agriculture
overlayeringOVERLAYERING
Typologies
Collective Farming
human + agriculture
human + animals

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Density studies
Collective Farming
20000 7400
20000
23230
7400
4160
23270 3780
27400
BOUT DENSITY ?
THE PLOT
THE CITY
AMANCIO
WILLIAMS
ORIENTAL
MOSANIC
GARDENS
27‘400 m2
20‘000 m2
7‘400 m2
20‘000 m2
7‘400 m2
23‘230 m2
4‘160 m2
The village
The plot
agriculture
typology
animals
typology
Site organization
Collective Farming
AGRICULTURE ANIMAL MIX
ANIMAL
ANIMAL
ANIMAL
ANIMAL
ANIMAL
AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE
SITE ORGANIZATION
agriculture animals mix

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Density studies_proposal
Collective Farming
7455 19900
100%
20000 7400
36%
43%
100%
7455 19900
32%
870018700
36%
city density
46%
proposed density
100%
maximun density
Urban organization
Collective Farming
animals typ
vegetals ty
site
agriculture typology
animals typology

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Animals typology_collage
Collective Farming
Axonometric
Collective Farming

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Axonometric_zoom in
Collective Farming
Agriculture typology_collage
Collective Farming

1918
The Commission was to demolish casa de las
flores and densify the plot.
Casa de las Flores is a housing block located
in the Chamberí district (Madrid) designed
by Secundino Zuazo in 1931. This building is
part of Madrid history.
Madrid has a lot of historical buildings but in
5 years the city will have no ground to build
so probably in 5 years Madrid will start de-
molishing historical buildings.
How to densify a city that its already built?
The past and the future needs to live togeth-
er. whats is a city wiyhout memories? every
city has a story to tell.
The cloud propose to increase the density as
a normal process of cities without shooting
down the history.
Is a prototype that can be apply in many oth-
er historical buildings.
The cloud proposed a new way of construc-
tion respecting the existing, but growing to-
wards the future.
The cloud is a super structure that create a
new zero above the existing building, in or-
der to preserve the existing building.
The new zero its a platform which works like
a communal space as it does the central pa-
tio in casa de las flores.
The structure will be supported by the exist-
ing cores of casa de las flores, working not
only as the structure of the cloud also as a
vertical connection between the existing
building and the cloud.
Casa las flores will not only be preserve will
also add new communal space.
The new floorplan will have 3 different ty-
pologies, with a combination of stacking.
This combination will generate the exterior
spaces, it means the roof of the apartments
as private gardens and the communal spaces
for the different entrances .
The dwellings will be organize each other in
order to work with the existing building. Us-
ing the shape of casa de las flores, allowing
the sun and air entry.
Workshop
The Cloud
densifier|preservation|prototype
Workshop leader Felix Claus
Location Madrid, Spain
Duration 5 days

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Strategies_redensifying
The Cloud
Existing building_casa de las flores
Redensifier
Raising the zero
air+light
Strategies_redensifying
The Cloud
new density
re-use the cores

22 23
combining the past and the future
The Cloud
casa de las flores the cloud
The cloud
Street corner_Perspective

24 25
The Cloud
Typologies
3 typologies cell collective
78m2
88m2
48m2
private terraces
comunal spaces +
entrances
Inner courtyard _Perspective
The Cloud

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Floor plan + Urban section
The Cloud
Urban prototype
The Cloud

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This project is not an hypothetical possibili-
ty for the future, but the architecture of the
present. This project translates the way of
living we are going through, rethinking the
modern fixed typology. Furthermore it is an
attempt to adapt the consolidate city pat-
tern to a new way of living, demanded by the
society evolution.
Our experimental project takes place in a
60’ building from Cano Lasso. The goal is to
turn the building into a flexible space, into
a mixed use building, finally into a 24 hours
infrastructure that will respond to the no
stop-city life.
The existing building has been analyzed and
dissected by uses, technologies, flexible
spaces and fixed spaces. Stairs, elevators and
shafts area preserved and consolidated. The
plan is configured as an open house.
A private area is owned or rent by the inhab-
itants, where the user can decide the space
destination. On the other hand, polyvalent
rooms, in between spaces, working spaces
and communal areas are owned by the
community.
The building is a 24 hours infrastructure,
where dwellings and offices share common
spaces responding to the 24 hours society
needs.
The existing building is the pedestal for the
Re-densification. A multifunctional ring pro-
vides a continuous space, where external
users can settle down for a limited period.
This ring is the welcome space for the city’s
temporary travels who need a low cost living
space, and a accessible working area with
shared amenities.
In this way, we create a new poly-architec-
ture for a building-city, self sustained and
efficient. The buildings them selves have a
fluid living system.
They provides productivity and housing, ser-
vices and facilities, in a 24/24h time lapse.
The infrastructural buildings create a net-
work of living- production-leisures spots
through the city. They give to the inhabi-
tants the possibility to get used easily to the
space, and to decide to most useful internal
disposition for their needs.
A fast spatial adaptation responds to the
ihabitants needs for a continuous relocation.
Workshop
24 HS
sociology|infrastructure|sharing
Workshop leader Amann-Cánovas-Maruri
Teamwork Elena Sofia Congiu
Rosario Pastore
Antonella Peretti
Duration 5 days

30 31
Research
24 HS
Exisitng building _picture
24 HS

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Problems
24 HS
SHARING OR MEETING SPACES SEGREGATION OF USES
PROBLEM
RIGID HOUSING STRUCTURE
GROW IN HIGH
NO SHARING OR MEETING SPACES
EXCHANGE THE OLD SERVICE AREA
FOR CO-WORKING OFFICE
AND CONECT THE AREAS
CONNECTING - EXCHANGING - SHARING
SEGREGATION OF USES
USE DE PARKING AS PUBLIC SPACE
STRATEGIES
PROBLEM
GROW IN HIGH
SEGREGATION OF USES
STRATEGIES
Rigid housing structure
No sharing or meeting spaces
segregation of uses
Strategies
24 HS
PROBLEM
GROW IN HIGH
SEGREGATION OF USES
STRATEGIES
PROBLEM
GROW IN HIGH
SEGREGATION OF USES
USE DE PARKING AS PUBLIC SP
STRATEGIES
GROW IN HIGH
NO SHARING OR MEETIN
EXCHANGE THE OLD SER
FOR CO-WORKING O
AND CONECT THE
CONNECTING - EXCHANG
STRATEGIES
Growth in height
Exchange the old service area for
co-working office and connect
the areas
Use the parking as public space

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conceptual collage _idea
24 HS
connecting|sharing|exchanging
building principles
24 HS
Elements to be reused
net of connection and sharing
24 HS system
bow windows coresvoids

3736
24 HS
24HS typology_Floor plan
Co-housing typology_Floor plan
Interior image
24 HS

38 39
Exterior image
24 HS
Urban Prototype_24hs Madrid
24 HS

4140
The proposal of this workshop was to ex-
plore a specific problem of housing design:
the one of the “interface” or “buffer” be-
tween the private realm and the collective
one, and of its possible evolutions in the
light of the ongoing changes on urban and
natural environments.
The first step was to re design the floor plan
that was proposed. Creating a floor plan
where the corner are completly empty and
thus generate a buffer zone between the in-
terior and exterior with an open view.
This buffer zone is the depth of the building
envelope.
For this area we decided to use a metal cur-
tain that has a small rotation every level in
order to give more movement to the whole
facade building, which it has also to perform
a number of sophisticated tasks: modulate
the light of the sun in relationship with lat-
itude and geographical orientation with a
different grades of permeability; protect the
interior from excessive hot and cold, wind,
rain, noise, pollution; create inhabitable
open air spaces for the dwellings, including
fragments of nature; provide visual privacy
to the interiors; act as a social mean of com-
munication; give a meaningful form to the
collective urban spaces.
This curtain was not only a livable space with
the possibiliy to tranform one space into
three spaces, it also gives the imprint of the
facade, passing a square plant unnoticed.
On the other hand, the parapet is designed
for passing unnotices when you are in front
of the building but to emphasize the per-
spective if you look it sides framing the vol-
ume.
Workshop
The Curtain wall
facade|buffer zone|envelope
Workshop leader Cino Zucchi
Teamwork Carlos Chauca
Rosario Pastore
Duration 5 days

4342
Generative concept_ intermediate spaces
The curtain wall
The curtain as a living space_facade
The curtain wall
Curtain overlayer_facade
Materiality

44 45
Typical floor plan
The curtain wall
Perspective section
The curtain wall

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Intermediate spaces_floor plan
The curtain wall
100% inside
100% outside
inside|outside
Intermediate spaces_interior collage
The curtain wall
interior-exterior_one space
bigger interior_two spaces
regular loggia_two spaces
interior-intermediate-exterior_three spaces

48 49
Detail facade_image
The curtain wall
Facade_image
The curtain wall

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For this workshop the proposal was to study
a building depth and each possibilities. So
this project is about the 6 meters depth.
What does it mean having a building depth
of 6 metres? How does a dwelling vary?
Which qualities regarding circurlation, ac-
cess, sunlight, ventilation, facilities location
and intimacy has a dwelling according to
this depth. The project study the 6 meters
depth as a facade typology and all their
possibilities.
The urban fix is a catalogue of typologies ac-
cording to the open and close facade, being
the most direct link between the existing
city and the inhabitants.
The idea of the urban fix is to create a
densifier prototype that have infinity pos-
sibilities and are able to work in any city,
improving obsolete areas or infrastructure
but also creating a new human scale for the
city.
The urban fix is able to encase uses, infras-
tructure, redensify, occupied urban voids or
assuring public space but always with the
same goal to fix the cities and make them
more livable and giving back the human
scale that are being loosing day by day.
Workshop
6M-Urban fix
depth|typology|location
Workshop leader Andrea Deplazes
Teamwork Andrea Mantecón
Rosario Pastore
Duration 5 days
Rosario Pastore / Andrea Mantecon MCH / Andrea Deplazes Workshop
Sectional possibilities

5352
Catalogue_ typology_6meters depth
6M-Urban fix
O1
One facade
O2
Alterning facade
O3
Two facades
D1
Inner facade
D2
Outer facade
D3
Alterning facades
D4
Two facades
Directional
Ortogonal
Closed|Open Plan Circulation|Corner
collage_core
6M-Urban fix

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Ensemble
6M-Urban fix
O1 O1+O2
O1+D1
D3+D4+O3
D2+O1
O1+O3
D3+D4+O3
D2+O1
Collage_facade
6M-Urban fix

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Facade principle
6M-Urban fix
Facade principle
Collage_Interior atmosphere
6M-Urban fix

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Urban development principlesUrban Scenarios_ensemble
6M-Urban fix
Urban scenarios
Redensifying sprawl Encasing uses
Encasing infrastructure Occupaying urban voids/
Assuring public space
Encasing uses
Occupaying urban voids/
Urban scenarios
Redensifying sprawl Encasing uses
Encasing infrastructure Occupaying urban voids/
Redensifying sprawl Encasing infrastructure
6M-Urban fix
Rosario Pastore / Andrea Mantecon MCH / Andrea De
Zacatecas - Unbuit space in slum
Guadalajara - Disused railroad tracks
Rosario Pastore / Andrea Mantecon MC
Beijing - Connecting plots
Buenos Aires - Hermetic supermarket
Rosario Pastore / Andrea Mantecon MC
Madrid - Wide streets
New York - Disused Piers
New York- Disused Piers Madrid- Wide streets
Buenos Aires- Hermetic supermarket Beijing- Connecting plots
Guadalajara- Disused railroad tracks Zacatecas- Unbuit space in slum

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The workshop proposes a design meth-
odology from the outside to the inside
of the building. From the city to the unit.
The building to be projected is in a very
narrow plot in the city center of Madrid.
The volume is the first approach, being ab-
solutely molded by the context. A platform
is erected in the ground floor, and is aligned
with the two neighbors in the opposite
blocks. Then a tower of 10 floors is erected in
order to create a landmark. The volume over-
passes de ground floor, generating a covered
plaza and emphasizing the corner condition.
Then a diagonal shift is done in the southern
façade in order to open the perspective of
the street and relate de building with a plaza
located to that side. Finally, a diagonal cut
is made in order to relate the volume with
neighbor in the back which is 4 story high.
Moreover, the fixed elements that determine
the shape of the space are proposed. The
core is located towards the northern façade,
where it has natural light and ventilation, fol-
lowing Spanish regulations. The structure is
located in the external layer in order to liber-
ate the iner space and give it flexibility. This
elements are determined by a grid of 1.65 m,
which is an ideal module for housing, as one
module can allocate a bathroom, 2 modules
a bedroom and 3 or more the living or din-
ning spaces. The result is a free plan with an
interior corridor that can grow or shrink de-
pending on the length of the floor in height.
The façade is the final phase of the meth-
odology, as the interior space is a free plan
that can allocate any use and can change
over time. The façade has a 40% openness,
responding differently in every side, to the
solar conditions, but always divided in two.
The first layer is the structure itself and is re-
sponding to the city scale. It gives the overall
identity to the building. This layer is meant to
last for 100 years. The second layer is the en-
velope, which is responding to the housing
scale, determined by the interior use of the
building and should last for about 50 years.
This last layer can change over time without
affecting neither the structure or the overall
image of the building.
Workshop
The Landmark
volume|core|envelope
Workshop leader Dietmar Eberle
Laura Soto
Duration 5 days
Plot
Ground floor
Relation to neighbours
Landmark
Open perspective
Adapt to existing hights
CITY CENTER - MADRID
Rosario Pastore y Laura Soto

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The Landmark The Landmark
Model
Model
Volume principles
Plot
Ground floor
Landmark
Open perspective
Adapt to existing hights
CITY CENTER - MADRID
Rosario Pastore y Laura Soto
Plot
Ground floor
Landmark
Open perspective
Adapt to existing heights

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Typical Floor plan
3 - 5 units per floor
Avarage 63 m2
275 m2 ground floor
3,060 m2 housing
Density: 9.5
core: 9,5% of floor area
GRIDTYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
CORE
Exterior view

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View from the street Typology_density_core
Avarage 63 m2
275 m2 ground floor
3,060 m2 housing
Density: 9.5
core: 9,5
CORE
Avarage 63 m2
275 m2 ground floor
3,060 m2 housing
Density: 9.5
CORE
Avarage 63 m2
275 m2 ground floor
3,060 m2 housing
Density: 9.5
GRIDTYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
CORE
3-5 units per floor
Average 63m2
275 m2
ground floor
3`060 m2
housing
Density 9.5
Core 9.5% of floor
area

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The LandmarkThe Landmark
68
Facade
TOTAL
1124 m2
A - CITY SCALE - structural grid
25% closed
B - HOUSING SCALE - envelope
35% closed
TOTAL
1124 m2
25% closed
35% closed
TOTAL
1124 m2
25% closed
35% closed
TOTAL
1`124m2
A-CITY SCALE- structural grid
25% closed
B-HOUSING SCALE- envelope
35% closed
Facade detail
DETAIL

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This project was born from the idea of cre-
ating an intermediate space between large-
scale buildings and the inhabitants of a city.
Buenos Aires is the capital of the Argentine
Republic. It is one of the largest cities in Latin
America, with a lot of cultural offerings, and
is the point of departure for travelling to the
rest of the country.
The city is constantly growing many people
who come from the interior of the country
to study, work, tourist, etc. that is why the
city needs habitable spaces for a mobile,
non-permanent population.
On the other hand the city has a large-scale
buildings that in many cases the relation
with the pedestrians is not good enought.
Sometimes just a blind wall separate the
building from the street, having no connec-
tion with it.
The proposal for this project was to make
this walls livable, improving the direct rela-
tionship with the street, creating streets on
a human scale.
With only three meters depht the living wall
could be a multi-purpose container.
Ground floors that can be a work space,
shops, atteliers, etc. and spaces on the top
for living, working or just for have holidays
few days.
The Living Wall not only responds to a soci-
ety that changes day by day, which is flexible
and mobile, but also generates a more liv-
able streets.
Workshop
The Living Wall
3meters|flexibility|XLMXS scale
Workshop leader Annette Gigon
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Duration 2 days

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Ground floor principles
The Living Wall
Individual access point
concentrated access point
actual situation
The Living wall
3 meters depth_uses
working
sleeping
eating + cooking
flexible space
typical floor plan

Urban development principles
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The LandmarkThe Landmark
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Axonometric_ open|close interior wall
The Living Wall The Living Wall

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The Living Wall
Actual situation_ Exterior collage
Living wall_ Exterior collage Living Wall +Tower_Floor Plan
The Living Wall

7978
In this workshop we tried to explore the
potential reuse of industrial facilities to be-
come dwelling structures. Detroit, has gone
through a major economic and demograph-
ic decline in recent decades. We worked in
Packard Plant in Detroit, one of the most im-
portant industrial complexes. The reuse of
such building was an opportunity to design
and invent new typologies of housing, far
away from standards, giving more space to
each of various qualities and atmospheres.
During the process some questions were
raised. How is it to live in a “villa” house, and
how can we transfer the “villa” house quali-
ties in our project? What defines luxury and
generosity of space? How can we invert the
process of designing by starting thinking the
house, from inside-out?
Due to its dimension, Packard offered a dif-
ferent way of approaching housing, and we
started thinking the floor plan as a section
of land. Borrowing the campings’ typolo-
gies and arrangements, we divided the floor
plans into plots (10 plots per floor), were the
owners can grow their own houses, with a
self-build process in time.
As for the restoration, we propose the min-
imum interventions to preserve this appeal-
ing atmosphere of the building, and mak-
ing it habitable. We suggest, the necessary
reparation for the safety of the new inhab-
itants, the preservation of the façade, the
installment of all the electricity, the installa-
tion of the service points (electricity, water,
etc.) the addition of two access cores in the
short sides of the building and complemen-
tary light-structured access cores in the long
north façade. The two main cores, are big
enough to fit construction materials, even
cars or containers, aiming that the dwellers
of the building will have the maximum com-
fort. Lastly, as we treat the floorplan as a par-
cel of land, we consider it crucial to establish
some regulation for the buildable area, etc.
to ensure that the “camping” atmosphere
will remain.
The challenge was how we can add value to
the old, re-inventing new urban forms of liv-
ing and trying to keep it simple, fundamen-
tal and essential. We wanted to give space
and freedom to users to customize their
own individual space in a collective housing
building. At the end, we found interesting
the fact that through this rigid monotonous
façade, you can could read the in the inte-
rior space the pluralism and the polyphony
of the many. Furthermore, the progress of
the self-build houses with the different de-
signs and materials is a non-stop process.
The project’s scope was to reform the way
of living more than reforming the building,
keeping an open plan configuration. In that
way the building is able to adapt any other
use in the future.
Workshop
Wild Landscape
postindustrial|residential|reuse
Workshop leader Anne Lacaton
Jorge Luis Tofiño Quintana
Evropia Vervelidou
Location Detroit, U.S.
Duration 3 days

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Starting point were the photos depicting how nature invades the building
Wild Landscape
Starting point were the photos depicting how nature invades the building.
Desired interior atmposheres_collages
Wild Landscape
02 Project Process
Desired interior atmposhere_collage.
Desired interior atmposheres_collages.

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Concept
Wild Landscape
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Floor plan as a section of land.
02 Project Process
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus
Bosch Museo del Prado, Madrid
Floor plan as a section of land
Sketch of the sloppy topography and the open plan
configuration with the “garden” houses.
Detroit’s garden houses fabric_diagram
Wild Landscape
Detroit’s garden houses fabric_diagram

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Wild Landscape
Evolution of the proposed reuse, in time
Evolution in time of the proposed reuse.
Collage of Potential Section-Floorplan
Wild Landscape
Collage of Potential Section-Floorplan

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Building Regulations
Wild Landscape03 Final Step
Regulations
Possible dwelling configurations
Wild Landscape
Possible dwelling configurations

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Floor plans
Wild Landscape
structure_floor plan
installations + access cores_floor plan
possible future configuration_floor plan
Floor plan_zoom
Wild Landscape

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Sections_Facade
Wild Landscape
Longitudinal facade
Longitudinal section
Cross section
Interior atmoshere_collage
Wild Landscape
Interior atmoshere_collage

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Layering_Materiality
Wild Landscape
Exterior atmoshere_collage
Wild Landscape
layer 1
exsisting facade
(with the necessary
reparation)
layer 4
heated area
(Light weight structure,
self-constructed)
layer 3
transparent polycar-
bonate to achieve the
winter garden effect
layer 2
courtains for the
thermal insulation and
the privacy

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The proposal is developed within the
Calderón-Mahou masterplan. Its central po-
sition related with the set determines the
idiosyncrasy of the intervention. The mas-
terplan contemplates the connection of the
Madrid Río Park with the existing facilities lo-
cated to the north and northeast of the mas-
terplan through green spaces that extend
between the plots. In this case, these green
areas are on two sides of the perimeter of
the plot.
The rotation of users as a result of the ag-
ing of the neighborhood population (new
families) and the replacement of disused
infrastructures by housing will increase the
demand for public facilities. Due to its cen-
tral position and relation to the surrounding
green areas, the project proposes to en-
hance and expand the connection of these
spaces. The original volume establishes a
closed block, so the first operation will be
to break the volume and create an opening
that connects both parks in the direction of
the slope. Then the height of the volume is
reduced to create a plinth that generates a
relationship between its upper part and the
street. Various public uses are added to this
plinth that satisfy the needs of the master-
plan.
Finally to comply with the required build-
ing, densified with towers. The proposed
landscape generates a skyline comparable
to the Italian town of San Geminiano. In it,
the slope forms a plinth of low houses where
slender towers stand out.
URBAN SCALE
The project seeks to generate spaces of hu-
man scale and respond to the different con-
ditions of their immediate environment. For
this, the plinth reach the height of the build-
ing located on its southwest side, and also
adapt to the slope of the land until its upper
part is aligned with the ground, generating
continuity between green spaces, the new
garden and the roofs. On the other side, dif-
ferent scales are generated in the interme-
diate garden that qualify access to housing
and common spaces.
BUILDING SCALE
In the upper part of the plinth activities that
activate the plot are proposed, co-working
spaces, sports courts and bars, etc. from the
top of the plot that emerges until reaching a
privileged position among green areas. The
towers of different sizes have been assigned
to aspects of sunlight and orientation, shar-
ing access cores with the plinth.
DOMESTIC SCALE
Users with different needs are determined
and will be reflected in different typologies.
On one hand, on the plinth, the largest ty-
pologies are located and directly related to
the garden, so they are focused on large
families. On the other hand, tower of differ-
ent sizes and great flexibility are developed,
able to alocate different typologies with a
more urban character.
Workshop
The Root Garden
urban|building|domestic
Workshop leader Alison Brooks
Teamwork Candelaria Cáseres
Rosario Pastore
Luis Martin
Duration 5 days

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volume _concept
The Root Garden
San Gimignano
Densification by
towers
Adhesion of program
of public use
Height reduction to
create new urban level
Opening creates connec-
tion between parks
Cloister without relation
to the surrounding
Final volume
The Root Garden
Public roof
Housing towers
Housing and
facilities plinth
Cores
Roots park

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Axonometric
The Root Garden
Connection of the
two parks crossing
the plot
The plinth creates
different scales of
outer space
Volume facing the
street responds to
the environment
Different typologies in
the plinth and in the
towers
Human scale below
the towers
Plinth in front of the
park take the level of
the street to connect
roof and public
Section
The Root Garden

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Tower level_floor plan
Ground floor_floor plan
The Root Garden
interior atmosphere
The Root Garden

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The module THERMODYNAMIC DESIGN
STRATEGIES explores the design oppor-
tunities which the field of thermodynam-
ics and ecology is opening to architec-
ture, and specifically in collective housing.
The Palenque project is mediating be-
tween the technical and the cultural as-
pects of architecture. The project focuses
on three fields of enquiry: the first part ex-
plores the metabolic-logistical dimension
of architecture, the second part the atmo-
spheric-climatic approach to architecture,
and the third topic unpacks the durability
and adaptation of building usage in time.
After these ideas have been assimilated, a
layering project is proposed, as observed
in the clothes worn by the local people.
First an infrastructure made of wood is
raised with a big roof that work as a shad-
ing hut for the sun. This structure allocates
all de communal facilities such as circula-
tions, a shared kitchen and a flexible shared
space. The whole project will be completed
by infills as prefabricated modules of hous-
ing that may vary over time in order to re-
spond to the needs of the different users.
To ensure a constant cross ventilation
for the regions warm and humid weath-
er, each module has a separation be-
tween each other and two parallel perme-
able façades, cooling the interior space.
On the other hand within each housing
module there will be mobile bedrooms
to enable flexibility and customization.
Each bedroom will have a fan and cot-
ton curtain to cool and stop humidity.
The mobile bedrooms are able to
change the position throughout the
day, allowing a flexible space during the
day, and moving to the more ventilat-
ed area of the dwelling during night.
Every dwelling will have a small kitchen-
ette, but the whole building will also pro-
vide a big shared kitchen for communal
in order to eco the cultural tradition of a
kitchen as a meeting place, and for ther-
modynamic reasons, to separate the heat
space from the living and bed rooms. This
main space is open and has a double-height,
giving special ventilation focus to this area.
The envelope is composed by mobile panels
that regulate the entry of light and air flow
during day and night. The amount of open-
ness is calculated in a ratio 1 on front to 1.25
in the back in order to accelerate wind and
provide a passive cooling system. The whole
dwelling is responding in this sense to cultur-
al and natural conditions of the place.
Energy & Sustainability
Palenque
culture|thermodynamic|ecology
Professor Javier García-Germán
Laura Soto
Location San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia
Duration 10 days

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Palenque
Weather
TROPICAL SAVANNA- KÖPEN GEINER-Average humidity 75%-Average temperature 29ºC -Average precipitation: 1072 mm
*Some of the analysis data is from Caracas, Venezuela, principal city located in the same weather classification. Others that are affected by local factors like
wind or sun are taken from the exact location of San Basilio de Palenque.
Do to its proximity to the Equator, SOLAR RADIATION is almost constant during the whole year. For this reason, TEMPERATURE is almost the same all year,
and the real variation is from DAY TO NIGHT.
The differentation factor during the year is the amount of rain, having a DRY season from december to march and WET season from april to november.
Prevalent WINDS come from the caribbean in the west.
According to the Psychrometric Chart, there are very few hours of the whole year where the weather finds the confort zone for the human body.
With all this data we can conclude that the climatic conditions of this location are WARM AND WET. Even in february, the humidity and temperature levels
are still very high. The Only moments where temperature and humidity drop a bit is from 3-6 am. (This became the working hours)
10° 6' 13.284" N 75° 11' 59.856" W
Solar path Radiation and temperature Temperature weekly
Precipitation Wind
February day February night
August day August night
Psychrometric chart
Palenque
Vegetation
VEGETATION that occurs in climates that are warm the whole year is in general more biologically diverse that in other latitudes. Vegetation is abundant
and permanent the whole year, do to the small variation in temperatures. Trees mantain their leaves, which allows them to provide shade the whole year.
Is a natural resource and one of the most efficient in terms of thermal performance.
1. Provides shade, and protects human body and paviments from direct radiation 2. Doesn´t store heat 3.Allows human metabolic heat to pass to the
atmosphere.
Ideal vegetation for architecture and urbanism in Palenque is midium hight and wide branches with lots of leaves like the Enterolobium cyclocarpum

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Palenque
Local architecture and urbanism
TYPOLOGICALY, in the urban and the architectural scale, units are FRAGMENTED or placed
separated from each other in order to allow NATURAL VENTILATION to all the units create
more SURFACE AREA in facades where WINDS from different direction can access.
The name PALENQUE is a direct reference to PALENQUERAS, which where the wooden fer-
nces built around the slave towns. This permeable fences are still one of the main elements
of urbanism and architecture in this weather.
Since the old Palenqueras, the FENCING in both SCALES has been permeable, giving pro-
tection or privacy but allowing wind to pass though and cool the inside units.
The HOUSE is split into 2 or 3 different units, each of them made with different materials,
allocating different activities and responding to the confort needs for the body while per-
forming these different activities.
Palenque
Culture
Loose and thin clothes provide air spaces in between the body and the fabric where air is
constantly renovated by wind or the body´s movement itself. In light colors, it also prevents
sun radiation to get into the body. COLORS are light and vibrant as they come from african
traditions.
As seen in these pictures, vegetation is fundamental to inhabitants in social gathers and
daily activities for the comfort conditions it provides.
Privately, most of the daily activities take place in the RANCHO, cooking, playing instuments
or taking a nap at noon. (the warmest moment of the day). This part of the house has no
walls, its surrounded by trees and has a vegetal multylayer roofing, allowing CROSS VENTI-
LATION, SHADE OR RADIATION CONTROL, METABOLIC HEAT DISPERTION. This conditions
make it the freshest spot in the house.

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Palenque
Fragmentation_Uses
RAGMENTATION FLEXIBILITY
AYERING
COOKING + BATHING SLEEPING HANGING OUT
GROWTH AND COLLECTIVE POSIBILITIES
cooking + bathing sleeping hanging out
overlayerfurnitureboxesstructure
Palenque
Layering_Elements
LAYERING
COOKING+BATHINGSLEEPINGHANGINGOUT
GROWTHANDCOLLECTIVEPOSIBILITIES

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Palenque
Interior atmosphere_Panels
Interior atmosphere_panels
Palenque
Bioclimatic strategies
confort
high mass
Shading Ventilation|Fragmentation|Layering Facade
- fragmentation in urban scheme
- irregular scheme creates less wind sha-
dow
- 16.5 % of the time, fan forced ventilation
is needed.
- fragmentation in 3D do generate voids for
cross ventilation and communal spaces.
- buildings are openes to north and south
in order to recieve the winds in 45 angle.-
When in cross ventilation, 45 angle speeds
wind 65%.
- When fans are on, cotton linnen courtains
can be clased in order to keep humidity
away.
- The ideal proportion for openings in
creoss ventilation is 1 on fron to 1.25 on
the back, this in order to create the max.
speed of wind. - Using louvers, helps ho-
mogenize the wind flow inside the spaces.
- Fragmentation and flexibility inside the
houses.

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Palenque
Layering_structure+modules
Palenque
Floor plans

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Palenque
Axonometric
Palenque
Exterior atmosphere

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Palenque
Perspective section
Palenque
Perspective section_zoom

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The Wetlands project tryed to explore con-
temporary architecture and landscape but
also relate these fields to others traditionally
associated with civil engineering, geography,
sociology, culture and history.
As is knowing Madrid will not have enought
water in a couple of years. The area of this
project is between two important things in
Madrid first the Manzanares river and sec-
ond the M-30 highway.
Inicially we explore the history of the M-30
and how this highway during the time start
changing not only as a highway for cars but
also creating nodes of other uses like stadi-
um, railway, Madrid Rio over them, etc. It
means an infrastructure with other uses.
The second study was about the history of
the Manzanares river. Many years ago the
river was bigger and also the people use for
bathing during the hot summer in Madrid,
but nowadays its getting small and it has no
interaction with the inhabitants.
With this two main topics the project turns
to be an inhabitable infrastructure of water
that not only provides water to the city but
also leisure for the inhabitants.
This new wetlands are an inhabitable res-
ervoir, that will go from the artificial to the
nature again creating a new landscape and
urban ecology.
The proposal is also related to the seasons
in Madrid and how wetlands adapt to the
differents weather during the year, when it
rains collecting the water, during the sum-
mer that is very hot can be a swimming pool
and during the cold winter could be an icer-
ink or a hot springs for example.
There will also factory to recyclying and
cleaning the water. The reservoir will be con-
stantly used as a water supply but also for
leisure.
The M-30 as the first ring surrounding the
city could be used to distribute the water to
the city, transforming to not only car path
also water path.
Landscape
Wetlands
geography|history|infrastructure
Professor Ginés Garrido
Teamwork Prajakta Gawde
Rosario Pastore
Miguel Valverde
Duration 5 days

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M-30 + infrastructural nodes
Wetlands
M-30 INFRASTRUCTURE
M-30 _water insfrastructure_reservoir
Wetlands
RESERVOIR
Large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
“the more water we use, the more land has to be flooded for reservoirs”
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Historical maps of the Manzanares River
Wetlands
1656 1808 1873
1900 1966 1976
1986 2008 2018
MANZANARES RIVER
1656 1808 1873
1900 1966 1976
1986 2008 2018
MANZANARES RIVER
1873
1976
2018
MANZANARES RIVER
1656 1808 1873
1900 1966 1976
1986 2008 2018
MANZANARES RIVER
1808 1873
1966 1976
2008 2018
MANZANARES RIVER
1873
1976
MANZANARES RIVER
20181976
19661873
18081656
Historical picture _ people bathing in the Manzanares River
Wetlands

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New Landscape_New urban ecology
Wetlands
NEW URBAN ECOLOGY
WETLANDS
SITE NOWADAYS
From the artificial to the nature
Wetlands
FROM THE ARTIFICIAL TO THE NATURE

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Wetlands_ new ecology
Wetlands_new ecology
Wetlands
BIODIVERSITY
WETLANDS
Uses_activities
Wetlands
icerink
floods football
water playground
bridge
hot springs
water square
artificial shore
fountains
dock
swimming pool
pump square
river
island
wetland
water spouts
LEISURE WATERSCAPES
Recycling of
storm water
Transportation
Steam power
Water filtration
Wastewater
treatment
Production
Refrigeration
Clean water
Production
Reuse water
Collection
Wetland
Underground
water
Recharge
INFRASTRUCTURE WATERSCAPES

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Water infrastructure
Wetlands
COLLECTION
FILTRATION
PRODUCTION
DISTRIBUTION
STORAGE
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE
LEISURE INFRASTRUCTURE
PUMP SQUARE
WATER SPOUTS
ICERINK
WATER PLAYGROUND
HOT SPRINGS
Wetlands
Icerink
Swimming pool
SWIMMING POOL
ICERINK

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Hot Springs_proposal
Water front _ exsisiting
Wetlands
HOT SPRINGS
WATER FRONT
Wetlands
LEISURE WATERSCAPE
INFRASTRUCTURE WATERSCAPE
INTERMEDIATE WATERSCAPE
EXISTING LANDSCAPE
WETLANDSCAPES

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What makes a city more liveable? what is
a city without green areas? Madrid is a city
and the capital of spain. The city has almost
3.2 million inhabitants and a metropolitan
area population of approximately 6.5 mil-
lion. It is the third-largest city in the Europe-
an Union (EU).
Madrid is a city with few green spaces in the
center of the city, affecting directly its inhab-
itants.
Gran Vía is the main street of the city located
in the center conecting the east and west of
the city. Its construction was at the begin-
ning of the 20th century and nowadays its
the most crowded street in the city not only
as a commercial, tourist and leisure point
of view. The car traffic and the lack of trees
generate a big pollution that is growing day
by day.
Within its route, which runs from the Plaza
Cibeles to the Moncloa intersection, there
are multiple dry squares of which many were
left aside and neglected. As an urban plan,
we decided to create a green loop that con-
nects them through Gran Via.
We developed the first node, the Arco de la
Victoria, located in one of the main entranc-
es of Madrid.
This Plaza is locates next to Parque del Oes-
te, one of the biggest parks in the city, and
in a great area of Madrid. Anfortunatly this
Plaza is not well maintened and also not very
inhabitated for many reasons. The first one
is because there is only one way to get in,
then because is between high speed roads
without pedestrian paths, and the last one
is that the plaza has a great historical signifi-
cance that we can't ignore.
The first strategie to improve the area and
also the plaza was to reduce speed and cre-
ate new pedestrian paths that link it to the
urban fabric of the city. The plaza was ex-
tended, creating a boulevard.
As is known Madrid is a very hot city during
the summer so the proposal for the entire
plaza was to design a new light structure,-
considering that under the square is the sub-
way and highways, so there is no possibility
of plant trees.
The proposal for the project was to design a
new structure that has a directly conection
with the name of the street "Calle del arco",
while you are walking tought the boulvevard
you feel walking trough and arch but when
you are outside you loose the perception os
the arch. The main idea is to keep the histo-
ry of the existing arch but also giving a new
sense for the community. We create a new
structure that perhaps speaks of a past that
existed but that is also behind.
The light structure will containes vegetation
and also provide shadows during the warm
days, the passage of light, wind and water
allows plants to grow inside.
Urban Design
Avenida del Arco
connectivity|city|plaza
Professor José María Ezquiaga
Teamwork Alejandra Delgado
Rosario Pastore
Antonella Peretti
Duration 5 days

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Urban strategy_Madrid
Avenida del Arco
Concept diagram
Avenida del Arco
CONCEPT- DIAGRAM
High speed Speed reduction New pedestrian paths Larger paths
High speed Speed reduction New pedestrian paths Larger paths

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Floor plan
Avenida del Arco
FLOORPLAN
FLOORPLAN
Perspective section
Avenida del Arco

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axonometric section
Avenida del Arco
collage _view
Avenida del Arco

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The proposal of the professors for the proj-
ect was to use an existing building and to
think the differences that this building could
have if it was buildt in other country.
The existence building was the vertix diag-
onal in Barcelona by OAB and relocated in
copenhagen.
It was need to study the weather conditions,
the law, average of m2
in the city, avarage sal-
ary, cost of sell or rent an apartment in an
specific area that was strategically chosen,
construction per m2
and all different con-
struction method.
Then was necessary to propose different
strategies to built in copenhagen in terms of
efficiency, heating, cooling, structure, mate-
riality, etc.
Construction & Technology
Vertix Diagonal
re-located|re-conceptualized|re-industrialized
Professor Ignacio Fernández Solla
Teamwork Francisco Espinosa
Luis Martin
Rosario Pastore
Location Copenhagen,Denmark
Duration 8 days

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Vertix Diagonal
Understanding the building
5,03 5,03 5,02 5,32 4,96 3,94
6,133,486,54
A B C D E F G
1
2
3
4
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
1 unit 3 rooms
4 units 2 rooms
1unit 1 room
MIXED STRUCTURE
CONCRETE AND STEEL
SITE PLAN
CORNER LOCATION
PARK VIEWS
NORTH-SOUTH ORIENTATION
Vertix Diagonal
Site characteristic_Copenhagen
- soil with high sand percentage
- close to the water
- 3.5 km from the city
center
- neighborhood Vesterbro
- residential densification area
- district energy supply
- similar edge / corner situation
- water views
- east west orientation

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Vertix Diagonal
Climate_Copenhagen
winter
-3 0
C / 9 0
C
30/40 MM
confort zone
heating heating
N
O
E
S
21 december
8.41AM - 3.33PM
angle
10 0
summer
10 0
C / 210
C
50/60 MM
confort zone
no need
cooling
N
O
E
S
21 june
3.30AM - 20.52PM
angle
57 0
CLIMATE
Vertix Diagonal
Climate_Copenhagen
winter
-3 0
C / 9 0
C
30/40 MM
confort zone
heating heating
N
O
E
S
21 december
8.41AM - 3.33PM
angle
10 0
summer
10 0
C / 210
C
50/60 MM
confort zone
no need
cooling
N
O
E
S
21 june
3.30AM - 20.52PM
angle
57 0
CLIMATE

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Vertix Diagonal
RE-LOCATED RE-INDUSTRIALIZED RE-CONCEPTUALIZED
Externally the selcted building it recognized by its strong geometry and a double skin facade that brings natural
light and privacy to the tennants. Despite his atractive form we believe that we can improve its structural efficienty,
construction methodolgy and enhance its architecture.
Key Strategies
1. Raft fundations to spread the building loads on the new unestable soil location.
2. Concrete cores for lateral estability.
3. Rationalize the current uneven structure to a modular 5x5 grid in laminated timber.
4. A prefabricated balcony space that becomes a heated space, it is integrated to the thermal envelope and it is
part of the dwelling occupied space achieving a thermal buffer effect.
5. A green roof top
yield + mix
typologies
6 dwelings per floor
-2 units-3rooms
-3units-2rooms
-1unit-1room
inhabitants
18 inhabitants per floor
total: 218 inhabitants
precies in copenhagen
buy housing (per m2
) 2´875€
rent housing (3 rooms) 1´182,36€
precies in barcelona
buy housing (per m2
) 5´000€
salary in copenhagen
Monthly salary average after taxes (net) 2606,56€
Vertix Diagonal
Floor plan_Proposal
typologies
prices
A- 141 m2
405’305€
B- 84 m2
241’500€
C- 112 m2
322’305€
D-166 m2
477’250€
E-103 m2
296’125€
F-164 m2
471’500€
grid structure 5X5
new layer of balconies
3 rooms
1 rooms
2 rooms
A B C
D E F

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Method Statement
Vertix Diagonal
Why wood?
Wood is one of nature's most innovative building materials: the production has no waste products and it binds CO2
.
Wood has low weight, but is a very strong load-bearing structure compared to its lightness.
Wood is also more fire resistant than both steel and concrete. This is due to 15% of wood mass being water, wich
will evaporate before the wood burns. In addition, logs get charred which protect the core.
Wood secures a good indoor climate, perfect acoustics, helps regulating the inside temperature and can be expo-
sed without being covered with plaster or other costly materials.
MANTAINING THE EDGES - EXISTING FORM
RAFT CONCRETE FUNDATIONS
REINFORCED CONCRETE CORES
CLT FLOORS AND SLAB STRUCTURE
WINTERGARDENS AND GREEN ROOF
12 storey building .
double skin facade with diagonal edges.
strong scatereded architectural language.
due to sandy and unestrable soil conditions we
proposed raft concrete fundations to spread
the load from the structure of the building
reinforced concret cores for lateral estability
and to work as the starting point for the rest
of the structure of the building
a more rational and modolar grid is proposed
in CLT. light, strong, thermal qualities, local
tradition, self finishedetc.
prefabricated wintergarden will be modulated
to encapsule the timber structure creating a
buffer and a extra usable space
METHOD STATEMENT
CONCEPT
The balcony space becomes a heated space, it is inte-
grated to the thermal envelope and it is part of the
dwelling occupied space. the cladding should have
a high percentage of transparent areas, in order to
ensure solar heat gains and achieve thermal buffer
effect.
Why Wood?
Wood is one of nature’s most innovative building materials: the production has no waste products and it binds CO2. Wood has low weight,
but is a very strong load-bearing structure compared to its lightness.
Wood is also more fire resistant than both steel and concrete.This is due to 15% of wood mass being water, which will evaporate before the
wood burns. In addition, logs get charred which protects the core.
Wood secures a good indoor climate, perfect acoustics, helps regulating the inside temperature and can be exposed without being covered
with plaster or other costly materials.
• rationalized
• eficient
• modular
• valued enginered
concept plan / sun path and views
north
diagram advantages
isometric section-box
• extra space
• thermal efficient
• industralized
• architectural language
potencialized
CONCEPT
SUN PATH AND VIEWS
12 storey building
double skin facade with diagonal edges
strong scatereded architectural language
Due to sandy and unestrable soil
conditions we proposed raft concrete
fundations to spread the load from the
structure og the building
Reinforced concrete cores for lateral
estability and to work as the starting point
for the rest of the structure of the building
A more rational and modular grid is
proposed in CLT, light, strong, thermal,
qualities, local tradition, self finished, etc.
Prefabricated wintergarden will be modu-
lated to encapsule the timber structure
creating a buffer and a extra usable space.
Mantaining the edges - existing form
Raft concrete fundations
Reinforced concrete cores
CTL floors and slab structure
Wintergardens
Concept
Vertix Diagonal
METHOD STATEMENT
CONCEPT
effect.
Why Wood?
• rationalized
• eficient
• modular
north
diagram advantages
• extra space
• industralized
potencialized
CONCEPT
SUN PATH AND VIEWS
sun path and views
METHOD STATEMENT
CONCEPT
effect.
Why Wood?
• rationalized
• eficient
• modular
north
diagram advantages
• extra space
• industralized
potencialized
CONCEPT
SUN PATH AND VIEWS
METHOD STATEMENT
CONCEPT
effect.
Why Wood?
• rationalized
• eficient
• modular
north
diagram advantages
• extra space
• industralized
potencialized
CONCEPT
SUN PATH AND VIEWS
diagram advantages
The balcony space becomes a heated space, it is integrated
to the thermal envelope and it is part of the dwelling occu-
pied space. The cladding should have a high percentage of
transparent areas, in order to ensure solar heat gains and
achieve thermal buffer effect.

150 151
Vertix Diagonal
Heating strategies
heating strategies
confort zone
BALCONIES
SUMMER
EXTEND OF USING
-3 0
C / 9 0
C 15 0
C 21 0
C
EXTERIOR BALCONIES INTERIOR
angle
10 0
DISTRIC ENERGY
t = 80ºC
Heating
exchanger
Heat
recover
-10ºC
-2ºC
t= 22ºC
Dry bulb
temperature
Radiant floor
t=35-40ºC
HEATING
confort zone
BALCONIES
SUMMER
EXTEND OF USING
-3 0
C / 9 0
C 15 0
C 21 0
C
EXTERIOR BALCONIES INTERIOR
Vertix Diagonal
facade_picture

152 153
Vertix Diagonal
Exterior image_Copenhagen
Vertix Diagonal
Sustainability
water collection
862 M2
522 MM 450000 LT
SURFACE PRECIPITATION ANNUAL
per m2
TOTAL LITERS
SPENDING PER PERSON
PER DAY
INHABITANTS TOTAL LITERS
PER DAY
9 LT 216 1944 LTS
TOTAL LITERS
PER YEAR
709,560LTS
63%
SAVED
GENERAL SUPPLY TANK
WC
WATER
water collection
862 M2
522 MM 450000 LT
SURFACE PRECIPITATION ANNUAL
per m2
TOTAL LITERS
SPENDING PER PERSON
PER DAY
INHABITANTS TOTAL LITERS
PER DAY
9 LT 216 1944 LTS
TOTAL LITERS
PER YEAR
709,560LTS
63%
SAVED
GENERAL SUPPLY TANK
TREATMENT
OF PLUVIAL
WATER
WC
WATER COLLECTION
SUSTAINABILIY

154 155
Vertix Diagonal
Structure_Floor plan detail
1
3
5 5
10
5
5
10
2
2
4
5
1. Column 450 X 450 glulam
2. Beams span 5000mm, beam spacing (centre to centre) 5000mm,
glulam grade GL24h 450 x 480 mm
3. Steel Beam
4. Floor joists span 5000, joist spacing (centre to centre) 1250 mm
glulam grade GL24h 160 x 280 mm
5. Floor sheathing, span 1250 mm, solid timber d=32
5000 X5000 MM GRID
DETAIL OF TYPICAL FLOORPLAN - SUPPORTED FLOOR JOISTS AND MAIN BEAMS
Vertix Diagonal
Interior perspective_Timber Structure

156 157
Vertix Diagonal
Envelope_Detail
1. Printed glass screen
2. Glass balustrade
3. Aluminium sliding profile
4. Floor sheating (thickness 22mm)
5. IPE profile
6. Metal profile cap
7. Corbel beam
8. Steel beam
9. Main beam
10. Floor joist
12. Finished polish concrete topping
13. Window shade
14. Timber column
15. Triple glazing
671514 5121110 13 89 4 2 13
Vertix Diagonal
Facade detail_Image

158 159
Vertix Diagonal
Section detail
5. Waterproof membrane
6. Thermal insulation
14. Main beam
15. Floor joist
17. Radiant floor (pipes)
18. Radiant floor (morter)
21. Timber column
DETALLE #1
DETALLE
#1
Vertix Diagonal
Section detail
DETALLE #2
1. Printed glass screen
2. Glass balustrade
3. Aluminium sliding profile
5. Waterproof membrane
6. Thermal insulation
7. IPE profile
8. Timber laminated floor.
9. Corbel beam
10. Steel plate (balcony)
11. Steel plate (slab)
12. Thermal insulation (slab)
13. Steel beam
14. Main beam
15. Floor joist
17. Radiant floor (pipes)
18. Radiant floor (morter)
20. Window shade
21. Timber column
22. Triple glazing
23. Timber-concrete fixings
24. Concrete Wall (core)
25. False ceiling
DETALLE
#2

161160
City Sciences
Urban Exchangers
manifiesto for the future cities
Professor Alejandro De Miguel
Duration 5 days
THE CITY OF OPPOSITES
By Rosario Pastore
Urban Exchangers
THE CITY OF OPPOSITES

162 163
Urban Exchangers
I must clarify that I do not pretend a solution
for cities to make them working, but I look
for understanding society nowadays through
flexibility in order to allow constant change,
understanding change as a positive and evo-
lutionary fact. The perfect and ideal city does
not exist.
The city evolves and it does through society.
that is why the economy, the architecture,
the politics, etc. only accompany the evolu-
tionary process of the cities. The societies
and the culture will be the transforming
agents.
To make a reflection about the city of the
future we must understand the current city,
the future is now. Every day there are small
cultural and social changes that can not be
perceived but are already creating the city
of the future. The future is a continuous pre-
sent.
That´s why real potential and the virtues of
contemporary cities are found in the capa-
city to achieve changes through the small
transformations that the inhabitants are able
to make, understanding the city as a system
of human interrelations, a factory of articu-
lated life.
The current way of life is flexible, constantly
changing, looking for the ephemeral, what
does not work is I I must clarify that I do not
pretend a solution for cities to make them
working, but I look for understanding society
nowadays through flexibility in order to allow
constant change, understanding change as a
positive and evolutionary fact. The perfect
and ideal city does not exist.
The city evolves and it does through society.
that is why the economy, the architecture,
the politics, etc. only accompany the evolu-
tionary process of the cities. The societies
and the culture will be the transforming
agents.
To make a reflection about the city of the
future we must understand the current city,
the future is now. Every day there are small
cultural and social changes that can not be
perceived but are already creating the city
of the future. The future is a continuous pre-
sent.
That´s why real potential and the virtues of
contemporary cities are found in the capa-
city to achieve changes through the small
transformations that the inhabitants are able
to make, understanding the city as a system
of human interrelations, a factory of articu-
lated life.
The current way of life is flexible, constantly
changing, looking for the ephemeral, what
does not work is discarded, another speed is
handled, everything has an expiration date.
As the philosophers say, we live in a world
that “has not longer an exterior”, the limits
are more and more diffuse, it is a world that
is increasingly globalized and densified. Ci-
ties where opposite poles coexsist for exam-
ple capitalism and socialism, manual and te-
chnological, informal and formal, natural and
artificial, legal and ilegal, etc.
We live in cities that learn every day to live
with opposite poles, and not always are able
to do it.
The increasingly density needs to maximaze
the space, it is a constant test of continuous
creativity. This procces take place in the in-
formal but also in the formal. For example
in many cities the roof of a legal and formal
building is covered to obtain more square
meters in an informal and ilegal way.
An apartment nowadays is not only a resi-
dential space for living, it´s also a producti-
ve space for working or accommodation for
tourists this is the process were the legal turn
to be ilegal, the formal turns to be informal.
The city must respond to the needs of an in-
creasingly densified society.
Tourists are the “mobile society” and an im-
portant part of the economy of a city, that is
why they must answer to them while still res-
ponding to the “fixed society”. In many parts
of the world, air bnb became the enemy of
the “fixed society”, making them moved out
of the city as a matter of offer and demand
Urban Exchangers
market. The “mobile society” and the “fixed
society” must coexist.
The only thing that we can predict from the
cities of the future is that they must be pre-
pared for change, they need to acquire ru-
les that allow them to positively handle the
permanent state of crisis. The crisis is the
previous state for the next transformation, it
means the evolution.
Cities must face the challenge of working
with interstitial spaces where the opposite
poles meet. Those spaces where
diffuse attributes exist in multiple and diver-
se geographies.
The distribution process that was generated
in the cities caused heterogeneous clusters,
and this provide alternative urban scenarios,
waiting to be discovered and used.
For many years the favelas were considered
as the densifying process that threatened
the principles of the city, or the urban con-
ditions because of its informal urbanization
and for being out of the system. But today
it should be considered as an opportunity
where reversible, imperfect and incomplete
housing is created. Foreseeing the possibility
of unforeseen, new uses and activities.
The rigidity of the city generates an urban
fracture between the planned city and the
spontaneous city. The crack that generated
this fracture are withe spaces without iden-
tity and the limits will be lost in space. The
city needs this elastic districts as the bellows
between opposites poles that must coexist.
Following are some recommendations that
looks for the coexistence of apparently
opposite poles:
1- Progressive structures. Considering the fa-
vela as the process of densification because
they are imperfect and incomplete reversible
structures in time. Which are current charac-
teristics related to an idea of imbalance and
instability. The constant change, as a method
of evolution.
The formal accepts its own informality while
the informality advances to the formality
2- The city works as a laboratory of human
interrelations, for this reason it is necessary
to move in domestic economies , which work
in the interstices of daily life. Being the so-
ciety and culture the only way of evolution
of cities.
3 - Cities must design temporary infrastruc-
tures without identity and the possibility of
changing over time without modifying the
footprint of the land. Elastic project that
must be able to expand without breaking the
system.
4- The soil (previously virgin) is an artificial
space that must be naturalized again and
provides its initial conditions in the urban
ecosystem, such as water absorption, oxyge-
nation, etc.
5- Connections and flexible systems, not de-
finitive and modifiable in time. The vertical
and horizontal circulation as manual and te-
chnological systems. The city will be comple-
tely conquered and accessible.
6- New sewing of city between the opposi-
te poles will generate a new type of urbani-
zation. They will be considered exchangers
urbanization models. Permeable districts,
where informality is part of the formality.
Coexistence spaces demarcated by diffuse
limits in their uses.
7- Productive areas that follow the chan-
ge of seasons and climate creating diffe-
rent living conditions.
8- Air spaces should be maximized with
flexible systems, with temporary uses. All
terraces should be temporarily habitable
in the form of urban camping, (airbnb
camping) spaces for leisure, work or pro-
duction. Uses and activities that can also
depends on weather conditions, etc

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