This portfolio summarizes various housing projects completed by the author as part of their studies in the Master of Architecture in Collective Housing program between Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and ETH Zurich. The projects covered a range of scales and typologies, from reuse of industrial buildings to emergency refugee housing. Throughout their studies, the author explored themes of inhabitation, community, context, construction techniques, and climate adaptation.

2. The Master of Architecture in Collective Housing MCH is a postgraduate full-time international professional
program of advanced design in cities and housing presented by Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM) and
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
This portfolio is a compilation of projects I developed in the 2023 MCH edition.

3. To Dani for always believing in me and my family for their unconditional support.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
Psalm 1:3

4. HOUSING & REUSE AT SBB
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CITY SCIENCES
120-155
HOUSING THE UNPREDICTABLE
62-75
MIX USE BUILDING
32-41
CLIMATE, METABOLISM & ARCHITECTURE
76-91
DOMESTIC FRAGMENTS
42-49
CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY
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RESIDENCIAL PRODUCTIVE TOWERS
49-61
LOW-COST AND EMERGENCY HOUSING
156-167
WORKSHOPS SPECIALTIES
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Workshop Leader: Anne Lacaton
Assistant professor: Diego García
Team: Andrés Melo, Camilo Meneses, Fredy Quispe
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
“The project was focused on defining and exemplifying optimal
conditions for living in the city.
The city should provide an exceptional quality of life by offering a
large range of facilities, proximities, and pleasures, as well
as a large variety of dwelling typologies to fit different needs,
expectations and ways of life: living in a public space, living
in the neighborhood, living collectively within a close community,
and living individually. This workshop explored the potential
reuse of obsolete industrial facilities turned into mixed-use and
dwelling structures to foster good conditions of life in the context
of the Master in Collective Housing.
The worked complex site in Kreis (Zurich) owned by the
Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB), the swiss
national railway company and occupied by workshop sheds, still
used as a train reparation center. “
HOUSING & REUSE AT SBB
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In terms of structure, there are four types of structure: steel framing, wood, concrete and lightweight steel.
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Longitudinal section
4 types of roofs
Steel structure, grid: 13x15m
concrete structure, grid: 8x9.8m steel structure, beam span: 24m
Concrete columns with wood truss,
beam span: 24m

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APPROPIATION
Have quality spaces
that allow and promote
domesticity, diversity, and
individuality.
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Human scale,
resignification of space,
identity.
SPACIOUSNESS
Have flexible spaces that go
beyond the standard to adapt
to different users’ needs over
time.
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Modulation, growing system,
unique spaces. Stablish
program without limit the
shape.
IN-BETWEEN
Design transitional
spaces that generate
meeting opportunities and
relationships between the
inside and outside.
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Free use, not stablished
shape, more than
connections.
CONTEXT AWARENESS
Design spaces related to the
environment, climate, and culture.
Being an integral part of it and, at
the same time, preserving its own
character.
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Terraces, winter garden, solar
protections.
References of qualities for the project
QUALITIES OF INHABITING

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A- Green Park
B- Market hall
C- Offices and coworking
D- Green houses and local
farming
E- Housing units B (Double)
F- Housing units A (Triple)
SECTION

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Green park with hanging gardens, ground floor Market hall, ground floor

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HOUSING UNITS AFTER 5-10 YEARS
HOUSING UNITS INITIAL PHASE
TYPE B TYPE B

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HOUSING MODULE - TYPE B
HOUSING MODULE -TYPE B ISOMETRIC VIEW

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Housing appropiation Flexibility

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Workshop Leader: Dietmar Eberle
Assistant professor: Alberto Nicolau
Location: Madrid, Spain
The project was conceived in a five-day architectural workshop
by architect Dietmar Eberle. The workshop focused on designing
a collective housing building with a commercial area, aiming to
seamlessly integrate the building with the surrounding environment
while improving upon it. The project is located in Madrid’s first
expansion during the 19th century.
The front facade of the building features a triple-height entryway
that beckons passersby from the street to come and explore the
vibrant plaza and bustling commercial area. The impressive high
entrance attracts people to go inside.
The terraces in the apartments have a sliding panels system in the
facade that helps the building from the sun during summer months
and allows the inhabitants to feel that the building belongs to
them.
MIX USE BUILDING
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Location
CL Almagro 7, 28010 Madrid.
Ground Surface: 1.516,5 m2
The purpose of the main façade is to adapt
to its context. As it can be seen in the side
buildings horizontality predominates (A,B)
but in the buildings that are in the area
the verticality generated by the windows
also predominates. (c) The purpose was
to create a façade that adapts to both
conditions.
Aereal view

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Workshop Leader: Elli Mosayebi
Assistant professor: Alvaro Martín Fidalgo
Team: Santiago Aguirre, Lucas Navarro
Location: Purmamarca, Argentina
The exercise consisted on creating a habitable space using
three assigned words. The words were armchair, collecting, and
accommodating. The project was developed in Purmamarca,
Argentina, where the stunning seven-color mountain can be
found.
The Purmamarca area is renowned for its annual Jujeño festival.
The festival features a singing caravan leading participants to the
mountain base, where the proposed structure provides a space for
entertainment during the day and a resting area at night.
The concept of the accommodation was to simulate a night train
to be able to accommodate the most amount of visitors possible.
The structure is constructed with native materials. The building’s
base is built of natural stone, and the walls are built with rammed
earth combined with the minerals that give the mountain its color,
allowing the building to blend with the landscape.
DOMESTIC FRAGMENTS
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Workshop Leader: Juan Herreros
Assistant professor: Pedro Pitarch
Team: Nestor Lenarduzzi, Paloma Romero
Location: Madrid, Spain
The workshop’s purpose was to recycle and reuse office buildings in
progressive abandonment to generate a mix use building that integrates
living with an industry.
Due to society’s constant change, technological revolutions are fostering
changes in living, consuming, and inhabiting the city—the alcohol
industries of brewing and winery were introduced into the building. New
technologies allow the Brewing and winery industries to interact and
coexist with living.
The existing building has two long facades facing north and south; it
was decided to attach the independent production processes in each
facade, and take advantage of shared production space.
RESIDENCIAL PRODUCTIVE TOWERS
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Workshop Leader: Hrvoje Njiric
Assistant professor: Esperanza García
Team: Samira Taubmann, Brittany Siegert, Krishna Yadav
Location: North Carolina, United States
“Sometimes, we must design and situate a dwelling or a
group of dwellings in a context
affected by cataclysms. The recent threats of living on
planet Earth, caused by global warming or
tectonic collisions and pandemics, demand quick, exact
and affordable solutions from architects.“
The general task focused on solutions for minimum-cost
housing and affordable and innovative proposals to
address basic human needs after a hurricane in Raleigh,
North Carolina. The United States has incurred over $1.8
trillion in costs of damages due to weather and climate.
The southeast region experienced the highest cost in the
country.
HOUSING THE UNPREDICTABLE

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Specialty Leader: Javier García German
Team: Alejandro Yañez, Krishna Yadav, Hector
Herrera, Vyoma Popat.
Location: Barcelona, Spain
The speciality consisted on understanding
the local climate of Barcelona, the body’s
physiological demands, and how specific urban
design, landscape, and architectural techniques
can mediate between climate and the body to
design an interior climatic room.
The final proposal is a collective housing plan
of 20 units adapted to the climate to show how
collective housing can adapt to habitability
patterns influenced by climate.
EVERYDAY LIFE ATMOSPHERES

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Director: Ignacio Fernandez Solla
Professors: Archie Campbell, Diego García-Setién,
David Rutter
Team: Andrés Melo, Camilo Meneses, Fredy Quispe
Location: Paris to Sapporo
The project consisted of reconceptualizing a building,
moving it to a different climatic location, and developing
design strategies for the envelope, structure and services.
Also, to reconsider construction systems and materials
and search for an appropriate solution which allows
reindustrializing the building process,
The building used for this purpose was the 149 Rue
des Suisses apartment building in Paris by Herzog
and de Meuron. The selected location was required to
be a continental, humid climate zone (D) in a highly
industrialized economy. The chosen location was Sapporo
in Japan.
CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY

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Specialty Leader: Susana Isabel, Julia
Landaburu.
Team: Andrés Padilla, Camila Cano, Fredy
Quispe, Samira Taubman
Location: Madrid Spain
New design paradigms are emerging based
on human-centered principles and systems-
based
approaches. Based on the notion of the City as
a complex system, or as a system of systems,
City Science seeks to provide tools and
techniques to navigate the complexity of city-
making.
The project was developed in Madrid Nuevo
Norte, the area of an urban void in the city
and also part of the historical evolution of
Paseo La Castellana in Madrid. The objective
was to make a diagnosis of the area, propose
a vision of the Master plan and develop a
concept for one of the districts.
CITY LINK

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MADRID NUEVO NORTE

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NATURE - METROPOLITAN FORESTGROUND
The masterplan concept is to contribute to counteracting the existing problems of lack of diversity, inequality and
lack of connection with nature.

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NATURE - GREEN/PUBLIC SPACES

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NEIGHBORHOODS

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SERVICES/FACILITIES
Here, we can see the current proposal for services in the area, which helps us propose specific services for each
sector to complement existing services.

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EXISTING BUILDINGS
Within the land are warehouses, some of which are occupied as homes. There are also two important historical buildings
and two informal settlements.

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CERCANIAS/TRAIN STATIONS

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METRO AND BUS

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BIKE LINE

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Specialty Leader: Elena Giral
Team: Camila Cano, Angela Tamayo, Brittany,
Jerónimo Nazur, Andrés Padilla.
Location: Kyaka ganda
The workshop’s purpose was to provide dignified
shelters for the refugees in Kyaka II. Uganda
has the largest population of refugees in Africa,
with over 1.5 million refugees and asylum-
seekers. Most refugees are from South Sudan,
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and
Burundi, where people have fled violent conflicts
and extreme poverty. Over 80% of refugees in
Uganda are hosted in 13 districts in North and
Southwestern regions and the capital, Kampala.
This project aimed to provide secure and dignified
housing for the two thousand newly arrived
refugees in Kyaka II.
LOW EMERGENCY HOUSING

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