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arquiberia ASSOCIATION FOR THE DIFFUSION OF THE CREATIVE, TECHNICAL AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE OF THE SPANISH ARCHITECTURE IN INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
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Arquiberia is an association of Spanish architects of international renown, both professionally and academically, in order to spread the creative, technical and academic excellence of the Spanish architecture and to contribute to the international expansion of the technology and the culture associated with the brand “Spanish architecture�. Its members, university teachers and architects with works, projects, publications and international exhibitions, make up a group of professionals committed to the culture which can operate individually or collectively on a wide variety of projective areas, ranging from the infrastructure, energy and urban project, up to the equipments, singular residential building, restoration, public space or landscape. Arquiberia is a platform of exchange created to assist in the dissemination of Spanish architecture, offering advise, support and distinctive to the public and private architectural, urban and environmental initiatives aimed at fostering the quality of the built environment. Equally, Arquiberia encourages the promotion of young architects commited to the values of creativity, technical rigor and intellectual projection of the association. Arquiberia operates establishing bridges between different cultures, collaborating with professionals from other countries, connecting the intellectual area with that of the production, reinforcing the presence of the Spanish companies abroad and establishing synergies with local institutional and private agents. Areas of speciality INFRASTRUCTURES
URBAN PROJECTS
EQUIPMENTS
SINGULAR BUILDINGS
RESTORATION AND RENOVATION
PUBLIC SPACE AND LANDSCAPE
ENERGY, NEW TECHNOLOGIES
HOUSING
Academic Centers where Arquiberia members have developed their teaching are leaders in research into new technologies and experimentation of advanced design, with a significant influence in local and global political debates. Communication and cultural dissemination (seminars, workshops, postgraduate courses, exhibitions, publications) are part and parcel of the exchange activities of Arquiberia in the international field.
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Urban Projects and Planning
Singular Buildings
Infrastructures
Renovation and Restoration
Equipments
Housing
Energy and New Technologies
Public space and Landscape
Urban Projects and Planning
arquiberia PÔLE MULTIMODAL NICE-AÉROPORT QUARTIER D’AFFAIRES GRAND ARÉNAS NICE GRAND ARÉNAS, FRANCIA, 2011 Restricted Contest. First Prize Client: Établissement Public d’Aménagement de la Plaine du Var, Nice Location: Nice Grand Arénas, Francia Program: Mix use: Offices, Housing, Equipment, Hotel´s, Exposition Palace, Multimodal Node (Estación TGV, Estación autobuses, Tranvía, conexión con Aeropuerto) Area: Grand Arénas: 680,000 m2 + Pôle Multimodal Nice-Aéroport: 110,000 m2
IMAGINING THE CITY OF THE FUTURE The nature around us: the Mediterranean, my culture, too, the river, the mountains … data in the base. The interaction of flows: planes, trains, trams, buses… expression of interchange, of mobility and of the centrality of the place. With all of this, plus the spaces that protect human activities, constructing a piece of contemporary city, a new centre of the city of the future.
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arquiberia CASTELLANA ST EXTENSION PROJECT MADRID, 2002-2010 Developer: DUCH Location: Madrid, Spain Program: Urban Projects Built Area: 3120000 sqm Budget: $13,500 M State: Final Approval
Castellana St’s Extension Project is a response to the will of both extending and finishing Madrid’s best street and doing it fostering its character of central piece in the city. It represents an operation of urban transformation for it pursues enhancing railway and industrial land without compromising new consumption of territory. As well as that, it contributes to vertebrate Madrid’s north arch entirely when making possible transversal connections between Fuencarral and Las Tablas, which up to the moment were working as independent locations. The Operation is sustained on public transport, specially underground and Cercanías rail, assuring good accessibility to the city and metropolitan area without creating an additional load of traffic congestion. It is the metro stations (underground and rail) that determine the location of the terciary nodes. Additionally, it foresees a varied offer of means of transport alternative to the automobile, an exclusive bicycle lane going through the area, bus-reserved platforms in big roads and a third of the streets will not admit through traffic, leaving them only for residential use.
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arquiberia URBAN DESIGN CONSULTATION FOR BAISHA DISTRICT IN ZHENGZHOU, CHINA. 2011 Competition 1st Prize 2011 Client: Zhengzhou New District Development & Reform and Land Planning Bureau Location: Baisha District, Zhengzhou, China Programme: Master Plan Area: 42Km2 Status: Project
The project involves the development of a 42 Km2 area, planned for a population of 500,000 inhabitants in 2020. The proposal raises an alternative to the enormous growth that characterizes the new urban developments in China, balancing densifi cation with high architectural and environmental quality of the public space. The competition organized by the “Zhengzhou New District Development and Reform and Land Planning Bureau� forms part of a series of large-scale urban interventions that the Chinese government has launched in Zhengzhou, in order to promote the urban development of the interior of the country, in the Yellow River region - the historical origin of the Chinese civilization-
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arquiberia SEGOVIA MASTERPLAN SEGOVIA, 2006-2011 Developer: Ayuntamiento de Segovia Location: Segovia, Spain Program: Urban Projects Total Area: 163,59 km2 Population: 56858 inhab State: Final Approval
The goal of the Masterplan is to get the environmental protection at a city and neighbourhood level, with a polycentric urban structure in which the neighbourhoods (both those in the center and the integrated ones) play a very relevant role which will be taken into account in the detailed planning of the facility system. The historical center is set as Segovia’s representative space both at a urban level and in relation to the regional and national system. The Plan defines an integrated action over the historic area of the city, so that physical rehabilitation of the buildings, functional requalification of these spaces in the whole municipality and demographic revitalization are combined at the same time. The surroundings of the new high speed railway station are set as the element with a supramunicipal attractive, related to the possibilities of diversifying the local economic basis, but with the will of having the ability of configuring as a neighbourhood with its own identity. The integrated Neighbourhoods, old municipalities annexed to Segovia, are enhaced so that they can be thought of as an alternative to the adjoining municipalities in terms of residential capacity.
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arquiberia MENORCA ISLAND MASTERPLAN MENORCA,2004 Developer: Consell Insular de Menorca Location: Menorca, Balear Islands, Spain Programa: Urban Projects Built Area: 694 km2 Population: 90235 hab State: Final Approval
AWARDS - Gubbio Prize 2006 - National Urbanism Prize 2005
Menorca Island Masterplan represents the culmination of an extended sequence of initiatives and reflections about the identity of Menorca as a territory under transformation, marked by the singularity of its condition of Biosphere Reserve, which demanded the need for a Project able to integrate creatively the fragmented sum of local plans and sectorial actions. In that context, the Plan is born with the dual vocation of constituting the scenario of rational anticipation of a desirable future for Menorca and the integration framework of the city and sectorial policies with a territorial influence. Responsible of designing the most effective strategies to achieve those scenarios, it also constitutes the main tool for territory governance.
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arquiberia HIGH-SPEED TRAIN STATION LOGROﾃ前, 2008-2011 International Restricted Competition by invitation. First Prize Client: LIF / ADIF Location: Logroﾃｱo, Spain Program: Special Plan of Interior Reform alredy developed, aproved (2005-2009): Train Station, Bus Station, Housing, Urbanization. Area PERI: 213Ha. Train Station Area: 8.000m2. Sup. Platform area: 19.000m2. Parking Area: 18.000m2. Bus Station Area: 10.800m2. Sup. urbanization: 145.000m2. Housing Area (Towers): 41.250m2. Housing Area: 83.750m2. First Phase Budget (underground + Train Station): 108.000.000竄ｬ Status: Transportation Hub in progress
The idea is to site the railway tracks and station underground and in the process create a memorable urban event, a hybrid of nature and artifice, capable of rebalancing the city centre by itself. From the outset it was believed that unifying the high-speed train station and the bus station in a single, sweeping gesture would not only have functional benefits but would also allow the creation of a huge pedestrian space, a park or artificial hill that crowns the huge green ring where the train tracks had previously divided the city into two. Beneath this hill, the train and bus stations create a landform building that, by means of its triangular geometry, reconciles the exterior organic shapes with the interior constructional ones, generating two crackled hypostyle naves around a central dome that, akin to grottoes, extend the public space of the park. To the north, next to the historic city, a great oval plaza is home to more intense activities, underlined by the setting out of five vertical buildings; towards the south, meanwhile, a continuous backdrop of medium-height housing permits the intervention to be closed off. Crowned by solar canopies, the section of the towers consists of a spiral of platforms or hanging gardens with the same materiality as the transportation hub, thus uniting the whole.
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arquiberia OSMOSE STATION (GRAND PARIS PROJECT) PARIS, 2010 International competition. First Price Client: RATP France Situation: París, France Program: Metro station and Intermodal, Square, Commerce, Offices, Leisure, Housing Constructed area: 36.740 m2
Osmose Station seeks to leap forward a generation to define the Paris metro and its urban role thirty years from now. The metro station will be a new place of meeting and interchange, a new landscape, welcoming, generous and connected with the city — not shut away in the underground linear infrastructure. With the subway’s circulation space encapsulated, the station will have a clean, safe and light-filled atmosphere, and its vault wºmodate cultural, sports and leisure amenities, hôtels industrielles for new businesses, apartments and showrooms. The life of the community is catalysed by the station’s programmatic density and physical presence, which ought to have visual pre-eminence in the suburban context. Osmose Station will be a new environmental, landscaping and architectural entity. The geothermic energy of the metro’s network (and that of motors and brakes in winter) will be accumulated in the vertical volume of air that embraces the building, to which the different uses will be connected through water batteries and heat pumps. The surplus heat accumulated in the daytime public areas will be transferred to the residential areas while the photovoltaic brisessoleils on the south façade will supply the electrical energy for the lighting of the public areas and station.
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arquiberia PLAZA ECÓPOLIS [ESPACIO PÚBLICO + ESCUELA INFANTIL + LUDOTECA , 2009-2010 Cliente: Ayuntamiento de Rivas Vaciamadrid | Agencia Local de la Energía Rivas Vaciamadrid Situación: Rivas Vaciamadrid, Madrid, España Programa: espacio público + escuela infantil + ludoteca Superfi cie construida: 8.000m2 Presupuesto: 2.700.000€ Estado: Obra terminada. PREMIOS Proyecto finalista - Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2010 Proyecto finalista - Premio Zumtobel 2012 Proyecto seleccionado - Premio Internacional de Dubai de Mejores Prácticas 2012 Proyecto seleccionado - Green Building Challenge 2011
El proyecto “Plaza Ecópolis” tiene por objeto incorporar la idea de la sostenibilidad en la vida cotidiana, reduciendo el consumo de energía y transmitiendo la idea de sostenibilidad a los niños que, en consecuencia, se convertirán en adultos responsables. La combinación de sistemas pasivos de ahorro y activos de efi ciencia energética permite alcanzar la califi cación energética más efi ciente (certifi cación A). Un 50% del edifi cio se encuentra semienterrado para benefi ciarse de la inercia térmica del terreno y una gran fachada orientada al sur aprovecha al máximo la luz y el calor. Una capa textil exterior envuelve el volumen de hormigón, siendo parte de ella móvil para adaptarse a las posiciones del sol. Este elemento bioclimático difumina el límite entre exterior e interior, extendiendo el confort climático del edifi cio hacia el espacio público. En la plaza se hacen más transparentes al público algunos de los procesos como el de la depuración. El sistema de saneamiento de aguas residuales termina en una laguna donde el agua se depura mediante plantas macrofi tas. Una topografía artifi cial perimetral confina el espacio de la plaza y sirve de fi ltro frente al tráfi co y a un entorno industrial agresivo.
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arquiberia BARCELONA INTERNACIONAL CONVENTION CENTER, CCIB FORUM 2002-2004 Place: Barcelona Architect: Josep LluĂs Mateo Project: 2002-2003 Work: 2002-2004 Area: 60.000m2 Value: 70M euros
The Barcelona International Convention Centre is a 130mx150m building with two well-defined structural volumes. The first space is a one-storey 150mx85m columnfree convention centre. In order to achieve the long spans required, a structural solution was proposed based on a series 85m long trussed frames at 15m centres with pinned supports. The roof consists of a steel deck spanning between the bottom chords of these trusses. The top chords are laterally restrained by the diaphragm action of additional slabs located one-storey above roof level. This also helped the ar chitect to create additional useable space. The main entrance to the building is located at one end of this volume and features a canopy that cantilevers 15m and is tied back to the first trussed frame. A composite metal deck slab spanning between the top chords of the two first trussed frames and acting as a horizontal deep beam, ensures that any tension forces from the canopy’s support cables are transferred into the vertical cross bracing located along the perimeter of the building. This ensures the stability of the cantilevers and their support system. The second main volume is a 30mx150m building. Its structure consists of 30m long steel trusses supported on steel columns. Connecting both buildings is the Commu nications and Services building; a 10mx150m building built using a more conventional steel solution. These buildings sit on a 150m 60m multi purpose reinforced concrete basement, which includes a carpark area, plantrooms and storage areas.
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arquiberia FILM THEATRE OF CATALONIA RAVAL DISTRICT, BARCELONA, 2004 - 2011 Restricted contest. First Prize Client: ICIC (Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals) Situation: Plaza Salvador Seguí, Raval District. Barcelona Architect: Josep Lluís Mateo Project: 2002-2003 Program: Film Theatre Area: 7.515 m2 Value: 12,000.000’00 euros
About the form… The ruins mark the structure of the buildings. The Roman forum formalizes the plane of foundations anddrains. In the old town, my building sets out to express itself as pure structure—no cladding, no finishes. The bare concrete beams-cum-walls that form the façades are very varied, proving themselves members of the family of thedilapidated neighbouring walls, where plaster crumbles to reveal their original central mass. Filters are juxtaposed on the wall. This cinematographic metaphor is not just conceptual; it is above all physical, sensible. In the old town, with very close relations between buildings, interaction must be mediated, filtered. And this is implemented by a varietyof devices, with a vague cinematographic reference. About the space… The space is organized around two movements: a) The descent into the darkness of the cinemas, with the reflection of the spectators (in turn reflected, actorsseen in a series of mirrors) b) The ascent towards the light, towards the places of work. Two courtyards, connected but not continuous, accompany and construct the movement.
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EXPO 2008 AUDITORIUM AND CONGRESS CENTRE. ZARAGOZA, SPAIN. Competition 1st Prize 2005 Client: Gobierno de AragĂłn Location: Zaragoza. Programme: Congress centre Area: 22.000 m2 Cost: 65.000.000 â‚Ź Status: Completed
The new Congress Centre for the Zaragoza Expo 2008 portrays a fractional and changing profi le, ascending and descending in response to the different spaces housed in its interior. A white concrete and ceramic roof covers the large convention areas and the main auditorium, thus expressing the presence of natural light and the connection of the building to the ground
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arquiberia ECOBULEVAR DE VALLECAS, 2004-2007 Cliente: Ayuntamiento de Madrid, EMVS. Situación: Ensanche de Vallecas, Madrid, España. Programa: Bulevar écologico para un espacio público socialmente innovador. Superfi cie construida: 25.000m2 Presupuesto: 2.500.000€ Estado: Obra terminada. PREMIOS 1º Premio Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture 2007 Finalista Premios Mies Van der Rohe 2007 “Arquitecto Europeo Emergente”, 1º Premio Arquia-Próxima 2006/07 1º Premio Enor-Madrid 2006 Premio Reconocimiento Holcim, Europa 2005 Premio de la Architectural Association and the Environments, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster, Londres, 2006
La propuesta para el eco-bulevar de Vallecas, puede defi nirse como una operación de reciclaje urbano que consta de las siguientes actuaciones: la instalación de tres árboles de airedinamizadores sociales, la densificación del arbolado de alineación existente, la reducción y disposición asimétrica de las circulaciones rodadas e intervenciones superficiales sobre la urbanización existente (perforaciones, rellenos, pinturas, etc.) que logran reconfigurar el urbanismo ejecutado. Tres pabellones o árboles de aire funcionan como soportes abiertos a múltiples actividades elegidas por los usuarios. Instalados en la no-ciudad como prótesis temporales, se usarán sólo hasta que la tara de inactividad y de acondicionamiento climático, se haya corregido. Transcurrido el tiempo suficiente, estos dispositivos deberían desmontarse, permaneciendo los antiguos recintos como claros en el bosque.
1. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS 2. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS SUPPORT STRUCTURE 3. WIND CATCHER 4. PLAITED STEEL CABLE RAILING FOR MAINTENANCE PLATFORM 5. MAINTENANCE PLATFORM 6. STEEL BRACE, PARABOLICLY CURVED FOLLOWING PERIMETER BOW 7. VENTILATION SYSTEM FASTENING FRAME 8. COOLING SYSTEM 9. 6 MICRONIZERS 10. POLYESTER VENTILATION PIPE FOLLOWING A HYPERBOLIC SHAPE 11. OUTER SKIN 12. FIXATION BY SEWING TO THE MAIN STRUCTURE 13. STEEL ROD TO TIGHTEN OUTER TEXTILE SCREEN 14. TRONCOCONICAL AIR DIFUSSER 15. ALUMINUM AIR NOZZLE, LONG SPAN
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GALVANIZED STEEL TUBE STRUCTURE LIGHTING SYSTEM. FIBER OPTIC CABLES, LATERAL EMISSION FUSED ALUMINUM ADJUSTABLE SPOTLIGHT, WITH METAL HALOGEN LAMP GALVANIZED STEEL TUBE STRUCTURE WITH EPOXY PAINT PROTECTION OPENING FOR INSPECTION (WATER, ELECTRICITY, IRRIGATION, SEWAGE) POLYETHYLENE PLANTER BOX; SHOCKPROOF AND UV PROTECTED DRIPPING IRRIGATION SYSTEM INSIDE COATING: GREEN WALL OF PERENNIAL CLIMBING PLANTS TIGHTENED GALVANIZED STEEL MESH LIGHTING CABLE, PROTECTED INSIDE THE METAL STRUCTURE CURVED TUBE TO ATTACH UPRIGHT CABLES CONTINUOUS PAVING MADE OF RECYCLED TYRE ARTIFICIAL TOPOGRAPHY CIRCULAR BENCH PHOTOCATALYTIC COBBLE PAVING GLASS COBBLE
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arquiberia ÁRBOL DE AIRE – ESPACIO PÚBLICO DEL PABELLÓN DE MADRID SHANGHAI EXPO 2010 Cliente: Fundación Madrid Global Situación: UBPA Expo 2010 - Huayuangang Rd. - Shanghai Programa: espacio público Superfi cie construida: 1.500m2 Presupuesto: 1.000.000 € Estado: Obra terminada.
Las Exposiciones Universales han sido a lo largo de la historia, eventos donde se mostraban los grandes avances de la tecnología al lado de las últimas expresiones del arte. Desde esta perspectiva el Árbol de Aire surge como un prototipo experimental de intervención en el espacio público contemporáneo, capaz de reactivar lugares y generar las condiciones propicias para el uso del espacio colectivo. Se concibe como un mobiliario urbano tecnológico, siendo no sólo de uso contemplativo sino interactivo, además de energéticamente autosuficiente y generador de confort climático. El Árbol de Aire con sus diferentes capas técnicas admite múltiples confi guraciones finales einfi nidad de posiciones intermedias (opaco al exterior, translúcido, transparente, iluminado, interactivo, abierto,…). Su aspecto se transforma tanto a lo largo del ciclo diario, como de los diferentes meses del año. Distintos soportes textiles de proyección permitirán una combinación ilimitada de escenarios adaptables a las necesidades de uso. Al mismo tiempo está conectado mediante sensores, a tiempo real, con las condiciones climáticas de la ciudad de Shanghai, adoptando en todo momento la confi guración física y energética óptima para generar las condiciones de confort térmico necesarias.
PLANTA NIVEL +4,00 PROYECTORES DE VIDEO
PLANTA NIVEL +10,50 VENTILADOR
PLANTA NIVEL +13,75 ESTRUCTURA DE CUBIERTA. TENSEGRITY.
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arquiberia NEW SZCZECIN ´S PHILARMONIC POLAND, 2008 Architects: Barozzi Veiga Architects Developer: City council of Sczecin 2008 - design stage Area: 13.344m2 Budget: 25 million euros Main characteristic: Cover with particular geometry where there are large lights to save State: Under construction
The new Szczecin Philharmonic’s building combines a shape and volume in harmony with the old town centre with a contemporary image provided by a glass façade creating a big box of light. The two-storey basement includes the car-park areas and the plant rooms. The superstructure includes the rehearse rooms, the storage areas, the dressing rooms and two concert halls. The big one will host the orchestra’s concerts, while the small one will host the chamber music concerts. The main hall, resting areas, lockers and other general areas will be located at ground floor. One of the most complex points of the design is the roof structure due its long spans required within the main concert hall and the entrance lobby. A deep concrete beams grid will be provided to take on these long spans taking on the roof and top floors loads. These beams are supported on concrete cores and concrete walls helping to shape the floors architectural layout.
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arquiberia AGBAR TOWER BARCELONA, 2002-2004 Architects: Jean Nouvel and b720 Arquitectos Developer: Layetana Inmuebles s.l. 2002 - 2004 Area: 50.906m2 Budget: 60 million euros Main characteristic: 145m in height
The building is located in Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, Barcelona, and was designed as an office block by French architect Jean Nouvel in collaboration with architects b720. It sports an oval floor plate and houses the headquarters of Aigües de Barcelona (Barcelona Water group) over a total of 35 floors. The total floor area is 43.500m2, with an above-ground area of 30.000m2 and a below-ground area of 13.500m2. The structure of the tower is divided into two distinct parts, each clearly distinct from the other. The lower part is 110 m high with floors consisting of a composite decking supported on steel beams and joists. This floor structure is supported only by the external skin and the central core, both of which are made of reinforced concrete. The external skin, which varies in thickness between 300 mm and 500 mm, has openings that are arranged in an apparently random way. These openings form square perforations of approximately 1m square. The density of these perforations is governed by the desire to reduce demand on the building’s climate control systems. This is achieved by allowing more perforation on the north side of the building than on the south side.
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arquiberia THE FACTORY BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, PARIS, 2006 - 2010 Invitational Contest. First Prize Client: VINCI Y NEXITY ENTREPRICES Location: ZAC Ista de Seguin - Rivera del Sena Program: Office Building Area: 17.300 m2 Value: 37.800.000 â‚Ź AWARDS - NAN Award 2010 - Best Spanish project abroad
When addressing this project for an office building, we started off by thinking about the entire city block as a series of buildings with spaces between them to introduce light and air into the empty space. In this way we began to see the building as a mass that formed Rue Emile Zola, like a complex volume. We had some prior experience with this type of building in terms of dimensions, depth, and so on, that went almost automatically into the drawings and models. I always start this way, with a very abstract volume as a base.
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EMBARCADERO CIVIC AND CULTURAL CENTRE. CÁCERES. SPAIN. 2003 Competition 1st Prize 2003 Client: Ayuntamiento de Cáceres Location: Cáceres. España. Programme: Centro Cívico y Cultural Area: 7.000 m2 Cost: 5.900.000 € Status: Completed
A hybrid cultural programme is housed beneath the umbrella of an existing industrial concrete structure. Four light metal buildings are integrated within the common interior landscape generating a sequence of volumes distinguished by their use, shape, size and colour.
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arquiberia WOERMANN TOWER LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, 2001-2005 International competition for construction companies. First Prize Client: Ferrovial Inmobiliaria Situation: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canarias, Spain Program:Housing Constructed area: 25.967 m2 Budget: 19.324.128,72 â‚Ź State: Built AWARDS - Manuel de OraĂĄ y Arcocha Regional Architecture Prize 2004-2005
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Woermann Tower is a virtual forest from which to enjoy the utopia of living immersed in a hybrid landscape. The city is displayed in full harmony with that idea, a forest of natural and artificial shadows without scale, but also a header Atlantean admired the landscape that includes ground floor and ground folds yielding to pedestrians to stand on their public facilities up to the treetops. We hope with this plant and anthropomorphic conception to represent the culture of our time, the tower is intended to embody the illusions Woermann, desires and fantasies of a society that seeks to find compromise between nature and development, a form of intense and faithful landscape: another beauty.
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MADINAT AL ZAHRA MUSEUM. CÓRDOBA.SPAIN. Competition 1st Prize 2000 Client: Junta de Andalucía Location: Córdoba. España Programme: Museo Area: 9.125 m2 Cost: 13.752.000 € Status: Completed PRIZES Aga Khan Prize. 2010 Piranesi Prix de Rome Prize. 2011
Nearby the archeological site of a 10th century Arab city we decided to work like archaeologists: not to construct a new building, but rather to discover it under the ground, as if the passage of time had kept it hidden right up to the present day. The new museum and research centre articulates its complex programme around a sequence of open patios of different shapes. It will have appeared silently in the landscape, unearthed over the years like the remains of the ancient city of Madinat al Zahra.
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arquiberia HEAD OFFICES OF PGGM INSURANCE COMPANY. ZEIST (UTRECHT), HOLANDA, 2003 - 2011 Restricted Contest. First Price Client: PGGM Location: Zeist (Utrecht), Holanda Program: Office Building Area: 25.000 m2 edificio + 25.000 m2 parking Value: 63.800.000 â‚Ź AWARDS - NAN Award 2011 - Best Spanish project abroad
Located nearby the city of Zeist, close to Utrecht, the tender put forward the requirement for increasing the offices in the current building by 25.000 m2, and at the same time recover a park by means of the construction of a 25.000 m2 underground car park. The project takes into consideration the relationship with the environment and the surrounding neighborhood buildings in order to maintain compactness which recovers the logic of the increase in size of the initial building.
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CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE CÓRDOBA CÓRDOBA.SPAIN. Competition 1st Prize 2005 Client: Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Cultura Location: Parque de Mirafl ores. Córdoba Programmme: Contemporary Art Centre Area: 10.000 m2 Cost: 28.150.000 € Status: Completed
Like those literary structures which include a story within another story, the project is conceived as a self-similar geometric pattern, originating in a hexagonal shape. Like a combinatorial game, the permutations of three types of polygonal rooms generate sequences of different spaces that defi ne a non-centralised organism for the production, research and exhibition of new media in contemporary arts.
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Renovation and Restoration
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MORITZBURG MUSEUM EXTENSION. HALLE (SALLE). GERMANY. Competition 1st Prize 2003 Client: Stiftung Moritzburg. State of Sachsen - Anhalt Location: Halle (Salle). Alemania. Proramme: Museum Area: 4.000 m2 Cost: 18.000.000 ₏ Status: Completed PRIZES Prize Nike of BDA (Bundes Deutscher Architekten). 2010 ECOLA Award 2010. Prize for Germany’s Steel Structure 2010.
The extension of the ancient castle of Moritzburg in Halle is conceived as a new roof, a large folded platform which rises and opens to allow natural light to enter, and from which the new exhibition rooms hung. The angular geometry of the new roof landscape dialogues with the existing irregular shapes of the building, continuing the process of transformations that featured in the history of the castle over time.
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arquiberia FUNDACIÓ ANTONI TÀPIES Barcelona, 2007-2010 Commission Client: Fundació Tàpies Location: Barcelona, Spain Program: Museum Built Area: 4.150 m2 Budget: 8.300.000 € Status: Built AWARDS - FAD Prize 2011 of architecture and interiorism
The pincipal objective of the renovation of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies was to bring the structure in line with new safety and evacuation regulations, while also improving the overall complex. This involves opening the entire historical building to the public, with new exhibition, archive and educational areas, and concentrating the administrative areas in a new three storey pavilion at the far end of the plot; this exits onto the city block’s interior courtyard. However, the new Fundació Antoni Tàpies seeks above all to contribute to a new generation of museums understood as centres of cultural production by offering a range of spaces suitable for diverse artistic practices; it also hopes to create thermodynamic balance and enhance of the existing building. Another of the goals of this new generation of museum is to intensify the experience of the visitor, who is given an overview of the complex programmatic network that sustains the production of culture, as well as the Modernista (Art Nouveau) building itself, as an actual part of the exhibition system. The previous dialogue established between the original building of the Modernista architect Lluís Domèneh i Montaner (1881-1884) and the intervention of Roser Amadó and Lluís Domènech (1987-1990)—in particular through the installation of the Tàpies work on the roof (Cloud and chair, 1990)—is now broadened by the addition of another piece by the artist (Sock, 2010) and a landscaped roof.
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arquiberia REFURBISHMENT OF LA PEDRERA BARCELONA, 2002-2004 Architect: Francisco Asarta and Robert Brufau Developer: Caixa de Catalunya 1994 - 1996 Budget: 10 million euros Main characteristic: Structural refurbishment of the building
The Casa Milà (1906-1910), also known as ‘La Pedrera’, is regarded by most as the finest of Gaudi´s last works. The refurbishment (1989-1996) was commissioned by the new owner to adapt the building for use as a public space. In order to carry out these works it was necessary to undertake a study and analysis of Gaudi´s methodology of structural design, and especially his theories on the strength of materials and the different structural forms. The refurbishment was complex and difficult to execute. It was found that in 2 of the 13 apartments, 16 of the original brickwork arches had in the past been replaced by steel portal frames. Because these arches were to be left exposed following the renovation, the steel frames had to be removed and the original arches restored. This challenge resulted in a dilemma for the team regarding the design methodology: On the one hand, if modern analysis methods were to be used, these would have allowed the team to calculate the ‘exact’ arch shapes which would have guaranteed that no tension would occur. Alternatively, the empirical catenary methods as used by Gaudí when he carried out the original design could also be used. This exercise allowed the team to understand the way in which the original structural system worked and the reason behind some of the minor defects (cracking) that appeared in some of the original arches.
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JOANNEUM MUSEUM EXTENSION. GRAZ. AUSTRIA. Competition 1st Prize 2006 Client: Estado de Estiria, Austria Location: Graz, Austria . Programme: Museo Area: 19.515 m2 Cost: 25.600.000 € Status: Completed
The new extension of the Joanneum in Graz is conceived as a mineral surface -a “carpet”- that covers the exterior space between the existing historical buildings, creating a new access to the museum. A series of conical intersections introduce natural light into the underground rooms that house the public spaces of the programme.
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arquiberia CAMPAMENTO MILITARY INSTALLATIONS PROJECT. MADRID, 2004-2007 Developer: Ministerio de Defensa Location: Madrid, Spain Program: Urban Projects Total Area: 2270581 m2 Built Area: 1301848 m2 Population: 50000 inhab State: Final Approval
Campamento Operation meant a new conception and style of management in urban planning development of unaffected military lands. This reclycling operation intended a correct introduction in the structure of the cities of important areas of land that permitted improving the urban tissue, creating public facilities from the unprofitable ones and collaborating with the housing policy (protected housing, rented housing, housing for young population). From the idea of street A-5 as a urban road, the proposed planning structures the area into a meshed grid conforming the main node of the planning to both sides, configuring itself, both to one side and another, from parallel interior axes. These axes or urban stripes are the formal, urban, pedestrian, activity seal to the whole of the proposal; these two main activity axes connect through a main transversal axis, “Central Axis�, which goes through the area from North to South. These axes have been designed to hold environmental connective corridors between the foreseen green areas and the platform-reserved public transport, as well as urban traffic.
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arquiberia CENTRAL MADRID STRATEGIC PLAN MADRID, SPAIN 2009-2010 Developer: Área de Gobierno de Urbanismo y Vivienda, Ayuntamiento de Madrid Location: Madrid Central Districts, Spain Program: Rehabilitation and Renovation Built Area: 7000 Ha Budget: 77.6 M € State: Provisional Approval
Central Madrid Strategic Masterplan, done by initiative of the Capital Town Hall, has represented the opportunity to try out a new approach to urban planning able to deal with the challenges derived of globalization, climate change, and social transformation from the transformation and recycling of the existing city. For doing that, the Masterplan adopts as strategic approach the enhancement of the social, economic, spatial and symbolic capital of Madrid center and understanding of the city from the real processes that configure it and not only from the regulations, w the aim of answering the city’s spatial and social complexity from an also complex understanding of the urban techniques and interventions.
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Housing
arquiberia FOUR BIOCLIMATIC TOWERS in SALBURÚA, VITORIA-GASTEIZ , 2001-2007 National competition by invitation. First Price Client: Sociedad Urbanística Ensanche-21/Jaureguizahar Situation: Salburúa, Vitoria-Gastéiz, Spain Program:Housing (11.760m2), comerce (900m2), offices (4.409m2) and Parking (170plazas) Surface: M23 12.065 m2 built. Parcela M26 12.476 m2 built Budget: 10.384.128,98 € State: Built AWARDS - Finalist_FAD Prize 2008 Architecture and Interiorism
If we think both the verticality of the tower type as the solar position in the city are evident both applications of the project: to finish the axis articulating the new extension of Salburúa and dialogue with the large wetland at his feet. The surrounding park causes a kinesthetic experience of great interest because of its picturesque sinusoidal trace, while the diagonal of the old airport footprint coincides with the direction from which to contemplate the historic center of Vitoria, so attractive in height as that spreads northward and eastward over the landscape. Therefore the proposed project unfold in two each tower planned for the planning and organizing making pivot about axes at the scene. The set is deployed around the parkway providing views serving a dynamic and integral bioclimatic design in which the towers collect energy from the three most favorable orientations, guaranteeing their proportions in the climate of Vitoria on optimization of radiation solar. This operation will achieve different effects of interest: slender towers gain without increasing the overall height, it releases a large area of public land and housing are obtained whose intense relationship with the landscape is the real manifestation of the sensitivity with which bioclimatic intended. The entire floor becomes liberated a large sheet of water at the foot of the towers, a liquid garden completes the visual axis of the extension and introduces the characteristic features of the territory in the city. These are thus ambiguous, and changing depending on the light and in tune with the natural framework that borrows the color and brightness as a replica of the wetland and support speculate where the towers look doubling its height.
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arquiberia “EL ÁGUILA-ALCATEL” SOCIAL HOUSING MADRID, 2003-2008 Developer: EMVS de Madrid. Dirección de Proyectos de Innovación Residencial Co-direction: Rogelio Salmona and Jose Mª Ezquiaga Location: Madrid, Spain Program: Viviendas Number of dwellings: 176 State: Finished work
In force planning for the area established an entirely closed volume to the outside with an 18-metre buildable depth. The project posed, alternatively, breaking the introspection of the block and double the main volume into a curved volume inside the block and another L-shaped one, showing facades to the perimeter streets, both with depths around 12 m. That achieves a dual objective: on the one hand, avoiding recurring to the block withn central patio and single orientation dwellings, making it easier that all the residential units enjoy the climatic advantages of the double façade. On the other hand, creating a transparency between the exterior and the interior of the block that makes the urban image of the whole richer , generating geometries and interior transitional promenades capable of extend the conventional dichotomy between public and private space. The porticoed plinth, aimed to commerce along all the facades, pretends to emphasize that urban compromise, contributing to the street vitality.
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arquiberia 26 LUXURY FLATS IN AMSTERDAM DOCK BORNEO DOCK, AMSTERDAM, 1995 - 2000 Client: Bouwbedrijf m j de nijs en zonen bv Location: Borneo Dock, Amsterdam (Holanda) Program: Housing Area: 5.700 m2 Value: 4.808.096 â‚Ź
AWARDS - Dragados Group of Architecture & FundaciĂłn CEOE, Prize. 2001
The project is a low solid with emergences and holes. The roof, that is in terms of surface the most important facade of the building, shows a landscape between domestic and abstract. From it, the arising volumes introduce a small and rural scale to the whole. Lightness and weight, wood and brick (with its specific construction and compositional systems) form a complementary world, like a mandala, trying to respond both to the aquatic and gaseous character of the site as well as to the need of stability, anchoring and protection a house demands. The complex should be understood not from the sequence of its elements, but from their interrelationship. In such a beautiful and unique place, surrounded by water on three sides, the project strives to create an impression of openness, distance and lightness. The complex should not appear hard, compact and massive, in the manner of a permanent protective dyke, but seeks, rather to open itself up and- relatively speaking- to melt away.
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Restricted Contest. First Prize Client: KAUFMAN & BROAD and EIFFAGE CONSTRUCTION Location: Bayona, Francia Program: Housing State: Under Construction
The Tête de Pont project is located overlooking the river Adour and marks a new approach to the old town. This project marks the start of the urban renewal of the Adour embankments between the city centre and the estuary. The plot of land between the Allées marines and Boulevard du BAB serves to complete the sequence comprising the crossing of Henry Grenet Bridge to the city centre.
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El carrousel es una zona de juegos que produce energía al girar. Esta energía es utilizada para generar luz, mediante un mecanismo tan sencillo como el de una dinamo en una bicicleta. El proyecto tiene además un carácter educativo: los usuarios del carrousel pueden comprender fácilmente cómo funciona. De este modo, los niños y los ciudadanos en general, se conciencian sobre cuestiones como las energías renovables y la sostenibilidad. La construcción se resuelve mediante elementos ligeros como cuerdas, cables y textiles, que son utilizados como estructura y elementos de juego a la vez. Una cubierta ligera textil, protege de la lluvia y da sombra en verano. De esta manera se convierte en una zona de juegos que puede ser utilizada independientemente de las condiciones climáticas. La iluminación del carrousel utiliza distintos colores que se corresponden con distintos niveles de energía producida al girar, la luz cambia de color según la intensidad de uso del juego.
arquiberia DREAMHAMAR, HAMAR, NORUEGA Cliente: Ayuntamiento de Hamar Situación: Stortorget, Hamar, Noruega Programa: espacio público Superfi cie construida: 8.500m2 Presupuesto: 7.000.000€ Estado: En proceso.
Dreamhamar es un proceso de participación y “network design” destinado a rediseñar el espacio público de Stortorget, la plaza principal de Hamar, Noruega. Durante 2011-2012, los ciudadanos están tomando parte en un proceso de refl exión colectiva para definir su nueva plaza. Es un enfoque pionero en la construcción de nuevos espacios públicos o en la transformación de los existentes, con el apoyo de talleres, conferencias, acciones urbanas y herramientas de participación y comunicación. El objetivo del proyecto es resolver la falta de carácter e identidad de la plaza, reactivando el espacio desde el punto de vista social y urbano. La conexión con los ciudadanos es un punto de partida que permite actuar desde la pequeña escala, prestando especial atención a las necesidades de los residentes, mientras que la comprensión del funcionamiento municipal ayudará a alcanzar un proceso transparente de la transformación de la ciudad. En el proyecto participan distintos agentes a través de las siete áreas de trabajo que se están desarrollando: DISEÑO URBANO / PHYSICAL LAB / TALLERES ONSITE / ACCIONES URBANAS / DIGITAL LAB / ACADEMIC NETWORK / CULTURAL RUCKSACK
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PLAZA DE SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC SQUARE. MADRID, SPAIN. Competition 1st Prize 2007 Client: Ayuntamiento de Madrid Location: Madrid. España Programme: Espacio público úrbano Area: 30.500 m2 Cost: 3.811.940 € Status: Completed
The project to renovate the Plaza de Santa Bárbara was the result of a prize-winning architectural competition. It is part of a larger-scale operation aimed at transforming a dense central area of Madrid. In addition to the urban design of the public square, the overall proposal includes the construction of a new mixed use building including the new Barceló market to substitute the existing one, a temporary market, a sporting complex, and a public library as well as other services. The project defi nes a large pedestrian green area, with recreation equipment for children and adults, and walking zones. Vehicle traffi c has been reduced by eliminating one of the previously existing streets. Large granite paving stones alternate with other surfaces in a pentagonal geometric pattern, -similar to the forms of the newly built Barceló Temporary Market-, which incorporate lawn-covered areas, games and leisure precincts, boardwalks and a small glass pavilion serving as a book and fl ower shop. The new street furniture forms part of an integrated urban design and landscape concept that will link the Plaza Santa Bárbara with the neighbouring streets around the future mixed use building in construction
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NORTHEAST COASTAL PARK, FORUM 2004 BARCELONA.2000-2004 International Competition. First Prize. In colaboration with infraestructures Client: Infrastructures 2004 (P+C), Ajuntament de Barcelona, Área de Mantenimient I, Serveis-Tersa (I) Situation: Forum Barcelona, Spain Program Environmental installations and Energy Observatory Total area: 117.800 m2 building. Litoral Park: 56.417m2. Besós Incinerator: 39.576,64m2. Central of District Cooling & pneumatic waste collector: 78.221,45m2 Budget: 10.576.384,15 € State: Built
Barcelona´s Northeast Coastal Park, designed by Abalos & Herreros, successfully combines two unlikely elements –a municipal waste-management complex and a waterfront park and beach- innovatively integrating necessary infrastructure and public space. The park served as part of the site for the First International Forum of Cultures, organized by UNESCO to promote cultural diversity and sustainable development and staged in Barcelona in 2004. Originally cut off from the city by a ring road, the site had served as the city´s major services area, where a now defunct sewage treatment plant and electrical generator were also located. To showcase sustainable urban design, the existing incinerator now powers a new waste-to-energy generator. The steam heat produced by the incinerator is used to make electricity for hot and cold water as well as heating and airconditioning for the Forum grounds and the new Diagonal Mar mixed-used district. At the base of the incinerator is a new recycling center.
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