ARCHITECTURE PORFOLIO

BCN HUNNEUS (1)MOP CHILE OPEn IdEas COMPEtItIOn

REHABILITATION OF HUNNEUS BUILDING

AS THE NEW SANTIAGO CONGRESS

LIBRARY (SANTIAGO DE CHILE, CHILE)

DATE: January 2013

FIRST PRIZE

IMAGES COURTESY OF BEALS+LYON ARQUITECTOS

[EXTRACT OF THE ORIGINAL MEMORANDUM OF THE CONTEST, by Alejandro Beals] The reconditioning of Hunneus Building as headquarters of the New National Congress Library manifests the intention of this institution to become as an influential and highly relevant organism as a national level, both in the public and government environments. This building aims to become a memorable urban hit: a civic space which aims to be a meeting point for the development, diffusion and exchange of ideas, a building that brings population closer to its political and cultural legacy through experiences of learning and communication. In a model of continuous city as the center of Santiago is, which prevails are public spaces with a highly civic vocations. The empty spaces inside the buildings are the ones that allow having a memorable and intense experience of them. It is within these empty spaces that different atmospheres combine and live together, where the walker

PUBLICATIONS:

- Plataforma arquitectura: http://www.

plataformaarquitectura.cl/2013/02/04/

primer-lugar-rehabilitacion-biblioteca-

congreso-nacional-beals-lyon-martin-

zegers/

BCN HUNNEUS (2)MOP CHILE OPEn IdEas COMPEtItIOn

REHABILITATION OF HUNNEUS BUILDING

AS THE NEW SANTIAGO CONGRESS

LIBRARY (SANTIAGO DE CHILE, CHILE)

DATE: January 2013

FIRST PRIZE

allows himself to get a slower and idler time, favoring exploration and discovery. The project aims to develop a completely new space in the center of the city, a memorable experience that will be able to open, revalue and bring closer the Congress Library to the citizens and their representatives.

“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast airshafts between, surrounded by very low railings. From any of the hexagons one can see, interminably, the upper and lower floors. Also through here passes a spiral stairway, which sinks abysmally and soars upwards to remote distances”. Babel’s Library, Jorge Luis Borges (1981)

NANCAGUA CITY HALLMOP CHILE OPEn IdEas COMPEtItIOn

NEW NANCAGUA CITY HALL

HEADQUARTERS (CHILE)

DATE: November 2012

FIRST PRIZE

The project consists on the building of a new headquarters for Nancagua City Hall, located until the moment in an old colonial house next to the parcel proposed by the contest and connected to it through a historical park built by the middle of 19th century. There are two main goals to reach: first of all, create a public space which invites to urban gathering, as well as agoras did in Ancient Greece and, secondly, create a direct connection with the historical park and, at the same time, with the old city hall.

Both goals rely on the construction of a colonnade lying on an elevated plinth that surrounds the parcel and encloses the program. It is within this element where the formal mechanisms and materials present in the old colonial house where the city hall was placed recover and get reinterpreted, creating this way a solid urban level.

IMAGES COURTESY OF BEALS+LYON ARQUITECTOS

AEDES NETWORK CAMPUS (1)fInaL PrOjECt tHEsIs (PfC)ANTIQUE PFEFFERBERG BREWERY (BERLIN,

GERMANY)

DATE: October 2011

TUTOR: María José Aranguren López

GRADE: Outstanding (9)

Enlargement proposal for the AEDES Foundation in the old brewery of Pfefferberg (Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin). The project proposes the elimination of architectural barriers existing in the main courtyard of the brewery and the adjacent courtyards, in an attempt to link the block with the traditional model of Hoff and open streets which is present in the urban environment. The building becomes a framework for a linked net of courtyards with a mixed artistic, cultural and residential function, which is implemented by a series of punctual operations which inflect in the urban furniture as a tool to recover spaces which have been abandoned. The building develops by docking to the great dividing places in the house buildings, always departing from the first floor in an attempt to enrich the present spaces on ground floor level with new typologies (passages, porches, gardens) and to reconfigure the access to the block as well as the trails generated by the operations.

PUBLICATIONS:

- Soon to be published in the peda-

gogical publication of Aula PFC Aran-

guren (Unidad Docente- X)

- Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid

(COAM) Outstanding Academic Projects

Exhibition (aug. 2012- oct. 2012)

AEDES NETWORK CAMPUS (1)fInaL PrOjECt tHEsIs (PfC)ANTIQUE PFEFFERBERG BREWERY (BERLIN,

GERMANY)

DATE: October 2011

TUTOR: María José Aranguren López

GRADE: Outstanding (9)

EXTENDED SPACES: The vast spaces dedicated to work and study appear because of a series of setbacks, turns and distensions which make the building present very different typologies in a very elevated surface of façade to the adjacent courtyards. The aim is to make the external configuration of the building as simple as possible, in order for the old buildings of the brewery to be protagonist within an abstract and homogeneous framework consisting on a series of filters made by glass panels and metal veil.

COMPRESSED SPACES: Compact spaces agglutinate in the points where the building becomes in contact with the surrounding constructions. They reunite little specialized spaces dedicated to intensive working, storage and all kind of functions which allow complicating the activities developed within the free space of the workshops. These spaces are, indeed, the vehicle to all installations.

PUBLICATIONS:

- Soon to be published in the peda-

gogical publication of Aula PFC Aran-

guren (Unidad Docente- X)

- Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid

(COAM) Outstanding Academic Projects

Exhibition (aug. 2012- oct. 2012)

CARLSBERG TIME & SOUND (1)CarLsbErg vOrEs by OPEn IdEas COMPEtItIOn

ANTIQUE CARLSBERG BREWERY (COPEN-

HAGUEN, DENMARK)

DATE: January 2007

SPECIAL PURCHASE OF THE JURY

The proposal establishes a departing point for the reorientation and the urban development of the old Carlsberg’s brewery form three fundamental strategies. The first strategy consists on creating connections with the adjoining districts to the brewery site, each one with its own personal and peculiar character, eliminating the existing barriers in order to create a more fluid communication for the whole city. In the second place, the dialogue between the surface level (entirely urban) and the underground level (consisting on a dense net of buried constructions which once were the heart and arteries of Carlsberg brewery) which now is being transformed into the center of a series of permanent experimental programs and, in the third place, trying that the alternation between those programs makes the brewery become an attraction pole of vibrant urban activity for Copenhagen citizens 24/7. All these actions are implemented by the introduction of a landscape philosophy which tries to link the main green spaces and parks located in the area.

PUBLICATIONS:

- Pasajes magazine [arquitectura y

critica] nº 91

- Carlsberg / Vores by Copenhague

Jury Report. carlsberg.

CARLSBERG TIME & SOUND (2)CarLsbErg vOrEs by OPEn IdEas COMPEtItIOn

ANTIQUE CARLSBERG BREWERY (COPEN-

HAGUEN, DENMARK)

DATE: January 2007

SPECIAL PURCHASE OF THE JURY

All these motivations are translated into reality through a mapping system which pretends to discover the most significant qualities of the working area through acoustic criteria. That system takes a step forward by generating the mechanisms that will restore the environment and will make it suitable for its integration in the city through tools which pretend to generate new kinds of activities in the city belt (which stays in contact with the urban reality) or by aggregates which pretend to create little ecosystems inside the Carlsberg site. A specific solution is applied to each deficiency detected in order to later operate in the contact zones between them. Even though the proposal does not formulate a close scheme in the ordination of the new installations, its worth lies in a right-eous projecting methodology which allows identifying, cataloguing, analyzing and exploiting a series of qualities and “humors” which are often obliterated in this kind of urban reconditioning.

CHIESA SAN MARTINO IN KINZICALEOnardO gErManI & stEfanIa franCEsCHI arCHItEttI assOCIatI

REHABILITATION (PISA, ITALY)

DATE: January 2008- June 2008

EXCELLENT ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMIC

AWARD GRANTED BY COMUNIDAD

AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID (CAM)

Saint Martin’s Church was founded in 1332 by Bonifacio Gherardesca. The building is made of thick brick walls. The sides and the apse are decorated with little arches and pilasters, ornamented with little pottery sockets (the originals are kept in San Matteo’s Museum). The frescos, dating back from the 14th century, were painted by Giovanni di Nicola Antonio Veneziano and Cecco di Pie-tro. The church was reconstructed in the 17th century. The task requested by Germani & Franceschi architetti associati consisted on the photogrammetric restitution and the development of blueprints that could be used as a base for the location of damages and pathologies in order to intervene and rehabilitate the façade. The restitution was developed with the help of Archis (a photo-graphic manipulation device) which was later transformed into .dwg format, taking special care in the location and identification of the damages present in each one of the studied parameters.

CHIESA DI SAN FERDINANDO (1)LEOnardO gErManI & stEfanIa franCEsCHI arCHItEttI assOCIatI

REHABILITATION (LIVORNO, ITALY)

DATE: September 2007- June 2008

FACOLTÀ DI ARCHITETTURA DELL’ UNIVER-

SITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE (UNIFI)

San Ferdinando’s Church was founded next to Luogo Pio’s Square between 1704 and 1714. Its construction was financed by Prince Fernando, Cosmes III’s son. The original project was conceived by Giovanni Battista Foggini and later completer by Giovanni della Fantasia, author of the majestic Church of Santa Caterina. The church was consecrated to the order of the Trinitarian Fathers, whose principal mission was to fundraise for the liberation of slaves. The church was closed in the year 1862 and, in the beginning of the 20th century; it was partially destroyed due to the sanitation jobs developed in the neighborhood of Venezia. During the II Wolrd War, it was damaged again due to the intensive bombing carried out by the American Army in Livorno’s City. The church has a Latin cross floor, with a central nave and two smaller lateral ones which present very meticulous decorative jobs and a beautiful semispherical vault which, on the outside, remains hidden by a flamboyant octagonal lantern.

CHIESA DI SAN FERDINANDO (2)LEOnardO gErManI & stEfanIa franCEsCHI arCHItEttI assOCIatI

REHABILITATION (LIVORNO, ITALY)

DATE: September 2007- June 2008

FACOLTÀ DI ARCHITETTURA DELL’ UNIVER-

SITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE (UNIFI)

The work developed included the internal and external photogrammetric and planimetric surveying, measurements, an inventory of statues, moldings and other ornamental elements, location and identification of pathologies, development of an intervention proposal and the restoring of specific areas according to the data recorded and the study of its viability. A rich cast of stuccos, marbles and statues, many by Giovanni Baratta, were found inside the church, and it was necessary to catalogue and protect it in a proper way. In the outside, the building presented an incomplete façade because of the lack of the original marble coating. The proposal, which was developed in collaboration with architects Alba Revert Solves, Carol Payá and Marta Romero Villar, was publicly exhibited to the citizens of Livorno in order to fundraise for the intervention. However the project was not executed in the end, due to the lack of the public admininstration support.

LIGHT EPHEMERAL LODGING (1)ACADEMIC STUDY (ARANJUEZ, SPAIN)

DATE: January 2003 - June 2004

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUI-

TECTURA DE MADRID (ETSAM)

This project consists on a proposal of temporal lodging by the border of river Tajo, nearby the city of Aranjuez, Madrid, within a program to activate the river borders and the surrounding belt of the city. The original conditions of the project implied a minimal occupation of the surface and a betting for temporality, given that the project was planned to give response to a sporadic occupation within relatively short periods of time (holidays or special events). A modular and light system is chosen, consisting on metallic frameworks formed by three living units plus two half-units which locate humid equipments, such us bathrooms and kitchens. The structure aims to secure its temporality, becoming a holder for canvas and mobile cloths which allow alternating between a more private space and another one of total nakedness towards the contemplation of the landscape, turning the living space into a “no-place”, a parcel of nature which oscillates constantly between absence and presence.

LIGHT EPHEMERAL LODGING (2)ACADEMIC STUDY (ARANJUEZ, SPAIN)

DATE: January 2003 - June 2004

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUI-

TECTURA DE MADRID (ETSAM)

The metallic structure and the service modules are placed over a reinforced concrete tub which serves at the same time as a support for installations and as a below ground luggage (and other domestic stuff) storage system. The floor stands on a series of “ribs” placed within the underground reinforced concrete container and the space is divided in identical square tiles that can be turned on will in order to alternate between a softer and a harder surface material. This allows the space to be used as a tatami to walk barefoot or as a puffed surface for night rest. The service modules are isolated from the outside thanks to “sandwich” pans fixed to the trestle of the metallic structure and they function as kitchen, storage, shower and WC. The occupation of the housing complex is initially destined to a maximum of 4 people.

Enlargement proposal for the National Metallurgic Research Center, placed next to Ciudad Universitaria, in Madrid (Spain). The pro-ject is located in an area which had already been subject to enlargement operations. The most relevant intervention was carried out by Alejandro de la Sota in 1963, who projected 4 warehouses dedicated to corrosion, welding, siderurgy and foundry works, which pretended to implement the functions of the original warehouse designed by Eduardo Torroja in the ‘50s. The warehouses are linked in the choice of materials to the original Torroja’s warehouse but, at the same time, they differ from it, because they present a much modern structural and aesthetic configuration (sawtooth shape roof made of metal trusses with a very particular configuration and great glass pans which alleviate the choice of brick from the walls) wich refers more to the design line followed by Mies van der Rohe rather than to the Spanish constructive tradition of those years.

CENIM’S REORDENATION (1)ACADEMIC STUDY (MADRID, SPAIN)

DATE: January 2009 - June 2009

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUI-

TECTURA DE MADRID (ETSAM)

Due to the functional necessities acquired by the CENIM, it is necessary to create a bigger space in order to implement the existent warehouses. The proposal pretends to concentrate all the space dedicated to production of the institution and make it work as a single entity, connected through a space of kitchens and offices in the same floor where installation and storage devices can be found. In order to achieve this aim, a transversal warehouse is placed in the back of the block, which is, indeed the area where loading, unloa-ding and materials reception is carried out. This space is linked to each of Alejandro de la Sota’s warehouses, taking profit of the empty spaces dynamics existing in the back of the block. The new building becomes a structural warehouse, formally solved through a series of thin metal ribs which serve as contact point between the original warehouses and the new program of labs. A series of vertical storage structures and an underground parking lot complete the enlargement.

CENIM’S REORDENATION (2)ACADEMIC STUDY (MADRID, SPAIN)

DATE: January 2009 - June 2009

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUI-

TECTURA DE MADRID (ETSAM)

The system lies on thermoregulation strategies present in vegetal and animal organisms which develop follicles or thorns destined to palliate the effect of temperature oscillations and direct sunlight. They create a microclimate in the closest level of the skin which provides some kind of protection because of the effect of light and heat reflection and refraction on the surface. With this aim, a kind of architectural dermis is developed, consisting on three parameters with different levels of transparency and from different materials: a perforated surface, a glass surface (which serves to isolate from the external environment), and, finally, a series of truncated pieces. The diameter of the perforations, the kind of material the elements are made of and the mobility between the different panels allow to obtain a very diverse catalogue of solutions in order to obtain all the necessary protection. The user can regulate the gradient of illumination and ventilation on will only by widening or reducing the separation between the different layers.

(I) CONICAL LIGHTING DEVICE vELux IntErnatIOnaL IdEas COMPEtItIOn

VELUX LIGHTINING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS

DATE: June 2010

This project consists on an ephemeral installation inside a block courtyard which allows setting on an urban level a new environment that was just a great empty space of reinforced concrete with no use for the neighbors. The need of creating shadow on such a vast (and closely delimited by the presence of house building) space inspired us to veil the relation of the neighbors with the courtyard both from their houses and from the intervention area facing towards the city without interrupting their visual perception. The impossibility to use vegetal resources is attacked with some level of irony by using a light structure of metal posts which, distributed with the shape of a net, supports a plastic tissue printed with a repetitive pattern of treetops which folds onto itself along the urban space. In order to allow traffic over the whole courtyard, the tissue is lifted off the ground at a height of 2.5 meters. This creates a system of filters with different quantities and qualities of shadow, just in the way a real forest would do.

SHADOW SYSTEM (NOU BARRIS)raCOns PubLICs (studEnt PubLIC COntEst)

NOU BARRIS (BARCELONA, ESPAÑA)

DATE: November 2009

The proposal is born from the aim of enlarging the Hospital Clínico San Carlos, placed in Ciudad Universitaria, in Madrid, with a program of labs and research buildings. The parcel is conceived as a green area, a kind of natural “lung”, of great value within the context of the campus. Through the analysis of the environment, we arrive to the conclusion that the parcel is damaged because of a series of external causes and that it is also affected by the presence of a series of urban elements which is important to preserve. In addition to this, we need to consider that the parcel has the potential to become a node that will be able to link several medical institutions such as Universidad Complutense Medical School, the Applied Microbiology Institute, the hospital itself, as well as Nuestra Señora de la Concepción Hospital, Jímenez Díaz Fundation of the National Institute of Psychology and Psycotechnics, creating a lower scale University campus taking profit from the existing networks in order to connect the all these different centers.

MEDICAL RESEARCH LAB (1)ACADEMIC STUDY (MADRID, SPAIN)

DATE: September 2009 - December 2009

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUI-

TECTURA DE MADRID (ETSAM)

According to the situation, we decide to disaggregate the program in several buildings distributed along the parcel, hoping that this measure serves to rehabilitate the damaged spaces of the area. Four different nodes are proposed: the first and main one is placed nearby the Hospital Clínico and the main road and it is destined to the research labs. In the area which links the hospital with the campus, a group of buildings destined to divulgation and diffusion of activities carried out both in the hospital and in the lab is placed, thanks to a series of little structures containing an auditorium, conference rooms, study rooms, a library… In addition to these two structures, a housing area for researchers invited to give lectures is proposed. All the buildings try to fit in the most respectful way within the forest environment, taking the shape of light metal structures which blend between the tree trunks and stablishing starting points from which it is possible to plan the urban recovery of the site using the empty spaces between the new buildings and the new paths created in order to connect them.

MEDICAL RESEARCH LAB (2)ACADEMIC STUDY (MADRID, SPAIN)

DATE: September 2009 - December 2009

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUI-

TECTURA DE MADRID (ETSAM)