Portfolio Adrian Alvarez Gonzalez 2018 .

Institute of Education, London Private project with Hawkins & Brown Educational

Nature Research Center Villablino Project in ETSAM Laboratory - Educational

Winter garden tower Geneva, Switzerland Competition with Lacaton & Vassal Residential

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Hill House Office, Archway London Private project with H&B Office

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Institute of Education, London Private project with H&B Educational

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Goldsmiths student village, London Private project with H&B Residential

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Hotel Hyatt Centric in Dakar, Senegal Private project with L&V Residential

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RTS Radio-TV Lausanne, Switzerland Competition with L&V Leisure

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Protestant School in Beyrouth, Libano Competition with L&V Educational

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Winter garden tower Geneva, Switzerland Competition with L&V Residential

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Research University Center Cayenne Competition with L&V Laboratory-Educational

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Cinema Prestige in Dakar, Senegal Private project with L&V Leisure

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Nature Research Center Villablino Project in ETSAM Laboratory-Educational

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Sharing = Gaining, Movie competition Student competition Aarhus School Arch.

Danish student association

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Museum of arts and technology Projects 9 in ETSAM Exhibition/Research

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Experimental residence in Aarhus Projects in Aarhus School of Arch Residential

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Urban farms Project 8 in Aarhus School of Arch.

Mixed use + residential

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Summer school of architecture Project 7 in ETSAM Educational+ Residential

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Research station in Antartica Construction in ETSAM Laboratory

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Abstract hand Drawings+Collages Dibujo al natural in ETSAM Drawings

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hill house office, archway london

Private project with Hawkins&Brown 2018

Office The site is located in the north of the London Borough of Islington, with neighbouring boroughs of Camden and Haringey. Hill House masterplan was developed by Hawkins Brown and it includes the transformation of Hill House tower, several urban interventions and the creation of a residental and an office scheme.

The shape of the office scheme is carefully designed to respect views from surraunding buildings. It provides the site with new public spaces and improves accesses within the existing buildings.

-The plinth hosts the services and the affordable office spaces.

-In the podium and the tower we can find office/coworking spaces.

-In the higher level there is a terrace and a plant room.

The design of the facade was very challenging. The idea was to provide the office space with the beautiful views of London but at the same time avoiding overheating and high costs. The result is a courtain wall system with structural fins that act, at the same time, as sun protectors.

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private project H&B Hill House Office

Urban Diagrams Diagramas urbanos

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(1) Urban context Contexto urbano

private project H&B Hill House Office

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(2) Parts of the building Partes del edificio

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INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, LONDON

Private project with Hawkins&Brown 2018

Educational The Institute of Education is a Grade II* listed building designed

by Architect Sir Denys Lasdun and Partners in the 1960’s. The building is considered an exemplar of Lasdun’s work, characterised by a language of towers and strata, careful detailing, stepping terraces along the west elevation combined with a long solemn concrete, glass and bronze aluminium facade to the main block.

The building remains a striking example of new brutalist architecture, made even the more powerful by its location within Bloomsbury (London).

However, the building and its infrastructure are nearing the end of their serviceable life in their current state.

We have been working with UCL and the IOE to create a masterplan that will set out a framework and help unlock the potential of this remarkable building. The team have undertaken an extensive review of the building to understand the challenges and opportunities it presents, and how these could be addressed to better meet the requirements of its staff and students.

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(1) IOE in the 60s IOE en los sesenta

private project H&B IOE

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(2) Opportunities and constraints Oportunidades y limitaciones

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Phases diagrams Diagramas de fases

private project H&B IOE

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(2) First phase Axonometric Primera fase AxonometrĂ­a

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Design strategy Estrategia diseño

private project H&B IOE

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(2) Before and After Antes y DespuĂŠs

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GOLDSMITHS STUDENT VILLAGE, london Private project with Hawkins&Brown 2017

Residential This project was appointed by Campus Living Villages, in partnership with Goldsmiths University of London to reconfigure, renovate and extend three student residential sites encompassing 440 rooms in New Cross and Brockley.

The aim of the project is to enhance the experience for Goldsmiths’ students, create a fresh identity, produce new sociable living environments and increase the occupancy. The approach focuses on integrating the new buildings into the existing neighbourhood contexts and creating contemporary architecture to enhance the locality.

Surrey House, which matches brick tones of existing Surrey Old House, cantilevers the main entrance to mark its new presence, whilst being subservient to the existing street.

Raymont Hall, located within Brockley conservation area, uses charred timber cladding for the new garden building and the complementary extension to the existing brick building. Accessibility is improved with new step free entrance ramps. These are integrated with the landscape design of the three sites to create a coherent and unified landscape strategy.

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(1) Exterior view Vista exterior

private project H&B Goldsmiths

Interior views Vistas interiores

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hotel hyatt centric dakar

Private project with Lacaton&Vassal 2016

Residential The city of Dakar is outstanding for its exceptional geographical situation on a peninsula and for its modernity, with an important patrimony of high-quality modern architecture built in the 1950s.

The project stands opposite Kermel Market, an historic spot in Dakar city centre. It posits a mixed program of retail, leisure facilities, a hotel and events center superimposed on each other from the ground to the fourteenth floor and on top of two basement parking levels.

The first four levels occupy the piece of land between Avenue Sarraut and the market square. On the ground floor, retail units, the brasserie at the angle and the hotel lobby create transparency, views and passages to the market from Avenue Sarraut. The restaurant, on the first floor with a vast open terrace, offers a privileged view over the square.

Above the fourth floor the building rises in a bar-shape containing the hotel and the panoramic restaurant. Drawing inspiration from the modern buildings widely constructed in Dakar, the rooms are spacious, almost squared, with great openings to a two-meters wide balcony –veritable extension of the room and casting shadows over the façade- planted with rose-trees or bougainvillea. As a result, all the rooms enjoy a panoramic view of the sea and the city.

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(1) Facade installation Instalación fachada

private project L&V Hyatt Hotel

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(2) South elevation / Typical floor plan Alzado sur / Planta tipo

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(1) Context view Vista del contexto

private project L&V Hyatt Hotel

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(2) The courtyard garden Patio jardĂ­n

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(1) Constructive details Detalles constructivos

private project L&V Hyatt Hotel

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(2) Views under construction Vistas de obra

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RTS RADIO-TV LAUSANNE

Competition with Lacaton&Vassal 2015

Leisure The project is located in Laussane’s university area, next to Sannaa’s Rolex Center. It proposes a free structure, of big capacity which is capable of generating overlapping spaces in a flexible and simple way.

The program is organized in 4 levels, all of them, being accessible through a ramps system: - In the intermediate levels (+10 and +19) a “street” of two heights becomes the heart of the project.It consists of the broadcast studios, the restaurant with a terrace, the drafts and the media center.

- Level +0, with 10 meters height, shelters the logistic spaces, movement of trucks and machines as well as the big TV studios.

- Level +19m offers a great terrace with a view to the lake Leman.It works as a public square and offers different possibilities of exterior events.

-The tower placed between levels +23 and +31 gives cover to drafting spaces and guarantee its recognition from the distance.

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(1) Aerial view Vista aérea

competition L&V RTS

General Axo. and Section Axonometría general y Sección

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(1) Aerial plan Planta cubiertas

competition L&V RTS

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(2) Courtyard interior Patio interior

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protestant school in beyrouth

Competition with Lacaton&Vassal 2015

Educational The project for the new Protestant School in Beyrouth proposes one single piece as big as possible, according to urbanist regulations that way extending the surface of the existent garden.

The cafeteria is situated on the ground level. Polyvalent rooms, a gym and a swimming pool are connected with a ramp system.

The building is open and naturally ventilated. It´s own design creates an agreeable climate thereby able to use simple technologies. In winter it takes advantage of passive solar radiations and it´s inertia in where as summer a system of solar parasols protects the facades from direct radiations.

The outdoor sportive spaces profit of the buildings shadow and they can be used even during the construction period.

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(1) Aerial view Vista aérea

competition L&V Protestant School

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(2) General Axonometric AxonometrĂ­a general

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(1) Climatic diagrams Diagramas climรกticos

competition L&V Protestant School

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(2) View from the forest Vista desde el bosque

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winter garden tower switzerland Competition with Lacaton&Vassal 2015

Residential Quality of living spaces, generosity and comfort are determinant for a good quality urban life. The transformation of Chéne-Bourg in Geneva is the opportunity to question the living spaces and the relation to the city.

Located in the heart of the new CEVA station, the project takes all the surface, volume and hight available on the site. This allows the creation of big spaces: 14 floors (91 apartaments 10.668m2) 5 floors with offices (4.9013m2) and an open ground floor for commercial use(347m2).

The dwellings are spacious, comfortable, shiny with a double orientation.

Although living in a dense urban space giving the feeling of living in a Villa. All the dwellings are provided with winter gardens, a system that creates good weather conditions inside the apartaments by beeing completely open in summer and closed in winter.

The simple and flexible structure permits to generate freedom in functions and in possible future transformations.

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(1) Exterior view Vista exterior

competition L&V Tower Geneva

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(2) Typical floor axonometric AxonometrĂ­a de planta tipo

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(1) Section Secciรณn

competition L&V Tower Geneva

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(2) Climatic diagrams Diagramas climรกticos

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research university center cayenne Competition with Lacaton&Vassal 2016

Laboratory-Educational The project is located in Cayenne (French Guayen) and is part of the future complex of the city’s local university.

The building is divided into 3 different levels: -The first one, more public and destinated to students’ uses is composed by researching areas such as chemestry, microbiology laboratories, learning spaces and an amphitheatre.

-The second one is an open roof top that includes some researching green houses and a palm garden with shadow protectors. Its free surface allows the building to make future extensions.

-The third one includes offices and private spaces for teachers.

The spacial configuration of the building responds to the country’s weather conditions: high temperatures, big levels of humidity and rain during all the year. The necessity is to create spaces with shadow and allowing the natural wind to pass throughout the building to ventilating all the rooms.

These characteristics alone allow to define some paterns in the forming of the building. The whole project is one meter elevated from the street level, it is composed by courtyards and it is provided with an empty intermediate level.

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(1) View terrace Vista terraza

competition L&V Research center

Plans Plantas

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Secciones Sections

competition L&V Research center

Interior courtyard Patio interior

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cinema prestige dakar

Private project with Lacaton&Vassal 2015

Leisure The Cinema Prestige is a private project standing next to Hyatt’s Centric Hotel in Dakar’s city center.

It is provided with 8 theatre rooms of different sizes: two big theatre rooms with 800 seats, four with 600 seats and two small private projection rooms.

On the south facade a big garden of Buganvillas frames the entrance and on the north part of the building there is space for commercial use and a cafeteria.

My contribution to this project was the concept design of the building: volumetric propositions, studies of theatre rooms and references trying to obtain the most efficent building in terms of function and contruction.

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(1) Exterior view Vista exterior

competition L&V Cinema

Volume studies Estudios volumĂŠtricos

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nature research center villablino Academic project in ETSAM 2014

Educational The Nature Research Centre is located in Laciana’s valley, a region in the North of Leon (Spain). This area is highly valuable in terms of its natural resources and mountains, which are very rich in minerals like coal.

It has traditionally been exploited for mining during the last decades and because of that, it has suffered from significant negative environmental impacts. The building site is located in the Coal Washery Plant next to Villablino, a commercial, economic and social centre. Within the site, there are 3 old and disused industrial buildings and a large empty space full of sterile (waste resulting from the separation of coal).

My proposal for this centre consists of a landscape regeneration that will maintain the original industrial character. This project will relate the agricultural activity and landscape in different scales: with some areas dedicated to formation, social awareness and research of new ecological systems and other areas dedicated to the reforestation of the surrounding old Open Mines. In addition, this proposal will provide a space for temporary residence for scientists. The Nature Research Centre is an adaptation exercise, where existing resources are given a new functional role. This regeneration project will be the result of an investigation of the coal in ecological, landscape and social scales, while setting a centre point to solve the environmental problems caused by mining.

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(1) Exterior view Vista exterior

academic project Research center

Before and after Antes y depuĂŠs

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(1) Model Maqueta

academic project Research center

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(2) South elevation Alazado sur

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(1) Sections Secciones

academic project Research center

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(2) Model Maqueta

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(1) General axonometric Axonometría general

academic project Research center

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(2) Constructive detail Detalle constructivo

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Silos plans Plantas Silos

academic project Research center

Constructive details Detalles constructivos

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Section Secciรณn

academic project Research center

Section Secciรณn

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sharing=gaining

Student competition in Aarhus School of Architecture 2013

Danish student association This project is an open students´ competition created by the Danish Student Association. The topic this year was “How can we live closer together?” The movie presented named “Sharing = Gaining” consisted on a reflexion about Density in the city: we live very close to our neighbors but, Do we really know them?.

In the movie a man and a woman are living next to each other. They live in minimized flats in which they have to share the facilities which nowadays are called bathroom, kitchen and toilet. In their apartments, those facilities are reduced to their function and are stored, one next to the other, in a big ‘magic cupboard’ which in that way connects the two apartment. The apartments themselves consist of just one room each. They can transform to several “rooms” by pulling different functions out of the central closet.

The result is a visual collage of sketched black-and-white dwelling and coloured photos of objects and people that make the story and an auditory collage of realistic sounds that accompany the many everyday actions performed by the characters by using the functional units.

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(1) Video scene Escena video

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museum of arts and technology Academic project in ETSAM 2013

Exhibition/Research The Tic-Tac building is situated in 22@Barcelona. In this context the propose combines the technology of 22@Barcelona with art expression.

Externally, the building´s form is based on several analysis of Cerda´s blocks. These regular blocks are creating an orthogonal grid transformed by the main communications: roads, boulevards, train tracks... A rational grid is transformed by the needs of the city. In a smaller scale, the Tic-Tac Building begins as a solid piece that has been suffering some cuts depending of interior needs, visual relations, lighting strategies and the relation with the train.

The building is divided into eleven pieces connected by “programatic trays”. Because of these platforms there´s a continuous path that runs through all the building with continuity. On the upper floors the functions are getting private hosting offices, and research laboratories. At the same time, the piece that sits next to the preexisting dwellings has more privacy and hosts the library. On the ground floor there´s a space for commercial uses. On the top of some platforms there are green terraces. These spaces provide continuity to the green boulevard that ends up just next to the building.

(2) Working models Maquetas de trabajo

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(1) Urban context Contexto urbano

academic project TIC_TAC

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(2) Sections Secciones

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(1) Uses diagrams Diagramas de funciones

academic project TIC_TAC

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(2) Constructive section Secciรณn constructiva

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experimental residence aarhus denmark

Academic project in Aarhus School of Architecture 2010

Residential The Port of Aarhus is Denmark’s largest container port and is one of the most important sources for the economy of the city. This area is going to suffer a big transformation during the next ten years: the industrial norther area is going to be transferred to the south and in this empty space it´s planned to to builded by housing, and public buildings. The state wants to give a new face to the harbour by transforming it in a part of the city center revitalizing spaces and giving new functions to “open Aarhus to the sea”. My proposal is located in between these new dwellings and the old industrial port. It´s adopting the formal language of the port but creating spaces to live in.

The experimental residence is designed by longitudinal beams and conceived as a living organism: some parts can fly to reach the water and others are trying to find the sun light growing in a specific way. The rooms are inspired by the movie competition where, with movable furniture, a modular container of 6*6m can be transformed into several spaces: kitchen, living room and bedroom.

The project is conceived as a continuation in the research of density in the city an a new way to inhabit disused city spaces.

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(1) Interior view Vista interior

academic project Residence

Flexibility Flexibilidad

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urban farms

Academic project in Aarhus School of Architecture 2010

Residential The idea of the project is to create in the city of Berlin, more specifically in the district of Kreuzberg, a different green space with more functions than a traditional park. An urban farm provides to the city four very positive points: social benefits (stronger feeling to the community), health (gives the possibility to grow your own vegetables), reduction of Co2 emissions caused by transport and, finally, brings fresh air into the city.

This urban intervention that creates a new green layer in the city, is focused in a building between two naked walls with 4 different dwellings inside. The building´s form is the result of a lot of sun light studies that optimized the space for growing vegetables.

Its important to mark out the duality between the front facade (more open and public, in the scale of the city) and the south facade (more private, with a domestic scale, where the dwellings are situated).

The project was conceived as a continuous space visually related to outside environment. The permeable perimeter walls are covered by insulated glass to provide natural light on cloudy days and to enjoy the views of the urban farm. The steel worked structure is revealed and supports the platforms where the growing vegetables are placed.

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(1) General section Sección general

academic project Urban farm

Typologies apartament TipologĂ­as de apartamento

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summer school of architecture Academic project in ETSAM 2009

Educational+Residential Designed to host a summer School of Architecture and Residence for students, the project is located in a natural landscape in La Herrería forest next to El Escorial, Madrid. The placement was searched to be a wilderness sloped area surrounded by trees and easily connected to the city center.

The proposal was inspired by a previous exercise where we had created a land art “a radical image that plastically transformed the environment of El Escorial”. The proposal involved the emulation of the natural landscape but made of machines, thus, petroleum wells, power stations and wind farms colonized the land creating a “mechanical nature”.

The School of Architecture is divided into eight big rooms, eight steel structures with different functions: library, teaching and lecture rooms and workshops for model-making. Each pavilion has a fixed part -allowing activities with specific lightning needs or providing the space with a storage area– and a flexible part, more open and public that confers to the building a more polyvalence character.

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(1) Model view Vista maqueta

academic project Summer school

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(2) Section and Axo Sección y axonometría

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Research station in antartica Academic project in ETSAM 2009

Laboratory The idea of the project was to make, in extreme conditions, a space for life and for scientific investigations of Antarctic´s biosphere. It is inspired in polar architecture, the igloo: the use of ice as a thermic insolation, the constructive system easy and simple and the versatility of the union between modules.

The project its created by an inflatable modular structure that when it´s air pumped we introduce water that is quickly transformed into ice. So like this we obtain a rigid structure that its anchored by movable steel cables.

The module unions allows different units depending of the number of users.

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(1) Exterior view Vista exterior

academic project Research station

Secciรณn y planta Section and plan

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Constructive details Detalles constructivos

abstrac handrawings

Academic project in ETSAM 2011

Dibujo al natural

Drawings Dibujos

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