MCH2023 Booklet Andres Melo

MCH2023 MASTER IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING

UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA OF MADRID (UPM) AND SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ETH OF ZURICH

The Master of Architecture in Collective Housing, MCH, is a postgraduate full-time international professional program of advanced architecture design in collective housing presented by Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). After 15 editions, it is rated as one of the best architecture master’s programs by architects and experts.

The masters is divided into 7 workshops and 9 specialties, all of them oriented towards collective housing. The masters took place in Madrid between March and December of 2023. This portfolio is proposed as a recollection of 8 projects developed through these different scopes, as an aim to achieve a better understanding on what collective housing is, and what it can be as well, not only as a shelter, but as an opportunity for improving the life quality of its users.

Most of the projects presented in this selection are group oriented. A special aknowledgement to all the MCH staff, teachers and teammates that made this work possible. All credits are listed in their corresponding project.

Contact:

e-mail: info@mchmaster.com

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Avda. Juan Herrera 4. 28040, Madrid. Spain

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HOUSING & RE-USE AT SBB

Workshop leader: Anne Lacaton

assistant: Diego García

Site: Zurich, Switzerland

Housing proposal on top of a current train station in the city center. The first floor becomes a public space divided in 4 “moments”, while the top collective housing allows progressive growth and flexibility.

DOMESTIC FRAGMENTS

workshop leader: Elli Mosayebi

assistant: Alvaro Fidalgo

site: Cuzco, Peru

Architectural proposal based on three main concepts / words, “a bay window” , “Taking care of someone” and “Thinking” . These 3 concepts are represented by a miniature, a floor plan and a detail.

FROM CITY TO HOUSE

Specialty leader: Dietmar Eberle

assistant: Alberto Nicolau

Site: Madrid, Spain

Proposal of a Collective housing building in the city center. The project was conceived in three main components, Shape (site), structure and facade, with an free-use program.

PRODUCTIVE RESIDENTIAL TOWER

Specialty leader: Juan Herreros

assistant: Pedro Pitarch

Site: Madrid, Spain

Redevelopment of Torre Picasso, a residential tower in the north of Madrid. The proposal aims to generate an integration of collective housing units with communal spaces aimed for digital nomads.

MERGING CITY AND NATURE

Specialty leader: Joan Roig

assistant: Josep Battle

Site: Madrid, Spain

Urban and collective housing proposal in a natural under-developed sector of the city. The aim is to integrate the natural space with the city, with the articulation of mixed-use buildings.

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY

Specialty leader: Jose María ezquiaga

Leaders: David Castro, Archie Campbell, Diego García

Site: Paris, France to Sapporo, Japan

Analisis and re-adaptation of a collective housing project (57 Housing development (by Herzog & de Meuron) to a extreme climate location, focusing on constructive systems and technologies.

CLIMATE, METABOLISM & ARCHITECTURE

Specialty leader: Javier García-Germán

assistant: -

Site: Barcelona

Proposal of a prototype and a collective housing aggrupation that applies the principles of thermodynamics and energy efficiency with sustainability and comfort in the most extreme conditions of the year.

URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE

Specialty leader: Jose María Ezquiaga

assistant: Gemma peribañez

Site: Madrid, Spain

Urban proposal in Campamento, Madrid, a redevelopment of the initial analisis and proposal from W5 with an special emphasis on the 15-minute city and the impact of collective housing to the city.

W1

HOUSING AND REUSE AT SBB

WORKSHOP LEADER: ANNE LACATON ASSISTANT: DIEGO GARCÍA

The workshop consist on redeveloping the SBB former train station located in Zurich, Switzerland. This redevelopment includes the proposal of housing, its location varies within the different groups. In this particular proposal, the housing proposal is proposed to be on top of the current station, promoting the redevelopment of the first floor into public or communal spaces, and a invertention on the current ceiling and structure.

Team: Camilo Meneses, Andrés Melo, Fredy Quispe, Stephany Pavón

The project started with the analysis of the different spaces within the station, in order to understand the new uses to be proposed and where could the housing units develop. Ideas such as reutilization, progressive housing growth, and allowing distribution possibilities were particular goals set by the group. The duality of the below and top of the station allowed to establish different set of characteristics desired for each situation. Below, the need of public space, nature and open multi purpose spaces that promoted different activities were seen as key for its development. On top, a more communal and private space that promoted a progressive growth of the housing unit was identified as a design goal, with collective spaces such as corridors, bridges and nucleus being the transition and meeting point for the users.

Appropiation

Have quality spaces that allow and promote domesticity, diversity and individuality

Spaciousness

Have flexible spaces that go beyond the standard to adapt to different needs of the user over time In-between

Design transitional spaces that generate meeting opportunities and relationships beetween the inside and outside

Context

Design spaces related to the enviroment, climate, and culture. Being an integral part of it and at the same time, presenting its own character

Below

A new program to the inside of the current station will be proposed, aiming to adapt to current needs with public spaces.

Transitions

The transition between the public spaces and the housing will be resolved by reutilizing current structure and adapting the ceilings of the current station.

On top

The houisng units will be developed on top of the current building, in a gradient from public, communal and private.

DETAILED SECTIONS

Housing and park situation during the months of winter (low vegetation = more sunlight)

Housing and park situation during the months of summer (low vegetation = more shadow)

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

HOUSING UNITS

The housing blocks consist in two general typologies, one specific for the corners, and another one for the in-between. These typologies go along the building in sets of 2 that change sides mirroring the next building block and alternate their disposition, generating circulations and facades that face each other. This sets of units also have 2 of nucleus per bar that connect the alternating corridors with the lower levels. The corridors and nucleus serve as meeting points and communal spaces in which the users can meet and interact.

Since the internal disposition changes depending on the level of development by its user, the facade stands as a double layer, the first one being a glazed facade by modules. The second layer consists of a polycarbonate facade, that while the development is underway, stays closed, but is moduled with the internal distribution, so it can be opened along with the windows depending on the stage of the internal arrangement of the unit, allowing a variating facade that adapts to the growth over time.

Park proposed within the rail tracks, removing the ceiling for more sunlight and keeping the structure

Office situation beneath the larger structure, allowing open spaces to develop

Adaptation of former warehouse ceiling to allow more sunlight for winter gardens

Developed housing unit with growth possibilities within

W2

DOMESTIC FRAGMENTS

WORKSHOP LEADER: ELLI MOSAYEBI

ASSISTANT: ÁLVARO FIDALGO

The workshop consist in the proposal and design of a housing building through 3 key words, one that corresponds to a specific architectural element, another one is a domestic action, and the third one is a verb. This three have to combine within the proposal, that is mainly represented through 3 means, being the first one a miniature that explains the conceptual element of the design, a general single floor plan that shows how the spaces are distributed, and a detail or image that states how it can be implemented into a formal project proposal. The 3 members of the team can pick a single document to work on, but ultimately, the 3 end up participating in the whole process as a group. Site and general program can be picked by the team, as long as the 3 key words and representation documents are present.

Team: William Castro, Andrés Melo, Angela Tamayo

The project keywords assigned for the project were “Bay window” for the architectural element, “Taking care of someone” as the domestic action, and “thinking” as the verb. The chosen site for the project is Cuzco, Perú, having a mild climate for a bay window building to be implemented.

For a specific typology to implement the three key words, a typical patio building was selected, due to the dual relationship present with the inside patio and the outside. The plots from the typical patio houses of the city center were used to determine a size and scale for the proposed project.

The miniature develops as a frame within a frame, having in the center the bay window with the “taking care of someone” possibilities (as a mother taking care of a kid, or a son taking care of an elder) while in the other image, a bay window can be used as a space to reflect and think. The middle frame shows the contrasts identified in Cuzco´s climate, with a dry sunny season and a rainy cold one. The contrast is also present within the urban scale of the city in the left, with the natural landscapes in the background of the Andes mountains. Below, local people gather around, surrounded by the description of the place in the walls. The exterior frame shows the bay window as reinterpretated by the proposal, not as a particular window or space within a building, but with the bay window as the main architectural element, with the different possibilities it can offer.

3D DETAILS

The bay window, as shown in the general floor plan and the details, is serves as a statement that it can be taken to the extreme and become the most defining architectural element of a building. By making if go outside as further as possible, it can become a room by itself, a shelf, a desktop, or even a place to sleep. Typical bay windows seem to be simetrical, but it was proposed to develop one that would be orientated towards the sun path, allowing the gathering of more solar radiation during the cold days. For the dry hoy days, the wooden panels proposed in the facade allow to cover certain areas of the window during the day, and cross ventilation with the patio and the facade can help to achieve a more comfortable situation during the hottest periods.

As for the typical floor plan, the bay window projects itself to the inside of the building, allowing the creation of terraces and projecting specific angles that generates balconies in the corridor of the patio, generating spaces in which the users can interact with.

As for the key word “taking care of someone”, the program of the building is oriented towards this activity, and the dwelling is proposed as a co-living space, in which the in-between bay windows are the space of privacy, while the corner bay windows, the patio, the main corridors and the bottom side of the building are communal spaces that can be devoted to interaction, an escencial element for taking care of someone, without having to label a specific activity or use.

Local patterns are adapted thought some wooden elements of the facade

FROM CITY TO HOUSE

WORKSHOP LEADER: DIETMAR EBERLE

ASSISTANT: ALBERTO NICOLAU

The workshop was developed by working on three different elements of the building, the facade, the structure, and the shape of the building in relation to its context. Three sites in Madrid with different historical conditions were given. First, a small plot on a condition of the medieval city, then, a medium plot on the modern part of the city in the neighborhood of Almagro, and finally, a large plot in the newest part of Madrid Rio. Each day, the participants had to give a proposal for a different element to develop in a different plot. The final day, Each participant decided to develop one specific project will all the three elements given.

Individual project

The chosen location was in the modern part of the city of Madrid, in the neighborhood of Almagro. This site provides a medium sized plot, with context buildings often having between 7-9 levels. The first step developed during the week was to propose a shape for the building. The site condition presents a street side to the west (with sunlingt on the afternoon), and a patio side right next to a church and other buildings (with sunlight on the morning)

Despite the favorable condition of having two free facades in the longest side, the biggest difficulty present was distance of the shorter side of the building, being around 30 meters in depth. This presents an issue for housing, specially for natural sunlight and ventilation. Thanks to a visit on site, a solution for this problem was identified by breaking the shape with perforations and two patios that allow the presence of terraces and diminishes the lenght of the building to 9 meter depth bars, while the diagonal angles allowing for more sunlight to reach in the morning and in the afternoon through the East and west facades.

As for the general shape, the difference in level corresponds to its neighbors, that define the different heights of the sides, and adds to the general shape of the composition.

FLOOR PLANS & 3D

As the general shape varies due to its preexisting conditions, almost each floor has a different footprint. In order to consolidate an even distribution and take the maximum advantage of the sunlight, the cores were situated next to the blind facade and in the middle of the building, allowing also a better flow of the cars in the underground level.

Underground level

Level 6

Ground floor and level 2

Level 7

level 9

3 & 4 level 8

STRUCTURAL AXO

For the structure, a conventional grid of concrete beams and columns was placed, with an structural nucleus of concrete structural walls serving as cores for more structural stability on both directions, while serving as protection for the emergency stairs.

Structure & cores viewed from the street side

Structure & cores viewed from the patio side

PRODUCTIVE RESIDENTIAL TOWERS

WORKSHOP LEADER: JUAN HERREROS

ASSISTANT: PEDRO PITARCH

The workshop consist on stablishing a diagnostic on a current emblematic tower of Madrid, identify its problems and stablish a radical proposal that is able to revitalize the tower, changing its uses as well as implementing collective housing.

For the workshop, Torre Picaso was the selected project to analize and develop. The initial diagnosis stated that the tower consisted on a typical core tower with a repeated floor plan in almost every level, with a core with multiple elevators and structure divided within the nucleus and the facade, leaving the inbetween as an open and undefined space for offices. This tower, along many others of its kind, suffered a crisis due to Covid, as many people stopped working on offices and started working from home. Without having a diverse or estimulating enviroment and a lack of general hierarchy due to its own repetitive program, the tower has began a process of decadense, that should be reversed with a proposal that adapts to current times and users.

In order to do so, the proposal aims to be a playground for digital nomads, a working force that is part of the new era. for doing so, instead of working on a general floor plan as the original building, the project was designed entirely from its section, and the programatic situations that could be developed in it.

The main strategy to achieve this variety was to break the repetitiveness of the section by defining contrasting blocks of housing that develop inside and outside of the current structure, while communal spaces with different activites fill the in-between spaces. By breaking the slabs, situations such as multiple heights enrich the space, instead of a tradicional single height that breaks apart the identity of the building.

Team: Gabriel Barba, Andrés Melo, Lucas Navarro, Brittany Siegert

PROGRAMATIC DIAGRAMS

PROGRAMATIC SECTION

Amphitheater Park

Variation spaces within the building

High ropes

Bike ramps

Rock climbing

Proposal section

Skate park

Swiming pool

Original repetitive section

Terraces are proposed as a way to generate interactions with the outside, lacking in the current introverted program

HOUSING UNITS

The housing units of the proposal aim to be directed to this new unconventional working force. The enquiry was directed towards how to create a small, yet dynamic housing space that could harbour a new type of user for the tower.

To answer this, the first strategy was defining the housing spaces as duplex units, separating their levels by the activities and privacy needed by the user. On the bottom, an open larger space with a service furniture that works both as a kitchen and as a storage unit. In the middle, a large table that works both as an office, a dining room, or a meeting place. The size of the space allows the user to define it.

On the top, a double height space with a net, which allows a visual interation between levels and a bigger perception of the space, that enmarks the great visuals of the city that the tower has.

In order to maximize this view, the privacy of the typical bath is taken to this great visual, guaranteeing an unconventional situation for an unconventional user. The screens of the window can be used for projections, allowing its modern day users to meet or even work remotely from this spaces and communicate to any part of the world.

W5

MERGING CITY AND NATURE

WORKSHOP LEADER: JOAN ROIG

ASSISTANT: JOSEP BATLLE

The workshop consists on analyzing a plot in Campamento (Madrid) near Carabanchel, in order to make a urbanistic and housing proposal that is able to integrate with the natural conditions of the place. In this project is important to consider large scale urban renewal projects around the area, such as the intervention of the A-5 avenue, and the green corridor circle of Madrid.

The first step for this proposal was to analize the current situation of the plot in Campamento. A large military infrastructure is placed along the site, however, between this buildings closed by blind walls and the A-5 current avenue, parts of the zone have been deteriorated and don´t generate a particularly safe enviroment for pedestrians, nor generate any space that enhances interactions. Most of the plot corresponds to a natural space, with a river that divides in two and dries out in the summer. The topography is also very stepped in the north-west part of the project, right next to Ciudad de la Imagen neighborhood. This part of the city remains a void, and often, some avenues end here, so any proposal here should consider connectivity, public transportation, housing, and public infrastructure as well.

The proposal of the workshop consists on the enhancement of the green natural reserve space, with green corridors that go through the project towards tha A-5 pedestrian avenue (cars will go underneath) The mixed use buildings (housing, commerce, and offices) will be developed alongside this green corridors, with a larger density and heights towards the A-5, while urban renewal will take place on current military buildings in order to transform them into public infrastructure.

Team: Andrés Melo, Fredy Quispe, Paloma Romero

Natural reserve spaces are key to the site, as they host hidrographic bodies and trees, home to native flora and fauna

Uses present in the site. Most of the infrastructure is for the military, characterised for enclosed spaces to the public

Public transportation and connectivity. While the area is well connected to the metro, the infrastructure must me enhanced through the proposal

Services & public equipment. Most of them correspond to the actual military facilities present on site

Proposed uses. As natural corridors connect the river with the highway, mixed use buildings are proposed around this spaces

The current military infrastructure is proposed to be reutilized and enhanced in order to provide a complete set of services to the residents

The public infrastructure is always calculated in order to be accesible through the 15-min city radius

Transversal axis are proposed in order to connect both sides of the river and generate a better flow of users in both sides

Connectivity.

NATURAL SPACES WITHIN THE PROYECT

Section in relationship with the river Public space along the streets Communal paths along the natural spaces

The shape of the buildings respond to a public/communal relation with the natural inside

The green areas aim to get inside the project, generating pedestrian paths in the space of the former avenue

PROPOSAL

Neighborhood connectivity aims to generate better interactions within the community and with public spaces

The neighborhood strategies consist of terraces and perforations in the buildings to generate variations and “eyes on the street”

Mixed uses aim to generate a diverse set of users within the project, ranging from families to single individuals of different ages

Sustainability is achieved through solar panels in the buildings, bioholders in the green areas, and communal crop areas

BLOCK DIAGRAMS

The shape of the buildings aims to generate permeability to the public spaces, creating a direct relationship

Mixed uses. Yellow - housing , blue - offices , red - commerce

Section through the A-5 avenue - pedestrian (above) and cars (below)

transversal section within the public streets

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY

SPECIALTY LEADER: IGNACIO FERNANDEZ

CO-LEADERS: DAVID CASTRO, ARCHIE CAMPBELL, DIEGO GARCÍA

The specialty excercise consists on analysing a given housing project and selecting a new location with a cold weather climate in a different region, modifying the building in order for it to adapt to its new contexts. These adaptations are meant to be focused on its program, structure, sustainability, prefabrication, facade, hidrosanitary networks, electric networks, among other technical specialties.

Team: Camilo Meneses, Andrés Melo, Fredy Quispe, Stephany Pavón

The project given to analyze and re-adapt was the 57 Housing development in Paris, located in Rue des Suisses, in Paris France, by Herzog & de Meuron. The project itself consists on 3 main buildings, the first two with a similar condition of the typical street and patio facades, while the third one has a very particular condition to be entirely located inside the block with no direct access to the steet, generating a different response than the other two buildings. With this particularities in mind, this project was selected to be the one analyzed and re adapted to the city of Sapporo, Japan. The city is not only has one of the most extreme climatic conditions in the regions (with cold temperatures and a lot of snow) but also is located in the Ring of Fire of the Pacific, that consists on specific regions with higher risks of high magnitude earthquakes, imposing additional parameters for the building to adapt, along with different building methods and materials.

3. RUE DES SUISSES

TYPE A

4.57 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN PARIS Herzog & De Meuron

TYPE B TYPE C

1. FRANCE Country

2. PARIS City

FROM PARIS TO SAPPORO

Paris, France

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan Paris, France

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Paris, France - 01 Dic

Sapporo, Japan - 28 feb

Seismic

STRUCTURE - ACTUAL SITUATION

STRUCTURE - PROPOSAL

Second

First

Basement

Basement

INDUSTRIALIZATION

Single glass:

T1: 2.35x2.52m (6 unds)

T2: 2.70x2.52m (12 unds)

T3: 5.20x2.52m (12 unds)

T4: 2.60x2.52m (6 unds)

T5: 4.74x2.52m (6 unds)

T6: 3.16x2.52m (6 unds)

Double glass:

T1: 2.35x2.52m (6 unds)

T2: 2.70x2.52m (8 unds)

T3: 5.20x2.52m (6 unds)

T4: 2.60x2.52m (9 unds)

T5: 4.74x2.52m (4 unds)

T6: 3.16x2.52m (5 unds)

T7: 2.30x2.52m (12 unds)

T8: 2.80x2.52m (4 unds)

T9: 2.62x2.52m (3 unds)

SUSTAINABILITY - SOLAR PANELS

Japan radiation is optimal, between 4.3 & 4.8kW/h-m2-day

Sapporo Hokkaido radiation is between 4.3 & 4.8kW/h-m2-day

Total energy consumption in Japan:

1 person 80-90KW per month

Family (4 persons) 220-300kW per month

Family (6 persons) 270-360kW per month

Summer: (June 10-September 25/ 3.5 months)

Min hours 3:56-7:18 / 15:22 hours

average hours 13.5 hours per day

Maximun of hours 5:25 - 5:30 / 13:04 hours

Peak hours per day: 7.5 Hours

Winter: (December 2-March 20/ 3.5 months)

Min hours 6:47-16:00 / 9:14 hours

average hours 10.5 hours per day

Maximun of hours 5:39 - 12:07 hours

Peak hours per day: 6 Hours

High performance Photovoltaic panel 500W-80% performance

In summer: 500W x 7.5 hours (80%) 3000 W / 3.0kW

in a month 90kW

3-4 panels are necessary (270Kw - 360 kW)

In winter: 500Wx 6 hours (50%) 1500W / 1.5kW in a month 45kW

6-8 panels in winter are necessary (270kW - 360 kW)

Total # of apartments

Total # of panels: 96 - 110

U value 0.33W/m2K

U value 0.18W/m2K

CLT Slabs with insulation

Standing seam roof with insulation

CLIMATE, METABOLISM AND ARCHITECTURE

SPECIALTY LEADER: JAVIER GARCÍA-GERMÁN

The objective of this specialty is to explore design opportunities and strategies that generate proper living conditions to housing projects, specially by taking into account factors such as the local climate, comfort, sustainability, and material cycles.

Team: Fernando González, Andrés Melo, Isabel Monsalve, Samira Taubmann

The specialty begins with the assignment of a task, to analize the local conditions of Barcelona through the year and identify the strategies used locally to generate comfort in the most extreme cases. This identification was first achieved through a quantitative appoach, using software and data to identify the climatic patterns of Barcelona through the year. Parallel to that, a qualitative approach was made by analyzing local pictures and how they relate with the climate during that specific period.

After this analysis phase, a proposal of a prototype was the next step. This prototype needed to generate comfort during the two most critical periods of the year, the humid hot summer, and the cold winter, proposing at least one space ideal for that specific situation in which comfort is achieved throgh pasive and/or active strategies.

In this proposal, after the analysis of the climate, the strategy selected to solve this two conditions was through the understanding of how textiles work on both situations. By doing so, a prototype that works as an open space with almost no fixed elements was selected, so that the different textiles can be moved or changed, depending on the condition needed, generating a variety of qualitiies within the project.

SUMMER PROTOTYPE

Wool Metallic mesh Aluminum Plastic Linen

Linen

WINTER PROTOTYPE

SUMMER PROTOTYPE

Insulation: Posidonea 1908kg

Flexible partitions: Textiles 1908kg

Fixed partitions: Glass 950kg

finishing: Tiles 5343kg

Traditional construction weight:

Prototype weight:

12,415 kg

132 kg/m2

Structure

Wood 3609kg

1140 kg/m2

REPETITION COMPOSITION & SECTION

REPETITION UNITS

After the prototype, a proposal was made from a repetition module in which a collective housing could be developed. This proposal keeps the principles of the prototype in terms of materials, light structure, and changing conditions through textiles and a fixed winter room. The repetition was achieved by repeating this module in a Mat building grid, while allowing patios to act as buffers and enhance the comfort performance of each housing. The position of patios and winter rooms also obey to the most optimal orientation for having the best performance possible both in summer and winter.

1. Patios

Winter rooms

Summer rooms

Textiles and divisions

S8

URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE

SPECIALTY LEADER: JOSE MARÍA EZQUIAGA

ASSISTANT: GEMMA PERIBAÑEZ

This specialty aims to approach housing through the relationship with the city. In doing so, the plot of Campamento was given once again in order to develop a new proposal, while taking advantage of the analysis previously done in the workshop leaded by Joan Roig, and further develop strategies that enhance the 15 minute city within this space. The relationship with the public space and the current infrastructure was the main objective, since the means of transportation and the public equipments are key for to achieve a livable city within the 15 minute radius. While the developments of the dwellings themselves were not the main aim, the relationship they provide with the public space became the major goal. Items as infrastructure, public spaces, natural spaces, hidrology, and public transport were key elements during this specialty.

The starting point of the specialty was to identify thre proper scale of the area of intervention, since its easy to lose this dimension while designing large areas. In order to provide a familiar space, each member of the group was asked to select a part of their local cities and implement them on the polygon of the intervention in Campamento. By doing so with 6 different cities, the size of the project became clear, as well as the densities developed in each of the cities.

Team: Santiago Aguirre, William Castro, Andrés Melo, Jerónimo Nazur, Paloma Romero

Madrid Lima Bogotá

Campamento Green Infrastructure

SITE ANALYSIS

Campamento Green Infrastructure

Campamento Green Infrastructure

The next step given was the site analysis of the plot. While information was already acquired on the previus workshop, interesting elements were discovered by having a deeper look on the site, and having a broader area of analisis with the surrounding neighborhoods.

The green natural areas defined a stablished set of trees and local vegetation. As it is already well stablished, it was decided that it would be key for the project to keep this green area for the intervention.

Campamento Blue Infrastructure

Campamento Blue Infrastructure

As for the hydrographic infrastructure, while at the moment of the analysis the water bodies were relatively low, it was discovered that during rainy seasons this area tends to flood towards the lower part of the topography. Because of that, a bigger consideration was set to respect and not intervene this particular areas, defining a minimum safe distance to intervene from the water bodies.

Campamento Main Streets

Campamento Main Streets

Oportunities:

Oportunities:

Campamento Uses

Campamento Uses

Campamento Uses

Campamento Uses

-Oportunity to improve and grow green areas

-Promote local flora and fauna

-Oportunity to improve and grow green areas

-Promote local flora and fauna

Objectives:

Objectives:

-Habitat improvement

-Habitat improvement

-Habitat connectivity

-Habitat connectivity

-Green jobs

-Health benefits

-Green jobs

-Health benefits

-Biodiversity

As discovered in the workshop, a big importance is given to analyze the current infrastructure, particularly, the military buildings. While some break the connection with the city, a part of this infrastructure, with proper developments can be enhanced and reutilized by the community, in order to create a more efficient neighborhood without having to incur into demolitions and a new set of dotational buildings.

-Biodiversity

Oportunities:

Oportunities:

Campamento Blue Infrastructure

Campamento Public Transport

Campamento Public Transport

-Oportunity to improve and grow blue infrastruc ture

-Oportunity to improve and grow blue infrastruc ture

Objectives:

Objectives:

-Promote local flora and fauna

-Promote local flora and fauna

-Habitat improvement

-Habitat improvement

-Habitat connectivity

As for the transport, The A5 is still present as the main element for the intervention. However, instead of completely having it underground, it is proposed to still have some car activity on the ground with lower speed, while having public infrastructure around it, in order to keep a flow of activities and users present in the zone, while allowing other means of transport like bus or bicycles to arrive inside the project.

-Habitat connectivity

-Health benefits

-Health benefits

-Biodiversity

-Biodiversity

Oportunities:

Oportunities:

Campamento Main Streets

-Oportunity to improve connection between neigh borhoods

-Oportunity to improve connection between neigh borhoods

Objectives:

Objectives:

-Habitat connectivity

-Habitat connectivity

-Improve current barriers

-Improve current barriers

-Promote community

-Promote community

-Society integration

-Society integration

-15 minute city

-15 minute city

Campamento Uses

Sewing green and blue infrastructure

Road infrastructure connection

Slowing down of the A5

Pedestrian and bike infrastructure enhancement

Establishment of public transportation centers

Establishing services and equipments

Merging city and nature

Delimiting vehicular access

Implementation of mixed use housing buildings

PROPOSAL FLOOR PLAN

As for the definitive proposal, as already mentioned, the aim to keep the current natural infrastructure shapes the floor plan of the project. The natural reserve and hydrographic spaces are well respected with a safety distance, while a gradient of density is stablished , having the larger density towards the A5, and the lower one to the low scale neighborhood south-east, and north-west to the riverside and trees. The higher density areas tend to have 5-7 levels, while the lower ones have around 1-2 levels. No intervention for connectivity is proposed with Ciudad de la Imagen on the north, as it belongs to a different type of city, and intervening the natural area could prove costly and possibly unnecesary. The shaping of the pedestrian paths follow an intention to connect the possible nodes of communication between the buildings, allowing to connect to the public infrastructure buildings, some of which are reutilized military infrastructure.

PROPOSAL STRATEGIES

Green infrastructure grows within the center of the project along the A5, integrating the natural spaces with the new public areas

Proposal of pedestrian paths that connect several nodes of insfrastructure along the project, reutilizing current buildings

The final result aims to generate a diverse city in direct relationship with the natural spaces around it, implementing the necessary infrastructure for the 15-minute city and further improve the quality of life of the users from this dwellings. While the development of dwellings is an important part of housing architecture, the main lesson from this specialty is also to think in the good qualities necessary for the neighborhoods in which this collective housing will be established, and the way this housing units will also answer to the city in a reciprocate relationship.

Diversity of uses to generate mixed uses and different types of users for an active project

Volumetric proposal alongside the natural spaces

Active street life towards the public spaces