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Photography Forn d’Alcedo Navigli
Photography Forn d’Alcedo Navigli
Architect and urban designer graduated in Master of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. (Univesitat Politécnica de València UPV), with Special Mention in the final thesis project.
I have studied at the Polytechnic of Milan (Politecnico di Milano) and at the University of Tokyo and participated in various international workshops and competitions such as the Solar Decathlon Europe.
I have great international experience, after working with numerous colleagues from all over the world, in Spain, Morocco, Japan, Italy and Germany. I love working in groups and I have the ability to adapt and lead them.
I am passionate about architecture, 3d modelling, mu sic, art, design, history, construction, public space, ci ties, transports, and travelling.
I’m wanting to be part of the life of your architectural studio, contribute with my knowledge and skills, and learn new things.
Phone Number: +34 691749256
E-Mail: estebanserranocastello@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Esteban Serrano Castelló
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Web: https://estebanserranocastello.hiarchi.pro
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKIO. Manabu Chiba Lab. 2nd semester 2020. Exchange Schoolarship. Course 2020.
POLITECNICO DI MILANO. Architecture and Urban Design Master. Exchange Schoolarship. Course 2017/2018.
- ATENEO MUSICAL DEL PUERTO Music and Piano 2008-2015.
- INTERSHIP CYPEMAROC Casablanca, (Morocco), July 2017. Related with BIM and Cype Programme.
- PRIVATE TUTOR 2015-2017, eduk10 2020
- OPEN HOUSE VALENCIA Architecture Guide, May 2019.
Guide and Assistant, Course 2019/2020.
- KERVIS PATAKONA
Render and Layout production, 2019/2020. Complex Shape Modelling and Rendering.
- ICONIC LANDMARKS / COSMOS IVICSA Architecture Design, 2021/2022. Complex Shape Modelling and Rendering.
- COSMOS IVICSA Layout Design, May 2022.
- AZALEA UPV Architecture Design and Construction. 2021/2022.
Languages
- English B2 Cambridge. C1 Current Level
- Italian B2 (Comune Milano)
- French B1 (EOI València)
- Spanish (Mother Tongue)
- Valencian/Catalan C1 (Mother Tongue)
Landscape Design. September 2022. Team for the Valencia River Mouth Park Competition (Germany), June 2022. Escalà Project. Unit with the team Azalea UPV. Engineering and Construction best (July 2022).
- CEVISAMA València 2019 International Fair for Ceramic Tiles and Bathroom Furnishings, representing Cátedra Cerámica Valencia. Name of the project: Ground Shelter (Refugio Tierra).
Workshop of professional post-production images of architecture (26 h)
- MIAW 2018. Milan International Architectural Design Workshop
Living Periphery. Architecture as Public Space. With Bostjan Vuga. http://www.miaw.polimi.it/category/2018-miaw2018/bostjan-vuga/
Advance Workshop of partitioned vaults. April 2016.
- IWUAD XI International Workshop of Urban and Architectural Design
Politecnico di Milano - Chulagonkorn University. Contemporary cities and Urban Regenerations. https://issuu.com/iwuad/docs/iwuadmilan2018_book
- BIENNALE DI VENEZIA “CitAZen: Roots in Motion”
International Workshop and Exhibition in the US Pavilion Courtyard with professor Elena Rocchi. http://dimensionsofcitizenship.org/events/citazen-roots-in-motion/index.html
- II INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TILE VAULTS
Universitat Politècnica de València. November 2018.
Name of the project: En Corts. Coexistence Units http://dparq.upv.es/departamento/anuarios/anuario-2015-2016/pr2-2015-16-2
Name of the project: Colonia Residencial. Living Units http://dparq.upv.es/departamento/anuarios/anuario-2016-17/pr3-2016-17
Name of the project: Elioterapica. Centro Culturale http://dparq.upv.es/departamento/anuarios/anuario-2017-18/intl-2017-18
Name of the project: La cabaña de Thoreau. Refugio Madera. Refugio Tierra. (Art Shelters) http://dparq.upv.es/departamento/anuarios/2018-19
EL CASO DE TOKIO 2020
TFG (Final Thesis). Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/170178 https://issuu.com/esc_96/docs/tfg_los_mega_eventos_como_herramienta_actual_de_tr
- TÚRIA TRANSPORT HUB. ESTACIÓ INTERMODAL I VERTEBRADOR URBÀ EN NATZARET I EL GRAU DE VALÈNCIA.
TFM (Final Master Thesis). Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/185055
D. Enrique Fernández-Vivancos González, en calidad de Profesor Titular de Proyectos Arquitectónicos de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de València, te ngo la satisfacción de recomendar al arquitecto Esteban Serrano Castelló, al que he tenido la oportunidad de tutorizar durante la realización de su Trabajo Final de Master, un excelente trabajo por el que obtuvo la calificación de 10,0 Matrícula de Honor.
Su actitud se ha caracterizado siempre por su rigor y seriedad, por su constancia y capacidad de trabajo en equipo, por su pasión y compromiso, dado lugar a proyectos que destacan por su coherencia conceptual, formal, técnica y constructiva, respetando y valorando siempre el contexto físico, cultural y social en el que se ubican. Como docente ha sido un orgullo ver la progresión y las ganas de aprender que ha mostrado en cada momento.
Por este motivo, es para mí un placer recomendar a Esteban Serrano Castelló para que forme parte de vuestro equipo de trabajo, teniendo la plena convicción que su contribución al mismo será siempre satisfactoria.
En Valencia, a 25 de julio de 2022
Firmado digitalmente por ENRIQUE JESUS| FERNANDEZ VIVANCOS|GONZALEZ Nombre de reconocimiento (DN): cn=ENRIQUE JESUS|FERNANDEZ VIVANCOS|GONZALEZ, serialNumber=24218807Z, givenName=ENRIQUE JESUS, sn=FERNANDEZ VIVANCOS GONZALEZ, ou=CIUDADANOS, o=ACCV, c=ES Fecha: 2022.07.25 07:58:20 +02'00'
Enrique Fernández- Vivancos González
Mobility is one of the fundamental issues of our time. Cities require more efficient, sustainable, safe and fast systems that connect them to each other and to their surroundings. Compared to other means of transport, the train meets these requirements, howev er, the problem of mobility is not solved only with the implementation of the electric car and investments in railways, metro or tram, but it also involves providing a solution to air and maritime traffic with new non-pol luting systems that are independent of fossil fuels. As a future solution, the hyperloop arises, a means of trans port based on clean technologies, designed to quickly connect our cities in an increasingly urban world, complementing the railway in trips to more distant desti nations.
In the case of Valencia, the insertion of the train in the city has been one of the most outstanding urban problems, especially in areas such as the Parc Central, the southern neighborhoods or the extension of the Serrería tunnel. The lack of this last infrastructure has prevented the continuation of the city and the Turia Park to its river mouth, increasing the segregation and disconnection of Nazaret and the Punta orchard with the rest of Valencia.
Therefore, with the intention of reconverting the area, reconnecting the neighborhood and introducing ex isting and future infrastructures in an integrated way, Turia Transport Hub was born, a new reference inter change and intermodal node on the city’s sea and river front.
Located between Grao, Nazaret and Moreras, on the urban crossroads formed by the train, the river bed and the L10 tram, Túria Transport Hub becomes an urban link, which reconfigures an environment damaged by the scar of the railway tracks and the abandonment of the final part of the river, and sup ports it through the continuation of the Turia Garden.
The project is formed from large covers intended for each type of transport. These roofs are linked togeth er, forming a system on the surface and another un derground system that allow interconnections and communications both horizontally and vertically. This entire system is linked with the park project, creating an interconnected network and a series of public spac es.
The station connects one of the most important areas of the city with the metropolitan area and the Mediter ranean corridor through the railway, and also connects Valencia with the rest of Europe and the world through the hyperloop, thus becoming a new gateway to the city.
Views from the tramway bridge. View of the railways divinding the traditional fields. Views of the river in its final part of the city. ABSTRACTThe project site is located on a large plot of vacant land locat ed at the intersection of the Grau, Moreras, La Punta and Naz aret neighborhoods.
To the north of the large plot is the old bed of the Turia river, and to the south is the remains of the Punta orchard.
The railway line currently divides the selected area in two, leaving the newly created neighborhood of Moreras to the east, and the Research Center and l’Oceanogràfic to the west.
Despite the problems of the place and its abandonment, its position in the city’s urban fabric presents plenty of opportuni ties, both for design and urban use.
On the other hand, this place is strategic due to the superim position of mobility systems, such as the train, the new tram line and the pedestrian axis of the river, which are emphasized with the projects proposed by the final workshop, such as a new bus station and the recovery of the l’Albufera channel.
To carry out the project, a series of conditions are taken into account, which are the position of the tunnel, the river, the railway and tramway layout, and the functional and spatial re quirements of the hyperloop and the railway.
In addition, elements such as natural light inside the tunnel, air permeability, and porousness of the building are set to truly act as an urban designer.
The concept of the project is based on maintaining the current infrastructure layouts and adapting them, that is, preserving the route of Avenida Moreras and the tram, the river and the rail way tracks, on which the hyperloop is arranged in the project.
A series of covers are located on these traces, according to the characteristics and needs of each type of transport. These roofs are that of the bus-taxi stop, located on the side of Avenida de las Moreras, the tram roof over its tracks, the jetty on the south bank of the river and the main roof located over the extended Serrería tunnel. and about the hyperloop tubes. This last cover is the main one, through the ends of it there are connection elements and covers between each transport system.
The depth of the tunnel means that its access is made in two sections, with an intermediate floor where the station services are located. This generates two systems, one buried and the other elevated, which allows the design of a park that inte grates the final part of the Turia riverbed with the station and links it with the continuation to the river mouth.
The design of the project has elements that allow solar con trol, the collection and reuse of rainwater, and the generation of sustainable energy through photovoltaic cells located on the south-facing roofs and wind energy through windmills of verti cal axis located in public spaces and the park.
The shape of the roof allows the control of solar incidence, and the openings allow natural ventilation to enter.
In program it is developed in a linear sequence corresponding to the trace of the railway, being placed on it on the -1 floor.
This sequence begins with the bicycle parking, the covered plaza, the side corri dors and the vertical communication core.
The covered interior plaza and the side corridors are the main articulators of the station from which the entire program is developed, the plaza being the main ne xus to which most of the interior routes of the project arrive and where the main uses are located.
The building as a whole is developed in section allowing mobility between the different means of transport, levels and accesses. This sectional system is linked by numerous stairs, escalators and elevators, which allow both the entrance and exit of the station, as well as the transfer of passengers. The 5 levels connect the building environment with the platforms through ramps and elevated paths. The main floor is located on floor -1, formed by a linear system that begins in the bicycle parking area and continues through the interior square until it reaches the vertical communication core.
The structure of the project is divided into two conceptual parts, the basement of the train tunnel and the foundations, and the upper structure of the roofs.
While the lower one is formed through large concrete walls, the upper struc ture is formed through light formed steel elements.
The structure of the Main Roof stands out, formed by large arches supported by curved beams that join the inclined pillars forming a complex three-dimen sional system, as well as that of the Vertical Communication Center, based on large reinforced concrete walls in the elevators and steel trusses that are at tached to these and to the stairs and pillars of the hyperloop.
Regarding the construction and materiality, it is mainly based on the use of dry elements joined by metal substructures and screws that allow an industrialized construction. It is intended to give the impression of a clean building and of the future, so smooth surfaces and materials such as GRFP or ETFE are used. Communication Core Structure
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The urban development project of the Forn d’Alcedo, located on the outskirts of Valencia, aims to generate a green multi functional neighborhood and with the presence of the irrigation channels of the Valencian huerta. It transforms an industrial and degraded zone into a new urban and inerconnected neighbor hood that integrates the characteristic vegetable garden of Va lencia with the presence of numerous pre-existing conditions.
In Valencia, the For d’Alcedo neighborhood is located close to the south of the new Turia river, leaving the city as a whole. It is pre sented surrounded by large road and rail infrastructure that isolate it even more from neighboring neighborhoods and towns.
The project is based on the pre-existing main roads, adapting them to new needs and connecting them to neighboring population centers.
Parallel to these main roads, four green pedestrian axes are established that act as connectors between the different parts of the neigh borhood. At the intersections of the axes there are four places that in clude pre-existing reference in the neighborhood, such as the church, the concrete mixer or the farmhouses, which are equipped with new equipment that form new centers, unclogging the concrete mixer as a new centrality. Finally, the project is structured in a double mesh, road-pedestrian, giving the neighborhood a certain previously nonex istent order.
Two areas of considerable size in the neighborhood are occupied by the orchard, preexisting and recovered on the site. One is located in the northeast quadrant of the neighborhood, near the pre-existing center of the town and the other in the southwest.
The neighborhood is endowed with multiple public green spaces, among which would be the green axes, wide avenues and, of course, the parks, almost always communicated with the pedestrian axes. The proportion between green and free in public spaces seeks maximum comfort that invites neighbors to use these spaces and live the street. On the other hand, some buildings have private gardens.
All streets have a green roof either by side green area or by trees in individual tree beds providing a more comfortable and pleasant envi ronment for passers-by. Thus, the streets are attractive in themselves and invite the neighborhood to go out, stroll and stop at the many banks and attractive differentiated spaces, to avoid the monotony of the long avenues.
Originally the neighborhood has three functions and, therefore, three types of pre-existence. On the one hand there is the urban concentration, with some residential buildings and single-family houses, a school and a church. On the other hand is the industry, spread over several areas of the neighborhood, so it has had to move and concentrate only in certain areas to allow the growth of the neighborhood.
In this way, the industry is only in the central and southeastern area of the neighborhood, where the most important concentrations were located, although being lost in some parts of the center to allow fluid communication within the neighborhood. And finally there is the gar den that recovers in the southwest and densifies in the northeast of the neighborhood.
The building typology is very varied in the neighborhood. From small single-family homes, in the area of the north orchard, pre-existing and newly built, to high towers of up to 25 floors in singular points as a meeting of two important axes and the entrance to the neighborhood by train tracks by the river.
We find thus, single-family buildings, multi-family homes, with low floors, and equipment with forms appropriate to the function.
Milan has always been a city of water. It has neither sea nor river, but its water canals are hidden behind the asphalt, waiting for someone and someday to be reopened and thus discover again the splendour they had.
The network of canals, of which only Naviglio Grande and Pavese are preserved, next to Darsena in the south part of the city, and Naviglio della Martesana in the north, were projected for several centuries, and Leonardo da Vinci participated in its design. They toured the city until the twentieth century, when most of them were buried because of the dirt and the appearance of the motorized traffic.Today, in the sense of Milanese citizenship and administrations, its reopening is necessary to make Milan a more livable city with quality urban spaces.
This project focuses on an area of the city center characterized by its high cultural heritage.Starting from the current Parco delle Basiliche, the project tries to merge both direccions, the green one and the future water line.In this point both direcction converge with the addition of the new M4 stations, that creates a kind of a new centrality for the future Milan. In this project, our challange is to connect the 2 very important landmarks. To achieve this mission, first we created a bridge be tween 2 lands. Later on we wanted to create a “Darsena” kind of a place where people can sit, chill, meet and enjoy the beautiful view of the San Lorenzo Church. Most importantly by creating a node that will act as a meeting space. What we propose will help to increase the quality of the area with the help of the new metro line, and create a new “attraction” place in the city. Furthermore a path next to the canal and at the level of the water guides you thought De Amicis to the new reinvented area.
Starting from the current Parco delle Basiliche, the project tries to merge both direccions, the green one and the future water line. In this point both direcction converge with the addition of the new M4 stations, that creates a kind of a new centrality for the future Milan.
Type: Public Space, Urbanism, Earthquake Reconstruction
Use: Parc, Canal
Location: Amatrice, Italy
Course: 4th (2018)
Institution: Architecture and Urban Design Master, Politecnico di Milano Stefano Boeri Urban Design Studio.
International Team Project (6 members)
Located in the Region of Lazio, in the Apennines, is Amatrice.
With about 2,500 inhabitants, it was practically destroyed after the earthquake of August 24th, 2016. This project framed in the study of urbanism of Professor Boeri, and after an impressive and emotional visit to the site, aims to encourage and contribute ideas for a future, safe and prompt reconstruction of the town, allowing the return to the previous life before the earthquake as well as improving it and adapting it to the new social and economic needs of this century, in an area of Italy where depopulation is a previous reality before the earthquake that it ravaged the Amatriciana basin.
The concept of this project stems from the development of Amatrice along an axis, where all the main functions of the city take place, start ing from the historical center in the extreme east to the newer part in the west.
The city is then divided according to three thematic areas. The first is precisely the Historical center, which represents the deepest link with the past, and it is the place of memory. In fact, we find a historical ar chive open to the public, concerning Amatrice before the earthquake.
The second area is the Community center, which represents the pres ent, the place of everyday life, in which we find in fact, all the major services essential for citizens. Finally, the smart center is the part that looks towards the future of Amatrice and its economic development. It is the place of innovation and interaction with the outside world.
In fact, we find here new functions, partly linked to the activities carried out in the fractions, as laboratories, exhibition spaces, food areas.
The configuration of the Historical center arises from design freedom due to the huge platform that supports the entire Historical center, of fering the possibility of starting from a blank slate. The space created between the installation plate and the plate that supports the build ings has been exploited allowing to create a space with two distinct faces, above the open space dedicated to the normal activities of city life and under a more suggestive and sensitive space, linked to the memory of the Amatrice before the earthquake.
Regarding the above-ground design, we tried to grasp and preserve the essence of Amatrice, re-proposing it in key more modern and func tional. The intention was to reproduce the same intimate atmosphere as before.
At the crossroads of the two, in the heart of the Historical center, there is a new big square, with the civic tower and the access to the histori cal archive. It has been decided to preserve the buildings of the three historic Churches at the top of the triangle, whose center coincides with the center of the historical area.
Although one of the fundamental objectives of the project is to give a new vision of the future to Amatrice, in the reconstruction time line, the first phase is necessarily linked to the security and services. This first phase, therefore, mainly concerns the Community center, but also the securing of the historic center, whose soil is unstable due to the debris of the ancient city. Finally the last phase concerns the connec tion of all the new elements.
The Escalà project consists of the realization of a housing pro totype based on a previous project designed for “el Cabanyal”, a sea side neighborhood next to the beach in the city of Valencia.
This neighborhood presents a low-rise building formed by houses aligned in streets parallel to the coastline, and during the last decades it has suffered a process of decline and abandonment. The houses are located on narrow lots facing two parallel streets, generally with an interior patio.
The previous project consists of a residential building in one of the abandoned lots in the neighborhood. From this initial project, a hous ing floor and the communal terrace and staircase are extracted to form a prototype, called the House Demonstration Unit.
This house is the one that is presented to the Solar Decathlon Europe international competition, through the Azalea UPV university team, a team made up of more than 30 students from different engineering and architecture fields, with the aim of designing and developing a complete house, its facilities and services, manage the construction, build it in Valencia for the presentation in the city and then dismantle it to rebuild it in the two weeks that the competition construction process lasts, held in Wüppertal, Germany, during June 2022.
This entire process has been a challenge and an achievement both in the design and construction process, as it has been carried out entirely by university students, advised by several professors from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
The project is based on a solution between the cultural and archi tectural tradition of the neighborhood and innovation, so the result combines both aspects.
Among the different international teams, the project obtained the third prize in Architecture in Engineering and Construction and the first prize in Innovation, becoming the most innovative house in the entire competition while representing the architectural values of the neighborhood of the “the Cabanyal”.
The prototype represents a house be tween dividing walls, in which other houses would be found on both sides.
The main facade faces the street while the other is located in the private court yard of the house.
On the ground floor is the house that consists of a bedroom, living room, din ing room-kitchen, and bathroom.
On the side there is a double height stair case that leads to the terrace located on the first floor.
The distribution is based on an open con cept in which all the rooms are around the central core, which has the kitchen and the bathroom, the storage places, and the main furniture.
The house is based on the principles of sustainability, which is why it has photo voltaic and solar thermal energy genera tion systems, storage systems and water and energy savings.
The materials are the traditional ones of the neighborhood and we have also opt ed for wooden structures based on por ticos and CLT slabs, rice straw insulation and cotton recycling, which contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of the house.
It has innovative systems such as the façade solution through the Flexbrick system, the drainage pavement made by recycling ceramics called Life CerSuds.
On the left side is the machine room that is framed in the area that represents the adjoining building, while on the right side is the elevator that leads to the terrace.
Improves climate conditions
Acts as a vertical communication nucleus
Integrates vegetation
Facilitates the maintenance and dismantling of the facade
Inspired by the ceramics of El Cabanyal
Gives room for biodiversity and different uses Photovoltaic panels
Organises and distributes the space
Concentrates the service areas and facilities
Promotes sustaible mobility
Creates polivalent spaces throughout a modular system
Timber frames Recycled cotton is used for the insulation of the dwelling Rice straw insulation is used in the modules located in the escalà, machine room and roof A heat storage chamber used in summer for natural ventilation and in winter for heatingThe house, being based on the site located in the “El Cabanyal” neighborhood, follows a series of conditions and characteristics typi cal of the traditional buildings of the neighborhood, so that the main facade facing the street continues as it could not be otherwise, these characteristics to be integrated into the neighborhood as a whole.
The facades of the traditional houses present a series of characteris tics such as the narrow and high openings, the use of moldings that frame them, the vertical proportion, and mainly the abundant use of ceramics. These characteristics are manifested in the design of the façade but in a reinterpreted way, adapting to the construction require ments of our assembly and following a more contemporary language.
tem is used, consisting of a vertical metal mesh, in which the different bricks that make up the façade are inserted. This mesh is transported folded and hung from the upper beam using a crane. This allows both the easy assembly and disassembly necessary for our construction system by using only screwed elements. In the same way, it favors the thermal behavior of the house, since it acts as a ventilated façade.
The colors used are green and white, since green is the most char acteristic color of the neighborhood. A gradient is used, becoming green er at the top as well as hollow to allow more light to pass into the interior of the terrace. The lower part is all white while the upper part is green to mark the base and the frieze, just like the facades of the neighborhood do.
Between the different parts of flexbrick there are wooden up rights that simulate the modules of the windows of “el Caban yal”, and that allow the incorporation of mobile vertical blinds. Between the openings there are large-format ceramic pieces hung by metal substructures.
Vertical section Vertical section Vertical section Vertical sectionGBC / mediterrànea, is the headquarters of the Green Building Coun cil organization for the Mediterranean area. It is an organization whose objective is the adaptation of buildings and architectural projects, to new sustainable and energy requirements both at the level of consumption and to new greener materials.
The organization required a multipurpose building, destined to be the headquarters for the Mediterranean as well as spaces for research, tea ching, entrepreneurship and divulgation.
The building is located in a very important place of the maritime facade of the city of Valencia. The site is a point where important avenues such as Avenida del Puerto, Juan Verdeguer and the Marina, the city’s old port, converge.
In the plot there were a series of pre-existing constructions that hindered the realization of an exempt building, so a set of interconnected volumes is projected, which arise from the heights of the existing buildings as well as the streets and axes of the urban plot. In this way the continuation of the different streets is allowed, the creation of an internal square that acts as a public space of the neighbourhood.
A garden to the outside front that joins with new gardens designed for the Marina of Valencia, reduces road traffic and creates new urban spaces. This arrangement of the blocks allows to create a new covered street, where the accesses are located, which quickly joins the most important avenues and the new square where the project is grouped.
Each of the volumes corresponds to the functions that the GBC headquar ters needs, having the research area in the northern block, teaching and entrepreneurship in the central block and two more ones located in the southern part where the spaces for leisure activities are located, such as the exhibition space, the terraces, the cafeteria, the library and study area.
Two blocks, of the same height as the pre-existing medians, are added to these blocks, and correspond to the direction and administration, and the northern one to the main access and viewpoint of the sea.
All these blocks are joined by a series of walkways and an external platform that allows to relate all the spaces of the project and vertical communica tion. In addition, different courtyards are created that allow natural interior lighting while creating a more solid shape as an exterior appearance.
The set is protected by an outer cover, raised on pillars. This allows the pro tection of the rain, of the direct incidence of the sun in the different spaces in addition to collecting the rainwater and houses on each of the slats solar panels that contribute to create elements of sustainability in the project.
As for the interior square, it is projected that part of the life of the different blocks will be generated there, allowing the people of the neighborhood and the city to be involved in the issues, so important for the current situa tion of the architecture. It is a paved square with trees outside it, so that it can adapt to the required needs. All its accesses are produced through covered spaces that, although it is a public space, give the square a more internal character.
1- North Access
2- View Point Stair
3- Administration Access
4- Multipurpose Room
5- Technical Room
6- Lab 1 Lab 2 Entrepreneur Space
9- Interior Square Caffé
11- South Access Exhibition Room
1- Common Space View Point Stair Administration Research Space Classrooms Workshop Platform Technical Room Audiovisual Workshop Library-Study Space
1- North Access View Point Stair Administration Access Workshop Multipurpose Room Terrace
The cladding consists of modulated ceramic pieces that cover the different facades. On each floor a metal profile is interposed that casts shadows and allows the division of the facades. The main piece is white 30x30 cm, while others 15x15 cm with different shades of blue and gray are arranged in the openings and in certain promi nent parts of the facades.
The entire construction is designed on elements with dry joints, which allow the replacement and disassembly of the elements and their possible recycling. In addition, the se are lightweight elements built on self-supporting fra mes, among which good insulation is provided.
The Living Units are part of a complex project destined to be a residential neighborhood for self-sufficient elderly people who want to live together and surrounded by high-quality spaces and common services. Located thirty minutes from the city of Valencia, the Living Units are designed for those elderly unable to fend for themselves, so they live in full assistance and care. Far from the concept of nursing home, it seeks a quality way of life based on the search for pleasant spaces and the interaction of the exterior with the interior of the building.
En el proyecto de las unidades de convivencia, adquiere especial importancia los accesos a la misma, formando parte esencial del argumento del proyecto. Se pretende crear secuencias de acceso progresivas y ricas espacialmente, produciendo una sensación agradable a lo que en un primer pensamiento puede tener un componente negativo, por ser residencia de ancianos.
Las unidades de convivencia se ubican entre las dos zonas comunes de la colonia residencial. Cercanas al centro médico, comerdor, etc. pero lo suficientemente alejadas para que sea un lugar tranquilo, de pndientes moderadas y con buen soleamiento. Además se ubican en una zona distante del ruido del metro, y con vistas hacia el interior del monte.
Por otra parte se ubica en una zona donde las curvas de nivel crean casi un ángulo recto permitiendo la creación de las dos alas de habitaciones.
El acceso del personal se produce por el nivel superior, donde se ubican sus dependencias. Un camino pavimentado procedente de las zonas comunes de la colonia lleva hasta la entrada, que queda acompañada por una serie de pórticos. Finalmente el acceso se produce a través de un patio cubierto que permite la continuidad interior-exterior, al continuar el pavimento y el falso techo de lamas de madera.
The interior spaces are arranged following a series of bands. Ac cess occurs through a patio and ramp, through which the hall is accessed. Through there, the circulation that communicates the rooms with common areas located at the east end.
Los espacios interiores se disponen siguiendo una serie de bandas. El acceso se produce mediante un patio y la rampa, por la que se accede al hall. A través de allí, aparece la circulación que comunica las habitaciones con las zonas comunes situadas en el extremo Este.
The living units are located between the two common areas from the residential neighborhood. On the other hand it is located in an area where contours create almost a right angle allowing the creation of the two wings of bedrooms.
To avoid the existence of significant slopes that prevent comfor table movement of the elderly inside the residence, a clearing is done, so that the upper floor is intended for residence staff while the lower level lower houses the rooms and the rest of common areas of the project.
Las unidades de convivencia se ubican entre las dos zonas comunes de la colonia residencial. Cercanas al centro médico, comerdor, etc. pero lo suficientemente alejadas para que sea un lugar tranquilo, de pndientes moderadas y con buen soleamiento. Además se ubican en una zona distante del ruido del metro, y con vistas hacia el interior del monte.
El acceso principal se produce a través de una rampa, a la que le acompaña una serie de pórticos que enlazan ambos niveles, y permiten crear una secuencia y ritmo a la entrada, a la vez que jugar con la altura, ya que cada vez va aumentando por efecto de la rampa, y las sombras generadas. La rampa desemboca en el patio de entrada, que se encuentra semicubierto. Finalmente el acceso se produce a través de una entrada de una sola altura y más oscura debido al potente voladizo, que actúa como elemento compresor en contraposición, con la doble altura del hall, ampliamente acristalada.
Por otra parte se ubica en una zona donde las curvas de nivel crean casi un ángulo recto permitiendo la creación de las dos alas de habitaciones.
Para evitar la existencia de desniveles importantes que impidan la cómoda circulación de los mayores por el interior de la residencia, se realiza un desmonte, de manera que la planta superior queda destinada al personal de la residencia, mientras que en el nivel inferior a la misma cota se encuentran las habitaciones y el resto de zonas comunes del proyecto.
Las zonas comunes del proyecto se plantean como una secuencia de vacíos y llenos en los que se va disponiendo las diferentes estancias. De esta manera se produce una iluminación natural en todos los espacios, así como su ventilación cruzada. También existe una relación visual que permite la continuidad espacial interior-exterior de los espacios, permitiendo que cada espacio común tenga salida y uso exterior.
una serie de bandas. El acceso se produce mediante un A través de allí, aparece la circulación que comunica las el extremo Este.
In the project of the units of coexistence, the access to it acquires special importance, forming an essential part of the project argu ment. It is intended to create progressive access sequences and spatially rich, producing a pleasant feeling to what at first thou ght can have a negative component, for being a nursing home The ramp ends in the entrance courtyard, which is partially covered. Finally, access occurs through a single height and darker entrance due to the powerful overhang, which acts as a compres sor element in contrast, with the double height of the hall, widely glazed.
The access of the staff is produced by the upper level, where their dependencies are located. The common areas of the project are presented as a sequence of voids and fullness in which it goes arranging the different rooms. In this way natural lighting occurs in all spaces, as well as its cross ventilation. There is also a visual relationship that allows continuity interior-exterior spatial space, allowing each common space to have exit and exterior use.
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Para evitar la existencia de desniveles importantes que impidan la cómoda circulación de los mayores por el interior de la residencia, se realiza un desmonte, de manera que la planta superior queda destinada al personal de la residencia, mientras que en el nivel inferior a la misma cota se encuentran las habitaciones y el resto de zonas comunes del proyecto.
Los espacios interiores se disponen siguiendo una serie de bandas. El acceso se produce mediante un patio y la rampa, por la que se accede al hall. A través de allí, aparece la circulación que comunica las habitaciones con las zonas comunes situadas en el extremo Este.
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Art Shelters, is a project framed in a philosophical and constructive exercise, whose original title was “The cabin of Thoreau”, and which referred to the book of the American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, and his mythical essay Walden, life in the forests.
The main peculiarity of the exercise is its location. Unlike most projects that are in a particular place, these are located inside a painting. “Tannenwald”, a painting by Gustav Klimt painted in 1901, and Highway and Byways, by Paul Klee made in 1929, are in each case responsible for housing our shelters. Wood Shelter and Ground Shelter, respectively, are inspired by the landscape and environments of each pain ting, adapting to their colors and materialities.
Under the objective of building two shelters, almost self-sufficient and far from the rest of society, they are projected so that they can be inhabited in remote places by people seeking not only a physical but a spiritual refuge. They are designed so that they are integrated into a landscape created by us but inspired by the envi ronments of each painting.
In addition, a series of contradiction is established between the two shelters, also related to the tectonic and the stereotomic. While the Wood Shelter, is related to the surface and seeks height and observation, the Ground Shelter is buried, so that the intrusion and force the entry of light, rather than the search for views. Light ness and heaviness, free tours and guided tours, are some of the opposite charac teristics of each shelter.
The Wood Shelter is projected as a series of cabins for a single user, arranged forming a kind of village in the forest, and located at a slightly elevated point. To enjoy the views, they are designed in such a way that they focus the vision to certain points of the forest and are oriented to the south to take advantage of the entrance of the sun.
Each of these cabins corresponds to a function of living: living room, bedroom, covered outdoor space and bathroom-viewpoint in the tower, designed in this way to capture solar energy and water and take advantage of water pressure by having the water deposits in the upper floor.
The construction of the different cabins is designed so that they can be self-built with the help of several people. The unions are made by mechanical joints and pieces allowing the non-use of screws. As materials, wood is used entirely with the exception of foundations, glass and roofs.
The above images show the manual that explains the construction process step by step and lists the different parts, their number and placement, following the pre cise order. It is a process similar to the assembly of a piece of furniture, but taken to the scale of the building, taking into account the small dimensions of each of the cabins.
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FASE I-II-III: Replanteo
AXO MONTAJE:
FASE IX: CERRAMIENTO de listones horizontales +chapa metálica, soporte del cerramiento (disposición por el interior) +colocación pórtico de acceso
II: Retirar 50cm de materia relleno de 30cm de
III: Disposición de la base ortogonal de las vigas de madera (explicada a continuación)
AXO MONTAJE:
FASE XI: CUBIERTA Colocació
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Selected Project for CEVISAMA València 2019 (International Fair for Ceramic Tiles and Bathroom Furnishings) representing Cátedra Cerámica Valencia
The project was set in a desert area with an extreme climate, with maximum day temperatures of about 40-50 ºC and minimum night temperatures below 0ºC, in the Me diterranean area, on the old remains of vernacular earthen architecture.
Part of the remaining mud wall structures, which made up the site’s original urban layout, could still be seen.
Endowing the site with a sin gular character, these remains are a living witness to the his tory of an ancient culture.
The project therefore focused on the idea of (Re) Inhabiting he ruins as an unquestionable heritage need of the vernacular architecture of the site involved.
This was to be done by res toring parts of the wall, rein tegrating earthen parts and completing these with cera mics elements of new building work, allowing the centre point of this site to be conserved and simultaneously refurbished.
Ceramics became the who le design’s unifying element which, from acting as part of the wall in the top storey to serving as flooring, cladding, or screens on the ground floor.
Upper Floor Axonometry 1/200
Ceramics have a vital importance in the project, not only as a material inextricably bound to the history of architecture, with the site’s materials, but also as having that innovative ingredients that links it directly to today. Axonometry
The project of the new north façade of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Valencia, aims to unify and longitudinally relate the footbridge that crosses the Agora of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the north entrance of the school.
This new relationship is established through a series of vertical beams or ribs created from curved surfaces that make up the new appearance of the facade.
The ribs that are created by which an amorphous mass engulfs and perches in some way on pre-existing buildings, vary their height and shape, preventing entry to the building and framing the view from the access door. This variation once creates a stair case that connects to the walkway giving use to an equally underused space where a continuous bench is generated, specify the view of the garden.
The Elioterapica Colony, framed in the Italian ratio nalism of the 20th century, is a project carried out by the group of Italian architects BBPR (Gian Luigi Banfi, Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers), who continued working on numerous projects du ring the rest of the century, except for Gian Luigi Banfi, who was killed in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in 1945.
The building was located in forest area of Legnano, a indus trial city, not so far from Milan. The Colony, ordered to be built by the Italian fascist regime, was inaugurated in June 1938, along with others in the rest of the country. They were buildings designed to improve the health of children of in dustrial workers, who suffered from nutritional and respira tory problems.
The building had an entrance module, where the offices and areas to leave the children’s belongings were located. From this module you could access some covered passages, to the main module, where the dining room and its large win dow, which was protected by the solarium, were located. In the center of the complex was the kitchen. The set was completed with showers located in the southern part of the garden and forest surrounding the building.
The Colony was closed in 1942, during World War II, and was reopened in 1956. It is then that the first change of use and the first transformation of the building, converted into a rehabilitation center for industrial workers who had su ffered injuries. , injuries and amputations in its factories, in the large industrial area of Legnano and in the surroundings of Milan. The solarium was removed, and the large dining room space was divided into its different wings in which a swimming pool was arranged, which is still preserved. After this great change in 1998, there is a transformation that completely changes the building and destroys much of its architectural value, by eliminating the entrance module and being replaced by a new building of little interest and oblivious to the importance of the work previous. This new building is intended for a psychosocial center still in opera tion. Over time the remaining part of the colony, is abando ned suffering a great deterioration and even a fire.
Elitorapica Centro Culturale is a restoration project that aims to make the whole history and all the changes in the building understood, through the preservation of the diffe rent parts and phases of the complex, and the introduction of new elements. This allows the conversion of the colony into a building with a library, study areas, computer room, archive, cafeteria, exhibition hall and conference room, which make it a cultural center of reference, so far lacking in the city of Legnano .
E R O S I O N _
Loss of original surface, leading to smoothed shapes.
- R o u n d i n g :
Preferential erosion of originally angular stone edges leading to a distinctly roun ded profile. Rounding can especially be observed on stones which preferably de teriorate through granular disintegration, or when environmental conditions favor granular disintegration.
- D i f f e r e n t i a l e r o s i o n :
To be preferred to differential deterioration: occurs when erosion does not proceed at the same rate from one area of the stone to the other. As a result, the stone de teriorates irregularly.
D I S C O L O U R A T I O N _
Change of the stone colour in one to three of the colour parameters : hue, value and chroma.
1. hue corresponds to the most prominent characte- ristic of a colour (blue, red, yellow, orange etc..).
2. value corresponds to the darkness (low hues) or lightness (high hues) of a colour. 3. chroma corresponds to the purity of a colour. High chroma colours look rich and full. Low chroma colours look dull and grayish. Sometimes chroma is called satura tion.
Any chemical or physical modification of the intrin- sic stone properties leading to a loss of value or to the impairment of use.
- M o i s t a r e a : corresponds to the darkening (lower hue) of a surface due to dampness. The deno mination moist area is pre- ferred to moist spot, moist zone or visible damp area.
B I O L O G I C A L C O L O N I Z A T I O N _
Colonization of the stone by plants and micro-orga- nisms such as bacteria, cyanobac teria, algae, fungi and lichen (symbioses of the latter three). Biological colonization also includes influences by other orga- nisms such as animals nesting on and in stone.
- P l a n t s :
leading to a loss cyanobac colonization also stone. consisting grow they contribute to keep of one part possible causes 1 2 3
E R O S I O N _
Loss of original surface, leading to smoothed shapes.
- R o u n d i n g :
Preferential erosion of originally angular stone edges leading to a distinctly roun ded profile. Rounding can especially be observed on stones which preferably de teriorate through granular disintegration, or when environmental conditions favor granular disintegration.
- D i f f e r e n t i a l e r o s i o n : To be preferred to differential deterioration: occurs when erosion does not proceed at the same rate from one area of the stone to the other. As a result, the stone de teriorates irregularly.
Vegetal living being, having, when complete, root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion (e.g. Tree, fern, herb). As the roots grow they can widen these joints and cracks and break the stone. They may also contribute to keep areas damp.
C R A C K S _
SCALE 1:50
Individual fissure, clearly visible by the naked eye, resulting from separation of one part from another.
- H a i r c r a c k :
Minor crack with width dimension < 0.1 mm
- S t a r c r a c k :
Crack having the form of a star. Rusting iron or mechanical impact are possible causes of this type of damage.
D I S C O L O U R A T I O N _
Change of the stone colour in one to three of the colour parameters : hue, value and chroma.
1. hue corresponds to the most prominent characte- ristic of a colour (blue, red, yellow, orange etc..).
2. value corresponds to the darkness (low hues) or lightness (high hues) of a colour.
3. chroma corresponds to the purity of a colour. High chroma colours look rich and full. Low chroma colours look dull and grayish. Sometimes chroma is called satura tion.
- M o i s t a r e a : corresponds to the darkening (lower hue) of a surface due to dampness. The deno mination moist area is pre- ferred to moist spot, moist zone or visible damp area.
Students:
ELIOTERAPICA. PasarelaThe project aims to unite through a circulation and the creation of a new access ramp, the diffe rent phases of the life of the building. The tour starts from the old showers, which becomes the access, runs along the ramp that allows you to see the original facade, and reaches the space in dou ble height, now a library, covering the new conference room in what was the pool . After crossing a walkway to the building of the nineties, the tour ends in the exhibition hall.
These pages show three of the pro jects carried out for the Iconic Landmarks studio, later united within the engineering and architecture company Cosmos Ivicsa, within the Iconic Projects department, led by Jose Gandía.
During my time in this studio I have colla borated and designed, with the instructions of Jose Gandía and the team, a large part of the projects presented.
All of them are based on natural forms ins pired by science and technology and especially biology.
They are unique projects that aim to beco me urban monuments due to their unconventional and risky design. They are urban projects for cultural and sports equipment, such as transport terminals, arenas, sta diums and aquariums, but also focused on hotel and retail use.
Going through this study has meant exceptional learning since the complexity of the forms of the proposed buildings and structures has required an important 3d modeling task and the use of parametric programs, specifically Rhinoceros 3d and Grasshopper.
In addition, teamwork and communication have been other skills developed during my work in the studio.
Next to this text, there is an image of the cruise ship terminal designed by Lingering Soul, which also has hotels and a shopping center inside.
On the following pages are the projects Madreportie Aquarium, and the Silica Are na Esports City.
The aquarium is inspired by a starfish, which houses public, commercial and leisure spa ces inside, while the aquarium is submer ged under water.
The Esports City has a multifunctional sta dium, and a series of spaces for Esports, while under it there is a large shopping center.
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theFiveStyles Magazine, is a magazine made in the con text of a subject of Architecture Theory, at the Politecnico di Mi lano.
The name of the magazine is inspired by the five architectural styles of the classical orders that Sebastiano Serlio (Bologna 1475 - Fontainebleau 1554) clas sifies in his treatise.
The magazine deals with as pects related to architecture, art, interior design, drawing and photography, including a series of false advertisements. Except for the advertisements that aim to give a more infor mal and current approach to the exercise, the issues discussed in the magazine are those addres sed by Serlio in his books, but it leads to the present.
One of the most interesting aspects of the magazine was the writing of the text. The fundamental requirement of the exercise was that all the texts that appears in the maga zine, were originally from Ser lio’s Seven Architecture Books. It is an architecture treaty of important value made between 1537 and 1551.
This is why the composition of the text became complex, when discussing current issues throu gh the placement of different paragraphs of the original Ser lio’s text.
A simple graphic design is made, shown by the presence of abun dant color images, as opposed to black and white drawings, that appear in the various books of Serlio.
The cards for the participation by the public of the CitAZen: Roots In Motion workshop are shown upper these lines, held in June 2018, in the courtyard of the United States Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. In the context of the creation of a great wall on the border between Mexico and the United States, the theme of the American pa vilion for the sixteenth biennial of architecture, has to do with the concept of citizenship and its dimension, as well as the meaning of being a citizen.
The cards are part of the action that took place during the day of the presentation, in which the participants answered the different questions and left the cards on a drawing made on the floor of the patio. The design is inspired by the different patterns of the pavilion’s exhibition, as well as the color.
Since I was given the first camera and especially after studying Photography for Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, I have felt a great fondness for photography, specifically for that urban one.
Photography has become a fundamental tool for the visualization of the architectural project, so that it becomes important to handle the different tools that allow transmitting the objectives of the project both once completed, and in its design process.
Here are a series of representative photographs that I like to take on different trips.
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