Jaume Mercader i Llobera
PORTFOLIO 2015
Barcelona, 23. Creative over all, I’m interested in driving my career near arts and design. I believe every architect is a potential entrepreneur and we should be crafting our way out of the nancial crisis pit. Beyond university, I’m challenging myself with goals related to startup and development of ideas and projects. I involved myself in Project Young sh and I’ll be soon involved in many other entrepreneurial projects, as soon as I’ve got the time. I’m advocating for a new kind of architect able to assume roles in interdisciplinary projects, and for the opportunity to work architectural projects from an interdisciplinary scheme. It ts much more the liquid, web-shaped world we’re about to dive into. I also love cats.
PROFILE
Residence hall
Patio house
Hotel d’entitats
Housing Poblenou
Housing Raval
Nau Ivanow
Faculty of navigation
Urban structure
Habitable facade
facility+housing
space design
housing
facility
housing
urbanism
facility
facility
restoration
ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS
Residence hall Barcelona
year 2010
The project consists in a long building, containing dormitory facilities for students, that takes advantage of its shape to enclose two public spaces. It generates a transitional square space, between the residence hall and the Faculty of Economics, next to it. On the other side, the building wraps an inner and more intimate garden space, protecting
with it a piece of historic architecture by Antoni GaudĂ. The building stands on the edge between private and public, distributing accordingly its spaces and activities. A flat elevation aims to link the shape of the building with the ground.
Patio house n/d
year 2011
A project clearly influenced by Mies Van der Rohe’s minimalistic concepetion of the plan. A single house, isolated from its surroudings, with an in-depth discussion about visuals, relationship between rooms, open spaces, and living and sleeping momentum. The floor plan is actually arranged in a spiral distribution, starting from the
outdoors space accompanying the access. Transparent facades ease the progression into the house, as well as the visual linking of those different patios. Only the service core is completely enclosed by opaque walls, and doors are almost inexistent.
Hotel d’entitats Parets del Vallès
year 2011
This public building contains room for local groups and associations. Its situation turns it into a challenge, consisting of fitting the project into the ancient city downtown. The building sticks to the existing middle wall and uses its long side to open itself to public space. The tiny bit of facade oriented to the main street is attentively resolved con-
cearning the neighbouring buildings and the special relationship the project must establish towards the town’s main church.
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Housing - I El Poblenou [Barcelona]
year 2012
The situation presents the meeting between the old industrial fabric of the Poblenou district and the pattern following the extension of Barcelona’s urban grid. New streets are widening the neighbourhood and there’s a need for large scale architecture, but at the same time, the project must suit the district’s personality.
The program is fitted in three buildings with an identical configuration. The buildings rise widely for some stories, and only three towers extrude the building up. These towers are different in height too, as they are used as an urbanistic piece that will define the new urban shape.
first floor
fourth floor
seventh floor
eighth floor
ground floor
Housing - II Raval [Barcelona]
year 2013
This is a mixed-use development containing a kindergarten in addition to the housing part. A pre-existing building separates the lot from the Rambla del Raval, which serves as a spine for this area of Barcelona. Still, the project will follow the example of the surroundings and it will replicate shapes and volumetrics in order to grant lighting
and ventilation. The floor plans also develop differently according to the uses they contain, generating sheltered spaces and potentiating visual relationships with the street. The housing part of the building aggregates two identical L-shaped extrusions, arranged around a long void that crosses the project like a crack.
Nau Ivanow Barcelona
year 2013
A sports facility mixed with theatre rooms and accomodation. The project takes relevance by its key position regarding the future transportation hub, “La Sagrera”. The following public spaces, including the biggest linear park in Barcelona, will deliver Ivanow a first-row role in urban shaping. Therefore, delivering both sides of the project an
appropiate treatment helps defining the floor plan. The project disposes a “ceremonial” canopy that flows between the solid volumes containing the sports facilities and theatre. This canopy both eases the access into the building(s) and serves as a welcoming gate into the urban texture from outside it, from the station and the park.
West 8 architects
La Sagrera lineal park
nau ivanow volume 1 800m2
bar lounge
entrance control
entrance control
foyer
storage room storage room
locker room foyer
emergency exit volume 2 1200m2
elevator
situation
Faculty of Navigation Barcelona
year 2014
This project consists in a new faculty with its facilities for the UPC’s Faculty of Navigation. The situation and the surroundings make it obvious for the faculty to dialogue with the shoreline and the sea. The grounds will also accomodate a sailing club, integrating it with the ideal of urban planning for the Faculty. The neighbouring Hotel W, one of the new shoreline landmarks in Barcelona, develops some public grounds between its huge volumetry and our project. The faculty building sticks to a new axis elongated from those grounds into the sea, dividing the shoreline and arranging docks for both the faculty and the sailing club.
situation
Faculty of Navigation Barcelona
year 2014
This project consists in a new faculty with its facilities for the UPC’s Faculty of Navigation. The situation and the surroundings make it obvious for the faculty to dialogue withby thetwo shoreline and the procesea. Shape is delivered architectural dures: a lineal block accomodates classrooms The grounds will also accomodate a sailing and laboratories, while main services, suchclub, as the integrating it with the ideal of urban planning for library, an assembly hall and other facilities develtheop Faculty. The neighbouring Hotel W, one of the on the ground, attached to the long piece. new shoreline landmarks in Barcelona, develops some groundsofbetween its huge volumeThepublic key element the project is precast contrystruction, and our project. The faculty building sticks a involving every large element,tofrom new axis elongated from those grounds into the structure to facade pieces. Those are designed to sea, dividinghorizontal the shoreline and arranging docks generate lines all across the elevations, for both the faculty and the sailing club. reinforcing the flat shape and essence of the project, challenging Hotel W’s assertiveness towards the city shoreline.
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A Foyer 60 m2
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B Secretary 115 m2
C Deck 66 m2
D Storage room 54 m2
E Retail shops
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63 m2
F Simulator 1 208 m2
G Simulator aux. 27 m2
H Restroom
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32 m2
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I Assembly hall 208 m2
J Study room
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65 m2
K Library 206 m2
L Kitchen 29 m2
M Caffeteria
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170 m2
N Engine lab
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98 m2
O Chemistry lab 98 m2
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P Mechanics lab 192 m2
Q Restroom 20 m2
R Hangar
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202 m2
S Chairman’s office 103 m
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T Vice chairmans’ offices 81 m2
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Hollow slabs
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Double wall system
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Precast concrete column
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Brise-soleil
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Precast concrete facade panel
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Openings
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Precast concrete panel (opaque)
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Classroom
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Patio facade
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Lockers
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Urban structure Mataró
year 2014
This urban project is located in Mataró, in a transitional area between downtown and its industrial suburb. The boundaries of the lot are uneven, ranging from main wide avenues to secondary one lane streets. The project adapts the shape of the city to that environment. Huge open spaces are proposed, accompanied by tall developments
containing mixed use. The streets are rearranged and car circulation is clarified, whereas pedestrian ways develop throughly, getting way ahead of topographic breaks in a low speed system. Urban spaces also change depending on the pace of the area they’re fit in.
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BENET I SERRA
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GOYA
MIQUEL BIADA
RO ILU
S ORTÉ ÁN C N R E H
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Small housing
big housing office
medium housing
Habitable facade Ciutat Meridiana [Barcelona]
year 2015
This project was developed during the Visiting Studio experience in the university. Taking place in Ciutat Meridiana, one of Barcelona’s most troubled districts, the aim was to ease the harsh transition between public space and house, utterly incomplete because of cheap, fast construction that accompanied the development of this subur-
ban estate. The existing buildings are added two decks, one per each long facade. Those will allow houses to occupy this new space, as well as will provide new room for walking. The access is flattened and more graded. The construction is in wood, with a design oriented to economy and social involvement of the neighbours.
1.5 m
existing building
2.5 m
2.65 m
1.70 m
1.75 m
A wooden skin wraps the building, housing new interior spaces and easing the access and social activity. Dwellers benefit from a graded transition from the outside to the inside, replacing the current abruptness. The new facade takes advantage of geometry and better materials to improve the thermal behaviour of the building.
2.65 m
1.75 m
1.70 m
2.65 m
The housing complex will induce surrounding buildings to aim for better housing quality, contributing to give the neighbourhood a revamped living scheme.
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Column 20x20cm (bxh)
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Beams Ø15cm
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Joints by shape
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Beam Ø15cm
Glulam slabs 2400x900mm set in staggered rows
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Screws every 30cm
600mm
Purlins 10x25cm (bxh)
Glulam slabs 2400x900mm set in staggered rows
Beam Ø15cm
Screws every 30cm on the inner purlins, 15cm at edge of slab
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Purlin 10x25cm (bxh)
600mm
polyface 2014
paper and architecture 2014
procedural motion
2014