2024 [Ecosistema Urbano]
Polinature: Urban Biodiversity Kit
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Client: Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University
Use: Espacio público bioclimático
Photographs: Emilio P. Doiztua
Publications: Arquitectura Viva; ArchDaily; Domus; El País; Dezeen; Archello; Harvard GSD; Afasia Archzine, etc.
Polinature has been designed to combat extreme heat at the public space level immediately, acting as a complement to larger visions and longer term plans. Creating urban environments that boast climatic comfort is a necessary step to equip our cities to face climate-change and create more equity in the process.
Polinature is an urban biodiversity kit: an accessible and affordable kit-of-parts aimed at supporting life—human, insect, plant, etc—by bringing biodiversity and climatic comfort to urban areas. It is a plug-in public space for addressing climate change in cities.
Polinature includes 3 key components that are easily assembled and disassembled; they are affordable, accessible and reusable, thus generating no waste. Polinature can adapt to distinct areas by changing a part for a local version.
Scaffolding: Reused steel parts that can be reused infinitely post disassembly. Its stability eliminates the need for a permanent foundation.
Native plants: 1,400+ plants have been curated to attract pollinators, lower temperatures and improve air quality around the pavilion. The native species are suited to the conditions of the area and therefore require little maintenance. The plants—all perennials—were distributed to the community after disassembly and will continue to rebloom each year.
Canopy: 12 individual, inflatable parts come together to produce climatic comfort and shade. 6 lighting pods permanently inflate and contain LED lighting, and 6 climatic bubbles inflate to emit a cool breeze when sensors indicate uncomfortable climate conditions.
Urban Design Development and Public Infrastructure Improvement
Client: The World Bank
Use: Urban, Public Space
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
Since 1979, Amman has been growing at a rapid rate, both in terms of the population and the economy. Steadily, over 4,000,000 people have moved to the capital city, and while its GDP is the highest in the country, it could be performing much better. A key limiting factor is its public transportation system, which is inconsistent and unreliable, and ultimately excludes many residents from the labor market. Ecosistema Urbano was hired by the World Bank to conduct an assessment and propose interventions that would improve Amman’s transit system and lead to a more equitable city by making opportunities accessible to all.
This consultancy examined the potential for urban design solutions in two areas to facilitate Transit-Oriented Development in the Sweileh District, and enhance first-last mile connectivity along the Al-Yarmouk neighborhood, an area marked by low-income households, limited green and public spaces, heat islands, substandard urban environments and poor access to planned Bus Rapid Transit stops.
The aim is to turn mobility challenges into opportunities for innovative public space enhancements at various scales, involving community participation. The key areas of focus are publicly owned land to address issues such as safety, greenery, heat islands, access, walkability and services.
The concept proposal encompasses a comprehensive urban vision that combines social, environmental and connectivity strategies to create an urban network of interconnected, accessible streets and public spaces that provide safe and pleasant access to new infrastructure while addressing other deficiencies in the targeted areas.
The approach aims to embrace an integrated strategy with a holistic understanding of the complex interactions taking place in the city and their co-benefits for all stakeholders.
The construction of new facilities or the transformation of existing ones is an opportunity to design a building that can serve as a hub, meeting the social and cultural needs of the community. The buildings should offer various uses and activities throughout the day, week and year, combining sports, culture, and other social amenities. These hybrid and flexible buildings should adopt a bioclimatic design, integrating sustainable and efficient practices, as well as incorporating renewable energy sources, such as solar panels. They should ensure accessibility; integrate green spaces and trees to enhance aesthetics and provide climatically comfortable areas; improve water and waste management; and add furniture, lighting and wayfinding elements.
Urbano]
International Competition to design a Bioclimatic Installation
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Client: Nashville Public Library
Use: Public Space, Installation
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
2021-2023
[Estudio Carbajal]
Innovation Center for the University of Cádiz
Algeciras, Cádiz
Clasification: 1st Prize
Client: University of Cádiz
Use: Educational, Administrative
Photographer: Fernando Alda
Publications: Neutra Magazine nº19 Tectónica Magazine (web)
The project is part of the building complex promoted by the Port Authority of Algeciras together with the University of Cadiz on the port front known as Llano Amarillo. It is a symbolic work both for the city and for these institutions located to the east of the city of Algeciras, Cadiz.
The UCA-SEA building includes laboratory, administrative and teaching areas. It has been intended to be a rational, contemporary building, with easy accessibility and easy control, clear in its internal organization, clear also in its routes and circulations easy to identify for users and visitors. Flexible and versatile in its partitioning and occupancy mode and comfortable in its work areas. With a strict geometric modulation that allows industrialized construction systems and finishes that favorably affect the execution time of the work and the necessary energy efficiency.
A cubic volume, with an envelope protected from the sun with specially designed motorized louvers, three stories high, with a roof floor with gardens and a roof covered with photovoltaic panels.
Inside, the relationship areas overlook the future boulevard that will connect the city with the dock so that users can enjoy magnificent panoramic views of the landscape and the port’s activity, while the transparency of its north façade shows passers-by the character of the port.
2018
[Estudio Carbajal + VAUMM]
Competition: Koldo Mitxelena
Library and cultural center
San Sebastián
2018-2024
[Estudio Carbajal]
Competition: Agronomic Engineering School
Sevilla
2018
[Estudio Carbajal]
Competition: Villaverde Public Librabry by COAM
Madrid
Clasification: Top 5 Finalist
Use: Cultural center, Library
Visualizer: PLAYTIME
Clasification: 1st Prize (Under construction)
Use: Educational
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
Use: Library
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
2018-2021
[Estudio Carbajal]
University of Cadiz Auditorium Algeciras
2020
[Estudio Carbajal]
Competition: Municipal Market Almuñécar
2020
[Estudio Carbajal]
Competition: Computer
Engineering School Almería
Clasification: 1st Prize (Built)
Use: Auditorium
Photography: Jesús Granada
Clasification: 3rd Prize
Use: Market
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
Use: Educational
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
2020
[Estudio Carbajal]
Competition: 90 Units Public Housing El Cañaveral, Madrid
Use: Housing
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
2021
[Estudio Carbajal]
Competition: Municipal Theare Torreperogil, Jaén
Use: Theatre
Clasification: 1er Premio
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
2021
[Estudio Carbajal]
Conmpetition: Municipal Courthouse
Estepona, Málaga
Use: Administrative, Justice
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
2021-2024
[Estudio Carbajal]
Competition: City Hall
Refurbishment & Extension
Cantillana, Sevilla
2022
[Estudio Carbajal]
Competition: Refurbishment & Extension
Farmacy Faculty of University of Sevilla Sevilla
Clasification: 1st Prize (Under construction)
Programa: Administrative
Renderista: Jose Anelo Romero
Clasification: 2nd Prize
Use: Educational
Visualizer: Jose Anelo Romero
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2019 [Final Degree Project]
The skin I live in.
National Prize XV BEAU (Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo).
Prize: Best Final Degree Project Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Sevilla.
Grade: 9/10
Use: Coworking + Housing
Tutor: Pepe Morales
Publications:
- Beta Arquitectura (web)
- Neutra Magazine nº18
- Book XV Bienal Española de Arqui tectura y Urbanismo [BEAU]
The starting point is a reflection on the evolution of the role of the worker in our society, questioning how society itself will evolve. Consequently, this project raises questions such as: Will our buildings continue to be programmatically narrow vessels? In a development into hybridization, it seems that the most obvious could be the one that affects the actions WORK with HOME and LEARN. What will the work structures of the future be like? Does it make sense to approach the concept of learning as it has been inherited from the rigid institutions of the past? What does it mean to inhabit? We cannot take any historical typology for granted, making it necessary to forget such deeply rooted concepts as program, functionality, façades, elevations, corridors...
The project is conceived as a hybrid building with spaces to live, work and learn located in the old shipyard of Huelva with the intention of regenerating the forgotten industrial estate by implanting a piece of the city in it.
A building composed of a series of inhabited skins, each functioning as a gradient of privacy with its own rhythms of life and interrelationships. Materialized as one more industrial warehouse and being aware of the bioclimatic conditions required by the environmental situation, such as implementing measures to ensure natural ventilation and passive air conditioning, reducing consumption through bands of vegetation; sheets of water; automated mechanisms for opening and closing holes in the façade and roof; greenhouse systems and provision of thermal and photovoltaic solar panels among others. An isotropic structure with large spans that shelters the heart of the project, a public street that aims to introduce free, open, informal and common spaces suitable for cultural exchange to take place in a semi-interior, semi-exterior space, without being a closed classroom or an office nor simply a circulation space.
An architecture where we can live, love, manufacture, learn, and dream together.
Use: Housing
Collaborators: Juan Tuñón Espinosa
Jesús Bozzo Arquitectos
2022
alt-Q Arquitectos
Housing in Palmas Altas, Sevilla
2020
Simone Solinas, Salvatore Carboni, Daniela Mureddu & Simone Langiu Ecological Housing in Bolzano (Italia)
2024
Urbanarquia Restaurant in Av. Kansas City, Sevilla
2022
Estudio Carbajal Municipal Theatre in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva
