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Reorganization of the Barcelona Seaside Contemporary Sculpture Museum

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Children Pre-school. A Place to Play

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Regrowth of Industrial Urban Fabric

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Music School & Public Auditorium

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Refurbishment of a Historic Theatre in La Rambla Community Arts Center in Cooper Square

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2018 _ professor. Mara Partida

ited in ‘Colònia Güell’, an industrial settlement near Barcelona erected by the Güell family in 1890, where Antoni Gaudí designed and began the construction of one of his most iconic works. This project of an investigation center, where housing is related to the work space, is dealed from a perspective that reinterprets Gaudí’s work. The location of the place suggests a building that closes the street and provides a social and community focus, and so the center accomodates both the

workplace function and the exhibition space. The four residences for exchange employees are located following the existing row of houses, as if they were alredy there. The main intervention puts its focus on the working, exhibition and library spaces, which are built according to an objective costruction system that treats the materiality in the heart of the issue. A heavy timber structure based on catenary arches and inspired in organic and natural shapes, optimizing -as Gaudí did- the material and the structural forms.

Research Center in la ColĂ˛nia GĂźell

General Axonometric

Research Center in la Colònia Güell

Site Plan

Research Center in la Colònia Güell

General Floor Plan, Section and Elevation

Research Center in la ColĂ˛nia GĂźell

Outer Shell made of Triangular Ceramic Tiles

Research Center in la Colònia Güell

Construction Details of the Dome and Roof

Research Center in la Colònia Güell

Exterior View

Research Center in la Colònia Güell

Interior View of the Work and Exhibition Room

2019 _ professor. Sebastià Jornet _with. Joan Manciñeiras

he Barcelona seaside and its design has been a debate subject for the last decades, when the Olympics in 1992 encouraged the thought of how powerful this part of the city could be. The existing connection between the city and the sea is designed as a green space with large park surface that deals with the issue of crossing with bridges over the ‘Ronda del Litoral’, a highway running in a lower level. Instead, we propose an urban structure that acts as a filter towards the

sea, adding mix-use program to the area with a building ordinance that creates an acceleration and articulates the transition to the seaside. The proposal fully covers the ‘Ronda’ and builds a wide avenue above. The project aims for the empowering of sustainable transportation, so we take the existing -but not fully implementedsuperblock layout for the city as a pattern to organize the area, assembling the vehicular traffic in the main streets and creating vehicle-free spaces in most of the area.

Reorganization of the Barcelona Seaside

Axonometric of the Proposal

Reorganization of the Barcelona Seaside

Plan, Program Diagrams & Elevation from the Sea

Reorganization of the Barcelona Seaside

View of the Public Space after the Filter

Reorganization of the Barcelona Seaside

View of the New Avenue Above the Highway

2017 _ professor. Ariadna Perich

his project is located on a hill beside a town in the Pre-Pyrenees. The building itself is conceived as an exhibition containing other exhibitions inside, with works by the contemporary sculptors Constantin BrĂ˘ncuĹži, Alberto Giacometti, and Jorge Oteiza. The museum is designed as a tectonic mass oriented to the views of the town, with a large glass facade. The rooms hang from

this curtain wall as pictures at an exhibition. A balcony on the opposite side allows the visitors to enjoy the experience of watching a dynamic system of concrete frames with people flowing through them. The full experience of the building arrives when the visitor crosses to the exhibition rooms and enjoy in first person a walk over the works of three of the most iconic sculpture artists of the XX century.

Contemporary Sculpture Museum

Sketches of the Project

Contemporary Sculpture Museum

Longitudinal Section Cut, Concrete Frames with the Exhibition Inside

Contemporary Sculpture Museum

Transversal Section Cut of the Balcony and an Exhibition Room

Contemporary Sculpture Museum

First Floor, Entrance to the Museum

Contemporary Sculpture Museum

Lower Floor, Access to the Sculpture Garden and Program under the Balcony

Contemporary Sculpture Museum

Model of the Project and Site

Contemporary Sculpture Museum

Interior View of the Balcony and Frames

2016 _ professor. Ariadna Perich

hildhood is the most important and determining period in human life. Childhood must be governed by playing, experimenting, and discovering the world surrounding and building social interaction with others like us. A pre-scholar center that leaves the major load of the pedagogic process outside the classrooms, into the common spaces, is created in this project. By erecting a roof that unifies the space

and focusing the entrance of light in the building, the educational activity is encouraged to come out of the classrooms and participate on a model of school where children learn by playing and establishing relationship with others. The classrooms are moved to a side, where the roof reaches its maximum height and the light entering literally flattens the rooms, enlighting the common atrium.

Children Pre-School. A Place to Play

Axonometric of the Building

Children Pre-School. A Place to Play

Floor Plan

Children Pre-School. A Place to Play

Section Cut & Elevations

Children Pre-School. A Place to Play

Interior View, Light entering inside the Atrium above the Classrooms

Children Pre-School. A Place to Play

Exterior View of the Playground

2019 _ professor. Francesc Peremiquel _ with. Isaac Colin

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l Gorg’ is an industrial area located by the sea in the city of Badalona. Although some of the units still function as wholesale stores and warehouse, the area experiences a lack of efficiency and connections, and needs to be transformed into an urban system. The project is based on the existing plot with the main avenues going parallel and perpendicular to the coast, to articulate a grid with different hierarchies and uses.

Preservation of the industrial units is always a value that leads the process, and some of those existing buildings are refurbished and transformed into museums, markets or educational spaces. The new buildings that we propose are always flexible and present mixed-use. The proposal develops a general plan for ‘el Gorg’, and then focuses on the design of one of the blocks beside the main avenue and close to the sea.

Regrowth of Industrial Urban Fabric

Sketches and Model of the designed Block

Regrowth of Industrial Urban Fabric

Sketches and Plan of the General Plan

Regrowth of Industrial Urban Fabric

Plan of the designed Block

Regrowth of Industrial Urban Fabric

Axonometric, Section Cut & Program Diagrams

Regrowth of Industrial Urban Fabric

View of the New Main Avenue

Regrowth of Industrial Urban Fabric

View of the Central Square in the Block

2017 _ professor. Ariadna Perich

usic is constant tension and release of sounds, melodies and chords that go from unstable positions to more balanced ones. Similarly, architecture can be understood as an experience of tension and release as we walk through spaces. The building is conceived as a passage through the history of the town, a trip that goes towards a focus of tension. The music school and cafe in the ground floor are built with brick walls recalling the rhythm of the traditional

construction system in the town. The openings on these walls are arches as a reinterpretation of the historic bridge. An alley cuts the whole building to the auditorium, the massive element that stands out distorting the regular pattern of the walls and generating gravity. Despite the massive nature of the traditional construction system, the ground floor is diluted by peopleâ€™s flow, pulled by the gravity of the place; this system is a new social and gathering space in the town, and it rearranges peopleâ€™s circulation in the area.

Music School and Auditorium

Axonometric of the Project

Music School and Auditorium

Sketches and Flow Diagrams

Music School and Auditorium

Ground Floor

Music School and Auditorium

Longitudinal Section Showig the Alley and the Auditorium

Music School and Auditorium

Transversal Section Cut

Music School and Auditorium

Model of the Project

Music School and Auditorium

Exterior View of the Alley

2019 _ professor. Jordi Adell

his project deals with the load of a fourcentury historical building in one of the most visited streets in Barcelona; the ‘Teatre Principal’ in La Rambla. The theatre has suffered several interventions through time, including the construction of a sports track in the upper floors. As a response to the excess of tourism and the social problems in ‘el Raval’ borough, the proposal decides to empower local life in this building by making it a place for the borough’s community. Part of the building is assigned to housing supplies

for resident artists and most of the ground floor is transformed into an open exhibition space for artists to display their work. An opening on the theatre is created to get a street stage, and the historical horseshoe shaped anfitheatre is recovered by building it in a wood structure. Locker rooms are provided to the sports track and it is transformed into inclusive sports facilities. The new ‘Teatre Principal’ wants to be a new focus of local community life, recovering the historical building and giving it to the neighbors.