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History of Architecture is not wrong;

the best way to remain warm a place

is to bury it. This is my proposal for a

sustainable prototype of home.

The situation of the project is a slop-

ing fi eld of cherry trees in Jerte Valley.

In the spring time the whole valley is

covered by a cloud of white fl owers.

This scene is a reason enough to

try to blend together landscape and

building, and so get a fully sustain-

able housing development.

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C O N F U S I O N

Cebada Square Competition 2011

A city is a system, it involves living,

working, movement and leisure;

this one is the activity a square is

for. Which means that a square

must have an easy access from the

street an must be able to keep us

in a calm state.

When you go into a square it

happens in a natural way you

are simply appealed into it

and, form the fi rst moment,

you have the feeling that anything

that surround you is a whole, as

long as you are there nothing else

exists, you sit on a bench, you have

a walk, you sit under the trees,

and the most important thing: you

see another people completely re-

laxed and practicing activities the

can´t do in the middle of a street.

A square is a panorama of the soci-

ety concerns.

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THE SITE: SANTANDER RAILWAY STATION

We are asked to re-build a public square in a place where we can only see disorder. The fact is

the main concept of this site is the MOVEMENT and this is what we would like to underline by

means of a complex object, a sculpture, that organizes the place with its only presence. In that

way we try to create a modern building which emphasizes the length of the railway station

and generates a square full of life.

Hispalyt Competition 2011

BUILDING THE MOVEMENT

The movement is the main idea of the project, we make a square

where people can move with freedom and the building is another

item that makes it possible, because it connects the lower level of

the station with the upper level of the park. That way we design a

dynamic structure that generates a promenade. The other gesture

of our project is to create some diagonal roads where the vehicles

can stop to take or leave the people. These diagonals produce the

tension enough to fullfi ll the urban gap.

The board celebrated the infl uence of Modernity in the proposal as

well as the mysterious and synthetic depiction of the project. And

awarded it with one third prize.

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This work is about void, and who better for teaching us about it than Eduardo Chillida, his works are an

example of how to build limits between matery and air. That is why our team selected one of his sculp-

tures (Homenaje a Fleming) to set into our garden, in the middle of a fl owing water surface, building

around it several spaces of the garden.

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Proposal for training pools, stairs and pier along a channel

EVOLUTION OF THE SECTION

SURROUNDINGS

FINAL GENERAL SECTION

NUMBERS

1 Stairs looking to the channel

2 Access to the channel from storage

3 Promenade to the entrance

4 Offi ces

5 To lower level: changing rooms, stor-

ages, technical rooms and pools

6 Classroom

7 Medical rooms

8 English courtyard

9 Training pool following

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WOOD PRODUCTS LABS

The building closes the

plan to a noisy highway.

It contains industrial and

sciences spaces in both

volumes. The composition

is the result of it´s con-

ception as a boundary.

WOOD ART EXHIBITION

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It´s a Museum for artists

who work with wood prod-

ucts, it´s minimal compo-

sition is the result of the

kind of art it will contain:

the exhibition areas are

interconected in a free

section with complex spa-

tial relationships.

OFFICES TOWER

All kind of wood enter-

prises can set thier head-

quarters in this building.

A double façade of glass

keeps the building warm

with the less energy

waste.

Master Planning

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Promenade into the Silence

Oteiza´s works Landscape Belvedere on a CliffThree axis; Three feel-

ings, this is the propos-

al. The macla between

three cubes symbolizes

the inseparable of these

feelings. The fi rst cube

looks to the near beach,

the second one looks to

the sky and lets the user

hearing the sea breeze,

fi nally, in the third cube a

ramp leads the visitor into

a dark void just over the

Sea, which mutes him af-

ter a promenade plenty of

spatial relationships.

The maclas are solved as

if the whole building was

an Oteiza´s Sculpture;

these spaces are the core

of the project because

they blur the boundaries

between the three main

spaces which means cre-

ate complexity with the

most simple elements.

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THE CHALLENGE

How to build Modern Architecture in a place in which still

remains the past? Remembering the past with a modern

view; a tower erected with a heavy look but ethereal on the

inside. With corner windows which strengthen the weight

of the object and a free section with voids that deny this

weight.

The program of the hotel is divided in two elements the

tower which moves us to an age where the fi elds used to be

watched and contains the common uses and the podium

as a background that contains the resting areas.

Landscape Hotel