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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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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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ide Shape Studio
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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FINAL GENERAL PLAN H=0,50
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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
NIDE Regulations
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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
AREA
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