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architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism

emilio ontiveros

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emilio ontiveros

Professional works

Workshop Instructor Mapping as inquiry

Boston Architectural College

Maria Arquero & Emilio Ontiveros

The city is a complex device where many interests -social, economic, politic, spatial, etcoverlap. The combination of all these factors in different contexts usually renders intricate pictures, and challenges any future design intervention. This workshop presents an analytical framework to operate at very different scales in increasingly complex environments, transcending the traditional disciplinary divisions. Bringing together diverse analytical and evaluative approaches, this workshop provides a set of tools to better comprehend and interpret the surroundings where to intervene. The explored mapping tactics are structured on a scalar logic, and revised through practical exercises. The course is structured on four parts. For every scale there is first an introductory presentation regarding the theories and work of the best specialists at that dimension, including some indispensable readings. After a first exercise, there is a more practical second lecture, dealing specifically with representation and analytical issues, as useful references for the students Ian Mc Harg and Richard T.T. Forman show how to unveil values and possibilities of any given territory at the large scale. Considering the milieu from environmental points of view, their methods are able to get a large picture to often find the guidelines of a solid basis, something that should never be missing in a coherent project. At the middle scale, the approaches developed by Kevin Lynch and Jan Gehl depict urban fragments from a social and interpretative angle, considering the collective image of the city and their inhabitants interaction. This scalar and conceptual jump takes into account peoples own perspective, minding the abstract gap present in usual maps and figures. The disciplinary approach to urban morphology -as observed in Manuel de Sol-Morales work pays attention to the specific city systems and objects, as well as to their mutual relations. This can be done isolating objective and rational data that can be compared on a systematic basis, across different city tissues. Arriving at the residential scale, Roger Sherwood explains how only a small number of basic housing types are logical, while Alexander Klein provides some graphic lines of attack and categories from which to judge the plan of a dwelling unit. The site chosen to test these different approaches is North Allston. Students will engage four short exercises and one final proposal that will incorporate a set of operative diagrams taking further previous analysis. By sharpening the students analytical and representational abilities, the workshop is conceived as an instrumental basis for incoming studios.

Klein: Evaluation Principles

Evaluation Principles after Klein

Student work: Adam Settino

Student work: Mark Rego Professional Works P-01

Studio Instructor Housing Hybrids

Boston Architectural College

Maria Arquero & Emilio Ontiveros

Housing Hybrids is a mixture between a Workshop and a Studio. It deals with the ABCs of residential design Apartment, Building and City- and tries to deliver a clear and distinct understanding of housing tactics and types at three different scales. Housing Hybrids first presents an alphabet of fundamental housing examples and then requests students to build their own vocabulary and grammar combining them. Housing Hybrids directs the students across the scales of the City, the Building, and the Apartment through an ABC process: A. Analyze two examples of each scale with attention to their design features. B. Blend those features into a new housing product at the given scale. C. Combine the new housing item into the previous scale mix. Repeat the process at the next scale. With every scale change, students also change their previous set of two examples, of which, only one may coincide with anyone elses. This process eases the interactive aspect of the class and provokes students to learn by developing different blending strategies. The aim of this experimental studio is two fold: -to provide the students with a library of basic residential examples: they would learn about them through exposure, analysis and proposal. -to train the students to find and use other projects features as references for their own designs and to do so in a flexible way, being able to acknowledge -as well as to overcomethe differences in authorship and scale. Focusing on the students conceptual abilities, this specific studio is envisaged as an active foundation for following courses. The site chosen to test these approaches is North Allston, Massachusetts. The area offers very different districts: the extension of Harvard premises with educational, residential and sports facilities; a large tract of single-family units with a few neighbourhood services, some retail and offices, open areas for leisure and large scale infrastructure borders. Students engage three exercises one in every scale- each time incorporating different sets of housing examples and taking further previous analysis. Common to every scale is the requirement to understand the basic patterns of circulation, open spaces, and built structures and their different program possibilities for the users.

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Student work: Raymond Gonzalez

Student work: Mark Rego

Student work: George Gomez + Ryan Wills

Student work: Blas Betancourt Professional Works P-02

Researcher

Research Group on Social Housing

Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid

Research Group on Social Housing

After a selection process within the UPM, I first was awarded a scholarship to join the Research Group on Social Housing as a junior researcher. The following year, after a second selection process, I was appointed as a PhD researcher. The Research Group involved several teachers from different departments: urban design & planning, structures, design, building services and construction. During my stay, the group was commissioned two studies on social housing, the first dealt with small dwellings and the following with European modern residential structures. Both of these works were first edited as research papers and then published as books.

Small dwellings (VR)

This study related to the recent political decision of the Spanish Government on launching a social housing program to suit the contemporary trend towards reduced households. The work was commissioned by a developer as a way to better understand the opportunities out of that new program. My tasks included assisting the faculty involved at every stage of the project. First, searching, compiling and suggesting bibliography and images to illustrate the different parts of the study. Then reviewing, proofreading and editing all texts and most images in the complete research and in part of the book. Acknowledging my work, I was also commissioned a portion of the study, which resulted in two chapters on the book. My topic referred to the different types of small dwellings. I structured the subject first, explaining the specificity of the contemporary small dwelling as oppose to that of the modern minimum dwelling and other examples: and then, relating the actual types with their influence in the building and in the city scales.

Two individual apartments and equivalent transformed dwelling for a couple. Free University, Berlin.

One unit, two different arrangements: Central service core and services adjacent to the corridor.

Social Housing in Europe (VSE) France, Germany & The Netherlands since WW2
The following work enjoyed a bigger budget and involved some journeys to the countries subject of study. Apart from previous tasks, I was in charge to interview different faculty and professionals in several places in the Netherlands, as well as in Paris and in Hamburg. After my stay abroad, I presented a report to the local faculty. The material gathered, including transcripts, videos, pictures and some publications proof useful for the Group. Once again, I was commissioned part of the investigation, this time dealing with the typological differences in the three countries over the last sixty years. I considered time lapses of 15 years in relation to economic and political issues and presented two different case-studies from each country and period.

Professional Works

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Professional Collaboration. Architect

Sacyr-Vallehermoso Tower. Madrid Final Phase Project This project, winner of an international competition, gathers different programs of hotel and offices fitting all into a simple plan based on three circles and a triangle. The intersection of these geometries generate three vertical strips that divide the tower in three segments. This gaskets serve for both fire regulations and to lighten the tower, which faade is made from a double skin of glass and aluminum flakes. Urban Renovation Plan. Burgos Preliminary Proposals The intervention develops new urban tissues reacting both to the new station of the high speed train and the dismantling of the former railways. The strategies on the three areas to develop are based on knitting the previously separated sides of the railway between them and together with the rest of the city. These new spaces will become logistic axis with sequences of different uses along the winding secondary streets. Dwellings in Vallecas. Madrid Final phase project. This project, in the new extension of Vallecas, develops parts of a city block, with 177 dwellings ranging from one to four bedrooms. There is a specific attention to mechanisms of scale in the building. Horizontally, its divided into three different material strips to avoid its monolothism. Besides, some various levels holes ease the contact between the inside and the outside of the block Towers. Saragossa and Madrid. Competitions Making the most of its previous high rise experience, the office takes part in different competitions with a similar subject. The image shows a double tower with a vegetation faade, as was presented in a competition for a plot close to the new High Speed Train Station of Saragossa.

Rubio & Alvarez-Sala architects

Following a similar approach, the office wins a competition for the refurbishment of a big Hotel in Plaza de Espaa, Madrid. This project is a complex mix of commercial areas, a new hotel, dwellings and office space.
Professional Works P-04

Professional Collaboration. Regional Planner and Designer

PAU Lander. Madrid

Trends of growth in Madrid region

This commission from the Region of Madrid elaborates on different approaches to Urban Planning and Design by activating alternative yet operative forms to look at the territory. The research reacts to that indiscriminate contemporary occupation of land, typical of both infrastructures and those large pieces such as commercial malls, office cities, university complexes, etc. Instead, it elaborates on a more synthetic reading, assigning much more value to pre-existent conditions. The work focuses on the most recent urban fringes of Madrid Region, distinguishing five areas of growth in relation to the capital. This first large-scale approach questions the new urban spots, and the different systems of infrastructures in which they are inserted. After broadly identifying and delimiting those borders of growth, the research then takes a closer look at the non built space: the nature elements, the landscape, etc. In contrast to the previous phase, on this intermediate scale, topography, water, and flora play a mayor role. In fact those features drive the whole research with the objective to unveil different factors able to establish keys for the development of future policies. The work is a document open to the exploration of these areas, which may trigger very diverse developments. Nevertheless, given its specific approach, most of the interventions are directed to recompose, reconstruct, or restructure pieces at the regional scale with valuable landscape elements. A set of basic generic rules regarding landscape, infrastructure and mobility, etc.- acts like a starting structure, involving a methodology that is not rigid but continuously adapted to the specificity of the different territories, with different degrees of freedom.
Professional Works P-05

Professional Collaboration. Architect

Theatre in Casas Ibaez. Albacete First & second phase of project development This project, winner in a national competition, is divided into pieces in order to keep three old pines as valuable pre-existing features. The different pavilions embrace an open space that acts like an exterior hall from which all accesses are provided: goods, rehearsal, administration, and the general public. This exterior room, under the shadow of he existing pines, establishes a link to the previous street, widening it while conferring a spatial dignity to the entrance. 180 Dwellings in Carabanchel. Madrid Typological Study The site is placed in a new area for residential development in the outskirts of Madrid. The aim of the project is to develop a structure to accommodate a large mixture of rented and owned dwellings. Despite the rigid building regulations, the proposed housing typologies enjoy a spatial flexibility that is carefully studied to suit most of the residents needs. Every dwelling is cross ventilated and double oriented, ensuring the living room remains on the sunny side. The building fills the perimeter, leaving a large shared garden to the interior of the city block. Dwellings & Golf Club. Madrid Competition tender This project, located in the North of Madrid, benefits from a magnificent environment.The residential program is located in a cornise, over the golf course, to enjoy the best views and accesses. There are several dwelling types ranging from one to three-room apartments, which all fit in different small housing blocks, never higher than 4-storeys. The open spaces are carefully designed to integrate the housing within the landscape. 56 Dwellings. San Sebastin. Madrid First phase of project development This assignment, currently under construction, came as a result of the previous residential project for Moscatelares. The residential program consists of three blocks, 5 storey-high, that houses large, three and four-room apartments. The open areas include extensive gardens, a swimming pool and some other sports facilities

Burgos & Garrido Architects

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P-06

Professional Collaboration: Ontiveros & Arquero Architects Tourist Morphologies

Introduction: Location and Explanation Zoom over the different areas This research project about the forms of urban tourist resorts is part of the Territorial Plan of the West Costa del Sol. Our task is to develop a presentation to communicate in an orderly way some examples of different forms of tourist growth. To fulfill this, we isolate some areas and study them in detail. The presentation is conceived in a flexible way so that it may be exhibited in panels, become a publication, or be shown as a PowerPoint presentation.

J. M. Ezquiaga

Comparative Matrix Urban Morphology Urban Structure, Parcel Structure,Edification After pointing out the different case studies in a Map of the Costa del Sol, a graphic index or a contents chart presents the whole study. In this grid all chosen locations are shown at the same scale. This eases the comparison among different aspects such as the street system, parcels, and the building structure. These analyses are backed with an aerial picture of every zone which help to identify the actual town and to read the information.

Analytic Files (Example 05 Casablanca Residential District) Urban Morphology Analysis There is a file for every studied location. It gathers those three aspects mentioned above, as well as different combinations among them. By doing this, we aim to observe some different and yet traditional urban relations: streets to parcels, parcels to buildings, and streets to buildings. Eventually, some synthetic plans deliver a number of relevant conclusions drawn from the analytical process and adding some data such as the building heights and uses.
Professional Works P-07

Professional Collaboration. Architect

85 Dwellings in Moscatelares. Madrid Competition tender. This a development of five blocks in two separate plots. All dwellings are doubleorientation units with faades in 90. Their wet core elements are adjacent to a large courtyard in which the stairs and elevator are located. The dwellings on basement ground have all their own gardens while the penthouses have large terraces. Dwellings and Municipal Center. Murcia Second phase of project development Oriented towards the views of the old fortification, this project rehabilitates an area in the town center. Some separated housing blocks fill the existing gaps while a simple pavilion, the municipal center, connect through its section the different levels of the plot, providing the town with a garden and a garage Auditorium and Conservatory. Menorca Competition, Mention of Honor This project deals with an extensive program (including a radio station, offices, a small hotel and a public garage) on a rather difficult site. The proposal suggests a set of courtyards and light boxes that in a controlled fragmentation characterizes both the urban image and the interior of each relevant space. 170 Social Dwellings. Madrid First & second phase project development A large housing project that, while keeping to a continuous general solution, manages to provide different scales in response to surrounding considerations and adequate solar orientations. Among the 20 different types of dwellings, there are two- storey dwellings and basement dwellings with large terraces. 58 ecological dwellings. Albacete Winner of Competion. Under construction This project layout aims to achieve the best orientation: three square blocks parallel to the front side, an inner garden, and a larger longitudinal block at the back. The design of these cross-ventilated dwellings takes into account the weather considerations, from the elaborated faades to the solar heating system

Burgos & Garrido Architects

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Professional Collaboration. Urban Designer 6000 dwellings in Sanya. China. Intoduction

Sanya is the second biggest city of Hainan, a Chinese island close to Vietnam. Recently, the local Port Authority decided to refurbish part of the city and launched an international contest. The proposal of the Spanish office I3 was among the few chosen to go on a 2nd Phase. I3 asked us to present a quick proposal for an 80-Ha area close to Sanyas west coast.

Ontiveros & Bisbal

Site Analysis
Subject schemes are developed to study and understand the territory. In this site, two rivers merge into a bigger one. The water level on the ground is high and the zone periodically suffers from flooding. The main networks split in two: the former main road and a small train track run along the sea shore while the motorway and the main train line stay further away from the coast. There are large swamps and agricultural areas together with wastelands and seafood farms. Built-up areas concentrate around the nodes of the road network, ignoring both the rivers and the sea. Some constructions are arranged north-south, the best solar orientation.

Proposal
To show some continuity and coherence with the First Phase work, City of Water, in which the water system plays a major role, we develop that concept into detail giving it a precise form. This is achieved by turning the merging of the two rivers into a great riverlake and arranging consequently a channeland-road system, the green areas, etc. The 6000 dwellings, a civic and cultural centre, the big department stores and the foreseen and land consuming golf and yacht club, are placed on several islands and different lakecoast interventions on solid ground.

Dwelling Types
Our urban pattern investigation searches for a controlled variety, ensuring sights, ventilation and shadows, all of these, needs for a holiday resort in this tropical climate. The different housing types result from their specific location, in relation with the water and the residential density of their surroundings. Disperse low density areas are close to the future yacht and golf club, higher residential densities (100 D/Ha.) are placed to the south, near the big department stores.
Professional Works P-09

Professional Collaboration. Urban Designer The Andalusian Landscape.

Presentation Daniel Zarza, Urban teacher at Madrid and now professor at Alcal de Henares, was given an UE grant to develop a investigation about the Andalusian Landscape. He asked us to help him with it, and a quick and pragmatic way to begin that collaboration was to prepare a Power Point Presentation to show the first developments of his work. Matrix of Landscapes The first and general work approach was to reduce the subjects complexity by structuring the Andalusian landscapes into a controlled matrix of only 9 different types. The structuring categories were based on the geographical characteristics mountain, prairie or coast- and the predominant human activities of the sites: natural (no activity), rural or urban. On our search for valid scale approximations we began with the Coast sites: Doana, a natural reserve park; El Ejido, the biggest vegetable producing area in Europe, and Costa del Sol an important holiday resort. 1:50.000 Available as a rough and large scale landscape map, the approx.1:50.000 aerial photographs delivered by the Andalusian Government served as first basis. These high resolution pictures avoid other representation filters, and help learning to concentrate just on the visible aspects. On the other hand, these realistic images dont tell all the truth but just show a momentary aspect of the real thing. All in all, it is a good exercise to draw what you see, not what you know. 1:10.000 On each location, some spots are designated relevant and therefore explained in a more detailed way. Those zooms show typical patterns, specific points were some patterns coincide, etc. A standard 1:10.000 cartography is the used base, therefore this representation carry inoculated urban filters and conventional assumptions. Although this pull us apart from a certain landscape understanding, at the same time, it helps us to distinguish issues that may turn out to be operative

BDMO and Daniel Zarza

Professional works

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Competitions

emilio ontiveros

Competitions

90 Social dwellings. Viclvaro. Competition

N architects (Castillo, Durntez, Negueruela & Ontiveros)

Competitions

C-01

Integration of two neighborhoods, Sanlucar, Cadiz. Competition

Bisbal, Perez, Zarza, Castillo & Ontiveros

The project enhances and gives continuity to the rests of the vegetation cornice, which lies on the geological shift that historically separated both neighborhoods

This new public landscape connects major city milestones and provides great views between the two parts of the town and beyond, towards the Guadalquivir

The multi-scalar proposal specifically address the central area of Sanlucar with the renovation and rehabilitation of small squares, wine cellars and warehouses.
Competitions C-02

Retail, offices and dwellings, Saragossa. Competition (runner up)

Bisbal, Perez, Castillo & Ontiveros

Plans of the two level dwellings

Performance of both the offices and dwelling faades

Texture and constructive view of the faade

Typical floor: to the left the office block

Ground floor: specific circulations for retail space and accesses to office and dwellings

Section showing retail space and parking

View from the public space between the building complex (to the left) and the new station for the High Speed Train
Competitions C-03

97 social dwellings. Vallecas(runner up)

N architects (Castillo, Durntez, Negueruela & Ontiveros)

The project strategies react to the sites urban regulations, which neither address the distinct spaces nor the condition of the buildings around the plot.

Front elevation showing the horizontal block and the emerging towers

Corner view, the highest tower reacting to the large space in front.

Typical floor of the towers

Typical floor of the block

Ground Floor

Open space between social dwellings and existent block

Competitions C-04

Europan 9. Competition

Castillo, Perea, Promewongse & Ontiveros

Rehabilitation of a former industrial area into a new residential development, Moreda, Asturias. Spain

A diverse set of strategies acts as an informing departure kit for the project, including bioclimatic diagrams, situationist references, and a landscape layer cake.

The intervention is subject to evolution, and the renovation begins by opening new entrances and paths to improve accessibility and to ease new opportunities

The renovated area would enjoy a much more open and kind character, being plenty of vegetation and with new public facilities such as a socio-cultural centre
Competitions C-05

Europan 9. Competition

Castillo, Perea, Promewongse & Ontiveros

Rehabilitation of a former industrial area into a new residential development, Moreda, Asturias. Spain

A small amount of apartments are newly developed in terms of volume. However they make use of the existent infrastructure and respond to their surroundings

Several residential types form a catalog for the former industrial complex. The one above maintains the structure of a shed to house dwellings and workshops

Some dwellings are develop not from the industrial structures but from the space in between. Here, the chutes give the access structure to new housing
Competitions C-06

420 dwellings in Valdebebas. Competition (runner up)

Ignacio Bisbal, Elisa Perez & Emilio Ontiveros

The project react to the plot: a strip of land between a road along a large forest park to the north and a development of single family houses to the south

Close up look: dwellings group so that main faades avoid close confrontation

Combination of elements -rooms, entrances, storage, etc- create diversity

Image of an inner courtyard, conceived as a semipublic landscaped playground, connected visually with the large park and physically with the rest of courtyards
Competitions C-07

43 Dwelling in Barajas, Madrid. Competition. 43 dwellings in barajas, Madrid

Clara Vlez & Emilio Ontiveros

Close up look: dwellings group so that main faades avoid close confrontation 4th floor

Above: Inner view of a large dwelling showing the linear arrangement. Below: diverse street views of the building and as an abstract volume 3th Floor

Site plan: the plots perimeter position

Site plan showing the perimeter position

2nd Floor

Ground Floor
Competitions C-08

18 dwellings for young & elder people, Competition. Runner-up

Ontiveros & Arquero Architects

Competitions

C-09

emilio ontiveros

Academic works

Master in Collective Housing

Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid

MCH 01/02

Workshop J. Herreros (balos/Herreros) Contour Conditions: Urban Environment & Collective Dwelling Individual proposal for operative strategies to approach the problem of urban housing progressive homogenization: -Encourage Complexity in the formal system Urban blocks should differ in shape reacting accordingly to their location -Focus on Density growths Housing complexes should be more dense and respond to urban density indicators -Emphasize Programmatic diversity Buildings should host different activities compatible with their location and density -Instigate Typological variety Different dwellings derived from basic plan and section types, offer more opportunities

Workshop F. V Dongen (Architecten Cie.) Evolution through time: Three stage project This group work develops a urban block in Ijburg island, a terrain reclaimed to the sea close to Amsterdam. The task was to think the project over time and thus deal with concepts such as flexibility and evolution. Our proposal includes an elaborated system of circulations, providing both a device to enjoy the unique landscape of this artificial island, as well as an infrastructure able to accommodate changes in time. We then evaluate the projects changing stages through three categories: free space/ density, different uses, and economic value.

Workshop D.Eberle (Baumschlager/Eberle) Three Projects in three days The task in this brainstorming workshop is to develop a project each day and to explain it to the rest of the class. This way, every one learns from each others design. Although in Madrid, all projects have very different locations and therefore site, public space and scale play a very important role in discussing them. Moreover, among the projects some are former public housing contests and thus can be tested against the real winners. Given these features and the little time to elaborate on the actual designs, every class result into an enjoyable frenetic critic session
Academic works A- 01

Master in Collective Housing

Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid

MCH 02/02

Workshop Felix Claus (Claus &Kaan) A building instead Coderchs building In the 1960s Coderch came to Madrid to build el edificio Girasol a well known residential complex in one of the most expensive corners of the city, close to the world famous fashion stores. In this context, the task is to built a housing block consuming all the available floor area. Some of the proposals respond developing as many units as possible giving the lands high value. As an alternative, this project proposes less dwellings insisting in the luxurious character of the area. It mixes some stores, large terraced penthouses and double height lofts suitable for fashion designers, photographers and the likes.

Workshop Jacob van Rijs (MvRdV) Mapping Madrids new residential outskirts Madrid city is growing very rapidly, although at a slower pace than its outskirts. The metropolitan residential belt, currently under development is thought to host roughly half a million new inhabitants in the next 10 years. Unfortunately, the urban design of these new areas seem much less important than their immediate economic revenues. They do not take into account the pre-existing periphery landscapes, and try to resemble some 19th century grid model with larger courtyard blocks and even larger streets, resulting into schematic and homogeneous zones, as shown in this mix research-report.

Workshop Jose Morales Dwelling open air spaces This workshop represents a opportunity to research about the different combinations of open air spaces in contemporary housing. Terraces, loggias, galleries, courtyards, etc. bring landscape inside the dwelling by providing a space or room with views, light, fresh air, etc. A configuration chartt -developed after a SANAAs scheme- gathers and presents projects from architects Schmidt; Le Corbusier; Candilis, Josic & Woods; Terragni; Baumgarten; Aalto; Lyon; Van Dongen; Neutelings; Gazeau; MVRDV, Gigon+Guyer; Burkhalter+Sumi; as well as one own design featuring three such spaces
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PhD 1st Course Tuition Period

Recent Public Housing Developments. Madrid Prof. L. Moya This program is developed in three different phases:

Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid

[MArquero & EOntiveros]

First, the course director delivers as an introduction, a panorama on the last 15 years of public residential interventions in Madrid. Then, everyone in the class chooses an example within these types of development and studies it in depth. This is worked on different scales: first that of the city or of the district, then that of the development itself, and last, that of the dwelling. The project is also approached from diverse points of view in each of these scales: orientation and relation to the urban tissues, access and programmatic issues, the structure and the construction, etc. Eventually, the PhD students present their research. Thanks to the relative small size of the class on this subject, every housing example can be discussed not only by the presenter and the professor but also by all other students. This makes every presentation interactive, allowing students to participate and turning it into an enjoyable critic review. Along the course there were some visits to some of the most representative examples of these new residential developments.

Protecting the Urban Heritage and the Natural Environment Prof. J. Faria The course explains the protection levels, as well as the different legal dispositions, concerning the Natural and Urban Heritage. To consider a landscape as heritage, there must be a previous evaluation. The work first explores and then evaluates two landscapes: the surroundings of Barajas airport and the area of the future airport in Campo Real. The evaluation is developed from work on the field. Data of each visited spot is gathered and stored in files. All files include a description, a catalog of landscape elements, photographs, and a small video. Raw data undergoes a statistical process which then is transformed into a characterization of the visual landscape of each zone, providing a basis for the evaluation. Urgent and Self-Developed Urbanism Profs. F. Colavidas & J. Salas Dealing with the basic habitat in developing countries, this program addresses some general considerations among which the most important are usually the basics such as choosing an adequate location and developing the area with some degree of flexibility but with a tight budget. Our work is a contemporary research on some of the 1950s interventions on the periphery of Madrid. Despite the very low budgets and their temporary condition, many of these projects still stand up. Some even have been refurbished and remain a consolidated part of the city fabric. These facts and the quality of both their urban and architectural design give them an exemplary role.
Academic works A- 03

PhD 1st Course Tuition Period

Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid

[MArquero & EOntiveros]

Design and Construction of New Urban Territories Prof. L.F.A. Teixidor La Hoya de Villalba is located in the northern outskirts of Madrid. This course proposes its study under 4 general aspects: infrastructures, patterns, centralities and voids. Developing on the issue of voids, the first work presents some examples of urban projects in which the non-urbanized space play the most important role. Afterwards the research focuses on the site itself. The voids of La Hoya are classified according to their different sizes and characters. To evaluate the specific values of these areas we consider them at the same time in both a positive and a negative way: On the one hand, the voids are considered valuable as a reservoir of the non-urbanized space in a remarkable environment. On the other hand, there is the dry void, where no lake or river is to be found, which has less ecological value than wetter spaces. The final conclusion, a hierarchy of protected spaces, is drawn from the crisscross of the two considerations at different scales. Constructing the Landscape. Shaping the outward appearance.

Prof. Daro Gazapo

In this course, the approach to the subject of landscape is some combination between the previous experience at the ETH Zurich and a personal interpretation of the issues addressed in class. The academic program introduces several ways of approaching the landscape, which can be grouped under two main sets, being the idea of process a common denominator to all of them. The first group of themes deals with location of/in the place: coming and going, maps, geometry, and landscape structure are some of the names of these approaches. The second group deals with a more individual view or perception such as inner landscape, landscape of memory, unconscious landscape, un-programming landscapes and deconstructing of landscape.

Privacy and Posturban Territories Prof. Ramn Lpez de Lucio Gated communities deliver a characteristic landscape. This work looks at some of these developments, set along the N-VI, a highway to the Northwest of Madrid. To fulfill this case study research, we follow a specifically designed protocol to gather the data. This helps establishing comparisons and drawing conclusions Each community is described through a series of files that include the most relevant data, aerial photographs and some aspects in which we are particularly interested: limits, street system, open spaces and singular elements. Accesses, Boulevards and Closure mechanisms conform the ABC of landscape for these developments. The research questions whether communities keep or challenge their original aspirations to exclusivity, luxury,security and contact with nature .

Academic works

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landing run traces. Design Concentration

more city, more landscape, more airport? Developing a V layout, our landscape project for Zurich airport proposes a functional extension of two of the existing runways, making public the third one in the middle. This way we keep the airport fully operational, allowing at the same time. On the one hand, a new city growth in the southern area, following the urban push of that side. On the other, a challenging landscape, holding together the existing natural areas and that newly accessible runway. Finally we suggest the creation of a temporary landscape to make people aware of the consequences that a new parallel runway would have on its surroundings. Since its opening, every major change in the airport has involved a transformation of its surroundings. Our hypothesis, landing run traces, aims to explore this inextricable relation between runways and landscape. From an everyday use point of view, the proposal deals with both the airports mechanism and the people in its surroundings. On the one hand, two runways are more than enough to cope with Zurichs current and future traffic flow Gatwick deals with twice as much traffic with just one land runway. On the other, we have acknowledged the intensity in which citizens use this area, not only to work and live, but also for recreational purposes. Considering the urban and natural context, the surroundings of the airport constitute possibly Switzerlands fastest growing conurbation over the last 50 years, but they still keep some areas of great biodiversity value. The plan supports the urban character of the airport, as the stimulus of what would be the Swiss fourth biggest city if detached from Zurich. As far as nature is concerned, the project improves both the existing conditions and their public enjoyment connecting previously isolated areas. The design brings up matters of time and evolution. It questions the need of a planned future expansion by the means of a temporary and interactive landscape performance.

MAS LA ETH Zurich

[MArquero & EOntiveros]

Academic works

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landing run traces. Design Concentration

MAS LA ETH Zurich

[MArquero & EOntiveros]

Academic works

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landing run traces. Design Concentration

MAS LA ETH Zurich

[MArquero & EOntiveros]

Academic works

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landing run traces. Design Concentration

MAS LA ETH Zurich

[MArquero & EOntiveros]

Academic works

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Airport Matrix. Urban Nature concentration

Airport Matrix is an approach to explore and understand the landscape around Zurich airport. It is conceived to provide us with a quick and objective idea of the basic structure of the area, assuming that a territory can be understood studying a representative small portion of it. The method is based on the development of a matrix (a system of homogenously distributed points) that takes as a departure grid the 1/25000 cartography covering the airports area. The matrix uses every two crossings of this grid to get a system of 24 points, which are 2km away from each other. These 24 points are like a roll of film, that once developed will give us an unprejudiced idea about this territory. In every point we gather a 360 photo and video panorama, a picture from the spots ground texture and some surrounding or approach photographs, all these included in every file.

MASLA ETHZurich

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Each file collects also a series of data concerning land uses and some landscape elements. Our sources include a brief historical analysis based on cartography, which relates the significant steps in the development of the airport to its impact on the surroundings. As a result of combining field visits with data analysis, the method tries to convey a precise approach to the landscape of the airport. We look for the specific characteristic that makes every place unique, the different and/or shared landscape elements that give to every place its identity and renders it recognisable. Looking at the visual clues panorama, video and pictures- we focus on the opening or closeness of the landscape regarding the horizon line, the vegetal structures, the soil texture and composition, the water system and other natural or cultural traces of the site. Besides these visible layers, video collects audio, which constitute an entirely different system of traces. Working out this soundscape will certainly bring up new possibilities.
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Airport Matrix. Urban Nature concentration

MASLA ETHZurich [MArquero & EOntiveros]

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Lessons from the Randstad.

Randstad Matrix This is a preliminary approach conceived to provide a quick unprejudiced idea of the Randstad Holland territory. Such area, the most populated in the most dense country of Europe, is conformed as a metropolitan belt Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht- which spreads around an open space known as the Greenheart. The Matrix consists of a 30-point grid, based on a 1/25000 national cartography, which regularly covers all the study area. In each of those points a series of pictures (North, East, West, South) are taken and specific information is gathered. This enriching process of learning by discovery eventually produces a series of statistics on housing, land use and infrastructures, and elements of the landscape. Files Case study areas are designed and analysed in files as a way to organise the information. Through progressive zooms, this multidisciplinary work studies residential developments, recreational and commercial areas, city centres, etc. The approach starts at a urban scale where the plot is first located and then explained through data, schemes, street sections and pictures. The next step is a close and detailed look at a smaller scale. In the case of a residential structure see right- the zoom stops first at the building itself, and then at the different dwelling types. Pictures, plans and schemes are again the used tools. These, together with brief descriptions, try to help understanding each item at a glance. Lessons As a result of the work done, different combinations of data and theory can be arranged into lessons. Thus, a certain subject is pointed out and didactically developed in a way that tends to be suitable for a classroom, a workshop or a conference. The example see right- shows part of the Lesson Madrid-Randstad, that compares both regions side by side. Again, this is done through a progressive zoom from the big territorial scale, to the detailed plans of both areas typical housing types.

BDMO (Bisbal, Delgado, Malo & Ontiveros)

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Graduation Project. Academic Year 2002 Agricultural Research Laboratories Boadilla del Monte, Madrid.
In the west of Madrid, Boadilla del Monte is a town which major features are being one of the few compact villages in a spreading suburban area, and having a 1764 palace complex. The agricultural laboratories are placed across a small river, opposite and parallel to the palace stepped gardens. Continuing that tapestry of green carpets, the experimentation fields are located in the most fertile terrains, close to the water. On the other hand, the building is set along an east-west axis, like a contention wall against the southern hills. The relation established between the palace, the labs, and their green open spaces help creating a threshold between the compact town to the west and the preserved mountains to the east.

Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid

EcoLogical Wrapping The different faades and the roof share a common threshold-enclosure, which changes responding to different factors: interior program requirements, light conditions based on orientation, sights, etc. The north side of the building gets great views over the palace gardens and the experimentation fields. An intense constant flow of people comes in and out through that faade. Thanks to the moderate local climate, a simple double glass beneath the threshold allows enjoying the views without sacrificing comfort. In contrast, the southern faade deals with a hard and changing sunlight, unsuitable for laboratories. Inner circulations are placed along that side which is deepened by filters and shadowed by plants climbing up to a vegetal roof.Agricultural Research Laboratories

Program Arrangement The use and layout of the different work spaces are set upon their proximity to the orchards. The ground floor, in open contact with the terrain, is left for practical and heavy works involving machinery or sample collection. The first floor, public and representative, houses an exhibition hall, a conference room, practical and theoretical classrooms and a cafeteria. The library, the investigation laboratories and offices are on third floor. An interior greenhouse packs the buildings east end.

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Design Studios Sequence Projects I (4th course)

Arts School & Gallery. Arevalo this scholar complex houses a small museum, an auditorium, some classrooms, a cafeteria, and both students and teachers rooms. The gallery is the main space and embraces the rest of the program in a stepped section towards the towns river. Eleven Row Houses. Madrid The different types of these large singlefamily houses are either two or three storeys high and they all feature a back garden and an ample courtyard. This open space is the heart of the house and determines the arrangement of the living and service areas

Polytechnic University, ETSAMadrid

Projects II (5th course)

Temporary Housing for Immigrants Matching a stepped section towards the river and a filtered faade provides views with privacy Arts and Crafts School. Berlin Students rooms and relation spaces enjoy the light and views over the southern square Carpenter's Shop Shelves in a shed inserted in the city fabric Supermarket and Offices Complex A slim glazed block rises from the garage below splitting the plot in two different scaled spaces

Projects III (6th course)

Residential Lodging for Atlethes Temporary housing and diverse sport facilities for both individuals and groups. Open faades and terraces help enjoying the views of an extensive green site, close to a river in the outskirts of Madrid. The modern requirements of light and ventilation are present in the different typologies, which vary from the lower fingers, close to the river, to the 4 storey row houses on the back side, along the entrance road. Agricultural Laboratories A complex program inside a simple and rigorously modulated building. Small, controlled experimentation fields in courtyards and roofs add a landscape feeling to a highly technical environment.
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