ANA MEDINA GAVILANES

MASTER IN 

COLLECTIVE HOUSING 2012 

ANA MEDINA GAVILANES

ANA MEDINA GAVILANES MCH 2012 PORTAFOLIO ETSAM-UPM

The following publication is a resume, an archive 

recording non-linear process of RESEARCH and 

EXPERIMENT of selected works made during the Master 

in Collective Housing edition 7th in Escuela Técnica 

Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM). 

AnaMedina architect

Ana Medina Gavilanes 

Quito - Ecuador 

1985 

Architect

ANA MEDINA 

MADRID

pag 07 00 Preface 

pag 09 01 Hrovje NJIRIC WORKSHOP 

pag 23 02 Landscape and Residential URBAN DESIGN SPECIALITY 

pag 41 03 Anne LACATON WORKSHOP 

pag 57 04 Low Cost & EMERGENCY HOUSING SPECIALITY 

pag 71 05 Dietmar EBERLE WORKSHOP 

pag 81 06 Juan HERREROS WORKSHOP 

pag 95 07 Andrea DEPLAZES WORKSHOP 

pag 105 08 Energy & SUSTAINABILITY SPECIALITY 

pag 115 09 BURGOS & GARRIDO WORKSHOP 

pag 127 10 Wiel ARETS WORKSHOP

PREFACE 

Housing is not only a place to live in, it is a 

complete environment where each person develops his 

own world. The Master in Collective Housing evolves 

all the topics related to this studio. Concepts, 

strategies, models, exercises, all these tools allow 

us to have a complete and deeply knowledge in housing 

to use in different societies, realities, and 

places. The continuous information and dynamic used 

in this program from the different workshops and 

specialties, give us the approaches to the term 

inhabit. The ideas, studios, and exercises thought 

in this Master LAB face the lack of housing research 

to the changes produced in our societies in the last 

century. As a final result, there is a publication 

that shows all the opportunities that housing could 

have in any place at any time. 

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Master in Collective Housing 2012_WORKSHOP 

01 Hrovje NJIRIC 

+ 

Nerea CALVILLO 

5 days workshop 

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Hrovje NJIRIC_WORKSHOP_MCH2012 

Theme 

ORDINARY LUXURY 

Workshop Leader 

Hrvoje Njiric 

Assistant 

Nerea Calvillo 

Team 

Nicola Acquafreda_Italy 

Bianca Barducci_Italy 

Ana Medina_Ecuador 

The first approach was a romantic view of living 

spaces, LUXURY as quality to define frames, to 

design freedom. Our understood of luxury is not a 

condition for rich people; it is about a condition of 

THINKING. Therefore, the character of places gives 

identity to have a UNIQUE feeling into the space, 

to look for the essence, to understand what is a space 

for. 

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luxury 


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LUXURY 

movement - dancing 

BATHROOM 

Light 

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How 

Who 

The bath as a temple, 

the bath as a dance floor 

Plan Plan 

What is a bathroom for? 

Toilette 

Washbasin 

Bidet 

Shower 

Bath tub 

The rain is the 

entrance to the 

personal-secret 

space 

Look in the mirror 

Naked 

Sleep 

Sing 

Masturbate 

clean intimacy the bathroom is 

probable the 

only place where 

we can be alone 

Synchronized 

Pause - intensity 

int

BEDROOM LIVING ROOM 

filter - mistery - clarity stay - open 

more than create (imagine) spaces, is the capacity 

of imagine the quality of life 

KITCHEN 

dressing 

light 

dressing 

entrance 

plan section 

cooking 

+ 

eating 

+ 

sharing 

l i g h t 

dressing 

entrance 

entrance 

dressing 

d 

l 

dressing 

i g 

i 

h t 

entrance 

dressing light dressing 

KITCHEN 

+ 

DINING 

ROOM 


plan section 

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transluxury ryryyry 

as 

uur u 

ryry

luxury for a transgender prostitute 

outdoor sex 

voyeur 

sauna 

darkroom 

workspace 

as 

. splitting private life & work 

. enjoy the management of his/her 

lifestyle 

. the control of space 

gloryhole 

sex machines 

lap dance 

big bed 

steam shower 

sleep 

relax 


private space 

rest 

dress 

body care 

make up 

collections 

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Private space Working space 

plan plan

Trans luxury apartment 

A A 

Transection A-A’ 


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Master in Collective Housing 2012_SPECIALITY 

02 Landscape & residential 

URBAN DESIGN SPECIALITY 

* 

Bernardo YNZENGA 

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Urban DESIGN_SPECIALITY_MCH2012 

Theme 

VALLECAS INTERVENTION 

Speciality Leader 

Bernardo Ynzenga 

Team 

Nicola Acquafreda_Italy 


Diana Espinosa_Ecuador 


Matteo Pacce_Italy 

View the city as a SYSTEM. We are introduced in a 

Urban Residential project where residential components 

and city projects are not indenpendent nor neutral.In 

this direction, we need to PROVIDE organization, 

use, perception, entertainment and appropiation to 

both, domestic scale and city space. The theory and 

practice will project the joint as a collective 

proposal, the stage, VALLECAS, a place to prepare 

a city. 

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LINK 

as 

common ground 

urban tissue 

grid / network 

topology 


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references 

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sistem 1 sistem 2 sistem 3 

congosto, madrid 110x30m blocks and 

streets 7m wide 

manhattan, new york 250x60m blocks and 

streets 16-25m wide 

barcelona 110x110m blocks and streets 20m wide 

toledo 

refrigerated city, cordoba 

ecological reconfiguration, 

philadelphia 

the strip, las vegas gran via, madrid

vallecas, madrid 


Our group was evolved in the design of a link located in the south-east area of 

Madrid called Vallecas. 

This place is a mirror of the most recent urban development here in Spain: 

1. Huge amount of new blocks 

2. Large streets crossing the area 

3. The use of the ground floor belongs to the dwellings 

4. The relation between the buildings and the streets is not related to the 

urban scale 

5. Low density 

6. Consumption of soil 

7. The commercial activities are located mainly in the malls 

8. Public spaces are huge in relation to the private plots, so they are 

empty and unkempt. 

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Barcelona 

Roma 

Los Angeles 

New York 

Rambla de Sant Joseph 1.6 km 

Via del Corso 

Sunset Bulevard 

Broadway 

Lenght 

1.7 km 

4.8 km 

3.5 km 

Building Height 

12 m 

Street Width 

30 m 

15 m 10 m 

6 m 30 m 

18 m 20 m

Density Level 

a) 23 floors 

b) 12 floors 

c) 7 floors 

d) 3 floors 

30 

62 

112 

134 

53 

44 

100 

70 

12 

84 

12 34 12 

12 17 12 

12 8 12 

2a) 23 foors 

a+b) 12 floors 

a+c) 7 floors 

a+d) 3 floors 

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31 

112 

134 

53 

44 

70 

117 

12 84 12 

12 34 12 

12 1712 

12 8 12 

30 

112 

134 

53 

44 

100 

12 43 53 

12 17 12 

12 8 12 


30 

62 

100 

70 

12 

29 

84 

12 34 12


30 

Buildings 

Plots 

a 

a 

a 

b 

b 

b 

Tower 

24x24m 

75m high 

368 people 

Bar 1 

12x50m 

37m high 

220 people 

Bar 2 

12x90m 

22m high 

240 people 

1 

a= 100m 

b= 30m 

2 

a= 100m 

b= 45m 

3 

a= 100m 

b= 75m 

3000 m2 = 0,30 ha 

1 tower+ 1 bars 

1960 people/ha 

4500 m2 = 0,45 ha 

2 bars 

1066 people/ha 

7500 m2 = 0,75 ha 

2 bars + 1 bar + 1 tower 

1424 people/ha

LINK: building a SEGMENT OF CITY 

M45 

M50 

New streets 

PEDESTRIAN+CYCLE 

CAR+CYCLE 

M40 

Existing streets 

Railway 

Metro Station 

Railway Station 

the Speed 

is decreasing, going along 

the shape and 

the use of the streets 

Vallecas 

Vallecas 

Congosto 

Vallecas 

Existent Tissues: 

-the urban tissue of the 

Congosto development 

is compact and dense, it defines 

rectangular blocks 115x28 mt 

-the urban tissue of the 

new Vallecas development is 

regular and defines sqare 

blocks 75x75 mt 

Metro ligera: 

the solid back bone 

4,7 km 

0,4 km 

Boundaries 

the is defined as a 

straight stripe 

that will be broken 

to allows connections 

and to create a 

dynamic city model 

the Stops 

of the Metro ligero work as ‘magnets’ 

that attracts density and activities 


Connections 

CITY-NATURE 

The link is 

between the 

end of the city blocks 

and the nature, so is 

going to be a permeable 

tissue in the EAST-WEST 

axis 

the Density 

is polarized 

in compact 

clusters 

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LAYERS 

32 

Nodes. 

Pedestrian Path 

Buildings 

Cars lane 

Blocks 

VALLECAS DISTRICT 

Vallecas district is the symbol of the 

dehumanization of the contemporary city: low 

density, tissue and function omogeneity, 

wrong proportion and undefined spaces. 

The project area is a stripe located in the 

West side of Vallecas, where the urban 

tissue meets the nature, and it runs from 

the M40 

(North) to the M50 (South). 

The project is a LINK and it is meant to be 

a SEGMENT OF a CITY characterized by 

INTENSE ACTIVITIES, DENSITY, SPEED, 

DIVERTSITY. 

The high density is concentraded in 

clustered mixed use building. The plot size 

variation, the different uses of the 

buildings and the 

dominance of collectivity over territory 

create a mixed used urban environment.

LINK plan for Vallecas 


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MODEL PICTURE 

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our purpose is to activate the neighborhood by designing a 

segment of a new city. The main features of our proposal is the 

creation of two types of connections: a longitudinal from the 

M40 to the M50 and a transversal trough new typologies of 

blocks. Along the first one, we concentrate some magnetic points 

that attract people and activities, these points are in one 

side, stops of a new tramway and in the other side, a pedestrian 

path. Therefore, in order to link the new piece of city and the 

existing one we decided to consider the length of the “Vallecas 

plot” and create different plot sizes (100m x 30/45/75m). 

Moreover, not all the streets in-between are for cars but most 

of them are pedestrian. The building’s typologies are two: tower 

and apartment block. They are different in height, length, and 

depth due to the necessity to improve the variety in use, 

density, and image. Inside the plot, the area is semipublic and 

the ground floor is a system of different uses that could infect 

upper and downer floors of the buildings. The streets designed 

are narrower than the existing ones and they are thought not 

only for cars but for different users and uses. 

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ike line + pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian 


magnetism 

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a a 

section a-a 

pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian 


pedestrian + tram line + pedestrian 



pedestrian + bike line + equipment + pedestrian 


public equipment public equipment public equipment 



bike line + pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian 




pedestrian + vehicle + pedestrian


green park 













public equipment public equipment 



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pedestrian + tram line+ pedestrian


main street 

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section b-b 

pedestrian + bike line + 

vehicle + pedestrian 

section c-c 

b 

b 

c 

c 



equipment + pedestrian 

pedestrian + vehicle + 

tram line + pedestrian 

public equipment 

pedestrian + vehicle + 

tram line + pedestrian











public space 

semi public space 

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master plan 

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03 Anne LACATON 

+ 

Diego García SETIEN 


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Anne LACATON_WORKSHOP_MCH2012 

Theme 

PLUS 


Anne Lacaton 

Assistant 

Diego García Setién 

Team 

Pramitha Bale_India 

Jesus Barranco_Spain 

Linda Delmedico_Italy 

Addler Edizalde_Mexico 

Marco Mazzotta_Italy 


Ana Redondo_Spain 

THREE contexts, ONE strategy, PLUS is the topic 

of the workshop. It faces three different situations 

of a built environment, each of them refers to a 

different context and problem, which need to be 

reflected as different exercises. These 3 cases will 

have different TACTICS deployed but finally 

complementary. This period of crisis, opens the way of 

changing something, taking TIME to think, to be 

clear with the aims and the priorities, and also to 

give more value to our work. 

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SESEÑA, Madrid 

THE GHOST TOWN 

HORTALEZA, Madrid 

area: 72.68 km2 

inhabitants: 

18.504 (2011) 

density: 254.6 

hab/km2 

foundation: XII 

century 

5 cores 

- sesena viejo 

- la estación 

- sesena nuevo 

- valle grande 

- EL QUIÑON: urban 

development 

7500 built dwellings 

(13500 plan dwellings) 

social 

1300 unhealth dwellings 

650 families need to be removed 

mantain the buildings as a 

component of memory 

change the social image 

passive action of authoritie 

the social movement 

asks for answers, the 

politicians “promised” 

to resolve this unfair 

situation 

called “manhattan” madrid 

made specially for young 

people 

5.100 of 13.000 dwellings 

are built 

supossed to live there 

30.000 people 

Awfull. The big amount of empty dwellings, 

appears as a very disturbing disaster. 

According to its scale and to this totally 

unknown situation, it is an opportunity for 

open and innovative ideas, to critique this way 

of thinking urban planning as well as 

architecture, 

borders should embrace 

this “island” which 

needs to be re-used 

memory is important, 

to preserve and 

reinforce the actual 

situation, activate 

sweet home 

SESEÑA 

island 


here you can eat 

here you can sleep 

here you can 

practice sports 

we need markets 

you need to live as a 

society 

here you can make 

up 

here you can drink 

let´s go inside! 

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rehabilitation 

international prices 

4.2 km of the M30 underground 

direct link with both sides of 

the city 

reactivated the area, but 

the façades of buildings 

need to be changed 

madrid rio 

is it the façade or also the 

borders? 

in this situation, it is necesary 

to work on the walls, the windows, 

the openings and the voids, to make 

it part of madrid rio as a whole 

prjoect and not as different 

pieces. 

it is important the ground 

floor, in connection with the 

street.

A.Lacaton workshop 

Madrid Rio 

Student: MarcoMazzotta 

1 


madrid rio 

The opportunity that the buildings on the border of Madrid Rio’s project 

are enormous. 

The facade will have an importance 

of interface between the linear park and the buildings. As the 

project works with subproject, I think that also the buildings in the 

surrounding should work in the same way, creating their own identity in 

relation with the project and why not, working in the same natural condi_ 

tion. The facade of the buildings could be an extention of the park with 

the topic of the “green” that could have different functions according to the 

need of the user (could be used for sun protection, for planting vegetable 

etc.) or simply they can have the same rule as the graffiti of the street, 

art in this context, not in terms of artwork or decoration but in terms 

of identification of iconic element among this long linear park. 

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6 

5 

7 

4 

3 

2 

1 

- 

-

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

1 

5 

2 

6 


5 

4 

6 

3 

7 

1 

2 

3 

4 

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Anne LACATON_WORKWHOP_MCH2012 

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B2 

A 

B 

C 

ACCESS CULTURAL COMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL Z1 

B1 

Z1 

STRATEGY OF GROUNDFLOOR USE

CIRCULATION 

CIRCULATION 

PEDESTRIAN STREET 

STREET 

PARKING AREA 

PRIVAT STREET 

GREEN AREA 

GREEN AREA 

MADRID RIO 

PARQUE DE MANZANARES 

SEMI-PRIVAT GARDEN 

PRIVAT GARDEN 

BANDS 

PEDESTRIAN- 

GREEN AREA 

STREET 

PARK 

RIVER 

MADRID RIO 

COMERCIAL AREA 

GREEN AREA 


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strategic sections 

BEFORE AFTER 

50 

BEFORE 

AFTER 

STUDY POSSIBILITIES


A 

B 

C 

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HOUSING BLOCK1 

Dwelling typology 

before 103 sqm 

after 137 sqm 

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ACTIVITIES 

block type 

original block erasing dwelling on the first floor moving the dwelling to the topfloor housing spaces addition 

1 2 3 

+ - 

+ 

actual situation outdoor spaces erasing old facade new interaction

DWELLINGS 

BLOCK 1 ACTUAL SITUATION 

proposal1 

proposal4 

block type 

proposal2 

proposal5 

proposal3 

proposal6 

proposal7 


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ACTIVITIES 

block type 

original block erasing dwelling on the first floor moving the dwelling to the topfloor 

Dwelling typology 

before 75 sqm 

after 90 sqm 

housing spaces addition 

1 2 3 

protection space flexibility housing extencion 

+ - 

+ 

actual situation outdoor spaces erasing old facade new interaction

1 

2 

original type 

3 

proposal1 

activities 

proposal2 proposal3 

proposal4 

block type 


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D3 

D1 D 

Section_Facade type1 


D1 

D3 

D2 


D4 


D2 

D4


04 Low cost & EMERGENCY 

HOUSING 

* 

María Teresa DINIZ 

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Low COST_SPECIALITY_MCH2012 

Theme 

REDEVELOPMENT OF FAVELAS, 

SAO PAULO-BRAZIL 


María Teresa Diniz 

Team 


Pramitha Bale_India 


This approach is based on a real FAVELA in Sao 

Paulo, Brazil. The studio was combined with theory, 

real cases studios and design PROCESS.The social 

impact is very important for the studio, and the need 

to improve the quality of life of people. 

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Redevelopment of 

Favelas 

Sao Paulo-Brazil 


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ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS 


FAMILY HOUSES 

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FAMILY HOUSES

1 

2 

785 

780 

section 1 

section 2 

section 3 

section 4 

785 

775 

765 

780 

780 

780 

775 

785 

770 

A 

785 

780 

785 

B 

A B 

785 

765 

780 

765 

775 

770 

765 

760 

760 

1 

2 


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master plan

DESIGN CONCEPT 

SECTION D-D 

SECTION E-E 

SECTION B-B 

SECTION A-A 

SECTION C-C 


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NEW HOUSES DEVELOPMENT 

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300 FAMILIES RELOCATED 

PLOT AREA 31.500 sqm 

F.A.R. 2,5

apartment 1 - 50m2 

common terrace 36m2 

N±0.00 

foot-bridge 

N+4.00 

N+3.50 

N+3.00 

N+0.54 

apartment 1 - 51m2 

apartment 2 - 52.5m2 

foot-bridge 

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN 


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THREE FLOORS HIGH BLOCK FIVE FLOORS HIGH BLOCK 

CLUSTER HOUSING


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05 Dietmar EBERLE 

+ 

Victor OLMOS 


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Dietmar EBERLE_WORKSHOP_MCH2012 

Theme 

FROM CITY TO HOUSE 


Dietmar Eberle 

Assistant 

Victor Olmos 

Team 


How do people’s life easier? How to answer this 

SIMPLE question? The strategies to create buildings 

are focused on the differences of QUALITIES (in 

us) for designing. The theory approach is for this 

workshop the method of research. We develop three 

studios in different places in Madrid, which their own 

and different CONDITIONS. 

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ROSALES 


The conditions of the place emphasises the corner. 

Two elements, memory and technology - solid and light - the 

architectonic element should be higher than the surrounding, it 

enriches the quality of the public, semi-public, and private 

space. 

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VALLECAS 

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Vallecas typical block shape 

Perimeter - buildings 

Inner public space 

Block Division 

Plan Section 

Work in the center

CENTRO 


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REGULAR PLAN 

SECTION 7 

FAÇADE SECTION 6 

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REGULAR PLAN 

F 


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SECTION 

FAÇADE 

PLAN 

PUBLIC 

PRIVATE

Searching a geometrical organization 

through materiality gives importance to 

regulation. 

Proportion 

Input - output - optimize this issue 

conforms architecture. 

Fragmentation - joint, memory, work 

facing different edges. A bridge 

connects both sides, this horizontal 

element fells down in a vertical one, 

dissapearing while reaching the ground 

floor. The green is the new quality for 

the entire space. 


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06 Juan HERREROS 

+ 

María Auxiliadora GALVEZ 


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Juan HERREROS_WORKSHOP_MCH2012 

Theme 

CONTAINERS RE-VISITED 


Juan Herreros 

Assistant 

María Auxiliadora Gálvez 

Team 

Vito Burdi_Italy 

Javier García_Spain 


Matteo Pace_Italy 

This workshop revises the classical designing techniques 

used in contemporary collective housing in some 

“AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY” of our cities. This 

strategy is a tool that gives DIFFERENT opportunities 

in the current demand of regeneration and 

requalification of the current urban model. These 

areas, where the existing city is bravely reworked to 

keep the zone alive with the new citizens and their 

new ways of LIVING. 

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EDIFICIO ESPAÑA 

MADRID 


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Edificio España is an old hybrid building that was active until 2006 and now 

awaits an uncertain future, it is empty and was its interior walls have been 

demolished. 

These buildings are big enough to offer a wide range of possiblities to be 

transformed –not because of their capacity to absorb large-scale and complex 

programs- but because they can influence the surroundings, contributing to 

build the urban fabric. 

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BASAMENT FLOOR 2 

ramp 1 

stairs 3 

elevators 1 

area = 4682 m2 

vertical circulation area = 48.27 m2 

circulation percent = 1% 

ramp 0 

stairs 9 

elevators 18 

area = 4678 m2 


circulation percent = 4.7% 

spain building circulation 

overage = 5% 

FRONTAL FACADE 

COLUMNS 

20x20 10 

34X34 16 

40X40 102 

40X70 9 

60X60 81 

80X80 16 

TOTAL 234 

GROUND FLOOR 

ramp 0 

stairs 16 

elevators 28 

aprox. facade area = 7850m2 

aprox. window area = 2663m2 

window overage = 33.92% 

area = 4704 m2 



ramp 1 

stairs 3 

elevators 1 

area = 4682 m2 


circulation percent = 1% 

20x20 10 

34X34 16 

40X40 102 

40X70 9 

60X60 81 

80X80 16 

TOTAL 234 

ramp 0 

stairs 16 

elevators 28 

10am 2pm 

area = 4704 m2 



northest sidewalk 

street maestro guerrero 

TRANSVERSAL SECTION 

TYPICAL FLOOR 

ramp 0 

stairs 9 

elevators 18 

southwest 

footpath 

area = 4678 m2 



gran vía 

overage floor/top 

high = 2.92m 

e slab = 0.40m 

circulation overage = 5% 

plaza 

españa

ock 

big mountain in the city center 

monumental 

empty 

wall for pedestrian scale,rational.. 

but elevators & stairs 

conexion 

by 3 different metro lines 

24/7 place 

gran via st. 

noise 

8-line street and square 

reference 

for the southern city 

ancient 

ruins of a better time 

contrast 

full street & empty building 

1st impressions 

gran via & around.. 

379.093 m3 

building total volume 

24.000 m2 

plaza espana square surface 

2007 

when the building went empty 

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number of lifts 

>95% 

asked thinks is well comunicated 


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rock 

"What gives value to a clay cup is the vacuum 

between the walls." 

Lao-tsé (570 aC-490 aC) 

pza. leganitos callao 

pza. de los 

mostenses 

plaza sto. 

domingo 

red de 

san luis 

plaza 

del carmen 

c/alcala 

considering the building as a solid object we have to fill 

the gaps and understand it as one piece with a simple 

and recognizable

pza. leganitos callao 

pza. de los 

mostenses 

red de 

san luis 

plaza sto. 

domingo 

Gran Via 

Inauguración : 1924-1929 

inauguration : 1,3 km 

Orientation : SW-NW 

Width of lane : 25-35 m 

Distritc : Center 

Neighbourhood : Palacio/Universidad, Sol/Justicia, 

6 

4 

8 

8 

4 8 

entrance: 

Width = 8m 

Height = 6m 

Inclination= 5 % 

horizontal connections 

Width = 7m 

Height = 4m 

Inclination= 0 % 

vertical connections 

Width = 7m 

Height = 4-12m 

Inclination= 60-100 % 

c/alcala 

plaza 

del carmen carved continuos way 

widening of way 

1953 

pza. espana callao 

leisure stretch 3 

cinemas 

theaters 

night clubs 

american 

cafes 

2012 

pza. de los 

mostenses 

plaza sto. 

domingo 


boulevar stretch 2 

department 

stores 

insurance 

companies 

headquarters 

hotels 

red de 

san luis 

zoning of uses 

plaza 

del carmen 

c/alcala 

luxury av. stretch 1 

casinos 

boutiques 

jewelries 

car dealers 

cafes 

mix of uses 

the fast changes of current lifestyle force the buildings to 

adapt theirselves to those changes appearing, suddenly, 

different uses in spaces non intendet for it. 

Giving different qualities to the public space 

becomes the perfect space for each use. 

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spaces qualification 

width x length height 

Ø30m sphere 

40m x 25m 35m 

30m x 15m 

9m x 15m 

7,5m x 15m 

25m x 30m (29º) 

10m 

5m 

20m x 30m 12m 

volume 

33.510 m3 

49.350 m3 

5.704 m3 

16.200 m3 

15x7,5m (ellipse) x 40m length 6.280 m3 

orientation 

s 

s 

s 

s 

facade 

connexion 

possibilities of occupation of space 

congress planetarium circus 

theater store disco 

cinema pool library 

court forest boring office 

half pipe fashion week wind test 

here 

your 

suggestions

secondary connectivity 


pza. de 

pza. de los la luna 

mostenses 

plaza sto. 

domingo 

red de 

san luis 

plaza 

del carmen 

c/alcala 

vazquez 

de mella 

vertical circulation 

time/distance 


faster secondary circulation connecting 

different pieces 

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incision 

90 

typical floor 

old - new building 

section old - new building void spacial connectivity


pza. de 

pza. de los la luna 

mostenses 

plaza sto. 

domingo 

red de 

san luis 

plaza 

del carmen 

c/alcala 

vazquez 

de mella 

void carved out 

from the solid 

spaces defined strictly according to their own 

logic, independent of each other, of the 

external envelope and the clasical obstacles of 

architecture, even, partly gravity. 

void appearence 

plan organization 

97m 

62m 

32m 

16m 


97m 

62m 

32m 

16m 

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façade osmosis 

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theoric references 

Damien Hirst 

gordon matta clark 

gran via building 

acatama mine (chile) 

architectonic references 


Paris Library. OMA Down Town Athletic Club 

Netherlands Embassy. OMA Hamburg Philarmonic. Herzog&DeMeuron 

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generic space union of generic spaces 

section 

housing section 

direction of spaces 

section 

public - private 

non linear relationship plan sketch - spacial 

net connection 

housing typolgies housing typolgies housing typolgies 

living


07 Andrea DEPLAZES 

+ 

Fernando ALTOZANO 


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Andrea DEPLAZES_WORKSHOP_MCH2012 

Theme 

DEEP PLAN HOUSES 


Andrea Deplazes 

Assistant 

Fernando Altozano 

Team 

Addler Lozano_Mexico 


The different TYPOLOGIES of dwellings depth is 

the base of this studio, which tryes to understand the 

special CONDITIONS that each typology has. 6, 9, 

12, 15, 18, 21, 24 m depth are the only rule that we 

have for this research. 

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21 m depth 


We have to reach 100sqm, with 21m 

depth, our maximum wide is 4.76sqm. 

There are some special conditions in 

this depth, which the dwellings have 

to face,light and the narrow 

distance are the main ones. 

first plan typ. section a typ. section b typ. 

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21 m depth 

The studio of the depth shows not so 

many different opportunities, the 

distribution of the inner space is 

related to the shape of the external 

space. In this case, the exterior form 

guides the interior distribution.

21 

unit 

void 

platform 

void 

floor 0 floor 20 floor 40 floor 60 

platform + 

distribution 

+ 

floor 0 floor 20 floor 40 floor 60 


t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 

P Bike/moto Parking 

1 One bedroom unit 

2 Two bedrooms unit 

3 Three bedrooms unit 

V Void 

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circulation 

floor 0 

system 

first air 

floor 0 floor 2 floor 3 floor 4 floor 5 floor 6 floor 7 floor 8 (...) 

system 

second air 


system 

third air 


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in-between 

floors 

floor 20 floor 40 floor 60

floor 20 

floor 40 

P Bike/moto Parking 

1 One bedroom unit 

2 Two bedrooms unit 

3 Three bedrooms unit 

V Void 

platform 

floor 60 

floor 49 floor 50 floor 51 floor 52 (...) floor 60 


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plan 1 plan 2 

plan 3 plan 4

plan 5 

plan 6 


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08 Energy & SUSTAINABILITY 

SPECIALITY 

* 

Javier García GERMAN 

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Energy & SUSTAINABILITY_SPECIALITY_MCH2012 

Theme 

ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY 


Javier García Germán 

Team 


Architecture, lends itself admirably to EXAMINA- 

TION in sustainable terms. Energy that accumulates 

as information is one of the main tools that we need 

to take into account while designing. We will see 

several CONCEPTS and STRATEGIES managed by 

different people in different places, time, and 

projects, these studios will help us to understand and 

plan an architectonic project. This studio refers to 

an existing building, according to the new conditions 

of the new place, we will project a sustainable 

building. 

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EDIFICIO JARAGUA 

Sao Paulo-Brazil 

1984 

Paulo Mendez da Rocha 

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vehicle entrance 

pedestrian entrance 

O 2 5 1Om 

SITE PLAN 

vehicle entrance 

garden 

water mirror 

lobby, hall 

SECTION 

kitchen 

laundry 

bedroom 

shape 

bedroom 

TYPICAL FLOOR 

dining room 

living room 

bedroom 

bedroom 

transparency wind sun 

green areas exterior walls 

structure 

shape 


48º 

27º

POSITION AND EXTERNAL SHAPE in relation with climate 

ABU DHABI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 

Section Existing (Sao Paulo) 

Proposal orientation (Abu Dhabi) 

June 

8:00 13:00 18:00 

December 

8:00 13:00 18:00 

Proportions Proportions (wind - sun) 

Proportions (2:3) 





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PASSIVE SYSTEMS 


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The buildable volume 

proposed in the 

regulation impedes the 

cross venting and the 

appropiate sun 

exposure. 

Regulation is modified 

and a volume with the 

shape of square is 

proposed to guarantee and 

optimum orientation. An 

internal courtyard makes 

possible the open-ended 

dwellings. 

The excavation of the 

parking area is reused to 

generate topography 

(microclimate and 

acoustics). It is placed 

perpendicular to the urban 

axis. The ecological print 

is brought back in the 

vegetal roof. 

The building is raised to 

allow the passing of the 

wind and the people flow 

from the square. 

The work with the 

environment creates 

microclimate that avoids 

the “heat island” effect. 

Systems are configured in 

centralized net, sensors are 

arranged to get real data of working 

according to a protocol. 

The tenants enter the building. They 

are informed and involved with the 

aim of generating a new 

sustainability culture. 

The building starts to deal the real 

climate and use vicissitudes and data 

obtained is analyzed. 

The building starts to work at an 

urban scale. 

For optimizing systems and 

strategies, the building could be a 

model (not a type) which could be 

reproduced. 

The north side of the 

building envelops is 

understood as a layer that 

accumulates or rejects 

solar radiation depending 

on the seasun of the year. 

The north side of the 

building envelope protects 

from or collects fresh wind 

coming from the south. 

The houses have open-ended 

arrangament. 

The houses are placed 

between two collector and 

protector layers (north and 

south). 

The north envelope is 

specialized with a blinds 

constructive solution. The 

south envelope is 

specialized with a 

constructive solution of 

polycarbonate panels.

These two specialized 

layers, the building can be 

protected or collect energy 

throughout the whole year. 

The building is complemented 

with volumes wich make venting 

easier and enable to enrich the 

volume with public spaces. 

A commercial area is arranged 

in the ground floor (mix 

uses). 

The commercial area is 

partially perforated. 

The basements partial 

perforated makes the 

venting and the people 

flow easier through the 

public space. 

The excavation casting will enable to 

generate topography with the trees 

planting and shade. 

An air-land exchange system is arranged 

with an array net of underground piping 

at an average depth of 6m, collector 

inlets take the air from the trees 

shade area. 

The naturally cooled air is mechanically 

impelled through the vent fans. 

This systems led to the dwellings by 

means of a piping vertical. The net is 

arranged in columns that pass through 

the heart of the dwellings and 

distribute the air though an inside 

systme of grilles and vent strikes. 

The air extration is supported by a 

natural system of solar chimneys. 


The north envelope collects radiation 

from the solar galleries without 

letting it to pass into the building, 

and an air flow that is impelled to 

the cold areas of the house, while at 

night keeps a good temperature. 

In summer, the blinds system protects 

the glazed galleries from the solar 

radiation. 

In summer, during the nights, the 

underground piping system is off and 

the building is directly vented 

through the facade. 

In summer, during the day, the natural 

evaporating of the ecological roof 

dissipates the incident radiation. 

The photovoltaic and thermosolar panels 

are arranged in the most exposed areas, 

integrated in the north facade and the 

roof. 

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first model 

june 

8:00 13:00 18:00 

second model 

june 

8:00 13:00 18:00 


MATERIALITY 

december 

Thermal insulation windows 

Double glazing windows 

Low emissivity glass 

Ventilated façade 

8:00 13:00 18:00 

december 

8:00 13:00 18:00 

Cavity wall 

Cold storage 

Aerated concrete 

Breathe taking water insulation coat 

Blinding concrete 

Exterior layer Interior layer 

Cavity wall Thermal insulation window

THERMODYNAMIC CONCEPT 


High of stories: for ventilating 

and refresh therefore, the use 

of air conditioned could minimize. 

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 


FLOOR TYPE 2 

Through window´s system heating 

decreases,and with a lower use of 

air conditioned, the building 

reaches an internal comfort . 

Free ground floor allows air 

to enter into the courtyard. 

It also refreshes the floor of 

the stories. 

FLOOR TYPE 2 

a 

b 

The green roof dissipates 

the incident radiation. 

b 

dwellings 


horizontal circulation 

a 

Water and vegetation increases energy system 

between inner-outdoor spaces. 

a-a b-b 


seven different typologies 

of dwellings 

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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 


entrance parking 

SITE PLAN 

GROUND FLOOR 

FLOOR TYPE 1


09 Francisco BURGOS & 

Ginés GARRIDO 

+ 

Javier MALO 


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BURGOS & GARRIDO_WORKSHOP_MCH2012 

Theme 

LANDSCAPE 


Ginés Garrido & Francisco Burgos 

Assistant 

Javier Malo 

Team 

Giacomo Caputo_Italy 

Addler Edizalde_Mexico 


The workshop started with the visit to Madrid Rio 

Park, where the urban mobility, equipment, connection, 

reactivation and new routes are USED as the main 

tools for this kind of projects. Colmenar Viejo is the 

place to study, a town near mountains and Madrid 

located in the north, the MOBILITY and CONNEC- 

TION will be the decisive factors to project. 

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and BAND-AID aid 


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CONTEXT 

actual situation 

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highway - trainway - bikeline 

green areas 

built areas

disconnection 

disconnection 

Before the construction of highways and trainways, 

this area was an unique space. The actual panorama 

is two different situations, one, a built side and the 

other, a non- used green space; it is very difficult to 

cross to the other side. 

ANALYSIS 

marked points 


These mark points show areas 

where interesting things 

happened but unfortunately 

are separated, disconnected, 

isolated. 

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DISCONNECTION 

LESS HIGHWAYS MORE BICYCLE PATHS 

LESS CARS MORE PEDESTRIAN 

healing the city = band aid band aid 

MORE PEOPLE WALKING 

WAYS TO MAKE CITY

BAND-AID 

SITE PLAN 

madrid 

operacion chamartin 

m40 

parque regional “cuenca alta del 

manzanares” 

staple platforms 

old people residence 

elementary school 

harbor platform 

high school 

parque de valdelatas 

psychiatric hospital 

landing stage platform 

universidad autonoma de madrid 

protected forest 

hill platform 

estacion de cercanias 

el goloso 

military quarter 


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1 SEW UP different areas 

2 CONTINUITY of paths 

3 CONCENTRATION of funtion 

¿WHY PLATFORM?

¿WHY PLATFORM? 

working with TOPOGRAPHY 

1 HILL 

2 LANDING STAGE 

3 STAPLE 


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SEPARATED PATH BIKERS AND PEDESTRIAN 

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PEDESTRIAN 

BICYCLES 

GREEN PATH 

URBAN PATH 

PEDESTRIAN 

RUNNERS 

BICYCLES 

URBAN PATH URBAN PATH 

GREEN PATH GREEN PATH 

PEDESTRIAN 

RUNNERS 

BICYCLES BICYCLES 

BICYCLES 

PEDESTRIAN 

PEDESTRIAN 

RUNNERS

pedestrian - bike paths 

intersection of levels 

inside the platforms walking - biking (living) in platforms 


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10 Wiel ARETS 

+ 

Lena WIEMER 


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Wiel ARETS_WORKSHOP_MCH2012 

Theme 

TOKYO UTOPIA 2085 


Wiel Arets 

Assistant 

Lena Wiemer 

Team 


The global and local societies and their metropolitan 

areas will change because of current developments. We 

will focus on TOKYO as 'battle-ground', and its 

ability to function as an example for a new UTOPIAN 

SOCIETY. We will challenge the idea of a supermodern-metropolis 

and how it could stimulate a new 

Utopia in which LIVE/LIFE, production and new ways 

of working are COMMON place. 

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h o m o g e n e o u s i s l a n d s 




AGENDA 

- Waking up 

- Fair of reality 

- Look back to history 

- Memory 

- Identity 

- Living its old-new culture 

- Process to the future 

- Give the stage in 2085 

- Strategy: everything is 

resolved, so, the world would 

be for people having concerns 

about their identity, there 

would be an identity crisis in 

Japan. They have many light 

periods in their history; 

however, their obedience makes 

them having this crisis. 

Samurai, fansab, music, beauty, 

bulling, happiness, homogeneity, 

difference, wars, proud, 

sex, west, island, identity. 

MAKE ISLANDS OF IDENTITY, TIME, 

MEMORY, but connected. 

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130 

MANIFESTO HOMOGENEOUS ISLANDS 

I WOKE UP in an unknown place where I had never been before, I was afraid so, I tried to remember what happened for so long, I thought I 

was in my aeroar talking with my friend and after, I was not sure, I could not remember. I realized that for the moment I would not 

have been able to remember, then I decided to go out. 

What I have seen was incredible, actually, I thought it would have been worse that my reality, especially because I remembered some 

stories from my grand mother. I was flying in my aeroar and what I saw first were shining points everywhere, the sky was full of tiny 

transparent cables that drove solar energy to every human body, that was the reason why everybody was shining in the sky. Suddenly, a 

cable put into my stomach and I started to be brilliant, SHINING like the sun, but what was more surprising was to feel that quantity of 

energy surrounding my entire body, I felt powerful and invincible, I felt alive, however, there were also people in aeroar but they were 

not shining, of course, they were grush . 

I felt curious because when I looked around, nobody was laughing, even smiling, in fact, every person I saw was almost a copy of another 

one, their facial expressions, their clothing, the structure of their body, women and men, children and teenagers, all of them were the 

same. Then I compared them with the building spread over the land, were the same, the same aspect, the same order, the same repetition, 

it was like the buildings were copy of people, or people be COPY of buildings, as a serial production like the aeroar. For this reason, 

I felt scared of asking anything to anybody, my first impression was to be distanced or avoiding any visual contact, I decided to look 

for other place and I went to the lower level.


When I the ground, I decided to walk. Abruptly, I could have look at one wall screen ad, I was totally paralyzed when I read it, it said 

Tokyo. 

How could I have been in Tokyo? I knew I was not in my place, I knew I was far from home, but being in Tokyo was not an option, it was 

not possible, Tokyo was on the other side of my place. I felt more afraid than I was before, I wanted to be in contact with somebody 

from home, but at the same time, I was so curious to discover how was that city, that alpha-city of the world. Then, many images came to 

my mind, Tokyo´s sounds, crow, bay, everything I have seen in my wall screen at home but all I had in my mind was different from what I 

was looking or listening. I kept on walking afraid, but as the time went out, I felt more comfortable with Tokyo. 

While I was walking, I saw many groups of people walking around, adults, young, old people, teenagers, everybody were walking by the 

sidewalks in groups or alone, but something was different from the upper levels, they were really smiling, laughing, fighting, showing 

human expressions the whole time, in that moment I decided not to go in any specific direction, just walked around. The more I walked 

on, the more I liked that place, even it was the same everywhere as buildings or people BEHAVIOR, I liked it more than the upper level. 

For sure it was due to the opened places, the empty area, the void above the surface, the weather, everything was nice, even the wall 

screen ads. After walking so long, the streets changed into water, I noticed it was Tokyo´s bay, the big bay but I could not have seen 

it, there were buildings, islands as parks, actually the bay was an extension of the city, it was in fact Tokyo city, the only difference 

was that the streets were canals, as the disappeared Venice. It was not a bay anymore, so I did not know where the city finished, 

or where the sea started. 

I kept on walking towards the “bay-city”, through the sidewalks, which were solid, and unexpectedly there appeared a hundred of samurais 

in front of me. They were FIGHTING among them, they were killing each other, I was petrified, my entire body was paralyzed, I could not 

move one centimeter, it was like Tokugawa´s age, I really felt their energy and spirit, their clothing, their hair, their swords, the 

amazing sound of their swords and something very impressive was that their bodies were shining too, they were real people back to three 

hundred years. Then, a lady appeared in front of me and started to talk so quick and fast but obviously, I did not understand any word 

she said, I thought she was angry due to my non-reaction and she leaved me, after thinking a while, I decided to leave that place too. 

Ten minutes later, I was wandering why I leaved that battle, why I did it, and I tried to go back but it was impossible, I lost the 

path. I was so upset with myself for loosing that amazing experience that until now I regret. 

I entered into a kind of building, but in fact, it was some kind of STRUCTURE connected to others similar. I realized that these 

structures were made for a specific action or ATMOSPHERE, they did not belong to anybody, actually it belonged to everybody. Every 

structure of the city was made for this, there were a capsule for each activity for each one as sleeping, eating, working, jumping, any 

activity that people could do, it was astonishing because nobody needed to have one only space for living, they could live everywhere 

and did anything at anytime they wanted. When I went downstairs, I wanted to find a place to rest, I asked some people but no one 

understood what I said, however, they were kindly with me but in fact I did not received any help. So I walked again and a fansub group 

appeared in front of me, its impression was marvelous, everybody was dressing those colorful attractive sensual clothes that I remembered 

the samurais battle and I decided not to loose again an opportunity like that, I followed them. They were shouting, singing, 

dancing and after walking a while, they met hundred of others fansub. You really could do anything at any moment. 

So, Tokyo did not need housing, its society was so diverse that anybody could chose how to live, and this shining item for each one 

could reflect their history, their memory, it was a brilliant society of the world, or, it was a society that shouts out for recognition. 

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LIVING IN 

After I was completely adapted to this Tokyo, I realized that it is important to look back to the history in order to have memory. This 

platform will not be about Tokyo´s but Japan, which has been a country of monoculture. Japan has ONE race origin, long history of an 

ISLAND country, impartially secure and stable treasuring of their cultural development without experiencing invasion or colonization by 

other countries, and the causes that form their present situation, HOMOGENEITY. 

To arrive to this point it might be least effective to change the JAPANESE HEART OF CULTURE, which General Douglas MacArthur occupied 

for several years. Moreover, the Emperor´s family is originated from invaders from Korea, and ruled all over Japan settling shrines as 

military bases to control population. Even though these facts are ancient, they might be the initiation of this tendency in Japan to 

OBEY authorities. However, Japanese people belong to a culture, which is not the topic for this discussion, it will be their IDENTITY 

CRISIS; this statement is based in the lack of tradition they have in order to thing individually, they think as a member of some group 

or organization that they belong to. 

This mono-racial country that has one language standardized by the mass media, shows that unique opinions are contrary to what their 

holders hesitate in order to express themselves, knowing subsequent discrimination from others. Moreover, self-sacrifice for the common 

benefit is a characteristic key of the highly educated and should be one of the most important virtues of responsible leaders. But, big 

knowledge often comes by egoistic personality, further, recent tendency with materialistic prosperity which is called an age of 

satiation might be a hotbed for hedonism. 

Back to the past, it is necessary to say that the long time of isolation that Japan had in Tokugawa shogunate had kept them from the 

exterior world, reinforcing this isolation as a tendency. The shogun close trading except a small amount with China and Holland, and 

rejected immigration due to the fear of Christianity propagation. Whether the poor shogun´s tendency for foreign language might have 

come from its closely society, its grammar differences, or education system, it is a fact that Japan absorbs foreign ideas or information 

in translation. On the other hand, there is a great level of traditional culture accumulation that could not be translated into 

other languages. 

Now, bullying or hikikomori effect shows the lack of originality there is. Their traditional education places too much emphasis on 

listening to teachers and not having a discussion. Teachers have the answer and students memorize it, so they do not have the necessity 

for thinking by themselves. Then, their education creates similar Japanese student always taking about yesterday´s Tv animation or 

PlayStation 3, when a student does not watch the same program, he might lose a topic, and could be bullied; their present education must 

reinforce their identity crisis. And what would happen in the future, they might have failed to introduce free culture in the field of 

sexual expression. Fortunately or unfortunately, Japan was the only victim of a two nuclear bombs, so they have a strong responsibility 

to lead their peaceful future. They have grown up from disaster and poverty after war because they are proud of being studios and 

industrious. After having this sight to history, it is demonstrated they have an identity crisis. 

But identity is the RELATIONSHIP that maintains only with ONESELF, so, how a society without clear identity for so much time could find 

one without having the tools necessary to do it? Then, there will be necessary to find the essence in order that this fact is possible. 

The way would be to reach the eternity, the supremacy, the own, not stolen identity? There is a HORIZON where they separate or join the 

divine and the mundane, where the man must find his way to reach his identity. Crown, understanding, wisdom, severity, kindness, 

brilliance, eternity, beauty, foundation and finally kingdom, they are the necessary points to have for managing this supremacy personal 

point. Nevertheless, each one will be able to remain in any part of the way, some will be able to CHOOSE the first one or only the half 

of the way, whereas others will want to come at any expense to the superiority. The supreme or low identity will depend in a DECISION 

AND PERSONAL ACTION, to what it might call X-DIVINE SYSTEM. 

For it, it is necessary to realize homogeneous islands where every individual will be able to choose his way to come to his identity if 

it wants it or not. These ISLANDS will be in different levels, on and underground and sea, and also they will be connected by means of 

cables of light of the Sun that will be the ways chosen by every person.

UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID 

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA 

Department of Architectural Projects 

Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos 

Master´s Degree Director / Director del Máster: José María de Lapuerta

ANA MEDINA GAVILANES

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