Identification	18 protected housing units
Situation	Barreduela de Santiago 6-7. Carmona. Sevilla
Project day	2009
Work to date	2013
Architects	GARCÍA TORRENTE ARCHITECTS + A. Hidalgo + F. Folliason
Partners	Isabel Mota Pernías
Quantity Surveyors	Miguel Portilla
Others Partners	Photography: FERNANDO ALDA
Promoter	EPSA
Companies	Sanrocon, SL
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Urban Context La Plazuela de Santiago is located in the historic center of the city of Carmona on a promontory at 248 m above sea level, overlooking the river valley Corbones (tributary of the Guadalquivir), ending the edge of the old wall that ran from the Current Puerta de Sevilla (AL-Burg al-Agamm), Puerta de Morón (Bad Yami), The Córdoba door and disappeared from Samarmala. Although archaeological remains confirm the existence of people from the third millennium BC Carmona is in the s. AD, during the occupation of the Roman Empire, when the single flowering of the city, due in large part to the importance of agricultural production, trade and basically for being one of the towns through which runs the Via Augusta, hence the municipality have an important and large Roman archaeological heritage. . Description of the site Access to the site is mainly from the current Plazuela de Santiago. The site of 1354 m2, it forms an irregular polygon of 24 sides mediators, of which only one, of 10.90 m. in length, belonging to the building's exterior facade. Topographically the site is quite hilly, presenting longitudinally from east to west, a difference of +4.66 m. In the different cross sections, the elevation difference is more homogeneous terrain. At home, on the site there were a number of buildings (three in total), for use with collective housing, with proper building type popular housing on Mudejar style, communicated with the exterior through a historic walkway allowing access to the heart of the apple. After archaeological excavation project, involving the study of subsurface structures and vertical walls that still remained standing, the Municipal Archaeological Service report issued by communicating the importance of conserved structures of XV-XVI Century, corresponding to the reign of the Catholic Kings, hence the relevant importance. Due to the time between this report and the start of archaeological works, the state of deterioration of preexisting was widespread, as a first step of forcing its shoring urgency. Next, we proceeded to the demolition of previous work related parts that lacked equity (dressing, pieces of walls and partitions), the Underpinning of foundations that had given way, the chopped and cleaned of coatings with to detect cracks and crevices of the various stone and brick factories and repair them, leaving the rest for when the building was under coatings, the finish of the same, using traditional means such as employment lime mortar and gear (damaged areas) equal to the existing typology. Project Idea: Given the rapid consumption of ground that has occurred in the last century and in which we have participated largely architects, more than ever recycle and reuse existing structures is the only solution and the more honest and sustainable, especially when these structures are carriers of assets that are necessary to preserve, protect and pass for future generations. In this sense, the project posed, as a basic premise, the conservation and restoration of existing structures so that they acquire, in the general context of the building, places of relevance for public use and collective enjoyment. With this intention the preexisting occupy major spaces, in one case forming the very front of the building, another part of the local social structuring and another, forming three sides of a courtyard main (central) that form the building. From a complicated and tortuous geometry of the site, where there are a number of pre-existing conditions, the project idea raises the rationalization of space by arranging three volumes in a U shape, facing south, west and north , respectively, which form the three main exterior public spaces, from which you access the respective housing and organizing collective life of the neighborhood. The set consists in a clubhouse for the neighborhood and 18 apartments, 4 of two bedroom, 13 of three bedroom and four bedrooms. Ranging in size from 50 to 77 sq meters. This is subsidized housing, land has been donated by the city council and the work funded by the Junta de Andalucía (the government of the autonomous region). The homes are owned by the Junta de Andalucía and maximum rent of € 200-300, families with low income. The materials are noble but very basic.

Identification	Public space design for Scientifical and Technological Campus in Linares
Situation	Linares, Jaén
Project date	2007
Work to date	2011
Architects	Ubaldo García Torrente / Antonio Cayuelas Porras
Partners
Construction Management	- Juan Antonio Molina Pérez- Manuel Delgado Martín- Rafael Romero Pérez - Noelia Santos Romero
Others Partners	Fernando Alda. Photographer
Promoter	Fundación Campus Científico-Tecnológico de Linares
Companies	Building Systems: ASTER ConsultoresStructure: EDARTEC Consultores Safety: Baluarte Arquitectura y Seguridad Soil mechanics study: CEMOSA Landscape: Mercedes Pérez Villalón Contractor: UTE SANDO CONACON
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Identification	Urbanization of First Part of Scientific-Technical Campus. Linares.
Situation	LINARES. JAÉN
Project day	2007
Work to date
Architects	UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE ANTONIO CAYUELAS PORRAS
Partners	CRISTINA PRADES GARCÍA DANIEL CANO EXPÓSITO CELIA MARTÍNEZ HIDALGO CRISTINA BRASCHI ISABEL MOTA PERNÍAS JOSÉ MARÍA RINCÓN CALDERÓN
Quantity Surveyors	JUAN ANTONIO MOLINA PÉREZ MANUEL DELGADO MARTÍN RAFAEL ROMERO PÉREZ NOELIA SANTOS ROMERO
Others Partners
Promoter	LINARES SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL CAMPUS FONDATION
Companies	Structural Engineers: EDARTEC CONSULTORES Services Engineers: ASTER CONSULTORES Quality Control and Geotechnical Study: CEMOSA Health and Safety: BALUARTE ARQUITECTURA Y SEGURIDAD Landscape:MERCEDES PÉREZ VILLALÓN
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The proposed architectural layout of the Scientific-Technical Campus Linares takes place on land with a slight slope along the bypass south of the city. The terrain is in a hill whose maximun slope set a valley that crosses the field diagonally and runs east-west coinciding with the northeast direction connection with the center of town. The project has taken this direction as the main axis of development of the organization provided, and proposing an increase from the inside out, from the space diagonal towards the perimeter. Sectorization. For reasons of economic logic, constructive and programmatic development of Science and Technology Linares Campus has been divided into two phases. This triangular division is determined by the previous management and it use one of the lanes running north/south to delimit the first phase by collecting the entire stretch of Belt area of the South that frames the intervention.

Identification	ZAYAS. Restoration of 16th Century Moorish House for 8 apartments.
Situation	S. GREGORIO 13. GRANADA.
Project day	2004
Work to date
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE. UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	ISABEL MOTA PERNÍAS
Quantity Surveyors	ANTONIO LOZANO
Others Partners	Photography: FERNANDO ALDA
Promoter	FUNDACIÓN ZAYAS
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Any action in the city, also the architectural, inevitably has two dimensions: the public and private. It will be more or less public or private depending on the degree of woven permeability of the same. A simple stroll in the low Albayzín can guess that this relationship is not the same as that could be in previous centuries (also variable). Occurs equally in nearby cities such as Malaga or Seville, where the habits of past life have been largely lost within the historic site, now populated almost entirely by social and cultural classes quite distinct. The population that keeps alive this way of life are moving to the suburbs and slums, and they are changing their habits because of the influence of the spaces they now live. In this regard, and though it naturally develops a certain way of life, which is none other than "the soul of the city," today, part of his heritage, other layers are superimposed and they enrich the whole population . A living heritage, different from the other heritages which is preserved in craft museums and textbooks, which manifests themselves continuously with its own laws, not always kind or assumed by the administration and, of course unpredictable. So the idea is laudable to maintain or regain a disinherited people, while improving living conditions. The city, as a living entity has other laws, closer to the idea of movement, the sense of the fleeting, the transformation of the transitory, of the unexpected. Nothing is more futile than trying to catch an agent in a continual state of transformation. Only when the planning requirements, including conservatives ones theoretically have been the protagonists in the shaping of the city, It gets that the way of how to inhabit it, aren't desirable for anyone, except, of course, for capital, which finds that base itself a breeding ground for speculation. Standards we are doomed to meet, but also forced to fight. The assumption of the modern movement rules with respect to the conformation of the dwelling-house and the rescue of the city according to the codes Tendenza action, worsen the state of the issue. At the end, the government has consolidated a number of laws which are applied without reflection and without evaluative criteria, much more destructive than those undertaken in a "natural" way by users. Just a visit to the neighborhood, the building project object and its inhabitants to understand the mechanisms of action to be taken in the intervention, must move away from approaches as antagonistic as those discussed above: first attempt to recover the past, in the image of noble and solemn appearance must have a house like this at Albayzín , and another embedding a building type designed from the perspective of the laws specific to the block of flats on the periphery. Examples of both forms of intervention can be seen with a whole array of variants. We propose to start with new arguments that do not want to be generalized, but a line of research in a particular place based on flexibility and adaptability to circumstances, without preventing changes can continue to give in the future. Do not forget that the life of a building is much more extensive in time than its residents. Current residents will be replaced by others whose life and circumstances will be very different: the idea of comfort, furniture, coverings, appearance, consumer objects, identifying objects or ornaments, fragmentation or specialization space functionality, the appropriate way of the ordinary, light, texture, color, etc. They also will need answers from this project. Improved living conditions and sanitation of the building play an equally important role when designing, but there must be a balance which should not be overlooked. On the one hand the "recovery" of a series of spaces and shapes that are no longer private property to be part of collective memory or cultural wealth of the city (not to mention that the recovery of historic centers represent the short and medium term development of a tourism industry that is clearly a source of energy for the community). On the other hand, We must protect the lifestyle of its inhabitants-permanent or sporadic- who fight mightily for not to leave their neighborhood. The proposal is essentially the recovery of the basic building structure and space of the building through its definition levels by coupling the living spaces from it, according to their relative position and allowing the development of the whole arc of possibilities it brings.

Identification	CORRAL DE LA ENCARNACIÓN
Situation	PAGÉS DEL CORRO 128 Y 126-130. SEVILLA
Project day	2006
Work to date
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	ISABEL MOTA PERNÍAS
Quantity Surveyors	CRISTINA SANABRIA RODRÍGUEZ
Others Partners	Photography: FERNANDO ALDA
Promoter	OTAINSA [oficina técnica de asesoramiento a inquilinos en situación de abuso]. GERENCIA MUNICIPAL DE URBANISMO
Companies	Construction Company: DRAGADOS. Solar Energy: CHROMAGEN
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Time introduces changes in the life of the inhabitants of a housing. These changes are a test to overcome by architecture. Time shapes the edifications and It forces them to adapt or convicts to disappearance. It's Time, and his wrenching effect on the object, who transforms architectural elements and revalidates, sometimes with cruelty, their level of good by showing that only those who survive are able to adapt to new circunstances. We mustn't forget that building's life is usually much more extensive in time than their dweller's life. The previous neighbors will be replaced by other ones whose life and personal circumstances will be quite differents.The idea of comfort, furniture, coverings, appearance, consumer objects, spatial fragmentation and specialization, the functionality, the way of appropriation of the common, light, texture, color, ... inevitably mutate into very different positions. It is by this that the fundamental premise of departure for the intervention has been the search for a flexible solution and adaptable to current circumstances, without preventing the development of future changes, without forgetting its adaptation to a life-sustaining system. In this sense, improvement in living conditions and sanitation of the building also played a vital role when designing. Do not forget that the living conditions, hygiene and sanitation, accessibility, comfort, efficiency and economy, should prevail in a project, always seeking the homes give a satisfactory answer to the inhabitants, the occasional and permanent ones. The potential of this intervention isn't only scenic value, historic and cultural tradition, or urban and architectural design that the Triana district has. Ther is a second hidden potential from the eyes of the traveler who only observes a sequence of more or less ordered and regular facades, and ignores what happens beyond these walls. The proposal is basically to keep the administrative division, types and uses of the two buildings that make up the whole complex, social center and tenements, being both united by a wall and a right of way and views of one over the other and vice versa. So the proposal is structured in the following acts:

• Demolition and new construction of the main building for Social Center.

 

• Restoration of the so-called Corral de Vecinos de la Encarnacion, with the use of housing, consisting of two rows of buildings around a courtyard longitudinal to the bottom of the plot. Both rows are of a mezzanine floor and covered with a single slope roof, introducing some organizational change and constructive for new situation.

  The restoration of the tenement block, labeled as "Property of Ethnological Interest", is its adaptation, such as housing, suposes new forms and minimum quality of life that are now necessary. Well as preserving the building involves assuming the criteria are marked in their official declaration by implementing a set of standards and regulations that adequate and could permit this form of living conditions of the XXI century. In this sense, it's necessary to think about what it means way of life in a tenement block and how it can be, today, interesting. Therefore, isn't to preserve just a building, but a way of life. One caracteristic way to inhabit a space in those areas and whose loss wouldn't have solution. Firstly, It would supose a decline in the historical memory of the evolution of Andalusia and, secondly and perhaps more importantly, We would lose the ability to review and strengthen this housing form to continue its logical evolution in a time when the modern movement is in crisis of values. In this sense, to inhabit a space like this is to reflect on:

• The tense relationship between the individual and the common and the dissolution of boundaries.
• The idea of temporal instability.

The Modern Movement developed a range of building types clearly marking the division between private and common. This greatly enriched the social landscape by allowing infinite evolution of both aspects which are still bearing fruit surprising. The common space starts from the private space, and vice versa. However, these same weapons that tried to set limits, have meant that today more than ever, certain arguments resume living together. Probably one of the factors that have fueled this position is the high cost of living and the inability of certain segments of the population to access your own unique space. Faced with this problem are beginning to open doors to new forms negotiated today are seen as commitment to the future in a society increasingly diverse and rich: temporary unions of couples; temporary unions of individuals who enrich the life in communion n; associations, according to different legal ways to share and enjoy individual spaces that would be unthinkable, such as renovation old buildings, old factories for conversion into offices or homes where teleworking; adjustments in buildings and associations more or less regulated, to share a certain age, a number of domestic services and medical care without the close family unit ... etc. It is there in that line where it is possible to argue new forms of association and new ways of living spaces recovered.

Identification	Renovation and Enlargment of building for 5 housing
Situation	Pedro Miguel 30-32. Sevilla
Project day	2006
Work to date	2008
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	Miguel Villegas
Quantity Surveyors	GONZALO RODRÍGUEZ SALAIGNAC
Others Partners	Fernando Alda. Fotógrafo
Promoter	ZOOOM, SIETEREVUELTASSIETE
Companies	ZOOOM, SIETEREVUELTASSIETE
Publications	LA VANGUARDIA MAGAZINE. 26 oct 2008
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Housing is not only a refuge in adversity outside or a form of social appearance. Today more than ever, it aims to be a reflection of our own desires, the active site to leisure or recreational activities and comfortable space for complacency and joy, in short, where make possible the various and unpredictable attitudes of the fact contemporary. Therefore, the housing must be approached from a encouraging attitude and plural, open and available, promoting what custom, the different, compared to standard, what is different and able, contrary to stereotype, the vacuum amplitude qualified and flexible, compared to the partitioning specialized, the subject home, alive, in front of the home object interpersonal relationships active, compared to the neighborhood, the housing landscape, against the landscape of neighborhoods. 30-Pedro Miguel-32 wants to be an alternative to housing promotions to use. A stimulus for a positive life attitude, uninhibited and creative. The changes introduced over time in the life of the inhabitants of a building housing a review are overcome by the architecture which accommodates these residents. It is time that shapes the building and forced to adapt to the changes that life requires, or where appropriate, the sentence to disappear. Any action in the city, also the architectural, inevitably has two dimensions: the public and private, will be more or less depending on the degree of woven permeability of the same. A simple stroll in the city of Seville can guess that this relationship remains on a level near what it could be assumed in earlier centuries. The fact that there are two historic cities in Seville, the historic north and south, has caused one of them, the northern town, still retains a large extent, a way of life very different from those historical sites, today inhabited almost in their entirety by cultural and social backgrounds rather than those that formed following the transfer to the outskirts and slums of a population continues to live a lifestyle, but certainly conditioned by the spaces they now live. In this sense, in the north central town of Seville, yet naturally develops a way of life, which is none other than "the soul of the city," today, part of their heritage. A living heritage, the heritage dead is preserved in the ships of the museums and textbooks, which manifests itself continuously with its own laws, not always kind or assumed by the administration and, of course unpredictable, for much study on it is thrown. For all this talk at this stage of architectural and urban analysis based on building typologies, the urban morphology or semantic structure, becomes part of the analytical archeology only makes sense from a point of view of any students of bata and library. The city, these areas of the city, as living entity has other laws, closer to the idea of movement, the sense of the fleeting, the transformation of the transitory, of the unexpected. Nothing is more futile than trying to catch an agent in a continual state of transformation. It was not easy to maintain this quality, the resident population for years maintained a position of strength, government awareness that there are other ways to rehabilitate the historic centers, which their old ways of life can be the basis for experimental study most current proposals, and that all this is possible while maintaining essential residential structure in which the vast majority of the residents who have inhabited these areas for generations. We propose new arguments since they do not want to be neither "type" or "criteria" widespread, but a line of research in a particular place based on flexibility and adaptability to circumstances. Do not forget that the life of a building is much more extensive in time than its inhabitants. Existing residents will be replaced by other approaches whose life and circumstances are very different: the concept of family, lifestyle, the idea of comfort, furniture, coverings, appearance, consumer objects, objects identification or ornamentation, the fragmentation and specialization of space, functionality, appropriate way of the ordinary, light, texture, color, etc. They also need new and innovative responses. The potential of this intervention, not only on the load or landscape values, history, tradition and culture, urban and architectural, historical and archaeological centers like Sevilla. A second potential hidden from the eyes of the passer, which is able to observe a sequence of unitary facade, more or less orderly and regular, and known what happens beyond these walls. The building No. 30-32 Pedro Miguel Street in Seville was a clear example of commitment, appropriation and redistribution that different situations require or allow life to carry out its inhabitants, squeezing the maximum solar surface while reduce its free zones to be unable to physically get to them. A swap in which the premium placed on space requirements useful in sacrifice the use and enjoyment of something so important in the Mediterranean culture as the playground and common areas. In the result is messy interwoven character, randomized, depositor, with some immediacy and innocence. The architectural quality of the result is quite low in terms of structure, composition, quality of construction, etc. However, the richness of these situations is something deeper, lies in the multitude of possibilities that has shown the building, thanks to its simplicity and versatility, and the potential future changes or mutations in, as this intervention will allow us. Not be forgotten that living conditions, hygiene and safety, accessibility and comfort, efficiency and economy, should prevail in any project, always seeking the homes give a satisfactory answer to its current inhabitants, the future, the occasional and permanent. The decision to re-create five homes in what were once other quite different, does not respond to a simple return the building to its original state, or re-order what "seems" messy, it is increase the chances of these new homes to match capabilities and re-adapt to the reality that current demand. Thus, the housing opening their holes to the various courts, also have direct access to them, enjoying the privacy and intimacy desirable, and a free space to permit the exterior-interior connection and relationship. The strategy here is to get housing, which in most cases may have different views of outdoor spaces to empower them enough to develop a comfortable life there. It seeks to leverage those characters edificatoria own idiosyncrasies, such as hallways, which are kept as a filter to the outside patios that constitute true relationship spaces, balconies that offer traditional media beyond the visual to the street and roof, as extension of the house above the last cast, allowing the realization of activities within the Mediterranean climate or cool clothespins on summer nights. In any case the ladder is raised as the core of vertical connection, whose strong presence structured and organized the main spaces. In short we have tried to provide a compositional clarity that allows a multitude of uses and spaces. Not dictate how to live, but infinite ways possible, while responding to specific requirements introduced as a premise, that are addressed as something that has always been there. Given the state of the building and the possibility of the planning regulations, it was decided to demolish these buildings, except the front bay so as to construct a new building linked to the bay front. Under the new building will run to a basement garage. The project involves the demolition under the construction of a multifamily residential building between party with a program of five houses and seven parking spaces. Thus, the building is built around two courtyards of 6.80 mx 5.35 m, one of them. The medians are hidden from all spaces on two floors. To meet these objectives, the design solution has been adopted as general rehabilitation of the first bay of the facade, keeping the load-bearing walls in this situation. The following has shaped the space / vacuum introducing new spaces, looking for opportunities in your size, fit within the permissible limits of the different bays. Later houses were organized, adjusting to the new preset programs, promoting at all times those defining elements of the building. In this sense remains the entrance hall, the facade and the first bay. Similarly, the position is held by the main staircase, while making a new one implementation, all of them supplemented with the introduction of an elevator, elevator car direct access from front to the basement where is located the parking garage for seven cars. On the ground floor the building is organized to maintain access from the street, ie the front door, the entrance hall and main staircase, which takes place in an area sequenced spaces at first and second bay. The rest of the front bay clogs with elevator access to the elevator car. At second bay is developed the first patio, large from which you access one of the homes, and continuing to the bottom of the site the second patio access to two other housing. From the main staircase is accessed the first floor where a gallery located on the south side of the court first gives access to housing 4 and 5 and the access ladder to the roof. The roof is flat and has an elevated 1.20 m. where there is a small pool with wooden sundeck constituting the entire roof as a community recreation area. The courtyards will serve to shed light on the different rooms of the houses and galleries, so that their planes vertical pierced with large holes of different sizes and position, depending on the needs of the space they illuminate. The facade of the building has been amended from the existing practice so that a gap of 3.75 m. which will provide access to the garage and will seal all except the ground floor entrance door to the hallway, the other first floor spaces are altered only in the vertical dimension, not in position or width, so that they are both enhanced for modifying the composition of the facade. At the same time the exterior has been fitted with a large base of steel sheet 4mm thick in the entire height of the ground floor with no differentiation between voids and walls. Four houses are duplex, two organizations on the ground floor and first and one on ground floor and attic, to avoid overlapping vertical housing and enhance privacy. Only one house is organized on the first floor so that is organized as a loft that occupies the entire first bay of the bay west facade and the courtyard, beneath it lie the common areas and access to the garage entrance. In the common areas have used a wood flooring cuperizado pine boards, nailed to wooden battens. The lining of the courts is of prefabricated sandwich panel, the ArcelorMittal brand, consisting of two steel sheets, galvanized and other pre-washed one among which is placed an insulating material polyurethane. The woodwork of the windows of the housing is anodized aluminum patios with thermal break Laminex brand. The general steps of the building and inside the houses have been executed with steel sheet 4 mm thick, in some cases painted and varnished. The floor of the interior of the housing is solid wood parquet of Elondo.

Identification	GENIS´S HOUSE
Situation	MOLINO 4. SEVILLA
Project day	2006
Work to date	2008
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE. UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	MIGUEL VILLEGAS BALLESTA
Quantity Surveyors	CRISTINA SANABRIA RODRÍGUEZ
Others Partners	Photography: FERNANDO ALDA
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Family in Western society is taking profound changes that make this institution a continuous recycling agency. An entity composed of multi-faceted, large doses of openness and internal and external conditions quite different from those of other times. Is mainly composed individuals whose ties are opened and autopactados on which variables are plotted energy carriers. As individuals, their environment may be close or far away, the place where you step or place that is capable of knowing and view intellectually. Willing to constant movement Instant physical, virtual and digital. Capable of living, while, this and other worlds, their reality and that of others. In short, a new nomad. The house, still a living space of the ordinary, is slowly trying to adapt to these changes, loosening and breaking boundaries. This new nomad is not to be just a refuge from the outside adversity or social form of appearance or the small museum where objects are stored and memories. Today more than ever, seeks to be a reflection of our own desires, the active site for leisure or recreational activities and comfortable, the network node universal joint, a room for complacency and joy, in short, the place to make possible the various and unpredictable attitudes of contemporary fact. Therefore, the housing must be approached from a pluralistic approach and stimulating, open and possible, promoting the personal, different, compared to equalizing, the diverse and capable, contrary to stereotype, the vacuum amplitude qualified and flexible compared to a foreclosure specialist, the subject home, alive, in front of the house object relationships active, compared to the neighborhood, the housing landscape in front of the insertion into the landscape. Alternatively, a stimulus to a positive life attitude, uninhibited and creative. A PARTY. Also the house is the place of the private, the individual. Individual as different, distinct, distinctive, unique and multiple, hedonistic. Every project is a process put in charge or activate a system (or space) The process starts, but survives to us, making independent living. The processes, as such, are open and uncontrolled. There is thus a peaceful coexistence based on feedback, not without tension between subject and purpose built living space. Faced with the idea of building overlapping functions of horizontal trays hierarchically according to the different floors, we propose here a freer use of living space, to be able to give multi-faceted body (including mobility, flexibility and communication) so the house is presented as highly variable and heterogeneous, flexible, adaptive, comfortable, while cheerful, confident and capable of mutation. The space, therefore, be structured with each glance, with every movement, every gesture that the user is engaged, changing at every moment the relationship between the different elements presented, now able to mutate, greatly multiplying their capacity for action-reaction. Therefore, and although now operating this scheme, the spaces are so unskilled that may vary over the useful history of the building without major trauma. he traditional house in Seville, from its structural and formal simplicity has many of the qualities expressed here, being the place of the vagueness, always ready to definition and redefinition: Enabling cubic meters dwelling where the memory is used as a nutrient. In its thousand recycling has proven its flexibility and accommodation of different life forms. This intervention will therefore be a new link in the chain of life of the building which once again demonstrates his good health, thus contributing to environmentally sustainable construction.

Identification	CASTILLO`S HOUSE
Situation	17 MARÍA ORTIZ. SEVILLA.
Project day	2004
Work to date	2005
Architects	UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	MARÍA ROMERO MIGUEL VILLEGAS
Quantity Surveyor	MARIANO CORDERO DELGADO MIGUEL PORTILLA CASTILLO
Others Partners	FERNANDO ALDA. FOTÓGRAFO
Promoter	CONFIDENTIAL
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Publications	ARQUITECTURA. SEVILLA 1995-2005 A10. HOLANDA DISEÑO INTERIOR. Marzo 2006 ON DISEÑO. Junio 2006 ARQUITECTURA IBÉRICA. Nº 16. Agosto 2006 STAIR DESIGN. Ed. Daab (Loft Publications). Enero 2007
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"This house is more like a shop or wine bar or an office ... than a house." It's like we understand that must be a home. The place of undefined, always ready to its definition and redefinition: Enabling space for living. Housing is not only a refuge against adversity exterior or a form of social appearance or box of their own memories or the inherited ones ... Now more than ever, it aspires to be reflective of our own desires, the active site for leisure or recreational activities and comfortable room for complacency and joy, in short, the place to make possible the various and unpredictable attitudes of contemporary fact. Therefore, the housing must be approached from a stimulating, pluralistic attitude, open and possible, for promoting the independient and different, against to equalizing; the diverse and spontaneous things, compared to the stereotyped; the extent of skilled and flexible vacuum compared to specialized compartmentalization, the alive home, in front of the house like an object; active relationships among people, compared to the neighborhood, the housing landscape in front of the insertion into the landscape. Alternatively, a stimulus to a positive life attitude, uninhibited and creative. A PARTY.

Identification	Renovation Clavellinas’ House
Situation	36 CLAVELLINAS ST. SEVILLA.
Project day	2000
Work to date	2001
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE VALENTÍN MONTAÑO
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Quantity Surveyor	MIGUEL PORTILLA MARIANO CORDERO
Others Partners	FERNANDO ALDA. FOTÓGRAFO
Promoter	PRIVADO Empresa Constructora, Subcontratas, etc. HERMANOS ANTEQUERA
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  The mean proyect's idea is based in keeping the compositive and leading structure of the building, having for that the conservation of the urban shape and the catalogued elements. All those structural elements that have been damaged by the unfortunated and continuous reformations, as well as by the absence of conservation up to be unable to develop a present housing program in which the most important chose to have are the structural stability, ventilation, illumination and the uses' distribution or planification have been softened. The compositive structure is based in all the essential compositive elements of the traditional domestic architecture on the historic city centre of Seville, such as the vestibule, stairs, patios, galleries...The principal patio turns to be the most important space due to its own peculiarity . It has a direct access through the vestibule in a central position, even though the ground-plot's small widness. The patio's joint with the side gallerie, placed on three of its sides and closed on the fourth one creates on the building's hearth an impluvium. The patios' emplacement respect the covered spaces generates an issue of open and closed, enlightened and shaded spaces needed for good orientations and privacity. From the own proyect there is an intention to qualify chaque space and its relations by giving them the neccesary dimensions according to the new uses and treatments, to impose the housing program to develop the opening of new illumination and ventilation vain, the program's functional aspects solution. As well as to give to the building a formal and spatial coherence by jjoining all its parts and clarifiying the relations between the exterior space. The most difficult part has been to keep the present relation between the main patio and the side gallery which, without a wall, made going through the outsides spaces to reach the rooms by the incorporation of a movable glass roof. The proyect bets for the rehabilitation versus the restauration, leaving untouched the differents steps in its life and using the conservation-renovation theory applied to materials and constructives systems. All of them have its place and none dies or kills, they live together.

Identification	Mexico city. Architecture 1921-1970 exhibition
Situation	CONVENTO NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LOS REYES. CALLE SANTIAGO. SEVILLA
Project day	2001
Work to date	2001
Architects	UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
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Others Partners	FERNANDO ALDA. PHOTOGRAPHER.
Promoter	GOBIERNO CIUDAD DE MÉXICO + D. G. ARQ. Y VIVIENDA. JUNTA DE ANDALUC'ÍA
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Publications	DIARIO DE SEVILLA. SECCIÓN ARQUITECTURA. Septiembre 2001
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The idea of flexibility and adaptability to different spaces, as well as ease of reproduction and movement are the keys that have prevailed in the design of the curating of this exhibition, so that its transportation cost is minimal, being each seat which provide adequate support for displaying. To do this, it has resorted to the use of certain technologies that are now commonly used in the production of media. Only the most representative pieces would travel, packaged conveniently. Depending on the agency who request, their financial and technical opportunities, it can be adapted without losing information, since the basic materials are very basic: CDs, videos, slides and catalog. So, where appropriate, with one laptop the entire exhibition could be displayed.

Identification	La Torerera Touristic Camping-site
Situation	Finca La Torerera. Calañas. Huelva
Project day	1990
Work to date	2001
Architects	Ubaldo García Torrente
Partners
Quantity Surveyors	JUAN LUIS YAÑEZ SEMPERE
Others Partners	Fernando Alda. Fotógrafo
Promoter	CONSEJERÍA DE OBRAS PÚBLICAS Y TTES. JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA
Companies	COINMER
Publications	WORLD OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN. ELEMENTS OF LANDSCAPE -ED. ARCO, PAG. 239- EXPOSICION Y CATALOGO "ENCUENTRO JOVEN ARQUITECTURA EUROPEA" EL PAIS. 27 Octubre 1996. NEUTRA n. 2. -Diciembre 1997. p g. 42-. QUADERNS n. 224. (flashes/destellos). Marzo 2000 ON DISE'd1O . Octubre 2000. BAUWELT. 7/02. 15 febrero 2002. Pg 34-35 DICCIONARIO MET'c1POLIS DE ARQUITECTURA AVANZADA. A+U architecture and urbanism 04:02, 401 MICRO. Very small building. Laurence King Publishing. Ltd. p'e1g 142-145. 2007 The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
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This project is made as a possible natural, limited and open space arrangement alternative where  is located a camping and leisure site of all year round use. This project is included inside another bigger landscape’s intervention plan, “intervention in a miner’s town, la Torerera”. It is situated on the Riscoso’s Swamp’s North bank that is used as a water’s reservoir for the old miner’s exploitation which is now to be used as a nautical sport’s center. The territory is divided in two triangle-shaped areas: one for the common service emplacement and the remaining one, for the free camping zone without marked site. The first one is defined in its limits by little constructions that play like a frame but without loosing the environments views and improving the architectural vision from inside. The camping zone stayed the wildest as its is possible however clean and easily accessible across one road that control it, where there is a parking for leaving the cars to keep on walking towards the chosen place  

Identification	RESTORATION OF 18TH CENTURY BUILDING FOR 11 HOUSING
Situation	6-10 ALMIRANTE HOYOS ST. SEVILLA.
Project day	1995
Work to date	1998
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE VALENTÍN MONTAÑO GONZÁLEZ
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Quantity Surveyor	Mariano Cordero Delgado Miguel Portilla Castillo
Others Partners	Fernando Alda. Fotógrafo
Promoter	COOPERATIVA DE VIVIENDA LA JUDERÍA
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Publications	DIARIO DE SEVILLA. 1999. SECCIÓN DE ARQUITECTURA. 8 julio1999 DISEÑO INTERIOR 104. FEBRERO 2001 DISEÑO INTERIOR 105. MARZO 2001 MAGAZINE. EL MUNDO. 16 SEPTIEMBRE 2001 SEVILLA 1995-2005. Arquitectura de una década
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The solution adopted has tried to keep the compositional structure of the both buildings forming the project. All of this, preserving the urban structure and proposing the ground-plot addition as a solution to clean this city area without damaging neither the urban spaces nor the catalogued elements, as well as softening the urban space’s definition with an adaptation in the building’s façades highness as well as in the patios pressured by the adjacent houses. The organizer’s structure keeps the urban traditional domestic architecture’s essential structural elements Such as the patios, halls, galleries... The entrance has an indirect access avoiding a direct and lineal one to discover later an issue of open and cover, shaded and enlightened spaces and searching the plurality of organizational spaces necessary to have privacy and good orientations in each apartment in a way in which the tour around these spaces gives an architectural tour through this micro-cosmos house. In the joining area of the two main patios, there is a strong distribution point where there are the stairs, the elevator and the stairs way to the underground. This nucleus’ connection with the number 6 entry vestibule, finish the consolidation of this space like the articulation between both Buildings. The opening of a new patio on the third bay allow the illumination and ventilation  in a dark area completing the five patios in the whole building that organize the project. The rising of a new plant will make possible the dialogue between the old architecture and the present one as well as the reconfiguration of the patios’ proportions reporting with the adjoining buildings and the façades with the street. To make stronger the urban ground-plot understanding the old one, the union wall is kept reducing its perforation, but warranting enough permeability between the different apartment parties, that being interiors need a façade to a patio. In the rising second floor element there is a construction that make acknowledged each ground-plot in its section as well as in its virtual spaces

Identificación	Nueva Galería Nacional y Museo Ludwig
Ubicación	Budapest. Hungría
Fecha de Proyecto	2014
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Arquitecto/s	GARCÍA TORRENTE ARQUITECTOS
colaborador/es	Salvador López Cervantes; Esaú Vázquez Rodríguez
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Otros colaboradores
Promotor	Liget Budapest
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El área propuesta para la Nueva Galería Nacional y el edificio del Museo Ludwig está cupada por una densa masa de hermosos árboles centenarios. El proyecto propone, como premisa básica, el respeto y la protección de, al menos, las especies más valiosas. Hay 241 árboles catalogados en este lugar. De acuerdo con la clasificación dada por los promotores del concurso, hemos establecido siete categorías de acuerdo con el valor estimado. Las tres primeras, consideradas las más valiosas, van a ser conservadas. El resto han sido rechazados, ya que podrían ser fácilmente trasplantables, tal vez en el enorme parque adyacente.  Se conservarían por lo tanto 52 árboles en el solar de la propuesta. Después de esa decisión, la estrategia de diseño del proyecto es la formalización de una serie de líneas sinuosas que se insertan entre la masa forestal. Estas líneas definen las dos áreas a considerar: la luz y la superficie construida. La primera se considera esencial para el mantenimiento y la supervivencia de los árboles. Conceptualmente, el proyecto nace de la idea de que el edificio propuesto no es un espacio barrera para la libre circulación, por lo que la plataforma a nivel de 0,00 se mantiene como área abierta para los ciudadanos, manteniendo la continuidad con el resto del parque. El conjunto es, por tanto un paisaje en el que se mezclan la naturaleza y el artificio. El edificio está dividido en zonas: un nivel subterráneo (dos plantas) y otro formado por siete pequeñas torres que emergen entre la vegetación. El primero está formado mediante por muros estructurales, que sigue las líneas sinuosas entre los árboles y definen los espacios de exposición permanente. Las torres se elevan entre dichas paredes desde el nivel de 0,00. Para proporcionar iluminación a nivel subterráneo, hemos diseñado una serie de incisiones hasta el nivel -6.00, produciendo un sistema de patios, permitiendo así que haya luz y  ventilación a los espacios que lo requieran. De los siete edificios, cinco forman parte del programa de la Nueva Galería Nacional y dos del Ludwig Museum, manteniendo entradas separadas para cada uno de ellos, también para el público y el personal. El acceso de vehículos es a través de una rampa con acceso directo desde la Varosligeti Körút , al sótano, accesible al personal autorizado y para la carga y descarga de vehículos. El acceso del público será en la planta baja de los edificios 1 y 7. Desde allí se puede bajar al sótano 1, donde se inician las circulaciones de las exposiciones permanentes, o visitar las exposiciones temporales,  eventos de la zona el acceso o la cafetería y una brasserie en la planta superior con vistas a la ciudad. El personal, oficinas y GAIA, tienen sus propias torres de acceso por separado en la Nueva Galería Nacionall y el acceso común a la Ludwig M. La exposición permanente de ambos museos se desarrolla en un continuo, lineal y sinuoso camino entre las paredes del recinto, con una altura de 5 m. e iluminación artificial, con el apoyo de la luz procedente de los jardines pequeños. El objetivo es tener un mayor control y seguridad de las piezas de arte y permite recorridos independientes. En el sótano 2 (nivel -10.00) se encuentran los muelles de carga, estacionamientos de vehículos, áreas técnicas, almacenes, talleres e instalaciones seguras para el suministro de agua, electricidad, voz y datos, aire acondicionado y equipo de control de incendios. Las torres tienen un marco perimetral de metal con un núcleo rígido central y transparente, una piel de cristal, llena de matices y protegida por una piel de chapa de acero perforada que ofrece una alta luminosidad, a excepción de las áreas de exposiciones temporales y áreas para la proyección de vídeo y cine, donde se proporciona un sistema para el oscurecimiento total o parcial, según sea necesario.

Identification	New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum
Situation	Budapest. Hungary
Project day	2014
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Architects	GARCÍA TORRENTE ARCHITECTS
Partners	Salvador López Cervantes; Esaú Vázquez Rodríguez
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Promoter	Liget Budapest
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The proposed area for the New National Gallery and the Museum Ludwig building is occuped by a dense mass of beautiful, larges and ancients trees. The project proposes, as a basic premise, respect and protection at least the most valuable species. There are 241 trees cataloged in this place. According to the classification given by the promoters of the competition, we have established seven categories according to the estimated value. The first three of them, considered the most valuable, are going to be preserved. The rest has been rejected, because they could be easily transplantable, perhaps elsewhere in the huge park. It would remain in place 52 trees. After that decision, the design strategy of the project is to formalize a series of sinuous lines that are inserted between the forest stand. These lines define the two areas to be considered: the open and the built area. The first is considered essential for the maintenance and survival of trees. Conceptually the project stems from the idea that the proposed building is not a spatial barrier for free movement , so that the platform at level +0.00 remains as open area for citizens , keeping the continuity with the rest of the park . The  set is thus a landscape where nature and artifice are mixed. The building is divided into areas: one underground level ( two floors ) and another formed by seven small towers that emerge among the vegetation. The first is formed by retaining and structural walls, that follows the sinuous lines between the trees and defines the permanent exhibition spaces . The towers rise between said walls from the level +0.00. To provide illumination to the underground level, we have designed a series of incisions up to level -6.00 , producing a system of courtyards allowing light and ventilation for the spaces that require them . Out of the seven buildings, five form part of the agenda of the New National Gallery and two of Ludwig Museum , keeping separate entrances for each of them, also for the public and the staff. The vehicles access is via a ramp with direct access from the Városligeti Körút 2 to the basement, accessible to authorized staff and to the loading and unloading vehicles. Public access will be in the ground floor of buildings 1 and 7. From there you can go down to the basement 1, where the circulations for the permanent exhibitions are initiated, or go up to visit the temporary exhibitions, the museum learning , area events access or the café and brasserie on the top floor overlooking the city. The staff , offices and GAIA , have their own separate access towers in the New National Gallery and common access to the Ludwig M. The permanent exhibition of both museums is developed in a continuous , linear and winding path between the walls of the enclosure, with a height of 5 m. and artificial lighting supported by the light coming from the small yards . The aim is to have more control and safety of the art pieces and allows independent tours. In the cellar 2 (level -10.00 ) are the loading docks , parking vehicles , technical areas , warehouses , workshops and safe facilities for water supply, electricity, voice and data , air conditioning, and control equipment fire . The towers have a perimeter metal frame with a central rigid core and a transparent glass skin , nuanced and protected by a perforated sheet steel skin that gives a high luminosity , except for the temporary exhibition areas and areas for projecting video and film, where is provided a systems for total or partial darkening as needed.

garcía torrente architects + eirin + touch concept

In collaboration with Zabala Arquitectos.

Identification	HOTEL
Situation	HERRERA DEL DUQUE. BADAJOZ.
Project day	2010
Work to date
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	ISABEL MOTA PERNÍAS SALVADOR LÓPEZ CERVANTES JACOB MARTÍNEZ ARIZA ESAÚ VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ
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Promoter	EXTREMADURA GOVERMENT
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The workspace is the site occupied by the former convent Franciscan of St. Jerome. Since the program returns to the idea to reconcile with the monastic structures hosting quality. The project stems from the concept of recovery the original building which is structured around the cloisters principal. The general scheme of operation of the convent can reconstruct by historical references and existent fragments: on one side the church and its vestry, other cells, the refectory, the infirmary, the priory, secretarial ... always around the cloistered courtyard that is surrounded by the ambulatory and delimited columns as filters between the interior and exterior. At present, there is a drastic change in the dimensions of ground, the whole is divided into two levels: one like a building complex base and the entrance plaza and the second level where it organizes a geometric garden and a sports field.

This double event, the fact that he was a Franciscan convent and topographical reality of space, have set the broad lines on which structured the generating idea of the proposal: the recovery of the former cloister space and the idea of linking the two levels. We've tried to organized the project in various dualities: being on or under the ground, forming part of the historical or belonging to the new building, being built part or empty space. The project is structured by reference to the average elevation garden, +104.59, Under this circumstance, the whole is divided into two depending on your situation about it, so that the program is structured from this level. Below, with access from the street to the height +100.00, are all general services of the guest house: reception, lounges, restaurant, cafeteria, shop, spa, and other services. Lower in the basement at level +97.11 is the parking, general warehouse, machine room and laundry, plus a personal wardrobe. On top of that dimension +104.59 there are the 40 rooms of the inn, and the management and administration and a dining and rest area staff. Rehabilitation / new construction. It fully preserves the emerged part of the historic building, the church, and the remains of sacristy attached to it, and the small enclosure parts belonging to the perimeter of the monastery. The church and the sacristy serve as a venue for celebrations, complete with the service area installed in the crosspiece end of the cloister and the other, after to demolishing the third plant, the building will be head of the new inn, bringing access here principal and the different rooms on ground floor and the management, administration and dining hall for staff rest area on the first floor. These two items allow conserved the hypothetical geometric layout of which reflects the project. Guideline. The line of rooms, built on the slope, will make a division of the parcel into two: the northwest, where lie the entrances and public areas and the Southeast whose protagonist is the dry garden dotted with small gardens moist, by way of incisions, try recover the spirit of the old orchards. The dry garden is suitable for walks and the wet for stays. The pools are place right there, and also the ramps and links to different parts of the whole, the spa's relaxation areas, private gardens of the two suites or the orchards that supply organic produce to the restaurant, cafeteria and function room. Therefore, the set is solved with a strip of 20 rooms per floor with access from the longitudinal galleries. They open to the opposite side to the southeast, to the group of gardens and with direct views to the castle. Also they have the area and services needed by category of 4 star, and pose an open relationship to the landscape thanks to large windows. This piece is wrapped on both sides and in his roof by a system of wooden slats that sifts direct views and, above all, the harsh direct sun of summer. To the cloister, the slats are fixed and separated because his direction is northwest, and in southeast, the slats can be opened or closed depending on user preferences. On the deck, these lamas conceal allowing transit facilities and recording them. In summer, avoid direct sunlight. Of the 40 rooms, two of which are specially equipped for disabled guests and two will have separate lounge. The latter are designed as duplex-loft, so that upstairs is the hall and the bedroom is downstairs, together in a double height space and connected by stairs.

In the gap between the planes of bounds +104.59 and +100.00 resolve all common services. Access will be by piercing the outer wall of the building to be conserved. A succession of small rooms will be located in the 5 cells that still remain, and it will serve as work space, conference table and two break and waiting rooms open to the new gallery. The reception serves as a hinge between this building and the longitudinal parts in where are happening where the restaurant, shop, and spa, all linked by a gallery that runs from beginning to end. In different points have openings to the rear garden and stairs to communicate with rooms level. Perpendicular to it and closing the cloister, another gallery giving access to the cafeteria (with independent access from the outside), toilets, and finally the connection to the sacristy and the old church. The function room will occupy the nave of the church. To face their future rehabilitation, it is neccesary more information on their conservation status. Archaeological studies, pathological studies and structural, historical data and a more refined program requirements will give us best clues. Meanwhile, it is intended to leave open space and build a double flight staircase that serves as access to the choir loft. Both the stairs as the wardrobe that serves to differentiate the reception of the main hall and the wooden floor space are to be regarded as movable elements that can be removed or replaced when desired. The service area of this space is located next to the cafeteria with direct entrance from the outside, both from the street as the basement, where vehicles can enter the supply. In the basement are the service areas and parking for 21 vehicles with a width of 3.25 m. and length of 5 m.

Identification	NEW TOWN MARKET
Situation	BAEZA. JAÉN.
Project day	2008
Work to date
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE. UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	SALVADOR LÓPEZ CERVANTES JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ
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Promoter	EMPRESA PÚBLICA DEL SUELO DE ANDALUCÍA
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The site chosen for construction of municipal market and shopping arcade is a meeting place at the important crossroad in the urban structure of new city. We understand that the building to be constructed must reconcile all different kind of urban situations, while makes an image of unity. The chosen proposal complies with the solar marking the contest, literally wrapping it with a layer of reinforced concrete, which acts as a floor, walls and ceilings. In its space motion, the mall is shaped as a closed box that seems to float in space while protecting, as an umbrella, the municipal market, which is configured as an open square: a walkable public space and continued for the city, like Mercato del Pesce di Rialto in Venice. Following the script of the program requirements, we propose a stratification by plants under the 4 basic elements, but split into 2 sublayers the ground floor, so that the space is more wide and It's possible a separation by specialties. Each of these layers has separate and independent content, interweaving the precise relationship at any time of day or night, with the same schedules or requirements, producing no easements some parts over others. The arcade (level +7.20 metres) is projected by requirements of flexibility, so that it is possible to host different formulas Sales-modules for independent stores or franchises, large area for a single management or mixed, etc. It has independent access via escalators and shared access to the market and basements. The municipal market (level +0.00 / +3.60 / -3.60) is divided into three sub-floors. At elevation +0.00 metres, at street level, there are the 36 places provided, sectored into three distinct areas: vegetables, meat and fish, according to a color code that identifies them. These positions are organized in line with the general support structure of the building, but in an apparently random, which causes a vibration of color and texture of high aesthetic value. At this same level a coffeshop is located, on the edge of the sidewalk on the street Coca Piñera, taking advantage of foot traffic and can provide service outside of market hours. It also leverages the annexed area, and outdoor terrace, but under cover. Both places as the cafeteria, services, lifts and escalators are equally autonomous and self-managed, so that the whole is understood as a public space permanently open to the city, which can move freely at any time. If management would decide to close the enclosure market, mechanisms could be lighter to not prejudice the proposal. The elevation +3.60 m, three broad areas, equally independent, hold uses that could be developed at different times, these police departments, veterinarians and inspection. The afflux of these areas over the market stalls allow better control, highlighted by the use of glass surfaces. At this same level there is an annex where offices are located downtown, plus an area for rest and recreation (chill-out) for workers and a kindergarden that can assist the children of workers or clients. In the basement 1, height -3.60 m, the market has an area of service, so as not to collapse the ring roads. Your access is independent of vehicle ramps, stairs and elevators for pedestrians and forklifts for the goods. Inside there is a loading and unloading and cold storage area, differentiated for vegetables, meat and fish, plus one for other uses. Complete enclosure a engine room, which will differentiate the different areas. A small house for a staff member will serve for the general control of the site. Public parking is on 2 floors (level -3.60 metres / -7.20 metres), with vehicle access ramps and stairs and elevators for pedestrians.

Identification	La Hoya Park
Situation	ALMERÍA
Project day	2009
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Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	SALVADOR LÓPEZ CERVANTES JACOB MARTÍNEZ ARIZA ESAÚ VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ
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Promoter	EMPRESA PÚBLICA DEL SUELO DE ANDALUCÍA
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As expected the contest rules, the area of action has clearly divided into 2 subsystems, whose treatment architectural and landscape are quite different, while form an indivisible and complementary. ZONE A. Urban-archaeological park. This is an urban-archaeological park, whose size gives him a share of landscape-based criteria. Park serves as the coexistence of plant species (including wildlife) and visitors, spectators. Although in this particular area, the use of artificial irrigation paratas ditches, fed by wheel, basically attending to the cultivation of the vine, the proposal seeks a landscape more playful and less maintenance, but is intended to restore the system irrigation. In this sense, it is to recover species that are adapted to the climatic and soil characteristics of the region, whose range does not only encourage field trips and leisure stays, it serves as a laboratory and teaching and contextualized basis for scientific groups, academic or just interested. The emerging archaeological remains, and its exploration and research, these systems are still active and it is difficult to determine a closed musealization. In any case, it seems interesting that the opening of new archaeological research could follow quite naturally from the different levels without interfering with the work themselves or organize tours when deemed appropriate, thereby supporting the work of dissemination. Not considered appropriate building to anything, including park interpretation center provided in the statement of the contest. The traffic system along the park is rotary and perimeter, ie, can be covered by longitudinal and transverse edges, leaving the center wilder and subject to possible changes. Archaeological surveys: 1. East edge, GARDEN OF FLOWERS + GARDEN OF PALM AND PITAS. Paratas system, restored and suitable for movement and contemplation, is situated in the park at different heights (in meters): + 25.00 + 27.50 + 29.00 + 31.00 + 33.50 + 36.00 + 37.50 + 39.50 The organization respects the topography and existing native vegetation and endemic, adding new plants, which require some care and probably drip irrigation supplements. Its edges are marked by minimal areas of lush vegetation next to the stairs level change. These stairs act as refuges from the hard summer heat, as well as mark the diagonal that divides the study area and distribution of species, from another, more rugged and steep, whose species are more resistant, requiring less care on the part of gardeners and adequate facilities. The construction components are very easy and they are part of scenic integrity. It provides: 1.1. Reconstruction of the walls of stone and mortar retaining weak, crowned by the canals rescued or rebuilt with reinforced concrete prefabricated sandstone color will be restored the flow of water throughout the system, irrigation serving more delicate species. 1.2. Wood plank paths 200x80 mm strips of the same section and bed material 150 mm thick gravel drainage. 1.3. Stairs and stretches of concrete slab with color molded sandstone, flanked by low walls, and banks of the same material. 2. North bank WALK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WALL. At the bottom of the wall of the 'Hoya', as a firewall, are located a series of small stairs, concrete color carved in sandstone, similar to the walls, linking the different paratas, down to the bottom of the 'Hoya' to climb back up to elevation 33.18 metres, where it joins the service road. Its role would allow the sweet road between memory, formalized by the huge canvases and contained nature, can touch both hands. A ride where the scales and magnitudes overlap, creating feelings of great pleasure. 3. West Bank GARDEN OF prickly pear. Between the elevation +33.18 metres to +28.50 metres, There will be a 4 metres wide dirt road, required for the EEZA (Arid Zone Experimental Station) can enter within the Park Hoya and make possible visits to the Park Animal Rescue Saharan Africa. Alignment with firm clean ground, finished with wooden staves as footpaths of the terraces will serve as a longitudinal movement of the park by this margin. Its main attraction is in the enjoyment of the contemplation of the walls of Cerro de San Cristobal in all its glory, from a height and proper distance, while enjoying the smells and colors of plants more resistant. 4. VERTICAL GARDEN. South edge. In this area, the original slope remains almost unchanged and therefore difficult to access. As a basis for the biggest constructive action, the cover rise between 1.50 m. and 3.00 m. from the current level, so that the top is continuous and artificial. A kind of hood that fits this gap of vegetation. From this position is where we can see the garden of endemic species. ZONE B. Link urban / Open space. A complete project from circulation Urban Edge Round North, expropriating almost all of the set constructed in S. Christopher, to the north, as an extension of Granary Street, opens up new opportunities for the development of an area that has remained marginal and disjointed, because it is a difficult transition cap. The current project includes the creation of a large open space, as a podium spot serves like amalgam of this complex space: 1. The east wall and the south towers of the Alcazaba to access (or output) for this area. 2. The wide front and front of the Hoya Wall. 3. The Hill S. Christopher, crowned also by its walls and towers. 4. The oldest established town in the city, linked by a strategic point of the Plaza de la Constitution. Under this platform of urban reference contemplation, a 2-storey building partially buried is developed, along the lines of the old neighborhood to demolish it also is protected by a retaining wall. The cover is located at elevation + 33.00 metres, so allowing visual permeability from any upper floor of buildings surrounding the new road, avoiding interference with the enjoyment of free space that is now placed on value while serving filter and control the same, although their access is direct and unrestricted. The proposed building on this square is the visitor and interpretation center, which will serve as an educational resource and teaching, appealing to all ages, There will be various additional activities (courses, workshops, exhibitions, lectures, etc). It is structured around a central courtyard open, semi-elliptical plan, and completed by the natural slope steep and rocky, which is now kept with all its trees. This form allows you to organized all the possible circulations, both horizontally and vertically, both into the building as close to the links. The structure: The connection to the new road extension of Granary Street. The connection to the slow lane of service to the Arid Zone Experimental Station. The pedestrian connection to the park and its paratas-garden. New connection to the Alcazaba and the footpath ramp. The link to the town in one of its key points, determining the ratio compact city / urban landscape natural. The building consists of the following spaces and program development. Floor(The spaces are located as the development dimension descending ramp elliptical): 1. Access / reception 2. Administrative area 3. Core protected elevators and escalators 4. Multipurpose workshops / showrooms temporary or permanent 5. Multipurpose Hall Basement(Open to the elliptical courtyard and closed at its eastern side by the rocky and wooded natural slope that currently exists): 1. Cafeteria 2. Core protected elevators and escalators 3. Library / chill out

Identification	Footbridge. Connection between Historic Town Center and New City Developments.
Situation	PAMPLONA
Project day	2009
Work to date
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE EDUARDO MARTÍNEZ MOYA
Partners	EDARTEC CONSULTORES SALVADOR LÓPEZ CERVANTES JACOB MARTÍNEZ ARIZA ESAÚ VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ JOSÉ LUÍS RAMOS CHÍA
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Promoter	PAMPLONA CITY COUNCIL
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The draft submitted to the footbridge is based on 2 key points: the requirements of continuity and elimination of architectural barriers and the creation of a sensitive subject with the urban landscape in which they insert. As the specification says, "Within the general accessibility brought by the city of Pamplona, the drop in Labrit point remains unresolved in the east of the city by creating a large breaking of the urban fabric, with dysfunctional that would be created, between the Old and Second Extension of the city." The footbridge would allow comfortably pass through the Paseo de Ronda, ensuring uninterrupted pedestrian way between the Paseo del Obispo Barbazán and bulwark of Labrit (Plaza de Santa María Real) with the area of the 2 nd extension of Pamplona (bullring) and Park Crescent (ripa of Beloso). In this way, moreover, would allow the enhancement of unexplored aspects of heritage. Regarding the proposed design has opted for the simplicity of the item, free of any formula that involves a formal boast technological or excess materials or building details apparent to achieve it in a decisive and firm action, the most important being its physical presence in space. In this way the object does not compete with the many situations that exist at this point: long-distance infrastructure, concentration of buildings of different ages, economic elements rooted in the collective memory, a green mass that bind your all getting a sense of continuity. The footbridge thus becomes an element alien to all, while being able to put each one in load, allowing live these different situations from unusual positions, especially those trees whose crowns can now be touched. Structurally, the bridge is divided into 2 elements: beam and platform (section cantilever slab variable). Both elements will be of concrete. The beam would be made of white concrete, while the concrete slab would be more natural color in a coating that will bring improvements and sealing qualities of transitivity, while soften the color of that item to leave it with the desired black. - STRUCTURAL TECHNICAL PROPOSAL: The structural solution is proposed as a bridge that must climb a length of 78 metres, under which runs the Labrit Slope. The structural design of the construction of a curved beam of great size, of 3.40 metres, resolves the path from one point to another. We propose a solution that allows post-stressed to withstand the anticipated loads. Similarly, a slab of variable depth cantilever works structurally with an arc, allowing pedestrian traffic on it. The post-tensioning allows use of very slender solutions, singing relationships / birth between 1 / 30 and 1 / 45 depending on the boundary conditions. This allows us to bridge without supports, with a very clean design. This implies a reduction in weight of the structure and better use of steel reinforcements ready. The parabolic path of the tendons produces efforts to counter the gravitational forces, taking his total or partial compensation. As a criterion for post-tensioned pre-dimensioning of the permanent loads is compensated at a rate that hovers around 80% because of the overloads are small relative to the weight of its own. The compression introduced by the prestressing on the section also have a favorable effect on cracking, which keeps intact the stiffness and consequently control the deformation. The set is rounded off at their ends with respective abutments foundations, pile caps singing with 150cm, supported on groups of 8 850cm diameter piles to provide stability and to transmit to ground the efforts of flexo-existing compression and torsion. - JUSTIFICATION FOR THE SUITABILITY OF THE LOCATION: The sites chosen for the starting of the footbridge are: The platform next to Fire Station building and more specifically the retaining wall that separates the Fort of St. Bartholomew, which was predetermined by the rules of the competition. The base of the green triangle between the slope of the street Juan de Labrit, Labrit's fort and the pediment above the retaining wall next to the cloakrooms. The second item was another 2 immediate possibilities: landing at +441.28 metres at elevation on the green strip attached to the Descent of Labrit, implying a slope of 10.5% of the bridge passable board, or disembark on passable cover of the costumes from Fronton, as suggested from the bases, but this would involve great technical difficulties and especially the involvement of an easement of one over the other not recommended. The solution adopted is committed to technical simplicity, the formal balance and comfort in its path with a slope of 2.4%, making it a pleasant walk that saves conveniently the descent of Labrit.

Identification	30 Social Housing. Gardeazabal-Iturrigorri Neighborhood.
Situation	BILBAO
Project day	2010
Work to date
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE JOSÉ ÁNGEL ZABALA SUÁREZ
Partners	SALVADOR LÓPEZ CERVANTES JACOB MARTÍNEZ ARIZA ESAÚ VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ ALEJANDRA ZABALA JOSÉ LUÍS RAMOS CHÍA
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Promoter	BASQUE GOVERMENT
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LOCATION AND SURROUNDINGS: The project's site presents an elongated shape along the street Iturrigorri which marks the north-south axis being bounded on the north by the street Armotxabidea. The terrain has a strong slope east-west, so it is necessary to built retaining walls against the ground to tap the fund allowed buildable ground floor and basement. The allotment is entirely urbanized fronts north, east and south, in the latter orientation highlighting the existence of a major pedestrian public space with children's play area, stays, etc. On the Western Front it is limited by a wooded parkland rugged topography, which serves as a protective barrier against the prevailing winds. ADEQUACY PLANNING: The current planning regulations allows the realization of a single block of 46.5 metres x 12m = 558 m2 on the ground and six floors above ground, (6 x 558.00 m2) with a total floor area of 3348.00 m2 above ground and 30 homes as well as commercial premises. Garage levels are allowed in the basement by increasing the depth of occupation on the ground at 5.00 m (up to 17m) in order to comply with mandatory urban envelope 1 space per dwelling. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL: The proposal seeks to strengthen the relationship between with the residential block and the surroundings, creating a landscaped pedestrian area in the west of the building and with direct connection to the existing plaza. The access to this area is by footpath from Iturrigorri street and allows the entry at the three portals designed, by creating a urban public space, which facilitates the exchange of staff and children stay free of hazards and inconvenience of traffic ro (noise, air, etc), so this space is treated as an area to stay and enjoy neighborhood complete with a bicycle parking area. All homes designed to fit the Ordinances of Public Housing design, as well as the municipal ordinances of Bilbao, and the ETC and Basic Legislation in force, particularly the Law 20/1997 for the Promotion of Accessibility. Their distribution has been taken into account the readiness of the nuclei of access (stairs and elevators), creating a floor hall that allow almost total elimination of corridors and prevent various uses suporposición (day and night), kitchen and lounges with bedrooms. The double orientation East-West showing all homes allows natural ventilation of the same with energy savings. Outdoors spaces have been set up near the rooms like balconys or terraces that are set back on the front line in order to integrate them into the overall composition of the facade. In the same way the clotheslines has been placed alongside lifts cores with the appropriate eye protection. Commercial premises are located on the ground floor with access through ramps from Iturrigorri street, that allows access road on the lower part the garage floors. The rise in elevation that has given the ground floor makes easy the access to the first floor of parking, which has provided 15 cars and 15 in the floor -2. The structure will be by concrete and indoors drywall panels. For the treatment of facades we would use sandwich panels of anodized aluminum sheet combined with the same finish carpentry and stressing the terraces painted in brightly colors. The urban hall will be treated with a wood for exterior treated in the pedestrian area and landscaped gardens alongside the existing green area with treatment plants covering the retaining wall. We propose a flat roof where would be located necessary building facilities (solar panels, machines rooms, central heating boiler etc..).