TallaT

Ideas competition for a care equipment and dwellings for older people in the social housing of Camp Redó, Palma. 2011, Consorci Riba.

The existing social housing imposes the need of maintaining the rectangular volume, but to rebuild it. So, the new building has the same floor ground but from first to third ground the volume splits in three small pieces.

It’s a “TallaT” building (“tallat” means cut in catalan). This way, the connection with its surroundings is bigger than now. Furthermore, the new terraces, which now no longer exist, make the neighbours live in a truly community.

Barras de Código

Contest for a façade design in Sanxo Llop, Gandia (Valencia). 2010, Aprusa.

The need is to make a façade for a volume unknown in the moment for the call of entries. It’s only known that the use of the building will be commercial and leisure.

The proposal creates a metallic piece called “eeele” that can be installed horizontally or vertically. This permits to create a frame around the ground floor showcases.

Also, the piece has two wings that protect from the sun and at the same time, when it is installed vertically, it creates a gazing game.

Camins d'aigua

Constest for the restoration of the Museum and House Blai Bonet in Santanyí, Mallorca. 2009, Fundació Casa Museu Llorenç Villalonga, Pare Ginard i Blai Bonet.

The project consists in the restoration of the dwelling of the writer Blai Bonet (1926-1997).

2009, june. Façades: Palma Street (left) and Campos Street (right).

It is located in Santanyí. The house is a typical building of Mallorca made of “marés”, a kind of limestone. This house occupies the south of the building site. At the north there is another building, like a shed. Between both buildings there is a courtyard.

2009, june. Details of the courtyard.

The proposal is divided into two actions: restoration of the existing house for transforming it into a museum and elimination of the shed, where there will be a documentation centre dedicated to the writer.

Project.

6x3

International Ceramic Design Contest, Cevisama 2009, Valencia.

The contest proposed the design of a tile. And the answer was an hexagonal form that can be bent and manipulated to create different patterns.

PAC – Personal Activities Capsule

150% competition. Fundación Caja de Arquitectos grants, 2008.

With 150% the foundation proposed to work on an existing city to find new solutions in order to increase the population but saving the city ground.

The answer to that is the CAP or PAC, Personal Activities Capsule, a cube that lives like a good parasite in the existing buildings of Santa Catalina, a neighbourhood of Palma de Mallorca.

Municipal Archive and History Museum in Sallent (VII – park)

Master thesis. July, 2008.

18 Sallent_Park

On a lower level from the basement of the building, but 3 meters up from the Riereta, there is a piece of land that can be connected to the village streets with a staircase. Then, the Park of the Riereta is created.

The piece of land is in fact the remains of the city walls. It was the limit of the village of Sallent before 1912, when the Torres i Amat school was created.

Opening this space to the population would be a way to rediscover existing stone structures, but it also would improve pedestrian mobility.

19 Sallent_Park, paths

The most important points for distributing the park are the Archive and Museum building on the west side and an historical stone structure with an unknown use on the east.

It’s also important the study of the existing trees and plants, in order to get a new garden but with the typical vegetation of the zone.

20 Sallent_Park, pavillion

The stone volume on the east side of the park is transformed into an open pavilion for exhibiting sculptures on its ground floor. Its roof can be used for concerts, theatre, cinema… and also as an entrance to the park.