PortfolioJordi Jorba Bertran

If I had to define myself with just one word, I would use restless. Eager to discover. Both my life and architecture can be defined exactly the same. Don’t repeat anything twice. Don’t repeat a concept, don’t repeat a material, don’t repeat a method of representing. This document, with it’s lack of homogeneity, gathers this literally. Here you will find fine and bad results, but what keeps them joined is that all come from an ex-ploration from 0. During our learning stage, what does count is the process itself.

IndexArchitecture

1. Islamic Center in Paral·lel- 2014

2. Market in l’Eixampla- 2013

3. 160 Dwellings in Montreal, Canada-2014

4. 120 dwellings in Pere IV, Barcelona- 2012

5. 60 dwellings+ nursery in el Raval, Barcelona- 2012

6. 2 Workshop houses in Caldes d'estrac- 2011 7. Poontoon in Banyoles- 2010

8. Modular wall- 2011

Urban Planning

1. North-south axis in west Barcelona-2014

2. New town center in Mataró- 2013

3. Transformation of Monsolis industrial complex, Barcelona- 2012

4. New station surroundings in Rubi- 2012

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Architecture

Islamic Center in Paral·lelPVIII / 2014 / Jordi Adell Roig

The public space reaches the Kibla, the wall at the end of every islamic ritual. The “promenade” from the street becomes then the ritual. Along the way, this espace leaves all the rest of circu-lations apart, and it leaps to a cosy and intim space. To do that, we work with doorways and variations in the roof height, such as the bridge.

In vertical, the system is similar. All the building is accessible

from a unic hall, which gains in privacity and intimacy as we mount in heigh.

The formalisation of the project are 4 simetric bars of 12,30, a geometric interpretation of the facades rythm in paral·lel. Be-tween the bars, there is an space of 3m wich contains every servidor space, instal·lations and vertical cores.

Market and garden at the EixamplaPVII / 2013 / Jordi Adell Roig

Market means much more than a mere trading place. It means peer to peer, social exchange, quality, proximity. Barcelona’s market contemporany Model is recognized as one of the most efficient all over the world. With more than 37 points, it keeps being the source of goods for a great part of the population. This succes is based in a constant actualization of its infra-structures (climatic, electric, higienical) as well as concepts: now most points include a supermarket area, a degus-tation area, parking and some free space for civic acts.

Being such a singular building, this one is a point of reference, a single and caracteristic shape from the exterior as well as a joint of three continous roofted squares by the interior. This shape answer to a mixture beween the longitudinal market (usually

attached to a street), and the central market (placed in squares).

The garden has two clear areas:

the bite- a solid pavement, few vegetal ele-ments and a clear continuity with the street. gives the market a urban space of its scale, an area to chat, to hold events...

the forest- the green space so demanded by the neighbours. Keep all the trees, and add thirty more

160 Dwellings + offices in MontrealAtelier M1 / 2014 / Irena Latek

Street versus passage, formality versus informality. Again, this project tries to create a dialog between this interlior life so represented in Montreal by the passages of any low-middle density neighbourhood and a public life appearing in a hight density metropolitan scale. It speaks of comunity life, where each floor shares an exterior corridor which is an extension of each appartment. This way, every floor is a comunity of 7 apartments who turn their daylife space towards the others, always facing south.

The whole of the project looks like a bar from the exterior while being a repetition of 3 L shaped pieces, who leave emp-ty spaces at the back and create this alternance wide-narrow/ courtyard-passage.

All the rest of the program (offices, nursery) is mixed within the housing area, a reflection of how the area works. There, only one typology answers all the variety of uses. The first floor is absolutely public, with a comercial caracter already given to the site with the metro and “La Renaissance”, a second hand shop.

120 Dwellings in Pere IVPV / 2012 / Joan Pascual

The interior courtyards, hidden in a city that looks outside, to the streets. Hidden by the Cerdà planning, they’ve been tor-tured, modified, covered, opened, grinded and gloomed under the only purpose of increasing the street facade in a weave where the built profundity had been growing on its own, turning the “patios” into mere ventilation spaces. This project wants to change this. The courtyard as the filter space between the public & the private. Inhabit the courtyard, on both vertical & horitzontal. Placing all entrances inside we mantain this clustery interior, emphasised

by the tipical irregularity, but using it as the circulations and ge-ometrical and social of the dwellings.Pere IV, a street with a character of urban highway, is the right place to give your back facade, without denying the clealy privi-leged southern orientation.

60 Dwellings+nursery in Pere IVPVI / 2013/ Joan Pascual

The Raval, probably the first quartier in density amongst Barcelona, lacks of oxigen, natural light and free space. The town hall position has tried to solve it through plac-ing huge public space areas scattered all arround. But the streets keep being narrow, and the dwellings gloomy, The main target is clear: offer higienic flats. Since the streets don’t have the qualities we are searching, we cre-ate an oversized hole opened to the south, and we face our flats to it. That means to place the gallery by the exterior, wich gives us an additional privacity from the neighbourhs.

2 Single Houses-studioPIII / 2012/ Rafa Diez Barreñada

This collection of projects tries to start dealing with distribution/ struc-tural/ site recognition..All the three houses are like a continous project, but varying the caracteristics. The houses loose their individuality as objects, to be part of a new landscape, keeping visual, material and phisic relation.

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Pontoon in BanyolesPI / 2010/ Marti Sanz

Between earth and water. Working in the limit between those elements of such a diferent nature. In Banyoles, maybe the lake is more unchanging than their surroundings. A mirror. What if we break that limit? the poontoon is going to be like a needdle, like a peninsula. With a continous diafragmatic wood-en structure, it is planned to be a kayak company on summer, and a sightseeing spot of the lake “promenade” on winter. Working in diagonal creates an asymmetry, bal-anced with the program, wich has a private part.

The construcction with timber, typical in this forest area, has created a landscape of green and brown. This ex-terior framed structure tries to emulate the trunks.

Modular WallPI / 2011/ Josep LafontThis isotropic volume is the result of a prismatic basis with 4 arms with the same shape and proportions, but a smaller scale. We try to find the adimensionality, the possibility to grow to any of its directions, the ability to create walls, soils, and even roofs.

We can also play with opacity. We are able to let as much light as we want, as wellas leaving some spac-es empty while the next file keeps been totally filled.

There is a drawback. When the wall chang-es directionally, we have to add a variation.

Urban Planning

New north-south axis in west BarcelonaUVI / 2014 / Eduardo Cadaval

An axis cannot survive on its own, it must feed from the lines of strenght and intensity of the areas crossed. An axis is a strong tool to generate new centrality. Here, the decision is clear. Enlarge a street as intense as “La Rambla” d’esplugues until the periferical “La Montesa”, and cre-ate there a crossroad with this new axis which will be a point of new centrality, all equiped with metro, commercial and social services; supported by the high density residential area of “St Idelfons”, which lacks of both.

The new center will be formalized as an square, enclosed by

irregular middle density closed block housing units. Those would place in the economical market of the middle class, giving more economical mixity to the area, as well as a deal of contempo-ranity with the construction situation in Barcelona, where only small projects are carried on. In a metropolitan scale, now la Rambla with its extention is a pedestrian comunication with Hospitalet, while the axis supplies the vehicle circulation.

New center in MataróUV / 2013 / Manuel RuizsanchezMataró, a city with over 100.000 inhabitants and the capital of the region, is still a city with a clearly medieval structure. The problem appears when all the overgrouth beyond the old walls is only residential. While the center is collapsed, and lacks of space for commerce, all the rest remains empty. This project proposes the creation of a new center (commercial, financial and even productive) just by the edge of the first arron-dissement, using an old industrial factory plot. There are two clear strategies:

extend: recognizing the natural structure of the preex-istences, we extend them in an organic way, in order to complete, close and create new urban facades.

compose: where there are no preexistences to work with, we create a group of metropolitan scale buildings, financial and commercial. Those two play the role of being the background of such a big urban space. The new center.

Transformation of Monsolís industrial complexU IV / 2013 / Sebastià Jornet

The era of endless growing is over. Suffering the hangover of a great real state crisis, Barcelona cannot thing of expanding. Thats why this course has its bases on transforming an old industrial quartier by the edges of Santander street, with a total of 33ha (made of fragmented plots, empty areas and mostly old factories), into a new hybrid neighbourhood, which may keep this industrial scent while being a residencial, productive and commercial area. To mix those uses into the same area, the strategy has been to begin creating 2 oposite urban spaces: pedestrian- follow the old courtyards and back spaces, and con-nect the most identitive points (metro station, Besos, Sagrera

Park)viary- we keep the current system. It will be used mainly as acces for goods. The whole area will be split in four sectors, each one support-ed by an equipment (singular buildings, to give each part an identity) Since the main area is to mix the three of the uses along the area. The idea here is to mix them at each of the buildings. While the vertical buildings will be split by floors, the horitzon-tal by gateways.

New connection + train station in RubiU III/ 2012 / Angel Martín

Rubi, being a medium village of over 70.000 inhabi-tats, has a meaningful part of those living on the out-skirts, mostly in garden city areas, lacking of any equip-ment within their walking distance radius, grown without any urbanistic control and only accessible by car. Both parts of this project share a common target: ap-proach the town center facilities to all those locals.

More specifically, this case study focuses on San Muç area. The road is thought to be the axis -connector that gives an identity to this area, as well as be-ing the suport needed for the apparition of new equipments, also specified in the masterplan. One of those is the “Rubi Nord” train station, placed

in a complexe intersection between this new road, an intercomarcal walking route and the river. To solve it, the possible fluxes of people have been decisive,keeping only the main ones. All the rest works as a n addition of green to the city,

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