Urban Intervention in Batan

x6 architects proposal

the nest - project development

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Juan Antonio Algora Rodriguez

Juan Antonio is an enthusiastic, creative and helpfulpart II architect, and able to work good in a team andindividually. He is confident at both the design andtechnical parts of projects. He works well under highpressure situations whilst being efficient, collaborativeand good humoured. Besides being responsible,passionate and reliable, he is an open minded and avery strong personality. He is skillful at Rhinoceros3D, Photoshop, Archicad and Autocad.One of his best projects is a “Cultural centre” wherecirculations prevail making the building moreaccessible. The building is configured by lots ofconcrete volumes at different levels connected byglass and steel volumes. All the different levels arevisually connected by double-high living spaces. Histwo more recent projects are a “Library” in Oportowhere he made a an exhaustive study ofconfigurations of light with innovative materials, and a“Hostal” in Lisbon which is a rehabilitation of tworuined buildings.

juanan.algora@gmail.com

Marina Fernández Rodriguez

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Marina is a responsible, hard-working part II architect used tobeing in contact with the environment. Besides having handdrawing experience, she is good at graphic design. She isable to work well in a team as independently, easily adaptableto new situations. She is an open minded woman with highsociable abilities.Her project “Mingorrubio Housing” consists of 40 one-familycourtyard housing volumes and a 40 glazed balcony housingbuilding. These two residential models generate an urbandevelopment where interspaces are curiously exciting.Configured such as an Arabian planning, the courtyardhouses are very close ones from the others; street spaces areonly designed for circulation. Everything revolves around thehouse’s heart, the courtyard, achieving this way natural lightinto the whole residence. The home program containsdepending on the sort, three or four bedrooms, a large loungethat can be opened to the central space, and a kitchen withits own mini-courtyard, where a barbecue can be had. No-annoying visual image is an important fact; the idea is carriedout building these volumes with wood boards compoundedwith glazed sliding panels surrounding the main courtyard.

marinafrvg@gmail.com

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Belén Antonia García-Izquierdo

A highly motivated and creativefourth-year student of architecturewith work experience. Willing to learnand able to deal with stressingsituations and deadlines. I am anenthusiastic, reliable designer, withgreat knowledge in CAD programs,graphic design and video programsas well as good communication skills.I am used to working in a team orindependently, taking responsibledecisions when needed.

Career objective: To collaborate withan international practice for one year,developing my creativity and workingskills as much as my level of Germanthat is improving exponentially. Afterthis period, open to broadenresponsibilities including internationalassignments.

vvlwmn@hotmail.com

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Eduardo Navarro Martínez

Eduardo is a creative and highlymotivated part II architect who isconstantly trying to expand hisknowledge in architecture as well asfocusing in the graphic arts. He hascooperated in several work teamswith other students and architects insome architecture studios. He is aresponsible, creative, time-efficientand productive person.

One of his most interesting projects isa convent for the Nisida Island inNapoles which consisted of a hugering that contained all the parts of theprograms reinventing the concept ofthe atrium for a convent.

eduardonavarro@me.com

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Irene Planchuelo Gómez

Irene is a highly enthusiastic part IIarchitect and able to work well in ateam and indepently. She is used tomulti-tasking and to adapting to highpressure situations whilst remainingboth accurate and good humoured.Besides being organized, competentand reliable, she is responsible and anopen minded and creative personality.

One of her most recent project “Woodand Light Houses” involved a detailedanalysis of light in collective housing inMadrid. She made an extensiveresearch in materials, orientations andformal possibilities. She worked withwooden lattices designed to beenvironmentally efficient, maximizingnatural light and ventilation to reduceenergy use.

irepg08@hotmail.com

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Julieta Toribio Villaverde

A highly motivated, creative graduatewith a big interest in developing myacademic training as an architect andable to work well in a team andindependently, I am used to adaptingto high-pressure situations and tightdeadlines whist remaining bothaccurate and good humoured.Besides being competent andreliable, I am responsible and openminded and a very persistent person.

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To collaborate with an studio practicefor two summertimes, in order to gainexperience and develop my academictraining as an architect.

julietatoribio@gmail.com

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X6 was founded in 2010 in Madrid with the concept of creating a team that attempts to give an answer accordingto the current complex reality and society needs. Opposing to the creativity conceived in terms of the traditionalarchitecture office, X6 bets on a creative context of teamwork of professionals with different experiences andviewpoints. We are connected to each other as we all started our architectural studies at ETSAM, developingdifferent kinds of projects together, taking part in competitions and workshops to improve our abilities.The practice engages globally in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. X6 projectsaim to architecture and urbanism fields, on a variety from small houses to masterplans, developing projects forseveral publications and exhibitions too. Our work has a global reach, being this thereason why we have receivednumerous international awards.We count with a highly collaborative, research-based design method that involves clients, stakeholders andexperts from a wide range of fields. Nowadays, we work together with people specialized in structures,environmental engineering, lighting, electrical engineering, telecommunications, fire strategy, acoustics andsustainability.X6 team pays great attention to environmental problems, trying to give the project the largest possible socialquality. There are specific persons who deal with those affected in the environment in which the project will takeplace in order to improve their quality of life. Our vision for a new architecture is that it should always add new andpositive qualities to the site and the brief. This happens through careful analysis of the site, the surroundingbuildings and the brief.Each project’s topic is worked by each team member, so that there are six points of view in every action.Evaluations are considered one by one, comparing good points to bad points. Sometimes it is difficult to get to asolution, but when we do, we are all in agreement.

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Our main objective is improving the quality of life in the environments we work by employing different methods ofarchitecture. As a team, we join together a number of ideas that we think we have to achieve in all our projects:

Respect the environment - Use renewable energy -

Take in count every society group -Work in cooperation with other teams -

Sometimes, we have to employ the newest methods for the best results, but this doesn’t agree with some of thepolicies stated above. In this case, we balance both points: the result we want to achieve and the methods wehave to follow to get it. We discuss this problem and we finally get to an idea. This way, we don’t close our mind toour projects, when try to have in mind our main objectives.

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First of all, we investigate which the main problem we have to solve is. Usually, there is more than one problem, sowe try to find the relationship between them. Afterwards, we start the creative process to get the key to solve it bybrainstorming, getting different solutions to get on with the project. When we are fully convinced with anintervention method, we re-explain it by several ways: plans, 3Ds, videos, etc, in order to be sure everyone has nodoubts about it. When everything is detailed, we start the building process.At every project stage we team up in workshops with partners, experts and users discussing the results of ourresearch and developing the concept and framework for the design work. We also work with social networks, inorder to know the opinion and the significance of our ideas. Due to the fact that we are too many people, we alsolike to work online, using tools such as Skype, Dropbox or Hangouts.

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OverviewHow places are designed, planned and built affects everyone. Every development  has the potential to transform lives and theenvironment, when it goes beyond achieving practical and commercial aims.The main interest as much from the commission as from the investor is the strategy of The Nest of revitalizing the city building over thebuilt. It is expected that this way of producing city will set the standard for possible future initiatives.The development of an eco-town in Batán sets ambitious goals for a new sustainable community. The commission will involve since theearly stages of the masterplan, raising design ambitions and ensuring that the vision and execution of the project set an exemplarystandard for a new kind of eco-development according to the concept “building over the built”. 

MembersThe commission in Madrid provides expert design consultation, design review and training.  It collaborates extensively with differentmembers, including developers, planners, design teams, local authorities and neighbours of the community it serves.Its skilled, professional team works with experts to offer support in delivering sustainable places where people want to live and work.Its expertise range  from housing, landscape and public equipment developments to nationally significant  infrastructure projects andneighbourhood planning support, landscape design, healthcare, procurement, public space strategy and sustainable urban design. 

The challengeIt's imperative that Batán’s eco town doesn't feel gimmicky or unnatural. It has to be a place that people genuinely want to live. Thechallenge facing the client is to make sure that the new development still feels part of the existing town of Bicester, and integrates intothe close Casa de Campo - while delivering all of their design and sustainability ambitions.

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The commission takes a "critical friend" approach, working with the local authority to push excellence and sustainability in the scheme,from increasing public equipment to improving the use of greenspace.By challenging the developer to limit the dominance of cars, the environment department strengthens the eco-credentials of thescheme. Social services emphasize the need to integrate amenities with the surrounding area so both residents and local communitiescould share in them, making the neighbourhood far more than an isolated estate.  In the case of the role of the engineering team it isessential that, along with the immense sustainability ambition, they achieve that the project delivers the level of design innovationrequired. Besides, parent-teacher associations advise integrating nature and village green more to provide “a useable and magicalresource for children”.

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AtlantisThe project is a settlement on the Atlantic Ocean that employs solar and maritime energy. The 5x5 meters housingpieces at different heights are distributed by a 1 meter of diameter pillars separated 11 meters between them. Thedifferent configuration of the units creates spaces with different dimensions and qualities.

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Bridge HousesTaking advantage of the large number of bridges located in Port, the project consists on building up a new bridge with astrong structure in order to shelter houses inside of the arc. The configuration is divided on two levels where the boxesthat work as houses are supported.

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There are mainly two reasons why the x6 studio nest project is going to improve the Batan neighborhood inmany different fields.The first one is that is going to suppose a reference point to all of the city of Madrid which will increase theeconomy as it will attract to Batan several people from tourists to the citizens of Madrid, which means, anactivation. It will also increase the security because the public equipments as markets or restaurants need it.From the architecture point of view , the landscape improves its image and the nests become a referencepoint even from the distance.The second one, which is also one of the bad qualities of the neighborhood is the density. The idea of theProject starts when this problem is notified by the architects and so the decision of building on top of thetowers is taken. The lack of services and internal space finds a solution in this operation.

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of Madrid. Increase of the economy of the neighbourhood (ACTIVATION)

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Three kinds of investor to work hand to hand:

A) Manufacturer of construction interested in the rehabilitation of existing buildings. See in this project a "pilotproject" to export the operation outside Madrid.B) Property inverstors interested in the activation of the neighbourhood. They help to build the project andthey take advantage of a piece of it.C) x6 studio architect develope this innovative idea. Then they ask for help to "The Heroes Club" company.What are the benefits of joining The Club? Access to new, paradigm-shifting projects and proposals: Smalland medium businesses, startups and large enterprises, the current economic protagonists in the mostdynamic countries and sectors of the global market, all will have the opportunity to partner around projectstranscending frontiers.

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053 neighborhood's view

054neighborhood's study

055 intervention possibilities

056intervention possibilities and chosen intervention

057 new structure plans

058intervention process

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062influence over the existing buildings

063 communication and structure

064communication and structure

065 intermediate space

066main project image

067 daycare center image

068common spaces image

069 library elevation

070library plan example

071 library elevation

072library lower plan

073 restaurant, club and market elevation

074restaurant and club plan

075 restaurant, club and market elevation

076club image

077 restaurant, club and market elevation

078market plan

079 restaurant, club and market elevation

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081 green spaces and daycare center elevation

082green spaces image

083 green spaces and daycare center elevation

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085 green spaces and daycare center elevation

086green spaces section

087 exhibition spaces elevation

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The project is located in a strategic area of Batan neighborhood, close to Casa de Campo, in Madrid. Analyzing the neighborhood, itwas concluded that there was a high population density so it was decided to make a series of constructions above the existingtowers of Saenz de Oiza. This radical idea, however, has a fairly conventional column structure, with the difference that they haveabout 40 meters high and are external to the towers, serving these as a timely support to reduce sagging. In addition to the networkperimeter pillars, two communications towers are projected as two major structural cores that also allow the access to the building.The main feature of these buildings is to collect the public space of the neighborhood, which is scarce and poorly organized, and toconcentrate it above the towers. They are projected the most diaphanous plants which allow the program that harbor, being able tofind open spaces like green zones or an aviary, as well as endowments that the district does not have like a library, kindergarten orsports centers and others.

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