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Residential Architecture House for Núria House for Mick Debarge House

Working Spaces Renewal of the IBE headquaters

Urban Spaces The Palm’s Cross Square and Playgroung Preventive Urbanism

Annex Exhibition at CCCB

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From my point of view, domestic architecture is a

membrane that controls what happens between your

intimate world and the rest of the universe. Adaptation to

the site in a physical / organic level as well as personal is

important to have a good relation with the exterior. You have

to enjoy the site and the site must enjoy us. The inner side

of the membrane should be an intimate and personal space

of protection and comfort. An extension of ourselves. The

projection of our interior to the exterior.

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Residential Architecture

House for Núria

House for Mick

Debarge House

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The project is composed by three modules that search the

best orientation depending on the activities that they

hold. In the ground floor the room’s module turns towards

the east, protected by a circulation stripe in the west. The

collective zone of the house opens completely towards the

south. The last module is a mezzanine whish looks to the

landscape.

1.Situation 1. Ground floor 1/200 2. Mezzanine floor 1/200

House for NúriaSeva, Barcelona, Spain. (2009 - under construction)

038 ArquitecturaEva Gayolà, Albert Santaló and Carles Tuca *

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1.Long section 2. Cross Section 1/500 3. Construction 07

1. Elevation: south-east south-west north-east north-west 1:20008

The building structure is made of cross-laminated timber

panels. This material makes walls thinner, that is to

say, improves the house surface efficiency. The weight of

the main structure is reduced nearly to the half, lowing the

foundation costs. It also accelerates the construction and

makes it cleaner.

1. Little sketch 2. Construction - 2 09

* This house is an idea and project by Eva Gayola Viñas (038 Arquitectura), I just collaborated as a draughtsman.

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There are just three exterior walls risen up from original

building. They enfold a 80 m2¬ surface close to a square.

Next to the west façade is possible to intuit a small annex.

The ruins show the existence of a two pitched roof and two

stories. The adaptation of the house to the site allowed the

entrance either in the ground floor or in the first floor.

Can Salvi (House for Mick)Cabanelles, Girona, Spain. (2011 - construction)

038 ArquitecturaEva Gayolà, Albert Santaló and Carles Tuca

1. Surroundings 1/50010


The rests of the building are located in the «Solà de Badós»

neighbourhood, on the sunny slope of the mountain, in

big clearing of a forest reserve. There are more house, some

ruined, some restored. The ruins are in little piece of ground

free from trees and surrounded by paths. In the north, east

and west there is the forest; towards the south, fields, a

stream and the landscape. Can Salvi, together with the other

cottages -ruined or restored-, belongs to the rural landscape

of the countryside and its history.

1. Environment 2. Region of Cabanelles 3. The ruins 11




La proposal is based in the town-planning rules

and the client’s will. He doesn’t want the exact

restitution of the building, but he wants to keep the old

cottages style. La composition is simple. The volume

rises over the existing walls, without big windows

and following the buildings’ formal criteria of the

area’s “rural architecture”. The house faces the south

and is two storied. The day zone is in the ground floor,

the night zone in first floor. The ground floor conserves

the original space, in the exception of the bathroom

and the stairs. The first floor is much more comparted

in rooms and an open space that can be close up.

1. Cross section 1/100 2. Sequence open space/close space12



1. Ground floor 2. 1st floor 1/100 13


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The project began with a ground floor plan provided

by the client and the condition of a possible posterior

construction of a mezzanine. A three different volume

succession follow the different functional divisions of

the plan. Inside, spaces of different height are obtained

and outside is expressed with different roof composition.

Imperfect symmetry unifies the volumes keeping the same

façade height in the entire perimeter.

Debarge HouseSils, Girona, Spain. (2011 - under construction)

038 ArquitecturaEva Gayolà, Albert Santaló and Carles Tuca

1. Situation 2. Plot 3. Idea’s diagram14





1. South-west and north-west elevations 1/200 2. 3D drawing 3. mezzanine’s drafts 4. 1er sketch 5. Plan 6. Cross Section 1/250 15

A working space is where productive activities are hold.

The huge diversity of activities and their specifications

require vey characteristic elements, functions and shapes.

Anyway, anything a working space would need must optimize

the productive process and help those who participate in it.

These spaces should improve single concentration at the

time that guarantee a good communication flow. High formal

contrast points creation allow evasion, that collaborates in

the brain and body’s relax.

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Working Spaces

Renewal of the IBE headquarters 18

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Institute Barcelona Sports (IBE) is a city council organism

responsible for the management, upkeep and promotion

of the sport equipments and events of Barcelona. Some

important sport events in the city were the reason for the

improvement and renewal of their headquarters. The works

and maintenance department of the institution was in charge

of the interior renewal and the supervision of the work as

well as the design of some furniture.

Renewal of the IBEBarcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (2008 - 2009)

Works and maintenance dep. - IBEG. Ordóñez, V. Omonte, C. Tuca and E. Valencoso

18 1. Offices situaion in Montjuïc hill 2.Previous state (corridor) 3. Previous state (offices)

1. Final plan - Ground and first floor 1/250 19

20 1. Closets’ details 1/100

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1. Meeting room details 1/50 2. Reception hall table details 1/50 3. Exhibitor details 1/20 21

22 1. Meeting room 2. Circulation and waiting 3. Staricase 4. Reception hall

1. Offices 2. City sport councillor’s office 3. View from the Olympic swimming pool 23

Urban spaces are collective – open or closed- places

modified to favour human activity. Their addition

creates a network suitable for transport and communication,

social interaction and commerce. The capacity of a space to

generate activity and to provide quality of life to their users,

determines its placing in the city schema of citizens’ collective

conscience. A space achieves to be part of the network when it

keeps a good relation with its surroundings, it carries out its

role – node or/and connection- and guarantee concordance

between formalisation and activity. Designing spaces that

definitely occupy their place in the network, certainly means

to construct a city.

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Urban Spaces

The Pam’s Cross

Square and Playground

Preventive Urbanism

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Some chosen streets of the city centre were repaved in

order to prioritize on foot moving and displacements.

One of the chosen points was the crossroad between “Tallers”

street and “Ramalleres” street. The number of cars moving

along these streets considerably decreased after the

circulation reorganization. Every day hundreds of people

walk through this space that has a street furniture surplus,

very little hygiene, an invisible palm tree and an inadequate

pavement for walking.

The Palm’s Cross Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (2010 - 2011)

Projects and woks Dep.- Aj. BarcelonaMariona Nubials, Carles Tuca and Eduard Valencoso

1. Situation 2.Previous state26



The black granite and white granite stone pieces circular

arrangement attempts to make obvious the presence

of the palm tree and gives the impression of unique, single

and outstanding place. Street furniture elimination allows

the space to breath and commerce activity protects it from

uncivil actions. The aim to achieve is to perceive the space as

a square more than a simple crossroad.

1. Slove’s analysis 2. Training sketch 3. Square plan 1/200 27

1. The Palm’s Cross 28

1. Photomontage 2. Woman who walks 3. The palm tree 29

The demolition of two XVIII century residential buildings

creates two empty plots. They are located in a block

surrounded by two important edges in the city centre. This

situation has propitiate the transformation of the zone into

background. Finally the two plots turned into two motorbike

parking lots.

Hung gardens

Aqueduct

Ancient medieval streets

Demolished buildings

Square and PlaygroundBarcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (2010 - 2011)


1. Location 2.Historic plan 185830

1. Ancient Fishes’s Square 2. Isidre Nonell Square previous state 31

The neighbours wanted to recuperate the space for the

people and the bikers did not want to lose the place for

their motorcycles. The Barcelona History museum wanted to

restore the ancient roman aqueduct, visible in one of the two

squares. The challenge of the project is to give the public

space back to citizens, increase the number of playgrounds in

the city centre and emphasize the presence of the aqueduct

while replacing the bikers’ parking lot.

Circulation

Sojourn

Urban built linked

1. Trading plan 1/900 2.First sketchs 3. Executive plan 1/50032

The proposal consists of the division of the space into

three areas. In the south a circulation edge that joins

the two squares. In both square centres, a sojourn space

that presides the squares: a playground; and a shadowed

parterre. The third area is more connected to the urban built

activities: in the west one, a space dedicated to the aqueduct

that shows the entrance of a new public equipment - women’s

house -;an arranged area for a restaurant terrace in th east.

1. Motorbike replacement 2. Cross sections 1/200 33

34 1. New 8th May “women’s day” Square 2. Street works

1. Aqueduct and future entrance of “women’s house” 35

36 1. “Isidre Nonell” Square 2. Top View 3. Special terrace zone

1. Path 2. View from the path 37


Preventive urbanism is a city council measure that tries

to reduce certain uncivil-considered behaviours and

conducts that the most part of voters find undesirable. Furtive

urinations, to sleep in the street, to do drugs and, generally,

unrespectable actions that entail an undue appropriation of

the public space or imply social exclusion are examples of

conducts that preventive urbanism attempt to avoid. Must be

said that is difficult not to say impossible to eradicate some

behaviours without social services support.

Preventive Urbanism Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (2010 ...)


38 1. Public urinary prototype 2. city centre fence and playground

39 1. Rose Square intrevention 2. Artistic space in a cul-de-sac 3. Poetry reading space

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Annex

Exhibition at CCCB 42

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CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona)

FAD (Foment de les Arts i del Disseny)

MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona)

Amb el suport de:

Departament de Medi Ambienti HabitatgeDepartament de Culturai Mitjans de Comunicació

eme3 is an Architecture Festival that takes place every

two years in Barcelona. Collapse, in every level:

economic, ecologic and social was 2009 festival’s subject.

«Xarxa Delicada» -Delicate network- passed a selection

to be exhibited at the CCCB museum “Centre de Cultura

Contemporània de Barcelona”. The installation plays with

shape to express collapse. It consists of a closed and stable

structure of lineal elements made with wooden sticks that

represents reality. The simplest structure that obeys these

conditions was an element formed by four segments that

crossed one with each other, at least, three times. We

considered this structure a Fractal: An element that could be

repeated infinite times to create bigger structures that have

the same properties.

Exhibition at CCCBBarcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (2009)

Working Group:David Domínguez, Hugo Hernández and Carles Tuca

42 1. Exhibition poster 2. Prototype

Basically we represented two types of nets. The first one

is more extensive and flat. Fractals share their elements

to generate the net. This kind of net attempts to represent

how oriental societies and philosophies work. Oriental

society and its dynamics have much more collective spirit

than others. The second net is compact and cloud-shaped. It

has a more hierarchal structure where fractals work one after

the other, but not together. They don’t share the content but

the container. This kind of net is like occidental societies

are. They tend to create more egoist, selfish and solitary

dynamics.

43 1. Oriental network 2. Occidental network 3. Xarxa Delicada

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