2024 Specialty – Urban Design and City Science / José M. Ezquiaga
Cover by students De Luca, Ferré, Maldonado, Mandi, Ucha Specialty Leader: José María Ezquiaga Professor: Gemma Peribañez LIVABLE, EQUITABLE, RESILIENT AND HEALTHY CAMP – URBAN AND PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN. General Plan – De Luca, Ferré, Maldonado, Mandi, Ucha The Urban Design specialty seeks to teach students strategies for creating flexible places and creative environments, where people […]
2024 Workshop – Sky Colonies: Cooperative densification in Madrid / Jacob van Rijs + Ignacio Borrego
Cover by students Gaxiola, Real, Sahin, Yasser Workshop Leaders: Jacob van Rijs + Ignacio Borrego Date: From 18th to 25th October 2024 The pandemic crisis has changed our perception of our living environments. We now demand a new level of requirements to our residential spaces as home office has been generalized. There is a […]
2024 Workshop – Learning from Tokyo: High-Density Housing in Madrid / Momoyo Kaijima
Model image by students D Christensen, Gaxiola, Maldonado Workshop Leader: Momoyo Kaijima Assistant: Alberto Nicolau Date: 31st of October to 04Th of November With the aim of challenging the hypothesis that Europe’s population can grow without demolishing existing buildings, the studio proposes learning from housing design techniques and living practices in the densely populated […]
2024 Specialty – Low Resources and Emergency Housing / Elena Giral
Specialty Leader – Elena Giral The speciality has a strong analytical and practical component, where students are encouraged to discuss, reassess and question throughout the whole module, including until/during the final assignment presentation. Students are expected to work incrementally, every day, on their assignment, incorporating all the lessons learnt from the different classes and practical […]
2024 Specialty – Sociology, Economy and Politics / Daniel Sorando
Sanchinarro Neighborhood – Research by students Akins, Cruz, Denisova, Ucha Specialty Leader – Daniel Sorando The Sociology, Economics, and Politics specialty aims to provide students with a comprehensive perspective on the issue of collective housing. Through the analysis of social, economic, and political variables, students are encouraged to understand urban dynamics, current city challenges, […]
2024 Workshop – Domestic Fragments / Elli Mosayebi
Cover image by students Ferre, Madonado and Martinez Workshop Leader: Elli Mosayebi Workshop Assistant: Alvaro Martín Fidalgo Date: 15th to 19Th of July A critical intellectual engagement with forms of contemporary urban housing serves as the focus of the studio project, in the design of an apartment. In this, design is to be understood as […]
2024 Specialty – Construction and Technology / Ignacio Fernández Solla
Detail by students Mandi, Martínez, Sonawane, Ucha, Yasser Specialty Leader – Ignacio Fernández Solla Team – Archie Campbell / Diego García- Setién / David Castro Construction and technology emphasizes the concept that buildings are like entities and that ongoing progressive industrialisation has made possible to understand the different parts of it. The building envelope, […]
2024 Specialty – Climate, metabolism and architecture / Javier García-Germán
Cover image by students Cruz, Delgado, Nikolskaia, Patel and Ucha Specialty Leader: Javier García-Germán The module explores the design opportunities which the field of thermodynamics and ecology are opening to architecture, and specifically to the field of collective housing. The module focuses on climatic questions and on the metabolic dimension of architecture, with the objective […]
2024 Specialty – Leadership, processes and entrepreneurship / Sacha Menz
Specialty Leader – Sacha Menz Date: 21st to 23th of May Our course is a guided tour through the design and building process, covering consultants’ competences and responsabilities of all involved parties. We want to explore the nature of our built environment and we believe that our approach to it can be referred to […]
2024 Workshop – Residentialization of modernist containers for the biodiverse city / Juan Herreros
Cover image by students Akins, Martinez, Sahin and Ucha Workshop Leader: Juan Herreros Workshop Assistant: Pedro Pitarch Date: 06th to 10Th of May. Image by students Denisova, Madrigal, Mandi and Patel In the confusing context of our cities, submerged in an irremediable crisis of models and bombarded by figures that go beyond our experience and […]
