Alfo G Aguado Portfolio

ALFONSO GONZLEZ AGUADO // ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

In the framework of Barcelona-La Molinas candidacy for the winter Olympic Games 2022, this is a study of the situation and possibilities of La Molina in the Catalan Pyrenees. The study of the territory leads to the conclusion that the monoculture of ski and seasonal tourism have deteriorated the area in many aspects.

On the one hand, the traditional activities related to the territory that have shaped what we understand as cultural landscape is less and less important. This has lead to an evident loss of identity, to the depopulation of the area and the trivialization of the relation to the landscape.

On the other hand, the financial dependence on ski and winter sports implies a seasonal fluctuation of the population, thus rendering adequate facilities and services not viable. Additionally the over-exploitation results in an excess of construction of vacation houses, increasing the prices and using up the territory indiscriminately, impeding the development of non-ski related activities.

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TOPIC / Urban studies

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Alternative rural activities

LOCATION /// La Molina, Alp, Spain

DATE //// February 2013

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The project proposes to recover the traces of transhumance and encourage sil-viculture and pastoralism in manners adapted to current demands, such as is happening in other areas of the Pyrinees that are not so centered in tourism and ski.

The urban proposal in La Molina is to integrate these activities in the areas of sun exposure, where they traditionally happened, and control the ski areas. The new constructions related to the Olympic activities will be limited to the valleys bottom, near the train line and the river, to optimize the re-sources and re-program the new buildings.

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Architecture is not about the condition of design, but about designing the conditions. No more messi-anic message, no more utopia.

Bernhard Tschumi, Cicle de Conferncies ANYWAY, CCCB, 1993

NADA RIBERA PLAZA RAMBLA

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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Alternative rural activities

LOCATION /// La Molina, Alp, Spain


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The City Hall of Santa Coloma de Gramanet, together with the School of Archi-tecture ETSAV, propose to study the city by means of researching into contem-porary urban topics and an intervention at a territorial scale. The Case Study is Barcelonas Metropolitan Area.

Through this research, satisfactory urban fabric and functions are revealed in terms of urban centrality, poly-centers, territorial balance and infra-structural articulation.

The proposals are to improve the connections in Santa Coloma by means of a project located in the opposite side of Bess River, in the Trinitat neighbor-hood. This improvement of the connection of Barcelona to the river is deemed necessary and a contrast to the better relation of Santa Coloma.

Thus three actions are proposed, based on their degree of intervention. A first and temporary action of urban furnishings and pedestrian itineraries. A second level of recycling of abandoned spaces with new uses. And a third level of large-scale interventions with changes in the infrastructures that lie next to the river.

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MILLORA MOBILITAT METROPOLITANA (90)

CANVI HUB FERROVIARI, Sants > Sagrera (00)

PORTES DE COLLSEROLA (anys 10)

TOPIC / Urban planning

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Sue up alienated urban realities

LOCATION /// Santa Coloma de Gramanent i Trinitat, Barcelona

DATE //// January 2012

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The management of post-industrial landscapes is a central topic for contempo-rary metropolis.

The city of Verona has a notorious industrial heritage located south of its historical center, both in architectural values and size. The GrandiMagazz-iniwere the large fruit and vegetable warehouses were the food was cooled before transporting it by train to the north of Europe.

Today this landscape is abandoned and the Municipality has for decades offered megalomaniac plans that never developed.

The proposal here is to re-think the Viale del Lavoro, the spinal north-south axis of the city that articulates it with its periphery and connects it to the freeway network. The Viale, in the section located between the Magazzini and the city, suffers from a kind of funnel effect with the conincidence of the channel, the transit connection and the train line linking the stations train depot.

The train depot is seen as a place of opportunity to achieve a new urban cen-tral area, with diversification of uses an the urbanization of the Viale del Lavoro axis.

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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Urban strategies for post-industrial landscapes

LOCATION /// Santa Coloma de Gramanent i Trinitat, Barcelona

DATE //// December 2011

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In the context of a two week intensive course on Cultural Landscape study the village of Albelda in the area of La Franja, province of Huesca, is choses as a case study.

In is an archetypical rural area. It traditionally lived of dryland farm-ing, but after the construction of the Ebro channel in the early 20th Cen-tury the irrigation agriculture was established.

The work here draws a conceptual map. A sort of idea-map of a transport network: each station is a concept related to the territory and belongs to a conceptual line.

Thus the transfer stations are important, where on the same spot different concepts are reached. The two circle lines are also important, water and time.

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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Study for cultural landscapes

LOCATION /// Albelda, Huesca, Spain


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The suburbs of Rome, known as the Roman periphery, are the archetypical urban study in Italian Architecture schools.

Case study, the 90Ha project of a new urban centrality in the area of Ag-nanina, south-east of the city. This centrality is framed by the General Metropolitan Plan of Rome, in force since 2003.

A new centrality of high density and closed blocks is proposed. The or-thogonal web is laid over the palimpsest tissue of the city. The area is based on a typology of blocks and buildings of mixed uses, with the amount of facilities, transport and green areas stated in the plan.

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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // New metropolitan centrality

LOCATION /// Via Anagnina, Rome


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The new venue of the Museum of Barcelonas Cathedral will occupy the church of Sant Sever (located in GarrigaiBachs square) and the adjoining building. The idea is to conserve the existing building in its essence and not only in its superficial aspects. It is now common in architectural practice to maintain an historical faade emptying the building inside. This is con-sidered a trivialization of the architectural value of a building, so the proposal is to be radical in the conservation of the faade, the walls and the floor slabs.

The traditional architecture is radically preserved, and at the same time a contemporary exercise of construction is proposed. The two architectures touch each other but are not confused: they dialogue but keep their es-sence.

The architecture with a light metallic structure leans on the existing ar-chitecture. A system of metal frame that is compatible with the bearing walls, supported to structure a skin of prefabricated lightened concrete panels.

The new architecture is conceived as a series of access devices to the ex-isting volumes. The new architecture houses the services, vertical connec-tions and gives solution to wiring and other services. The volumes are small and only articulate the circulations through existing spaces where the museum system is developed.

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TOPIC / Architecture design

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Re-programming an obsolete church

LOCATION /// Plaa Sant Sever, Barcelona, Spain

DATE //// June 2012

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This is a building for a business incubator in the 22@ district of Barcelo-na. A new volume developed next to an existing building: the Cunill facto-ry, a listed heritage of the PobleNou area.

The building is flush with the rest of the blocks constructions. It is meant to be an enclosed volume, with the movement developed from within.The buildings skin is simple, large openings from floor to floor, with stretched aluminum panels for energy conservation.

The new volume opens and generates the access to the interior of the block, with a second level connection to the Cunill metal works.

The structure has a sustaining as well as a composition function. The col-umns are every 2.5 meters with a continuous beam that defines the whole of the perimeter of the construction. The structural faade acts as a cage and supports the light post-tensed floors that span the whole width of the building. Structural bearing walls of concrete are distributed as well.

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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Business incubator

LOCATION /// 22@ District, Barcelona, Spain

DATE //// June 2011

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The outskirts of the Olimpic Stadium in Rome are to be planned as a wealth-care and spa center. The place is next to the olimpic complex from the twenties, the Monte Verdea and the Lungotevere (full of traffic).

This building is almost all in basement. The different spaces develope themselves around the patio. All the volumes are opened to a private gar-dent, also in basement, isolated from the noise and faced to the natural landscape of Monteverde.

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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Spa and wellness center

LOCATION /// Viale Olimpico, Roma, Spain

DATE //// June 2010

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This project was developed in Santiago, Chile, when working in the office of Polidura&TalhoukArquitectos (P+T).

It is a single-family house. An old house located in nature with views to the Pacific Ocean.

The proposal is to enlarge the original wooden house taking into account the difficulties of the steep slope of the site and the management of the landscape.

A terrace is proposed, cantilevered towards the ocean and the horizon. Un-derneath, partially underground, a two floor piece is developed with a stepped access.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // House by the ocean

LOCATION /// Rancagua, Chile

DATE //// July 2011

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The small box done in TWO MODULES (A+B), both made with laminated three layer wood panels (e=10mm, e=20mm).

The space for the chips are 4 cm, drawn to hold the existing 3.5 cm. diame-ter existing chips.

The chip numbers a grouped with the most used locker lines in mind and in a logical and useful order.

An approximate estimate of the weight (density of the panels without cover is 680 Kg/sqm, for a e=10mm approx.:

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TOPIC / Furniture design

OTHER ACTIVITIES

PROGRAM // Clock room check box for MACBA

LOCATION /// MACBA, Barcelona

DATE //// March 2011

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