Humilde opinión sobre los parados, de una parada....

El otro día, mirando el Twiter me encontré con esté twit de la web Quiero Empleo, al que contesté de la forma que veis abajo

@quieroempleo Un millón de #parados no ha completado la Secundaria. Y nadie habla de cuantos tenemos estudios superiores...

Y linkaba al siguiente artículo del periódico 20minutos 

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/965745/0/millon/parados/secundaria/

"El Gobierno quiere que la formación se convierta en el eje fundamental en los nuevos planes de recolocación que se están poniendo en marcha. El pasado viernes se aprobó en Consejo de Ministros una reforma de las políticas activas de empleo (los programas de reinserción laboral) que el Ministerio de Trabajoun millón de parados que no ha completado el nivel de educación Secundaria. considera «la más importante de los últimos 25 años». Y es que en España hay "

Creo que con este trocito es suficiente para descargar mi ira. Formación como eje fundamental para reducir el número de parados... Váyanse a la mierda. Después de ocho años estudiando una carrera, ahora en muchos procesos de selección me rechazan por exceso de formación. 

Entiendo que haya gente que lo tiene complicado porque llevaban años desempeñando un trabajo, y ahora si lo han perdido, no sepan hacer otra cosa. Pero a los jóvenes que estamos en el paro, que no nos hagan reir con más formación, que estamos hartitos. Además, llamando formación a acudir a una cita para que nos enseñen a elaborar un curriculum... Esa el la formación que he recibido yo del INEM. Señores, seamos serios, que tengo una carrera, sé hacer un CV, probablemente mejor que la funcionaria que me atendió dicho día...

He dicho.

Project and Carrying out of Installations

Project and Carrying out of Installations

Private Collective Housing, Madrid

Delivered: 2008 Fall

Tutor: Tomás Gil

Project and Carrying out of Structures

Project and Carrying out of Structures

Private Collective Housing, Madrid

Delivered: 2007 Fall

Tutor: Ignacio Jaenicke

Library + School Farm, Collado Villalba, Madrid

Library + School Farm, Collado Villalba, Madrid

Projects 3

Delivered: 2004 Spring

Tutors: Sergio de Miguel + Mónica Alberola

TU: Capitel

This new project for the downtown Collado Villalba is conceived as a whole programme. The council brief is to fill voids in the urban context with equipments for the inhabitants and tourists: a school-farm and a car park in the village boundary and a library in the main square, in front of the town-hall. 

The strategy is the same in all the development: to produce the design with a crooked ribbon which could act as walls, book stacks, spaces or fences.

The school-farm is located in a huge plot in the North of the village. The ribbon’s design begins with the car park, following with the keeper house, then the fence and finally the elongated single- storey building with all the facilities for children and instructors: rooms, wardrobes, classrooms, craft workshops, canteen and kitchen. This chain of uses stands in spiral shape. It prompts the circulation and wraps the inner space for harvesting, farming and playing.

The library is made with another ribbon, trying to wrap the intern plot in the square and leaving inner courtyards. In this design, the ribbon houses the book stacks, stretching out into three storeys. The staircase flushed with the inner courtyard and joining the storeys is also made with the same stacks.

The access is located in the back street, going through a tinny garden, looking to the town hall square. The ground floor houses facilities for the village like a conference room and a newspaper library. Two storeys above comprise study spaces with desks inserted in the ribbon among the book stacks and administrative offices. Regarding to the ribbon, the mostly glazed elevations change with the movement of the books by users. The light drawn into by these elevations also suffers changes and sifts.

Private Collective Housing, Madrid

Private Collective Housing, Madrid

Projects 4

Delivered: 2005 Spring

Tutor: Antonio Vélez

TU: Ynzenga

This new residential development of thirty one dwellings, facilities and two little shops forms part of the rehabilitation project of the downtown Madrid. The five-storey building is raised up between two existing one’s. Thus, the project has only two elevations: one to a traffic road and other to a pedestrian street. There is a three meters (nine, eighty-five feet) difference level between the streets, and are separated fifty meters (a hundred and sixty-four feet).

The large length of the site forces the design to make an inner courtyard. This courtyard houses the two exterior circulation cores, located close to the existing buildings end walls. The pedestrian access to the building is prompted by two streets, but in different level. The vehicles access is located in traffic road and leads to the single-storey car park by an L-shaped ramp.

The programme is divided in two bands, flushed with the streets. Owing to the difference in floor level, the band storeys are not at the same height. The main orientation of the issues is northwest-southeast. In ground floor there are shops and the gym. Upper plans houses are designed in four types of intern dwellings with removable wood walls. The surface of this dwellings is from 30 m² (325 ft²) in lofts to 120 m² (1290 ft²) in four-bedroom flats.

Contemporary Art Museum, Toledo

Contemporary Art Museum, Toledo

Projects 5

Delivered: 2005 Fall

Tutor: Enrique Colomés

TU: Bonet

This museum, located in the World Heritage City of Toledo, is proposed in the eastern boundary, overlooking the river Tajo. The aim of the design is to hide the building, to keep the views from Zocodóver Square, and to surprise the pedestrians going down high pitch route, Miguel de Cervantes Street.

The new Contemporary Art Museum is a semi-buried building, flushed with the slope. The plan is conceived through the urban traces. The concrete structure provides with three different directions, dividing the plan with two wedges. The access is prompted by these two wedges: the visitors’ one and other one for workers and vehicles.

The main entrance is vanished, and you don’t notice it until you get the end of the street and cross the plateau to look to the views and the river. The dug-in edge of the plan is defined by a large crooked concrete retaining wall. This wall defines the line of inner serpent circulation. The end of this route is 40 feet (12 meters) below, in the full-height foyer, guiding people to Carmen Walk. 

The museum area is a three storey block. It is connected with the services block by the wedged foyer. This area comprises a library, which can be used independently by citizens, seminar rooms, and an auditorium and a cafeteria in the ground level. The third block, including administrative offices and warehouse, is linked in the ground floor with the museum’s one. The main museum area is conceived like a walkway between artworks and natural elements. There are facilities for permanent exhibitions in the two upper storeys, and for temporary exhibition, with easier removable walls, in grounds’ one. The light is drawn into this walk by northern orientation vertical glazed spans and by large translucent glass windows looking to the river.

School of Art, Architecture and Design, Berlin

School of Art, Architecture and Design, Freie Universität, Berlín

Projects 8

Delivered: 2008 Spring

Tutors: Ángela Gª de Paredes + Iñaki Carnicero

TU: López-Peláez

The Free University is the largest of Berlin three universities. The mat-like campus was designed by Candilis, Josic, Woods and Schiedhelm. The aim of the project was to fill the void between the most important building, Humanities Institute, and the rest of the departments. The new school provides with the structure to link and nails the urban context. The building sits flushed with Fabeck St. and creates a recurrence pattern for building and natural components, based on the Sonsbeek Pavilion in Arnhem by Aldo van Eyck.

The new school of art, architecture and design includes facilities for teaching, research, working, model-making and crafts, comprising classrooms, seminar rooms and workshops. Also, there are administrative offices, shop, cafeteria, library and an auditorium. The space between Josic, Candillis, Woods and Schiedhelm building and school forms an outer atrium and prompts the approach by two ends of building. The inner circulation space works as a comb, with only one storey, with two access points as ends. The circulation servant space is the foot of the perpendicular served spaces.

The main materials are concrete, glass and lawn. The highly legible structure is made of 3 meters-multiple span parallel concrete walls pierced by the circulation corridor. By the high length of these walls, courtyards appear among them with a semi-circular wall marking the access. The Fabeck St. façade is made of glass, or polycarbonate panels in places where more privacy is necessary, covered by a spread metallic mesh. The opposite elevation is glazed. The inner elevations in the courtyards are glazed too and the floors are made of lawn and Ipe wood paving.

The light in a teaching building has to be one of the most important deals. In this project, all the light in work spaces is drawn into by vertical glazed spans located in different height depending on the space below. The placement of these elements is based on northern or southern orientation. The light is sifted by diffusive sheets of wood on the wall-perpendicular concrete joists.

 

ZSL Visitors Centre, London

ZSL Visitors Centre, London

Projects 9

Delivered: 2008 Fall

Tutors: Ángela Gª de Paredes + Moisés Royo

TU: López Peláez

Situated on the heart of Regent’s Park, the ZSL Visitors Centre provides with the access to London Zoo. The park area is like an island inside the urban context. The aim of the design is to create an island, comprising zoo installations and new facilities, inside the park existing island.

The strategy leading the project was to analyze the location of the trees and paths and translated them into geometry. Using tangencies, the project appears ordering the inner and outer spaces in the island.

In form, the building is like a covered path guiding pedestrians to the ticket office. The simple recurrence structure is made of plywood, like it was a forest of trunks. The plan is suited to the path’s form. There is an inner walkway for temporary exhibition, dividing the programme in two areas. The most public area comprises the southern part, including the auditorium, cafeteria, library, bookshop and permanent exhibition. The most private items are located opposite, including laboratories, research rooms and administrative offices, dividing the whole height of the building in two storeys. These two different issues are provided with a narrow bay of servant spaces. The ticket office is a replica of the main building, with the same pattern but less height. The rest of land is filled with an open-air theatre, playgrounds for children and water flows, following the same geometrical strategies.

The elevations are made of thermochip sandwich panels and glass or rabbet polycarbonate panels to let the light in. The interior areas are illuminated by horizontal square spans on the roof. The space inside the building is separated with different class of natural hanged walls, depending on the relationship between them. Therefore, there are three different ways of construct these walls: whole bamboo sticks piled up to get high permeability; half-bamboo sticks quincunx sewn to get medium permeability; cork tiles wall to get no permeability and high sound absorption.

Research Library + Housing for CU, NY

Research Library + Housing, Columbia University, NY

Degree Final Project

Delivered: 2010 June

Tutor: José Antonio Ramos Abengózar

TU: Vicens

This project situated on the northern part of the Manhattan Island, above Central Park, will provide with new facilities for the Columbia University. The new programme comprises a low-rise research library and a high-rise housing for students, teachers and celebrity guests. The project will be developed inside Morningside Park plot, close to the eastern edge.

The strategy leading the project is the lower invasion of the park, due to the delicate design’s situation and the historical detractors of building inside the park. The building flushes with Morningside Dr.  and takes advantage of the street slope to prompt accesses to the different parts of the programme.

Formal building’s appearance is treated like a sculpture to adapt it to the park. The elevations are carved to get a different sensation step by step. The whole building is covered by a spread aluminium mesh to reach the changing look and to control the light and temperature in the inner spaces.

“Building gets dressed of park”

Two different programs, library and housing, are proposed and linked by the communication cores.

Library programme is divided in four storeys. Main of them is park height which comprises a huge study lounge with catalogue stacks. Upper floor is developed in two ribbons leaving a central void. Research works are carried out in this storey. Third level is for educational uses, comprising classrooms and audiovisual spaces. Finally, last level is developed in slope and takes in the inner street connecting two upper accesses.

Housing programme distinguish among dwelling typologies. These are complemented with servant spaces storeys: studying storey, living storey or gym storey at the top of the tower. Housing levels are divided in five individual rooms, two studios with cooking equipment and an apartment with two different spaces: living and working-resting.

Materials are selected following the strategy: long-life with less maintenance. Building components are concrete structure with steel beams and pillars and prefabricated slabs; stud-frame GRC for façades cladding with metallic mesh. Library is covered by a glazed span made up of trusses. Illumination is completed with ceiling pending luminaires and down lights.

Saliendo del Paro...

Tras varios meses (casi 8) sufriendo la cruel paradoja de buscar trabajo sin experiencia, por fin me he topado con alguien que ha decidido darme una oportunidad.

La agencia inmobiliarioa InmoREALTOR ha apostado por mis posibilidades, ya que por un lado puedo empezar a desarrollar mis aptitudes comerciales y de negociación sin vicios ni deformaciones propias de los años de experiencia, mejorando la calidad de mis operaciones con los conocimientos técnicos que me da mi formación como arquitecto.

Sólo puedo agradecerles la oportunidad brindada y asegurarles que voy a dejarme el pellejo en mi labor.


Gracias!

Biblioteca para Investigadores + Residencia de Estudiantes, Columbia University, NY

Biblioteca para Investigadores + Residencia de Estudiantes, Columbia University, NY

Proyecto Fin de Carrera

Entregado: Junio 2010

Tutor: José Antonio Ramos Abengózar

UD: Vicens

Este proyecto situado al norte de la isla de Manhattan, por encima de Central Park, dota a la “Columbia University” de un equipamiento formado por una biblioteca para investigadores, con gran capacidad, y una residencia en torre para estudiantes, profesores e invitados célebres de la comunidad educativa. El proyecto se desarrolla dentro de la parcela de Morningside Park, cerca del borde este.

Debido a la delicada ubicación del proyecto y los históricos detractores de la construcción dentro del parque, se decide tomar una estrategia de mínima invasión del terreno del parque, de forma que el edificio se adosa a Morningside Dr. aprovechando la pendiente que tiene la calle para crear un juego de accesos  a las diferentes zonas que componen el programa.

El aspecto formal del edificio se trata de forma escultórica para fomentar el carácter adecuado para el parque. Se tallan  las fachadas de modo que la percepción sea diferente a cada paso. Se cubre todo con una malla metálica de aluminio consiguiendo que el efecto cambiante se acentúe además de lograr el correcto control de luz y temperatura en los espacios interiores.

"EL EDIFICIO SE VISTE DE PARQUE"

Los dos programas que se proponen en el edificio se fusionan en la zona de los núcleos más cercanos, de forma que un residente puede emplear de forma directa la parte de biblioteca y seminarios.

El programa de biblioteca queda divido en cuatro niveles, de forma que el principal de todos ellos es el de cota parque donde se encuentra la gran sala de estudio con todo el catálogo de ejemplares que alberga. La planta superior se desarrolla en dos bandas adosadas a fachada que dejan un vano central volcando sobre la planta inferior. En este nivel se desarrollan las labores de investigación, con más fondos, el depósito y un estrado para los trabajos individuales de los investigadores. Además hay una pequeña zona

de seminarios. El siguiente nivel, dedicado más a la docencia y divulgación, acoge una zona de depósito de material digitalizado, con zonas de visualización individual y de proyecciones colectivas. También alberga unas aulas teóricas, que por su mayor condición de ruido, se separan físicamente del resto de espacios más fluidos de la biblioteca. Por último el nivel superior se desarrolla en pendiente y es la zona de calle interior que conecta los dos accesos.

El programa de residencia, bastante reducido, propone distintas topologías habitacionales complementadas con zonas de usos comunes para hacer más confortable la estancia de los residentes. Hay plantas que únicamente cuentan con zonas comunes, que se desarrollan en dobles alturas para crear espacios de recreo o de estudio que siempre abren sus visuales hacia Morningside Park con Central Park y el skyline de la ciudad como telón de fondo. Las plantas que únicamente tienen habitaciones cuentan con tres tipologías: 5 habitaciones individuales que requieren un soporte de espacio común (que ocupan la mitad de la planta); 2 estudios para dos personas con un pequeño equipamiento de cocina; un apartamento con dos espacios diferenciados, de estar y de trabajo-descanso, que además cuenta con una pequeña cocina y una terraza que actúa de proa del edificio. Por último, en las dos últimas plantas, se desarrolla un pequeño programa de gimnasio, de forma que se fomenta la actividad física dominando las vistas de la ciudad casi en 360º.

Al tratarse de un edificio público requiere una gran durabilidad con el menor mantenimiento posible. Por ello se emplean materiales de la mejor calidad, con facilidad de mantenimiento. Se emplea estructura mixta de pilares y vigas de acero y elementos horizontales de hormigón prefabricado.  Para los cerramientos se emplean placas prefabricadas de GRC tipo Stud-frame y ventanas practicables mediante llave de mantenimiento de aluminio. Como protección de la fachada, y adaptación a la delicada ubicación del proyecto, se “envuelve” el edificio con una malla metálica de acero inoxidable. La biblioteca está iluminada mediante un lucernario compuesto por vigas en celosía de acero forradas que sujetan las carpinterías de aluminio. Se complementa la iluminación con luminarias de techo suspendidas y downlights.