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100.000m2 multifunctional skyscraper in Pamplona

Located in Pamplona, rises the 100.000m2 skyscraper with more than 150 meters and 46 floors that joins apartments, a hotel, a mall and a library. The tower contacts with the ground through a base that con-tains public spaces communicated with double and triple heights. The base shrinks towards the centre and narrows until it reaches the beginning of the tower, where different size apartments are located. The structure is crowned by the luxury hotel.

Huesca´s Masterplan

By means of a new collective housing typology, a new master plan is proposed in Huesca. This typology is born from the circle and the analysis of its shape. Accordingly, very extensive buildings of variable diameter are created. These buildings contain public spaces such as gyms, shops and a nursery in the lower floor. Meanwhile, the upper floors grow through different shape volumes, letting open spaces and terraces between them. Permeable blocks, which mould small communities as if they were villages, are created; densifying and letting open zones and huge parks in the perimeter.

Intergenerational building Pamplona

The program asks to create a building in which the three stages of life were represented. Thereby, the building contains a nursery, a young entrepreneurs centre and a sheltered housing and daycare centre for de elders always taking into account the accessibility. Inspired by the idea of human development the project grows in height around a big plaza. The roofing itself is an extension of the plaza with terraced gardens that at the same time, contrast with an interior ramp, allowing interior and exterior accesses and walks.

Student Hotel in Tarragona

By the rehabilitation of the Ardiaca house, located in front of Tarragona’s cathedral an inter-national student hostel is proposed. It is necessary to preserve the facade as well as the most important structural elements, the patio and the perron. Starting there, a new volume of cleaner geometries, which will contain the bedrooms, is added. The interior patio is extended, creating a relation space between the two volumes that flows through the different uses of the building.

Sailor’s housing in Pasajes

The plot is located at the entrance of the harbour of Pasajes, next to a road and the train tracks, within an industrial zone. Therefore, the idea is to divide the building in two parts. On one side, a wall which contains the vertical communication and serves as protection from the vials, and on the other side, a pure housing building. Between them, grows a vertical garden traversed by gang-planks in different locations and highs. In addition, it is an in-depth work about housing typologies of different sizes that are fitted as if it were a puzzle.

Sport facilities in the École Hôtelière de Lausanne

The development of the sport facilities is part of a group project for the enlargement of the EHL campus in Switzerland. It emerges from the need of a public and relationship space for the campus, a great viewpoint plaza, where students can meet. The sport spaces are located under the plaza, directly communicated with the residential part and the school, creating studying and meeting zones. The idea is to create an organic and semi-buried building, with access to the two buildings that contains the sport facilities at the same time that solves the communication creating new meeting spaces in the inside.

Young designers cooperative in Estella

It is intended to operate in the post-industrial landscape, relating the industrial, abandoned objects throughout landscaping techniques capable of reading and potency a previous order, at the same time that new contemporary qualities are added. In such way, an abandoned factory is recovered, keeping both structure and space, creating a workshop where the whole process of product design is developed. The structure is put in a base to showcase the warehouse (design) which contains the production and admin-istration spaces. Above this, is located a market plaza (sales).

Exposition stand for Elephant & Castle watch brand

I developed this project on my own for the ELEPHANT & CASTLE watch brand, in Madrid’s Mercedes Benz Fash-ion last edition. It is created from the need of an exposition and shopping space. Therefore, I designed an “L” shaped piece of furniture, which enclosed a more private shopping space. This also brought the possibility of exposing the product to the outside. It was made of 7x7 cm fir battens vertically arranged. This allowed to play with the shapes and highs through the repetition of the same element, creating a complex but simple piece of furniture, putting the product always focusing on the product placement.

Architecture visualization

Pilgrim hostel in Estella

Neurological centre in Tudela

Dance school in Pamplona

Cork factory in Vegaviana

Wine factory in Cáceres

Hotel above ruins in Teruel

Amstelkring Museum Extension in Amsterdam

Professional experience

MANGADO AND ASSOCIATED, PAMPLONA

Collective Housing in France, 1º prize

Museum in Ramallah, Contest

Collective housing in France, Project

House in Pamplona, Project

Multi-sport centre in Lausanne, Switzerland, Contest

TEN ARQUITECTOS, NEW YORK

DE ARCHITEKTEN CIE, AMSTERDAM

Collective Housing and library in Washington, Project

Luxury housing in Miami, Project

Courthouse in Breda, 1st Prize

Collective Housing in Miami, Project