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Palms in the desertSHELTERING THE SKY, KUWAIT CONCEPT & LANDSCAPE DESIGN With AECOM SCALE M Published in Beta Architecture, KooZA/rch Designing a landscape in a desert climate presents a series of challenges, the most serious of which is how to protect visitors and plants from the burning sun. Offering a place for relaxation and leisure, the landscape also needed to be energy efficient and sustainable in its use of irrigation. Many existing public spaces in the Arabian Gulf evoke European parks, covering the desert with a blanket of grass and flowers. However, counteracting evaporation requires a significant amount of desalinated water, which has to be produced industrially from salty sea water through a costly process. This burning of fossil fuels emits CO2, which in turn accelerates climate change that could give way to more heat waves, sandstorms and rising sea levels, putting Kuwait’s future prosperity in risk. The idea for this landscape design develops in response to these challenges, as a way of celebrating the beauty of Kuwait’s traditions. Al Sadu textile weaving and its geometric patterns, the sails of the typical pearling dhow vessels and ancient date palm groves inform the design vision and tie the scheme into the local context. Historically, people living in such intense heat have grown plants and built water irrigation channels in the shade of palm trees to dilute the strength of the sun’s rays and avoid excessive evaporation. Therefore, we have developed a scheme revealing partially-shaded planted spaces below a textile multi-layered surface. The project evolves as a series of triangular sails raised on slim metal columns and forming a soft, sheltering sky across the site. Young palms can be planted below, converting the landscape into an ephemeral tree nursery during the first years. As these gradually grow, the translucent canopy of partial shade will allow a lush garden to emerge, protected from the harsh excess of the desert sun. This landscape then becomes an oasis of plants and trees, forming a series of interconnected public spaces. At this point, the textiles and poles can be removed and re-used in another area of the airport grounds or the city, where this ecologically virtuous cycle will begin again (and again). The high shaded gardens are conceived as a place for visitors and travelers to gather and rest before or after their journey, as well as a place for events and festivals celebrating local culture and the experience of flight. Visitors will find play spaces, pools and streams, as well as date palms and vegetable gardens. By creating partial shade for the planting, the canopy aims to reduce the amount of water lost to evaporation, and so will improve the park’s efficiency and sustainability. Whilst providing shade in the daytime, the elevated textiles also act as a network of social and meeting places in the cooler evening hours.

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2005 MADRID + CENTRO CULTURAL / CIVIC & LEISURE CENTRE +

PROYECTO UNIVERSITARIO/UNIVERSITY PROJECT

PROF. JUAN C. SANCHO + ALBERTO NICOLAU + ANTÓN GARCÍA ABRIL, ETSAM

A new civic centre was to be located on one of the most popular Squares of the city of Madrid. The aim of the project was to provide a vital new focus for Madrid’s civic life, reinvigorating the downtown area for the whole city’s benefit. The singular, unique situation directs the proposal towards a public program capable of exerting a strong feeling of attraction in this place. While the former civic centre was mostly built underground, the new one was designed as an open building that introduced people inside with a natural movement which sculpted the different spaces. The building functions as a continuous concrete ground surface, which starts from alarge public plaza and reaches the top floor. The public plaza is sclupted toaccommodate a range of activities and scales, including an amphitheatre embeded oppositeto the main façade of the building which can be used as a giant screen. Elevators and stairways enable people to get rapidly to the very top, in order todescend more slowly past the different activities down to the level of the public space.In so doing, the slightly sloping floors (3,5%) of the successive levels form a wideramp that winds from bottom to top adjacent to the concrete walls. It includes twocinemas, a mediatheque and library, some exhibition áreas and a set of varied activitiesfunctioning at many different rhythms, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The civic centre and great public square were intended to revitalise an área of Madridoverwhelmed with noise and caos. The base of the building meets the ground with a seriesof permeable urban spaces that help to integrate connections with the surroundingstreetscape and the recently renewed metro station under the site. The façade is made bymaneuverforum.

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2012 PFC

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Sancti PetriWATER RESEARCH CENTERUNIVERSITY PROJECT, ETSAMMAPPING & URBAN PROGRAMMINGProf. MANSILLA & TUÑÓN / With Amelia Seisdedos SCALE L PUBLISHED IN Architectural Review Folio, Beta Architecture Sustainability was key to the masterplan. To begin with, the site analysis focused on the luminous and acoustic parameters that defined the place, so that the new complex wouldn’t affect the former perception of the place. Its design responds to the needs of an interdisciplinary marine research, encouraging intercommunication and providing flexible, light-filled working spaces in which research teams can expand and interact with ease.

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2007 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA PROYECTO UNIVERSITARIO/UNIVERSITY PROJECT PROF. FEDERICO SORIANO + PEDRO URZAIZ + ALMUDENA RIBOT + RAFAEL TORRELO, ETSAM EJERCICIO DE ESPECULACIÓN: REINSERCIÓN URBANA EN LOS ANGELES