CARLOS BAÑONSPAIN, 1978

ACADEMIC OVERVIEW

2004 ARCHITECT. MASTER DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN AND BUILDINGS. University of Alicante. Extraordinary Mention.2005 - 2007 MASTER IN COMPLEX ARCHITECTURES. University of Alicante. 2005 - 2007 . 2005 FIRST PRIZE FCP FINAL CAREER PROJECT : “Building a Mountain” . IX Bienial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism. CSCAE.2007 - NOW ASSOCIATED PROFESSOR. University of Alicante. Area of Knowledge : Graphic Expression in Architecture.2007 INVITED PROFESSOR . International University of Catalonia ( UIC )2008 FOUNDER OF L.A.C. Laboratory of Architecture and Computation, at University of Alicante.2009 FOUNDER OF L.I.P.S. Research Laboratory for Rapid Prototyping. University of Alicante.2011 - 2012 COORDINATOR OF PARAMETRIC AREA OF MASTER IDAU . University of Alicante. 2012 INVITED PROFESSOR. ETSAM, Madrid. Master of Advanced Architecture. Prof. Pepe Ballesteros.2013 INVITED PROFESSOR. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Home 2.0. Directed by Prof. Jeffrey Huang and Muriel Waldvogel.2013 CO-DIRECTOR OF FABLAB ALICANTE. University of Alicante. In collaboration with Juan Carlos Castro.

HIGHLIGHTED LECTURES

2013 ‘Craft and Architecture’ . PUPR. San Juan de Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. 2013 ‘Shared Lecture : Subarquitectura + LCC’ La Fabrica di Vappore. Milano .2012 ‘To Analalise, To Draw, To Make.’ Opening Lesson at ETSAV. Valencia. Spain.2012 ‘Open Source Architectures’ Curated by Pepe Ballesteros. ETSAM. Spain.2011 ‘Regarding Subarquitectura.’ Curated by SN4. Valencia, Spain.2010 ‘SUBWC’ Granada School of Architecture. Spain.2009 ‘IX Bienial Award : TramStop in Alicante ’ COAMU, Murcia. Spain. 2008 ‘HFU vs LLL’ College of Architects of Alicante. Spain.

JURYS

2013 Jury Member. Final Projects Review. Puerto Rico Polytechnic University (PUPR) . San Juan de Puerto Rico.2010 Jury Member of the Architectural Awards of Girona, with Carlos Ferrater and Iñaki Alday. Girona, Spain. 2009 Member of Technical Committee : New Regulations for Experimental Houses . CTACV . Valencia. Spain

SUBARQUITECTURASPAIN. 2005

EXHIBITIONS

2013 ABOVE MM : ESP - MEX . “New Age, New Formats” . Itinierant Exhibition : Mexico - Spain . 2012 TRIENNALE DI MILANO. “L’Architettura del Mondo”. Milano. Italy. 2011 IRREVERENT EXHIBITION / “MUESTRA IRREVERENTE” . ENADII , Mexico DF.2010 EL CROQUIS. Exhitibion at the Permanent Gallery of Architecture in Galapagar, Madrid. 2009 ARCHILAB EUROPE . Selected with Sociopolis: Touria Tower. Exhibition in Orleans. 20092009 CONSIDER EVERYWHERE AS INDOOR. Video installation for EME3 Collapse Festival. Barcelona. 20092008 INTERNATIONAL MODEL FESTIVAL. New Hercules C.F. Stadium. Exhibited at the Contemporanean Art Center of Hungary. 2009 BRIT INSURANCE DESIGNS OF THE YEAR. Tram Stop exhibited at the Design Museum of London.2008 IX BIENIAL OF SPANISH ARCHITECTURE. Tram Stop exhibited at Nuevos Ministerios Gallery. Madrid2007 PROXIMA. ARCHITECTURE BIENIAL OF YOUNG ARCHITECTS. Selected Projects. Madrid.2006 CTAA GALLERY. Winners of Architectural Competitions. Sports Pavillion in Pedreguer. Alicante.

AWARDS

2012 HONORABLE MENTION in Domus Rusia X Archip Jubilee Edition. 3D Athletics Track.2011 SILVER MEDAL by the International Olympic Committee to the 3D Athletics Track in Eda. 2011 ACCESIBILITY DISTINCTION by the Paralympic Committee to the 3D Athletics Track in Elda.2011 NOMINATION to the IAKOV CHERNIKHOV INTERNATIONAL PRIZE2011 THIRD PRIZE Iin the International Competition for the Cittadella Dell’Edilizia. Como, Italy.2010 SECOND PRIZE in the International Competition for the Archeological Museum in Calvia, Mallorca.2009 FIRST PRIZE in International Competition for the New Hercules C.F. Staduim.2009 MIES VAN DER ROHE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS NOMINEE. Tram Stop.2009 THIRD PRIZE in the International Competition for a New Bridge in Zumaia, Guipuzcoa.2008 SECOND PRIZE in Lamp Lighting Solutions Award for the project Tram Stop in Alicante. 2007 FIRST PRIZE in International Competition for a Sports Pavillion in Pedreguer. 2007 FIRST PRIZE in the International Competition for Living Units in San Anton Borough, Alicante.2006 FIRST PRIZE in Competition for Research Facilities and Departments in Orihuela. 2008 AWARD in the Spanish Bienial of Architecture. Tram Stop in Alicante. Alicante.

SUBARQUITECTURAALICANTE : MEDITERRANEAN WEST COAST

CRE-ACTION

“Serendipity is a scientific lucky and unexpected discovery that has been realized accidentally. This combination of will and random, joins the intention, with the occasion, producing an extraordinary result. The discovery of America is, literally, a serendipity of the size of the world.”

We are full of prejudices, our look towards the reality is voluntarily partial. We do not try a complete reality understanding, but to create the laboratory conditions which serve for the development of the architectural object. Project advance to the necessities, even to the program or the place. It is a vehicle which is used to deal among the existing reality and the future.

In this metamorphosis process, the project acquires such internal as external coherence. Until reaching enough inertia as to take own life, then it feeds of its proper requireements and necessities. A distance with previous hypotheses turns out, proposing a new philo-sophy of life around it. This process implies a diversion of the initial aims, and the result is often surprisingly, but always unpredictable. Result is more complex than analysis.

IN-FORM-ATION

“The architect thinks, but he will not produce a work made of words, but an object made of forms and materials. This objects shows his own and particular message that can’t be translated to words. As expression of the same message, in art, form and content, signifier and signified, fabricate one only thing”

In our projects function doesn’t follow form (Baroque), neither form follows function (Rationalism). We try to approximate them to a single thing. Shapes become the instructions for using the building.

The aim is to create a clear transparent language, as easy to understand for the user, that he can even interiorize it, creating new pos-sibilities, as an open source code. An environment that brings choices without determinate the behaviors, but some actions or options are more probable than others. We try to reinvent uses to generate new shapes.

The building is simpler than the generated activities.

002 TRAM STOP AND PLAZA

004 RESEARCH FACILITIES AMONG LEMON TREES

032 360 HOUSE

045 HERCULES CF STADIUM.

051 3D ATHLETICS TRACK

BUILT WORKS

002 TRAM STOP AND PLAZA ALICANTE. SPAIN

FIRST PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION.BUILT. 2005 - 2006

PRIZE. IX BIENNIAL SPANISH ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISMNOMINATION. MIES VAN DER ROHE 2009.PRIZE. BALTHASAR NEUMANN AWARDS.PRIZE. LAMP LIGHTING SOLUTIONSPRIZE. BRIT INSURANCE DESIGN OF THE YEAR.

Building the Tram stop was an opportunity to give back to the city a space that had been taken from it; transform a roundabout in a public square.

The frontal access to the platforms is reached in 32 pos-sible ways trought a fractionated system of paths that get round the existing vegetation. Over them, two hollow bo-xes, 36 meters long, 3 meters wide and 2.5 meters high, create a floating emptiness slightly above the travelers’ heads in a scale closer to the Tram than to the street fur-niture.

There is no distinction between finish and structure, nor between walls and roof. It is an isotropic material in its conception and construction. Eight hundred circular dri-llings lighten as well as provide resistance against normal

strains. Light and air pass throught its pores, softening the shade and providing a breeze in the summer months while at the same time offering less resistance against the wind.

At night, they become two powerful lamps that light up the platforms directly. The benches are related to the paths, allowing the passengers to wait in contact with ve-getation, lighting the route softly.

004 RESEARCH FACILITIES AMONG LEMON TREES ORIHUELA. SPAIN

FIRST PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION.BUILT. 2004 - 2008

PRIZE. ISOVER ARCHITECTURAL AWARDS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND BIOCLIMATIC WORKS. 2009SELECTED BUILDING BY DETAIL MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE BEST SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDING OF THE YEAR.

Laboratories and departments are batched forming ring structures, linked together, enclosing a courtyard system inside.

There is not any corridor in the project. They are replaced by semi-indoor courtyards instead, becoming bioclimatic spaces, common areas to stay, and previous areas to ac-cess to each laboratory.

Through a thick facade divided into three strips ( all three are made in a different type of plastic : polyesther mesh , projected polyurethane and polyetyilene grid ) associated to three functions ( to see the exterior, to hold the installa-tion ducts, and to filter the solar radiation )

032 360º HOUSE MADRID. SPAIN

COMMISSION.BUILT. 2005 - 2006

MODEL EXHIBITED AT ‘EL CROQUIS’ ART GALLERY.SELECTED BY 2G MAGAZINE AS 20 BEST WORKS OF 2009-2010 IN SPAIN.SELECTED BY ARQUIA FOUNDATION IN 2008.

A unique opportunity for us is in reality a problema that’s been posed thousands of times: to construct a house with a public programme of social relation, associated with the prívate life of a numerous family on a sloping plot of land with privileged views of the mountains outside Madrid. It has no one solution, there are many, they’re even catalogued in books about houses of a slope.

We try not to think of domestic spaces. On the contrary, we take as a point of reference works of engineering, mo-torway intersections, changes of direction. We proceed from generic solutions to the problem of descending, solutions that conceal great plasticity. We seek the poetic in all that seems to have been considered from the merely pragmatic point of view.

The result is the literal construction of a use diagram. In

this instance, form does not follow function, but is instead function itself. Cyclical movement, routine and surprise turn into a way of living.

Its formal complexity offers the possibility of reaching all points of the house through two different routes, which mul-tiply the possibilities of use and enjoyment. It has the form of a loop, 360º, like the shapes skaters make, like of gymnasts, as artistic as they are precise.

An extreme shape, the house is curved, generating the greatest quantity of linear meters towards the good views. It is shored up in the landscape and turns back on itself, completing the revolution. The degree of intimacy increases as the distance to the ends increases. At the midpoint, a me-diatheque, isolated and completely dark, 100 % technology, 0 % landscape.

045 HERCULES CF STADIUMALICANTE. SPAIN

FIRST PRIZE ON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION.2008-2010.

MODEL EXHIBITED AT ‘INTERNATIONAL MODEL FESTIVAL’ IN HUNGARY.PROJECTS EXHIBITED AT ALICANTE COUNCIL HALL.

Ancient Romans looked for the ideal topographic location to settle their stadiums down, in tune with nature.

Conversely, we proceed creating a new plinth to reconstruct an idyllic topography which embeeds the stadium within the site, creating a plaza at the height of the first level of grands-tands, as a extension of the Tossal Mount : “archaeology of the future”.

We set up a continuous oval shape, tangen to the limits of the plot. We cover everything with lightwight fabric in com-bination with tensile structures, like a Mediterranean way of indertanding space and materiality.

This plaza will become the biggest public space under the shadow of the city of Alicante.

REMODELACION PALCOS VIP HERCULES C.F.

045 HERCULES REMODELLINGALICANTE. SPAIN

FIRST STAGE OF WORKS.2011.

PROJECT SELECTED AT ALICANTE BIENIAL OF ARCHITECTURE.

We bring back the image of the main facade upgrafing and completing the existing concrete staircase, becoming a new entrance to the stadium and leading the user to the two new boxes.

The first box is a private VIP space, interior, black and ye-llow, and provided with a straightforward access to the main tribune.

The second space is open to the public, exterior, entirely blue, with extraordinary and privileged views to the field.

Filtering the sunlight a inmense neon sign with the name of the team “HERCULES” in Helvetica type hangs over a perfo-rated aluminium plate, conforming the limit of this space and consolidating the new otward look of the stadium.

051 3D ATHLETICS TRACKELDA. SPAIN

COMMISSION.BUILT. 2009 - 2010

SILVER MEDAL BY INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AND GOLDEN MEDAL IN ACCESIBILITY BY INTERNATIONAL PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE TO THE BEST BUILDING IN 2011.AWARD. ARCHIP RUSIA. DOMUS MAGAZINE. 2012.PRIZE. ALICANTE ARCHITECTURAL AWARDS 2009-2011.

Designing an athletic track could get you as bored as when you are running on it: curve, straight, curve, straight, again and again…

Perfectly standardized, sport architecture has become more universal than international style. Track length of 400 m, 36.5 m radius. 1.22 m each lane….just data, without any fissure to let your imagination soar.

We have added to the conventional track an alternative one, amateur and funny, raised and tree-dimensional. It goes off on a tangent, covers the changing rooms and returns to the conventional track.

As new ways are available for athletes, spectators get invol-ved in the sport activity, seated in-between this two tracks.

015 OPEN AUDITORIUM

016 C-PARKING

058 EMASAGRA HEADQUARTERS

063 ELCHE NEW AUDITORIUM

025 STOCKOLM NEW LIBRARY

031 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MADRID

003 TOURIA TOWER

085 CARBONIFEROUS FOREST

076 ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

082 CITADELLA DELL’EDILIZIA

035 150º PLAYGOUND

038 CITY OF JUSTICE.: LO CONTENCIOSO

057 SENECA PLAZA

071 HOUSE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

059 ROTARY BRIDGE

075 LAND ART GENERATOR

093 EMV SOCIAL HOUSES

098 “O” TOWER

105 ECO-HEADQUARTERS

106 AWUAH-DARKO RESIDENCE

111 500 PARAMETRIC SOCIAL HOUSES

SELECTED PROJECTS

015 OPEN AUDITORIUMBANYERES. SPAIN

COMPETITION.SELECTED FINALIST. 2006

PROJECT EXHIBITED AT CTAA GALLERY. ALICANTE

For the creation of a outdoor auditorium we do not procceed in an accumulative way; we use the from of the canonic au-ditorium and get rid of any redundant element, turning it into pure function.

The resulting shape is a big ‘u’ where the scenic tower if pla-ced in front of the spectator tower : a face to face between performing and contemplation, surrounded by the landscape as backdrop.

016 C-PARKINGVILLAJOYOSA. SPAIN

COMPETITION.FINALIST. 2006

The regular program of a parking is divided into three prismatic pieces, in order to adapt to the boundaries of the plot with the maximum level of flexibility.

Throughout a single-way route, all three isolated volumes get linked creating a fibrous system of bridges which binds the en-tire building and connects every floor of the parking.

This configuration shows a chaotic appearance, but its functio-ning is linear. Facade is made of fractal blocks shaped in a crosses of different sizes, generating gaps between them and conforming a continuous porous wall.

058 EMASAGRA HEADQUARTERSGRANADA. SPAIN

2008INTERNATIONAL OPEN COMPETITION.

A extreme shape with maximum width and minimum thickness, with open-plan floors : this slender piece is as efficient in hori-zontal as a vertical skycraper.

The back side of the building is a bubble that copies on its section the shape of the fillet of the plot. the front side enjoys the priveleged views to sierra nevada. A double wall of the main facade is connected to a subterra-nean deposit of water, using it as cooler in summer months, and as heater during the winter season.

063 ELCHE NEW AUDITORIUMELCHE. SPAIN

2010INTERNATIONAL OPEN COMPETITION.

The shape of the building just copies the geometry of the site. we do not try to find the more compact sollution, but we come up with the more permeable set up, stretching the program to the limit in order to occupy the entire width of the plot.

As a result we have a building that sets up diffuse links with the public space that surrounds it.

Quiet and diaphanous shapes in plan, but complex across the z-axis, result an easy-to-read building thanks to its geometry pulled out straightly from its function; trough this layout we set an inner continuity that allows the user to cross the entire buil-ding without a double back.

025 STOCKHOLM NEW LIBRARYSTOCKHOLM. SWEDEN

2007INTERNATIONAL OPEN COMPETITION.

10 FINALIST SELECTION.

The library is stepped back over the main street alignment, lea-ving a void which will turn into a meeting point, recovering the original connection between the mountain and the street. every block is shifted and slightly rotated from eachother, copying the hill slope in order to diminish the visual impact to odegatan street and introducing air into the public space.

Each of 8 subject areas conform each of the 8 floors of the library,they are coneccted by means of a backbone of verticals conexions, humid zones and instalation spaces. the building can work as a unit and as three indipendent buildings from the ground to the roof top.

Each turned box generates a batch of terraces supplementing the interior program that is attached, generating resting zones, relax areas and spontaneous viewing points to stockholm city.

031 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS CENTER OF MADRIDMADRID. SPAIN

INTERNATIONAL OPEN COMPETITION.HONORABLE MENTION 2008

PROJECT EXHIBITED AT OCAM FOUNDATION. MADRID

“The convenience of dealing with sidereal matters”

A difficult site. A vast facility behind four colossal towers that rise along the first line of madrid’s most important thoroughfare. a matter of content and figure of urban scale.

The building must have a presence able to interact with those four towers measuring 250 meters in height, ensuring that the whole complex show synergy.

The links of dependence of the new building with the envi-ronment must be hyperstatic. Links of kind and polite mutual dependence. The building proposed for the CICCM and the setting in which it is located shall be different expressions of a same common essence.

003 SOCIOPOLIS TOURIA TOWERVALENCIA. SPAIN

2004 - NOWADAYSCOMMISSION.

PROJECT EXHIBITED AT “ARCHILAB” ORLEANS. FRANCE

From a 20 floor tower we pull out 4 living units and make a small tower with them, close to the boundary of the plot, achieving a more comfortable scale.

The voids they leave in the tower are sewed by a evacuation staircase setting up a ‘tour’ of public spaces in the heights, that surrounds the entire building.

Inside the dwellings, every single space is exterior, taking ad-vange of the perimeter and creating deep spaces, orienting their longest side towards the interior of the tower.

085 CARBONIFEROUS FORESTPONFERRADA. SPAIN

2010INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

The carboniferous forest is an installation that brings us to another time, 300 million years ago, and to another place si-multaneously : the ecuator, that was the geographic location of the iberian peninsula at that period.

We wanted the carboniferous forest to seem that it has always been there. this installation looks like a part of nature on its external, not like a building.

We design a primitive shape, without any kind of simmetry. lighted from the top throughout a big bidimensional oculus ins-tead a three-dimensional dome.

A geometrical action that causes a tropicalization of the sun chart.

076 ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUMCALVIA. SPAIN

SECOND PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION.

The museum is generated by an additive system of uniform spaces with an isotropic pattern distorted by the discontinuity of the longitudinal and transversal mid-spaces.

Inside this approach to the building is hidden a binary functio-ning : open or close . from each space you can reach two more ones so continuity is not breached at all.

In the opposite way, spaces are enormously fluid when con-sidering the cross visiuals as much as to outside as to inside.

082 CITADELLA DELL’EDILIZIACOMO. ITALY

2011.INTERNATIONAL COMPETITON

THIRD PRIZE IN 2-STAGE

JENGA is a game os mental an physical skills. in swahili it means ‘the action of building’. as it happens in the game, the building is a result of stacking blocks, in this case, pro-gramatic units. it is a system that works at the same time in a constructive and a compositive way.

This structure is based on strict but flexible parameters, and is capable to be applied to a complex place, and establish connections between its environment in every directions.

A non-scalar construction, extremely ambiguous, that beco-mes a filter generated around a open air courtyard. in the middle of the building a big emptiness is generated.

035 150º PLAYGROUNDALICANTE. SPAIN

COMMISSION. 2007

We convert a cover into a three-dimensional space trought a single action. its inclination enables the generation of both in-door and outdoor grandstands, so the cover can be used and multiplying the playground x 2 .

Due a basic construction system, the costs of the execution are very low; it is only skin, made of concrete, painted, incorpora-ting colour to the object.

038 CITY OF JUSTICE. LO CONTENCIOSOMADRID. SPAIN

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION2008

EXHIBITED AT ARCHITECTS COAM FOUNDATION. MADRID

A slight slope enables the creation of a continuous space of more than 1 km of lenght, where all the differents programs are spread along, reaching 24,8 m of height.

By introducing a mild offset to the north, the inner courtyard increases its surface that benefits from the optimal solar ex-posure.

A rotary huge photovoltaic plate becomes the principal element in the center of the building, which is energetically self-suffi-cient, and aesthetically symbolic.

057 SENECA PLAZAALICANTE. SPAIN

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION2009. FINALIST

EXHIBITED AT ARCHITECTS COLLEGE OF ALICANTE.

The area that nowadays is occupied by the three platforms of the bus station will become a plaza, mantaining the existing building but changing its function.

We try to create a sort of order by introducing a complementary couple to the big volume of the station. As an opposite to a racionalism covered in historicist styles, we put forward the timelessness of the vegetation.

The pavement of the plaza plays with four letters : ‘ A L L A ‘ , which are written in the shield of the city and means ‘Akra Leuka’ + ‘Lucentum Alicante’, as build a canvas for every com-mon activity.

071 HOUSE OF MEDITERRANEAN SEAALICANTE. SPAIN

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION2010. HONORABLE MENTION.

EXHIBITED AT ARCHITECTS COLLEGE OF ALICANTE.

An hybrid but a compact building, with an architectonic front and an engineering backside, has become into an addition of pieces. a diffuse space that puts in contact four isolated buil-dings. We re-produce the complexity of the city in the inside of the building.

Against the semantic attitude of the restoration theories from cesare brandi, we put forward a pragmatic attitude : not to touch.

The flexibility in the plan is complemented with complexity in cross-section.

059 ROTARY BRIDGEZUMAIA. SPAIN

INTERNATIONAL OPEN COMPETITION.THIRD PRIZE. 2009

We wanted to avoid a huge visual impact in such a delicate en-vironment, so we decided to use an horizontal rotatory bridge typology with a vertical axis placed in the middle of it.

In making this decision we set a symmetrical piece, with low height, parallel to the horizontal plane of the river, avoiding the use of counterweights.

The bridge has a geometry of a ‘banana’ combining a cross-section made of straight segments with curved and smooth longitudinal rails.

Four orientations are possible with this setup : 135º NE = pro-tected against the sun / 167º N = oriented to san pedro church / 315º SW = looking to the surrounding mountains and to the foronda palace / 347º S = straight connection between the par-king and the Amaia plaza.

075 LAND ART GENERATORABU DABHI. UAE

INTERNATIONAL OPEN COMPETITION.2010

EXHIBITED IN PARAMETRIC SESSIONS AT ETSAM.

· It is what is tries to avoid : a climatic change : it produces clean energy and generates a local climate change as an ar-tistic experience.· It is not inspired by nature neither is an object in itself; it does not have user manual. you cannot control it, only enjoy.· There is not any technical innovation; we only sum up existing technologies in order to multiply their effects.· Nobody knows how big is it; it’s as big as the effects that it generates.· It is not dangerous, but it does not appear to be secure.· It has a shape of catastrophe but its beneficial for their envi-ronment.

We add technologies to multiply effects. it´s not a tornado, neither a waterspout, it´s just the opposite. nobody knows it´s size. it´s as big as the effects that produces. it´s not dangerous, but doesn´t seem safe. is shaped like a catastrophe, but pro-vides benefits.

093 EMV SOCIAL HOUSESVALLECAS. SPAIN

2011INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

In a context of a public intervention to rebuild a small piece of city from the approarch of the sustainability, we face the singu-lar conditions of the site with the most global vision that we are able to achieve. the project is, therefore, the tool of integration between site and time. we try to set up a double continuity, with the context and the memory.

Facing the strict regulations of the site, the will of project is to become as a multiplicity of towers that can function in a net-work. by dividing in parts to achieve continuity, getting a scale which links the existing infrastructure with previous and future buildings.

098 “O” TOWEREQUATORIAL GUINEA. AFRICA

COMMISSION. ONGOING2012

· It is what is tries to avoid : a climatic change : it produces clean energy and generates a local climate change as an ar-tistic experience.· It is not inspired by nature neither is an object in itself; it does not have user manual. you cannot control it, only enjoy.· There is not any technical innovation; we only sum up existing technologies in order to multiply their effects.· Nobody knows how big is it; it’s as big as the effects that it generates.· It is not dangerous, but it does not appear to be secure.· It has a shape of catastrophe but its beneficial for their envi-ronment.

We add technologies to multiply effects. it´s not a tornado, neither a waterspout, it´s just the opposite. nobody knows it´s size. it´s as big as the effects that produces. it´s not dangerous, but doesn´t seem safe. is shaped like a catastrophe, but pro-vides benefits.

105 ECO-HEADQUARTERSLIMA. PERU

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION2013

Formal gestures create a volume of air around the building. A survival strategy gives it its aesthetic identity. This quest for air and light transforms the offices into places where comfort is achieved naturally. As time goes by, one can anticipate the height a development. The building will be surrounded by triangular courtyards. The air that initially circulates horizonta-lly along the facades will flow vertically thanks to the chimney effect of the courtyards.

Our aim is to generate a building that is separated from the perimeter of the built volume which is only tangentially touched.

Preliminary studies support the conclusion that the project sa-tisfies energy self sufficiency with a minimum set of technical tools, since it is designed to obtain maximum use of the climatic conditions of Lima.

106 AWUAH-DARKO RESIDENCEACCRA. GHANA

2013COMMISSION. ONGOING

Three-dimensional slender shape : we define a square section across three l-shaped pieces that work together as branches of the house, instead creating a compact disposition of spaces.

Concave geometry : by using this set up we divide the plot in four unique gardens, enclosed by two different sides of the house.

It is entirely made of concrete - for walls and roofs - and wood for floors and furniture; a house that is strongly linked to nature, uses the same mechanism for the plan as for the section, inclu-ding a tower with a maximum grade of privacy, where you can enjoy accra’s stunning views.

111 500 PARAMETRIC SOCIAL HOUSES ACCRA. GHANA

2013COMMISSION. ONGOING

Three-dimensional slender shape : we define a square section across three l-shaped pieces that work together as branches of the house, instead creating a compact disposition of spaces.

Concave geometry : by using this set up we divide the plot in four unique gardens, enclosed by two different sides of the house.

It is entirely made of concrete - for walls and roofs - and wood for floors and furniture; a house that is strongly linked to nature, uses the same mechanism for the plan as for the section, inclu-ding a tower with a maximum grade of privacy, where you can enjoy accra’s stunning views.

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIPACADEMIC LEADERSHIP

HOME 2.0ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE

INVITED PROFESSOR. SEMAINE ENAC.DIRECTED BY JEFFREY HUANG AND MURIEL WALDVOGEL

This year we will examine the use of parametric software for designing infinite variations for the Home of the Future. Together we will create parametric models of potential homes for an exhibition we are planning for Archizoom (opening 2014) on “design machines”. The idea is that some external inputs, e.g. from motion, colors, voice, etc. tracking of visitors, would trigger choices in the parametric model. A visitor would get his/her personal house depending on how he or she approaches/views the design machine.During the “Semaine ENAC” we will offer a fun workshop introduction into Grasshopper, and will in parallel conceptualize and create a parametric model of a house that would vary meaningfully and be deformed according to the external inputs. The starting point will be the architypical house, or primitive hut.

.GH THINKING GRASSHOPPERCOURSE. UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE. SPAIN

1 MONTH WORKSHOP. 60 STUDENTS

Let’s think in GRASSHOPPER, from scratch, in a creative way, but sharp and accurate at the same time, in a contemporary architectural context.We will work with 5 projects that meet the conditions to be re-thinked nowadays in parametrical terms. { FOA : World Trade Center / MAD OFFICE : 800M Tower / TOYO ITO : Relaxation Park / FOSTER & PARTNERS : Gherkin Tower / FREE : Soumaya Museum }We will produce dynamic objects defined by parameters and modified in realtime.We will learn to discretize, facet and panel in a non homogeneous way.We will work with restrictions to determine our shapes, obtaining unpredictable results.And we will take the control of what we produce : by measuring , visualizing and optimizing our parametric forms.

PLAYNAVIA VALLEY. SPAIN

WORKSHOP. 2008GROUP 5 . URBAN NODES. 6 STUDENT GROUP.

The creation of new towns in response to a new inhabitant that escapes from the city to live in contact with nature.

Extreme places : on the shores of the lake, close to the water, and on the peak of the mountains, close to the sky. Extreme shapes : triangles; they provide the maximum amount of perimeter in contact with the exterior.

They unveil a mesh of in-between trapezoidal spaces, with plenty of effects of perspective, which act simultaneously as a stay as a walkway.

OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTUREMASTERCLASS. MPAA MADRID

INVITED BY PEPE BALLESTEROS.

A guided tour trought a parametric lecture of three projects made by Subarquitectura : Tram Stop in Alicante, 3d Athletics Track and Land art Generator. We will discover step by step what was under the hood.

Gª ADVANCED GEOMETRYCOURSE. UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE. SPAIN

1 MONTH WORKSHOP. 60 STUDENTS

We will work with Rhinoceros and Grasshopper in a very creative way. Through five architectural examples we will discover new and different approaches to thinking and designing in Architecture :SANAA with their Rolex Center in Lausanne, Peter Cook in Graz, Fernando Romero in Mexico, Bjarke Ingles in Shanghai, and Subarquitectura in Madrid with their 360º house.You will be able to design and produce complex geometries, and dynamic models that react to boundary conditions and geome-tric constrains. Double curvature surfaces, tesselation and discretization, parametric modelling and rapid prototyping will be our focus during this one-month intensive workshop.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

MAIN MAGAZINES AND PUBLICATIONSFEATURED WORKS AND ARTICLES

Arquitectura y Diseño#153 “La Casa Perfecta” . Spain. 2013

INA International New Architecture. Volume 3 . Architectural Facade. China. April, 2012

“The Plan” Architecture . Technologies in detail. #056. Italy. March, 2012

Revista 34 Trascendental Levitation #0. Autumn, 2011.

Revista 34 “ISLA WIFI” #1. Article “WIFI ISland”. Winter 2011.

SB #45. Germany. 3D Athletics Track. February, 2011

ICON Magazine #92. Reino Unido. Casa 360. February, 2011.

Rem Diseño España. Número 53. Casa 360. June 2011

2G DOSSIERJóvenes Arquitectos Españoles. SPAIN. March, 2010.

Abitare #10Bulgary. Parada de tranvía. Septermber, 2010.

Space magazine.Korea . 360 House. October, 2010

NAN Construccion. #56. Spain. October, 2010.

Mark. Holanda. #28. October, 2010.

AV Monografías: Obra Mínima. #140. Spain. Tram Stop. October 2009.

Abstract #48. Belgium. February, 2009.

Diseño de la Ciudad #70 España. .October, 2009.

Interior Design #38 China. September, 2009

Future Arquitecturas #11. San Anton Living Units competi-tion. Spain, 2008

Arketipo #24 Italy. March 2009

Fuera de Serie. Expansión#187 Subarquitectura’s work “Las Nuevas Caras de la Arqui-tectura”. Article by David Cohn. Spain. April 2008

AMC Le Moniteur #181. France. September 2008

H.O.M.E. MagazineGermany. July, 2007

DB Magazine. #9. Interview by David Cohn. September, 2007

MARK MAGAZINE. #9. Netherlands. Tram Stop in Alicante. August 2007.

De Arhitectura. #22. Romania. July 2007

Via Construccion. #44. Spain. Interview to Subarquitectura Architects. 2007

A+U JAPAN. #441. Tram Stop in Detail. 2007

Diseño de la Ciudad, #59. Spain. June, 2007

Diseñart Madrid. #18. Spain. Tram Stop .April, 2007

COAM Magazine #347. Madrid, Spain. March 2007

01CE

International Design AssociationPROCEEDINGS

国 际 设 计 协 会· 会 刊

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IAKI

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MAIN BOOKS FEATURED WORKS AND ARTICLES

Irreverente TEORIA + PRAXIS ENADII Mexico 2011.

“Humanity, space, furniture IW” Korea, 2011.V

Landscape Architecture, environment design, LWKorea. 39. 2011. ISBN 978-89-5770-342-7

CONCEPT141. Korea. 2011. ISSN 1288-4262

Interni & DecorKorea. Junio 2010. ISSN 1228-6249

ARCHMANUAL Ecology + Sustainable + City FutureChina. 2010. ISBN: 978-7-5609-6041-8

XS Extreme. Big Ideas Small BuildingsUK. Febrero 2009. ISBN: 978-0-500-34251-0

Espacios Urbanos . Innovación y DiseñoSpain. June 2009. ISBN 978-84-96969-24-7

Arketypo, Arquitectura, Arte y DiseñoSpain. Parada de tranvía. 2008. ISSN: 1886-4767

PAISEA. Arquitecturas en el paisaje.Issue #5. Spain. Parada de tranvía. Junio de 2008. ISSN: 1887-2557

“Orígenes y desacuerdos” Arquia Próxima 2008Spain. Contribution with three projects.. ISBN: 978-84-936693-1-7

IIX Bienal Española de Arquitectura y UrbanismoSpain. 2007. ISBN: 978-84-96387-31-7

Acier, steel architectureFrancia. 2008. ISBN 978-2-281- 19503-3

PRINCIPAL WEBSITES AND BLOGS FEATURED WORKS AND ARTICLES

Plataforma Arquitecturahttp://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/tag/subarquitectura/

Urbipediahttp://www.urbipedia.org/index.php?title=Subarquitectura

ArchDailyhttp://www.archdaily.com/tag/subarquitectura/

Architecture Newshttp://www.architecturenewsplus.com/profiles/442

Architizerhttp://architizer.com/firms/subarquitectura/

MIMOAhttp://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Spain/Alicante/Tram%20Stop

DeZeenhttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/03/360-house-by-subar-quitectura/

Arquitourhttp://www.arquitour.com/casa-360-subarquitectura/2010/04/360house-16/

Q9Magazinehttp://q9magazine.com/tag/subarquitectura/

Lanzedinehttp://www.landezine.com/index.php/2011/10/athletics-track-by-subarquitectura/

Metalocushttp://www.metalocus.es/content/es/blog/new-generations-subarquitectura

ARQ.COMhttp://www.arq.com.mx/tag/Subarquitectura

Inhabitathttp://inhabitat.com/subarquitecturas-360°-house-embraces-geometry-with-a-spiraling-floor-plan/360-house-9/

CARLOS BAÑÓN / SUBARQUITECTURAwww.subarquitectura.com