jon espinosa molanoportfolio

2014november

jon.espinosa.molano@gmail.com

00la Felguera

Film School + Film Sets in the old Duro Factory Final Year Project

2012-2013

inDeX

01Coolsingel

Offices+Retail+Hotel+Residences OMA

02european school

New international school in Strasbourg OMA

03City Cultural Center

Public Library & Fine Arts Museum OSS

04¡más maDeRa!

Workstation for young entrepeneurs OSS

05schindler Competiton

New Residence and equipments structure Student competition First prize

07Broadcast Building

Broadcast studios and hotel in Hulan district ADRI of HIT

08old minery museum

Recovery blast furnaces area in Vizcaya

09Columbia Tower

Student residences for the university of Columbia

06Chimneys field Santa’s Logistic centre

Ideas competition

CoolsingelOffices+Retail+Hotel+Residences

Rotterdam, The netherlands

OMA (Office for Metropolita Architecture)Winter 2012

Two observations triggered the design of a cube for Coolsingel. Firstly, the central position of the site, where Rotterdam’s most important pedestrian streets meet: Coolsingel, lijnbaan, Binnenweg and Beurstraverse. The second observation is that Rotterdam’s recent construction consists almost entirely of towers. High-rises create an impressive skyline, but their mono-functionality and lack of engagement with the surrounding public domain fails to create an attractive centre.

...The cube spatially reorganizes its surroundings and generates floors that can facilitate for a wide range of (public)

programs. a system of voids introduces daylight inside the cube and generates views to the surroundings from within.

Offices

Residences

Hotel

Museum

Retail

ABN-AMRO

Instead of yet another tower project competing for height, the project aims to reconfigure the image of the centre by inserting the pure form of the cube.

The site appears as an accidental collision of individual buildings, the evidence of a discontinuous urban development, dominated by the aBn-amRo bank on Coolsingel.

Final model + site e:1/200

aBn amRo + Cube

Volumetric model e:1/1000

The “old” + The “new”

Hotel entrance

The hotel can work independently because of the individual entrance situated in the monument.

section W-e

The monument and the cube will work together as one system trough program and circulation. The voids generate public platforms and can contain culture and leisure programs.

program Bars

The Volumetric configuration enables to respond to changing programmatic requirements.

Office Entrance

The central entrance of the bank will give access to the up-per mall level and the offices.

Residence entrance

one upper volume is used for residences. not just at the scale of individual floor, but on the volume scale.

level 8

The hotel and the offices are in opposite volumes

level 10

Offices and residences are in opposite volumes

level 2

lower levels include retail spaces

level 3

The office and the mall share different spaces

section n-s

new retail program will enhance accessibility and reinvigorate the monument. Both the existing and the new building will form an uninterrupted network

european schoolNew international school in Strasbourg

strasbourg, France

OMA (Office for Metropolita Architecture)Autumn 2011

situated on a wooded site in the european Government Quarter of strasbourg and adjacent to the river ill, oma’s design for a new European School for 12,000 students proposes a “wild side” and a “formal side”. The project reflects

the diversity and idiosyncrasies that make up the european identity.

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Facilities

Secondary

Library

Offices

Primary

Cantine

Laboratories

Formal Park

Auditorium

Kindergarten

Wild Park

A central axis defined by a four rectangular blocks contains classrooms for primary and secondary students and sepa-rates the two types of learning environments. West of the axis are five appendages for shared facilities: the canteen,

library, arts and sciences, and performance spaces.

The flexibility and diversity of the school’s spaces promotes individual and collective education, suited to future multi-cultural generations.

Final model e:1/500

sections

Volumetric modelse:1/1500

City Cultural CenterPublic Library & Fine Arts Museum

Taichung, Taiwan

OSS (Office for Strategic Spaces)Summer 2013

a public library and a Fine arts museum make an odd couple. in the cultural-civic typologies that populate the contemporary city, libraries and art museums are nearly polar opposites. While they share a similar past as collections of knowledge, their historic evolution led them apart. The printing press made books readily available, accessible, while paintings, drawings, and most other arts, became ever more sophisticated and unique: libraries usually allow and

encourage touch and participation, while museums thrive in contemplation.

...The art museum can be a simple box, a neutral warehouse with little character or atmosphere, something that has to be provided by the art it contains. libraries, on the other hand, are a prime typology of architectural and spatial exploration,

since books, in general, do not care where they are read.

Library

Public Terrace

National Museum

Public Podium

Public Park

Life of Pi,Swimming pool

The solid block of the Museum that houses the Fine Arts (and their time-enduring qualities) supports the world of knowledge and information, forever in movement, dissolving into thin air.

plans

library + museum

level 2

The permanent collection is divided into areas with total absence of daylight

level 3

a room where columns disappear as it is floating between two structures

level 4

The last floor of the Museum has programs that benefit from its closeness to the Library

level 5

The library is formed by the extension of the specialized programs in search of light

level 6

Creating voids and volumes that play with light and air, as if it were a tree top

level 7

The library keeps a constant relationship with the surrounding park

- Libraries need and profit from natural light, Museums tend to avoid it.

- Museums are closed and introverted, a container of products. Libraries can be open and usually benefit from contact with the outside, visual or otherwise.

it is always a recurrent thought to have a library immersed among trees. The Taichung Central library can achieve that in its lobby, as it can be totally opened to the park.

View from the park

library + park

Groundfloor

library + park connection

- libraries usually allow and encourage touch and participation, while museums thrive with passive contemplation.

- museums are walked. libraries are seated.

- libraries can create an atmosphere, while art museums have climate control.

These contradictions between the library and the Fine arts museum call for a solution that exploits them, that makes them work together as that odd, but complementary couple

site model e:1/1000

library + museum

ssecction W-e

library + museum

secction n-s

¡más maDeRa! Work station for young entrepreneurs

madrid, spain

OSS (Office for Strategic Spaces)Summer 2013

the task was to provide workspace, meeting and exhibition to 120 jobs, in a small space of 400 m2, and with a very limited budget.

The most economic wood is used (sawing pine without any treatment) as sole structural element that serves as a basis for building new workspaces, increasing the floor area, and polycarbonate sheets as closing element. With profiles 19x7, oversized to resist fire. When these pillars extend beyond the slab to become rails, and no longer needed so that no

longer section load, the size of the piece of wood is reduced.

...

A huge table hugging the pillars is built with plywood panels on legs from Ikea

Lounge space

Storeroom

Stairs/auditorium

Original structure

Office

Exposition

Meeting

Entran

ce 2

Entran

ce 1

Old en

trance

meeting

meeting

Old en

trance

in an exercise that tries to add beauty and economy, the wood left overs as lamps are constructed with lines led hang-ing from the pillars as a star. Reinvention, reuse and recycling are key in this project, in the best sense of the word.

images

The space before and after

plans and sections

The corridor, which has reduced its height to create more surface of work above it.

Stairs/auditoriumNew corridor

Original structure Previous situation

schindler CompetitionNew Residence and equipments structure

sestao, Basque Country, spain

Student Competition ETSAM First Position

The project starts with the clear intention of creating a new public and relation space for the inhabitants of sestao, and also for all the Bilbao estuary. it is intended that the space is not only a great void inside the set, but a transit and

connection spot between all the system pieces in the area.

originally a pedestrian street is created. all the volumes are disaggregated with a minimum bay width and angled connections that do not meet the program requirements, and therefore, some must be expanded, keeping in mind the

public space that should be liberated.

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Roofs

Museum

Acces Park

Main Square

Blast Furnace

Train Station

Commerces

Housing

Park

Housing Tower

a companion for the Blast Furnace

as a landmark of the project, the residential tower height dialogues with the blast furnace and with the rest of the project forms. all around it the public space is formed, creating a large communal meeting space

The project idea is based on connecting the urban fabric of sestao with the industrial platform located on the banks of the River nervión. a new urban layout characterized by a fully public street use is generated, and serves as a buffer

between the two areas.

View from the park

The park and the project

The street stands as the backbone of the proposal. The route aims to bridge all gaps between program areas in a way as pleasant as possible and creating a new public level granted to the city of sestao.

in the basement the large spaces are established without the need for direct light, and with such dimensions that, due to terrain features, can not take up in any another position.

plan + 17,50m

a new street is carved in the slope

Broadcast BuildingBroadcast studios and hotel in Hulan district

Harbin, Heliongiang province, China

ADRI of HITSummer 2014

This project tries to represent the mix existing in the contemporary China. This project is born in an area where the Ewenki ethnic minority (one of 56 nations existing in China) has lived from a long time. A hotel with broadcast studios, from an important television chanel, is projected in order to develope and atract tourist to an area that has been forgotten

for years.

...This design is based in the coexistence between the different nationalities in China , the ewenkis like the common na-tionality of the surroundings and Han, like the most populous nationality. For that reason the hotel rooms are design-ing following a traditional chinese volume while the broadcast spaces ,and other common spaces like the cantine, are

designed like a reminder of a “cuoluozi”(the traditional Ewenky living house).

...

Parking

Office

Hotel rooms

Main entrance + cantine

Broadcast studio

Room windows

a facade that summarize the project idea welcomes the visitant to this building.

The building as a representation of the coexistence beetwen ewenki and Han nationalities.

exterior view

2 different typologies that coexist

plan + elevations

The Han and the ewenki

Front elevation

Ground floor

Back elevation

section: Hotel + Cuoluozi

+ =

old minery museumCultural reactivation Altos Hornos de Vizcaya

Barakaldo, Basque Country, spain

9th Design SemesterWinter 2011

on the edge of the urban sestao and the industrial surface of the Benedicta one can see the rail tracks linking Bilbao with the left riverbank of nervion’s estuary. it is in this spot where the Blast furnace stands, recently appointed by the

spanish industrial Herritage, and currently under a state of absolute abandon.

...on an area just over 200 meters long, 30 meters wide and with a height of 16 meters, the main work consists of the shaping and containment of a new platform for pedestrian use, to be completed with the creation of a retaining wall designed to shelter a museum, a library and a train station. additionally, there is the need for a connection between the urban and the industrial platform, which due to the progressive dismantling will emerge as a new green landscape

right on Bilbao’s estuary

Facade

Industrial Area

Parking + Access

Carved Slope

Blast Furnace

exterior view

Construction section

The project serves as a barrier and filter to the city, but the invisibility from the town of Sestao makes the view of the mouth of the estuary remain intact.

The key aspect is retaining the sloping terrain that pushes the hill downwards due to the high water table. The entire building works as a large 16 m deep retaining wall, which only works at its full capacity when the

construction is finished.

The facade consists of large concrete pillars of variable width that give the impression of a bar code from the river, impression enhanced by shade. This is a game to see without being seen, to visually reach the distant landscape, but in

turn ignore the nearby.

elevation. projection outside

The monumental Blast Furnace nº 2. acts as a buffer between this two “worlds” and becomes invisible from the street (by its nature of plinth) occupying a space that is not yet buried there.

starting from a typical section, the project adjusts to the needs of the different programs included in the building. The upper level always opens towards the south, and the lower ones that host the museum are regulated through diffused

light from the north.

plan + 17,50m

a new street is carved in the slope

Columbia TowerStudent residences for the university of Columbia

new York, Usa

7th Design SemesterSpring 2009

This residential tower tries to be used by the students of Columbia’s university nearly which is located. The project consists in the superposition of a series of equal volumes. This volumes turn 90º every time to create the common spaces

in the interior, and to show itself to the outside as a sculpted prism.

...With this different packages a configuration is achieved where each of the volumes develop a distinctive habitational

module. Changing the way of living depending on the altitude.

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Park entrance

Street entrance

Housing n1

Cafeteria

Housing n3

Housing n4

Housing n2

New Street

an sculpture developed from an rational structure. a structure that organizes the performance of the entire building. a carved structure that rises inside the park

The structure of the tower is a 4 concrete cores where the different packages rest. Working each volume as an icom-plete structure but also working on the overall integrity of the building

elevations + plans

4 different points of view, 4 ways of living

Working + Definitive model

The evolution of one idea

Modelswork and final physical models

museum in container ship

Taichung park

House in almansa Coolsingel

asylum in Bilbao

Houses in langreo

european school

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