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2012
< LA PUNTA NEIGHBOURHOOD SYSTEM >
UNIVERSITY PROJECT
Explanation
The semestral subject spins around investigation of the mat-building systems and how in the 60’s theorics as Christopher Alexander and J. Habraken, criticizing the Smithsons and Team X ideas trying to lead a different movement that put the foccus on humans.
After the urban analysis and watching the difficulties of the area, we conclude that the lack of identity and disconnection of the area, have make La Punta a place where people don’t want to live, causing a depopulation in the area.
The project was an essay of how to solve the systematization of the mat-buildings taking into account the considerations and critics that architecture history has made to this movement, try to find new proposals.
The conclusion of the work was the incompatibility that modern systems way of thought have with human views, activities and necessities. Finnally, was really dificult find a sistematization of a city that don’t make the area a concrete desert even if we try to mix uses, make common areas and descentralizing information.
The proposal that is shown here consists in three different systems that repeats the actions in 3 different scales.
The main idea extracted from the analysis is to condense and regenerate the main street that La Punta conserves from de 50’s mixing the old existing houses and the new ones generated by the project to consolidate the area. The project also solve the 3 main points (the entrance form North, the entrance from south and the transition below the road, in the center of the street).
Project by
Mónica Martín Grau
Year
2012
Location
Valencia (Spain)
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2014-2015
< LEARNING FROM RECYCLING >
MASTER THESIS
Explanation
“Learning from the recycling” it’s a project started in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), mentored by Gustavo Romero, and developed by the request of the Comprovidens Group. Comprovidens is a local environmental group worried about the cultural, ecological, patrimonial and social problems on the surroundings of the Popocatepetl Park Area.
A group of 6 people tooked the challenge of making an urban, social an ecological lecture of the area to try to find solutions from different points of view. This project was accepted in the Architecture University of Valencia (ETSA) by Jose María Lozano and was developed in the classes of LabH.
Atlautla is one of the most contaminated areas of Mexico States. It’s position on the slopes of the Volcano Popocatepetl, makes necessary to have an strategy to decrease the contamination, stopping the infected water that flows into the valleys.
The project that is shown below is based on prevention and education as a big motor to act against long-term contamination.
This process, will be explained further in this portfolio from the urban and social view. It’s an exercice which introduces the fundations to iniciate the process for the environment recovery but it wouldn’t be a closed route to get it because what is important is the way in which the comunity modifies the spaces to take part of them.
Project by
Mónica Martín Grau
Year
2014
Location
Atlautla de Victoria
Edo México
(Estados Unidos Mexicanos)
Client
Comprovidens
Web
http://regeneracionurbanavalencia.es/index.php/2015/12/12/aprender-reciclaje/
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2018
< EN [CAMIN] ANDO >
COMPETITION
Project by
Mónica Martín Grau
Year
2018
Location
Trujillo, Extremadura
(España)
Client
Driehouse Architecture Competition
Explanation
Trujillo is a calm place, close from Cáceres, in the inside of Extremadura. The strong nature of its historic structure, place the city between the most turistical ones of the area. Howeber, the surroundings to La Coria’s Door, girded of patrimonial buildings, looks like inhabited.
After the analysis work we have made, we realized that Trujillo’s urban develpment was leaded to the South-East owning to the strong slopes of the territory.
The architectural barriers, the lack of daily interesting points of activity and the housing typology isolated by blind walls, make the area an empty place detached from Trujillo’s actual city.
Added to the specific problematic, we found in Trujillo the common rural area problems that are recurrent in the whole Spanish territory; as it is, the forced displacement of young people to bigger urban centers, the loss of the traditional crafts and artisans, and the turitification of the cities as alternative and solution to the last mentioned issues.
Nevertheless, the starting point of our intervention is to empower the identity of the surroundings to “La Coria”, making accesible an urban and landscaping path around the Old Wall which conects The Coria’s Door and the Triunfo’s Door by the inside and the outside.
For this purpose, the new edification required has been intended for a handcraft workshop-school centre for local population and a residence for this people who should travel until Trujillo to make the formation. In that way, the choosen architecture encourages the daily uses and is shown with domestic dimensions for current people.
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