Parking Angel Oak by Ignacio Borrego and Felipe Samarán
06/10/2016.
[Pozuelo de Alarcón] Spain
metalocus, ÁLVARO LAMAS
metalocus, ÁLVARO LAMAS
Description of the project by Ignacio Borrego and Felipe Samarán
Francisco de Vitoria University is located near the Monte de El Pardo, in a village with different species of trees among which oaks and pines environment, and it seemed appropriate to maintain the larger specimens and establish some integration between the university and space natural.
Asphalt surfaces intended for vehicle parking often assume a tabula rasa, with minimal means, permanently removes any trace of the preconditions.
This time the distribution of parking spaces is optimized to maintain existing trees and the spaces occupied by them, which can be neither square nor road, to plot a network of pedestrian walkways from the parking lot to the university take advantage . These paths vary in size depending on the estimated flow of passersby, setting a new tree structure.
The squares are marked by circles of different sizes and colors intended to ward off the generic nature of this type of non-places to bring a new image linking him to its location in a natural environment.
Felipe Samarán studied architecture in Darmstadt (Germany) and Madrid ETSAM where he graduated in 1995. He held an important cooperative activity, which developed more intensely during their stay in Nicaragua since the '95 to '97.
He worked with Alberto Campo Baeza from '97 to '02 who coauthored the General Savings Fund Granada, and participated in the strategic plan of the New Town Telecommunication Telefonica in Madrid, among other projects.
Since 2002 has its own ARTEctura study with such varied works as the building Minerva (near the Casa Encendida) The school Highlands Los Fresnos (Boadilla del Monte), the comprehensive rehabilitation plan of the City of Aguarda (Pontevedra) "waist Key "SOPA or restaurant Madrid among others.
He started teaching Teaching classes of projects in A.I. ETSAM, from '02. Since 2006 he is professor and director of the School of Architecture UFV (Francisco de Vitoria University).