This presentation is about secondgeneration urban thinkers-Carlos ferrater.ppt

This presentation is about secondgeneration urban thinkers

1. Carlos Ferrater Arquitecto
-He learned a degree in Architecture from the
Barcelona School of Architecture in 1971
- Professor of Architectural Project Design at
the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
-He is a member of the Sant Jordi Royal
Academy of Fine Arts

2. A founding partner architect of the Office
Architecture in Barcelona (OAB) with Xavier Mart
- XAVIER MARTÍ GALÍ (Barcelona, 1969)

- graduated from the School of Architecture of
Barcelona in 1995

3. Granada Science Park Project
Location: Granada, Spain
Designed by: Carlos farrater
The roof flies over the terrain,
constructing a new topography
that, as it folds, organizes
between folds the skylights that
provide natural light to the
circulations and connecting
spaces

4. Benidrom West Beach Promenade, Barcelona, Spain
Project Details:
DATE COMPETITION: 2002
CONSTRUCTION: 2006-2009
LOCATION: Benidrom – Spain

AUTHOR: CARLOS
FERRATER – XAVIER
MARTÍ GALÍ
The prize for Public Spaces
was awarded to this
project

5. Concept of the project

7. Making Waves
Ferrater and Xavier Martí
negotiated with city officials to
reduce the width of the road in
order to maintain the existing
expanse of beach and allow for
both a broad promenade and new
city infrastructure installed
beneath it.

8. Using local materials, the
architects devised an
efficient modular system
using 18 forms to create a
no repetitious, 3-inch-thick
concrete shell , and to
form balconies that double
as overhead shelter from
sun and rain.

9. Xavier Martí worked
closely with local Tile
of Spain
manufacturer
Keramia to develop
high-performance,
17-inch-round,
colorfast glazed-
porcelain tiles (and
fillers) in 22 custom
hues that were
largely determined
by the vibrant colors
adorning adjacent
buildings

13. •Carlos Ferrater Partnership (OAB),
"Synchronizing Geometry, Landscape,
Architecture & Construction“
•a set of designs that configure a family
of autonomous experiments in a design
approach with a single logic: geometry
as a way of approaching landscape and
urban form.

14. •The proposal for the Benidorm West Beach Promenade puts forward a radical
innovation with respect to the result of the other promenades with which we are
acquainted.
•Normally, seaside promenades are designed with the object of building a line along
the seashore to project the building a line along the seashore to protect the built-up
areas from the sea breakers, at the same time as organizing a transit area parallel to
the coast and building the seafront façades of the towns and villages along the same
lines.
•Our proposal for the Benidorm West Beach Promenade was designed as a transit
area that would, apart from the various problems arising such as the sewage
drainage, rainwater courses, access to the beach without architectural barriers,
access to the underground parking areas underneath the promenade itself,
etc...Facilitate the promenade for this to become a place with its own lifestyle. With an
organic layout, recreating the shape of the cliffs and the waves, the project included
unusual honeycombed surfaces generating areas of light and shadow, convexities
and concavities making up a series of platforms and levels allowing their use as play,
leisure and meditation areas.
•The promenade was constructed with just one material, this being white concrete,
incorporating the benches and street furniture in varied shapes, differencing the finish
of the pavements by means of various textures and colors.