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Resonating Spaces
Contemporary Notion Of Homes
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Karachi University | Indus Valley School Of Art & Architecture | Malaga University, Spain

ADA features its annual showcasing of works of distinctive students, from universities of Pakistan.
This is an ongoing venture which will be carried forward in the next issue.

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Architecture
Name: Aránzazu Caravantes Name: Danial Navas
García
Institute: Malaga Uniiversity,
SPAIN
Thesis idea: Nautical Club
Synopsis:
The sea is a key part within Málaga´s origin and
development. Málaga is a city by the sea, its
port was determining for its historical evolution.
During the last years, the port has been
improved in order to make it an open space
with free-time and tourist activities. However,
the ground given to work with, the Morro’s
Platform, appears like an abandoned area. The
main target is to build a Nautical Club, so it
becomes another piece in the itinerary, adding
a new public space in the city, and empowering
it as a meeting point for three kinds of activities:
Public recreational activities at the new port
developed by the citizens; the touristic one,
developed by passengers who arrive at the
Maritime Terminal; and the social nautical-
sporting one of the club itself, developed by the
club members.
In order to follow this strategy, a fragmentation
of facilities in five pieces is proposed. These
pieces are set following a spiral shapes, so as
to the perimeter seems to be absorbed towards
a virtual central point offering a panoramic
view of the dock. Moreover, the pieces turn
inviting users to approach the dock’s back area,
recovering like this a space that faces to the
city and recognising its remarkable landmarks
and the sea.
To formalise this idea, the excavation and
construction of a half-buried base is proposed.
This will be the building support and will
contain the club members’ most private
facilities: the sporting and nautical facilities,
such as swuimming-pools, gym or dressing-
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Aránzazu Caravantes García
Aránzazu Caravantes García
rooms. From this base, high pieces emerge,
whose light structure allows to obtain wide
open terraced living-rooms to develop the
most public facilities: the social one, such as
restaurant or library. The idea is fulfilled with
a new area that the project hands over to the
city: a public garden on the base, where big
courtyards with outdoor pitches of the club are
located.
In this project, the landscape is taken into
account thanks to a walls and garden walls
architecture. The combination of terraces,
ramps and stairramps, level’s changes, slopes,
fences and vegetation allow the three subjects
(tourists, citizens and club members) to develop
their activities without losing their respective
privacy and to create those paths that bring
them closer to the sea.
Institute: Malaga Uniiversity,
SPAIN
Thesis idea: Integrated urban
regeneration. The case of
Carranque neighbourhood in
Malaga.
Synopsis:
The project lay out a reflexion about the city
growing models that we inherit, in a momentum
when the uncontrolled models of contemporary
cities is being put into question.
Due to the project’s magnitude, we must start
studying the European political context to
analyze the multiple dimension of the urban
regeneration.
This concept of ‘INTEGRATED URBAN
REGENERATION’ aims to optimise, preserve
or revalue all the existing urban capital (social,
built environment, heritage, etc.) in contrast to
other forms of intervention in which, amongst
all this urban capital, only the value of the land
is prioritised and conserved, by traumatically
demolishing and replacing the rest of the whole
urban capital and — most lamentably —of the
social capital.
This does not mean that in certain ‘regeneration’
operations it may be not necessary for
some specific buildings to be demolished
and replaced, or that on other occasions
(‘brownfields’, derelict, abandoned areas or
areas in decline) it may be best to turn to
complete renewal.
TOLEDO DECLARATION. COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION. JUNE 2010.
Danial Navas
Danial Navas
The project is meant like a process with the
following working procedure:
• Reality analysis of the neighbourhood: past
and present
To evaluate existing needs is believed
essential to develop a preliminary project to
establish the basis for a PARTICIPATORY
URBAN REGENERATION S TRATEGY in the
neighbourhood of Carranque. This preliminary
project is based on the experiences of
neighbours, as users who are true connoisseurs
of the neighbourhood’s history, its current needs
and the potential of the neighbourhood. I.e.
contemplate the life of a place.
• Neighbourhood intervention strategies
A master plan that brings together the proposals
for intervention in the neighbourhood in a global
level (swelling, mobility and equipment) is
established, based on the MODUS OPERANDI
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of the neighbours, through neighbourhood
negotiation processes. It is, therefore, NOT
INVENT ANYTHING, but simply to exploit
the synergies that already exist in the
neighbourhood, in order to ensure the success of
the intervention.
• Residential intervention strategies
This last part, when the project has a deeper
development, seeks a restored building better
adapted to the inhabitants needs, that regulates
better the energy consumption and also better
expressed in the building’s elevations the
residents’ preferences throughout its life.
The project is proposed to accommodate
the social multiplicity that exists in the
neighbourhood. So, from the original typologies,
with the adhesion of prefabricated elements of
quick construction will allow the configuration
of a CUSTOMIZED TYPOLOGY and adapted to
different LIFESTYLES.
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