GRANADA, SPAIN
AUDITORIUM

The upcoming use of the auditorium with musical and dancer workshops requires a flexibility of the building combined with an understanding of the overall image.

The proposed looks and the location are used in a simple shape building, facilitating their connections and wrapping the volume with the vertical features according to the lighting requirements.

In urban terms, the proposal connects the building to the green surrounding area, while respecting the neighbourhood with the appropriate scale but nevertheless giving an outstanding figure to the public eye.


CREDITS

Year: 2008
Status: Competition
Competition team: Jorge Gonzalez, Manuel Navarro

VALENCIA, SPAIN
SOCIAL HOUSING

The housing scheme is located on a U shape plot, with the characteristic of its short proximity to the train system rail.

Giving a clear answer to this fact, the winner proposal was based on a defined rectangular shape, designing the north facade as a blind wall, and opening the building to the south.


CREDITS

Year: 2007-
Status: On hold
Competition team: Pp Gahona, Jorge Gonzalez, Juan Rodriguez-Villa,

MADRID, SPAIN
SOCIAL HOUSING

The scheme seeks for compact shape in order to achieve different views and lay out the open space around.

Three palazzinas are settled down in the plot as objects inside the scenario. The design acquires a future capability of growth beside free location inside the plot.


CREDITS

Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Competition team: Pp Gahona, Jorge Gonzalez

MADRID, SPAIN
HYBRID TOWER

This project provides a responsive alternative to the conventional housing block.

Instead of a rigid tower structure essentially vacant, it is suggested that a rhythmic of solids and voids would better resonate with the future occupant activities. With various levels of social association, the scheme is flexible enough to be updated and altered as needed or desired.
Moreover, the podium part is a low-rise dwelling development, arranged in series of open spaces, as natural light providers.

The Madrid Hybrid Tower project responds to a variety of surrounding scales, building types, and extremely changed environment. It has been found conditions that might be applicable as a strategy for larger, more complex areas of development.


CREDITS

Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Competition team: Pp Gahona, Jorge Gonzalez

MILAN, ITALY
MIX-USE COMPLEX

Although, the nineteenth and the early-twentieth-century's utopias of communities' projects became soon dystopias, such idea (or myth?) has survived until nowadays.

In Milan, the competition brief required multiples uses in a site surrounded by ordinary high-rise housing buildings, and a train station. The submitted proposal identified opportunities, and possible dangers: the creation of a contemporary Mediterranean courtyard, and at the same time, to avoid producing a gated community.

Following that premise, the program was conceived as bringing the urban experience of the city at large within the buildings themselves. It was created a three-dimensional configuration based on the different possibilities that geometry can provide. The proposal developed various levels of social association; market in the ground floors, and community spaces in several levels, fostering the idea of the importance of voids, as well as solids.

The result was a horizontal and vertical labyrinth within the buildings and trough the interior courtyards. The proposal was presented far removed as possible from the model of the uniformity, and the repetition of the housing block.


CREDITS

Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Competition team: Jorge Gonzalez with B&M

BASQUE COUNTRIES, SPAIN
VISITORS CENTRE

The challenge of this project was to design strongly slated program inside an outstanding context within the Genius Loci.

Not being afraid of such important enterprise, the design deals with the scale of surrounding features, enhances the existing situation by addition and creates an architectural dialogue.



CREDITS

Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Competition team: Jorge Gonzalez, Manuel Navarro

SPAIN
GARDEN PAVILION

The study area is located in the main intersection of the pedestrian path of the central green area of the city.

The Alameda defined by trees scarcely aligned without slated rhythm, creates a peculiar atmosphere and gives some walking sense of distance. The design emphasizes the "tempo" of the trees giving a landmark within the context, becoming the meeting point for the local flow.

In the pursuit of new sensorial atmosphere, this design offers different stimulus such as light, air, shadows, steam....


CREDITS

Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Competition team: Jorge Gonzalez, Jesus Jimenez

HONG KONG
BOUNDARY CROSSING FACILITIES

The urban and social modification that is going to be produced by the bridge construction, between Macao and Hong Kong cities in the Pearl River Delta, will produce new synergies and opportunities driven by social and market forces.

The site will accommodate an endless series of movements: flights, trains, buses, cars, that will coexist and interact in juxtaposition. More than construct a building; a system is what needs to be generated: an open structure adaptable to any possible situation. The innovative structural system proposed will generate maximum efficiency and versatility both in construction and in program. Therefore, it will be able to adapt to either office space or hall parameters as desired.

In the twenty-first century the understanding of networks, communications, connectivity, and flows needs to prioritise the geostrategic agenda. Infrastructure must generate the ideal platform in order to be connected to the global system.


CREDITS

Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Competition Team: Jorge Gonzalez, Manuel Navarro, Ma Quiang

BEIJING, CHINA
MIX-USE COMPLEX

Since the Romans, the atrium has been a hole in a house or a building that injects light and air into the centre. In Wangfujing street, the proposal is to create a container of artificiality where to produce an endless possible of experiences.

The approach to the project started thinking about space conditions; social, urban, and architectonical. The mass of program is manipulated with the objective to create a sectional urbanism where opposite activities and uses are set up in a successive sequence; a block which can contain the whole world.
The proposal is base on building a gross-five facades using the required retail, hotel, and apartments square metres, in order to generate an inside space. A system of void spaces introduces a spatial configuration that brings daylight into the cube, and views from/to the surroundings.

700 metres east, the historical Chinese Architecture -The Forbidden City- generously shows the possibilities to create a core protected by a built perimeter; creating its own world; its own views.


CREDITS

Year: 2010-2012
Status: On going
Competition team: Jorge Gonzalez, Manuel Navarro
Project development team: Latitude Studio - Beijing Institute of Architectural design

FURNITURE
CHAIR LONG

A chair long is a temporary refuge, a place where you can be safe from the street rawness or from the daily stress. That is why chairs are so important and that is why there are so many.

The AV chair comes from the idea of embodying the spirit of comfort and enjoying. Their sober colours and its ergonomic shape make a marvellous example of close-to-the-floor lounge furniture. It has a flexible backrest that curves over the head, forming a sculptural canopy and is able to be rotated and to be used in a 90-grades-opposite position.

To be used in when waiting, reading, dialoguing or even thinking. There are so many chairs to so different moments.


CREDITS

Year: 2010
Status: Prototype

VISITORS CENTRE
DATONG, CHINA

CREDITS

Year: 2010
Status: Concept design
Team: Jorge Gonzalez, Manuel Navarro with BIAD

MANIFESTO FOR THE HUMAN CITY

Architectural research based on rethinking, reformulating and restructuring some historical models.

Tools used in order to open possibilities to generate a new combination of urbanism, one that will be made of beauty, efficiency, and social values.