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EDDEA

Halfway between a territorial laboratory and a design office, EDDEA accumulate nearly 20 years of professional experience in which we have worked for large public and private corporations, small and medium customers and all types of administrations. For them we have designed large masterplans, detailed urban studies, strategic plans, and many building projects.

CONTENT.

Eddea........................................................................5Our Main Office..........................................................7International Experience............................................8

Why Do We Talk So Much About The City?.............13 Basic Ideas...................................................17 So here we are..............................................18 In the century of the cities.............................20 The Old cities and the new ones .................23 Taking down the walls ..................................25 And buiding up their Economy.....................26

But The City Is Much More......................................29 The City is PEOPLE.......................................31 The City is HERE...........................................45 The City is LIFE.............................................59 The City is ENERGY.....................................87 The City is TIME .........................................101

Credits..................................................107

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EDDEA.

EDDEA is an international strategy consultancy specialized in Territory, Urban Planning and Architecture, with offi ces in Spain and Poland. We accumulate nearly 20 years of professional experience with work done in Europe, Russian and Asia, where we have worked for large public and private corporations, small and medium customers and all kind of of administrations. For them, we have made strategic plans, designed large master plans, detailed urban studies, and many building projects.

We are providing our clients with a wide range of services related to Architectural and Urban Design and Project Management. Especially in the fi eld of Construction Management our offered work ranges from Technical Assistance or Due Diligence to the Coordination of the construction work, including Project Monitoring or Facility Management.

1. Strategyc Consultancy and Planning.2. Urban Design.3. Architecture.4. Project Management.

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OUR MAIN OFFICE.

Our main office in Seville is designed as an open space focused on facilitating team work. It accommodates 58 workplaces, spread over 7 different areas, where all the employees have a direct relation. It is also equipped whit 6 meeting rooms with videoconference system, a classroom, kitchen and dining room, library and storage.

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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE.

At Eddea we devise new business opportunities in the global context, shape up new concepts and make them happen through partnering with the right associates.

We regularly collaborate with national and international teams of engineers, landscapers and other experts. Consequently, we have a broad experience in putting together teams of the highestquality in Europe, having the contacts and relationships at their disposition for this. We are able to form the mostsuitable team depending on the specifications of each project.

This a short trip that will take you to visit our more recent urban projects, places or cities that wanted to growth, to be cleaner, to be crowed, to more efficient, to be greener. Still we have a lot to learn, but we are proud of the steps we already took.

And we start this trip as we start all our researches and projects, with a

key question...

WHY DO WE TALK SO MUCH

ABOUT THE CITY?

The World is Flat, Hot and

Crowded

The city is the the solution,

not the problem

Can a city be design?

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Basic Ideas

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SO HERE WE ARE.

This is how a brief article by Mike Davis begins. It is entitled “Who will build the Ark?. The Utopian Imperative in an Age of Catastrophe”.

The new megapolis of China, Africa, India and South America, after a decade of unprecedented urbanization, are similar to some English cities of the mid 19th Century such as Manchester or Glasgow: contamination, overcrowding, bad healthy conditions, and overpopulation. Factors which will lead us to consider them as a model for nothing.We are living great global changes. The models of the past are depleted and they are not able to solve some current problems: preservation of resources, economy, biodiversity, employment, forests, technologies, culture, knowledge, rivers, society, health, leisure, oceans, commerce, growing. All these problems are impending and they represent a daily challenge for most of the governments. The question is: how long we can keep spoiling our sources, instead of preserving them and using them cautiously.

“Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary.”

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IN THE CENTURY OF THE CITIES...

The city is a basic element, the central core of a modern society, the symbol of collective human experience, and in them the future of humanity is made up. The great global capital cities represent a must referring point, an ideal laboratory which lead us to observe and analyze clearly the human nature and behavior. The economy rules, which we use globally and which are grouped under the term capitalism, are linked to the moods with which we are related with the natural or historic environment, and how we use their resources, the social moods with which we, human beings, relate with each other. The lack of available resources and the overload which population makes over them, and the current growing, make us seek for much more efficient new ways, and it also makes us take advantage of what we have.Imagining a better world consists of imagining better cities, and of working in order to develop in them a new dialogue among these elements, with a new holistic approximation which lead us to have a complete vision of it, so that we can solve most of the challenges to which global society is facing.

For us, the city is a simultaneous superposition of minor events, a net which relates the environmental, social and economic processes. We make an effort to analyze them and to comprehend them, to propose new relationships between them, which create new balances from other more holistic approaches.

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old

new

THE OLD CITIES AND THE NEW ONES.In the Western world, we do our best to renew our cities in order to make them more competitive, pleasant or healthy. We devise some strategies to attract more people or companies, we improve their infrastructures in order to offer more services, we fight for great cultural or sportive events, we make fairs, festivals, and congresses, we build industrial areas, we boast about our universities and centers of knowledge, or we renew their centers to attract more commerce. Meanwhile, in the emergent countries, building new cities is a main concern. There are a lot of people who move from the country to the city. In addition, it is estimated that by mid 21st Century, the 75 % of the global population will live in cities. They say that in the next 50 years, much more new cities are going to be built in China than those which exist nowadays. Here the problem is other one: the population pressure only leads to think in the massive production of housing, whereas the environment or the natural resources are given less importance, together with the habitability and health conditions.

In our historical cities, we keep adding value to the present city, so that they can keep appearing in a map, a map of a more and more complex and growing world. In the emergent countries, we look for new urban models which can be introduced at the same rhythm than these societies demand. Those models should establish a more balanced relationship between nature, society and economy; and, above all, that they can lead the citizens of these new cities to change from the rural to the urban environment, without having to go through the devious path which most western cities did in their most spreading phase.

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TAKING DOWN THE WALLS.

Both of them are eager to be more accessible and more transparent. The old walls are being taken down and they lead to new technologies where information flows. It permits us to work and to share more. Information is shared, nets and groups are established, data are opened to learn from our own experience. Responsibility is shared, integrating the interests of all the groups, establishing new alliances with nature, culture and economy. Besides, responsibility is shared, fostering associations, assemblies, supporting a more responsible and active civil society, opening the processes of decision-taking to the citizens’ participation.

If the transparent cities are brighter, and attract more and better people, our goal will be to provide their agents with tools with which they can; for example, facilitate access to information, work by means of workshops and work.-groups open to different groups of people, redesign their consultive and participative processes, identify all the actors involved in each decision, or allow to speak up to those who could not. Giving answers to the new 21st Century challenges, to build a more fair city.

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AND BUILDING UP THEIR ECONOMY.

The challenges in this century are natural, social and they are also economic, as they have always been. The city is economy and richness. Economy has always been linked up to the cities. In the cities, an intense and diverse economic activity develops. Industry, tourism, leisure, commerce, services... Cities lead the economic dynamism on a global basis. Bringing forward the future by means of strategic economic plans, generating synergies and complicities, creating supporting services and encouraging the entrepreneurs, looking for the alliance with universities and its investigating potential, or favoring the continuous formation of its citizens; in this way, they try to increase these activities to regulate the balance with the entrance and exit flows of goods and resources, which guarantee the services given to the citizen. Nowadays, more than ever before, it seems that economy is imposing its rules.

And far from what it seems to be, knowing them allows us to propose more complex solutions, with social or natural implications, with more beneficiaries and more efficiently. Therefore, when we begin to draw a new master plan we have to imagine so many things, as those we need to start any other activity which is also supported by the same economy rules. Thinking as entrepreneurs do, makes us focus better: knowing who we are addressing to, with whom we are associated, how much it costs, who must be benefited from it, what the social or natural impact will be in our actions, what the main activities will be in a new area, how we can keep them active and growing in time or how we can communicate our project. A board and some post-its may help us comprehend the problem.

Business Plan for a Master Plan

NEW DOWN TOWN SQUARE

But the city is much

more...

The city is PEOPLE

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Plato

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...IS CROWD.

The city is exchange, commerce and culture. Not only is it a physical concentration of people and buildings, it is also the place for civility, or participation in the public daily routines. It is “polis”, a place for politics, of power exercise. And there, citizenship is generated, in this environment characterized by density, diversity, relationships and meetings. The most relevant events, either if they are historical revolutions, or if they are exceptional discoveries, occur in the cities, which later turn into symbols of these events. The Berlin Wall is a good example.

And it is in this way as we like to design public spaces:crowded, prepared for those who eat, for those who walk, wander, discuss, work, for those who visit or for those who celebrate. They are spaces for life.

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...IS OURS.

The city does not belong to anyone. It is ours. It is full of things from everybody: trees, churches, museums, houses, banks or squares, streets or corners, parks or rivers... which have their owner, but all together belong to the city and the city belongs to the citizens. In the most advanced cities, citizens feel responsible for these goods, they enjoy them and they take care of them at the same time. They move to defend them and they are eager to lend them to the following generations.

With Marismas de Tablada, we participated in an citizens’ initiative in which we devised the following: how a city can recover its river after years rejecting it. We reconnected the natural systems, the leisure and sportive spaces, we redefined water borders, letting it flow through abandoned banks and we created a new activity focus with the incorporation of birds migration and nature to the local economy. We opened a debate which enriched the future of this area.

Concept ideafor Seville and its river

Seville (Spain)

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...IS CULTURE AND

CREATIVITY.

Cities are at the same time laboratories of social innovation and of cultural creativity for our societies. New plastic trends, literary trends, new mechanisms of political administration, or social solidarity, visual languages permanently renewed, all of them find in the large cities their better space for their realization. The high population density enhances the diversification and originality of the residents; then, the options increase and a big deal of stimuli are available. In most of the cases, this cultural and creative potential finds its best breeding ground in the old buildings or in the richness of the old quarters, with their capricious urban plots consolidated along time, where a rich architectonic heritage abounds, in the form of a farmhouse, of historic and monumental buildings. In the project “Senda Serena” we have imagined how it would be to build a path of quietness and tranquility around the 14 historical convents of the old quarter of the city. We have studied the quality of the streets, their plot and the potential of each one; and we have proposed a citizen’s initiative in order to recover them using this path which connects them all. In silence, without any noise, the project advances step by step.

Open Convents: Paths towards serenitySeville (Spain)

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...IS A PLAY GROUND.

The city is sensitive to social changes which shape the population inhabiting it. In the Western world, this is the century in which leisure, in all its forms, is consolidated as the main activity for human beings. In the emerging countries, this tendency is also unstoppable. Leisure means: sport, games, walking, culture, tourism, fairs. And our cities have been preparing for these changes, offering a great deal of spaces for these activities. As if it were a huge playground with a lot of possibilities, cities endow themselves with parks, theaters, concert halls, exhibition halls, paths for walking, courts to train... Definitely, living in a city does not mean rejecting to play.

In Parque Porzuna, 12 different islands have been projected to make other uses of leisure and sport, and the greatest one, the País de Nunca Jamás (Neverland), shelters the biggest playground of the Metropolitan Area of the province: The local press said the day of the presentation of the project that Peter Pan would move to this city. How lucky their neighbours!

Master Plan for Green Metropolitan AreaMairena del Aljarafe, Seville (Spain)

41Master Plan Santa BarbaraSeville (Spain)

...IS DESIGN.

The most dynamic cities have bet for design. Buenos Aires, Copenhaguen, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Barcelona or Tokyo represent the newest styles and the most modern trends leading design in the world. Designers of all types of disciplines (architects, interior designers, industrial designers, fashion designers, communication and graphic designers) live and work in these places where they create the most innovative hotels, the most modern restaurants, the most extraordinary attractions and the most iconic designs. Design help people and it can bring values to the new developments with which they can compete against the traditional city.

In an integrated way, and with some common rules of facades and volumes, the new district of Santa Barbara defines their new buildings, their master lines, and the architecture which will build about 18,000 of our buildings. However, in the central park there has been a major effort to endow this new area with a strong identity: design and nature melt to make a technological and sports center with which new neighbors may be attracted.

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...IS HOME.

We are a lot of people in the cities, and sometimes this circumstance makes social organization complex and intensifies inequalities, and physical, psychological or social tensions. Feeling lost in the crowds: maybe a crowd which is around you could mean that you cannot do your best, in certain circumstances. The city plays a key role to make the citizen feel secure, as if he were at home, identify his nearby environment as a living, pleasant or simply comfortable place. A little square, some chosen urban furniture, unusual vegetation, or a big church -if it exists- or a big and well-treated crossroads allow the neighbors to feel their neighborhood as unique, personal and intimate.

Sometimes, taking the most of the existent things is enough, together with a bit of imagination. In a medium city, with a traditional economy based on agriculture and where there are now arriving other more innovative industries such as the recycling companies sector -of industrial waste-, we have planned some urban roundabouts playing with the corporative image of the town. Nevertheless, what makes them truly unique is that we have reused some waste material of these same recycling industries for its ending. Something which nobody wanted, has now become into the most eye-catching material of the new urban crossroads.

Recycling at the roundaboutLepe, Huelva (Spain)

The city is HERE

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DIFFERENCES MAKES THEM

LARGER.

There are not two equal cities and recognizing the differences can be the best weapon to survive in these competitive times. Taking the most of each context, of each accident, of each relevant obstacle make them more solid. Unique. A river, crops, a topography, or a valley when they are shaping. A promontory, some views, a forest. Any thing can make it unique.

In a city which was the head of the textile industry in central Europe during the 19th Century, we have designed a s-trategy so that it can keep using the richness of its environment, as that industry did with the linen countryside and with the water stream which fed the factories. Now, they worked to change the entrance gate to Boulimov woods, a great green space of the European natura net 2000. Tourism, leisure, sports and nature are the new niche of employment which have arisen under the protection of these new activities.

Economic Strategies for an historical industrial city to link it to the nature surrondingsZyrardow (Poland)

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GREEN.

All the cities were soil, rock or sand before. And in all of them, vegetation bloomed: either plants, bushes or trees. In some occasions, they have disappeared; not always, and there are always those whose citizens have been seeding and growing along the years. Vegetation belonging to each place is character-forming, it identifies cultures and it provides personality. They allow establishing perspectives, ordering shadows and paths.

When we go to a new place to work, we like to get there and look for them. For other people, this is uncomfortable, for us, they are stains in the board which let us know better where we are. In Moscow, we found a birch-tree forest, we represented them and we protected them within the norms, and we included them in the initial design. They ended up showing a strategy of how nature blends with the city which flows through it, other inserted species which were already there. This quarter will be unique, nobody is likely to have the same birches so near his or her window.

Master Plan A101 Block CityMoscow (Russia)

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LANDSCAPE.

And, as almost always, there are trees, there is almost always an up and down. There are few flat urban areas, an irregularity can always be found. Supporting in them to design a planning allows us to incorporate the tool “views” or the tool “natural ventilation” to the urban design, facilitating in a natural way the visual interaction among neighbors, or among them and the elements of the city.

We went to build some social buildings in a little town. Eventually, we projected a new park to recover a stream which was interrupted by the urban plot. Nevertheless, the surprising thing was how the housing was organized around a natural platform so that all of these buildings glanced at the church.

Do you see the church?

Urban Planning for an old football field .Umbrete, Seville (Spain)

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LOCAL RESOURCES.

In order to see all of that in a plan -trees, topography- sometimes we should withdraw a little from it. It is then when differences appear between places, even some of them near us. Besides topography or vegetation, plans contain rivers, channels and streams, watercourses, valleys, paths, routes, flows, winds... which make each space unique. Those who knew how to read those maps throughout history have built the most interesting cities. The most global cities have been built from the most local elements.

In Copenhagen, we planned its old industrial harbor to create a city of 50,000 inhabitants around a big maritime square which crowned up the great avenue which we can find in the map 1:100.000, the central channel of the city. Turning the proposed plot at the end of the river to propose a classic ending: a square, a channel full of activity and life. It was the excuse to design an innovative planning which proposed reusing the typological plot which already existed in the city, to create the new city.

International Urban Design Competition. Nordhavnen, the sustainable city of the futureCopenhagen (Denmark)

The city is LIVE

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Janes Jacob

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NOSTALGIC LOOKS.

When we try to get a broad perspective of the history of the cities, we are surprised when we realize that three quarters of human history happened before the foundation of the first cities, or of the industrial cities as we know them nowadays, which generated only 200 years ago. It supposes less than the 1% of the time that the human being has been living upon Earth. Therefore, we can state that urban experience is a relatively recent phenomenon, which a major part of human beings who have known it are like a blinking of an eye with respect of the scope of human history.

For this reason, we are not surprised of the fact that sometimes only an image of the past can summarize the history of a city. These images can help us remember our past, understand what we are and which can be our potentialities. An old grabbing of the 16th Century of an antique city of the Guadalquivir delta inspired a local initiative which is working on the recovery of the river, and on giving back the city its more Atlantic past.

Concept idea for Seville and its riverSeville (Spain)

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DENSE CITY.

The developed cities in the world offer opportunities to answer to the challenges of the quick urbanization of the rest of the globe: providing experiences, technical capacity and innovation to tackle the problem. Berlin, Toronto, Stockholm or London are good examples. All of them have a common feature: they join a lot of people in a very little space. Their density allows them to cut distances and favor mobility, diminishing the energy they use and being more efficient. Only some data: in a city like New York, 10 times more dense than Los Angeles, the energetic cost per person is the least in the United States.Moreover, their citizens interact more, they have more choices to choose, they are more creative and they are much more informed and committed; in order to mitigate their environmental impact they usually use public means of transport, bicycles or they go walking to work. What made that some cities seemed an environmental bomb a short time ago is ts density, which turns today into an ecologic paradigm.

The challenge of these cities is how to blend people and the places where they go. One of the great challenges in the planning of the quarter A101 in Moscow has precisely been analyzing the flow of people and energy in order lo locate the proposed plan, the equipments, the centers of economic activities, the different residential areas or the free areas, so that they can make the most of working with a high density model and generating efficiency for their future inhabitants.

Master Plan A101 Block CityMoscow (Russia)

Master Plan A101 Block CityMoscow (Russia)

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FULLY EQUIPPED

CITIES.

If a city can differ from other due to its charm, its peculiarities or its touristic attractive; it also do so by the level of resources and its public equipments: they are used by the neighbors, they attract the most creative classes, they solve mobility and traffic problems, they create employment and richness, and they help to shape the urban landscape, which in other way could have been more monotonous, if it only consisted of residential buildings. Squares play a very important role within this multi-functionality the city offers. Throughout history, we can find them specialized in functions such as commerce and market, organized in trade guilds where they joined together to deal with their issues, or with a political function sheltering the most basic administrative buildings.

In the cities we design, we try to include squares and public spaces pervaded with character, which correspond to the new functions which appear in these new urban nuclei: shopping centers, accommodation places, walking spaces, lobbies of hotels and offices or anterooms of libraries and other public equipments.

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FUNCTION AND COMPLEXITY.

In the cities, we are made to work with complexity. A net which must support so complex activities -in which diversity is an indicator of efficiency- must necessarily be supported in different uses and activities. In contrast to plots occupied by mono-functional buildings -which in the short term are easy to deal with-, the complex ones -where houses alters with offices, with commercial spaces, with equipments for service to community- can be active more time, can get more benefit to the necessary effort to its impulse and construction and can be more solid in its management in the long term.

The project of a new public parking for the users of the new subway station has allowed us to create a new central square in this little city. Priorizing public spaces, traffic has been made to flow through a first cellar; where the bus station is located. Two polygonal pieces embrace two little milestones, hotel and offices, with the purpose of protruding in a horizon of houses and low buildings.

Master Plan, Concept and Execution Project Interchange Complex, Offices, Hotel and RetailSeville (Spain)

Master Plan, Concept and Execution Project Interchange Complex, Offices, Hotel and RetailSeville (Spain)

73Organic MarketMairena del Aljarafe, Sevilla (Spain)

BACK TO THE SHOPPING BASKET.

Furthermore, what it does not lack are commerces. The commerce was the origin of a lot of old cities, the most vigorous ones. The exchange of products and services brought about its growing and evolution, and within them, the first entrepreneurs developed. The cities got specialized and they began to compete among them. Wool, cereals, metals... Products, guilds and traders which made that the cities were the true motors of society. And the food market played a central role: neighbors and peasants had the chance to get what some had or they could sell what they needed. Along time, markets have been adapting to different cultures in different places: in the East, street markets abound, in Arab countries, souks keep existing, and European people still go to buy the most basic food to the food markets.

At present, the increase in production and consumption of ecologic products has lead to the creation of a new generation of markets specialized in meal and vegetables grown in a natural way. In this case, we have used an old industrial warehouse to create one of those new spaces centered in healthy feeding, where apart from buying some goods, you can also eat in a slow food restaurant or attend to cooking lessons. Healthy lifestyle. Life in the city, too.

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LEASURE AND FACILITIES.

We have described how the concept of leisure ranges over many fields in the developed societies: sport, health, tourism...And how the city answers to these new necessities generating qualified spaces for its practice. These facilities can have a huge influence over the area in which they are set. In some European cities, leisure holds by the context of its more emblematic attractions: the Sena setting, Amsterdam channels or the areas near San Carlos Bridge in Prague are good examples. Places full of people, who enjoy restaurants, who walk, or who meet somebody in their night coffee; but where there abound a lot of sports areas, cultural buildings, galleries...

In other cities of less tradition, the location of these equipments can contribute to “make city” in spoiled areas. The excuse of building a new local football stadium has served a medium sized city to reorganize a degraded area, betting for a high quality architecture which brings a new identity to the zone.

Municipal Football Stadium “Ciudad de Alcalá”Alcalá de Guadaira, Seville (Spain)

77Head Office for Solar Technology CentreSanlúcar La Mayor, Seville (Spain)

THE KNOWLEDGE CITY.

The situation is overwhelming. More than the equipments, what governors of the cities are obsessed with nowadays is how to keep offering their citizens the best services, in the best environment, with the best people.Some cities, in order to grow or to keep the current levels, have specialized; turning into true centers of knowledge, organizing a fundamental triad: Government, University and Enterprises. The Government is a fundamental actor, so that it must make a compromise to carry out its promoter role, facilitator of innovation and knowledge, creating conditions which will make possible the spreading of private initiatives. The private sector, formed by enterprises and companies whose objective is generating goods and useful services to society let it satisfy necessities. University has a bidirectional function: it is a receiver and a sender of knowledge. Everything with the same purpose: to keep competing in the current society of knowledge.

In Soand, and for the multinational Abengoa, we have designed a new laboratory for the development of the technology ThinFim in the environments of the PS10 and the PS20. Two solar platforms which have turned it into a regional capital of knowledge regarding new renewable energy.

Head Office for Solar Technology CentreSanlúcar La Mayor, Seville (Spain)

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THE CLUSTER CITY.

Others, with the same strategy, have turned into Productive Clusters. These clusters are groups of economy agents or companies which are near geographically. They posit their activities towards the same sector or business, or towards activities related. This cluster of companies work in similar activities, in the middle of a dense net which includes producers, manufacturers of consumer goods, channels of distribution, companies of final sectors and services suppliers. In order to achieve this process with success, they develop relationships of cooperation and complimentary activities among them. Some big cities have these groups, their best partners of development and progress, and they make an effort to create the conditions to keep offering infrastructures of good quality to these companies.

The recycling of industrial grounds offers good chances. Recently, in Seville’s Harbor, some old tanks have been taken apart in order to build a building complex of services to shelter companies belonging to a major logistic cluster in the south of Spain. Descripción del proyecto

Doble línea con subtítuloTriple línea con fecha

Business Park Galia PortSeville (Spain)

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GREEN AND TECHNO CITY.

What almost no city likes is to miss its own technologic park. The concept goes back to the decade of the 1950s. The first park of this kind in the world appeared in Stanford University: a space determined to technological companies around others. Later, this concept was spread to Europe, and later, to Asia.A technological park can be one of the biggest efforts that a region makes to promote and evolve its own investigation structures. By means of its business network, with an aperture of the economy to the international environment and the attraction of investments.

In the case of the UPO, the opportunity of totally redesigning the campus of a University with a wide investigating activity, preparing the coming of companies and of public and private scientific institutions to its building. It is the case of Stanford, which has fostered the design of a new Master Plan, based on the valuing of the natural potentialities of the territory. Old stream banks are recovered, the density of vegetation and topography points which offer the best views, beneath the already existing buildings, of a great cultural and heritage value

Pablo de Olavide University Urban PlanningSeville (Spain)

The City is ENERGY

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THE CITY AS AN ECOSYSTEM.

Living beings inhabiting a determined place are intimately related among them and with the physical environment. All of that is what we know as ecosystem. In natural ecosystems, matter and energy goes from an organism to another, making a natural cycle which makes that both of them are always flowing. So that, they can recycle continuously, being in balance.Our cities behave as ecosystems, but until now, they have been rather unbalanced: urban nets were in charge of distributing the energy and matter brought from the outside, at the same time which it produces heat, noise, pollution; and in general terms, waste of all the types of which we get rid of, sending them to the outside by means of parallel nets, needing other areas of the planet to produce these goods or to receive this waste material.

Imagining cities as balanced ecosystems able to produce what they need, would lead us to ensure the constant renewal of life in them and the natural sustainability around them. When we study each one of their buildings, we are used to tracing the flows which go through them, the sun they receive, the energy they use or the waste they produce, in order to integrate this information within the management tools which improve efficiency.

91Cultivating information in the province of HuelvaAljaraque, Huelva (Spain)

THE CONTEXT MATTERS.

The city as an ecosystem has its own way of channeling matter and energy. These processes used to be closely imbricated with similar ones which existed in its nearby environment. As it happens between neighbors natural ecosystems -between the city and its environment-, there were nets and connections which naturally led, considering interests and overcoming biases, general creative and efficient associations for both of them. Today, these relationships have been distorted in a lot of cities. The impact or the speed with which some artificial processes are developed by the man, has broken these connections. Knowing them can be the first strategy to reconnect them again.

Looking for a more direct link, the study of contexts in which big capital cities are located, we try to find some research of a diverse kind as a first phase, which is present in the environment, from extensive qualities to intensive ones. From stored data to interviews with local actors. We will use a S.I.G.to integrate georeferred information about the natural environment, about social and economic activities, as well as alphanumeric information. This feature will lead us to draw emergencies and to make follow-up analysis of biophysical and socio-economic processes, with the necessary depth and approximation.

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ENERGY IS EVERYWHERE.

Some effort consists of generating more electrons which are cleaner and which pollute less. Other less important part consists of being more efficient with respect to consumption. More and more often, buildings are endowed with more isolated facades and roofs, recycled materials are used to consume less energy in its manufacturing process, and bioclimatic techniques are used in order to take the highest quantity of solar energy. Electricity and water consumption diminish thanks to mechanic and electronic devices. Nevertheless, there are also other strategies which begin with the design of the urban plot and of the buildings. The energy used in our buildings starts from its design. The standardization and reconciliation of the processes can help us to be more efficient.

In the new quarter, in the South of Moscow, we have proposed to work with only five types of residential blocks which are built with respect to five different types of buildings. Combining these variables with the environment, the next streets, or the nearby forests, some composition rules are designed, and they generate a typological and formal diversity, combining standardization with the almost infinite variable of the finished product. Energy is employed so that it can produce more.

Master Plan A101 Block CityMoscow (Russia)

Master Plan A101 Block CityMoscow (Russia)

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OR SOME OTHER CLEAN

ENERGY.

When the world model of energies is being revised, all of us are eager to find different alternative sources to the fossil fuel. Cities are in them, and it is not strange. Two thirds of the electricity which is consumed in the world is consumed by urban buildings. It is not easy to join to the nets of the new green energies, but some capital cities have begun to do it, producing at the same time energy basing on their waste or by means of sophisticated wind power or photovoltaic power plants distributed by their buildings. All these things are important in order to reduce the emission of Co2.

In a town of 18,000 inhabitants, we had the strategy to contribute with the 50% of the energy the town consumed, creating from a new bio-mass central which we located in an old concrete factory. The central is able to produce 36,000 kw/h, only with the wood of the nearby olive trees. Almost 72,000 Tn of wood of waste was burnt in the countryside until now, turning into Co2 and sending tons of it to the atmosphere.

Recicling a Cement Plant with Olive TreesJaen (Spain)

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LOOKING FOR THE SUN.

Searching the balance that mature ecosystems are able to achieve and when the global debate is around energy and conservation, our new cities, either in the Mediterranean, in the North Atlantic or in Asia, begin to incorporate an strategy of efficiency and exploitation of natural resources in order to become environmentally friendly. The sun is the biggest energy source we have and each city adopts an attitude towards sun exposure and lighting to take advantage of the most of its power capacity.

In designing a new neighborhood in a great European capital, the buildings were not just oriented to improve sun exposure and take advantage of solar energy but a whole system of capture and reuse of rainwater was designed to reduce drinkable water consumption and to qualify the green spaces of the new neighborhood.

Master Plan A101 Block CityMoscow (Russia)

The city is TIME and MISSION

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IT IS NOT ONLY THE PLAN.

Its condition of living being does not allow that the finished city exists. All of them are in constant evolution. They may seem that they are asleep, they may be more dynamic, they can have a plan or they may simply be influenced, but they are always changing. We have sometimes read how cathedrals, which were build along centuries, needed generations of different builders which have clear their common final goal, and this leads us to think that it happens something similar in the cities: not only do they need a plan, but they also need people who are able to overcome difficulties and direct the project to the final goal, during a very long process in time. The city never ends, and if its agents have a clear idea of where do they want to direct them, they have more possibilities of attaining their goals.

When we order a space to project something new where there were previously some activities, we make efforts to comprehend how its inhabitants were, what they lived of, how they organizes themselves, what they obtained from their lands, which industries they had there, how they modified their environment.. Knowing what oldest generations were able to do there, let us imagine almost exactly how they would have projected their future nowadays. This is how they did with the construction of cathedrals.

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1400 1850 1970

2010

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THE NEVER ENDING CITY.

Working in the most unfinished corners of the city means discovering more open spaces, the most incomplete ones, those where effort can be concentrated in order to remake them, to redesign the adjoining areas, to provide them with new infrastructures or to close them forever from the buildings. They are always big a chance if they are dealt with properly.

The complexity of a large industrial space located in the Atlantic bay led us to study with S.I.G.tools the conditions of the lands around the old factory, to propose the construction of a large infrastructure which help reconnecting the perimetral areas: the university, the buildings, the natural park, the innovation centers, all of what the highway could separate. From this research, we generated a global vision of what an old recycled shipyard could be, so to shelter a modern quarter in an area having perhaps some of the best weather conditions in Europe.

Industry Infraestructure Nature Knowledge Energy Urban Fabric

Tecnobahía Territory Innovation for Cádiz Bay areaCádiz (Spain)

*CREDITS

MASTER PLAN FOR GREEN

METROPOLITAN AREAMAIRENA DEL ALJARAFE

SEVILLE (SPAIN)

MASTER PLAN OF BIALOLEKAWARSAW (POLAND)

MASTER PLAN OF A101 BLOCK CITYMOSCOW (RUSSIA)

MASTER PLAN SECTOR SURCASTILLEJA, SEVILLE (SPAIN)

MASTER PLAN SANTA BARBARASEVILLE (SPAIN)

PLANNED AREA: 22 HA CLIENT: TOWNHALL

MAIRENA DEL ALJARAFEPLANNED AREA: 96 HA CLIENT: WARSPOL S.P.

PLANNED AREA: 154 HA CLIENT: OAO MASSHTAB

PLANNED AREA: 38 HA CLIENT: GALIA, S.L.

PLANNED AREA: 550 HA CLIENT: DUSE, S.L.

BALOTESTI URBAN PLANBALOTESTI (ROMANIA)

PLANNED AREA: 28 HA CLIENT: AFIRMA

MASTER PLAN FOR OLD BUS STATION AREA

CONSTANTA (ROMANIA)

PLANNED AREA: 95 HA CLIENT: BOGARIS RETAIL

INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESING COMPETITION. COPENHAGUE,

DENMARK

PLANNED AREA: 200 HA CLIENT: BY % HAVN

MASTER PLAN FOR INTEGRATION OF THE

FORMER ROUTE OF THE RAILWAY

PUERTO REAL, CÁDIZ( SPAIN)

PLANNED AREA: 9 HA CLIENT: ANDALUSIA

REGIONAL GOVERNMENT

GREEN SPACE IN SANTA BARBARA

SEVILLA (SPAIN)

PLANNED AREA: 7 HA CLIENT: DESARROLLO

URBANISTICO SEVILLA ESTE

WORKS

OPEN CONVENTS: PATHS TOWARDS SERENITYSEVILLE (SPAIN)

CLIENT: EDDEA

ECONOMIC STRATEGIES FOR AND HISTORIAL INDUSTRIAL CITY TO LINK TO THE NATURE SUNRRONDINGSZYRARDOW (POLAND)

RECICLING A CEMENT PLANT WITH OLIVE TREESJAÉN (SPAIN)

TECNOBAHÍA TERRITORY INNOVATION FOR CÁDIZ BAY AREACÁDIZ (SPAIN)

CLIENT: EDDEA

CLIENT: HOLCIM + IDEA

CLIENT: IDEA (INNOVATION AND BUSSINES DEVEPMENT AGENCY OF ANDALUSIA)

CONCEPT IDEA FOR SEVILLE AND ITS RIVERSEVILLE (SPAIN)

CLIENT: TOWNHALL OF SEVILLE

SWIMMING CENTER IN LEPE

HUELVA (SPAIN)

CLIENT: REGIONAL MINISTRY OF TURISM,

TRADE AND SPORTS

SWIMMING CENTER IN BARBATE

CADIZ (SPAIN)

CLIENT: REGIONAL MINISTRY OF TURISM,

TRADE AND SPORTS

HEALTH CENTER IN ARACENA

HUELVA (SPAIN)

CLIENT: OFFICE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

ANDALUSIAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT

RESTORATION AND EXTENSION WORKS

HNOS. LAULÉ HEALTH CENTER

SAN FERNANDO, CADIZ (SPAIN)

CLIENT: OFFICE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

ANDALUSIAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT

PRIMARY SCHOOL TALAYUELA (CÁCERES)

CLIENT: EXTREMADURA REGIONAL GOVERMENT

WORKS

BUSSINES PARK GALIA PORT, OFFICES,

BUSSINES AND RETAILSEVILLE (SPAIN)

CONCEPT AND EXECUTION PROYECT

INTERCHANGE COMPLEX, OFFICES, HOTEL AND RETAIL

SEVILLE (SPAIN)

BUILT AREA: 63.500m² CLIENT: GALIA

BUILT AREA: 65.000 m² CLIENT: SANDO CONCESIONES

INCREASE IN HEIGHT AND HOUSING REHABILITATIONLINZ (AUSTRIA)

JUDICIAL OFFICEANTEQUERA (MÁLAGA)

CLIENT: ANDREAS ZELLINGER

CLIENT: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND PUBLIC

ADMINISTRATIONANDALUSIAN REGIONAL

GOVERMENT

108 SOCIAL HOUSING

POLÍGONO AEROPUERTO. SEVILLE ( SPAIN)

80 MULTI-UNIT HOUSING

CASTILLEJA DE GUZMÁN. SEVILLE (SPAIN)

KAOHSIUNG MARITIME CULTURAL AND POPULAR MUSIC

CENTERKAOHSIUNG. TAIWAN

84 RESIDENTIAL UNITS SEVILLE (SPAIN)

CLIENT: INMOAVANCE S.L.U.

CLIENT: GALIA GRUPO INMOBILIARIO S.A

CLIENT: KAOHSIUNG CITY GOVERNMENT

CLIENT: GRUPO EMPRESARIAL MAGENTA, S.A.

RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX IN WILLANOWWARSAW (POLAND)

RESIDENTIAL, OFFICES AND COMMERCIAL

BUILDINGSOFIA. BULGARY

CLIENT: SANDO PROYECTOS INMOBILIARIOS POLAND

CLIENT: BOGARIS RETAIL BUL 5 EOOD

WORKS

HARALD SHÖNEGGER

ARCHITECT IUAV VENEZIA SEVILLA. 1993

Born and grown up in italy, where he obtained his degree as architect with cum laude honours, he moved to sevilla where combined his first professional activities with academic work as a t.a. professor at the department of building design at the school of architects in sevilla.

IGNACIO LAGUILLO

ARCHITECT ETSA SEVILLA. 1993

Ignacio obtained his degree as architect with a especial focus on building design. early in his career combined his first professional projects with his job as a professor at the department of building design at the school of architecture in sevilla, being associate professor.

JOSÉ MARÍA DE CÁRDENAS

ARCHITECT ETSA SEVILLA. 1993

Jose Maria started studies of economics and mathematics sciences at the university of sevilla before getting his final degree in architecture, with especial focus on urban economy.

LUIS YBARRA

ARCHITECT ETSA SEVILLA. 1992

Luis obtained his degree as architect with a special focus on building design. he has over 15 year post-qualification experience working on big scale projects, and has led mayor project throughout his career, being involved in the design and construction.

SERGIO RODRIGUEZ

ARCHITECT ETSA SEVILLA. 2005

Specialized and interested on environmental perception and the city as an emergent system. he studied architecture in seville, urbanism in milano and urban ecology in barcelona with salvador rueda and is taking a master in architecture and sustainable cities.

JAVIER OLMEDO

ARCHITECT ETSA SEVILLA. 1993

Javier obtained his degree in architecture with a special focus on urban design. he also holds a master´s degree in urbanism and real estate by fundación escuela de negocios de andalucía.

ANJA SOPHIA EHRENFRIED

ARCHITECT TECHISCHIE MÜNCHEN. 2000

Anja was born and grown up in germany where she obtained her degree as architect at the technische universität, münchen in 2000. She moved to sevilla where she completed her studies with a phd. nowdays she manage the international area in eddea.

CARMEN BARRIONUEVO

ECONOMIST SEVILLA. 1997

Carmen obtained her degree in financial management and administration in 1997. She holds a strong background in administration as a result of her work at national and international companies before joining eddea.

JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ DE LEMUS

ARCHITECT ETSA SEVILLA. 1997

José luis obtained his degree as architect with a special focus on project managment. along with others 2 partners founded ltc architects in 1996, firm that was later absorbed by decya architects.

JAVIER MARTÍNEZ SANTOS

DRAUGHTSMAN DESIGNER SEVILLA. 1992

Javier obtained his degree in architectural technology as cad specialist and has 15 years of autocad experience. Nowdays he is responsible for the facilities management and oversees the buying department

PARTNERS AND MANAGERS

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PUBLICATIONS

2011 LIVING – FRONTIERS OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSIVE HOUSING Louisiana Museum, Kopenhagen.

2010 A101 MASTERPLAN – BLOCK CITY COMPETITION National Museum for Architecture, Moscow.

2010 ARCHITECTURE FOR EDUCATION Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Extremadura

2010 EXHIBITION FERIA E_CONSTRUCCION Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Sevilla (FIBES).

2010 PUBLIC PLACES AND NEW PROGRAMS Sala Arquerías de Nuevos Ministerios. Madrid

2010 EXHIBITION OF ANDALUSIAN ARCHITECTURAL PRIZE 2008. Provincial Museum of Cádiz

2009 EXHIBITION OF ANDALUSIAN ARCHITECTURAL PRIZE 2008 Santa María de los Reyes Convent, Seville.

2009 PRINCIPAL EXHIBITION IX BIENAL DE ARQUITECTURA ESPAÑOLA. Santa María de los Reyes Convent, Seville.

2008 PRINCIPAL EXHIBITION IX BIENAL DE ARQUITECTURA ESPAÑOLA. Spanish Itinerant Exhibition.

2008 SELECTION OF EXHIBITION IX BIENAL DE ARQUITECTURA ESPAÑOLA. Spanish Itinerant Exhibition.

2008 EXHIBITION FAD AWARDS 2007. SEDE JUDICIAL DE ANTEQUERA. European Itinerant Exhibition.

2008 MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. European Itinerant Exhibition.

2005 GIOVANI ARCHITETTI EUROPEI 2004. PREMIO DI ARCHITETTURA «LUIGI COSENZA» Instituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. Palazzo Serra di Cassano. Napoli, Italia.

2005 FAD AWARDS 2005. ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN ARQ-INFAD. Plaça dels Angels. Barcelona. 21 June 2005.

2005 BAU 2005 EXPOSITION. MUNICH EXHIBITION CENTER. MUNICH. GERMANY. Bauwelt Prize 2005 - International Competition.Prime Constructions. Berlin. Germany.

2002 13 ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS WITH JURY PARTICIPATION. RETROSPECTIVA 98-01. Spanish Itinerant Exhibition.

2001 BAU 2001 EXPOSITION. MUNICH EXHIBITION CENTER. Munich. Germany.

2011 SELECTED. PHILIPPE ROTTHIER EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR ARCHITECTURE. Restoration and extension works Hermanos Lauhlé Health care center. San Fernando (Cádiz).

2011 SELECTED. XI BIENAL ESPAÑOLA DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO. Restoration and extension works hnos. Lauhlé Health care center. San Fernando (Cádiz).

2011 FINALIST. PREMIOS ENOR 2011. Indoor Pool in Barbate, Cádiz.

2008 PORPOSED. PREMIO ANDALUCIA DE ARQUITECTURA 2008. Indoor Pool in Lepe, Huelva.

2007 1º PRIZE. PREMIO FAD DE ARQUITECTURA E INTERIORISMO 2007. Judicial Office in Antequera, Málaga.

2007 FINALIST. IX BIENAL ESPAÑOLA DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO. Judicial Office in Antequera, Málaga.

2007 ASPRIMA PRIZE. BEST URBAN DEVELOPMENT. Developers Association of Madrid. Santa Bárbara (Seville, Spain).

2006 PROPOSED. PREMIO MIES VAN DE ROHE 2007. Judicial Office in Antequera, Málaga.

2006 FIANLIST. VI PREMIOS SALONI DE ARQUITECTURA 2006. Judicial Office in Antequera, Málaga.

2005 MENTION. VIII PREMIO DE ARQUITECTURA DE LADRILLO 2003/2005. Indoor Pool in Lepe, Huelva.

2005 FINALIST. PREMIO DE ARQUITECTURA ESPAÑOLA 2005. Indoor Pool in Lepe, Huelva.

2005 MENTION. II WIENERBERGER ARCHITECTURE AWARD - BRICK AWARD 2006. Indoor Pool in Lepe, Huelva.

2005 PROPOSED. PREMIO FAD DE ARQUITECTURA E INTERIORISMO 2005. Indoor Pool in Lepe, Huelva.

2005 MENTION. EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD LUIGI COSENZA 2004. Indoor Pool in Lepe, Huelva.

2004 1º PRIZE. BAUWELT PRIZE 2005 – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. Indoor Pool in Lepe, Huelva.

2003 FINALIST. BAUWELT PRIZE 2001 – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. House in Valencina, Sevilla.

EXHIBITION & AWARDS

Eddea is a diverse team of Architects, Sociologists, Engineers, Geographers, and Financial and Environment Experts based in Spain. In total we are 60 people from 5 different nationalities that make up a multicultural team with a clear guidance to territorial consultancy and focused on strategy and problem solving. Our work has been widely recognized in Europe and Russia and Asia. In these pages we have tried to summarize our urban work in the last 5 years. Hope you enjoy the trip.

Carretera de la Esclusa, 9 acc.E - 41011 Seville. Spain

www.eddea.esNoviembre 2011