exchange: Construir en el Aire




Proyectos 6, und. Coll-Barreu, Class Honours Spring 2025.
The main project undertaken at ETSAMadrid, Spain.


large scale speculative design, neighbourhoods, 
experience, grids and change over time, landmarking




A complex, heterodox alignment of temporary and permanent infrastructure, 
a structure and space which challenges two dimensional conceptions of the 
city and creates new avenues of experience. The grid changes form, allowing 
for moments of denser community interaction and conversely feelings of 
height, singularity and the idea of being “in the air”. A building that grows out 
of the architect’s control, expanding and reforming to meet the needs of 
residents and a wider population, becoming a work of many authors and of 
many themes.







main entrance on mirador
escalator entrance on viaducto
an occupied grid

housing typologies
1:50 section; connections and materiality
growth - the project in 20 years
Variations, extrapolations, new axis




view the whole project here