Departament de Projectes Arquitectònics

El Departament de Projectes Arquitectònics té tres grups de recerca reconeguts per la UPC. Dos d’aquests estan també reconeguts com a “Grups de Recerca Consolidats” per l’AGAUR de la Generalitat de Catalunya, i, per tant, tenen el poder d’impulsar la recerca a través del pont del saber que han establert entre la universitat i la societat civil. Es realitzen projectes concrets a través de convenis i contractes de cooperació amb les administracions públiques nacionals i internacionals, com la UNESCO, Comunitat Europea, ministeris, conselleries, ajuntaments i consells comarcals, col·legis professionals, fundacions, comunitats i associacions i individus i empreses.


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Recent Submissions

Interior-exterior en arquitectura 

Castillo Fuentealba, Carlos Ignacio (Date of defense: 2023-02-13)

(English) The purpose of the doctoral thesis is to study interior spaces - built in the old tradition of closed and contrasted architecture – relativized in their interior condition. In the classical opacity and the ...

La forma urbana en áreas naturales protegidas : el caso del archipiélago de Galápagos : Puerto Ayora en la Isla de Santa Cruz y el proyecto de la ciudad endémica 

López Andrade, Jaime (Date of defense: 2022-04-25)

The Galapagos archipelago is one of the best preserved protected natural ecosystems on the planet. It is recognized around the world as a privileged tourist destination and advertised as a haven of pristine nature. Thanks ...

Enrique Ciriani y la Escuela de París (Grupo Uno) : entre la pedagogía y la práctica 

Erazo Solines, Juan (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)

This PhD dissertation deals with the importance of having a methodological teaching for architecture education and its future professional practice, taken as a reference Enrique Ciriani and the Grupo UNO pedagogical ...

La forma en la arquitectura residencial de Richard Neutra : 1950-1965 

Aranibar del Alcázar, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-04-25)

The PhD thesis THE FORM IN RICHARD NEUTRA'S RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE. 1950-1965, investigates the maturity of the professional career of the architect Richard Neutra (1892-1970) focusing on the single-family house. From ...

Juha Leiviskä : una aproximación fenomenológica a su arquitectura 

Molarinho Marques, Sara Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-03-22)

The interest in the impact of architecture on its inhabitants and their perception of space lead to question how the spatial experience is considered during the project phase to understand the influence of project decisions ...

Ridolfi a Terni, 1944-1964. La Palazzina com a síntesi entre forma urbana i tipologia domèstica 

Solanellas Terés, Àngel (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)

Roman architect Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) made a substantial contribution to the transformation of European cities and to collective housing after the Second World War. For a period of twenty years, he used the city of ...

El mercado de Querétaro : una visión alternativa cronotópica desde el hoy y desde el lugar 

Trejo Guzmán, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)

In Mexico, in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, inside the so-called Barrios de la Otra Banda, El Tepetate market is located, which background dates since pre-Hispanic times. The environment of the area denotes a low urban ...

Urban park a new typology of built-up nature : towards a new urban green language for Barcelona 

Naeimi, Tahmineh (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)

This thesis aims to generate a new vision for the park division and introduce a new model of parks called Urban Park. Urban Park should follow specific features and unique characteristics that made it suitable to be ...

Arquitecturas para el juego del habitante emancipado : la arquitectura como dispositivo de intermediación : Lacaton y Vassal, Casa Latapie (1993), edificio de 14 viviendas en Mulhouse (2005), ENSA Nantes (2009) 

Maroto-Sales, Joan (Date of defense: 2021-02-09)

Miessen states, in the book ‘The Nightmare of Participation’ (2010), that ‘participation’ is too often observed through romantic concepts of negotiation and decision making. However, the author proceeds, it has been noted ...

El proceso de formación de los conjuntos de viviendas modernas y su papel en el desarrollo urbano en Holanda (1930-1970) 

Hosseini Raviz, Sayed Reza (Date of defense: 2015-04-17)

Residential building was the first form of architecture that people built for themselves. In fact, the house was a refuge and a basic need for them throughout history. lt has always been influenced by the lifestyle, cultural ...

Prácticas documentales: Proyecto y contingencia 

Bataller Alberola, Lola (Date of defense: 2020-07-28)

Architecture has discussed questions about reality, honesty versus fiction and more recently about contingency, change, open project, or the participation of the inhabitants. All these concerns are collected in documentary ...

Arquitectura de la realitat 

Fuses, Josep, 1954- (Date of defense: 2011-11-07)

The topic of the thesis, Architecture of the reality, appears with a double objective: 1. A chronicle of the activities by the group of architects Pilar Prim, between 1997 and 2004, a period that belongs to the change ...

Una visió històrica com a eina projectual : el cas de Morella 

Beltran Borràs, Júlia (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)

How and why is history useful to the architect in today’s world? The research focused on the role of designers in bringing back the historical precedents to bear on the present practice, and furthermore presented a synthesis ...

Arquitectura, ciencia-ficción y comic-books : vanguardias, evolución y lenguaje 

Ayala Zapata, Fernando C. (Date of defense: 2012-06-10)

Esta tesis propone como elemento de investigación al trinomio formado por la Arquitectura, la Ciencia-ficción y los Comic-books. La intención es multidisciplinar; investigando las relaciones existentes y evidenciado las ...

Encuentros con la infraestructura :Intersecciones entre infraestructuras lineales elevadas y arquitecturas de la ciudad sedimentada europea 

Villalonga Munar, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)

This thesis investigates the encounters between elevated linear infrastructures and architectures of the European sedimentary city. The scalar contraposition between these two opposing urban elements (one small-grained ...

Les Travesseres de Barcelona : necessitat de la Travessera Nord 

Signes Orovay, Ferran (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)

The aim of this thesis is to reveal the importance of the “travesseres” as abstract elements which have the role of connecting two points (areas, fragments, sections) in a structure and of creating a consistent system that ...

Tatuaje tecnológico : Cuerpo, espacio doméstico y paisaje interactivos 

Ros Fernández, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-07-13)

The interaction builds humanity. It is the most human of us; Our social life is based on it. Interacting leads us to design objects that facilitate communication, understanding with other humans and understanding our ...

Arquitectura sembrada : atlas de encuentros entre vegetación y arquitectura 

Tárrega Klein, Mónica (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)

This thesis is the result of research into encounters between the world of plants and construction. Its focus is on those meetings in which the parties involved must reach agreements in order to cohabit successfully. It ...

Arquitectura brutalista en Quito 1960.1980: disección gráfica de una historia en concreto 

Dávalos Muirragui, Pablo Hernan (Date of defense: 2020-07-07)

In Ecuador, the adoption and consolidation of international architectural styles has been historically executed within a late period, it has even started to exist, when in the places of their origin these approaches have ...

Integración contemporánea con edificios antiguos : la intervención como síntesis histórica : Castelvecchio, MNAR, Kolumba 

Josué Nathan, Martínez Gómez (Date of defense: 2020-02-17)

The fundamental objective of this PhD dissertation is to analyze the architecture thanks to some strategies coming from recent theories developed inside and outside the traditional and usual disciplinary field of ...

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