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E. Martinez Millana

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Domesticidad ‘entre rejas’

Proyecto de Rem Koolhaas/OMA para la prisión Panóptica en Arnhem

Presentation on the doctoral thesis 'Domesticity Behind Bars' at the Doctoral Meetings of the Doctoral Programme in Advanced Architectural Projects, Department of Architectural Projects, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In this lecture, aimed at doctoral students, important to ...

Designing Collective Housing for Older People

Proposals from the Dutch Welfare State by Pot & Pot-Keegstra

This scientific paper examines how the Dutch architects Jacoba Froukje Pot-Keegstra (1908-1997) and her husband Johan Willem Hindrik Cornelis Pot (1909-1972) designed for older people. In the decades following World War II, with the advent of the welfare state, care for older peo ...

Housing the Unexpected

Kruisplein project in Rotterdam by Mecanoo/Francine Houben (1981-1985)

Francine Houben was a student at the Faculteit Bouwkunde, Technische Hoogeschool Delft, when designed the Kruisplein project together with her classmates Henk Döll and Roelf Steenhuis, between the years 1980 and 1983. The youth housing competition “Jongerenhuisvesting Kruisplein ...

Collective Housing for Prisoners

The Over-Amstel Penitentiary by Pot & Pot-Keegstra

This article critically analyzes the Over-Amstel Penitentiary Institution, which represents a unique moment in prison architecture. At that time the principles of domestic design merged with institutional ones for detention houses, reflecting the intertwining of the two. The pris ...

Mecanoo’s Kruisplein youth housing

A critical project on HAT housing policy for small households

One- and two-person households are predominant in most developed countries; moreover, they are the fastest growing, including the Netherlands (75%). This trend dates back to the 1960s, when they started to increase sharply due to social, economic and political developments, leadi ...
Robin Evans (1944-1993) published only one book during his lifetime, and it was the outcome of 13 years of work. As he remarked in the acknowledgments, he began collecting material for this project in 1969, the same year he completed his studies at the Architectural Association i ...

El espacio universitario como heterotopía

La docencia de Proyectos Arquitectónicos en la formación predoctoral

Text about pre-doctoral training in teaching Architectural Projects, included in the publication of the Espegel + Cánovas Teaching Unit (Projects 3 and Projects 4), Degree in Fundamentals of Architecture, ETSA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.@en
In Amsterdam Nord, on the banks of the IJ, is located IJ-plein, the urban plan designed and built between 1980 and 1988, by a team led by Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. From this extensive urban plan, which was devoted entirely to social housing and in ...

Prison' Housing vs Housing' Prison

A Comparative Analysis of De Koepel and the Oost III Projects by Koolhaas/OMA in the 1980s

This paper provides an overview on how small housing can be studied following an exploratory strategy, through a comparative analysis that brings together architectural theory and practice. !is research stems from the author’s doctoral thesis, Domesticity ‘Behind Bars’, and its s ...
Text about my doctoral thesis Domesticity 'Behind Bars', for the students of the courses of Projects 3 and Projects 4, Degree in Fundamentals of Architecture, ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.@en
This proposal reviews the 19th-century American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) and her influence on Dutch housing during the early 20th century, particularly due to her book Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in ...

The panopticon prison as a “social condenser”

The study of the project for De Koepel prison by Rem Koolhaas/OMA (1979–1988)

Rem Koolhaas/OMA carried out the study for De Koepel prison throughout a decade (1979–1988). However, only its initial stages (1979–1980) were disclosed and have been investigated. The hypothesis presented in this article suggests that Koolhaas implemented his —then— recent thesi ...
This article focuses on the OMA’s IJ-plein master plan located on a former shipping wharf in Amsterdam North (1980-1988). Particularly in the domesticity of the different dwellings, which were designed by six other offices, including the one by Koolhaas, and were 100% for social ...

“Unexpected” domesticity

The housing design of OMA’s IJ-plein masterplan project in Amsterdam

This article focuses on the OMA’s IJ-plein master plan located on a former shipping wharf in Amsterdam North (1980-1988). Particularly in the domesticity of the different dwellings, which were designed by six other offices, including the one by Koolhaas, and were 100% for social ...
Pasados-presentes para un contexto afectivo: Catálogo de la exposición. Conjuntos empáticos. Serie: Inéditos. Madrid, España, Fundación Montemadrid 2021. ISBN: 978-84-09-30740-1 @en
Mi investigación se basa en la idea de que la noción de domesticidad es a la vez complementaria y opuesta a la vivienda de la modernidad. En este sentido, la tesis examina en qué medida incluir esta noción en el análisis de la arquitectura vivienda puede desestabilizar sus bases. ...

Inhabiting Heterotopia

The Begijnhoven

Doctoral research by the author published in the book PhD CULT, which includes the contributions of doctoral students and doctors who contributed around the Doctoral Meetings (formerly PhDfest), a training activity of the PD in Advanced Architectural Projects, to which add more g ...
The main objective of this work is the realization of a complete and organized by decades database of the most important Spanish collective housing buildings of the twentieth century. According with this data, the international journal “Cuadernos de Vivienda” is elaborated period ...

Domesticity in the Begijnhof

'Other' ways of Inhabiting in the Middle Ages

The architectural ensembles known as beguinages can be considered medieval hybrid types that made possible other ways of inhabiting and transforming the existing domesticity. The beguines established their habitat on the basis of the inherited city so that the type of the traditi ...
This research explores the paradoxes of domesticity in the Begijnhof. These architectural ensembles can be analysed as a different medieval hybrid type, as cities in their own right as well as cities within cities. They emerged in the European medieval cities in the thirteenth ce ...