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MEDIOMUNDO at JIDA’24

Teaching Innovation and Sustainable Rehabilitation

At MEDIOMUNDO, we understand architecture as a process of continuous learning, where teaching and research are intertwined to address the current challenges of the built environment. For this reason, on 21 and 22 November 2024, we are taking part in the Teaching Innovation in Architecture Conference (JIDA’24), held at Rey Juan Carlos University, Aranjuez Campus, with the collaboration of Fundación Arquia and Iniciativa Digital UPC.

On this occasion, Marta Pelegrín and Fernando Pérez are sharing the results of our teaching work in Architectural Design at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Hochschule Mainz. Under the title “Confluence in the Teaching of Sustainable Rehabilitation Projects of 1950–70 Siedlungen in Mainz, Germany”, we are presenting our experience in teaching the sustainable rehabilitation of mid-20th-century residential complexes, emphasising international collaboration, methodological innovation, and a commitment to sustainability.

At MEDIOMUNDO, we are committed to active and experimental teaching, convinced that education and critical reflection are fundamental to transforming architecture and improving people’s lives.

MEDIOMUNDO en JIDA’24. Innovación Docente y Rehabilitación Sostenible

Marta Pelegrín, Key Speaker at the ‘Confort at the Extremes’ Conference

At MEDIOMUNDO, we understand architecture as a tool to improve people’s lives and respond to the social and environmental challenges of our time. We are therefore pleased to share that Marta Pelegrín has been named Key Speaker at the international conference ‘Confort at the Extremes. Investing in Well Being in a Challenging Future’, to be held at the School of Architecture, University of Seville, on 20–21 November 2024.

During the conference, Marta will present the results of our research project ‘Small interventions for big changes: prototype design for UPCYCLE Social Mass housing in Europe’. This work explores how small-scale architectural interventions can generate significant transformations in collective social housing, focusing on sustainability, recycling, and community wellbeing.

At MEDIOMUNDO, led by Fernando Pérez and Marta Pelegrín, we are committed to research, innovation, and social engagement as fundamental pillars of our practice. Participating in international forums such as this allows us to share experiences, learn, and continue to promote a more conscious and transformative architecture.

More information about the conference at https://cate2024.org/about.

Marta Pelegrín, Key Speaker en el Congreso «Confort at the Extremes»

Study Trip to Basel

HS Mainz, October-November 2024

At MEDIOMUNDO, we understand architecture as an experience enriched by direct contact with built works and their surroundings. For this reason, during October and November 2024, we accompanied the Architectural Design students from Hochschule Mainz (HS Mainz) on an academic trip to Basel, coordinated by Marta Pelegrín and Fernando Pérez.

Together with the students, we explored and analysed some of the most significant works of contemporary European architecture. We visited projects by renowned studios and architects such as Herzog & De Meuron, Diener & Diener, Jessenvollenweider, Buol & Zünd, Valerio Olgiati, Christ & Gantenbein, M. Alder, Müller & Maranta, Buchner + Bründler, Gmür & Vacchini, as well as works by Renzo Piano, Álvaro Siza, Rafael Moneo, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, and Cruz y Ortiz.

This experience was an opportunity for collective learning, the exchange of ideas, and critical reflection on architecture through direct observation and dialogue with the built environment. At MEDIOMUNDO, we believe these trips are essential for fostering the sensitivity, curiosity, and critical perspective of future architects—values that are central to our way of understanding and teaching architecture.

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2024 Project Exhibition

2nd Semester Architecture HS-Mainz

During the second semester of 2024, we had the opportunity to coordinate the Architecture Project Exhibition at Hochschule Mainz (HS-Mainz), centred on the exercise “House for the Angel and the Trapezist from Wings of Desire (Himmel über Berlin, B. Wenders, 1987)”, under the direction of Marta Pelegrín and Fernando Pérez, founders of MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos.

At MEDIOMUNDO, we understand architecture as a process of research, experimentation, and constant dialogue with space and materials. From the very beginning of academic training, we are committed to a methodology that promotes direct interaction with space and the optimised, rational, empathetic, and haptic use of materials. Throughout the semester, students developed a sequence of exercises linking design actions—such as folding, unfolding, subtracting, stacking, inverting, twinning, rhythmising, among others—with essential material techniques involving stone, wood, metal, concrete, rammed earth, bamboo, cork, and recycled materials.

This exhibition is the result of a collective process that encourages creativity, sensitivity, and innovation in architectural design—values that are central to our identity as a practice. We believe in an approach to architectural education that integrates practice, critical reflection, and material experimentation, and we are pleased to share the results of this process with the academic and professional community.

Project Exhibition 2023

1st Semester Architecture HS-Mainz

During February and March 2024, we had the privilege of coordinating, together with Prof. Dr Marta Pelegrín, the Project Exhibition for the first semester of the 2023 Architecture course at Hochschule Mainz (HS-Mainz), held at Holzstrasse 36 and the LUX Pavilion.

At MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos, we understand architecture as a process of constant research and experimentation. From the very beginning of academic training, we propose a methodology based on direct interaction with space and the optimised, rational, empathetic, and haptic use of materials. Throughout the semester, students developed a sequence of exercises exploring design actions such as folding, unfolding, subtracting, stacking, inverting, twinning, or rhythmising, applied to essential materials like stone, wood, metal, concrete, rammed earth, bamboo, cork, and recycled materials.

This exhibition is the result of a collective effort aimed at fostering creativity, sensitivity, and innovation in architectural design—values that are central to our identity as a practice. We believe in an approach to architectural education that integrates practice, critical reflection, and material experimentation, and we are pleased to share the outcomes of this process with the academic and professional community.

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Exhibition of Projects – 2023 First Semester Architecture HS-Mainz

Marta Pelegrín and Fernando Pérez, founders of MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos, maintain a strong commitment to education and experimentation in architecture from the earliest academic stages. At the Exhibition of Projects for the 2023 first semester of Architecture at HS-Mainz, held at Holzstrasse 36 and the LUX Pavilion (February–March 2024), under the direction of Prof. Dr. Marta Pelegrín, the results of a teaching methodology based on direct interaction with space and the optimised, rational, empathetic, and haptic use of materials were presented.

Through a sequence of exercises, students explored design actions such as folding, unfolding, subtracting, stacking, inverting, twinning, and rhythmising, in relation to essential material techniques involving stone, wood, metal, concrete, rammed earth, bamboo, cork, and recycled materials. This approach fosters creativity, spatial understanding, and material sensitivity from the very beginning of architectural education.