Imagina Madrid
Intermediae-Matadero
2019
With a plot based on housing challenges faced in the Vallecas community, Kópera uses humor to work through the history of the neighborhood. The plot draws from collective memory and criticizes urban dynamics linked to real estate speculation and displacement. Professional and amateur actors play the main roles of this story, which takes place over three acts, each one in a different public space.
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Deployable device, itinerant DJ case
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Outdoor participative intervention
HEAT-UPM
2023-24
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Speculative opera based on urban political land controversies
Ayudas a la Creación, 2019. Co-directed w/ María Dilemas
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Navigation tools for architectural practice in Urban Heat Island and Heat Waves
2025 Post-doctoral research output
Habitat, Energy and Architecture in Transition research group
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Daniel Torrego, PhD Arch
hola@estudiodecampo.es
Daniel Torrego is a Spanish architect-researcher whose PhD work framed Material Ecology as a practical design methodology. He approaches every commission as an experiment “in the making,” testing how matter, climate dynamics and social use can inform one another.
Estudio de campo spans timber and earthen houses, participatory urban installations and multiple research outcomes on climate adaptation concerns.
Operating in collaborative frameworks between architectural practice, cultural programming and collaborative research it pursues a grounded yet forward-looking path to more ecological architecture.
ETSAM -Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
(2013)
PhD
Universidad de Alicante
Thesis: Meeting Halfway. Four paths for the recognition of a Material Ecology in Architecture
(2019)
Post-doc
UA-UPM
HEAT- Habitat, Energy and Architecture in Transition
Research: Overheating experiences – Experiencias de sobrecalentamiento
(2025)
Post-doctoral researcher
‘Margarita Salas Grants’
2022 - 2025
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Post-doctoral fellow and visiting lecturer
2024
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
MAYAB - Master’s degree lecturer
(since 2024)
UMBRAL Arquitectura
Head architect
2020-2025
Intermediae-Matadero
Kopera project co-director
2018-2019
LHRC Arquitectura Ligera
Co-funder and architect
2016-2019
UANL-FARQ + Tec de Monterrey
PhD Researcher
2015
HEAT —Habitat Energy and Architecture in Transition · Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)
• Ecological & low-carbon architectural design
• Passive-cooling / bioclimatic strategies
• Timber, earth & bio-based construction
• Digital fabrication
• Parametric & generative modelling
• BIM workflows
Research & Analysis
• Material-ecology theory & methods
• Thermal comfort & microclimate monitoring
• Environmental simulation (EnergyPlus, Ladybug)
• GIS & spatial data analysis
• Qualitative fieldwork & participatory mapping
• Academic writing & peer-review publishing
• Grant & proposal writing
Communication & Delivery
• Workshop & studio teaching
• Community engagement & facilitation
• Exhibition curation & installation design
• Public speaking & lecturing
• Interdisciplinary team leadership
• Project & budget management
• Bilingual communication (Spanish / English)
Indexed: Scopus, SJR Q1
Torrego D., Gayoso, M., Núñez, M. y Sánchez-Guevara, C. (2025). «Mapping Summer Energy Poverty: The Lived Experience of Older Adults in Madrid, Spain». Energy Research & Social Science 110 (abril):103449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103449.
Indexed: Scopus, SJR Q1
Torrego D, Gayoso, M. San Nicolás, P., Núñez, M., y Sánchez-Guevara, C. (2024). Recognising summer energy poverty. Evidence from Southern Europe. Local Environment, 29(4), 495–523. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2303456
Indexed: Scopus, SJR Q1
Yáñez Serrano, P., Torrego Gómez, D., & Bieńkowska, Z. (2023). Energy vulnerability and self-imposed austerity: An ethnographic approach to adaptation strategies to extreme heat among older adults in Madrid. Energy Research & Social Science, 103, 103207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103207.
Indexed: Scopus , SJR Q1
Torrego, D. & Mesa, M. (2020). The Life of Machines. Material improvisation across urban scales in Barcelona. Torino: Ardeth magazine , #5, p.144-163.
Torrego, D. (2019). Analog Computing: The Morphogenesis of Structures as a Form of Fellowship with Non-Human Actors in Design Methods. Santiago de Chile: Revista Diseña, (14), 138-157. Indexed: Scopus Preview
Indexed: Scopus Preview
Torrego, D. (2019). Learning matters. A performative proposal for design practices in architecture. BAU Barcelona: INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad, 3(6).
Arnaiz, B y Torrego, D. (2018) Membrane House. Madrid: AV Proyectos 085. Especial textil.
Torrego, D. (2017). Habitando el bug. The simultaneous urban planning of 22 @ and scrap metal in Barcelona. Alicante, UA: [i2] Investigación e Innovación en Arquitectura y Territorio, 5(1).
Indexed: Avery Index Columbia University.
Torrego D. y Prieto, J.M. (2016) Rebels with a cause. New architects to reconnect with society. Guadalajara (MX) Colegio de Jalisco: Revista Intersticios Sociales.
OTHER:
Scientific reports H2020 Cooltorise. Visit website. cooltorise.eu
Book chapters
Torrego, D. , Sánchez-Guevara, C., Gayoso, M., Núñez Peiró, M. , Gómez, G., Sánchez Aparicio, L.J.r , Barbero, M. , Gálvez, M. A., Neila, F.J., Rodríguez, M., González I. , Arranz, B., González, R., García Morales, S. and Román, E. (2025). Training Future Architects Towards Energy Poverty Challenges. Teaching for Sustainable Futures
Routledge, ISSN: 9781003495444
Gayoso, M. Torrego, D. Nuñez-Peiró, M. Sánchez-Guevara, C. (2023) Understanding the lived experience of Summer Energy Poverty through participatory action research. Living with Energy Poverty
Routledge. ISSN: 9781003408536
(Madrid, SP). Municipal program of culture and citizen participation. 3 selected among 80 proposals for the design and execution of an opera about the stories of a neighborhood in Vallecas.
Budget: 60,000 €
Co-director of Agencia Paraíso, art project dedicated to cultural dimension of urban tranformations
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