The Cultural Centre CaixaForum represents the potential of fighting against difficulty, against (pre-existing) constraints. It is built mainly inside a prevailing concrete skeleton that was meant to be an underground parking area.
The project coherently resolves two crucial issues when dealing with existing buildings: accommodating the new uses and making them visible (even being underground).
The essential material of architecture is light, without it there would be no “volumes under the sun” or interior spaces. This project is built with simple, repetitive, and prefabricated materials: foundation, pillars, beams, floors, and facades…, but they are conceived and designed immersed in a luminous environment. The interior of the passenger terminal becomes a luminous experience, a way of confining light, in a box capable of modeling, directing, and modulating sunlight.
Located in a residential urbanization in Monzón (Huesca), the AURA building is made up of 14 single-family homes in a row, 12 of them between medians facing SE-NW, and 2 homes of three facades in the testeros.
The front of the plot is configured as a private outdoor space, for public use, which provides each dwelling with a pedestrian and vehicle access zone, which allows its occupation as outdoor parking for vehicles. Behind it, the garage “boxes” are located, and among them, pedestrian access to each home. The main construction of 2 heights and the volume of 1-height garages are separated by a landscaped interior patio. On the rear façade are the gardens of each house, related to the day stays.
Projects do not always occur from freely made decisions, but sometimes as the by-product of external conditions that may have originally emerged as a problem but then evolve toward the substance. Projects emanate from unexpected associations of which, in most cases, we are unaware. Accordingly, it may seem as if projecting is equivalent to relating. It is a matter of compiling and then establishing relations between needs or functions, spaces, shapes, materials and experiences that surface at a given point in the project’s timeline, and we desperately try to capture and materialize.
The new Cap Can Roca is located in the center of the facilities of Can Roca, in the north-west of Terrassa, with a constructed area of 2,000m2 and 400m2 of green spaces.
The building occupies most of the available land, in order to be developed with the least number of floors. This allows easy access to users and optimal operation of the health activity.
Located on the main street of a town near Valencia, the house is part of a fragment of 20th century history.
The existing façade and building footprint are protected, but the volume exceeds the needs of the new project. Faced with this situation, it is proposed to empty the interior space in ruins and show it in an innovative way. From the outside, the façade maintains its character, without modifying the street, which becomes a kind of scenery from another era. The tone of this old façade is unified with an antelope gray treatment that goes completely unnoticed.
Team Project: Fran Silvestre, María Masià, Sevak Asatrián, Paco Chinesta
Built Area: 814 m2
Collaborators: Miguel Massa, Paloma Feng, Javi Herrero, Gino Brollo, Angelo Brollo, Anna Alfanjarín, Laura Bueno, Toni Cremades, David Cirocchi, Gabriela Schinzel, Lucas Manuel, Nuria Doménech, Andrea Raga, Olga Martín, Víctor González, Pepe Llop, Anahí Aguilera, Awab Bek, Monike Teodoro, Gemma Aparicio, Fran Ayala, Rosa Juanes
Landscaping designed to contemplate the magnificent environment of the north of the island of Hierro called “El Golfo”.
A privileged location, replacing the existing viewpoint with a singular piece that looks out of the vacuum on the cliff of 1000 m by means of a cantilevered concrete slab.
In an urban context where adjoining houses are necessarily attached to each other at the side walls to form a linear succession of juxtaposed volumes, materials and heights, this project seeks to vindicate a different way of engaging with urban planning and approaching the potential forms of a single-family dwelling, as well as its relationship with its surroundings.
Can the “Mediterranean” style have a new reading? Can an urban house offer a summer atmosphere without falling into aesthetic topics?
We attended to the wishes of our clients to have a fresh, pleasant and comfortable house with very contemporary organization of rooms, materials and geometries but from our origins.
The most elegant residential Barcelona, in the quiet area of Turó Park, treasures some jewels of interior design whose owners rarely open their doors. We look out as privileged observers to a house of generous dimensions, with a total of 260 square meters, by the hand of Alex March, author of its interior design.
The need of its owner was to give it a renewed air: “my client wanted to have another relationship with her space, an inspiring, timeless, elegant, cheerful, balanced home, with soul and character” explains Alex March who highlights the sensitivity for art of the owner: “she is in love with art and, in particular, with the works of the artist Iñaki Moreno”. In addition, in this project, the will to preserve, recover and rejuvenate the pre-existing elements of the house, located on a farm of the 20s, has been a priority.
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