The Ikibana restaurant offers a fusion of Japanese and Brazilian gastronomies, two cultures that seem so antagonistic: quiet and minimalist the first, exuberant and bustling the second. One of the biggest conceptual challenges during the design of the restaurant was finding shared singularities between these two cultures. Being a great challenge, it also became the leitmotif of the project, as we discovered that the landscape was an extremely important element in both cultures, and we decided to extol this element in the design of the space and create an artificial landscape.
The project is part of the \”Fàbriques per la Creació\” programme promoted by the Barcelona city council in order to reactivate the old industrial spaces of the city now in disuse, and transform them into centres of artistic production. Hangar is a creation centre for visual artists situated since 1997 in the old industrial manufacturing premises of Can Ricart.
Sant Medir school renovation and expansion, in Barcelona, is situated in a not to much sunny block interior courtyard, surrounded by buildings of six to eleven floors. The actuation seeks to dignify what its existent, unifying it with the new construction, in order to create a unique building, appropriate to the current standards, and always being aware of the difficult proximity of the perimeter buildings.
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Bitxo House stands on the gentle hills of the Pre-Pyrenean landscape of Graugés, in the Berguedá region, a hundred kilometres north of Barcelona, with the Queralt mountain range at the background and located between mountain style houses. The owners, Xavier and Queralt, both of them musicians, acquire, about 20 years ago, a plot to raise the stave, where to the score of their lives. Over time, without rush. The design and construction of housing extends for over ten years, until today.
The intervention is located in the upper part of the village, in a magnificently sunny place and with privileged and spectacular views, as a result of the pronounced and eventful topography. The proposal tries to regularize and arrange, in the most harnessed possible way, different exterior spaces, at the same time it aims to achieve a good connection and orientation of the different program parts.
In addition to an optimal functional and interior spatial resolution, which is explained below, the project’s key probably lies in an accurate response to the unusual and difficult situation in urban and volume to be inserted.
The YUTE’S project is an extension of an existing textile warehouse. The two young clients had bought an old offices building with some storage at its side, and after a few years of use they started to miss storage area, so they though in enlarging it. The original building didn’t have much quality from the architectural point of view, but from the beginning we thought that was better to keep as much as possible of the existing and growing from that, instead of demolishing all and start a new building.
Location: 3 Trabajo Street, Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, Spain
Photography: Hisao Suzuki
Project: 1999 – 2001
Construction: 2002 – 2005
Built area: 2000 m2
Promoter: YUTE’S Textiles
Structural adviser: Arch. Manuel Arguijo
Supply adviser: Eng. Bernat Alonso
Quantity surveyor: Alberto Rodríguez (Rodríguez-Tozzi)
Collaborators: Silvia Bianchini, Nina Leypoldt, Els van Meerbeek, Cristian Zanoni, Guido Fiszson, Ellen Halupczok, Inecita Florez, Paula Avila, Eugenia Troncoso, Israel Hernando, Jonny Pugh.
The place destined for the enlargement and the whole Can Baró environment, preserved the charm of those areas where diversity and disunity required a forceful, logical and considered response. The enlargement becomes an extension of the topography looking for a merger between the building and the public area, which is not seen as something that we find between the buildings, but is integrated into the architecture. The architectural area is something that we find hidden or camouflaged within the topography.
Location: Carrer Sant Salvador, Corbera de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Photography: Jordi Bernadó
Collaborators: Structural Engineering: Manuel Arguijo
Mechanical & electrical engineering: LluisDuart
Architecture collaborators: Mireia Estrada
Project Management: Diputació de Barcelona (OTC y Servei de Biblioteques)
Technical Architects: SGS TecnosS.A.(Lorena Fariñas i Roger Pinyana)
The architectural strategy used has been to create a building whose exterior is defined by a language that seeks abstraction through colour, rhythm, and movement: a language that will contrast with the domestic private life of the residents inside. To combine these two concepts moveable panels have been mounted on the façades. By opening or closing them, residents can choose the level of light or privacy they want at any time throughout the year.
As the site is small and triangular in shape, the project design has to focus on devoting as much exterior space as possible to the playground, in a single area oriented to the south. The simplicity of the exterior building envelope, in particular the roof which has a single slope, is only broken by two skylights which provide the natural light needed inside the classrooms in a uniform way.
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