On a marvelous place like a piece of earthly paradise, at Cádiz, we have built an infinite plane facing the infinite sea, the most radical house we have ever made. At the very edge of the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, where the sea unites the new and the old continent, emerges a stone platform. At the place where all the ships from the Mediterranean used to pass and still pass by as they head off into the Atlantic.
There we have erected a house as if it were a jetty facing out to sea. A house that is a podium crowned by an upper horizontal plane. On this resoundingly horizontal plane, bare and denuded, we face out to the distant horizon traced by the sea where the sun goes down. A horizontal plane on high built in stone, Roman travertine, as if it were sand, an infinite plane facing the infinite sea. Nothing more and nothing less.
Several springs emerge from the skirt of the “Cruz” Mount that, forming a territorial frame, irrigate a set of historical gardens on the Jerez´s field accross a system of hatches and a curious rule for the distribution of the water. The humble housing of the horticulturists of “El Pilar”, of the XIXth century, consists in two diaphanous plants and a sloping cover, with walls of stone and wooden floors. The intervention goes to consolidate structurally the existing building, to support the spatial clarity of his interesting diaphanous spaces and to recover the original levels of the building and his relation exterior – interior.
Located near the center of Barbate (Cadiz ) , El Campero supposed to have an intense and thorough experience with the bluefin tuna trap . In the kitchen the king is tuna . .
Located on the beach of Cabo de Plata, known as the Beach of the Germans on the Andalusian coast of Tarifa, there is an uneven place with a horizontal view over the Atlantic Ocean.
To optimize the vision of the landscape, a series of slender spaces are intertwined as they adapt to the descending topography. Each of these pieces is deposited half a floor below the previous one. This way, its alternating arrangement allows all the spaces to have a direct view over the beach.
Collaborating Architects: Álvaro Olivares, Eduardo Sancho, Fran Ayala, Maria Masià, Ángel Fito, Pablo Camarasa, Estefania Soriano, Sandra Insa, Santiago Dueña, Ricardo Candela, David Sastre, Sevak Asatrián, Esther Sanchís, Vicente Picó, Rubén March, José Manuel Arnao, Rosa Juanes
The Maringo Restaurant project is born from the need to create a dynamic space that tries to escape from formalisms.
The restaurant is shown as an artificial landscape, whose elements, natural materials and noble, are static compositions, which simulate a constant movement.
It is Grazalema mountain range the one that creates a wall to high humidity winds coming from Atlantic Ocean.
Because of that, in this part of the south of Spain there is one of the highest rainfall index from Iberian peninsula. Climatology from Subbetica mountain range draws the proposal placed in a large plot where you can see the landscape from Sierra Nevada to African coast.
This plot which faces north has a narrow front in comparison to the rear of the site, therefore the brief has placed the main priority on seeking natural light. It is located within the urban fabric of this18th century village. The blocks follow a 100×200 ft grid and are characterized by adapting to the abrupt topography and by the equitable internal distribution of the homes.
The locality of Algodonales is in a landscape enclave favoured in the skirt of the Líjar Mountain, in the province of Cadiz, being opened visually in fullness towards the Pinar Range. Its historical town-center obeys an organic tracing imposed by the abrupt topography of the area, typical of the medieval Arabic urbanism of the zone, where the system of streets, free spaces and organization hospitalizes of the framework they are interlacing almost at random in conformity with the slopes of the mountain.
In this context, in the perimeter of the historical core, it begins to develop in the last decades an expansion of the same town, adapting the studding to a more rational framework where it begins to emerging a more identical architecture to the current importance in agreement with the popular architecture that shapes the urban center.
On this project, the shape of the plot itself gives form to the spaces, the volumes and the composition of the building.
The internal spaces go changing throughout the day, depending upon where the light reflects on the white surfaces.
By setting back the façade, an open space is created in front of the house containing the solarium and swimming pool, with a roofed terrace and a continuous glass wall highlighting the entrance and connecting the inside and outside of the home.
After the partial collapse that this medieval tower suffered, being a historical landmark for its strategic position in the latest “Nazari” border through the Valley of Guadalete, where it´s cut with Bética range, we project the consolidation of this landscape icon that lost part of its imposing volume, leaving at risk the stability of the rest popup, removing with it not only part from the architectural element, but also the landscape reference of a landmark very linked with the iconography and culture of the region.Being cultural modals and emblems of our own cities and territories, the crisis has done that they succumb in the abandon for the own economic disinterest that carries his maintenance.
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