This terraced house is located in a long and narrow plot situated on the edge of a small village.
The house has a contrast with both open sides, to the north the old village with narrow streets of stone. And to the south the garden, the pool, the sun and the landscape.
Access is possible through the two facades at different levels, but is usually done with the car through the south facade.
The aim of this project was the conversion of the existing building into a cultural and social centre, which would provide it with institutional representation. The outset was a dark, half-buried building that lacked quality spaces, placed at the interior of a block in Girona. The vast remodelling program included a 180-seat auditorium, an exhibition room, a computer room and an administrative area, among other spaces.
In 2010 a new ‘esplai’ was opened in Cristòfol Grober Street in Girona. It is a leisure centre for the elderly, composed of a common space and some auxiliary rooms: CiberCaixa, with IT equipment, 3 workshop rooms, and Cibercafè, with 8 computers.
Located within “the best golf course in Spain”, Studio RHE’s La Selva Villas at PGA Catalunya Resort in Spain are designed to merge with the surrounding 300 hectares of verdant landscape.
Perfectly situated in the major Catalonian city of Girona, the two villas are a stone’s throw away from the idyllic Costa Brava, medieval villages and the Pyrenees.
The secular action of Cadaqués population interpreting the natural space and setting out the stone terraces in a dry process for the planting of olive trees and grapes, it is a morphologic characteristic of “Cap de Creus”. The course of time and the scanty means, they thought a technique and trace the system ground rules that optimize the natural resources.
We find ourselves on a horizontal ground, a corner plot raised on two large slopes like a vantage point from which to enjoy superb views towards the agricultural plain that stretches at his feet until reaching Salt and the city of Girona. It is thus an exceptional setting that claims for an intervention that recognizes the attributes of the site and put them in value. We placed a silent, hermetic volume that emerges from the site and adopts the original profile of the hill, like a fortress that visually dominate the landscape. The volume encloses itself from the outside and is protected from the mediocre constructions that surround it by using the broken geometry of two thick walls.
Hotel Castell D’emporda located in Girona, Spain offers a signature restaurant including a large terrace with great views over the surrounding landscape. Concrete designed, at the clients’ request, a roof or covering for this terrace with the possibility to create an enclosed space with full wind and rain protection. One of the design conditions was to create a covering that works in harmony with the historical and listed building. Additionally we wanted to maintain the terrace feeling while be seated under the covering.
Location: Castell d’Emporda s/n, 17115, La Bisbal, Girona, Spain
Photography: Ewout Huibers, Robert Aarts
Client: Albert Diks, Margo Vereijken – Castell D’emporda – La Bisbal, Girona
Project Team: Erikjan Vermeulen, Rob Wagemans, Cindy Wouters, Melanie Knuewer
Advisors: Building regulations: Figa Arquitectos – Girona Structural advice: Bellapart Construction – Olot
Contractors and suppliers: Steel construction and corten steel: Bellapart Construction – Olot Groundwork, ceilingwork and electrical: Burgos Gasull – la bisbal Transparant curtains: Iaso – Lieida Bar, loungeseating and tables: Roord Binnenbouw – Amsterdam chairs: Academia – Italy lighting: Modular Covered area: 250m2 First briefing: januari 2011 Opening: june 2011 Duration of construction: 2 months
Program: A terrace covering to accommodate 200 people
The project, assigned through a public contest in 2005, consists of the design of the Plaza Pere Torrent, the construction of an 8.000m2 building and its integration in the surrounding Paseo de la Riera.
The program is ambitious: the building had to accommodate the local municipal library, a multi‐use hall, a children’s play centre, a meeting room, an adult learning centre, a day centre for the aged and the offices for social services.
Article source: javier de las heras solé arquitecte
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The retaining wall to the rear that anchors the house to the hillside was extremely lovely. As well as expressing the effort of retaining the earth, it concentrated in one place the oven and the point of collection of the water that filters through it.
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