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.
Ayamonte is a border city bounded by two large bodies of water. To the west is the mouth of the Guadiana, a great territorial reference for the town and natural border with Portugal; to the southeast the marshes and salt flats, an extensive, changing and horizontal landscape ignored until recently due to the railway belt dismantled in the 1990s. The Congress Center is located on these lands rediscovered by the city.
This project is located on Antonio Ferrandis Street and is part of the P.P. Quatre Carreres. The location is especially privileged because it is located on the southern edge of the city, separating two radically opposite plots and scales, admiring the large expanse of orchard that extends to the Albufera Natural Park and with visual continuity to the sea.
Article source: RIPOLLTIZON Estudio de arquitectura
The site is located on the border of the residential area of the Ibiza marina and an area of floodplains and crops. The urban context is diverse in architectural character and content, where buildings for leisure and tourism coexist in the form of blocks of flats and apartments for vacation use. The landscape is formed through the placement of these isolated volumes which no identifiable masterplan or response to the local environmental factors, presenting therefore a collage of different characters.
Largely untouched since it’s construction in the 1970s, a complete redistribution of this Barcelona penthouse was undertaken in order to adapt to a contemporary open plan lifestyle. The project’s design responds to a modernized approach to an overall classic building and the will to preserve its inherited elegance, altogether aligned to the clients’ preferences. Superfluous partitions were removed, connecting all day areas into a large fluid space thus avoiding corridors. Special attention was given to the custom designed pivot elements that organize the open plan into different settings. A granite high bar countertop, three extra-large marble center tables and a hovering fireplace create a sequence of interrelated atmospheres. Each of them was conceived as a strong monolithic element that calls for a spontaneous floating circulation around it. In this way, the former fireplace was detached from the wall becoming a singular free-standing piece.
Mallorca is an island full of beautiful natural landscapes together with picturesque stone towns full of history and tradition. We came as unaware visitors, who learned step by step how to enter the mediterranean territory with respect to the vernacular architecture.
Our design reflects it by using traditional techniques and materials as stones from a local quarry. The stone facade, which is based on typical design that can be found all over the island as a fence or retaining walls that are constructed by using a traditional dry technique ‘Pedra en sec’. This local design has been declared as an intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2018.
The expressive nature of this three-story house is designed in a continuous movement that suggests, between its different rooms, a walkway from where to explore the landscape that expands in front of it.
Project Team: Fran Silvestre, Andrea Raga, David Cirocchi, Miguel Massa
Architect Partner: Manuel Suárez Arquitectos
Collaborators: María Masià, Pablo Camarasa, Ricardo Candela, Estefanía Soriano, Sevak Asatrián, Carlos Lucas, Jose Manuel Arnao, Andrea Baldo, Miguel Massa, Paloma Feng, Javi Herrero, Gino Brollo, Angelo Brollo, Paco Chinesta, Anna Alfanjarín, Laura Bueno, Toni Cremades, David Cirocchi, Gabriela Schinzel, Lucas Manuel, Nuria Doménech, Andrea Raga, Olga Martín, Valeria Fernandini, Víctor González, Sandra Insa, Gemma Aparicio, Ana de Pablo, Sara Atienza, Andrés Martínez
The project involves the renovation of an indoor swimming pool and the extension of this building by a linear volume in which the current 25-metre pool, an activity pool and, in a separate space in visual continuity with the first, hydromassage and contrast pools are located. This last space is completed by an area where sauna and steam bath cabins, showers and an ice fountain are situated.
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It is a row house built in the early 90s. It is located in Sant Pere de Ribes, a village 50 kilometers south of Barcelona. It was large but dense, as it corresponds to the type of middle-class housing of the time. It was not a dark house, but it was in semi-darkness. To optimize the number of floors, the slabs leave a very tight clear height of just 255cm. There are four floors: one with a parking area (at street level), a ground floor (at the level of a rear public garden), a first floor and an attic. The house is well located, in the upper part of the village.
The NIU project arose as a way to innovate on construction systems, seeking to increase precision in the materialization of architecture and, through these solutions, to improve the quality of human environments, making them more sustainable and healthier.
Project Team: Fran Silvestre, Andrea Baldo, Gino Brollo, Laura Bueno
Project Manager: Francisco Moreno
Architect: Mauro Díaz, Jaime Rabell
Industrial Engineer: Jaime Gorgues
Interior Design: Alfaro Hofmann
Collaborators: María Masià, Pablo Camarasa, Ricardo Candela, Estefanía Soriano, Sevak Asatrián, Carlos Lucas, Jose Manuel Arnao, Miguel Massa, Paloma Feng, Javi Herrero, Angelo Brollo, Paloma Feng, Paco Chinesta, Anna Alfanjarín, Toni Cremades, David Cirocchi, Gabriela Schinzel, Lucas Manuel, Nuria Doménech, Andrea Raga, Olga Martín, Valeria Fernandini, Víctor González, Sandra Insa, Gemma Aparicio, Sabrina D’amelio, Alejandra Ugena, Víctor Roger, Uriel Tarragó, Rubén March, Rosa Juanes
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