The refurbishment of this house located in a block developed in the expansion of the 1970s, is distinguished by the maximum use of space, both visually and physically. The original distribution, dark and twisted, sought only quantitative yield. For this reason, the renovation loses one of the original bedrooms, gaining in return a full bathroom and a large and fluid public space.
This Daycare Center for people with mental illness and Central headquarters for INTRAS Foundation is the first phase of a whole complex concerning also other health services (a Residential Centre, a Psycho-rehabilitation Centre and a Labour Rehabilitation Centre) and social services (Supervised Flats, Labour Workshops) that will stand for Research and Treatment in Mental Health aims to improve the quality of life of people suffering from mental disorders and the elderly, as well as their social integration.
The concept of this space comes from the searching of a well-known world which is the wine and its sales spaces. In our imaginary there are a lot of these references, thus, it is our attempt to abstract these images in a manner which the circumference shape arises.
The Niara Sports Club needed a place of its own for its activities. After finding a suitable site in an easily accessible, outlying residential area with a low population density, the Schola Foundation decided to concentrate a large number of its activities into a single building, thus fulfilling a number of complex requirements that included an educational and recreational area for children at two different stages of development- “small” and “big” children; a separate area for parents’ meetings and activities, an area for offices, a residential area, and a block of independent services. All of the above were laid out around the chapel which, together with the sports complex, is the nucleus of the centre.
‘Arquitectos Office’ (AQSO) has recently completed the construction of the ‘Fragmented house’. The concept solution for this residence starts from a compact block transforming, after several divisions and shifts, into an external broken-down form, result of the arrangement of the interior spaces.
Night View (Image Courtesy AQSO arquitectos office)
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