Located in Barcelona’s Vila de Gràcia neighborhood, this aparment building takes up the entire lot (30 x 6 meters) and contains 875 square meters in four floors plus a basement. The elevation on the street Ca l’Alegre shows three levels and an attic
Located at the bend of a road that joins Camprodón with Olot, the town of La Canya is growing in the form of residential developments similar to those around large cities. However, its location in a rural region has permitted a comfortable combinatio
In the French commune of Huningue, located in the department of Alsace and on the banks of the Rhine, stands this assisted housing center for senior citizens, a work of the Strasbourg practice of Dominique Coulon. Given the exceptional site, the comm
The episodes of civil unrest that have taken place in the peripheries of French cities, the last of which were the riots of 2005, have often been related to the urbanism of the second postwar and its housing blocks, which are occupied mostly by immig
IN THE TOWN of Ripoll (Gerona) a core-ten steel enclosure has transformed an empty plot amid party walls, once occupied by a theater that has been demolished, into a new public facility that acts as a plaza, bridge and gate of access to the historic
If the Les Cols restaurant showed how the interior of a farmhouse could be transformed with steel and glass, the project to build five pavilions for evening rest intends, through the use of pure forms, to achieve the superposition of textures and abs
An old and walled in farmhouse was the place chosen for a new restaurant, with a design that combines metaphors of the rural and the culinary world. Three warehouses placed along a basilica-type floor plan have undergone a meticulous refurbishment, b
A small detour from the road that links the centers of Olot and Gerona, at the height of Montagut, goes up by the foothills of the mountain until it reaches a haphazard series of constructions. Among these – in most cases recently built single-family
The urban park of La Arboleda (meaning grove) is in the west access to the town of Begur, on the coast of Gerona. Once a natural space with a stream and a wooded area next to the town, this zone now acts as a hinge between the new expanded areas and
The campus of Montilivi, south of the historic center of Gerona, imposes the rationality of its grid on a landscape of gently rolling hills and wooded masses. Starting from one of the plots thus defined, the new Law School is inserted with the intent
The high-school is located on the fringes of the coastal town of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, some one hundred kilometers north of Barcelona. The peripheral context, still changing, suggested an introverted, self-absorbed solution. Two parallel branches, o
The River Fluvià begins in the mountains of Collsacabra, south of the city of Olot, and flows into the Mediterranean, in the Ampurdán marshlands, after covering seventy kilometers through the region of La Garrotxa.Almost hidden amid the poplars, the
A captivating landscape asks for a panoramic house. This house, suspended and calm, looks over the views from its vantage point on the edges of Olot. Access is through a void between the two parallel volumes of the project. The void crosses the hou
Playing with a wooden piece set for kids one can obtain varied compositions, which transferred to the field of architecture, somehow match the distribution of volumes and spaces during the creation process of a building. Each one of the colors covers
These new cellars for private wine production and consumption are located in an outstanding setting, at the head of a valley beneath a mountain in a protected area. Along apath that connects different types of buildings – including a chapel –, unfold
This mixed-use structure is included in the plan – promoted by the City Council – for the recovery of the interiors of the urban blocks of the Ensanche of Cerdá in Barcelona, and goes up in the last plot available on Conde Borrell street, in the San
Located on the limit of the Natural Park of the Volcanic Zone of la Garrotxa, the municipality of Vall de Bianya is an agricultural area surrounded by mountains covered with forests of oak and beech trees. This impressive context was the main guideli
If the restaurant Les Cols already served as an example of how glass and steel can transform the interior of an old farmhouse into a chimeric space, somewhere between the rural world and cosmopolitan sophistication, the project for the construction o
With a number as the only sign of identity, a trapezoidal plot in a residential area of the Madrid municipality of Pozuelo, west of the capital, is the site chosen to build this house of over 2,000 square meters in extension. The terrain descends alm
The presence of the historic center of Lles de Cerdaña, as well as that of the other three urban centers of this town in the Catalan Pyrenees, goes back to the 10th century. Both its Romanesc layout and its medieval architecture are protected today b
Sobre los restos de un antiguo cobertizo construido con madera de chopo en la vega de Granada, zona protegida y periférica de la ciudad, se levanta esta pequeña casa, obligada por las ordenanzas a mantener el mismo volumen de la edificación a la que
Located next to a residential quarter formed by open blocks of recent construction, the plot chosen to raise the municipal morgue of León did not seem at first to be the most appropriate one to house such function. Therefore, to create an environment
Raised on a plot in the historic center of the locality, the Jesús Ruiz School consisted of two freestanding pavilions with no link to the surrounding urban fabric. The need to renew its facilities has allowed to reformulate the relationship of this
Without attempting to resemble the architecture of basic materials and explicitly domestic shapes common to the region, the Roser house goes up in Gerona as an abstract volume that asserts its formal autonomy with respect to the landscape and the con
