Rooted in their family histories, the Barcelona architects Enric Batlle and Joan Roig are gardeners and bricklayers, deft both at designing landscapes and at building architectures. Trained by Rafael Moneo and Elías Torres, they based their work on a
Batlle i Roig was born at a desk in the studio of José Antonio Martínez Lapeña and Elías Torres, midway through the year 1981. Though we both had parallel university careers, we didn’t coincide until the last year, with Rafael Moneo as chair profess
Living on the Edge A flock of sheep grazes in a new public space of the Barcelona metropolis. We could think of it as a chance event, similar to those we sometimes observe in our peripheries, in those places where urban development has arrived but no
Despite its undeniable quality, I doubt that the work of the Catalan architects Enric Batlle and Joan Roig will ever be recognized for its original style or for its technological innovations, but I am certain the office will be remembered for its uni
Located at the foot of Collserola, right where the mountain range meets the Rubí stream, the cemetery is conceived from the beginning as a group of terraced gardens scattered over the wooded hillsides. In this way, the recessed niches are designed as
With an area of more than 40 hectares, and connected to a place that has become a new central space of the city, the park was maintained after a long battle during which neighbors fought to protect a green area outside the city, and that was used as
The project’s basic objective was to organize, urbanize, and add a public content to the spaces resulting from the construction of the Nus de la Trinitat interchange, making it easier to reach the park from the neighborhood through a plaza of access,
The park is located where the railway station of Igualada used to be, at the end of Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer Avenue, on a site bound by three streets with a steep slope between them. The urban conditions determined the organization of the project. On t
The project is the result of the development of a series of partial plans starting from a common idea: open spaces as synthesis of city form. This structural idea allows coherently addressing the variety of situations, approaches, developers, and bud
The Sant Climent Riera crosses Viladecans from north to south to end at sea after crossing the Delta del Llobregat Park. With its 2.5 kilometers, it had become a physical frontier for urban growth. The project sought recovering the space as a natural
The project aimed to address the impact of a road infrastructure built rushedly for the Olympic Games of 1992 – using a buried box instead of a tunnel boring machine –, to in this way restore the terrain’s continuity and create a park not only over t
The Vall d’en Joan waste deposit was since 1974 the final destination for most of the urban residues of Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Prior to its restoration it was a vast expanse of land with deep slopes. A 20-centimeter layer of soil covere
On a plot parallel to the structure of the city, bound by two perimeter paths that trace an elongated form, La Vaguada de las Llamas was a large open space allocated by the city’s master plan to be converted into a public park. Its topographical feat
Historically the Llobregat River has been the usual corridor for the infrastructures of the metropolitan area of Barcelona (roads, highways, railways, high-speed trains, and all sorts of services and facilities). This process has damaged the natural
The heart of the Park becomes a large walkway and balcony-viewpoint in the city of Masnou. The project’s aim is to guarantee the connection between the two sides of the city by recovering the street track foreseen in the General Plan. The proposed la
On a hillside of the Coll Cardús mountain massif, in the municipality of Vacarisses, the new Waste Treatment Facility goes up on the terrains previously taken up by a controlled waste landfill site. The state of the old landfill, which was abou
The project has developed slowly in realizing the club’s old dream of bringing together in one place its technical and sporting activities, as much for professionals as for amateurs. The complex is basically organized in two platforms at different le
The project has developed slowly in realizing the club’s old dream of bringing together in one place its technical and sporting activities, as much for professionals as for amateurs. The complex is basically organized in two platforms at different le
The project develops two of the campus buildings, devoted to research and containing classrooms, laboratories, and offices. Though the built volumes are different, their design is unified by organizing both floor plans according to an identical seque
The program is organized in two differentiated volumes: one has a ground level plus two, housing classrooms, administration, offices, library, dining room, and kitchen; and the other is a one-level volume with a gymnasium and dressing rooms. The main
The building is integrated in the site by taking up a large portion of the slope by the cemetery entrance, extending in this way the area of access with a plaza and parking area connected to the road. Set into the terrain, the pitched roofs are cover
Can Bisa is a colonial house of the 19th century, which belongs to the Vilassar de Mar Town Hall and is listed in the current general plan. It is a unique one-story building, and the Town Hall deemed that it was the ideal site for a new cultural fac
The rectangular volume, measuring 77.40 x 16.50 meters, runs parallel to Bernat Desclot street, from which the kitchen and sports fields are reached. The main entrance is at the corner closest to the urban center, where Bernat Desclot and Jaume Vidal
The building, of three floors and 220x60 meters, is located in an industrial complex outside Tordera, so the parking is the key element in the organization of the program. Departing from the two most usual solutions for parking – outdoors on an adjac
As in the Massimo Dutti Headquarters experience, the project proposes an open palafitte structure that allows access to the building and parking through the ground floor. The plan comprises three longitudinal zones: the central one hosts four access
Designed for the same client as the buildings for Massimo Dutti in Tordera and Pull & Bear in Narón, the new headquarters of Stradivarius goes up in Parc del Alba, Cerdanyola del Vallès, one of the main centers of economic activity in Barcelona. Sinc
Located in the Inditex campus north of Arteixo in A Coruña (Galicia), the new services building, adjacent to the company’s headquarters, runs longitudinally to the northeast of the existing building, and is connected to it by footbridges. The geometr
Barcelona’s importance as tourist destination has led to an increasing number of cruise ships arriving at the city, so the Port Authority decided to place some company terminals in Moll Adossat, the old container port. In the Helix Terminal, the exte
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