AV Proyectos 112 compiles the most recent projects of MAIO, the Barcelona-based practice led by Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López, and Anna Puigjaner, who work on a broad field that goes from research on the domestic scale to large

MAIO   Spain   The connection of the building with its context is expressed on the ground level, which replicates the urban codes and links the street with the rear garden; and the facade, which maximizes the overhang of the balconies to take up all the outdoor are

MAIO   Mexico   As part of a collaborative project, the five buildings are interconnected by exterior stairs that, aside from providing access, become communal terraces to be shared by residents. Sliding doors divide the interior spaces of the apartments...

MAIO   Spain   The refurbishment project proposes a landscaped roof based on a new topography. This garden is covered at specific areas in the tradition of orangeries and greenhouses, turning the vegetation into the key component of the design...

MAIO   Spain   This single-family house is emptied out to start with the interior reconstruction process, adapting the dwelling to current regulations and reinforcing the wall structure. The new central atrium leads to the different floors, all open to the garden a

Jorge Vidal, MAIO   Spain   The triangular volume where multiple programs converged is replaced here with a Vierendeel beam-box, which allows opening up the main court – separated from the secondary one by a three-meter rigid box – to the urban space as a multipurpose indoor ha

MAIO   Spain   The boundaries of the masia are expanded with a light structure of posts that transforms the whole space into a pergola underneath which two new constructions, with lighter roofs, add a series of independent rooms and programs...

MAIO   Spain   The building creates a continuous frontage overlooking the Deusto ria, zigzagging along its course and rising to connect it with the urban fabric behind. The complex features four types of modular apartments with rooms connected by a corridor... 

MAIO   This research has derived into multiple exhibitions focused, among other aspects, on analyzing the boundaries between the domestic and urban space and the public and private realm through new technologies or atypical residential structures. ‘The Gran

FRPO, Walk Architecture & Landscape , SD Partners Architettura e Ingegneria   Italy   The Italian-Spanish team formed by FRPO Rodríguez y Oriol Arquitectos (Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez), Walk Architecture & Landscape (Juan Tur Mc Glone), and SD Partners (Massimo, Giuliani, Alessandro Viganò, Beatrice Meroni) placed first in the Ma

Urtzi Grau, Jocelyn Froimovich   Italy   The main building is designed as a prefab wood structure that permits opening up to 36 skylights on the saw-tooth roof, making sure that the spaces for theater and for culture are always adequately illuminated throughout the day...

Studio FORM_A    Italy   The tripartite composition of the envelope organizes the distribution of uses within the factory. The two first floors, dedicated to theater-related activities, are integrated into the circulation routes of visitors, who become part of the performanc

Studio Animal, Javier J. Iniesta   Spain   The design of this tent-like shop combines emphatic geometries in bright colors with a humorous language, a strategy that is also used in the rest of their collaborations, and that aims to create an aesthetic image distinctive of the brand.

Evvo Retail   Spain   ‘Layers’ of industrial materials – aluminum and concrete – are added to the space that preserves the original walls, in contrast with the elegant and theatrical textures in an atmosphere of pastel colors that uses the curve as a sculptural element...

P-M-A-A    Spain   The new circular skylight is a unique addition that transforms an old and dark space into an atmosphere filled with natural light. Concentrating the program at the corners generates an open-plan space of squared proportions and symmetrical in section

estudiHac   Spain   The Valencia-based studio has a space in which to display the broad range of creative possibilities that this brand specialized in claddings offers, presented through the superposition of materials, plans, textures, and colors...

Estudio DIIR   Spain   Vienna’s walls came down to the rhythm of Strauss waltzes. Valencia’s, to the beat of taurine fiestas. And like the Ringstrasse, even without its grandeur, the paseo de ronda that replaced the ramparts of the Mediterranean city became a vibrant trade

Foster + Partners   Spain   Ombú, developed by Acciona, is the project to recover a Neo-Mudéjar industrial warehouse in Madrid, originally built in 1905 by Luis de Landecho. The historic envelope and the load-bearing structure that supports the pitched steel trusses have been p

Since 2013, Gabriele Corbo, Jacopo Costanzo, and Valeria Guerrisi lead WAR (Warehouse of Architecture and Research), a hybrid of mannerist architecture studio and contemporary innovation space with a peculiar vision of the creative process. Far from

Sanmiguel Diest (Zaragoza, 1949) has for years combined his work as pattern maker in Aranda de Duero (Burgos) with artistic activity. His vast repertoire of drawings and paintings is guided by a systematic method that evidences the conflicts and visu

Far from conveying a conformist image of Latin America, where he has spent most of his life, Paolo Gasparini (born in Gorizia, Italy, in 1934 and nationalized as Venezuelan in 1954) moves away from ethnocentrism through photographs that reflect his c