Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   The proximity of a highway, though slightly burrowed, conditions the project from the beginning. An acoustic cushion formed by an earth mound materializes the first part of the project, becoming a forest of pine trees that emulates others in the area

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   Promoted by the Instituto Valenciano de Vivienda (Valencian housing institute), the social housing building goes up in a newly developed area located between the most recent constructions in the municipality of San Vicente del Raspeig and the campus

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   The masonry walls and the bold white volume of a traditional house are at the origins of a project based on the gradual transition from interior to exterior and vice versa.

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   This pavilion-house is built on two adjacent plots in a residential area of San Vicente del Raspeig, north of Alicante. The plots were previously occupied by an old house of scarce value, a pool, and a vegetable garden that had been grown for over tw

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   Inmerso ya en el área metropolitana de Valencia, Quart de Poblet ha conseguido mantener intacto su carácter de pequeña población, así que cuando las autoridades se dispusieron a levantar la casa de la juventud —sobre un solar del centro integrado en

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   The otherwise regular scheme of the University of Alicante’s new campus becomes problematic along the highway that skirts it. Placing the University Museum on a parcel bordered by the thoroughfare, between the Business School and a peripheral parking

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   Al igual que otras localidades costeras, Zahara de los Atunes incrementa su población con la llegada del verano. En este pequeño pueblo de la provincia de Cádiz, numerosas casas de las que puntean el litoral buscando la proximidad de la playa permane

Instituto Playa Flamenca Presided in its edition of 2019 by Fuensanta Nieto, the FAD Award in the category of Architecture went to the IES Playa Flamenca in Orihuela (Alicante), by Alfredo Payá. The jury highlighted how the design addresses a large a

Having gone through 616 entries, the jury of the 61st FAD Awards, with Fuensanta Nieto chairing, named the winners. The FAD Award for Architecture went to the Playa Flamenca Secondary School in Orihuela (Alicante), by Alfredo Payá, praised for addres

15 Works Awarded The 12th edition of the BEAU (Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism) chose to commend a group category of fifteen works, divided into five categories. The first one – reconversion projects – included the Cineteca in Matadero

Alfredo Payá   «Que no se la den con queso.» Con esta frase cerró Joan Fontcuberta el catálogo de su última retrospectiva en el Museo Universitario de Alicante. Su principio del escepticismo activo invita a reflexionar sobre la información y su manipulación, sobre

Adela García-Herrera   Alicante Local Council Offices The jury of the Young Architects’Exhibition, which is organized by the Fundación Antonio Camuñas every two years, sifted through 95 works, in this fifth edition of the prize, selecting 10 for the final exhibition. They