The project was developed within the social housing program for the young promotedby the Community of Madrid. This type of rental housing establishes a strict range of 35 to 55 square meters of floor area per dwelling. Working within this range mean
Located in an exceptionally beautiful valley in the heart of the Ancares region, in the Galician province of Lugo, this house rises on preexisting ones: a palleiro (straw loft) and an eira (threshing floor) beside it. The new building makes use of th
Any social housing project endures strong pressure to reduce costs and accomplish more with less. To face these restrictions this scheme is based on seriation on both organizational and constructive levels. The complex comprises several pragmatic and
Located close to the convent of San Esteban, the new building houses the headquarters of the Colegio de Arquitectos (Institute of Architects) of León and its cultural foundation. The building offers views of the cathedral, with its imposing dome and
Con un gesto que se abre al sol, la fachada captadora de este bloque lineal en curva revela la presencia de tres espacios colectivos; por su lado, el alzado norte compone un lienzo de color.
On a deep and narrow plot located in Redondela, a town northeast of the city of Vigo, the single-family house yields before the strong slope of the terrain to look out onto the river, extending its views towards the faraway sea horizon. The layout of
The busy life of the owner, an advertising creative who spends a significant amount of time travelling around the world, inspired the construction of an architectural form derived from his singular lifestyle. Instead of trying to counteract the circu
El proyecto se concibe desde el concepto de duplicidad y propone una disposición de viviendas que favorece ventilaciones cruzadas, doble orientación y dobles alturas en los dúplex, y a la vez permite la definición de un jardín interior a modo de ‘cla
The foothills of Monte de la Concepción – one of the five mountains protecting the city of Cartagena – were opened in 1878 to allow Gisbert street to run through, and so connect the interior valley with the Mediterranean. During the excavation works
En una pequeña localidad manchega situada en los campos de Montiel se plantea el encargo de una piscina municipal; el solar está localizado en los márgenes del pueblo, en un entorno caótico de edificaciones de aspecto provisional o inacabado, y adyac
Esta casa de chapa se sitúa en la sierra madrileña, sobre un terreno de áspera belleza caracterizado por la presencia de fresnos y masas de rocas graníticas. Desde el principio se planteó la posibilidad de realizar el proyecto eludiendo los materiale
Resembling the growth rings of a tree, Madrid’s circular roads register the way the capital has expanded in the past decades, and with this, the evolution of residential architecture. If the M-30 highway was where the first municipal administrations
In recent years Madrid has undergone notable growth along its entire eastern front. Perhaps affected by this, San Fernando de Henares is experiencing an unprecedented impulse in terms of municipal activity. As a symbol of such takeoff, the authoritie
Popular references are woven with others originating from classic funerary architecture in the extension of this necropolis in a small agricultural town of the Castilian plateau. An ordinary plaster wall surrounds the new graves, the order of which,
Seated on the stepped base of a parking lot, this impressive, black parallelepiped of 140 by 60meters houses a bank computing center. The structural grid of the building applies also to the facade composition, the edges being cladded with singed Afri
This housing project won first prize in a competition of design and building teams, in which constructive innovation was an essential premise. The apartment blocks, each with five levels, house four units per floor in a linear scheme, with the majori
This project won first prize in an ideas competition that the University of León held in September 1996 to obtain an architect for its Research and Environment Institute. The brief called for economy, optimization of resources, functionality and low
On the banks of the Douro, where it passes through Zamora enroute to Portugal, stood the Convent of San Francisco, a Gothic construction of which much still remains. This ecclesiastical premise is now a center for cultural exchange, thanks to a proje
El solar de la intervención—un rectángulo de 126 x 66 metros, cuyo eje transversal esta orientado en dirección norte-sur—se encuentra en la zona sur de la ampliación de la Universidad de Alicante. En él se ha edificado un gran paralelepípedo chapado
These houses are part of a low-density residential strip along Madrid’s northwestern edge. In an area already defined by row constructions, the parcel is organized in bands that join two parallel streets. Besides the usual housing program, the brief
In the Ciudad Lineal area, the owners of a corner lot occupied by a large house of the 1920s decided to raise a new building on the property. After determining the part of the unbuilt land that was to continue to serve the old house, designs were mad
These social housing apartments are situated in the southwest of Fuenlabrada, in the Ciudad Loranca development, specifically on parcel 47-B, which is rectangular and borders to the north with parcel 47-A, to the east with Street 4, to the south with
The winner of a competition that was organized by the Municipal Housing Corporation, this project inserts itself in an area defined by low-rise perimetral city blocks. Two parallel buildings unite the facade alignments of Emilio Ortuño and Monte Urgu
For the construction of a sports center in this locality of south Madrid, a competition was jointly organized by Town Hall and the regional government, and this project came out first. Adjacent to the bullring on the south and to Dalí and Río Manzana
Como un barco varado sobre bolos graníticos: así es la casa que Francisco Burgos, Ginés Garrido, Justo F. Isasi y Alberto Pieltáin han diseñado en la sierra madrileña, con vistas magníficas sobre el valle del Lozoya y las cercanas cumbres de Guadarra
Conseguir que, desde el principio, el edificio formase parte de la ciudad, culminando su proceso constructivo en una perfecta ‘cicatrización’, ha sido el reto que los madrileños Carmen Martínez Arroyo y Rodrigo Pemjean se han propuesto en su nueva se
En el nuevo barrio de Móstoles Sur, abrazando premonitoriamente la llamada plaza del Sol, se alza un bloque de viviendas de directriz curva, con tramos de policarbonato azul y magenta que alberga 92 viviendas en régimen de alquiler temporal, locales
While I am aware that architectural education may need restructuring in order to bring it into line with the societal needs of the next century, I feel that in the case of the ETSAM a certain discretion is in order. The record of the Madrid school ha
Madrid today is Europe’s third city, after London and Paris; and the second in terms of building initiative, tailing Berlin but ahead of London. No city on the continent can currently compete with Germany’s capital, but many will be surprised to lear
