Belgium   Images of the project that has won the international competition, organized by the European Parliament, to renovate the Paul-Henri SPAAK Building in Brussels have been unveiled. Officially announced in July 2022, the winner is Europarc, a collective

Ensamble Studio   Saudi Arabia   The AlUla territory gathers a unique collection of landscapes. The inland desert plateau, the mountain ranges, and the valleys offer extreme geological conditions and diverse habitats that coexist. The architecture of the place is defined by the acti

Ensamble Studio   United States   Petrified River is a site-specific installation for the garden of the Cooper Hewitt-Smithsonian Design Museum in New York during the 2019 Design Triennial exhibition ‘Nature,’ organized with Cube Design Museum in Kerkrade, the Netherlands. The propos

Ensamble Studio Steven Holl Ryue Nishizawa Transsolar Guy Nordenson   China   Yuzi Paradise is envisioned as a vacation resort in the midst of twenty-two mountains that make up the singular landscape of Guilin. The site extends over 540 hectares of undeveloped land which already has the ideal natural features to become a parad

Ensamble Studio   United States   Designing a tower is often reduced to a boring exercise of cleverly resolving a central core and a more or less fancy facade. And between the two, a monotonous pile of identical floors, and identical spaces. Big Bang Towers explore the spatial and st

Ensamble Studio   The studio’s experience designing and building Structures of Landscape served as starting point for the research behind the Towers of Landscape, presented in the first edition of the Orleans Archtitecture Biennial. This research questions whether it

Ensamble Studio   United States   NY Reticula rests on Governors Island Park, a privileged site with a number of historic buildings in the process of being restored, and which has also become home to exciting landscape interventions looking to preserve and enhance the unique characte

Ensamble Studio   United States   The MIT Design Center transforms an existing, underused courtyard, delimited by academic buildings, into an active laboratory shared by different disciplines focused on advancing knowledge on design, a creative activity that has long ceased to be exc

Ensamble Studio   South Korea   Located north of Seoul, the project for a startup center is part of an urban regeneration plan that aims to transform this region into an economic and culture hub. The architecture defines a framework that supports and serves the different programs

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Ensamble fabrica is the new prototyping facility and fabrication laboratory of Ensamble Studio in Madrid. Besides serving its purpose as a work place, it is a proof of concept that tests the hybrid steel-concrete construction technology the firm has

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Embedded in the forested landscape surrounding the San Juan Reservoir, outside Madrid, Zigzag House is designed with the aim of living in the air, so it floats over the ground, touching the earth delicately and cascading down a slope that ends by the

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Ca’n Terra is the house of the earth. The fruit that nature gives as a found space, which requires tillage and cultivation to imbue the received offering with domesticity. If the history of civilization has greatly evolved transforming ideas into bui

Ensamble Studio   United States   Located on around 5,000 hectares of cattle ranch in Fishtail, Montana, at the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park, the Tippet Rise Art Center is a new destination for art, where music, sculpture, and architecture engage in dialogue with the po

Ensamble Studio   United States   Cyclopean House completes a journey from the place of its manufacture – Madrid – to the place where it can definitely lie, atop an existing garage in a residential neighborhood of Brookline. The one-story building accommodates the parking, workshop,

Ensamble Studio   Mexico   In Aztec culture, the Dovela – stone of air or sun – is a basalt monolith that is offered to divinity, and sometimes placed in a complex with a topography of terraces. It addresses the four elements, and with its powerful symbolism expresses the inta

Ensamble Studio   Mexico   In pre-Columbian cultures monuments were erected towards the Sun, considered the universal essence of life, to enhance its spiritual relationship with the Earth. Under the strong sun of Mexico City we can now find the latest completion by the Spanish

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Madrid’s Old Slaughterhouse is now a hub of contemporary creation, thanks to competitions organized over the years to give new life to its 148,000 square meters. The Reading Center arose from one of them, held in 2006 to renovate warehouses 13, 14, 1

Ensamble Studio   Spain   The Truffle is a piece of nature built with earth, full of air. A space within a stone that sits on the ground and blends with the territory. It camouflages, by emulating the processes of mineral formation in its structure, and integrates with the en

Ensamble Studio   Spain   The new Headquarters of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (General Society of Authors and Editors of Spain) is located in the privileged environment of the VistaAlegre park of the Galician capital, next to a series of academic and cultural b

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Trying to escape the hustle and bustle of the Spanish capital, the house seeks shelter on the outskirts, in the town of Las Rozas. The very name of the house, Hemeroscopium – place where the sun sets –, makes reference to the horizontality underlying

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Martemar House emerges as a unique architectural object. The residence is marked by two horizons – the sea in front and the Serranía de Ronda in the background –, so the project is set out as a viewing platform that opens up in both directions. The s

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Auditorium of Galicia, lies the country estate Vista Alegre, a park which has been transformed into a university campus. Separated from the city by a stone wall, it concentrates buildings devoted to academic and research activities. Among them rises

Enrique Morillo   Since the first modern yearnings to merge architecture and industry, many have tried to replace traditional building with serial production. If the success of these projects has up to now been relative, Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa seek to chan

Antón García-Abril   Débora Mesa   From a place of insolent humility we take on the challenge of writing about our work in this monographic document of the first twenty years of Ensamble Studio. This text should obviously not be critical, so we have chosen a format halfway between aut

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ensamble’s track seems inseparable from trial. Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa have assembled their life and work as a sequence of material and mental essays that are interwoven to join experiment and experience, production and perspective, explor

Architecture is ideas and forms, but both crystallize through matter. While a building is prefigured in the immaterial geometries of the design, it takes shape in the physical world by means of materials and techniques. The intricate interplay of int

RIBA   The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Wednesday 18 September) named Ensamble Studio, led by architects Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril, as the recipient of the 2019 RIBA Charles Jencks Award. The RIBA Charles Jencks Award is

Antón García-Abril   El joven arquitecto chileno expone la situación de su país tras el terremoto de febrero de 2010, narra la experiencia del ‘do tank’ Elemental, y se define como gestor de incertidumbres. 

Antón García-Abril   El Atlas Phaidon pesa siete kilos y mide 45x30x6 centímetros. Su volumen es equivalente al que resulta de agrupar los paperbacks de Mies van der Rohe y Le Corbusier, el Delirio de Nueva York de Rem Koolhaas, la Ciudad Collage de Colin Rowe y Fred Koe

Antón García-Abril   Una vieja adivinanza dice: ¿qué pesa más, un kilo de plomo o un kilo de paja? Un listillo afirmaría que por supuesto pesan igual, mientras que un físico demostraría que un kilo de plomo pesa más en una báscula, debido al empuje contrario a la graveda