At the foot of Luna Castle, the lodging facility follows the fortress lines, and digs itself into the ground between the steep hill and the bulwark in order not to compete with the historical enclave...
The proposal is based on the understanding of the hospital building as an urban space, through the recovery and revaluation of its historic qualities, and the appropriate incorporation of the building in the city. The intervention allows the hospital
Shortlisted in the Interiors section of the 2020 FAD Awards, this project by the Murcia firm Clavel Arquitectos – headed by Manuel Clavel Rojo and Luis Clavel Sainz – involves a 2,800-square-meter five-star hotel at Avenida Adolfo Díaz Ambrona, in th
With the purpose of reviving the popular knowledge accumulated in the remains of the old settlement, the proposal adapts material and formally to the orography, and creates new domestic spaces by interpreting the spirit of the place... [+]
With a project titled ‘La casa por el tejado,’ the Bizcay firm AZAB – established in 2018 by Cristina Acha, Miguel Zaballa, Ane Arce, and Iñigo Berasategui – won the competition for the commission to build four subsidized apartment buildings taking u
The ground floor is conceived as an urban interchange, with atrium-plazas and street-galleries. The courtyards are covered to allow their use all year round, and the original volumes of the vaulted rooms are recovered, removing the false ceilings...
The intervention is carried out along the fortified line of the ‘Recinto de los Portugueses,’ located in the lower part of Castillo de Luna. The building is ‘dug’ into the bastion’s outline and blends completely with the site, without competing with
The refurbishment project proposes inserting a new iconic and efficient structure – two T-beams that shape a cross of asymmetrical arms – to clear the space from intermediate supports in a single gesture and create a free-flowing floor plan... [+]
To achieve maximum functional efficiency and a contemporary image with minimum cost, the proposal concentrates the program in a new building placed east of the site, freeing up the rest of the plot for circulation, gymnasium, and drill halls... [+]
In a context of rural exodus, the project proposes creating an agricultural cooperative and related industries to recover the productive character of this colonization town, built by by Alejandro de la Sota in 1954, and turn it into a sustainable pla
The site where the new Development Center goes up is located on the urban border of the small town of Calamonte – north of the province of Badajoz, 61 kilometers from the capital of the province and only 7 kilometers from Mérida, the capital of the r
At approximately 100 kilometers from the capital of Badajoz, in the northern part of the province, the city of Don Benito is, with Villanueva de la Serena, the economic center of the Vegas Altas region in Extremadura. The industrial complex of San Is
En la villa renacentista de Jerez de los Caballeros nació en 1475 Vasco Núñez de Balboa, descubridor del Pacífico. Su casa natal se ha convertido en museo y centro de interpretación en el que se mezclan escenas actuales e históricas en huecos y expos
The public space as active environment needs to be reinvented all the time: planning this process from premises that place heritage before landscape is compatible with others that make entertainment or environmental aspects prevail. In this way, the
The group of pieces is generated by the fragmentation of the unit: in this way, the exchange between city and building is possible. The bold envelope is made with pigmented and perforated concrete…
The proposal suggests a place similar to the ideal garden, the ‘Garden of Delights’. To be able to adapt the project to the plot’s unnevenness and slope, the study of soap bubble growth has served as reference. There are basically two types of rooms
Using as basis a text by Schönberg on how a donkey going uphill manages to avoid the steepest parts of the slope, in this case the 12m drop is spanned thanks to a series of parallel stone walls. The stepped spaces open up to the views and at the sam
The pentagon-shaped fortress of San Roque, part of the 17th century wall upon which the bullring was inserted in 1859, for its part raised over the ashes of an old wood enclosure, is the place chosen for the construction of the new Congress Center of
En el interior de un bastión pentagonal de la muralla del siglo XVII, allí donde hubo una plaza de toros, se ha construido un palacio de congresos circular y translúcido que oculta bajo tierra parte del programa y que se adapta a la forma del vacío.
The city of Mérida – the actual seat of the government of Extremadura– goes up on the ruins of Emerita Augusta, the Roman city that always emerges from the subsoil as the new city tries to continue growing. Without forgetting the heritage of its ric
Until 31 March 2024, the MEIAC of Badajoz displays the pictorial work of Godofredo Ortega Muñoz (1899-1982), carried out decades ago, placed alongside the contemporary photographs of José Manuel Ballester. The initiative came from the foundation of t
Los madrileños Juan Elvira y Clara Murado son los autores de una vivienda ubicada en una dehesa de Badajoz, cuya forma responde a dos requerimientos del cliente: disfrutar del sol de poniente y disponer de una casa inexpugnable cuando no se use, pero
José Morales y Sara de Giles, del estudio sevillano MGM, han ganado el concurso para la Hospedería de Fregenal de la Sierra, en Badajoz. La convocatoria, a la que se presentaron noventa propuestas, planteaba la reconversión en establecimiento turísti
En un entorno de callejuelas y pequeñas plazas, rodeado por un caserío irregular, el teatro municipal de Zafra, al sur de Badajoz, está inmerso en el espacio intermedio donde la trama del centro histórico confluye con las nuevas áreas de expansión.
