Batlle i Roig   Spain   Located in 22@, an urban renewal area of Barcelona, Entegra presents a facade of carbonized wood and is designed to be near-zero in net energy consumption. The program is resolved through an open-plan ground level and eight floors above, providing 4,

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The office building Ó is located in the area of the old factory of Can Batlló, one of the most important focuses of development of the city of Barcelona in relation with the economic district of Hospitalet de Llobregat and important avenues such as G

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The Catalan practice of Enric Batlle and Joan Roig transformed an old industrial construction in Barcelona’s 22@ district into a corporate headquarters for Doctors Without Borders. A 2003 renovation had converted the building into offices, modifying

Batlle i Roig OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture NEXO arquitectura   Spain   A series of stairs, escalators, and ramps leads to ‘The Valley,’ where a tower with a cascade and a climbing wall at the rear becomes a landmark in the park, surrounded by a concrete ‘ring’ where different activities and events can be held...

Batlle i Roig   Spain   A work of Enric Batlle, Joan Roig, and Iván Sánchez, the track called the Camino de las Guixeres is part of a larger project for the Igualada Green Ring, the objective of which is to generate a series of footpaths and bicycle lanes around the city’s

Batlle i Roig   Spain   Barcelona’s importance as tourist destination has led to an increasing number of cruise ships arriving at the city, so the Port Authority decided to place some company terminals in Moll Adossat, the old container port. In the Helix Terminal, the exte

Batlle i Roig   Spain   Located in the Inditex campus north of Arteixo in A Coruña (Galicia), the new services building, adjacent to the company’s headquarters, runs longitudinally to the northeast of the existing building, and is connected to it by footbridges. The geometr

Batlle i Roig   Spain   Designed for the same client as the buildings for Massimo Dutti in Tordera and Pull & Bear in Narón, the new headquarters of Stradivarius goes up in Parc del Alba, Cerdanyola del Vallès, one of the main centers of economic activity in Barcelona. Sinc

Batlle i Roig   Spain   As in the Massimo Dutti Headquarters experience, the project proposes an open palafitte structure that allows access to the building and parking through the ground floor. The plan comprises three longitudinal zones: the central one hosts four access

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The building, of three floors and 220x60 meters, is located in an industrial complex outside Tordera, so the parking is the key element in the organization of the program. Departing from the two most usual solutions for parking – outdoors on an adjac

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The rectangular volume, measuring 77.40 x 16.50 meters, runs parallel to Bernat Desclot street, from which the kitchen and sports fields are reached. The main entrance is at the corner closest to the urban center, where Bernat Desclot and Jaume Vidal

Batlle i Roig   Spain   Can Bisa is a colonial house of the 19th  century, which belongs to the Vilassar de Mar Town Hall and is listed in the current general plan. It is a unique one-story building, and the Town Hall deemed that it was the ideal site for a new cultural fac

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The building is integrated in the site by taking up a large portion of the slope by the cemetery entrance, extending in this way the area of access with a plaza and parking area connected to the road. Set into the terrain, the pitched roofs are cover

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The program is organized in two differentiated volumes: one has a ground level plus two, housing classrooms, administration, offices, library, dining room, and kitchen; and the other is a one-level volume with a gymnasium and dressing rooms. The main

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The project develops two of the campus buildings, devoted to research and containing classrooms, laboratories, and offices. Though the built volumes are different, their design is unified by organizing both floor plans according to an identical seque

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The project has developed slowly in realizing the club’s old dream of bringing together in one place its technical and sporting activities, as much for professionals as for amateurs. The complex is basically organized in two platforms at different le

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The project has developed slowly in realizing the club’s old dream of bringing together in one place its technical and sporting activities, as much for professionals as for amateurs. The complex is basically organized in two platforms at different le

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The heart of the Park becomes a large walkway and balcony-viewpoint in the city of Masnou. The project’s aim is to guarantee the connection between the two sides of the city by recovering the street track foreseen in the General Plan. The proposed la

Batlle i Roig   Spain   Historically the Llobregat River has been the usual corridor for the infrastructures of the metropolitan area of Barcelona (roads, highways, railways, high-speed trains, and all sorts of services and facilities). This process has damaged the natural

Batlle i Roig   Spain   On a plot parallel to the structure of the city, bound by two perimeter paths that trace an elongated form, La Vaguada de las Llamas was a large open space allocated by the city’s master plan to be converted into a public park. Its topographical feat

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The Vall d’en Joan waste deposit was since 1974 the final destination for most of the urban residues of Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Prior to its restoration it was a vast expanse of land with deep slopes. A 20-centimeter layer of soil covere

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The project aimed to address the impact of a road infrastructure built rushedly for the Olympic Games of 1992 – using a buried box instead of a tunnel boring machine –, to in this way restore the terrain’s continuity and create a park not only over t

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The Sant Climent Riera crosses Viladecans from north to south to end at sea after crossing the Delta del Llobregat Park. With its 2.5 kilometers, it had become a physical frontier for urban growth. The project sought recovering the space as a natural

El País   Ianko López   The name of five finalists in the competition to redevelop Madrid’s Azca business district have been made public: Diller Scofidio+Renfro with Porter+Bowman and b720; Heatherwick Studio with CLK; MVRDV with estudio GRAS; Rem Koolhaas-OMA with Battle i

Richard Ingersoll   Despite its undeniable quality, I doubt that the work of the Catalan architects Enric Batlle and Joan Roig will ever be recognized for its original style or for its technological innovations, but I am certain the office will be remembered for its uni

Enric Batlle   Living on the Edge A flock of sheep grazes in a new public space of the Barcelona metropolis. We could think of it as a chance event, similar to those we sometimes observe in our peripheries, in those places where urban development has arrived but no

Joan Roig   Batlle i Roig was born at a desk in the studio of José Antonio Martínez Lapeña and Elías Torres, midway through the year 1981. Though we both had parallel university careers, we didn’t coincide until the last year, with Rafael Moneo as chair profess

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Rooted in their family histories, the Barcelona architects Enric Batlle and Joan Roig are gardeners and bricklayers, deft both at designing landscapes and at building architectures. Trained by Rafael Moneo and Elías Torres, they based their work on a

Batlle i Roig / Rafael de La-Hoz Created in 1981, the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes gives its Gold Medal to people or institutions that have contributed significantly to the defense of the interests of architecture, or to architects

En la comarca catalana del Vallès Occidental y sobre unos terrenos deteriorados por un almacén de desechos que se encontraba al límite de su capacidad, los barceloneses Enric Batlle y Joan Roig han construido un nuevo Centro de Tratamiento de Residuo

María Cifuentes   Con una reseña en esta sección (véase Arquitectura Viva 52) dimos la bienvenida a este proyecto editorial, lanzado conjuntamente por la ETSA de Pamplona y el Colegio de Arquitectos Vasco-Navarro. A razón de cuatro cuadernos por año —salvo la primera

Marta García Carbonero   Hay libros que tan sólo se diferencian de las revistas en el grosor de sus tapas, y el volumen que nos ocupa es uno de ellos. Como una instantánea del paisajismo contemporáneo, el autor recala en la obra de catorce equipos de ocho países europeos en

Thies Schröder   Contemporary Landscape Architecture in Europe