Several small pieces, articulated between one another, form a unique volume that is camouflaged among the neighboring buildings thanks to its material quality and to its proportionality. The sloping tile roofs help continue this volumetric sequence..
A longitudinal volume with clear and precise geometry opens up to create a covered plaza that functions as welcome space. The natural landscape is framed by a large descending stairway that spans the marked topographical difference...
The large lower surface of the site remains below ground and, therefore, hidden from the street. Towards the city, a horizontal platform is transformed into the main lookout, from which emerge three pieces whose scale adapts to the city, small and co
A slightly sloping footbridge connects the two buildings located at either side of the river. The ramp meets the main volume, constructed in compressed earth, at an opening that emphasizes the project’s aim of creating a new gate to the city...
The Government of Extremadura has announced that a scheme titled ‘Music and the Earth,’ submitted by the architecture firm Mangado y Asociados, has won the ideas competition for the construction, in the historical quarter of Cáceres, of a museum to h
Built over different periods starting in the 15th century, the Paredes-Saavedra House is a small-size urban fortress within the walled area of the city of Cáceres. The building is organized on three floors around a small asymmetrical interior atrium
The second phase of the Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art aims to create an efficient and versatile cultural hub with a clear and balanced image. A simple and recognizable volume, from a formal and structural point of view, that establishes
A project titled 'Lagar,' submitted by DIIR, the Madrid practice of Ricardo Fernández, David Meana, Ignacio Navarro, and Iñigo Palazón, has earned them first place – with a 10,000 euros award – in the public and open-to-all competition, organized by
With the purpose of giving landscape – natural, social, cultural, economic...– back its protagonism, the proposal is a sum of projects based on dialogue and participation, and which address a wide range of uses as well as contemporary and future form
After refurbishing the old Casa Grande – a building from the early 20th century that contained the houses of two brothers – and converting it into the Helga de Alvear Foundation Center for the Audiovisual Arts, the team of Emilio Tuñón is close to co
The seriation is applied to the domestic space, arranging the different uses in rooms of identical proportion and size, bounded by an exterior ambulatory that surrounds the house around its perimeter and is offered as a place to stay... [+]
The house is a simple prismatic volume with a square floor plan of 16-meter sides, and each of the four facades is perforated by three windows. The stretches of wall have been constructed with local quartzite stone, and the windows are framed with Ex
The Hermitage of the Holy Sepulcher in the Extremaduran town of Jarandilla de la Vera, built in the 17th century, was used as a prison in the 19th and as an elementary school in the 20th, after losing its roof. The intervention has involved consolida
The red of the floors and ceilings and the white of the walls and frames create a chromatic dichotomy that resonates with the green reflections of a food garden and a courtyard.
Towards the exterior, the house is a simple prismatic volume with a square floor plan, with sides measuring 16 meters. Its walls are built with local quartzite stone. Inside, nine cubic spaces with 4.20-meter-sides accommodate the different uses of t
The Aldea Moret neighborhood of Cáceres, built in the mid-20th century by the mining company Riotinto, comprised differently sized industrial constructions with quarters for employees annexed to them. In time the facilities were vacated, leaving rail
Located on a plot that performs as a frontier both historic – bordering on the medieval quarter – and geographic – the building traces the jagged edges of a valley –, the project for the refurbishment of the Casa Grande (an estate that used to accomm
Located in the historic center of Cáceres, facing the square of San Mateo and the church of the same name, the Relais-Chateux Hotel and Restaurant gathers the maximum respect for urban context and the existing buildings with a completely contemporary
Two concentric circles interrelate the different uses of the Sports Technification?and Leisure Center located in the municipality of Guijo de Granadilla. The complex includes a reception center, a residence for athletes and a center for the organizat
This new high school comes to complete the amenities of Galisteo, a small town close to Plasencia, in Cáceres. Both the topography and the surroundings of the plot significantly determined the development of this work, organized in two floors that fo
La diócesis de la villa cacereña de Plasencia convocó en el año 2000 un concurso para la remodelación del antiguo Seminario Menor Diocesano —un caserón del siglo XV al cual se habían añadido algunas dependencias en el XIX y que se encontraba en estad
Rodeada de sus propios viñedos, en un entorno pardo y llano en el que esconder un edificio de 12.000 metros cuadrados es imposible, la bodega se encuentra semienterrada por motivos distintos al del simple camuflaje: mejor aislamiento, mayor ahorro en
Ten kilometers north of the city of Cáceres, the municipality of Casar was to house a subregional bus station, and the plot chosen was a corner one located between the kindergarten and the school, in a street that, close to the park, leads to t
Much has been written about architecture competitions, and while there is a certain consensus on their many disadvantages, it is still difficult to resist the opportunities for research they offer. As an architect, I include myself among the professi
When the German gallerist Helga de Alvear decided fifteen years ago to install her collection of art in a modernist mansion in Cáceres, in Extremadura region, she approached the architects Luis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón and commissioned them t
Con la exposición ‘Márgenes de silencio’ se ha inaugurado en Cáceres la primera fase del Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, una sobria rehabilitación a la que seguirá un edificio de nueva planta con jardín.
La ciudad de Cáceres estrenará un nuevo recinto ferial diseñado por los jóvenes madrileños José Jaraíz Pérez y Jacob García González, cuyo proyecto quedó en primer lugar en el concurso internacional organizado por la Institución Ferial de Cáceres, co
El Centro de Tecnificación Deportiva en Guijo de Granadilla, en Cáceres, diseñado por el madrileño José María Sánchez García, ha abierto sus puertas. Emplazado en un entorno privilegiado, en la cuenca del Tajo, plantea dos círculos concéntricos de do
En el barrio de Aldea Moret, en Cáceres, el estudio Nieto y Sobejano ha transformado una antigua nave industrial de hormigón en un centro cívico. Llamado Embarcadero, el edificio acogerá un híbrido programa: espacios expositivos, salón de actos, des
