As part of a plan instigated by the regional government, a social center serving citizens of limited means and resources has opened in one of the most conflictive areas of the capital…
To maintain the domestic scale of the urban fabric of Artá, the new health center replicates the structure of load-bearing walls parallel to the street of the old city and preserves the construction of the roof with Arab tile, emphasizing the identit
The owners, a couple with two children, wanted a house needing practically no maintenance, with a lot of privacy as well as a good relationship with the garden all year round, and with a large workspace. Only the sun, the geometry of the plot (almost
The construction of a health center as part of the Opera Village project followed the aim of improving basic health assistance for the local population. The CSPS, acronym for Centre de Santè et de Promotion Sociale, is fit out with the necessary inst
The house is a one-story structure, whose uniform width threads interior and exterior spaces to create two distinct and protected courtyards. The sheer exposure and vulnerability of the site inspired an architecture of boundaries and limits. Sited on
In the state of New York, at approximately three hundred kilometers to the north of the city of skyscrapers, a plot of 140 hectares was chosen to build a dwelling with no further pretense than to become a weekend retreat. Located almost at the edge o
Within the initiative undertaken to provide its merely functional buildings with a distinctive profile, the Swiss railway company called a competition for the design of a prototype that should house the electric transformers and signaling machinery,
En lugar de recurrir a la tantas veces traída idea de nave, este polideportivo deja de lado el lenguaje industrial para convertirse en un objeto más urbano, próximo a las trazas de un centro cívico. Situado en una localización sin referentes urbanos
Este templo celebra el VIII centenario de la orden Trinitaria y se ha erigido en honor a su fundador, san Juan de Mata. Adscrito a un centro docente, responde a las directrices urbanas que articulan el barrio, un digno conjunto de viviendas obreras d
The project for this house results from an intense and at times contradictory debate with the place it is situated in. Built, like the Burnette house, in Phoenix, Arizona, it has the benefit of a desert-like landscape, completely horizontal except fo
In the United States, the single-family house is one of the few ways by which a young architect, or any architect not belonging to the ‘star system’, can carry out a project on his or her own account. Just as independent cinema opens up paths of crea
La imagen de la casa recuerda la de un barco varado. Situada en un bosque de pinos mediterráneos en el término municipal de Santa Eulalia, en Ibiza, la casa se extiende entre los árboles sin apenas alterar el paisaje, continuando la traza del camino
Wright's californian years culminated with a series of four houses in which concrete block took on a preponderant role as a design element. The first of these was the Millard House, popularly known as ‘La Miniatura*(as is, in Spanish), and later came
Mario Botta is famous for having built a series of houses in the hills of his native region, the Italian canton of Switzerland. They are all variations on the same theme, the unique type of closed and geometric construction that forms strict objects
With its 130 million inhabitants, Mexico is the tenth most populated nation in the world, and among Spanish-speaking countries the one with most demographic weight. Add to this its strategic position, its important economy, and its powerful culture,
The most unique characteristic of this residential complex comprising twelve social housing units in La Alberca de la Záncara (Cuenca) is its low-cost – but very efficient – building system. These dwellings combine concrete blocks forming three-meter
