On a farm in Zafra de Záncara, a municipality of fewer than a hundred inhabitants in Cuenca province, this new-build rises on a plot that is completely flat but for a slight slope toward the southeast, which the design of the building takes advantage
The starting point of the refurbishment project was to remove the elements added in previous interventions that distorted the original character of the house, in order to improve and update the existing spaces according to current demands. The new el
A small space for prayer rises amid hundred-year-old oak trees and becomes a visual reference in the expansive Manchegan landscape where a large rural estate is located. Situated not far from the new residence of its owners, the chapel is the result
A network of reactivated spaces is proposed to improve the urban experience in the historic center of Cuenca, UNESCO World Heritage. The initial phase proposes six ‘high priority’ spaces, chosen as the first activators of the revitalization plan... [
The Historic Center of Cuenca, capital of the Ecuadorian province of Azuay, is steep in a process of urban transformation due to the implementation of a new mobility model, a plan which is part of the CES program of Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
The castle of Garcimuñoz is located in the municipality of the same name, southwest of the province of Cuenca – some 70 kilometers from the capital, at kilometer 156 of the A-3 highway. It goes up on the southern side of a hill, which is not too tall
Three years after its foundation, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture moves its location from the semi-industrial neighborhood in the north of Moscow to one of the city’s best known public spaces, Gorky Park; from the former bus garage designe
Like many of Spain’s small museums, especially the modern art ones, Cuenca’s was a private initiative. In 1961, the Spanish-Filipino painter Fernando Zóbel started looking for the ideal location for a museum of Spanish abstract art, but it was in 196
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
An important problem in low-cost housing projects developed in rural environments is how these blend with their surroundings, and in this sense the construction system plays a crucial role. In the case of modestly sized dwellings, choosing load-beari
The exhibition ‘Photomontage Between the Wars (1918-1939)’ takes stock of the first moments of this photographic technique, defined by the constructivist Gustavs Klucis as ‘the artistic development of one or more photographs into a single graphical i
El Pabellón de Cristal para el recinto ferial de Cuenca, de Belén Moneo y Jeff Brock, se genera a partir de un módulo arbóreo, una copa pentagonal de vidrio sostenida por un fuste de cuatro brazos de acero que da lugar a una malla irregular. Con suel
