Located on the border of the Madrid region, Valdemaqueda is immersed amid pine groves on a hillside facing south. The road crosses the municipality of dispersed houses, and on the town square – formerly just a widened stretch of the road – stands Tow
La implantación del proyecto en la parcela se resuelve con un bloque de mayor altura situado en el lado norte del solar y dos alas laterales de tres alturas paralelas entre sí. En el interior, un jardín permite el acceso a las viviendas mediante un j
Se diseña una pieza que integre un buen funcionamiento bioclimático con un proceso constructivo industrializado, en el que se dejen vistos los materiales y sistemas utilizados. El edificio se divide en dos partes: un atrio climatizado con techo trasl
This building goes up in an area of intense urban growth in the eastern part of Madrid, its volumes adapting to the configuration of the sloping site. The orientations and the unevenness of the western end of the plot recommended placing the landscap
En un polígono industrial ubicado a trece kilómetros de Zaragoza y próximo al río Gállego, se sitúa la nueva sede del centenario Heraldo de Aragón. El conjunto, que incluye la redacción, los talleres, la rotativa y el centro de distribución, se gener
In the southern extension of Carabanchel, an area close to the M-40 beltway where the streets, not yet consolidated, are still identified with numbers, this housing block evokes the movement of a train – as well as its condition of being simple in it
The Archbishop Alfonso de Fonseca ordered the construction in 1525 of a hall of residence to accommodate the noble Irishmen that went to Salamanca to study. The building, at scarcely four hundred meters from the main square, was extended in 1558 with
With a layout that, imposed by current regulations, does not adapt to the plot’s slope – which reaches an unevenness at some points of even 8 meters – this U-shaped block contains state-subsidized apartments for the rehousing of people without means.
The presence of the great transport infrastructures on the limits of the city defines a whole new system of coordinates that calls to reconsider the established premises when building on the periphery. This block of social housing units next to
With Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum as landmark, Bilbao has launched an ambitious urban renovation plan that has also resourced to well-known names to design its most significant infrastructures. The extension of Sondica Airport is part of this gro
Concebida como institución académica y de investigación, esta biblioteca ocupa un emplazamiento al mismo tiempo privilegiado y comprometido: en el casco histórico y cerrando los jardines de la plaza de la Merced, el edificio se inserta como un volume
The speculative pressure on Madrid now hovers as well over peripheral localities like Coslada, which have begun to exchange the small rural house for apartment blocks. The residents association building, up to now accommodated in a single floor level
Resembling the growth rings of a tree, Madrid’s circular roads register the way the capital has expanded in the past decades, and with this, the evolution of residential architecture. If the M-30 highway was where the first municipal administrations
In recent years Madrid has undergone notable growth along its entire eastern front. Perhaps affected by this, San Fernando de Henares is experiencing an unprecedented impulse in terms of municipal activity. As a symbol of such takeoff, the authoritie
Popular references are woven with others originating from classic funerary architecture in the extension of this necropolis in a small agricultural town of the Castilian plateau. An ordinary plaster wall surrounds the new graves, the order of which,
Seated on the stepped base of a parking lot, this impressive, black parallelepiped of 140 by 60meters houses a bank computing center. The structural grid of the building applies also to the facade composition, the edges being cladded with singed Afri
This housing project won first prize in a competition of design and building teams, in which constructive innovation was an essential premise. The apartment blocks, each with five levels, house four units per floor in a linear scheme, with the majori
This project won first prize in an ideas competition that the University of León held in September 1996 to obtain an architect for its Research and Environment Institute. The brief called for economy, optimization of resources, functionality and low
On the banks of the Douro, where it passes through Zamora enroute to Portugal, stood the Convent of San Francisco, a Gothic construction of which much still remains. This ecclesiastical premise is now a center for cultural exchange, thanks to a proje
El solar de la intervención—un rectángulo de 126 x 66 metros, cuyo eje transversal esta orientado en dirección norte-sur—se encuentra en la zona sur de la ampliación de la Universidad de Alicante. En él se ha edificado un gran paralelepípedo chapado
These houses are part of a low-density residential strip along Madrid’s northwestern edge. In an area already defined by row constructions, the parcel is organized in bands that join two parallel streets. Besides the usual housing program, the brief
In the Ciudad Lineal area, the owners of a corner lot occupied by a large house of the 1920s decided to raise a new building on the property. After determining the part of the unbuilt land that was to continue to serve the old house, designs were mad
These social housing apartments are situated in the southwest of Fuenlabrada, in the Ciudad Loranca development, specifically on parcel 47-B, which is rectangular and borders to the north with parcel 47-A, to the east with Street 4, to the south with
The winner of a competition that was organized by the Municipal Housing Corporation, this project inserts itself in an area defined by low-rise perimetral city blocks. Two parallel buildings unite the facade alignments of Emilio Ortuño and Monte Urgu
While I am aware that architectural education may need restructuring in order to bring it into line with the societal needs of the next century, I feel that in the case of the ETSAM a certain discretion is in order. The record of the Madrid school ha
Madrid today is Europe’s third city, after London and Paris; and the second in terms of building initiative, tailing Berlin but ahead of London. No city on the continent can currently compete with Germany’s capital, but many will be surprised to lear
