Enric Ruiz-Geli Cloud 9   Spain   Designed by Santiago Calatrava, L’Àgora reopens in Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences as the ninth CaixaForum in Spain, after an intervention carried out by the Catalan architect Enric Ruiz-Geli (Cloud 9). The ‘living cells’ that give the construct

Cloud 9 Enric Ruiz-Geli   Spain   This experimental house in Aiguablava (Girona) has two principal characteristic features: the sustainable way it engages with its surroundings and the manner in which it is built. The first results from adapting to the topography, respecting the prop

Cloud 9 Enric Ruiz-Geli   United States   In the project for the New York Aquarium, located on Coney Island, the envelope evokes fish scales thanks to a luminous and interactive network configured with thousands of solar responsive LED lights, whose color changes depending on the time of the

Cloud 9 Enric Ruiz-Geli   Spain   Born in Figueras in 1968, Enric Ruiz Geli graduated at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, also the city where he established his studio, Cloud 9. Ruiz Geli is currently involved in the construction of Villa Nurbs, a single-family house located

Cloud 9   Spain   Una densa red compuesta por 5.000 ‘hojas’ electrónicas (célula fotovoltaica, batería, CPU y LEDs) que se iluminan de un color u otro al anochecer en función de la intensidad lumínica registrada por el día, sirve como adorno y reclamo a un hotel que s

Cloud 9   Spain   Despertando la curiosidad y el asombro de sus vecinos, la villa Bio se emplaza en una urbanización de viviendas convencionales en la localidad gerundense de Llers, en las inmediaciones de Figueras. Su forma fluida cubierta por una fina capa de tierra

Cloud 9 Enric Ruiz-Geli   Spain   With 35 kilometers of canals Empuriabrava is the largest residential marina in Europe. Born around 25 years ago, the area was especially attractive because it was possible to dock the boat in front of the house and park the car on the opposite facade

Enric Ruiz-Geli Cloud 9   Spain   Un árbol hidropónico, de tronco y ramas metálicas y 25 metros de altura, constituye la estructura central de este volumen fusiforme; bajo su cubierta de malla metálica se despliega una escenografía que incluye una zona de marjales, un río paseable o

In spite of the exceptional reception the public has always given him, Santiago Calatrava’s L’Àgora is regarded with suspicion by critics. Not only because of the visual populism the construction flaunts, but also, and above all, because this skeleto

Caixaforum Valencia

There is a project that La Caixa Banking Foundation has unveiled for a Caixaforum space in the city of Valencia, occupying the so far vacant Agora in the City of Arts and Sciences. The project drawn up by the Catalan architect Enric Ruiz-Geli transfo

Eduardo Prieto   La energía y la información son los extremos que tensionan la arquitectura festiva y, en ocasiones, excesiva de Enric Ruiz-Geli. Tal polaridad se manifiesta de manera ejemplar en el edificio Media-TIC, que acaba de construirse en el distrito 22@ de B