Madrid, Spain
The operations center of a manufacturer of medical products tries to combine efficient industrial formulas with a corporate image grounded on volumetric and material refinement. Laboratories and loading docks are closed with a mini-wave corrugated sh
The base is designed with prefabricated modules which transport the rest of the material, and which are assembled with three cranes that become part of the pavilion. A large fabric is stretched out over the more than thirty inflatable spheres that fo
A work of the Madrid practice led by Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol, FRPO, this thermal power plant supplies hot water to thousands of homes in the city of Palencia. It uses no fossil fuels, only locally-sourced forest biomass, as its main raw ma
The Italian-Spanish team formed by FRPO Rodríguez y Oriol Arquitectos (Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez), Walk Architecture & Landscape (Juan Tur Mc Glone), and SD Partners (Massimo, Giuliani, Alessandro Viganò, Beatrice Meroni) placed first in the Ma
Right in the heart of the city, a building conceived as an infrastructure concentrating a number of different uses seeks to create a hub of activity on a local and a metropolitan level alike. Public programs are accommodated within a grid of screen s
At Sebastián Elcano 14 in Madrid’s Arganzuela district stands this residential block built by the practice of Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol. Encompassing a total area of 2,630 square meters, the design adjusts to building codes by limiting the c
A total of 13,792 m³ of air is enclosed in nine cylinders of recycled ETFE of 730 cm in diameter, supported by a light steel structure. The two front inflatables have the capacity to move to adapt to changing light, climate, and program conditions...
Fragmented into small pavilions whose outlines adapt to the trees of a dense pine forest, the house was built using an industrialized system of counter-laminated wood.
Three pavilions are grouped inside a single volume with a permeable envelope, generating a series of exterior spaces in between the different volumes that form a stage towards the square, enriching it with the activity that takes place there...
El edificio se sitúa en el extremo oeste del Campus junto al intercambiador de transportes y la plaza principal de entrada. El volumen cilíndrico capaz se ha explotado en catorce piezas de distinto tamaño y sección, cuyo apilamiento forma un conjunto
A Technical Aesthetic. Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol share an infrastructural way of tackling projects, not so much in relation to mechanistic logic as in terms of an organizational capacity to take on complex contexts and programs. With a diffe
Ever since they crossed paths as students, Fernando Rodríguez (Albacete, 1977) and Pablo Oriol (Madrid, 1977) have shared an infrastructural way of tackling projects, not so much in relation to mechanical logic as in terms of an organizational capaci
The relations of Spanish architects with Latin America is measured by two other relationships of greater scope: one is cultural in the broad sense of the word, having to do with the intricate web of comings and goings that have stitched our country w