The result of a 2017 competition, the project for the Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR) aimed to reorganize the campus of Barcelona’s university hospital through the topographic insertion of a new building into the urban fabric, in a way that
This prefabricated house presents a balloon-frame structure of eight modules, each measuring approximately 3x3x3 meters, and are clad in panels of texturized wood. It rises on pillars reinforced with sprayed concrete, joined by mechanical fixing elem
From tapestry to wall. In essence, this was the Copernican turn Semper took with his principle of cladding, whereby structure gave up its protagonism in architecture in favor of Bekleidung: though humans learned to use durable materials, he held that
Wrapped in ceramic brick slats and lattices adapted to the different requirements inside, this day center belongs to a network of municipal health facilities that provide long-term treatments, sparing locals the need to commute to the capital. Organi
Located at Carrer de Pallars 180, in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood, the project sought to give the block a sense of continuity and engage with preexisting elements. A work of BAAS, a Catalan firm led by Jordi Badía, the office building presents a
The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and the Italian company WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), which specializes in 3D printers, present TOVA, a prototype built with earth and a Crane WASP over a period of seven weeks on t
The project is based on a reflection on the excessive technification and dehumanization of health centers and, as a consequence, the desire to qualify the interior space, endowing it with adequate architectural conditions based on the section, natura
The project undertakes the recovery and conversion of an industrial building from 1920 into a museum, highlighting its special configuration in three sheds and its interior textures, and adding layers that adapt it to a new use. The warehouse was goi
With a major show full of shocking images, Barcelona‘s CCCB addressed architecture‘s all too often silenced relationship with eroticism and sex.
Sir Norman Foster siempre ha negado que la construcción de su obra arquitectónica pueda calificarse de ‘alta tecnología’. Piloto aéreo, considera que la técnica con la que construye no puede considerarse excepcional en el mundo contemporáneo. Es posi
