The Vigo practice of Jordi Castro and María G. Ferro was commissioned for this dwelling with views over the estuary of Pontevedra, in the Galician municipality of Bueu. The site was chosen by the client, who wanted a place in which to retire, a house
At a distance of 33 kilometers from A Coruña and 45 from Santiago, the parish of Bértoa is adjacent to the town of Carballo, the municipality to which it belongs, and is the main area towards which it expands. North of Bértoa is the large industrial
A work of the Galician architect Rodrigo Currás Torres (Moaña, 1980), this house is located in Guisande, a village under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Brión, in A Coruña province. It is organized by means of spatial cells juxtaposed with a
The Galician architect María Fandino’s intervention at the Explanada del Horizonte of Portocelo reconditioned a degraded zone of El Rosal, a municipality in the province of Pontevedra. Between the sierra of Groba and the Atlantic Ocean, this part o
The brief of the competition called in January 2018 defined the masterplan for the sports city of the Real Club Celta de Vigo. The complex had to harbor both an undefined and open program – with the ambition of gathering all the elements that shape o
Based in Madrid and (Safat) Kuwait, the firm headed by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea and Nasser B. Abulhasan AGi Architects won a public competition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda to find designers for projects
The main campus of Vigo University is 10 km from the urban center, and with the purpose of expanding its activity, the institution decided to refurbish three buildings in the city. A wood volume rests on the stone supports, which are the only existin
The client asked for a unique hotel project in Albeida, on a beautiful location at the source of the Muros i Noia estuary, in the parish of San Cosme de Outeiro, which is part of Outes, a municipality of A Coruña province. The project adds nine woode
In the parish church of Campañó, on the outskirts of Pontevedra, the project set out to improve the existing football field – made of rammed earth and with dressing rooms in urgent need of repair – with a new layer of artificial turf and adding new
Located some ten kilometers east of A Coruña, Oleiros has grown significantly over the last twenty years, and what was once a rural municipality has become a residential one where many of the families with the highest incomes in the area live, so it
The renovation of this dwelling in Miraflores, a small locality in Muros (A Coruña), was first and foremost based on utmost respect for the place. This necessitated paying close attention to realities like the scale of the house’s surroundings, to pr
Located some 36 kilometers from the capital of the province, and 22 kilometers from Santiago de Compostela, the municipality of A Estrada is surrounded by the green landscape of the Ulla, Vea, and Tabeirós river valleys. With a population of almost 2
The Fundación Laboral de la Construcción found the most convenient site for the Centro de Referencia Nacional en Materia de Rehabilitación (public research and innovation center in the field of refurbishment) in the old 18th century tannery of Pontep
The castle of Santa Cruz is a modest building which is part of a series of small forts, watchtowers, and fachos that were erected in the 17th and 18th centuries along the banks of the river Miño as border strongholds. Santa Cruz does not stand out in
The intervention is carried out over some ruins located in a degraded area of Santiago de Compostela, which is restored through a network of orchards and resting spots.
The Rubido Romero Foundation is harbored in an old construction of rural Galicia that was given a surgical job; walls were reinforced, beams were placed, and the interior space was painted white.
Appropriating one of the pavilions of the Cidade da Cultura, the café and store program unfolds in an open space where the only built elements are a continuous bar counter and some pieces of wooden furniture.
The idea of this preschool was to evoke a forest. In a newly developed part of Orense’s university campus, the building for use and accessibility reasons is one-story, and it is built with the structural economy of vernacular architecture. Four scree
Colonizing the granite walls of an old Galician farm construction with several new structures of light build, the dwelling echoes the spirit of the place.
The new canoeing center goes up in an área of extraordinary topographical conditions and landscape features, by the Portillón de Castro reservoir, in the town of Verducido, located just some kilometers from the city of Pontevedra. This facility, for
