In dialogue with the classic architecture of the Eixample, this thorough revamp turns a 1960s office block into an apartment building. Solar protection and cross ventilation are worked out through a composition of solids and voids. The building’s cen
The new circular skylight is a unique addition that transforms an old and dark space into an atmosphere filled with natural light. Concentrating the program at the corners generates an open-plan space of squared proportions and symmetrical in section
In Pórtol, a rural town under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Marrachi, on the island of Majorca, stands this residence for elderly people. A compact building with a rectangular floorplan is organized around four garden courtyards that ensure
With room for 55 children between 0 and 3 years of age, this early-education center in Llubí, a town in the comarca of Llano de Mallorca, becomes after school hours a multipurpose space for the community at large to use, thanks to mobile panels that
The renovation of a house built in the 1980s is reduced to isolated interventions that play with surfaces and textures to give the place personality without sapping its essence. Maintaining the original layout as it is, the revamp makes use of contra
The voracious appetite for real estate has stamped out traditional sceneries to make room for anonymous territories of the kind where many of our cities grow. The phenomenon is ubiquitous but all the more visible in ‘suburban’ zones, those terrains v
The project proves the feasibility of using compression structures in housing projects to activate thermal inertia as much as possible and ensure passive cooling in summer, with a heavy enclosure with low carbon footprint…
This building containing five apartments and two commercial units stands at an irregularly shaped corner lot in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood, discreetly complementing a block of the Eixample. Inducing natural lighting and ventilation, the cylind
The house for a trap music singer is a concatenation of sets that amount to a spatial translation of this subgenre of hip hop, and reflects the eclectic personality of its occupant...
A reduced budget warranted rethinking the residence as a succession of concentric spaces that harness passive strategies to bring consumption of energy down to a minimum. Instead of the usual arrangement of rooms and hallways, the layout follows a th
If the French Impressionists immortalized refined petite bourgeoisie luncheons on the grass, many Spaniards followed suit with a more folksy flavor. The Catalan artists Ramón Casas and Santiago Rusiñol painted merry get-togethers with food and frolic
The project consists of 85 social housingunits on a plot previously occupied by the emblematic Cinema Pisa in the city of Cornellà de Llobregat. It is a five-story freestanding building with a wood structure, resting on a ground level with a concrete
Eva, carlos, two Belgian Malinois – Bicho and Bomba –, Harris the owl, five swift families, six kestrel families, and twenty sparrows, are all companion species. They live and learn together in this building, 30 kilometers west of Madrid. Sitting in
Standing on a small rocky hillock that offers panoramic views of the valley, the mountains, and the town of Artá, this second residence becomes a privileged observatory of sunrises, sunsets, and storms. The project consists of adapting the traditiona
The project is based on the need to respond both to the lack of use and internal functioning of the original building that became obsolete due to the unplanned arrival of new technologies, and to problems of security and sustainability. The task has
Named ‘Salida,’ the pavilion for the VIP room of the latest ARCO fair of contemporary art, held in the IFEMA Madrid grounds, arises in the midst of the current health crisis. A fruit of collaboration between Javier Jiménez Iniesta (Studio Animal), To
The Barcelona firm Estudio CO-A, founded by Clara Ocaña, has renovated this 1930s dwelling of long corridors, typical in the elongated morphology of the standard floor plan of apartments in the Eixample, where the buildings is located. The client req
In a part of the city that creates a transition between the built-up fabric and the open urban expansion area characterized by the imposing presence of public facilites, the project proposes 35 apartments with a design based on principles of program
At Alí Bei 100-102 stands a building containing 49 apartments for senior citizens and 10 temporary accommodations for people in danger of social exclusion. Promoted by the Barcelona City Hall’s Institut de l’Habitage i Rehabilitació (IMHAB), it occup
The design of this tent-like shop combines emphatic geometries in bright colors with a humorous language, a strategy that is also used in the rest of their collaborations, and that aims to create an aesthetic image distinctive of the brand.
A former banking office in the Swedish capital – an anonymous institutional building located in the city center – became world-famous in 1973 thanks to an armed heist and hostage crisis that triggered in the victims a psychological reaction later cal
Given the huge volume of the functional program – three sports tracks – in regards to the reduced dimension of the plot and the high urban density in the area, an important part of the sports complex is partially buried. By working on the section of
Confronted with the problem of the progressive depopulation of Spain’s countryside, the renovation and enlargement of an early-20th-century casa de roter – a traditional peasant house that incorporates farming activities – showcases the opportunities
The town of Vilajuïga is in a privileged location, between Serra de Verdera and Cap de Creus natural park, and is well connected to the rest of the region. With a population slightly over 1,000 inhabitants, Vilajuïga has a long food and wine traditio
¡¡ Collective housing is the essence of urban culture in our country and many others. However, the trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic has made us realize that in the 200-year history of those buildings we call ‘collective,’ managed by homeowner associat
What does it mean to gather together a decade or so of work signed “estudioHerreros” into a monograph? What is it to compact such a diversity of programs, scales, sites, and cultures into a relatively slim volume? The flexible but resilient plastic-c
A sensitive interpretation of the genius loci: this is how one could describe the social housing developent that the studio Oliver, Reina, Martín, Moyà & Garcías has executed in Son Gotleu, one of the poorest, most vulnnerable among the neighborhoods
As the Munch Museum in Olso nears completion, Madrid-based Estudio Herreros – in collaboration with the Norwegian firm MIM-A – has finished a residential block in Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona). Offering a mixture of free-market and price-regulate
Construir sobre lo construido es un problema moderno. Antes de que existiera la perspectiva histórica, los restos del pasado —incluso los más prestigiosos de la Antigüedad clásica— eran tratados como materia muerta que, una vez descompuesta merced al
The jury of the 60th FAD awards, chaired by the architect Anna Bach, has announced the results of its assessment of the 484 works presented. The winner in the Architecture section is the project Life Reusing Posidonia, submitted by Carles Oliver, Ant
The citizen of the 21st century demands to live in an ever more ecological and sustainable environment, where transportation is provided with vehicles that pollute less, where the air that one breathes is cleaner, where large parks and gardens abound
Ever since human beings began to handle metals around 6,000 B.C., the development of metallurgy has been associated with humanity’s revolutions – not only the technological, but also the economic, social, and cultural ones.
La ampliación de una vieja y pesada estructura muraria con un porche nuevo y ligero emplazado donde una vez hubo un cobertizo para el ganado, ha sido la clave del proyecto de rehabilitación de una masía situada en la localidad gerundense de Santa Pau
En el barrio de Pardinyes, situado en una zona de Lérida con un pasado rural cercano, el estudio barcelonés de Jaime Coll y Judith Leclerc ha levantado un edificio de 44 viviendas sociales en régimen de alquiler (ver AV Monografías 147-148). Debido a
El proyecto de rehabilitación de una vivienda en el centro histórico de Gerona —diseñado por Ramón Bosch y Elisabet Capdeferro— ha merecido la Mención Especial Arquitecto Emergente en la última edición de los premios Mies van der Rohe. Concebido por
Después de un proceso largo y complejo que ha durado diez años desde la celebración del concurso, el estudio barcelonés dirigido por Charmaine Lay y Carles Muro ha finalizado la construcción del nuevo mercado municipal cubierto de la localidad mallor
El edificio modernista terminado en 1885 por Lluís Doménech Montaner para la editorial Montaner en el Ensanche de Barcelona renació en 1990 como Fundación Tàpies, rehabilitado por Roser Amadó y Lluís Doménech Girbau. Recientemente ha iniciado su terc
Finalizada la Expo 2008 de Zaragoza, algunos pabellones buscan nuevos usos mientras otros, como la instalación que proporcionaba climatización centralizada a todo el conjunto, los mantienen. Se trata de la central de trigeneración —frío, calor y elec
