In the wake of research conducted in collaboration with Catalonia’s health system, the Barcelona firm PMMT was commissioned to design a prototype to be built close to hospitals as reinforcement for the regional medical network, in response to the pan
Envisaged as an architectural prototype based on the equalization of the Form/Matter/Flow relationship, the PLANTA project is organized in thermodynamic key to achieve a triple program: museum, thermal machine, and observatory, simultaneously display
The project 110 Habitaciones (110 Rooms) on Calle Provença in Barcelona, stems from the radicalization of the most valuable elements of the traditional domestic types of the Eixample. The floor plans are configured following the distribution of equiv
The flow of stairs and stacked rooms shows on the outside as a series of elongated openings that have the effect of reinforcing the vertical character of the preexisting domestic tower.
The competition brief that set the guidelines for this project called for a generic container whose interiors would remain throughout the year at temperatures between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius. The proposal involved modifying the initial planning, ma
Located by the River Segre, Balaguer is the capital of La Noguera – the largest county in the province of Lleida, and one of the most heterogeneous due to its different types of landscape –, and also of one of the seven judicial districts of Lleida.
Santa María de Vilanova de la Barca is a Gothic church of the 13th century that was partially destroyed in 1936 during Civil War bombings. Since then the building has remained in a state of neglect and only the east facade, some fragments of the aisl
Located in the northeast corner of the Campus de Cappont, in a vast depression of the Segre River farmlands, the Faculty of Education Sciences of Lleida University delimits a public square with a measured scale overlooking the rolling prairie that ta
Located on an old barracks for infantry units in the Eastern Spanish city of Lérida, this new audiovisual production center gives new use to buildings which in the past surrounded a military parade ground, but addresses the more technological parts o
This building of 44 rental social housing units is located in Pardinyes, a neighborhood in the old part of Lérida, an area whose rural character began to disappear midway through the past century, becoming markedly residential in the 1990s. The plot
Evocando la trama de un laberinto, este proyecto acondiciona un nuevo espacio urbano mediante la creación de una rotonda verde y una plaza de geometrías lúdicas.
At the edge of the city, on the shores of the Segre River and close to the AVE station, the La Llotja Theater and Congress Center has as its backdrop the Seu Vella, the historical cathedral of Lérida, located at a hilltop. The project, which won the
Tres antiguos cuarteles, unidos por un atrio común acristalado cubierto con una solución traída de los campos de cultivo, se transforman en un campus para agroempresas.
Francine Houben directs the architecture office Mecanoo since 1984. With noteworthy projects like the library of TU Delft (completed in 1997), after a competition held in 2005 the studio was commissioned to build the La Llotja de Lleida Congress Cent
On the limit of the built fabric, overlooking the city that is yet to come, the health center for a new neighborhood in Lérida must assert its identity as public equipment. On a plot that forms part of a closed block and with two large brick walls on
El lugar donde se ubica el instituto de Mollerusa es una zona agrícola plantada de árboles frutales, en la que abundan los cobertizos a dos aguas. La idea de repetición tan presente en las plantaciones y la geometría de estas pequeñas construcciones
Situated in the vicinity of the Nova cathedral, the stairway of Sanct Llorenç is a narrow passage that follows the tight and crowded character of the Moorish scheme of Lérida’s urban center. As part of a municipal effort to revitalize the city’s hist
This new center for secondary education is situated at the edge of town, on land terraced in three levels that already featured a number of school constructions beforehand. The brief for this public high school basically stipulated a classroom block,
Drawing inspiration from the industrial environment of Sorigué’s gravel pit in Lleida, the location of the firm’s PLANTA project, the installation In the Beginning was… is an installation created expressly for the place by the Japanese artist Chiharu
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
Dedicada al desarrollo de actividades sociales, educativas y culturales, la Fundación Sorigué, promovida por el empresario Julio Sorigué, reúne desde 1999 una colección de 450 piezas de arte contemporáneo, entre las que destacan obras de Bill Viola,
En el concurso celebrado en 2005 para construir en Lérida un Palacio de Congresos resultó ganador Mecanoo; la Llotja recientemente inaugurada muestra su deuda con la modernidad holandesa de los años sesenta.
Junto al río Segre y próximo a la estación del AVE, se levanta el Teatro Municipal y Centro de Negocios y Convenciones La Llotja. Obra del estudio holandés Mecanoo —dirigido por Francine Houben— en colaboración con los barceloneses Labb Arquitectura,
