The starting design decision was to separate the spaces for the performing arts – with specific dimensional, acoustic, and formal requirements – from other more generic spaces common to other schools.
Resulting from a two-phase competition, the commission calls for the reconstruction of the school in multiple phases and on the same plot occupied by the old and now obsolete building, dating from the 1950s.
On a narrow and elongated plot, this complex includes apartments but also adds the necessary facilities to provide neighbors with the basic services that this spa from the 1950s lacked.
This residential building, located in Chacarilla del Estanque, a well-off neighborhood of the Peruvian capital, contains nine dwellings of different sizes and layout to promote social and family diversity.
In response to the complex regulations of the Barranco district in Lima, the apartments are recessed with regards to the facade wall to create a transition space between the public thoroughfare and the interiors.
Despite being based on one same module of 6x6x5.40 meters, each one of the five volumes holds a specific use and offers a unique atmosphere in which to experience the act of eating at a restaurant.
Located in the Miraflores district of the Peruvian capital, this building of brutalist aesthetics contains seventeen residences opening out to three distinct urban contexts.
The unique condition of Lima, its relationship to the Pacific Ocean, with 40m-high cliffs defining the boundary between the city and the sea, was a starting point in the conception of this project. The infrastructure for learning is imagined as a ‘ne
Inserted into a cliff in Lima and echoing the surroundings through its materials, the memorial seeks to foster reconcitiation among Peruvians in the wake of decades of violence.
Thirteen projects obtained honorable mentions in a competition called to extend the museum, propose a landscape design for the park, and set up an underground link with the future metro station, renewing in this way the urban connections. The progra
The extension is designed as a continuation of the park and as a topographic intervention that functions as a podium for the original building. Above ground, three circular plazas outline three public spaces that citizens can make their own... [+]
The new volume goes up in a public plaza presided by a sculptural element shaped like a barrel vault that marks the entrance to the complex, defining an urban space that frames the original museum, which in this way recovers a prominent role in the c
Echoing Limas traditional courtyards, the museum features an open-air space that wraps up the park and makes it possible to regulate the flow of visitors by leading them to the new entrances.
One way to deal with the crisis has been through a change of scale. This, not necessarily through a shift to the world of the small. In fact it has sometimes been in the world of the large, even very large, that an alternative field has been found. A
The Irish firm of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, operating since 1978 as Grafton Architects, has been much acclaimed for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, a half-buried civic box of concrete – completed in the year 2008 – that strikes an i
Con motivo de la celebración de la IV edición de la Bienal Iberoamericana que ha tenido lugar recientemente en Lima, se ha presentado la segunda muestra de ‘Panorama Emergente’, una selección de trabajos de jóvenes arquitectos de España, Portugal y L
