Soaring prices determined the choice of the usual concrete structure, the basic unidirectional scheme of which proved ideal for establishing an efficient arrangement of twelve living units and shared facilities and amenities provided on the ground fl
A large foyer gives access to the dwellings and a multipurpose hall that doubles as a dining room and, at the request of the residents, can be used separately to connect with the area’s fabric of community associations. Harnessed for acoustic filteri
This intervention in the old quarter of Onda, a city in the Plana Baixa comarca of the Valencia region, seeks to showcase a series of archaeological finds, the oldest so far found that date back to Moorish times, and also to connect the different lev
Close to Colegio Santiago Apóstol, a school in Valencia’s Cabanyal neighborhood, is a piece of land previously used as makeshift parking lot. The school did not have an outdoor space of its own in which to hold open-air activities. So the City Hall o
The project is located in Overa, in the north of Almería, in a rural environment with strong roots in agriculture. Over the years, the urban fabric of the town has blurred the agricultural footprint of the territory. Despite this, ancient eras can st
Valencia-based Piano Piano Studio, headed by Maria Donnini and Maria Grifo, was commissioned to insert a dwelling between party walls on an elongated rectangular corner plot in Foios, a municipality in the comarca of La Huerta Norte. The site conditi
The Valencia-based firm Trazia, headed by Carlos Pardo and Lucía Hernández, has renovated Casa Ayora – on Calle Mayor in Almussafes, a municipality in the comarca Ribera Baja – for museum use. Set between party walls, the building was a Dominican c
Shortlisted in the international section of the 2020 FAD Awards, the project submitted by Albert Faus Madrid (Barcelona, 1972) involves reorganizing the Bangre Veenem educational complex, with its existing primary school serving the village of Youlou
The local firm headed by Pablo Muñoz Payá renovated this single-family home in Petrer, a municipality located in the interior of Alicante province. The regulations did not allow enlarging the existing surface area of the one-level house – 138 square
Considered one of the maximum exponents of Valencian Renaissance nobility architecture, the palace-castle of Betxi has since 1997 been listed as a site of cultural interest in Spain’s heritage register, which ensures it a very high level of official
The urban canopy that protects the whole plaza is built with two triangular timber porticoes from which hangs a huge Alicantina-type rolling shutter in a dark green tone which pays tribute to this symbol of Mediterranean culture.
Winners were announced for the 5th European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention, a biennial competition organized by COAC (Catalonia Institute of Architects) and AADIPA (Association of Architects for Defense and Intervention in Architectura
