Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   In addition to serving lunch menus at tables, an establishment located on the town square provides a home-delivery service to facilitate the everyday life of elderly residents. The quintessential space for socializing in small municipalities, the bar

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   The void between two houses on one same block of the urban core is filled by a roof that connects a succession of domestic spaces – some protected overhead, others exposed to the open air. The dynamics of the thresholds under the roof create a dialo

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   Up in the Torozos Mountains, in the comarca of Tierra de Campos, the small municipality of Valverde de Campos in Valladolid province has a population of slightly over a hundred. The surpluses produced by wind farms were invested in this building with

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   On Calle Mieses in Valladolid, the Neurocare Home Mieses complex proposes a model for old-age care in the post-Covid 19 era, one which deviates from the idea of floors with a central corridor opening to rooms on the right and left. Instead each floor

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   The refurbished theater will be transformed into ‘three buildings in one,’ functioning independently or simultaneously. The obsolete spaces are recovered through strategies that pursue sustainability, social inclusion, and adaptability. The proposal

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   In the comarca of Montes Torozos, amid wheat fields and by the river Bajoz, Castomonte in the province of Valladolid features a stretch of the Camino de Santiago pilgrim route that comes from Madrid, and has a census count of 309. Using its wind-powe

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   On Calle Aluminio of the San Cristóbal industrial park in Valladolid are new facilities of the company Cortes Metalúrgicos Oviedo, designed by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez (Valladolid, 1972). The 7,500-square-meter project was conceived from the section

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   The conventional concept of home for the elderly is replaced here by that of a village protected from the harsh landscape of Castile by a wall of concrete blocks.

Although the emptying of the countryside is now a matter of importance on a state level, it is still those close to rural environments who are most active in ensuring that the wrongly understood idea of progress responsible for vacating that world do

Much as it is the locus of our best literature, Spain’s countryside was a matter of concern only for those living there, practically until Sergio del Molino gave a name to its depopulation. Now that the emptying of towns is an issue of importance on

In his sarcastic evocation of Spain, Mario Praz described it as an anti-romantic “pentagonal peninsula,” in a geometrical metaphor that could be completed in this way: “Pentagonal peninsula whose center and sides are full, but which is otherwise bare

Paz Martín   From adapted homes to collective residences through senior or assisted housing, there are many living models that give a dignified response to the special needs of people in the twilight of life.

Óscar Miguel Ares   Daniel Fernández-Carracedo   Under the umbrella of Swedish social democracy, the British Ralph Erskine was a pioneer in environmental design and participatory processes.

Óscar Miguel Ares   Marked by his exile in Argentina, where he brought the Modern Movement, Bonet produced a complex and eclectic oeuvre that embraced industrial design, architecture and urban planning.

Óscar Miguel Ares   Tránsitos de la forma en la arquitectura española. 1930-1936