The old building of the Mariñamasa School Home – a student residence in Ourense, built in 1970 by the architects Emma Ojea and Walter Lewin – was turned into a center for research and innovation in vocational training. After an analysis of the abando
The idea of this preschool was to evoke a forest. In a newly developed part of Orense’s university campus, the building for use and accessibility reasons is one-story, and it is built with the structural economy of vernacular architecture. Four scree
Besides the station and the urban connection, the proposal includes a 28m-wide landscaped boulevard. The complex creates a solid connection with accesses through both north and south…
The building emerges as a hybrid of bridge and tunnel, with a budget strategy that is based on covering the minimum, linking the two adjoining neighborhoods via footbridges. The geometry of the station building is created as a series of vaulted arcad
The station is proposed as an urban bridge, linking two areas of the city that were poorly connected. The departure lounge is located over the tracks and the access is kept in the lower level…
The covering of the tracks is conceived as a park that unifies two urban areas. The oval geometry of the openings that allow the illumination of the platform is kept throughout the park. The project proposes dividing the extension of the Xesús Pousa
A large catenary concrete surface defines the central space of the high speed train station. This structure extends descending in the north-south axis, covering the bus docks…
The form of the station stems from the analysis of the urban fabric of the surrounding neighborhoods in continuity with the existing streets, providing accessibility in all directions. A bold conceptual gesture solves both the topographical problem a
The winning project proposes a topographic union between the neighborhoods of A Ponte and Vinteun through a public space of 20,000 m2, which adapts to the difference in height with a slope. A sequence of arched canopies covers the intermodal station
The plot chosen for the construction of the covered swimming pool is located at the highest point of the university campus of Orense. The different centers that altogether make up the University of Vigo are located in three Galician cities: Vigo, whe
The winter sports station of Manzaneda (practically the only one in the northwest of the Peninsula) was installed thirty years ago within a natural context of great beauty which has to a great extent been damaged by the influx of visitors who go ther
Adif ha adjudicado el proyecto de la nueva estación intermodal de Orense al equipo formado por Norman Foster, la firma española de ingeniería G.O.C., y el arquitecto local Juan Carlos Cabanelas. Seleccionado entre un total de siete finalistas y dotad
¿Se trata de una gran casa o de un pequeño pueblo? El estudio madrileño ZooCo ha jugado con este equívoco en su propuesta ganadora para el Centro Municipal de las Artes de Verín, en Orense. Inspirándose en la volumetría azarosa de las manzanas típica
