Pedro Pitarch   Spain   (Text description provided by Pedro Pitarch architectures & urbanisms) Shine on you Crazy DiamondLA MAISON-EN-VALISE / HOME IN A SUITCASE / HOGAR EN UNA MALETA An Architectural Device for the Critique of Everyday Life NOTE: This article is writte

architecten jan de vylder inge vinck   Belgium   A house that was built in the interwar period now opens out to the garden at one of its corners by means of new glass facades protected by the emphatic eave of the new roof. The traditional partitions have been blurred through alteration of the loadb

architecten de vylder vinck taillieu   Belgium   An old inn has been transformed into a private home by making the most of the meager resources at hand, thus preserving its original character without requiring much maintenance. Inserted into the original brick enclosure is a well insulated space wh

Jan De Vylder   Belgium   The renovation of a house for an artist has incorporated a sliding roof that can make the backyard an additional room between the main construction and the atelier located behind. Vertical circulation is through a metal staircase that pierces through

Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   Like a greenhouse, the new volume of wood and glass lets natural light in. Because of shadows cast by the building itself and by neighboring ones, insolation is never excessive. The facade of the extension is detached from the vertical line of the pr

6a architects   United Kingdom   The Tree House is situated in the communal garden of two small cottages, curving around a central sumac tree. Its ramped interior connects the old buildings with the new ones, reorienting the house around the garden to create a fully accessible famil

architecten de vylder vinck taillieu   Belgium   Through a simple gesture, this barn is converted into a livable space: an incision empties out a section of the volume to generate a new access and improve lighting. On one side of the cut, glass; on the other, a mirror that creates an optical effect

Arquitectura-G   France   Two aspects unrelated to the project, prior to it, deeply marked the character of the house. So much so that the project, in a way, is understood as a complement that is added. On one hand, the privileged location on a promontory with views of the Ca

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The changing landscape of the Ebro Delta is shaped by the rice production cycles, from being a plain of land to a mirror of water during the flooding season of the fields, to then transform into an intense green prairie with the growth of rice plants

Arquitectura-G   Spain   El encargo consistió en una intervención sobre una situación urbana poco habitual: una vivienda pareada en el interior de una manzana del Ensanche de Barcelona. Como punto de partida, se buscó enfatizar las peculiaridades del volumen, caracterizado p

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The client – Nacho, a good friend of the architects – wanted to transform his photography studio, which had a backyard, into a home. It was a simple commission which had to address the essential needs of a dwelling: a place for sleeping, a place for

Solar   Spain   Flaunting its name, the Madrid Moderno development was in 1906 dubbed in the newspaper ABC as “the most European of Madrid neighborhoods”: an ensemble of garden-city schemes of which barely twelve small houses remain, survivors of real-estate pressur

TEST Guillermo Santomà   Spain   From tapestry to wall. In essence, this was the Copernican turn Semper took with his principle of cladding, whereby structure gave up its protagonism in architecture in favor of Bekleidung: though humans learned to use durable materials, he held that

barea pizarro   Spain   Split programA young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual associations with

Solar   Spain   Performing Pavilion is a revision of the home-workshop, proposing it as a new paradigm for the link between the work of art, the place where it is created, and contemporary lifestyles. Resulting from the enlargement of an existing unit, this space wh

Anna & Eugeni Bach Jaume Bach Bach arquitectes   Spain   The project involved renovating, refurbishing, and expanding the property at Passeig de Sant Joan 110 in Barcelona, in accordance with a new program of sixteen flats and two duplex units added on the roof. The original house was commissioned by Dolor

NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira   Portugal   The project involved renovating a two-story house that had been abandoned for twenty years. The solid concrete construction showed many signs of having been vandalized. A surgery-like material and aesthetic reconstruction was performed by means of ap

NULA.STUDIO   Spain   The 60 square meters attic is completely stripped to accommodate a series of interconnected spaces that regulate their levels of intimacy through large dividing elements. Thus, a corridor that serves as both a bedroom and a study is divided by a slid

Adrià Escolano David Steegmann   Spain   Having to subdivide to accommodate two families, a residence in La Floresta has been transformed in a way that maintains the original arrangement but assigns different uses to the rooms…

Hanghar   Spain   A large flat was partitioned to form two separate but perfectly symmetrical residential units in which undifferentiated spaces are connected by a series of equidistant openings.

Studio Animal   Spain   In order to obtain a large, unobstructed main space, the more private rooms of an apartment in the Niño Jesús neighborhood are placed together in a compact block of chromatic contrasts. A volume with curved contours containing the bathrooms serves as

Beatriz Alés Atelier   Spain   Originally intended for use by a large family, a dwelling in Tercio y Terol – an old neighborhood of private homes – has eliminated its partitions to form larger, more freely flowing spaces.

AMOO   Spain   The renovation of a flat tries to get the most out of a limited space by organizing it around an irregular core, in effect alleviating the rigidity of the apartment’s scheme of loadbearing walls…

The house has traditionally been a promising ecosystem for young architects. Straight out of university, inexperienced and with not much to show for on their agendas, ‘newby’ professionals look for work wherever they can, and renovations of the homes

Miguel Fernández-Galiano   In schools of architecture, students are not taught how to execute renovations. This kind of work, disdained for years in schools and by the great representatives of contemporary architecture who teach there, has become the bread and butter of a prof