Nocaima is a remote community of just twenty families scattered along a mountain path that negotiates its way amongst dense forests and sugar cane and coffee plantations. The villagers tend to form terraces when building their homes, following the to
A strong snowfall in the 1950s destroyed a group of houses in the historic center of Cehegín, in Murcia, leaving a large empty space that interrupted the flow of the adjacent streets. When crossing this urban fracture – known as ‘El Coso’–, citizens
El objetivo del proyecto era crear una vivienda cuya forma, diseñada según parámetros energéticos, pudieran funcionar adecuadamente bajo diferentes condiciones climáticas sin tener que recurrir a paneles solares. El primer paso consistió en buscar u
During a trip to north Yemen, the German couple which owns this house had the chance to stay overnight in one of the typical tower-houses of the region. This awakened their interest in building a house overlooking the landscape in all directions, as
In a well-to-do neighborhood on the outskirts of Marseilles – where the French coast starts to resemble Italy – a contemporary art collector wanted to raise a shelter to display his paintings and furniture. The steep slope of the plot descends toward
In the foothills of the Compostela campus, and next to one of its main access ways, arise three equal and distinct prisms. Their similarities and differences derive from both a lack of definition in the program and from the characteristics of the sit
These houses are part of a low-density residential strip along Madrid’s northwestern edge. In an area already defined by row constructions, the parcel is organized in bands that join two parallel streets. Besides the usual housing program, the brief
As the house is painstakingly implanted on the southern slope of a hill through a terrace system of platforms and low walls, and presents a tower embraced by a lower L-shaped volume, a domestic program would be the last thing the observer would expec
The architects were commissioned to build a house for an unmarried mother in a scenic green zone outside the Austrian town of Lochau, on grounds belonging to the client’s parents. The project was subject to a single condition: that the new building b
Shigeru Ban’s investigations on non-conventional structural materials and elements such as PTS cardboard tubes and his commitment to non-governmental organizations in the giving of aid to communities of refugees affected by disasters have been widely
Situated between Carrer Actor Morano and the funicular line, in the Vallvidriera area of Barcelona, is the irregularly shaped lot that is the site of this residence. It is a sharply sloping land with access problems, oriented northeastward but with m
