At the corner of a block located in the Catalonian city’s Eixample, a new construction adopts a stepped section to let its work spaces benefit from planted terraces. Automated canopies protect the facade looking toward the access square, while the ex
Developed as a typological variation of the Equis House, the six residences that make up the ensemble form a compact and coherent whole, even though they were not designedat the same time.
The principal project decisions are to design a ‘living garden’ based on the theme of archaeologies; to highlight the original colonnade facade; to extend the existing gardens; and to build a glass canopy as well as peripheral terraces...
The external image is given by the superposition of three levels in a cross-shaped plan and rotated 45º from the previous one, generating a sequence of opaque surfaces combined with large terraces open to the landscape.
The industrial character that once shaped this area on the outskirts Zurich, and which is still partly visible today, is increasingly being overwritten by new residential buildings. One of these is this U-shaped apartment block with two well-differen
Located in remote Nanshangang, which belongs to Sangzhou Town, this building contains a tourist center and spaces for showcasing local history and culture. Amid terraced fields and rolling mountains, the stone-clad volume blends into the environment
Behind the listed facade of an industrial building raised early in the 20th century, the new spaces of a bank are terraced on top so as not to alter the current engagement with the street. The lower levels are organized in relation with a foyer that
Since the day in September 1908 that a journalist working for La Veu de Catalunya gave the region a name which described its dramatic geography and topography, the Costa Brava – a rugged land of fisherfolk – has honed its image as a paradise by the s
The house, inspired by the townscape of overlapping roofs that blend into the mountain landscape, is blurred in several stacked volumes, pursuing an architecture of ‘small roofs’ to create terraces and different experiences of space.
The stepped profile of the building dialogs with its two immediate realities: its north facade is a large transparent screen revealing daily activity, and the south one is broken up into terraces to adapt to the scale of the neighboring housing block
Between the consolidated city and its peripheral areas – in what is a crossroads of rivers, obsolete industries, airports, and logistical parks – lies this huge, almost 300,000-square-meter development containing residential, retail, and office uses.
The complex comprises a small community of eight dwellings in a quiet residential area of Peñagrande, in the north of Madrid, configured under the typology of duplexes stacked on two levels, all of which have two corner orientations. The four lower d
The Mistral residential complex is part of EuroMed, a mixed-use development built in Mar-seille on the grounds of the old port. In accordance with the masterplan, the complex pre-sents an urban scheme of a certain density; an intermediate volume made
On the shores of one of the African Great Lakes, a center devoted to new technologies offers training and job opportunities, endeavoring to put a halt to the exodus of young entrepreneurs. Finding inspiration in the region’s abundance of mounds built
The project rotates the mesh that organizes the place to improve the orientation of the apartments and create terraces that open out to the street. The concrete structure will be painted in two tones of green to differentiate its constituent elements
The building is separated from the back area of the plot (south) and inserts lightwells that also provide ventilation, transformed into gardens to bring sunlight in. The windows and materials used help differentiate common and private areas...
The project replaces an old building from the 1980s with another starting from a wood structure that is organized around a network of landscaped terraces. The facade composition contributes and adapts to its streetscape and surroundings...
Renovating the north and west buildings offers the opportunity to bring out the strengths of the place, improve the connection among spaces, transform the new children’s house, and provide an affordable and welcoming space for the families who live t
Stacking was one of the primitive activities of men, according to Semper’s classification. This project for 25 sustainable dwellings uses stacking as a means to build concrete tubes with an almost squared section (3,65 x 3,20 meters) that, as bases o
Raised on a platform that negotiates the slope of the terrain, the house is envisioned as a shelter amid nature in Conguillío National park, in Chile’s La Araucanía region. From the terrace one can contemplate the dead river of lava that is a reminde
The apartment building is executed with reddish concrete and characterized by a series of elliptical voids that give the volume rhythm, identity, and a monumental image.
Inspired by the Mediterranean tradition of outdoor living, the design of this iconic tower is the result of the collaboration of Sou Fujimoto Architects with two young French studios, Laisné Roussel and Manal Rachdi. The 17-story building, located in
The flexible urban planning in this new neighborhood has permitted occupying the maximum area f the plots , to the detriment of green areas, wich are fewer and fewer. Reactingto this denaturalization of the tropical ecosystem of Ho Chi Min City and f
