Located in the Teruel village of Jarque de la Val, this summerhouse for three families was conceived as a shelter from August heat, and was built on a very small budget in successive phases, specifically over three springtimes. It occupies what was a
The geometry of this house designed by the Belgian practice of Kersten Geers and David van Severen and located in Matarraña (Teruel) originates from the idea of maximizing enjoyment of the surrounding natural landscape through a panoptic, 360º view.
This unique entity occupies a dominant position in a rural landscape of vineyards and olive groves, set against a background of medieval villages and rocky outcrops. A bare horizontal volume is detached from the ground, suspended in an almost archaic
In the natural context of Los Puertos de Beceite, in the comarca of Matarraña (Teruel), art gallerists Christian Bourdais and Eva Albarrán promoted the Solo Houses initiative: a collection of architecture projects that invites visitors to embark on a
Conceived with forms and materials that suggest the idea of timelessness, this square is a poetic restructuring of an urban void created by bombardments during the Spanish Civil War.
With diffuse limits, the weekend house can be climbed until reaching a shelter on its roof; its structure is a combination of untreated wood pieces forming an irregular lattice that lets a natural breeze pass through and protects from sunlight.
In a region of Aragon where seasonal tourism is a powerful economic engine, this project proposes the development of productive and leisure activities related to the culture of wine...
Plaza del Torico, the core of Teruel’s old district, fulfills a dual role as a distribution space for pedestrian flows and a precinct for citizen leisure. The redevelopment operation is used to delicately superimpose a thin contemporary layer on the
Frontier first between Muslim and Christian Spain, Teruel was afterwards a strategic scenario of the Civil War. In the winter of 1937-1938 the city staged one of the bloodiest wars of the conflict, in which a large part of the historic center was de
The Barcelona firm BCQ arquitectes recently unveiled its design for the construction of a Museum of the Civil War in the city of Teruel, a project promoted by the regional autonomous government of Aragón. Conceived in the manner of an archaeological
Inspirándose en el rico pasado prehistórico del subsuelo de la provincia, el equipo formado por Mi5 Arquitectos y PKMN ha construido en la plaza de Domingo Gascón de Teruel una singular dotación de 5.000 metros cuadrados de superficie, Teruel-zilla,
El áspero entorno de Arcos de Salinas, el pueblo más meridional de Aragón, pronto estará colonizado con un artefacto ‘cósmico’: el óvalo minimalista y blanco con que el joven colectivo granadino Mytaki acaba de ganar el concurso de ideas para el Cent
“Accepting the best solution is easy if personal remarks are left aside.” The words of the architect Juan Carmona sum up the critical spirit of Grupo Z in the seventies, a period governed by ‘speculative mediocrity’. Heirs to the modernist mood of th
Como casi toda España, Aragón comenzó su arquitectura del siglo XX sin saber a qué atenerse. Había entonces una creciente curiosidad por la novedad, ocurrían cosas que no hubieran podido sospecharse tan sólo diez años antes; las circunstancias envolv
The motto coined for Teruel holds for the region. With the resignation of landlocked countries, Aragón has become used to neglect, and seldom claims the attention it deserves. However, neither the stratified density of its history nor its strategic p
Teruel exists, but only at times. It existed with Mudejar splendor in the 13th century, a briefand shining medieval moment that began with a town chapter in 1176 and culminated with the magnificent towers, of the first quarter of the 14th century, wh
