The steel structure rests on a stone podium with floors measuring 60x60m on an orthogonal 12x12m module until reaching a height of more than 350 m. Every 12 stories, a double mezzanine is resolved by large Vierendeel trusses...
On the outskirts of the city, a building provides new spaces for classes and meetings to be shared by a prestigious ‘gymnasium’ and the historical choir school of the cathedral of Cologne. The new educational facilities make use of the formal and mat
Shortlisted in the international section of the 2020 FAD Awards, the project submitted by Albert Faus Madrid (Barcelona, 1972) involves reorganizing the Bangre Veenem educational complex, with its existing primary school serving the village of Youlou
Since its birth in 1878, the Can Batlló compound and La Bordeta quarter share a long history of growth and transformation with Barcelona. The city’s industrial heyday saw the complex expand and new buildings rise. Over time, however, these fell into
Situated between party walls in the Gràcia neighborhood, an early 20th-century warehouse was transformed into a facility modeled after the FabLab, which gives citizens access to digital fabrication tools and the training they require to be able to de
Located in the city of Bordeaux, the project renovates an old warehouse with vaulted spaces that were once cellars for storing fish and supplies. The intervention seeks to reactivate the area by making the most of its central location and the existen
Conceived as a refuge, the Cabo House stands on a series of platforms built with local earth that descend adapting to the slope of the site. From these telluric platforms, walls of the same material, rammed earth, rise in parallels to frame views tow
The new Magazzino Italian Art building, a renovated and enlarged old storehouse for dairy products, proposes a parallel structure that filters natural light and organizes the circulation elements.
The new construction, containing a sports pavilion and a classroom building, is located in the campus of the Francisco de Vitoria University, in the city of Pozuelo de Alarcón, some 20 kilometers west of Madrid. The facility includes sports courts an
The success of the primary school in Gando and its positive impact on the community encouraged to build a secondary school to offer opportunities to those students who wanted to continue their studies. Inspired in the distribution of the surrounding
The Songtaaba Women’s Association is made up of approximately 300 members from the village of Gando and the surrounding province of Boulgou. The association provides a venue for the local women to form a strong social and economic union, in order to
With a population of 3000 inhabitants, Gando is a small village in the southern plains of burkina faso. It is located 200 kilometers from Ouagadougou, the country´s capital. In 1998, Francis Kéré launched a project to build a school in his native vil
The design of this footbridge over the river Vosso, in the municipality of Vossevangen, addresses two fundamental requirements: to take advantage of the piers of an old suspension bridge raised on the same spot before being destroyed by floods; and t
Containing a laboratory and classrooms of Ithuba Skills College in Gauteng, in South Africa, this building was designed and executed by volunteers from Aachen University in the course of a semester that lasted two semesters. The volume is inspired in
Pese a que el fuerte crecimiento de los últimos años ha hecho de la economía brasileña una de las más importantes del mundo, el país sigue teniendo carencias que resultan particularmente evidentes en el ámbito de la cultura y la educación, y afectan
El tramo de la Diagonal que atraviesa el Distrito 22@ —área de reinvención de la ciudad ligada a las nuevas tecnologías— está marcado por una secuencia que, teniendo por fondo la conocida silueta de la torre Agbar, comienza en la nueva sede del grupo
The tilting roof trusses above the auto court are constructed of the same wood as the remaining joists, with bracing struts made from metal electrical conduit. Galvanized steel sheet forms the roof surface... [+]
La antigua feria de Valencia, con 87 años de historia, necesitaba una profunda remodelación y ampliación que le permitiera adaptarse al siglo XXI, en el que los recintos feriales han dejado de ser sólo un escaparate de nuevos productos y servicios pa
En 1854 Louis Vuitton fundó en París la empresa epónima, dedicada en exclusiva a la fabricación de equipajes. Era la época en que los nuevos medios de transporte —el automóvil, el barco y el avión— habían convertido el viajar en una actividad de ocio
The challenge of undertaking a complex program of classrooms and a gym on a lot boxed in between a retaining wall and Joaquin Costa Street underlies this project for the enlargement of the school run by the La Salle brothers. Sota tackled it like an
