Graphics, even before language and writing, were the first means of communication and significance for humanity. Drawing is the act of replacing reality with representation, that is, replacing objects with images encoded in each of the graphic representation systems.
This project rises from the opportunity of recycling an old existing courtyard house from the early 20th century. The new program of offices, installed in the existing house, keeps most of its spatial conditions, looking forward to getting back its essence. It has been considered the recovery and maintenance of the façade, looking forward to valuing its heritage, which is characteristic of the neighborhood.
Ilalò, the sacred mountain. This project invites us to reflect on the land, understand the place where it is located, and formulate hypotheses on how architecture should be accomplished in an Andean terrain. The initial question was: how should the constructions be realized on the sacred mountain of Ilaló? We understand that the intervention must be as respectful as possible, understanding its rurality, recognizing its fragility; the slopes of the mountain must be considered, the materials must have a language with the environment, human waste must be considered, and therefore treated. The project is in a small canyon between two arms on the slope of Ilaló, the land adjoins a creek, so you can access this hidden treasure, guardian of the essence of the mountain.
A ground floor building is accessed through a porch, an extension of two rows of existing trees that are preserved. It is a unitary volume of 22×51 meters aligned with the existing pedestrian walkway that joins the various surrounding school facilities.
Prosthesis. Caffe del Popolo is one of those experiments that arise in spaces that are often understood as unusable or obsolete in the city. The project was carried out in a triangular void between two blocks of apartments in the Nueva Córdoba neighborhood. A perception of compression by its context triggered the initial exploration for the design of this enclosure, which from the beginning was conceived as an object capable of fitting into the void, as an “urban prosthesis”. The project proposes a way to enter a dense urban environment and to generate action from it towards the city.
Hell or High Water / Egunen batean mundua leunagoa eginen da gure inguruan eta nahinorantz abiatuko gara nahieran, eta maite ditugun lagunak besarkatuko ditugu, eta den edaririk bizigarriena edanen dugu, eta legeaz landako gure mintzairan solastatuko gara, Inveniam viam aut faciam.
Damian is found within the Arts District of Los Angeles, California. This zone currently holds an outstanding number of repurposed industrial warehouses, which have brought new businesses, such as art galleries, workshops, restaurants, and coffee shops, preserving the neighborhood’s essence; having become a hot spot for the culinary culture, filled with art on every corner, displaying buildings with beautiful brick walls, as well as factories and warehouses built at the beginning of the 20th century.
This project consists of a large-scale expansion of the FGC Operations Centre’s workshop unit and the main building in Rubí, with three main purposes: to cover the old dynamic test track for storage and turn it into a museum of various historical units; to provide it with a new façade and image towards the access street to the Centre, giving great privacy to the nearest suburban nucleus’ houses; to act as an exhibitor of the historical units towards the car park and the access to the Centre’s offices.
The building is organized around a courtyard that links a sequence of intermediate spaces. On the ground floor, a portico open to the city anticipates the doorway of the building and filters the relationship between public space and the communal courtyard that acts as a small plaza for the community. Instead of entering each of the building’s hallways directly and independently from the outer façade, the four communication shafts are located in the four corners of the courtyard, so that all the inhabitants come together and meet in the courtyard plaza. On the typical floor, access to the dwellings is via the private terraces that make up the ring of outdoor spaces overlooking the courtyard. The building’s general floor plan is organized by means of a layout of communicating rooms. There are 114 spaces per floor, 543 in the building, of similar dimensions, that eliminate private and communal passageways to make full use of the surface area. The server spaces are arranged in the central ring while the rest of the rooms, of undifferentiated uses and size, approximately 13 m2, run along the façade, presenting themselves to different forms of occupation. Another terrace in the outer ring completes the spatial sequence, the row of spaces interconnected by large openings, permeable to air, sight, and movement.
Instead of a place, characterized by compact and continuous fronts we opted to build three towers. Three slender buildings that allow the orientation of the containing apartments in three directions without disturbance, and the living areas to cover a 180-degree horizon, from the mountains of the Sierra of Madrid to the Skyline of the Castellana with its four towers, as well.
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