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OS CAPELOS

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The International Social Housing Competition allowed the choice between different locations, all of them very different from each other and each with a specific type of use.

We opted for our location because of our interest in the townhouse typology.

We began with the large void created by the development executed in the dense forest environment at Os Capelos. Immediately we thought of how to regain this original green environment.

The organization of households should adhere to a central road that was already built. We achieved this through five different rows. Our goal in each was to alter the drab and impersonal rhythm that often comes from the simple juxtaposition of housing.

To do this we used two types of housing, with similar but differentiated volumes. Each type in turn would have the necessary variations according to the number of bedrooms specified in the rules.

The combination of housing types and variations helped us set up the five rows generating an image of fragmented roof volumes well adapted to the green profile of the landscape that surrounds them.

Prefabricated panels in vegetal colors for rooves and vertical walls, help to further the integration of the proposal in the forest.

HOUSING

PICAÑOL

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The urban structure of the extension of Sabadell is based on a grid of smaller blocks than the Plan Cerda of Barcelona. Each block consists of many narrow and deep bays that hold housing and looms and whose juxtaposition creates a distinctive profile to the streets.

The project uses this reference for a volumetric profile, respecting the historical image and maintaining the urban scale of the environment. On the flat roof, shared spaces are proposed including an elongated swimming pool looking out over the city.

HOUSING

SAN ANDRES

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The proposal suggests a solution to the necessary construction of social housing in the vicinity of San Andrés, the old Jewish quarter of the city of Jaen, on the archaeological site that refers to the origin of the city itself.

To achieve a system of duplicate platforms that connect with the existing street at different heights sewing this area of the city is proposed. At its lower levels it accomodates the movement of vehicles and above the pedestrian routes, with access to shops and homes.

QThis system remains “suspended” on the archaeological ruins with the fewest possible bearings needed to ensure stability and minimal impact on the site. A series of perforations serve as skylights to illuminate from above the ” archaeological layer “.

The platforms will become viewpoints on the vast landscape of olive groves surrounding the city and the castle. And they will support the slender rental housing blocks, seeking the desired integration between old and young inhabitants of the city. They also will house workshops, stores and spaces of artistic expression.

The high concentration of housing frees up a public space that we hope will become a regenerative environment. These blocks, like lookouts, enjoy optimum sunshine which often in lacking for the inhabitants of the historic districts, while ensuring an open, airy urban space.

HOUSING

VALLECAS 51

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

Located in Madrid’s Vallecas, the parcel in question is located at the head of a row of elongated blocks of social housing on the large boulevard that structures the development. The end of the building that forms the start of this promenade is given a uniqueness as an entry point to the new neighborhood.

The program, defined in detail from the start, includes the number and characteristics of the housing elements. These are resolved by two volumes separated by a generous open space thus avoiding the conventional image of the enclosed patio. The circulation and access turn to this space, doubly encouraged by a series of through flatss that both delimit and moderate its length.

HOUSING

VALLECAS 1.30

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The proposed parcel in the new Vallecas comes of the division into four quarters of a closed block 75 meters wide. As a mechanism to grant some autonomy to the corresponding quarter block, we propose a continuous facade image on the exterior with rhythmed openings while inside the proposal is fragmented thus reducing its scale more appropriate for the internal space in which is located.

Two bays of housing are linked through corridors that connect the vertical cores.

The homes have been designed with flexibility and maximum amplitude within the conditions in area. The outer band contains the living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms, while the inner strip contains bathrooms, kitchen with space for clotheslines and air conditioning machines and access.

One type of housing module with variations in the three corners of the building, plus the necessary disabled person, complete the building.

SHOPPING

HABITECTURA

Saturday May 24th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The commission consists of an information and sales office for Habitectura on an outstanding location in a large and busy Sabadell corner. .

From its unique position we intend to extract the maximum benefit, creating a warm and inviting image from the outside as a claim without fanfare, able to display projects and invite people to know Habitectura better while entering a friendly and comfortable space.

The size of the internal organization is based on one gesture – a peripheral display showing the high quality product of our clients.

Intervention with a light projection on the sidewalk of the corporate image of Habitectura indicating access to the premises completes the project.

SHOPPING

POLAR

Saturday May 24th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The project consists in the adaptation of a premises located in the Conde Duque in Madrid street for a men’s clothing store . There are three interconnected rooms and a vaulted basement.

The main assumptions were suggested from the beginning by our clients. Concepts such as “boutique”, “status”, “warmth” and “tailoring” were instrumental in laying the foundations of the proposal. This was an actual clothing store that would produce a certain atmosphere that we might call “retro”.

A curvilinear perimeter connects the three rooms of furniture producing a continuous path along which one finds different features.

The wood seemed to us to fulfill the requirements of warmth pursued by the clients. For economy and ease of construction we decided for the painting MDF. This material allowed us to easily bend manufacturing boards, like slits, make curved cuts and accurately adjust to the drywall.

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Fabric such as carpeted floors and velvet curtains and changers contribute to this warmth we sought from the start.

HOTEL

JUAN LOBO

Friday May 23rd, 2014 admin Leave a comment

This is a competition sponsored by the city of Logroño proposing as a first choice residential use, but also leaving open the possibility for other compatible uses, such as a hotel, which is the subject of this proposal. .

The parcels of the competition occupy a privileged position next to the Portales Street and next to the Cathedral of Santa Maria la Redonda, close to the Regional Government Headquarters. It is necessary to specify this exact position because it justifies the suitability of the hotel use: many cities with an important historical center need hotels, which generate jobs and wealth and animate the residential quarters: in our opinion, this is the case before us.

For all these reasons we proposed a suitable hotel use first level to the scale of the place contribute to the consolidation of an urban center destination of a tourism boom

HEALTH

YEBES

Thursday May 22nd, 2014 admin Leave a comment

This large plot for the new health center will be inserted into the newly created residential area called City Valdeluz, arising from the proximity of the AVE on its route between Madrid and Guadalajara.

It is an urban setting with wide avenues and parks where space is reserved for both residential architecture and communal uses as needed. The parcel destined for the Health Center is independent, which allows the freedom necessary for strategic locations for emergencies, day centers and access

The plan is organized around the Consultation Unit, whose layout is always associated with an elongated courtyard sets the appropriate module, and offers organized internal circulations of the building. This configuration in a single level is very effective in use and so only doctors on call are located on the first floor.

The roof is like a tapestry where skylights, coffered mechanical units and spaces for the physicians on call, stand like individual elements with analmost aerial view to the Centre from the surrounding homes.

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NUSSDORF DEBANT

Thursday May 22nd, 2014 admin Leave a comment

This is a contest for a Residence for 90 senior citizens in Tyrol where requirements specify that the residents need three “homes” , meaning all areas of social relationship and complementary care rooms .

The fact of placing residents in three homes can give each of them some independence. The intention was to make the most of this situation without forgetting the necessary functional connections among them, opting for three separate but interconnected parts .

The internal organization of each part is clearly placing the living rooms, dining rooms and terraces facing south. These social space three arms shorter where rooms facilitating daily functioning by the proximity of all the checkpoint every “home” are located emerge.

Downstairs the main entrances to the residence, the general uses for all residents and visitors as well as administrative and management uses occur. It also has direct access from the car park so that each visitor can easily access the vertical core of the piece or home where their family is.

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In the basement access service and support all uses, so that the circulation of service and supply never cross with residents or visitors is located. Outside each of the three parts is shown as a small volume of different materials coated reducing the visual impact of the building harmonizing in typical residential environment where NuÃŸdorf -Debant Tirol is located. The sloping roofs eventually reinforce this integration in the context respectful.

Through a rational organization of the program and of a scale and moderate volumes, functional and in harmony with the environment attractive Tyrolean NuÃŸdorf -Debant architectural proposal aims