The basic idea to start with is the preservation and revitalization of the most of the industrial complex in competition, a valuable architectonic heritage, by introducing a new intervention in the same way industrial architecture has always done. This intervention takes place in a space which has already been inhabited, which has been used as […]
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The project was located in a restricted space between the city and countryside, in the area of l’Horta de l’Hospital, where there were still roads without tarmac in between stone walls. It was a place that was apparently losing its identity; the new urban intervention had to preserve the area’s memory. We proposed a building […]
The Gas Natural Company decided in 1999 to build a representative building in the same site where it started its activities more than 100 years before. The site is a very complex piece of Barcelona., positioned among the fast way, the railway and the different city grids of La Barceloneta, the Olympic and the old […]
A project that lasts a long time is special, it becomes something that accompanies your life, it is built slowly… like yourself… The English architect Peter Smithson commented that the fact that the Igualada Cemetery was built little by little made it more intense, gave it that air full of things that made everyone fascinated. […]
The delicacy and richness of the Korean landscape painting was the reference for our Yeouido Park proposal from the beginning. The lines and interactions of our Park should have the same strength as the brushstrokes that produced by those paintings. We see the interventions and the development of Yeouido Park as the continuation and interpretation […]
This project was developed as a exhibition space for the centenary of the city of Esch- Sur-Azlette in Luxembourg. The pavilion was to be used as an art gallery after the exhibition. Arcelor is known as one of the most important steel companies in the world, and it was founded in this small city located […]
This building is a piece of the University Campus of Vigo, a rectangle that bows on the back part to adapt itself to the form of the area, following the guidelines of the classroom buildings. The façades are composed of concrete whose texture echoes the decomposition of the Mondariz granite hung from the metal profile […]
Part of the development of HafenCity Public Spaces in Hamburg, Germany. After winning the competition in 2002. See full project HERE.
We chose an architecture that links the building with the environment for inspiration and design motifs between images that are taken from the surroundings. A study led to search for images of geology and vegetation, as well as related literature to surfing in Biarritz, we have studied the character of the Baron de l’Espee and […]