| Oana Gramada + Makoto Hayashi | 2018 | 3r curso | ETSAB | Profesor: Josep Ferrando El proyecto trata sobre la tectónica y las masas, investigando cómo una pieza aparentemente rígida y compacta, que une las dos medianeras, consigue adaptarse al lugar volviéndose transparente y permeable. El sistema de bóvedas de hormigón apiladas una encima de la otra que cambian de tamaño a cada planta habla sobre la preeminen

Source: Carmody Groarke website Photography: Johan Dehlin Hill House is one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s most significant works, one of Scotland most acclaimed buildings, and a seminal part of early 20th century European architecture. The building has had huge influence on architecture and design in Scotland, Europe and globally. Built in 1928, 30km west of Glasgow, the unusual hybridisation of tradition and i

A Feeling of History Peter Zumthor / Mari Lending Disponible en La Capell Texto de Jordi Badia Una conversación entre el arquitecto y la historiadora noruega Mari Lending acerca del papel que otorga a la historia y a la memoria Zumthor en sus proyectos. En la conversación asoman alguno de sus últimos proyectos, especialmente el museo de las minas de zinc de Noruega, el memorial Steinelset y el Museo de Los Angel

Source: Whitherford Watson Mann Architects Photography: Hélène Binet, Manuela Barczewski, David Grandorge, Ian Fussell, Yannick Guillen, George Massoud Nevill Holt Opera – Witherford Watson Mann Architects The brief was to design a permanent festival theatre for opera in the yard of 17th– and 19th-Century stable block, replacing a temporary scaffold and canvas theatre. We were asked for a 375 – 400 seat au

Font: Estudio Herreros Photography: Adrià Goula The future Munch Museum is not just a facility for the safeguarding and dissemination of a fundamental piece of heritage of the history and character of Norwegian culture. This is a unique opportunity to develop a contemporary concept of a museum with a transcendental urban role and a historic responsibility as a cohesive element of the community, not only of Oslo

Source: Ivo Carew Photography:Ivo Carew The Bakehouse is situated in a surprisingly peaceful hidden enclave near to Peckham High Street and the surrounding hubbub. The project required adding a new roof and side extension to the former Victorian brick bakery which occupies a rear interstitial site. The main body of the building is entirely detached, affording dramatic views on three sides of the bedroom at the t

Fuente: Libro F.J. Sáenz de Oiza, arquitecto Fotografía: Hisao Suzuki, Carlos Copertone El santuario de Arantzazu se ubica en Oñate, Guipúzcoa, y es uno de los centros de peregrinación más importantes del País Vasco. Este lugar empezó a forjarse en el siglo XIV, a partir de la aparición de una talla de la virgen, treinta años después los franciscanos se hicieron cargo del enclave. Con el paso de los siglos y tra

Fuente: unparelld’arquitectes Fotografía: José Hevia Los derribos se repiten en el centro histórico de Olot. Ante distintos motivos, las mismas consecuencias: solares abandonados, pérdida de urbanidad, desfiguración de la calle, destrucción del paisaje ordinario. La mitad de la casa de Can Sau, tangente al santuario del Tura, estaba afectada por alineación de vial. El solar restante, presidido por una medi

Font: Mathis Kamplade Photography: Atelier für Architekturfotografie, Seraina Wirz A private client of 6 parties consisting of a family with grown children, a couple and a neighbor wanted together a house that is not designed for a specific stage of life, but can adapt to the changing life scenarios and family constellations of the residents over a period of several decades . The apartments should not only be at

| Maria Azkarate | 2019 | PFC | ETSAB | Taller Arquitectura i Invenció Fotografías maqueta: Anna Izquierdo El proyecto se sitúa en el parque de Can Ginestar, la última zona del tejido urbano de Viladecans que conserva el bosque que baja de las montañas de l’Ordal. El crecimiento urbano de la ciudad, a principios de los años 80, engulló el bosque y los campos de cultivo que ocupaban el lugar. Este montículo es ah

Source: Collectif Encore Photography: Collectif Encore,  Michel Bonvin We fell in love in Labastide Villefranche, at the outskirts of the french Basque country. With an old farm, a collapsing vernacular agricultural building. From outside, the house looked like any farm house in the Basque Country, a massive yet unpretentious architecture. When we first opened its main door, we were expecting to come across the u

Source: O’Donnell + Tuomey Photography: Dennis Gilbert, View Pictures Sandford Park School, founded in 1922, is a small private non-denominational co-educational secondary school with pupils from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and cultures, creating a unique environment within the school. The school buildings are situated on a beautifully secluded 2.5 hectares of land, with two protected structur

Source: Office Winhov Photography: René de Wit, Max Hart Nibbrig  The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is the proud tenant of the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. The Trippenhuis is part of a complex of several buildings along the Kloveniersburgwal in the historic center of Amsterdam and is owned by the Central Government Real Estate Agency. The Trippenhuis was built between 1660 and 1662 for the b

| Blanka Dominika Major + Linda Lanzavecchia | 2019 | 3r curso Housing and City | ETSAB | Profesor: Josep Ferrando This is a project on housing. This is a play in 5 acts. Prologue: The setting The play takes place in Tres Turons in Barcelona. The rock shapes the space: Tres Turons is characterised by topography, going up is constantly followed by going down again. The rock is witness to time, shaped by wind and