Disponible en : La Capell Texto por Jordi Badia Con su tercer número se confirma que ARCHIVES es una de las mejores publicaciones de arquitectura del panorama actual. Dirigida por Carlos Quintans y Juan Rodríguez ofrece, desde nuestro punto de vista, algunas características que la hacen única. ¿Revista o libro? Creo que los editores han sabido entender que el panorama de las revistas de arquitectura ha cambiado

source: O’Donnell + Tuomey St. Angela’s College is a long-established 500 pupil girls Secondary School, dating from the late 19th Century, situated on a steeply sloping mid-block site on St. Patrick’s Hill in Cork city centre. We were first commissioned to consider the development possibilities of the site in 1999. The transition from initial feasibility studies to eventual completion of construction works

Fuente: Josep Llobet Fotografía: Jaume Orpinell, josepllobetarquitectes TORRE DE LA CREU 1913-1916 J.M.JUJOL NUEVA SEDE COLEGIAL DEL C.O.A.C. monumento histórico, bien cultural de interés nacional objetivos del proyecto – mostrar al público, tal como había sido concebida la “Torre de la Creu” por Josep Maria Jujol en el año 1913, mediante un trabajo de recuperación esmerada, investigando sobre cada rincón

Source: Inches Geleta Photography: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti / Daniela Droz In the urban topography of Locarno one can see the original Città Vecchia (historical centre), the Quartiere Nuovo (towards the lake) and the district of Campagna (towards Solduno). The Palazzo Pioda stands in this last section, an originally agricultural area that is now used for residential, commercial, service and production activities – in

| Pavel Bouse | 2016 | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture | Profesors : Martin Søberg, Peter Alexander Bullough The post-industrial Amager in Copenhagen crumbles in front of the pragmatic future of the developer. This project tries to find a position between the current uncontrolled development and the developer’s effort for its reformation. Trying to find an alternative to a systemati

Source: Brandlhuber website Photography: Erica Overmeer Located in Berlin-Wedding, the multi-use atelier and gallery building combines different forms of usage. Although the area has no binding land-use plan, a regulation from 1958 only permits the construction of commercial buildings. Yet at the same time, an ongoing grandfather clause also ensures that the area remains essentially a residential zone. In this c

source: O’Donnell+ Tuomey photography: Michael Moran, O’Donnell + Tuomey The intention of the project is to accommodate the energies of existing community activities within a new building, a place apart integrated within the larger consistency, a knot in the grain of the given pattern. Four separately functioning blocks emerge from a single storey plinth which is cut out to form four courtyard garden

fuente: Lluís Nadal Oller, Habitatge col·lectiu 1959-2006, UPC ETSAB 2006-2007 fotografía: Arnau Roca A raíz de un tercer premio en el concurso nacional por el centro parroquial de Montbau, el Patronato Municipal de la Vivienda nos encomendó este grupo de 288 viviendas. La exhaustiva repetición de un tipo único de vivienda (si exceptuamos las del ático y las de los extremos del solar) y el uso reiterativo de un

| Jonas Virsik | 2016 | Master course 1 | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio  | Professor: Junya Ishigami Coastal area around Finsbay on the eastern side of Harris Isle, Scotland The island has been shaped over the course of millions of years by glaciers and the strong wind which together created an almost lunar-like rocky landscape. Due to the current isolated forms of housing, acting only as a shelter agai

source: unparelld’arquitectes photography: José Hevia El programa doméstico de esta casa entre medianeras se desarrolla en una única planta de 12 x 15m, situada medio nivel por encima de la rasante del terreno. La terraza de acceso y el jardín median entre la casa y el espacio público. Esta pieza corona un espacio semisótano de las mismas dimensiones. Es una gran sala rectangular de uso polivalente, de car

  Double or Nothing. 51N4E. Architectural Association Publications, BOZAR books, London. 2011. Texto por: Dominique Boudet ‘Manifestos’ The simplest thing is to begin at the beginning with their first projects, modest commissions – for the conversion of a farmhouse, the planning of a housing estate, the reorganisation of a provincial museum – that became a kind of ‘manifesto’ for an alternative approach to

source: afasia photography: Johan Dehlin Two former workshops, originally a coach house and works building bearing marks of the continual small alterations and adjustments over 200 years, nestle landlocked behind 3 & 4 storey terraced houses that define a city block. Oscillating between workshop, home and office, home, office, workshop, home again since the late 1990’s and the accompanying stream of small ch

Fuente: LAMP La necesidad de contextualizar la iluminación dentro del espacio arquitectónico y la importancia que esta tiene en su diálogo con el entorno, han hecho que haya un creciente número de proyectos que necesitan una solución lumínica a medida para cada aplicación. La iluminación es la encarnación de la dualidad: partícula y onda, técnica y artística, cuantitativa y cualitativa. Ya en la década de los 70

Source: O’Donnell + Tuomey website Photography: Dennis Gilbert The location of this primary school for 500 children is in a large suburban housing area with few facilities, where social deprivation is widespread. The social conditions in this area of Dublin led to the inclusion of special facilities for pre-school children, children with special needs and facilities for the care of children outside school