Fuente: Ricardo Bofill Taller d’Arquitectura Fotografia: Ricardo Bofill Taller d’Arquitectura Primera experiencia del Taller de Arquitectura en el diseño urbano a gran escala. El encargo consistía en la construcción de un conjunto de viviendas muy económicas destinadas a paliar el déficit de unidades residenciales provocado por las oleadas inmigratorias de los años sesenta, comparable a numerosas operaciones de

| Matthew Kernan | 2016 | Master of Architecture | Queen’s University Belfast | Professors: Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore Through the subtle montage of various elements, this new proposal for economy housing in Aarhus demonstrates a method that we as architects can use to explore the tectonics, spatial language, and the implementation and translation of elements of both classical and past architecture for u

Fuente: Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos Fotografía: José Hevia, Juande Jarillo ES. Las casas, compactas y verticales, emergen de un terreno accidentado interviniendo al mínimo en la topografía natural del terreo y apostando por la conservación de la vegetación existente de especies mediterráneas de sotobosque. Se preserva el ambiente y se mantiene la impresión de que lugar apenas ha cambiado tras la int

Fuente: penccil.com (Sculptures Habitacles. By: I Am An Architect. Anca Timofticiuc and Carolina Bianchi) André Bloc (1896 – 1966). Pintor, escultor, arquitecto, ingeniero y editor. De 1962 a 1966, André Bloc creó varias esculturas habitadas que también experimentó en forma de “pabellones” en su jardín de Meudon. Esta investigación marca la evolución del escultor de la abstracción geométrica a la forma libre. La

Source: Karamuk Kuo Architekten Photography: Mikael Olsson The extension for the Weiden secondary school, housing a gymnasium and 24 classrooms, sits on the eastern part of the site between the existing secondary and primary school buildings. The compact form of the new building preserves the park-like character of the campus and turns the existing plinth into a collective schoolyard that connects the old and th

Fuente: “Dibujos de arquitectura-Dessins d’architecture” EMILIO DONATO Stephan Gruet-Carles Martí. Ed. Ediciones del Serbal-Poïesis. Barcelona 2001. Fotografías: Desconocido | DONATO Arquitectos Asociados S.L.P. | Cuadernos de Arquitectura Nº 156 Barcelona l983. «Sobre un muro extenso, recto y de coronación horizontal, que sigue trazas de los anteriores márgenes de bancales agrícolas, se dibuja una geometría “de

Source: Helga Blocksdorf Photography: Simon Menges Raw, monolithic and polished, the new head-end building stands in the suburban quarter of Berlin Rosenthal-Nord. In addition to the ‘remettre’ (stab- ling, placing, feeding) which was the original use of the carriage house, family living and the work on sculptures now extends three-dimensionally in the new structure. A double-height hearth gathers people by the

Source: David Leech Photography: David Grandorge, David Leech Architects This project is a contemporary translation of the ordinary suburban house. In their spirit the house is built economically using everyday materials and techniques easily sourced and knowledgeable for a local builder and tradesmen. These materials and techniques are amplified and exaggerated to become something at once ambiguous but familiar

Fuente: Peter Märkli Fotografías: Michel Bonvin Ampliación de la Cava y Bodega Fin Bec en Valais, Suiza. El edificio de las cavas de Fin Bec SA fue construido en 1969 en Pont-de-la-Morge, en la población de Sion. El conjunto de la construcción ha sido recientemente rehabilitada entre los años 2011 y 2012 con el objetivo de reorganizar la cava y crear un nuevo espacio de degustación así como una plataforma artíst

Source: Stanton Williams Photography: Jack Hobhouse, David Valinsky Stanton Williams has completed 264 key worker homes, together with generous social spaces and retail facilities in Eddington, North West Cambridge, for the University of Cambridge. A network of communal spaces, framed by 10 new buildings, forms the heart of the new neighbourhood. Stanton Williams’ designs are central to the University’s North We

Source: Estudio Macías Peredo Photography: César Béjar The challenge was to convert a building plot currently occupied by a single house to three new homes, with the restriction that no more than two could overlap. In this way, efficient use of space could be achieved, without turning it into an apartment block. One of their first wholly urban projects, Magui and Salvador recall, with Le Corbusier, that the cont

Source: DierendonckBlancke Photographies: Filip Dujardin, Dennis De Smet (model) The first steps taken by the architect and the client start with the search of a suitable building site. Under the architect’s advice, two neighboring houses were purchased, which exceeded the budget of the client. However, this allowed them to redefine the plot boundary and construct a new house on one of the two plots. During the

A Longhouse, Sheep’s Head, West Cork. 2020. The site for this project is in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the West Cork Atlantic coast. The area is defined by a landscape of rugged sandstone coastline and carefully tended fields with dry laid stone walls. This landscape still retains a romantic beauty as depicted by early C20th Irish artists like Gerald Dillon and Paul Henry. A rural scenery, it is an

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