| Ignasi Sarria i Alex Pleisch | 2018 | Autumn Semester | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio  | Professor: Jonathan Sergison Zúrich, actualmente afectada por el rápido aumento de población, prevé que sobre el 2040 ascienda de 400.000 habitantes a 680.000. Bajo el voto de la población se ha decidido actuar dentro de los actuales límites con el objetivo de obtener una ciudad más densa y compacta.

Source: Inches Geleta Architetti  Photography: Simone Bossi MeCri Museum began with the dream of a 80 year old woman to realize a museum in memory of her father Aldo Crivelli, who was a famous archaeologist and painter of the southern Swiss region of Ticino, and her daughter that passed away at a very young age. The idea was to refurbish an existing building in her beloved old town of Minusio and convert it into

Source: 51N4E  Photography: Blerta Kambo / Filip Dujardin This project for the restructuring of Skanderbeg Square is the result of an international architecture competition won by 51N4E in 2008. The competition’s proposal, conceived in collaboration with Albanian artist Anri Sala, reorganizes Tirana’s central square, a vast ex-communist space, in a simple yet radical way. In a complex and dense urban context, on

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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

Source: RCR arquitectes & Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Photography: Hisao Suzuki The media library for Ghent University has a large-scale brief: a library, a centre for new media, an agora for children and youths, multi-purpose rooms, etc. A complex interior world focused on educational elements. The building is beside the Krook -the canal that runs throught the city, which reaches its lowest point h

Source: studio cadena Photography: Benjamin Cadena / Naho Kubota A series of small volumes define a retail corner along a main avenue in Bogota. Housing multiple spaces, the new building brings together a cafe, bakery, restaurant and retail space. By breaking down the scale of the large lot into smaller components, the building’s presence is minimized to resonate with the surrounding residential context.  Triang

Disponible en La Capell Viaplana y Piñón ha sido, sin duda, uno de los estudios de arquitectura catalana más influyentes de los últimos años. No sólo por ser precursores de un lenguaje que más adelante desarrolló Enric Miralles (colaborador durante años del estudio) y que más adelante se extendió en muchos otros estudios, sino por haber creado y desarrollado una manera de entender la arquitectura que influenció

Source: Architecten De Vylder Vinck  Photohgraphy: Filip Dujardin General. Un centro de atención residencial con apartamentos de vida asistida en Ternat. En un terreno inclinado, en un área interior, adyacente a los jardines traseros de las casas circundantes. Una cuestión de escala. Dar escala a las casas, dar escala a las habitaciones. Como cantidad. Con respecto a los demás. Relativo al edificio. Relativo al

  Propuesta para el concurso del Anillo Olímpico de Montjuïc. 1984 Nuestra propuesta entendía que era preciso romper el Anillo Olímpico. El estadio da origen a un espléndido eje que se convierte en la pieza clave del proyecto. Prescindimos del círculo viario que envuelve al estadio, y ampliamos el anillo moviéndonos con mayor fluidez en la ladera Sur, adaptándonos mejor al terreno, y dejando un margen de li

Source: afasia / em2n Photography: damian poffet The elongated plot A forms the start to the new urban district ‘GreenCity.Zürich’ and is strongly influenced by the neighbouring street and railway. We used this essentially ʻimpossible situationʼ as the impulse to develop a narrow, elongated building with an expressive character that can develop a sense of identity. The geometry of the site leads to mostly east-w

Source: act romegialli  Photography: Marcello Mariana The residence, a building of the early twentieth century, is situated on a historic gateway to the town centre of Morbegno. The project involves the entire renovation of the building with a reconfiguration of the living spaces and insertion of a lift to service the new renovated spaces. The underground garage, once not connected to the house, is extended to c

Source: McCullough Mulvin Architects Photography: Christian Richters St Mary’s Hall, formerly St Mary’s Church, High Street, Kilkenny was founded in the thirteenth century as the parish church of the City. In use as a Parish and Masonic Hall since the mid-20th century, it was purchased by Kilkenny Borough Council in 2010 with assistance from Kilkenny County Council and the Department of Environment, Heritage and

Fuente: contextos de arquitectura y urbanismo Fotografías: Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso y Pedro Ivan Ramos Martín La luz, como origen del proyecto; como elemento inmaterial principio del orden estructural, de su ritmo y su proporción. La propia disposición de la parcela, en el eje este-oeste, imponía su búsqueda. El proyecto se concibió desde la sección; a modo de apilamiento vertical compuesto por una sucesión de eleme