source: Javier de las Heras Solé photography: Adrià Goula EN Understand the Zeleieta Zentroa as an autonomous organism. Convert its dividing wall in an extra facade to complete and resolve all the perimeter of the actual facilities. Save the original wall of the adjoining ‘frontón’ ballcourt and incorporate it as the real protagonist of the project. Give it visibility and present the layers of time t
Source: V+ Photography: V+ ‘‘Maison Roxane’’ is the renovation project of a typical town house in Brussels, Belgium. It involves the demolition of an old annex which was replaced with a new wooden extension. In addition, a terrace was dug in a previously overgrown garden, and a dormer was added. The rear façade constitutes the main tool used for composing the spaces and was drawn like a piece of furniture, which
source: Tony Fretton Architects photography: Peter Cook, Filip Dujardin As part of the extensive redevelopment of the Antwerp Docks six residential towers are ranged along the waterfront of the Westkaai. The two towers closest to the city are by Basel practice Diener and Diener. The irregular fenestration and subtle colour differences of their glass facades provide the monumental quality required by the urban de
Fuente: Documents Condado de Westchester, New York. Casa de fin de semana, primera y única vivienda unifamiliar construida por Pei. Un presupuesto reducido que obliga a optar por una estructura de madera, económica y rápida. Casa de cristal con espacio de transición interior-exterior: una galería capaz de albergar funciones de estar, comedor, dormitorio … Estructura al interior, en el plano de vidrio sólo
source: Lina Ghotmeh photography: Takuji Shimmura Designing a national museum for Estonia was an extraordinary challenge given the country’s many decades of tumultuous history, a history that is recent enough to still remain in the nation’s memory. Following a brief period of sovereignty in the early 20th century, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1991. After regaining its independence, the country
Source: Russell Jones Photography: Hélène Binet This six level residential building in the heart of London’s Bayswater Conservation Area, fills a space between existing listed terraces that was reputedly the last undeveloped bombsite in West London from the 1940 Blitz. A lengthy planning and consultation process with Westminster Council and English Heritage influenced the decision to build using load bearing bri
Source: Aretz Dürr Architektur Photography: Aretz Dürr Architektur Residential house in Oberberg The design task was to construct a low-cost and sustainable single-family dwelling in the Oberberg region, which incorporates the surrounding landscape area into the living space and creates covered outdoor spaces for the rainy summer days in the region. In its typology, the new building follows the traditional, one-
| Goran Travar | 2020| MA| TUM | Profesor: Stephen Bates, Bruno Krucker For a long time, I have been interested in contemporary and the mood of today. This interest is undoubtedly intertwined with my desire to know history. Not for the sake of knowing it, but really understanding why things happened the way they did. We live in times, in which we are busier than ever before, suffer under different inequalities a
Source: O`Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects Photography: Rory Gardiner The This intervention at the rear of a home in Dollis Hill in London replaced a 1970’s extension that divided the space into separate kitchen and dining rooms and allowed little connection to the garden. The client’s brief called for more light, more space with ample storage yet without reducing the garden. The response of the re-structured room
Source: Stefano Colli Photography: Leo Garcia Mendez Proyectos de Pintura y Revestimientos para colegios públicos de Barcelona. Pacificación cromática, no infantilización de los espacios y valorización de las características arquitectónicas propias de cada edificio, han sido los objetivos generales que el Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona nos ha indicado para los proyectos de pintura y revestimiento de los coleg
Source: Andrea Frapolli Architetto Photography: Alessandro Malpetti Ca’dal Mantova stands on two adjoining grounds (4125 and 5112) owned already by the client’s family in the core area of Prosito. An ancient building and a stable stood on the parcels, the first dating back to the mid-1400s, divided in half between the two parcels, already partially altered during the 1970s; the second dating back to
Source: César Portela Photography: César Portela ES La Galicia litoral es una permanente dialéctica entre la tierra y el mar que se convierte en paradigma en las Rías Bajas, especialmente en la de Arousa. En el fondo de esta ría, y formando parte del paseo marítimo que une el puerto de Vilagarcía con el de Carril, se construye este edificio que, avanzando perpendicularmente a la costa, se introduce en el mar. Su
| Marta Cendra Vilardebo | 2020 | PFC | ETSAB | Professors: Jordi Ros, Angel Solanellas This project finds its starting point in the time in history where two urban fabrics collide. In the city of Barcelona, the realisation of the Eixample urban fabric by Ildefonso Cerdà created a new continuity between the city center and those which used to be detached urban nucleus. Nevertheless, the inherent strict geometry
Source: Sapiens Architects Photography: Atmospheriques narratives. Cyrille Weiner and Giaime Meloni English: This project proposes a discourse on the form and the durability of the common and ordinary architecture. And more exactly on his ability to adapt, evolve and transform. Not everything is Monument. But everything is Heritage. Each existing element deserves to be explored with attention. At the beginning,