The building is comprised of 30 social housing apartments. It forms a line along the narrow extended site, whilst adapting to the land’s slope and to the maximum volume allowed by city-planning regulations. The totality is fragmented into a loose set of independent elements which distribute the plot into three strips. The central strip, which is withdrawn in relation to […]
The Can Ricart Municipal Sports Complex is a building located in the heart of the south Raval, in Barcelona, an area with important performances in recent years. The equipment is important for the revitalization of the neighborhood in its traditionally more degraded sector, and it has to contribute to the integration of all social sectors inhabitants of the area through […]
A ground floor space facing the street, a former shop. It is very small, 18m2. All the surfaces are paneled with plasterboard (walls, ceilings,…) and the original floor covered with phenolic parquet. We were asked to design a multipurpose room for a team of graphic designers. A parallel world to their daily workplace. A workshop to invent, with multiple formats. […]
The proposal is part of the strategy to revitalize part of the old town, which has stagnated for many years for lack of use of the Born Market and lack of permeability of the Citadel. The urbanization of the streets surrounding the old Born Market has the goal to respond to needs and potentials, which an opening of a renovated […]
The European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA, biennial contest organized with the support of the COAC (Architects’ Official College of Catalonia) and AADIPA (Architects’ Group for the Defense and the Intervention in the Architectural Heritage) whose aim resides in distinguishing the good patrimonial practice and contributing to his spreading, opens the inscriptions of his 3 ª edition. The European […]
The neighborhood of La Salut is a peripheral quarter of Badalona, a big council attached to Barcelona. It grew strongly in the 60’s and 70’s with immigration from the south of Spain, and recently strong identity problems have emerged due to a high rate of new immigration from all over the world. The aim of the intervention is to give […]
The doctor surgery is a small building integrated into the fabric of the village. The project defines an access path that atorgues serenity and calm until being attended by a doctor. Rather than an object to admire from the outside has to be a place from which to look and feel, through the mountains with visual relationship with the landscape. […]
The discovery of a Roman site inside a municipal administrative building (the remains of a Domus located next to the ramparts), made necessary this project of suitability so that it could be visited in a compatible way with the current use of the building. The space containing the Roman site becomes an exhibition space, and the rest of the ground […]
The Institut Ramon Llull presents the Catalan sample inside the Eventi Collaterali GRAFTING ARCHITECTURE. CATALONIA AT VENICE REPRESENTS TO CATALONIA IN 14 ª BIENNIAL SHOW OF ARCHITECTURE OF VENICE. Catalonia will be present for the second time in the Biennial show of Architecture of Venice, inside the Eventi Collaterali, with a project comisariado for Josep Torrents i Alegre: Grafting Architecture. […]
Already we have the number 2 of the magazine Aproximacions! Soon they were starting it distributing free for schools of architecture, professional colleges and bookshops of the whole Catalonia. But, at the moment, already you can find her digitalmente here: + info
There goes out the first number of the magazine APROXIMACIONS, edited by a group of 15 equipments of young Catalan architects. APROXIMACIONS, is a summary of reflections and ideas on since intervening in the constructed environment, the landscape and the public space from the architecture. In every number one proposes a topic asks to which every equipment answers of individual […]