City in a box
A certain kind of literature, usually defined as “science fiction”, has very often observed human conduct and desires so crudely as to profile it with the greatest truthfulness and the least cultural and moral justification. With the pretext of looking …
Memories of flats – when condo becomes novel
He leaned out over the rail and peered up at the face of the building, carefully counting the balconies. As usual, though, the dimensions of the forty-storey block made his head reel. Lowering his eyes to the tiled floor, he steadied himself against th …
Mine-workers Houses
This project comes up from a tendering process to build state subsidized housing in Cerredo (Asturias), a mining town located in the very heart of the Cantabrian Mountains where no residential construction had been made for over 25 years. The project h …
VIVAZZ
We proposed a return to the origins of the site. An inner world that takes us back to the fields that could no longer be seen, an urban room with fragmented borders, attracting the inhabitants of Mieres through its doors, open to the city. Opening the …
168 Social Housing
photo by Ignacio Izquierdo This project is the result of the winning 1st prize in a competition promoted by the Municipal Housing Agency in Madrid, to build 168 social dwelling. The strong sloped plot was placed in the very edge of the city. Outlying c …
41 Social Dwellings in Vallecas
I have always been a linear block. I was aware, from the very first moment, of what the regulations said about my future: “Building an open linear block.“ The shape of the plot did not help much. A corner L with three arms that wrapped up the square (a …
64 Apartments for Vpp
To build in environments as the ville of Vallecas means discovering new codes, dialogue with new monuments of the “city entropic“ portrayed by Robert Smithson in the late 60‘s in an article in Artforum: knots of highway, large parking areas, platforms, …
123 Social Housing Apartments
The project raises eight floors above the ground along one of the limits of the block imposed by the restrained urban planning. The great scale of the building forces it to act as a visual screen for the green area that stands aside, physically protect …
85 Dwellings
The site is located on the east vertex of “La Clota” park, on the north edge of Barcelona. It’s located in a transition area with a considerable slope, inbetween the consolidated tissue of the city and Tibidabo hillside, originally occupied by a few ho …
New Housing Units
This large block of 8 flats merges smoothly into the heterogeneity of the Impasse Daunay cul-de-sac. Facing the street, the textured glass skin covering the facades pays discreet homage to the glass walls of the artists’ studios in this Père Lachaise n …