The name of this beauty salon was inspired by the owner’s passionate desire to turn it into a destination for “the last word in beauty”. Although the design was first completed about five years ago, the previous premises soon grew to feel a little cramped due to the rapidly expanding size of the team, which prompted the owner to move to a new and larger location.
The rented unit that the owner had prepared as the new platform for his venture was a slender, elongated space measuring 28m deep, with a frontage of 4.4m. Taking advantage of this narrow frontage, we configured each of the spaces in a straightforward manner by taking cues from the existing frame and contours of the property. In addition, by making efficient use of the length of the unit, we were able to maintain a certain distance between each space while connecting them seamlessly to each other. Keeping the number of partitions to an absolute minimum and painting the entire space white achieved a feeling of abstraction, as well as a sense of giving equal importance to both the new and old materials that comprise the walls, ceilings, and floors. The result was an interior that gave pride of place to the people and objects within it.
The styling space is where the owner’s particular obsessions and passions came to the fore. He requested that we incorporate various functional elements into the mirrored surfaces (for storing or hanging objects). In response, we wondered if we could create flexible, extensible walls without imposing any limitations on their functionality. In concrete terms, our solution involved building three-dimensional lattice screens resembling parts of a jungle gym that function as architectural pieces of furniture. These screens were created using only a structural framework, with no particular significance attached to the form of the lattice itself. When lighting fixtures, glass panels, hooks and other objects are attached, however, the lattice begins to take on a new dimension. Affixing glass panels turns them into display shelves, or tables for the use of customers. Just imagine the transformations that these lattice screens will undergo, thanks to the multiple efforts and innovations of the staff…
Our heated, passionate discussions with the owner gave us real food for thought. Over the course of many meetings, our plans and designs continued to evolve and change repeatedly. Before long, we found ourselves starting to enjoy the progress of these changes. Thus was born a space that would serve as a base for the owner and his team to communicate their ideas and thoughts to their clients, promising the start of a new phase in its evolution and growth.
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Location: Kitahorie Nishi-ku Osaka, Japan
Use: Beauty Salon
Built area: 114.56m2
Completion : 2012 November
Design: Yasunari Tsukada design
Contractor: Infinity
Photography: Stirling Elmendorf
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Yucatan House
The Yucatan house was built in the leafy neighborhood of Jardim America, in São Paulo, Brazil, for a young couple and their three children.
Contemporary art collectors, they wanted a spacious, bright and informal atmosphere home where they could raise their children and see them grow in close contact with nature, while also display the various pieces in their collection.
Thus, everything about the house somehow reflects that high-spirited family and their lifestyle: the combination of volumes, the organization of the areas, the choice of materials, the lighting, the greenery, the pool.
Seven boxlike volumes – different sizes, different finishes – were distributed asymmetrically at the front part of the land, leaving a vast garden in the back.
From the entrance, a long flat surface – a wall covered in aluminum plaques painted black, part of the volume that houses the garage – progresses across the blocks to the one containing the kitchen, followed by the block housing the dining room.
To the left of those 3 volumes, sometimes jutting out a little, other times receding, the remaining 4 blocks are laid out, which feature, respectively: the daughter’s and guest bedrooms, the sons’ bedrooms, the master bedroom, and the TV room and gym.
The “scattered” layout leaves generous spaces between the volumes that, topped by a wood-covered ceiling slab, not only serve as circulation, but also shelter the main living room, the family room and the works of art.
A natural pool, extending from the dining room to the back portion of the land, features a system to use, reuse and treat water that combines water plants and various fish, and is the children’s greatest joy and fun.
ARCHITECTURE:
AUTHOR: ISAY WEINFELD
COLLABORATOR: DOMINGOS PASCALI
PROJECT MANAGER: ELENA FARIA SCARABOTOLO
TEAM: ELISA CANJANI / FAUSTO NATSUI / MARINA CAPOCCHI / MARCELO ALVARENGA
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
SIGLA ENGENHARIA & CONSTRUÇÕES
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
VIGA 2
ACOUSTICS ENGINEERING
MODAL ACÚSTICA
PROJETO DE ÁUDIO E VÍDEO
HOME SYSTEM
AUTOMATION PROJECT
DK SISTEMAS
AIR CONDITIONING
ASSISTEC AR CONDICIONADO
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING:
KURKDJIAN & FRUCHTENGARTEN
FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
CEPOLLINA ENGENHEIROS CONSULTORES
ELECTRICAL AND PLUMBING ENGINEERING
GRAU ENGENHARIA DE INSTALAÇÕES
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
ISABEL DUPRAT
SWIMMING POOL PROJECT
ECOSYS LAGOS ORNAMENTAIS
PHOTOGRAPHER
Fernando Guerra / FG+SG Fotografia de Arquitectura
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New Office Design für das ICADE Premier Haus, München
Die Umsetzung der Unternehmensphilosophie in „gebaute“ Corporate Identity umfasst neben der Eingangslobby, Cafeteria, Konferenzbereiche, Auditorium und Vorstandsbereiche auch die Arbeitsplatzgestaltung. Der neue Stil unterstreicht den firmeneigenen Slogan – Quality in everything we do – auf hervorragende Weise. Der offene Gebäudecharakter wird durch helle und elegante Farben in der Eingangshalle gesteigert. Verwendung von Holz, Naturstein und Corian als immer wiederkehrendes Designelement erzeugen eine natürliche und warme Atmosphäre. Das Designkonzept zieht sich durch das gesamte Objekt, selbst die Fahrstühle sind in Naturstein verkleidet, auch die Fassaden der Eingangshalle werden dadurch geziert. Als Farbpendant wurde ein kräftiges Bordeaux gewählt, das als Gegenspieler in Form von Teppichen oder Lederbezügen das zum Teil illuminierte Weiß und das warme Holz zum Leuchten bringt. Das Auditorium als eines der Schmuckstücke dieses Objekts geht eine gelungene Symbiose zwischen dem Material Corian als umschließende Hülle im Innen- und Außenraum und der Verwendung von warmem Holz und technisch anmutender Stoffwandverkleidung im Inneren ein. Ein weiteres Augenmerk gilt der Bibliothek, die sich in Empfangs-, Lese- und Ausleihbereiche gliedert. Die Cafeteria versprüht einen freundlichen und offenen Charakter, da sowohl das Farbkonzept, als auch das Mobiliar zum Verweilen einladen.
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Kanalvejsgrunden
In the heart of Lyngby situated north of Copenhagen, Danica Pension in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects, COWI and Alectia have developed the area of Kanalvejsgrunden with a new building that will comprise student residences, retail and Microsoft’s new Danish headquarters. The project will create a new unique urban space accessible to everyone and will bring citizens, students and businesses closer together.
The municipal council of Lyngby-Taarbæk looks forward to seeing an open, innovative building rising in the city centre. The project marks an important step in the realisation of the municipality’s visions for Lyngby-Taarbæk City of Knowledge and Urban Development 2020 – a locally developed initiative aiming at making Lyngby one of the leading university cities and centres of knowledge and creativity in Northern Europe. Mayor Søren P. Rasmussen says: “The project reflects an interesting urban development strategy. Knowledge-intensive businesses are connected to urban life and the local study community. In addition, the building will create a lot of new jobs and provide a welcoming, dynamic urban space where city centre and green areas meet.”
Microsoft’s new headquarters forms part of the organisation’s overall vision to create the workplace of the future – where employees are supported in their different ways of thinking, working and collaborating through a flexible interior layout, based on state-of-the-art technologies. Henning Larsen Architects has had a close dialogue with Microsoft in the space planning process.
The municipality’s ambition of positioning itself as a leading knowledge city has been a determining factor for Microsoft’s decision to consolidate its activities and employees from their two companies in Denmark in Lyngby.
”Microsoft is already well-established in Denmark with our 900 employees and more than 3,700 partner companies, and we also look forward to becoming an active part of the knowledge and university centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk. The citizens can use our open café and technology area, students can use our allocated study area, and we will regularly host different events that will connect us even closer to the local area and Denmark”, says Niels Soelberg, CEO for Microsoft Denmark.
The new building will be located on a 16,350 m2 plot in the centre of Lyngby, in the street of Kanalvej between Klampenborgvej and Toftebæksvej. The building will cover a total of 40,000 m2. The first sod is expected to be cut already later in 2013.
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Library Joan Maragall
The motto with which the project was presented in the ideas competition was 'Garden of Light'. These two words sum up the two ideas of the project: maintaining and improving the existing garden, and yet, obtain joyful and well lit spaces.
The library inserts under the garden Vil•la Florida under the shade of its trees. The new building fits under the ground like a child hides (to read a book) under a carpet. Inside, a landscape in itself, articulated and changing where each use and each user find their place. It is a personalized and unique space.
The building will be related particularly to the street Sant Gervasi de Cassoles, one of the oldest and most important streets of the old core of Sant Gervasi. The unevenness between the garden and the street Sant Gervasi allows access to the new facilities naturally. On the other hand, the gardened roof will be at the same level as the old garden, so that the construction of the new facility will mean the restoration of the garden of the civic center at its maximum dimension, where Vil•la Florida will always be the building dominating the complex.
The building is shaped by the 'light and silence patios' and the 'books and knowledge patios'. The first, surrounded by glass, light and ventilate the interior while isolating the library from the street. The second, concrete volumes filled with books, are part of the supporting structure of the library.
The functional program is developed on two levels. The basement, with three large courtyards of light and ventilation will house most of the general fund, training space, multipurpose space, and the archives. The ground floor of access is where most public place uses are: magazines area, music and image, children’s area and administration.
To link the library with the upper garden area, two volumes stand out. One is a support space of the library with direct access from the hall, located in a privileged place. The other is an entry of skylight to the children’s area.
The existing garden extends through the roof of the new library to the street of Sant Gervasi de Cassoles, where a new access to the gardens next to the entrance to the hall of the Library is planned.
One of the biggest challenges of this project has been to preserve some of the trees existing in this area of the garden: a large canary islands palm tree (Phoenix canariensis), two hackberry (Celtis australis), an eucalyptus (Eucalyptus), two limes (Tilia cordata), a horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) and an ailanthus (Ailanthus altissima).
Architects Authors:
BCQ arquitectura Barcelona
DAVID BAENA, TONI CASAMOR, MARIA TALTAVULL, MANEL PERIBAÑEZ
Architects collaborators: ALEXANDRE LIBERATO, ROSER MARÍ, JORDI SÁNCHEZ, JORDI RODRÍGUEZ, VASCO MOURÃO, MIKA IITOMI (LANDSCAPING)
Client:
BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL - SARRIÀ-SANT GERVASI
BARCELONA D’INFRAESTRUCTURES MUNICIPALS – BIMSA
Construction: CONTRATAS Y OBRAS EMPRESA CONSTRUCTORA SA
Structural calculations: MANUEL ARGUIJO Y ASOCIADOS SL
M&E Engineering: JG INGENIEROS SA
Quantity surveryor: MAURICI DÍAZ, Technical Arch.
Renders: VICENTIU SOPTEREAN, JORDI RODRÍGUEZ
Construction cost without VAT: 7.645.084 €
Built area: 2.983 m2
Urban dev.area: 763 m2
Competition: June 2007 – First Place restricted competition
Design phase: March 2008 - Dec 2010
Construction: April 2011 - Work in progress
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CEIP El Solell
The intervention is located in the upper part of the village, in a magnificently sunny place and with privileged and spectacular views, as a result of the pronounced and eventful topography. The proposal tries to regularize and arrange, in the most harnessed possible way, different exterior spaces, at the same time it aims to achieve a good connection and orientation of the different program parts.
The area of the new terrains ceded by the Town hall (initially planned for executing the building expansion) located in the west side of the school enclosure adapts for a primary playground, including two sports courts, through a terracing system. So it is expected that in the most topographically complex part of the site all works are only of urbanization, looking for the greatest simplicity both constructive and economic. At the same time the unevennesses are made according to an ecological wall system like Geofix, to minimize the visual and economic impact, of the overall intervention, looking for maximum integration in place.
The building extension is proposed aligned with - Alberes street, at the site of the previous sports ground, and located in a parallel way but separate, in front of the existing building. This position looks for, on one hand, a simple connection scheme with the existing building, a very simple construction, an easy independent access, and compact, leaving the rest of the outside space as playground. On the other hand, the separation from the existing building, by creating a linear courtyard, seeks to ensure a good lighting and natural cross ventilation of all the spaces, including circulation areas.
The new building is developed in a single volume, combining one and two floors, corresponding to the program of the infantile area (3-5 years) and the dining room, on the ground floor, and gym-changing rooms, on the first floor coinciding with the height of the inferior sports grounds. Meanwhile the existing building is intended entirely to the program of primary school (6-11 years) and administration.
The formalization and disposition of the new volumetry, in front of the existing building, is carefully made considering not to interfere in the views and in the luminosity of the existing building classrooms. The communications tower emerges, so slender, out of the new building, as school announcement, and it also connects the two buildings and, at the same time, it solves the problem of removing architectural barriers inside the existing building.
The overall ordination of the intervention and the program ordered arrangement, both in floor and in section, allows to structure the courtyards independently according to the uses and, simultaneously, to organize and create a separate and independent access for the students of infantile, primary school, and other spaces such as the library, the AMPA, and the kitchen. Similarly, because of its position, the area of sports courts and gym has a secondary access, from Joan XXIII street, allowing people to use these installations, independently of the school schedule.
The arrangement of the openings in the facade and the walls of uglass look for to intensify the maximum luminosity of the interior spaces. In the choice of materials, such as exposed concrete, painted mortar, hpl coatings, waveform sheet metal and uglass enclosures, we have taken into account factors such as durability and ease of maintenance.
Architects / Project and Construction Management Authors:
SIERRA ROZAS arquitectes
Antonio Sierra & Ana Belén Rozas
Collaborators:
Structural Engineering: Eskubi-Turró arquitectes
Mechanical & electrical engineering: K2 Consulting
Architecture collaborators: Glenda Puntel, Andrés Martínez de la Riva i Oriol Raventós
Technical Architects: Grup G9 arquitectura i gestió
Client:
Generalitat de Catalunya - GISA
Main Contractor:
Construcciones Caler
Photographs:
Jordi Surroca
Budget (without tax):
3.445.928,33 €
Area:
3.929 m2 (building) + 5.630,00 m2 (urbanization)
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Ganztagsschule - Umbau und Erweiterung einer Schule
Im Zuge der umfassenden Umstrukturierung diverser Hamburger Schulen zu Ganztagsschulen beauftragte die Schulbau Hamburg SNAP mit der Erweiterung der Grundschule an den Teichwiesen in Hamburg-Volksdorf um einen Ganztagesbereich mit Multifunktionsfläche, Pausenhalle und Küchenbereich.
Bereits zu einem frühen Stadium wurde ersichtlich, dass der vorhandene Eingangsbereich mit direkt angeschlossener Pausenhalle für die Implementierung der Ganztagesfunktion ungeeignet und durch einen Neubau zu ersetzen ist.
Die klare Strukturierung des Neubaus, welche sich in der Ausformulierung der Gebäudekörper nach außen abbildet, ermöglich die optimale und separate Nutzung der unterschiedlichen Gebäudefunktionen. Zum Saseler Weg hin rückt die Schule durch die nach vorn und in sich versetzte Anordnung des Neubaus deutlich weiter Richtung Straße und versteht sich selbstbewusst als ein offener Teil der Gemeinschaft. Insbesondere der Gebäudeteil, welcher multifunktional als Schulkantine sowie zur Aufführung von Theater und Musical genutzt wird, streckt sich aus den weiteren Gebäudeteilen hervor und definiert bereits im Außenraum den Zugangsbereich. Großflächige Verglasungen im Bereich der Multifunktionsfläche sowie der Pausenhalle in Verbindung mit der offenen Gestaltung der Freianlagen sorgen für Transparenz und tragen zur Integration der Schule in den umliegenden Stadtteil bei. Die teilweise raumhohen Verglasungen in Verbindung mit den umlaufenden Oberlichtbändern sorgen dabei für die optimale natürliche Belichtung und Belüftung der Räume. Ein auf die Räume abgestimmtes Farbkonzept erzeugt eine fröhliche und lebendige Atmosphäre und schafft so eine Plattform für das bunte Pausenleben der Schüler.
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Grundinstandsetzung und Erweiterung des Hochhauses C10
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ZOH am Campus der Universität Regensburg
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Hausgarten Muri bei Bern
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Rolex SA
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Ecology of Colour
Ecology of Colour brings public function to a neglected corner of Dartford by acting as a jolly custodian for the re-imagined Ecology Island in Central Park. The timber structure is a community arts studio, bird-watching hide, and park shelter all rolled into one. There is a semioutdoor tiled classroom and storage space at ground level with an enclosed room upstairs offering views of the River Darent and surrounding trees. On the upper floor, shutters of various sizes allow for activities ranging from hidden wildlife watching and drawing, to public events that spill out into the park.
Studio Weave's brief from Artlands was to develop designs for a meaningful educational resource through placing emphasis on community engagement. The site is a curious rural pocket within an urban context, located at the tip of a wild, wooded peninsula in the heart of the North Kent town. The creation of two intertwined cycles has guided the project: the process of extracting colour dyes and using them for crafts, and the wildlife these plants attract including insects and birds. Since its completion in September 2012, the building has become a resource for visitors to explore and learn about plants, insects and birds in all their splendid colour, the process involved in extracting natural colour dyes, and the applications of dyes in craft and architecture.
The building of the Ecology of Colour was a humble construction process that took just two months on site and completed to a budget of £45k. British timber is the predominant building material with Larch used for the structural frame while the cladding is made from Cedar. It measures 4.5 m by 7.5 m in plan and reaches 5m to the eaves and 7m to the ridge in height. The simple structure has no glass windows or mains services and offers storage space accessible from outside where various users' equipment and materials can be stored. The covered space at ground level can also be used as a drying area (for dyeing workshops).
The Cedar cladding is stained with a pattern called ‘Joy’, designed by graphic designers Nous Vous. Prior to its installation, Nous Vous ran a series of workshops with a team of local residents and artists to paint all of the 144 panels, which form the external cladding.
One of the most ambitious aspects of the design's structure is the hinged 'beak' opening on the upper floor, where the entire wall on the east elevation opens in one fell swoop through a simple pulley system. When the beak is open it gives the effect of being up in a treehouse among the canopy, with views of the river swirling past.
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Weingut Neef-Emmich
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Weingut Markus Molitor
Die Sanierung des Weingutes Markus Molitor am Klosterberg in Bernkastel-Wehlen ist ein
hervorragendes Beispiel für den Umgang mit historischer Bausubstanz. Im Weingut
wurden die Anforderungen an eine moderne Weinbereitung, Präsentation und den Verkauf
sowie die Bewirtung von Gesellschaften sensibel, elegant und konsequent in das
gewachsene Ensemble integriert. Entstanden ist eine sparsame Eleganz, die die historische Dimension des Weingutes betont, ohne die Integration der modernen Elemente
zu verschweigen. (Aus der Bewertung der Jury / Architekturpreis Wein 2013)
Architekt und Bauherr haben seit 2007 in langen Gesprächen und einem intensiven Austausch die Gebäudesanierung des Weingutes Markus Molitor als Restaurierung und Erneuerung vorangetragen. Begonnen hatte alles mit der Aufgabe, den Probierraum neu zu gestalten und das Dach zu sanieren. Schnell wurde aber klar, dass die bauliche Situation in keiner Hinsicht, weder technisch noch ästhetisch, auch nur annährend den hohen Ansprüchen des Winzers an die Qualität seiner Arbeit entsprechen.
Bei der notwendigen Erneuerung sollte die lange Tradition des Weingutes Molitor sichtbar
gemacht werden. Die zur Neuordnung des Betriebes nötigen umfangreichen Eingriffe in die Bausubstanz wurden jedoch mit einer großen Rücksichtnahme auf historische Materialität, Farben und Oberflächen durchgeführt, so dass sie sich im Ergebnis dem Besucher nicht aufdrängen, sondern sich in den gewachsenen Gesamteindruck einfügen.
Zu Beginn der Bauarbeiten gab es keine einheitliche Erschließung des dreigeteilten Gebäudes. So wurde eine zentrale Treppe in den höheren Mittelbau implantiert, die alle Ebenen miteinander verbindet. Der großzügig-herrschaftliche Eindruck des erhöhten Erdgeschosses entstand durch die Enfilade doppelflügeliger Türen, die die Vinothek samt ihrer rückwärtigen Versorgung, das Foyer mit dem Besuchereingang, den Garderobe und den Toiletten, ein anschließendes Esszimmer und schließlich die Privaträumen aneinander reiht. In den Ebenen darunter befinden sich der Tankkeller und der unmittelbar an den Felsen anschließende alte Gewölbekeller, in dem die Weine in Holzfässern reifen.
Die ursprüngliche Geschosshöhe in den unterschiedlichen Teilen des Altbaus war so
ungleichmäßig, dass man sich entschloss, alle Decken zu erneuern, um die Ebenen im gesamten Gebäude zu vereinheitlichen.
Bei jedem Schritt wurde sorgfältig abgewogen, ob eine Aufarbeitung des Bestandes, eine
Restaurierung oder eine Erneuerung notwendig sind. Beispielsweise wurde das historische, schmiedeeiserne Geländer auf der vorderen Treppenanlage aufwändig instand gesetzt. Das Geländer an der Innentreppe ist dagegen neu, greift die formalen Vorgaben seiner älteren Schwester jedoch auf. Das historische Schiefermauerwerk wurde an vielen Stellen nicht nur erhalten, sondern auch wieder oder erstmals sichtbar gemacht.
Text: Annette Müller, Architektenkammer Rheinland-Pfalz
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ESPAICAIXA in Girona
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El objetivo de este proyecto ha sido la transformación del edificio existente en un centro cultural y social para dotarlo de representatividad institucional. Al inicio de nuestro proyecto nos encontramos con un edificio oscuro, semienterrado y sin ninguna calidad en sus espacios, ubicado en el interior de una manzana de viviendas en la ciudad de Girona. El programa, muy variado, va de un auditorio con capacidad para 180 personas a una sala de exposiciones, una sala de informática y la área administrativa.
Trabajamos sobre el edificio existente para exprimir la capacidad de expresión del espacio interior y proponer una imagen potente tanto interior como exterior.
La investigación de esta nueva imagen ha generado un nuevo mundo de interiores sugerentes. Tomando como referencia el techo de la Pedrera de Gaudí, planteamos un cielo raso blanco continuo pero maleable y quebrado, que tuviera un carácter expresivo propio y que estuviera presente en todos los diferentes espacios del variado programa del EspaiCaixa. Asímismo, el paradigma del patio de luces de la Casa Batlló nos define las características de los paramentos verticales separadores de espacio que, como los azulejos de Gaudí, se tintan de un tono azul-verde para dar frescor y aportar luminosidad.
Tanto el falso techo como los paramentos verticales vidriados y tintados dan unidad al conjunto y guían al usuario.
El enérgico aspecto interior transpira sus particularidades a la fachada del edificio, que se tinta parcialmente de los colores interiores. A pesar del contraste entre EspaiCaixa y los edificios de viviendas que lo rodean, la integración en el tejido urbano se mejora respecto al edificio existente y pasa a ser un interior de manzana transitado y frecuentado por los vecinos.
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The aim of this project was the conversion of the existing building into a cultural and social centre, which would provide it with institutional representation. The outset was a dark, half-buried building that lacked quality spaces, placed at the interior of a block in Girona. The vast remodelling program included a 180-seat auditorium, an exhibition room, a computer room and an administrative area, among other spaces.
We decided to work on the existing building in order to take full advantage of a very expressive interior space, whilst proposing a powerful image both to interior and exterior spaces.
The pursuit of a new image uncovered a world of suggestive interior spaces. Taking the ceiling of Antoni Gaudí’s Pedrera as a model, our proposal consisted of a white dropped ceiling, continuous yet undulating, uneven, which has an expressive character of its own and is present in all spaces of EspaiCaixa. Also, Gaudí’s Casa Batlló offered some ideas for the courtyard, in the features of separating surfaces that -as in Gaudí’s mosaic tiles- are coloured in blue-green in order to provide freshness and luminosity.
Both the false ceiling and the coloured glass walls give the building unity and contribute to guide the user throughout the facilities
The vibrant design in the interior reveals its distinctive features to the façade, which is partially painted with the same colours as the interior. Despite the contrast between EspaiCaixa and the surrounding blocks, the overall integration with the urban fabric is improved with respect to the previous building. Moreover, it becomes an inner block used and frequented by the neighbours.
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CentreCaixa in Sant Pere Hospital
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En este pabellón annexo del hospital de Sant Pere de Ribes generamos un nuevo concepto de unidad asistencial para enfermos terminales, que se ha implantado posteriormente en varios centros hospitalarios de toda España.
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With this pavillion of Sant Pere hospital we created a new concept of medical attention for the terminal ill, which has been afterwards applied by different hospitals all around Spain.
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Multifunctional pavillion 'Riera Major'
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El reto de la ampliación de este centro terapéutico situado en una privilegiada ubicación de las afueras de Viladrau (Girona) fue, en primer lugar, ofrecer una mejor relación del enfermo residente con el entorno natural mediante una reinterpretación de las construcciones tradicionales de la zona. Y en segundo lugar, estudiar las verdades necesidades programáticas del centro ‘Riera Major’ para ofrecerles una respuesta mesurada y económica.
Este pabellón de uso exclusivo de los pacientes del centro nace de la necesidad de un espacio polivalente y conectado al edificio-residencia principal. La intención de ser un espacio abierto a su entorno se refleja en la sección, que se abre al bosque mediante dos grandes paramentos transparentes y a su vez, crea dos paredes ciegas donde se concentran las instalaciones necesarias, tanto las programáticas (baños y despacho) como las térmicas, energéticas y lumínicas.
La aportación de este edificio se centra en sintetizar, de manera contemporánea, la necesidad de una arquitectura integrada tanto en el paisaje como en el edificio que lo acoge. Proponemos partir formalmente de una arquitectura tradicional, respetando el volumen del edificio vecino, pero utilizando materiales y una imagen contemporánea mediante una estructura de madera ligera. El sistema estructural, entendido como la quilla de un barco, no actúa simplemente como elemento de sujeción, si no que otorga carácter al espacio y muestra el origen volumétrico del edificio. Como en las construcciones tradicionales, la estructura confiere la forma al edificio.
Igualmente, se opta por una esmerada selección de los materiales, colores, texturas y luz utilizados; para que el mimetismo del edificio con el entorno –en todas sus escalas- sea el máximo.
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The challenge on the enlargement of this therapeutic centre -‘Riera Major’, located in a privileged site in the outskirts of Viladrau, Girona- was, on the one hand, to offer an improved relation between the patient and the surrounding nature through a reinterpretation of traditional constructions of the area. And on the other hand, to study the real needs of the centre in order to offer them a moderate, affordable solution.
This pavilion –which will be used exclusively by the patients of the centre– responds to the need of a new multifunctional space connected with the existing building. The will to be an open space is reflected in the section, which opens up towards the forest with two big windows, while at the same time has two blank walls where all the required building systems are located, both programmatical (restrooms and an office) and thermic, energy and lighting.
The main contribution of this building consists in synthesising, in a contemporary fashion, the need of an all-encompassing architecture that integrates both the surrounding landscape and the existing building. We propose to start with the formal model of a traditional architecture –in harmony with the existing building- but using materials and a contemporary image by means of a light wooden structure. The structural system is seen as a boat’s keel, and it doesn’t only work as a fastening component but it also conveys a ‘personality’ to the inner space and at the same time, it displays the volumetric origin of the pavilion. Like in traditional constructions, the structure bestows shape to the building.
We also opt for a careful selection of materials, colours, textures and lighting to be used, in order to facilitate a complete integration of the pavilion, on all its scales, with the surroundings.
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