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House Behind a Wall / La Mirateca

March 25, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

‘House behind a wall’ is a project resolved based on the initial condition of providing an opaque response to its relationship with the public thoroughfare capable of allowing greater privacy for users and a more comfortable internal operation without the need to be conditioned by what happens outside. The absence of a hole in the facade implies creating our own tools to resolve the organization of the program and resolve with the same construction what was eliminated by the starting premise.

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Hushh House / Elliott Architects

March 25, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

The conservation area character appraisal states that the village is ‘not a conservation area defined by large open spaces and vistas, rather by secret paths and secluded streets.’ This was the starting point for the design which uses the idea of a raised secret garden, permeated by small courtyards which form another layer to this romantic concept.

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The Black House / MDAMMM + The Black House Studio

March 24, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

The design idea was to keep the volume but colour everything black. The owners showed us the single-family home they had just bought, on the outskirts of Sant Cugat, built in 2010, nondescript and with little aesthetic appeal; the vertical faces were exposed brick in ochre tones and all other elements featured different grey tones and finishes.

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TOMM House / mauricio Alonso. m arquitectuA

March 20, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

The house proposes a way of living that starts from a continuous dialogue with the landscape in which it is located. An irregular terrain at the end of a closed street, merging in some portion, to the semicircle of the roundabout that completes the residential area where TOMM House stars with its powerful personality of right angles. It is a Volume contiguous to a green area that belongs to the city. This green area is the trigger that determines the orientation. The street front is totally blind and leaves its main opening to the northeast. The order is for a family of 3 inhabitants with a priority; establish a permanent conversation with the vegetation that is what guarantees the outdoors, without neglecting privacy. The highest percentage of the garden area that the polygon of the land allowed us was achieved, being the juncture between the habitable and the area donated for a park, attesting to this constant relationship of views to the horizon.

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Renovation of the Priorat / Atienza Maure Arquitectos

March 20, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

Context. The project consists of the rehabilitation of a Castilian mansion from the s. XVI had burned in a fire in 2011. Only the stone walls, the staircase with a vault, and the voussoirs of the collapsed arches remained. The building had formerly been used as the residence of the prior of the Monastery of Oña.

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LaCalor Studio / KAL A

March 20, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

Between the neighborhoods of Opañel and Comillas in the Carabanchel district of Madrid, La Calor opens an art and screen-printing studio run by artists Bruno del Giúdice and Candela Sotos. The studio has a large open workspace of 90 sqm and a back garden of 120 sqm. Three main actions have been carried out: opening the rear façade to connect the studio with the garden, the construction of a light structure to create an upper floor space, and the complete refurbishment of the space.

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Chapultepec Environmental Culture Center / ERREqERRE Arquitectura y Urbanismo

March 19, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

The Environmental Culture Center contemplates a Pavilion surrounded by a set of Gardens with a naturalistic design and an ethnobotanical look. These Gardens refer to the diverse ecosystems and natural landscapes of the Valley of Mexico Basin (Temperate Forests, Grasslands, Wetlands, and Pedregal vegetation) and are carefully integrated with the existing vegetation, topography, and equipment of Chapultepec, thus optimizing and increasing its Great potential as an urban forest.