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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: aceboXalonso, Concrete, Glass, Museum, Spain
This building is the result of a first prize in an open international competition in order to develop two different buildings on one plot. Mixing both programs into a single shape we obtained an strange concrete tree-like shape that contains in its interior the Dance School, and the surrounding space becomes a Museum. Later, this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: ACXT, ESD design, Green architecture, Lattice screen, Spain, Workplace
The building has an activated load-bearing structure that takes part in the HVAC of the building, a system used in Spain for the first time. The inauguration of the new IDOM corporate office in Madrid took place last Friday 13th of April. Over 900 guests attended the event, including clients, collaborators, top institutional heads and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Interior Tags: ACXT, Folding architecture, Spain, Workplace
Scheme and Conditioning Factors A complex of 3 buildings and landscaping destined for R&D+i in the Automotive Sector. Two of the buildings are intended for use as Development Units (halls) with laboratories and small-scale production. The third, the Main Building, houses research units of various companies in the automotive sector, a laboratory (for common projects [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, IFAC, Spain
IFAC (International Festival of Art & Construction) is focused on 200 young and dynamic people from the world of art and architecture from different parts of Europe. They will live and work together for 10 days in August 2012, in a creative and integrated space of different art programmes, to debate, work and exchange experiences, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: ACXT, Color architecture, Random pattern, Spain, Stadium, Swimming pool
Bilbao, Miribilla neighborhood, built on ancient iron mines adyacent to the old part of town. A very hilly solar (46 m from one corner to another, just 200m) in which the building was caught in the neighborhood park. Limestone rocks sticking out between the banks and trees in the park gave us the key to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brick, Concrete, H arquitectes, Recycle, Spain, Stair
Located in a pleasant residential neighbourhood, the house is a compact building (almost a cube) surrounded by a 3 meters wide perimeter necessary courtyard, which is the minimum mandatory gap based on current regulations. The pre-existing yard, the swimming-pool and the shed set at the back of the plot are preserved by the express wish [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, José Manuel Cutillas, Spain
This project is important from the perspective that in a modern contemporary useful space, requirements are met in terms of flexibility and spatial quality. The first such requirement is met by the modulated conception of the spaces, the materials and the building services, which allow easy reorganization of the internal layout should future requirements so [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: AGi architects, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Spain, White
The site can be accessed from either side of the surrounding streets to allow for both a private and a public entrance. After moving along a curved wall that guides the visitor from the exterior of the plot into the center, one reaches the main entrance into the house. Upon entering through the main door [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Random pattern, Spain
In the surroundings of the central park in Mendillorri, it has been proposed a building which keeps a relationship with the surrounding area, its views, and its functions. A type of monument which distances itself from people hasn’t been sought out, but rather a constructed place which plays second fiddle to the park and the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: AH Asociados, Refurbishment / Extension, School, Spain
The ‘Tierra Estella’ school is one of the latest educational centers that AH asociados has designed for the government of Navarre. The building has been designed under environmental criteria (energy certification rating B), complying with the brief and established requirements, and avoiding the saturation of the building plot within the immediate surroundings. The initial design [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Folding architecture, Matteo Cainer architects, Museum, Spain
The fractured tectonic of the Santiago Ydañez Museum, in the town of Puente de Génave expresses the relationship between the work of the artists, the site and the building program. Conceptually a jazz improvisation, the intersection of the integrated and sculpted grids is conceived as a musical rhythm where the new museum becomes a reactive [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: AH Asociados, Courtyard architecture, Folding architecture, Spain, White
This house is located in an area dotted with residential buildings. Building a house that creates an isolated world for its inhabitants requires a simple but determined execution. It has been necessary to make the most of the views by making use of the elevated position of the plot to protect it from the impact [...]
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