6×6 Shelter / Colle-Croce
The term Refuge can refer us to post-apocalyptic universes, emergency architecture, or a remote and difficult-to-access place.
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José Mármol Refurbishment / Micaela Racca
The project arises from the need to renovate a late 19th-century 35sqm apartment located in Almagro, Buenos Aires.
Tajin 413 Building / Cometrue
Tajín 413 is located in Narvarte neighborhood in Mexico City. The idea was clear: to generate 8 dwellings on a rectangular lot, distributed over 4 habitable levels, a semi-basement for parking, and on the rooftop an area that could be used as a coexistence area. The slender shape of the building and the idea of generating spaces free of walls where the kitchen, dining room, and living room could be unified, led the architectural program, to place four exterior and four interior dwellings.
Monte Tauro Residence / PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados
Monte Tauro is a single-family residence located in Lomas de Chapultepec, a highly residential area of Mexico City. The site is a 30x20m rectangle with neighbors to three of the sides, and a street on the north side.
Barranca del Muerto Building / CCA Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica
The uniqueness of this project lies in the site’s double frontage, allowing the program to be spread between two towers: each has a main façade, looking onto Barranca del Muerto and José María Ibarrarán streets. Inside, a space contains the vertical circulation core shared by both towers, as well as a central courtyard rising ten stories high, to which the corridors that lead to the apartments lead.
Matamoros Market / C733
“This city has many squares where there is a continuous market and I try to buy and sell. It has a square as big as twice the city of Salamanca, still surrounded by portals around it; where there are over sixty thousand souls buying and selling daily.” Hernán Cortés
House in Asunción / Josep Ferrando
An enclosure and a porch. A brick wall shelters and guarantees the necessary security on a 30x24m plot. The enclosure is expressed on three of its sides with the thickness of the material itself, and in the fourth it is widened with 6m to locate the service spaces (barbecue, parking and sanitary spaces), freeing up a 24x24m landscaped space. A porch rises slightly with respect to the height of the enclosure revealing a view above it, establishing a visual bridge with the parks that surround the exterior of the house. The threshold is positioned asymmetrically, clearing a larger garden on its north side and a smaller one on its south side, always moving away from the limits to emphasize the lighting and transversal ventilation of the interior space.
Architecture and Engineering Side by Side: the Case of Urban Bridges
The technical needs of the construction of bridges many times guide the development of the design itself. However, architecture is never put aside, rather the opposite. The aesthetics of bridges that we collect in this article are the result of an intense, demanding, and stimulating dialogue between architecture and engineering, where the search for solutions only ends when both disciplines are fully satisfied.
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros
The future Munch Museum is not only a facility to safeguard and exhibit a fundamental heritage in the history and nature of Norwegian culture. It also constitutes a unique opportunity to develop a contemporary museum concept, nourished by a highly significant urban role and historical responsibility as a cohesive element of the community, not only of Oslo but also of the entire nation.
Cereso Femenil Library / Proyecto Reacciona A.C
The refurbishment of Cereso Femenil de Escobedo Library is the fourth intervention within the “Create Community” program by the Asociación Civil Proyecto Rearea.