Child Care Center / Equipo de Arquitectura
The Child Care Center is born from a set of intentions directed to create an impact on future generations.
Articles by Agustina Coulleri
Farinera de Can Suau Refurbishment / Montis Sastre Arquitectura
The project to reform the Farinera de Can Suau consists of the performance of a forgotten urban corner in Llubí (Mallorca). Bounded by the rear facades of the adjoining houses, there are two buildings that have historically functioned, one conditioned by the other. It is the Molí de Can Suau, a heritage building, as well as its attached “Farinera”, a later construction dating from 1900. The proposal consists of urban action, generating a new semi-public urban space in the municipality. The resulting project is a new plaza for Llubí where new vertical connections have been placed outside to achieve the greatest free space inside the Farinera.
Meloso Restaurant / t-unoauno + arqaz arquitectura
Meloso arose in response to Mexico City’s earthquake on September 19, 2017. Located in the town of San Luis Tlaxialtemalco, it is a town that originated from Mexico City that still preserves vestiges of the pre-Hispanic era such as cultivation on ‘chinampas’ (floating gardens).
12VoltRetreat Refuge / Mariana de Delás
12VoltRetreat – #1 Siurell is a case study pilot to renew a series of existing traditional sheds and shelters into temporary sybaritic outside dens sited in rural Mallorca. Throughout the island’s agricultural fields these traditional stone shelters were built to act as refuges (to take cover and or/rest) for hunters and shepherds and also act as storage units for labor tools. The simple local mares stone construction walls and the light ceramic + tile roofing plus the small size footprint they occupy,( they range from 5 to 20 sq meters) make them very recognizable across the island. Currently, many of them are in disuse but still keep the outside enveloping structure intact, with the added value that most of them are sited in idyllic locations.
Nahsac House / TACO taller de arquitectura contextual
Casa Nahsac is a single-family house designed for an indefinite user located within a residential complex in the municipality of Conkal (metropolitan area of the city of Mérida, Mexico). The goal was to introduce the values of traditional Yucatecan Architecture to a commercial housing scheme, in order to establish a more coherent relationship between future inhabitants and the regional environment.
House of Culture Toba Qom / OCA
“Ethnicity necessarily supposes a trajectory (…) and an origin (…). What would be characteristic of ethnic identities is that in them the historical actualization does not cancel the feeling of reference to the origin but even reinforces it. It is from the symbolic and collective resolution of this contradiction that comes to the political and emotional strength of ethnicity” Joao Pacheco de Oliveira. The development of the State, religion, and capital has destructured the indigenous socioeconomic organization, forcing the communities to integrate into the economic system, which seems to be the only way out of extreme poverty. How to see the future?
Cosmos House / S-AR
Cosmos House is a small house placed nearby Puerto Escondido on the Pacific coast of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The house is composed of three main elements. The first element is a center or hard nucleus, built with concrete slabs and columns with a brutal finish. It shelters the habitable space under the roof: a reduced program that includes one bedroom, kitchen-dinning room, living, and bathroom. Each of them occupies a quadrant of an almost perfect squared floor plan.
Tasso Building / Nomos
Located in the center of Lisbon, the new red brick building stands across a glass 12-story office building, with very limited views.
Pedestrian Connection Between Barcelona and Montcada i Reixac / Batlleiroig
The project tackles an interstitial space between municipalities, at the convergence of the Collserola and Marina ranges, besides the Rec Comtal and Besós natural spaces. The project’s area has historically been the rear side of both municipalities becoming a space degraded by illegal thrash dumping carried out over the years, generating the disengagement of the citizens with the area. The goal of the project is to consolidate and improve a pedestrian connection, currently inaccessible and insecure, between Vallbona and Can Sant Joan.
Amaya Headquarters / RuizEsquíroz
Since the first liner with intermodal containers was unloaded in Bremen in 1966, its growth in the development of world trade has been spectacular. The container is an icon of our globalized society. Almost everything we buy travels in them, either in disassembled components or as finished products. There are about 800 million containers on earth, but their lifespan for transportation is just between 8 and 10 years, and then the problem of what to do with them arises. Melting a container into steel consumes about 8.000 kWh, while to reuse it as a construction element requires only between 400 to 800 kWh. Why not reuse it in the industrial sector as a structural piece while maintaining its storage capacity?