Prefabricated concrete

The land of the intervention is located on the right bank of the Guadalquivir River, bounded by the Navigation Pavilion and the Chapina Bridge on its north and south sides and west by the new route of the Path of the Discoveries. The edge of the river will delimit the perimeter to the east of the new gardens. These lands, with an area of approximately 40,000 m², formed the sector called Puerta Triana, South access to the grounds of the Universal Exhibition of Seville in 1992. It was a heterogeneous conglomerate of diverse episodes that poorly coexisted in an impassable and inhospitable enclosure, abandoned to their fate after the end of the Universal Exposition. Asphalted and earthen lands, destined for parking lots, formed the western... More

At the end of the 1200s, San Gimignano and Colle Val d'Elsa achieved full autonomy as free Municipalities and a pact of friendship was established between the two, which defined the territorial areas and expansion policies. Between 1309 and 1320, a mighty castle was erected on Monte dei Lecci, acting as a line of demarcation and control. The town that soon sprang up around it was called Castel di San Gimignano. Before the 1300s there was already a church dedicated to Santa Cristina located in a small group of rural houses and farms in the area where the cemetery was built. The cemetery of Castel San Gimignano is a paradigmatic example of a "camposanto" in the Tuscan countryside: an expression of the civitas found in the village and its agri... More

"ArioChoob" project, which is anoffice & show-room for presenting imported lumbering machines, is located in the industrial town of "BehsaziSanayeChoob". Constructions in this industrial town are usually built from prefabricated concrete panels andeach block is divided into four parts, with the height of 12 meters. Unlike the common appearance of these industrial towns, this town looks like a garden and the street networkis constructed carefully in order to save the trees from any damage.   The project was referred to us when it was under construction. The whole project had the same two-level type. As we discussedwith the client, we detected requirements and priorities of the project and we decided to change the routine typology,... More

precision urban building block  Annex for the Bamberg State Archive With its meticulously planned dimensions, the cuboid structure has the effect of a keystone slotting neatly into the complex of listed buildings which make up the Bamberg State Archive. Together with the historic wall, it cordons off the neo-baroque gardens. A single-level corridor connects the old to the new and features a glazed facade offering a largely unimpeded view of the historic building. A single-storey flat-roofed building provides a ground-level link between the new build and the depository dating from the 1960s. Floor-to-ceiling windows give the row of offices a view of the courtyard. Prefabricated concrete ribs on the facade reflect the storing... More

How to build nowadays social housing in a district of Paris which has a strong Haussmann identity, and at the same time how to answer the challenges of today, and among them sustainability? The building shows its belonging to the Parisian history and at the same time its modernity in the Parisian urban landscape. The street façade plays with the contradiction and complexity between historical and contemporary, between verticality and horizontality, between alignments and shifts, between light and shadows, between mineral and vegetal.   The façade develops themes of the Parisian Architecture such as composition and materiality: wooden vertical windows, mineral materiality, high level ground floor, horizontal cornices...... More

The project’s objective is the complete renovation of a classic town house in the centre of Toulouse (Occitanie region, France). The project is located in the centre of Toulouse, in the Montplaisir neighbourhood, between the Canal du Midi and the botanical gardens of the Jardin des Plantes. Its proximity to the Radoub Basin, created in the 19th century between the canal and the railroad for the maintenance and repair of barges, puts the project in a protected historical monument zone. The existing house, two stories plus an attic, was divided into 4 units that had fallen into a dilapidated state. It is characteristic of the regional typology: cornice, brick façade, double-pitched roof running parallel to the street, framed wi... More

The Tibidabo Welcome Square is the new introduction to the main elements of the attraction park Tibidabo. Solidarity, sustainability and education at its core, the new square opens up towards the beautiful city, inviting visitors of all generations to contemplate over the panoramic view of Barcelona. This new modern, yet playful welcome square has been branded by the vertical garden covering the welcome buildings facade. Now the welcome building turns into one of Barcelona’s biggest insect Hotels transforming the amusement park into an inter-species attraction. The facade makes reference to the park surrounding the Tibidabo, limiting visual pollution by blending in with the natural environment. The green growing façade is a st... More

Facing justice is an experience that disconnects us from the usual discourse of life. How and to what extent can architecture affect our behavior, soothe or exacerbate our feelings? What is conventional is that the solemnity, the order and the rigor of architecture are there to signify the authority of Justice. For the litigant or for the one who demands justice, subjected to the test of his vulnerability, shouldn’t we expect architecture to be welcoming, soothing the effects of a suffered violence?    Architecture must have meaning. It must speak, tell stories and make us question: a site, a program, a group of people and a story. It is a matter of specificity since architecture is the art of conjunction.    O... More

A façade that is striking for its materiality stands for 10 meters along the road, while maintaining the language and proportions of the industrial warehouse.   Marco Acerbis completely reconstructs the architectural volume with a prefabricated concrete system, from which it visually and structurally separates the building of the showroom and restaurant. The facade has a silver coating, made by hand, that recalls the idea of ​​aluminum, the material used by the Agnelli family (the client, an Italian manufacturer of aluminum cookware and frames).   The circular motifs of the plaster, combined with portholes of varying diameters, contrast with the broad glass surface of the façade: a sort of full-height tympanum wh... More

AEU TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL VOCATIONAL HIGH-SCHOOL (OIB TEKNIK VE ENDUSTRI MESLEK LISESI)PROJECT BACKGROUND As its corporate social responsibility project, the Automotive Industry Exporters Union has targeted at establishment of a school to encounter the need for qualified employees in the sector and the initials steps for this school to be registered under the Ministry of Education have been taken in 2008.With the intention to reflect its contemporary vision upon achievement of the project objectives, the corporation has organized an invited architectural project competition. The preliminary designs prepared and presented by thirteen invited offices have been evaluated by a jury consisting of invited academician architects from architectu... More

Three residential buildings offering exceptional views of the great Parisian landscape anchor three corners of a mixed-use block. At the heart of the project is a cultural center for the new ZAC Clichy- Batignolles district in Paris’ 17th arrondissement: a seven-theatre cinema and a community center. These public volumes, anchored to the ground, give way to the public realm and are crowned with hanging gardens. Three residential blocks emerge from this base, climbing up to 50 meters. This simple distribution of masses effectively resolves the inscription of a complex program on a high-density site. Thickened facades permit a band of generous loggias around the residential blocks. Architectural precast concrete on the buildings’ facades situ... More

Architectural Order within Urban DisorderThe Hippodrome Tower in Guadalajara, Mexico (2012-18), by OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona), is one of the crowning achievements in Carlos Ferrater’s fifty-plus years of creating architecture; on this occasion together with Xavier Martí and with the collaboration of Álvaro Berubén. It is an irregular prism that manages to bring order to a growth area of the Jalisco capital, in which there is not only an unforeseen mélange of typologies—from single-family houses to tower blocks—but also no extantplan for a hierarchized road system adapted to the marked increase in traffic. The tower stands where the dramatic, unplanned survival of streets and roadways prior to urban growth abound.  T... More

Since a couple of years the former Philips-complex Strijp-S in the Dutch industrial city of Eindhoven forms the centre of redevelopment. The urban design made by Dutch Urban-firm West 8 focuses on a combination of reuse of the Philips heritage and customized new buildings. The driving force of the ensemble is creativity; creative professions and functions mixed with an urban living environment.Loftwonen is a special form of urban residence. The idea of Loftwonen is based on high rooms and flexible floor plans. Block 61, which was designed by architecten|en|en, is part of an urban composition of three housing blocks that are constructed in a similar manner. The housing blocks are located along the railway as an extension of the well-known Kl... More

The aim of the apartment's overall reconstruction was to create a quiet and neutral background for the life of the young family, which would then occupy it according to its current needs and tastes. The task was to create an empty space where all the functions expected from the completed apartment are integrated into walls that define the space. Smart wiring, storage rooms and furniture systems to ensure the variability of the placement of individual elements in the apartment are discreetly embedded in a material & color balanced palette of surfaces with precise and minimalist detailing that can be matched by any color range or style of future owners. The apartment is located on the 3rd floor of a four-story brick house from the 19... More