Works – unfinished.es

Convent of Santa María de los Reyes

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:55:17 +0000

The old Convent of Santa Maria de los Reyes is located within a built-up block in the historic centre of Seville. It was abandoned and in a state of semi-ruin, except for the church, choirs and entry porch, which were used regularly for exhibitions and workshops. The old convent vegetable gardens had been converted into a large “vacant lot” concealed behind the walls of the old convent, waiting to be built on or rediscovered.
Due to the decrepit state of the historical complex (cloister, cells, rectory and old vegetable gardens) an urgent intervention was required. Given the scarcity of available funding and taking into account the requirements of the new urban partners in the historic centre, it was decided to make installed consolidations; with new paths, consolidating urban practices and pre-inhabiting mechanisms for art installations.

Credits

Convent of Santa María de los Reyes

Location:
C/ Santiago nº33, Sevilla

Architects:
José Morales y Sara de Giles

Project team:
Proyecto instalaciones: Insur JG; Aparejador: Francisco Alcoba;
Structure: Paco Duarte y asociados; Jardinería: Juan José Guerrero Álvarez.

Area:
1674 m2

Photografy:
Jesús Granada

2013–2015

La entrada Convent of Santa María de los Reyes aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Re-Habitar

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:54:56 +0000

The house at callejón de Menores 12 is a courtyard house with many elements of interest, dating from the first- through the twentieth-centuries. This project set out to establish innovative criteria for historic building renovation. The fundamental goal was to reactivate the residential fabric of the historic centre with new uses: generate new design methods for historic buildings, transmit knowledge to the participating students and define other approaches to renovation ranging from project management to actual construction, which could be exported as models for other situations in the city. Regarding the interventions, the first was to insure the stability of the structure by adding an exoskeleton that supports the existing structure, without removing anything. The intervention is accomplished while conserving the form and textures of the existing construction elements, maintaining the possibility to read each moment of the house’s history. Only reversible, dry-mounted construction systems are used.

Credits

Re-Habitar

Location:
Nº 12 del callejón de Menores 12, Toledo

Architects:
Profesores y alumnos de la escuela de arquitectura de Toledo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Technical Architect:
Vicente Gómez Padilla

Area:
710,46 m2

Photography:
Ángel Baltanás

2015

La entrada Re-Habitar aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Restoration of the old church of Corbera d’Ebre

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:53:45 +0000

The objective of this intervention was to restore the ruins of the old church without drastically changing its identity as a symbol and expression of the Battle of the Ebro, a turning point in the Spanish Civil War. It was vital that the transformation of the church into a multi-purpose hall be achieved without altering the memories it contained. The restoration called for the preservation of the subtle balance between nature and construction, exterior and interior, which is characteristic of all ruins. The perception that one is still “outside” even after entering “inside” had to be maintained. A transparent ETFE roof was installed, which prevents further deterioration of the building by atmospheric agents and notably improves interior comfort.
The resulting space is halfway between inside and outside, thanks to the sunlight passing through the lightweight roof, the breeze, the sounds of the birds flying through the upper reaches of the aisles and the sand floors.

Credits

Restoration of the old church of Corbera d’Ebre

Location:
Poble Vell, Corbera d’Ebre, Terra Alta, Tarragona

Architects:
Ferran Vizoso, Núria Bordas, Jordi Garriga, David Garcia

Team:
Mónica Company and Giovanni Bautista, Xosé Domínguez. Technical Architect: Teresa Arnal and Ernest Valls

Area:
1050 m2

Photography:
José Hevia

1999-2011

La entrada Restoration of the old church of Corbera d’Ebre aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Intermediate House

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:52:15 +0000

The time that passed from the eviction of the tenants of this sixteenth-century palace and the commission to transform the building into a small hotel and restaurant resulted in an extremely suggestive and evocative intermediate landscape; somewhere between a ruin and a void, between existing conditions and archaeology, a window open onto history in which the marks of events and of our time are superimposed, like a palimpsest. It is an atlas of different undocumented materials, which registers the memories of the inhabitants and the history of the construction of the house and its transformations.
The intermediate house is a place waiting for something to happen. An intervened space without intervention. It is the frozen memory of a place that at this moment is not inhabited.
Containing the past, present and future simultaneously as a way to retain in memory this place and its origin.

Credits

Intermediate House

Location:
Granada

Architect:
Carmen Moreno Álvarez

Team:
Pablo Fernández Carpintero, Juan Moreno Romero, María Zurita Elizalde, Carmen Álvarez Vílchez, estudiantes de arquitectura. Ingeniería Industrial: Ábaco Ingenieros

Photography:
Carmen Moreno Álvarez

2009-2017

La entrada Intermediate House aparece primero en unfinished.es.

San Isidro sugar Factory

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:51:40 +0000

Juan Domingo had decided that he would convert the old, abandoned factory near the train tracks into his architecture studio. A desire that became stronger with the passing years. The factory quickly became a field for study and experimentation where he learned the importance of addressing history and its meaning in a more natural, relaxed and less dramatic way. He reconstructed his history by letting intuition lead him and through a series of experiences which let him decipher this mysterious place, until he had made a map of singular events, from its foundation up to his arrival. He remembers having made outings to the site and naming different places, relating the original toponymy of the spaces with possible or desired future activities. With the passing years the revitalization project and the activities that have been implemented can be recognized as a rescue mission for this industrial complex. The short film ‘An encounter’, produced together with cinema director Juan Bollaín, relates his experiences in the factory.

Credits

San Isidro sugar Factory

Location:
Granada

Architects:
Juan Domingo Santos

Team:
Students and professors from the Architecture schools of Granada, Seville, Munich, Rome, Madrid, Valencia, Coimbra, Barcelona, the International School of Catalonia, the European School of Madrid, directors of institutions like the Andalusia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Board of trustees of the Alhambra and Generalife, the Commission of Industrial Heritage of Andalusia, the Architectural Association, The Office of Architecture and Urban Planning and the citizens of Granada and the rest of the world.
Axonometric drawing: Pablo Fernández Carpintero and Paloma Ramírez Sanjuán.

1901-2016

La entrada San Isidro sugar Factory aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Contemporary Art Space

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:50:13 +0000

This intervention interprets the building where the sixteenth-century convent is inserted, as a context that over the centuries is continually being transformed. Beyond a historical interest, the succession of alterations suggests a metamorphosis; the approach to the building emerges from the search for its materiality, concealed by the claddings of the old university classrooms.
In this space that has been so dramatically altered, with an extremely limited budget, the project is activated by the action of discovery; converting destruction into something as natural as construction. After unmasking floors, walls and ceilings, the blurred openings between spaces were reinforced with steel jambs and lintels and new glazing was installed in the cloister to recover the transparent relation with the courtyard that existed when it was an ambulatory. The result is a rough intervention that doesn’t pretend to be conclusive, but offers an intermediate moment. From this point all options are possible; it is a space in an ellipsis, waiting expectantly for each artistic installation to complete it.

Credits

Contemporary Art Space

Location:
Antiguo convento de Madre de Dios, Sevilla

Architects:
Sol 89. María González y Juanjo López de la Cruz

Team:
Alejandro Cabanas, Instalaciones: Vicente Gómez Padilla

Area:
830 m2

Photography:
Fernando Alda

2012-2013

La entrada Contemporary Art Space aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Espai Barberi

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:49:56 +0000

Acquired in 2004 in a state of ruin, over stages the old Barberí foundry has gradually become RCR Arquitectes’ studio. The past of this factory building, constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century, is evident everywhere and establishes a very close relationship with new interventions.
The connection between tradition and innovation, together with other core concepts of the RCR philosophy like relating to the outdoors and reflecting the passage of time, has given rise to an ensemble that combines different spaces and uses.
The renovation work, which has been under way since 2006, consolidated the former complex and reorganised the existing industrial buildings, transforming them into a laboratory that meets their studio’s various needs.

Credits

Espai Barberi

Location:
C. Fontanella, 26. Olot Girona

Architects:
RCR Arquitectes

Photography:
Sophie Mayer

2004-2006

La entrada Espai Barberi aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Rei Martí water deposit

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:48:56 +0000

It was the notion of discovery that occurred with the Rei Marti water deposit, a former space for water storage of the Torre Bellesguard house in Barcelona, designed by Gaudi and located next to the viaduct that is also attributed to this totemic architect. This water deposit had been concealed beneath a pine forest until 20 years ago, when during some minor maintenance work on the small part of the old-growth forest that still remained; a truck began to sink into the ground. Quickly it was confirmed to the amazement of all that a huge space of more than 600 m2 was crouching under the earth. It was definitely decided to share the space, to invite the public to reclaim this stroke of luck, but, above all, share the emotion of the unexpected discovery. To this end the project had to be as faithful as possible to the space as it was originally encountered. The character, materiality, the force of a space with arches and vaults had to be valued, maintained and strengthened by the intervention.

Credits

Rei Martí water deposit

Location:
Calle Bellesguard 14 , Barcelona

Architects:
ARCHIKUBIK (Marc Chalamanch, Miquel Lacasta, Carmen Santana) – Enllaç arquitectònic Arc-Roig

Team:
Architect: Jero Steinger; Technical architect: Francesc Belart; Structures: Eskubi Turró Arquitectes; Acoustics: David Casadevall

Area:
966.05m2

Photography:
Adrià Goula

2014-2015

La entrada Rei Martí water deposit aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Oliva Artés

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:47:07 +0000

After the former industrial shed was consolidated and suitably protected, and while construction still hadn’t started for the new MUHBA (Barcelona History Museum), it was decided that the complex would be opened to the public. First a minimum of strictly necessary construction had been carried out to protect the building from rain and wind: a new lightweight roof was built, supported on the existing structure, concrete paving was installed with an embedded raceway for future mechanical installation and the existing windows were protected with polycarbonate sheets. The objective of all the interventions was to affect as little as possible the interior atmosphere, in order to reflect the passage of time: the fire, the graffiti, etc. The design tried to define the intervention with a single gesture by proposing a huge lamp hung in the middle of the space, drawing a ring of light that separates the exterior perimeter, dedicated to housing a long term exhibition about the city of Barcelona, from the interior which is to house temporary exhibitions and presentations.

Credits

Oliva Artés

Location:
Calle Espronceda 144, Barcelona

Architect:
Jordi Badia (BAAS)

Project team:
Jero Gutiérrez, Eva Damià, Viki Llinares, Cristina Anglés y Andreu Egido.

Area:
1.456 m2

Photografy:
Marcela Grassi

2014-2015

La entrada Oliva Artés aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Collage house in the old quarter of Girona

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:46:59 +0000

Renovation always implies establishing a certain relationship with the past, or with the pasts that are accumulated in the space of the intervention. This residential project for the members of an extended family has as its point of departure the recovery and renovation of a complex of derelict buildings constructed over the course of centuries in the historic centre of the city of Girona. The huge stone carcasses established an optimal relation to the place in climatic terms. The project tried to discover, maintain and revitalize the different forms of intelligence deposited in these spaces over time. In terms of materials, we were able to work with a valuable inheritance: the house itself provided grates, mosaic tile and stone that could be reused in the construction. The project casually reveals the overlapping of old and new layers, depending on the state of conservation of each element, and the future use of each space. And, above all, the growing confidence is a design system that is necessarily open (in this case the collage) capable of harmonically integrating into a whole all of the histories of each fragment of the process.

Credits

Collage house in the old quarter of Girona

Location:
calle de la Força, 19 / calle Ballesteries, 30-32. Girona

Architects:
bosch.capdeferro arquitectures

Project team:
Josep Capdeferro Maureta (Maestro de obra). Josep Grau (Jefe de obra). Joan
Anglada Ruiz (Jefe de proyecto)

Area:
1.515m2

Photography:
José Hevia

2003-2010

La entrada Collage house in the old quarter of Girona aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Casa del Condestable

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:45:42 +0000

The Casa del Condestable is a sixteenth-century palace that had undergone sweeping renovations and alterations over the years, until finally the original building was unrecognizable and in a general state of ruin. The process of historical documentation, preparation of the design project and construction supervision of the building restoration and renovation lasted seven years. Original elements from the renaissance building were uncovered, including almost 4000 square meters of wood ceilings that had been hidden by suspended ceilings in the perimeter rooms. By removing the added ceilings and restoring the wood, these rooms recovered their original proportions and appearance. A major part of the architectural intervention centred around the recuperation of the central courtyard, of which only a few of the original columns remained. The project establishes a natural continuity between the old and the necessarily new, by using the original materials throughout: wood, terracotta, lime stuccoes and plaster.

Credits

Casa del Condestable

Location:
Calle Mayor 2. Pamplona. Navarra

Architects:
Fernando Tabuenca y Jesús Leache

Project team:
Belén Beguiristain Lahuerta, architect, Arturo Pérez Espinosa, José Luis Sola, technical architects, Susana Iturralde, Raúl Escrivá, Mikel Landa, structural design, GE & Asociados, engineering, Gabinete Trama, archaeology, Sagarte, S.L., restoration, Asunción Orbe, historical research. Axonometric drawings bcsarchitects.wix

Area:
6.819 m2

Photography:
Luis Prieto

2005-2008

La entrada Casa del Condestable aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Casal Balaguer cultural center

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:44:25 +0000

The Casal Balaguer is a palace in the historic centre of Palma. It was a grand aristocratic house with its origins in the fourteenth-century, renovated in the sixteenth-century and enlarged in the eighteenth-century. At the end of the last century the City of Palma decided to convert the building into a cultural centre. The project signals a new era for the Casal, which will go from being a family home to a public building, open to the entire city. In the new program the ground floor contains the entry to the exhibition gallery and the cafeteria. The structural renovation on this floor made it possible to revert the courtyard to its the original condition, with a complete vision of the three arches that seem to support the suspended house. The main floor is dedicated to a museum about the house and the attic floor houses workshops for the fine arts circle and a lecture hall.

Credits

Centro cultural Casal Balaguer

Location:
C. Unión 3, Palma de Mallorca, España

Architects:
Flores i Prats

Team:
Caterina Anastasia, Ankur Jain, Els van Meerbeek, Cristian Zanoni, Carlos Bedoya, Guido Fiszson, Ellen Halupczok, Julia Taubinguer, Paula Ávila, Nicolás Chara, Eugenia Troncoso, Israel Hernando, Hernán Barbalace, Benedikte Mikkelsen, Mar Garrido, Celia Carroll, Jorge Casajús, Juan Membrive, Oriol Valls, Tanja Dietsch, Sergi Madrid, Sergio Muiños, Lucas Wilson, Anna Reidy, Maria Amat Busquets, Fabrizia Cortellini, Veronica Baroni, Elvire Thouvenot, Carlotta Bonura, Francesca Tassi-Carboni, Tomás Kenny.
Technical Architect: Anastasio de la Peña

Area:
3676,22 m2

Photography:
Adrià Goula Sardà

1996-2015

La entrada Casal Balaguer cultural center aparece primero en unfinished.es.