Adaptable – unfinished.es

Cinema Lidia

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:41:00 +0000

How do you inhabit an abandoned cinema? How do you transform it into a comfortable home where you can relax without catching cold in the winter and still get a good dose of sunlight, while spending as little money as possible on construction and maintenance? This design features an open system of units that can be dismounted and modified within a “container” volume. A house within a house: a flexible and open group of wooden modules within the large space where the public sat watching movies. Variations and adaptations of a simple, lightweight and economic construction system. Each space can be heated or ventilated independently, and at the same time heat or cool the entire space. Each volume is intimately related to one of the windows and at the same time they are scattered throughout the building, forming a landscape of boxes within the space. A new module was built in 2011 and the configuration of the group of boxes was changed.

Credits

Cinema Lidia

Location:
C/ L’acarredor 16, antic cinema, 43390 Riudecols

Architects:
Núria Salvadó y David Tapias

Team:
Josep Mª Delmuns, mechanical systems, Vicens López, technical architect

Area:
20 m2

Photography:
José Hevia

2003-2011

La entrada Cinema Lidia aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Light house

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:40:27 +0000

This townhouse has party walls, an elongated plan and a narrow span, and opens at the back onto a garden. Neglect and the passage of time had left the house in a state of ruin.
Luz, the owner, wanted a light-filled house where she could enjoy the outdoors and the garden. The central part of the house had neither light nor ventilation, making it barely habitable. These constraints, compounded by a low budget, led to a simple design strategy; totally emptying and stripping the interior of the building, maintaining only the stone facades and the rammed earth party walls, and organizing a new interior around a courtyard.
There are times when a contemporary approach implies not using cutting edge materials, but instead taking advantage of local know-how and the reliability of natural materials, adapting the architecture to its economic and geographic context. This is one of those occasions.

Credits

Light house

Location:
Cilleros, Extremadura (España)

Architects:
ARQUITECTURA-G (Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta) Structural engineer: Toni Casas

Area:
136,5 m2

Photography:
José Hevia

2011-2013

La entrada Light house aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Espai nou a Casa Nova

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:39:58 +0000

The project for Sa Casa Nova in Lloret reconnects existing linear moments by inserting new moments. This intervention understands that agreements are always conflictive. A two-phase strategy is defined with a single tactical movement, and results in two luxuries: space and views. The construction of this new space in Sa Casa Nova is controversial: lightweight, prefabricated and completely reversible, compared to the values of the existing space: heavy, built-in-place and static. This project offers a sensitive interior space which gives order to the large volume of surrounding air, with a form that is bound to the popular imagination.

Credits

Espai nou a Casa Nova

Location:
Camí de Sa Casa Nova S/N. Lloret de Vistalegre (Mallorca). Baleares

Architects:
Toni Gelabert Amengual, Néstor Montenegro Mateos (EXTUDIO)

Projet team:
Pepe Herrero (Arquitecto, coordinador), Cristian Cabaña, Juan Rol Cabaña (Estudiantes de arquitectura).

Area:
36,70 m3

Photography:
Coke Bartrina

2014-2015

La entrada Espai nou a Casa Nova aparece primero en unfinished.es.

All I own house

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:38:01 +0000

All I Own House is a project that materializes the interior of a house through the personal belongings of the person or persons that occupy it. Through careful and totally custom design, and the combination of the cabinetry with a simple system of industrial linear rail guides, all of the house’s service spaces are organized using three containers made from OSB wood panels that are suspended, mobile and transformable.

Credits

All I own House

Location:
Madrid

Architects:
PKMN architectures

Project team:
Mecanismo SL (Structural engineer), Alberto Espinosa (Mechanical engineer)

Photography:
Javier de Paz García

2014

La entrada All I own house aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Susaloon

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:37:34 +0000

Susaloon is a minimal intervention in a domestic space to convert Susana’s house into a flexible and transformable space. The project employs three simple strategies: The first, relocating certain domestic elements to optimize the layout and everyday use of the space. The second, opening certain partitions to enlarge some of the spaces, like the living room. The third, integrating a series of fold-down, retractable and sliding elements. The result is the main space of the house is configured like a black box theatre: the stage can change its domestic scenery through simple operations that make the space many houses in one.

Credits

Susaloon

Location:
Madrid

Architects:
elii. Uriel Fogué + Eva Gil + Carlos Palacios

Team:
Pedro Pablo García, Alicia García, Claire Laborde

Area:
23,5 m2

Photography:
Imagen Subliminal Miguel de Guzmán

2014

La entrada Susaloon aparece primero en unfinished.es.

House inside a house

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:36:03 +0000

The house is located on the old road that connects Valldoreix with Cerdanyola. It is a street with a suburban structure, characterized by long, narrow lots (around 4 m wide); and asymmetric, where a strip of constructions faces the wall of a monastery. The constructions have been gradually adapted and substituted over time, and the house in question was the last of a row of similar two-story houses that shared a common facade and roof. Both these elements were protected by the city’s architectural heritage catalogue. The Monastery of Sant Cugat is higher than the level of the house and the street is parallel to the slope. There is almost a two-story difference in level between the upper and lower parts of the site, which means that the working volume includes not two, but three standard height floors, that are fundamentally designed in section. The existing house, defined by the facades facing the monastery, the roof and the party walls, is a volume in the rough that is converted into the landscape where the new construction is inserted.

Credits

House inside a house

Location:
C/ de la Torre 8, Sant Cugat (Barcelona)

Architects:
Josep Ferrando

Team:
Marta Arias. Carol Castilla. Jordi Pérez. Félix Platero. Goun Park. TaeGweon Kim. Adrià Orriols. Clara Vidal. Borja Rodríguez, Arquitecto técnico: Toledo-Villarreal

Area:
225 m2

Photography:
Adrià Goula

2011-2014

La entrada House inside a house aparece primero en unfinished.es.

San Jerónimo 17

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:35:25 +0000

Ruin, recycled archaeology, infrastructure and memory converge in a proposal for the occupation of a space defined by the material traces of its successive alterations and repairs. Marked by the presence of a powerful brick masonry structure (the walls are from 60 to 80 cm wide) and wood floor structures from the end of the nineteenth-century, the space is a palimpsest of successive interventions to be adhered to by the insertion of recycled elements. Above all, the desire emerges to make visible the continuous interventions made in this inherited space, revealing its different strata, mapping and modelling each brick, its wounds, dignifying its historic presence as part of the heritage of continuous overlapping elements that we incorporate, minimizing both the invested energy and its presence.

Credits

San Jerónimo 17

Location:
Calle San Jerónimo, 17. Granada

Architects:
CUAC Arquitectura. Javier Castellano Pulido, Tomás García Píriz

Project team:
Álvaro Castellano Pulido (architect), Fernando Álvarez de Cienfuegos.(Graphic designer).Technical architect: Miguel Ángel Jiménez Dengra.

Area:
146 m2

Photography:
Fernando Alda

2015

La entrada San Jerónimo 17 aparece primero en unfinished.es.

The Cultural Factory in Matadero Madrid

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:34:45 +0000

The Cultural Factory is a reversible design project that advances, without negative impact, the aesthetic and technical qualities of the existing architecture of Matadero Madrid, a historic landmark of industrial architecture. The project is typical of crisis-stricken Europe, and particularly Spain, where architecture must chart a difficult course between the lack of economic resources and an urgent need for action.
Three volumes near the entrance organize the space, folding and compressing the circulation around them. This creates a gradient from compact to expansive, from busy to calm. The space requires minimal maintenance and, if the activity of the Factory were to cease, could be dismantled without any waste. The existing space would return completely to its pre-construction state. The materials used are predominantly polycarbonate and wood.

Credits

The Cultural Factory

Location:
Matadero Madrid. Paseo de la Chopera 14, Madrid

Architect:
Ángel Borrego Cubero. OSS Office for Strategic Spaces

Area:
484 m2

Photography:
Simona Rota

2013-2014

La entrada The Cultural Factory in Matadero Madrid aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Renovation and adaptation of a home-studio

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:33:52 +0000

The new studio is located in a small pre-existing building that formerly housed a laundry, which consisted of a continuous space with a variable section some 40 meters long, and almost no natural light. To improve the lighting of the interior, the design proposal centres around opening up a central courtyard with windows, conceived of as yet another room. Special attention was paid to the depth of the three large openings in the courtyard, lining the jambs, lintels and sills with wood. This helps convert them into usable intermediate spaces that can be occupied to enjoy the open exterior room, as well as thresholds between the interior and exterior. The rest of the existing spaces are maintained, adding some small compartments to reinforce the subtle relationships between habitable areas.

Credits

Renovation and adaptation of a home-studio

Location:
C/ Bruniquer 23 BJ, Barcelona

Architects:
Maio: Guillermo López Ibáñez, Anna Puigjaner Barberá

Photography:
José Hevia

2012

La entrada Renovation and adaptation of a home-studio aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Studio in Lacy Street

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:32:14 +0000

The studio is located in a small former workshop, occupying the ground floor of a house. At the beginning of the last century it was a tannery, from the nineteen-fifties on it was used as a garage and for the past decade as a print shop. This project is the “re-appropriation” of a space that was abandoned due to the financial crisis. It is a space in which the different uses have left architectural scars that the design doesn’t try to hide. The largest scar that the intervention reveals is an open cistern located in the back courtyard. It is empty now. A meeting room had to be added onto the existing workshop space to accommodate the new architecture studio. This addition, in the form of a greenhouse, “floats” over the cistern and hides mechanical equipment and modelling materials underneath it. The greenhouse encloses a space that was previously outdoors without concealing the sediments of passing time revealed on the party walls.

Credits

Studio in Lacy Street

Location:
38 Lacy Street, 08202 Sabadell – Barcelona

Architects:
Sauquet Arquitectes i Associats (Roger Sauquet, Guillem Bosch, Xavier Sauquet, Berta Fusté, Anna Bonet)

Photography:
José Hevia

2014

La entrada Studio in Lacy Street aparece primero en unfinished.es.

Carreras-Múgica Gallery of contemporary Art

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:31:29 +0000

A former warehouse occupies the interior of a city block in the ensanche, or urban expansion of Bilbao, with its access through a tunnel passing under the perimeter residential structures. The following program has been organized in this existing space: areas for storage and handling of artwork, administrative areas and meeting rooms, spaces for experimentation and specific projects and a large central space that is the focus of the project. The architecture adopts a limited number of materials –exposed concrete structures, continuous industrial paving, white walls levitating over recessed wall bases, and some furnishings- to construct the elemental ingredients of an exhibition space –floors, walls and ceilings- in which the artworks are responsible for determining the character of the space. The reinterpretation of the original system of skylights generates a series of periscope-like light-capturing devices, through which the landscape of the ensanche, in which the gallery is embedded, can be rediscovered. These volumes generate a new industrial landscape on the roof of the gallery, a gift to the city that threads through the past, the present and the future of this place.

Credits

Galería de arte contemporáneo Carreras-Múgica

Location:
Calle Heros 2, Bilbao

Architects:
estudioHerreros

Project team:
Local architect: E2 Arquitectura, Germán Hurtado Project architect: José Baldo (eH) Project team (eH): Carmen Antón, María Franco, Abraham Piñate, Víctor Lacima, Leonardo Tamargo Structural design: Eduardo Barrón Lighting design: Antón Amann

Area:
900 m2

Photography:
Adrià Goula

2013-2014

La entrada Carreras-Múgica Gallery of contemporary Art aparece primero en unfinished.es.