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Project • By Cometa ArchitectsPrivate Houses

Casa D

This residential transformation project reinterprets a 1960s house through a careful strategy of structural reuse, volumetric clarity, and spatial densification. Situated on a corner plot within a heterogeneous urban fabric of varying building scales and typologies, the intervention preserves the footprint and foundational concrete frame of the existing house while extending vertically with a lightweight steel structure engineered to withstand seismic loads. Giorgos Sfakianakis The architectural language is defined by a sculptural massing of opaque facades and calibrated openings. Responding to the proximity of taller neighboring buildings and the challenge of privacy, the house assumes a monolithic presence. To mediate light and spat... More

Project • By OOIIO ArchitecturePrivate Houses

Tornado House

Tornado House is located in a quiet residential area of Madrid capital. It is a domestic project tailor designed to a family with two children. Javier de Paz Javier de Paz Everything is though for them, every space and detail. During the home design and construction process all decisions always started from listening to the needs of those who would be the inhabitants of the house, in order to be able to give the closest possible response to their tastes, budget, way of life, aspirations... That is why Tornado is actually like a suit, a true "taylor-made house". Javier de Paz Javier de Paz Its architecture is simple and emphatic, as well as purely functional and practical. Its carefully composed prismatic volumes stand... More

NewsNews • 7 Oct 2022

Biblioteca de Sant Marti Sarroca achieves Near Zero Energy Building (nZEB) rating

In Spain’s Catalan region, the new Sant Martí Sarroca library by Valor-Limos arquitectura is a one-storey volume in Parc de la Pau that helps to connect the park with the life of the municipality. Simón García | arqfoto Semi-buried to the north and open to the south, a landscape roof takes advantage of the site topography, allowing for an elevated vantage point where all inhabited areas of the town can be seen crosswise, from the norther expansion of town to the Historic-monumental ensemble of the castle to the south, passing through the old quarter, and out to the centre of the valley. Simón García | arqfoto A canopy provides a large overhang to the southwest corner of the buildi... More