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Project • By Cimaise Architecture • Pavilions
Coffee Park Pavilion
The Coffee Park pavilion is located at the heart of the Côte‑des‑Neiges | Notre‑Dame‑de‑Grâce borough, at the intersection of De Maisonneuve Boulevard and Broadway Avenue, slightly set back from the park’s main circulation routes. It appears as a discreet, welcoming contemporary pavilion, evoking a single‑storey house that is legible and reassuring, scaled to the families and children who use the site.
The architectural concept is based on a simple, almost archetypal volume: a small, pitched‑roof chalet finely shaped by its envelope. A pleated metal roof and light brick façades are treated as a continuous skin folding down to shelter the interior spaces, creating protective porches and overhangs at the entrances. T... More
News • News • 31 Jan 2023
Folded wing roof and ceramic lattice define the Soledad Sevilla Studio by Antonio Cayuelas
Housed in the flourishing plains on the perimeter of the urban area of the Otura village, the Soledad Sevilla artist studio, designed by Antonio Cayuelas, is a result of a creative process that started ten years before with a mutual and shared interest in the Vega de Granada's agricultural architecture, specifically the tobacco drying sheds.
Fernando Alda
Located on a small, extended plot of land that is split into two main and auxiliary longitudinal bands that face north and open to a plain that is home to an irrigated olive grove, the built volume folds towards the south, shielding itself from the summer sun with a triangular latticework that has a similar but more pronounced geometry to the nearby drying sheds.
Fernando Al... More