Selective renovation
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Project • By Izaskun Chinchilla Architects • Auditoriums
Audiroio Fortuny
The project’s location, a typical 19th century bulding, confers a unique charm. The space takes inspiration in some typical elements in the last decades of the 19th century. It also tries to celebrate the presence of the Prado Museum in the neighborhood and the painting of Mariano Fortuny, one of the great authors of the XIX that the Museum houses.These paintings inspire many of the aesthetic preferences of the nineteenth and the romanticism: the beauty of ruin, the orientalist inspiration, the interest in the freedon of life forms, the cultural consideration of traveling. Our space tries to update this aesthetic and cultural repertoire.For these reasons the walls of our space discover the layers of materials that were partially hide. For t... More
Project • By BoysPlayNice • Offices
The Mill
Address: Turbínová 13, Bratislava
Investor: Teslová, s. r. o.
Author: Gutgut
Štefan Polakovič, Lukáš Kordík, Jana Benková, Tomáš Vrtek
Co-authors of architectural study:
Roman Žitňanský, Patrícia Botková, Katarína Bergerová
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Author of Graphic identity and information system:
Ľubica Segečová
Supplier: ise, s. r. o.
Dates:
Project (2015-2016)
Implementation (2016-2017)
Plot area: 2676 m2
Built area: 857 m2
Net floor area: 3695 m²
Built volume: 20100 m3
Author of photographs: Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma - BoysPlayNice
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The building of Mlynica is part of a lar... More
Project • By IBAVI arquitectes • Housing
Sant Miquel 19 refurbishment
Refurbishment project built with € 18,000 budget that aims to bring empty homes back into use for people in housing need, which is a huge problem right now in Spain, especially at tourist areas like Mallorca island.
€ 12,000 have been used for energy efficieny improvement (roof insulation and biomass stove) and € 6,000 for indoor rehabilitation.
The project has been made with an urban sharecropping contract, paying rent for 3 years through the work, part of which has been done by self-construction.
In order to be able to refurbish a 100 square meters dwelling with this amount, we followed 3 ideas:
1. NOT TO DO, as the best way to do.
2. Domestic Archaeology, to learn how economy of means has built our cities for centuries.
3. Ba... More
Project • By Freiluft Architekten GmbH • Private Houses
Freiluft barn conversion
Freiluft
Creating architecture.
Freiluft stands for strong concepts and precise realizations. We consider location and ambiance the key points of our conceptions. We seek to design atmospheric spaces and realize them sustainably.
Thinking outside the box.
We are interested in design, arts and architectural discourse – true to the motto (freely adapted from G. Ch. Lichtenberg): Those who know nothing but architecture do not know that very well, either.
Barn conversion, Rüegsauschachen
How on earth does one come up with the idea of pouring a huge amount of concrete into an Emmental farmhouse? Certainly, one could find several practical reasons (statics, thermal storage mass or the like...). For us, the house needed something rough a... More