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20220311_Collumpio House

Collumpio House

MACH
Barcelona, Spain

The color yellow marks a cheerful dwelling that presents an industrial aesthetic in a neighborhood of humble means

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Photos: © DEL RIO BANI

The house is situated between the Coll and Carmel hills, cutting a figure amid the humble early-20th-century buildings that characterize the zone. The color yellow is used to highlight major construction elements. On a plinth rests a light metal frame structure that opens out to the landscape.

The interior spaces follow a circular geometry around a central area that serves as storage and a bathroom. The rest of the layout is defined by the actual furniture, some of it built in, the intention being to enable the house to evolve with its occupants.

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Dong Feng Yun Hotel Mi’Le — MGallery

Dong Feng Yun Hotel Mi’Le — MGallery

CCD + Luo Xu
Mile, China

The Chinese design team joined hands with the artist Luo Xu in a project that respects local architecture, where every detail secretly tell its own story

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Photos: © Wang Ting

The hotel is located in Dongfengyun Art Town, in Mile. For the design of the complex Luo Xu pursued “austerity, simplicity and authenticity,” and CCD drew up an intimate scheme that took inspiration from the traditional context of the province and the language of nature. Architecture and plants are peacefully reflected in the main courtyard’s water surface.

Light is harnessed in defining the different spaces and creating a place fit for spiritual retreat. The entrance is bowl-shaped, with a large opening carved out on top, generating rhythms of lights and shadows that give visitors new sensory experiences as soon as they step in. The materials used, such as red brick and or the clay of the pottery, contribute to merging interior and exterior.

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10AM Lofts

10AM Lofts

Studio Andrew Trotter, Gavalas Ioannidou Architecture & Eva Papadaki
Athens, Greece

Three Athens studios worked together in refurbishing a 1970 industrial building and turning it into a creativity hub and a dream attic

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Photos: © Salva López

To design a space fit for creative people, the building’s two lower levels were fused by means of a central courtyard up which a sculptural staircase rises, contrasting with the original one of raw concrete and the soft textures of the furniture pieces. The ground floor is bathed in natural light, but the only light reaching the basement it seeping in through the patio and the ceiling.

For the revamp of the attic, again the solution was to connect levels through stairs. The lower story of the dwelling contains daytime-use spaces: kitchen, living room, dining room, and a small study that can double as a second bedroom. Upstairs, furniture and finishes with a touch of posh accompany picture windows giving beautiful views of Athens.

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Matamoros Public Market

Matamoros Public Market

Colectivo C733
Matamoros, Mexico

The Mexican practice upholds local tradition through a selection of materials that make for versatile spaces and foster community life

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Photos: © Rafael Gamo

Located in an old residential area on the outskirts of the city of Matamoros, in Tamaulipas, the Public Market is conceived as a reinterpretation of vernacular constructions in the northern part of the country. Colectivo C733 came up with a flexible structure for the community, reviving the red brick of the old rampart by using it as the project’s main material.

There are forty permanent stalls and the building acquires its form from using the divisions as buttresses. The roof’s prefabricated metal structure gives rise to an umbrella system optimally designed for the region’s climate conditions. Wrapping up the project is a low-maintenance garden-marsh that pierces through the building and grows with the passage of time.

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Galgo House

Galgo House

Murado & Elvira Arquitectos
Madrid, Spain

The firm Murado & Elvira Arquitectos has built a thin and bright one-family house on a particularly narrow long plot outside the city of Madrid

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Photos: © Imagen Subliminal

On a lot barely 4 meters wide, the Madrid-based practice has intersected the exterior spaces, overhung by light elements, with a thin vertical prism, producing a sense of breadth and privacy without loss of brightness. In this way, each level of the house has an outdoor space of its own, whether a patio, a garden, or a terrace, expanding and complementing the interiors.

The day zone is on ground level, opening out to the garden cum swimming pool. The master bedroom takes up the floor above, with a spiral staircase floating over it and leading directly to the next story, where we find the other rooms, and then the roof deck. The basement is lit through a dug courtyard that takes up the entire front of the property.

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Verdi House

Verdi House

Arquitectura G
Barcelona, Spain

The firm Arquitectura G respects the building’s historical facade and proposes a dwelling pouring out to the backyard.

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The neighborhood’s urbanistic codes required maintaining the original facade, which has been given a revamp and unified in a white tone. Inside, the floors descend to the rear garden, where the building shows its true scale. The fragmentation of the different levels results in a variety of spatial and visual experiences, thanks to double heights and interior balconies.

The central space connects the various rooms and is crowned with a large skylight that floods the entire complex with daylight. The dominant white is only interrupted by the ocher of the flooring and the constant presence of plants both inside and out, pervading all the spaces and playing a fundamental role in the house.

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San Juan de Ruesta Chapel

San Juan de Ruesta Chapel

Sergio Sebastián 
Zaragoza, Spain

Within a series of interventions along the French part of the  pilgrims’ route to Santiago de Compostela, features this hermitage refurbishment

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Facing the Leyre mountains amid elms and oaks, this hermitage is known for having once harbored a major collection of Romanesque paintings. Deprived of its old purpose and paintings, the building was abandoned in 2001 and fell into ruin. Sebastián Arquitectos undertook the project of restoring its original massing and giving pilgrims a new shaded spot to stop for a rest.

The new roof is set on the old one with a composition of horizontal lines that give continuity to the bond of the original masonries and putlog holes. The plane of the intervention is slightly set back from the line of the preexisting wall. On the outside, stones salvaged from demolished parts of the hermitage are positioned in an orderly pattern that invites visitors to enter the old chapel.

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House No. 1

House No. 1

Pachón–Paredes
Madrid, Spain

Panchón Paredes have transformed, refurbished, and adapted the interior, exterior, and in-between spaces of a dark and compartmentalized 1978 dwelling.

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The new configuration addresses the needs of the occupants, who wanted a place in which to live, work or exercise. The spaces are neutral, flexible, and adaptable to genealogical changes and their consequences. The original perimeter has been broken up by courtyards, terraces, and balconies, and each level is divided longitudinally into two bays measuring 3.5 and 5.5 meters, with an 86-centimeter level difference.

In this way, what was a dark, much partitioned old residence is now open and bright, and the staircase is no longer a spatial and lighting obstacle but an essential heterogeneous space. All the strategies applied were aimed at making the new spaces as bright as possible, and with a palette of neutral materials, so it’s the inhabitants and their belongings that will fill the place with color.

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House in Grandola

House in Grandola

Bak Gordon Architects
Grândola, Portugal

Bak Gordon Arquitectos came up with this geometrical composition of abstract volumes that rises in the landscape of southern Portugal’s Alentejo region.

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The Portuguese firm headed by Ricardo Bak Gordon designed this residence located in a vast plain of the Alentejo region, a territory characterized by its different tones of red and brown dotted with the green of holm oak trees. The south wall rises from a pool of water like a sounding board for the whole landscape.

The more social spaces are laid out behind this wall, while the private rooms are placed in the other wing, lit by an inner courtyard. The shape and geometry of the spaces, the abstraction of the openings, and the building’s immersion in the landscape – owing to the earthy colors of the lime mortar – all contribute to a unique sensory experience.

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Floating Building

Floating Building

Ayllón Paradela de Andrés
Madrid, Spain

Floating Building was designed as a container for the intended program and also for unexpected, indeterminate uses.

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Photos: ©Miguel Fernández-Galiano

The scheme drawn up by the Madrid firm Ayllón Paradela de Andrés showed a container of multiple overlapping scenarios. Use adaptability over time was key. It envisioned a basic dwelling where server elements were reduced to the minimum in favor of free, open, flexible served spaces. In essence, the objective was to maximize opportunities to accommodate multiple and different uses, so that the residents would be able to live as they chose, undictated by the building.

To subtly blend into the neighborhood and address the environment, the house uses the traditional materials that predominate in the area’s buildings, but on a contemporary note. It rises in a way that frees up the ground level and forms an intermediate space for the entry, a large threshold that is part of the courtyard into which the entire site has been turned. The domestic space is inside a ‘floating volume’ and the basement is a workplace beside a generous English courtyard.

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