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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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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
Madryt, Hiszpania

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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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
Madryt, Hiszpania

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
Madryt, Hiszpania

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

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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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Grotto della Roccia

Grotto della Roccia

Enrico Sassi
Lugano, Switzerland

Enrico Sassi has revamped this historic building, located in Gandría and with privileged views of Lake Lugano, after over a century of abandonment.

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Though the building was in a poor state, the Swiss firm proposed to preserve its original appearance as much as possible, and defer to the history and landscape of the spectacular enclave. Intervention would be limited to consolidating what already exists, delicately enlarging the exterior terrace, and internally connecting the three levels with a new staircase.

The three levels are a basement with a barrel vault excavated in the rock, a ground floor, and an upper floor formerly reachable only from outside. Some walls inside were torn down to show the rock of the site and to build the new staircase in exposed reinforced concrete. Everything else has been either left as is or restored.

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MG08

MG08

BURR
Madryt, Hiszpania

MG08 is an architectural intervention that yields a flexible dwelling, divisible into different units in accordance with the needs of the residents.

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The Madrid firm BURR proposes a departure from the deep-rooted concept of ‘building a home for a whole lifetime’ through a house that can be adapted to the owners’ changing socioeconomic circumstances and address their future needs. MG08 thus opens up a wide range of possible ways to occupy one same ground-level space that previously served va-rious purposes (industrial, commercial, sports), the memory of which is deliberately evoked through the chosen gamut of materials.

María Guerrero is a house split into two. It currently harbors two dwellings, each with a patio of its own, enabling the proprietors to inhabit one half and rent out the other, and in that way shoulder the costs of acquisition and construction. In future the wall separating the two homes can be torn down, making the property a single residence with a large courtyard and a study-cum-bath opening out to the street; a larger house with two bathrooms and a small business space, ultimately a single home.

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