A house with the skin of glass and precast concrete reflects the political landscape. Recently completed by the Irish agency FKL Architects, the Precast House stands in the village of Howth, near Dublin.

On this long sloping plot, plunging cliffs and the sea, three volumes emerge, home, garage and detached pool. Read the rest of this entry »

The program content and management to meet the expectations expressed by the client to provide a housing type T4 within certain parameters. The current building, for her portrayal structure, architecturally defined, and its close relationship with the adjacent facades of the project, presented by way of maintaining this facade and to submit only the necessary adjustments resulting from the introduction of a new range to to access by car into the new house.

Pretending to this facade incorporating new materials with existing ones. The programmatic increase over the current situation culminated in the demolition of existing housing, the building, the introduction of a new floor and the compatibility of the facade with a new program, required the adoption of solutions such as a lifting platform car parking and to improve dialogue between people and place, through the different slopes and the proposed construction.

The second floor of this proposal consists of two bedrooms, one bathroom and one suite. The suite oriented towards the east and in total harmony with spaces for the couple and the other bedroom faces west and in constant visual contact with the street. Read the rest of this entry »

The Broadcasting Place is a mixed-use development near the center of the city of Leeds. Conceived as a partnership between public and private, for the group Downing and Leeds Metropolitan University, which delivers approximately 10,200 m2 of new offices and teaching spaces along with 240 student residences in an iconic building of 23 floors. A new Baptist Church completes the package at its northern end.

The buildings are designed as solid forms of a landscape that is drawn on the rich heritage of the Yorkshire Geological and sculpture. The lower buildings reach a height of three contiguous block of flats, adjacent to the buildings of five floors. Tallest buildings ranging from 8 floors to six floors before reaching the highest point in complex with 23 floors. The strong roof surface was reflected in the mass of buildings that have a triangular shaped corners and projections sculptures. Through these solid forms, the windows were designed as the flow of water cascading over a rock formation. This design seeks to be reinforced by the choice of cor-ten steel as a solid material, sculptural and temporal, built as a front generated by a display of rain. Read the rest of this entry »

The North Side Copse House is a country house in West Sussex, near London and was designed by the Ecologic firm. Since its inception, the project has been driven by the idea that a design of exceptional value may become a significant asset to the area where you are. The project therefore, has developed its entirety, from concept to manufacturing and technology systems and development of design solutions.

The symbiotic relationship with the site has been explored in the plane of the facade and structural design of the house. Passive design strategies have been applied to give the house a good potential for natural ventilation and lighting, solar access, and use of thermal mass and insulation. As a result, each lift has acquired a different setting, where the qualities of the façade varies in response to specific local stimuli. Read the rest of this entry »

Santiago Cirugeda is an architect born 1971 in Seville, who has developed architectural project design, written articles and participated in various debates, round tables, conferences and biennial of architecture. He graduated as an architect in ESARQ (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya) in Barcelona, with Federico Soriano as their teacher. In the field of urban reality covers topics like the ephemeral architecture, recycling, strategies for urban intervention and occupation, the addition of denture buildings and public participation in decision-making processes on urban affairs.

It is defined as alegal, which means exploit legal loopholes to benefit the community. Its main objective is not itself profit. Read the rest of this entry »