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 »

The Prince of Wales Country Club was a challenge to live up to the times for which they proposed to offer new services related to leisure and sport and re-enchanting and its partners to promote the informal, and increase the general use during the week.

There were well-established and outdoor facilities so the strategy was to define a platform-level sports resolved underground, and gardens of the north flank of the Club House. In a contemporary language that will not create conflict with the existing architecture of such eclectic turn, the fact of being underground maintains the existing situation of looking at the sports fields from the same building, which represents a value for the architectural design status of the original building site.

The functional unity of the new facilities is from the subway, at your sides, with ramps leading down to the level swimming pool and gym. While in the first level, connection occurs via two bridges, which link the existing building, and sports areas. Read the rest of this entry »

Project Challenge
The starting point for the renovation was a modest Victorian house in very poor condition, with rooms with small windows and dark interior spaces were separated from each other, as was typical of houses built in the era where privacy was a cultural priority. In another gesture to the Victorian public decoration, arrangements of existing interior spaces reinforce the ancient ideal of work and family life should be separate.

Although the client requested to renovate the space do the work in the house, while maintaining a clear separation from his family life was also important to create a modern and bright space that seemed small in size and continues to be spacious and connected visually. Read the rest of this entry »

Valleacerón Chapel is located in the municipality of Almadenejos in an autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, designed by architects Sol Madridejos and Juan Carlos Sancho Osinaga is considered a milestone in avant-garde architecture in Spain. Read the rest of this entry »

The project is a small mixed-use building located in the access of a new park office within a suburb of Melbourne, Richmond. Its position on the terrain allows views over the Yarra River and the skyline to the north-west.

The program includes a Restaurant building and two shops at street level, plus two floors of office on these. The client / building owner will occupy part of office space. The building has a floor shaped a typical for the offices. Read the rest of this entry »