Today we travel to Andalusia to show you the architecture of Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, a professional outside the media publicity with a strong production, minimalist, conceptual and extremely attached to his hometown of Granada.
Jiménez Torrecillas (1962) is passionate about their land and their customs: “I live in the world, but every night I sleep in Granada,” he said.
Project works as a professor in the School of Architecture of Granada, but travels frequently at universities around the world provided a visiting lecturer.
Since his first built work, the Centro José Guerrero (Granada, 1991-2000), this discreet design and shows us her exceptional ability to keep the leitmotiv of every project from start to finish. This first work, awarded to the Best Intervention in Historical, reveals his mastery of Andalusia in the best way to rehabilitate an old building located in the center of a city with much history as is Granada. This work demonstrates the ability to recognize Jiménez Torrecillas always the historical value of their interventions and interpreting these values in a respectful and contemporary.
Proof of this is also its exemplary action in the High Albaicín Nazari wall (Granada, 2002), winner of numerous national and international awards. In this project the Granada wisely used natural stone and enhances their chances with a series of porous walls that allow light to pass through smoothly. As can be seen in the images in this article the author returns delicately tracing and volume of the wall and a reconstruction that moves away from historical mimicry with subtlety and humility. Read the rest of this entry »
Ma Yansong is the founder of MAD, is a native of Beijing and received his Master of Architecture from Yale University in 2002. Before founding MAD in 2004, Ma Yansong worked as project designer with Zaha Hadid Architects in London and Eisenman Architect in New York.
MAD is an architectural design studio dedicated to creating innovative projects. Combines sophisticated design philosophy with advanced technology in the exploration of contemporary architecture, landscape design and urban planning. Read the rest of this entry »
The Villa is set designer houses, a draft GmbH and the studio of Daniel Libeskind. The Villa is a German prefabricated house is built with the finest raw materials, a sculptural home that meets the highest standards of design, development and sustainability. The Villa Series are unique in where they are seen, providing maximum insulation and durability, innovative technology and meeting the highest standards for energy savings worldwide. La Villa, which can be shipped and assembled anywhere, including a solar thermal system and a sauna in the basement.
According to the sellers of La Villa, is available as a limited edition of 30 homes around the world and comes with regional exclusivity. It’s the future owner who strongly on the location, but whether an urban setting, a beautiful coast or a mountain landscape, the Villa will become one with their environment and ultimately, a focal point in itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Loft San Marino is located in an intermediate context that combines two adjacent residential areas of Caracas that have municipal services that enable features such as mix of programmatic involvement pedestrian built building block from the housing supply . The building housing implements 9 cells that provide space benefits of a traditional single family home (patios, gardens, balconies and terraces) to the condominium model. Set in a plot of 710 m2 where once stood a single house in recent years had an advanced state of deterioration, this intervention was an act of urban renewal.
Experimental housing unit Loft San Marino is a building designed as a hybrid of metal and concrete structure. The construction system was conceived from the use of convertible components that provide the ability to expand or contract the program connecting interior and exterior of the building and making a body perfectly permeable. It was designed entirely digitally warping, twisting and layering alternately a modular grid of editable poly. Morphology consists of a cross-band system that generates green areas, no disposed below the other.
Each terrace has its individuality, privacy and autonomy, distancing themselves from the others by a mezzanine. We used modeling techniques and digital dissection allowed to make a taxonomic analysis of the building. By means of structural calculation software and forces applied from the deformation of the slabs resulting minima were located on the joist struts lattice potential. 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 »
