Nerva, north of the province of Huelva, in the Tinto River basin, was born to host the mining. The construction of a building of its type (theater/cinema) is the most important event for the whole city. What is even more in the case of Nerva, with a long tradition in using this kind of cultural space, becoming to leading collective activities. The transformation of an area of the city abandoned promoted by the construction of a public building, carries with it the spatial and social transformation of the city and relationships.

The building is thought from a design capable of providing a maximum level of use: combining various activities and makes them compatible, collect and separate the various uses, offering a multidisciplinary container.

The building is organized from the ground floor basically on two levels. Ground floor with entrances (Main Park), hall and support spaces (dressing rooms, technical area (pit stage and orchestra pit); first floor, lobby, main hall, stage, rehearsal room and an extension (second floor) where you can access the amphitheater of the room. Spaces are placed up technical and audio-video booth, lighting galleries and service spaces and facilities comb. They have three bays, one central and two smaller side absorbing longitudinal movements, and a lower height bay on the west side townhouse, which is the gallery of the park and the relationship with him. The tense final volume arises from the interpretation and management of the proposed program, accusing the various heights of the spaces, withdrawal on the ground floor of the proposed porch and no longitudinal symmetry denotes the position of the gallery, orienting the building.

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COMPLETE NAME:
Reina Victoria Theatre-Cinema

SITUATION:
Reina Victoria square. Nerva (Huelva)

ARCHITECT:
Enrique Abascal Arquitectos | http://www.enriqueabascal.com/

COMPLETE NAME OF THE AUTHOR:
Enrique Abascal García (3/10/1953)

COLABORATORS:
Office: Néstor González, Óscar Navarro, Fernando Infante, Manuel Falcón
Instalations: Antonio Lastres García-Testón, Samuel Domínguez Amarillo
Acoustic: Juan José Sendras-IUCC Seville
Estructures: FHECOR ingenieros-Javier León

QUANTITY SURVEYOR:
Antonio Lastres García-Testón

PROMOTER/OWNER:
Dirección General de Arquitectura. Consejería de Obras públicas y Vivienda. Consejería de Cultura. Junta de Andalucía

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY:
PEFERSAN S.L.

PROJECTS DATES:
Basic project: DECEMBER 1997
Execution project: OCTOBER 1998
End of work: 6 FEBRERO 2010

TOTAL BUDGET (EUROS):
3.052.925,76

BUDGET/M2:
850,78 euros

BUILT AREA:
3588,35 m2

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The proposal starts with some conditions, housing: social, planning regulations: with quantitative and volumetric rules of a place: an area of expansion based on a pure model of growth without a special intention in forming a kind of city, and tight economic conditions.

The proposal starts with some conditions, housing: social, planning regulations. Some quantitative and volumetric rules of a place: an area of expansion based on a pure model of growth without a special intention in forming a kind of city, and tight economic conditions.

The interpretation thought the project with the available resources; on one hand the positive investigation that involves the construction of a collective building, and on the other hand the raw aspect of the lack of support makes an urban condition clear and organized, configures the work tools.

A new typological condition (to outstrip built options of nuclear aggrupation typology) arrives us to a system of interrelation of spaces, developing a plot where organize the dwellings. Three cores and galleries distribute from liberate spaces for the collective life or unless to endow spatial sense to an interior space.

The ground floor, is a free plan with patios porches, and others (access to garage, storage, mailboxes, groups), there, it is distributed three staircases that are integrated as a whole, in an atmosphere of subdued light and concentrated with a controlled lattice that permit to flow the air. This atmosphere is extended at various levels of access through openings between floors and out, places of walking and meeting with controlled lighting and natural ventilation. Communal spaces are available at various levels of the terraces.

The dwelling explores flexibility conditions; the typology organizes the technical support, bathrooms and kitchen near the dividing wall, allowing providing a big space, parallel to the façade and free of obstacles. From a normative program, we propose to resolve new distributions suitable to adapt new programs or ways of life. Installations and technical support is reachable from circulations paths and collective zones, allowing reparations and installation of new facilities without change the unit.

Construction is applied to recognize the necessary attribute of this kind of buildings, where concepts like durability, solidity and economy. It uses a color coating like an instrument of identity, and some traditional resources like celosias: it configures the use of light and shadow, the breeze control, recovering traditional energetic concepts, with passive control and active modern mechanisms.

Garage, storage rooms and, support completes and runs the complex. The final volume tries diverse scales, supporting in the internal organization and the material and textures layout.

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PROJECT:
108 dwellings in Polígono Aeropuerto.

SITUATION INFO:
Profesor Faustino Gutierrez Alviz y Amario Street. Seville (Spain)

ARCHITECT:
Enrique Abascal Arquitectos | http://www.enriqueabascal.com/

COMPLETE NAME AND BIRTH DATE OF THE AUTHORS:
Enrique Abascal García (3/10/1953)
Miguel Díaz Zulategui (19/9/1954)

COLABORATORS:
Néstor González, Óscar Navarro, Francisco Gómez, Antonio Lastres, Antonio Gancedo, Antonio De La Concha, Gerardo Sandar, Vorsevi, Cemosa.

TECHNICAL ARCHITECTS:
Pilar López Galán
Maite Conejero
Esther Expósito

PROMOTER/OWNER:
EMVISESA

MANUFACTURER:
CEOP/San José

DATES:
Basic project: JULY 2006
Executive project: JANUARY 2007
End of construction: 27 JULY 2010

TOTAL BUDGET (EUROS):
7.271.040,68

BUDGET/m2:
522.72 euros

FLOOR AREA:
13.910 m2

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Binds to the wine concept store The design of a concept store in a commercial is not obvious, located in an urban environment very cubic, it is often the result of a set of front linked to his content.

It should then treat the subject by crossing name: programmatic and symbolic urban Three basic concepts structure the project: the vertical, the visual and the sensitivity.

 

Treatment of “dress”

The image of the vine and its linearity are the starting point of the concept of verticality that is reflected in the facade.

The curve would be the expression of a sensitivity related to a sensory awareness that takes place during the taste of wine.

The gradient color is characteristic of white wine, rosé and red in the sense of knowledge as accurate as imaginary and symbolic, aesthetic, but, subjective, but the image of wine revealing himself to "V[B]oire" in a journey towards a personal world.

Treatment of “body”

Treated with everyday life's themes with wood and white background, marking the vertical and horizontal view.

In this structured game make with case came punctuate the space with the likings of flavors to enjoy, discover, use the following topics: lunch, appetizers dinner, dessert, etc. etc., recreating a colorful variety to an invitation of dreams, travels.

Open view into the fabric of memory, promise's dreams at the corner of a table.

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Designer /Architect: Olivier Brouillard “Firm: COMPLEX CITY”
Status of project: Competition
Year: 2012
Floor area: sq metres-2897 m²
Number of floors: 2
Firm website: www.complexcity.fr
Photo credit: Complex City

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Margot Krasojevic has recently designed the Buenos Aries Art Museum. The art museum design attempts to choreograph images and views into the city in an attempt to highlight the ever expanding definition of what is considered real, the design dilutes the edges between the viewer and the virtual.

A single shell laser cut aluminium semi-monocoque structure prefabricated off site in a nearby boat builders yard. Sole support for the observatory museum is from the circulatory ramp shaft off which the structure is cantilevered and tied to the dock.

3 Meter aluminium sections welded together, sanded and spray painted white. The waterproof aluminium shell and structural cladding elements are all made from aluminium.

The window wall openings slide back into the shell allowing for open views into and through the museum, very much like an observatory. The windows walls are made from toughened laminated glass inclined by 25 degrees so as not to reflect sunlight and glare.

The structure uses the same technology as boat manufacturers, the interior is free of columns providing undisturbed/unobstructed views.

The angle of the outer shell eliminates glare from the water surface. The large glass wall windows choreograph attention from exhibits to city views, creating a collaged effect of the building within it’s context. A superimposed perception of context and design. A structural system is used which suits the design and it’s location, a maritime feel to the identity. The ramps into and through the building act as docks and piers tying the observatory to it’s immediate context.

The ramps are part of the structural stalk.

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OODA recently has completed 227 FLAT in Porto, Portugal.

In a place nearby the sea in Porto, we had the chance to design a complete transformation of a two story apartment. It was our intention to play with the light that strongly flows into the apartment merging it with new program needs. The relation between voids, volumes and the function among then was the prime project drive aiming to create fine detailing while suggesting new surprising spaces and features to be used and lived in a daily basis.

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227 FLAT
Porto 2012

Architect: OODA
Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre

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Brisac Gonzalez Architects has recently completed the Pajol Sports Centre in Paris, France. The Pajol sports centre will formally open its doors at the beginning of the school year in September.

Arranged over three levels, the building comprises two opaque volumes at lower ground and upper level that sandwich a porous mid level space that serves as entry.

The lower ground level accommodates the martial arts and dance studio. The 47 by 24 metre sports hall is located on the upper level inorder to take advantage of even natural daylighting via a series of north facing sculpted roof lights. At entry level, there is an expansive terrace along the whole length of the eastern facade that faces railyards.

With the use of natural daylight, natural ventilation and photovoltaic panels the centre requires minimum energy use and incorporates many renewable materials.

It will set the benchmark for a new environmental certification for sports centres in France.

INTRODUCTION

The new built sports centre forms part of the ZAC Pajol Masterplan in the 18th Arrondissment of Paris. When complete in 2012, it will be the first fully sustainable development in Paris. The brownfield site, consists of new and refurbished buildings.

A 1920's customs depot will be converted into a youth hostel, concert venue, and covered garden. Two disused postal sorting buildings from the same period have already been converted into a secondary school for 600 students and a college. Along with the sport centre, a free standing 5000m2 enterprise zone is the other new building. The project will have over 9000m2 of open spaces. The masterplan site is flanked on three sides by an incongruous mixture of factories, workshops, and Haussmannian housing buildings. To the east, it borders vast open rail yards that feed Gare de Est.

As the architects of the sports centre, the project has presents the opportunity contribute to the essential amenities of urban life through the open nature of the ground condition and by creating interstitial spaces that are somewhere between the private and public.

This is a bold and commendable project by the city of Paris. The project is totally funded by the state in an area well off the beaten architectural path of the capitol.

18TH ARRONDISSEMENT

The 18th Arrondissement officially came into existence on 1 January 1860. It is one of the largest Arrondisments in the French capital comprising 600 hectares. The 18th is mostly known for hosting the district of Montmartre, which contains a hill dominated by the Sacré Coeur basilica, as well as the famous Moulin Rouge. It consists of 8 neighbourhoods including: Grandes Carrières", "Clignancourt", the African and North African La Goutte d'Or is famous for its market, the marché Barbès, and La Chapelle, were Pajol is located. The immediate area of the project is also known as 'Little Jaffna' a distric in Sri Lanka.

In 2011 there were 197 173 habitants or 32 807 habitants per Km2 it is the third most populated quartier in Paris behind the 15th & the 20th 54 % of people under 18 are of foreign origin of these, 37% are from subsahra, Turkey, or North African.

Up to now the Pajol area has resisted boboïsation – rabid gentrification – that's happened in other parts of the 18th but it is nonetheless attracting attention. Elaine Sciolino writing for the New York Times finds:

The neighbourhood is rough-edged, working class and very authentic. If you come, check your map and plot a walking route in advance. When you emerge from the Chapelle Metro, you don't want to look like you're lost. Or like a tourist. The area is more adventurous than dangerous, but still it's not Saint-Germain-des-Pres. You will, however, always find someone who speaks more English than French.

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Project: Pajol Sports Centre
Architect: Brisac Gonzalez Architects | http://www.brisacgonzalez.com/
Client: City of Paris
Summary: Sports Centre comprising martial arts studios, fitness facilities and a youth centre
Project value: £ 6 500 000
Date: Completion 2011
Area: 4,060 sqm

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