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- Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street \ Gerardo Mingo Arquitectos
- Civivox Mendillorri \ AH Asociados
- La Draga Primary School \ AH Asociados
- Tierra Estella Secondary School \ AH Asociados
- Rietveld Bungalow \ Remy Meijers
| Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street \ Gerardo Mingo Arquitectos Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:53 AM PST
 Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street, render courtesy Gerardo Mingo Arquitectos The aim for the competition proposal to design a commercial pedestrian street with offices business, club houses and hotels, has been to become part of an active process that involves the appropriation and exploitation of a natural space with a powerful presence, creating an opportunity for a dialogue with the existing territory. The site has strong landscaping characteristics which need to activate new functions. There is an opportunity to create an urban magnet.  Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street, render courtesy Gerardo Mingo Arquitectos It is an area with a great potential; its privileged location connecting natural and cultural significant points and the sensory experience: scent, colours, shadows, water. The intervention tries to recover its natural ecosystem (such as the traditional commercial street) and provide a new content – "programmatical spaces" which encourage the people to:
 Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street, render courtesy Gerardo Mingo Arquitectos Its lack of centre, its inability to define a start and an end point (there are many starts and ends) changes the traditional notion of landscape. The streets are routes that always keep a degree of curvature that makes the walk somewhat serpentine and surprising, looking for different perspectives. The squares appear as nodes, with different sizes and orientations, in some cases just mere extensions of the streets. This produces a sense of permanent compression-decompression and the apparition of different activity poles, where the emblematic shops appear.  Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street - Concept, drawing courtesy Gerardo Mingo Arquitectos  Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street - Concept, drawing courtesy Gerardo Mingo Arquitectos  Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street - Concept, drawing courtesy Gerardo Mingo Arquitectos + Project factsProject: Mountain Zhu Pedestrian Street + About GERARDO MINGO ARQUITECTOSGERARDO MINGO ARQUITECTOS is a multidisciplinary office practising architecture, and urbanism. It is led by two partners with offices in Spain and China. + All texts and images copyright GERARDO MINGO ARQUITECTOS                 |
| Civivox Mendillorri \ AH Asociados Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:33 AM PST
 Civivox Mendillorri, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas In the surroundings of the central park in Mendillorri, it has been proposed a building which keeps a relationship with the surrounding area, its views, and its functions. A type of monument which distances itself from people hasn’t been sought out, but rather a constructed place which plays second fiddle to the park and the palace, to the lake and the inner landscape. For that reason the plots plateau has been altered as if it were a matter of a stone pavement in a public place which unfurls itself and rises up from below to gladly accept public resources. The effect of the folds create different spaces which are intertwined and multiply whilst taking advantage of the lands’ unevenness. Thus the building is a square and wall facing towards the street, with its empty space and arcade facing towards the park.  Civivox Mendillorri, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  Civivox Mendillorri, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The metallic structure which sustains the different levels, is a rhythmic constructor of the space it occupies, whose visual vanishing points prevent the viewer from having a perception of orthogonal divided up space. It is a leisure spot radically different on outlook from other restricted and pre ordained places. For that reason the building loses the feel of being static space, but becomes rather a focus of changing views on the place, whose double tensioning on a south-north and west-east axis tend to draw back.  Civivox Mendillorri, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The aim of all materials used is to show the condition of lightness of the interior part, of the fluid and ever changing space which is in stark contrast to the stony coloured appearance of a skin which spreads out its mantel over all the space that it encompasses.  Civivox Mendillorri - Exploded axonometric, drawing courtesy AH Asociados The presence of differentiated light, on a vertical trajectory in the north-south passages, but on a horizontal plane in rooms for reading and everyday use, manages to confer a great spatial variety of uniformity and continuity of materials which assures overall building unity and easier maintenance. + Project factsCivivox Mendillorri + All images courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas                   |
| La Draga Primary School \ AH Asociados Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:13 AM PST
 La Draga Primary School, image courtesy AH Asociados This building is built just a few metres away from Banyoles Lake, on a narrow strip of land surrounded by two irrigation canals under open skies and close to an old big house deemed to be of patrimonial interest.The teaching block was installed in a linear building at the northern end of the plot, leaving a large tract of land at the southern end where there are the sports courts and games area in a unique space. The existing building contains its own administrative section, a library, and a dining area, a linear archway linking both buildings with a covered walkway.  La Draga Primary School, image courtesy AH Asociados The building is structured by means of a space between two supporting walls of 7.20 which defines its structure, its functional organisation, and its formal configuration. A lattice of fixed aluminium slats protects its rooms from solar radiation and filters the presence of the outside inside the rooms. The building aspires to be of a type that allows the lifestyles of its occupants to flow freely. Just like the surrounding countryside, the building is a scenario in itself, which, indifferent to the games the children play, returns their reflection, and notes the passing of time on its surfaces.  La Draga Primary School, image courtesy AH Asociados
 La Draga Primary School - Floor plans, drawing courtesy AH Asociados + Project factsLA DRAGA PRIMARY SCHOOL + All images courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Jorge Gambini Ons, Josep Curto                 |
| Tierra Estella Secondary School \ AH Asociados Posted: 02 Mar 2012 05:52 AM PST
 Tierra Estella Secondary School, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The ‘Tierra Estella’ school is one of the latest educational centers that AH asociados has designed for the government of Navarre. The building has been designed under environmental criteria (energy certification rating B), complying with the brief and established requirements, and avoiding the saturation of the building plot within the immediate surroundings. The initial design of the center took into account the possible extension by an additional floor allowing for this eventuality undermining neither the general functionality nor the structure of the building.  Tierra Estella Secondary School, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas Posteriorly, this proposed extension was built within a single phase, resulting in a building that is comprised of semi-basement, ground floor, first and second floors. Equally, a sports centre was designed that contains basement, ground and first floors and that permits a further floor if required in the future. The building is diaphanous and has an inverted, practicable roof that allows for sports activities.  Tierra Estella Secondary School, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas + Project factsCompetition: Miguel A. Alonso del Val, Rufino J. Hernández Minguillón, Pablo Frontini Antognazza y Jorge Gambini Ons + All images courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas              |
| Rietveld Bungalow \ Remy Meijers Posted: 02 Mar 2012 05:21 AM PST
The Dutch interior designer Remy Meijers viewed it as a challenge to transform a double bungalow, designed by the famous architect Gerrit Rietveld and situated in the village of Baambrugge, into a suitable family home. That wasn't easy, due to the layout of the two adjoining bungalows: dating from 1958 and offering just 250 square meters of living space, they were not built to house a modern-day family of five.  Image courtesy Remy Meijers  Image courtesy Remy Meijers Even the extension in the seventies, added by the renowned architect Benno Premsela, had not solved that problem. Meijers elected to leave the architectonic value of the property untouched, as a result of which the front of the house still exudes a 1950's feel. Behind this facade the two bungalows have been knocked into one. Large windows heave been created at the front of the house, both in the kitchen and the study, allowing daylight to flood deep into the modernistic interior. Working with the existing layout, functions have been switched around so that the rear facade, for example, is now acting as the front facade. One striking change is the introduction of an oak-covered wall uni, which not only connects the living spaces together but also houses the meter cupboard, the toilet and the kitchen appliances.  Image courtesy Remy Meijers + Project factsInterior design: Remy Meijers | www.remymeijers.nl + All images courtesy Remy Meijers               |
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