Roldán + Berengué, arch: El Pinar Community Center

— code: 26334

From across the road, the building appears as a solid rock built from concrete with stones projecting different scales of gray along with ash colored perforated and corrugated metal sheets, while the single story façade facing the forest is a transparent and permeable body.

CAVAA arquitectes: reconsidering a modernist house

— code: 26332

Overall, the project involves an intervention where new objects are differentiated from the old ones, encouraging the contrast between them and revitalizing some who had fallen into oblivion.

Jaume Terés: Leandre Cristòfol school of arts

— code: 26329

The new building is formed from the interaction of the formal and spatial elements that configure the place historical memory with the new requirements and the demands of contemporary language.

CGP architects: Rubí sports center

— code: 26328

For the construction of the building we use industrial processes in order to minimize the execution time and the interference with the normal development of the school. The project aims to qualify the building with the careful treatment of the natural light, the crossed ventilation and through the value given to the structural and constructive solutions used.

D2 arquitectura: Removal of architectural barriers in Volta Tecleta

— code: 26327

The space where the project was developed belongs to the foundation vault of the Forum Provincial Romà. It was a narrow space and uncomfortable for visitors who wished to contemplate the exposed pieces. The room is called La Volta de La Tecleta and it also had an accessibility handicap; the access to the room was located in a lower level than the public toilets and the only way of arriving was by a stair.

Exe arquitectura: Social facilities at Roses

— code: 26330

(Català) L’edifici es situa al centre històric de Roses, a primera línea de mar, destaquen de l´emplaçament les vistes obertes cap al passeig marítim i el mar.

TwoBo arquitectura: Grífols Accademy (Mas Can Guasch)

— code: 26335

The aim of the Project was to convert a sixteenth-century house in a new academy centre. The old house where located in Parets del Vallés and is surrounded by a group of new factories. The house is one of the few vestiges of the rural past of the town.

François Roche + R&Sie(n): ‘Who’s got the authority to raze the zoo?’

— code: 26316

(Català) El zoo de Vincennes és una combinació d’enginyeria Eiffel, innovació de formigó Hennebique i il·lusió naturalista del segle XIX.

Aránzazu Melón: A saprophyte for Robin Hood Gardens and other phenomena

— code: 26323

(Català) Una obsolescència tecnològica implica la modernització d’ascensors i aïllaments, mentre que una obsolescència funcional implica millores a les dimensions, distribució, orientació, densitats i usos. Què es conserva i què es destrueix per a refer?

Guillem Carabí: On the subject of refurbishment; Jujol and can Negre

— code: 26321

(Català) L’arquitectura de Josep M. Jujol ha estat explicada, habitualment, des de l’estigma de la manca de recursos. La precarietat dels encàrrecs de clients modestos i la senzillesa dels materials utilitzats als seus edificis semblen legitimar aquesta percepció.

Jorge Otero-Pailos: ‘Restoration Redux’

— code: 26310

(Català) La preservació ha tornat al centre de la teoria i la pràctica arquitectònica després de llanguir al marges durant més de mig segle. Tan sols una dècada enrere, hagués estat impossible pensar que les fites en aquest camp serien assentades per diversos i importants projectes de restauració.

La Col: Restoring Can Batlló

— code: 26320

We study the history and the current context of the enclosure from different points of view (urban, social and economic). We promote debates and discussions about the city transformations and we are working on new strategies that, according to the actual economical situation, could slowly inhabit again Can Batlló.

Meritxell Inaraja; ‘la Seca’ restoration for Joan Brossa Scenic Area

— code: 26319

(Català) Per a la reutilització com a equipament cultural de l’edifici existent i l’adaptació a les normatives i usos actuals, la proposta planteja la construcció de dos nous elements dintre del conjunt i una nova escala que, sense desvirtuar en cap cas les característiques formals i patrimonials de l’edifici permeten millorar el funcionament d’aquest.

Flexo Arquitectura: Day center and community activities.

— code: 26318

In a suburban residential area, situated at the edge between the periphery and the urban tissue of Palma, we are asked to propose a day center and community activities for a small budget: 620€/m2.

López-Rivera: IES at Begues

— code: 26317

Our proposal steps down the slope, fragmenting into different buildings and platforms, in order to maintain the largest amount of existing trees. It seeks to integrate them into the open spaces between the built volumes.

Urtzi Grau: ‘Three replications of the German pavilion’

— code: 26313

The three reconstructions completed in 1986 in Barcelona (Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Cristian Cirici and Fernando Ramos), Madrid (Josep Quetglas) and Milan (OMA/Rem Koolhaas)…illustrate three histories of the Modern Movement that use the pavilion as a historiographic argument.

Editorial: ‘Vacuum-preserved*’

Traditionally, preservation has been understood as the crystallization of what exists. We preserve. Still, how can we preserve what is constantly changing, what is happening inside what is built, the use, in other words, authentic architecture?

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Quaderns #263 Vacuum-Preserved—Montjuïc—1956 (Table of contents)