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This Exhibition Pavillion was born to Traveling, his nature is to be disassembled and reassembled in different places. After travelling in Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York since 2007, this great “white shell” in reflective material, donated by Chanel at the Institut du Monde Arabe in the April 28 2011, in his permanent home will be […]
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The Institut du Monde Arabe designed by Jean Nouvel is a building that joins the two cultures, two histories. If the south side of the Institute reveals the modern character of the oriental diaphragms that recovering the historical themes of the Arab geometry with the ideation of 240 moucharabieh that just open and close each […]
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These blocks, tower thing and leaning cubes on Barceloneta beach [Playa de la Barceloneta – 41°22’35N 02°11’28E] near Port Vell, which seem to have become a bit of a landmark, are actually an art work called L’Estel Ferit (the wounded star or the injured comet) it was designed by the artist the German-born Rebecca Horn […]
The site is strongly defined by the heterogeneous dynamic of the area next to the city centre: the avenue, adjoining buildings morphology, nearby green areas. This complex morphology is used to establish a more complex passage between the public space of Celovška Street and the building’s program. On the north-eastern and south-eastern side we follow […]
This project is the result of the winning 1st prize in a competition promoted by the Municipal Housing Agency in Madrid, to build 168 social dwelling. The strong sloped plot was placed in the very edge of the city.Outlying contexts surrounded by city border highways, fields, malls… require consistent answers. These are places where any […]
The site is forest in steep slope, trees downward to the river. The house almost flies away, like branches and leaves. The street access is a bridge anchoring and connecting the six porticos which disposed along the contour lines structure the pavilion as if a steel stilt house. Internal inter-levels are in succession, around the vertical axis of the central stairway. Observatory rooms […]
