Buildings with containers.
Why do we find so many right angles in buildings? One reason is that human beings feel comfortable inhabiting rectangular and symmetrical volumes, simply supported on the ground. Another reason [...]
Prefabricated polyvalent modular housing.
We’re currently working on the development of a high-quality prefabricated house, with multiple custom-made options. It’s a modular building, easy to transport and install, which adapts to different sizes [...]
New modular system for façades: harmonic rhythm and structural regularity
We’re continuing our study of decorative systems that superimpose new or existing buildings. The module that we’re presenting has harmonic rhythm and structural regularity as its origin. Once again, [...]
How to enrich a building’s façade without letting costs soar
A building’s façade not only provides an enclosure destined to protect the interior from inclement weather and endows it with different degrees of intimacy; a good façade design should [...]
Architecture in waterparks: improving experience, containing costs.
A waterpark is a small universe where, by the art of magic, everything seems prepared to allow you to spend an unforgettable time; rides, pools, landscaping, signage, everything. Everything [...]
Fluid dynamics applied to the skin of the façade
As human beings, we’re used to recognising and appreciating the shapes that water makes when cascading in a waterfall, spraying from a fountain or flowing in a stream. When [...]
Shibam, the “mud” Manhattan
Located in central-eastern Yemen, in this walled city they’ve been constructing vertically for centuries. Founded in the 16th century, its adobe-built towers reach up to eight stories high and [...]
The building’s skin: Expression and Colour.
We’re currently working on the architectural project of a multi-use indoor space that includes, amongst other services, a sports courts, spa, rock-climbing walls and different areas of entertainment and [...]
Design matters, a lot.
It’s confirmed; design has a quantifiable impact on customer experience. This has been the verdict of the international architecture and planning firm Gensler, after undertaking research to determine the impact [...]
The building’s skin: the contemporary evolution of the dome
The dome, a semi-spherical structure widely used in architecture since Roman times, is the key to a new project on which we are working. The classic dome, technically is [...]
The building’s skin: an exercise in lyrical abstraction
The abstract pictorial shapes of different artistic innovations of the 20th century have an evident influence on contemporary architecture. We can easily recognize geometric abstraction in facades built on [...]
The building’s skin: Harmony and efficiency
In the building’s skin that concerns us this month, we are seeking a polyvalent, scalable, beautiful and harmonious way of protecting or covering a simple rectangular-shaped building (irrespective of [...]
