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Revitalization of a Town House

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Revitalization of a Town House

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

By revitalizing and adding floors to a 16th-century building, mia2 Architects demonstrate that responsible urban development can be aesthetically, socially, and economically successful. They removed the pitched roof of the artisan's house, replacing it with a new structure that respects the city's cultural memory. This courageous step of continuing the building, rather than demolishing it, improves its functionality and comfort while preserving its historical significance. The design incorporates a green space and a front element with balconies, creating a welcoming atmosphere and rejecting the anonymity of the city. Construction elements like exposed timber beams, concrete beams, and historical rubble walls add unique character to each space. The facade of Lederergasse, after thorough cleaning, reveals its solid structure, while the timber building on top showcases a rhythmic and reflective design.

Fecha

  • 2020: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: peris+toral.arquitectes

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Cornellà de Llobregat
País/Región: Barcelona, Spain

Breve descripción del proyecto

In revitalising and adding further floors to the sixteen century building we wanted to show that continuing building in the city is a responsible way can be successful not just in aesthetic terms but also socially and economically. For us, this project is a passion, experiment and space for life. mia2 removed the pitched roof of the originally three storey artisan´s house, replacing it with a new building. This new structure takes up the eaves height of the adjoining 19th century corner house and is inscribed precisely within the maximum contours for the roof space permitted by the building authorities. Upon taking a closer look what could, conceivably, sound like yet another repetition of an all-too familiar procedure, i. e. “investor maximises usable floor area“ turns out to be a courageous step and one that is far too seldom taken – given the desolate state and the oppressively low ceiling heights of the existing building, few clients wouldn`t have thought twice about demolition in order to build the maximum permitted volume.

A city is, not least of all, a memory in built form. mia2 show respect for the everyday culture of the past. With this revitalisation they prove that it is possible to raise a building´s cultural level while also improving its functionality and level of comfort.

By continuing this building, they demonstrate belief in the future of the city as a form of settlement that, in order to remain successful, has always had to combine flexibility with meeting the most elemental human needs. While this green space is not that large and it plays a significant role in the concept. A front element with balconies extends along the entire south front of the building. Next to the lift shaft a new spiral stairs as a continuation of the historic central corridor winds upwards, enriching the courtyard with an element of movement. It is like a greeting, a wave, also to the residents of the surrounding buildings: the often-invoked anonymity of the city is not cultivated here.

Construction elements such as the timber beams of the existing building that were stripped from hideous layer, or the concrete beams above the wide window openings in the new building are exposed. Historical rubble walls, clay obtained during the ground floor excavation work and used to make a rammed earth wall, the specially developed precast concrete elements for the new staircase or the green polycarbonate grilles of the balcony slabs make each space something special. In comparison the front of Lederergasse appears severe. After a thorough cleaning of its facade the old building now shows again what it is: a solidly built structure with a rendered, hole-in-the wall facade. In the timber building on top of it mia2 Architektur developed this motif further: from a vertically articulated front with openings to a rhythmically structured envelope, which, through the gently reflective volumes of the two dormers, seems to dissolve in the light of the sky.

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Práter Street Social Housing

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Práter Street Social Housing

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

The infill project aimed to both complement the site and establish a distinct character for the social housing. The design incorporates materials and a dynamic facade that create a unique identity while harmonizing with the surrounding buildings. A garden between the two volumes provides sunlight, ventilation, and street visibility. Slim balconies, overhangs, and elevated walkways enhance the street facades, connecting the buildings. The apartments offer flexible layouts, and the rooftop terraces offer panoramic city views.

Fecha

  • 2008: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: PLANT – Atelier Peter Kis Kft.

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Budapest
País/Región: Budapest, Hungary

Breve descripción del proyecto

The design approach for this infill project was based on both its urban role of finishing the site as well as the development of a distinctive character for the social housing. Consequently, although the project responds to the heights and proportions of the surrounding buildings, the choice of materials and dynamic facade articulated by horizontal elements, creates a singular identity. Between the two volumes, a rectangular form that continues the block and an L-shaped one that completes the corner, a garden has been generated providing sunlight and ventilation to the apartments and which can be seen from the street.

The street facades with their characteristic slim balconies and overhangs wrap around the garden, augmented by elevated walkways that connect the two buildings. The various apartment types have in common a clear and flexible layout and from the two rooftop terraces there are panoramic views over the city.

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The Mountain

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The Mountain

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

The Mountain Dwellings in Copenhagen, Denmark, combine parking and living spaces in a unique way. The terraced residences cascade from the 11th floor to the street edge, utilizing the parking area as a concrete hillside base. All apartments have roof gardens for sunlight and views. The building creates a suburban neighborhood feel within an urban density. The roof gardens change with the seasons and are maintained by a watering system. Glass facades with sliding doors separate the apartments from the gardens, providing light and fresh air. The building offers convenient parking with 480 spots and a sloping elevator. Perforated aluminum plates on the north and west facades create a striking visual of Mount Everest. The apartments are naturally heated, lit, and cooled, with south-facing orientation and natural ventilation. The Mountain Dwellings provide a balance between city life and suburban tranquility.

Fecha

  • 2008: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
  • Architect:  JDSA / Julien De Smedt Architects

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Copenhagen
País/Región: Copenhagen, Denmark

Breve descripción del proyecto

The Mountain Dwellings are located in Ørestaden, a new urban development in Copenhagen, Denmark. The program consist of 2/3 parking and 1/3 living. Rather than doing two separate buildings next to each other, we decided to let the parking area become the base for the terraced residences – like a concrete hillside covered by a thin layer of housing, cascading from the 11th floor to the street edge. In this way we merge the two functions into a symbiotic relationship. The parking area needs to be connected to the street, and the homes require sunlight, fresh air and views, thus all apartments have roof gardens facing the sun and amazing views.

The Mountain Dwellings appear as a suburban neighbourhood of garden-residences overflowing a 10-storey building – suburban living with urban density. The roof gardens consist of a terrace and a garden with plants changing character according to the changing seasons. The building has a huge watering system which maintains the roof gardens. The only thing that separates the apartment and the garden is a glass façade with sliding doors to provide light and fresh air. The residents of the 80 apartments will be the first in the quarter Ørestaden to have the possibility of parking directly outside their homes. The gigantic parking area contains 480 parking spots and a sloping elevator that moves along the mountain’s inner walls. In some places the ceiling height is up to 16 meters which gives the impression of a cathedral-like space. The north and west facades are covered by perforated aluminium plates, which let in air and light to the parking area. The holes in the facade form a huge reproduction of Mount Everest. At day the holes in the aluminium plates will appear black on the bright aluminium, and the gigantic picture will resemble that of a rough rasterized photo. At night time the facade will be lit from the inside and appear as a photo negative in different colours as each floor in the parking area has different colours. The Mountain Dwellings is located in Ørestad city and offer the best of two worlds: closeness to the hectic city life in the centre of Copenhagen, and the tranquillity characteristic of suburban life.

The entire building is naturally heated and lighted, as all apartments are oriented southward with large glazed areas/windows to let in sunlight. They are also cooled by natural ventilation. The parking lot/area is covered by perforated aluminum plates, which let in fresh air and light to the parking area. The building also has a watering system which maintains the roof gardens by redistributing rain through drip irrigation.

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Housing in Trondheim Illa de la Llum

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Housing in Trondheim Illa de la Llum

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

The Illa de la Llum project is located at the intersection of Avinguda Garcia Faria and Selva de Mar, forming part of the Diagonal Mar operation. The site has limited space and follows a rigid urban plan. The towers maximize the available area, allowing for varied dimensions and layouts. The towers incorporate deliberate excavations and recesses to reduce excess height and create connections between neighboring towers. Inside the towers, strips define the corridors, utility spaces, and dwellings, offering flexibility in layout. Continuous terraces project outward from the habitable strip.

Fecha

  • 2005: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Clotet, Paricio i Assoc. S.L.

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Barcelona
País/Región: Barcelona, Spain

Breve descripción del proyecto

The project consists of a set of dwellings standing on the intersection between Avinguda Garcia Faria and Selva de Mar, known as the Illa de la Llum (Island of Light), and forms part of the Diagonal Mar operation. The urban plan clearly defines a 32,940 m2 site available for construction to be shared among three buildings. Everything is very precise, with little leeway for manoeuvre, and responds to a highly debatable model that disregards links between facades and the street.

This project clearly rejects the compositional obsession with slenderness, as if it were an unquestionable compositional value. Indeed, the towers take maximum advantage of available ground area, thereby making it possible to build dwellings of different dimensions and distributions. They reach the compulsory height and the excess buildability that would result from all floors being identical is reduced and adjusted by means of deliberate excavations , recesses that increase as height is gained and which are conducted in areas that look northwards, zones without sea views or else at the points of greatest proximity between the towers.

In the towers and around each nucleus of stairs and lifts a series of strips have been defined that totally encompass the nucleus in the big tower and only three of its sides in the smaller one. The nearest is the access corridor to the dwellings. The next one, 50 cm wide, accommodates pillars and utilities. The broadest strip, 8 m wide, houses the dwellings, in which the total absence of fixed vertical elements makes a great variety of distributions possible. Another 50-cm strip once again accommodates utilities, structure and the walls that separate the habitable strip from the continuous terraces that project 3 m outwards.

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Private Housing

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Private Housing

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

This new apartment block embraces formal invention and celebrates materials and nature. The design optimizes the site and utilizes prefabrication techniques for efficiency. The building's curved shape gradually rises from three to six storeys, culminating in a striking prow. The exterior is treated as a massive rock face, which will transform into a stunning vertical garden. The walls consist of prefabricated concrete panels clad in steel wire cages filled with stones and rock plant seeds. Balconies, some enclosed by wooden fencing, add further character to the building. The stone cages evoke a sensual, primeval quality reminiscent of ancient dry stone walls. Witnessing their transformation into a modern hanging garden will be captivating.

Fecha

  • 2000: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Edouard François

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Montpellier
País/Región: France, Montpellier

Breve descripción del proyecto

Attempting to invest speculative housing with a measure of formal invention is generally a thankless enterprise. However, the design for this new apartment block uninhibitedly explores and celebrates materials and nature. The brief from the property development company was for 64 flats and 47 parking spaces on a tight budget.
The architect s proposal followed a familiar and logical pattern based on making the most economical use of the site and exploiting techniques of prefabrication. For the most part the flats are single-oriented either to the east or west, and are entered from a spinal central corridor. The curved block inscribes a gentle arc in the landscape and gradually steps up from three to six storeys along its length, terminating in a prow at the south end.

The most radical aspect of the scheme is the treatment of the exterior as a massive rock face that will eventually bloom into a spectacular vertical garden. Moored on a solid stone base, the walls are formed from a series of prefabricated concrete panels measuring 2.77 by 1.35 metres. The external face of each panel is clad in a layer of steel wire cages, containing loosely compacted stones. The model is clearly the gabion cage, typically employed in river and highway engineering as a retaining element. Panels assembled in cages were set within the steel formwork and studded with a double layer of frost-resistant pebbles. A layer of sand followed, then seeds of rock plants contained in grow bags. The end of the cages are set within a layer of concrete that forms the inner face of the panel. On removing the formwork, the sand was gently shaken out, leaving the soil and seeds. A watering system installed between the joints of the panels will nurture the emerging plants. The elevations are also articulated by various types of balconies, some enclosed by rustic wooden fencing, others by timber panels. Larger enclosed cabin-style balconies on the east side are supported on angled steels tripods and connected to individual flats by narrow walkways.

The stone cages have a curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields. It will be fascinating to witness their slow metamorphosis into a modern hanging garden.

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Lohbach Residences

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Lohbach Residences

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

This housing development, located in Innsbruck, features six buildings with five to seven storeys, offering a total of 298 apartments. The car-free zones, designed by artists, serve as playgrounds and are accessible via paved paths. The apartments have French windows leading to balconies, providing ample free spaces accessible from every room. Copper shutters and satinated glass parapets offer sun protection, weather resistance, and privacy. The development includes a supervised home for the elderly and apartments equipped for elderly or disabled individuals. Sustainability, ecological standards, comfort, and low operational costs are prioritized in this new part of Innsbruck. The compact buildings with varying heights optimize space and offer views of the surrounding landscape. The use of shutters on the balconies allows for a flexible balance between private and public life. The planning process emphasizes software over hardware, resulting in cost savings without compromising quality. The staircases and surface materials maintain a high standard uncommon in social housing projects.

Fecha

  • 2000: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Baumschlager Eberle / be St Gallen

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Innsbruck
País/Región: Austria

Breve descripción del proyecto

This housing development is located at the west end of the Franz-Baumann-Weg and forms the border between the residential and agricultural zones in the western part of Innsbruck. The 298 apartments of the complex are spread out over six buildings with five to seven storeys, accessed via a system of paved paths and areas. Designed by artists, these zones are car free and also utilised by children as playgrounds. A covered entrance area leads to the large stairways lit from overhead from which the units are accessed. All openings to the outside are French windows providing access to the balconies that run around the buildings. As a result, each apartment disposes of generous free spaces accessible from every room. Shutters made of copper and parapets of satinated glass serve as a protection from sun and weather and provide privacy. There is a supervised daily home for elderly people in one of the buildings and apartments with special equipment for elderly or handicapped persons. All houses have direct access to the underground car park.
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This new part of Innsbruck is characterised by sustainability, high ecological standards, comfort for the inhabitants and minimal operational costs. The energy savings for space heating and domestic hot water heating amount to approximately 70 per cent compared to conventional dwellings of the same size. The placement of these six extremely compact buildings with different height levels permits that the spaces between have been omptimised while providing for a high density. These spaces offer interesting views of the surrounding landscape and the use of the shutters on the balconies mediates the relationship between private and public life allowing for continual change and in accordance with the inhabitants needs.

The aim to use more software and less hardware in the whole planning process has been achieved without compromising on quality. Cost savings for the inhabitants have been achieved on invisible parts and both the generously dimensioned staircases with stone floors and the high standard of surface materials are not often found in social housing projects.

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Schots 1 and 2

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Schots 1 and 2

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

Fecha

  • 2002: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: S333 Architecture + Urbanism

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Groningen
País/Región: Groningen, Netherlands

Breve descripción del proyecto

Further to winning the Europan 3 competition, in 1994 S333 were commissioned to develop a structure plan for the CiBoGa terrain, a 14-h, post-industrial site on the edge of the centre of Groningen.S333 identified the site as being part of a larger urban ring structure of strategic importance to the city’s ecological structure. The urban plan adopted by the city proposes 13 schotsen “compact building blocks eroded internally by new forms of semi-public space”, which float in an open landscape that operates as a filter zone between the city centre and the 20th-century housing extensions. Schots 1 and 2 resolve the conflict between the desire for spatial openness and the requirements for programmatic intensification by creating a “volumetric landscape” of 300 underground parking places, 110 winter gardens, 105 apartments, 44 houses, 14 patios, eight shops, four vertical gardens, three collective roof gardens, two courtyards, two supermarkets, and one medical centre. Schots 1 and 2 could be seen as a contemporary reading of the “megaform”. This is a large complex system that extends horizontally and is capable of inflecting the existing urban landscape. It acts as a continuation of the surrounding topography and orients itself towards the densification of the urban fabric.

. Schots 1 and 2, within this plan, harmonize spatial openness and programmatic intensification, accommodating various facilities such as parking, gardens, apartments, houses, shops, and medical centers. These blocks represent a contemporary interpretation of the "megaform" concept, extending horizontally and integrating with the existing urban fabric. Schots 1 features a multi-storey glass facade with varying transparency levels, while the building's design concentrates density at specific points and incorporates roof terraces that connect with the surroundings. Therefore Schots 1 and 2 are conceived as a single building form, which is nonetheless sculpted by flows that allow the blocks to evolve independently above street level. Schots 1, a robust multi-storey block, is clad entirely in floor-to-ceiling glass with varying levels of transparency, reflection and opacity. Filling the awkward site, rather than imposing its mass directly on its surroundings the building concentrates the density at three points, creating in-between roof terraces that mediate with the context.

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Chassé Park Apartments

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Chassé Park Apartments

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

Fecha

  • 2002: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Xaveer De Geyter Architects

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Breda
País/Región: Breda, Netherlands

Breve descripción del proyecto

This apartment block is part of an urban plan by OMA, focused on preserving open space in a former military base for a new public park while achieving housing density similar to the city center. The project includes five residential towers on a parking ring surrounding a sunken inner garden. The towers are positioned closely together, with different orientations based on factors like views, sunlight, and the composition of the parking ring and inner garden. The towers vary in the number of apartments per floor, resulting in minor differences in ground plans. The façades feature white glazed brick, vertical windows alternating with concrete panels, and glass panels with a concrete structural mesh. Each apartment has a spacious winter garden that can be used as an external space or an extension of the living room. This apartment block forms part of an urban plan by OMA, which was focussed on preserving as much as possible of the open space of a former military base for conversion into a new public park, while creating a housing density similar to the one in the city centre. This was achieved by a campus model, in which very different building types are juxtaposed inside the park. Given the diversity of scale, typology and materials involved, the coherence of the plan is provided by the park. The project consists of five residential towers on top of a parking ring, which surrounds a sunken inner garden onto which the entrances to each tower open. The light, transparent parking ring rises 1.5 m above ground level. The towers are positioned tightly together, each with its own orientation, their position relative to one another determined by factors such as outward and inward views, exposure to sunlight, the layouts of the parking ring and the inner garden, and the transparency of the composition. Three of the five towers have two apartments per floor, the fourth has one and the fifth has four. The varying relative position of the towers creates minor differences in ground plans.

The façades overlooking the inner garden are of white glazed brick to reflect sunlight, and have small horizontal windows. Other façades feature vertical windows alternating with anthracite prefabricated concrete panels with a slate inlay. The third type of façade consists entirely of glass panels, some with a concrete structural mesh behind the glass. The parking garage roof is of translucent polyester. Each apartment has a large winter garden, with sliding glass walls opening both outwards and inwards, which may be used as an external space, as an extension of the living room or as a separate room.

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Herold Social Housing

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Herold Social Housing

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

Fecha

  • 2007: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: MGM morales-giles-mariscal

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Cadiz
País/Región: Cádiz, Spain

Breve descripción del proyecto

This social housing project includes 100 apartments of various sizes, with the ground floor reserved for handicapped individuals and street-level shops. The design of the three buildings was influenced by the site conditions and their integration into the urban space. The apartments are accessed from a public garden at ground level, and they are distributed along exterior walkways. The design takes into account different orientations and seasons, with north-facing rooms designed for thermal isolation and south-facing rooms featuring glazed living areas and balconies with sliding ETFE curtains for winter use. Solar thermal panels on the roof provide 65% of the hot water for the bathrooms. The project embodies urban and ecological principles to create a new housing solution. The programme for this social housing project required 100 different-sized apartments with the ground floor for handicapped persons and shops at the street level. Located on land left-over from the Herold Hospital in Paris’ 19th arrondissement, numerous site factors conditioned the design of the three buildings, which led to thinking about them as resultant elements from the urban space. Accessed from a ground-level public garden, the apartments are distributed along exterior walkways. Since they face different orientations, their design has been adapted to the different seasons: rooms oriented towards the north have small openings and greater thermal isolation, while those facing south have glazed living rooms and bedrooms adjoining balconies that feature transparent sliding ETFE curtains, permitting wintertime use. Roof mounted solar thermal panels produce 65% of the hot water for the bathrooms. The project is thus the result of urban and ecological principles taken as the conceptual starting point in the creation of a new urban housing response.

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Sphinxes

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Sphinxes

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

Fecha

  • 2003: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Neutelings Riedijk Architects

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Huizen
País/Región: Netherlands

Breve descripción del proyecto

The five 'sphinxes' feature fourteen apartments each, maximizing sunlight and lake views. The buildings taper towards the water, creating a distinctive profile resembling a sphinx. The penthouse apartments in each block have unique designs, forming a striking skyline seen from the Stichtse Bridge. The fringe of reeds surrounding the sphinxes serves as a transition to the shore and a water treatment filter. Concrete landing stages provide access to the buildings, which have silver-coloured metal cladding. The public space includes lookout points, a surf beach, a village square, a wind balcony, and a fishing jetty.

The five 'sphinxes' each contain fourteen apartments arranged so as to make the most of the location and sun light. The blocks taper in plan towards the water thereby maximising unobstructed views of the lake both from the shore and from the apartments. As one moves up the building, each floor contains one less apartment. The result is a sphinx-like profile with the sun-oriented roof terraces situated on the slanting back of the mythical beast. The design of the penthouse apartments is different for each block giving rise to a rhythm of distinctive heads - a striking skyline seen from the shore approach of the Stichtse Bridge that links the new polders with the old mainland.

The sphinxes stand in a fringe of reeds that serves both as a gentle transition with the shore and a hydrophytic filter for water treatment. Concrete landing stages cut through the reeds to provide pedestrian access the sphinxes and next to them lie the sunken entrances leading to the underwater garages that double as foundation tanks. The façades are clad with silver-coloured metal sheets.

The public space has been designed as an integral part of the scheme. At five points along its length the esplanade turns into a look-out bastion, a surf beach, a village square, a wind balcony and a fishing jetty.

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