A City for Justice is the winning proposal of the international competition for the design of a city of justice in Saudi Arabia. The project had to propose a scheme that could be developed in three different locations, Riyadh, Mecca and Jeddah. AGi architects' proposal was the winner, and was praised for being able to generate a systematization concept valid for all three … [Read more...]
Tamdeen Square Mall
Tamdeen Square Mall is a retail and commercial development located near one of our projects, Tamdeen Square Residences. The plot is situated within a new urban development in the south of Kuwait City, off the Fahaheel highway that runs southward along the seashore all the way to the Arabian border. Masterplan envisions a mix-use area combining low-to-medium-rise residential and … [Read more...]
Landscape and heritage, two intertwined ideas
Heritage means "that which may be inherited" coming from Old French iritage, eritage, heritage "heir; inheritance, ancestral estate, heirloom," from heriter "inherit," from Late Latin hereditare. Its meaning "condition or state transmitted from ancestors" is from 1620s. With the French Revolution, it acquired a new meaning. The related word patrimonie began to refer to goods … [Read more...]
Alcouve. Center for the promotion and image of Galician agricultural, livestock and forestry products
Alcouve, in Galician, is a place where the seeds of plants are sown to be cultivated for a short period of time and then transplanted. Alcouve was the name of our proposal for the competition launched to adapt the Pazo de Quián, in Sergude (Boqueixón), into a mirror of the Galician rural world. Sergude is a village located in the visual basin formed by the mountains of Pico … [Read more...]
The infrastructural space as a total work of art
There are architectural spaces in which the function accommodated in its interior outlines its layout and significance to a great extent. These are infrastructural places in the city, which historically have been constituent elements of urban settlements. Spaces that are nodes in a matrix of circulations. Railway stations, airports or ports, entry and exit points of the … [Read more...]
Food Market in Villanueva de la Serena
This 1954 food market is located in Villanueva de la Serena's Paseo de San Francisco, which is one of the main axes of the town center. A competition for remodelling the building allowed us to propose a sustainable way of preserving the traditional food market. In addition, it also enabled us to expand the programming of this space with areas dedicated to gastronomy and … [Read more...]
Gallery of Machines. A new Railway Museum
The Delicias station, in Madrid, is going to be upgraded to accommodate a new Railway Museum. It is located near the main cultural centers of the city, such as Medialab Prado, Tabacalera and Matadero Madrid. These are renovated industrial buildings which bear witness to the economic past of the south of Madrid. While industrial heritage continues to be threatened by urban … [Read more...]
The origin of the urban park. The commodification of nature
Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July People dancing, people laughing A man selling ice cream Singing Italian songs Everybody is another Can you dig it (yes, I can) And I've been waiting such a long time For Saturday Chicago sings Saturday in the park, a song that recalls a day in a city park in the United States. There are people … [Read more...]
Archipelago Villa
Archipelago Villa's concept is born from the idea of living the house in a different way. We organized the house in independent areas, which we called islands, each dedicated to a specific function. Every island establishes a relationship with its own garden. And at the same time, each island is connected to the others. In this way, the living spaces and gardens form a whole, … [Read more...]
Passivhaus standard in the Mediterranean climate
By Marta Lozano, architect at AGi architects, Polytechnic University of Madrid. Existing since Antiquity, passive architecture is that which adapts to the climatic conditions of its environment. Throughout the 20th century the focus placed on the energetic component in the architectural project was diluted due to the disassociation from local conditions proclaimed by the … [Read more...]