A Medical School is home to students and hospital professionals for a very long period of their lives. When we entered the competition for the renovation and expansion of the Zaragoza University School of Medicine, we asked ourselves: How to create an efficient, functional complex with a warm but institutional image? The renovation of the Zaragoza University School of … [Read more...]
Learning and Research Resource Centre at the Teruel Campus
Located on the perimeter of the Campus of the University of Zaragoza in Teruel, our proposal for the Resource Centre builds city and creates a fundamental space for university life. Using the main resources of architecture, such as the search for the right orientation, the organisation of the height of the buildings and the articulation of the public space, … [Read more...]
Nova House, between the sea and the desert
Nova House is a unique villa that orients itself between two opposing landscapes through a markedly horizontal architecture. The design of Nova House embraces the strong personality of the plot. It is located on an elongated site in Kuwait, with one side facing the sea and the other side facing the desert. The design integrates the uniqueness of the landscape … [Read more...]
Living together. Strategies for collective housing
Collective housing represents architecture's commitment to the city. It adapts to the urban condition, and benefits from the opportunities that density provides. Living closer together means better access to leisure, culture and work in less time. In our projects, collective housing has the advantages of villas: spaciousness, views, privacy and exterior space. Collective … [Read more...]
The Multiplex Typology: Living in Kuwait’s Hybrid Houses
After the discovery of oil, the Kuwaiti state established a series of housing programs, the purpose of which was to redistribute wealth and improve living standards. The State allocated residential neighborhoods for Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis by introducing two main architectural typologies: the apartment and the villa. In parallel to this regulation, and in response to its … [Read more...]
SJM Kidney Transplant & EMB Neurosurgery Hospitals
The SJM Kidney Transplant & EMB Neurosurgery Hospitals in Kuwait are one of our most recent projects. This commission, already at an advanced design stage, has taken as its starting point a programme we had already worked with for a different location in Kuwait City, the Kidney Transplant Hospital. It now moves to a new site on the waterfront, and is expanded with a … [Read more...]
Idiazábal Silo
The proposal of AGi architects for the new Idiazábal Cheese Interpretation Centre is born from the understanding and respect for the environment in which it is located and the industrial heritage it houses. It is a unique space part of the Green Ring of Vitoria-Gasteiz, at the confluence with the Errekaleor stream. The new complex will allow the production of Idiazábal cheese … [Read more...]
Bausher Heights
Bausher Heights is a masterplan project in the metropolitan context of Greater Muscat. Our proposal weaves one of the gaps located in the surroundings of the capital with the existing urban developments. We propose an urbanism that includes the cultural values of Oman under a perspective of strong sustainability. We designed a development that combines luxury and tradition. … [Read more...]
New residence and day center for elderly people in Torrecilla en Cameros
At AGi architects we have won the competition for the new residence and day center for elderly people in Torrecilla en Cameros, La Rioja. In this project we have worked intensively to implement the specific needs of this program and of the site where it will be located. We believe that architecture is a major agent in creating social, psychological and physical well-being … [Read more...]
The poetics of water
The meanings of water in the Nasrid architecture of the Generalife and the romantic painting The Journey of Life Water has been widely depicted in the history of art. It has also been the protagonist of many architectural designs, since it is an essential element for living. We have already discussed water in architecture from an infrastructural point of view in this article … [Read more...]