The Right Fit: Architecture Tailored to Living This renovation reveals that luxury does not lie in square meters, but in design precision. A home of contained dimensions transforms into a space where every detail matters, where functionality merges with elegance and energy efficiency becomes everyday comfort. An Embracing Envelope The project revolves … [Read more...]
Precast House
Where prefab efficiency creates spaces for living well Precast House is a residence on the outskirts of Madrid for a family that needed to relocate within a very tight timeframe. The project's urgency led to the adoption of a precast concrete panel construction system that reduced the building time to just six months. These panels, in addition to serving a structural function, … [Read more...]
Community Housing for Independent Seniors
Architecture bears the responsibility of shaping not only spaces but, consequently, lives themselves. When designing living environments for older adults, it is essential to balance autonomy with community, privacy with connection, and independence with access to care. We recently submitted a proposal for a public competition for 50 rental housing units for non-dependent … [Read more...]
Amber Core House
Like a structure carved from a quarry, Amber Core House looks as if it was hewn from the bedrock. Its stone-like volume collects and protects every living space of the home. This petrous solid is punctuated by an interplay of hollow spaces, cradling a main void that houses the home's core. With a very visible texture, resembling that of a quarry wall, the … [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...]
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...]
The courtyard house, domestic paradise
Atlas of Architecture The courtyard house is a type of dwelling in which the rooms are organized around a central private courtyard. The courtyard is an architectural form with its own rules that has generated multiple variations over time. The 20th century, with its high buildings and urban expansion, has perhaps distanced us from this unique space. Despite this, … [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...]