The site are decisive for the design of the new volumes. The idea of building two blocks is based on the scale of the detached houses to the south and the new blocks that are being built to the north of the site. The aim is to create a dialogue with the surroundings and to open up views and sunlight from one block to the other. House 1, benefits from the closer entrance. House 2, from being set back from the street. The design of the outdoor area plays a key role in the implementation of the entrances, and must...
Project Categories: HOUSING
02 / 07 / 202309 / 25 / 2024
2022_Housing in Frastanz, Austria
The plot occupies an elevated position, has a good orientation and remarkable views of the mountains and the city. But the geometry of its perimeter and the abrupt topography could be considered real design challenges. The urban structure is characterised by single-family houses and farm buildings, naturally placed and spread across the landscape. It is possible to think of higher density typologies, as long as they take into account these criteria of integration into the given structure. The Project consists in two building volumes with an intermediate space that opens up new perspectives and ensures the continuity of the green...
02 / 06 / 202302 / 07 / 2023
2022_Row of houses in Kehlegg, Austria
The Kehlegg project is a new housing development on a difficult plot with a steep north-facing slope, but with a good view of Lake Constance, in a small village at the edge of the mountains near the industrial town of Dornbirn in Vorarlberg. At the beginning, we worked intensively together with the real estate company Hefel on several volumetric proposals with different internal divisions and a variable number of dwellings. After consulting with the local authorities, we came to the conclusion that the 4 semi-detached houses approach is the best suited to the plot and the site conditions. The project...
01 / 11 / 202302 / 07 / 2023
2022_Housing Project in Kneippgasse, Götzis, Austria
A brief description of the proposal: The urban requirements, the orientation of the plot and some architectural aspects of the surrounding buildings, drive us to develop a proposal that, with its fan shape, allows the creation of a new and more attractive building. This fan shape, so to speak, reduces the presence of the volume towards the street by playing with the movement of the façades, and achieves a certain degree of privacy in the outdoor areas of the dwellings. Following the course of the sun, the building offers a variety of shapes and different levels, taking advantage of the...
04 / 06 / 202204 / 06 / 2022
2022_Housing in Walkeweg, Basel, Switzerland
Creating a new neighbourhood for more than 300 people means taking into account the residents’ daily, complex relationships with each other and their surroundings.Life takes place on different levels, from the most private spaces to the public square. The more diverse these connections are, the richer our daily experiences. This graduation of spaces is the main theme of our proposal. The semi-open intermediate spaces are formulated as meeting places. Some of them will be transformed, at the request of the residents, into pleasant corners where one can chat with neighbours. The four buildings are subtly grouped in two pairs creating...
10 / 16 / 202009 / 25 / 2024
2017-2020 Pazo de Quintáns, Meis, Pontevedra
When we talk about the Pazo de Quintáns we are actually referring to a huge complex formed by the imposing building of the Pazo (16th century) and its adjacent gardens, the chapel, the old walls and tapestries, the annexed buildings dedicated to agriculture, the “hórreos” (raised granaries), the vineyard plantations that extend throughout the site divided by rows of trees, as well as the walks and paths where a cross and a pergola lead to the main buildings. All this is located in the privileged landscape of the Arousa and Salnés valleys, the very centre of Albariño wine. On the...
09 / 08 / 202008 / 26 / 2021
2016-2019 Family House in Schaan, Liechtenstein
2016_house-in-schaan Download pdf EFH-SCHAAN Broschüre 2020_olmosochoa architekten Download pdf Räumlich Step by step this house has been gradually reaching its own personality. At the very beginning, the most important idea was the in-between space; a place as a space-cushion between inside and outside, that we considered our personal „spanish contribution“, if we can use that term, opposed to a local view of architecture, more focussed in the rotundity of volumes and a bit affraid to break the paralelepipedic form. This space between was defined in the groundfloor by a broken line of huge windows towards West and the garden, and in section,...
10 / 20 / 201901 / 10 / 2023
2019-2022 Housing Units in Nenzing, Austria, for RIVA HOME
The following basic concepts determine our work: Building contemporary architecture in village structures, contact with the surrounding countryside and nature with a wide view, respecting certain scales and the spaces in between, favouring collective spaces, and a central area as a meeting point. Affordable and attractive housing for young people with a distinct quality of life in the village. The project develops a programme of 24 flats in 5 houses of max. 500 m2 each. With the special characteristic of the lid-flat type, a townhouse model has been developed that allows the side facades of the houses to be better used...
09 / 27 / 201209 / 25 / 2024
2012 Family House in an old agricultural complex, Cabanillas de la Sierra, Madrid
In Cabanillas, a village in the Madrid’s Guadarrama Mountains, there is a plot surrounded by high walls that enclosed a courtyard with several walnut trees and some farm warehouses and stables for animals. All of them are built with stone and mortar, Worden structures and tile roofs keeping the intimate atmosphere of a former agricultural activity.
10 / 05 / 200811 / 18 / 2020
2008 102 Dwellings in Puerta de Hierro, Madrid
2012_puerta-de-hierro Download pdf La gente que vivía en la colonia Puerta de Hierro identificaba muy bien los rasgos que la diferenciaban de otras zonas de Madrid. Pero con el paso del tiempo esa diferencia se ha diluido. La situación privilegiada del barrio ha permitido una progresiva densificación, apareciendo bloques demasiado altos o demasiado juntos. En la proximidad con la M 30, el barrio termina por completarse con las últimas parcelas urbanizadas. En línea con dos edificaciones de doce plantas, una enorme pared hacia a la calle, se encuentra nuestro solar de forma triangular. Tenemos una obsesión por mirar al Sur. El...
09 / 27 / 200811 / 18 / 2020
2008 Restricted Competition Social Housing in Xoan XXIII Ave. Santiago de Compostela, Spain
El solar se encuentra en el remate del casco histórico, asomado a poniente, hacia donde la ciudad se empieza a confundir con el campo. Por un lado estrechas calles en pendiente y frentes de viviendas escalonados y fragmentados; por otro, una avenida con grandes edificios de escala institucional.
11 / 19 / 200511 / 19 / 2020
2001-2005 Social Housing, locals and public offices in Sanchinarro, Madrid
A BLOCK WITH LIFE The constructed block of social houses is one of the new quarters situated in the outskirts of Madrid, planned by the city hall for big and closed blocks for only residential purposes, lack of urban density, with no shops in the ground floors, and streets out of scale, as some of the main mistakes of this urban design. olmos ochoa arquitectos’ studio won a restricted competition organised by EMV (in Spanish, municipal housing enterprise). Our first decision was to open the building to the neighbourhood and to be part of the city. Therefore, three passages connect...
11 / 19 / 200411 / 19 / 2020
1995-2004 Social housing for young people in Vigo
INTERACTION IN AN OLD HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT These dwellings were designed taking into account the characteristics of the site, such as topography and the scale of the environment, history and social relationships. The structural systems, as long as the evacuation of rain water, the orientation, the sun exposure, the natural lighting and ventilation were carefully chosen focusing the future, the maintenance and the energetic demand. The plot has a height difference of 15,00 meters, and It is located in the upper section of the old centre of the town, among traditional stone buildings in quite a poor condition. The project prolongs...
11 / 19 / 199311 / 19 / 2020
1989- 1993 Social housing in Vallecas, Madrid
CITY VERSUS VILLAGE In a boundary area of the former Vallecas village, today a district of the city of Madrid, a new concept of urban life is possible. The idea is to build “City life”: the city of the streets and facades, but also the walls and the patios. Public, community, private and intimate spaces, from the street to the intimacy, provide a handful of interesting situations in which this project reflects upon. The way the buildings are placed in each plot takes into account the topography and the relation between the connecting elements, and talk of a different understanding...