Renovation of Pazo de Quintans (Galicia, Spain) and its conversion into a small 4-star hotel with gourmet restaurant and cafeteria. New winery construction and transformation of the adjoining building into an event venue. When we talk about the Pazo de Quintáns, we actually mean a huge complex made up of the imposing XVI century building of the Pazo and the neighbouring gardens, the chapel, the old walls and the dependencies dedicated to agricultural activities, the ‘hórreos’ (raised storehouses), the vineyards that cover the entire site and are divided by rows of trees, and the paths and trails with a cross...
Project Categories: PUBLIC
09 / 23 / 202409 / 25 / 2024
2024_Refurbishment and extension of a School in Landeck, Tirol, Austria
Urban design The extension is intended to complement the existing U-shaped ensemble of the existing school in such a way that the inviting and diverse outdoor area is preserved, thus emphasising the public character of the complex. The gymnasium extension from 1979 is cleverly positioned in terms of urban planning and is able to close off the schoolyard on the north side thanks to its lateral positioning. The idea of the two overlapping gymnasiums makes it possible to integrate these large-scale uses in a compact building and at the same time create additional space for other school uses on the...
06 / 23 / 202409 / 25 / 2024
2023_Kinderhaus Bürs, Austria
The new building for small children and their families in Bürs fits naturally into the series of public buildings that form an educational and educational and meeting centre for Bürs. The most important defining aspects are: 1_ the clarity of the entrance favours the reception of users: WELCOME PLACE 2_ the adaptation to the different scales of the neighbourhood, from the monumental scale of the Friedenskirche to the smallest of the detached houses, through a graduated geometry. 3_ the desire to offer children a home with an identity, a place to play and socialise, but also a meeting place for...
03 / 23 / 202409 / 25 / 2024
2023_Volkschule Schruns, Austria
The new school will be an important building in the community, integrated into the school complex, but at the same time a public centre that will bring a lot of life to Schruns. Conscious of its size, the building is clearly positioned, with a spacious square in front that leaves enough space for the protected Old Court. The urban development plan for the new primary school in Schruns provides for the creation of two large, beautifully designed squares: one in front of the Old Court and another in front of the secondary school. The existing urban structure of Schruns, which...
02 / 06 / 202209 / 25 / 2024
2022_Extension and over-elevation of a building in Innsbruck (Austria)
This is an extension in height and floor plan of three existing buildings from three different periods, in an architecturally relevant environment with the Ferdinand Museum and the Academic Gymnasium, which seeks to integrate naturally into the urban ensemble of Innsbruck’s centre. This will be the new headquarters of Lebensraum Tirol Holding. Our project offers a homogeneous and uniform image through a clear and restrained language and a compact geometry. The extension is understood as a single, contemporary element on the existing cornice of the historic buildings. The choice of a single material for the façade cladding “calms the noise”,...
01 / 27 / 202202 / 07 / 2023
2021 Community Centre in Pfaffnau, Switzerland
The new Community Building and its surrounding Park and Square give Pfaffnau a centre and creates meeting places for people. In connection with its representative function, the compact volume resolutely faces the main street and creates a façade to define the space of the future village square. The building is open to the inhabitants of the village and to visitors. Permeability is achieved by a two-part division on the ground floor. Towards the main street, this passage forms a balcony and a ramp with visual axes towards the church and the new village square. The programme is organised on three floors...
11 / 14 / 202102 / 06 / 2023
2021_IMELGA Headquarters, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
A new public green space towards Rúa de Riga shades the presence of the new building towards the neighbourhood and creates a buffer of public use and biodiversity in front of the residential buildings, strengthening a green corridor in continuity with the Parque do Vieiro. The functional programme has been organised taking into account the topography, allowing direct access from the public space both on floor 0 and floor -1. The communication cores, installations and toilets are grouped together, alowing the rest of the areas around a courtyard. In this way, possible modifications due to programme changes can be dealt...
07 / 15 / 202107 / 15 / 2021
2021 Open Competition. 3rd Prize_Praza da Igrexa, Vigo, Spain
There are three main guidelines that explain our project: 1. Expansion of the public space of the Praza da Igrexa under the proposed building, as a porch, for multiple activities, uses and events, such as street markets, musical concerts, conferences, workshops or children’s games: A VERSATILE PUBLIC OPEN AIR SPACE INDOOR. 2. A new, flexible and versatile building, constructively and technologically innovative, which follows intentionally the broken line of the plot, generating a new façade to the Praza da Igrexa. We propose a multifunctional space of great versatility on the first floor with a height of 4.50 metres, divisible into...
08 / 31 / 201902 / 08 / 2021
2019 Restricted Competition Hypobank Hohenems, Austria
Konzept Die neue Hypobank Vorarlberg ist das erste Gebäude, das von den Hauptstrassen wahrgenommen wird. Erschliessungstechnisch erschwert das höhergelegene Grundstück die Zugänglichkeit des Gebäudes. Deshalb sieht der Entwurf einen Eingangsbereich vor, der drei Zugänge bündelt: für Fussgänger von der Angelika-Kauffmannstrasse, für Besucher und Mitarbeiter von den Parkplätzen her oder direkt aus der Tiefgarage. Die einladende Geste des leicht abfallenden Vorplatzes ermöglicht einen einfachen, gut sichtbaren Hauptzugang, während gleichzeitig durch das tiefere Niveau zusätzlicher Raum im Inneren gewonnen wird. Der durch die leichte Neigung des Vorplatzes erreichte tiefere Niveau ermöglicht einen einfachen, gut sichtbaren Hauptzugang bei gleichzeitigem Raumgewinn im Innern. Der Zugang...
09 / 27 / 201411 / 18 / 2020
2014 Open Competition Fischereizentrum Bodensee Steinach, Switzerland
Das Grundstück am Ortseingang von Steinach, zwischen Gewerbezone, Seeufer und Wohngebiet, ist mit seinem alten Baumbestand eine rare Besonderheit, die gepflegt, präsentiert und öffentlich zugänglich gemacht werden sollte.
09 / 27 / 201209 / 25 / 2024
2012 Open Competition Tourist School St. Johann, Tirol
Die Schule bildet einen Campus mit der Volksschule, der Sonderschule und dem Gymnasium.
09 / 27 / 201211 / 18 / 2020
2012 Open Competition Extension of a Secondary School in Lessinggasse, Vienna
The new School is designed with the aim of integrating the existing enviroment.
09 / 27 / 201111 / 18 / 2020
2011 International Competition 2nd Prize_Headquarters of the Hidrographical Confederation Miño-Sil, Orense
Concept An emphatic abstract volume, to which it has been extracted pieces to let light inwards, provides calm to an environment characterized by the convergence of multiple overlapping urban elements. The idea is to sew and integrate voids and built spaces, deliberately ignoring the domestic scale and giving monumentality in order to create the main character of this environment. The choice of only two materials, stone and glass, supports the sought sharpness. Glasses are treated as planes of light, and the stone as a rock-carved from which we locate the uses. The form of the outside enriches the interior spaces,...
11 / 18 / 200811 / 18 / 2020
2006-2008 Research Centre FIDAMC. Scientific and Technological Park Getafe Sur
COMPLEX PROGRAM – CLEAR ANSWERS The main purpose of this building is to house an important research centre linked to the European aeronautical industry. FIDAMC (in Spanish: Foundation for research, development and applications of new composite materials) is a building with few elements, but of great complexity that gathered the headquarters’ offices, two big hangars, laboratories and all the facilities that supplies the complex. The way that the buildings are placed allow eventual and future extensions. The buildings are divided in several volumes separated by courtyards and connected by glazed fingers. Gardens and trees provide views and relax to the...
09 / 27 / 200809 / 25 / 2024
2008 Open Competition Tourist Reception Center, San Juan de Dios Convent in Olivenza, Badajoz
This project comes from the way of understanding the place and the relationship between use and time.
11 / 18 / 200611 / 18 / 2020
2003-2006 Multi-purpose building and VIP dinning rooms EADS / CASA, Getafe
NATURAL LIGHT AND ACOUSTIC TREATMENT The client’s demands for the EADS factory in Getafe were to provide spaces for common services such as dining halls, kitchen, changing and meeting rooms. After some proposals, the demands were attended annexing two buildings, in two steps of construction, to the existing volume of the dining and kitchen’s edifice, solving the complexity of connections and circulations. The first building is the extension of the staff dinning room, and it was planned to be executed in a short period of time. It has a rectangular plan covered with a metallic structure of 18,00m long beams...
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 / 18 / 200211 / 18 / 2020
2000-2002 EF-2000 Headquarters. EADS / CASA, Getafe
ARCHITECTURE FOR ENGINEERS We were asked to design a new building next to another one and both stacked to a hangar of aircraft. The project followed the lines marked by the existing structures but, at the same time, visible independent from them. Some elements contribute to this attitude: a huge canopy emphasises the entrance and protects it from sun and rain; a beautiful main staircase with a characteristic light wheel, and a subtle bending of the facade to the south side that gives certain style to the silhouette of the edifice. Divided into different levels, the offices are located in...
11 / 19 / 199611 / 19 / 2020
1992-1996 Pelayos de la Presa Town Hall, Madrid
REPRESENTATIVE ARCHITECTURE AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION The new Town Hall of Pelayos de la Presa, a small village at the southwest of Madrid, tries to react to the different circumstances of its location. On one side, it offers its main façade and its entrance to the Plaza, facing South, the daily meeting point, the place for the important events of the village. At the west side of the building the Ancha Street (which means Broadway), serves to ease the crowd concentrations that gather at the Plaza during festivities. Towards the street, architecture tries to reach the objective with the minimum quantity...
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...