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: REFURBISHMENT
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...
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”,...
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 / 27 / 201509 / 25 / 2024
2015 Therapy Centre in Rüthi, Switzerland
Drei Bauköper: Haus, Scheune und Neubau Respektieren sie sich einander; Luft zwischen Ihnen. Wichtige Elemente zu verstärken: Die Einzigkeit von Volumina, der Brunnen, die Sonnenwiese. Die älte Gebäude würdig machen und mit der neue Nützung ihren Leben zu verlängern.
11 / 06 / 201409 / 25 / 2024
2014 Day Care Centre for Alzheimer’s patients Madrid, Spain
Friendly – Functional The objectives of our client to fulfil were to have a functional place, modern but not cold, friendly environment, optimistic, forward-looking, confortable and sure. The greatest possible natural light had to be achieved. Versatility of the rooms. We designed a space with two strong elements: Colour and Glas. With only one façade, the challenge was how to bring the maximum of light in the interior. The reflections of the coloured glass and the effect of the gradation of the colour as one goes in the furthest rooms, helped us to get it. The white, bare façade, simple...
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.
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 / 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 / 19 / 200309 / 25 / 2024
1998-2003 Clinic Santa Isabel. ASISA, Seville
RENOVATION AND SUBSTITUTION The aim of this project was to adequate the Clinic of Santa Isabel in Seville to new demands and to solve, with a global concept, a number of different problems derived from many particular interventions. Among several interventions, the main work was to arise a new building substituting an old one, providing a better connection and integration among all the services. According to urban regulations, the new building had to maintain the same area aboveground level of the demolished one, but its area could be increased underground with two cellars for storage rooms, parking places and facilities...
10 / 18 / 200209 / 25 / 2024
1997-2002 Clinic Perpetuo Socorro. ASISA, Lleida
ADDITION AND PROPORTION We were in charge of the complete renovation of the Perpetuo Socorro’s Clinic, an eclectic building that occupies the corner defined by the Bisbe Messeguer Street and Alcalde Sol Street, in the Catalan city of Lerida. Our aim was to protect the main values, recovering the quality and dignity of the old building, which have suffered a lot of refurbishments without a unique architectural criterion, and to provide a new functionality open to new deals in medicine and hospital management. From an architectural point of view, the project enlarges the existing building in two directions: horizontally, by...