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...
Archivos: Projects
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 / 25 / 202409 / 25 / 2024
2024 Dwellings in two houses. Wolfurt, Austria
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...
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 / 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...
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...
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...
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 / 29 / 201711 / 18 / 2020
2017 Open Competition 2nd Prize_Dorfzentrum Au, Switzerland
Gesamtwürdigung der Jury: “Der Projektvorschlag überzeugt durch die radikale Geste des mäandrierenden Langbaus und der resultierenden wohltuenden Großzügigkeit der Freiräume”. Konzept Die Bauliche Verdichtung findet ausschliesslich an der Hauptstrasse statt. Ein elegantes Gebäude, das volumetrisch auf die Umgebung reagiert, bildet eine bauliche Grenze zu dem freigespielten, grosszügigen Aussenraum und akzentuiert den Strassenraum neu. Das Erdgeschoss ist durchlässig- es gibt drei pregnante Durchgänge. Sie sind die Schaufenster auf die öffentlichen Gebäude und Plätze. Das Gebäude ist ein Filter von der Strasse zum öffentlichen Raum. Hinter der Neubebauung an der Hauptstrasse findet man um die Kirche eine selbstverständlich wirkende Abfolge von ruhigen, gut proportionierten Freiräume mit...
09 / 29 / 201611 / 18 / 2020
2016 Open Competition Leutbühel Areal Bregenz, Austria
Die Ziele sind zusammenfassend die folgenden: STADTRAUM gegenüber STRASSENRAUM. Umgestaltung der gesamten Umgebung der Begegnungszone. BEGEGNUNGSZONE Förderung der Vielfältigkeit und Kombination verschiedener Nutzungen und als edler Vorraum der alten Stadt zu dienen. Verstärkung der Identität des Stadtzentrums: Ein Ort, der Aufenthaltszonen bietet, ein Ort, der zum ruhigen Verweilen, zur Beobachtung, zum Ausruhen am Rande des Konsums einlädt. Zur Erlangung dieser Ziele bezieht sich unser Vorschlag auf 3 Themen: Piazza della Signoria + Piazza delle Erbe+ historischer Brunnen Die Zugänge zur Stadt Die Übergänge, die Wege Bank – Brunnen – Baum: Einen Ort, um sich zu setzen, einen Baum, der uns...
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 / 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 / 201311 / 18 / 2020
2013 Open Competition Landscaping Integration of ENCE Factory in Pontevedra, Spain
SITUACIÓN ACTUAL. VALORACIÓN Una oportunidad única de afrontar un problema que abre interrogantes en todos los ámbitos de la sociedad: paisajístico, medio ambiental, económico, social, político y arquitectónico. ¿Industria – paisaje? ¿industria – población? ¿no a la industria? ENCE tiene una presencia física sumamente potente: Altísimas chimeneas, grandes depósitos de almacenaje, enormes naves que nunca fueron diseñadas pensando en el entorno sino, simplemente, para ser productivas. El viario y los espacios propios de la fábrica suelen dejar áreas inhóspitas y residuales. Cuando hay que ampliar o incluir alguna nueva instalación, se suelen utilizar los lugares libres sin que haya una...
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 / 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...
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 / 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.
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 / 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 / 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...
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...
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...
11 / 18 / 200011 / 18 / 2020
1996-2000 Clinic Jerez. ASISA, Jerez de la Frontera
A PALACE-LIKE HOSPITAL This project is the result of a team’s work of a group of medical doctors, technicians and architects. The complexity of the relationships between functions and circulating spaces define the formal solutions; every functional requirement has to find its own position; the project deals with the dimensions of the rooms, the size of each technical area, the adjusted proportions and relationships between main areas and circulating areas, and the result of it is a compact and well-organized building. One of the most interesting approaches of this project is to have designed an average patient room. Its shape...
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...