The program is organized in a single semi-closed volume that generates a private courtyard garden linked to the common uses of ground floor. On the upper floors, through a corridor organization that revolves according to natural lighting, typologies are positioned to ensure the best orientation of the main spaces of the house. Services and similar uses are grouped together to achieved homes with cross ventilation and with interior terraces that provide comfort and quality. A unique typology guarantees equity between users. Even being small 45sqm typologies, the existence of visual diagonals inside the house increases the sense of spaciousness.

Customer contact us after the purchase of a dark and fragmented home in a residential neighborhood. The renovation operation goes beyond the original request to renew interior finishing and seeks, through a minimal intervention modifying the way of inhabiting the house, bringing new circulations, enabling versatility in the limits of space and giving luminosity to all rooms.

The building is located on the corner that had occupied the ancient clinic El Carme. Its variable geometry is the result of physical adaptation to the plot, ground floor is released for better adaptation to the surroundings, and higher plants are adapted and give value to the neighboring end walls. The project has three areas: The ground floor, the basement and the rest. The ground floor is considered the extension of public-street space, and allows temporary uses and distributes to the rest of plants. The basement is an extension of this program but used as an exhibition hall. The third major area is planned as Civic Center, with fixed activities but which may vary. At first plants are specialized by age, school, young, study, seniors and moderate physical activity, taking advantage of the terraces overlooking to the sea. | Photos © Lourdes Jansana



Saló Daurat renovation is undertaken to make on it the meetings of the Governing Council of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Antoni Tàpies painting is moved to this room and serves as a backdrop hiding with two large sliding doors back service corridor. The golden roof that gives name to the hall and large stones lamps are wrapped with a golden fabric, limiting the volume and making it more inviting to work in the circular table. The carpet follows the geometric design of the pavement scale. Tàpies painting is placed with a mirror socket to achieve a sense of continuity from the floor and feel it float on it. | Photos © Lourdes Jansana | FAD Opinion Award 2007

CCCB extension occupies part of the cloister of the House of Charity and the ancient theater designed by the architect Josep Goday. The project, while incorporating a new program, wants to evident the architecture of these two eras. To improve the connection with the current CCCB building a new physical connection-passage is constructed under the square as well as a large warehouse is attached. The ground floor lobby organizes access and connections to the passage and to other floors, the mezzanine floor with administration program and the main theater floor. At the entrance from the square volume built is delayed to leave a covered porch access. Arches on the facade to the square are filled up to reduce insolation and only some holes-fonts that identify the building as a whole entity of the Culture Center are left. | Photos © Lourdes Jansana

The building is designed with a new planning proposal. The difficulty of the site, attached to a gas station, makes the proposal to create their own public space within the site, with terraces on the community access, separating into two the volume built and allowing cross ventilation and lighting in each house. The proposed distribution arises maximum flexibility, there is a base cell to which is added a module that allows an individual home, study, two bedrooms, adapted housing, etc. As housing intended for rent, kitchens and toilets are standardized and great storage space is provided . From the point of view of construction, industrialized systems and precast concrete panels allow a quick and economic construction and thinking about the environment, also an easy deconstruction.