INFINITO DELICIAS BD
Refurbishment #ecologicalcontract
133 · INFINITO DELICIAS bd Composition of knowledges ABSTRACT* Casa de la Arquitectura Award 2026, category ES_INNOVACIÓN (2026). * ALDES Award for the Best Project in Sustainability, Decarbonization, or Best On-Site Energy Generation in a Building. Rebuild (2026). * Finalist FAD Award 2026, category Architecture (2026). * Selected CSCAE Award (2026). * Golden Prize Europe. Holcim Awards 2023 (2023). * First Prize Restricted Competition, Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, Madrid (2018). Composition of knowledge Comprehensive renovation of a former industrial building in Madrid with the aim of transforming it into a socially and ecologically exemplary construction. It was promoted by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. The project involves an old metal working factory with a singular typology: a six-story block facing the street and two stacked industrial sheds located at the rear of the urban block. The building is conceived as a space that can accommodate urban actors linked to “sustainable food” and “citizen art” (the two main lines of action of the Foundation), while also contributing to the “composition of knowledges” and the creation of alliances between these communities and other actors associated with other forms of knowledge who also inhabit the building. The hybrid program includes offices, multipurpose spaces, a […]
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OKI
#refurbishment everyhouseisatheater
106 · oki Complete makeover for home and office ABSTRACT* Finalist Premios Cerámica Arquitectura Interiorismo ASCER 2019 (Asociación de Fabricantes de Azulejos y Pavimentos Cerámicos). Complete makeover for home and office The project involves the complete rehabbing of a flat in the southwest of Madrid. A young person decides to renovate the family home where he grew up and lived for many years to turn it into his new home and professional office. The project starts off with a review of memories, experiences and life lessons, to rethink the present and imagine a future for this new stage of life. The challenge lies in designing a space that facilitates, accelerates and accompanies this process; to devise a sort of home catalyst, located in the heart of a residential building in the neighborhood of Las Aguilas in the district of La Latina. The first step consists of reprogramming the pre-existing dwelling: a flat loaded with memory, built in the seventies of the last century reflecting a generic typological scheme based on standardized domestic criteria. Accordingly, there is an open central space semicircular in shape, around which the rest of the rooms orbit. This provides a flexible scheme that fosters cross […]
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