OLD BERNAL HOUSE

El estudio Feldman Architecture ha sido el responsable de reformar esta casa
situada en la parte de alta montaña de San Francisco. La casa es del año 1860

en un principio estuvo a punto de ser derribada, cuando decidieron conservar

intacta la fachada.

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Via: Stylecrave

Via: Splendia
Via: Stylecrave
Via: Splendia

Via: Stylecrave
Via: Stylecrave

CASA SERENO MEDELLIN

Jaime Rendon arquitectos.

This house is located at the suburbs of Medellín (Colombia), 2,150 meter AMSL (Above Mean Sea Level).
The outstanding visual over the valley (named Valle del Aburrá), and the native forest that surrounds the house make this site unique in its type.
The longitudinal house location in reference to the plot enables walking trough while enjoying the exterior outlook.
The built-in white concrete volume encloses the social and the service zones, as well as the bedrooms. The built-in black stone volume surrounds the master bedroom and the private study (wood-box), both are linked by a iron built-in bridge.
Sun-light and shade splits the social zone in summer time, as result of the patio, the study, the bedrooms location against south and east facades.
At the end of the year, the sun is south located and the whole area has a steady shade over the social zone, not only because of the house location but the native forest sun shade effect.
The entry is a dual connotation, i.e., colossal and tiny, which best elucidates the "zaguán y el alero" (hallway) very popular in the traditional Colombian houses.

www.noticiasarquitectura.info

IGLESIA SANTA MONICA

By Dan Stewart
Spanish firm Vicens + Ramos is a reclusive practice, but this iconic/iconoclastic church in Madrid is hard to miss

The Iglesia de Santa Monica in Madrid, designed by Spanish architect Vicens + Ramos, is a church unlike any other. Clad entirely in weathering steel, it resembles an expressionist war memorial more than a religious building. The completed building was the third design that the architects came up with for the building. Original proposals for a more traditional church in concrete fell by the wayside as there were insufficient funds. Vicens + Ramos’ solution was to shape the church to fit the awkwardly placed site and build it entirely from Corten steel with plasterboard panelling inside. The building is long and narrow, curved to fit the road along its westerly aspect and cut off abruptly at the north-easterly face. Described by the architect as “an explosion, frozen in an instant after detonation”, the sculptural protuberances at the north end seem to jostle for the light, and almost resemble a hand pointing heavenwards. “Vicens + Ramos prefers its clients and projects to remain secret even though it has been designing in Spain since the late seventies” Appropriately, this is the end of the church in which the altar sits. The windows, covered in mesh, form a disjointed pattern that resembles a cubist painting. The architects asked five artists to create the interior fittings of the church, including the crosses, altar and decorative images, and each did so free of charge as the priests had no money to pay them. Vicens + Ramos, which designs predominantly in a modernist style, prefers its clients and projects to remain secret even though it has been designing in Spain since the late seventies. Its buildings include a social sciences building at the University of Navarra and the Las Encinas house in Madrid.

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