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FRUGALITY, the new series of a+t magazine, on sale now!

Aurora Fernández Per - May 20, 2024. 13:12

Frugality means less material, less energy, less expense, greater respect for the environment, greater constructive sincerity, and greater social honesty.

Frugality is not imposed by social or cultural movements, or even by political transformations. It is the pure awareness of the moment of restriction and deprivation that conditions the way of acting. Frugality is dismantling the iconic and symbolic character of architecture. It imbues it with a basic rationality, a new classicism without style, standardised technology, and programmatic flexibility.

The first issue of this new series is entitled Abstraction and Responsibility, the essential features of this frugal architecture whose sole aim is to become a structure-shelter of life.

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The third issue of the GENEROSITY series, now on sale

Aurora Fernández Per - June 6, 2023. 12:32

Currently, electronic devices transport the self to virtual realities, blur public with private, even the innermost, and provide a foretaste of a different domestic spatiality. Facing this challenge, and taking a resistant stance, architecture turns its gaze to the recent past and is capable of constructing a privacy in which materiality still preserves its full evocative power.

The third volume of the GENEROSITY series is dedicated to delving into how this privacy is built in the collective housing environment. Stephen Bates signs an extensive article on new architectural options for living together, Javier Mozas summarizes in five points the benefits of a home in which it is possible to achieve domestic happiness and Aurora Fernández Per compares the strategies to improve privacy followed by 8 selected projects.

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Archived in: Collective housing Density London Aurora Fernández Per Javier Mozas Barcelona Sergison Bates New York Housing SO-IL Harquitectes Peris+Toral GENEROSITY SERIES a+t 58 THE CHALLENGE OF PRIVACY IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING STEPHEN BATES Förstberg Ling MALMOE MAJORCA IBIZA Mansion Block. Hampstead, Courtyard Housing. Lavender Hill Twelve Houses. Sorgenfri 450 Warren. Brooklyn 42 Social Housing in Son Servera 43 Social Housing in Ibiza 54 Social Housing in Bon Pastor Social Housing 1737. Gavà

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a+t visits Lleialtat Santseca Civic Centre

Aurora Fernández Per - October 4, 2018. 10:00

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Archived in: Civic Facilities Barcelona a+t research group Retrieve Refurbishment Harquitectes Lleialtat Santseca Civic Centre

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a+t visits the Student Dwellings in Sant Cugat del Vallès

Aurora Fernández Per - September 27, 2018. 10:00

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Archived in: Collective housing Barcelona a+t research group Housing Student Dwellings in Sant Cugat Harquitectes Dataae

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Complex Buildings: Linkers.
Flores & Prats. Sala Beckett

Patricia García - July 13, 2017. 10:00

The linker-interiors are not a continuous whole but rather a complex whole produced from a continuous presence, from liberated interiors with positive relationships.

The Sala Becket in Barcelona (2011-2016) is "a story about the continuity of a building which we first found in ruins and wanted to connect with its beginnings, a 1920s workers’ cooperative, the Cooperativa Paz y Justicia (Peace and Justice Cooperative) connecting this with the years .
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Archived in: Barcelona a+t 48 Generators, Linkers, Mixers & Storytellers Flores&Prats Complex buildings

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Betahaus Coworking. Barcelona

Patricia García - May 9, 2016. 08:00

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Archived in: Barcelona a+t 43 WORKFORCE A Better Place to Work Offices / Workspaces Betahaus

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Lluis Clotet, Ignacio Paricio. Dwellings in Barcelona. Spain

Patricia García - August 3, 2015. 08:05

Photo: Lluis Casal

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Archived in: Collective housing Density Barcelona Clotet & Paricio DBOOK Pdf

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Catalogue of urban forms. Towers + folded slab

Patricia García - May 27, 2015. 11:54

1. Access to the underground car park 2. Communal gardens 3. Park 4. Apartment block 5. Communal facilities

The towers make the most of the space on the ground plan and reach the mandatory height. The excess of floor area ratio is adjusted by means of excavations. These excavations become larger as the towers become higher and are produced in areas that face the north or in the closest areas between the towers.

Illa de la llum LLUIS CLOTET / IGNACIO PARICIO Barcelona (Spain) 2005 Plot area: 7,914 m2 Floor Area: 47,166 m2 Coverage: 0.29 Floor Area Ratio: 5.96 Dwellings: 230 Parking.
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Archived in: Collective housing Density Barcelona Clotet & Paricio Why Density?

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Jordi Adell. Refurbishment of a patio-house. Barcelona. Spain

Patricia García - April 14, 2015. 09:00

Montse and Joan had a house requiring repair which they also wanted to extend. The project had intended for the garden to come inside the house which was impossible with the existing facade and the small windows. So the living space was extended outside by projecting spaces towards the courtyard. Low-cost materials and solutions were used: galvanized metal frames, corrugated polycarbonate roof panels and plexiglass for the sliding doors. An intermediate space functioning as a temperature regu.
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Archived in: Barcelona Housing Refurbishment a+t 42 RECLAIM Domestic Actions 2 Jordi Adell

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EMBT. Collective housing in Barcelona. Spain

Patricia García - March 13, 2015. 09:37