Architect/engineer Ricardo Aroca from Madrid realized a number of unusual apartment buildings in the 1970s. The underlying principle was the idea of a vertical shelving rack on which made-to-measure houses could be placed, independently of each other. Each storey provides a free floor slab where every layout is possible. To achieve this, Aroca developed a section in which a concrete table construction spanned an open ground level. On the table, there is a steel frame with four to five floor slabs above each other. The building, referred to as Arturo Soria, together with the nearby project on the Calle de Angel Munoz, can be seen as a radical, uncompromising elaboration of Aroca’s basic principles. In so doing, it forms one of the most attra...
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2 Buildings by M. Fisac «Vega» office building in Madrid This aesthetically thought out building i...
This project consists of 21 buildings and 1061 flats, and is divided into two units. One of them con...
Eduardo Souto de Moura (b 1952) has long been one of Portugal’s leading architects but gained wider ...
Pathway between enclosure all on the right and the tower area, with pergola arching overhead; One of...
The Congrés Eucarístic (1952) neighbourhood and the Trinitat Nova (1953) estate in Barcelona were bu...
Torres Blancas, the building designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza for the Huarte company, was ...
ResumenEl legado Mariano García Benito (en adelante MGB), formalizado en 2022 al Servicio Histórico ...
This unique building, situated at the crossing Diagonal-Carretera of Sarría of Barcelona, consists o...
This residential building in Madrid has 68 dwellings, as well as a commercial zone, and general serv...
The project organises 105 senior citizens housing into three volumes spread out, on top of a two-sto...
Nella Madrid degli anni sessanta l’architetto navarro Sáenz de Oíza sperimenta la costruzione di un ...
The Architecture and Household Trade Union built nearly 2,000 subsidized dwellings in Albacete from ...
As the architectural and engineering world of the early 20th century explored new and fascinating ma...
[EN] The house in Los Peñascales provides food for thought regarding the discipline of architecture ...
This building belongs to a branch of a German firm of car manufacturers. The ground area covered by ...
2 Buildings by M. Fisac «Vega» office building in Madrid This aesthetically thought out building i...
This project consists of 21 buildings and 1061 flats, and is divided into two units. One of them con...
Eduardo Souto de Moura (b 1952) has long been one of Portugal’s leading architects but gained wider ...