Architecture
As architects (B. Arch. University of Granada), we have experience creating and developing projects, 3D visualizations, realistic rendering, urban planning, structural design, drawing and compositions of plans and models. We have worked in some of the best architecture studios in Spain, participating in national and international competitions.
Our ideas come from a hard hand work with sketches and models, the study of the needs of the project, the program and the place. We are advanced users of vector-based drawing programs like AutoCAD and CorelDRAW in their latest versions, rendering software (Lightscape, Sketchup, 3DMax Studio), image editing (Photoshop) and calculation of structures (CYPECAD).
Some of our most notable projects:
· Señorio de Nevada, Winery and Hotel (Granada, Spain, 2009)
· Sports Center (Granada, Spain, 2007)
· Granada Football Club Sports City (Granada, Spain, 2007)
Señorio de Nevada, Winery and Hotel
Granada, Spain (2009)
Project #01
Remodeling of the Señorio de Nevada cellars, in Granada. The program specified the design of a winery with all necessary service spaces (patio, fermentation rooms with laboratory, aging rooms, warehouses with loading area, changing rooms and toilets for workers), a Wine Interpretation Center and Museum (with 200 m² exhibition galleries and a tasting room) and a country hotel with at least 15 rooms, SPA, restaurant and café.
The project includes all areas in one square concrete building. The work rooms are buried, using the protection of the soil to get the required humidity and temperature, while the two-floor hotel stands to benefit from the views of the grapevines. The first floor of the hotel includes the public spaces (reception, café and restaurant, SPA) and the rooms are on the second floor, almost flying over the vineyard. The patios emerge as light boxes, introducing light at specific points in the cellar. The roof of the cellar serves as a big solarium for reception and celebrations.
Project #02
A different version for this winery presents a very important formal idea: the construction and support of the building is but a reflect of the strong pattern that the grapevines form: these long and powerful parallel lines become vertical concrete planesand it's this simple game of vertical planes, with different longitudes, heights and positions which provides all the spaces and communications that the winery and the adjacent hotel need.
The most important part of the project, the winery, is situated along the main road. This building has a very long proportion, as a result of the idea of getting "buried" into the dense pattern of grapevines, as if these were emerging from the ground and becoming concrete walls. The galleries of the Wine Interpretation Center and Museum are very narrow to give the visitor the sensation of walking between the grapevines. The hotel, however, is arranged perpendicular to the grapevines, so all the rooms have great views over the vineyard.
Sports Center
Granada, Spain (2007)
Project #01
Project for a Sports Center included in the future Sports City for the Granada Football Club, in the North of Granada city. This new building includes a sports court ready top lay five-a-side soccer, basketball, tennis and volleyball games, reception areas and restrooms for the spectators and gym and locker rooms for the athletes, as well as administrative rooms. It's a multi-purpose building, capable of holding various types of events, from sports to music performances.
The structure plays the biggest role in this project, as shown in cross-sections: the giant concrete pergola flies above the sports court, covering it and leaving a totally free side for the spectators to enjoy the view that opens into the nearby green space. The calculation of the pergola allows the inclusion of a technical floor on the deck, where we find all the necessary elements of ventilation, air conditioning, lighting and audiovisual control of the game. At the same time, the concrete supports define spaces for the reception of spectators on the top floor and for athletes on the lower floor, with the stands covering the difference of height.
Project #02
A different idea for the Sports Center included in the future Sports City for the Granada Football Club, in the North of Granada city. The building is buried and carved in the ground to get a low-height project. The sporting event occurs at a level below the street and the roof is a simple but attractive element that indicates the position of the sports hall and reflects the hidden space to the outside. On the lower level are the gym, changing rooms and showers for athletes.
Like an iceberg, the visible part of the building is but a small reflect of the hidden part, below the ground where the actual project begins.
The structure of the roof is formed by long triangulated steel arcs supported with wood boards and covered in the outside with a layer of glazed tile mosaics.
Sports City for the Granada F.C.
Granada, Spain (2007)
Project for the creation of the future Sports City for the Granada Football Club. Located in the North side of the city, the aim of the new project is the revitalization of residual spaces that have been left in the suburbs of this part of the city, through the interaction of citizens with the sport that takes place there. The program includes 6 artificial grass fields for the training of the first team, and 8 seven-a-side fields for the training of the lower grades, a training camp for goalkeepers, gym, pool, changing rooms, administrative facilities and grandstands for the audience. There's also the new municipal Sports Center, a multi-purpose Sports Center, capable of holding many different types of events, from sports events to music performances.
The objective of this idea is to locate the project in a marginal area of the city, fitting with the pattern of housing blocks, but at the same time freeing space from the street to dilute the boundaries between the private and public spaces. Those limits, the edges of the sports arena, are actually pixelated walls that sieve the views inside the premises, and let out the grass from the football field, mixing it with the public mini-fields, giving the opportunity to the citizens to tread the same turf that the players are playing in.
