The Gladiol House, a new single-family home in La Floresta, fits into the terrain while respecting and enhancing the plant life currently on the plot. The idea of keeping the house elevated above the terrain on a plot with such a steep slope gives the building permanent visual contact with the plants and its surroundings…. Read more »
For some time now, we’ve been helping master carpenter Oriol Casso with a line of incredible wooden houses. Oriol has developed a brilliant building technique and has built some houses, and even a block of teaching rooms, all on his own. One day, he asked us to help him improve the product and we jumped… Read more »
For a congress on sustainable collective housing, being a concept that has been formed through adjectival aggregation and us being a team that works from a project-based standpoint, we propose our contribution be describing specific cases: projects that have led us to consider what today’s spaces for collective life could be like. First of all,… Read more »
Who are you? Could you tell me a bit about your past to put the project in context? We’re a combined team that approaches projects from the standpoint of architecture and from the so-called social sciences. In my case (Francesc Pla), I come to this adventure as an architect and an educator. Daniel and I… Read more »