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GFA2 . Fernández-Abascal & Muruzabal

Youth Center . Torrelavega

GFA2 . Fernández-Abascal & Muruzabal . Youth Center . Torrelavega afasia (1)

GFA2 architects . Fernández-Abascal & Muruzabal . renders: © Choirender

A typological investigation on flexible and generous mid-scale civic buildings on the fringe of the city. The first iteration is materialised in the Torrelavega Youth Center. The architecture is defined by a simple concrete structure; the structure is the facade, the internal technical shafts, the green planters, the solar protection, and the vertical circulation. Round columns, thick slabs, a rectangular core, a generic curtain wall, white curtains, and local plants make the building. Continue reading GFA2 . Fernández-Abascal & Muruzabal

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Grau . Fernández-Abascal

Fernández-Abascal . The Future of Living

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Urtzi Grau . Guillermo Fernández-Abascal . renders: © CHOIRENDER

A new type of domesticity is emerging in Australia, defined by a shift towards hedonistic collective housing. The Future of Living addresses it bringing together new ways of sharing life, energy management protocols, relationships with nature, new materialities and austerity chic. Appliances, plants, furniture, structure, materials, and objects joined in unfinished assemblages. They are scattered around the house and provide a variety of spatial conditions. They perform climatically, they provide privacy, they include plants and rocks, they allow us to gather. This collection of objects defines an ambiguous living environment. It is neither an interior nor an exterior, but it is certainly a part of the Australian landscape. Continue reading Grau . Fernández-Abascal

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Fake Industries . Fernandez-Abascal

MH HOUSE

Fake Industries . Fernandez-Abascal . MH HOUSE (1)

Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Urtzi Grau and Cristina Goberna Pesudo) with Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal

MH House is a 34.5 sq.m (L:5.68m, W:6.64m, H:2.83m) prefabricated shelter with a
17.5 sq.m terrace and a total cost of €5.000. Its light-weight structure is made of galvanized steel. The frame is modular and parts are interchangeable. Its walls and roof feature polyolefin foam panels, which protect residents from sun, wind, rain and snow. Its final coating, a metallized polyethylene terephthalate (MPET) is tough and durable and provides the house unified image. Its short sides are covered with door- integrated-panels and a solar panel and a rain-water collector in the roof ensure its energetic autonomy. Continue reading Fake Industries . Fernandez-Abascal

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Fernandez-Abascal . Grau

President’s Wall

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Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal (GFA2) . Urtzi Grau (FKAA) . James Withlow Delano (copyright images)

Dept. of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a solicitation in electronic format for the design and build of several prototype wall structures in the vicinity of the United States border with Mexico.

Deeply inspired by the Emperor’s New Clothes tale, our proposed wall will be made of fabric only visible to anyone who is stupid or incapable of doing his job. Continue reading Fernandez-Abascal . Grau

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GFA

The story of the pool

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GFA (Gabriel Fernández-Abascal & Guillermo Fernández-Abascal)

After forty years navigating through the Atlantic, the constructivist floating pool1 arrived in New York from Moscow. Four decades later and after visiting Sydney and Porto, it appears in Santander to settle in its bay. Continue reading GFA

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