GFA2 . Fernández-Abascal & Muruzábal . photos: © Luis Díaz Díaz
Adaptive reuse of the warehouses of Gamazo, the project provides new exhibition spaces for the Enaire Foundation in a prominent location on the former port of Santander. Continue reading GFA2 . Fernández-Abascal & Muruzábal
Supercontext . GFA2 . Fake Industries . renders: © CHOIRENDER
The Bass Hill Multipurpose Centre is a big box. The big box refines standardised industrial construction elements to become a contemporary civic building in suburban Western Sydney. The design elevates the banality of the steel portal frames, corrugated cladding, sawtooth roofs and box gutters, without rhetoric. The steel structure allows for a warehouse-like large open plan. The south-facing sawtooth facade brings natural and diffused light deep into the building while avoiding excess heat gain. The roof profile and the corrugated cladding provide identity to the new civic complex sited in a residential area. Both a part of suburbia and an exception within it, this ‘box-like’ industrial archetype is definitively public, as its elegant and playful urban presence sets an example of an economy of means and public engagement Continue reading Supercontext . GFA2 . Fake Industries
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
Fernández-Abascal + Muruzabal . Alonso / Barrientos . Pesquera Ulargui arquitectos . photos: © Javier Callejas
The project focuses on the integral renovation of the Church of the Major Seminary of the Pontifical University of Comillas. This intervention continues the strategy initiated years ago in the Seminar. The church is the central element of this vast eclectic campus, which appears as a result of three imposed plans. Among them, the scheme of Lluís Domènech i Montaner is the more attractive one. It is characterized by a very clever manipulation of the spaces along the central axis, where the church is located, and the suggestive application of modernist ornamentation. Continue reading Fernández-Abascal + Muruzabal . Alonso / Barrientos . Pesquera Ulargui
Fernández-Abascal & Muruzábal . GFA2
Enaire Foundation is the winning entry for the renovation of the old Gamazo industrial warehouse in the port of Santander. The project provides new contemporary art galleries in this prominent location in the bay. Continue reading Fernández-Abascal & Muruzábal . GFA2
