Studio Muoto . MAIO architects . renders: © ailleurs.studio
The building is designed like a windcatcher. The architecture is structured around a series of linear patios that capture the dominant winds in order to provide natural ventilation to the workspaces. These patios allow the landscape to filter into the architecture and create a temperate interior climate. Continue reading Muoto . MAIO
This project is an extension of the existing La Marina municipal sports centre in Barcelona. The addition of this extension creates a new public space and redefines the main entrance of the sports centre. On the roof of the building is a swimming pool with a sliding roof, allowing the pool to operate as both an open-air and an indoor facility. This design means that the swimming pool stands like an elevated terrace above the city, an exceptional space that exploits the Mediterranean climate to the full. Continue reading Muoto . MAIO
MAIO . photos: © José Hevia
The booth design for Salone del Mobile in Milano, proposed a reusable solution based on one material: fabric. The project aims to generate a simple, lightweight, and luminous environment by means of a set of textile layers that generate interconnected spaces, where furniture and the visitors’ flow coexist within a cloudy atmosphere where concepts of reuse, recycling and lightness constitute the expression of architecture itself. Continue reading MAIO
Ignasi Aballí . MAIO Architects . photos: Claudio Franzini © AECID
Correction is the project presented by artist Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) for the Pavilion of Spain at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Bea Espejo. Continue reading Aballí . MAIO
The intervention aims to transform a pre-existing space into an exhibition gallery on c/Trafalgar in Barcelona, understanding the space as a place of memory, where all the elements (continent and exhibition content) act as reversible and mutable overlays in time.
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