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Spanish photographer Aleix Bagué sent us his latest photo report on the new building by Carlos Ferrater & Jimenez Brasa Arquitectos.
More pictures, text and drawings after the break.
The project for the extension of the Science Park in Granada, by the Genil river, starts with the construction of a single roof with small inflections that looks [...]

Located at the southern end of The Sea Ranch on a narrow lot with adjacent neighbors, the master bedroom structure was pulled apart from the main house and linked with a deck to frame the ocean view and let the landscape and exterior living space take center stage on the site. We set the main house back from the oceanfront and tucked the master bedroom building behind a mature cypress grove. By organizing the program into distinct structures sited in relation to the stand of trees along the edge of the lot, a private sanctuary was created within the developed landscape of The Sea Ranch.

The Matchbox building is planned to be made of prefabricated concrete boxes, stacked on top of each other. Each level is its own independent concrete box that hangs on thin structural walls that will use very little steel to provide support. Inside, some of the walls will be finished with galvanized steel, so that art work, designs or layouts can easily be hung up on the walls with magnets. In the center of the building, an atrium garden is open to the floors with bridges spanning the garden to connect the units. This atrium also acts to bring in daylight to the individual units.

By covering the entire building with water proof material used in ship construction we made a unique and detailed building that doesn’t require sealants or tiling. By considering views about execution from the planning stage on, we discovered water proof materials previously unknown to us. By rethinking standard practices and personal opinions about structure,utility,form,materials, interiors,and exteriors, we think we can find new possibilities for materials,the relationship of form and space,and the building and its surroundings, in a planning environment that opens up new wonders not found in traditional buildings.