ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/887073/house-1219-harquitectes Wed, 17 Jan 2018 05:00:00 +0000 Daniel Tapia https://www.archdaily.com/887073/house-1219-harquitectes On a plot without salient features, the project took as starting point the restrictions marked by the geotechnical study, which showed that the first meters underground had a low resistance capacity. To avoid a deep foundation, not recommendable for both economic and environmental reasons, it was necessary to reanalyze the organization of the house and its building systems. The design called for a very light construction, or else one that would evenly distribute the loads to the ground. The light construction option was discarded because it was considered important to gain interior thermal inertia for a better passive behaviour.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/234802/police-station-in-barcelona-mizien Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Kritiana Ross https://www.archdaily.com/234802/police-station-in-barcelona-mizien Like many towns in El Vallès, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Palau-solità has tripled its population since the 1980s and extended by means of single-family houses and low-rise apartment blocks. In this context, a public building may be designed to give the main streets in the fabric an urban, civic character or to fit in with the series of warehouses, shopping centres and franchises that form the periphery of this sprawling urbanization. The headquarters of the local police force is an example of the former. 

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