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Temporary Pavilions with View to Zaragoza / Magén Arquitectos

Florencia Mena — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:00:00 +0000

It’s been almost a century since Le Corbusier, published in the 20s his “Theory of the roof-garden,” seed of the fifth of his five points for a new architecture, which addresses the use of the terrace. Although we can think that climbing up the roof is an ancient impulse of human and technical progress of constructive solutions, today roofs of our cities are underused.

Kindergarten Valdespartera / Magén Arquitectos

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 03:00:00 +0000

Valdespartera Ecocity is a newly built neighborhood located in the residential expansion south of Zaragoza. Ordination, which includes the construction of nearly 10,000 housing units, meets certain energy efficiency criteria. The plot is located on the southern boundary of the district, next to water tanks and the ring highway Z-40.

Escatrón Town Hall / Magén Arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 05:00:00 +0000

The initial considerations about the project of a new Town Hall in the historical town center revolves around two opposite conditions: the integration of the new building in the urban fabric versus the singularity demanded by its representative condition.

LIANG XIN Oriental Therapy Center / Magén Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 01:00:00 +0000

Located in the heart of Zaragoza, in the basement of a residential building previously occupied by a bus station, the site where the Liang Xin Center is located has a street facade and an interior area that extends to the inside of the block. For the first Liang Xin Center outside Malaysia, we propose an architecture of dark tones based on the darkness and silence of the empty space and the articulation of the interior routes, and attentive to the different degrees of opacity of materials. In this sense, the new facade is made entirely of copper. In this case, to its qualities as a natural material that is modified over time, tinting its tones and early reflections, is added the opportunity to drill pixelated patterns offered by digital technology. This process allows us to integrate into a single material the graphic identity elements and the images symbolizing the four concepts in Liang Xin philosophy from its origins -Relaxation, freedom, harmony and generosity- avoiding the superposition of materials that is usual in this type of project.

Valdespartera Kindergarden / Magén Arquitectos

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Espacio Portalet / Magén Arquitectos

Barbara Porada — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Magén Arquitectos have recently proposed a new cultural center called "Espacio Portalet" for the mountainous pass on the border between Spain and France. Their design proposal aims to evoke cultural memory and to highlight the impressive landscape context of the Pyrenees.

Parque Goya Kindergarten / Magén Arquitectos

Nico Saieh — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The location, an urban edge at the north of Zaragoza, and the will to make a connection between interior and outdoor spaces led to approach the project as as open organization of teaching linear elements colonizing the area with an extensive layout, grouping around the outdoor spaces open to the landscape and shaping play areas.

Bajo Martin County / Magén Arquitectos

Kritiana Ross — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Casa Julve Restoration / Magén Arquitectos

Kelly Minner — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Located in the historical City Centre of Alcaniz, the renovation project of the so-called Casa Julve proposes the transformation of this former mansion into a School of Music.

44 Social Housing / Magén Arquitectos

Andrew Rosenberg — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The origin of the project starts from the analysis of the connection between public and private spaces. Planned in the regulation as a city block, the organization is defined for the pre-existing building on the south and the new building, with a “U” shape plan. The definition of the interior public space is able to generate connections with the pre-existing buildings in the surrounding and to provide with attractive transition spaces. It also improves housing conditions, limited due to their social character, giving them an external space of access, meeting and gathering.

New Headquarters for Environment Services / Magén Arquitectos

Nico Saieh — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The building location has a special value based on the relationship between the built-up area of the city and the urban banks of the Ebro river, recuperated for the 2008 Expo, forming a linear park that accompanies the river on its way through Zaragoza. Situated in the centre of the city, next to the Almozara bridge, the site has considerable differences in level; about five metres between the avenue and the square at the upper level and the Ebro riverbank park. The project is based on two fundamental ideas. The first idea is in response to the special urban and landscape importance of the location, via a formal definition and configuration of the building that suggests an intense relationship with the landscape; the second aims to express the intrinsic relationship between the environmental commitment of the project and its materiality and the building programme, which houses the Forestry and Natural Areas Section of the Environment Department of Zaragoza City Council.

Rosales del Canal Kindergarden / Magén Arquitectos

Nico Saieh — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Kindergarden in Rosales del Canal is located in an area of residential growth in the south-west of Zaragoza. This is the first phase of an educational facility that will be completed with the primary education building. In agreement with the criteria on accessibility and preferably south-facing orientation of teaching spaces, the three buildings – Kindergarten, dining hall/gymnasium and primary – are arranged in a U-shape on the perimeter of the plot. The Kindergarten is a horizontal construction that develops a nine units teaching programme, around an independent playground on the southern side of the site. A continuous linear porch links between the different buildings.