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Technical Campus Blue Gate / POLO.platform

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In a striking freestanding building that combines two schools for vocational education, POLO solves a challenging three-dimensional jigsaw dictated by stringent technical requirements and the constraints of a small plot.

Mobility Hub / POLO.platform + archipelago

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The Mobility Hub at Eandistip in Mechelen demonstrates a new vision for parking infrastructure. The circular structure offers parking space for cars and bikes, as well as public rooftop terraces, box-in-box offices, and a local supermarket. The structure also anticipates a shift towards shared and self-driving cars, with compact parking configurations that free up space for additional functions. As part of a larger urban development, the Mobility Hub aims to become a dynamic transition zone, sustaining a smooth traffic flow between the city center and the periphery.

Mestiza House / POLO.platform

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:00:00 +0000

The project seeks to take advantage of its environment. It is s small house in the centre of the lot that is meant to become a holiday home for a standard-sized family. An existing forgotten courtyard is utilized by transforming it into the access area and expansion for the house.

Student Housing Diagonal Besos / MDBA + POLO.platform

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:00:00 +0000

The Campus Diagonal-Besòs forms a compact, carefully designed urban unit, located on a privileged site at the intersection of the streets La Diagonal and La Ronda. It is incorporated into the spectacular and varied development of the public city of the Foro area. The Residents Hall wants to play its particular role as a "social centre" of this Campus. A place with large community facilities and a pleasant place for a diverse population of students, guest professors and researchers. The contours of the site are clearly defined along the alignment of several buildings on both sides of the emblematic wooden central deck. It is this wooden deck that brilliantly symbolizes what this campus wants to be: a harvest of knowledge and the exchange of ideas, education and research for students, professors and researchers, in a contemporary, open and pleasant environment, looking towards a promising and sustainable future.

CADIZ ANTWERP / META architectuurbureau + POLO.platform

Andreas Luco — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000

With its orthogonal street pattern and exceptional location on a rectangular peninsula, the historical Cadix neighbourhood is a unique area within the city of Antwerp. The spatial implementation plan (ruimtelijke uitvoeringsplan, or RUP) for the district details the intention to complete the historically evolved building block pattern of Het Eilandje and to continue the orthogonal street pattern up to the docks.

Las Américas Community Center / POLO.platform

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0000

In a peripheral neighborhood of the city, there is the possibility of providing community equipment to a small low-income housing.