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Tower House / Albor Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

An unstable socioeconomic reality is at the base of the Casa Torre (Tower House) project. The prospect of an uncertain future shaped the program to which it tries to respond by erecting a watchtower from which to overcome the challenges to come. Casa Torre is located at the top of a small hill in a basically flat coastal city, which provides unexpected and exceptional views.

U House / Albor Arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000

The existing house is a serialized character modest construction of isolated typology, conformed by one level, a porch made up of arches and a front garden. It is part of an urbanization built in the 1930s for workers of a military structure that formerly existed near the site.

Instalación Tres Esencias / Albor Arquitectos

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:00:00 +0000

"Tres Esencias" is an intervention in the public space by Albor Arquitectos for the collective project "Mar Adentro", an exhibition curated by the Contemporary Art Center Wilfredo Lam for the XIII Biennial of Havana whose main thematic axis was "The construction of the possible". "Mar Adentro" participates within the official projects of the Biennial that, for the first time, expands outside the capital and coincidentally was located in the city of Cienfuegos in the celebrations for its bicentennial. The proposal of the curatorial team demanded as a first step to define an area of intervention and, as a result of an academic exercise carried out by our team*, the maritime front of the historic center was selected.

Casa Soporte / Albor Arquitectos

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Building in Cuba is a complex endavour. For an architect, is an ever ascending challenge, that be by the perennial absence of materials, elevated costs or the commissioner´s reluctance to work on contemporary proposals. A cuban architect is an utopian character, whose work is not a necessity, neither aesthetic nor conceptual. Hustling in this hostile environment, Albor challenges reality guided by tis believe that from within the crisis, their architectural porposal can thrive and bloom.