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Concrete Tent / ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 01:00:00 +0000

The Tent covers the space like a blanket. Its geometries adapt to the airy body that it delimits and embraces, without constraining it. Air and light flow through its openings, and the landscape sneaks in too, filling the cracks in the material.

Ensamble Factory / ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Andreas Luco — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Ensamble Fabrica is the new prototyping facility and fabrication laboratory of Ensamble Studio in Madrid. Besides serving its purpose as a work place, it is a proof of concept that tests the hybrid steel-concrete construction technology our firm has developed in the past years, meant to innovate the way in which high-rise and long span structures are built, using prefabrication. The building is composed of twelve porticos, has a volume of 58x18x12m (length x width x height) and includes an open, four-story high hangar as well as office and other support spaces.

Ca'n Terra House / ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Andreas Luco — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Ca'n Terra is the house of the earth: first just that, earth; after quarry, voided from its Mares stone; then used by the military as ammunition dump during the Spanish Civil War and later abandoned, to be rediscovered decades later and come to be architecture. The found space has industrial logic, artistic potential as a sublime cavern carved by hand, and mineral nature as an extract of the stony landscape on the island of Menorca. Finding this excavated space in the guts of the earth and reinventing its use implies writing a new story that can rescue it from its abandonment. If the history of civilization has evolved transforming ideas into matter, here the process is inverted.

Cyclopean House / Ensamble Studio

Valentina Villa — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:00:00 +0000

In his first stop on the way home, Ulysses reaches the cave of the Cyclops, a fierce and strong builder who looked through one single point. And there he is locked up until he uses his ingenuity to escape and goes where the winds take him.

Structures of Landscape / ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Danae Santibañez — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:00:00 +0000

Located at the edge of Yellowstone Park in Montana, Tippet Rise Art Center -with an extension over eleven thousand acres of wilderness- is born as a new destination for the arts, in which music performances and large-scale outdoor sculptures play a major role.

Casa del Lector / Ensamble Studio

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 04 May 2015 10:00:33 +0000

Madrid’s Old Slaughterhouse is becoming an important Center for Contemporary Creation in Madrid, organizing architecture competitions that can give rise to proposals that will recover its 148 300 m2 to house creative processes, artistic training and participatory dialogue between the arts.

Cervantes Theater / Ensamble Studio

Javiera González — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Dovela (Keystone)is an air stone, the "Sun Stone." The Aztec basalt monolith excavated in the Zócalo in Mexico City, means "Tonatiuhtlan de Ollin" or "Sun of Movement." The god of the sun it represents, Tonatiuh, grabs a heart and expresses the need for continuity of solar time. The rays we can appreciate in this beautiful archaeological piece are the symbol of light, which we have to find through the discovery of what we are, what we feel and what we do. Tenacity and patience are required (Earth), also spiritual strength (Fire), capacity to adapt to different circumstances of life (Water) and mindfulness (Air). No wonder the Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, Egyptians, etc., identified the Sun with the universal spirit of life, trying to associate its physical characteristics with the spiritual ones. Thus, they would reveal the greatness of the intangible.

Hemeroscopium House / ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Nico Saieh — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

For the Greek, Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets. An allusion to a place that exists only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and mutable, but is nonetheless real. It is delimited by the references of the horizon, by the physical limits, defined by light, and it happens in time. Hemeroscopium house traps, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in an apparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape. With heavy structures and big actions, disposed in a way to provoke gravity to move the space. And this way it defines the place.

The Truffle / ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Nico Saieh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Truffle is a piece of nature built with earth, full of air. A space within a stone that sits on the ground and blends with the territory. It camouflages, by emulating the processes of mineral formation in its structure, and integrates with the natural environment, complying with its laws.

SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela / ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Nico Saieh — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Spanish architects Ensamble Studio shared with us their building for the SGAE Offices in Spain (the equivalent to the RIAA in the USA). Once again, Ensamble Studio shows us an impressive use of mass, using stacked stone slabs to create an intermediate space with filtered light. It also has a wall built with used CDs on the inside.

Musical Studies Centre / ENSAMBLE STUDIO

Nico Saieh — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The project of the Musical Studies Center in Santiago de Compostela is located in the Vista Alegre plot of land, one of the most relevant green areas in the surroundings of the old quarter of Santiago. Described as a university park, the Vista Alegre plot of land hosts a group of buildings link to activities related to academic and research practices. Here it's possible to find the House of Europe, the Advanced Studies Center, the IDEGA (a university research center) and the Center for Musical Studies, dedicated to postgraduate studies for musical improvement, intended for the training of the Galician Orchestra musicians.