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The Llana House / Héctor Navarro + ARKHITEKTON

Valeria Silva — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000

The rural landscape of Cantabria presents very unequal situations. During the last decades, some areas have been negatively affected as a result of rapid growth, while others have managed to preserve their urban identity shaped by the vernacular architecture of the place, mainly built in stone, wood, and sloping red ceramic tile roofs.

Casa La Calderona / Héctor Navarro + Architekton

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:00:00 +0000

Casa La Calderona is located in Vernejo, a town located on the outskirts of the town of Cabezón de la Sal (Cantabria). The origin of the work is part of an execution project that has little to do with the final result. Actually, that project defined formal and programmatic issues, and it was during its execution that the design was really finalized. The work was managed by its promoters, an active part in an open and collaborative process. In its evolution, issues that have to do with economic and environmental sustainability have prevailed.

Tetuán-Amaliach Square / Héctor Navarro + ARKHITEKTON

Valentina Villa — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:00:00 +0000

"Between valleys and craters" (the name of the proposal) has sought since its first sketches to create a public space able to generate a continuous ground plane capable of saving the large difference in level that the work area presented (6.20 meters in the worst part). Usable by 100% of its surface and, thus recovering a residual space in the city that had juxtaposed a series of independent operations (parking, electric installation, huge ramp to upper housing block...)