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Aceleradora La Paz Hospital / Murado & Elvira Architects

Andreas Luco — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The Aceleradora of La Paz Hospital in Madrid is the first in a series of pavilions promoted by the Unoentrecienmil Foundation. It is part of a research project aimed at accelerating the healing of childhood cancer through physical exercise. The pavilion is located on the hospital's roof, accessed through a window in the room tower. It is an outdoor space but at the same time represents a new interior that incorporates techniques and imaginaries conducive to recovery. For a moment, hospitalized patients can break free from the rigid spatial and temporal protocols of the main building.

Greyhound House / Murado & Elvira

Valeria Silva — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 07:00:00 +0000

The house is built in a long and narrow plot in a quiet residential area in Madrid, unused for years due to its unusual proportions. It accommodates the floor plan requirements inside a volume only 4 meters wide, resulting in a thin and compact prism. On each level small outdoor spaces are inserted, allowing for a rich spatial experience while keeping the necessary privacy in a dense residential neighborhood. This sequence encompasses a courtyard on the basement level, a garden with a swimming pool on the ground floor and a double-height terrace on the first floor to expand and complement the tight interior of the house. Thus, the usual sequence of stacked levels is challenged and turned into a dynamic vertical landscape.

Baiona Public Library / Murado & Elvira Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 05:00:00 +0000

In 2010, when Murado & Elvira Architects won the competition to design the Public Library and Historic Archive of the city of Baiona (Spain), they decided to design a place that would convey a sense of domesticity to its users: they came up with the idea of a warm wooden dress, tailor-made for the ancient building. A dress that covers the interiors of the architectural body, leaving the exterior almost unchanged. The old Sancti Spiritus Hospital thus reconquered its original role, by becoming a new home for scholars and readers. And for tourists too. The city of Baiona, located on the west coast of Spain, is located along the Camino de Santiago and is visited every year by thousands of pilgrims. In addition, the Baiona Historic Archive is one of the most relevant in the area, preserving documents dating back to the discovery of Americas. Baiona was in fact the port where La Pinta, one of the three caravels led by Christopher Columbus towards the New World, arrived on its way back in 1493.

House Between Oak Trees / Murado & Elvira Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

This project begins with the client's desire to see the setting sun and firelight simultaneously, and secondly, with the possibility of having an almost inpenetrable home when it was not used, without losing full contact with the surrounding nature.