MGV House
The intervention deals simultaneously with the provision of a neutral and updated interior and the reworking of a contained exterior, atmospherically developed.
The intervention deals simultaneously with the provision of a neutral and updated interior and the reworking of a contained exterior, atmospherically developed.
Cellular studios for music rehearsal inside a disused warehouse, in a neighborhood now mutating its character through programmatic reinvention.
Public space & water pavilion in one of the city’s main entrance axis. Synchronized private and public interests. A play with scale, movement and reflection.
Restoration and enlargement of a 1930´s semi-detached home. A new plot for a young family in an old envelope.
Wooden prefabricated house in a pastoral setting. An urgent process aimed at revising the “commuter ideal” in a technological and post-rural context.
Critical reworking of the urban block which breaks selectively to allow porosity, views and the inclusion of a large green artificial mountain from recycled debris.
Contemporary park in the city’s outskirts, measuring itself against big infrastructural accidents and distant topographical references.
The exhibition layout, with huge curtain-like images of cultural enclaves hanging from the walls and shot in one single day, reproduces an ideal stroll through the city.
A new centrality in a low-density suburban tissue generated by means of large scale artifacts + new infrastructure, by-passing traditional planning.
Emptying and cleaning up obstructions in a XIXth century building, achieving one large and flexible multi-purpose space.
An exercise in density and complexity in a generic periphery. A possible model for the coexistence of social and generational diversity.
Pocket architecture exhibition in large rectangular tables that playfully mimic their Mies-container (Crown Hall) in their proportions and spatial qualities.
Estrategias operativas en arquitectura. Técnicas de proyecto de Price a Koolhaas, PREMIO FAD DE PENSAMIENTO Y CRÍTICA 2013. Autor: Jacobo García-Germán Vázquez. (Del Acta del Jurado): Estrategias operativas en arquitectura reivindica el campo de acción de la arquitectura más allá del hecho construido y del proyecto entendido en su sentido más convencional. En ese aspecto, [...]
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Friday May 3rd: Final Reviews ETSAUN Pamplona. Jacobo García-Germán with José María Sánchez, Patxi Mangado, Ignacio Dahl Rocha, Edward Baum, Ramón Sanabria, Emiliano López, Josean Medina, Pucho Vallejo, Manolo Blasco, Roberto Ercilla and Asier Santas. (Photo: Asier Santas).
This project takes advantage of the current economic instability paired with the increasing blurring of boundaries between public and private management in the urban space to provide facilities for an overlapping of garden, plaza, open terrace, pavilion, fountain and pergola. This last piece, a huge 20m.-span stainless-steel reflective beam, captures the scale of its context [...]
Estrías y organizaciones laminares: figuraciones sobre Olivetti. Jacobo García-Germán. Tuesday April 16th, ETSAM. Course VERSUS LE CORBUSIER. Tutor: Raúl del Valle. See full text here: Estrías y organizaciones laminares – figuraciones sobre Olivetti de Le Corbusier_BRS Booklet published – ISSN: 2174-1603