MGV House

The intervention deals simultaneously with the provision of a neutral and updated interior and the reworking of a contained exterior, atmospherically developed.

CF-Rock studios

Cellular studios for music rehearsal inside a disused warehouse, in a neighborhood now mutating its character through programmatic reinvention.

MM Magnet

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.

A23 House

Restoration and enlargement of a 1930´s semi-detached home. A new plot for a young family in an old envelope.

Ex House

Wooden prefabricated house in a pastoral setting. An urgent process aimed at revising the “commuter ideal” in a technological and post-rural context.

M-40 Housing

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.

Low Cost Void

Contemporary park in the city’s outskirts, measuring itself against big infrastructural accidents and distant topographical references.

Madrid Cultural Assemblages

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.

Nacka Rings

A new centrality in a low-density suburban tissue generated by means of large scale artifacts + new infrastructure, by-passing traditional planning.

XIX House

Emptying and cleaning up obstructions in a XIXth century building, achieving one large and flexible multi-purpose space.

Peripheral Prototype N2

An exercise in density and complexity in a generic periphery. A possible model for the coexistence of social and generational diversity.

Zoom Chicago

Pocket architecture exhibition in large rectangular tables that playfully mimic their Mies-container (Crown Hall) in their proportions and spatial qualities.

FAD PRIZE 2013 WINNER

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, [...]

MM Magnet (public space + water pavilion) under construction

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 [...]

Versus Le Corbusier: lecture at ETSAM

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