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  • Gasthaus am Brunnen in Valendas, Switzerland.

    The brief for this guesthouse project consisted of the renovation of an old building in the central square of Valendas and the construction of a new annex over the ruins of an adjacent stable, now derelict and unusable. The project basically includes a community functions room, a gourmet restaurant and eight guest rooms. The new wing not only forms a functional unit with the historic building, but is also an integral architectural ensemble in its own right that aids the legibility of the different historic periods that have influenced the site. We wanted the old and new parts of the guesthouse to influence but not contrast with each other. The lime render on the old and new parts helps to blend space and time into a single whole.

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    Cover El Croquis magazine 210/211 Gion A. Caminada.
    El Croquis 210/211 – Gion A. Caminada

    Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:

    El Croquis N. 210/211 Gion A. Caminada. Identity, Autonomy and Resonance.

    Gion Caminada was born in Vrin, Switzerland, in 1957. After working as an apprentice carpenter in Vrin, he attended a school of applied arts in Zurich and an art school in Florence prior to completing his postgraduate studies in architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He has had his own architectural practice in Vrin since 1986. In 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the ETH Zurich, where he was Associate Professor of Architecture and Design from 2008 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been a Full Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich.

    Semi-hard cover – 376 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2,5 Kg

    ISBN 8412333144

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  • Dwellings in Valendas, Switzerland.

    Dwellings in Valendas, Switzerland.

    Dwellings in Valendas, Switzterland | Gion A. Caminada, architect
    Dwellings in Valendas, Switzterland | Gion A. Caminada, architect

    The free-standing house is the focus of growing criticism in the context of a planet threatened by climate change and other ecological imbalances. The problem is that free-standing homes consume too many resources, and Valendas, a small village on the right bank of the Rhine Gorge, thinks that is no longer acceptable. The village wanted an alternative form of housing.

    It is not that we believe that this building, designed to optimise energy use, signals a useful and sustainable path towards a more sensitive relationship with our planet. Our approach is different. We want to encourage people to relate: to the trees and the wind, to the heat and the cold, and to our neighbours as well. This housing complex aspires to this end, to improve these relationships, and that is why the building and the dwellings are unfettered by homogenising immobility. The rooms will not only be either warm or cold, on or off. A dwelling can change, its users as well. An idea accompanied us throughout the project: I live with the house and the house lives with me.

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    Cover El Croquis magazine 210/211 Gion A. Caminada.
    El Croquis 210/211 – Gion A. Caminada

    Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:

    El Croquis N. 210/211 Gion A. Caminada. Identity, Autonomy and Resonance.

    Gion Caminada was born in Vrin, Switzerland, in 1957. After working as an apprentice carpenter in Vrin, he attended a school of applied arts in Zurich and an art school in Florence prior to completing his postgraduate studies in architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He has had his own architectural practice in Vrin since 1986. In 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the ETH Zurich, where he was Associate Professor of Architecture and Design from 2008 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been a Full Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich.

    Semi-hard cover – 376 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2,5 Kg

    ISBN 8412333144

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  • Tegia da Vaut in Ems, Switzerland.

    Cover El Croquis magazine 210/211 Gion A. Caminada.
    El Croquis 210/211 – Gion A. Caminada

    Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:

    El Croquis N. 210/211 Gion A. Caminada. Identity, Autonomy and Resonance.

    Gion Caminada was born in Vrin, Switzerland, in 1957. After working as an apprentice carpenter in Vrin, he attended a school of applied arts in Zurich and an art school in Florence prior to completing his postgraduate studies in architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He has had his own architectural practice in Vrin since 1986. In 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the ETH Zurich, where he was Associate Professor of Architecture and Design from 2008 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been a Full Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich.

    Semi-hard cover – 376 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2,5 Kg

    ISBN 8412333144

    Go to ‘El Croquis’ website

  • Casa Caminada gasthaus, Fürstenau, Switzerland.

  • Gasthaus in Hergsiwald, Switzerland

  • Tower in Goldau, Switzerland.

  • Anne Holtrop – El Croquis 206

    Anne Holtrop – El Croquis 206

    Anne Holtrop – El Croquis 206
    El Croquis 206 – Anne Holtrop
    Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain.
  • Green Corner Building in Muharraq, Bahrain.

    Green Corner Building in Muharraq, Bahrain.

    Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain.
    Cover ‘El Croquis’ magazine 206 – Anne Holtrop 2009-2020

    This book was Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers.

    El Croquis 206 – Anne Holtrop 2009 – 2020

    Anne Holtrop (1977, Netherlands) started his own practice in 2009. Currently his studios are based in Amsterdam (NL) and Muharraq (BH). In 2015, he completed his first two major buildings, Museum Fort Vechten and the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Recently realizations include the Manama Central Post Office and the Qaysariya Suq and Green Corner Building in Muharraq. The studio is working on new stores worldwide for Maison Margiela, with flagship stores in London, Paris, Osaka and NYC, and several Unesco-listed heritage buildings in Bahrain: Murad Boutique Hotel and Siyadi Pearl Museum.

    ISBN 9788412003444

    Semi-hard cover – 294 páginas
    24 x 34 cm – 1 Kg

    ISSN 0212-5633

    Go to ‘El Croquis’ website

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    Green Corner Building in Muharraq, Bahrain.

  • Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain.

    Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain.

    Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain.
    Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain | Anne Holtrop, architect | © Jesús Granada, photographer
    Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain.
    Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain | Anne Holtrop, architect | © Jesús Granada, photographer

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    Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain.
    Cover ‘El Croquis’ magazine 206 – Anne Holtrop 2009-2020

    This book was Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers.

    El Croquis 206 – Anne Holtrop 2009 – 2020

    Anne Holtrop (1977, Netherlands) started his own practice in 2009. Currently his studios are based in Amsterdam (NL) and Muharraq (BH). In 2015, he completed his first two major buildings, Museum Fort Vechten and the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Recently realizations include the Manama Central Post Office and the Qaysariya Suq and Green Corner Building in Muharraq. The studio is working on new stores worldwide for Maison Margiela, with flagship stores in London, Paris, Osaka and NYC, and several Unesco-listed heritage buildings in Bahrain: Murad Boutique Hotel and Siyadi Pearl Museum.

    ISBN 9788412003444

    Semi-hard cover – 294 páginas
    24 x 34 cm – 1 Kg

    ISSN 0212-5633

    Go to ‘El Croquis’ website

  • National pavilion of the kingdom of Bahrain in Muharraq

    Archaeologies of Green, the national pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain, at the Expo Milano 2015 is a poetic interpretation of the cultural agrarian heritage of the country, which stems from the ancient civilization of Dilmun.

    With ten distinctive fruit gardens, containing trees that will be fruit–bearing at different moments throughout the six-month duration of the exhibition, the pavilion also features archaeological artifacts that celebrate the millennia long tradition of agriculture and perpetuate the many myths of Bahrain as the location of the Garden of Eden and the land of the million palm trees.

    Built out of white prefabricated concrete panels, the pavilion will be moved to Bahrain at the end of the Expo and once rebuilt will serve as a botanical garden. The prefabricated components of the buildings, visible through the seams that connect them to one another, loosely refer to the inherent and distinguished forms of the archaeology of Bahrain.

    Concept Following its successful participation in the Shanghai Expo 2010, the Kingdom of Bahrain is gearing up for its participation in the upcoming Expo Milano 2015. Anchoring its presence at this global event will be the nation’s 2,000 m2 pavilion, which was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture in Bahrain. Since the ancient civilization of Dilmun, Bahrain has boasted a rich and unique agrarian history. This deep-rooted heritage is underpinned by the plentiful sweet water springs which exist in this otherwise arid land. The Kingdom of Bahrain’s pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015 presents an interpretation of the relationships that tie together the country’s agrarian heritage and culture. The centerpiece of the pavilion pays homage to this rich heritage, which consists of 10 distinct fruit gardens, each of which will bear their fruit at different times during the six-month long Expo. The pavilion will also showcase historic artefacts that date back thousands of years, each of which is related to the deep-rooted agrarian traditions and the legends that surrounded Bahrain as the location of the Garden of Eden and the Land of One Million Palms.

    The national pavilion was designed by the architect Anne Holtrop and landscape architect Anouk Vogel, and is conceived as a continuous landscape of Bahraini fruit gardens which intersect in a series of closed exhibition spaces. Built out of white prefabricated concrete panels, the pavilion will be moved to Bahrain at the end of the Expo and rebuilt to serve as a botanical garden. The prefabricated components of the buildings, visible through the seams that connect them to one another, refer to the inherent shapes found in the archaeology of Bahrain.