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Central Roof – Public Market in Florianópolis, Brasil
There is, in the context where the project operates, a multiplicity of concurrent times, conducted in the last 160 years by the influx of users of the Florianopolis Public Market, whose history includes demolitions, changes in location, several renovations, and the active participation of different generations of consumers, sales people and administrators. The new roof…
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Children Village Canuanã in Formoso do Araguaia, Brasil
It is the continuous, the vast, and a thin imaginary line in the background that harbor the daily life and experience of Brazilians living in the central region of the country. The architecture proposed there could be no different. It is this amplitude, along with the beauty of its inhabitants, that moves us. However, how…
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Disentis monastery girls’ boarding school , Disentis-Mustér,Switzerland
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Stiva da Mors in Vrin, Switzerland.
‘Stiva da morts’ – a community mortuary building and not merely a room or hall for viewing the deceased – expresses a particular attitude to an architectural task that is currently in growing demand throughout the region. Traditional burial rites that included viewing the deceased in his or her own home are steadily disappearing. More…
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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…
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Dwellings in Valendas, Switzerland.
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…
