ABIBOO Studio is an award-winning design firm with locations in Spain, the US, and India. Our philosophy promotes innovation in architecture, urbanism, interior spaces, and consumer products. ABIBOO Studio’s international multidisciplinary team boasts more than 20 years of global experience in small and large-scale projects in the following sectors: residential, commercial, hospitality, retail, cultural, educational, integrated townships, urban planning, and industrial design.
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SELECTED PROJECTS
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SENTOTM TOWER N.01. Bangalore, India.
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HAUGERUD HOUSING COMPLEX. Oslo, Norway.
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RELIGARE COMPLEX-GURGAON. New Delhi, India.
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LA PAZ MALL. La Paz, Bolivia.
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TAIWAN TOWER. Taichung, Taiwan.
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THE MALL-LUX HOTEL. Panama City, Panama.
HOSPITALITY
ECOLIGHTHOUSETM. Different locations.
HOSPITALITY
DREAMPARCTM. Different locations.
TOWNSHIPS URBAN PLANNING
ORAGADAM SOCIAL HOUSING. Chennai, India. AZCA ECOPARK. Madrid, Spain.
CULTURAL
WATER MUSEUM. Zaragoza, Spain.
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. Helsinki, Finland.
EDUCATIONAL
EDUCATION CENTER CARLOS III. Toledo, Spain.
EDUCATIONAL
GUST UNIVERSITY. Kuwait City, Kuwait.
RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
ELA RESIDENTIAL PROJECT. Chennai, India.
RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
LAVANYA. Kolkata, India.
RESIDENTIAL VILLAS
GAURI AMAN. Chennai, India.
RESIDENTIAL VILLAS
KOTHARI ROAD VILLAS. Chennai, India.
RESIDENTIAL VILLAS
HOUSE R. La Romana, Dominican Republic.
RESIDENTIAL VILLAS
KELLY HOUSE. Chennai, India.
RESIDENTIAL VILLAS
HOUSE R2. Bangalore, India.
RESIDENTIAL VILLAS
CASA H. Madrid, Spain.
RESIDENTIAL VILLAS
CASA C+. Madrid, Spain.
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MIXED-USE. SENTOTM TOWER N.01. Bangalore, India.
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SENTOTM TOWER N.01. Bangalore, India.
Sento™ Tower is a residential building of about 12,000 sq. m. containing 41 apartments of three and four bedrooms, and located on a plot of 2302 sq. m. The luxury market targeted by this project and the small size of its plot led to a design that moved beyond the common conceptualization of a tower and brought about a breakthrough in this typology. The goal of Sento™ Tower, based on a patented solution, is to embrace diversity, bringing together spaces that evoke varying emotions and sensations. This project embodies a “glocal” mindset and focuses on higher value creation. The project is a cohesive whole comprised of stylistically distinct parts, which leverage the different views and provides spaces suited to different styles of living. This flexibility is achieved through the use of different typologies: duplexes in the lowest levels, iconic apartments in the middle floors, and lofts in the upper volumes. Each typology is separated by intimate and sophisticated sky lobbies and lounges that serve as common areas appropriate for a luxury market. These open floors also create a visual division between each volume of apartments and contribute to the smart and slim image of the tower. This visual discontinuity extends from the materiality of the building’s façades to its complex and varied interiors, including a commercial space and amenities in the podium and crown of the building. These spaces boast such amenities as a home theater, pool area, and gym, as well as shops and restaurants.
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SENTOTM TOWER N.01. Bangalore, India.
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SENTOTM TOWER N.01. Bangalore, India.
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SENTOTM TOWER N.01. Bangalore, India.
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MIXED-USE. SENTOTM TOWER N.01. Bangalore, India.
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MIXED-USE. HAUGERUD complex. Oslo, Norway.
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HAUGERUD complex. Oslo, Norway.
Linked to a metro line, Haugerud is a downgraded suburban area in Oslo with several big, unstructured residential blocks, which were built in the 1970s, and which are surrounded by open areas without any urban character. The flexible and iconic proposal for this low-income development consists of a succession of building-rings encompassing a big garden that links the metro to a nearby forest. Each ring has its own character with strong emphasis on landscaping. This strategy creates a fresh identity for the neighborhood, providing a sense of belonging by renewing the residual spaces between blocks and by forging new relationships between the preexisting monotonous elements. The total project consists of 31,000 sq. ft. of residential space, 40,000 sq. ft. of space for commercial use, 30,000 sq. ft. for educational use, and 7,000 sq.ft. of infrastructure.
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MIXED-USE. HAUGERUD complex. Oslo, Norway.
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MIXED-USE. Religare Complex-Gurgaon. New Delhi, India.
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Religare Complex-Gurgaon. New Delhi, India.
The Religare Complex-Gurgaon, located in New Delhi, India, is designed by leveraging the location, while working around the complexities of the building code and geometry of the plots.
The building is placed adjacent to a large sloped plaza that separates the building from an electrical tower near the road. It creates a space for outside recreation and retail, brings monumentality to the buildings, and provides an effective solution for the irregular geometry of the plot. These public spaces connect the front of the plot with the boulevard at its back, allowing for open-covered retailing areas with cafes and other temporal entertainment. The structure of the Big-Box is visible on the outside and allows large structural spans inside, minimizing the internal columns to create greater flexibility. This solution also provides a cost effective “second skin� to the building, creating a very monumental and continuous experience along the boulevard and allowing hiding the actual lateral facade of the Big-Box store. The hotel and the offices are located on a private park that holds both buildings together, creating a perception of unity, but keeping their operations and circulations fully separate. These buildings are designed as low-rise structures to minimize the impact of the setback on the Big-Box store.
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Religare Complex-Gurgaon. New Delhi, India.
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MIXED-USE. Religare Complex-Gurgaon. New Delhi, India.
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MIXED-USE. LA PAZ MALL. La Paz, Bolivia.
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LA PAZ MALL. La Paz, Bolivia.
The project, located in the outskirts of La Paz, consist on a master plan for a mixed use building in Bolivia that brings together office and educational areas with housing and commercial spaces. The plot, which has a surface of 9,640 sq. m., has a steep topography and a very restricted geometry, given its mere 20-meter width in some areas. The building acts as a link that enhances and preserves the surroundings between the Chuqueyapu River and the four-lane road that runs along the valley. A big opening, which works as a pedestrian avenue, is created to permit visual connections between the ground level and the exterior, while maximizing daylight and natural ventilation. More than 13,500 sq. m. of retailers and restaurants are located in this space, which is meant to be a meeting point of the new area, creating a renovated and pleasant experience in contrast to the concept of a traditional mall. The university, offices, and apartments are located in the upper levels, while the roof is occupied by a park that improves the landscape, extends the greenery to the nearby bridge, and provides a new civic area for the neighborhood.
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MIXED-USE. LA PAZ MALL. La Paz, Bolivia.
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mixed-use. taiwan tower. Taichung, Taiwan.
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taiwan tower. Taichung, Taiwan.
The building is a 400-meter high freestanding mixed-use tower, designed with the mission of creating a pioneering and innovative structure, which will stand as a new-age landmark and as a symbol of Taiwan’s spirit. The proposed shape has inspirational features, such as those of the Eiffel Tower (structure and icon), Origami (symbol generation), and Taiwan’s star flag (identity). The project takes into consideration the need to serve as the visual focus and the new gateway image for the Taichung area. With this goal in mind, the building offers a different stunning appearance from every angle.
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Usable floor areas Radio&Digital Signal transmision base - 62 sqm total area Offices for the Department of Urban Development - 114 sqm total area Observatories - 850 sqm total area Environmental Quality Monitoring Station - 450 sqm total area Experimental Station for New Energy Sources - 400 sqm total area Sightseeing areas - 700 sqm total area Food & Beverage Services - 1020 sqm total area Shops - 1800 sqm total area Museum of Taichung City Development - 6000 sqm total area Museum Multifunctional Area - 1020 sqm total area Museum Administration offices - 500 sqm total area Technical and mecanical areas - 5800 sqm total area Lobby Area - 4026 sqm total area Parking Area - 40520 sqm total area Added areas for reverse profit Education / Conference center - 3000 sqm total area Public Art / Multifunctional area - 1000 sqm total area High Rise offices for rental - 15600 sqm total area Low Rise offices for rental - 3500 sqm total area Fitness center & Spa - 2400 sqm total area Kindergarden - 1200 sqm total area
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MIXED-USE. the mall-lux hotel. Panama City, Panama.
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the mall-lux hotel. Panama City, Panama.
Located in one of the most prestigious sites on the coast of Panama, the tower stands out in the Panama City skyline as a graceful sculpture, radiant and colorful. The massing of the tower reflects the program, which includes a five-star hotel and luxury apartments on top. The podium includes all of the common areas of the hotel on two basement levels and is oriented to a hidden garden, which is invisible from the street level. While the luxury apartments share common amenities with the hotel, they have separate entrances from the ground floor, and provide their own amenities in a space directly connected through a private sky lobby.
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MIXED-USE. the mall-lux hotel. Panama City, Panama.
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hospitality. ecolighthousEtm. Different locations
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ecolighthousetm. Different locations
The Ecolighthouse™ project represents a new way of approaching contact with nature. It is not a hotel; it is profound interaction between mankind and nature. Ecolighthouse™ offers a new direction for what we call environmental lifestyle, a new way of interacting with the environment, blurring boundaries between design and tradition, architecture and landscape. The concept of Ecolighthouse™ is based on a patent-pending solution that allows different configurations. Each room is a duplex apartment with a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. The project has a low environmental impact, and can be mounted in remote areas within 60 days using materials that also can be easily dismantled. The modular solution permits different architectural formalizations and different scales, but always host a limited number of guests in order to ensure a low impact on the surrounding environment.
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HOSPITALITY. DREAMPARCtm. Different locations.
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DREAMPARCtm. Different locations.
DreamParc™ is a unique proposal that aims to transform the music festival experience, joining together high-quality design and earth care in a truly symbiotic relationship. DreamParc’s design is warm and breathtaking, generating a connection between nature, music, and friendship as never before experienced. DreamParc™ is based on a patent-pending solution that outlines an easily portable system. This solution is scalable, adaptable, and can be assembled in just a few hours no matter the conditions of the plot. Once the system has been set up, it provides a surprising township with great open common spaces and high-density, luxury private EcoSuites that are perfect for both groups and couples. One of the most important aims is to generate a luxury solution based on environmental sensitivity. DreamParc™ can be mounted and dismantled easily with no waste elements at all. In addition, all of the materials used are entirely natural and recyclable with little environmental impact. Hence, with DreamParc™, luxury and nature go hand in hand.
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ORAGADAM Social housing. Chennai, India.
The project consists of the design for the Masterplan, Concept, and Schematic of the Architecture for all of the buildings in this full township of 26.6 acres, two million sq. ft., and over 2,500 homes in South India. This township targets the "affordable market sector," with two bedroom-apartments selling for 25,000 US dollars. The project includes a diversity of housing typologies and public buildings, such as shopping areas, cinemas, health centers, and clubhouses for the community. Parking is also provided for each apartment. The project brings references to traditional Southern European architecture, an element emphasized as an important requirement in the design brief. The township brings new interpretations of such Mediterranean architecture, combining it with local Indian traditions in an innovative contemporary approach. The overall project and each of the apartments are vastu compliant, which is extremely rare in this type of large-scale development. The design also fulfills a complex phasing requirement of construction and approvals. The required high density of the development emerges around public areas and gardens, which shape the experience of the township, creating a vibrant and elegant community.
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urban planning. azca ecopark. Madrid, Spain.
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azca ecopark. Madrid, Spain.
The project is a complex urban intervention located at the heart of the financial district of Madrid. The existing urban areas around the most important buildings are old and create many problems for the movement of pedestrians. AZCA Ecopark creates a new way of understanding interrelationships. Spatial perception and circulations are prioritized over the previously chaotic public spaces of the site. This prioritization is achieved through an understanding of this urban space as a garden taking shape above the activities below ground, such as those of parking structures and retail stores, removing the preexisting architectural barriers. Like a Zen garden, this project combines the use of hardscape with water-bodies. Both elements complement and interact with the existing towers’ openings, redefining the entrances to the existing buildings with elliptically shaped gaps, which bring light to the lower levels. The overall landscaping is shaped with organic stripes of hardscape and water elements that create the unique character of the garden. The water discharged from the office towers in the area is treated with advanced natural techniques, using plants and bio-organisms to make AZCA a self-sufficient and sustainable EcoPark.
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WATER MUSEUM. Zaragoza, Spain.
The project for the Museum of Water evokes images of water through its print, strategies and materials (including water), which are used to depict its grandiosity. The building incorporates local elements to showcase the need for sensitivity toward water and water use. The building is 55,000 sq. ft. (5,000 sq. m.), and is organized around eight massing volumes marked as if by water erosion. In the interstitial spaces, skylights with water on top bright light into the plaza outside the exhibition center. This plaza becomes an essential component of the program of the building, which can host expositions and events. The geometry of the building and the use of organic structures and materials, such as brick, are representative of the traditional construction in the area, and allude to the structures used by GaudĂ, the famous local architect of the 19th century, who created a new way of understanding organic architecture.
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CULTURAL. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. Helsinki, Finland.
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Art as Zeitgeist, as a reflection of the society and world we live in. The culture reflected in the first Guggenheim museum of the late 1940s is different from that of today. ABIBOO's vision for the Guggenheim-Helsinki is to represent today’s reality, while retaining the soul of its sister museums. Synthetic-inductive thinking offers a way to reflect reality from the bottom up. Our design takes this approach for the Guggenheim-Helsinki, while continuing the Organicism seen in the work of Wright and Gehry. However, in this case, growth occurs in a non-hierarchical order. Rather than providing a central atrium, the new museum grows non-directionally; each space has different characteristics, but holds similar importance. This fragmentation exists as a natural consequence of a synthetic-inductive process. Our design extends the theme of discontinuity from the interior spaces to the materiality of the façades, allowing it to define the relationships between spaces. The increasing barrage of inputs in our contemporary world, mainly visual in nature, has led to a greater and more urgent search for profound sensorial experiences, and for a deeper sense of community. Our design seeks to embrace this pursuit, in which Finnish culture has long been a leader. The importance of materiality and nature, social responsibility, and non-hierarchical structures has been profoundly alive in Finland for centuries. As a consequence, the proposed Guggenheim draws inspiration from Finnish culture for the creation of each individual space, especially in regards to sensorial experiences and to the project’s relationship with the landscape and environment.
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EDUCATIONAL. education center carlos iii. Toledo, Spain.
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Carlos III High School is located in the city of Toledo in the central region of Spain. The project consists of a low-cost building as an extension of a preexisting school. The program has four classrooms, teachers’ rooms, and a conference hall. Using the existing high terrain slope at the plot to divide the program, the classrooms and teachers’ rooms are on the top floor of the building, at the same level as the rest of the classrooms of the preexisting high school. The multipurpose hall located downstairs is provided with independent access from the garden. It is proposed that the building’s façade be made up of a continuous, yellow, low-cost material in order to create a contrast with the red bricks of the surroundings.
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EDUCATIONAL. Gust pace University ProJect. Kuwait City, Kuwait.
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Gust pace University ProJect. Kuwait City, Kuwait.
The project was commissioned by the Gulf University of Science and Technology (GUST), one of the leading science Universities in the Gulf Region. The project consisted of the extension and redevelopment of Professional Advancement and Continuing Education (PACE) Center in Kuwait. The University’s desire to modernize the entire campus, with particular emphasis on PACE interiors, allowed ABIBOO to design a dynamic and contemporary space as the landmark of the campus, conveying that excellence and elegance begin at the first step of the University, the student recruitment facilities at PACE. The idea was to give freshness to the complex and to communicate through Architecture the values of technology and innovation, which have contributed to the leadership role of GUST in such fields.
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The ELA Residential Complex is located in the city of Chennai in southeast India. The project comprises 1000 apartments and studios, the latter intended for students of a nearby university. The project has a series of facilities that serve the residences, as well as vast green areas, which will be connected to an urban park also planned by ABIBOO Architecture in the same plot, as per Indian legal requirements. The site is located next to the main national highway connecting the two largest cities in Southern India (Chennai and Bangalore). The project combines a number of independent blocks, articulated in two areas defined by the presence of an existing power line tower on the site, which serves as the structuring element of a large linear eco-park with innovative solutions for alternative energy resources. Spaces for social interaction are designed alongside the numerous green spaces provided in order to create a healthy living environment.
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lavanya. Kolkata, India.
Lavanya™ Residential Towers is an affordable housing development located at Kolkata West International City (KWIC), Kolkata. With an open South end, the buildings are laid out to maximize natural lighting and airflow in order to create a joyful and healthy environment. Each floor has been planned on a six-flats-per-floor model. The floor plans are designed by a local team. The requirement of this project was to change the exterior design to ensure an appealing façade for the building to be approved by the local authorities, while keeping the floor plans intact. It was also important to maintain or reduce the original construction cost estimated for the development. This challenge was met by a simple strategy of fenestration that facilitated reduction in cost while giving an abstract, contemporary and international look to the towers.
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gauri aman. Chennai, India.
The project consists of eight luxury villas located in a prime plot close to the beach on the southeastern coast of India. Each villa design is a reinterpretation of traditional vastu-compliant houses. The typical central patio becomes here a double-height infinity pool located on the first floor. The rest of the rooms are organized along this central monumental space, facing different directions with unobstructed views of the sea. The building massing strategy also allows double-side ventilations and self-shading, which is a critical factor in the hot weather of Southern India. The pool is presented as a perforated box that allows the light to come inside, creating a dramatic space that gives a sense of grandeur and solemnity. The program of each villa includes the common areas at the ground floor, the spaces at the first floor with direct access to the pool, and the bedrooms at the top floor. The eight villas are placed overlapping one another in order to ensure views from each single villa.
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The Kothari Road Villa project is a residential complex of eight high-end villas located in the heart of the city of Chennai. This prime site is very small, so the project develops the villas with a long and narrow floor plan, and with a reinterpretation of the traditional local patios as a central triple space that opens to the main faรงade. Each villa has three floors, a basement, and its own private elevator. The relationship to nature, greenery, light, and ventilation is critical for each space. The entire development is designed with a continuous faรงade for greater visual impact.
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The 17,000 sq. ft. (1, 600 sq. m.) villa, located in an affluent area in Dominican Republic, is surrounded by the sea on two different sides. The couple who own the house use it during the summer with relatives and friends. The family’s passion for boats inspires the integration of the house’s design with the site and with the seascape. The need for impressive views of the surroundings and for accommodating a broad scope of outdoor activities are the main factors shaping the structure of the villa, which has separate spaces for diverse activities, and which also provides the flexibility required for accommodating multiple events simultaneously.
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kelly house. Chennai, India.
The Kelly House, located on a 4720 sq. ft. plot in the heart of Chennai city, has about 6200 sq. ft. arranged over three floors. The ground floor has service areas, a foyer, and parking space. Alongside the House, there are an entrance hall, a leisure space, and a fitness center, which open toward the yard. The spaces of this main floor are organized in a volume that cantilevers over this outside yard area, providing the most interesting views of the south of the plot, where most of the outside vegetation is located. The configuration of the various areas of the house correspond to the vastu philosophy that not only mark the relationship between the rooms and the orientation of the main spaces of the house, but also search for the best views and the best orientations weather-wise for each room. All of the main spaces of the villa establish a dialogue with the yard, which becomes the central element of the house.
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House R2 is located adjacent to Prestige Garden Bay in Bangalore, India. The given plot size is 65, 900 sq.ft. (6120 sq. m.) and the resulting villa has a total built up area of 48,400 sq. ft. (4500 sq. m.). The house is organized in two floors surrounding a central patio, which functions as a source of light, ventilation, and the “lungs of the gods� as per local traditions. The ground floor includes the public program for guests and visitors, the pooja room, formal and family living room, kitchen, bar, home cinema, entertainment area, and study room. The first floor hosts the library, swimming pool, its corresponding deck, and the family bedrooms, each with private terraces, which are suited to this particular climate and which form an important relationship with the landscaping. The exterior is designed such that despite the huge scale of the house, it has a compartmentalized character, making the experience closer to the human scale. This compartmentalization is achieved with white stucco volumes at the second floor, which provide a contrast to the stone-textured podium at the ground floor. The house is surrounded by a luxurious garden, which is divided in different sections with distinct character, following the same strategies as the architectural design.
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Casa H is located in an affluent area in Madrid. The house has a floor area of 14,000 sq. ft. (1,300 sq. m.) and is the answer to the broad and diverse functional needs of the client, a well-known international sportsman. The villa is designed as a sponge, with multiple micro-spaces. Each micro-space is designed with a special relationship to a particular sensorial experience, all of which are interrelated. The ground floor has the typical program associated with a villa, along with many patios that make the house look bigger due to its integration with the site. The first floor includes spaces such as offices, guest rooms, and play areas. The basement includes private spaces, such as meditation rooms, a gym, and a spa, and also social spaces, such as party areas and lounges. The secondary areas are built with an exposed concrete faรงade, while the day spaces in the center of the floor plan are made of stucco and glass. Finally, the night areas are shown to the outside in a metallic ventilated faรงade that reflects the light and creates a strong contrast between all the different materials used. The environmental commitment of the project go beyond the use of eco-friendly materials; the villa also pays special attention to passive strategies that respond to sun radiation, natural light, and wind.
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This villa is located in a luxury compound in a residential area in Madrid on a site next to a golf course with excellent views of the mountains. The house includes different spaces appropriate for a five-member family, such as a library, a home theater, and a playing area or outdoor sports area, among others. The total area of the villa is 14,000 sq. ft. (1,300 sq. m.). The villa is located in the center of the plot, protected and integrated with the century-old trees that currently exist at the site. Also, like a tree, the house is organized along a central area that becomes the vertical core of the villa. The rest of the spaces, very clearly identified from the outside, orient themselves to ensure views of some of the many interesting spots around the site. The integration with the topography and the landscape of each space at the villa is one of the most important characteristics of this house.
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