Simon Architecture Prize

Collective Places

KITHARA MUSIC PUBLIC KIOSK

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The guitar is arguably the most popular instrument in the world. It is versatile, portable, accessible, intimate and democratic, reaching across socioeconomic and other societal fault lines to connect with people of all ages and backgrounds. It might also be said that no instrument prov…

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RAMBLA CLIMATE-HOUSE

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Since the 1980s, vast stretches of land in Molina de Segura (Murcia) have been exploited to create suburbs. The result of this exploitation is a flattening of the land’s topographies and the destruction of its territorial system of ravines (ramblas). Ramblas constitute a fabric of vei…

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180 DANCE SCHOOL

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The project for 180 Dance school, seeks to renovate a typical industrial space in the city of Madrid with a very restricted budget. The 1000m2 of dance studios, dressing rooms and offices of the school had been last renovated in the 70s and the space really claimed for a drastic change.…

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8 PROTECTED PUBLIC DWELLINGS IN PALMA

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The project, inclusive of a social housing building and the pedestrian street in front of it, demonstrates the value and viability of incorporating stone barrel vaults in housing projects. This strategy provides thermal inertia to cool for free in summer through a low carbon structure w…

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85 SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS IN CORNELLÀ

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The bases of this new residential building are a matrix of communicating rooms that eliminates corridors to guarantee optimum use of the floor plan and the use of timber to enable the industrialization of elements, improved quality of construction and a major reduction of deadlines and …

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ACCESSIBLE PATH TO THE ESTRELA BASILICA

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The accessible path to the Estrela Basilica, is a surgical and silent intervention, deployed in an empty area contiguous to the church. The project consists of a subtle topographic operation, built with blocks of stone, in the continuity of the Basilica’s monumental churchyard. …

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AFOUTEZA GAME MEADOWS

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2018, competition for the sports city, an indefinite and open program, proposed to bring together what makes up our cities: Public places, collectives, diverse uses ... The MYTH OF FLEXIBILITY and architecture. The "rural", the only territory possible today for an oper…

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AGRILOGISTICS

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Agrilogistics is an installation that addresses the use of automation and image technologies in the context of industrial agriculture and horticulture. The installation transforms the interior of an old church, La Capella in Barcelona, by installing a greenhouse structure to host a film…

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ALBANIAN CARPET

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The first aim of the project was to clean the entire area of debris (including concrete and steel remains) and illegal constructions, in order to recover the lakeshore and give it back to the public sphere as well as to limit the use and presence of cars along the lakeshore. A new parki…

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ALEJANDRÍA CLINIC

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The project for the new Clinica Alejandria located on Calle Sorní in the heart of Valencia (Spain), transforms an old obsolete and abandoned space into a new place dedicated to health and care of people. Due to the space limitations of the previous headquarters, the Clinica Alej…

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ALZHEIMER’S DAY CENTER

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Located in the Catalonian countryside, in the city of Reus, the project has been promoted by a non-profit foundation and it is the first pro bono project of GCA Architects. The design examines the notion of “social” as an organization of spaces which make therapy and human int…

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AMSTERDAM COURTHOUSE

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Amsterdam Courthouse was built to replace the outdated judicial complex in the business district in south Amsterdam. With 50 courtrooms and a surface of almost 50.000 sqm, the building is the biggest courthouse in the Netherlands; its exemplary efficiency materializes in a stately yet o…

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