Pich-Aguilera Arquitectos, Barcelona
The Spanish architecture office Pich-Aguilera (established 1984 in Barcelona) tries to find solutions for its projects, that adapt themselves to the requests of the user, respect the environment and, in addition, contribute to the city's growth. The goal is to harmonize sustainable bioclimatic architecture with industrialized methods of construction. The presented examples - realized projects and competitions - reach from the standard of city furniture to city planning: Slope, an organically formed city furniture, Casa Teresa, a single family dwelling in Barcelona, the call center for Telefónica Móviles S.A. in Toledo, the model city "Biocity" in Orly, El Polvorin, a social housing project in Barcelona as well as the garden tower, an apartment complex. The common nominator for this mix of projects is the desire for new constructive, typological and ideological role models in architecture. The close collaboration with the industry contributed substan-tially to the success of many projects. The architecture connects between economical, scientific and technical instruments and serves as much needed catalyst for transformation. Pich-Aguilera developes rules that change these large organisms out of themselves and give them new life. Models, which originate from a balance with the environment, create - under the condition of density, of comfort, of industrialization and production - a natural circulation. The following projects are presented in the exhibition: Slope: a city furniture developed jointly with the Escofet company. This organically formed landscape building block is inserted as a bench or as an artificial topography. Casa Teresa: the single family dwelling at the city boundary of Barcelona near the nature protection park Collserola reacts with its two faces to its special situation. First the urban ceramic city facade and then the overgrown roof as a facade to the park. Toledo: the design of the call center for Telefónica Móviles S.A. in Toledo was created out of two considerations: to result in comfortable as possible working conditions and in the same time with natural air conditioning and natural light. Orly: the design"Biocity" for the competition of the French Ministry of Education and the Arts, brings dwellings, offices and infrastructure in harmony with nature on the basis of a new growth scheme. El Polvorín: a prefabricated social housing project in Barcelona, which is now under construction. Garden tower: the garden towers try to satisfy the longing for the own house with garden and the necessity for compact cities justly.
