Clip-on Restoration in Santander
Project/Housing
Paseo de Pereda 6 (Santander), 2005-10
This project reactivates a five-story 18th Century building, restoring its façade and transforming its interior into a contemporary apartment building. Two strategies are deployed: First, an impeccable
AF renovation and house extension
Project/Housing
El Viso (Madrid), 2010-12
This project is located in a residential area in the center of Madrid, near AZCA financial center. The house replicates the preexisting volume, building a light-weight
Climate, Material Culture, Everyday Life & Architecture
Lecture
Sam Fox School of Design
Washington University, St. Louis (2021)
Educational Building in Madrid
Project/Culture
Madrid , 2021
Portico and patio: social and climatic interaction The proposal is articulated with two traditional elements of the Spanish Meseta architectura: the portico and the patio. First,
Climatic Typologies
Lecture
Harvard Universtiy Graduate School of Design School
Cambridge, Massachusetts (2018)
MPdV house in El Escorial
Project/Housing
San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid), 2012-14
The house is located in Monte Abantos, a beautiful south-looking pine tree forest overlooking the 16th Century Monasterio de El Escorial. The project —the radiant house—
Ecological suburban community in Cáceres
Project/Urbanism
Suertes de Santamaría (Cáceres), 2010-23
Some of the strategies which were devised for the Ribera del Marco have been later deployed in other places of Cáceres. This project responds to Cáceres’
UdT renovation and house extension
Project/Housing
Prosperidad (Madrid), 2015-20
This project —the bouyant house— extends a small house located in a residential area in the city centre of Madrid. The original two-storey house is extended
Escuela Infantil en Majadahonda
Project/Culture
Majadahonda (Madrid),
2007-09
This kindergarden sits in the typical suburban landscape of Madrid periphery, an artificial irrigated landscape formed by low density suburban housing and evergreen gardens. The kindergarden
COP 25 U.N. Climate Change
Panel conference
Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid
Madrid (2019)
Rivera del Marco Urban Reactivation
Project/Urbanism
Cáceres, 2009-11
The objective for this riverside, origin of Caceres’ UNESCO World Heritage Site, is to create a new sustainable urbanity, both ecological and intense, capable of superimposing
Architecture, Atmosphere and People
Lecture
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
Shanghai, China (2018)
Thermodynamic Interactions. An architectural exploration into physiological, material, territorial atmospheres
Book
Author: Javier García-Germán
Co-editors: Philippe Rahm, Iñaki Ábalos, Silvia Benedito
ACTAR-D Inc., New York. 2017
ISBN: 978-1-940291-22-2
Awards: Pensamiento y Crítica FAD Award 2018 and the XIII BEAU Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial publication awards
Lima office building
Project/Workplace
Lima (Perú), 2012
Lima’s dry and mild climate enables to design office buildings with outdoor public spaces. The design process starts researching the local climatic types, finding in the
MUPAC, Cantabria Prehistory and Archaeology Museum and Office Building
Project/Culture
Santander (Cantabria), 2019
The proposal is inspired in the two typical Paleolithic proto-architectures, the rock shelter and the cave. These two spaces —exterior and interior— will give to the
Convective Housing Scheme in Murcia
Project/Housing
Jabalí Viejo (Murcia), 2007-08
Located in an abandoned terraced south-looking lemon tree grove, the scheme preserves the stepped site to provide intimacy to outdoor areas and afford solar radiation, deploying
2G nº 74: H arquitectes: Mediterranean Atmospheres: From Multilayered to Monolithic
Article
Gustavo Gili, Barcelona. 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86335-934-8