Project description by dataAE + Harquitectes
The new dwelling house for university students is located in the same block as the Vallès Architecture School. The project proposed intends to keep its balance among the existing buildings, outside areas, and the new dwelling house, which is formed from two parallel street blocks laid out over two floors and separated by a central atrium.
For it is a dwelling house for architecture students, we have come up with a program that permits intense connections among the users both individual and group level, owing to the interior flexibility of the apartments and the potential use of the atrium as an event space.
The project banks on industrialized construction by using just one housing module type made of pre-formed concrete without partition walls. Each unit has just the necessary fixed elements, simplifying finishing and installations. Most of the components are installed and assembled by dry-build systems so every module and its finishing can be dismantled and reused or highly recyclable. The building is layered out over two floors in order to take advantage of the existing topography making accessible entrances without the need of using elevators and reducing 50 percent of square meters in corridors and stairs. The central atrium will be covered (next year) in order to create an intermediate bioclimatic space that makes increase the energy efficiency of the building and, at the same time, economizes the building enclosure.
The cycle of life analysis demonstrates that this project saves up to 50 percent of the energy associated with construction materials and 70 percent of the energy demand with respect to standard buildings according to CTE regulations.
Big elements prefabrication can sometimes turn into outstanding results. Dry construction and bioclimatic strategies lead this project for these architecture student dwellings, in which more than one of us would like to spend our working nights.
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Harquitectes is an architecture practice founded in Sabadell in 2000 by David Lorente Ibáñez (born in Granollers, Barcelona, June 7, 1972), architect, ETSAV-UPC, 2000; Josep Ricart Ulldemolins (born in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, 1973), architect, ETSAV-UPC, 1999; Xavier Ros Majó (born in Sabadell, Barcelona, 1972), architect, ETSAV-UPC, 1998; and Roger Tudó Galí (born in Terrassa, Barcelona, 1973), architect, ETSAV-UPC, 1999.
They combine their professional practice with teaching at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAV and ETSAB), as well as at ETH Zurich. and at Harvard GSD.
Among their most representative works are the ICTA-ICP research center at the Autonomous University of Barcelona; the Cristalleries Planell civic center; the Lleialtat Santsenca cultural center; social housing for IMPSOL in Gavà; the new offices for Galenicum; the Clos Pachem winery in El Priorat; and El Vapor Cortès de Prodis in Terrassa. Currently, the studio is working on the expansion of the MACBA museum, the renovation of the Teatre Arnau, the La Teixonera civic center in Vall d’Hebron, as well as the Ideal Flor cultural center and the transformation of La Foneria Reial, all in Barcelona.
Their work has been widely published and exhibited, and he has received numerous awards, including the FAD, the European Prize for Intervention in Architectural Heritage, the City of Barcelona Prize, the Erich Mendelsohn Award, the Berlin Art Prize and the CSCAE Architecture Prize, among others.
Awards.-
2025.- Re-FAD Award 2025.
2025.- Casa de la Arquitectura Award Cohesion category.
2024.- Bonaplata Award, 2024.
2018.- Prize "Detail Prize 2018"
2018.- Prize "XII Premios NAN"
2018.- Prize "XIV BEAU" Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
2018.- Prize "Ciudad de Barcelona 2017"
2018.- Prize ex aequo de "Arquitectura de Ladrillo Hispalyt XIV."
2017.- Prize "Mapei a la edificación sostenible."
2017.- Prize "BB Construmat 2017."
2017.- Prize AD 2017 Architects of the year.
2016.- Prize "Mostra Arquitectura Vallès."
2016.- Prize "Wienerberger Brick Award 2016."
2016.- Prize "X BIAU" Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
2016.- Prize "XIII BEAU" Biennal Espanyola d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme.
2016.- Prize Arquitectura de Ladrillo Hispalyt XIII Edició.
2016.- Prize "Catalunya Construcció" 2016.
2015.- Prize "Ugo Rivolta" 2015.
2015.- Prize FAD de la opinión 2015.
2015.- Prize "Catalunya Construcció" 2015.
2014.- Prize "Archmarathon" 2014.
2014.- Prize Arquitectura de Cerámica ‘"Fritz Höger Preis" housing category Winner Gold
2013.- 1st Prize A+to Best Projects Sustainable Architecture.
2013.- Prize A+ Extraordinario al Estudio Joven más Prometedor.
2012.- Sacyr Innovación Award for ICTA-ICP Building 1102.
2012.- AJAC 2012 Award for university dwellings in Sant Cugat dle Vallès.
2012.- Hise 2012 excelencia a la innovación Award, for 712 house.
2012.- FAD 2012 Award, 712 house.
2011.- ENOR Arquitectura Joven Award for 704 Gimnasium.
DATAAE is a multidisciplinary architecture studio, founded in 2000 by Claudi Aguiló, architect, and Albert Domingo engineer. They have won several competitions in architecture and landscape. Awards received include: the FAD public opinion Prize in 2007, finalists of Catalonia Construction Prize 2008, 1st Prize in the single-family home category in the Baix Llobregat Triennial 2008, Selection Landscape Biennal Rosa Barba 2008, JAE selection (Young Spanish Architects) 2008, selected for Spanish Architecture Biennale 2009, Finalist FAD awards 2009, Selection Landscape Biennale Rosa Barba 2009, 1st Prize ‘Saie Award 2011 the best concrete building’ (Bologna, Italy), Selection ‘Green Building Challenge 2011’, Selection Landscape Biennale Rosa Barba 2012, 1st Prize Nan Awards 2012, best residential work, 1st Prize AJAC Awards for a built project in 2012 to young architects, 1st Prize AJAC Awards for a none built project 2012 to young architects. Their work has been selected in the recent exhibition Sensitive Matter 2010 in Lisbon, La Coruña, and Berlin.
Claudi Aguiló born in 1972, architect for ETSAV in 2001, from 2002 to 2006 had a FI Research Grant at the University of Architecture in Vallés, ETSAV, in the Department of Architectural Technology, where he continues to teach. He has also taught nationally and internationally at various universities, such as ETSAB (Barcelona), LaSalle (Barcelona), University of Illinois at Chicago, and ERASMUS Intensive Program Workshops in Norway, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, and Poland. He was a visiting professor at the Rural Studio at Auburn University School of Architecture in Alabama and is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Institute of Architecture BIArch 2010 in Barcelona. He has collaborated on writing technology articles in Quaderns magazine between 2006-2010.
Albert Domingo, 1999, Engineer Graduated from ETSEIB. UPC. 2007 Master's Ph.D. in Building Project Management. He has worked in local architectural and engineering offices developing different works in the field of technical support, structural analysis, cost managements and building management.
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October 10, 2013
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