• The awarded project is the reference house for industrialized housing of a modular nature.
• Recently, Casa Garoza has been a finalist of the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, has been selected for the FAD Awards and the Mies Van der Rohe Awards for Contemporary European Architecture. Today, it stands with the Construmat Prize for Technological Innovation.
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Casa Garoza, a benchmark for quality industrialized housing, is conceived as an expandable modular prototype. With a useful area of 75m2, Casa Garoza 10.1 is the first application of the industrialized prototype. The totality of the constructive systems that raises are in dry and with them they manufacture in the workshop complete units with all the finished interiors, whose maximum size responds to the measures that admits the conventional transport. Only the last layer of the facade and the roof are placed in situ on the ground to ensure continuity, overlap and waterproofing. Interior partitions, storage and fixed furniture are incorporated into the vertical walls, which house installations of high technical quality, home automation and other customized elements for each configuration. The resulting set offers quality, control over the execution time, maintenance plans and growth options far superior to traditional construction. The principles of sustainable economy and the spirit of recycling accompany all the decisions of the project.
For the architect Juan Herreros, Casa Garoza is "an exciting experience that unites the old aspiration that architects have pursued from the modernity of projecting houses to be built in a factory, with the idea of" installation "or" piece "that cultivates the contemporary art".
The Casa Garoza 10.1 project, in addition to receiving the 2011 Construmat Architecture Award, has been a finalist in the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, and is selected for the 2011 FAD Awards and the Mies Van der Rohe Awards for Contemporary European Architecture 2011.
Foto ©Javier Callejas
Juan Herreros is Professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid and the University of Columbia, New York. He is an Honorary Member of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and in 2010 he was nominated for the medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His works have been awarded on numerous occasions and his work exhibited in several countries. Currently Herreros Arquitectos is developing projects in Spain, Mexico, Norway, Colombia, Korea and Panama. Juan Herreros has also developed an important theoretical work publishing an endless number of articles focused on the transformation of architectural practices. This triple professional activity, teacher and researcher has earned him a special prestige for his contribution to dilute the boundaries between creative disciplines and techniques claiming the relevance in this moment of change of a conversation in which artists, specialists, researchers and people of science they should sit at the same table and celebrate the banquet that glimpses a better future. The work of Herreros Arquitectos, this summer, will be the subject of an international exhibition in the city of Oslo.
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