GONZALEZ HINZ ZABALA Architects Is a Collaborative Practice of Individuals with Shared Values and Design Approaches

GONZALEZ HINZ ZABALA architects is a collaborative practice of individuals with shared values and design approaches. Our aim is to design buildings in a ‘simple’ manner to make room for social and cultural contemporary needs. We conceive architecture as an addition that enhances the built environment of an specific place.

SELECTED PROJECTS

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Hospital de Sant Pau Open Spaces 5 EF House House Can Cresta 22 Housing units in Vilafranca, Majorca 6 El Carmel ‘Ground Zero’ Housing and Plaza Sant Joan Despí Sports Centre extension Europan XI 7 Parallel Avenue Bauhaus Museum Dessau Baró de Viver Civic Centre 8 IMAS Young Services building Santiago Ydáñez Museum 63 Housing units in Sant Joan Despí 9 19 Housing units in Sa Pobla

product design 24

‘Tonila’ Table 25 ‘There is a light’ Crematorium urn ‘Finish the soup’ Bowl

publishing 28

Quaderns Architecture Magazine 29

biographies 30 architecture Hospital de Sant Pau Open Spaces

The hierarchy of the new urban layout is aimed to reduce the Roberto González vehicle mobility and prioritize plant life within the site. This Sergi Serrat contemporary landscape design approach also helps to recover DataAE and the symbiotic equilibrium between architecture and environment. Isabel Bennasar Except the central promenade, the whole intervention area is characterised by the compatibility of occasional vehicle traffic within a generous green environment. All these design decisions are aimed to recover the concept of a ‘garden city’

Built, 2015 and the former 1901 ‘green superblock’ project. The new Unesco World Heritage site, Barcelona, Spain urban elements are reinterpreted by establishing a material Competition 1st prize and compositional relationship regarding the systems used 51.800 m2 / 6.500.000 € by the Catalonian modernist architect Domènech i Montaner, HSCSP Private Foundation like in the patterns used for roof tiles, banisters and walls.

EF House

There is an essential consideration to the client’s profession, GRND82 a blacksmith, regarding the design and building of the Roberto González house in terms of lightness, industrialization, assembly and Sergi Serrat quick execution. The house layout is developed in one floor, placed above the garden, facing the sea, avoiding the neighbour’s shadow impact and dealing with the sun with in- between spaces. The structure has been designed in order to maintain as much as possible the natural condition of the site.

Built, 2014 The house revolves around one big central patio that contains Arenys de Mar, Barcelona, Spain the main access. At the corners of the plan there are four Commission terraces with four different characteristics and conditions. 260 m2 / 500.000 € Each terrace is associated to an interior space with a different Private Client activity: eat, cook, stay and sleep.

House Ca’n Cresta

This house is a former shoe factory located in the Town Centre Sastre Vielba and of Llucmajor, in a block composed of narrow plots with row Carles Oliver

houses in between of a main street and a secondary street. carles oliver cecilia rodríguez While the front facade has been preserved in its original arnau sastre appearance, the industrial character of the former factory has been imbued in the extension, built with a light construction system (steel structure) that spans from party to party wall, in the same way but with different materials as the structure of

Ongoing the old shoe factory was. The new rear facade, built with a Llucmajor, Majorca, Spain standardized, industrial system and therefore, different look, Commission melts with the mood of randomness found in the neighbouring 295 m2 / 220.000 € backyards. Private Client 5 22 Housing units in Vilafranca, Majorca

Sastre Vielba The site of this housing block is at the limit of the village, just ahead of a stream where the fields grow beyond. With the cecilia rodríguez arnau sastre intention of merging the rural and urban landscape into the place, a gradation from the secondary, more public access, to a more private, main access, has been set up. There are two kinds of apartments, arranged in a single level for the ones in the ground floor and in two levels for the ones in the first floor. The access corridor for the first floor apartments,

varied in section and illuminated by small courtyards, is the 2010–Construction Documentation Vilafranca de Bonany, Majorca, Spain last step of this gradated public - private sequence between Commission the building and its immediate surrounding landscape. 2.180 m2 / 1.065.600 € IBAVI

El Carmel ‘Ground Zero’ Wohnen und Platz

José Zabala and The morning of January 27, 2005 saw the collapse of a newly Sergi Serrat constructed tunnel for the expansion of the Barcelona metro network. The resultant cavity measured thirty meters in diameter and thirty meters in depth. Eighty-four buildings, two schools, and five hundred flats were damaged or lost as a consequence, and more than 1,054 residents had to be evacuated.

Therefore, this urban area is conditioned by a very fragile

physical and psychological context. The origin of this situation 2006– Construction Documentation Barcelona, Spain was the collapse of a tunnel section during the construction Restricted Competition, 1st Prize of a new metro infrastructure. The intervention acts as a pain 21 Housing units: 2.150 m2 / Plaza: 2.050 m2 / 3.100.000 € reliever by the creation of a shaded place for play and INCASÒL / Agencia del Carmel gather, using time perception as the main project tool.

Sant Joan Despí Sports Centre extension

Roberto González The extension for this sport facility built in 2003, consisted in Anne Hinz and AMB the addition of a fitness room, lockers and other service areas. The building is located in a green space of Sant Joan Despí Town urban extension. Its autonomous position in such isolated urban area brought out to the idea of creating a compact, solid building that could easily qualify the urban character of the area. A corridor that separates both structures connects the existing and new building. The new building is a cantilevered

structure with a minimum central support zone, which reduces 2014–Schematic Design Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Spain the building’s footprint impact in the car parking area and Negotiated Procedure reinforces this initial idea of an autonomous, identifiable 900 m2 / 1.000.000 € object into an isolated urban landscape. Stadt Sant Joan Despí 6 Europan XI

The project consists in the creation of a linear park for wine Sastre Vielba and growing between the villages of Alcalá de la Selva and Pol Viladoms

Virgen de la Vega. With this intervention, the agricultural cecilia rodríguez arnau sastre heritage of the place is to be retrieved. The place, despite pol viladoms having an outstanding natural and architectural environment, is not able to improve its occupation and tourism. The project gives people from the metropolitan areas of Barcelona and Valencia the chance to produce wine on a small piece of

2 011– Discontinued land, organized by a cooperative, for their own consumption. Alcalá de la Selva, Teruel, Spain The experience of farm work creates a relationship between International Competition 1st Prize the people from the cities, the nature and the villagers. 96 Housing Units: 8.640 m2 Winery: 1.250 m2 / Park: 15 Ha Aragón Government

Avinguda del Paral·lel

The Parallel Avenue goes from the Cruise Docks to the José Zabala Plaça Espanya Circle, the place where the generic city meets the Poble Sec neighbourhood. Parallel Avenue is the perfect meeting place for the main characters of these activities: the tourist and the businessman. Moreover, it is an ideal spare time area for both: as bank closing time approaches, show businesses emerge. The aim of this urban study faces the overload of traffic intensity

Completed, 2010 / 2012 versus the citizen and pedestrian vocation of Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain The design is imbued with the character and look of the Commission (Urban Study) cabaret dancers costumes and stage design: light structures, 2.5 km incrustations and two-dimensional design as a tribute to the Stadt Barcelona audience.

Bauhaus Museum Dessau

The new Bauhaus Museum Dessau links an iconographic González Hinz heritage (“Less is More”) with a manifesto of contemporary Zabala culture (“The Age of Less”). The Collection will be presented in roberto gonzález a bridge structure, a closed body hovering over a permeable anne k. hinz cecilia rodríguez public space for temporary exhibitions, events and workshops. arnau sastre josé zabala The glass covered and protected volume allows the continuity of the Bauhaus not only as part of the museum activities but also as part of the city of Dessau. On the one hand, the volume includes

2015 an urban space, on the other hand, its transparency allows Dessau, Germany an interaction between street and museum, between city and International Competition 1stPrize (ex - aequo) park. The museum is an instrument and a catalyst for expressing 6.500 m2 / 25.000.000 € activity and productivity, creativity and social interaction that Foundation Bauhaus Dessau altogether corresponds with the idea of the Bauhaus. 7 Baró de Viver Civic Centre

GRND82 Baró de Viver is a small, enclosed neighbourhood surrounded by small factories. In this sense, the shape of the building Roberto González Sergi Serrat envelope echoes the industrial identity of the area. At the same time, the typical urban block of the neighbourhood is the source of inspiration for the layout of the new building. These existing housing blocks are characterised by its hermetic exterior and a series of generous interior courtyards dedicated to social activities. In the same way, the Civic

Centre, dedicated to young and elderly people, has a series 2012 Barcelona, Spain of patios that provide optimal lighting and solar protection Competition 2nd Prize conditions and the creation of necessary indoor-outdoor 1.450 m2 / 1.680.000 € private gathering areas. In its hybrid formal condition, the BIMSA - Barcelona Municipality building is a contextual urban metaphor.

IMAS Young Services Building

Sastre Vielba The site is located in the border of the city, between empty and dense areas. The urban fabric is mainly composed of cecilia rodríguez arnau sastre single-family houses arranged like a gradation between the urban blocks and the public space. Our design approach consists in locating each group of users around one patio, an indoor element related to outdoors. The private-public relation between these patios and the urban block is established by a sequence of thresholds and

filters that transforms the building into an in-between urban 2 011 Palma de Majorca, Spain transitional device: from the city to the room. The roof terrace Competition 2nd Prize acts as a new garden, a new common ground with views to 2.010 m2 / 1.800.000 € the mountains and bay of Palma. Majorcan Institut of Social Affairs

Santiago Ydáñez Museum

Sastre Vielba The building has been formally conceived as a watchtower and with a double reason: to observe and being observed. cecilia rodríguez arnau sastre The site also has a double condition as part of the landscape and the village; for example, the pathway that connects the San Isidro Church with the Museum Square is an urban itinerary from which the olive fields begin to extend. The verticality of the watchtower intensifies the landscape perception through the path that goes from the stream to

the mountains. At the same time, the tower indicates the 2010 Puente de Génave, Jaén, Spain views towards the sky as a subtile reminder or mental image Competition 2nd Prize

connected to the art of Santiago Ydáñez and Puente de 2.300 m2 / 3.800.000 € Génave village. Puente de Génave Municipality

8 63 Housing units in Sant Joan Despí

The site is located at the end of the residential urban fabric GRND82 and of Sant Joan Despí, very close to Sant Feliu and part of the DataAE Torreblanca Park system. Its design highlights its dual urban Roberto González condition, between building and nature. For this reason, the Anne K. Hinz Sergi Serrat housing block is composed of several prismatic buildings oriented in one direction to provide a more compact or perforated appearance depending on the position. The ensemble is arranged in quasi-parallel blocks that assure 2010 Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Spain noise protection from the railway. The ground floor is an

Competition 2nd Prize enclosed private space, which acts as a transition zone to the

6.300 m2 / 4.550.000 € units, oriented southwards to guarantee an optimal energetic behavior and views. The private garden in the ground floor ADSA provides a quality outdoor leisure and gathering area.

19 Housing units in Sa Pobla

Sa Pobla is a generic town whose particularity is due to a Sastre Vielba provision of Jaime II, who said that every resident of the city cecilia rodríguez also had the right to a piece of land outside the city limits. arnau sastre Although located in urban soil, the idea for this housing block is inspired in the usage of the main device identified with the countryside: the Marès stone wall. In rural context, the wall is a continuous element that demarcates and incorporates all the necessary uses, from the house to the reservoir pool.

2008 Thereafter, the required housing program occupies the existing Sa Pobla, Majorca, Spain party walls and perimeter of the site, which results in the main Competition 2nd Prize design feature: an outdoor, large neighbour gathering place. 2.270 m2 / 1.375.000 €

IBAVI

Open Spaces of the Hospital de Sant Pau, UNESCO World Heritage Site

11 © Pol Viladoms

12 © Pol Viladoms

13 © Pol Viladoms

EF House

14 © Pol Viladoms

15 Bauhaus Museum Dessau

16 17 18 19 Europan XI

20 21 El Carmel ‘Ground Zero’ Wohnen und Platz

22 23 product design ‘Tonila’ Table

This special three-legged coffee table has been conceived Sastre Vielba both rationally and intuitively. While the design has a Cecilia Rodríguez clear geometrical logic behind, based in its height and the Arnau Sastre extreme position of the three points of support, the form and appearance communicate ideas related to instability and heaviness, provided by a tangential, dubious ground contact, and its finishing made of a wood veneer composition which gives an impression of a carved, massive piece of wood.

2015

Material: Plywood finished in Olive Veneer

‘Finish the soup’ Bowl

‘Finish the soup’ is a revision of the traditional bowl to take Roc & Rob

soups. Roberto González Rocío González The built in opening accompanies the drinking motion, guiding the content of the bowl.

2014

Ceramic Bowl Material: white clay Finish: Matte white enamel

‘There is a light’ Urn

‘There is a light’ is a cremation urn, but it’s also both a homage Roc & Rob

to the memory of the person as to light itself. It represents Roberto González Rocío González what is beautiful and what is sinister in life. It evokes absence but comforts with eternity. Light is life and hope, and to accompany a loved one with light is the desire to protect them on their new journey and to perpetuate their memory. Its title remembers love with the wish to link life eternally to a loved one.

2009

Iron / Translucent PMMA Led 1 x 1.4w

Etternal

‘There is a light’ Urn (2009)

26 ‘Finish the soup’ Bowl (2014)

product design

27 publishing

Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme, journal of the Catalan Architects Association, is a publication running since 1944. José Zabala is the co-editor for the editorial stage initiated in 2011 that puts attention on architecture as an expression of the contemporary cultural context and on the care design and crafted production of the magazine. Quaderns has been awarded with the 2015 FAD Prize on Architectural Criticism.

Quaderns are: Ethel Baraona, Guillermo López, Anna Puigjaner and José Zabala. Gestaltung: twopoints.net 29 biographies Roberto González Peñalver Roberto studied architecture at the ETSAB awarded architectural projects such as the castellón, 1981 School of Architecture (Barcelona Tech) Can Travi Elderly Housing (as execution and at the TU Delft in Holland and manager architect) and more recently, graduated from the ETSAB in 2007. the landscape design of the UNESCO He collaborated among others with world heritage site Hospital de Sant Pau the offices of architecture BAAS and in Barcelona as author and execution GRND82 in Barcelona. Roberto has manager architect. been involved in several with 1rst prize

Anne Katharina Hinz Anne studied architecture at the Leibniz Architekten in Germany or GRND82 and cuxhaven, 1980 Universität Hannover and at the TU Delft in DataAE in Barcelona, where she has Holland. She graduated from the Leibniz been involved in the project development Universität Hannover in 2007. Anne has and construction of several awarded collaborated in international architecture buildings, such as the ICTA Headquarters practices such as Ahrens Grabenhorst at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona.

Cecilia Rodríguez Vielba Cecilia graduated from the ETSAB Cecilia has been working for four years madrid, 1981 School of Architecture (Barcelona Tech), at the architecture office Barozzi/Veiga in 2008. Along with her partner Arnau that has been awarded in 2015 with Sastre she has been awarded first prize the Mies Van der Rohe prize. Here she in the Europan XI competition in 2011 for participated in the developement of the a project in Alcalá de la Selva, and for a Museum of Beaux Arts of Lausanne and public commission of 22 housing units in the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur among Vilafranca, Majorca. other projects.

Arnau Sastre Cuadri Arnau studied at the ETSAB School of units in Vilafranca, Majorca. selva, mallorca, 1980 Architecture (Barcelona Tech) and at the Arnau has been working for four years at Universitá de Roma - La Sapienza and the architecture office Barozzi/Veiga that graduated from the ETSAB in 2007. Along has been awarded in 2015 with the Mies with his partner Cecilia Rodríguez he is Van der Rohe prize. Here he participated author of a Europan XI (2011) competition in the project of the Museum of Beaux winning proposal in Alcalá de la Selva, Arts of Lausanne and the Bündner and of a public commission of 22 housing Kunstmuseum Chur among others.

José Zabala Roji José graduated from the ESARQ School involved in international architecture vitoria-gasteiz, 1974 of Architecture at Barcelona in 2005 competitions even prior to the completion after completing his degree on Building of his training as an architect. He has Engineering at EUPB School (Barcelona taught at ESARQ School of Architecture Tech) in 1999. José has collaborated with from 2007-2012 and since 2011 he public institutions such as the Barcelona is an editor at Quaderns architecture City Council, the Catalonian Housing magazine, oficial journal of the Catalan Institute (INCASOL) and has been Architects Association.

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