AWARD FIRST PRIZE Competition Social Apartments in Basauri for the Basque Government. AWARD FIRST PRIZE Competition Social Apartments in Basauri for the Basque Government. AWARD FIRST PRIZE Competition Social Apartments in Basauri for the Basque Government. AWARD FIRST PRIZE Competition Social Apartments in Basauri for the Basque Government.
ACCESIT ephemeral architecture design competition for the 5th International architecture biennial of Euskadi MUGAK/. ACCESIT ephemeral architecture design competition for the 5th International architecture biennial of Euskadi MUGAK/. ACCESIT ephemeral architecture design competition for the 5th International architecture biennial of Euskadi MUGAK/. ACCESIT ephemeral architecture design competition for the 5th International architecture biennial of Euskadi MUGAK/.
A special mention was given to ‘Garden on the way’ by the Acha Zaballa studio, "for its radical and groundbreaking proposal that presents an ‘antipavilion’ as a critique of the construction of temporary structures. It stands out for its low ecological footprint and its ability to generate a reflection on the renaturalization of the city." The design consisted of two trailers, one of them containing a garden, and proposed the use of what already exists without constructing or manufacturing specifically for the occasion.
Lecture at the School of Architecture University of Valencia ETSA-UPV. Lecture at the School of Architecture University of Valencia ETSA-UPV. Lecture at the School of Architecture University of Valencia ETSA-UPV. Lecture at the School of Architecture University of Valencia ETSA-UPV.
Cristinaa Acha & Miguel Zaballa will be lecturing at the School of Architecture University of Valencia ETSA-UPV next September 20th
Argi-txinta Socializing creative spaces at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Argi-txinta Socializing creative spaces at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Argi-txinta Socializing creative spaces at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Argi-txinta Socializing creative spaces at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as a result of the reflection on its own working and with a sensitive attitude towards the evolution of the public twenty-five years after the inauguration, has identified the convenience of assigning certain spaces to informal activities for the spontaneous approach of visitors to art and to the institution. Spaces for resting, learning and creating which here are identified as ‘socializing creative spaces’.
The materialization of the hybrid ‘socializing creative spaces’ we proposed is associated with the playful display of the folies from the eighteen-century gardens.
This interest in the folie, beyond the specific formal archetype, is found in its condition as a family: as a set of singularities that, in addition to its functional value, that due to its arrangement, succession and scale endorses the articulation of the garden, enriching the routes and enhancing it’s use and enjoyment. When the visitor comes across a folie, the scale is altered and thus this perceptive distortion makes it possible to reorient the route within the broader and overall context of the whole-garden.
From this approach, we have worked on the development of multiple units for various spaces identified as optimal for meeting within the museum open circulation.
photograph: Museo Guggemgeim Bilbao
Inhabiting Change Main exhibition of the fourth edition of the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial Mugak/. Inhabiting Change Main exhibition of the fourth edition of the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial Mugak/. Inhabiting Change Main exhibition of the fourth edition of the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial Mugak/. Inhabiting Change Main exhibition of the fourth edition of the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial Mugak/.
‘Inhabiting Change' is the main exhibition of the fourth edition of the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial Mugak/. It is a choral reflection of works produced by renowned architects and artists. It establishes a collective dialogue between them, through original pieces, representations of their practices and projects around the motto of this edition, 'rebuild, reinhabit, rethink'.
The works are grouped together in the three rooms of the Basque Country Institute of Architecture, each representing one of these three key concepts in this edition. Curated by the Bilbao architect María Arana, also curator of the fourth Mugak/ Biennial, the exhibition 'Inhabiting Change' brings together the works of the 'pritzker' Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, co-founders and partners of the Chinese studio Amateur Architecture Studio; the researcher Beatriz Colomina along with Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris and Anna Maria Meister; the Madrid studio amid.cero9; the artist Isaac Cordal; the architect José María Torres Nadal; the Bilbao studio Acha Zaballa Arquitectos; the architect Marina Otero together with Katía Truijen, René Boer and María Mazzanti; and the Barcelona studio TAKK.
Lecture at the School of Architecture University of the Basque Country. Lecture at the School of Architecture University of the Basque Country. Lecture at the School of Architecture University of the Basque Country. Lecture at the School of Architecture University of the Basque Country.
Cristina Acha & Miguel Zaballa will be lecturing at the School of Architecture University of the Basque Country next October 20th
