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• Architects: Lina Toro
• Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• Architect In Charge: Lina Toro
• Area: 750.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Imagen Subliminal

• Collaborators: Raquel Ruiz y José María Sánchez Laforet
• Contractor: linatoro.arch
• Landscape Design : Jorge Basarrate

BACKGROUND
Burbucar is a carwash located at Costa Rica Street in Madrid. It is an established business, which uses clean and innovative processes and seeks to visualize its philosophy by means of a renewed image.

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The carwash occupies the ground floor of a 7-storey building, in a 70 m-long and 12 m- wide tube. It rests on a 10cm neoprene bedding, which absorbs vibrations of the machines at the car wash tunnel. 80% of the water used is recycled at a purifying room, through 6 specific tanks. In winter, humidity exceeds 80% and the apparent temperature is 0ºC. Running non-stop 12 hours a day from Monday to Saturday, an average of 80 cars are washed daily at Burbucar.

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The commission is made with a single condition: the running of the business will not be interrupted at any time.
The project is executed in one month. Uninterrupted. 

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BEHIND THE SCENES: NO ONLY A CAR WASH
#BehindTheScenes offers spaces, associated with the waiting time, which visualize the formerly hidden washing processes. 
#BehindTheScenes changes the corporate image of the conventional carwash into the technified SPA.
#BehindTheScenes the technic decision of coating every surface with epoxy paint solves the general concept, allows a quick execution and the maintenance.
#BehindTheScenes fuses architecture, design and technic in a combined operation.

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LINEAR SCENOGRAPHY
The project integrates and shows all its elements in a continuous 100m- long sequence exterior-interior-exterior: carwash tunnel, boxes, showcases, decoration, clothing, toilets, furniture, machines, installations, lighting, rooms, vegetation and ramps. The play takes place in an average time of 25 minutes.

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SENSORIAL SPA
The washing processes and their specific technology are revealed in the service of the client’s experience through three showcases. The tunnel-showcase, 7 consecutive arcs giving a singular spectacle; the purifying-showcase shows the recycling process of the water (decanting of coarse and fine solids, storage tanks, hydrocarbon separator and filters) and the hedonistic-showcase of the VIP room, where the furniture registers the positions of the active and passive wait, whether sitting on the suspended transparent chair or in the ball pool.

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TECHNIC BACKSTAGE
The technic resolution (just one line item) based on epoxy paint of specific composition solves everything: image, efficient execution and water resistance. The monochrome background highlights the machinery’s and space’s backstage. The conventionally hidden elements are revealed: the false ceilings and CO2 conducts appeared; the divisions between technic rooms and tanks appear; the tunnel is lit up and the beauty of the most industrial engineering appears.

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• Architects: Wingardhs
• Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
• Architect: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor, Gert and Karin Wingårdh
• Area: 182.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: James Silverman

• Builder: Alfredssons Bygg & Fastighetsservice AB

Site Plan

Plan 0

From the architect. A small house that wants to be big. A small footprint and simple construction means low cost. That’s the idea when we set about designing a house for a young couple on a site surrounded by other single-family homes on the west side of Gothenburg. 

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We turn inward with an atrium scheme, away from the view of—and from—the neighbors. The nicest view is toward the mature trees and the exposed bedrock in the southwest, so we open the courtyard up on that side.

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The building is perched lightly on piers, hovering a half-meter over granite bedrock honed by the ice age. That means that to reach the building we need a stair and a ramp (accessibility requirement) along the blank northeast side. The elevated floor of the atrium courtyard is built up of decking over beams, with steps down to the surrounding terrain.

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On the inside, it’s the outside that dominates. The narrow kitchen with its long table is always a part of the changing seasons that play out in the courtyard. Floor-to-ceiling glass and broad sliding doors help erase the boundary between inside and out. Okay, it’s a cliché—but it works. 

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There’s a steep ladderway up to the workroom (yes, there’s a glimpse of the sea from up there) and a shallow, almost monumentally processional stair up to a roof terrace. Additional rooms could be built around the courtyard if needed in the future to accommodate a bunch of children. 

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The entrance wall is thickened to hold a fireplace (the chimney is part of the roof landscape) with a built-in sofa, a room for collections, the kitchen (back-to-back with the exterior mechanical room), and an air-lock entry with guest bathroom.

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The exterior is clad entirely in whitewashed (Sioo treated) smooth-planed spruce. It will age to a pale gray.

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• Architects: RUA Arquitetos
• Location: Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro – State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Architect In Charge: Pedro Évora, Pedro Rivera
• Area: 6400.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Leonardo Finotti

• Constructor: RJZ Cyrela
• Coordination: Roberto Boettger Costa (RUA Arquitetos)

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Sketch

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The veranda as a guideline

Golf is a sport of precision and balance, and we believe the same goes for its architecture. The outdoor practice, among the exuberance of natural elements, inspires the creation of spaces which are close to the landscape, well lit, wide, ventilated and in direct contact with the course. It is also a sport where players socialize before, during and after the game, reinforcing the importance of the clubhouse’s architecture.  

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Plan

For the Olympic clubhouse we chose to design a building organized like a comfortable veranda, dissolving the limits between the landscape, the building, and the users. For this purpose we initially created a plaza which articulates the course with the programmatic volumes around it. It was then roofed by a large cover which shelters and shadows, producing a pleasant ambience. The proposal also utilizes traditional Brazilian architectural elements like parasols, brise-soleis and cobogós, in order to create comfort and appease the spaces between interior and exterior. The attention to these intermediate spaces is therefore an inseparable part of the architectural design.

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Site approach

The placement of the ensemble which constitutes the clubhouse follows a few main premises: its close and direct relationship to the course and driving range; the fragmentation of the volumes in favor of landscape views, the mitigation of the construction’s impact over the soil and local vegetation; the disposition of architecture through circulation axes and around the plaza.     

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From the entrance a generous inclined pathway heads towards the golf course, with a privileged view.  Through this path we implemented successively the gym, restrooms and locker rooms, Pro-Shop and reception, culminating in the plaza which leans onto the course from one side and houses the administrative headquarters and social areas. Above it, the translucent roof captures rain water and provides shade. An internal garden acts as an extension of the surrounding landscape, which can also be appreciated from the roof garden above the restaurant, accessible through a ramp. 

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The usual flux of the players, consisting mainly of the course scheduling in the Pro-Shop store, a stop by the changing rooms and return to the bar after the game, was granted special attention in the project’s development. 

The headquarters of the Brazilian Golf Confederation was implemented adjacent to the golf course, in the northern part of the terrain, so as to maintain a certain independence from the other areas of the clubhouse. 

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The service areas were designed around a patio for the operation of machinery and course maintenance, in accordance to the efficiency guidelines provided. 

The clubhouse of Rio de Janeiro Golf Club affirms itself through a generous architecture, bright, open and welcoming to current and future practitioners of the sport.

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