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Area = 2000sqft, Budget= $150,000
In the trendiest area of Manhattan. Eva store claims to be the most exclusive home for emerging international fashion designers in New York. Volido, running away from the traditional approach to fashion-retail space, chooses Fast, Cheap and Smart as positive qualities inherent to the best contemporary fashion design. With the Style industry, highly monopolized by corporates, this attitude is the only way for plausible independent businesses that want to survive free in the context of a metropolis like New York. Building in an old Chinese Grocery store, the project has a completely transparent operable facade that diffuses the limit of interior and exterior. The long and straight lines of the interior with their sense of the movement and perpendicularity to the street emphasize the narrowness and elegance of the perspective. This spatial-anorexia combined with the transparency of the facade swallow the eyes of the passerby. This swallow wow effect along with the lowest price of sqft ever built in high-end retail in New York has a direct translation in positive $'s. http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/sandras-sources-eva-new-york/    
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Area = 9.234sqf, Budget=$4.000.000
Following the language of the traditional Chinese Buddhist Architecture, the facade isolates the building in the upper floors with a continuous lattice that disappears completely on the ground floor allowing the street to expand into the temple and facilitating maximum public access to the worship area. On the floors above, where the cells of the monks are located, the building isolates himself from the street and opens the roof to the sky in order to allow the sun-light to slide into the privacy of the monastery.(more) The building is located on Eldridge street in the heart of Chinatown New York. The program is organized into 5 main areas; worship area on the ground floor, charity and dining in the basement, the school on the second floor and the residence cells on the third and fourth floors. The roof becomes a terrace to the city.   
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Area= 72.360m2, Budget= 148.500.000 €
Art and Nature spinning around, conglomerating and binding the complexity and diversity of the program. People, Art and Nature as a binder for a new Complex Norwegian Society. The Program includes the government in the middle of the structure and the museum spinning around, up, in a double spiro, to the roof where the forest is with a view of the fjord. One spiro connects the different exhibition areas, the other spiro is an ascending garden that provides outdoor space to the mu-seum. the museum in its ascension liberates the border on the ground floor to let the people connect with the different levels of the city in the border of the lot. The government building jumps up offering the center of the ground to the city. It will be the space for a climatized plaza, a polyvalent urban agora where Oslo meets Oslo and the Norwegian cultural Scene finds a new engine. The Nobel Peace Center is integrated as part of this complexity, articulating the entrance to the museum and filtering the urban space that moves through the building at street level. The building starts with Oslo in the ground...with the Norwegians and finishes with Norway ...on the roof..with the Fjord.
Collaborators: Garret McClure, Ian Colburn, Cristina Guadalupe, Alessandro Ayuso.        
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Volume=2261 cubic-feet budget=$3000/unit (including pedagogic package), $50000 prototype.
One school in a shipping container...to be shipped anywhere necessary. In a boat, in a truck in a helicopter... In the interior, there are Colors...Colors they have never seen before... four different modules generating seating, tables and castles. The kids move the pieces up and down, right to left to build a new place every day, every hour, every second...the kids don't sit in a row...the don't even sit... they fly they don't have chairs or a uniform ... actually nobody in their town uses chairs or shoes...or maybe yes...but not in this school. The pieces made in high density rubber foam are dense enough to be used as a table and soft enough to be hugged...light to be carried...from inside to outside, like a gigantic Lego to conform a new outdoor classroom where the teacher will tell another tale of their country....and afterwards, the pieces will come back to the container...to sleep, until the next morning's light, when the kids and the pieces will again rebuild the school.    
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