Area = 72,360m2, Budget= €148,000,000

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 museum. The museum in its ascension liberates the people from the city. The border is free and open on the ground floor allowing the people openly enter and connect with the different levels of the city while experiencing all parts of the site. The government building jumps up offering the ground plane back to the city. This plane 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 the people of Oslo on the ground... finishing with Norway on the roof... and a look to the Fjord.

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/

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.

Area = 14.234sqf, Budget=$7.000.000
8 floors of mixed use building working as a private residence and an art foundation on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The project aims to provide high-end green residential combined with maximum economy of construction and maintenance and maximum performance of the square footage available. Contradiction of the skin and structure respects the built environment and will claim the Manhattanism of the operation; confronting the tendency of contexstualism in the New York city zoning code. (more) As one private residence, the building's program will be distributed in 8 floors. The entrance will be through an open plaza-LED-scape-coffee terrace organizing the access to the art foundation on the ground floor and to the residential area located on the floors above. In the residential, four 1000sqf loft style apartments and a 6000 sqf penthouse that will occupy the 4th, 5th and 6th floors with direct acces to the rooftop where the vegetable garden and rainwater collection tank will be located. The geothermal system for heating and cooling in combination with the design of the low cost skin and the LED lighting system will make it the most energy & cost efficient building ever built in the United States.

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.

Area=3520 acres(1424.49 hectares) Budget= $125.000
21'(6.4m) feet tall heart traveling through the Black Rock desert of Nevada attached to the back of an old double-decker bus from London... at the end,more than 35' (10.7m) of nomad structure pumping with beats of 150.000 WATS of sound, Wired in LED lighting system the heart beat even stronger with millions of colors in the dark nights of the desert.

Area =72.165 m2,(776.778sqf). Budget = 58.212.000€ ($80.914.680)
Mall, Opera House, Multiplex Cinema, Parking for 1200 cars, Hotel and Spa. Located in the town of Denia on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. The program fills the hole of an old quarry and the facade reconstructs the profile of the mountain as it was before the quarry existed. The skin-facade wrinkles in 3 different scales allowing the paths of the passerby in their transit from one part of the building to the other and re-connects the town, and the bottom with the top of the mountain, where the main monument of the city ,the Moorish castle is located. The new skin-landscape-facade is made from the repetition of a prefabricated geometry and is based in a hexagonal pattern.

Area=6 sqf Budget= $85.000
Landscape element of 1.5 tones of concrete is designed to stop a car bomb attack in lobbies,commercial centers and government buildings. With a continuous slope, one piece engages with the next, allowing the piece to be walked on, or to be used like a comfortable chaise lounge in the park or provide sitting at launch time...

Area = 72,360m2, Budget= €148,000,000

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 museum. The museum in its ascension liberates the people from the city. The border is free and open on the ground floor allowing the people openly enter and connect with the different levels of the city while experiencing all parts of the site. The government building jumps up offering the ground plane back to the city. This plane 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 the people of Oslo on the ground... finishing with Norway on the roof... and a look to the Fjord.

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/

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.

Area = 14.234sqf, Budget=$7.000.000
8 floors of mixed use building working as a private residence and an art foundation on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The project aims to provide high-end green residential combined with maximum economy of construction and maintenance and maximum performance of the square footage available. Contradiction of the skin and structure respects the built environment and will claim the Manhattanism of the operation; confronting the tendency of contexstualism in the New York city zoning code. (more) As one private residence, the building's program will be distributed in 8 floors. The entrance will be through an open plaza-LED-scape-coffee terrace organizing the access to the art foundation on the ground floor and to the residential area located on the floors above. In the residential, four 1000sqf loft style apartments and a 6000 sqf penthouse that will occupy the 4th, 5th and 6th floors with direct acces to the rooftop where the vegetable garden and rainwater collection tank will be located. The geothermal system for heating and cooling in combination with the design of the low cost skin and the LED lighting system will make it the most energy & cost efficient building ever built in the United States.

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.

Area=3520 acres(1424.49 hectares) Budget= $125.000
21'(6.4m) feet tall heart traveling through the Black Rock desert of Nevada attached to the back of an old double-decker bus from London... at the end,more than 35' (10.7m) of nomad structure pumping with beats of 150.000 WATS of sound, Wired in LED lighting system the heart beat even stronger with millions of colors in the dark nights of the desert.

Area =72.165 m2,(776.778sqf). Budget = 58.212.000€ ($80.914.680)
Mall, Opera House, Multiplex Cinema, Parking for 1200 cars, Hotel and Spa. Located in the town of Denia on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. The program fills the hole of an old quarry and the facade reconstructs the profile of the mountain as it was before the quarry existed. The skin-facade wrinkles in 3 different scales allowing the paths of the passerby in their transit from one part of the building to the other and re-connects the town, and the bottom with the top of the mountain, where the main monument of the city ,the Moorish castle is located. The new skin-landscape-facade is made from the repetition of a prefabricated geometry and is based in a hexagonal pattern.

Area=6 sqf Budget= $85.000
Landscape element of 1.5 tones of concrete is designed to stop a car bomb attack in lobbies,commercial centers and government buildings. With a continuous slope, one piece engages with the next, allowing the piece to be walked on, or to be used like a comfortable chaise lounge in the park or provide sitting at launch time...