Text description provided by the architects. Nestled in the mountains surrounding Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, "Cardedeu" is a place for events that aims to maximize the chances of an open space in such a privileged place with spectacular views. We complement it with a chapel, a restaurant, a hotel and various support spaces.
The design was developed respecting a combination of plains and slopes in the site, and the constant relationship to the lake. We arrived at a simple architecture that provides space for versatile experiences.
© Tom Arban</a>We created an informal reticular pattern with the intention of revealing the project slowly, to use options for use and to generate varied perspectives to the lake. In the access we limit the user's view to the lake, suggesting only a small portion of the environment and thus setting an intention that permeates the entire project. This invites the user to explore the entire project and the same time&nbsp;the environment.
© Tom Arban</a>Circulation between the volumes&nbsp;composing the project is specifically fragmented with&nbsp;the purpose of limiting or enhancing user views along the route. So, we generated a series of different relationships between the built and the natural, dissolving in some cases the limit of the interior and exterior.
Plan</a>The use of local materials (wood from a nearby farm and stones from the local quarry) tied the project to the materiality of the area. At the same time the introduction of foreign materials such as concrete and steel allow us to create structures that project over the ground&nbsp;and generate sensations of floating between trees&nbsp;or even flying over the lake.
Section</a>Structurally it was raised with concrete frames
except for a point where a metal support shortens the longest stretch of beams
which is not perceived because it is&nbsp;"the cross"
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The 8th edition of the World Architecture Festival will be held November 4-6
2,200 architects from 60 countries are expected to convene in Singapore for the event
CNN Style will feature buildings found in various categories
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Every year, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/world-architecture-festival-2015-best-building-nominees-2015-7" target="_self" data-track-click="{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}" rel="">World Architecture Festival</a>&nbsp;creates a shortlist of the most awe-striking buildings on the planet
The festival and awards announcement&nbsp;will take place in&nbsp;November at the luxurious Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore
From a ribbon-like chapel in Japan to a spectacular outdoor church nestled in the mountains of El Salvador
here are seven sacred spaces&nbsp;that could be 2015's&nbsp;best building of the year.&nbsp;
Casanovas Blanco&rsquo;s beautiful drawings depict the design of the house that spans three levels
The design involved the conversion of an existing house and is a comment on Spain's real estate boom of the past few decades.&nbsp;
The architect wanted to highlight the building's original materials
'The so-called 'Spanish housing bubble'&nbsp;collapsed in 2008
Casanovas Blanco treated this renovation as part of a&nbsp;historic document of the 1990s&rsquo; 'frenzied economic growth' in the country
The renovation was addressed as a series of interventions
The staircase was 'archaeologically restored'
using old local craft techniques mixed with new technologies
The views out towards the surrounding village and urbanisation of the fields around it were also key to the new design
The architect worked with the&nbsp;materials and details that gave the house its original identity
The experimental project is both a pragmatic refurbishment and a research project
&lsquo;The so-called &ldquo;Spanish housing bubble&rdquo; collapsed in 2008
leaving behind a huge housing stock which reflects the societal transformation of most of the country&rsquo;s population from lower middle-class to upper-middle class'
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</a><a class="button-social   " href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellie-stathaki-7861966" target="_self" aria-label="LINKEDIN"></a>Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture &amp; Environment Director at Wallpaper*
She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London
she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006
visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas
Ellie has also taken part in judging panels
such as The Contemporary House (Thames &amp; Hudson
Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022)
The World Architecture Festival — held this year in Singapore — won't name 2015's Building of the Year until November
but the nominations are officially in.&nbsp;
we combed through the contenders and made our own shortlist
From a ribbon-inspired wedding chapel in Hiroshima to Zaha Hadid's £240 million London Aquatics Centre
these are the 27 buildings that really jumped out and caught our eye
From the religious building category.&nbsp;
From the hotel and leisure building category.&nbsp;
From the shopping building category.&nbsp;
From the transport building category.&nbsp;
From the culture buildings category.&nbsp;
From the new and old building category.&nbsp;
From the civic and community building category.&nbsp;