Francisco Garcia Ruiz - Arquitecto Tecnico

Multifamily Building in Hellín (Albacete)

Multifamily building comprising FORTY SIX HOMES, SHOPS and GARAGES. The planned building is aligned to the three streets that define the site, North, South and West. On the ground floor, the building occupies the entire plot and is intended for commercial use, as well as pedestrian access to the housing lobbies and vehicle access to the basement intended for parking. Access to the garage is located on Ramon y Cajal Street, on the north side of the plot. It provides a total of 7 shops, giving onto the three streets that mark the site. The basement has a total of 49 parking spaces and 17 storage rooms, and space to harbor a water tank beneath the access ramp. The garage is connected to the two lobbies. The first to third floors consist of a corridor of about 15m. wide arranged in a U-shape, aligned with existing streets, forming an interior patio that is limited by the east boundary of the plot. Two other smaller patios are located in the North and South corridors, to provide ventilation of all parts. The penthouse floor is set back 3m. with respect to the other floors. Here there are 4 apartments with 3 bedrooms, 4 with 2 bedrooms and 2 apartments with 1 bedroom. The latter have only one bathroom.

Architect: Ana D. Martínez Fernández
Collaboration in the structural calculation and execution of measurements and budget.

27 Houses in Hellín (Albacete)

The project consists of 27 townhouses arranged to face the four streets that define the plot. Therefore, each house has an independent access from the street, as well as a private patio in the rear. The central area of the construction is occupied by a series of communal open spaces, equipped with swimming pool, toilets, and a padel court. Each house has a rear access from the private patio to the communal space. There are two independent pedestrian accesses to the communal area from the street, one from neighbouring empty space and one from Ramon y Cajal Street, the latter being a disabled access. The basement is occupied by a community garage with access from the southwest corner of the plot, between Ramón y Cajal street and Jose Garcia street. Each house has two parking spaces under it, a space for storage and a utility room. The houses have a direct connection with the garage through the staircase that leads to the other floors. All houses are equipped with the same facilities, with small surface variations at the corners, solving the irregular geometry of the site, the layout is as follows:
Ground floor: Comprised of a hall, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and lounge. The latter two spaces have direct communication with the private patio at the rear of the house.
First floor: There are three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The master bedroom also has a terrace facing the interior of the block.

Architect: Ana D. Martínez Fernández
Collaboration in the design of the sanitation installation and execution of measurements and budget.

Detached House in Barcelona's Barrio de Gracia

The present work consists of the drafting of a project of a new detached house in Barcelona's Barrio de Gracia. The starting point is characterized by the following constraints: lack of space, limited height and little light, as a result of the narrow streets. The desired project, by contrast, is always a mixture of ambition and will, an optimization of light and surface and a search for fluid and flexible spaces that correspond to the modern lifestyle. This townhouse complies with all the topics mentioned in the beginning and results in a modern home, light and airy in which a leading role has been taken by what, in principle seemed to be the biggest disadvantage of the house: the presence of a staircase, which is impossible to avoid. Rather than becoming a space eating obstacle, it has been transformed into the identity mark of the project. The location of this vertical communication element near the facade, and parallel to it, lead it to be treated as a sculptural element, visible from any room in the house. The open staircase became more of a series of steps that a vertical element and became a resource that was functional, decorative, hierarchical and organizer of space, capable of communicating the various rooms in plan and section. The interior of the house is a geometric series of prisms, the ground floor is a series of platforms that rise from the entrance to the back patio. Each platform, each major step of this sequence, contains, without enclosing it, a differentiated use of the property: hall, kitchen, dining room and outdoor patio. The open kitchen replaces the corridor between the hall and the dining room which is adjacent to the outdoor patio, a one step above. The pavement itself delimits a terrace that looks out through a pond to a small garden of quinces. The ground floor is for public use and the first floor, which is visible from the opening staircase, contains the private rooms: the bedroom with a bathroom and a study with a small living room overlooking the street. On the top floor, the smallest one, there is an open space which is split in two by the staircase, one bedroom and a multipurpose room with access to the terrace that crowns the overhang of the first floor.

PFC: Francisco de Paula García Ruiz