To renovate a courtyard, by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez

To obtain that a bland and without character courtyard, located in a small village in Valladolid, achieve real architectural value, never is easy. It is not what happened with this project realized by Óscar Ares Álvarez´s study, which we leave you later.

Access view. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

Delicate and fine intervention realized by Oscar Miguel Ares Álvarez and his collaborators to "sew", as if we would be talking about doctors, two small houses separated by a courtyard. An interesting game of architectural opposite concepts and the use of traditional local elements, recycling a lot of material, have done the rest in order to achieve that this courtyard would be perceived as a nice intervention.

Description of project by Oscar Miguel Ares Álvarez

The renovation process of a house patio situated on Platerias street, in the small village called Santibañez de Valcorba (near Valladolid); has been raised as the annexation of several pavilions to both existing homes using different mechanisms of sewing.

Essentially, the strategy followed has been to build a flat roof connecting both houses. The pavilions were built using recycled materials : reusing stone from the prior demolition to execute masonry bearing walls. Therefore between 50-60% of building materials were re-used.

The rest is a set of relationships between opposite concepts that generate different formal tensions: lightness / massiveness; opacity / transparency; filled / void or abstraction / figuration.

In our process of confronting opposite dualities, was essential to establish a neutral platform upon which the glass and masonry pavilions were erected. As well as to achieve the effect of continuity and meanwhile create a set of material relationship between masonry walls and pre-existences.

The exterior enclosure is opaque, massive. Reinterpreting the surroundings vernacular traditions, being built by masonry and using traditional techniques of applying cement typical from the surrounding townships in Ribera del Duero.

Our intention has been to recover everyday symbols and codes represented in walls and gates, stone and cement, privacy and enclosureness. A secretive exterior that, after crossing the threshold, leads to an atmosphere of light, contrasts and transparencies.

Text.- Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.

CREDITS. TECHNICAL SHEET.-

Author.- Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.
Construction management.- Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.
Date.- 2015
Collaborators.- Bárbara Arranz González, Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso, Laura Álvaro Alonso, Mario Rabanillo.
Area.- 420 sqm.
Contractor.- Conedavi S.L.
Location.- Calle Platerías, Santibañez de Valcorba, Valladolid; España.

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Inside-outside view. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.guel Ares Álvarez. Fotografía © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

General view of the project. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.or Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Fotografía © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

General view of the project. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.tervención. Patio en Santibañez por Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Fotografía © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

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Deck detail. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.es Álvarez. Fotografía © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

Corner detail. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.ez por Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Fotografía © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

Outside view. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.tibañez por Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Fotografía © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Óscar Ares Álvarez.

Image at nightfall. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Óscar Ares Álvarez.

Ground floor plan. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.

Elevation. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. por Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.

Section 1. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. por Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.

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Section 3. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.

Ground floor plan before the works. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.tibañez por Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.

Elevations and sections before the works. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.a intervención. Patio en Santibañez por Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez.

Image before the works. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.o en Santibañez por Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Fotografía © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

View before the works. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.

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OSCAR MIGUEL ARES

Óscar Miguel Ares. Valladolid, 1972. Archtiect from School of Architecture of Valladolid, in 1998. In 2010, he obtained the title of Doctor from the University of Valladolid - for the thesis "GATEPAC 1928-1939" - being his tutor Mr. Juan Antonio Cortés. Since 2013 he is professor of design at the ETS de Arquitectura de Valladolid. He has collaborated, as visiting professor, at ETSA La Salle (Ramón Lluch University, Barcelona), at San Pablo CEU University (Valladolid) and at the School of Design at Al Ghurari University (Dubai, UAE).

His texts and works on architectural criticism have been published in different publications as well as by the composition and projects departments of the ETSA Madrid, UPC in Barcelona –with whom he has assiduously collaborated as editor in the publication DC Papers-, ETSA in Seville and ETSA Cartagena. He has given conferences and lectures in Helsinki, Mexico City, Porto, Pamplona, Barcelona, Madrid or Seville. Author of the book: "Alternative Modernity. Transits of form in Spanish architecture (1930-1936)" University of Valladolid (2016).

Since March 2012 he has been carrying out his professional work alone, together with the architect Bárbara Arranz, under the Contextos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo brand. As an architect he has won various competitions, his work being awarded at the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2018; work exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion of the XII Biennale di Venezia (May 2021); selected in XI Biennial of Ibero-American Architecture of Architecture and Urbanism Paraguay (October 2019); finalist in the 2018 FAD Awards; finalist in the 2017 Spanish Architecture Awards; selected Enor Awards (2020), Awarded with the American Architecture Prize (New York, 2017, Bilbao 2019); Awarded with the International Architecture Awards 2018 granted by The Chicago Athenaeum / Europeen (Athens, 2018); Awarded with The Plan Award, (Venice 2018, Milan 2019); more than a dozen awards and mentions at the Castilla y León Architecture Awards (2009, 2011, 2016, 2018 and 2020), as well as awarded at the Castilla y León Sustainable Construction Awards (2017 and 2018). His works have been published in numerous national and international magazines, including METALOCUS, Domus, Arquitectura Viva, Tectónica, Hic Arquitectura or Baumeister, On Diseño and he has exhibited in Madrid, Seville, Venice, Paris and New York.

Director, together with Anna and Eugeni Bach, of the XV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, "Empty Spain / Full Spain; conciliation strategies", forming part of the different juries of the awarded categories.

2016 2015 metalocus_oscar-miguel-ares_bio_04 2024.