MAFER Holding

20/01/2018

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Office building 1905, designed by the architect Anrtonio Martorell, icon of Valencian architecture. Restored by Fran Silvestre Architects.

Edificio de oficinas 1905 | Office building 1905 | Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Existe un placer distinto en restaurar un objeto antiguo. Pongamos por caso un viejo flexo de los que se empleaban en las mesas de dibujo de las oficinas técnicas. Primero entenderlo, desmontarlo con cuidado, limpiar las piezas oxidadas, volverlo a pintar, cromar los elementos que lo requieran, sustituir el viejo cable por uno que resista el nuevo voltaje y hacer lo mismo con el portalámparas y el interruptor , buscar en sitios insospechados un muelle que sustituye a uno estropeado. Interviniendo únicamente donde es necesario se dota de una nueva vida a un objeto que se muestra cien años después listo, como recién fabricado.
La misma actitud hemos empleado en este edificio de 1905 que es una muestra de la arquitectura valenciana de comienzos del siglo XX, está situado en el primer ensanche de la ciudad y fue proyectado por el arquitecto Antonio Martorell, quien fue considerado como uno de los más destacados de su época. El objetivo era transformar la sede de una histórica compañía valenciana que buscaba reformar sus instalaciones para adecuarlas a los cambios tecnológicos vividos en los últimos años. El edificio fue concebido inicialmente como un edificio de viviendas, aunque desde sus orígenes se utilizó para albergar la sede de esta empresa.

There is a distinct pleasure in restoring an old object. Let's take for instance an old flexo, one of those that were used in the drawing tables of the technical offices. First, to understand it, disassemble it with care, clean the rusted parts, repaint it, chrome the elements that require so, replace the old cable with one that resists the new voltage and do the same with the lamp holder and the switch, search in unexpected places for a new coil to replace a damaged one. Intervening only where is necessary provides the object with a new life, thus displaying itself, a hundred years later, ready, as newly manufactured.
The same attitude was assumed in this building, which dates from 1905 and is a sample of the Valencian architecture of the early twentieth century. Located in the first expansion district of the city a, it was designed by the architect Antonio Martorell, considered as one of the most distinguished architects of his time. The objective was to transform the headquarters of a historic Valencian company that sought to renovate its facilities in order to adequate them to the technological changes experienced in recent years. The building was initially conceived as a residential building, although it was used as the headquarters of this company from the beginning.

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16/01/2018

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Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai
Desing: Santiago Calatrava

14/12/2017

Thanks to the family for trusting in our work made by hand. Today we give life to a space designed by Art Velasquez Lab, a firm associated with our house, generating designs with environmental responsibility and with the highest standard of quality in ecological wood, a friendly design with the environment and designed to enjoy with the family .

Call us and we will arrive at your house to transform your space.
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11/12/2017

We share this incredible and admirable project, designed and written by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. Its structural language is expressed as a subtle, firm, fine, neat and beautiful "circular poetry".

The project consists in the construction of the headquarters for a company dedicated to the manufacture of competition mountain bikes. Located in an industrial park and surrounded by orthogonal edification, the building seeks to break away from the adjacent geometry and encloses itself, with a circular plan hollowed out by a central courtyard. Two vaults pierce the geometry allowing the access to the building, and creating a sort of central atrium which can be used, due to its form, to generate events and exhibitions. This geometry separates the building from its surrounding, reinforcing the corporative identity of the company and improving the quality of the open space in the plot.

11/10/2017

Por un modelo de producción y consumo sostenible.

MAFER Holding

20/06/2017

01/06/2017

“Architecture is like music, but less ephemeral. It is like poetry, but more prosaic,” said Carme Pigem, on behalf of the 2017 Pritzker Prize Laureates. “All this is because we want to feel and make others feel.” Catch a glimpse of the latest awards ceremony here.
Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Catalan architects are the first trio to receive the award.

01/06/2017

13 years ago today, Zaha Hadid became the first woman to receive architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

19/05/2017

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La Feria de Diseño

"La es una ciencia intelectual y práctica dirigida a establecer racionalmente el buen uso y las proporciones de los artefactos y a conocer con la experiencia la naturaleza de los materiales que los componen". Carlo Lodoli.

15/05/2017

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Barcelona se prepara para vivir la ...

Barcelona celebrará del 20 al 26 de mayo su primera Semana de Arquitectura 2017, con la que, a través de la difusión de la actividad arquitectónica, el conocimiento y el debate, quiere...

15/05/2017

[La Biennale di Venezia]

Hoy abre sus puertas la 57 edición de la Bienal de Venecia. Tras mucho especular, estas son las bazas con las que se va a encontrar el amante del arte. Sus fortalezas y sus flaquezas

07/05/2017

[Architecture]
"African Canvas"
"My objective in this work is to document an extraordinary art form - vernacular art and architecture in West Africa - that is not transportable and therefore not seen in museums around the world. It is an attempt to capture the unseen Africa, a glimpse into the homes and into the spirit of very proud and dignified peoples. In much the same way as I photographed the art of Ndebele women, I have drawn on my personal affinity for the art itself, for methods, design and form, rather than the socio-anthropological or political realities of a people or continent in dilemma. These images portray a unique tradition of Africa, a celebration of an indigenous rural culture in which the women are the artists and the home her canvas.
📷 Margaret Courtney-Clarke, 1990"