¿Great home or small town" Arts center of Verin provides the intimacy of a home and the heterogeneity of a town.

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Architects: Zooco Estudio

Location: Verín, Ourense, Spain

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Roland Halbe

Author Architects: Miguel Crespo Picot, Javier Guzmán Benito, Sixto Marín Martínez y Sixto Martín Aparicio

Collaborators: Borja García Lázaro, Daniel Civantos Castilla y Teresa Fernández de Arévalo.

Client: Ayuntamiento de Verín

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¿Great home or small town" Arts center of Verin provides the intimacy of a home and the heterogeneity of a town.The initial approach of the project comes from a previous study of the  environment.From this analysis, we get the conclusion that Concello do Verín stands out by the heterogeneity of its blocks, which have been developed around an urban nucleus. Even though each block has different shapes, the way they are set is the same in most of them.
Site Plan

This occupation is based in many small buildings that are aligned with the edges of the patchs, standing next to the road and leaving gaps to the interiors for common spaces, grouped in this way, into small communities or ?towns?  within the whole Verin. ?Towns? with a random order that are being defined by the flexibi...