1. CASA GARAU AGUSTI Enric miralles
Prepared by: Yang Jing Loo | Chang May Chen | Cherilyn Chia | Lim Win Kee | Wee Sue Wen | Tan Kah Inn

2. Overview Miralles’ Background Miralles’ Works Casa Garau Agusti
Conclusion

3. Enric Miralles Spanish Architect born in Barcelona (1955-2000)
Barcelona School of Architecture (ESTAB)
- focused more on environmental studies & modern architecture
Disciple of José María Montaner
Worked for Albert Viaplana (contrast) & Helio Piñón (strict cuboid form)
Deconstructivism, Minimalist, Modern, Rational and harmonious regional features traditionalism
Marriage: - Carme Pinós
- Benedetta Tagliabue
EMBT Architects

4. Miralles’ Architectural Style
Designs according to surroundings
Harmony between space and landscape
Awareness on buildings’ history - sensitive approach
Industrial & heavy materials
Bold, complicated and eye catching
Projects are not fixed to certain theories or idea
To be permanent is contrary to existence.
Things are forever changing.
-Enric Miralles

5. Miralles’ Works 1985 1988 1990 1997 1998 Igualada Cemetery, Barcelona
Archery Range for Olympics, Barcelona
Pergola for Olympic Village, Barcelona
Santa Caterina Market conversion
Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh

6. Olympics Archery Range Olympic Village Pergola
Miralles’ Works
conceptualised poetic ideas of cemetery - cycle of life = link between the past, present, and future
blends into landscape (Catalonian)- natural aspect of land
organic architecture - concrete, stone, and wood
Igualada Cemetery
space emphasized by democratic nature
site covered in vegetation
public entrance, saltire crosses sit embedded in the concrete vaults.
Scottish Parliament
Olympics Archery Range
rhythmic complexity
concept: drawings show an overlay of organic curves and rectilinear shapes working in sublime harmony
Miralles’ Works
Santa Caterina Market
Olympic Village Pergola
transform the broad avenue into a series of human-scaled experiences
pedestrian avenue locate under the pergolas to the mall for neighbourhood services
preserve original structure
movement (undulating roof) and colorful vibrancy, inside and out
colorful mosaic: textured field of flowers suspended in mid-air

7. Neighbouring house
Casa Garau Agusti
1985
Garden area

8. Miralles’ Design Concept
Recognize the geometry of the bank - more complex and deformed
Wall is formed with different thrusts - moving the furniture in position
Storehouse of delicate movements - clearest expression in the garden
Back of house, pressed against the edge of the plot - limit on the geometry
Site is supported between very strict ordinance

9. Site Context

10. Entrance
Ground Floor Plan

11. 1st Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan

12. Spatial Organization LEGEND Bubble Diagram First floor plan
Leisure
Bedroom
Workspace
Dining room
Empty space
LEGEND
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Toilet
Second floor plan

13. Elevation & Partial Model
More openings on the side facing the garden (south)
Windows in boundary wall face north (away from neighbour)
Garden
Wall
Openings
Stairs

14. Section Drawings

15. Building Massing
Additive Elements | Irregular Forms | Grouped Spaces | Hierarchy of Form

16. Microclimate

17. Building Materials Stainless Steel Reflective glass Concrete + Paint
Timber
Paving

18. Conclusion
Miralles’ design depends on the surroundings and is not confined to certain style.
The close relation between the openings and the building’s form shows Miralles’ meticulous thinking in architecture.
Which is better:
To design nothing into something or
design based on the relationship with the site?

19. References
Author unknown. (n.d.). Enric Miralles. Retrieved August 30, 2016, from Enforex,
Myranda. (2006, April 17). Enric Miralles- Life and works. Retrieved August 30, 2016, from ENDS 170,
Author unknown. (n.d.). Albert Viaplana | ArchiTravel. Retrieved August 31, 2016, from ArchiTravel,
Davies, C. (2006). Key houses of the twentieth century: Plans, sections and elevations. Retrieved August 30, 2016, from garau agusti&source=bl&ots=-Yrx38TC5v&sig=oRQH-2nM3Zi9BHTvyVKWcixxIvE&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=casa garau agusti&f=false

20. THANK YOU
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