Produktbeschreibung
This double issue spans 390 pages and reviews more than a decade of work by the Barcelona-based studio Peris y Toral, through a selection of projects that place collective housing at the centre of the contemporary architectural debate. The works featured in this volume originate from public competitions, a field in which Peris y Toral have developed a particularly consistent and solid trajectory. The publication brings together their most significant works in the field of social housing and collective space, showing how regulations, far from being a limitation, become a design tool, and how technique can precede form to give rise to open, flexible and long-lasting architectures. Intermediate spaces, bioclimatic atriums, honest construction systems and a material approach focused on performance define a body of work committed to long-term social, environmental and cultural sustainability. The projects are presented through an extensive collection of drawings, axonometric views and construction details—some specifically redrawn for this edition—allowing the reader to closely follow the structural, spatial and material logic of each work. Attention to detail, passive systems, the relationship between structure and space, and economy of means is further reinforced by three fold-outs that expand the reading of key projects.