Instagram story viewer> @bggardelegui> Tagged

Blanca Gardelegui

@bggardelegui

1.5K

followers

2515

following

Architect

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

PROJECT TITLE
Can Amor de la Isla

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Perched above the Mediterranean in the village of Banyalbufar, Can Amor de la Isla is the transformation of a traditional Mallorcan townhouse by Blanca Gardelegui and KOSMOS Architects. Guided by the constraints of its remote location, the renovation embraces an architecture of resourcefulness, where almost every element of the existing house was repaired, adapted, or given a new purpose.
Original floor tiles were recomposed into a large terrazzo surface, an old door was cut in half to become a folding one, and windows and façades were carefully restored rather than replaced. Throughout the house, overlooked objects were transformed into everyday features: ceramic roof tiles and oil funnels became lamps, a discarded cast-iron manhole cover became the base of the stove, and rebar caps were reimagined as door handles. Paint became the project's primary new material, radically transforming the interiors with minimal resource, while traditional Mediterranean chain curtains conceal the kitchen with understated elegance. The only significant addition is a simple pulley, installed to bring materials and supplies up through the narrow vertical house. Topped with a spherical light, it also becomes a small domestic lighthouse overlooking the sea.
The result is a warm and deeply local home that demonstrates how careful repair, craftsmanship, and imagination can create a contemporary interior with remarkably few new resources.

YAP
@bggardelegui
@kosmos_architects

1k

4

✖️Centro Cultural Villas de San Pablo/Barranquilla
Our new built project for CULTURE AND EDUCATION!!/ “La Calle cubierta” / typology: covered public space+green corridor from the markets to the traditional maloka / co-created with and for the inhabitants of the megabarrio / 100m cross-laminated timber structure (70t of CO2 capture) / Satellite of “Fábrica de Cultura” / Prototype CCVSP: Open-architecture under Creative Commons license
Recognitions: Platinum Award Architecture&Design Community/Finalist Lápiz de Acero/Selected Bienal Colombiana de Arquitectura

ARCHITECTS:
Hubert Klumpner & Diego Ceresuela-Wiesmann (ETH Zurich/Urban-Think Tank_next) + Alejandro Restrepo Montoya (UPB Medellín)

TEAM ETH Zurich / Chair of Architecture & Urban Design
Pablo Levine (Project coordinator ETH), Alejandro Jaramillo, Blanca García-Gardelegui, Diogo Figueiredo, Michael Walczak, Clearhos Papanicolaou
TEAM UPB Medellín:
Sebastián Ramírez (Project coordinator UPB), Diana Valencia, Daniel Molina, Daniel Zuluaga, José Fernando Arango, Julián Zapata

ENGINEERING:
Structural Engineers: Andrés Steiner / Andy Steiner, Jorge Eduardo Arbeláez (revision)
Mechanical Engineer: Iván Darío Solano / Alejandro Jailler
Electrical / Lighting: Juan Camilo Mejía / Jaime Aguirre
Landscape: Nicolás Hermelín
Sustainability Consultant: Elizabeth Parra
Fire Protection: Camilo López / Juan Esteban García
Cost Consultant: Alfredo Madrigal
IMPLEMENTATION / PROMOTERS: Juan Diego Céspedes / David Rojas (FSD)
IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS:
Municipality of Barranquilla / Secretary of Culture and Heritage
Santo Domingo Foundation
Ministry of Housing, City and Territory of Colombia
Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (design project sponsor)
Serrano Gómez (timber structure)pics:Alejandro Arango axo:with Santiago Beamué/Paola Pabón #culture #education #post-conflict #architecture

3

12

Transformation of an old Mallorcan townhouse in a village by the sea.

Due to its isolated location, the project relied on reusing as much as possible from the existing house, as well as from the local storage of leftovers of construction material. The existing tiles were recomposed as a large-scale terrazzo; existing door cut in half and reused as a folding one; windows and facades repaired. Oil funnels and ceramic rooftiles became lampshades; a discarded cast iron manhole cover became the base of the existing stove; and rebar caps were used as doorknobs. In the kitchen, traditional mediterranean chain curtains screen the otherwise exposed products and appliances. Paint was used as a minimum resource to recompose the space.
.
At the end the only addition really needed was a pulley to bring materials and supplies up the house.
.
Project is a collaboration of KOSMOS Architects and Blanca Gardelegui @bggardelegui
Photos by @luisdiazdiaz

2k

50

9 Years today since Nomadic Wedding Party @bggardelegui

492

17

𝗕𝗔𝗨𝗞𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 : « 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲 »
Du 12/11/2025 au 16/11/2025

EXPOSITIONS
📍Signal L, le 12/11 dès 14:00

Compose, RecomposeContre-projets à Genève

En 2024, le studio «Compose, Recompose», dirigé par Ariane Widmer et Blanca Gardeleguise penche surGenève. Dans un contexte de crise du logement et de crise environnementale, l’existant devient la ressource principale du projet. Après une analyse des démolitions planifiées, les étudiant·es développent des contre-projets qui composent avec le déjà-làetle réemploi, introduisant des formes urbaines et architecturales inédites. Les interventions illustrent la possibilité́d’allier densification et durabilité́, en permettant une réduction substantielle des émissions de gaz àeffet de serre. @epflenac

Remerciements : Lise Courtin (coordination de l’exposition), @pablobrenas (assistant du studio), @ariane_widmer et @bggardelegui , codirectrices du studio

#espazium #BaukulturFestival #baukulturfestival2025 #culturedubati

19

0

Europan Suisse – Next Generation Workshop
On June 25th, Europan Suisse invited guests from across Swiss architecture, academia, public administration, and the media to the DISPO in Nidau. Together, we asked: How can Europan be anchored more sustainably in Switzerland? The day opened with a keynote by Frédéric Bonnet on urban development challenges across Europe, followed by a workshop moderated by Caspar Schärer, who set the stage for a rich and critical exchange. #europansuisse #nextgeneration #urbanfutures #architectureworkshop

14

1

Sortie simultanée du dernier « Interface » et de l’Ensemble d’écrits n°03.

Interface 41
Directeur de publication: Philippe Meier
Coordination éditoriale: Eveline Notter
Design: sblvdr
Photo couverture: Daniel Kunzi

Ensemble d’écrits « Sous pression »
Direction d’ouvrage:
Adrien Meuwly @comte_meuwly
et Dafni Retzepi @sujets.objets
Auteurs : Bessire Winter, @bessirewinter
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, @charlottemalterrebarthes
Muck Petzet @muck.petzet
Ariane Widmer-Pham
Blanca Gardelegui @bggardelegui
ZAS*
@bsa_fas
@faigeneve

3

0

Off-season pavilion in Logroño, an ephemeral “chapel” made of temporary borrowed wine storage boxes, is nominated to @archdaily building of the year 2025 award.

We would be grateful if you vote for it (link in bio), otherwise just happy to have an opportunity to share a nice photo of it by @laurianghinitoiu again

472

10

Together with friends we organized an AA Visting School in Mallorca dedicated to the local sandstone, called « el marés », construction from it and post-extractivism landscapes.

During this week together with students we followed all the extraction sequence of this unique natural material. We visited an old manually carved-out quarry, that reminded of a sunken Eden garden; a machine-cut quarry of a perfect square shape that could be a great underground football field. We looked at ancient 800-year old examples — such as the massive Palma Cathedral and at the recent ones that they are just finished — such as the social IBAVI housing by Estruch Martorell architects or a neovernacular villa by @munarq.es. We observed amazing details such as « cutout » stone corners in the city that allowed the carriages to pass, and 3 million year-old petrified corals inside the rock.

It is already the second @aavisiting_school workshop on the island dedicated to its most important resources we organized as @kosmos_architects together with @bggardelegui, @chch_live, @guillemaloy, @iiiiiiiiiisla and we are looking to make the next one soon.

391

6

Interim Review I
HS24 Diploma in collaboration with BUK, Yufei He
25/09/24, 14:00-17:00
HIL E 70.5

Invited guest:
Blanca Garcia Gardelegui
Claire Logoz

Blanca Gardelegui (she/her) is an architect and researcher, specializing in sustainable design and the circular use of resources. Blanca is a ReUse expert at Zirkular and currently holds a guest professorship with Ariane Widmer at EPFL Lausanne.

Claire Logoz (she/her) is an architect and educator who researches how architecture materializes social constructs. She co-created in 2021 the multiple practice detritus., which, through texts, drawings, installations, performances, competitions, and objects, playfully navigates the complexity of contemporary architecture.

Join us!

3

0

Interim Review I
HS24 Diploma in collaboration with BUK, Yufei He
25/09/24, 14:00-17:00
HIL E 70.5

Invited guest:
Blanca Garcia Gardelegui
Claire Logoz

Blanca Gardelegui (she/her) is an architect and researcher, specializing in sustainable design and the circular use of resources. Blanca is a ReUse expert at Zirkular and currently holds a guest professorship with Ariane Widmer at EPFL Lausanne.

Claire Logoz (she/her) is an architect and educator who researches how architecture materializes social constructs. She co-created in 2021 the multiple practice detritus., which, through texts, drawings, installations, performances, competitions, and objects, playfully navigates the complexity of contemporary architecture.

Join us!

3

0

Recycling Center, Uster. Shortlisted, 3rd Prize

Structural engineer: @mariomonotti
Landscape: ORT AG
Verkehrsplanung: Schneiter
Reuse: @zirkular.reuse

#parabase #architecture #architekturwettbewerb #archviz #archlovers #kntxtr #afasiaarchzine #architizer #dezeen #designboom #archdaily #architecturedesign #architecture_hunter #architecturevisualization #archdigest #arch #creative_architecture #design #designlovers #circulararchitecture #housingarchitecture #modernarchitect #next_top_architects #reusearchitecture #alpinearchitecture #swissarchitecture #cabin #prefabricatedhouse #solarenergy #nextarch

5k

27