Sara De Giles Dubois
- Site : www.moralesdegiles.com
- Adresse : Calle Murillo nº4, 2nd floor 41001 Séville
Sara de Giles Dubois leads since 2004 the architecture firm MGM Morales de Giles Arquitectos, with José Morales.
Sara de Giles, PhD in architecture and recently accredited as university professor, teach at Seville School of Architecture since 1999, and has been guest lecturer at École Supérieure Nationale d'Architecture Paris Val de Seine (France), International University of Catalunya, and ETSAB, both in Barcelona (Spain), School of Applied Sciences Hochschule in Bochum (Germany) and Washington University in Saint Louis (USA).
Sara de Giles is the author of the book published in 2022 by the international editorial DISEÑO, entitled: "ESPACIOS DE RELACION Y SOPORTE EN LA VIVIENDA COLECTIVA MODERNA . Realidades y Utopías" ("SPACES OF RELATIONSHIP AND SUPPORT IN MODERN COLLECTIVE HOUSING. Realities and Utopias")
She is Patron of the Foundation Architecture and Society since 2021, and has been curator of the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2018 and 2019.
In 2014 De Giles has been nominated for the worldwide international awards: Arc Vision Prize ‘Women and Architecture’.
Some of the most important awards for her completed works include: the prestigious Spanish Architecture Award in 2013, the International Spanish Architecture Award in 2017, the Spanish Superior Council of Architects Award in 2016 and 2019. Additionally, she has been finalist for the Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2009. Other recognitions include the First prize from The orden of the Architects of Cadiz in 2008, the NAN Fist prize in 2012 and 2017, the AIT International Awards First prize in the «Health care» category in 2014. She has also be awarded at the Spanish Architecture Biennial in 2016 and 2019, the X Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2006, and the Bigmat International Architecture Award in 2017. Other recognitions include the COAS First prize in 2010 and 2019, as well as the International FAD Award in 2024.
Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006, 2014 and 2016; in the ON-SITE: New Architecture in Spain exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA); and at the Spanish Architecture Biennial in 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2015. Her work has also been exhibited at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris in 2008 and 2009. In 2019, her work has been exhibited at the Plateforme de la Création Architecturale, also in Paris.
Her projects, essays and works have been published in books and international architecture magazines such as AMC, El Croquis, BAU, A+U, ON Diseño, Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, C3, Architecture d’aujourd’hui, Casabella, AV, Lotus international, Detail, Taschen among others.
Among the monographs on her work as a partner of MGM, Morales de Giles arquitectos, we can find:: MGM. EN FAVOR DE UNA ARQUITECTURA INSTALADA published by Rueda Editorial 2004. ARQUITECTURAS DE AUTOR, published by the publish service of the University of Navarra 2004, MGM. CENTRO DE ARTES ESCÉNICAS EN NÍJAR by Editorial Lampreave 2006, la CASA DEL PLATANO by Irreversible editores Editorial 2009, MONOGRAFÍA 2G nº 51, by Gustavo Gili editorial 2009 and Revista MONOGRAFÍA TC Cuadernos nº 104 by TC Cuadernos Editorial 2012.
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BVMI NURSERY SCHOOL
Architects : Sara De Giles, José Morales Client: BVMI School Work finished in January 2019 Photographer : Jesús Granada The project consists of the refurbishment and extension of the nursery education area of the I.B.V.M. Irlandesas school (Seville), which belongs to the Modern Heritage of the 20th century (built in 1964, and reformed in 1975), being the architects Fernando and Joaquín Barquín y Barón. The school is catalogued with protection C grade, whose delimitation does not include the free area where the ampliation of the present project is built in 2019.
The project consists on: 1. Refurbishment of modern protected building, conserving the facades and roof. 2. New extension building.
The purpose of the project is to approach the intervention in the Modern Heritage in an innovative and sustainable way, highlighting the pre-existing building, reinterpreting with contemporary architecture the spatial and programmatic values of the modern architecture on which it is acting, promoting its relationship with the open space and gardens.
The proposal starts from the singularity of the nursery education original building, which consists of a grouping of three low volume classrooms that contrast with the compactness, linearity, and reticle of the primary and secondary education buildings. This original modern building is interpreted as the first cluster, to which the two new intervention clusters will be added, identifiable by their south-facing position. These are unified under a continuous roof, resolving with a single element the roofs of the classrooms, the covered itineraries for teachers and children and the playground covered area.
The currently dispersed common uses will be relocated within the same area which have to be rehabilitated, with the objective of grouping the nursery education's buildings in the same independent enclosure. The new intervention has been developed with the intention of highlighting the positive aspects found in the existing modern architecture, as well as resolving the pathologies and negative aspects identified in it.
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