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Rafael Gómez-Moriana

Architect, educator and critic.

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Ideal Double Standard Project

‘Ideal Double Standard’ is a project for a transformable dwelling in a context of row- or terrace- houses. A folding…

furniture design, housing system, transformable dwelling, urban prototype

Co-Editor of Berlage Institute Yearbook

As manuscript editor of The Berlage Cahiers #3: The new private realm, I wrote an introductory essay to this yearbook…

Berlage Cahiers, yearbook essay

Social Housing at Halbinsel Stralau, Berlin

In 1994, I worked at Architectuurstudio Herman Hertzberger (AHH), Amsterdam, Netherlands, on this social housing project for Berlin, Germany. Sited on…

Berlin, Herman Hertzberger, housing system, social housing

Generic Box Prototype Project

Generic Box Prototype is a project for a mixed-use housing, office, and retail complex in Rotterdam. It was designed as part…

architecture, housing system, mixed-use, patio housing, urban prototype

Suburban Speculation Project

This masterplan for a suburban settlement outside of Amsterdam was designed as part of a Berlage Institute studio (instructor: Rudy Uytenhaak; project collaborator: Esten…

Netherlands, polder landscape, suburbia, urban design

Roof Garden

I designed this Edmonton roof garden while employed in the office of Carlyle and Associates Landscape Architecture and Urban Design…

garden, green roof, grid, high rise, landscape architecture, roof terrace

Seamless Loft

I designed and built the Seamless Loft in 1992, when I lived in Edmonton (Canada) in a schoolhouse that had…

balloon frame, closet, guest bed, ladder, loft, storage

Sacred-Profane Mixed-Use Thesis Project

My thesis project at the University of Waterloo, ‘Sacred-Profane Mixed-Use Building’ (advisor: Ryszard Sliwka, 1989), addresses the reconstruction of Montreal’s Unitarian church on…

Dirty realism, mixed use building, Montreal, sacred-profane, thesis project

Ready-Made Puppet Theater

In 1989, the Ontario Association of Architects invited each architecture school in Ontario to contribute a puppet theater to its 100th…

adhocism, lightweight, plastic, portable, puppet theater, ready-made

YMCA Urban Infill Project

This is a studio project I completed in 1986 in my third year of architecture school at the University of…

architecture, school project, sport facility, University of Waterloo, urban design, YMCA

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