The humble housing of the horticulturists of “El Pilar”, of the XIXth century, consists in two diaphanous plants and a sloping cover, with walls of stone and wooden floors. The intervention goes to consolidate structurally the existing building, to support the spatial clarity of his interesting diaphanous spaces and to recover the original levels of the building and his relation exterior - interior.
Carlos Quevedo Rojas (Cádiz, 1980) graduated from the E.T.S. Arquitectura of Seville, Master´s Degree in Architecture and Historical Heritage (Seville), Specialization in Monuments Restoration from University "La Sapienza" Rome, Master´s Degree "Art History: Investigation and Guardianship of the Heritage" from University of Granada and, currently, International PhD Candidate in Architecture (Universities of Seville and IUAV of Venice). He is professor at the School of Art and Design of Cádiz, has spoken at international conferences and seminars and published in indexed specialized journals. His research works has been awarded like the Urban Planing National Prize “Ricardo Santos Díez”. He has realized several doctoral stays and has won some fellowships. His works and projects try to delve the conceptual principles of the architecture and the intervention in the heritage and they have been published in international magazines and received several awards and distinctions: International Award Architizer A+ (USA, winner), International American Architecture Prize (USA, golden medal), Architecture Award “Torres Clavé” (Spain, winner), European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award (EU, nominee), International Landscape Award “Rosa Barba” and Bienal (Spain, selected), International Prize of Architecture and Nature “Simonetta Bastelli” (Italy, selected), Prize Arquia/Próxima of Young Architects (Spain, catalogued) , and chosen for the young architects program FACtual of the Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea (Spain).
Carlos Quevedo Rojas (Cádiz, 1980) graduated from the E.T.S. Arquitectura of Seville, Master´s Degree in Architecture and Historical Heritage (Seville), Specialization in Monuments Restoration from University "La Sapienza" Rome, Master´s Degree "Art History: Investigation and Guardianship of the Heritage" from University of Granada and International Doctor PhD in Architecture (Universities of Seville and IUAV of Venice). He is professor and head teacher at the School of Art and Design of Cádiz, has spoken at international conferences and seminars and published in indexed specialized journals. His research works has been awarded like the Urban Planing National Prize “Ricardo Santos Díez”. He has realized several doctoral stays and has won some fellowships. He collaborates with investigation projects with the Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería de Perú. He has been professor invitor at Universidad de Sevilla, Universitá IUAV di Venezia and Oxford Brookes School of Architecture. His works and projects try to delve the conceptual principles of the architecture and the intervention in the heritage and they have been published in international magazines, exposed in several international exhibitions and received several awards and distinctions: International Award Architizer A+ (USA, winner), International American Architecture Prize (USA, golden medal), Architecture Award “Torres Clavé” (Spain, winner), European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award (EU, nominee), A´Design Award (International, golden winner), International Landscape Award “Rosa Barba” and Bienal (Spain, selected), International Prize of Architecture and Nature “Simonetta Bastelli” (Italy, selected), Leonardo Minsk Awards for young architects (Belarus, 2nd prize), Prize Arquia/Próxima of Young Architects (Spain, catalogued) , and chosen for the young architects program FACtual of the Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea (Spain). His works has been exposed in several international exhibitions.