AH Asociados

Profile of AH Asociados, headquartered in Spain. Seventeen projects submitted by AH Asociados have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: [L-R] Miguel A. Alonso del Val and Rufino J. Hernández Minguillón – © AH Asociados

Principals

Miguel A. Alonso del Val
Rufino J. Hernández Minguillón

Brief description

AH is an architectural company established in 1989 with branches in Pamplona, Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid, Quito and Doha. Its main purpose was to provide technical services for Planning, Design, Site Control and Project Management, after years of experience in housing, public facilities and urban design.

The AH group, based upon a standard organizational framework, is focused on inter-disciplinary team work to obtain better results, adapted to the identity of each client, with the quality of a personalized office and the efficiency of a large company. Now AH has specialized teams in the design and execution of Collective housing; industrial facilities; public centres for culture, education and health; architectural renewal; urban design, structural design; technical specifications; site control; quantity surveyors and project management.

Its work has been awarded with prizes in many local and international competitions and has been widely published in architectural exhibitions magazines and lectures including University Forums, Schools of Architecture and Professional Institutes.

Published projects

: Municipal Market in Zarautz by AH Asociados The Town Hall of Zarautz needed to adapt the municipal market to fulfil the hygienic and sanitary conditions required by the Department of Health of the Basque...

: Tierra Estella Secondary School by AH Asociados The Tierra Estella Secondary School is one of the educational centres in Government of Navarra in Spain. This new building has been conceived as an...

: Tracasa Office Building by AH Asociados The building has been planned as a well worked “pile” which rests on the terrain, adapting to its natural contours. It works from the precepts of...

: Etxezabala Office Building by AH Asociados The project comes up from the need of the Town Hall to concentrate the different administrative areas to facilitate working and municipal management. As a...

: Housing in Buztintxuri by AH Asociados The 90 state subsidized apartments in Buztintxuri have been distributed in two similar, parallel and symmetric blocks, with a two floor basement that allocates...

: Service Station in Legarda by AH Asociados Acciona, the renewable energy firm pioneer in biofuel, desired a different image for its activity adopting a critical position around the image of the...

: Tossa de Mar - Living the Landscape by AH Asociados Being built as a coastal refuge, the house of Martossa is located in an exceptional place. From the street, it is only possible to notice its presence by the...

: Renovation of Arantzazu by AH Asociados The renovation of Arantzazu includes interventions that have been developed during the last four years to recover the environment around the Basilica of...

: Architecture Studio in Cizur Menor by AH Asociados It was necessary to eliminate the divisions in order to obtain a free space on both floors: the offices and the architect’s studio. Inside this free space,...

: CS House by AH Asociados This house is located in an area dotted with residential buildings. Building a house that creates an isolated world for its inhabitants requires a simple but...

: The Clearing in the Forest by AH Asociados The coal-fired power station in Alcudia, Mallorca, is one of the most important examples of industrial architecture of the Balearic Islands. It was built in...

: Sports Centre and Covered Swimming Pool by AH Asociados The project is located on a spare plot of regular land, its access point giving onto the main street, and closing off to the north of the Bilbao-San Sebastian...

: Monastery of Fitero Library Refurbishment by AH Asociados The internal space of this monastic creation turns out to be the prime factor in the intervention since this space is recovered as a staged union of three...

: Granatum - Granada Performing Arts Centre by AH Asociados Granatum - A building that evokes the structure of a symbolic fruit for Granada. A geometry inspired on the nature. The honeycomb grid is adopted as the best...

: Ericsson BTC by AH Asociados This project is important from the perspective that in a modern contemporary useful space, requirements are met in terms of flexibility and spatial quality...

: Museum of Vine and Wine by AH Asociados The project recovers the historical building into a constructive and spacious building, carried out via dialogue with a new structural form, articulated...

: Civivox Mendillorri by AH Asociados In the surroundings of the central park in Mendillorri, it has been proposed a building which keeps a relationship with the surrounding area, its views, and...

Key projects

1993-1994 - University of Navarra Sports Centre; Sports Centre, Navarra, Spain
1997-1999 - Wine and Vineyard Museum, Olite, Museum, Navarra, Spain
1997-2000 - Sports Center in Galdakao; Sports Centre, Vizcaya, Spain
1999-2001 - Ericsson BTC; Offices Building, Vizcaya, Spain
1998-2001 - Rehabilitation of the old library in the Monastery of Fitero; Rehabilitation and Restoration, Fitero, Navarra, Spain
1996-2001 - Educational Centre. Hospital “Virgen de la Arrixaca”; Educational building, Murcia, Spain
2001-2002 - CS House; Single family house, Barcelona, Spain
2002-2005 - Renovation of Arantzazu; Sanctuary of Arantzazu, Landscape and urban design, Gipuzkoa, Spain
2002-2005 - Civic centre and library in Pamplona; Cultural Centre, Navarra, Spain
2003-2006 - Architecture Studio in Cizur Menor, Rehabilitation and Restoration Navarra, Spain