City
Buildings, as much as space between them, but also people and their relationships, create a complex reality to which a project must contribute.
There are no aesthetics without ethics. As useful art, architecture holds unavoidable civic responsibility and plays a leading role in the public realm, urging architects to grasp the dense network of interests and needs that collective decision-making entails. Moreover, in a context of climate emergency, a special effort is needed to make proper use of increasingly scarce resources with maximum efficiency. We believe that architecture should not merely reflect its own time but also become a reference by embracing transformations demanded by society.
Buildings, as much as space between them, but also people and their relationships, create a complex reality to which a project must contribute.
With an eye on social utility, architecture must make the most of available means and achieve more with less.
While aware of its artificial condition, a built work must assimilate the intrinsic values of its location to position itself sensitively and enhance the qualities of its surroundings.
A project is a prediction of sorts. Offering a solution to a problem always consists in imagining an alternative reality better than ours. However, this is not a matter of fortune-telling: project predictions are based on scientific research, cultural expressions, and civic aspirations – a conceptual framework that allows us to glimpse distant scenarios, but also to respond to them with present actions. This is our interpretation to raise awareness on how our activity faces what is to come. A project builds the future with current tools.
Implementation of technological advances turns a project into a driver of innovation and entrepreneurship, able to confront the tedious scene of the building sector.
Skills inherited from artisan tradition as well as knowledge derived from cross-disciplinary interactions are combined in an open, horizontal process.
Each step in the design and construction phases aims at answering as efficiently and responsibly to the troublesome economic and environmental situation.
A project is a prediction of sorts. Offering a solution to a problem always consists in imagining an alternative reality better than ours. However, this is not a matter of fortune-telling: project predictions are based on scientific research, cultural expressions, and civic aspirations – a conceptual framework that allows us to glimpse distant scenarios, but also to respond to them with present actions. This is our interpretation to raise awareness on how our activity faces what is to come. A project builds the future with current tools.
Implementation of technological advances turns a project into a driver of innovation and entrepreneurship, able to confront the tedious scene of the building sector.
Skills inherited from artisan tradition as well as knowledge derived from cross-disciplinary interactions are combined in an open, horizontal process.
Each step in the design and construction phases aims at answering as efficiently and responsibly to the troublesome economic and environmental situation.
Besides anticipating everything, design implies doing all at once. Architects must handle every situation – they must consider them all so that their proposals encompass all possible ways of life. Programs are not immutable assumptions but a fertile ground for innovation. They are design elements per se, and they can make architecture a far more complex and interesting discipline, rethinking the city or the house from new points of view that are more connected to user needs. Programmatic exploration has redefined our role in the process of making buildings and makes us more aware of the responsibilities that society demands from us.
In the definition of both large-scale plans and small commissions, it is necessary to include strategies that facilitate more sustainable movements and ensure accessibility for all.
For a building to be a collective celebration that welcomes everybody, its design must be an inclusive process, attentive to the concerns of the different stakeholders involved.
Any project ranging from the public to the private sphere can be regarded as both an experimental laboratory and the materialization of user aspirations.
Buildings are the result of multiple variables. But among them, the technical dimension is the one that articulates ideas, sensibilities and materials in an achievable endeavor. It requires the architect’s knowledge and capacity to act, but far from being a mere tool, it provides a foundation for design, a field of practice where to experiment and pursue more ambitious solutions, more efficient processes and better-quality outcomes. Our practice seeks to benefit from this learning to make the most of systems and technologies at our disposal.
With a circular economy in mind, we pursue a kind of construction that incorporates recycling and transforms elements after their use to reduce waste production.
Material is an essential choice that adds value and eloquence to design, enriching its initial formal concepts.
Commitment to sustainable architecture entails adopting active and passive strategies to reduce energy demand without compromising comfort.
Halfway between reality and desire, architectural works are bound to external logics as much as to their creator. Therefore, understanding the physical, socioeconomic, and cultural background is the raison d’être of our practice – a body of knowledge that does not impose paralyzing constraints but allows the project to thrive and adjust naturally to its place and time. Without compromising our expression, we design with the clear intention of searching affinity with people, heritage, and landscape surrounding us, so that our architecture decidedly responds to the changing world of today.
Architects act as mediators between different stakeholders that should be attentively heard to match their needs with one’s principles.
Built works cannot be understood on the fringes of the place they consolidate or alter with their presence, nor devoid of social and cultural links to their time.
Architecture is nothing but an adaptation of already existing spaces, and it calls for a dialogue with the past that could lay the project foundations.