Valencia

Light, nature and calm. The house possesses the most difficult qualities to achieve in a renovation project. It is a good starting point for our work: we only have to enhance them, make them the absolute protagonists of our intervention. Fran Álvarez To do this, we tidy up the space, eliminate visual noise, replace strident elements with others that are more sober, enhance the connection with the garden. We worked with a reduced palette of warm and muted colours, with natural materials, with dim lighting. We design hand by hand with the client, with their ideas, through constant dialogue, in conversations in our office, in visits to their home. We involve them in the process, thus guaranteeing their emotional connection. Fr... More

It all starts with a conversation in the studio. The clients want to renovate their home to suit their current way of living. Without so many partitions, without so many rooms, without conventional doors or endless corridors. They want a house where light floods everything, a warm house without compartmentalisation. Fran Álvarez A simple complicity arises, we speak the same language. They trust us and let us know it. This trust allows us to project freely, to reflect on the different ways of living. Fran Álvarez Fran Álvarez Fran Álvarez Our action proposes the construction of a storage band, like a backbone, which runs longitudinally through the floor. This backbone element acts as a filter... More

This time, we sneak in a home in El Cabañal, on the top floor of a building from the late seventies which is surrounded by pitched roofs and courtyards. Almost like an intruder, it is erected oblivious to the traditional construction methods of the district. There we find metal beams and pillars supporting slabs made of concrete joists and ceramic vaults. A classic from that era. Germán Cabo Germán Cabo In this little corner of the city, a young couple wish to bring light and joy into this changing space. With this purpose in mind, we embark on a project with an almost square layout. The windows are mainly oriented towards the south and the west, but also facing east and the sea. This will allow us to enjoy a... More

We’re in the Pla del Real district of Valencia, a privileged setting surrounded to the south by the former river bed —today the Turia Gardens— and to the west by the Monforte gardens and the Jardines del Real or Viveros park.  Germán Cabo The home is in La Pagoda no less, a building famous in the city for its history and architecture. Inspired by traditional Japanese architecture, it was built by architects Antonio Escario, José Vives and José Antonio Vidala in the early 1960s over the ruins of the former Ripalda Palace and soon became an icon of the city of Valencia. Germán Cabo Germán Cabo In its original state, it was a large home measuring approximately 270 m2, b... More

Bombas Gens is an old industrial building with an unquestionable social-historical value and one of the rare remaining examples of the industrial architecture of the thirties. Its Art Deco façades and architecture make it a special, unique location for some new uses according to today needs. The new facilities have been created as an internationally renowned multi-use space where Fundació Per Amor a L’Art will carry out its three-branch activity (arts, society and research). "Our aim has always been to apply a homogeneous intervention criterion to the whole complex, and, at the same time, give each building, be it original or recently built, the characteristic features that it needs for its specific use." - Ramó... More

The Project aims to transform an old railway warehouse into a cultural facility within the new Valencia’s Central Park which nowadays covers the old railway tracks of the main city station. The shed was built in 1917 by Demetrio Ribes and it is a valuable example within the railway architecture of Valencia.    The design allows maximum flexibility of use so different activities can happen simultaneously while respecting the industrial character of the building.   The shed is divided into five bays, which will geometrically guide the project. This structural rhythm, as well as the possibility of developing two levels in height, are fundamental for the proposal.   The building has two entries. The front one, fo... More

Stone Box was designed to resolve the issues of an exterior space in a large house that had fallen in disuse. As always occurs in large gardens, they are not useful if they cannot be fully enjoyed day to day. For this reason within the first visit the client confided in us to create a connection space that organizes the garden giving it vitality and functionality that up to the moment it didn’t possess. Caption To achieve this, it’s thought in an opened-closed object, without renouncing the warmth and functionality of the interior spaces, even though being on the exterior. The idea that the object can be closed or opened depending on the moment seemed like an interesting idea and a very ideal given the position it has.... More

Rehabilitation as a single-family dwelling of a fragment of the "Casa del Batlle", building founded on Islamic remains by the Order of the Templars after the Reconquest of Moncada (second half of the thirteenth century). The fragment consists of a strip of 10 meters wide, two bays deep and a courtyard inside, with overlapping of different properties between ground floor and first floor. The structure is of walls of load of tapial of 85 cm. thick, parallel to the facade, belonging to the foundational era of the building, among which we must highlight the wall behind the courtyard with remains of arches of masonry. The slab of the first wooden beams creak of large section and brick scramble belongs to an intervention of the eighteenth centur... More

Benimaclet was an orchard village that was absorbed by the city of Valencia in the second half of the last century. In this village houses coexist with small-scale multi-family buildings, as is the case here: a three-storey building, made up of 6 dwellings, which, on the ground floor and through a central access, gives access in the block courtyard to two-storey constructions belonging to each of the dwellings in the building. The intervention that we present consists of the reconstruction of one of these buildings, belonging to one of the dwellings on the ground floor, and its connection with it. The low construction quality and the habitability problems of this building advised its demolition and volumetric reconstruction.   O... More

Located in one of the most exclusive areas of Moraira (Costa Blanca), a few meters away from the water of the Mediterranean Sea, a large prismatic concrete volume emerges behind sandy Portet Beach. The contrast of the brutal concrete giant on the thin and fragile glass, play opposites to surprise the observer. The body that emerges seeks to camouflage itself with the texture of the landscape and its surroundings.   The house is organized by three clearly differentiated heights. Where the stairs, the vertical garden and the courtyard are the common link between all levels and articulate the spaces according to their need of privacy.   The ground floor is the most open space of the house with large glass surfaces that allow the... More

Banc Sabadell Company HUB is an experimental space designed as a meeting point and nexus of communication in the business world.   In its different areas, with all the latest technological advances, companies are accompanied through all the stages of consultancy, training and inspiration based on success stories to meet their future challenges.   A flexible space where companies, irrespective of size or sector, find resources for development and where networking is organically promoted.   “A space for meeting and communication. Light, transparency, indoor nature, with the city outside. Light control, sound control. Acoustics in the common base of the cladding and its formal expression. Returning once again to t... More