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Despatx¹; This is how this space is recognized, conceived to take full advantage of life beyond architectural practice, in which architects, their collaborators, clients and friends, find a synthesis of the experience contained in the works that are conceived in this framework and the relationship they establish with their context.

At the first meeting, we were impressed with the client’s extraordinary intelligence. Working in the financial industry, he studied a lot in advance about multi-family housing and architecture. For the client living in a high-rise apartment with a panoramic view overlooking the city, the most important thing was a sense of openness and privacy. He loved music and wanted a small space where he could enjoy it. His wife enjoys little parties with acquaintances, and dreams of a rooftop space with a deluxe kitchen that can support these parties.

HAKUHODO HEAD OFFICE ENTRANCE is an interior design project for the entrance (reception area, lounge area, and meeting area) of the offices of Hakuhodo, a leading advertising agency in Japan. This area, which includes the reception that serves as the face of the company, was planned as a space where events for internal and external use can be held and where not only employees but also business partners and collaborators can work and meet.

Permaculture began in the 70s. It is a system of agricultural design principles based on the patterns and characteristics of the natural ecosystem. The word permaculture comes from the English contraction of the words permanent and culture to refer to agriculture as sustainable permanent processes. We can live without taking photos and uploading them to the network, but we cannot stop eating every day. Agriculture shapes and has shaped our landscapes and societies, and in the case of the Retiro da Costiña project, it shapes how the implementation of the temporary stay modules on the plot has been organized.

In response to a long and ongoing creative collaboration between Swedish design and architecture office Specific Generic and Norwegian jewelry brand Tom Wood, the brand opened its newly refurbished flagship store in Oslo. In this minimalistic space, Tom Wood’s visionary approach to contemporary jewelry finds new expressions, echoing a shared commitment to sustainable solutions and brutal design.

CasaGallareta, Villa la Angostura. Patagonia Argentina. 2023. By OJA (Organic and Joyful Architecture) by the couple of architects María Ayelén Olivieri Martinez and Juan Segundo Diaz Dopazo.

Casa VO / Casa WO is a series of 4 twin houses located on the Mexican Pacific coast in Punta Zicatela – Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. Puerto Escondido is a small tropical city with a warm climate throughout the year. Winter does not exist, so protection against the cold is not necessary. The houses only need to provide shelter from the sun and rain. The concept of the houses integrates this tropical condition as a starting point for the design. 

The project reinterprets the form of the « upland farms in les Vosges » with a massive volume built in the slope, its glazed gable overlooking the landscape.

Gallery in the forest is the reform and small expansion of a pre-existing volume located in the middle of the forest, a kind of annex of a typical centenary farmhouse in Empordà (Girona). The project has consisted of restoring the space to the quality and comfort it deserves, with the aim of being inhabited by elderly people who will spend their retirement in this bucolic natural environment. “The original volume was a construction of little architectural and constructive value,” explains Bernat Llauradó, the architect in charge of Tallerdarquitectura. Thanks to this intervention, the house has become a very comfortable and idyllic refuge to enjoy the Ampurdanese forest every day. 

The intervention consists of the refurbishment of a dwelling in a century-old residential building in the Sants district, in Barcelona. The flat was in a bad condition, after many years of poor maintenance, with outdated facilities and structural pathologies that had worsened over the years, and a very unfortunate distribution, with a long corridor that widened creating a space with no defined use, two interior rooms with no natural lighting or ventilation, and one room accessed through another. The proposal, therefore, aims to improve these conditions, and to highlight the home’s own elements that make it distinctive.