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The studio
From the first decision to the site, the same intelligence stays on the work. Concept and construction are resolved together, never separated and handed on. The building arrives as it was conceived because the people who conceived it carry it through, whether it is a house, a residential development or a hotel.
Reference — 2026
Before any conversation about style, there is a more basic question: where does a building’s material come from, and what does it owe to the ground it stands on. Hassan Fathy answered it once at New Gourna, and the answer still holds.
Project Notes — 2026
Work has started at La Moraleja CN6, and it starts with earth. The plot falls seventeen metres from one end to the other, and how a project answers that fall is the first thing it says about the place it occupies. This house answers it in section, by being entered at a half level.
Essay — 2026
The steel frame of the Alfinach development went up in fifteen days. Not because anyone was rushing, but because every decision about it had already been made, drawn, checked and manufactured somewhere else. Industrialisation is not a style. It is a decision about where the work happens, and when it is decided.
Occasional notes on projects in progress, ideas worth sharing, and what the studio is thinking about.
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