An author
practice.

One architectural intelligence carries each project from the first idea to the last construction detail. Concept and construction are resolved together, never separated and handed on. The studio takes on work where that position can hold.

Balzar Architects

2018

FOUNDED

20

PEOPLE

30+

PROJECTS

3

CONTINENTS

Balzar Architects was founded in Valencia in 2018 by three architects across two generations: Txema García Ballester, Principal Architect; Laura Moreno Albuixech, CEO; and José María García Zarco, Consulting Director, with over thirty years in the profession. The studio numbers around twenty people, working across architecture, interior design and landscape, for private clients and for developers, in Spain, the Gulf, Egypt, China and Southeast Asia. Every project is directed by the founders and carried day to day by a named project leader, with the same consulting engineers for structure and services across the work, and a single photographer documenting what is built.

Form as construction.

Every formal decision is a constructive decision. We do not design forms and then find ways to build them. We design from the logic of materials, structure and craft, so that the way something is made is inseparable from what it is. This is not a methodology. It is an ethics.

Proportion and measure.

The fundamental problems of architecture — space, proportion, light, material — are not solved through novelty. They are solved through precision. A wall at the right thickness, a window at the right height, a floor that meets the ground in the right way. These decisions determine whether a building feels accidental or inevitable.

Light before surface.

Before we specify stone, wood or steel, we design the light. The quality of natural light — its direction, its diffusion, its behaviour across the day — determines the character of a space more than any finish. We design apertures before we design walls.

Timelessness as discipline.

We are not interested in the contemporary as a stylistic category. We are interested in the permanent. The architecture we admire has not dated because it was never of its moment — it was made from a formal logic that transcends it. Restraint is not an aesthetic choice. It is the result of removing everything that does not belong.

Txema García Ballester

Txema García Ballester

FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT

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Txema García Ballester directs the architectural vision of Balzar Architects, from concept to construction detail, and leads the studio's cultural discourse.

An architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia (2010), he trained in Porto with a project manager of Álvaro Siza's office.

In 2012 he co-founded Dot Partners. In 2018, Balzar.

His work has received a special mention at the German Design Award and has been published internationally.

Every project passes through a single design criterion: his.

Laura Moreno Albuixech

Laura Moreno Albuixech

FOUNDER, CEO

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Laura Moreno Albuixech co-directs Balzar Architects.

She leads finance and operations: the structure that allows a twenty-person studio to deliver across Spain, the Gulf and Asia.

She is also the studio's public voice, representing Balzar in lectures and in its relationships with clients and institutions.

An architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia (2011), she holds master's degrees in Product Management (Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU and AITEX) and in Marketing and Sales Management (EAE Business School).

In 2012 she co-founded Dot Partners. In 2018, Balzar.

José María García Zarco

José María García Zarco

FOUNDER, CONSULTING DIRECTOR

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José María García Zarco brings more than forty years of practice to Balzar Architects.

An architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia (1983), specialised in urban planning, he has directed the design and construction of over one thousand homes and the planning of millions of square metres of land.

From 1995 to 2003 he served as Director General of Architecture and Housing of the Valencian Government.

He founded G-Zarco Estudio in 2003 and co-founded Balzar in 2018, where he advises on planning, regulation and delivery.

Team

Anna Rico

PROJECT LEADER

Paula Soler

PROJECT LEADER

Michela Nardoni

INTERNATIONAL PROJECT LEADER

Giorgia Piamontese

ARCHITECT

Irene Martínez

ARCHITECT

Paloma Feng

BUSINESS DEVELOPER

Lucía Rolo

ARCHITECT

Javier Fabado

ARCHITECT

Lluna Cerdà

ARCHITECT

Javier Escribà

ARCHITECT

Kevin Xi

ARCHITECT

Borja Tormo

ARCHITECT

Boro Álvarez

3D ARTIST

Evolutiva

MEP DESIGN

Ingetec

STRUCTURAL DESIGN

David Zarzoso

PHOTOGRAPHY

01 Concept Design
02 Design Development
03 Construction Documents
04 Interior Design
05 Construction Supervision
06 Landscape Design
07 Tender Support
08 Project Management
09 Product Design
10 Brand Environments