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

Laura Moreno Albuixech

Laura Moreno Albuixech

FOUNDER, CEO

José María García Zarco

José María García Zarco

FOUNDER, CONSULTING DIRECTOR

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