Un senzill esquema de tres barres amb les oficines judicials separades per patis queda desdibuixat per una pell uniforme de lamel·les verticals de formigó blanc que abraça l'edifici com un llençol. Les lamel·les, amb diferents inclinacions i distàncies, generen una imatge que permet presidir la nova plaça amb un edifici pesat, sobri i opac a la distància, i transparent des de l'interior. La disposició de les lamel·les suggereix la dels llibres en una biblioteca.

L’escola es divideix en dues parts: l’aulari i un cos més baix destinat a menjador i gimnàs. L’aulari és format per una barra situada entre mitgeres i alineada amb el carrer Roger de Flor. Aquest cos es tanca al carrer i s’obre a l’interior a través d’uns patis que permeten controlar la llum natural i construeixen una sèrie de volums buits de tres plantes d’alçària, d’ús per al lleure dels nens. Una escala lineal comunica aquestes tres plantes i construeix l’espai interior, unint les tres plantes en un únic volum que rep la llum filtrada a través d’unes obertures ritmades verticals. La façana emfasitza així l’opacitat d’aquest cos, mentre que a la planta baixa es produeix un desplaçament que dilata la vorera i dóna lloc a un accés independent a l’escola infantil. L’accés principal té lloc des del pati principal, a través d’un porxo que uneix l’aulari amb el cos de serveis i que, al mateix temps, compartimenta el pati de manera natural entre l’àrea destinada a l’escola infantil i l’àrea destinada a l’escola primària.

El programa es desenvolupa en planta baixa, excepte algunes peces privades que es col·loquen en planta primera. Una sèrie de patis organitzen els paquets de consultes i garanteixen la llum natural. La proposta pretén dur al límit l'arquitectura prefabricada i industrialitzada i es planteja com un exercici d'estil sobre aquest tema. Tota l'estructura, tancaments de façana, tancaments interiors, fals sostre, etc. s'entén com un acoblament de productes de catàleg que es basen en una modulació estricta. Això podria permetre en un futur una sistematització en la construcció d'altres equipaments de la mateixa tipologia amb retallades en temps d'execució i en costos. La imatge, rotunda, és la d'un prisma brillant molt opac a l'exterior per garantir la màxima privacitat, en contrast amb un interior inundat de llum natural provinent dels patis . La col·locació de les finestres a la part més alta per a les consultes i en la part més baixa per a les sales d'espera permet evitar vistes creuades.

The old Poble Nou district, the productive engine of the city of Barcelona, was mostly built for industrial sites without any architectural interest. The few exceptions that the heritage catalog decided to keep may create the wrong picture of what this place was like. The fact is that most of the constructions were very precarious, with no other interest than the merely productive ones and constructed through a continuous process of addition of bodies with very heterogeneous construction techniques. Can Framis can be a sample of this type of construction and does not want to make up the texture of its old and damaged skin which acts in contrast to the high technology displayed around it. The contemporary intervention consists of cauterising the wound by consolidating the testers and constructing a new building that connects the two existing naves and that had to coincide itself with the layout of another old nave. In this way, the three buildings form a courtyard that becomes the lobby of the future museum and space for multipurpose activities. All these interventions are materialised in a coarse concrete that melts with the pavements. A layer of gray paint protects the existing walls and makes their details transparent (brick, stone, arches, scars from old windows, etc.), forming a contemporary collage of textures, holes and walls that reflects the different strata and interventions that the building has undergone over time. Inside, you take the elevator from the entrance and the visit begins at the highest level, to get a continuous walk, downhill and without interruptions of the exhibition route. The required high exposure density leaves the only formal scores for this route for the stairs. The garden highlights the unusual level where the museum is located, a metre and a half below the level of the Cerdà plot, the product of its previous location and rises within its limits to hide wheeled traffic. The ivy that will cover the entire pavement and the poplars will offer a melancholy and decadent image that will enhance the contrast with the smell of new surroundings.

Renovation of a mezzanine in Barcelona. The height of the buildings and the leaves of the trees let through a light that is too pale and cold, very similar to that of the Nordic countries. In these countries, the use of wood and candles seek to build a warmer domestic space. Wood on the floor and ceiling. Like a slice of ice cream. We use the natural warmth of light wood to modify the perception of light by bouncing, in the same way that lamp shades make the light of a light bulb much warmer and more pleasant. Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto showed us the way. We stay a step behind. The conviction that this type of intervention must give prominence to its inhabitants, the furniture and their possessions, which will grow over time, advises us to work with the minimum possible resources. That is why the project is built with only two materials: maple wood and the colour white. In some places, the doors or the wooden paneling of the walls connect with the flooring and the wooden covering of the ceiling, thus enveloping the interior with a gesture that aims to be an affectionate and protective embrace.

L'enderroc d'una antiga fàbrica entre dos carrers dóna lloc a un nou espai urbà prop del mar: la plaça Ovidi Montllor. El nou equipament conformarà la plaça juntament amb un nou edifici municipal enfrontat. La façana de l'edifici dóna a la nova plaça i, en separar-se de les construccions confrontants, genera un pati que serveix d'accés a l'edifici, separat de la plaça per un porxo caracteritzat pel pilar escultòric que suporta el volum. La peça, construïda amb gelosia ceràmica (que fa referència a l'antiga fàbrica) per materialitzar l'impacte del sol, dóna privacitat a l'ús i construeix un volum abstracte que es recolza en un sòcol de terratzo negre i en el pilar singular.

The building explores the limits of industrialization in order to fulfill economy and simplicity requirements. Using a precast concrete structure and an industrialized modular system for the envelope the works costs result cut down. In addition, integrating the sports hall to the building´s first floor, though retaining a direct access to the schoolyard, contributes to achieve a compact layout. This decision allowed to minimize the building footprint hence, reducing costs on foundations and envelope. Other construction details aiming for simplicity include an external envelope made of light weight modular panels lined with insulating material and plastered, zinc composite panel roofing and a window solution based on repetition and dimensioned according to the minimum requirements. Regarding the brief, the core space to the project is the central hall, an indoors multi-level space with interchangeable uses. Heart and soul of the school, this is a working area, an exhibition space, a social zone and the connection point to all the classrooms. Finally, the school unifies and dignifies the simplicity and diversity of the construction details and materials chosen extensively using one paint colour. This chromatic uniformity confers character and personality to the building.

Alta Diagonal is one of the most important business centres in Barcelona. With eight office floors, 22,000 m2 and a community of users of almost 200 people, this building stands in the heart of business to accommodate the most influential companies on the national and international scene, and places Barcelona among the best cities in the world. Alta Diagonal is the benchmark of the most prestigious companies in the city. The refurbishment of the building demonstrates its commitment to architecture and design, sustainability, and innovation and technology. Alta Diagonal proposes a new concept of workspace in which the outdoor spaces play a decisive role and allow the building to have a dialogue with the city. The architects designed the lobby as an outdoor space, so that Diagonal Avenue entered and crossed the building to the back garden. These two spaces, which invite you to enjoy the building, are one of the main contributions to the city of Barcelona and build an environment of peace and silence amidst the hustle of the city. The rehabilitation carried out by BAAS arquitectura aims to connect the building with the city, provide it with greater light and improve its energy performance. Some of the interventions have consisted of the construction of a large entrance pole in front of the building to give it more visibility and a new personality, in the arrangement of the rear garden expanding it with the incorporation of the old parking area and in the empowerment of the accesses with the creation of two cantilever canopies that identify the entrances in an easier way.

Transformar unes antigues cavallerisses de l'exèrcit en una escola bressol. L'element més insòlit i característic de l'edifici existent són uns murs paral.lels transversals cada dos metres que funcionen com a diafragmes. El projecte proposa tallar els murs a 2.20m i mantenir-los com una successió de pantalles blanques que difuminen la llum natural dels lluernaris. Sota aquesta estructura repetitiva i ordenada es situen les aules, mentre que l'espai col.lectiu es concentra en un espai de gran potència formal que construeix una creu que es completa amb un nou cos d'accés que sobresurt del perímetre edificat de l'edifici i organitza el pati. El nou es barrejarà amb el vell, deixant que el mateix edifici expliqui la seva vida anterior mostrant les marques del temps, sobreposant les noves actuacions com una capa més que es fusionarà amb les anteriors.

The journey of this project has been complex and strange, a true reflection of the convulsive times in which it has been developed. The original project, the result of a competition called by the Barcelona City Council, was drafted in 2019 but the economic crisis forced its pause. While it was not possible to undertake the rehabilitation, it was decided to make small occasional investments to repair the roof and close the windows with provisional plastic to stop the deterioration of a factory that, due to its curious morphology of a central nave and two lateral naves and due to its strategic position on the so-called Pere IV axis, it deserved to be preserved. The project has been adapting with a realistic and positive attitude to the economic reality in which it has had to live, and to chain those small provisional interventions that gradually build the final project. A project that is no longer the original, thought of in one go, but that in its own precariousness and disorder builds a certain way of rethinking this type of action, very contemporary. Halfway through, once the original architecture has been consolidated and suitably protected, it is decided to open it to the public with a temporary exhibition, which far from being ephemeral, strives to gradually build the facility. Some fundamental ideas are still preserved from the original project. The nave, which was part of an old factory built in 1920, contained some fascinating interior brick textures, probably more interesting than some of its exterior façades, which, having historically had other volumes attached to them, lacked interest. From the beginning, the project proposed not only to recover, but also to highlight those textures of the past, and to do so, it tried to centrifuge everything that could damage them. A ring-shaped, searchable underground gallery allows for all the installations that are necessary both now and in the future, and any element that is necessary for the proper functioning of the museum is attached to the outside of the nave: the elevator, which in its verticality reminisces the chimney that the factory never had, linear evacuation stairs, temporary bathrooms and even a large porch that opens to the park without modifying the original architecture. There is also a certain idea of materiality already raised in the competition phase which tries to solve all the pieces with a single material: the galvanized iron sheet. In an effort to relate the iron -the protagonist of the time in which it was built the building- with today, giving the material a new, somewhat surprising appearance. One more phase is currently being worked on, which will not be the last, and which builds a staircase to access the loft, an elevator and the porch. Each of these pieces is resolved from belonging to a set but attending to a certain design independence that accumulates objects in the intervention. Once the old warehouse had been properly consolidated and protected, while the works to build the new MUHBA headquarters were not resumed, it was decided to open the site to show it to the public. To do so, temporary bathrooms were built and an exhibition was prepared that should be a sample of what will be seen in the future. The project solves the intervention with a single gesture and proposes a large hanging lamp in the middle of the space, drawing a ring of light that separates the outer perimeter, dedicated to housing an exhibition on the city of Barcelona, from the interior space intended to host events and presentations. The large lamp is a large element on the scale of the building that enhances the richness of the interior textures and the basilica section of the enclosure.

En un emplaçament al límit de la ciutat en un entorn encara poc definit, es proposa un únic volum clar i pur, amb un pati interior protegit del vent com a protagonista de l'intercanvi cultural i de relacions entre els alumnes. El projecte aprofita el salt topogràfic existent en el solar minimitzant el moviment de terres i repenja el volum a la plataforma superior volant respecte la pista esportiva per crear un porxo i unes grades. Tot el programa docent es resol en una sola planta amb accés directe des del carrer principal i les aules de Primària i Infantil ocupen els costats nord i sud del pati. En la planta inferior, en contacte directe amb les pistes, es disposa el gimnàs i els vestidors. L'edifici es construeix a partir d'una estructura regular i un mòdul constant que organitza tota l'escola. Els materials escollits i els colors volen connectar amb la manera tradicional amb la que sempre s'ha construït al lloc.

The intervention aims to improve not only the market itself but also its setting through different transformations. First, the creation of new vehicle accesses independent from the pedestrians’, second, a new lift to connect the market with the Carmel neighborhood, and finally, the transformation of Trueba St into slow-traffic pedestrian-friendly street. On the other hand, the loading/unloading area moves to a lower level and the space occupied by it on the street level is used to extend the market surface. The project includes a large vegetable garden on the roof connected to a small restaurant. A new envelope will wrap the market volume providing it with an updated image.