The Botanical Institute building – a centre dependent on the Superior Council of Scientific Research – is located at the highest point of the Barcelona Botanical Garden on the side of the Montjuic mountain together with the Olympic Ring. The building faces the north-east wing of the garden, the area dedicated to the phytoepisodes of the Western Mediterranean and North Africa, with views over the city of Barcelona. It is structured as a horizontal line that intersects the natural sloping terrain like a hinge between two topographic elevations. In this way, the section allows the different programs to be organizsd with independent access from the back road and from the network of paths in the garden. The Botanical Institute is divided into three different levels according to its program: – A first underground level located in the large concrete vessel that forms the foundations and that contains, with specific air conditioning, the plant deposits, books, the large herbarium, as well as the installations and the small work area both illuminated and ventilated through patios. This plant acts as a structural counterweight to the constructive mechanism of the upper plants; a set of reinforced concrete screens, walls, girders that organise the program and support the intermediate level at the level of the garden and from which the upper floor is suspended at the level of the access platform and rear parking lot. – The multipurpose room and the Salvador Museum, the exhibition area and the cafeteria-restaurant are on the intermediate level, connected to the Botanic Garden’s path network. All of them have access to the garden. – The restricted area intended for scientists; the library, research areas and laboratories and the administration area are on the upper level. The six-metre corridors adapt to the different structural and lighting requests, making up a continuum in which the gusts become more powerful as the topographic fall of the land becomes more pronounced. The construction uses the same materials already present in the construction of the garden; exposed concrete and Corten steel.

The Biomedical Research Park is located on the seafront of Barcelona, in an environment characterised by the proliferation of unique buildings. The proposal of a large platform that arranges the site, in a very irregular way, and the placement on top of an elevated building in the shape of a diagonally truncated elliptical cone, has allowed us to tidy up the environment and relate us quietly with the nearest volumes. The elliptical shape arises from the need to adapt a large building (about 35,000 m2 above ground level) to a very tight site with a significantly irregular shape and very different volumes around it. The building is staggered towards the sea, smooths the seafront and adapts to the buildings of the promenade, which in this area have reduced heights and rises at the back, towards the city, because it has enough space. This stepped-to-sea shape makes it easier to locate on the roof of solar panels for the production of hot water and electricity. The interior of the building is emptied to create a new reality, independent from the environment, which will frame and control the sea views and allow to regulate the sun. The structure of the building is blown up about 7 meters around its perimeter. The cladding of the façade is made of natural wood and a light openwork, without touching the floor. This second skin allows good light and energy control of the building.

El nou edifici es va situar prop de el Monestir de Sant Benet de Bages. El riu Llobregat abraçava allà, amb un gest brusc, uns magnífics camps de cereals i vinyes que van acollir l'imponent monestir romànic i després la fàbrica tèxtil Carbó. Dos monuments del passat que testimoniaven amb gran claredat i força expressiva dos moments brillants de país. El nou edifici no va voler erigir-se com un element que desdibuixés els anteriors ni els tragués protagonisme i va buscar allunyar-se de les seves concepcions arquitectòniques, constructives i geomètriques. Ja en els dibuixos inicials van aparèixer uns traços que no feien referència a tipus edificatoris coneguts, sinó més aviat insinuaven formes mal·leables, pastoses, de geometries amorfes que suggerien adaptació i camuflatge. D'aquesta manera el nou organisme va anar respectant amb facilitat antigues parets, tanques, camins, escales, plantacions ... i adaptant-se als canvis constants d'un programa inconcret que el va obligar a anar canviant de mida, ocupació i altura, arribant fins i tot a abraçar la veïna casa dels antics propietaris en una demostració permanent de la seva gran docilitat i flexibilitat. Un sòl tècnic, un cel ras generós i una planta lliure van reforçar la voluntat que pogués acollir l'imprevisible. L'edifici va pretendre que des de l'interior es visqués l'experiència d'estar en un lloc envoltat per la natura, d'estar dins d'ella, de poder veure els arbres, els ocells i la pluja des de molt a prop. Per aquest motiu el pla vertical que separava interior i exterior es va plantejar totalment vidrat. Una superfície que segons les intensitats de les llums era transparent o reflectant, de manera que de vegades el volum edificat desapareixia i en d'altres s'integrava totalment amb l'entorn en reflectir l'exterior com si d'un mirall es tractés. El control del sol, de la llum i de la intimitat es va aconseguir mitjançant una façana complexa d'un gruix variable que oscil·lava de zero a la zona d'entrada a 13m la zona més ampla. Era una banda definida pel pla vertical de vidre que tancava l'edifici per una banda i per una paret de pràcticament la mateixa altura per l'altre. Aquesta paret va aprofitar trossos d'antics murs de pedra que es van perllongar amb nous murs de formigó i en algunes zones se li van obrir grans finestrals que permetien vistes controlades cap al paisatge. Entre aquests dos plans verticals es van instal·lar umbracles horitzontals situats al mateix nivell que el cel-ras interior i es van plantar arbres per garantir la protecció solar i la qualitat de la llum. Aquesta façana gruixuda i d'amplada variable resolia amb facilitat el compromís entre la forma interior que l'edifici necessitava i la forma exterior que el lloc reclamava, i creava a més un espai intermedi tranquil i enjardinat que perllongava visualment l'espai interior i formava amb ell una unitat indissociable. Uns generosos lluernaris verticals orientats a nord equilibraven la llum en les zones de la planta més allunyades de l'perímetre.

The new facilities of the CRAM Foundation are located at the old Prat de Llobregat golf course in the Equipment Area of the Corredor del Litoral, with a performance area of approximately 20,000m2. The project seeks the balance between the clinical research program and the public program, with the minimum means possible, to ensure that the conditions of the activity become the fundamental elements when defining the architectural and volumetric features of the whole set. This decision pursues an architecture that seeks the equidistant point between its functional condition and its representative condition as a public building. Each of the three buildings that make up the complex expresses in its form the activity that takes place there.

The ICTA-ICP building located on the UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona) campus is a research centre in environmental sciences and paleontology. Consistent with their fields of research, the building's users bet on an ambitious response to sustainability challenges. The building, an isolated volume of five floors of 40x40m and two basements, accommodates the following uses. On the ground floor: lobby, bar, classrooms and administration; on the following 3 floors, offices and laboratories; on the deck, greenhouses and rest areas; in the semi-basement, parking and machine rooms; and in the basement, warehouses and the rest of the laboratories. Both offices and laboratories are uses with a lot of internal load that tend to be hot. The ICTA-ICP has been designed to take advantage of it in winter and to dissipate it in summer. We plan the building as an adaptable and flexible infrastructure to possible changes of use.