Team

The work of ENSAMBLE STUDIO belongs to two realities, opposite and complementary, that trace a nonlinear discourse through his work.
The world of nature in which the specific conditions of the territory including, besides the physical conditions of the site, the cultural, historical, artistic conditions. What is given by nature and by the site.
These structures are dense, heavy and linked to the local.
The world of the laboratory, in which there are no prerequisites, besides the ones marked by reality. The creation, the synthesis and engineering create an architecture that transcends the site.
These structures are tense, light, and linked to the global.
The projects fall between these two extremes, creating a balance between them, creating a sincere and consistent body of work.

MANIFESTO

1. We work with our hands, we experience. We control the processes better than the results. Because finding the logic in the development makes it harder to be wrong.

2. We go to the origin of the processes, to the raw materials, we try to arrive to the essence of the elements and construction systems. And this scientific understanding enables a extreme freedom to operate outside the preconceived processes. We use industry at the service of architecture but not vice versa.

3. We conceive the spaces, design the construction accurately, play with the scale of the building elements to affect the scale of space; and the final form is simply the result of following a clear strategy.

4. We move easily in the contradiction. We design the shadow to obtain spaces of light and we build with heavy elements to obtain light and transparent spaces. We commute from stressed structures to dense structures, from the small scale of the house to the bigger scale of the city, from reordered nature to prefabricated systems.

5. We do not ignore history, we have studied it and we reread it with every project. But we use actual technology and we face the problems of our present times.

6. The structure is the architecture, which is not only entrusted with the important task of dealing with gravity, but also traces the space, frames the landscape, orders the program, expresses; and so, defines the architecture. Without dressings or disguise, with constructive honesty.

7. And above all, we do. And if we make mistakes, we learn. But the perseverance in doing keeps us alive. If we do not have work, we invent it.