www.harquitectes.com
H ARQUITECTES is an architecture studio established in 2,000 and based in Barcelona. It is managed by four partner architects: David Lorente Ibáñez, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majó and Roger Tudó Galí, who count on an ample team of collaborators, such as architects, interior designers and students.
Their intense labour and a remarkable career have deserved the recognition of several prizes as well as their work has been publicized by distinguished international media. With a clear concept of architecture and a well defined working philosophy, the office makes a commitment to both social and environmental problematic issues and a contrast respect by the active participation of the client. For H Arquitectes, the Energy Efficiency is a feature that should be present in every project of architecture, no longer as an “extra” but as an indispensable common element to each new proposal of construction.
“Our working attitude as an architecture studio tries to operate with the parameters that we dominate through experience and knowledge so they can guarantee results, at the same time that promoting new stimulating ways of designing. At the moment we work with passive systems that although simple, and well-used, are effective. We committed ourselves to think of a low-tech architecture, simple and easy to build, which does not look for great innovations but on the contrary tries to consolidate the positive deep-rooted values found in both architectonical and constructive tradition. We do believe in sustainability not as a new paradigm but as a way to work based on the common sense, not as the one and only objective but as a result of a way of building”