The NIU Houses system featured in ABC
05/05/2025
The newspaper ABC has recently published an article analyzing the NIU system, developed by our studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, as a new way of understanding architecture through efficiency, precision, and design, among other contemporary construction systems.
NIU Houses was born as an architectural response that uses systematization as a tool to achieve an aesthetic, functional, and construction quality that is hard to reach through traditional processes.
The article highlights how the system is not based on building, but on assembling. Each part is previously designed, optimized, and produced in the workshop to be directly assembled on site. This approach minimizes errors, shortens timelines, reduces logistical costs, and ensures a precise and coherent final result.
Far from standardizing, controlled repetition becomes an opportunity to perfect every detail. The resulting spaces combine a refined aesthetic with comfort, sustainability, and high-quality living. The construction system is based on lightweight steel structure, high-performance thermal envelopes, and durable finishes. From the outset, interior design is integrated into the project, ensuring continuity between concept, function, and spatial experience.
According to the article, the concept of luxury has evolved: it is now associated with quality of life, natural light, energy efficiency, health, and well-being. In this regard, NIU represents a natural evolution, integrating tools such as neuroarchitecture, biophilic design principles, or circadian lighting to deliver a systematized architecture capable of generating unique, personalized, and environmentally responsible experiences.
“The future of systematized construction goes hand in hand with innovation and design. It is an evolution toward a smarter and more human architecture.”