The complex is made up of 4 plots, and in each of them there is the same type of housing that is organized on the ground, highlighting the particularities of its environment. All the villas are designed with wide open spaces at different orientations, ideal to enjoy the porches and terraces throughout the year. In addition, all the villas have a swimming pool and basement to maximize the uses and make the most of the possibilities of the plot.
New monograph for the renowned publishing house Rizzoli, leaders in interior design, fashion, art, architecture, cooking, entertainment and pop culture publications. The publisher has recently published the following:
In 2005, Fran Silvestre founded his Valencia-based interior design studio and architecture firm, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. With its clean lines and minimalist yet sophisticated style, the practice rapidly attracted international renown.
The new “Fran Silvestre Architects” presents Silvestre’s finest work that displays his ethos of “efficient beauty” and projects that celebrate their surroundings rather than take away from them. On sale in March. Available for pre-order.
Recently, the photoshooting of one of the latest projects finished by our studio took place: House in El Álamo. For photography we had the collaboration of Jesús Orrico.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
The Greeks, as well as the Etruscans and the Romans used compluvium in aristocratic dwellings to lead rainwater to the impluvium. This opening, which was made in the center of the domus, was initially used to vent the smoke from the fires made in the homes. Over time, this aperture kept growing in proportion favoring the lighting, the ventilation of the rooms and the collection of water that was carried out in the impluvium.
We like to think of this house located in the center of Madrid as an interpretation of this element, which also grants privacy to the house from neighboring buildings.
The company Adidas has filmed an advertising spot in our Aluminum House project.
More specifically for Y-3, the Adidas division led by the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, to create garments for the soccer field. Y-3 already has a relationship with the world’s most popular sport and has been associated with Spanish club Real Madrid since 2014, where Zinédine Zidane is the face of the new collaboration. You can find the video here.
Next Thursday, February 9 at 5:00 p.m., the first full-scale Architecture exhibition will take place in our Campolivar showroom, where we will be able to inaugurate our latest built project: the NIU N150. The event will take place at Calle Montgó 17 in Godella, Valencia.
The structure phase in the La Cadalt project has been completed. Located in the middle of the Serrat de la Cadalt, the project aims to update this farmhouse, of cultural interest, to the new needs and current requirements. Making use of the innovated tradition, the volumes and the exterior appearance of the building are respected, intervening inside it seeking the integrity of the whole.
We started 2023 being present in the 5 continents. Places like Armenia, Australia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, Thailand or the United States, are some countries that already have studio projects. Thank you for trusting in our work!
The Fuera de Serie magazine of the Expansión group has published our new project in Sotogrande Villa 95.
Fuera de Serie is a sophisticated magazine for lovers of Luxury and the good life that shows current personalities and the latest in Lifestyle, Gastronomy, Trends and Fashion.
Our project Piera House has been selected by the well-known Archilovers platform as #Bestarchilovers2022 for its excellent aesthetics, creativity and functionality.
Each project has been selected among the 50,000 projects published this year. All the winning projects have been included in a special section on Archilovers. Thank you for choosing our project!
The expressive nature of this three-story house is designed in a continuous movement that suggests, between its different rooms, a walkway from where to explore the landscape that expands in front of it.
The exterior morphology is arranged with the intention of taking full advantage of the buildability of its plot. Through its long diagonal, the pieces seem to connect only by their vertexes, but the interior is intertwined and in constant communication. The upper floor opens onto a large balcony: roof of the middle piece and whose limits expand in both directions; to the outside, towards the pool, and to the inside of the plot up to the limits of the upper level.
Through its tertiary configuration and uninterrupted succession of spaces, the structure lures the eye into following its shape; an almost playful figure that immediately assumes and suggests the distinctive identity of the house.
We recently completed the single-family home project House in the Álamo. The principal is to release the largest possible in the middle of the site allowing you to enjoy a private space with a height and volume incalculable. It enhances the perimeter of contact with the outside housing, land and housing understood as a continuum.
The Universitat Politécnica de València, in one of the buildings that the campus dedicates to aerodynamic research, has subjected the Eólica Tower to tests of resistance and performance; through a recreation of turbulence and winds similar to those that it will be subjected to in the Port of Valencia, once the project is completed.
You can find more information about the project at Eólica Tower.
The showroom of the new promotion in Campolivar of NIU Houses will be inaugurated soon. The proposal consists of generating a full-scale catalog of the different typologies and finishes to give the possibility of physically experiencing the sensation of living in a fully equipped NIU house with all the furniture and gardening.
The set will be made up of 15 plots, in which 7 NIU typologies designed with one and two floors are arranged. N70, N150, N160, N220, N230, N260 and N320, all designed with a spacious living room open to two orientations, ideal for enjoying the porch all year round.
New project of three single-family homes on the west coast of the island of Corfu, Greece. The plots are located in a privileged location, an elevated location that offers unparalleled views of the sea.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Our studio will participate one more year in the fourth edition of Open House Valencia, the architecture festival that will be held on October 22 and 23. In addition, among the novelties of this edition, our participation in Open Premium stands out, offering a guided tour of our Casa Sabater project, a work in Orihuela Costa, “a space that addresses the unevenness of the plot as a kind of path that skirts the trees and captures parts of the garden in a sequence that seems to have no end”.
The visits will be carried out by the architects of the studio and, afterwards, the gastronomy of the area will be tasted in a premium restaurant. In order to participate in these visits, it is necessary to register on the festival’s website and buy a ticket for the activity, the price of which includes transportation and food during the day.
The site works of the project are currently in the structure phase. Located in the PGA golf course, in Girona, the house seeks the best views over the place where it is set. The project is solved by means of two extruded spaces, two overlapping volumes, in which the upper one moves towards the lake in front, giving as a result a cantilever that aims to generate a great shaded terrace. Two elements that define a single project, in which we appreciate facades of great dynamism generated by different openings in them, that allow for a comfortable reading of the building.
The House on the Cliff project has been published in the book Vivir en el agua edited by Phaidon, one of the world’s leading publishers of visual arts, architecture, art, photography and design books based in New York.
The book compiles a careful selection of 55 modern houses that offer an accessible look at the relationship between architecture and water, how both elements harmonize, balance and support each other to create a truly dynamic aesthetic.
The GANDIABLASCO brand has recently carried out a photoshooting in our finished project House of Silence. You can see more images of this project here.
Project manager and photography direction: Alejandra Gandía-Blasco
Art direction: Isa Garcia and Alejandra Gandía-Blasco
Photography: Angel Segura
The project establish a dialogue between two times; a relationship between an old house and a new project. The object is to be extremely respectful of the pre-existence, conserving the protected and most valuable part of the original structure, and adapting the house to the present moment. This is why a replacement of the interior space is carried out, emptying it to regularize the spaces and giving rise to the name of the project.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Our studio has recently been invited to the launch event for Soul Luxury Beach Resort, a pioneering 580 acres luxury resort located in Egypt, amidst one of the world’s most impressive natural beach landscapes on the north coast.
Our studio has participated in the masterplan by designing the Signature Villa with the proposal The Sphinx , a luxury home surrounded by mansions on the beach and houses connected to nature, the unparalleled views of the Mediterranean Sea and the lagoons facing the sea, exuberant green spaces and a wide variety of unique amenities.
Recently, the photoshooting of one of the latest projects finished by our studio took place: The empty house. For photography we had the collaboration of Fernando Guerra.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
The project consists of the interior updating of an apartment in the center of the city of Valencia. We ordered the space looking for the continuity of the rooms, integrating the structural elements of the existing building within the divisions and the carpentry.
The plan is understood as three longitudinal bands that allow through ventilation. An area where you can work with generous natural lighting is incorporated into the main area of the house. A system of sliding carpentry allows incorporating or dividing the kitchen space from the living room depending on the situation. A gym, a water area, a fireplace, a terrace facing south over the treetops of Gran Vía (the healthy biophilia) and various facilities give the apartment a level of comfort that sometimes you do not want to leave.
The project Roca Views Ibiza has been published in issue 181 of GA Houses, the Japanese magazine that stars in its articles architectural projects from around the world with something unique to offer in design.
In the publication you can see photographs of the project with their respective plans and information.
The House of Silence project has been awarded the GOLD in the Habitat category for the IFI Design Distinction Awards.
A global design competition, IFI’s Design Distinction Awards (IFI DDA) recognize excellence in the design outcome of built projects and offer a quality peer-reviewed assessment of completed interiors from across the world. Those recognized with an IFI DDA are leading the way in Interior Architecture/Design practice through their built work; contributing at the highest level to raising the bar of design innovation and excellence.
The construction process of the project have already begun, it’s currently in the foundation phase and soon we will be able to see the structure.
Located in the PGA golf course, in Girona, the house seeks the best views over the place where it is set. The project is solved by means of two extruded spaces, two overlapping volumes, in which the upper one moves towards the lake in front, giving as a result a cantilever that aims to generate a great shaded terrace. Two elements that define a single project, in which we appreciate facades of great dynamism generated by different openings in them, that allow for a comfortable reading of the building.
Our studio has designed a new product for the ARTMOON brand: SIL Table.
The table is configured by two singular pieces as a support and a glass surface. The support pieces are obtained from a piece of steel to which a single fold is made..
More information about this product coming soon. For sale in www.artmoon.pt
Our projects Pati Blau and Casa del Silencio projects are finalists in the Habitat category for the IFI Design Distinction Awards.
A global design competition, IFI’s Design Distinction Awards (IFI DDA) recognize excellence in the design outcome of built projects and offer a quality peer-reviewed assessment of completed interiors from across the world.
Those recognized with an IFI DDA are leading the way in Interior Architecture/Design practice through their built work; contributing at the highest level to raising the bar of design innovation and excellence.
The Hofmann house has been published in the prestigious book Built to Inspire by Philip Jodidio. World-renowned architectural writer and critic delves into his selection of the Top Twenty-six of the most contemporary and current house designs from around the world, showcasing the most innovative and influential designs from Europe, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, South and Central America, India, and Asia. He provides an incisive analysis of the site-specific elements, key environmental factors of the landscape design, the use of spatial visualizations, light, sustainability, and materials, and other critical design features of each home.
The project talks about setting limits and their permeability.The first border is established between the street and the free space of the house, in Burriana, as in many municipalities the regulations establish a maximum dimension for the opaque fence and the rest of the height with a permeable materiality. We decided, perhaps influenced by the gate that Andreu Alfaro together with Emilio Giménez designed both in the house and in the sculptor’s studio, to make this border as an opaque filter for the views and penetrable for light and air, with a constant materiality in full height. This fine line built with aluminum profiles, which are arranged at an angle that prevents the view from the outside, draws a patio with almost the entire available surface
The NIU N290 project is in the construction phase and is located in Valencia.
The N290 model has the most unique of the NIU homes, the rooms are organized and distributed around a central courtyard and have panoramas in all four directions. This single-story home is organized around a bright central courtyard. The spaces of the home are distributed around the courtyard and divided into four distinct areas that open in four different directions and maintain their complete independence.
Our projects Roca Views Ibiza, Àtic Blanc y NIU N70 has been selected as one of the #Bestarchilovers2021 for their outstanding aesthetics, creativity and functionality!
Each project has been selected between the 50,000 projects published this year. All the winning projects have been included in a special Section on Archilovers. Thanks!
The projects House of Silence and Pati Blau have been published in issue # 179 of GA Houses, the Japanese magazine that stars in its articles architectural projects from around the world with something unique to offer in design.
In the publication you can see photographs of the project with their respective plans and information.
This week took place, at the MArch Architecture and Design School, the workshop with Fran Silvestre Thinking by doing. We have been worked on the way of approaching the conception of a project. The initial phase of the architectural project is one of the most complex parts to undertake because of its level of abstraction, and it is also one of the most important of its development.
Each project is understood as a personal challenge with different variables (scale, conditioners, customers, use …) that determine the result of the work. At this point, it is necessary to know and use an effective working method.
Recently, the photoshooting of one of the latest projects finished by our studio took place: Piera House. For photography we had the collaboration of Fernando Guerra.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Located in the middle of the Serrat de la Cadalt, the project aims to update this farmhouse, of cultural interest, to the new needs and current requirements. Making use of the innovated tradition, the volumes and the exterior appearance of the building are respected, intervening inside it seeking the integrity of the whole.
Next Saturday October 23, a new edition of Open House Valencia 2021 will take place, an event that gives people the opportunity to get to know places related to Architecture and Design that are not usually open to visit.
On this occasion and again from the Espai Alfaro, we will participate by taking a tour of our studio, a NIU house located in the space, the Andreu Alfaro sculpture collection and the facilities where the postgraduate and Master programs in Architecture and Design MArch are developed. There will be two visits, at 12:00 and at 18:00, to sign up visit the official OHV website. We wait for you!
The idea of this new project in Tarifa arises from the close vision of the environment. A longitudinal volume that is deposited on a platform materialized as a terrace and pool, merging with the sea.
Enjoy the summer!
Prooject: House of Silence
Photography: Fernando Guerra
The project, which is in the planning and foundation phase, is located opposite of the Sotogrande’s golf course, the house proposes to inhabit the shade generated between the ground floor plan and the roof. A large cantilever allows to stop the intense sun of Cádiz and to protect from the abundant rains of the area of the Sierra de Grazalema.
More info soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin y Pinterest profiles.
Tomorrow, Thursday, July 1st, the NIU Houses team together with Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, will present the NIU project, in which you will be able to visit a scale house as well as an exhibition of all the types of homes, interiors and finishes , and in addition the website.
The purpose of the NIU project is to innovate construction systems to increase precision in the materialization of architecture. Deadlines and costs that remain fixed and an architecture that improves the quality of human environments, making them more sustainable and healthy.
Located in the center of Valencia, the project seeks to reinterpret the approach of this type of housing, recovering the potential of disused roofs. We like to think that each building takes away an open space from the city and gives it back on the roof.
More info soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin y Pinterest profiles.
Fran Silvestre gave a conference on June 3rd, organized at the Auditorium of Casa Decor 2021 by the Italian brand BTicino, which gathered a select group of clients, architects, designers and interior designers to discuss about the search for efficiency and functionality in each project and space, as well as the role that technology will determine in the home of the future.
The meeting was also attended by the interior designer Diego Rodríguez and the researcher in design trends, Marisa Santamaría.
The project for a clinic in Belgrade seeks to create different atmospheres with the minimum number of elements, in this case, uniform and changing light surfaces that are arranged in some of the surfaces that shape the spaces.
More info soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin y Pinterest profiles.
In this series of houses the starting point is a combination of extruded spaces in which the open parts are the ones that are glazed. A way of proceeding investigated in some works by Jacobsen or Souto de Moura. The work process begins with the use of aluminum profiles to make the models, a system that generates an infinite number of combinations. This work produces a kind of chalk laboratory where the limits are very clear.
The magazine for luxury lovers, Fuera de Serie from the Expansión group, has interviewed Fran Silvestre about the architecture and design of the studio’s projects in its latest printed edition, La gran primavera.
The project, which consists of two twin houses that open onto the Sarasota Bay, seeks views of the landscape through two cantilevers that extend over the volume of its ground floors: one in the longitudinal direction and the other in the transverse direction. One of the closest references of the project is the movement of modern architecture that was generated in the mid-20th century in the area known as Sarasota School of Architecture or Sarasota Modern.
The newspaper Las Provincias has published in its edition of Sunday 11th April an interview of Fran Silvestre about his professional career in the Architecture and Design field.
You can read the interview in the online version here.
Our project for Colección inHAUS By Fran Silvestre has been selected as winner for the iF Design Awards in the Professional Architecture Concept category.
The iF Design Awards are one of the most important international design awards. For the 2021 edition, more than 10,000 projects have been presented from 52 countries around the world.
Next Sunday March 28th, Fran Silvestre will give an online MasterClass for the firm Yinjispace.
Yinjispace is an international platform located in China that is committed to the exchange and dissemination of high-quality design works in the architecture, interior and product design fields.
Our project Pati Blau has been selected as winner in the Excellent Architecture category at the prestigious German Design Awards 2021.
The German Design Award is the most important international award granted by the German Design Council, the main authority in the sector in the German country. The aim of the awards is “to discover, present and recognize innovative trends in the field of design in different categories”.
Our project for Colección inHAUS By has been included as a finalist in the prestigious iF Design Awards in the Professional Architecture Concept category. The organization will announce the winners at the end of March.
The iF Design Awards are one of the most important international design awards. For the 2021 edition, more than 10,000 projects have been presented from 52 countries around the world.
Empty house, a project located in the province of Castellón, is under construction in the final phase of finishing.
You can know more about it in the projects section of the website and soon on our and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Our project Well Villa located at PGA Catalunya Resort has been published in the prestigious AD magazine for being the first in Europe to apply the Well standards in a single-family house.
The WELL standard, based on 6 years of medical-scientific research, is the most widespread and prestigious international health and well-being standard in architecture. WELL projects are characterized by putting the human being at the center of their designs, resulting in built spaces that take care of people’s health in an integral way. The Well Villa, designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos and whose health and wellness consultancy has been carried out by Evalore, is the first project of its category to integrate the characteristics of this well-known standard.
You can read the article here.
Our studio has won the second prize in the seventh edition of the bulthaup competition: kitchen as a living space. The aim of this competition is to recognize those projects by architects and designers from Spain, Portugal and Andorra that have a bulthaup kitchen as the protagonist and that reflect the values of the brand: creativity, quality of details and aesthetic conception.
You can find more information about this contest here.
The house is located in front of the Mediterranean, in a place where an imposing dune protects the coast from storms. This starting point defines the configuration of the project. The house is materialized with two volumes arranged perpendicular to each other.
In order to have views of the sea, the program of uses of the house is inverted as opposed to the traditional scheme, the day area is arranged on the upper floor to be able to look over the top of the dune and uses the lower level roof as a belvedere.
You can find more information about this project soon in our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Next Monday, December 21, Fran Silvestre will give a Master Class for the Chinese platform Designwire.
Designwire, supports and enhances the development of young architects, driving the interior design industry forward. The platform highlights Chinese interior design works to the world while showcasing international masterpieces to China and they are searching for excellent projects to be published in their website and Wechat account, which is going to be published in English and Chinese, covering 5 million monthly page views and 20,000 post views.
Next Friday, November 27th at 3:00 p.m. (Spain) and 9:00 a.m. (Colombia), the architect and studio member Pablo Camarasa will give an online lecture about the work and the most relevant projects of our studio for the Design faculty and Architecture Program of the Catholic University of Colombia.
To attend the online lecture, send us an email to media@fransilvestrearquitectos.com
Desfici Magazine together with the organization of World Design Capital Valencia 2022 have interviewed Fran Silvestre to learn about one of the latest projects completed by the studio, Topaz of Braye. This project has consisted of completely redesigning a 20-meter long Turkish schooner that was originally owned by a renowned British musical promoter and which is located in the Marina of Valencia.
In addition to this project, other very interesting topics were also discussed in the interview, such as the Eólica Tower, the collaboration with InHaus to carry out the design of industrialized houses or the status of current projects in China. You can read the interview here.
The project consists of making a musician’s studio coexist with his home. It is located in a residential area near Valencia, where neighboring houses are very close to each other. It is decided to generate a semi-buried volume on the ground floor that configures the recording studio. A concrete enclosure, within another concrete enclosure, with highly studied acoustics.
You can find more information about this project in our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
This week, within the Arquia Próxima Forum will be the seventh edition of the Arquia Festival. In it, a series of debates will be held that will deal with architecture and the new challenges. Also, the projects carried out by the selected emerging studies will be presented.
On Thursday September 22, Fran Silvestre will act as moderator in a round table of the VII Festival arquia / next 2020. All the presentations, tables and debates will also be broadcast live and Streaming on the YouTube channel of the Arquia Foundation.
Our studio will participate one more year in the Open House Valencia architecture and city festival, opening the doors of our offices and showing a guided tour of Espai Alfaro, a place of artistic tradition, located near Valencia, where art, design and architecture converge. A 7,000m2 space that was born as a studio of the valencian sculptor Andreu Alfaro and now has the academic space MArch, the interior design studio Alfaro Hofmann, our architecture studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos or the Alfaro Hofmann Collection of industrial design, among other spaces.
Visiting hours will be on Saturday, October 17 at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., you can sign up from here. You can also visit online two projects recently completed by our studio, Pati Blau and Topaz of Braye .
Fran Silvestre has recently been selected as a jury by direct choice of the participants for the vote of the Exposición Arquitectura Reciente de Valencia 2017-2018-2019, organized by the Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Valencia. Ana Ábalos Ramos, Israel Alba Ramis, Ivan Cabrera i Fausto and Inés García Clariana have also participated as members of the jury, as well as the members of the CTAV Governing Board: Marina Sender Contell (President), Isabel Navarro Camallonga (Treasurer) and Carlos Salazar Fraile (Vocal of Culture).
The purpose of this is to publicize the professional quality of the latest projects carried out in the province of Valencia, through an exhibition and a catalog.
“Fran Silvestre’s architecture is a distillation of the Mediterranean landscape and way of life: open, white, bright and refined spaces. This concept that inspires to live outdoors and enjoy the mild Levant climate cannot find a better translation outside of mainland than in the design of pleasure boats. The sailboat in which they have intervened is a Turkish schooner of twenty meters in length and two masts.”
One of the most recent projects completed by the studio, Topaz of Braye, has been published by the well-known magazine Arquitectura y Diseño. You can read more about the news here or learn more about the project on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest. profiles.
The project consists of completely redesigning a sailboat. This is a 20-meter long Turkish schooner that was originally owned by a renowned British music promoter. It has two masts slightly inclined towards the stern. This type of boat was used for fishing and as a cargo ship, but later they were also used in regattas. The first one carried out in 1851 was won by the schooner America that today gives its name to the famous competition.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
The relaxing power of a sheet of water when it is silhouetted against the sea is fascinating. A world of colors, reflections and textures appears in constant change that produces an enigmatic attraction. Sometimes this effect acquires a dimension that makes the rest of the elements that constitute a project are dispensable or accessory. Focused on this issue we begin the proposal to build a living space from which to contemplate a spectacular environment.
The place is located in Calpe and is delimited by four landscaping elements of great strength. To the north the rock of Ifach, to the east the Mediterranean Sea, to the south the Mascarat and to the west there is a distant view of the Sierra de Olta.
More info about this project in our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Next Friday, September 18th at 8 p.m., in the old convent of San Doménec in Xàtiva, will take place the inaguration of the exhibition Alfaro a Xàtiva: Diàleg amb la història, where some of the most recognized works by the Valencian artist will be distributed in the most representative enclaves of the historic center of the city, seeking to establish a dialogue between architecture of past eras with a minimalist sculpture. The rotundity of the Gothic or the sobriety of the Renaissance, interspersed with the simplicity and slenderness of sculptures such as The Fountain, the Laocoonte or the Goethe sitting in the countryside of Rome.
The exhibition will be curated by Fran Silvestre and Pablo Camarasa and will run from September to December.
Recently, the photoshooting of one of the latest projects finished by our studio took place: House of Silence. For photography we had the collaboration of Fernando Guerra.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Next Thursday, August 27, at 17:00 in Spain and 09:00 in Guatemala, there will be a conference by Fran Silvestre for the Cátedra Jorge Montes 2020, where they will talk about Designing from the utopian to making it tangible.
The Cátedra Jorge Montes is an event held by students of Architecture and Interior Specialty of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Universidad del Istmo. In each edition, contact is created with national and international figures of great importance in the field of architecture and design, and an exchange of experiences is carried out between students from the different universities of Guatemala, Central America, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Japan.
Today, Saturday, August 15, the lecture of Fran Silvestre for ConArq2020 will take place at 7:00 p.m. in Spain and at 2:00 p.m. in Argentina.
ConArq is the first National Architecture Congress organized by students from Argentina. It arises from the concern to listen and propose architecture among the different Faculties of the country, with the aim of strengthening their education and making significant contributions to the exercise of the discipline, fundamentally to build a space for debate.
This year it will be online and you can be part of it on YouTube. You can sign up here. We will wait for you!
The project Pati Blau has been nominated by the German Design Awards. The project proposal consists of designing a building that aspires to have the ability to go through time and not become obsolete, adapting to physical conditions and making the most of them in order to present the situation in an innovative way.
German Design Awards are the official design awards in Germany granted by the Ministry of Economy and Technology of the country and it focuses on the outstanding achievements in the different fields of design.
A place located in the city of Marbella, on a plot of great slope and at an elevated level that provides fantastic views. We propose to embrace with a circle a space open to the sky and the horizon, and simultaneously protected from the gaze of others and the powerful winds of the area. The upper level rooms open in a controlled way towards specific landmarks of the landscape, while the public area enjoys the relationship with the main and open space.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Recently, the photoshooting of one of the latest interior design projects finished by our studio took place: Topaz of Braye. For photography and the video we had the collaboration of Jesús Orrico.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
“A great prefab house designed by a great Spanish architect.”
Our design for the new models that the Valencian modular house company InHaus will offer to its future clients, has been published in the magazine Arquitectura y Diseño.
You can find the article here and know more about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedinand Pinterest profiles.
New finished project: Àtic Blanc. Located in the center of the city, the typology of this kind of house is reinterpreted. Looking for the feeling of being in an isolated house, the terrace is understood as a patio open to the sky and from which to contemplate the city of Valencia.
More information coming soon on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedinand Pinterest profiles.
One of the recent projects completed by the studio, Pati Blau, has been published in Minimalissimo, a print and digital magazine focused on minimalism in design that shows some of the best examples in architecture, interiors, furniture and home furnishings.
You can see the publication here and find out more details about the project on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest. profiles.
House of Silence. The project seeks to respond to a house and a studio for a musician.
The working area is partially buried in the lower part, responding to the acoustic needs. The upper floor is designed closed to the immediate environment due to the proximity to the next houses and projecting a kind of courtyards open to the large gardens in the surroundings.
Pati Blau, one of the studio’s recent completed projects, has been chosen by the Architizer platform as project of the week.
Architizer is one of the platforms in the architecture sector with the most influence on social networks. You can see the post here and know more about the project on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
“This two-floor apartment in the Alicante town, Altea, could be perfectly defined as a blank canvas. After its refurbishment, in the interior prevail the neutral colors, the first-class materials such as Carrara marble, and an obsession with organization that borders on perfection.”
One of our recent completed projects, Penthouse in Costa Blanca, has been published in the well-known Architectural Digest magazine. In the publication you can find, the images of the project and a detailed description of it made by the magazine. You can see the full article here.
It was in the Muslim era when the so-called farmhouses were concentrating the population of the Ribera Alta, although some of these settlements had an Iberian origin. Over time these population centers have become places connected to the big city in a simple way and with an enviable quality of life. With all the good that the proximity of a large city offers and all the advantages of living connected to the territory and its culture. The project emerges as an interpretation of this typology.
You will find more information about this project soon in our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
The project Kouros Tower has been declared as winner of the prestigious German Design Awards in the category Excellent Architecture.
German Design Awards are the official design awards in Germany granted by the Ministry of Economy and Technology of the country and it focuses on the outstanding achievements in the different fields of design. The German Design Award identifies and presents unique design trend.
The Wednesday April 8, Fran Silvestre spoke about what means, from the point of view of our studio, The Efficient Beauty. It took place on the Instagram account of the magazine Arquitectura y Diseño where, in addition, he was able to answer questions and deal with very interesting topics.
You can watch it on the Architecture and Design social networks or on our YouTube channel clicking here.
The latest project released by our studio, Compluvium house, has been published in the prestigious international magazine designboom .
Based in Milan, Beijing and New York, designboom is a web magazine with more than 3 million readers and a great impact on social networks, publishing daily the latest news in the fields of industrial design, architecture and art internationally. It was the first web magazine to focus on these fields and it features interviews and firsthand studio visits of renowned designers and architects, in addition to coverage of international design fairs and new projects.
You can read the full article of Compluvium house here.
The Greeks, as well as the Etruscans and the Romans used compluvium in aristocratic dwellings to lead rainwater to the impluvium. This opening, which was made in the center of the domus, was initially used to vent the smoke from the fires made in the homes. Over time, this aperture kept growing in proportion favoring the lighting, the ventilation of the rooms and the collection of water that was carried out in the impluvium.
We like to think of this house located in the center of Madrid as an interpretation of this element, which also grants privacy to the house from neighboring buildings.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Our studio has recently collaborated with YUNESTORTOLERO Architects for a refurbishment project located in the Los Remedios neighborhood, Seville.
The project seeks to respond to the program with as few partitions as possible to accentuate the sensation of amplitude. A linear piece organizes the space and activates the areas through which you get inside, hiding the unnecessary for the enjoyment of life.
You can know more about the project here.
Our project House in Rio de Janeiro has been published at japanese magazine GA Houses 169 issue, together with other ongoing residential projects from offices like Aires Mateus, Ryue Nishizawa, Kengo Kuma or SouFujimoto.
Alongside with it, it could be seen until June 7th at Tokyo GA Gallery an exhibition where published projects will be shown.
Next Wednesday, March 11 at 3:00 p.m., we will give a conference in Istanbul about the work of the studio and the most relevant projects. The event will take place in the emblematic SALT Galata building, a center for performances, exhibitions and cultural activities that marks the city’s contemporary artistic life and is located in the former headquarters of the Ottoman National Bank.
The architectural event is organized by Arkitera, the most relevant digital platform of the sector in the country with the collaboration of Kalebodur, one of the most important construction materials companies in the country.
Our architecture studio has been in charge of designing some of the new models that the Valencian modular houses company will offer to its future clients worldwide.
With this initiative, the modular architecture has managed to bring together designers and industry, resulting in architectures that combine the best design, high energy efficiency, perfection in finishes and a turnkey integral service with price and deadline.
You can find more information here.
Next March 5 at 3:00 p.m., the FISTA20 event will take place at the Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitetura do Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where Fran Silvestre will give a lecture about the work and the most important projects of the studio.
The “Forum of Iscte School of Technology and Architecture” is an annual event that takes place thanks to the will and dedication of the students of the School of Technology and Architecture to bring the world of business to university. You can know more about the event here.
The platform of architecture ArchDaily has nominated two projects of our studio for the ArchDaily Building of the year 2020, Penthouse in Costa Blanca in the Interior Architecture category and The fourth room in the Housing category.
You can find more information about these projects in the Interior Design section of our website and in our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest.profiles.
Located in the center of the city, the project arises to give response to a new clinic whose values are based on an extremely personalized treatment to the client. The layout of the building, which dates from the beginning of the last century, conditioned the distribution.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
Our colleague Rosa Juanes, talked about contemporary designs with natural stone through the project of the studio Hofmann House, for the well-known American magazine Architectural Record.
Architectural Record is a magazine located in Manhattan that is dedicated to architecture and interior design. It is number #1 source for news in the sector and info on sustainability, houses, projects and architectural products, and also architect continuing education.
Best wishes for the New Year
Els millors desitjos per a l’any vinent
Die besten architekten wünsche für das neue jahr
新年快乐
Tanti auguri di buon anno
新年のご多幸を祈る
Os melhores desejos para o ano novo
Les meilleurs architectes voeux pour la nouvelle annéeSzczęśliwego nowego roku
Τισ καλυτερεσ ευχεσ μου για το νεο ετοσ
The project consists in the refurbishment of a penthouse located in the Costa Blanca of the Mediterranean Sea. Boosting the views of the Bay of Altea becomes the most important element of this proposal.
You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.
The project Hofmann house has been declared as winner of the prestigious German Design Awards in the category Excellent Architecture.
German Design Awards are the official design awards in Germany granted by the Ministry of Economy and Technology of the country and it focuses on the outstanding achievements in the different fields of design. The German Design Award identifies and presents unique design trend.
The project Hofmann house has been published in the book 100 Houses: Nature and Nurture, edited b Images Publishing, one of the world’s leading publishers of architecture and design volumes. It specializes in lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed books that showcase leading and emerging architects and designers internationally.
This edition pulls together an exceedingly diverse collection of 100 of the best contemporary houses from across the globe, each showcasing new and recent cutting-edge residential designs by some of the world’s leading architects and designers with full-color photographs that help underline the sensitivity of today’s design practitioners to the natural environment, as well as the care and attention paid to interior design.
The second edition of the monograph of our studio, Scenaries for Life, edited by TC Cuadernos, is now available after the first one is sold out.
The monograph compiles in 224 pages the most significant works made by our studio from its foundation until 2018.
The main works such the House of the cliff, the Balint House or the House between the pine forest, developed with plans for the first time in this volume. The interior design, the rehabilitation and the big scale works are also included.
The house located in a privileged environment, arises from its implementation in the place. A plot with a steep slope that descends to the east and main views that open out to the south.
With this starting point the house is deposited in the upper level, supported by a single element arranged perpendicularly to the mountain.
You can find more information about this project in our website or in our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profile.
The house on the cliff has been published recently in the book Houses: Extraordinary Living by the renowned publisher Phaidon.
The book explores the world’s most innovative and influential architect-designed houses created since the early 20th century and it also celebrates the incredible diversity and beauty of the house as never before, from modernist icons to feats of technological, material, and spatial innovation in the 21st century.
You can find the book here.
The Hofmann house project has been published in DETAIL’ 20, a recognized professional and international annual magazine of architecture and construction details produced by the editors of IW Magazine in Taiwan.
The magazine focuses the article on explaining what the project consists with pictures and plans. Only available in physical format.
Archilovers, one of the most relevant online platforms in the architecture sector with great impact on social networks, has published a special dedicated to Fran Silvestre Arquitectos.
Our initiative aims at “peeking behind the curtain” of our Architectural firm by asking to answer 10 simple questionsand give the readers an inside look of the studio.
You can read the interview here.
The project consists in the construction of the headquarters for Mondraker, a company dedicated to the manufacture of competition mountain bikes. Located in an industrial park and surrounded by orthogonal edification, the building seeks to break away from the adjacent geometry and encloses itself, with a circular plan hollowed out by a central courtyard. Two vaults pierce the geometry allowing the access to the building, and creating a sort of central atrium which can be used, due to its form, to generate events and exhibitions. This geometry separates the building from its surrounding, reinforcing the corporative identity of the company and improving the quality of the open space in the plot.
You can find more information about this project in our web, or in our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Twitter profile.
The second monograph of our studio, La belleza eficaz, has been sold out and a new edition is now available. The monograph is produced in Italy by the publishing house Casa Editrice Libria, within the Arianuova collection, an Italian publishing house specialized in architectural books that is characterized by a careful design that values the essence of the projects through a simple graphic design and direct, all this collected in a small format that converts each of its publications into an unique book.
The publisher has also published monographs of international architecture studios such as Barozzi Veiga, Bak Gordon, Tatiana Bilbao, Alberto Campo Baeza, Claus in Kaan, Steven Holl, Ensemble Estudio, Livio Vacchini or Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
You can find the book here.
The Hofmann house has been nominated for the ARCHMARATHON international architecture and design awards in its 2020 edition, held in Milan.
From September 25 to 27, our studio will be in Verona to present the project at the world event MARMOMACC, leader for the natural stone industry.
Congratulations! Valencia will be the World Capital of Design in 2022.
From our studio, we want to thank the entire commission and all the people who have made possible that in 2022, our city will be a reference in the map in terms of design worldwide. We are proud to have been part of this candidacy through a conference about our project Torre Eólica for the Technical Committee of the World Design Organization.
Inmag, the inHAUS magazine, has recently published an interview of Fran Silvestre, dealing with aspects related to Fran Silvestre Arquitectos’ style, the working methods, the innovation in the projects and his personal opinion about the future of architecture.
You can read more about the interview here.
The house in Sotogrande designed by our studio, has been published in Arquitectura y Diseño, one of the most read magazines in the sector.
Located in front of the Sotogrande’s golf course, the house proposes to inhabit the shade generated between the ground floor plan and the roof. A large cantilever allows to stop the intense sun of Cádiz and to protect from the abundant rains of the area of the Sierra de Grazalema.
You can read the article on Architecture and Design here and learn more about the house in Sotogrande in the project section of our website or in our Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.
Valencia World Design Capital 2022 Valencia is one of the finalist cities to be the World Capital of Design 2022. The World Design Capital is a city promotion project sponsored by the International Council of Industrial of Socities of Industrial Design to recognize and award accomplishments made by cities around the world in the field of design.
For this reason, the organizing committee will visit this Friday July 5, the Espai Alfaro, where our studio is located.
