On October 16, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos will inaugurate at the Espai Alfaro the exhibition 750 Models. 25 Years of Handmade Thinking.

Working with models goes beyond the mere representation of architecture: it is a fundamental tool for conceiving it. It is a process of thinking with the hands, one that brings an additional dimension to design, engaging more senses and enriching the understanding of the project at every stage. Ultimately, the making of models allows us to reach places that drawing alone cannot.

Philip Jodidio highlights the unusual approach of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos to new designs, pointing out their special dedication to models as a primary creative tool. According to Jodidio, this method brings their work closer to that of sculptors, such as the admired Andreu Alfaro, rather than to traditional architects who rely on sketches as their main mode of expression.

From the earliest stages, the studio pursues precise results, employing materials that make it possible to develop complex geometries with simple techniques.

The selection on display represents part of the models created by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos over the past 25 years. These handmade pieces correspond to projects of different typologies, scales, and locations, serving diverse functions: from understanding volumes and their relationship with the environment to resolving and exploring spatial or constructional details.

David Cohn notes that the studio’s architecture is neither essentialist nor searching for some lost and rooted authenticity. He observes that the projects, despite their abstraction, are more about addressing the problem at hand and about how to create an environment for everyday life that elevates us beyond the ordinary, towards a more complete and awakened sensual engagement with our surroundings.

The exhibition will remain open to the public until January and can be visited by appointment via email at info@fransilvestrearquitectos.com.

On October 1, 2025, the Mercado de Colón in Valencia will host the presentation of a new outdoor kitchen design, Nedra, a creation by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in collaboration with Porcelanosa, Gandia Blasco, XTONE, Krion, and Gamadecor.

The presentation will feature a show cooking led by Ricard Camarena, the Valencian chef awarded two Michelin stars. The session will be an opportunity to experience live how design and gastronomy come together on the same stage.

The kitchen, designed to naturally integrate into contemporary outdoor spaces, combines technical precision, formal elegance, and contemporary materials in the service of design. This project emerges from the synergy between firms that understand design as more than utility: a way of creating objects with architectural identity and a sense of time.

On September 11, the first edition of El Motor de la Arquitectura took place in Madrid, a conference organized by Fearless Art Magazine in collaboration with Range Rover and Porcelanosa.

The event brought together architects, designers, technology brands, and representatives of the hospitality sector to reflect on the dialogue between architecture, automotive design, and sustainability.

Architect Fran Silvestre participated as a speaker in the panel titled “Architecture and Automotive: Icons of Style and Sustainability,” alongside Emilio Tuñón, Enrique Solís, and Carlota Perán. The conversation explored the link between architectural and automotive design, delving into how both worlds share values such as formal precision, energy efficiency, essential aesthetics, and a sense of permanence.

During the discussion, concepts such as clean geometry, visual sobriety, and functional elegance were examined as shared languages between architectural works and car design. Special emphasis was placed on how a house can engage in dialogue with its surroundings—and with the objects within it—through a coherent vision where form and function intertwine effortlessly.

Held at the Porcelanosa showroom in Madrid, the conference addressed topics such as urban planning, electric mobility, design, and hospitality, revisiting Le Corbusier’s idea of the house as a “machine for living.”

El Motor de la Arquitectura thus proposed a new cross-disciplinary perspective where architecture, automotive design, and conscious luxury come together to imagine the icons of the future.

Enjoy your summer!

The Threeseven project has become the setting for a special collaboration with the furniture brand Andreu World.

The photo session, carried out both inside and outside the Threeseven residences (a project conceived by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos to redefine the concept of high-end living in La Moraleja), is part of an editorial collaboration that highlights contemporary architecture and responsible design. In this context, Andreu World’s furniture is presented not only as a functional object, but as an integral part of the living space.

The collaboration celebrates shared values between both brands: sustainable design, material quality, and a respectful approach to the environment. With their essential geometry and spaces in continuity with nature, the Threeseven residences offer the ideal setting to showcase a way of living grounded in comfort, durability, and effective beauty.

The geometry of the house emerges as a direct response to its setting: a predominant views, and a plot with elongated proportions that determine the longitudinal placement of the volume.

In this context, a sequence of extruded spaces is chosen, where the main rooms are oriented toward the open landscape, establishing a continuous relationship between interior and exterior.

The upper volume, slightly offset from the main body, houses the night area and creates a large covered terrace. The volumes feature only two additional openings: one on the ground floor and another on the upper level. Both are placed at strategic points, giving the façade a dynamic reading.

We have always been fascinated by Arthur Schopenhauer’s idea of architecture as “frozen music.” We like to think of this project as a movement in pause, a form sculpted by its context, like Andreu Alfaro’s sculpture Figure About to Fly, eternally still and yet in perpetual motion.