On June 13th, the MArch Valencia Postgraduate School held the fourth edition of MArch Alumni.

This event brings together former students from around the world for a day dedicated to exchanging ideas, projects, and professional experiences, as well as celebrating the 12th Anniversary of the school.

The gathering took place at The Terminal Hub, a unique venue located in La Marina de Valencia, right in front of the iconic Veles e Vents building, where the previous edition was also held in 2022.

Throughout the day, alumni shared the projects they’ve developed since completing their studies at MArch through short speeches, showcasing the diversity of approaches and career paths that define this international community. From architecture and design to urban innovation and technology applied to space, the program highlighted the emerging talent that has emerged from MArch’s classrooms.

MArch Alumni is now firmly established as a global platform for connection and a reference point for those who understand architecture as a constantly evolving discipline, driven by exchange and collaboration.

On June 4th, the event “Spain is in” took place in Athens, an initiative promoted by Interiors From Spain/ICEX.

Organized in collaboration with the Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of Spain in Greece and the architectural publications ek, the event was inaugurated by the Spanish Ambassador to Greece, Jorge Domecq Fernández.

The event is part of the international promotion program for Spanish design, which includes sectors such as interior design, furniture, lighting, textiles, and ceramics. This edition builds on the initiatives launched in November 2023 with a first technical session, and consolidates the presence of Spanish design in the Greek market with a more ambitious format.

On this occasion, Fran Silvestre participated as a speaker, delivering a lecture that opened the event, addressing topics related to residential development and contemporary architecture from the studio’s perspective.

More than 120 guests —including architects, interior designers, specifiers, and distributors— attended a day that strengthens the positioning of Spanish design on the international stage and highlights the value of collaboration between institutions, companies, and professionals in the sector.

The sustainability and eco-architecture platform Ecoinventos has recently published an article dedicated to the Dominio D’Echauz Winery, a project that proposes an intervention fully integrated into its surroundings, where architecture disappears to allow the landscape to take precedence.

The article highlights how the building is embedded into the topography without imposition, respecting the terrain’s morphology and using the earth itself as an envelope. This approach helps optimize energy efficiency, improve interior thermal conditions, and reduce the visual impact of the structure within the natural setting of Castilla y León.

The publication also emphasizes the use of passive temperature control systems, low-impact materials, and natural light as the primary compositional strategy. In the words of the studio, this is an architecture that emerges from the place and for the place, maintaining a constant dialogue with the landscape, materiality, and light.

The winery not only meets the functional requirements of wine production but also offers a sensory and spatial experience for its visitors. From the entrance to the tasting room, the journey is designed as a sequence of spaces that combine technical precision with poetic sensitivity.

The article underlines how this project represents a way of inhabiting the land with respect, innovation, and sustainability.

Proyectar Magazine has published an interview with Fran Silvestre, CEO and partner of the studio, in its third issue. The feature offers an in-depth look into the working philosophy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos: an architecture that combines precision, innovation, and a constant pursuit of effective beauty.

Throughout the conversation, Fran Silvestre reflects on the value of architecture that is not only aesthetic but also functional, durable, and capable of improving the lives of those who inhabit it. The systematization of processes, the mindful use of new technologies, and the integration of tools such as neuroarchitecture and Construction 4.0 are all part of a vision aimed at creating more sustainable, flexible, and human-centered spaces.

The interview also highlights the studio’s methodology, which always begins with teamwork and conceptual exploration, developing three design proposals for each commission. This strategy not only encourages creativity but also strengthens client involvement in the process.

“Perhaps our most important project, and the one I’m most proud of, is the studio itself and the people around it.”

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.”

You can read the full article on ABC here: Luxury homes are also opening up to industrialized construction – ABC

The studio’s new project in Cambrils is now under construction. The design is configured as a superposition of two bold volumes, with a slight shift in the first floor that creates covered terraces and orients the upper floor toward views of the Mediterranean Sea.

Two opaque faces of each volume serve as structural supports, allowing the façades to be completely freed and opened toward the garden through large windows that emphasize the horizontal nature of the composition.