Properties of Living Structures

2025
There are certain geometric and aesthetic properties that belong to the past and to the future.

Examples include fractals, symmetries, curves, gradients, echoes. The works of Christopher Alexander starts to uncover them.

They are timeless, because they come from nature. They make us feel more connected to the universe.

The architecture of the future will embody these properties, just as the architecture of the past did.

When Function Follows Form

2024
Places are defined by the activities that take place there. The form, which is everything that surrounds us, can allow things to happen seamlessly, without effort. Or it can be forbidding, making it impossible for activities to happen without an extra push.

Function and form both follow each other. But the most beautiful and wholesome places we experience are those where form doesn't just accommodate, but also inspires and elevates function.

Living Structures

2024
Photographs of a building in Barcelona and two medieval structures in Kayseri, edited to show the influence of context.

The quality of being alive is not exclusive to organisms. Objects, rooms, buildings, streets, cities can be alive. Most of modern architecture struggles to become alive, for various reasons. In worst cases, it can even kill. This issue might seem trivial or purely aesthetic. Yet it affects all of us in subconcious ways. Bad architecture and planning makes us less healthy, physically and mentally.

Make Catalunya Great Again

2024
These days, when an old structure falls out of use and is abandoned, it usually gets demolished and a new structure that completely ignores the surrounding fabric and the memory of the old is built in its place.

Rarely something beautiful happens and it comes back to life through a structure-preserving transformation. This is how every city used to evolve until modern times.  It's one of the reasons old cities are more harmonious. It's a process that requires more attention, but not always more money.

There are traditions that should be demolished and replaced. This is not one of them.

Studies for an Organic Villa

2024
The shift from hand drawing/drafting to Computer-Aided-Design in the past decades made architectural design and construction more efficient. Yet it is questionable whether our built environments have gotten more beautiful or sustainable as a result.

Drawing by hand involves a more fluid, intuitive process. It is more natural to draw curves, intricate details, imperfections, materiality and vegetation. Traditional construction methods are also more intuitive, responding to the conditions on-site. By contrast  CAD and modern construction allow for precision and speed, incentivizing mechanic repetition.

Generative technologies have the potential to help us reintroduce some of the contextual and humanistic sensibilities that we don’t see enough in contemporary architecture. 

Korce Stadium

2023
Mixed-use project 3D modeled for Bofill Arquitectura & Arquitectura-G

Cliff Villas

2022
Luxury villa project 3D modeled for Bofill Arquitectura

Santa Teresa Monastery
2022

Religious project 3D modeled for Bofill Arquitectura

Red Villa

2022
Luxury villa project 3D modeled for Bofill Arquitectura

Bofill Tower

2022
Residential project 3D modeled for Bofill Arquitectura
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