The complex is located in an irregular area of Barcelona’s Eixample, where housing and industry are combined and it adjusts to the specific volumetry approved by the City Council in 1956, which was later retouched in 1961. The office tower, with a vertical component, is located in one of the corners of the block and is separated from the ground to mark the access. The laboratory block, with a horizontal and slightly curved composition, is set back from the street to create a parking lot protected by a small embankment. Subsequently, different extensions were made until the block was completed with facilities for industrial use. Currently, a rehabilitation of the complex is in the making, adapting the tower to housing and the block to offices. The set’s lightness and compositional freedom are due to the use of a metal structure that frees the walls from their load-bearing condition. This effect is amplified by the treatment of the façades, covered with white limestone, which enhances the surfaces as abstract planes. The vertical guidelines of the metal pillars meet the horizontal strips of glass in the same plane. Between 2002 and 2006, the building underwent important modifications to modify its use and house homes and offices, maintaining the volumetry and façades.

The Botanical Institute building – a centre dependent on the Superior Council of Scientific Research – is located at the highest point of the Barcelona Botanical Garden on the side of the Montjuic mountain together with the Olympic Ring. The building faces the north-east wing of the garden, the area dedicated to the phytoepisodes of the Western Mediterranean and North Africa, with views over the city of Barcelona. It is structured as a horizontal line that intersects the natural sloping terrain like a hinge between two topographic elevations. In this way, the section allows the different programs to be organizsd with independent access from the back road and from the network of paths in the garden. The Botanical Institute is divided into three different levels according to its program: – A first underground level located in the large concrete vessel that forms the foundations and that contains, with specific air conditioning, the plant deposits, books, the large herbarium, as well as the installations and the small work area both illuminated and ventilated through patios. This plant acts as a structural counterweight to the constructive mechanism of the upper plants; a set of reinforced concrete screens, walls, girders that organise the program and support the intermediate level at the level of the garden and from which the upper floor is suspended at the level of the access platform and rear parking lot. – The multipurpose room and the Salvador Museum, the exhibition area and the cafeteria-restaurant are on the intermediate level, connected to the Botanic Garden’s path network. All of them have access to the garden. – The restricted area intended for scientists; the library, research areas and laboratories and the administration area are on the upper level. The six-metre corridors adapt to the different structural and lighting requests, making up a continuum in which the gusts become more powerful as the topographic fall of the land becomes more pronounced. The construction uses the same materials already present in the construction of the garden; exposed concrete and Corten steel.

Edifici de recerca, per a la Universitat de Lleida situat al campus de Cappont. Està destinat a la recerca d’energies aplicades S’estructura en tres blocs diferenciats per usos, seguint el programa de partida. a) Un que acull l’àrea de tallers, sales de muntatges experimentals. Se situa paral·lel al carrer per afavorir els accessos rodats i té una volumeria més contundent considerant els seus requeriments de doble alçada i privacitat (assaig de prototipus).Així mateix seguint els requeriments de programa, ocupa un cos independent de la resta de l’edifici. b) Àrea de laboratoris i assaigs situats en planta baixa amb façana a l’interior del campus i ben comunicats amb l’àrea de despatxos d’investigadors responsables que se situen davant, a l’altre costat del passadís. c) Despatxos/seminaris, disposats davant de laboratoris i que donada la seva dimensió i característiques d’ús s’estructuren en 2 plantes per aconseguir la mateixa orientació i tipologia, a més d’un nucli d’administració situat en planta baixa, al costat del vestíbul d’accés. Un espai obert central enjardinat separa el nucli de tallers (més sorollós) de la resta de l’edifici. Característiques més significatives de l’edifici: - Edifici lineal, amb poca alçada que a través de la torre d’instal·lacions, recupera l’alçada genèrica de la resta d’edificis del campus. Façana al carrer en formigó, buscant per una banda l’aïllament visual i evitar la transmissió de soroll i generar una imatge potent. - Dos grans pòrtic marquen els molls de càrrega, que són la interrelació entre tallers i carrer. - Les grans caixes, , sobre la coberta, recullen instal·lacions especials i serveixen de lluernaris als laboratoris. - Instal·lacions especials- relacionades amb l’objecte de l’edifici-: plaques fotovoltaiques verticals i horitzontals en façana i coberta, plaques solars tèrmiques, amb tubs de buit i amb col·lector pla en coberta, , equips de cogeneració, aportació natural, dins la mateixa arquitectura de calor i fred .

The Biomedical Research Park is located on the seafront of Barcelona, in an environment characterised by the proliferation of unique buildings. The proposal of a large platform that arranges the site, in a very irregular way, and the placement on top of an elevated building in the shape of a diagonally truncated elliptical cone, has allowed us to tidy up the environment and relate us quietly with the nearest volumes. The elliptical shape arises from the need to adapt a large building (about 35,000 m2 above ground level) to a very tight site with a significantly irregular shape and very different volumes around it. The building is staggered towards the sea, smooths the seafront and adapts to the buildings of the promenade, which in this area have reduced heights and rises at the back, towards the city, because it has enough space. This stepped-to-sea shape makes it easier to locate on the roof of solar panels for the production of hot water and electricity. The interior of the building is emptied to create a new reality, independent from the environment, which will frame and control the sea views and allow to regulate the sun. The structure of the building is blown up about 7 meters around its perimeter. The cladding of the façade is made of natural wood and a light openwork, without touching the floor. This second skin allows good light and energy control of the building.

The new building was located near the Monastery of Sant Benet de Bages. The Llobregat river embraced there, with an abrupt gesture, magnificent fields of cereals and vineyards that housed the imposing Romanesque monastery and later the Carbó textile factory. Two monuments of the past that testified with great clarity and expressive force to two brilliant moments in the country's history. The new building did not want to stand as an element that would blur the previous ones or take away their prominence, and sought to distance itself from their architectural, constructive and geometric conceptions. Already in the initial drawings, there appeared lines that did not refer to known building types, but rather insinuated malleable, pasty forms, with amorphous geometries that suggested adaptation and camouflage. In this way, the new organism was easily respecting old walls, fences, paths, stairs, plantations... and adapting to the constant changes of an inconcrete programme that obliged it to change its size, occupation and height, even embracing the neighbouring house of the former owners in a permanent demonstration of its great docility and flexibility. A raised floor, a generous false ceiling and a free floor plan reinforced the desire to accommodate the unpredictable. The building was designed so that from the inside one could experience the feeling of being in a place surrounded by nature, of being inside it, of being able to see the trees, the birds and the rain from very close up. This is why the vertical plane separating the interior and exterior was completely glazed. A surface which, depending on the intensity of the light, was transparent or reflective, so that at times the built volume disappeared and at others it was totally integrated into the surroundings by reflecting the exterior as if it were a mirror. The control of sun, light and privacy was achieved through a complex façade of varying thickness, ranging from zero in the entrance area to 13m at the widest point. It was a band defined by the vertical plane of glass enclosing the building on one side and by a wall of almost the same height on the other. This wall made use of pieces of old stone walls which were extended with new concrete walls and in some areas large windows were opened up to allow controlled views of the landscape. In between these two vertical planes, horizontal shading canopies were installed at the same level as the interior ceiling and trees were planted to ensure solar protection and quality of light. This thick façade of variable width easily resolved the compromise between the interior form that the building required and the exterior form that the site demanded, while also creating a quiet, landscaped intermediate space that visually prolonged the interior space and formed an inseparable unit with it. Generous vertical skylights facing north balanced the light in the areas of the ground floor furthest from the perimeter.

The new facilities of the CRAM Foundation are located at the old Prat de Llobregat golf course in the Equipment Area of the Corredor del Litoral, with a performance area of approximately 20,000m2. The project seeks the balance between the clinical research program and the public program, with the minimum means possible, to ensure that the conditions of the activity become the fundamental elements when defining the architectural and volumetric features of the whole set. This decision pursues an architecture that seeks the equidistant point between its functional condition and its representative condition as a public building. Each of the three buildings that make up the complex expresses in its form the activity that takes place there.

The ICTA-ICP building located on the UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona) campus is a research centre in environmental sciences and paleontology. Consistent with their fields of research, the building's users bet on an ambitious response to sustainability challenges. The building, an isolated volume of five floors of 40x40m and two basements, accommodates the following uses. On the ground floor: lobby, bar, classrooms and administration; on the following 3 floors, offices and laboratories; on the deck, greenhouses and rest areas; in the semi-basement, parking and machine rooms; and in the basement, warehouses and the rest of the laboratories. Both offices and laboratories are uses with a lot of internal load that tend to be hot. The ICTA-ICP has been designed to take advantage of it in winter and to dissipate it in summer. We plan the building as an adaptable and flexible infrastructure to possible changes of use.