Casa el Respiro, Los Monasterios — Rubén Muedra Arquitectura
Studio · Valencia · Madrid

Responsible, creative and honest. That remains the essence.

Rubén Muedra Arquitectura

The studio is not only the place where projects are designed. It is the structure of thought, rigor and precision that makes a specific architecture possible.

Team

A structure of precision

The quality of a studio does not depend only on individual talent. It depends on the ability to turn that talent into a shared culture. Direction, development, technique, visualization, site work, structures, technology and administration coexist within the same working logic.

Rubén Muedra
Rubén MuedraCEO
Pilar Quevedo
Pilar QuevedoFinancial Director · Partner
Javier Muedra
Javier MuedraTechnical Director
Bianka González
Bianka GonzálezDevelopment Director
Javier Hinojosa
Javier HinojosaVisualization Director
Iana Iamendi
Iana IamendiInnovation Director
Project Coordination
Tomás Johnstone
Tomás JohnstoneArchitect · Project Coordinator
José Tourón
José TourónArchitect · Project Coordinator
Luciana Bruna
Luciana BrunaArchitect · Project Coordinator
Paco Olcina
Paco OlcinaArchitect · Project Coordinator
Borja Alcover
Borja AlcoverArchitect · Project Coordinator
Miguel Ivars
Miguel IvarsArchitect · Project Coordinator
Natalia Castro
Natalia CastroArchitect · Project Coordinator
Juanjo Marín
Juanjo MarínTechnical Architect · Project Coordinator
Technical Development, Structures and Site
Andrea Ortiz
Andrea OrtizTechnical Architect · Site Director
Emilio Belda
Emilio BeldaStructural Engineering
Román Martínez
Román MartínezCollaborating Engineer
Technology, Visualization and Support
Iago Comput
Iago ComputArtificial Intelligence Director
Adrián Mora
Adrián MoraPhotography
Concept

Without fixed formulas

Each project is built from its own condition, not from a repeated identity.

We are interested in each work finding its own language through the idea, the place and the real need that gives rise to it.

Every project is unique, for a specific client and within a specific context. For that reason, we avoid predetermined identity resources and the repetition of a studio image applied automatically.

Essentiality

We seek a clear and refined result, even when behind it there is a dense, complex project resolved down to the finest detail.

Integration

Architecture must enter into dialogue with the built environment, the landscape, the social context and the cultural dimension of place.

Balance

We are interested in the right relationship between forms and geometries, between the parts and the whole, between presence and continuity.

Synthesis

We design from the idea, avoiding pre-established resources. Light is understood as an essential raw material of the work.

Timelessness

We aspire to a sincere architectural language, capable of enduring beyond trends and continuing to evoke over time.

Continuity

Continuity with the environment, spatial continuity, minimization of materials, integration of systems and continuity over time.

Constructive Sincerity

Nothing in representation that is not in the function. Nothing in the form that cannot be sustained by logic.

Responsible Innovation

New materials and new technologies, always at the service of people and of a conscious improvement of tradition.

Sustainability

Responsible materials, renewable energies and rational decisions that make possible a healthy and economically coherent architecture.

Precision

From the initial idea to materialization, precision is both a working condition and a way of understanding quality.

Method

Protecting coherence

Solving needs with precision requires listening well, interpreting well and supporting the project with realism and rigor.

This work begins with the client and with the context. It requires time, listening, analysis and a reading capable of distinguishing between what is expressed and what truly needs to be solved.

Technical precision, BIM methodology, virtual reality, licensing follow-up, budget management and close collaboration with the contractor all form part of one and the same process.

Client

The project begins by understanding who will inhabit it, use it or drive it. Architecture is born from that reading.

Context

Location, orientation, topography, surroundings and environmental conditions are active parts of the project from the outset.

Realism

Understanding the real economic capacity makes it possible to optimize resources and demonstrate that architectural quality does not depend on budget alone.

The process
01Listen

Understand the client, interpret needs and detect what is essential behind what merely appears to be so.

02Read the Context

Understand the plot, surroundings, orientation, topography, environmental conditions and relationship with place.

03Design with Realism

Work from the real economic capacity in order to optimize resources without giving up quality.

04Refine and Coordinate

Resolve the project in detail, through BIM methodology and tools that anticipate better execution.

05Materialize

Carry the work through to a result that not only meets expectations, but surpasses them.

Thought

Atmosphere

Regarding a Certain Structuralist Neo-Formalism

A text that helps to understand the critical, conceptual and disciplinary dimension of the studio. Not as a theoretical appendix, but as a living part of its architecture.

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Inhabiting the Essence

A piece that helps explain the trajectory, maturity and consolidation of a distinctive identity through the studio’s first ten years.

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Ecosystem

Beyond the studio

The life of the work does not end in the project. It expands into the places where it is shared, recognized and contrasted.

Media

Presence of the work in platforms, media and specialized dissemination contexts.

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Awards

Recognitions that reflect the consistency of the work and the level of rigor with which each project is developed.

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Publications

Books, magazines and editorial formats that broaden the reading of the studio and its projects.

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Exhibitions

The voice of the studio in spaces of thought, exchange, conferences and public exposure.

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