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THE STUDIO
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Joaquin Torres and Rafael Llamazares constitute the architecture team known as A-cero.
Them in the beginning as architects, admire the classics, of course Le Corbusier and Mies, but feel a special attraction to the minimalist architecture of John Pawson and follow Spanish masters as Ignacio Ramos and Jose Antonio Vicens. The house of Las Matas of these last, will influence then decisively.
After designing his own studio made a small project, the Pillar House Bar and recross again the lines of imagination with an ambitious work but with great balance of forms. Success is immediate and then they will meet Amancio Ortega (Inditex), who entrust them his own house, and after this, the design of ‘Often’ stores.
The house of Juan Torres, father of the architect Joaquín Torres, was the first major studio project. From spectacular dimensions, with classic art works that create a pleasant contrast to the radical contemporary forms designed by the studio A-cero.
From here the monumentality of the A-cero homes will be marked as a personal touch of the study, as well as freedom in posing structures or the distribution of unorthodox structures of domestic spaces.
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The next big project will be the design of La Finca de Somosaguas, which creates a unique plot for the construction of about 180 large houses. La Finca is to A-cero what Oak Park to Frank Lloyd Wright. The homes created by the studio are unique in its forms, even it maintains a family resemblance or some seriality, are based on the Llamazares & Torres belief, that in architecture function is same important as the form.
But just as Kiesler is between the nest house and surreal and abstract spaces, A-cero will draw directly on the formal universe of large contemporary sculpture. A-cero architectural geometries recreates a long evolution over a relatively short period of time, which leads them purism of Le Corbusier to the last glimpses of objectual clearly curvilinear and Zaha Hadid. Extreme curves and angles that will characterize the most recent works of A-cero, both architectural structures in the development of multiple programs interior and furniture design.
The key of A-cero work is to keep the theme of the idea throughout the whole process, from start to the crucial phase of the project management. In this sense, the "why" is as important as the "how." The project must be developed based on the more general concept to complete the definition of the smallest detail that materializes.
A-cero is currently experiencing a significant internationalization process, with projects in Europe, UAE, Lebanon, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. |
