Alventosa Morell Arquitectes
Marc Alventosa Zaidin created his studio in Barcelona in 2006. Xavier Morell Jané came on board in 2008 and in 2010 they joined forces in creating Alventosa Morell Arquitectes. The team has experience in a variety of building typologies, such as houses, schools, healthcare buildings, hotels and historical renovations, however sustainability and environmentally friendly design is the firm's key specialty. Incorporating energy efficient strategies in producing self-sufficient architecture is paramount to Alventosa and Morell. At the same time, they aim for buildings that are also 'socially and economically responsible'. Their portfolio features a wealth of residential work. Highlights include the white, rectilinear composition of Casa VC in La Floresta near Barcelona, and the timber-clad, single-storey volumes that make up Casa GG in Santa Maria de Palautordera - a bioclimatic house, which the architects count among their favourites 'for its constructive coherence, its degree of energy efficiency and the comfort achieved'.
www.alventosamorell.com
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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