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| PLAYstudio |

… is an architecture office whose main purpose is the implementation of radical, innovative and unprejudiced ideas through open international competitions, mainly, and big commissions, in parallel. All of them, due to their scale and impact in the urban context, need to be thought from representativeness, the creation of added value and ecology – in the broadest sense.

| We make |

More than 15 years of experience, in architectural competitions and along with big clients, have allowed us to work in several countries and learn from different cultures. This has facilitated our specialization in establishing professional collaborations, both with other architecture offices and public administrations or private clients around the world – particularly in Austria, Norway and Spain. Consequently, we have developed projects mainly of representative buildings, mixed-use, collective housing and public space, but also projects that embrace large urban areas –these have been developed by our More Than Green platform.

| We provide |

Identity

We like to think of an architecture that belongs to its inhabitants, and with which they identify. We defend, thus, the specific rather than the generic. Therefore, our projects make explicit concepts such as identity, belonging, subjectivity or culture.

Strategic Management Capacity

We like to use design as a crucial tool for negotiating interests between multiple and different stakeholders, as well as for the management of controversies – we do not forget its necessary ethical and political dimension.

Economic mind

All our projects work with very tight budgets in highly complex contexts. This leads us to creatively understand the economy of resources, to achieve maximum social, cultural and environmental performance yet with the minimum investment.

The three points above summarize our approach to the concept of sustainability.

| We play |

We play designing, we design playing. We work mainly through the unprejudiced – sometimes ironic, sometimes naive, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes celebratory, but always playful – association of images coming from the different manifestations of the particular culture in which each project operates, in the first place; and of images from each person, company or group’s peculiar world, in second place. Our designs, therefore, are extremely figurative in making this associative condition explicit. They can be classified in three categories: literal copy, formal analogy and recreation of experiences.

Therefore, we like to say that:

PLAY is our attitude.

Reality, our playground.

Transformation of the Ordinary, our motivation.

User’s subjectivity, our way.

And Fun, our routine.

| We are |

Iván Capdevila Castellanos
Founder | Partner | Creative Director

José Manuel López Ujaque
Partner | Head of Design

Vicente Iborra Pallarés
Cofounder | Partner (2010-18)

PLAY people

| Credits |

CONFERENCE CENTER in Alicante, Spain
Year | 2023
Surface | 25.046 m² 
Authors | Iván Capdevila – José M. López Ujaque
Collaborators | Altea Amorós – Minerva G. Blasco – Rafa Zarza García

SOCIAL HOUSING in Molins de Rei, Spain
Year | 2022
Surface | 3.432 m² 
Authors | Iván Capdevila – José M. López Ujaque
Collaborator | Paula Pastor

SOCIAL HOUSING in Alicante, Spain
Year | 2021
Surface | 1.507 m² 
Authors | Iván Capdevila – José M. López Ujaque
Collaborator | Andrea López-Maroto

SOCIAL HOUSING in San Sebastián, Spain
Year | 2021
Surface | 1.457 m² 
Authors | Iván Capdevila – José M. López Ujaque

URBAN VERTICAL FACTORIES in Vienna, Austria
Year | 2017 —
Developer | ÖSW Erste Group Immorent AG
Surface | 49.000 m² (plot)
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra
Collaborators | Jorge Socorro – Marina Bonet – Agustín Morazzoni – Alberto Carbonell – Riccardo Galandrini
Involved stakeholders | MD21 – City of Vienna – Standpunkt Liesing – Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Industry

RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX in Vienna, Austria
Year | 2003 – 2016
Developer | ÖSW Österreichisches Siedlungswerk Gemeinnützige Wohnungsaktiengesellschaft
Surface | 5.267 m²
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra – Javier Yáñez (Alicante) + Dr. Ronald Mischek ZT GmbH (Vienna)
Photographies | David Frutos

MIXED USE COMPLEX in Vienna, Austria
Year | 2019
Surface | 11.539 m² (plot)
Authors | José M. López Ujaque
Collaborators | Paula Pastor – Mercedes Naranjo

SOCIAL HOUSING in Mallorca, Spain
Year | 2020
Surface | 2.297 m² (plot)
Authors | Iván Capdevila – José M. López Ujaque
Collaborators | Paula Pastor – Clara Segura

WH ARENA in Vienna, Austria
Year | 2020
Surface | 40.520 m²
Authors | Iván Capdevila – José M. López Ujaque (Alicante) + Dr. Ronald Mischek ZT GmbH (Vienna)
Collaborators | Salvador Serrano – Rafa Zarza García – Andrea López-Maroto

HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY in Oslo, Norway
Year | 2019
Authors | Iván Capdevila – José M. López Ujaque (Alicante) + Jenny Grettve – Vicente Zaragoza (Malmö)
Collaborators | Ismael Ugena – Andrea Sellés

OFFICE BUILDING, Atlántica Agrícola, Villena, Spain
Year | 2016 – 2019
Design | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra
Structure and Site Management | José Manuel Bonastre
Architect | Antonio Martínez
Lighting | Enrique Ferrer Plaza

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM in Helsinki, Finland
Year | 2014
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra
Collaborators | Salvador Serrano – Rafa Zarza García – Javier Rives

INNOVATION AXIS in Forus, Norway
Year | 2015 —
Developer | Forus Næringspark, Stavanger Kommune
Surface | 49.000 m² (plot)
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra
Collaborators | Jose Antonio Gras – Simona Miron
Involved stakeholders | IKDP Forus – Greater Stavanger – UiS – Kåkå kverulantkatedralen – Sandnes Kommune – Kunst skole – Tvedtsenteret – Sparebank 1 – Stavanger Konserthus – DNB bank – NHO Rogaland – Statoil

RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX in Stavanger, Norway
Year | 2005 — 2008
Developer | Stavanger Kommune
Surface | 14.732 m²
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra – Javier Yáñez
Collaborators | Alejandro Aliaga – Iñaki Llorens – Jesús Soriano – Ángel Quintanar – Sara Vergel
Involved stakeholders | Stavanger Urban Sjofront – Stavanger Kommune

MIXED USE COMPLEX in Bruck an der Mur, Austria
Year | 2015
Surface | 15.000 m² (plot)
Authors | José M. López Ujaque – Francisco G. Triviño – Katerina Psegiannaki

SOCIOCULTURAL CENTER in Alicante, Spain
Year | 2020
Developer | City of Alicante
Surface | 30.000 m² 
Authors | Iván Capdevila – José Manuel López Ujaque
Collaborators | Ester Gisbert (Drassana Architects) – Paula Pastor – Clara Segura – Eva Candela – Nacho Burgos

URBAN PARK in Stavanger, Norway
Year | 2012 — 2014
Developer | Stavanger Kommune
Surface | 14.732 m²
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra – Javier Yáñez
Collaborators | Ana Fernández – David Gil – Tatiana Poggi – Javier Campoy
Involved stakeholders | Stavanger Urban Sjofront – Stavanger Kommune

SEAFRONT in Altea, Spain
Year | 2018
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra
Collaborator | Marina Bonet

EL PALMERAL VIEWPOINT in Elche, Spain
Year | 2009
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra – Javier Yáñez
Collaborators | José M. López Ujaque – Fernando Such

TRYGVE LIES PLASS in Oslo, Norway
Year | 2015
Developer | Oslo Kommune
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra
Collaborators | Ana Melgarejo – Jose Antonio Gras

SEAFRONT in Ostend, Belgium
Year | 2016
Developer | City of Ostende
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra
Collaborators | Ana Melgarejo – Jose Antonio Gras

KJOPMANNSGATA STREET in Trondheim, Norway
Year | 2017
Developer | Trondheim Kommune
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra
Collaborators | Jorge Socorro – Joaquín Lucas – Diego Abellán 

SOCIAL HOUSING in Alicante, España
Year | 2007
Developer | Patronato Municipal de la Vivienda, Alicante
Authors | Iván Capdevila – Vicente Iborra – Javier Yáñez