Archikubik, ecosystem of architecture, urbanism and urban landscape, constituted in 2001 by MARC CHALAMANCH, MIQUEL LACASTA and CARMEN SANTANA, is composed by an international and multi-disciplinary team that works in an atmosphere of I+D+I in @kubik space, in Barcelona.
Its process of urban and architectural work is framed within the constant development of synergies and exchanges between public space (PS) and private participative space (PPS), with the purpose of rethinking our cities from the concept of the e-polis, the polis of the information society, as a place for learning, debate, diversity, respect and exchange.
Conceiving, giving the chance to inhabitants to become eco-citizens within communities, through architecture, to make public space an opportunity to rephrase our territories and our cities in the era of social networks.
In order to conciliate this, our projects are based on the scale 1/ ♥, a system that is capable of going further to be included within a transversal ecosystem, with the aim of articulating a global vision in a territorial scale, the one from the city, the neighborhood and the human scale, all of it incorporated to the time vector.
Our investigation is focused in the wide interpretation of ‘’green’’ as a tool for creation, as an infrastructure for the territory, with the objective of creating an organoleptic environment, open and sensitive. The productive landscape as a horizon for reflection.
Moving forward in a process of urban network acupuncture, all the projects and scales represent a chance to start strategies and tactics that allow to go further than the conventional codes that belong to last centuries’ industrial world. The investigation of new typologies to approach the constant transformations of society is part of our DNA.
- Carmen Santana at the roundtable “Chemin de l’innovation, eau et biodiversité dans les opérations d’aménagement”, Ateliers Ecocit’EMS, Cluster EMS, Choisy-le-Roi, February 2020
- Lecture of Miquel Lacasta, “Ciutats vives: Del Greenwashing al Green Deal“, ETSAV, Sant Cugat del Vallès, February 2020
- Miquel Lacasta at the debate “Unfinished: Ideas, Images and Projects from the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale” , Cooperativa d’Arquitectes Jordi Capell, Barcelona, January 2020
- Miquel Lacasta at the roundtable “Réinventer, avec doigté : la ville de demain sera verte ou ne sera pas“, “La ville, nouveaux horizons“, Le Point, Nice, November 2019
- Miquel Lacasta at the roundtable “High-tech vs Low-tech : what are the blueprints for a sustainable city?”, Batimat, Paris, November 2019
- Carmen Santana at the roundtable “Urbanisme réversible, outil d’aménagement durable du territoire ?”, festival Métropolisme, Montpellier, October 2019
- Carmen Santana, “Resilient and healthy cities.”, at the roundtable “Environmental health: healthy spaces and homes. Chemical contamination.”, 12th European Congress of Integrative Medicine, Barcelona, September 2019
- Miquel Lacasta at the roundtable “Efímeras-combinaciones-reutilizaciones“, BB Construmat, Barcelona, May 2019
- Miquel Lacasta at ESTAE, “Archikubik”, Cartagena, May 2019
- Carmen Santana at the roundtable “Nouveaux usages, services urbains, “communs ””, Club Ville Hybride-Grand Paris, L’Ile-Saint-Denis, March 2019
- Lecture of Carmen Santana “Alta calidad medioambiental sensible y social“, Col·legi Oficial d’Arquitectes d’Andorra, Andorra la Vella. March 2019
- Carmen Santana at the roundtable “Miradas Transversales”, “Visiones Arquitectónicas“, Grupo Habitat Futura, Barcelona, December 2018
- Lecture of Marc Chalamanch “El dipòsit del Rei Martí”, “Jornades Internacionals sobre la Intervenció en el Patrimoni Arquitectònic”, AADIPA, Barcelona, December 2018
- Lecture of Carmen Santana “L’espace-public: le carrefour des usages“, exhibition “L’espace-public est à nous”, Ivry-sur-Seine, December 2018
- Lectures of Miquel Lacasta “Ecological Innovation Paradigms”, Seoul, Kookmin University, Soongsil University, November 2018
- Miquel Lacasta at UIC Architecture Seminar, “La cuestión de la vivienda colectiva en la Europa contemporánea”, Barcelona, November 2018
- Miquel Lacasta at ARQFestival, “Arquitectura de Viviendas residencial”, Guadalajara, October 2018
- Carmen Santana at the roundtable “Agriculture urbaine”, Festival d’Architecture, Ivry-sur-Seine, October 2018
- Miquel Lacasta at Architecture World, Orgatec, “Plural Innovations in Architecture”, Cologne, October 2018
- Carmen Santana at Journée Smart Cities, Le Monde, “Villes intelligentes, villes solidaires: comment bâtir une vraie ville intergénérationnelle ?”, Lyon, April 2018
- Carmen Santana participated to the “7e printemps des études“, Paris, April 2018
- Carmen Santana at the roundtable “Ils inventent l’Île de France de demain” France 3, January 2018
- Archikubik co-leads FOROS 2018 Barcelona, UIC Barcelona School of Architecture
- Carmen Santana at 17ème Forum des Projets Urbains. ZAC Gagarine Truillot, November 2017
- Carmen Santana at the roundtable “Comment fabriquer la ville ?”, Universités d’été de l’architecture : # Utiles !, Paris, July 2017
- Carmen Santana at the TEDx Champs Élysées Women 2017 – EQUALICITY
- HC10 – Carmen Santana participated to the dixième édition des Heureuses Coïncidences, Lézigno, May 2017
- Marc Chalamanch at the roundtable “The skin of the building“, Roca Barcelona Gallery, April 2017
- Miquel Lacasta at the roundtable “Context and materials: use and re-use“, Barcelona, March 2017
- Roundtable “Converses d’Arquitectura: GRAN (L)“, Trespa Design Centre Barcelona, May 2016
- Marc Chalamanch participated to the lecture series ÁGORA, New projects of residential architecture, 2016
- Lecture of Miquel Lacasta, Archikubik, o l’arquitectura i l’urbanisme del cor , COAC Tarragona, March 2016
- Marc Chalamanch at the workshop Projecte i Industria, ETSAB, Barcelona, March 2016
- Lecture at the MIPIM 2016 – Réinventer Paris, Cannes, March 2016
- Lecture of Marc Chalamanch at La Salle, Barcelona, March 2016
To reinforce our investigations and incorporate these results to our projects, we are collaborating with various startups and platforms such as La Ville E+, Live in a @living city and also Ville Hybride, and we are a part of the higher education of the Architecture schools of Barcelona, ETSAB and ESARQ with different levels of involvement (project professors, master’s coordination, and workshops).
Our Structure, with the base located in Barcelona, is formed of a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of seven project managers that coordinate the teams and guarantee the following of the projects regularly during all the project phases, from the concept phase to the execution of the project. In fact, the project is always approach in a global approach, and we ensure the complete process thanks to a work methodology based on the regular presence, associated with close collaboration with our partners: Engineers, economists, construction managers… with all of them, we have built trust that allows us to guarantee the quality of our interventions throughout all the project stages, from the analysis till the site follow-up.
Last recognitions for the agency:
- European Award for Management and Business Innovation 2019, from the Asociación Europea de Economía y Competitividad (Aedeec), Spain.
- Selected for the Catalunya Construcció 2018 Awards, under the Heritage Rehabilitation category, Rei Martí Water Tank, Barcelona, Spain.
- Selected for the FAD 2018 Awards, under the category International, Le Sud au Nord, Evry, France.
- Winners in the Excellent Communications Design Urban Space and Infrastructure category in the German Design Awards 2018, the Reversible Saint-Roch Parking, Montpellier, France.
- Best Projet 2017 award by Archilovers. Rei Martí Water Tank, Barcelona, Spain
- Eco-Neighborhood 2017 Label. stage 2. ZAC Rouget de Lisle, France
- FAD 2017 Award under the category of City and Landscape, Rei Martí Water Tank, Barcelona, Spain
- Mies Van Der Rohe 2017 Award nomination (15th edition of the European Union prize for contemporary architecture). The Reversible Saint-Roch Parking, Montpellier, France
- Bienal de Venecia 2016, Unfinished. Spanish Pavilion, Rei Martí Water Tank, Barcelona, Spain
- Bienal de Venecia 2016, Aftermath. Catalan Pavilion, the Reversible Saint-Roch Parking, Montpellier, France
- Ascer Awards 2015. Honorary mention for the ceramic construction, the Reversible Saint-Roch Parking, Montpellier, France
- Hispalyt Ceramic Award 2015 selection. The Reversible Saint-Roch Parking, Montpellier, France
- FAD 2015 International Award . 253 Housing units in Ivry-sur-Seine, France
- Futures Possibles Award 2014. ZAC Rouget de Lisle, France
- Chevalier de L’ordre des arts et des lettres, 2014. Madame Carmen Santana
- A+ Award under the category of Educational Buildings, 2010. Sunion School, Barcelona, Spain
- Corian Design Awards, 2006
- Selected for the FAD 2001 Awards under the category of Ephermal Spaces. Met 2.0
- Selected for the FAD 2001 Awards under the category of Interior Design. Flex-house, Barcelona, Spain
- COAC, Barcelona. Letter to the Mayor – Cartes a l’Alcaldessa (2019)
- “Unfinished”, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, New York, USA, 2018-2019
- “Unfinished”, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Manila, Philippines, 2018
- “Unfinished”, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Tokyo, Japan, 2018
- “Unfinished”, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, ciudad de Mexico City, Mexico, 2018
- “Unfinished”, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Berlin, Germany, 2018
- “Unfinished”, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 2018
- “Unfinished”, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2017
- “Unfinished”, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Sydney, Australia, 2017
- Design Museum of Barcelona. De obra. Cerámica aplicada a la arquitectura (2016-2017)
- Virserum Art Museum, Sweden. Architecture of Necessity – WOOD 2016
- Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale: Unfinished (2016) (Golden Lion)
- Catalan Pavilion, Venice Biennale: AfterMath (2016)
- Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris. Reinventer Paris (2016)
- COA Sevilla. Mirror stories of Spanish architecture (2000-2015) (2016)
- Embassy of Spain in Berlín, Germany. Mirror stories of Spanish architecture (2000-2015) (2015)
- Disseny Hub, Barcelona. FAD Awards (2015)