Overview
Category
Architecture & Planning
Architecture, Urban design & Landscape Architectural firm based in Barcelona that focuses on contemporaneity, sustainability and sensitivity to the environment.The constant investigation into the materiality, the light and the coherent use in a given context is a fundamental factor in its architecture. Its efforts concentrate on developing strategies and rigorous methods to create high-quality projects, providing services which add value and for the users’ well-being. JRA is a multidisciplinary group involved in research and teaching that together with the practice aims unique results, taking into account even the smallest detail. The studio has proven experience and technical capacity to deal effectively with complex architectural projects. JRA portfolio spans a broad range of scales and typologies, from private houses, offices, restaurants, retail and landscape interventions, a cemetery and urban settlements. All tasks are developed in a coordinated network formed by external collaborators proactively completing the comprehensive range of professional services, which provide global solutions and the operative capacity fordesigning, developing and building projects. Their work has received several prestigious distinctions and it has participated in some international exhibitions as the Venice Architecture Biennale or the European Landscape Biennial. JRA aims to be a creative workshop for architects open to share experiences and knowledge. The firm, Jofre Roca arquitectes, was founded in 2007 by Jofre Roca Calaf, architect by the Technical Superior Architecture School of Barcelona (ETSAB) and also trained at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskola (KTH) in Stockholm. He has Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) for the Doctorate Studies by the Architectural Projects Department within the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC). He has been Guest Lecturer in numerous European universities.
