PRÁCTICA is an architecture firm with offices in Madrid and Seville, founded by Jaime Daroca, José Mayoral and José Ramón Sierra, who met while studying at Harvard University. Their extensive international experience in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Chile and Spain, and their collaboration with offices such as Herzog & de Meuron, David Chipperfield or Rafael Moneo, gives them a global vision in projects of different scales and programs.
The founders of PRÁCTICA studied architecture at the Universities of Madrid and Seville, and received Master of Architecture degrees from Harvard. They continue to play an active academic role through teaching and research at institutions such as Columbia University, the Catholic University of Chile, and the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
PRÁCTICA has grown into a multidisciplinary team of professionals, with experts in architecture, urban planning and interior design from all over the world. Their different perspectives and experiences contribute to the construction of a stimulating design environment that generates creative and unexpected responses. PRÁCTICA’s work has been exhibited in international institutions such as the MoMA in New York, the Architecture Biennials of Venice, Spain and Chile, and the Lisbon Triennial.
Our design process is defined by its conceptual approach and attention to detail. We focus on redefining design ideas to achieve sustainable and innovative solutions.
His interior design work includes the Los Remedios Dental Clinic in Seville, which received the Emerging Award from the Official College of Architects of Madrid, second prize in the Architecture and Society Awards of the College of Seville, and second prize in the 5th Bienal de Arquitectura de España.
This project establishes a series of light filters through oak wood lattices and pristine translucent glass volumes.
Similarly, his recent project for a dwelling in Prosperidad, Madrid, currently nominated for the Architecture Awards of the Superior Council of Architects’ Associations of Spain (CSCAE), deals with the concepts of the enfilade, the inhabited wall and the extended threshold, establishing a concatenation of rooms and minimizing circulation spaces.
His project Ático en Chamberí, also in Madrid, organizes the daytime and nighttime spaces of an apartment around a central piece of hickory furniture that houses all the service and storage spaces.
The changing profile of the kitchen island transforms it into a bench that creates the dining area, optimizing the limited space of this residential work, whose quality lies in the attention to detail and luxury materials.
