Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Detail is one of the main values of our projects. Our approach towards a project arises from a double commitment: the will of giving technical answers to a particular context and the desire to seek for beauty within the built piece. Both in the conception of the form and during material execution, the search consists in generating each project from the small gestures that provide them with coherence, continuity, precision and sensibleness. Each of our designs is first thought by hand, proposing and analysing small models, putting special care in those constructive details, in the way in which different surfaces meet... While looking for benefits given by new developments in the area, together with possibilities given by serial production, to end up building using these innovations. Each design emerges from an investigation, from the contemplation of architecture in the search of functional, practical and aesthetic improvements. It's existence makes architecture itself distinct. Additionally, details are to be found both in the inside and the outside, but do not reside exclusively in architecture itself. They also appear in the field of lighting, where we closely collaborate with manufacturers and lighting designers in order to obtain an optimal result in which light and architecture become completely mimetic. This spatial continuity is reflected in the use of little materials and the integration of installations. The same occurs with landscaping of each project, which reflects on the interaction between architecture and it's closest surroundings. The scale of a project doesn't matter, the detail within it does. May it be a single-family house, a many storey building, a table or a lamp, an architecture or an industrial design project... Always, in all cases, it will be detail what gives it it's own personality.