CALDERON-FOLCH-SARSANEDAS ARQUITECTES is an Architecture office in Barcelona founded in 2000 and awarded in 2013 with International Spanish Architects Awards-Young Architect Abroad by the CSCAE-Spanish Architects Association, with the “Prix National Construction en Bois-Coup de Coeur” Award by the “Association des Maires de France”, in 2012 with the National Energy Efficiency Awards in Spain by Isover, and in 2004 and 2012 with the AJAC Award for Young Architects by the Catalan Architects Association. Nominated to the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture-Mies van der Rohe 2015.

We provide integral services of Architecture: Building, Urban Projects, Interior Design, Ephemeral Staging and Cultural Projects; both in public and private field. We propose a “conscious” architecture, to improve people’s quality of life and to offer an optimal solution for the client’s requirements and for the collective interest, through socially and environmentally responsible attitude. We are Certified Passive House Designers from the Passivhaus Institut in Germany. Our projects are the creative synthesis of a close look to the nature of each place and a meticulous, critical and analytical research into the complexity of technical and functional concrete factors.

Our work seeks to achieve the best quality. The combination of an excellent design and the direction of interdisciplinary teams formed by a network of experts leads to the holistic integration of a high technical rigor, an efficient production management and an exhaustive economic control, with the most up-to-date sustainability criteria.


pol sarsanedas arquitecte-calderon folch sarsanedas-2015

POL SARSANEDAS

(Barcelona, 1981)

Certified Passive House Designer from the Passivhaus Institut of Germany. Master in Architecture (EtsaB -School of Architecture of Barcelona- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and Postgraduated in “Sustainabilty and Architecture” by the Sert School of Barcelona. He completed his studies in Switzerland at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (Università della Svizzera Italiana). In 2009 he started his collaboration with Calderon-Folch Arquitectes and since 2011 he is an associated architect at Calderon-Folch-Sarsanedas Arquitectes. Awarded with the Ajac prize for Young Architects in 2012 by the Catalan Architects Association.


Associated Architects Since 2000

Ignasi Arbeloa:  “21 Public Housing units in St. Llorenç Savall”; “Sitges Police Station”
Gérald Lafond: “Cultural Centre Léonce-Georges”
Jordi Bernuz, Manel Fernández: “Pedestrian Bridge in Manresa”
Liliana Silva: “UTEC University New Campus in Lima”
Miba Architects: “Medical School of the University of Cyprus”

Project Assistants since 2000

Federico Ortiz, architect (COL)
Carmen Otero, arch. student (ESP)
Aida Pérez, arch. student (ESP)
David Pérez, arch. student (ESP)
Adriana Porta, arch. student (ESP)
Matteo Pulcinelli, architect (ITA)
Àlex Real, arch. student (ESP)
María Ríos, architect (ESP)
Edgar Sanjuán, designer (ESP)
Gemma Serra, architect (ESP)
Pere Raventós, student (ESP)
Rubén Rodríguez, architect (ESP)
Manuela Schininá, architect (ITA)
Freek Schotte, architect (ZA)
Janek Strzykala, architect (POL)
Anne Szloser, architect (POL)
Monika Szymaniak, architect (POL)
Leonor Toro, arch. student (ESP)
Roger Tremoleda, architect (ESP)
Gianpaolo Vacca, architect (ITA)
Pilvi Vanamo, arch. student (FIN)
Situ Ya, architect (CHN)
Caroline Yu, architect (USA)
Luca Zanon, architect (ITA)

Photographers

Díaz-Wichmann Photography: all projects, except:
Pol Viladoms:  “El Roure community centre and La Ginesta Library”, “Low Energy MZ House” (exterior), “Cultural Centre Léonce Georges”, “Open Pavilion in Barcelona”, “Apartment LM”, “Apartment J”, “Pedestrian Bridge in Manresa”. 
Lourdes Jansana: “33 Public Housing Units in Begues”:
Adrià Goula: “Pedestrian Bridge in Manresa (main)”:
Tim Adami: Portrait of Pilar Calderon and Marc Folch