SCOB Architecture & Landscape

Using simple and graceful design language, the project succeeds in creating a new interpretation of local traditional craftsmanship and history. It is in the combination of strong spatial and material uses and detailing with fulfilling sustainable goals that sets the project apart.

Aribau195 is a project that transforms a 1980s office building and its inner courtyard—previously occupied by technical installations and impermeable surfaces—into a multifunctional and resilient urban ecosystem. Located in Barcelona’s Eixample district—one of the densest in Europe and with the lowest ratio of green space per inhabitant—the project revives the original logic of Ildefons Cerdà’s […]

Scob architecture and landscape practice has designed seven “Climate islands” architectural-landscape interventions, a pioneering initiative in the creation of inviting, green urban environments, capable of mitigating the impact of climate change. An operation of “urban acupuncture” that adds new layers to the pre-existing territory and urban intervention that requires a strategic urban vision and careful […]

The remodeling of the old city center of Ódena is based on a new structure that organize and define the public space with criteria of simplicity and formal clarity. The project extended a uniform stone paving throughout the whole affected area, in which vehicles and people should have to coexist, giving priority of way to […]

Previous state The intervention area is located within the Trinitat road junction, next to the Besòs River in Sant Andreu district, in Barcelona. The site is strongly marked by the infrastructures that surround and cross it, at different levels and with different directions. It has a complicated accessibility and this has turned the place into […]

In most cities, skate parks are still being built in the outskirts, in order to avoid potential conflicts between skaters and other public space users. They are hardly ever integrated into their environment, resembling an isolated set of strange artefacts that have been simply placed somewhere. The distance to the city, as well as the […]

The redevelopment of Irun’s old town square Plaza Urdanibia is a public area at the heart of Irun’s old town, where the main public events of the city take place, such as the weekly market, the patron saint festivities, craft fairs, concerts, etc. Before this area was redeveloped, the space destined to these activities was […]